The Apples of Ponyville

by primeoetgrunn


Engine tuning

"So you are telling me that you actually are one of Applejack's ancestors?" Twilight put a hoof under her chin.

"Yes, that's exactly what Ahm tellin' ya'll." the hot pink mare replied.

It has been a few hours after Daisy was first spotted by Mac. At this moment in the story, Applejack and daisy were at the library in ponyville, talking to Twilight about The General, wich was parked in front of the tree house.

"So this means that you have been reincarnated, wich is a theory that is still not proven to be possible." the unicorn lifted her eye brow at Daisy, who in turn, leaned a bit backwards.

"Look, Twilight. I have been sent here to retrieve the moonshine and the car. Just give these things to me, and Ah'll be gone before you even remember me."

"I am very sorry, but the princesses have claimed all of the moonshine." Twilight then said.

"An' the General is stayin' with me." Applejack slammed her hoof on the floor. This action caused Daisy and Twilight to look a bit questionned at her.

"Ah don't know why, but Ah feel a special connection with it, as if it is a part o' me." the orange mare explained.

"Ya'll are startin' to sound like Bo. He loved that car." Daisy concluded. "I can even remember the time he actually wanted ta make love to it." This caused the other two mares to look at Daisy in disgust.

"Of course he didn't actually do it, but that was only because Luke caught 'im." the pink mare said in her cousin's offence.
"Let's change the subject of this conversation." Daisy concluded. "If the General is gonna stay here, yer gonna need fuel to power the HEMI under the hood. Without gas, it's useless."

"Gas? As in... errr... you know, farts?" Twilight asked.

"No, Twilight, no farts are involved. Ahm talkin' about gassoline, the standard fuel for most combustion engines, back in the day." she explained.

"What is gassoline, exactly? I have read alot of books, but none of them have mentioned gassoline." Twilight said.

"You don't know what gassoline is? Than we are about to have a problem." Daisy thought for a moment. "Maybe we could change the engine to run on another kind o' fuel?"

"Maybe, but what would be a good substitute? I have never seen an engine so small, yet so powerfull." Twilight concluded.

"Well, sientists back in the day were tryin' water, but the engine would use so much of it, the fuel tank must be bigger than the entire car to even make it back to the farm." Daisy concluded.

"Maybe we could use apple cider?" Twilight proposed.

"Knowing it will be based on Uncle Jesse's Moonshine, it will most definately burn a hole in the fuel tank 'fore it even gets the chance to use it. Trust me, we tried." The three mares were at a dead end.
But then Applejack noticed something.

"Twilight, what is inside those bottles?" Applejack asked, pointing with her hoof at the lavender bottles on a shelf.

"That is liquid magic." Twilight explained "It makes cleaning up alot easier around here. I also use it for fuelling my..."

The lavender unicorn suddenly realized something.

"If liquid magic can be used to fuel my heater, it could possibly be used to fuel the General!" Twilight squee'd a little bit.

Suddenly, Twilight got some blueprints from under her desk. "I have made a technical drawing of the inner workings of the car. If we could make an engine similar to the 'HEMI' Daisy described, we wouldn't have to blow up the General if anything goes awry."
Twilight studied her drawings a little bit. "The only problem is: where could we build it without drawing too much attention?"

"Maybe we could build it in the barn we found the General Lee?" Applejack suggested. "We can miss one barn this season."

"Now that that is settled, we should be building the engine to not waste time." Daisy concluded "It is almost nighttime."

"How can it be almost nighttime, when the clock still says it's 3 pm?" Twilight asked.

"Uuuuhm, girls? Look outside." Applejack pointed at the window.

When all three mares looked outside, they noticed that the sun was rising and the moon was a little bit bigger and visible.

"What is going on?" Twilight asked nopony in particular. Right after she said that, a big explosion could be seen from Canterlot Castle.

"Ouch!" Twilight put her hooves against the temples of her head. "Big magic surge... major headache!"