Like a Rhinestone Cowpony
Well, apple blossom... Since you had asked, I suppose it's time to tell you exactly what happened in the last days of Equestria. See, after my time in Ponyville, I took a few decades to prepare for my next life. I eventually took a new identity, and settled down as a stage pony in the town of Baltimare."
You were a stage pony? But mama, I didn't know you could act!"
"Naw, I was on stage doin' cowpony acts for Bufflo Bill Pony's wild west show- performin' lasso tricks, and wearing goofy outfits fer the payin' audience. Made whole bunch of friends, and got along with everybody! Well, here I thought I would finally get a life free of trouble or drama. Booooy, was I in for a terrible surprise...
"Ladies and Gentleponies, please put your hooves together for the little lady of the rodeo.... Miss Green Apple!"
The white hot lights shown down on the stage, and all eyes in the theater were on the mare standing front and center. A fully pink mare with a pink mane stood there, her pink mane and tail simply glowing under the spotlight. Ignoring all of the eyes on her out there in the darkness, the pony with the green apple cutie mark pulled the lasso out of her pack.
The sight of the luscious equine in the red stetson, rhinestone saddle, and pink leather bottoms barely covering her flank already had every stallion in the audience drooling. But when she began to twirl that rope with her tail- gracefully jumping back and forth through the lasso hoop, twirling the rope endlessly as she leapt around like a graceful pony ballerina. Twirling the lasso over her head, spinning it around under her hooves... the crowd clapped their hooves and cheered as she pranced around on stage under the lights.
"And now, for your entertainment and amazement... Miss Apple will jump through a hoop encircled by flames in a death defying stunt for the ages!"
Taking a deep breath, the mare took a step back as the two stagehand stallions lit the big hoop on fire. Galloping forward, she jumped straight through the flames, even as the crowd let out a collective audible gasp. Apple went sailing through the circle of death, landing gracefully on the other side, without even so much as a hair on her coat singed. The crowd suddenly exploded into applause, as the mare on stage struck a pose on stage.
"How about that, ladies and gentleponies? Let's have a round of applause for the queen of the rodeo!"
...
After the performance, Green Apple was backstage, signing several autographs, and dealing with several dozen crazed fans. It was not the most amazing experience that the cowpony had to deal with, but it certainly was one of the most interesting.
"Ohhhh! Ohhhhh! Apple! Over here! You were soooo awesome out there!"
"I wanna be just like you when you when I grow up!"
"Apple Green, I want you ta have MY BABY!"
The pink mare slowly made her way back towards her dressing room, zipping behind the door, and quickly slamming the door in their faces. But as soon as she looked up, Green Apple noticed a purple stallion with a pink mane was already there, and waiting for her.
"Another magnificent performance, Green! Beautiful as always!" The pony with the chocolate cake cutie mark exclaimed. "You wowed them out there today, just like you wow them every night with your amazing shows!"
Chocolate Delight- a cowpony Green had met a few years back when she had been wandering around Equestria, he turned out to be more of a gentle-stallion than all the other cowboys who Apple had performed with. Chocolate had eventually ended up as her manager, and the two earth ponies had managed to grow close in the months since.
Very, very close....
"Yeah, another great 'show'." Green grumbled, slumping down into her chair in front of her dressing room mirror, and trowing her stetson up onto the rack. "Sleazy stallions drooling over me, and making lewd comments, and mares with daggers in their eyes who are grumbling about wanting to do me in!"
"Well, we could always take your act to another city in Equestria!" Chocolate offered, even as he massaged the weary mare's shoulders. "Last week, we received an offer from Manehatten that you just wouldn't-"
"Yeah, wonderful idea! Trade one city of pony vermin for another!" The pink mare snorted in anger. "There was a time when ponies watched my act because for the spectacular feats I would perform! Now, those horndog stallions of this generation just want to see wave my flank in the air!"
"Good grief, darling! With all that complaining, you sound like you're two hundred instead of twenty-two!" The stallion's hooves went slowly lower, gently massaging her lower back and barrel of her body. "Well, don't worry about it, darlin! They'll always be a group of ponies who still love your performances." He smiled down at her. "And I'm one of em!"
"Awww, Chocolate, your just as sweet as the sweet as the candy yer named after!" The mare giggled, leaning back and rubbing her head against his chest. "You know what? I'm happy to just stay here, and not worry about what's happening in the rest of Equestria." She began to lick his coat. "Let Princess Luna worry about the rest of the kingdom, I'd rather just relax in your hooves, instead."
The two ponies began to kiss, gently caressing each other with their hooves. Green Apple pulled the stallion tighter, pressing the area between her stifles in between his lower flanks, as the two began to-
Ummm, mama? Why'd you trail off after telling me you went back to your room? What did you do there? And why is your face turning all red?
Uhhhh.... I'll tell you about that when you are older, Apple Blossom. But while I was busy, um, enjoying myself, someone else was already preparing to return to Equestria...
A dark cloud began to form over central Equestria taking even many of the best equine meteorologists by surprise. Not many ponies gave it much thought, but many ponies could've swore they saw some kind of... city... forming out of the clouds, and slowly descending towards the planet. Nopony was expecting a horror from five hundred years earlier would come back to haunt the modern world.
So nopony was prepared, when that city of Tambelon touched down upon the hills of the rambling ridge. And nopony was ready when a swarm of horrifying goblins came pouring out of it's walls.
"Now, my minions! Go forth!" A large horned, goatlike form roared. "Make these ponies bleed, and make their land burn!"
The cities of Equestria would soon learn, that a great destructive evil would soon be in their midst once more...