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// Male Bonding 
// Story: Mischief in Equestria 
// by general cat4 
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	Mischief was on his cloud, having a dream about him and Kiana, back on Earth. Back in human form. They were holding hands, roller blading, and laughing at Cole, who was in a cage in the corner. They were moving in sync, and having so much fun. He was talking to her.

"Kiana?"

"Hmm?" Kiana's voice was so alluring. It was dulling Jamie's senses, he brushed the hair from her face, and went in for a kiss. Before he made contact, Kiana's face began changing. No, changing wasn't quite right. It was mutating. It changed into a girls face who had large, violet eyes. she also had long purple hair, with a pink stripe through it.

"What can I do to please you?" The voice was Twilight's.

"Ahh!," Mischief exclaimed, falling onto the roller rink floor.

"Well?" The Kiana with Twilight's humanoid face was now sitting on top of his chest.....Mischief was freaking out. Twilight went in to kiss him....


Cole had decided to take the long way back to Sugarcube Corner, meaning he flew around for hours and hours contemplating whether or not to discuss his feelings with Pinkie Pie. He came to two conclusions. One. in the case of love, fuck logic. Two. Ask Jamie and Kiana about it. He was mumbling to himself in the clouds. He didn't realize that he had been flying for 14 hours straight, and it was about midday.

"Kiana said I should, but what if...Well maybe if Jamie...but he was so mean...." Cole said as he floated through some clouds, cumulus to be exact. What he didn't calculate was his face colliding with a stallion's elbow. This caused the stallion's arm to collide with his mouth. The two pegasi fell to the ground below.

"Son of a bitch," Cole said, rubbing his eye

"AHHH!!!" Mischief was screaming as he sat up, sweat dripping off his face.

"Jamie?!," Cole asked, dazed. "Were you sleeping on a cloud?"

"Uhh, yeah," Mischief said, wiping the sweat of his face. "Mischief though, remember. Why are we on the ground in the middle of the day?"

"I was flying that long..." Cole was puzzled.

"How did you not know that?" Mischief asked, thinking that Cole didn't get that dazed unless he was thinking really hard.

"Why were you whining in your sleep," Cole asked, equally as suspicious. Jamie wasn't usually scared, more confident. A few seconds passed.

"I think I might have girl problems," The two of them said at the same time. They both then stared at each other.

"Okay, this is weird," Mischief finally said. "Why don't we get something to eat, and discuss it over lunch?"

"Do you have money?"

"God dangit."

"Maybe someone will have work we can do?"

"Sweetie Belle's friend said that her sister was having a hard time picking apples," Jamie suggested.

"Sounds good, and apples=food."

The two stallions departed for Sweet Apple Acres, half the time flying, half the time walking. They also threw a few rocks at each other. When they arrived at Sweet Apple Acres they greeted by Sweetie and her friends, who were playing in the fields before the gate. Mischief hadn't even seen her since the whole portal incident. 

"Hey, Sweetie Belle!" Sweetie ran up to Mischief and Cole, friends right behind her.

"Hey Mischief!" There was a huge smile on her face. Mischief knew she still liked him.

"How's it going?"

"Good! We're looking for snakes!" Sweetie said. 

"Who's your friend," Scootaloo asked. Cole then calmly. walked over to her, grabbed her neck with his mouth, and walked off.

"Where's he going," Sweetie asked, puzzled.

"That's Cole, don't get too close," Mischief said. "He'll be back any second now..." After two minutes of Cole's disappearance, Mischief changed the subject.

"Applebloom, does you sister need any help on the farm?"

"Ah would reckon' so. We' been a bit behind on apple buckin' for while now," She said. "You can ask her in the south field if ya wanta."

"Thanks," Mischief said. Cole was now walking up the hill with Scootaloo behind him.  Her mane was all tangled.

"Cole, where did you go?"

"I don't know," Cole said, genuinely afraid. Mischief decided not to question further.

"Come on Cole, let's go. Seeya girls."

"Bye Mischief," they shouted over the hill. Mischief and Cole walked to the south field of apple trees where they heard a dull knocking sound. They soon discovered Applejack, who was kicking apples off of trees with her back legs.

"Hello!" Cole said.

"Oh, howdy boys. What can ah do ya for?"

"I heard you needed some help out here, and we thought we could work out a deal. We're kinda tight for cash." Mischief said.

"Ah think that sounds good. We're due for a large order of apples by tommorow, and I ain't sure I can do it mah' self."

"Just tell us what to do."

"Ah need you to put these buckets under the trees, then buck em'!" Applejack said as she vigorously kicked the tree beside her, knocking down about 15 apples.

"This will be easy," Cole said. "I'm Korean, and trained in martial arts." Cole then walked up to a tree and stood there.

"Cole?"

"I can't bring my foot in front of my face." Cole said.

"Of course not!" Applejack said, "Ya gotta buck em'."

Cole then turned around and yelled.

"HAI-YAH!!" He hit the tree with his back hooves, knocking a bunch of apples to the ground, leaving two boot marks in the middle of the tree. "We'll be fine."

"Ah'll just leave you boys to work, leave the barrels of apples in the yard over there. I'll be working in the west field, and ah'll check on ya later." Applejack said, with an urge to buck Cole in the face. 

Kiana and Fluttershy were back in the cottage playing with Fluttershy's animals. Kiana was trying to levitate a feather, but it was only twitching slightly. Suddenly Fluttershy gave a squeak, and fell to the ground.

"Fluttershy!" Kiana gasped, "Are you okay?!"

I...I don't know..."

"What happened?"

"I don't know...I think I just had a heart attack." Fluttershy whispered.

"Don't worry," Kiana said, hugging her. "You'll be fine."

Cole and Mischief began bucking trees in the field. Mischief was bucking quietly, but Cole was bucking somewhat annoyingly.

"Yah! Hai-yah!" After about 30 minutes Mischief broke the silence.

"Your having girl problems too, Cole? What's up?" Mischief was pushing a bucket of apples into a barrel

"I don't wanna talk about it..." Cole bucked a tree.

"Come on, man. Just tell me." 

"I think I like Pinkie."

"Really? I saw that coming." Mischief bucked a tree, rolling his eyes.

"That's what Kiana said." Cole bucked another tree.

"What's the huge problem then?" Mischief then remembered. "You don't think that might happen again, do you?"

"I don't know."

"Come on what's the worst that could happen?" Mischief propped himself against a barrel.

"What if..." Cole set a bucket.

"No."

"But what if I..."

"What's the big deal," Mischief yelled at him.

"WHAT IF I KILL HER?!!!"Cole bucked the tree so hard a large hole had been bashed through it. His left eye glowed a dull red.

"Calm down dude," Mischief stopped breathing. This could get bad. "Let's not be irrational now..."

"Fine." Cole attempted to get his hooves out of the tree, eye still faintly glowing. "What do you think?"

"Why don't you just ask her out, you don't need painkillers here, because of her right?"

"Yeah."

"Then there's nothing to worry about."

"In that case, maybe I will."

"Good."

"So what problems are you having," Cole asked, ripping a piece of tree out of his hoof. He then walked over to the apple buckets. Mischief took a deep breath.

"I think Twilight's trying to marry me."

"Excuse me?" Cole tripped and fell into the bucket he was holding. "God dammit."

"She's been giving me signals, and I had this dream, and it got weird."

"How weird?" Cole was about to buck a tree. "Like, sock on the doorknob weird?"

"Kiana turned into Twilight who tried to kiss me then sat on my chest when I fell."

"The Hell?!" Cole got off balance and smashed face first into the tree. "son of a..."

"Yeah, it got really weird."

"Well, Kiana told me-" Cole started to say, but could not continue. He couldn't form the words. He heard the word "foreeeveeer, and he thought he saw A flash of Pink.

"What?"

"Uhhh, um, maybe it was a side effect of the Excedrin. When did you stop using it?"

"I've been here for months."

"Months!? You were only gone about ten minutes before I died!"

"Time shift issues?"

"Maybe your just really stupid?" Cole muttered.

"What?" Mischief said, annoyed.

"Nothing....Maybe you should talk to Kiana and Twilight."

"I think i'll just try to make it go away."

"As a male, the only thing you want to do with an argument, is make it go away," Cole said, picking up the apples.

"Haha, you got that right. Women are a pain."

The two continued to work for hours, passing the time with competitions, yelling,  and wedding night jokes. Around eight the sky was darkening and Applejack came to check on them.

"Heavens to Betsy. You boys did all this?"

"Yeah, that bad?" Mischief said grinning.

"You boys ain't half bad, maybe you can come back another time?" 

"Sounds good, but Cole broke a few trees."

"You bastard." Cole said under his breath.

"Ah don't think a couple busted trees is a problem compared ta this many apples, Applejack said, admiring the haul. There had to be at least 80 barrels. "Oh, your pay," Applejack said, placing a leather pouch of coins in each of their hooves. They said their thanks and goodbyes and left the farm. The two then flew off towards their respective hosts' homes. They knew what they were going to have to do, just not happy about having to do it.