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// Meals on wheels and the Crystal Empire part 1 
// Story: The Mystic Fox 
// by Mysticfox 
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Chapter8: Meals on wheels and the Crystal Empire part-1.

Last night was peaceful and I slept like a rock along with Rosy and she found a comfy spot on my face. After we woke up we started our morning hygiene care before heading to the kitchen for breakfast. Today was going to be a good day Because I had a plan and it involves the tree blocking my back yard door. So after breakfast me and Rosy set out to hopefully get a helping hoof and now we are back at the house looking at a five story tall tree.

“So what do you think, Applejack can we bring it down without hitting the house?” I asked looking up the tree.

“No sweat partner I can lasso the top and pull it my way when you cut it.” Applejack said before she pulled a rope from nowhere.
“Awesome thanks for the help AJ. I already checked to see if any critters were up there and relocated them to another tree so we’re all set to bring it down.” I said with a smile before I set Rosy down.

“Um dad why are you cutting the tree down?” Rosy asked, tilting her head. My heart almost stopped from cuteness overload. She’s been calling me dad all morning and I loved it.
“well darlin this tree is blocking the back door and so we need to cut it down. Plus I have a plan for this wood.

“Well with this everfree oak whatever ya build would be mighty strong.” Applejack said as she tapped her hoof on the tree.

“Well then let's get this tree down so I can get to work cutting it up. Rosy, can you stand over there? I don’t want anything to fall on you.” I said with a wide smile before AJ threw her rope and lassoed a thick branch near the top.

“Alright it's ready to come down.” AJ said after she tested her hold on the tree.

“Ok let's see how this works.” I said before I used my magic to create a super thin and strong round saw blade of magic energy and began to spin it rapidly. Once it was ready I started to cut through the truck while AJ pulled.

“TIMBER!” I yelled as the tree began to fall and AJ quickly jumped out of the way. The tree fell hard and smashed some thick brush when it landed with a loud thud.

“Haha Alright now for me to get to work. You want to stick around A? I'll make you and Rosy some ice tea and snacks.

“Yay snacks!” Rosy said as she fluttered up to my head. I laughed as Rosy nuzzled the top of my head with her cheek.

“Sure I already took care of my mornin chores and it's Sunday so I don’t have to work the stand.” AJ said as she put her rope away.

“Hi Fox.” Said a voice next to me that made me jump.

“AHHH! (POOF) OOF DANG IT WHY DOES THAT KEEP HAPPENING! Morning Twilight you too Spike.” I said as I pulled my small form from under a laughing filly. Applejack got a good chuckle in too.

“Hehe sorry.” Twilight said as she rubbed the back of her head with her hoof before Spike hopped off her back.

“What's with the tree?” Spike asked as he looked at the tree.

“Well for one it was blocking my back door and second I’m goin to make something with the wood. You guys want to watch I’ll make y’all some tea?” I said before I turned normal. Well my new normal and went in the kitchen to get tea and some of my favorite rice crackers which was my last bag.

“Man I’m goin to have to look into some bigger markets. It sucks that the only thing from my world that came here was my house I could really use the garden and my greenhouse let alone my good workshop (sigh) oh well still got my home.” I talked to myself as I placed a pitcher of iced tea, glasses, and the snacks on a tray and went back outside.

“Here you go, some ice tea and rice crackers. Now Twilight I hope you have plenty of paper because last light I did some studying with Twink and I think I’ve got somewhat of a handle on my magic.” I said as I began to stretch.

“Really what did you find out.” Twilight said with excitement as she got some paper and a quill ready and passed some over to Spike.

“Here we go again.” Spike said before taking a bite of a cracker.

“AJ did you bring the stuff I asked for?” I asked while looking at the tree.

“Sure did. Got a big box of nails, different colors of paint and a few brushes. Just got to ask what are you makin.” Applejack said as she put the box of stuff down.

“I’ve had a dream ever since I learned to cook.” I said as I closed my eyes and focused on my magic.

“Back in my world we had many forms of entertainment. Of course we had books, plays, and radio like here but we had something known as television, moving pictures aka movies, and the internet.” I said as I slowly encased the tree in my magic and with some effort I picked it up getting some awes from my guests.

“Um dad what's the in-ter-net thingy?” Rosy asked as she nibbled a cracker.

“Hmm think of it as a library that everyone in the world has access to and able to share there knowledge with the world too. It can be anything they want like videos and someones fan fiction story.”  I said while I made a super sharp ring of energy around the base on the tree and sent it to the tip cutting off the branches before moving them into a pile at the side.

“Can I see it please.” Twilight asked with big puppy eyes.

“Unfortunately it does work here. Back home in my spare time I would either work on projects, my cooking or watch something called youtube. Youtube was like a video library where you can watch various things from informational documentaries to cat videos.” I said as I stripped the bark into a pile by the branches and began cutting the wood into board but left 4 round discs from the truck base.

“One of my favorite things to watch was food from other cultures and countries mainly street foods.” I began to cut and place the boards using the nails to hold them together. I took 2 large straight branches from the pile and cut them into thick poles.

“And that’s when my dream idea came to me. The idea was always in my head but I never acted on it and I almost gave up on it before I came here but after a couple of ponies told me I should think about a restaurant after trying my cooking I felt I should finally make my dream a reality.” I picked up the round discs and cut out four wheeler and began putting everything together.

“And that dream is this. Introducing The Foxes Fair.” I said as I stood proudly next to my new large mobile kitchen-food cart. It was 8 foot wide, 12 foot long and 10 foot tall with plenty of space inside to fit anything I need into it along with a large service window and bar. I also put a bench up front to sit in.

“Whoa that’s so cool.” Spike said with stars in his eyes next to a surprised Twilight.

“I need more paper.” Twilight said as she finished her stack of notes.

“So ya plan to cook for ponyville?” Applejack said as she inspected the cart.

“Not just ponyville I want to travel around a bit but that plan is still in the works. I just recently got to this world and don’t really know anything about it but it won't be too long plus I figured out a few more spells I can use.” I said with a big wide smile. I could see the excitement in Twilight's eyes as she got 2 more stacks of paper.

“First a light wait enchantment, then a durability enchantment, and a magic mobility enchantment.” I said as I made three balls of magic with the enchantments and threw them at the cart. Their light surrounded the cart before it faded, with the enchantments set I walked to the back where there are two door.

“Now for something a little more complicated. There’s two door on here one leads inside my cart and the other will lead to my house.” I said as I placed my hand on the door. I focused my magic on the door and pictured it connecting to my back door. Once it connected I opened it and walked to my house kitchen then shut the door and opened it again to walk outside through the house door.

“Wha…you just made a temporal door. Do you know how difficult that is, Princess Celestia showed me that spell and she was drained after using it.” Twilight said as her quill wrote super fast. I was afraid it was going to catch on fire.

“Yeah it does take a lot of magic to work but once the doors are connected the only way to break the connection would be to destroy the main door here on the cart. Now wherever I go I can always come back here anytime.” I said as I sat down next to the girls and Spike.

“Dads awesome (crunch).” Rosy said before she took a bite out of a cucumber.

“Um Rosy, where did you get that cucumber from? I know I didn’t pick up any from the market.” I asked as Rosy took another bite.

“The garden.” Rosy said as she pointed here hoof at some bushes that the tree fell on. I got up to take a look and what I found was my garden full of veggies and berries along with my green house and shop.

“Hahaha YES they did come with the house. I thought I was going to have to make new ones.” I said happily as I looked over everything.

“That’s a mighty fine garden. The plants and produce looks healthy too. But that there green house looks really overgrown. What you got in there sugarcube?” Applejack said while looking up at the green house. The roof was broken by some small fruit trees and a lot of branches broke through the sides.

“That was my fruit garden but they were not that big and were still in pots to be planted but I guess I don’t need to plant them now. I blame magic.” I said before Spike started to act like he was going to throw up but instead he burped up a green flame that turned into a scroll.

“That can't be good for your stomach. You shouldn’t eat paper.” I said as Spike picked up the scroll.

“It’s a letter from the princess. Spike can send letters between me and Celestia with his dragon fire. Let's see here. Dear my faithful student I need you to come to Canterlot as soon as possible.” Twilight read before she quickly wrote a reply and had Spike send it.

“Well we have to get going so we don’t miss the train. I’ll come by when I get back. Bye Fox and you too Rosy.” Twilight said before her, Spike, and a large stack of papers disappeared in a flash.

“I better get back to the farm. Let me know if y'all need any apples.” Applejack said before heading back to ponyville leaving me and Rosy.

“Um dad can I help with the cart?” Rosy asked looking up at me with big puppy eyes.
“Ok just put that look away it's dangerous.” I said with a smile and picked her up for a hug.

“Yay so what can I do daddy.” She said before I set her on my shoulders.

“You cute daughter of mine will help me decide what to cook. It could be anything because this food cart won't have a set menu only chef specials. So lets start out with the main ingredient what would be good to cook darlin.” I said as I scratched her ear.

“Um…Fruits.” She said after looking around at my large fruit trees. I was planning to expand my green house if mom would have let me. I had a lot of different fruit seeds on a shelf in the greenhouse I was going to plant but by the way it looks I don’t think I have to plant them. Now I literally have a forest of fruit trees. I think the magic of the everfree made them grow quickly and large.

“Alright fruit it is. Now what is going to be the theme.” I said as I pulled out my bag and began collecting fruits.

“Can it be cute things.” Rosy said while I stuffed a large green Spike fruit in my bag.
“I can do cute. I already have the perfect thing to cook now let get to ponyville and set up shop.” I said with a wide smile before we loaded up the cart with supplies and made our way to town. I’m so glad I looked into enchantments it would have been a pain if I had to pull this thing. Even with the light wait enchantment it still would be heavy but with a movement enchantment all I had to do is put magic into the enchantments and role away. It didn’t take us very long to get to town and had changed to my big fox so the ponys won't feel scared of me. I slowed down when I saw Mayor Mare walk out of town hall and I pulled up next to her.

“Good morning miss mayor.” I said with a warm smile.

“Oh good morning Sir Fox what brings you into town today?” the mayor asked with a smile of her own.

“Well I was hoping to set up a food stand in town. It won't be a permanent setup since I plan to do a bit of traveling later but I wanted to see if I needed any permits or regulations before I set it up.” I said before Rosy hopped into the front seat while eating a banana. 

“Hmm since you said it won't be a permanent setup all you would need is to register it as yours. And who is this little filly you have with you?” the mayor asked as she waved at Rosy.

“This is Rosy, my daughter. Is there a good open stop to set up shop?” I asked while looking around.

“Well now it's nice to meet you Rosy I’m Mayor Mare the Mayor of ponyville and as for a place to set up there should be plenty of space by the Golden Oak Library. May a ask what you’ll be making.” She asked while looking over the cart.

“Well this is the mobile kitchen The Foxes Fair. It’s a theme base food cart with no set menu. It changes every time I set it up and the theme for today is cute fruits. Stop by and I’ll make you something delicious.” I said with a proud smile.

“I got to pick the theme.” Rosy said with a wide smile.

“Well then I’ll definitely have to stop by. Just come by later to fill out the paper Sir Fox and good luck.” The mayor said before she left with a wave. We made our way to the town library to set up the cart and as soon as it was done I had my first customer.

“Hi Foxy.” Pinkie said when she popped up in the window.

“Hey there Pinkie and welcome to the Foxes Fair. Today we will make cute fruit snacks and treats. On the menu today we have crepes and special mochi. The fruits for today are mangos, bananas, jackfruit, apples, tangelos, and custard apples. We also have a wild berry mix, strawberries, black berry, blue currants, cherry, and raspberry. I got a list of add on for the crapes here take a look.” I could see the drool running down her jaw as she looked over the crape list.

“I’ll take a banana crepe with chocolate, peanuts, whip cream, and peanut butter. I just have one question. What's a crape?” pinkie asked with a very big smile while I started on her order.

“Yeah dad what she said.” Rosy said while she watched me cook.

“Well the best way to put it, its like a really thin pancake you can fold over your topping so you can eat and walk around. It doesn't take that long to make and you can stuff it with anything. The first thing you gotta do is poor and spread your batter.” I said as I cooked.

“Then once it's cooked you can move it over to where your topping is. First spread a thin layer of peanut butter, then slice up your banana and lay them on the peanut butter, next we put some whip cream on both sides of the banana, drizzle it with chocolate, lastly sprinkle it with peanuts and then fold the sides of the crape over the filling and now its done.” I handed it over to Pinkie who was staring at it with big sparkling eyes along with Rosy. Pinkie wasted no time and took a big bite and with satisfying mmmm she ate the rest in one bite.

“That was super dooper tasty. I’ll take 5 more.” Pinkie said before I started on her order. It wasn't long before I had a line going. Rosy got to help me take the orders and pass the finished orders out.

(Knock knock)

“Rosy do you mind seeing whos at the door?” I said as I finished a few more crepes.

“K…hi miss Twilight.” Rosy said before letting Twilight in. Some of the pony saw her walk in and It looked like they were confused some of the pony looked at her then the back of the cart and back to her.

“Hey there Twi I thought you were in Canterlot. Her have a chocolate berry Twist crape.” I said giving her the crape.

“Thank you fox and I was in Canterlot. Mmmm that’s great Fox. I was coming to get you and the girl for a mission, the princess wants us to go help Shining Armor and Cadence at the Crystal Empire.” Twilight said before wiping away some whipped cream and berry juice.

“Wait what's the crystal empire.” Rainbow asked after she finished a mango cream crepe.

“I’ll explain on the way. Rainbow can you go tell the others to meet at the train station? I’ll be there momentarily. I have to stop by the library and pick up Spike.” Twilight said as Rainbow Dash took off.

“Um Twi are you at my house right now?” I asked with a raised brow. Didn’t I cover how my cart works to her.

“Yeah I came here after I got off the train. Why do you ask?” she said tilting her head while Rosy giggled.

“Twilight do me a favor. Walk in here, shut the door, wait a second then open it again. Trust me it's worth it.” I said with a bit of chuckles at the end.

“Um ok.” She walked in shut the door and opened it to find her house/library right outside.

“Well that makes things easier.” Spike said as Twilight's face hoofed herself.

“I forgot your cart could do that.” Twilight said with a sigh.

“Oh hey Spike Rarity stopped by with a basket of gems and she said that dragons love to eat them and she gave me a few sapphires and I was able to crush some and make the sapphire and cream crape for you.” I said passing him over the crape.

“Wow this looks amazing thanks Fox.” he said as he took a big bite and quickly finished it off.

“(burp) That was amazing Fox thank you.” He said with a happy smile.

“No prob bud. Twilight just let us close up shop and I meet you gals there.” I said as I began to clean up.

“Awwww” said the mass of ponies in line.
“Hahaha don’t worry everypony I’ll be back but with a different menu.” I said as the ponies continued with their day. After me a Rosy cleaned up we were now in front of the cart.

“Alright Rosy time for some magic.” I said as I stretched my back and sat down.
 
“What are you going to do dad.” She asked while looking at the cart.

“Well I don’t want to leave it here and let the fruit spoil so I’m taking it with us.” I said as me eyes began to glow and a layer of magic formed around the cart then it shrunk to the size of a bitcoin. I slipped a string on it and tied it to my bag.

“Whoa! It's tiny now.” Rosy said while poking it.

“Yep now let's get to the station and meet with the others.” I said before Rosy hopped up on my back and we made our way to the station and after a little wait we were all on our way to the crystal empire.