The husky stallion was as big compared to the pig-things as Winona was to AJ.
I needed another name than pig-things. Speechifier's A Nation is Its Ponies put it best: "Non-derogatory nomenclature is essential to eventual understanding and diplomacy." The Canterlot girls called themselves "people." I'd asked. These obviously weren't the same species of people.
They had two feet, like bears, but were manifestly not bears...
Maybe I could call them bi-peds?
In any case, I could easily to deduce what would happen if the bipeds saw Big Mac charging them.
As the sun speedily set and the twilight enveloped Equestria like a fast moving fog, I teleported directly in Big Mac's path. On the road to the entrance to the farm, I galloped at him, wings up to make him stop. He gritted his teeth as he dodged around me.
I lifted him in my magic and trotted with his legs pumping into the woods that surround the farm.
The wild-eye stallion kept saying, "Nope, nope, nope," albeit quietly, as I peered around a trunk down the path to the farm. I craned my neck and squinted until I could make out the bipeds. They pointed toward the western horizon and looked like they hadn't heard the teleport pops.
Without looking behind me, I said, "I really need you to return to Ponyville."
"Nope!"
I glanced back. He was as stubborn as his sister! "Make sure nopony is on the road and nopony comes this way."
"Nope!"
I sighed. "You do realize that you being stubborn is keeping me from going to find AJ?"
"Uh, nope." He stopped struggling and I put him down.
"If you see any pegasus on the way, flag them down. I think the invaders have..." How could I explain this? "I think they have barking arrows that can reach as high as the clouds. You must stop Dash if you see her; especially her. I don't want anypony hurt. This is important."
He nodded. He understood well the allusion Apple Bloom had thought up for their weapons.
"Is there anything you can tell me about finding AJ? Do you think she's in the house or the barn?"
"Barn." He inhaled deeply. "They thought we was animals, Twilight. They tried to round us up!"
"Anything else?"
"We saw a flash in the northeast orchard last night. They came from that direction."
"Let nopony near the farm, Big Mac," I said, looking back toward the house. No creature had looked our way because they now faced the opposite horizon, gesticulating and crying out in astonishment. Bluish light signaled that Luna had raised the moon.
"Mah sister would tell you not to do this alone."
"Yes, she would," I said, crouching low. "She would."
I visualized the Apple barn, in which the six of us had held many parties, and pulled the prank to end all pranks on Rainbow Dash. I wanted none of my friends hurt.
I cast the teleport spell, muttering the mnemonic as I visualized the vectors. As I solved the math slowly and carefully, I paid attention to the effect on my body. I felt the surge of magic to my horn. I saw faint fiery numbers spin across my vision, washing my vision like allegorical yellow-tailed red comets of bad omens...
And I was gone.