//------------------------------// // Destruction of A Farm // Story: Friendship: a new type of animalism. // by MetalBrony823 //------------------------------// Another day later, it was beautiful as always. Snowball was waking up from his well deserved sleep. He yawned and went downstairs to get himself some fresh air. He saw many other animals get up the same way he did right now. "Good morning, everyone." Snowball said to all of them "Good morning Snowball." They all replied to him in unison. The white boar smiled, and went out the front door for fresh air from the morning breeze. He inhaled amd gave out a sigh. "Ah this breeze feels so heavenly." He thought out loud. "It makes me feel like I am visiting a Garden of Eden." Then he went back inside the cottage. After a little walk, he heard some footsteps coming downstairs. It was Fluttershy with her usual and adorable smile on her face. "Good morning, Snowball." She said to him. "Good morning to you too, Fluttershy." Snowball replied to her kindly. "Can I be any assistance to you right now?" "Well, you can help me feed the animals their breakfast in a little bit of that is what you would like." Fluttershy replied honestly. "Wonderful." "Oh, and I forgot to tell you, me and my friends are having the Ponyville annual fundraiser for all animals and how they live." "Really? That's marvelous." Said Snowball. "Do you suppose that me, Jessie, and my other friends can help you with them?" "Oh of course, we are always looking for some extra helping hooves. Oh, and feathers too." Fluttershy laughed. Snowball chuckled. "Wonderful." Then he went into the kitchen to get his own breakfast. Then, when he was getting himself a breakfast green apple, a sudden guilt came to him in an instant. "Fluttershy. I... I know I might have said this before, but I am sorry if I lied to you and the others about Boxer." "Oh Snowball, it's okay. I forgive you." Fluttershy replied softly. Snowball smiled. "Alright. Thank you." "You're very welcome." "So what are we doing exactly?" "Well, we have a large petting zoo, feed the, and we groom them. It's a rather fun experience. Everypony and Spike will be attending it to participate by helping animals and their needs. Of course you will love it, you love to help animals too." "That I do." Said Snowball. "Well, I'm ready to feed the animals now." "Brilliant. I'll help." Snowball followed her outside in the backyard, ready to help her feed his new animal companions. He helped Fluttershy with a load of food as usual, and fed one trough while Fluttershy fed the other trough, and they repeat it on the rest of them. "Say, Leo, how would you like to be in our animal fundraiser." Snowball said to Leo the lion. "I would love too." Leo replied before he began to eat the large piece of meat that Snowball gave him (he didn't carry it in his mouth.) Snowball then spreads the word to all the other animal friends. Turns out that many of them already knew of this little fundraiser since Fluttershy told them about it already "Wait, Fluttershy. I just have a thought." Said Snowball. "Would snakes, lizards, salamanders and other cold-blooded animals die in the cold weather like this?" "Oh don't worry, we won't have many of those animals in the fundraiser. They know not to go out here in the middle of winter." Fluttershy replied. That's good." Said Snowball with relief. "But Tank, Rainbow Dash' pet tortoise will be there." Fluttershy added. "Aren't they supposed to hibernate during winters." Snowball asked curiously "Oh yes, but Twilight put a little spell on him so that she can spend a little more time with Rainbow before he falls asleep in his resting place for the winter." "Oh. I see. Well I really look forward to this animal event." Snowball said proudly. Them they both continued feeding the other animals outside before heading back inside to feed the animals who live in it, starting with Angel of course. It was noon, and everyone and the animals gathered around for the annual winter animal fundraiser. They were all eager and excited to hear what whoever is about to make a speech on the stage. All the animals from Sweet Apple Acres were all present too, and for that the whole farm was empty for a while. And Discord himself was there, most because of Fluttershy of course, but still happy to participate anyway. Just as everyone had thought, Fluttershy went on stage, and with Snowball and Jessie walking behind her, happy to be co-leaders with her in this little fundraiser. Of course, the rest of her best friends, including Spike were on the stage two. Fluttershy tapped on the microphone. And announced "is this on?" She cleared her throat and THEN announced to everypony "hello and welcome to the annual Winter animal fundraiser for all animals everywhere." Everyone cheered for her in response, and so did the animals. "So, we have a grooming section, feeding section, a petting zoo, although you are quite more than welcome to touch the animals as long as you are gentle with them. We are all trying to make a big difference for endangered species everywhere in Equestria. With your help, we can make great progress. Enjoy your time in the event. Oh, and you have questions, come find me, Jessie, and Snowball for help. Everyone cheered even louder now, and went on to wherever section of the festival they wanted to participate in. While everyone was fulfilling their part on the festival, Fluttershy, her best friends, Snowball, and Jessie gathered around don the stage as they watched happily at the citizens of Ponyville for helping out animals like this. "This was a really good idea, Fluttershy." Said Applejack "Yeah, look at how everypony is helping all animals. We are so proud of you." Twilight added "Oh, thank you all for coming." Said Fluttershy. "Are you kidding, I wouldn't have missed it for the better!" Said Rainbow Dash. Then, they all went down the stage and participate themselves in the festivities. Snowball, Jessie, Sppok, Boxer, Benjamin, and the other animals from Animal Farm also played their part in the event. During the festivals, Cloudchaser, Flitter, and other pegasus ponies including Rainbow Dash gave many animals showers by stomping on rain clouds to keep them clean. Lyra and Bon Bon were helping Boxer and Benjamin with the feeding and the cleaning. where the clouds came from was adiscord, using the snap of his fingers to conjure them up in an instsnt. Fluttershy was watching on the petting zoo with Snowball to make sure that both adults and colts were being gentle with many animals inside. Applejack and Pinkie were keeping tracks of the profit made in this event, and it has bee going tremendous with alot of money being placed in front of them in an instant. So far, everything was going perfect, and it lasted for almost an hour. After another thirty minutes, the festival was interrupted by a large explosion with a loud boom! Everypony and the animals jumped with fright and looked over to the direction of the noise of the explosion. "What the hell was that?" Said Paul in surprise "I don't kniw." Said Snowball. Then they saw a small cloud of smoke after a few seconds. "Sounded like somepony was blowing something up." Said Rainbow "No kidding." Said Pinkie Pie. "That was a HUUUUGGE boom." Pinkie said, describing the size of the explosion with her hooves. "But wait." Said Applejack, realizing something familiar. "That smoke, it looked like it's..... coming from....." Then she gasped with horror "HOME!" She exclaimed. Then she rushed to the direction of the cloud. "No, wait Applejack, it might be dangerous." Exclaimed Rarity, trying to get her to come back ro the group. "Applejack, come back here!" Applejack however, did not listen to her. Applebloom, Big Macintosh, and Granny Smith followed her behind, with Winona as well. For they had no choice but to follow all the family members to where it might be where they think it is at. They ran to the fields until finally, them made it to Sweet Apple Acres, To find The farm, burning to the ground with Hellfire still remaining of it. Applejack could not describe how do casted she was and had a few tears escape her eyes. "It's gone." She sobbed lightly. "It's all gone." Applebloom began to cry too, and sobbed into Big Mac while hugging him for comfort. Granny Smith walked up but now to close, to the remaining of the scorched farmhouse. The chicken coup, and fences, and the orchard were not burning, just the farmhouse. "Who, who did this?" She said. Discord poofed into a firefighter and had a large hose in his hands, spraying the place all over with water until the reaming fire had distinguished on the liquid from the hose. "Thank you Discord." Said Applejack. "Of course, Applejack." Said Discord softly while gently placing his bird hand on her for comfort. Everyone gathered around Applejack for comfort and hugged for to make her feel better "Well, at least all the animals are okay, right?" Said Fluttershy "Yeah, yer right" said Applejack With A Sad smile. "We can always rebuild the barn like me and my family did at our last reunion "Yeah, you can." Said Pinkie. Now Applejack was starting to feel a little bit better, thanks to her good friends "Thanks guys." Said Applejack as she sobbed a tear one last time. "You are all very good friends to me." "What are friends for." Said Fluttershy. "Well, isn't it that a flattering sight." Said a low, semi-gruff voice with mock sympathy. They all looked at the direction of where it came from, and what came behind a couple of trees was a large, scary looking Berkshire boar, and a smaller tamworth boar, walking in front of the group to introduce themselves. The two pigs were standing upright on their hind legs, and had evil smiles on their faces. The Berkshire had some white on his face and was a little bigger than Snowball. He wore a brown jacket with no pants since he can walk upright. The smaller tamworth was fatter than snowball, but smaller than him in height. Unlike Snowball, they both had erect ears instead of floppy ones. The smaller one was wearing a black jacket and had a monocle o. His right eye. "Hello, Snowball." Said the berkshire. "Remember us?" "Napoleon?" Said Snowball in shock and anger "Squealer?" Said Boxer "Ah, you do remember us." Said the orange smaller pig in his clever voice. Indeed, I was the two evil pigs that sold Boxer when he was wounded to make money to buy whiskey to drink themselves inebriated. The same Berkshire that he Snowball kicked out so that he can be leader of the animals. Indeed it was Napoleon and his little henchman, Squealer. All the animals, Spike, Twilight with her friends, and everyone immediately glared at the two evil porkers, recognizing them. "What the hell are you doing here?!" Snowball said "Well Snowball, i noticed that Jessie stole our employees to work on the windmill, and then you helped her. I should have known that you would have return to all the animals somehow, even though you didn't come back to Manor Farm" Napoleon replied shrewdly in a sly voice. "Now tell me, my old comrade, why did you steal my employees?" "We didn't steal anything Napoleon." said Snowball firmly. "Your former slaves are revolting you, just like your clothes." Napoleon and Squealer however, chuckled at his insult. "You're idle threats do not scare me, Snowball." Napoleon remarked "What do you want?" Jessie said menacingly "And how did you get here?" Benjamin added. "Well, we eventually found out that YOU Jessie, would get the animals somewhere out of the farm to a so-called 'paradise' from me, the almighty Comrade napoleon. We looked all over for you, and then finally, we found Boxer, so we went into hiding and followed him quietly to this.... mysterious world." Boxer was quite surprised. "what.. I... I didn't know they followed me here. I swear." "I't's alright, Boxer. We would never be mad at you for that." said Twilight Sparkle. Then she gave an angry look at the two evil boars. "These two were more clever than we thought they were." she remarked in an angry voice. "Indeed, now i am afraid afraid that we haven't introduced ourselves yet. Now, our names are-" "Oh we now very well who you are." said Rarity. "Snowball told us all bout you and such awful and unforgivable things you did and almost did." said Fluttershy angrily. "So get out of our world you little porkchops!" said Rainbow in a threatening tone. "Porkchops? that kind of talk hurts, pony." said Squealer. "Oh, well I'm crying on the inside then." Rainbow said sarcastically while crossing her arms in anger towards the berkshire and the tamworth. "You're a fiesty one, but you will learn respect." said Napoleon "That's it. Let me at em, let me at em." Rainbow was caught from her friends, restraining her from being too irrational "Rainbow, don't." Said Twilight. "Let's not be too hasty." "Okay, well we know how you came here, but now you need to tell us WHY you come here." Applejack said firmly to Napoleon "Why? I have been looking for Snowball, Jessie and the others, of course. Trying to put an end to this treachery." "We're not going anywhere." Spook exclaimed to the two pigs. "We will never go back to how you treated us, and e executions you inflicted on our fellow co fades, because they were 'accused' of helping Snowball." "Tut tut, Spook." Said Squealer. "Let's not be too hasty." Then he went back on all four legs like a normal pig would do. "I of course have not forgotten that you sent the dogs on me to exile me just so you can be leader, and you executed many annals, including four of our own kin for being accused of helping me for your so-called crimes." Snowball walked up to Napoleon, the berkshire also went on all four legs, and they both looked face to face with eachother, letting their rivalry commence again. "You used me as a scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the farm. Jessie and Benjamin told me so." Snowball said. Pressing his snout against Napoleon's, wanting to fight him. "Look, Snowball." Said Napoleon with a sigh. "I tried to make you see how things could be for us if you would just listen to me. We could have made the farm a better place for all animals everywhere, but you just ouldn't except my ideas, and you were becoming corrupt." "Quite the opposite, my old comrade." Snowball said, lifting his nose off of Napoleon's snout. "Ah, but don't you see? You were always Old Major's favorite." Napoleon them started to sound a little angry in his voice now. "Old Major didn't have any favorites." Said Snowball. "he cared about all of us.now I am certain that if Old Major saw what you did, he would be really ashamed of you, breaking the commandments, and executing many animals that defy you." "And see how much of an evil pig you are." Fluttershy added. Everypony, Spike, and the other animals made words of agreement in an angry tone of voice. After many shouting and exclamations, they ceased their anger and settled down a little. Napoleon and Squealer then made an evil chuckle. "My dear, we are not evil." Said Napoleon. "It's just that we pigs are the brains of the farm, and we have to keep balance at peace and tranquility." Said Squealer. "Indeed, girl, we have to make sure that peace is at balance and not prevent anymore harmful rebellions. So we.have to control with fear to make all of you understand how things were meant to be." Napoleon added. "No! You enslave animals for profit and then deal away with them when they no longer have the strength to do any work anymore. You so sold Boxer to the glue factory to make money to buy more whiskey for overworking him!" "I can assure you that we just sold him to the hospital." Squealer said in a more firm voice "Liar! Jessie told us what happened, and Boxer told us and he was right!" Spike corrected "Yeah!!! " everypony and everyone shouted angrily. "And you believe him?" Said Squealer. "Boxer overworked himself to the brink of death." "That is exactly why we believe him, you fat bastard." Snowball stated firmly. Napoleon sighed and said "look, I am offering all of you a chance to come back with us to the farm andI've our lives again. So, what do all to animals say?" Many of them exclaimed never in response. "We would rather die than come back with you. Until we can get back to our world, we are staying here with our new friends." Twilight, Fluttershy, their friends, and the other ponies and Spike were really touched by hi remarked. It was quite brave and generous that he would self sacrifice himself for the good of not just for the animals, but all of the inhabitants of Equestria, too." At last Napoleon's patience was thin. He said in a soft yet firm voice "then..... i am sorry, but you leave us no choice,..... my old comrade" Then his face changed from calm to angry and then let out a high pitched squeal. A squeal so loud and ear-piercing, many of the ponies and Spike covered their ears from the deafening sound. Then, after he stopped squealing, there was a baying sound, more than one baying sound. Then, from a distance, Pincher, and Jessie's puppies came out of bushes and sat right next to Napoleon and Squealer on both sides. The Mane Six, Spike, the other Apple family members and the other residents of Ponyville, got ready to fight off the dogs.even. Even Boxer and the other animals got in a battle stance, ready for a bjte, final growing a backbone on the animal guard. The dogs charged at them and Fluttershy came in front of them in an angry look. She then gave then her stare, completely paralyzed and terrified. "Sit!" She ordered. Then Pincher, and the puppies did what she command them to do. Napoleon and Squealer were quite surprised and dumbfounded by all of this. "What's happening?" Napoleon thought outout to himself. Then, Fluttershy said in a Reay enraged voice "Now, go back to where you came frok.right now, or you will have to suffer major pain by me!" The dogs, including Pincher, ran all the way back to the Diamond Dogs place Napoleon could hardly believe what he saw. The first time in his life that a creature would get the best of his bodyguards. "Come back here you cowards!" Napoleon sharply ordered thsm, but it was no use, they fled a the way back to the caves. "What the hell was that, puny pony? A trick?!" Napoleon asked "It was something IIke to call The Stare." Fluttershy replied firmly while hovering above the ground. "And my name is Fluttershy, caregiver for all animals everywhere" she sounded quite proud of that speech,.for she would do anything for animals. "Well, that was clever, we wouldn't have figured that out from some creature like you." Said Squealer. "Enough. Naloleon, I hereby challenge you, one warrior to a another. If I win you will have to answer for your.crimes against animals." Napoleon sounded quite intrigued by the fact of him killing his rival. "And what if I win?" He asked calmly. "Then....." Snowball sighed before he finished "I'll let you execute me on the spot." All his friends gasped with shock and horror. "What you possibly cannot be serious, letting yourself die by the hooves of that..... demon of a swine, do you?!" Rarity asked him dramatically. "That is just crazy Snowball. Just plain crazy and stupid. What if you lose your.life in the fkgbt?" Applejack added. "Yeah, we don't want tosoe yoy to that mean meanie pants piggie." Said Pinkie Pie Fluttershy, took it the worst. She ft like tearing up and said to him."you can ot do this. I won't let you die like this." Snowball gently touched her hoof with his. "Fluttershy. It's right.". He said soothingly. "I will be just fine. Remember what I told you about the battle of the Cowshed? And about how tough And Formidable I was against the human invaders?" "Yes.".Fluttershy replied. "I do." "So do we." Rainbow added in agreement. "There yoy have it. I will be alright." Then Snowball turned back to Napoleon "so, do we have a challenge?" Napoleon was silent with a blank look on his face. "Very well, I accept your challenge. However, it has to be at midday and no more than that, or you will all have houses on fire like this one." Everypony and Spike a growled at Napoleon. "So be it." Said Snowball. "Now leave before a I decide to challenge you right now." Napoleon and Squealer made small growls and the walked away, with the others glaring at them from a distance before dissapearing into the forest. Now they had a battle for Snowball to prepare for, and maybe there will be a war, about to be fought at Ponyville.