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// Immovable Object 
// Story: Just Us Big Sisters 
// by GrassAndClouds2 
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When Raindrops awoke the next morning, she saw stormclouds in the distance. A cool breeze came with them, rustling the trees and flowers, and a few gusts of crisp wind blew into her room and tickled at her feathers. She yawned, stretching, and luxuriated as the last remnants of sleep left her body. For a moment, she thought it was going to be a perfect day.

Then someone hammered at their front door.

Raindrops stumbled downstairs, trying to ignore how the pounding seemed to be forcing its way into her brain, and opened it. "Whoever this is, you better have a good reason for being so early--" she began before her eyes focused on the bulky purple pony in front of her.

"I challenge you to duel!" said Juggernaut.

Raindrops stared at her as her mouth twisted into a scowl of its own accord. "For the third time, no!" she said. "No, no, no!"

"Then I ask again later." And Juggernaut walked away.

"Argh!" Raindrops slammed the door, then turned and froze as she saw Snails walking into the hallway. "Uh."

"What's going on?" asked the colt. 

"...nothing," said Raindrops, unable to think of a good lie on the spot. She made herself grin and added, "It doesn't matter. Want some breakfast?"

Snails nodded, an uneasy expression crossing his face and trotted towards the kitchen. Raindrops sighed to herself and followed. 

#

"Looking good!" said Rainbow Dash as she flew through the sky. "Nice cloud formations!"

Raindrops nodded as she swooped through a thick raincloud. The weather crew was focusing the clouds for the scheduled rainstorm over the town's outlying farms while leaving the downtown area dry. That way the crops got more water and the shops stayed dry for the tourists. "Thanks!" she called back. "I'm going to head down below and make sure the bottom's are level. Stop any clouds from flying too low and crashing into a tree."

"You just want to fly through the rainclouds," teased Rainbow Dash.

Raindrops smiled at her, then flew high into the sky, reoriented herself, and dove down into the puffy gray clouds. "Woooo!"

The cool moisture of the cloud soaked into her coat, and she laughed as the cool water enveloped her body. She burst through the bottom and reoriented herself, wondering if she could sneak in another few trips through the clouds before getting back to work. "Maybe just one trip," she said, grinning in excitement. "Just enough to get my pinfeathers wet."

"Raindrops! I challenge you to duel!"

The weathermare's good mood vanished as she rolled over and saw Juggernaut standing calmly on the ground. "No!" snapped Raindrops. "And go away!"

Juggernaut did so, but even when she was gone, it took Raindrops a few minutes of splashing through the clouds to calm herself, and even then she couldn't quite recover her good cheer.

#

When it was time for lunch, Raindrops borrowed a cloud from weather control and flew it across town, far from her scheduled patrol route and anywhere that Juggernaut might expect to find her. When she was away from the fields and hovering over Ponyville Elementary, she opened her lunchbox and sighed happily as the scents of the sandwich within tickled her muzzle. Grilled eggplant and melted mozzarella cheese on fresh-baked ciabatta bread, with onions, peppers, and a garlic-pesto aioli. It was a lot of work, but sometimes only her favorite sandwich could help her get through the day. She opened her mouth to take a bite--

"Raindrops! I challenge you to duel!"

Raindrops' hooves smashed together in anger, splattering her sandwich all over her face and barrel. Scowling, she poked her heat through the cloud and looked down at Juggernaut, who was standing on a field just outside the schoolhouse. "How did you know I'd be here?" she demanded.

"I follow you from farms!"

Raindrops' jaw clenched. "Are you seriously going to follow me around all day?"

Juggernaut nodded merrily.

For a moment, Raindrops' vision went red, but she managed to claw back control. "No. Again," she hissed. "And it will still be no next time, and the time after that, and every other time after. I don't want to fight you. Go away."

Juggernaut shrugged. "If you not want fight now, I ask again later." She sat down. "After lunch."

Before Raindrops could object, the school bell rang and foals began trotting out. Raindrops glanced at them and saw Snails chasing Truffle Shuffle onto the schoolyard. "Uh uh!" he was saying. "I took a picture of you with that magic spell Miss Trixie taught me! I saw you smooching Tootsie Flute!"

"I did not!" he protested. "She got cupcake frosting on her face and I was just trying to lick it off!"

"Truffle likes Tootsie!" a few foals chanted, causing the colt to blush and scurry away.

"Hey!" Apple Bloom pointed a hoof towards Juggernaut. "It's that real big pony who knows sword tricks!" She rushed to the fence, followed by the other foals. "Miss Juggernaut! Show us somethin' cool!"

Raindrops blanched, but Juggernaut nodded. "Okay! I eat lunch, then I show you fun things! "

"Lunch?" Snails looked around. "What lunch?"

As if on cue, Pinkie Pie and a gray-coated pony trotted down the road towards the field. Each was toting a wagon behind them. "Juggernaut!" called Pinkie in her usual sing-song voice. "Your super-special pies from Sugar Cube Corner are here!"

The other pony upended her wagon and dumped several boulders onto the field. "So are your rocks," she droned.

Raindrops frowned as Juggernaut trotted to Pinkie's wagon. Pinkie Pie too seemed confused. "That's a lot of pies," she commented. "Do you need anypony to share them with? Maybe a pink and perky party pony with a penchant for peach, pear, and pineapple pies?" She suddenly hugged the gray pony, whom Raindrops vaguely remembered from the Jackelope Valley Festival. "Or her awesome sister Maud?"

"You could share it with us!" called Snips. "We like pie too!"

"Nyet. It all for me." Juggernaut opened her mouth wide and crammed a pie into it. After chewing and gulping it down, she added, "I eat a lot," and gestured to her massive form. "To maintain build."

The foals gasped as Juggernaut consumed a second pie. "Awesome!" shouted Pipsqueak.

Pinkie's eyes were wide. "Do you realize what this means?" she shouted at Maud. "If I worked out and bulked up, then I could eat five pies at once too! I could be enjoying so much more pie!" She lunged forwards and seized her sister around her shoulders. "Alright. We're gonna need weights, treadmills, big rocks, and a shouty pony to yell at us when we don't do enough push-ups. Do you know any shouty ponies?"

Maud frowned. "Well," she said after a long moment. "Right now, there's you."

As Pinkie laughed, Juggernaut ate the rest of the pies, then stood and approached the rocks.  "What're you doin'?" called Apple Bloom as the big mare raised a hoof high. "You can't punch through a rock!"

"Of course I can!" Juggernaut grinned. "I Juggernaut!" Her horn glowed, enveloping her legs in a purple glow, and then she attacked the boulder. Her hooves thundered into it, striking several blows in just under two seconds, and for a moment nothing happened. Then the rock broke apart as if it were paper mache. "Is not hard for me!"

"WOW!" the foals gasped.

Juggernaut proceeded to attack several other boulders, breaking some with her hooves and chopping others into pieces with her sword. The foals gathered by the fence, recess and lunch entirely forgotten, and watched. Only when Juggernaut had broken all the boulders did they start to calm down. "Are you done?" called Scootaloo.

"Done?" Juggernaut laughed. "That just warm up! To be warrior, pony must train for hours every day!" She began doing push-ups as the foals watched. "If you train too, maybe someday you be as big and strong as Juggernaut!"

The foals began murmuring to each other, and a few, Raindrops saw, were already starting to do push-ups. She scowled and flew away as Cheerilee came outside to see what was going on.

#

"What do you mean my new assignment is to follow Juggernaut around with a cloud?" snapped Raindrops to Rainbow Dash. "How is that part of the scheduled weather?"

Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Look, all I know is she asked for it, and I checked the rules--as long as we finish all the weather, it doesn't matter if one of us goes on special assignment." She clapped Raindrops on the shoulder. "So you fly over her head and shade her with a cloud. I'll handle your shifts."

Raindrops stared at her. "Why would you do that?"

"Because she gave me these!" Rainbow Dash's eyes shone as she showed Raindrops a pair of black-and-silver wingplates. "They're a new prototype from Fisher Aviation. You put these over your wings and you go, like, twenty percent faster!" She grinned and slipped them on. "Isn't she the greatest? I mean, when she asked if I could arrange for an Element of Harmony to hang out with her in exchange, of course I said yes! Anypony would!"

Raindrops felt a vein on her head beginning to bulge. "Please tell me this is an elaborate practical joke."

"Nope!" Rainbow Dash shoved a cloud at Raindrops, which smacked into her muzzle. "She's hanging out by Sweet Apple Acres. See you later!"

#

Juggernaut asked Raindrops to duel twice more before her shift was over. When it was finally time to go home for the day, Raindrops flew her cloud back to weather control as quickly as she could, then stopped at Berry's Bar on the way home to drink a large cider. "Ugh," she muttered. "What a day."

Over half an hour passed as she nursed her cider. When she was finally done, she paid and left, trotting home at a good clip. Snails would likely be done with his after-school bug hunts, she thought, and maybe he'd be up for a game of checkers. After everything that had happened, it would be nice to just relax with her brother and forget everything else.

And if Juggernaut knocks again, I'll just ignore her. And if she keeps knocking I'll have her arrested for disturbing the peace. Raindrops nodded to herself as she approached her house and opened the door. "Mom, I'm--"

"Raindrops! I challenge you to duel!"

Raindrops' mouth dropped as she saw Juggernaut squeezed into the front hallway. She was so massive that she almost completely spanned the room; Raindrops couldn't have moved around her if she'd wanted. "What are you doing in here?!" she screamed.

"I ran into her when I was collecting bugs!" called Snails from somewhere behind Juggernaut. "And I told her how cool her exercises were, and she said she could come home with me and tell Mom and Dad about some training programs!" His voice was so gleeful it was cracking and squeaking. "To help me become as strong as you!"

Raindrops pushed her hooves against the walls to stop herself from moving forwards and throttling Juggernaut. Keenly aware that she was digging holes into the wood, she hissed through gritted teeth, "Get out of my house."

"Your parents invite me in. I not trespass--"

"I'm uninviting you. Get lost."

Juggernaut waited a few seconds and then slowly backed towards the door. Raindrops had to leave the house for Juggernaut to get outside and pass her. "I see you tomorrow," she said. "Maybe we duel then."

Raindrops strangled the growl in her throat before it escaped her mouth, but she couldn't stop her eyes from bulging slightly in rage. Juggernaut turned to look at her, but didn't even seem to notice her rage. She just trotted away as if everything was alright.

When she was gone, Snails poked his head out the door. "Why'd you do that?" he asked, looking at Raindrops with drooping eyes. "Don't you want me to become big and tough?"

Raindrops sagged to the ground; her anger fading at the sight of her brother. She reached out and gathered him into a hug. "I do, Snails, but she's not nice. You shouldn't hang out with her. I can find you another gym teacher if you really want--"

"But I like her!" said Snails. "She has a cool sword, and she can punch rocks in half, and when I showed her my bug collection she paid attention!" He frowned. "What's wrong with her?"

"She..." Raindrops trailed off. If she said that Juggernaut was the sister of one of the vigilantes that had almost killed him, he'd probably be traumatized. "I need you to trust me," she said, stroking his mane. "Do you trust your big sister?"

Snails nodded. His mane rustled and the Hercules beetle poked its head out, nuzzling against Raindrops' hoof. She smiled and pat its shell before continuing. "Then promise me you'll stay away from her. I'll talk with Trixie and the others, and we'll sort this out. Okay?"

"Okay." Snails paused. "But I'm still gonna try to become big and strong," he added. "I'll make you real proud of me." He smiled, and his beetle buzzed into the air for a few moments before settling on his nose. "Levi'll become big and strong too! Well, bigger and stronger. We'll be a great team!"

"I know you will." Raindrops hugged Snails again. "Now, head inside. I'm going to talk to Trixie, and then after dinner we'll play some checkers, okay? Or you can tell me some bug stories."

Snails brightened at that and quickly scampered back inside.

Raindrops waited until his hoofsteps died away, then shut the door behind him and headed back to Trixie's house. She entered through the unlocked front door and was unsurprised to find four of the other five Elements in the living room. "Where's Carrot Top?" she asked, noticing the absence of the yellow mare.

"Talking to Mayor Scrolls about the field thing," said Cheerilee. "She thinks Scrolls is stalling on making a ruling." She waved Raindrops over, then draped a warm, fuzzy blanket on the weathermare once she finally sank into the plush couch. "But it's okay. I talked to the mayor earlier today and showed her several precedents that should help Carrot Top's case. I'm sure she'll decide for Carrot Top by tomorrow at the latest."

"And I went too!" chirped Trixie. "To wield my influence and remind Ivory Scrolls that, though she may be mayor, I am the Representative of the Night Court of Luna, with all the power and prestige that position implies!"

Everypony looked at her.

Trixie blushed. "Okay, mostly I helped carry all the law textbooks Cheerilee wanted to have on hoof." As the others chuckled, she waved a hoof. "Details. Anyways, how's your situation, Raindrops?"

"Bad." Raindrops scowled as she sank under the blanket. "I'll put it this way--waiting for Juggernaut to leave isn't going to work, if only because my head is going to explode after another few days of her following me around, badgering me, and talking her way into my house just to annoy me more." Her eyes flashed. "I am tired of her."

"Uh-oh," said Lyra, giving Raindrops a friendly smile. "We need to do something, then, before your head explodes. We don't want to have to clean up Raindrops brains from Trixie's carpet."

The others laughed, but Raindrops barely smiled. "What can we do?" she asked once the room quieted down. "There has to be some way to throw her out of town.."

"We have a few options." Trixie raised a hoof and began to tick them off. "If she breaks the law we can just arrest her. Otherwise, Mayor Mare can evict her for trespassing, like she did with that zebra dork who wanted to duel me for my position. I can file a formal complaint with the noble in charge of her province, which I guess is whoever replaced Fisher--hopefully somepony sane. And, all else fails, we can go to Luna. I don't care how big Juggernaut is, a visit from the Princess of the Night tends to make most ponies think twice before they continue whatever they're doing that's annoying her."

"And if she doesn't leave?" asked Raindrops. "Because she really doesn't act like somepony who cares what other ponies tell her to do." 

The other ponies all looked at each other before Cheerilee spoke. "Then I guess we all fight her," she said. "We've taken on the Tyrant Sun. I think we can beat a glorified security guard."

Raindrops let out a long breath. She wanted Juggernaut out immediately, before the revenge-crazed mare did something even more annoying or offensive, but she knew she had to control herself, if only to avoid spooking Snails by causing a scene. "Okay," she muttered at last. "Guess that'll have to do."