The five ponies were gathered around the table waiting for supper.
Applejack kept banging her front hooves on the table in excitement because she was a very food oriented pony, thanks to all of the hard farm work that she did.
Fluttershy kept coming in and out of the kitchen with food. She placed down a bowl of salad, soup, bread, and fruit. She sat down at the table and looked at her friends. They all had confused looks on their faces, as if something very important was missing from the table. "Oh, that's right!" Fluttershy said. "I forgot the drinks. Fluttershy left her friends and came back with glasses filled with grape juice. She closed her eyes proudly and smiled as she set down the last drink for herself. When she opened her eyes, she was rather startled that her friends were all staring at her. "Um, I'm sorry. Am I missing something?"
"Where's the protein?" Applejack demanded to know.
"Oh, we have beans and nuts on the table in case you missed that, Applejack," Fluttershy said.
"No!" Applejack said. "I mean real protein! Where's the meat?"
Fluttershy put her hoof to her chest in shock and said, "Applejack! I'm a vegan! I don't eat meat! Meat is murder! I left my parents house because they were meat eaters and I couldn't stand it anymore!"
"Vegans are weak and are some of the most unhealthiest ponies on the planet! Why, I'm sure that Hollywood would make good use out of vegans because they are so pale and sickly lookin' that they wouldn't even need to put any makeup on them to make them out to be zombies in their horror movies!" Applejack said.
Twilight Sparkle face hoofed and said, "Applejack! Now might be a good time NOT to practice your element of brutal honesty."
Tears welled up in Fluttershy's eyes as she said, "M-m-my friends all eat meat? But how? We are ponies and I thought we were all vegetarians. Isn't that canon in the show?"
"And it's also canon in the show that we eat daffodil daisy sandwiches which is poisonous to ponies. I bet M.A. Larson has something to do with that! Every time I eat one of those daffodil daisy sandwiches in the show, I end up doubled over on the toilet because of food poisoning. Why, the next thing you know is that I'll be a princess and have wings!" Twilight said.
Twilight's friends all stared at her and crickets could be heard chirping in the background.
"What?" Twilight asked. "You all know that won't happen, right?"
The ponies still continued to stare at Twilight.
Fluttershy broke the silence and said, "I understand if you don't want to be my friends anymore because I'm different. I'm so sorry that I failed all of you. You can go home now."
"Thank goodness!" Applejack said. "Let's all go out and git some real food! I feel like eatin' some chicken!"
Twilight Sparkle snapped at Applejack and said, "Applejack! What did I tell you about being brutally honest? You're going to hurt Fluttershy's feelings even more!"
"It's ok," Fluttershy said. "I understand and Applejack should eat what she likes."
"Now we're talkin'!" Applejack said as she stood up from her chair. "C'mon girls! They got an all you can eat chicken wings at a joint in town. Let's go!"
"Applejack!" Twilight yelled out again. "Your honesty is going a bit too far. Sit down and enjoy what Fluttershy has made for us to eat! If you're still hungry, then we can have something else later! Let's be a little bit considerate of our friend here!"
Applejack mumbled some words of disapproval and sat down. She took some cantaloupe and grumbled.
Fluttershy put her front legs on the table. She burrowed her face in them and broke down crying.
Twilight, who was sitting next to Fluttershy, put her front hoof on her shoulder and said, "I'm so sorry, Fluttershy. I don't think Applejack understands the element of kindness like you do. We're going to enjoy our meal that you worked so hard to prepare for us!"
The ponies all grabbed some food and began to eat.
Twilight Sparkle took a few sips of Fluttershy's soup. "Wow, Fluttershy!" Twilight said. "This soup is out of this world good! What did you put in it?"
"It's just a vegetable soup and I added turmeric root, black pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic."
"Very good, Fluttershy!" Twilight said with praise. "Garlic has so many health benefits and black pepper helps our bodies absorb the turmeric root better. Turmeric is such an important herb for pain and it has so many good uses! Cayenne pepper is also incredibly healthy for the heart and improves blood circulation."
"I know," Fluttershy said. "But you all want meat."
"Fluttershy," Twilight said. "We can discuss that later. Let's just enjoy this meal right now."
Applejack went into an eating frenzy and began to devour all of the food on the table.
Rainbow Dash was about to reach out with her front leg for the bowl of beans, but Applejack grabbed it from her.
"Hey!" Rainbow Dash said. "You're being greedy!"
"I ain't greedy!" Applejack said. "I'm just starvin' and beans have a little bit of protein in them even though they are simply a vegetable."
Rarity, who was sitting next to Rainbow Dash, rolled her eyes and used her magic and hovered her plate of food and a fork in the air by Rainbow Dash. She began to use the fork to put some of her own food onto Rainbow Dash's plate. "If Applejack won't share, Rainbow Dash, then I will," the white unicorn said.
"Wow," Rainbow Dash said. "That's unusually generous of you, Rarity!"
Rarity sighed and said, "If only Hasbro would make me half as generous as the fans often make me out to be in their own personal fan fictions, I might seem a little bit more generous to others."
Pinkie Pie giggled and said, "Yeah, but the fans make clop fictions and I even remember hearing about a romantic story that involved Applejack and Big Macintosh, and they were in the barn taking a tumble in the hay, and Applejack put her mouth on Big Macintosh's...."
Applejack stuffed an apple into Pinkie Pie's mouth and said, "Alright, we git it! There are some sick and twisted individuals out there! No need to remind me 'bout the garbage that they write!" Applejack paused for a moment and asked, "Say, Twilight, who is writin' this fiction anyway? I swear, if this person makes Rainbow Dash turn out to be a lesbian again and I have to kiss her, I'm goin' to protest! I'd rather choose an ending in death if someone wants to write another fan fiction like that!"
"But how are you going to protest, Applejack?" Pinkie pie asked. "We're just helpless cartoon ponies who dance when the strings are pulled by the author! I'm already getting a strong Pinkie sense that he's going to do something extra crazy with me in this story!"
Applejack put her hoof to her chin and was deep in thought. "I don't know exactly how, but I'll think of somethin'," she said.
Twilight Sparkle used her magic and searched around a bit. "Oh," she said. "It looks like this fan fiction author's name is.....uh, Brian Jacko. Well, he seems legit from what I see in his stories. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how he'll make this story play out."
Applejack finished the last bit of food and burped loudly. She leaned back against the chair and put her two front hooves on her belly. "I'm still feelin' mighty hungry, and I can hear my belly makin' all kinds of hunger sounds. Let's all go out and git some chicken or somthin'!" Applejack got up and walked out the door.
Rarity felt Fluttershy's pain and said, "I'm so sorry dear, but Applejack doesn't represent the element of generosity or kindness. We have to deal with her painful honesty."
"Thank you all for coming over for dinner, I guess," Fluttershy said. "I'm sorry I couldn't please you all. I guess you might as well go out to eat with Appeljack now. I'm sure you all must be hungry since I can't offer you foods that are very high in protein."
"I'm still kind of hungry too," Rainbow Dash said. I need to eat lots of protein to be the best at my sports."
Fluttershy put her head back down and began to cry.
"Fluttershy, are you sure you want us to leave right now?" Twilight asked.
"Fluttershy picked her head up and wiped the tears away from her eyes with her two front hooves. "Yes," she said. "I need to be alone right now and mourn the loss of all the innocent little chickens that will be massacred when Applejack goes to the chicken place."
"Well, thank you so much for dinner, and we will all be back to check on you tomorrow," Twilight said. "Come on, girls. Let's go get some chicken!"
The rest of her friends left and Fluttershy became so upset, that she built herself a protest sign and marched all around her cottage chanting that meat is murder. It was too bad that she was too shy to join a real protest, but she felt like she had to get the word out somehow. Not one pony came by her cottage and noticed Fluttershy's personal protest going on since the cottage was too close to the Everfree forest which was dangerous. Fluttershy gave up hope and went to bed.