//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Blood Sisters // by The Psychotic Brony //------------------------------// Chapter 2 The next morning, Spike was coming up the stairs from the basement, blanky in hand, and rubbing his back, which was completely out of alignment due to sleeping on the hard basement floor. When he got to the main floor he made his way to the kitchen. "Ugh...," He moaned, "my back is killing me. Nothing a little Super-Mega-Ultra-Deluxe-Sized tub of Brayskin Robin's Ice Cream can't solve." As he opened the door he said to himself, "I just hope Twilight doesn- HOLY SHIT!!!" It was the sight of Twilight at the table, half-asleep, mane a complete mess, and halfway through her 38th tub of Super-Mega-Ultra-Deluxed-Sized tub of Brayskins Robin's Ice Cream, that made Spike jump (and also, snap his spine back into place). Quickly, he went up to Twilight and tried to get her attention. However, she was in so deep in her state between awake and asleep that she didn't respond to any of his calls or hand-gestures, and simply kept scooping up ice-cream into her mouth.. Eventually, he left the room. Seconds later he came back with a bucket full of ice-cold water and dunked it all upon Twilight, immediately snapping her out of her trance. After a few seconds of coughing and spitting, she yelled, "Spike! *phhht!* What the hell!?!" "What is this!?!" Spike replied angrily, gesturing to the 37 empty Super-Mega-Ultra-Deluxe-Sized tubs of Brayskin Robin's Ice Cream piled in the corner. "Oh that..." admitted Twilight, "I got a little hungry from all those nightmares of Pinkie, so I thought I'd come down and make myself a quick late-night snack." "Uuuuhhh..." said Spike ''I'd hardly call it "Midnight.""" "What do you mean?" asked Twilight as she watched spike walk over to the closed curtains. Spike then swung the curtains open,Twilight shielded her eyes the bright morning sun shown upon her ice-cream colored face as if Celestia herself had just appeared before her. When her eyes adjusted to the light and she saw the sun clearly for the first time that day, her jaw dropped. "Spike...?" she asked nervously, "how long was I up?" "Well," Spike replied, "I can't count very well, but judging the number of bags under your eyes, I'd say you've been awake for about 8 hours." "8 HOURS!?!" replied Twilight, "Well what time is it now!?!" "8:47" said Spike. "Oh horseapples, i'm going to be late!" exclaimed Twilight. She then zoomed out of the kitchen, leaving a discarded tub of Super-Mega-Ultra-Deluxe-Sized Brayskin Robin's Ice Cream spinning on the table, and out the front door, at amazing speed.After she left, Spike watched from the inside of the door. "Hmmm," He said to himself, "Twilight's never run that fast before..." In a few seconds, an expression of realization came upon Spike's face and he turned his head over to Owlicious. "It's beginning..." Spike said. "Hoot-hoot-hoooooooooot..." replied Owlicious. Over at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack was was leaning on the side of the barn waiting for Twilight to come and help her fertilize the west field. Soon, something caught her eye on one of the near fields. As she squinted on the subject, she made it out to be a bright purple blur, and it was heading straight for her! As it got closer, she slowly and nervously put herself in a protective stance. Once the blur came directly in front of her, it came to a direct halt, and revealed it to be a very out of breath Twilight Sparkle, with one peculiar feature. "I am sooooo, sorry I'm late, Applejack!" Twilight said as Applejack simply stared at her, "I didn't get much sleep, and I had very little time to get ready and-" "Uuuhh..., Twilight?" Applejack interrupted. "Yeah?" Twilight asked. "Yer hair..." Applejack said "What about it?" asked Twilight "Well, uh... How do I put this..." Applejack pondered on how to put this, reached into a pile of hay and pulled out one of the mirrors that Pinkie Pie had stashed all over Ponyville in case of "Mirror Emergency, "Take a look for yerself..." When Twilight looked in the mirror, she saw that her mane and tail had taken on Pinkie Pie's poofy shape. This caused her to scream, which in turn caused Applejack to scream, which in turn caused Granny Smith to run out of the farm house with a rifle screaming and firing a warning shot at the air, which in turn caused Twilight and Applejack to scream at her, which in turn caused Granny Smith to scream at them. A little while later, Twilight and Applejack were walking toward the west field talking. "...And now she thinks I'm her new "blood sister"" said Twilight. "Yeah, She been trottin' all 'round town since last night announcin' it to the whole of Ponyville. She's even invited everyone to a "Blood Sister" party tonight," Applejack answered. "That sounds like Pinkie," Twilight said. "Surely it can't have anything to do with this" She said, gesturing at her hair. "Ah dunno sugarcube," said Applejack, "there's only one one pony in history 'sides you and Pinkie Pie who ever ate 37 and a half tubs of Super-Mega-Ultra-Deluxe-Sahzed Brahyskin Robin's Ahce Cream" "Really?" asked Twilight, "what happened to him?" "Grampy died" stated Applejack. "Oh my!" said Twilight. Pretty soon, the two friends had arrived at the west fields. "Welp, here we are!" said Applejack, "got the fertilizer?" "sure do!" said Twilight levitating two large sacks, "Can you believe some countries actually believe we make fertilizer "ourselves?"" "Ah mean, seriously!?!" said Applejack, "Who would start a rumor like dat?" They then looked up to the heavens for a few seconds with a look of curiosity on both their faces. Afterwards, they shook the whole subject off and went about their business. "Hokay," said Applejack, "ya'll start on dat side and ah'll start on dis side. An ya'll careful with dat fertalahzar. Fluttershy's animals worked vary hard to make dat!" "Okie-Dokie-Lokie!" said Twilight before walking off to her side of the field, leaving behind a very puzzled Applejack. After about 30 minutes of fertilizing crops and thinking about the fact that without telekinesis, Applejack has to handle the fertilizer with her mouth, boredom started to overtake her. In an effort to beat out her boredom, she started skipping. Not long after, that skipping escalated into full-out hopping, with sound effects to go with it. Pretty soon she started humming Pinkie's "Cupcake SOng". The sound of her whistling instantly gained the attention of some of the farm animals. As soon as Twilight's humming increased into loud whistling, farm animals of all sorts were following her like a marching band. Soon enough, she had started singing the song in words and the animals following her had starting their respective animal noises in sync. Applejack had just finished her side of the field and was checking up on Twilight to see what was taking her so long with her unfinished side of the field. "Hmmm, ah, wonder what's got Twilight's tail in a tangle." Applejack said to herself, "You'd think someone as organized as her would be on ti-" Applejack stopped dead at her tracks when she saw Twilight and half of the animals on the farm just finishing up a super-elaborate choreography to the "Cupcake Song" that would have normally taken 6 months to produce (or probably just 2, thanks to modern animation). Once the song was finished, and the animals went back to their normal lives, Twilight, still in her finishing pose, realized what she was doing and looked at Applejack with a confused, shocked, and anxious face, one of which Applejack returned. After a few minutes of awkward silence, Twilight spoke up. "Uhhhhhhhh...," She said, "I... gotta... go." She then rushed out of the farmlands with the same speed she had come in with, leaving a very bewildered Applejack just staring at her vapor-trail.