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// The Sweet Apple Acres Heartbreak 
// Story: A Shining Armour & Big Mac Love Story 
// by JoeTheBrony 
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It was a quiet day at Sweet Apple Acres in Ponyville. Big Mac was busy moving hay in the barn, when his ears pricked up. In the distance he could the sound of pounding hooves hit dirt ground. 

Big Mac leaned his head out the barn door. In the distance he recognised a very familiar unicorn. It was his coltfriend, Shining Armour!

Big Mac lost all his thoughts in that one moment. He slowly retracted back the barn and got back to doing his job. Shining Armour entered the barn. He was about to give his coltfriend a kiss, but Big Mac slowly edged away from him, and got back to work pushing bales of hay.

Shining Armour, with a confused expression cross his face, said,

“Hey Big Mac.”

Big Mac said nothing.

“Are you OK? I haven’t seen you around Ponyville in a while.”

Big Mac didn’t look up from his job, but replied,

“Eeyup.”

A look of worry and concern replaced Shining’s look of confusion. With a note of worry in his voice, Shining asked,

“What’s wrong? Is everything OK?”

Big Mac scoffed, and said,

“Eeyup.”

This concerned Shining even more, when his coltfriend wouldn’t look at him. Shining Armour sensed something was amiss.

“Mac, it’s fine if you don’t want to talk. I’ll just leave you in peace until you’re ready to talk to me or somepony else about what’s going on, because you seem a bit tense.”

Big Mac had finally reached his breaking point. He turned towards Shining and exploded with rage!

“I told ya already Shining, I’m fine! Nothin’s goin’ on!”

Shining Armour shrunk back but responded calmly.

“OK, we’ll talk later then, when you’re ready...”

Big Mac glared at him.

“I think you should just leave.”

“But Big Mac, I want to help you...”

“I said LEAVE!!!”

Shining was hurt by this, and his eyes misted over with  . He let out a small whimper. Big Mac turned around, saw his coltfriend crying and immediately regretted what he’d said. He went to give Shining Armour a hug, but Shining backed away, turned around and galloped out of the barn.



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Flash Sentry was taking a quiet stroll through Ponyville, when he saw in the distance, galloping towards him, his boss Shining Armour!

You see, Flash had a major crush on Shining, so when he saw Shining gallop towards him, he thought to himself,

“OK Flash, now’s your chance. Just ask Shining out on a date. See what he says!”

Flash grinned, but the grin was wiped off his face when he saw that Shining was crying. Flash’s facial expression was replaced with concern. He galloped towards Shining, in order to ask him what was wrong, but Shining just galloped past him. Flash noticed he was crying, so he flew after him.



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After a half hour of chasing him, Flash finally caught up with his captain.



Shining was still sobbing uncontrollably. Hesitating, Flash rested a hoof on Shining’s withers, and asked him calmly,

“What’s wrong?”

Shining Armour was still shaking, but was able to hold back his tears as he explained to Flash,

“B-Big M-Mac y-yelled at me...”

As Shining Armour went back to crying, now quieter than before, Flash Sentry took a step closer to his captain and hesitantly, stroked his mane with his hoof. Shining Armor looked over at Flash, smiled, and then passed out.