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// the continued unofficial adventures of finieous fingers or, meanwhile in a certain town... 
// Story: Finieous Fingers and the mediocre crossover 
// by Ellery Quinn 
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3 hours before finieous arrived
"Twilight! come quick! Some weird hairy footed guys are robbing sweet apple acres!" With those words from Rainbow Dash, The Princess of Friendship teleported to her friend Applejack's family farm to find a bunch of hairy footed short guys in bandit masks and cloaks armed with daggers carrying off barrels of cider. The Mayor ran up to Twilight looking panicked, but relieved.

"Thank goodness! These fiends have been robbing every place in town! They said they were some kind of thieves guild called the Hobbits and- Ack!" The Mayor fell over with a bunch of daggers and arrows in her back, and all of her valuables, and the shirt on her back, stripped in 5 seconds flat, putting a certain pegasus to shame. 

The other element bearers (with the exception of Fluttershy) were kiboshing as many hobbits as they could, and they were able to eventually drive most of the hobbits and minimize theft losses, though they made off with about a dozen barrels. 

Rainbow Dash sighed and helped Scootaloo and the other cmcs out from under the cider cart. "I could really go for some cider right now! Those hobbits are nasty little buggers! "  All of the element bearers grabbed cups and took a moment to relax. Everyone poured out a cup and put it to their lips



Suddenly the crusaders dropped their cups, ripped off their masks to reveal hobbits, "We're also masters of disguise that poison drinks for fun! " 

Luckily nopony had drunk it yet so they were able to capture them easily with all the fury of a certain pegasus denied cider.

The interrogation was as follows, with character deducible by color

 Who are you cider poisoning jerks!!!!

Just p-poor innocent hobbits! 

Innocent why you-

Rainbow, calm down they probably have a reason

It wasn't our fault! A-an evil Wizard Named Kask forced us to do it! He put a p-plague on the shire and kidnapped our p-princess!

That's horrible! Where is this wizard?

In his castle he transported here! It's 500 miles thataway (points north) 

I thought the wizard hire-

(whispers to hobbit #2) shh! they don't know that!

Well than it's settled! we get additional help and we set off to defeat this wizard!

end chapter

authors note: Never trust a hobbit, those furry footed buggers will knife you first chance they get.