Anthology of Graybles

by Str8aura


Sandbox (Apple Bloom, Dinky; Comedy)

"Of course they can pole vault to the next rock! They have big sticks, it's easy for them."

Dinky stubbornly shook her head best she could, ignored by Apple Bloom as she reached around in the grass surrounding their sand box, scooping up small rocks and dumping them into the sand. Angry, muffled hisses sounded from under the sand as Apple Bloom moved her action figures, making them vault across rocks with small sticks towards a toy Jeep. Dinky rolled her eyes before sticking her muzzle down deeper, retracting her three prehensile tongues into the sand and burrowing them towards the Jeep.

Just as the valiant heroes reached their escape vehicle, a trio of wurms burst out from the ground, wrapping around the Jeep and dragging it underground, along with the hopes of our heroes survi-

"Hey! You can't do that!"

Dinky smiled with a smugness years beyond her age, pulling her head up and retracting her tongues, catching the Jeep in her teeth and tauntingly waving it at her friend. Apple Bloom tackled Dinky, reaching to try and grab the Jeep held infuriatingly close to her reach. Finally, she grabbed one of the black tongues, attempting to reel it in, only for it to slide out of her grasp and retract into her friend's jaws. The three flaps of skin sealed shut, the pair of beady black eyes resting on the two lower flaps sunk back into her fur.

"Give it back! It's mine!"

They wrestled for a moment longer before Dinky finally relented, begrudgingly spitting out the toy Jeep into the sand. Apple Bloom swooped it up again, placing it next to the rock her action figures stood on and moving them on top of it, oblivious to the unidentifiable fluids it was doused in.

"Alright, they're in the houses now. The tatzlworms can't reach then inside."

Dinky's horn lit up, blinking on and off in a pattern. As usual, her magic constantly flickered out prematurely, creating an effective non-verbal stutter.

"Fine! They're on the roofs then."

"..-. ..-. --- ..- -. -.. .- .- - .. --- -. -. ... ..--.." Dinky blinked.

"No! That's not how houses work- wait, is it?"

"-.-- -.-- . .--. .-.-.-" Dinky unsuccessfully tried to burrow into the sand. It wasn't deep enough, leaving her head adorably poking out above the muzzle.

The man screamed, feeling a slimy tongue wrap around his leg. His hand went for the gun on his hip, unsuccessfully shooting at it. His last thoughts were of despair and terror as his legs sunk into the sand, feeling a horrible sucking slowly dissolve him from the bottom up...

Dinky slurped up the cowboy figurine, gulping it down.

"Could you stop doing that? I paid for those"

She blew a triple raspberry. Apple Bloom grumbled, shuffling around her toys and pulling out a small track-loader and the original Jeep, parallel parking them next to each other.

"Okay! They found this CAT, and they're going to use it to-"

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"Yes- fine, I'll roll. Nat 10 or above and they make it to this mountain range."

"-. . .-. -.. .-.-.-"

Apple Bloom cobbled together some rocks to make a mountain, then pulled out a 20 sided die, tossing it into the sand. It rolled a grand total of one time, landing an exact Nat 20.

"Not only do they make it, they also picked up some bombs. Yes! Before you retort in that tone of blink, they can do that! They have a.... a survivalist neighbor, and he's got bombs!"

Dinky rolled her eyes, unfolding her mouth and sticking her head back under. The three tongues stuck out again, striking at the action figures as they leaped precariously across the vehicles, barely dodging each attack, getting more and more ferocious as they continued on. Our hero turned back to them just ass they reached the end, readying a pipe bomb; he swung it back and forth, gauging the perfect shot, and launched; it flew beautifully, arcing through the air gracefully and-

Dinky's tongues caught it mid-air, throwing it back at the action figures before going absolutely apeshit, swinging every which way to knock the vehicles over while making childish explosion noises.

"Hey! You can't- they're all dead!"

The taztl burst out of the ground, showering her friend with sand and happily pulling in all three action figures to her jaws and swallowing. Apple Bloom threw her forelegs in the air.

"Fine! They're all dead and the planet is doomed. We're starting over next week, I'm being the monster next time."

She began gathering up what toys were left. Dinky's lower sets of eyes slid out from their sockets under her jaw, and she performed the powerful, rare, and coveted triple wink with the right side of her face. Apple Bloom pursed her lips curiously.

"Hey, how'd you get all those tongues and stuff anyway?"

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