AN: Ok... I lied. Or really, I hit writer's block pretty early (It's called "Finally getting Skyrim"). I'm back, but I wanted to post something to tide you guys over. I apologize in advance for Granny Smith's not-so-great grammar and the shortness of this story.
Now, Ah was just a young mare gettin' started with what would soon be the family business when ah decided one day to take a walk out to old Lake Everfree just to take a break. It was 'round then ah saw a big ship, somethin' I only knew about from picture's I'd seen in Moneybag's office. Now at the head of this was a stallion, of about mah age, wearin' a straw hat a lot like the one you've got on your head there, youngster. He had a deep brown coat and a black mane, and just looked darned commandin'. Now, it were darker times back then-- the forest were still rebellin' against our presence.
So, 'course ah don't trust the newcomer 'right away, but he was gettin' close to land and ah didn't have time to go get anypony else. So Iah stood mah ground and waited there by where he was headin' for land. He must've saw me, cus' he left the front of that there ship and got in a littler ship with another stallion-- one silver-maned unicorn. They headed right over and started up a conversation with me. They were right gentlemen, talked me right down and asked to see the leader of the town.
Now, way back then that was a stallion named Knight Mare, Ms. Mare's father. He was a retired guard from Canterlot, and a stubborn old stallion -- but he was fair. He let them stay and called up Princess Celestia, but she weren't able to come by for a couple days. 'Til then the crew had to stay somewhere, and our farmhouse was the biggest place in Ponyville, so we let 'em go there. Worked 'em too-- never seen such hard-workin' stallions in all my years since.
Roger were already friendly with each other. Ah'd learned his story-- right tough stallion he was, makin' it through half the stuff he had. Then trouble came runnin on in.
This crowd of stallions came marchin' on into town, all wearin' these white coats on their backs lookin' for some shelter. They were headed by this stallion 'bout Roger n' Ah's age, with the silliest lookin' mane you've ever seen, black n' poofy. We were all ready to take 'em in, but then they saw Roger n' his crew and started makin' demands at us, tellin' us to hand 'em over.
Now, Roger n' ah were fast friends and there was no way ah was gonna hand him over. Then they got violent. Luckily, they weren't real good at fightin' an' we were combat-hardened after livin' near Everfree so long. But then Roger all an' pushed us back, did somethin' ah really never understood. He just focused, got this real stern expression on his face and half the new ponies an most of the town just up an' fell over.
All that were left standin' was Me n' Knight Mare, plus some of the new ponies and all of Roger's crew. He told us to leave, tryin' to protect us, but ah wasn't havin' any of it an' neither was Knight Mare. We were all ready to square off when out of the sky descended the Princess. She was a'blazin like the sun itself and all the fightin' just up and stopped. She was angrier than Ah'd ever seen an' it took a lot to get her not to flash-fry everyone right then.
She decided to take everyone up to Canterlot an' figure out what happened. They tried to leave me behind, but ah wasn't havin' any of that-- told Roger Ah'd kick his behind inta next week if he didn't bring me along. He laughed and asked the Princess If ah could come along. She weren't about to say no-- probably figured Ah'd Run to Canterlot if she didn't bring me. So we all went up into Canterlot an' we told her the whole story. Ah learned about the Marines an' more about Roger's world, an' we found a few other groups too-- this stallion who called 'imself Whitebeard an' a small-time pirate crew who caused some trouble 'fore Roger, Whitebeard, n' Sengoku set 'em all straight.. Now we figured out how ta'
send 'em back and we did, an' ah didn't see Roger fer' another ten years. That story's a bit more interestin'...
AN: And this is the story of how Granny Smith and Roger met. Of course, there were other ponies she met. I'm trying not to use too many OCs in this story, but I had to make one to be the mayor-- it didn't make sense for Diamond Tiara's dad to be mayor-- why would he have stepped down? I couldn't explain it. So, Knight Mare. I might elaborate more on him later.