A Few Fruit Short of a Salad

by BludgeonWarrior


Substitute Learner Part 2

"And that's what really happened during the Battle of Little Big Horn!" Fruit finished her quite exaggerated history lesson.

The kids sat there baffled at the madness they had just witnessed....

"Um....Ms. Cake...?" Featherweight rose his hoof, "Why did General Custard ally himself with the Evil Robot Princess?"

"Good question, Featherwit," Fruit responded, "Custard was after the Evil Robot Princess' Candy Tree of Immortality! ......Any other questions? Appleblock?"

"It's Applebloom.......Why in the hay would there be an Evil Robot Princess with a Candy Tree of Immortality!?"

"There wasn't!" Fruit giggled.

"What?!" Scootaloo shouted," Everything you talked about for the last fifteen minutes was a lie?!?!"

"Well not all of it....There was a battle....I think..........Eh, history is boring! That's why I decided to spice it up!"

"So there wasn't a giant hydra-pony.....?" Sweetie Belle asked confused, "Or a Multi-Purpose Hat of Superness....?"

"Nope!!"

"Wow! You blank flanks actually bought that dumb story? Haha!"

Fruit walked back over to Diamond Tiara's desk and leaned on it.

"If anyone wanted your opinion they'd ask for it...So shut it!"

"What kind of teacher are you?!?" Tiara yelled at Fruit.

"Ya know...You remind me of my father.......I HATED MY FATHER!!!!" Fruit picked up Diamond Tiara and took out a carrot. She put the carrot to Tiara face, "I just got one question...." Fruit dropped her, "Eh...What's up derp?" Fruit asked while she chew the carrot, watching Tiara's eyes go right round. "Nothin' eh....Get back in your seat stay quiet, yes?"

Fruit walked back up to the board, "Now ve are goingk to shtudy shience!" Fruit spoke with a Germare accent. "Now, vich von of yous can tell me vhere foals come from....?"

None spoke up...

"Vell that makesh two of us! Very vell then....Who can come up to ze board und draw a diagram of shience? Anypony....?"

Again...silence...

"Ugh...Nevermind...." Fruit dropped the accent, "Okay...umm.....Science is...............Ya know, science is boring too! Lets go into one of my favorite subjects....Art!!"


An hour passed and the students were all at work on their projects.

"Kay then, little dudes, stop where you're doin', it's time fer lunch!" Fruit yelled at all of them.

They all stopped and cleaned up, then they went outside to have lunch. Fruit stayed inside and got something out of her bag....

"Heeheeheeheeeeee!!" She shifted around to make sure nopony was watching, and she pulled out a sandwich. "Oh sandwich...nopony will keep us apart.... now that we're alone....."


"She's nuts!"

She's psycho!"

"She's kinda funny...."

All of the students had gathered together outside, to discuss Fruit's methods....

"She's crazy! How is she allowed to teach?!" Featherweight voiced his opinion.

"Yeah! She practically assaulted me!!" Tiara raised her voice.

"Fer once, I have ta agree with ya," Applebloom responded, "That was pretty mean..."

"Hey, it's not like she didn't deserve it...." Air Rave smirked; he was then hit by Scootaloo. "OW!"

"C'mon AR, we all know she deserved it, but not like that!"

"Well, what can we do?" Sweetie Belle interjected, "Even if we don't like her...she's our teacher...the one Cheerilee picked out for us...."

"I'm still not sure 'bout that...." Applebloom raised an eyebrow.

"You guys are are all paranoid...." Air Rave shook his head, "I'm gonna eat my food now...." He left to eat his lunch.

"Yeah....I'm going too...." Featherweight said as he left too.

The rest of them all dispersed as well, to eat their lunch and to prepare their courage....


An hour passed; the kids were back inside and continuing to work on their art.

Fruit sat there in Cheerilee's desk, feeling awesome about how she' doing...

"What were Uncle and Auntie so freaked about, I'm doing an awesome job! Sure, teaching is boring, but I did it! Hmm... What to do now....."

Fruit looked down to the drawer in the desk...

"..........I don't think she'd mind....."

Fruit opened the drawer and peered inside...

"Woah...." Fruit pulled out a small book that had Cheerilee's cutie mark on the cover.

"This must be her journal......Hmmm.....No! I really shouldn't....."

Fruit looked around the classroom; the students were too busy throwing paint and glitter around to notice her...

Fruit opened the diary...

"I'm being........NAAAUUUGHTYYY......"

She began reading...

"Dear diary,
Today was certainly the weirdest experience of my life, and I don't even remember it! Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle had tricked me and Big Mac into drinking a love poison they somehow made (I know Twilight was involved...) and we nearly wrecked the town! You can't imagine how many times I had to apologize to the Cakes and Rarity for their doors (Though the former were a lot more understanding). Once again, I blame myself....I should just keep shut about my personal life around those three..."

"Wow...she has issues...."

"Umm...Ms. Cake?"

"AAAHHHHH!! I didn't do it! Oh....hey uh............"

"Featherweight..."

"Yeah, right.... Whaddya need TetherSkate?"

"Umm... What's that?" He pointed at the diary.

"Huh?" Fruit looked and noticed she it was still in her hoof. "Oh! Uh....nothing!" Fruit shoved the book into her mane. "So...What was your question, LeatherGrit?"

"Um.....Okay....I'm finish with my project and I wanted you to look at it..."

"That it? Sheesh... I can do that!"

Fruit got up and followed Featherweight to his painting. She had to trot carefully through a mine-field of crayons, paint, and glitter, before finally arriving at the mission objective.

"So this is it, huh?" Fruit inspected the artwork and was evaluating it. "Well.... I can see where you were going, but it lacks basic shape and form...."

"It's a tree..." Featherweight sighed.

"Hey! Don't be so down! I never said I didn't like it! A!"

"Thanks Ms. Cake..."

Fruit then went around the class and graded all of the students projects, whether they were done or not...

DING! DING!

"Huh.... Well, I guess it's over...." Fruit grabbed her bag. "SEE YA KIDS!!" She went to run out, but she hit the door...

"Owww.....I hate doors...."