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// A Magical and Quixotic Crop 
// Story: Discord's Apple Surprise 
// by cheesemeister 
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	Come springtime, Discord helped the Apple Family plow the previously unused land and plant the seeds. Applejack told him that it would be at least a couple of years before the trees were able to bear fruit. Discord was impatient by nature, and he was eager to see what kinds of fruit the trees from his magical seeds would bear. He mixed up a magic fertilizer using the discarded apple cores and peels and spread it over the ground where the trees would grow.
“I want to see the fruits of my labor this year, not a couple years from now!” he chortled as he sprinkled the fertilizer. “More importantly, I want to taste the fruits of my labor! It will be glorious!”
Summer came, and the apple saplings grew surprisingly fast. 
“There’s something strange about these trees,” Applejack remarked to Big Macintosh as the pair was tending to the orchard one day. “Look at the yellow sparkly leaves. These are a new kind of tree. I don’t know if it’s mutation or magic. Maybe I better ask Twilight Sparkle.”
“Eeyup,” Big Mac agreed.
Twilight Sparkle examined the trees curiously.
“These trees have been magically altered,” she decreed. “I can’t see anything wrong in them. They seem like perfectly nice trees. However, they are magical, and quite quixotic. No two of them are alike. Hmm…magical and quixotic. I think that maybe we’d better have a chat with Discord.”
Discord freely admitted to having sprinkled the seeds with Surprise Dust and the ground with Magical Growth Formula.
“You see,” he said, “I thought that the only thing that could make your apples even better and more exciting to your customers would be to give them magic properties. Why, look how quickly the trees grow! Just wait till fall, when the fruit is on the branches. It won’t be the same old yellow and red and green, it will be all colors of the rainbow!”
“Well, I guess there ain’t no harm done,” Applejack said. “I just wish you would have asked me first, Discord.”
“Yes, but if I had, do you think you would have agree to allow me to jazz up your orchard? You tend to be a bit traditional, dear Applejack.”
“I think I probably would have agreed to one bag of seeds,” Applejack said. “Well, what’s done is done, and you didn’t mean no harm. But in the future, when it’s someone else’s property, y’all need to ask them first before going and making big changes to things.”
“I will keep that in mind,” Discord said. “Dear me, I hope I haven’t mucked things up for you, particularly after you were all so kind to me and treated me like a member of your family.”