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// The Everfree Migration? 
// Story: My little Revolution: Britain and Her Colonies 
// by batran 
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"Hold on Fluttershy, wait!" shouted out Pennsylvania while being followed by 14 others. They were chasing Fluttershy for almost 15 minutes now. But Fluttershy's objective was to get to Applejack. As they are near the Apple Orchard, Fluttershy ran through the apple trees and lost from sight. The others followed in pursuit. Suddenly, the group was stopped when Connecticut accidently ran, head-first, into a tree and cursed and flailing violently in pain. Georgia and Rhode Island went to calm him down just as when the others realized that they have been lost. They followed each other left and right and when it seemed that they are going to get lost, they managed to find and opening that leads to the front of the Apple farm. 

The group finally spotted Fluttershy as she was crying and was in the comfort of the orange mare, Applejack. Right after Applejack finished asking a barely audible question. Fluttershy spotted the group back pointed to Pennsylvania and saying words that they cannot hear. Applejack looked deadly at Pennsylvania and stomped towards him.

"Were yah the fellah who hit Fluttershy!?", Applejack said sternly jabbing a hoof into his chest which made him wince.

"Um y-yes but It was an accid-" 

"What were yah thinking!? poor Flutters!", Applejack cut him off, Applejack was just about ready to hit him before hearing a scream behind them. Everyone turned around and saw that some type of... wolves made of wood was growling and moving closer to Fluttershy. Some of the colonists cover their noses from the stench. Britain was shocked, but quickly recovered as his insticts has been activated.  

"Men! Get ready!" Shouted Britain. The Colonists around him was unsure but obeyed as they know no ideas. They lined up in a defensive wall.

"Ready your arms!", The Colonists knelt down and raised their..... Muskets? wait they forgot, they didn't have muskets at the time. They got nervous and fleeing was on their minds. But when they heard another ROAR!!, they overcome their fear and instead readied their fists....or hooves. The pack of wolves were about 4. The French pony explained to the others that it looked like a somewhat large scouting group. Having been in the frontier before, Rhode Island was the best in the wilderness out of the rest of his new friends. 

The Colonists hesitated, unwilling to make a move until one of the wolves start to pounce on Fluttershy, who emits a loud scream from that attack. Pennsylvania had decided to make the first move out of all of the ponies. He leaped and knocked one of the wooden wolves away just as it knocked Fluttershy to the ground. New Hampshire rushed forward and help Fluttershy up to all four hooves and both of them ran to a safe distance. Pennsylvania started punching the wooden wolf he pounced on. If he still had his fingers, it would sore and each punch was like hitting a tree with your bear fists. Fortunately, his hooves protected him from that. 

The others joined in, but against other of those wolves made of trees. Applejack stormed up to the first wolf, turned around and raised her back hooves and bucked it in the snout. It fell back clutching it's snout in pain. Massachusetts suddenly, came out of nowhere with an axe and began chopping up the wolf. When he's done, the wolf was in pieces, tree sap was slowly oozing out of the ends of each limb.

"Um, sorry to bother but... where did you get that axe?" asked New Hampshire,

"Er... found it?" replied Massachusetts, but sounded unsure. The others around him raised their eyebrows.

"Okay- okay fine, I stole it from the Ponyville market while no one is looking.", Applejack stared at him in disappointedly, he noticed this and said,

"Hey, it's either us or them, besides we could benefit from this." he raised his stolen axe.

"Well yah shouldn't have ta steal this axe either!" Argued Applejack.

Massachusetts was speechless, but uttered a "whatever" in response. Applejack would've reply but heard one of the colonists asking for help near her. She turned around and rushed to the voice in need. New Hampshire just realized that he needed a weapon for his own as he is not well fighting in close combat.

"Fluttershy," Fluttershy looked at him and then he said in determination, "I need my musket!"

"The wooden thing with a metal tube? B-but it's a weapon isn't it?" Argued Fluttershy. New Hampshire stared at her like he had known what to do. 
"I......fine," New Hampshire beamed at when she gave in easily, "It's in the closet near the outside of my room..."

New Hampshire rushed back to the house. He burst through the door and searched around frantically, looking for the weapon. He finally found it and opened the door and searched the neat pile. He finally found the rifle with the initials: A.P. engraved on the stock and he grabbed it and shut the door. He jumped down the stairs and landed on his back hooves. He felt wind brushed through his hair. He slowly touched his head and found that his lucky hat isn't there. He began searching around the house, looking for it. He stopped and looked at his reflection on the large mirror in the corner. He looked down and he had hooves and the body of a pony. When he looked up he saw himself in his original form. 
interesting...

He continued his search but have grown desperate. He looked at the mirror in during his failure at searching. In the mirror, it was different. It showed his pony-form instead of his original human form. I must be going bonkers... he began searching for his hat one last time.
He gave up on finding his lucky hat and ran out the door to the Apple Orchard.

Once he got there, there was only 1 wolf left. It was slightly bigger than the others, so it must be the leader of the scouting pack. The others were still trying to fight it, but it was smart and was skirmishing from them. Fluttershy spotted him and ran towards him.

"Are you sure you could take on the timberwolf with that?" questioned Fluttershy pointing to the object in his hoof.

Timberwolf?

"I hope so. Without my lucky hat, I am not sure it would work." New Hampshire answered.

"That hat you we're wearing?" Fluttershy received a nod, "Maybe you shouldn't use it.."

"Have no fear," New Hampshire put a hoof on Fluttershy, "I have to, I must protect my comrades..." he took his hoof off of her and walked near the Timberwolf.
New Hampshire stood up on his hind legs and quickly lost balance and tumbled forward. He managed to hold a grip on his musket and tried again in a different position by standing up on his hind legs and kneeling down. The monster noticed him when New Hampshire trying to experiment on a comfortable and balancing position to fire his musket in. It figured out that he held a weapon. The Timberwolf  still didn't know how it works but a weapon is a weapon, it is dangerous. 

It roared and began to charge at New Hampshire. As New Hampshire managed to get into the position that he wanted, he checked his gun and raised it up. But not fast enough as the creature rammed into him, send New Hampshire flying backwards and hit an apple tree. New Hampshire tried to get up but a couple apples fell and hit him in the head. He rubbed it off and looked around for his rifle. He spotted it near Rarity who was hyperventilating. He called out to Rarity and got her attention and he pointed a hoof to his rifle. Rarity wasn't sure, which frustrated New Hampshire. Finally Rarity gave in and, with her magic, she threw it towards New Hampshire and he caught it with his hooves. He checked the gun and go into a sitting position. He threw up his rifle and the creature charged again. He pulled the trigger and the gun made a click.......... huh? The gun didn't fire, it's jammed or either the gunpowder was wet! He banged a hoof on his rifle a couple of times and it locked back into ready position.

He raised his rifle again just to get rammed again by the Timberwolf, luckily he been thrown off the side of the tree so he is free. But he tumbled down the hill and landed in mud. He crawled to the rifle but a sharp pain in his back and legs slowed him down. He looked around and saw that he was bleeding and a slight bone (around the ankle and some of the spine) exposure. He looked right and saw the Timberwolf running towards him. The Others around him froze up, unable to act. It is all up to him to save his life. He crawled to the rifle ignoring the pain with pure determination. The creature began going in for the kill. The creature sprinted towards him. New Hampshire's hoof was centimeters from his gun, but yet he cannot reach it. When the creature leaped towards him, he got desperate. His desperateness had saved his life and he managed to grab hold of the gun. He turned around on his back and raised his gun one last time. The creature hit the bayonet and sap poured out. It struggled and pulled out and tree sap poured out slowly. The creature was about to make another move until Pennsylvania leaped on top of it and grabbed hold of it's neck, pulling it into a hostage grip.

"Shoot!" Pennsylvania shouted.

"B-but, the bullet might go through the creature to you!" stuttered New Hampshire

"Don't care! shoot it! You have to shoot it! Think about the lives you could save!...." New Hampshire was still not sure, before Pennsylvania added in, "Think about Fluttershy!"

Something clicked in New Hampshire and he almost hesitantly raised his musket and pulled the trigger. KABANG!..... The Creature's severed body fell over. Pennsylvania just stood there still holding like the creature was there. He tipped alarmingly to the left and fell over and his body flopped onto the ground and heslipped into darkness as blood poured into his vision. New Hampshire breathed heavily. He lost too much blood on his back and fell backwards and lay there unmoving.

The Others stood there, in shock of the scene before them.

"(New) Hampshire!" Fluttershy rushed to his sight looking for a heartbeat. While a few others checked on Pennsylvania.

Rhode Island looked at the 4 dead Timberwolves.

"Interesting," he said astonishedly, "I wonder where are they from..."

"We'll Timberwolves don't normahlly gone out this fahr" said Applejack.

"Hmm, then something must've made them migrate... but what? Usually there must be a higher power in the forest required in order for that to happen..." Rhode Island licked his lips before looking back up to Applejack, "But what?"