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// Chapter 8: The Apple and Applecord 
// Story: Fluttercord In Equestria Girls 
// by vcjb242 
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It was night time and Discord was heading back to the school. This time instead of sneaking in he calmly went in through the front door. 

Gio, the janitor had given him a copy of the school keys so that he wouldn’t have to sneak back in. After entering the building and locking it behind him, he went straight to the library to sleep.

In the dark hallway, Luna suddenly appeared out of nowhere, taking him by surprise. 

"Discord." Began Luna a bit annoyed. 

"Princess Luna!" Said Discord still surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"I have been waiting for you." Luna answered. "Just to make sure you’re not causing any trouble with the girls."

"Why, what ever do you mean Princess?" Asked Discord.

"My sister and I suspected that you would spend a lot of time with Ms Pinkie Pie."

"But." Said Discord confused by this accusation. "We only went to a party and then I took her home."

"Discord, this is serious." Luna said frowning and gave Discord a look so cold that it could freeze. "Please pay attention, this is no joking manner."

Discord only crossed his arms and looked at the ground in disdain.

"We only don’t want you to try anything with any of the girls." Said Luna "These girls are good students and they have been chosen to teach you moral values.
If we catch you doing anything inappropriate with any of them...then we won't hesitate to take drastic measures."

"Yes your highness, whatever you say." Said Discord with disinterest and sarcasm. 

Then Luna left.

Discord kept on walking towards the library while fuming to himself from rage.

"That old bi&*%" Said Discord mumbling to himself. "She only thinks I’m a sexual pervert. Damn that vile woman. Furthermore, I will have to keep seeing these girls until i learn about the MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP.
IT'S BULLSH%$, PURE BULLSH%$."

Discord arrived at the library and went to his bed of books. 

"Why do I keep thinking that it’s a bad idea for me to even stay here?" Said Discord lying down and covering himself with his blanket.
"They’ll see, they’ll all pay deeply for this and then I’ll flee from here the first chance I get."

After letting off some steam, Discord fell asleep letting his head hit the pillow. 

The next day Discord was awoken by Gio the janitor. It was time for him to perform his duties. Discord got up from his bed and on the table next to it , there was a small cake with pink frosting.
Discord was impressed, someone had left an entire cake without realizing it. He thought that this had to be a joke. He looked at the cake and attached to it was a note that said: 

'Yesterday was super duper awesome! I’m anxiously awaiting to see you again. 
P.S.: Twilight is a liar.'- Pinkie.

Discord didn’t take much notice to the note as he crumpled it and threw it into the trash. Discord only wanted to eat the delicious cake he saw in front of him for breakfast.

Afterwards, Discord began to perform his daily duties and they were not easy. 

Discord cleaned all three floors in the building, he cleaned all of the windows as well. He cleaned all of the bathrooms and mowed the lawn on all of the sports fields.

In the last few hours of his laboral journey, he helped out Granny Smith and the Cakes in their respective kitchens during breakfast and lunch time.

During these times, Discord suffered from insults and offensive remarks from other students. 

After finishing with his work he sat down on the steps at the front of the school. 

"Agh! What a hard knock life." Said Discord while wiping his brow. "I fu@#ing hate Trollestia for making me do all of these hard tasks while having to deal with the insults and offensive remarks from students. 
It’s as if she has sh^t in her brain. Why did she think it would be such a good idea for me to work in this crap of a school?"

"Wow, I didn’t know you thought of my sister like that Discord." Said Luna suddenly standing beside Discord. 

Discord jumped a little, not seeing that she was next to him at first and then got up.

"Vice Principal Luna!" Said Discord giving off small laughs. "Did you hear all of that?"

"Every word." Said Luna smirking. "I especially liked the part about Trollestia."

Discord swallowed a lump in his throat.

"As punishment you will help out Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres." Said Luna "And I will not say a word about this to my sister."

"What? Forget it." Said Discord crossing his arms. "I won’t do it. I don’t care if you accuse me of calling her Trollestia."

"Discord, she has a lot of faith in you." Said Luna putting a hand on his shoulder. "It is not a good idea to deceive a woman, you should never deceive a woman. Especially if that woman is your boss."

Discord accepted the task reluctantly. 

He was sent to Sweet Apple Acres (after being given directions) which was about a kilometer from the school. Upon looking at it he noticed that it was a farm, he had never visited it before or even knew that it existed.

Applejack was waiting for him in front of the barn.

"Howdy Partner." She said in her southern accent. "We ain’t got time to lose. We've got a lotta work to do."

Applejack handed Discord several buckets and she carried the ladder. 

"Vice Principal Luna told me that you had volunteered to come help me harvest the apples."

Discord responded by frowning a little. 

Immediately without wasting time, Applejack led Discord to the extensive fields full of apple trees. When he saw how many trees there were, he dropped the buckets because he really didn't want to do this. 

"Well first things first." Said Applejack looking over at the unharvested apples still on the trees.  "You place the ladder next to the trees, climb up the tree while holding a bucket, pick the apples off of the branches,
put them in the bucket until the bucket gets full, climb down the ladder with your full bucket and grab an empty bucket and move onto the next tree. Did I make myself perfectly clear?"

Discord looked at Applejack giving her a ‘no really?’ look. Then he looked back at the trees.

"Good." Said Applejack. "Do you want to be the one who climbs up the ladder to pick the apples? Or do you want to be the one who picks up the apples that fall to the ground?"

"We could just kick the trees, that way more apples will fall and we will get done faster."

Applejack looked at Discord with an eyebrow raised and then she began to laugh. 

"Hahaha! Good one partner." Said Applejack ceasing her laughter. "But you would need the force of a bucking horse in order to be able to knock the apples off of the trees."

Discord got right next to the tree, did a sort of handstand, reared his legs and kicked the tree with a lot of force. The force of the hit caused the tree to shake and caused a great quantity of apples to fall off of the tree. 

Applejack was impressed as she began to pick up the apples that had already fallen. 

"How did you do it?" Asked Applejack, impressed. "And how did you know that it was going to work?"

"I really don’t know." Answered Discord. "I simply imagined you doing a handstand and kicking the tree with both legs."

"You imagined me?" Asked Applejack, slightly blushing.

"Well, I think it was you." Answered Discord confused.

They continued this pattern with the rest of the apples. Discord would kick the trees and applejack would pick up the large quantities of apples that had fallen to the ground. 

Later on, Applebloom brought the wagon over and they loaded the buckets full of apples onto it. Soon, the wagon was full and Discord and Applejack brought the wagon to the barn so they could go back to apple picking. 

Only a few minutes passed while they were picking apples and the scorching heat made them exhausted from working in the fields.

"Discord," said Applejack, wiping the sweat from her brow. "Your idea helped us a lot but we still have a lot more trees full of apples. This is an orchard after all."

"My dear friend Applejack," Said Discord after a while. "Why haven’t your dear friends come to help you with the apple harvesting?"

"Twilight is always busy studying, Rarity doesn’t like to get dirty, Rainbow is always playing sports, and Pinkie just didn’t want to come."

"What?" Asked Discord. "Why?"

"It’s strange." Answered Applejack. "She’s been fighting with Twilight. I think Twilight might have been here earlier and that’s why she didn’t want to be here now to help me."

Discord looked at Applejack with a look of pity.

"Don’t you have your family to help you?" Asked Discord.

"Applebloom and Granny Smith left to work the farmstand in town and Big Mac is trying to court my friend Fluttershy."

"Wow." said Discord not caring. "So you mean to tell me that your brother prefers to be with some girl and to leave you to do this back breaking labor on your own?"

"Well." Said Applejack. "Mah brother works hard on this farm everyday. He deserves it."

"Ok, if you say so."

"Time for less talking and more working." Said Applejack. 

Applejack picked up a bucket full of apples while Discord climbed up a tree. Applejack had noticed him climbing up the tree. 

"Hey! What do you think yer doing?" She asked him, annoyed. "Stop horsing around and come help me."

Discord didn’t really care. While he was up in the branches of the tree, he began to shake them wildly, making all of the apples in the tree fall down. When he finished with that tree he went on to another one, swinging from the branches like a chimpanzee. 

Applejack couldn’t believe what she was seeing.  She knew that Discord was full of surprises but he never failed to amaze her. 

A few minutes passed by and Discord was almost at the last tree, while Applejack picked up as much apples as she could to keep up with his pace. Applejack had never successfully harvested all of the apples in the orchard in one day. 

Finally, Discord was at the last tree, he knocked all of the apples off of the branches and climbed down from the tree. For Discord, it was a lot of fun to be swinging from the branches.

"Well done Discord." Said Applejack. "Now get down from there and help me take these apples to the barn."

"Hey Apple." Said Discord hanging from a branch with only one arm. "I’ll help you soon enough just let me have my fun."

"Hold on there mister." Said Applejack in a motherly tone. "Get down from there this instant, you could hurt yerself."

"Yes mother." Said Discord sarcastically. "Whatever you say."

Suddenly the branch broke and Discord fell from the tree and onto his back. Applejack became worried and ran over to help him. It seemed that the fall had knocked him unconscious because he wasn’t moving.

Applejack sat on the ground next to his unmoving body and she carefully placed his head on her lap.

Discord began to open his eyes.

"Hey there sugar cube." Said Applejack, concerned. "Are you alright?"

Discord upon seeing Applejack so close to him and feeling her legs behind his head, began to blush furiously. He got up quickly and dusted himself off.

"I’m fine." Said Discord. "Don’t worry about me."

"Sorry," Said Applejack a little ashamed. "I was only trying to be friendly."

"You’re very friendly, cowgirl." Said Discord. "But I’m not exactly used to physical contact."

"Cowgirl?" Asked Applejack now blushing as well. "Are you trying to say that I’m too country?"

"Well...you are a girl." Said Discord rubbing the back of his head, not knowing what else to say. "Aside from that you have a very lovely cowboy hat on."

"Thank you." Said Applejack. "In school they used to make fun of it and my way of life."

"Why?" Asked Discord, confused. 

"They all called me a redneck." Said Applejack looking at the ground. "And that silly stereotype that all rural girls are dumb."

"You shouldn’t let what they say about you get to you." Said Discord. "You go to school, you have a good job, you have good land,good friends and family. What more could you want?"

"Ya know." Said Applejack. -I wish more folks would just take the time to get to know me, ya know? And maybe they would understand me."

"I understand you well enough cowgirl." Said Discord. "I would know because not too long ago I was still a bum and would steal food in order to survive, so I understand what it feels like to be different from the rest."

Applejack looked at Discord with happiness and understanding, for she had finally found someone who understood her. 

Minutes later and the task for the day was completed. Discord lay down in the shade of a tree. On the other side of the same tree lay Applejack. They were both exhausted from the long day of work. Neither of them knew that they were under the same tree. Discord had some time to spare before he had to go spend time with Rainbow Dash.

Discord enjoyed the clean air of the countryside. Suddenly, an apple fell from the tree and hit him on the head. Discord rubbed his head and picked up the apple. It was a big, red and juicy apple. It shined bright in the sunlight and it looked very juicy and appetising. 

Discord in all his life had never seen such a beautiful apple. Discord admired it and began talking sweetly to it. He was used to it being by himself most of the time. 

"Beautiful apple, beautiful manzana." Said Discord,not taking his gaze off of the apple. 

Discord hadn’t noticed that Applejack was on the other side of the tree and was listening to him.

"So beautiful, authentic and full of life." Said Discord rubbing the apple. 

Applejack was blushing hard now. She wanted to sit next ot Discord but she was too embarrassed to do it.

"I bet many people wish they could have you." Said Discord, rubbing the apple on his shirt. 

Applejack combed her hair with her fingers, she was blushing really hard now.

"You’re fabulous and I’m very lucky to have laid my eyes on you." Said Discord looking at the apple from different angles.

Applejack didn’t know what to do, nothing like this had ever happened to her before. A boy who she barely knew was praising her in a very adorable way (or so she thought) and she was blushing a lot. 

Discord didn’t say anymore and he took a big bite out of the apple. He savored it, and his eyes began to shine. An apple that was very juicy and very tasty for Discord was an apple of kings. 

"How marvelous," Said Discord wiping a tear away. "All my life I have waited to have a privilege as amazing as this I feel so happy that you have come into my life."

Then Discord continued to eat the apple until he finished it. 

Applejack was having altered emotions. She didn’t know what to do. Finally, she gathered the courage to get closer to Discord. 

"Beautiful, more like perfect." Said Discord lying down again. "Gorgeous."

Discord sighed and closed his eyes. As soon as he did that Applejack walked over and lay down next to him.   

"Wow." Said Applejack blushing. "I didn’t know that you felt that way Discord."

Discord opened his eyes and noticed that Applejack was lying down next to him. 

"Know what?" Asked Discord, confused.

"Don’t lie to me Discord." Said Applejack. "I heard everything you just said."

Discord opened his eyes in surprise. He thought that Applejack had seen him talking to himself. He liked to talk with inanimate objects sometimes so he wouldn’t feel alone. He thought that she would think that he was crazy. 

"Eh? I’m really sorry." Said Discord a bit anguished. "Please don’t tell anyone."

Applejack only blushed. 

"Don’t worry sugarcube." Said Applejack lovingly. "These things happen."

"Ok, thank you Apple." Said Discord now calm. "I’m happy that you understand."

"Don’t worry about it sugarcube." Said Applejack a bit cocky. "I know it doesn’t work out at first but give me time to think about it and plan it out."

Discord was so confused, he didn’t know what to say about it.

"Well Apple, I’ve got to go." Said Discord looking at his watch. "I have to go spend time with Rainbow Dash. Her practice just ended."

Applejack felt a bit sad after he said this.

"But we were just.." Said Applejack shyly. "It’s just that.."

"I’ll see you soon friend. Thank you and take care of yourself." Said Discord, saying goodbye.

Discord left Sweet Apple acres running, it was getting late. Applejack sadly watched him leave while clutching her heart. 

To Be Continued.