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// Memories 
// Story: Miss Smarty Pants gets a life 
// by Aluminaughty 
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	It was a hot and humid day in the late afternoon with no breeze to speak of and not a cloud in the sky to block the burning heat of the sun shining down on Ponyville and its surroundings. This was because  the pegasi on the weather team were in Cloudsdale on their annual holiday. With no one around to maintain the cloud cover work was even harder than usual over at Sweet Apple Acres.
“A little heat isn’t going to stop me from doing my job” thought Big Mac. He did his usual work all around  the orchard, whether it was; was fixing a fence, or plowing the fields. Hes paid no attention to the Unicorn walking up the road towards Sweet Apple Acres.	 
He knew it was just one of Applejacks friends named Eyesight Glitter (or whatever her name was) She was just probably here looking for Applejack. 
“Hi Big Macintosh!”said Twilight, looking tired just from the walking to Sweet Apple Acres from the library.
“Howdy Miss Eyesight” greeted Big Mac. 
“Big Mac, I moved into town three years ago and you still haven’t learned my name!?” exclaimed Twilight, surprised and somewhat hurt by him never really trying to learn her name.
“Sorry Ma'am.” apologized Big Mac, now starting to walk towards the farm house.
“Oh well, I guess it doesn’t matter. Anyway do you know where Applejack is?” inquired Twilight     following Big Mac.
“Eeyup” Big Mac still said nothing more than needed to when talking to anypony.
“Oh that's good! Can you show me where she is? I really need to ask her something.”
“Eeyup” repeated Big Mac.
After walking for twenty minutes, they finally made it to the farm house where they saw Applejack sitting under a nearby tree. 
“Howdy Big Mac! Howdy Twilight!”  Applejack greeted warmly.
“Hello Applejack.” said Twilight as she started to walk towards the tree Applejack was under.
“Done all my chores for the day, I'm going to go hit the hay.” said Big Mac as he walked lazily off towards the farm house.
“Already? Its only seven in the afternoon. Are you really that tired? declared Applejack astonished.
“Eeyup.” 
“Well, I guess I should have seen that coming on account of how hard he was working in today’s heat” observed Applejack. “Anyway what can I do for ya Twilight?”
“Hm! What?......Oh yeah I almost forgot what I came here for.” recalled Twilight, blushing a little because she caught herself watching Big Mac. “Oh yes now I remember! Applejack, would you be able to help me with a experiment? I kind of need some of your trees for it.” Twilight asked,
“Sure thing Twilight when do you need help?” inquired Applejack. 
“At midnight tonight if its alright with you.”
“Sure thing”
“Oh and also you wouldn't happen to know where Smarty Pants my doll is I haven’t seen it since the incident.  I've asked around for her, but no one else has seen her since then either.” Twilight asked.
“Wait a minute! Did your doll have mismatched eyes and pants that were blue with white polka dots?” 
“Yes she did have that!” said Twilight excitedly “Do you know where it is!?”
“Sure do! Big Macs had it ever since it happened.”
“Really?” Said Twilight confusedly
“Yep he sure does loves that doll, he sleeps with it every night. Its almost as if he were under the spell still” Said Applejack   
“Maybe Big Mac is still under the influence of that spell I did on the doll. Because he was buried by everyone else when the princess dispelled it. It is quite possible the counter spell didn’t penetrate to him completely.” Said Twilight
“Well do you think that you could possibly remove the spell yourself at this point?” Said Applejack.
"I think so but seeing as he's been under the influence of spell for so long removing the spell wouldn’t do anything really I will just have to erase all his memories relating to the doll instead. And that should leave him just fine.” Said Twilight 
“Alrighty then lets go and fix Big Mac and get your doll back”said Applejack already walking towards the house with Twilight following
Just before Big Mac got in bed he reached under his bed to grab the Miss Smarty Pants doll and told her about the work he did today and about how hot and tired he was after all that work. And then about how Twilight came looking for Applejack. Then after a while of talking he drifted off to sleep. All the while in the back of Big Macs mind he knew he was talking to a doll and he knew that it wasn’t really listening or at least he thought it wasn’t. For little did he know that the doll had actually been listening to him. Ever since he had brought that doll home she had actually started to really love how he talked to her like she really was someone, someone that would hold her every night. Someone that she was more than just some raggedy old doll to. Someone that could love her. 
“Okay now be sure to be quite, we don’t want to wake Big Mac”said Twilight in a quiet voice that almost anyone within arms length would have struggled to hear but was loud enough for Applejack to hear.
“Okay Twilight you go ahead go into his room and remove the spell or whatever it was that you were going to do while I go ahead and try to grab the doll” said Applejack in a equally quiet voice while she was slowly and quietly opening the door to Big Macs room. 
And there laying in his bed was Big Mac peacefully sleeping with Miss Smarty Pants being held in his arms. As Applejack started walking over to where Big Mac slept Twilight began to work on the memory erasure spell making her horn glow purple and also causing Big Macs head also to glow, while Applejack was working on trying to remove the doll from Big Macs arms Twilight went ahead and did a spell also to make sure that Big Mac wouldn’t wake up at all for a hour. So Applejack knowing it was completely safe now to just take the doll out of his she did so without any concern about moving him to much.
And now with the two mares having accomplished what they came in for. They proceeded to head off towards where Twilight needed Applejacks assistance.