Author's Note: Each chapter will have funny names like this such as: Cloudsbale. And yes, they will match the chapter.
Twilight put RD and AJ in charge of taking them to the Maretel, since those two were arguing something fierce. While the others found it very annoying, Buford didn't seem to care. He saw those two had a special flare, but he couldn't quite put his han- erm...hoof on it. Phineas's stomach started to growl louder than a Timberwolf. He tapped on Applejack.
"Sorry to interrupt, but I'm really hungry. Do you guys have any chicken or burgers or french fries?"
Applejack looked at him like he had two horns and laughed, "Ah forgot you was a human bein' before! Sorry hon, but you just gonna haf'ta eat hay and oats for a while," her eyes lit up, "But-"
"But?" Phineas asked.
"Here we go," Rainbow Dash said as she rolled her eyes.
Applejack glared at her until she remembered what she was about to say, "We have the finest apples in town. Ma family owns the farm here, Sweet Apple Acres. It's where ah grew up as a filly. Care to visit? It's still early in the afternoon."
Buford snapped out of his daydreaming when he heard her say 'Care to visit?'. He nodded eagerly like a crazed dog. This was his chance to make an impression on the farm pony as well as her athletic companion.
On the way to the farm, Candace realized that they were letting two ponies they barely knew leading them to a house. Her mom told her to avoid these kind of situations, so she stopped. Everypony turned around to look at her, stopping themselves too.
"No way! I'm not letting two ponies we barely know to drag us into some kind of...death trap. My mature and responsible sister senses tell me so."
"Candace, they're nice ponies. You should know that. They're only trying to help." Isabella reassured her.
"Oh please! You know, this is all your fault, Phineas and Ferb! You build some crazy dangerous invention and look at where it takes us. Even Perry knows he has to stay at home all the time."
OOMPH!
"Ugh...my head," Dr. Doofenshmirtz said, rubbing the back of his hand with his hoof. When he looked around, he immediately jumped up. Ponies...ponies everywhere. It worked! It worked! he thought as he looked around.
"Haha! My Pony-inator worked! I've transformed the whole town of Danville into ponies!" he exclaimed, jumping around. Some ponies looked at him like he was hi or drunk or something.
"Ugh...where am I?" a voice groaned.
"I did it! I did it! I-" Dr. D gasped, "Perry the platypus? You're a pony?"
"What are you-" the voice stopped and looked at his feet. Hooves. He looked at his mouth. Muzzle. He ran to the nearest mirror and gasped. Perry was no longer a platypus, but a pony.
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I know what you're thinking: I wanted Perry to stay a platypus! Why keep him as a boring platypus who can't even talk (as much as I love his character) when you could have a pony to discuss his feelings and fight crime even better? Am I right or am I right?
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Perry grinned, "I guess I am, aren't I?" His voice was a deep, black person type kind of voice. Anypony who heard it would have swooned, even the stallions. This did not please Dr. D one bit.
"Hey how come you get a nice voice? I'm stuck with a...a German accent of some sort. But anyway...I did it! Ha! You weren't quick enough with destroying my -inator, you heavenly voiced you!"
"You...do realized I dropped it down your balcony and you started chasing me around with a giant foot robot. You stepped in someone's backyard and after that, a light shone so bright, we disappeared from home. Besides, the buildings here are more like cottages than skyscrapers." Perry explained, unamused to how the Dr. didn't see that coming.
"Huh. Didn't see that coming."
"You didn't see this either."
"What are you-" BAM! RIGHT IN DA FAAACE!
Doofenshmirtz was knocked out of balanced as Perry bucked his chest hard. I can get used to this, he thought as Doof tried to get back up. The ponies saw this action, excitement and fear shining through their eyes as they yelled.
"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"
And so they did, not realizing two mares would stop the fight...as soon as a bothersome Candace gets off their backs.
"For the last time, Phineas. TAKE. ME. HOME! I need to bust you!" Candace cried.
"I can't! I don't know where the machine went! Something must have happened to it!" Phineas protested.
"Ugh! For Celestia's sake, would you two SHUT UP and move on?!" a frustrated Rainbow Dash yelled.
"I am so in love with her right now." Buford said.
"What?"
"Nothing!"
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
"Wait a sec...y'all here that?" Applejack asked. The others stopped what they were doing and listened carefully.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
"What the-" she saw two ponies fighting each other. "Come on, RD. There's somethin' goin' on over there."
"As long as I'm away from these two, I'm there." Rainbow said.
"So am I..." Buford said, practically floating off the ground, hearts in his eyes.
"No can do, lover boy. Y'all stay here and be safe. We'll take care of this." Applejack said.
How does she know?
"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" The ponies chants were growing louder and louder.
"Hey, Perry the platy- erm... I mean, pony, they're cheering louder for us! I've never felt so loved!" Dr. D said as he was kicking Perry away from him. Perry just rolled his eyes and punched him in the jaw. That had to hurt...and it did.
"What in Tartarus is goin' on over here?" Applejack yelled.
Everypony stopped to see two mares, orange and cyan, entering the premises or however you spell that word.
"A fight?! Aw yeah! I'd like to see how this will turn out." Rainbow said, rubbing her hooves.
Applejack rolled her eyes, face-hoofed, then turned to the other two ponies, realizing she never met them before.
"Hey...are y'all new ta Ponyville...no lemme rephrase that...EQUESTRIA too?" Applejack asked.
"What's Equestria?" Dr. D asked.
The crowd looked at each other with confusion and muttered somethings to each other. Applejack sighed.
"Great. More new ponies." she muttered.
"Technically, we're humans. Well...he's supposed to be a platypus, but you never know, you know?" Dr. D explained.
"Humans?!" Lyra shouted from the crowd, looking around, "WHERE?!"
"Easy Lyra, there's only humanized ponies here." Rainbow called out.
"Awwww...I wanted an autograph." she pouted.
"Anyway," Perry said, "If you'll excuse us, I got a...um...uh erm...plot to beat? Is that it?"
"If you want the more inappropriate term, yes. However, this is a lovin' town and we can't tolerate other ponies beatin' up other...'ponies'," Applejack made a hoof quote-gesture, "So, stop biting his leg and follow me, got it?"
"But-"
"Now!" she stated firmly.
Perry stopped biting Doof's leg and got off the ground, Doof doing the same. They hung their heads low but glared at each other every chance they got. They joined the other group of ponies. Perry looked at them and sighed, then put his head down. That is, until he got a better look at them. They looked like...he gasped. Phineas looked at him.
"What's wro- do I know you?" he asked, tilting his head.
Perry quickly shook his head and put his hat over his face. This cannot be... he thought.
Suddenly:
"We're here!" Applejack exclaimed. Everypony gasped in awe at the sight. While there was a red barn, being painted by a buff red stallion, there were acres and acres of apple trees spreading across the plains. It was a beautiful sight. Well...Buford was staring at the two mares' which he thought were "beautiful sights."
Phineas's stomach started to growl even louder as he started to drool over the delicious apples in front of him. Baljeet wanted to grab a calculator and calculate the total number of trees and apples they had. Ferb was...Ferb. Isabella felt she was apple heaven, while Candace just scowled. Show off she thought.
"Hey Applejack! Rainbow Dash!" a little country filly yelled along side with her friends. Applejack smiled while Rainbow rolled her eyes. She knew what was coming.
"Rainbow Dash is here? OMC! Rainbow, it's me! Scootaloo!" an orange filly exclaimed.
"OMC?" Isabella was confused.
The two fillies jumped on their sisters (sister-ish idle for Scoots.) while the white filly, Sweetie Belle, stared at the other ponies.
"Howdy AB! Hey Scoots! Hi, Sweetie! Had fun?" AJ asked.
"Sure as heck did! Ah- who are those ponies?" Applebloom finally notices the stallion, four colts, little filly, and the teenage mare. Scoots looks at them, too. Buford especially.
"Oh...um...they're here to help with the plumbing with your toilet! Yeah that's it!" Rainbow lied.
"But...isn't that what we have Big Mac for?" Applebloom points a hoof at her big brother.
"He...uh...couldn't do it. So...we hired them." Rainbow sputtered.
"And you need 8 of them?" Sweetie Belle asked in her squeaky tone.
"Why do you have all the questions?" Rainbow asked suspiciously.
"Why do you have all the answers?" Scootaloo did the same.
" 'Cause..."
" 'Cause?"
"Just 'cause! Now shoo! Go do your crusading or whatever." Rainbow shooed them away. The sun went "tick."
"Oh shoot! Ah just remembered! Pinkie asked me to bake 12 dozen apple pies for some party. Oh, but the afternoon's gonna end. Think you can give me a hoof, RD?" Applejack asked.
"Cider?" Rainbow grinned sheepishly.
"All out."
"Sorry. No can do. Besides, I promised Twi I would help her do the high-up chores in her library today," she shook her head, "I swear she needs to use those wings soon or they're going to drag her down. Laters!" Then Rainbow took off.
"I suppose...we could help you." Baljeet volunteered.
"Really? You'd do that?" Applejack asked.
"Well sure. Why not?" Isabella said.
"What? Wait-" Candace tried to protest.
"Y'all are the best!" Applejack exclaimed.
*sigh*
"Granny Smith wants me to clean the chicken coop, so Ah'm leaving you guys to the bakin'. The instructions are in the scroll right there," she said, pointing to the paper on the table, "Any questions?"
All their hooves shot up.
"Good! Get to it!" Then she was gone.
"It's a good thing I got my baking patch back as a Fireside Girl," Isabella said, showing off her cutie mark again, "Let's get to it!"
Ferb opened the instructions and read aloud:
What you need:
2-1/4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 cup shortening
5 to 7 Tbsp. ice cold water
6 cups thinly sliced peeled tart apples (about 4 large apples)
3/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/ 4tsp. ground nutmeg
1 Tbsp. lemon juice (optional)
"Seems legit," Candace said, "Come on! Let's do this!"
"Wow, Candace. You wanted no part of the activity earlier, but all of a sudden you want to? Wow, you're finally learning." Phineas said, anger in his tone.
"Oooooh! Burn!" Dr. D said.
Perry elbowed his gut.
"What? I've always wanted to say that!"
"Phineas, I-" Candace started.
"Um, Candace. It's best if you leave him be." Isabella warned.
With a sigh, Candace went to work.
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Within an hour, the pies were put in the oven. The kids, Perry, and Dr. D leave Buford in charge of watching the pies. They go find Applejack, who was entering the barn house.
"Y'all done already? Ah'm impressed. It's weird though, since ya never worked with hooves before." she said.
"I have to admit, it took a while to get used to it, but we managed. Buford is watching the pies in the oven, so I guess we are done." Baljeet explained.
"Y'all look thirsty. May Ah interest you in a drink?" she offered.
Everyone nodded.
"Alright, be right back. Apple juice comin' right up."
As she left, they saw an old lady rocking back and forth in her chair. It's best if they ignore her, rather than to disturb her peaceful slumber.
*Snore cough cough snore*
Well, almost peaceful.
Applejack came back with drinks served on a platter on her back. She carefully placed them on the table, making sure not one spilled. They stared in awe of how strong she was.
"Hey Applejack? In Twilight's library, I saw a treasure chest with gems on it with a sign that says: "Touch it, you die." What's in that box?" Phineas asked.
"Oh, that? The Elements of Harmony. They're what represents friendship. Honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, laughter, and magic."
"Magic? What does magic have to do with anything?" Baljeet asked.
"Ah'm not sure. You're gonna have to ask Twi. She's the element bearer of that one anyway."
"Element bearer?"
"Yeah, ya know: ownership. Ah'm honesty, Dash's loyalty, Rarity's generosity, Fluttershy's kindness, Pinkie's laughter,and Twi's magic. We all represent the elements because of how we proved each and every one of them."
Doof snickered, causing everyone to look at him.
"What's so funny?" Perry asked.
"It's weird, you know. The elements."
"How so?" asked Ferb.
"You can't be loyal without being honest. Like if you want to remain loyal to your friend, you gotta be honest to them no matter how tough it could be. And if your generous, you have to be kind enough. Good hearted and everything. But if that's how it is, I guess it's alright."
"For an idiot, you say true words." Perry said.
"Thanks! I guess..."
"It was a compliment."
"Huh," Applejack caused everyone to look in her direction, "Never thought about it like that before. Ah-*sniff sniff* y'all smell that?"
It smelled horrible. So smokey. So...apple-ish? Then everyone realized it.
"THE APPLE PIES!"
Granny woke from her sleep, "Shut up yer fugly rascals! I'm trying to sleep!"
Without even realizing her language, everypony ran into the kitchen. Buford had dozed off (he must've got bored) and there was smoke everywhere. Doof and Candace opened the windows and the back door. Perry went to open the front door. Isabella, Phineas, and Ferb grabbed fans with their mouths, plugged them in and turned them on. Applejack opened the oven and black smoked filled the room. It was at that point Buford woke up, coughing with everyone else.
When the smoke cleared, the apple pies were black...burned and...smelled like tofu. Yuck!
"Great! How am ah gonna tell Pinkie about this?" Applejack was upset.
"Just be honest with her. Isn't that your element?" Baljeet said with a smirk.
Applejack smiled and threw the pies in the garbage. She decided to finally take them to the Maretel room. What they didn't know was that the party was for them...