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// An Awkward Meeting 
// Story: (SiC) Part 1 - Ain't Want No Yeller Ponies 'Round Here 
// by Brian Jacko 
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	"And ya'll are so much fun to be with! Ya'll are the very best four ponies and friends I have ever had!"

Rainbow Dash giggled and said, "And we think you're pretty awesome too, Applejack! We're all so glad to see you and we're thrilled that we can hang out together."

"Say, where ya'll taken me today? I wanted to git some food with ya'll."

"We're taking you to meet our new friend that we met a few days ago," Rarity said.

"Oh boy! You girls are so much fun and I'm havin' a blast with ya'll. I can't wait to see who yer new friend is."

Pinkie Pie suddenly stopped in front of the cottage and said, "Well, that's what surprises are for you silly filly!" She then knocked on the door. 

The door slowly opened and a certain pony with a pink mane peeked her head out. "Oh, Um, hi girls. I didn't expect you all to show up today. I was just busy feeding my little Angel Bunny and I..." Fluttershy suddenly cut her sentence short when she noticed that behind all of her friends, was that same pony who was very cruel to her. 

Pinkie Pie grabbed the hoof of Fluttershy and dragged her outside. "Fluttershy, meet Applejack. Applejack, meet Fluttershy!" the pink pony said as she bounced joyfully around the two of them. 

Fluttershy turned her head away and lowered her ears. "Um, hi. I think we may have met before." She then slowly stuck out her hoof to shake. 

The farm pony stood there in shock. She became filled with anger and spat at the hooves of Fluttershy and said, "I thought ya'll were good ponies and didn't hang 'round with  yeller ponies!"

Twilight scratched her head with her hoof and asked, "Uh, Applejack what do you exactly mean by that?"

"I hate yeller ponies! I hate 'em all! They talk funny and they steal, cheat, and lie!"

"Um, Applejack, my dear. I think you might be forgetting that you have quite an accent yourself and Fluttershy speaks quite normally," Rarity said.

"I ain't got no accent!" Applejack yelled. "And I ain't hangin' 'round no yeller ponies and a friend of a yeller pony is a friend that is no longer mine! Ya'll can either choose to hang out with me or that no good yeller belly, Fluttershy. I ain't havin' nothin' to do with her." 

"Oh, um, that's ok. I understand. You all can play with Applejack today. I know I'm not wanted anyway. I'll just take care of Angel Bunny and play with him. I'm sorry for being such a problem to all of you," Fluttershy said as she walked back into her house and then quietly closed the door.

"What is the big deal, Applejack?" Pinkie Pie asked. "We're all different colors and I don't understand why Fluttershy is any different than the rest of us."

"That's what ya'll missin' here! Yeller ponies are no good and one time when I was in Manehatten, a yeller pony stole my food and my money!"

Twilight was trying to piece this all together. "So you mean that just because a pony who happened to have a yellow coat stole from you, makes all ponies with yellow coats bad?" she asked.

"Yes! Wait, I mean no!"

"Then what other reasons do you have to hate yellow ponies?" Twilight said.

Applejack's mind raced with some kind of excuses to say, but she could not find one, because what Twilight said was true. "I-I-I....I think ya'll just don't understand and are blind! We should just move on from this topic and go out and do somthin'. I'm not carryin' anythin' of value on me right now, but that same pony you introduced me to, was the one who tried to steal my money from me at the bank."

"Oh, is that so? Did the police do anything about it?" Rarity asked. 

"No! They said that I dropped the letter out of my saddle bag, but I know I had the buttons closed and there's no way it could have possibly fallen out. The police make me sick 'round here! Buck the Police! Buck em all!"

The rest of her friends looked down at the ground and felt really awkward. Never before had they heard such harshness and racism come from a pony before. 

Twilight Sparkle pawed at the ground with her hoof and said, "Well, it looks like Fluttershy said she'd rather have us hang out with you, so I guess we'll go out and get something to eat." 

"I knew you'd see things my way! Thank ya for not bein' so ignorant! Let's have a good time together! More importantly, let's get somethin' to eat!"

Twilight Sparkle and her friends began walking to town for dinner. She hoped that maybe somehow they could change her heart and get her to talk to Fluttershy once more. 

When they got to the restaurant and began eating, Twilight and her friends very cautiously tried to reintroduce the topic to Applejack of possibly giving Fluttershy another chance. But every time it was brought up, Applejack became very angry and threatened to cut her friendship off with them.