“Wow, this is the first time we’ve ever gone...somewhere!”
“I know right, Kodi? We should thank Applejack for allowing us to come with her on her way to…” What was it again? I always forget whenever I hear that we’re going off to...somewhere.
“It’s called Appleloosa, Ren!” Applejack reminded me.
“Oh right, that place!” I snapped my fingers, the girls, Spike, Mason, and Carrie chuckled at me getting it right.
“I still don’t know why you invited us to this town, Applejack.” Mason said, in his meditating position while sitting on the passenger's’ seat.
“Well it wouldn’t be nice to leave my best friends behind on this trip to go and meet up with my cousin and the rest of the town.” Applejack said, as we all smiled happily at her.
“Ahh, that’s nice.” Kodi said, wagging his tail happily while looking out the window in excitement.
“Well that and also get some help on getting Bloomberg into the car.” Applejack added.
“Oh, you mean that tree in the back car?” Carrie asked.
“Yep, that’s the one.” Applejack nodded.
“Well, like Ren said, it was thoughtful of you for inviting us on this trip, Applejack.” Twilight said smiling. Suddenly, we heard a slamming sound as we turned to see Rarity storming in from the back, groaning in frustration.
“What’s wrong, Rarity?” Carrie asked worriedly.
“That Applejack is what!” Rarity exclaimed. “The nerve of her to book the private sleeping car for a tree! I wanted that car!”
“And I wanted peace and quiet, and it seems like we can’t get what we want.” Mason said, letting out a sigh as he turned to Rarity. “Besides, Applejack must take care of that tree in full health, she’s trying to protect nature.”
“Mason’s right, Rares.” I shrugged with a smile. “Applejack cares about Bloomberg and wants him to stay healthy.”
“Fine…” Rarity groaned as she sat next to Pinkie and Fluttershy.
“So Applejack, about Bloomberg, you planted that tree, right?” Twilight asked.
“Uh-huh!” Pinkie nodded happily, answering Twilight’s question. “Applejack planted and raised Bloomberg all by herself!”
“Ugh! She treats it as though it were her child!” Rarity pouted.
“Ahh come on Rares, everyone has things that they care for.” I replied. “I mean, I love my video games and consoles and my art, and you love your mane and other fashion outfits.” Rarity widened their eyes in realization at what I said.
“Touche…” Rarity muttered.
“Well I can’t wait to get there…” Rainbow spoke up, relaxing on her seat. “It’s kinda awesome that we’re gonna visit a newly started town that’s just getting on its own hooves!”
“Yes, I’m quite surprise that a bunch of ponies were able to build a town that quickly.” Mason said, looking at the desert with a soft smile. His two pet squirrels, Nate and Maddy, were sitting on his head, gazing at the desert.
“I know right? They’re good!” Kodi nodded, as he sat on my lap. He spotted Nate and Maddy and waved at them, who slowly waved back at him in nervousness. Well, it’s a progress between those three animals.
“Well the Settler ponies at Appleloosa are Earth Ponies, Kodiak.” Twilight said.
“Earth Ponies?” Carrie asked.
“Well that’s what ponies like Applejack and Pinkie Pie are called.” I replied before saying “Although, after seeing all of the randomness Pinkie did, I’m not even sure if she even is an earth pony.”
“Of course I am silly Rennie!” Pinkie exclaimed with a big grin on her face. Why do I have a feeling something weird is about to happen?
“Oh, I get it.” Carrie said, understanding what I meant.
“That’s right Carrie, and Rarity and I are Unicorns.” Twilight explained. “While Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are Pegasi, or Pegasus in their case.”
“Huh, so this world is filled with mythical creatures, with the exception of Earth Ponies no less.” Mason said, rubbing his chin in deep thought.
“Oh really? There are earth ponies back on your world?” Fluttershy asked curiously.
“Well yeah.” I nodded. “But we just called them ponies and...uh…” Should I just tell them or…
“Ulike your world, ponies don’t talk and act like normal animals.” Mason said bluntly, much to the girls and Spike’s surprise. Well he didn’t have to say it like that.
“My oh my, you three live in a weird world, no offense.” Rarity said, smiling nervously.
“None taken.” I shrugged.
“So wait, can dogs talk in your world like me?” Kodi asked, getting excited.
“Unfortunately, no.” Mason said, much to Kodi’s disappointment. “But it would be nice if that happen so that I can be one with nature more.”
“Oh, that’s nice.” Fluttershy commented.
“So how long till we get to Appleloosa?” Carrie asked, letting out a big yawn.
“Till tomorrow, so don’t worry Carrie.” Applejack said, smiling softly towards her.
“Well, it would be nice to visit the place.” Twilight said. “I’m planning a full documentary of the place and send it to Princess Celestia.”
“Which will be boring no less..” Spike muttered, which made Twilight glare at him.
“Well I hope Appleloosa will be an awesome trip.” I said, taking my DBZ Manga out of my sweater pocket and started reading the Garlic Jr. Arc. I guess I could entertain myself while reading my manga.
“You know, sometimes I’ll never understand why you love reading those comic books, Ren.” Twilight replied, raising a brow at me. “Why not read a book?
“It’s not a comic book, it’s a Manga! Totally different thing!” I exclaimed.
“What’s the difference?” Rainbow shrugged. “I mean, don’t they show the same graphic pictures and have awesome stuff on it?”
“She has a good point, Ren.” Kodi said, causing me to grumble in anger. Someday, I’m going to have to show them why Mangas are better than comic books.
Before long, night time came and the moon started to rise, well more like, Princess Luna raising the moon. We were in the sleeping cars as we each got into our own bunks. Haven’t slept on a bunk bed since me and my family went a trip to Florida, which they weren’t kidding that the heat there was crazy intense there. I was laying on the top bunk since I called that I’m sleeping on the bunk bed before anypony could say so. The girls were having a conversation while Mason went to sleep.
“Do you guys mind? I was up early fire-roasting those snacks you’re all eating, and I’m pooped!” Spike exclaimed, trying to get some sleep.
“Um...about that, I think some of my popcorn kernels didn’t get popped.” Carrie replied, holding her bag of popcorn in front of Spike.
“Ugh, fine..” Spike let out a burst of flame, which caused Carrie to duck, but it burned the bag of popcorn, with one single kernel popping.
“Happy?! Then good night.” Spike snapped as he pulled his blanket over his head.
“Maybe we should all hit the sack.” Twilight suggested. “Tomorrow’s gonna be busy for us all!”
“Aww!” We all sigh to hear that.
“Do we have to?” I asked, not even a little bit tired.
“Sometimes Ren, I’ll never understand that childish personality of yours.” Mason spoke up, laying on his bed.
“Ain’t that the truth?” Rainbow rolled her eyes, causing me to glare at her. Soon, Twilight used her magic to turn the lamp off, making us go to sleep. Oh well, I guess we’ll continue our conversation tomorrow. As soon as I closed my eyes...
“Psst, Pinkie Pie, are you asleep yet?” Huh? I opened my eyes to hear Rainbow, Carrie, and Pinkie starting a conversation as Dash brought up a lit candle to where Pinkie and Carrie’s bed was.
“No, are you asleep, yet?” I overheard Pinkie whispered.
“If I were sleeping, how could I have asked you if you were asleep?”
“Oh yeah! Heh-ha!”
“When we get to Appleloosa, do you think we’ll have to carry that big, heavy tree all the way to the orchard?”
“What tree, you mean Bloomburg?” I overheard Carrie asked.
“...No, Carrie, I meant Fluttershy.”
“Fluttershy isn’t a tree, silly!” I overheard Pinkie exclaimed.
“What’s up?” I asked, as Rainbow brought the lit candle close to my face.
“Rainbow Dash thinks Fluttershy’s a tree!” Pinkie answered.
“I do not think she’s a tree! I was just-”
“Did you say she was a tree?” I asked, raising a brow.
“No. Well...Yes. But not exactly-”
“But Fluttershy doesn’t even look a tree.” I heard Kodi said, waking up from his sleep.
“She’s not a tree, Dashy!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“I’d like to be a tree…” I looked down to see Fluttershy waking up, coming to our conversation.
“Oh for pete’s sake!” Spike exclaimed as he got up, grabbed a pillow, and jumped off the bed. He walked to the cart where the apple tree was in and slammed the door shut. Jeez, he kinda acts like my brother sometimes whenever he doesn’t get his sleep.
“Well that was kind of huffy…” I said, smiling at what happen to Spike.
“Huffy the magic dragon!” Fluttershy added, chuckling a bit, causing us all to chuckle as well. You know, I feel like that’s a reference to something, but where did I heard that?
“Would you all be QUIET...NOW!” We turned around to see Rarity, but...holy cow! We all screamed at the sight of Rarity, who was wearing a facial mask. Rainbow quickly blew the candle off, covering us all in darkness as we rushed back into our beds and went to sleep. I think I’m gonna have nightmares for weeks after seeing that face.
Mason’s Dream
I have to keep running before they caught us. I was seen running away from the crowd with Carrie in my hands.
“Get back here!” I glanced back to see the angry mob coming after us. I looked around until I saw an alleyway. This could be our way out! We took a turn and avoided the angry mob as I saw a metal fence in the way. Narrowing my eyes, I wall jumped over the walls, jumping over the metal fence as I put my sister down and tried to catch my breath.
“Mason...I’m scared.” I saw my sister darkened her face before looking at me, tears coming out. “Why...Why is everyone chasing after us?”
“It’s because we were chosen sis.” I replied, bending down to her height and grabbing her shoulders. “I’m sorry, but we weren’t picked by chance, but because we’re the only ones that have the benefit to survive from this...virus.”
“B-but...I’m scared. What about her?” Carrie asked sadly. I darkened my face and said “I’m sure she’s okay, I promise. She wouldn’t see us like this because of this incident, she and the others would want us to keep moving forward and not look back.”
“B-but she…” Carrie started crying and hugged me, letting out all of her tears. I closed my eyes and let out tears as well before hugging her back. “I miss her!”
“Don’t worry, you’ll be okay, I promise that I’ll protect you.” I assured, cheering her up a little. Unfortunately, our moment was ruined as a voiced boomed at us.
“There they are! Get them!” We turned around to see the same angry mob running towards the alley as they tried to climb up the metal fence.
“We need to go sis! Come on!” I said, as I carried her on my back and just kept running...and running...running...running..….
Dream Ended
“GAH!” I screamed, sweating badly. Phew, that was all a dream, nothing more. Huh? What’s that in my eye? I slowly touched my eye, founding a tear on it. Was I crying in my sleep? Was it from...that dream? I then looked at my sister up top my bunk, who was still sleeping peacefully with my two pet squirrels sleeping next to her. I let out a sigh of relief to see that she was alright. But still...what was that all about? Was it...some kind of memory?
Suddenly, I heard someone yawning as I looked to see Ren and Kodiak waking up.
“Oh hey Mason, what’s up?” Ren asked, smiling softly at me.
“I-I’m doing alright, just woke up, that’s all.” I replied, glancing away as I got up and wrapped my scarf around my neck again.
“I wonder...if we’re already in Appleloosa by now?” Kodi asked, stretching his back as Ren took off his pajamas and put his clothes on. He wore his black multi cargo pants on, his red and white shoes, and his pac-man t-shirt on.
“I guess so, but it seems that we sorta woke up early before the girls got up.” Ren replied, noticing the girls sleeping peacefully.
“Yeah…” I nodded in agreement as I got up and took off my pajamas and put my clowns back on. I put on my gray tank top on, before putting on my white sweater on, covering my tank top. I then put my black sweats and my brown sandals. “You know, that’s the first time I’m seeing you without your sweater.” I said, raising a brow.
“Well, since we’re out in the desert, I didn’t want to be too hot once we get to Appleloosa to deliver Bloomberg.” Ren replied with a smile.
“I guess so…” Well, I guess he’s right about that. Don’t want anybody wants to get a heat stroke, if that’s even possible for ponies here in this world. “So what now?”
“I guess we’ll have to wait till our friends wake up…” Ren shrugged. “But then again, we can chat a little.”
“Well, you guys do that…” Kodi let out a yawn before saying “I’m going back to sleep. Wake me up when we get to Appleloosa.” Kodi went back to sleep, sleeping on Ren’s pillow.
“Alright, get some good rest Kodi.” Ren said, rubbing his back a little before turning to me. “So Mason, what something to eat?”
“No thank you, I’m good.” I shook my head, much to Ren’s dismay.
“Okay, well I guess I could go. I did managed to get 50 bits the other day after painting a portrait to the Ponyville School.” Ren said, showing me the bits he earned.
“I see...I should probably look for a job as well while I’m here.” I replied, crossing my arms in thought. Actually… “Hey Ren, I need to ask you something.”
“Yeah, what is it, Mason?” Ren asked.
“Well...I had this weird dream, and I think it’s a memory of my past, but I was running away from this angry mob with my sister, and I just don’t why they were chasing us…” This caused Ren to widened his eyes to shock to hear that.
“So wait, you had that dream too?” Ren asked, much to my confusion until it hit me.
“Wait, so you were chased by an angry mob in your dreams too?” I asked, wanting to get to the bottom of this mystery.
“Well yeah, it was right before you and your sister woke up from those chambers back at the home-shop, but apparently, I was chased by an angry mob and tried to outrun until two groups of them cornered me on a bridge, and...that’s all I could remember.” Ren explained with a sigh, causing me to widened my eyes a little.
“I see…So you had that dream as well.” I responded, rubbing my chin in thought. He had that dream as well? That can’t be a coincidence, right?
“Well I haven’t been thinking about that dream lately, but after hearing this from you...I’m quite shocked. But what could it mean?” Ren asked, rubbing his head.
“Wish I knew…” I sighed. Well, we’re not gonna solve our memory loss like this. There has to be a way…
“Well, why not go and eat something for breakfast? It sometimes help me think.” Ren offered. I was about to decline until my stomach rumbled, causing me to blush a little.
“Yeah, okay…” I muttered as Ren got down as we headed to the next cart to the diner. I just hope that dream wasn’t really, because the mention of my master...I just hope nothing happened to him.
Ren’s POV
Oh, it taste so good. Wow, for food that the ponies eat here in Equestria it’s so good! Who knew hayburger taste so good! I mean, sure it has hay, but wow! It’s so delicious!
“I’m surprise that the food in this world are almost good.” Mason said, taking a bite of his hay salad.
“I know right?” I nodded in agreement. “I give the chef five out of five stars.” Mason rolled his eyes at what I said. Hey, it’s the truth! Who knew hay would taste so good here in this world?
“I guess but…” Mason looked at me with a serious look. “Do you even think why we were in this world in the first place? I mean, why we were in that spaceship?” Oh right, those are very good questions. “Haven’t you been thinking about that lately?”
“Of course I have.” I nodded. “I just wasn’t thinking about it much, that’s all.” I replied, rubbing my head bashfully.
“Oh really? What do you think got us into that spaceship and into this world?” Mason asked.
“Hmm...ali-”
“Don’t say aliens because that’s stupid.” Mason replied, glaring at me.
“But that’s the only thing I could think of.” I replied with a shrug and sheepish smile.
“Okay, but still...How do you explain these memories of us running away from an angry mob then?” Mason asked, raising a brow at me.
“Oh...right.” I sweat-dropped upon realizing that. Why was I being chased? I mean, I was bullied a lot by kids in elementary and middle school due to my naivety, but I did gained a few friends during my freshman year. But still, to be chased by a group of angry mob, just what-
BOW!
“WAH!” I fell off my chair, as I slowly got up, rubbing my head. “OW...What just happen?”
“I don’t know…” Mason said, until he noticed something out on the windows. “Buffaloes?” Wait, did he just say buffaloes? I got up and gaze out the window. Whoa...Turns out it was Buffaloes, a lot of them. I took a closer look and saw that they were wearing feather hats Indian wear. Sorry, I kinda don’t know what they’re called.
“What are a bunch of buffaloes are doing?” I wondered. “And why are they’re getting so close?” I asked, feeling quite worried.
“Something’s up, we need to get to the girls, Kodiak, and Carrie!” Mason replied, which I nodded in agreement. We rushed towards back to our cart, but once we did, we saw the girls and Kodiak gazing out the window.
“Girls? Kodi?” I called them, gaining their attention.
“Ren, where in tarnation have you and Mason been?” Applejack asked.
“We were eating breakfast and discussing some things, but we felt the impact and saw what’s happening.” Mason explained before asking “Do you girls know anything about this?”
“No, we were just confused as you.” Twilight replied.
“Hey everyone, look!” Kodi exclaimed as he looked at the window with his tail wagging excitedly. We looked out the window to see the buffaloes piling up each other.
“Great, now what are they doing?” Mason asked.
“I know! I know! They’re doing tricks!” Pinkie answered, getting a sweat-dropped from me and a blank expression from Mason. Suddenly, I saw a smaller buffalo jumping onto the other buffaloes one by one.
“Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Now do a backflip!” Pinkie exclaimed, but the small buffalo instead jumped over to the top of the train.
“Or...just jump?” Kodi asked, raising a brow. We then started to hear some hooves stomping from up the ceiling.
“Something’s up, and it’s no act!” Rainbow exclaimed as she rushed out of the cart to go and confront the buffalo.
“This isn’t good…” I muttered as I grabbed my Hacking Gun. Huh, its a good thing that I brought it with me in case something happens because almost anything bad happens.
“Wait...where’s Carrie?” Mason asked, seeing her not around the bed cart.
“Applejack asked her to go check up on Bloomberg and Spike.” Twilight explained, much to Mason’s shock.
“What?!” Mason exclaimed as he raced towards out of the cart.
“M-Mason!” I exclaimed, trying to get to him until we felt another tremor. “What was that now?!”
“Oh no, they got Bloomberg!” Applejack exclaimed. What?! I looked out the window to see the private car about to be taken away by the Buffaloes.
“Oh crap-baskets!” I exclaimed as I ran out of the cart!
“Ren wait!” Fluttershy called.
“Can’t Flutters, I gotta go save Spike, Mason, and Carrie!” I replied, running to the private car!
“Wait for me Ren!” Kodi exclaimed, running after me. Me and Kodi arrived to the private cart, with Mason and Carrie trying to wake up Spike.
“Come on Spike, wake up please!” Carrie asked worriedly. Luckily, with one more shake, Spike woke up slowly.
“W-what the? Ren? Mason? Carrie? Kodiak? What are you four doing here?” Spike asked, rubbing his eyes.
“We need to go now!” Mason exclaimed, much to Spike’s confusion.
“W-what? Why?”
“There’s no time Spike!” I replied with a worried expression. “We gotta-” Suddenly, another tremor hit, causing all of us to fall off.
“Okay, what now?” Mason asked, getting up. The cart then began heading the other direction.
“Wait, why is the cart moving backwards?” Kodi asked. Carrie noticed a window nearby and looked over, before she widened her eyes in shock.
“Umm...guys, we’re in deep trouble.” Carrie said, much to our confusion. We walked over to the window and saw that the train continued moving forward while the train car we were in was moving backward.
“Oh crap-baskets.” I muttered.
“Heeeeelp!” Spike cried, banging on the window. “What are we gonna do?! We’re done for!”
“Calm down Spike, I’m sure we can find a way out of here.” I assured until the train car came to a halt, causing us to fall over again.
“Okay, can we stop doing that?!” Kodi exclaimed. Yeah, Kodi has a point, this is getting annoying and ridiculous! Suddenly, the door was thrown opened, revealing a horde of buffalo staring at us.
“Um...Hi?” I asked, waving slowly at them until they tilted the cart, causing us to fall off. I fell on my stomach, while the others landed on top of me. “Well...should’ve seen that coming.”
“Tell me about that…” Kodi muttered in agreement as everyone got off of me and widened their eyes. Wonder why-Oh...right, the buffaloes. Dang it. They quickly surrounded us as Carrie held onto her brother, scared on what they’re about to do to us. I quickly grabbed my Hacking Gun and pointed towards the Buffalo in front of me.
“You better stay back!” I exclaimed as the Buffalo glared at us until one of them shouted “Get them!” They charged towards us as Mason took out his bamboo stick, Kodi growling at them, and me clenching on the Megaphone Hacking Gun. Okay, you asked it!
“Wait! STOP!” Spike shouted loudly, and once he did, the buffaloes immediately ceased and stared at him with widened eyes. They then instantly bowed in front of him, making him and the rest of us surprised to see this.
“What the heck?” I asked in surprise.
“Uh...Okay? What’s going on?” Spike asked, looking at the buffaloes.”
“We honor dragons very much.” One of them stated. This caused Spike to form a grin on his face. Oh no, I’ve seen that kind of grin before. He’s gonna go mad with power.
“Well then...My name is Spike!” Spike introduced himself.
“So wait, they honor dragons?” Carrie asked curiously.
“I see, well it makes sense since dragons are known as mythical creatures.” Mason explained as the buffaloes looked at us.
“What would you like us to do with these...creatures?” The buffaloes asked Spike. Please don’t ram us, please don’t ram us, please don’t ram us!
“First of all, they’re called humans, second of all, leave them alone, of course! They’re with me!” Spike exclaimed, which they nodded and backed away from us.
“Huh...that was easy.” Kodi said, with widened eyes. Tell me about it. Oh well, I guess that’s it. I put away my Hacking Gun since now they seem to have calm down.
“What is your other wish, Spike?” They asked, continuing to bow.
“Wow, they weren’t kidding that they honor dragons like you, Spike.” I said, smiling happily at them.
“I know right?” Spike nodded in agreement. Suddenly, we heard a familiar voice from a distance.
“Oh my gosh, so am I!” Wait, that voice?...
“Hey, didn't that sound like Pinkie?” Carrie asked, recognizing that cheery voice anyway.
“Oh no…” Mason muttered, seeing the buffaloes growling angrily as they charged towards where the noise was coming from.
“Oh no, they’re going after Pinkie!” Kodi exclaimed.
“And the more of us there are out here…” Wait, that’s not Pinkie. It’s…
“Rainbow Dash?!” I yelled in shock. What are they doing here?!
“The more chances of us getting…” The buffaloes all grouped around Rainbow, who was holding Pinkie. They noticed the buffaloes surrounding them as Dash made a worried look on her face. “Caught.” The buffaloes snorted, pawing the ground with their hooves, showing they were to ready to charge.
“Spike, tell them to stop!” I said, not wanting to see my friends get beaten up by the buffaloes.
“Got it!” Spike nodded before yelling “Hold it! Hold it!” The buffaloes heard him as they stopped and moved out of the way, letting us past through.
“Spike?! Ren?! Kodiak? Mason?! And Carrie?!” Rainbow and Pinkie exclaimed in unison.
“Hey guys.” I waved to them.
“Hey no worries, I know those guys. They’re cool.” Spike addressed to the buffaloes.
“If you say so, Spike.” One of the buffalo, who hoof-bumped with the little dragon. Wow, they seriously do honor dragons. “Catch ya later, bro.” I’m...sorta jealous that Spike gets all the glory. Soon, the buffaloes ran off as we turned to the two ponies.
“Uh...what just happened?” Rainbow asked.
“Let’s just say these buffaloes seems to honor dragons and seems to have hatred towards ponies for some reason.” Mason explained, crossing his arms.
“Yeah, so anyway, what are you two doing here?” Kodi asked.
“And where are the others?” Carrie added.
“Well after I tried confronting the buffalo that jumped onto the top of the cart, I got hit by a pole and went out like a light.” Rainbow explained, causing me and Kodi to wince to hear that.
“Ooh, that’s gotta hurt.” Kodi said, with me nodding in agreement.
“Anyway, after I woke up, I saw the Buffaloes running off with the private car, I followed after them and just when I was about to make a move, Pinkie suddenly appeared out of nowhere and wanted to help.” Rainbow said, glaring at Pinkie.
“Yeah, I wanted to go and help Dashy to go and save Bloomberg! He’s very important to Applejack!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“But wait a minute, how did you get out of the train car?” Mason asked, raising a brow. “We weren’t gone for like 5 minutes or so.”
“Ooh, that’s a secret.” Pinkie waved it off, causing Mason to be more confused.
“Ehh, don’t bother Mason, even I’m confused with her randomness, but I get used to it.” I shrugged with a sheepish smile before turning to the girls. “Well it’s good to see that you girls are here to help.”
“Anytime Ren!” Rainbow nodded.
“That’s what friends do, Rennie!” Pinkie immediately hugged me, much to my surprise.
“Hey guys, where are the buffaloes going?” Carrie asked, seeing that the buffaloes are going somewhere.
“Let’s follow them and see where they’re going.” Mason suggested before making a serious expression. “Then we can find out what’s going on and why they attacked the train.” We all nodded and began following after them.
Later
We finally arrived to their camp, and I have to say, it look pretty nice, and it took about a half an hour to arrive here.
Anyway, Spike arrived earlier than us since the buffaloes offered their aid by letting him ride on their backs. Spike led us towards a campfire as we sat down along with the other buffaloes.
Mason, Carrie, and I were looking around their camp and became impressed on how they appreciate Indian culture, well in their world.
“Wow, I’m impressed by how they live out here in the desert like the ancient indian civilizations back in our world.” Mason said, getting Dash and Pinkie’s attention.
“Oh really? What are they like?!” Pinkie asked excitedly.
“Well, there are a few indian tribes I only heard about around our world but they’re not like them from our era of the world.” Mason explained, much to Pinkie’s confusion.
“In other words, indians here in Equestria are different from Earth, and their time eras are different. They take on the past while ours are in the future.” I specified for her. But you know, I’m sorta confused on which time era is Equestria is in.
“Ooooh, now I get it!” Pinkie said, letting out her tongue a little.
“You do?” Kodi asked.
“Nope!” Pinkie shook her head, causing us to sweat-dropped.
“Well besides that, tell us what happened Spike!” Rainbow demanded.
“Oh yeah!” Spike remembered and started to explain what happened. “Well you see...after we were separated from you guys, the buffalo stopped and found us. They got Ren, Kodi, Mason, and Carrie first, but I stopped them!” Spike said, clearing his throat and brought out his chest like he was a superhero. Me and Kodi playfully rolled our eyes while Mason gave out a deadpan expression and Carrie became confused on that statement.
“Wait, but you didn’t-”
“Don’t bother sis, he won’t listen.” Mason shook his head while Carrie nodded in agreement.
“Anyways, seems they took us by mistake. And they felt awful about it, too, poor guys.” Spike said, looking at the buffaloes before continuing “Fortunately, they totally respect dragons, so they treat me like an honored guest.” Spike snapped his fingers, having the buffaloes bring some green goop to us. “Still don’t like ponies much and they seemed to be pretty weirded out with Ren, Mason, and Carrie since they’re humans. But you’re with me, so it’s cool.”
“Yeah, thanks Spike!” Carrie thanked him, much to Spike’s embarrassment. Soon, the buffaloes handed us some food, which consist of green goo on the bowl.
“Uhh…” I said, raising a brow and sweat-dropped upon seeing the food. I pushed the bowl away while Kodi let his tongue out, implying that he didn’t like it either.
“Thanks for the food, but I think I’m good.” Mason said, not interested in it as well.
“Y-yeah, me too.” Carrie added, pushing the bowl aside. Even Dash push the bowl away in disgust.
“Anyway…” Rainbow started. “I still don’t trust them. I say we turn tail and bail while we still-” Suddenly, we heard some garbling and munching sound as we turned to see Pinkie as she was eating the goop. She just literally began her face off on the bowl. Once she removed the bowl out of her face, she had mush all over her face and even mane, causing me and Kodi to almost puke out what we just had for breakfast.
“Before we finish eating?!” Pinkie asked as both Dash and Mason made a face of disgust and frustration. “Are you loco in the cocoa?!”
“Umm...Pinkie? I think you need stop eating that stuff.” I said, feeling quite disgusted at her keep eating that grub.
“Why’s that Rennie? I think it taste alright to me!” Pinkie replied with a smile on her face before eating the food again, causing my face to turn green and tried to hold in my puke.
“I think I’m gonna be sick…” Kodi muttered, trying so hard to hold it in. Suddenly, a smaller buffalo came over and brought Spike a bowl of gems.
“Can I please have more that mushy stuff, whatever it was?” Pinkie asked her.
“Certainly.” A young buffalo answered with a nod. Wait, haven’t I’ve seen her before? “And, Mr. Spike, you like gemstones, yes?”
“Ooh, turquoise!” Spike said, licking his lips and gobbled them up.
“Hey Spike, who’s your new friend?” Carrie asked curiously.
“Oh, this here’s Little Strongheart! And these are my friends, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Mason, Ren, Kodiak, and Carrie.” Spike introduced us to her little calf friend. I looked at her for a while and became quite confused with her. I know I’ve seen her before.
“Wait a minute...you!” Rainbow pointed her hoof angrily at Little Strongheart.
“You?!” Little Strongheart gasped. Wait a minute, I-I do know her!
“H-hey, you’re that small buffalo that jumped onto the top of the train!” I exclaimed in shock.
“What?!” Mason asked in shock before glaring at her angrily. “Then we are leaving then!” Mason grabbed his sister’s hand and began leaving, with Rainbow Dash following them as she was dragging Pinkie by the tail.
“Yeah Mason, we are so outta here!” Rainbow agreed.
“W-wait! Please accept my apologies for what happened on the train, we didn’t mean for anyone to be hurt!” Little Strongheart explained.
“Yeah, right.” Rainbow rolled her eyes at her.
“Wait, you didn’t?” I asked, confused about this. “But then why attack the tree and stole the private car?”
“Well, we only wanted the tree.” Little Strongheart explained. “The settler ponies have overtaken the land and have planted an orchard all over it! Because of their thoughtlessness, we can no longer run over our traditional stampeding grounds…”
“Huh?” We all asked.
“For realsies?” Kodi asked in shock.
“For…’realsies’.” Little Strongheart nodded.
“Settler ponies? As in...the ponies from Appleloosa?” I asked, which Little Strongheart nodded again.
“But...I don’t get it. Why would they plant the traditional stampeding grounds with their trees in the first place?” Carrie asked.
“Well, I think it’s time they met Chief Thunderhooves.” Spike suggested. Soon, both Spike and Little Strongheart took us to meet with the chief. Soon, every buffalo gathered around the campfire, and one more joined in.
“Whoa…” I muttered in amazement. He’s gotta be the biggest buffalo I’ve ever seen, then again, I never seen one before. He wore markings on his cheeks and had a big feather hat on his head. This might be Chief Thunderhooves, and I can see why he’s called that.
“We have a long and winding stampeding trail we have run upon for many generations.” He began to explain about their stampeding grounds. “My father stampeded upon these grounds, and his father before him, and his father before him, and his father before him, and his father before him, and his father before him, and-”
Oh boy…
I looked back to see some of the buffaloes sleeping and getting drowsy. Even Carrie was sleeping on her brother’s arm while Kodi lay on my lap. I know I want to help them but this is gonna take forever.
“Ugh! We get it! Just move on already!” Rainbow exclaimed.
“Yes, excuse our rudeness Chief Thunderhooves, but we kinda get it on who stampeded in your traditional grounds.” Mason added, agreeing with Rainbow.
“Y-yes, sorry about that. I sorta have a habit of doing that.” Chief Thunderhooves said, blushing embarrassingly before he cleared his throat and continued his explanation. “Anyway, it is a sacred tradition to run the path every year. But this year, these...Settler ponies, these…” He snorted angrily, scaring Kodiak as he hid behind me. “Appleloosians!” He snorted more aggressively.
“Jeez, calm down.” I said, flinching from his angry expression. Little Strongheart walked over to the chief and placed a hoof on his nose.
“They planted apple trees all over it without asking our permission.” Little Strongheart finished the end of the story.
“Ooh, now I understand.” Carrie said, nodding sadly. Wow, now I get it. So that’s why they stole Bloomburg because they didn’t want anymore trees being planted on their stampeding grounds. I feel like the bad guy now…
“Well that’s not very nice. Right, Rainbow Dash?” Pinkie asked.
Rainbow sat down and crossed her forelegs and began thinking.
“The ponies refuse to move their trees!” Little Strongheart pleaded. “So we are stuck here and it is not fair!”
Spike turned to Dash with a nervous look and asked “Do you get it now, Rainbow Dash? They have a good reason to be-”
Rainbow suddenly flapped up and landed with a loud stamp of his hooves, causing the buffalo to gasp. She then made a determined look and smile as she said “I’ll say you have a good reason. I think it’s time we had a word with some apple-picking Appleloosians!” I smiled happily to hear that Rainbow will help them. You know what? Even I will!
“Pinkie and Dashie are right! We have to help them!” Kodi agreed with them before looking at me. “You understand the situation, right Ren?”
I nodded and said “You’re right Kodi, we have to help them!” I then turned to Chief Thunderhooves. “Chief Thunderhooves, we understand how you feel, but I’m sure the Apploosians didn’t really mean it. We can negotiate them and tried to reason why they should move their trees away.”
“He’s right.” Mason got up, along with Carrie who made a determined look. “I understand how you all care about your traditional grounds and we’ll help you out.” Mason said with a nod and a serious look.
“That’s right Chief Thunderhooves, we can help out! We promise!” Carrie walked over and hugged Chief Thunderhooves, calming him down.
“Okay, but just remember that if they won’t take their trees away...we’ll have no choice but go to war with them.” We all widened our eyes to hear that from Chief Thunderhooves.
“Don’t worry Chief…” I took out my Hacking Gun with a smile on my face. “We promise that we’ll get your land back!”
“And how does that thing in your hand can help out?” The chief asked. I raised a brow and aimed it at a nearby rock.
“Break!” I shot ‘Break’ at the rock, destroying it, surprising all the buffaloes. They were all amazed by how much power there was inside of my Megaphone Hacking Gun.
“I see…” Chief Thunderhooves nodded, still surprised by my Hacking Gun before he turned to Little Strongheart. “Little Strongheart, take them to Appleloosa.”
“Yes Chief Thunderhooves.” She nodded before turning to us and said “Come along my friends. We’re going to Appleloosa.” We nodded and began our journey back to Appleloosa. While walking, Rainbow flew near me with an amused look.
“You know? You didn’t have to show-off your Hacking Gun to then.” Dash said, crossing her hooves.
“I know, I was just making a point.” I replied with a smile. “Besides, you would’ve done the same.”
“You got you there Dashie!” Pinkie nodded in agreement. Rainbow chuckled a bit and said “Yeah, yeah, I see your point.”
“So how far is Appleloosa?” Mason asked.
“Don’t worry, we should arrive till the afternoon, so you better be prepared.” Little Strongheart said as we began our journey through the wastelands. I feel like I’ve seen this from a movie, but where? Oh well, better not think about it. It’s time to stop a war between the Buffaloes and Appleloosians.
Later
Man, this is actually a pretty long walk. It’s a good thing that I’m not wearing my sweater because I might caught a heat stroke by now. Mason was carrying his sister on his back, and I had to put Kodiak on my head as he was getting tired out as well. Jeez, and Little Strongheart said that it’ll take till the afternoon to get to Appleloosa. I feel like it’s been weeks or something!
“Mason, I’m bored!” Carrie whined.
“Carrie, relax, we’ll be in Appleloosa in no time.” Mason assured.
“Well when we get there, can we have something to eat?”
“Don’t worry sis, I promise.” Now that’s a touching brother-sister relationship there.
“Are we there yet?” Kodi asked, his tongue almost running dry.
“We’ve only been gone like 20 minutes.” Little Strongheart said, much to our surprise.
“W-what? When? How?!” I asked in shock. I feel like such an idiot.
“I have no idea why, probably this intense heat wave caused us to think about how long we’ve been gone.” Mason suggested.
“Yeah, I guess so.” I nodded in agreement.
“Yeah, and this heat wave is causing me to see five ponies coming towards us.” Kodi pointed out. Wait what? I squinted my eyes a little to see five ponies are indeed coming towards us. Wait, this isn’t an illusion, it’s…
“Ren!” I was immediately tackled and hugged by both Twilight and Fluttershy.
“Twilight? Flutters?!” I asked in surprise.
“Ren, we’re so glad that you and the others are safe!” Fluttershy exclaimed, happy to see me again.
“Yeah, you scared us the moment we saw the private car being taken away by the buffaloes!” Twilight explained.
“I-I see but, can you get off of me?” I asked politely, much to their embarrassment.
“R-right! Sorry!” They both said in unison, quickly getting off of me.
“Wow...what caused them to jump on you like that?” Kodi asked, causing me to shrug. Soon, the others came over and being overjoyed to see us again. But I noticed one of the ponies was a male wearing cowboy vest and hat and had an Apple cutie-mark like Applejack, but it was just one instead of three.
“Hey, who’s this?” I asked, curious on who he was.
“Oh, this is my cousin Braeburn, he’s one of the settler ponies of Appleloosa.” Applejack introduced him to us. Braeburn suddenly came over and shook my hand too fast.
“Howdy, names Braeburn and you must be one of these ‘hoo-mans’ my cuz was talking about!” Braeburn said happily as he let go of my hand and continued “Well any friend of my cuz is a friend of mine! I welcome you all to….APPLELOOSA!”
“Is he always like this?” Mason whispered to Applejack, who chuckled nervously.
“Y-yeah, but you get used to it.” Applejack replied.
“The moment my cuz came to town and told me what happened! I volunteered to help and we were just about to head out to buffalo territory until we saw you guys and I’ll say!” Braeburn took a look at me, Mason, and Carrie with amazement. “For a bunch of new creatures, you’re three look amazing!”
“Um...thanks?” I asked, sweat-dropping.
“But besides the point…” Twilight spoke up. “How did you all escape from the buffalo?” She asked.
“Oh, we didn’t, they brought us back.” Carrie answered as she pointed towards Little Strongheart, as she was hiding behind a rock before coming out, rubbing her hoof on the ground shyly. Boy, she must feel nervous being around ponies...and humans of course.
“We promised the buffalo a chance to talk.” I added with a smile.
“Oh yeah?” Applejack eyed at Little Strongheart with suspicion. “About what?”
“We brought our new friend, Little Strongheart here.” Kodi pointed his paw to her, who waved slowly at us. “To explain to the Appleloosians why they should move the apples trees off the Buffalo’s land.” Kodi replied.
“T-that information would be quite help-”
“Huh, that’s weird. Because my cousin, Braeburn, here, wants to explain to the buffalo why they should let the apple trees stay.” Applejack interrupted Braeburn, giving a hard glare at Little Strongheart.
“That would be a useful thing to-” Little Strongheart tried to say something but Rainbow Dash interrupted.
“The land is theirs!” She exclaimed. “Brae, you just planted the trees without knowing that, honest mistake. All you have to do is move them.”
“W-well-” Braeburn tried to say something but Applejack interrupted him as well.
“They busted their rumps here! And now they’re supposed to bust their rumps again, just because buffalo won’t stampede somewhere else?!”
“Plant the trees somewhere else!” Rainbow insisted.
“Where?!” Applejack exclaimed. “It’s the only flatland around these parts!”
“The buffalo had it first!”
“The settler ponies need it to live!”
“Come on already, Applejack!”
“ENOUGH!” Mason shouted, causing all of us to flinch. Mason looked at them angrily as he said “Look here! Just shut up you two and let us try to solve this without violence!” Applejack and Rainbow looked at each other before scoffing at each other. “Now look, they both have good reasons, and we can solve this without any fighting. Look, I understand the buffaloes are angry that the settler ponies took over their traditional stampeding grounds, but we can solve this.”
“Traditions can change, livelihoods not so much!” Applejack exclaimed, causing Alex to glare at her darkly.
“Really? Imagine if your family change their traditions from being apple farmers into peach farmers, would you like that to happen?” Mason asked, causing Applejack to widened her eyes.
“...Point taken.” Applejack admitted.
“Good, now we need a plan.” Mason said, rubbing his chin.
“Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!” Pinkie raised her hoof.
“What is it then, Pinkie?” I asked curiously.
“Get every buffalo and pony to come in town and I have a foolproof plan to bring them together!” Pinkie then rushed off, leaving us confused.
“Wonder what it is?” Kodi wondered.
“Don’t know, don’t care.” Mason said as he began walking off towards town.
“Do you really think it might work?” Carrie asked.
“Only one way to find out. Little Strongheart, go tell the buffaloes to come to Appleloosa.” I replied, with her nodded and running back to Buffalo territory.
“And I’ll go round up the other Appleloosians to the center of town.” Braeburn offered, with me nodding in agreement.
“Alright everyone, let’s head to Appleloosa and see if Pinkie’s plan works.” I said with a serious expression.
“But what if it doesn’t work?” Kodi asked worriedly.
“If not...then we’re in deep trouble..”
Huh, wonder what’s taking Pinkie so long? I mean, we got all the buffaloes and ponies of Appleloosa here, so what’s the holdup? I noticed Mason trying to meditate and calm down, but due to the stress between this argument, it’s frustrating him. Carrie was holding Kodi in her hands as she was quite worried as him as they wondered if Pinkie’s foolproof plan might work. Suddenly, music started to play as we saw the stage turned on with Pinkie poking her head out from the closed curtains, grinning happily. She winked at Spike, who was playing the piano, who gave a thumbs-up back to her.
Me, Mason, Carrie, Kodi, and the girls made bewildered expressions. Just what is Pinkie up to? Wait a minute, is she going to...sing?
The curtains soon shot open and revealed a closed clam in the middle of the stage. The clam slowly opened, revealing Pinkie Pie, who was lying down. She sat up and began her song. You know, I feel like this is something out of broadway, you know, those plays people performed in late night shows in New York? Nah, I’m pretty sure you all heard that, besides, I remembered that I used to went one back when I was in second grade...I think.
(Pinkie Pie):
We may be divided
But of you all, I beg
To remember we’re all hoofed
At the end of each leg
A couple of ponies softy picked her up from the clam and placed her on the stage.
(Pinkie Pie):
No matter what the issue,
Come from wherever you please
All this fighting gets you nothing
But hoof and mouth disease
Arguing’s not the way
Hey, come out and play!
She began bouncing off the stage. Wow, this song is quite catchy, but will it work?
(Pinkie Pie):
It’s a shiny, new day
So, what do you say?
You gotta share
You gotta care!
It’s the right thing to do!
You gotta share
You gotta care
And there’ll always be a way through!
Pinkie popped up between a pony with a gray mustache and Little Strongheart.
(Pinkie Pie):
Both our diets, I should mention
Are completely vegetarian!
Well...she ain’t wrong there. I mean, ponies here only eat fruits and vegetables and anything non-meat related.
(Pinkie Pie):
We all eat hay and oats
Why be at each other’s throat?
You gotta share
You gotta care!
It’s the right thing to do
And there’ll always be a way!
Thro-o-o-o-ugh!
After that, Pinkie finished her song with Carrie and Spike clapping for her, even Kodi let out a howl for her.
“All right Pinkie Pie!” Spike cheered.
“You were fantastic and awesome!” Carrie agreed.
“What a great song! You’re right on!” Kodi added. Well, it was a great and catchy song, but I then noticed both the pony with the gray mustache looking at Chief Thunderhooves. Uh oh, that must be the sheriff of this town, and they’re nodding to each other. Maybe it did work?
“It appears that Sheriff Silverstar and I have to come to...an agreement.” Chief Thunderhooves said.
“We have.” The sheriff agreed as we looked at them in joy. Maybe Pinkie’s song did work and they’re about to not have a war and be friends?
“...That was the worst performance we’ve ever seen!” The chief answered, causing us all to jaw-dropped upon hearing this. Okay maybe not. Dang it!
“Teh...Abso-tively!” The sheriff nodded in agreement.
“But...I like it.” Carrie said sadly. Chief Thunderhooves and Sheriff Silverstar ignored her as they glared at each other.
“The time for action...Hmh...Is upon us!” Chief Thunderhooves threatened. “Our stampede will start at high noon tomorrow. And if the orchard is still there, we’ll flatten it! And the whole town!”
“You can’t be serious.” Mason said, clenching his fist in anger.
“B-but, Chief!” Little Strongheart tried to stop him.
“And we Appleloosians say you’d better bring your best, cause we’ll be ready and waiting.” Sheriff Silverstar said, glaring back at Chief Thunderhooves.
“But, Sheriff…” Braeburn walked towards the sheriff, but the sheriff just ignored him. The buffaloes and ponies went their separate ways to prepare for the fight that was about to come.
“Oh...That wasn’t the message of my song at all…” Pinkie said sadly. I felt bad as I patted her on the back and said “Hey, at least you tried, now we gotta find a way to stop this fight before it’s too late!”
“Don’t worry, me, Carrie, Spike, Dash, Pinkie, and Little Strongheart will try to talk to Chief Thunderhooves and attempt to stop this war!” Mason said, which I nodded in agreement.
“Okay, good luck.” I replied as Mason and the others rushed towards the Buffaloes’ camp. I then turned over to Kodi, Fluttershy, Applejack, Twilight, Rarity and Braeburn. “Come on everypony, let’s get to the town quick!” They nodded and began following me. Maybe they’ll listen to us and try to be reasonable here.
Okay, I thought wrong.Apparently, everyone here was as stubborn as a mule, almost like Rainbow Dash and Applejack combined. We tried everything to make them talk, but they were focused on fighting off the buffaloes in order to protect their orchards AND town. They even boarded and shutted both their doors and windows. When we reached the orchards, they were bucking some apples, but for defensive uses. Twilight and I tried to get one of them to stop and talk, but all we received were irritated look.
“Why won’t anypony be rational and reasonable?” Twilight exclaimed.
“I know right? It’s like we’re talking to stubborn brick of walls.” I agreed with her. We returned back to town where they had just finished barricading the perimeter of the town with wood and nails. Dang it, why can’t these ponies just listen to us?!
“Sheriff, if we could only-” I looked over to see Applejack trying to talk to the sheriff but he just ignored her and just kept moving. Hmph, some sheriff he is. We walked towards the bakery, where we saw the ponies baking thousands of apple pies. Kodi started drooling and tried to eat one, but I stopped him.
“Kodi, now’s not the time!” I said sternly, causing Kodi to smile sheepishly at me.
Soon, we headed to town square, they raised a flag with their emblem planted proudly on it. Why does this feel so much similar to the Civil War right now?
“This is terrible!” Fluttershy exclaimed as she turned to me with worried and concern. “What are we gonna do, Ren?! There has to be something we can do to stop this!”
“I know, I know!” I exclaimed before frowning. “But...there’s nothing we can do since nopony will listen to us…” I said sadly.
“I guess we have no choice then…” Twilight said sadly as we watched everypony began barricading the town. “It looks like the settlers have already made their decision….” Yeah, it seems so Twilight. It seems so….
The Next Day
Soon, Me, Kodi,Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy were watching everything from behind the saloon as the settler ponies were glaring upwards the cliff, where all the buffaloes were on as they stared down the angry mob. I saw Mason, Carrie, Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Little Strongheart as well, and they seemed pretty concern and disappointed as well.
“This isn’t gonna end well, right?” Kodi asked me with concern.
“Nope, not at all, bud.” I shook my head. Oh well, I got no choice but be part of it. I was clenching on my Hacking Gun in both anxiety and concern. Come on Chief Thunderhooves, you’re better than this! Please, just don’t do this! Soon, the bell began ringing throughout Appleloosa. I looked up at the clock and became worried as the clock strike noon. As we waited for the the buffalo to strike, I saw Little Strongheart and Carrie placing a hoof and a hand on the chief’s face, calming him down and making him have doubts about this.
I smiled happily to see this, even Dash and Mason were surprised to see this. Maybe Chief Thunderhooves would regret doing this and-
“What do you say? You got to share! You gotta care! It’s the right thing to do!” What the heck?! I looked over to see Pinkie dancing around the middle of the tension. I saw Chief Thunderhooves grow angry on the cliff. Oh god no!
“Pinkie stop!” I called her over, but she ignored me. Chief Thunderhooves couldn’t take it anymore as he yelled “CHAAARGE!”. In that second, they began stampeding towards us. Pinkie Pie could only stare, stunned.
I quickly set the dial to ‘Move’ and pointed it towards Pinkie. “Move!” I shouted, shooting’ Move’ at it, surrounding her in a green aura, and pulled her towards me from the stampede. Once I put her down, we all glared at her.
“Pinkie, what the heck?!” I asked in anger.
“What? I was just singing my song to cheer up everyone.” Pinkie shrugged, as I face-palmed at her. And just we were about to have a happy ending.
“Ready...Aim...Fire!” The sheriff ordered as many ponies immediately bombarded the buffaloes with their apple pies. Okay, no offense, but I hardly called that a weapon, but hey, it must be tasty if they get hit in the face like that. Soon, some of the buffaloes were taken down by the pies. Holy crap, just what’s in those pies?!
Some ponies jumped from inside of their houses and climbed atop of the buffaloes, riding them like horses. Other buffaloes charged straight towards the stacks of hay, either knocking the pony out of the hay or diving straight towards an anvil, which by the way, must really hurt. Soon, the whole town came into a battlezone between the settler ponies and the Buffaloes.
“Ren!” I turned around to see Mason and Carrie running towards my side.
“Mason! Carrie! I thought you guys convinced the buffaloes to stop them from this fight!” I asked.
“We tried but they didn’t listen to us, we thought you and the others got the settler ponies to stop this fight?!” Mason replied.
“I tried but they wouldn’t listen to us!” I responded back to him, causing him to face-palm.
“What are we gonna do?!” Carrie asked.
“I don’t know.” I shook my head as I turned around to see how many buffaloes and ponies were fighting back. But then, something caught my eye as I saw Chief Thunderhooves charging towards the sheriff as he wasn’t moving a muscle, instead, he took his hat off and was just allowing him to knock him out.
“Ren, we gotta save the sheriff!” Kodi exclaimed in shock.
“I know, but what?!” I asked in shock until I noticed a nearby apple pie on the ground and quickly grabbed it.
As soon as Chief Thunderhooves hopped into the air to pummel the sheriff, I quickly threw the pie at the chief’s face, hitting him right in the face.
“Nooo!” He screamed as he landed on the ground, lying with the apple pie covered all over his face. The buffaloes and ponies saw this and became heartbroken and shocked to see what just happen. Many began mourning over their leader and some took their hats off in respect. I even saw Spike crying alongside them as well as he hugged Twilight tightly. Kodi and Carrie began crying as well to see what just happened to Chief Thunderhooves. I went pale and began crying.
“What have I done? I-I killed Chief Thunderhooves!” I cried as I fell to my knees and began crying.
“Umm...you kinda do realize that he’s not dead, but unconscious, right?” Mason asked, raising a brow but I ignored him as I kept crying.
“Wait, guys look!” I opened my eyes, still tears coming out as I saw Kodi pointed towards Chief Thunderhooves, as I saw him opened his eyes, tasting the apple pie mess that was on his fur.
“H-he’s alive!?” I asked in shock.
“You can’t kill someone by throwing apple pie, how stupid are you all?” Mason asked, shaking his head while putting his hand on the pinch of his nose. “Why do I even bother?”
“Yum!” Chief Thunderhooves quickly got up and became overjoyed after tasting the apple pie. “Hey, I’ve got a much better idea! We...will allow the apple orchard to stay in exchange for a share of its fruit, heh...Those...Delicious apple pies!” Soon, both the buffaloe and settlers cheered as they agreed to that negotiation. I wiped away my tears and sighed in relief. Well, it’s a good thing that he’s alive.
Soon, the settler ponies began chopping down the trees, creating a pathway for the buffaloes to use for their stampeding. The ponies used the apples to bake the apple pies they gave out to the buffalo as they passed through the path.
“I’d rather eat turquoise any day of the week.” Spike said as he chomped on the bowl of gems he had, which I don’t know where he got them. “Auhh…!”
“Bloomberg, this is your special day. Mam’s so proud of you!” Applejack announced as she finished up, planting her favorite apple tree in a isolated spot away from the other trees. Mason was with her as he smiled softly to see now that the settler ponies and the buffaloes finally have become friends.
Soon, the buffaloes began roaming back to their village after they finally settled their difference between the settler ponies. Little Strongheart noticed me and Rainbow Dash and waved over to us.
“Bye Little Strongheart, best wishes!” I called over to her.
“Best wishes as well, Ren!” Little Strongheart yelled before she and the rest of her buffalo friends went off somewhere in the desert.
“Dear Princess Celestia…” Speaking of which, sounds to me that Twilight has another friendship report for Celestia to hear. “Friendship is a wondrous and powerful thing. Even the worst of enemies can become friends. You need understanding and compromise. You’ve got to share. You’ve got to care.”
“Hey! That’s what I said!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Sorry Pinkie…” I shrugged sheepishly. “But the way you put it, you kinda upset everypony here.”
“Hmph!” Pinkie turned her head away, upset. I chuckled a bit as I took something out of my pocket.
“Here Pinkie, maybe this will cheer you up.” I said, offering her a slice of apple pie, much to her joy. She gobbled it all up and became overjoyed as she hugged me immediately.
“Thanks Rennie! You’re the best friend a pony could ever asked!”
“Anytime...Pinkie!” I replied with a smile. Everyone soon laughed as Mason said “Come on everypony, I think it’s time to go home.”
“Ahh, do we have to?” Carrie asked sadly.
“Yeah, I want to stay longer to eat more of those apple pies!” Kodi said, having some apple pie on his muzzle. I chuckled a bit as I scratched his ear, much to his joy.
“Don’t worry Kodiak, we’ll be back someday. Come on, let’s go!” I said, much to his disappointment. I already like, bought 25 apple pies and so on. Oh well, farewell Appleloosa!
We were riding on the Friendship Express straight back to Ponyville. While there, me, Kodi, Mason, and Carrie were eating some of the apple pies that we got from Appleloosa.
“You know, this is quite delicious.” Mason replied with a soft smile on his face.
“Yeah, and I’m glad that the buffaloes and the settler ponies are finally friends and no longer be enemies anymore.” I agreed, taking one last bite of my last apple pie.
“Speaking of which, you do realize that Chief Thunderhooves wasn’t dead, right?” Mason reminded me, causing me to smile sheepishly.
“Yeah, just kinda realize that now.” I said, causing Mason to face-palmed.
“And also, why didn’t you use your Hacking Gun?” Carrie reminded me.
“You know, I was kinda panicking when I saw Chief Thunderhooves about to attack the sheriff, so I wasn’t thinking straight.” I explained.
“Oh.” Carrie said.
“Whatever, I’m just glad that their rivalry between each other is over.” Mason said, crossing his arms.
“Yeah, and besides, those apple pies taste so good!” Kodi said, licking away the apple pie’s contents off his muzzle. Suddenly, I looked over the window and saw Ponyville off a distance.
“Oh hey look, there’s Ponyville.” I said.
“Oh well, guess it’s time to go home.” Mason said, wrapping his bamboo pole around his back.
“Yeah…” Carrie nodded as the train made an abrupt stop. Soon, we all finally arrived back to Ponyville as the sun was starting to set.
“Alright! It’s good to back to Ponyville.” Rainbow said, stretching her back.
“Indeed, I suppose that it was fun back in Appleloosa.” Rarity nodded in agreement.
“Yup, and I’m glad everything’s back to normal.” Applejack added.
“Ms. Twilight!” Huh? We all turned around to see a white pony wearing a nurse’s hat with a red crossing and pink mane and tail and a cutie mark was a red crossing like many hospital has back from our world.
“Huh? What is it?” Twilight asked, confused on who she is.
“I’m Nurse Redheart, I work at the Ponyville Hospital.” She introduced herself. Wait, Ponyville has a hospital? How come I never heard of that before? “And it’s very important, apparently, we found someone walking into Ponyville and she fainted. We took the individual to the hospital!”
“Okay? But what’s this has to do with us?” Mason asked.
“It’s because...well…” Nurse Redheart turned to us with a concern expression. “She’s human as well!” This caused us to widened our eyes.
“Wait what?!” I exclaimed as I turned to the others. “Come on guys, we need to go now!” The others didn’t hesitate as they nodded as we were taken to the Ponyville hospital by Nurse Redheart. Once we arrived to the place, she took us to a room where the human patient was in. Me, Mason, Carrie, and the others became shocked to see the patient. It was a girl.
She had red long hair that reaches to her back and with a prominent ahoge. She had a pink flower pin on her hair and wears a short-sleeved purple sweater that has pocket on the lower part of the sweater. She had one of those stretcher things on the sweater, you know, once you pull them, they’ll make the hoodie close up. She even had a dark pink skirt and I could see pink sleeves on her, meaning that she had long sleeve pink shirt underneath that sweater of hers. She was resting on the bed, with her eyes closed.
“Oh my…” Rarity muttered in shock.
“What...happened to her?” Fluttershy asked worriedly.
“She apparently came from the same direction from where those humans lived.” Nurse Redheart explained, much to our surprise.
“The home-ship…” I muttered in shock.
“So anyway, once she walked into town, she was surprise to see us all, and when one of us tried to speak to her, she fainted, and here she is.”
“Well, it makes sense since she’s now in a world filled with magical talking ponies.” Mason said, crossing his arms and made a serious expression.
“But...is she gonna be alright?” Kodi asked worriedly.
“Well, she should be awake by the next day or…” Nurse Redheart stopped at midsentence at seeing the girl’s body began moving.
“Hey look! She’s waking up!” Pinkie exclaimed as the girl’ eyes opened, revealing her warm green eyes. She then noticed us and became surprised.
“Ahh! W-who are you?!” She asked, widening her eyes in shock. We all became surprised again and just looked at her in shock. Just how many humans are in that ship?
To Be Continued