This time, Twilight woke up before her book would smack her on the head. She cancelled the spell on the book and levitated it to its spot on the shelf. She got out of her bed and began getting ready for the day. She levitated a quill and her morning checklist toward her and slowly checked off 'Get Up' and 'Check Checklist'. She looked over the rest of the things to do and got to work on each one. Twilight picked upher brush with her magic to brush her mane when she heard a shout from the other side of the library. She levitated the brush down and began walking toward the sound.
Twilight made it to the other side when she heard another yell. It was louder this time because she was closer, so she was able to get a better idea of who was causing it. The noise was coming from the room Lloyd was staying in. Her curiosity got the best of her and she opened the door. She looked around but didn't see anything. Twilight stepped further into the room and saw a window open. She walked over to it and peered out. The sky was partly cloudy and the sun was starting to rise. Almost nopony was out and about because of how early it was. She leaned her head all the way out to look around, and she saw somepony on the ground outside. Twilight looked down and saw a hole in the ground with Lloyd in the center of it. "Lloyd?" She called out. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah..." Twilight heard Lloyd call to her. "I'm alright. I was just... uhh.... enjoying the.... view."
"On the ground?" She asked in disbelief.
"Uhhh.... yeah." Lloyd said to her with a strange grin.
Twilight didn't believe him and rolled her eyes. "So how did you get there in the first place? I heard yelling from this room and when I got here the window was open."
"Uhhh..... ummmm...." Lloyd started. "Oh! Look at the time, we should be going. I'll meet you there for the lessons!"
Twilight just sighed as Lloyd flew off for Sweet Apple Acres. 'Apparently he's learning how to tell time from the sun.' She thought to herself before shutting the window. She walked out of the room and down the steps to get some food and finish her morning chores. Spike woke up a few minutes after she got downstairs and started getting breakfast ready. Twilight just gave him instructions to make a quick breakfast to get to Lloyd.
Pretty soon the breakfast was ready and Twilight was set to leave. She had her saddlebags carefully latched on her back with the vegtable breakfast inside of them. She made sure that Spike had something to do while she and Lloyd were gone and began heading out the door.
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Twilight made it to the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres and was instantly greeted by Pinkie.
"HIYA TWILIGHT!" Pinkie yelled. "ARE YOU EXCITED 'CAUSE I'M EXCITED YOU SHOULD BE EXCITED BECAUSE I'M GONNA HELP TEACH PONIES HOW TO BE AN EARTH PONY!"
"Uhhhh..... Hi Pinkie." Twilight nervously greeted her friend. "Have you seen Lloyd around here?"
"Uh-huh. He flew in from the sky like VEEERRROOOOMMM and landed in a tree like CCRRRSSSHHHHH and then he got up and now he's okay!"
"Alright Pinkie, if you say so."
"YAY! Now lets get these lessons started!" Pinkie happily cheered. "Come on Twilight! You don't wanna miss this!"
Twilight chuckled and followed her bouncing friend to the training field. When she got there she could see heavy rocks all over the place along with logs, haystacks, and other heavy things. She noticed that everypony was already waiting, including Lloyd. She just trotted over to where he was anxiously waiting and levitated some vegtables toward his mouth. He had no choice but to eat the food that she shoved in his mouth. Twilight giggled and walked off to where she thought would be the best place to watch everything.
"Well, ah guess its time ta start this here class." Applejack said to everypony. "Ahlright, line up! Ah want ta see everypony in front of me who's gonna learn how to control their strenghs!"
Applejack just watched Lloyd, Cole, Sensei, and Garmadon line up in front of her, with Pinkie on the end of the line. "Pinkie, ya ain't learnin' how ta be an Earth Pony. Come stand next ta me."
"Okie doki loki!" Pinkie happily agreed before bouncing next to Applejack.
"Uhh... okay, lets start this here lesson." Applejack said. "An Earth Pony knows how ta use their strengh and durability fer their talents. Ah buck apple trees, and Pinkie does whatever Pinkie does. Ah wanna see y'all try ta lift up the heavy stuff an buck some o' the trees. Cole, yer first."
Applejack just watched Cole walk over to one of the heavy rocks. She noticed that he was observing the rock while pacing around it. After a few seconds he crouched down and stuck his hoof underneath a hole in the rock. She was confused about what he was doing until he jutted his hoof upward, which somehow made the rock go flying in the air. 'What the hay is he doing?' Applejack thought with panic. 'He can get himself killed if the rock lands on him!' She just watched Cole as he put himself underneath the path of the falling rock when it was close to the ground. She was about to go and push him out of the way, but she was too late. The rock landed on Cole with a 'thud' when it collided with his back. But the rock didn't seem to faze him. Applejack started to run over to see if he was okay, but he told her to stay put.
"I've got this." Cole told Applejack. "I've carried things MUCH heavier than this rock, and in a more uncomfortable position as well."
"Ahlright partner." Applejack said. "If ya need any help, jus ask us."
Applejack walked back over to her position to where she could see what Cole was doing. He managed to carry the rock, push a haystack to one of the trees, buck the tree, and come back with the rock. She noticed that Cole didn't seem the least bit tired, which was interesting. However she congratulated him and told him to talk to Pinkie about practicing and whatever he felt that he needed to work on. After he left to go see Pinki, Applejack turned toward the others to tell them what to do. "Now ya'll need ta do somethin' similar ta what Cole did jus there. Ya need ta carry somethin', push somethin', an buck one o' the apple trees. Ya don't have ta do it exactly how Cole did it, but ah want ya to somehow acomplish all o' them tasks. Understand?"
Applejack recieved a round of nods from Lloyd, Sensei, and Garmadon. "Now go!" She shouted to them. All three of them ran off to where the rocks and logs were so they could start their tasks. Applejack followed them so in case they had a question or two she could help. However when she got there, Garmadon and Sensei already had logs on their backs, but Lloyd was the only problem. He was trying to lift up one of the rocks with his head and wings. Applejack had a feeling that Lloyd was going to cause a problem for himself and decided to show him how to left the rock. "Do ya need some help Lloyd?" She asked.
"Uhhh... No I've got it!" Lloyd said to Applejack with a bit of nervousness in his voice.
"Ah don't think so. Here, lemme help ya." Applejack told him while shoving him out of the way. "Ya have ta crouch down and either use yer tail or have somepony push somethin' onto yer back. Pinkie! Can ya come over here and push the rock onto mah back?"
"Okie doki loki!" Pinkie happily agreed. She bounced over to where Applejack was helping Lloyd and stood up on her back hooves. She put both of her front hooves on the rock and carefully pushed it. She pushed it really slowly so Applejack could tell Lloyd how to get the rock on an Earth Pony back.
"Ahlright Pinkie, ah've got this now. Ya can go on ahead an help the others practice now." Applejack told her.
"Okay Applejack! Hey, I wonder if the readers like this story so far..... I'll have to ask them!" Pinkie said before bouncing away.
Applejack just blinked a few times from Pinkie's randomness. "Uhhhh.... So anyway, Lloyd, ah want ya ta listen closely. When ya have a position like this ya have ta use yer tail to carefully lift the rock. Ya squeeze yer tail underneath the rock and lift yer tail. If ya have Earth Pony strengh then the rock should lift up a bit. Like this." After she finished telling Lloyd what to do, Applejack lifted her tail and carefully put it under the rock. She lifted her tail up and the rock began rising from her tail's strengh. "Once ya lift up the rock ya have ta get yerself underneath it and balance it. After it's balanced on yer back ya can jus stand up." Applejack then crawled under the rock and carefully stood up. "Got it?"
"Uhh, yeah." Lloyd said. "I think I can try it now."
Applejack dropped the rock and motioned for Lloyd to try carrying it. She watched him follow all of her instructions and only had to help with balancing the rock. Soon Lloyd was carefully carrying the rock to one of the haystacks, where he was obviously going to start pushing it. She got out of the way of the path Lloyd was taking and carefully watched what he was doing. 'Nothing bad so far.' Applejack thought. 'He just has to push the haystack to a tree and buck the tree. Then he can go and practice with all of the others.'
Soon enough Lloyd managed to push the haystack all the way to an apple tree. Applejack was ready to explain to him how to correctly buck an apple tree, but he said that he watched the others do it and that he would just copy what they did. She agreed to letting Lloyd try, but if he needed help then she was there. She stepped back a bit and waited for him to buck the tree. Applejack watched Lloyd carefully lift his back hooves and slam them against the tree trunk. Apples fell from the tree and scattered all around the tree on the ground. "Good work Lloyd." She congratulated. "Yer learnin' how ta control yer strengh, and ah'd recommend trainin' with Pinkie an the others. Ah don't know what Pinkie can teach ya, but ah'm sure that she has a few tricks she can teach ya."
"Okay, I'll go see what I can do. Hopefully I can get better at using my strengh and durability without you guys helping me all the time." Lloyd told Applejack.
Applejack nodded before Lloyd ran off to where the others were. She could easily see that Pinkie was doing a pretty good job at keeping them active by shooting at them with her Party Cannon. 'At least they're running around and trying to see how long they can dodge confetti and streamers.' She thought before walking over there to keep everypony safe.
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Twilight turned her head to look at the position of the sun and saw that it was already touching the horizon. She gasped a bit and looked over to the ponies that were training. 'It looks like they're already done.' She thought. 'I guess I can go on ahead and take Lloyd home' "Hey Lloyd! Are you done yet? It's about time to go home!" She called out to him.
"Ah didn't even notice the time!" Applejack said with a bit of a startle in her voice. "Ah guess it's time fer all o' us to head home now, see y'all tomorrow!"
Twilight saw Applejack dismiss everypony and run on back to her farm before she could get Lloyd. She walked over to him and motioned that it was time that they start heading back home. As they were walking down the path Twilight decided to look up good spells to teach all of them for tomorrow.