Chapter 14
Chapter 14
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“Applebuck, wait!” Apple Bloom cried, before wincing as she put pressure on her forehoof.
“Way to go, Tiara!” Scootaloo snarled. “Bucky’s having a hard enough time and you just had to make it worse. What, is that yer special talent? Making other ponies’ bad situations worse?”
Tiara’s eyes narrowed. “Excuse me, Blank Flank? What right do you think you have to—”
“What’s going on here?”
All heads whirled around to see Cheerilee hurrying towards them, a firm and worried expression on her face.
“Tiara called Applebuck a changeling and Bucky ran off after proving she wasn’t one!” Scootaloo said, thrusting a hoof in the pink filly’s direction.
At once Cheerilee’s eyes narrowed and she looked to Tiara with a disappointed, yet stern frown. “Diamond Tiara, is this true?”
“But... But... How was I suppose to know she wasn’t a changeling?!” Tiara cried, pointing in the direction the yellow filly had run off.
Cheerilee’s expression became a bit sterner, causing the filly to wilt. “You could have given her a chance. You could have tried talking to her instead of outright accusing her of being one of the creatures that tried to invade our homeland.” She sighed, before glancing around, her frown returning to worried, but with confusion mixed in too. “Where is Applebuck, anyway?”
“She’s ran off!” Sweetie Belle cried, pointing in the direction their friend had gone, where Cheerilee’s eyes widened at the red trail.
“What... what is that?” the teacher asked, looking a little faint.
Apple Bloom glared at Diamond Tiara. “When Tiara demanded Bucky prove she weren’t a changeling, she said something that made Bucky so made, she jabbed herself with that piece o’ wood,” she pointed to the bloodstained shaft of wood, “showin’ her blood’s red ’n’ not green like a changelings.”
Cheerilee’s expression became slightly horrified. “Wait! She was bleeding that badly and just ran off? And none of you even stopped her?”
“It happened so fast,” Pipsqueak pipped up. “We were all kinda taken by surprise.”
Cheerilee looked frustrated, but the older mare took a deep breath, before looking firmly around at all the fillies and colts. “We’re going to go looking for her. We can’t just leave her to wander off on her own, not if she’s bleeding that badly.” She turned that told several ponies to remain at the school, on the offhand chance that Applebuck might come back. “The rest of us are going to split into group and start searching for her. She can’t have gone too far.”
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I continue to stomp down the road, ignoring the jabbing pains every time I put pressure on my now injured leg.
Stupid Diamond Tiara! Stupid changelings for existing to make such a situation even happen! Stupid whatever the hell turned me into this form! Stupid Celestia from bringing me here! Stupid Applejack for being against me! Stupid everything!
After several minutes of walking, I have to stop and lean against a tree, shaking my head a little. I feel drowsy, like I’m being wrapped in a warm blanket and snuggling down for a nap.
But, I don’t have a blanket. I do feel all warm though.
I shake my head again, trying to clear it.
You know what? Forget school at all. I’m going. Where? No fucking idea, but I’m going... somewhere.
I stand up, before the world whirling around me and I shut my eyes to stop the fog from clouding my vision. Wait. When’d it get foggy? Wasn’t it a bright day just moments ago?
I blink, before turning to the tree I’d been leaning against. I stare at it blankly.
Several long minutes later, I snarl and slam my head against it, wincing from the pain, but not caring either.
“What the fuck is wrong with you?!” I shout to myself, before slamming my head again. “Ya... ya shouted at Pinkie Pie! She didn’t even know about ya... probably. It’s Pinkie, wouldn’t really be that surprisin— Shut up!” I bang my head against the tree again, feeling a bit woozy for it. I try to shake it off. “Ya can’ trust AJ. But... but Big Mac an’ Granny didn’ seem happy ta hide anythin’ from ya. Why’d ya treat them like that? And why Pinkie, of all ponies?!”
I turn around, biting my bottom lip. Well, since I’m not going back to school, I may as well try to find Pinkie and apologize for being such a jerk.
I take a step, before flopping forward.
What? Why did I...? I feel my eyelid droop a little. Maybe... maybe a nap would be a good idea first. I seem pretty tired and... what was I thinking about again?
I put it out of mind as the darkness closes in and I feel a warmth come over me. Sleep is good. I like sleep.
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Fluttershy hummed to herself as she walked down the road, a small basket held in her teeth. She was going to get a few small things for dinner tonight. Angel had been so well behaved; she felt he deserved a reward.
As she walked down the path leading from her cottage to Ponyville, she paused, blinking in confusion, before glancing around.
“I... I could’ve sworn...” she murmured.
“Mmmm,” a voice groaned.
Fluttershy squeaked, shivering. “Who-who’s there?”
When nopony answered, she slowly lowered the basket and crept towards where she’d heard the sound.
After several minutes of trying to shore up some courage, she took a deep breath, then glanced around the corner.
At once her eyes widen. It was Apple Bloom. She was lying near a tree, unconscious, with her usual pink bow nowhere in sight. However, that was not the Pegasus’ main concern. Her concern was that Apple Bloom was bleeding from both a nasty gash on her foreleg and one on her head.
“Apple Bloom?!” she cried as she hurried over. She took the filly in her forelimbs. She wasn’t responding and it was clear from the amount of blood she’d been here a while.
Fluttershy held tight, before shooting off at speeds that would make Rainbow Dash jealous. She passed by several fillies and colts from the school, and briefly wondered why they weren’t in school, but quickly pushed it aside as she raced through the town towards the hospital.
Within minutes she’d reached the hospital. She rushed through the doors, startling several ponies, including Nurse Tender Heart, who was behind the desk.
“Miss Fluttershy, what—?”
“Apple Bloom needs help, now!” the Pegasus cut off the nurse, indicating to the limb form in her grasp.
The pink Earth Pony’s eyes widened, before hardening. She reached down and pressed a button on the desk. Moments later several ponies came rushing over, pushing a stretcher bed with them.
They got Apple Bloom on the bed, before moving as fast as they could towards the ER.
Fluttershy watched them go, worried for the filly’s health as she paced back and forth, before her eyes widened. Applejack. She needed to let Applejack know what had happened.
With a quick explanation to Tender Heart what she been able to gather, she hurried out the hospital, back across town towards Sweet Apples Acres.
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“I wonder why Fluttershy was in such a hurry,” Sweetie Belle asked as she and the other crusaders were searching for Applebuck.
“Dunno,” Scootaloo said, frowning.
They’d all nearly been bowled over by the yellow Pegasus as she bolted through air like Rainbow Dash. The orange Pegasus had had no idea the shy mare had it in her to go that fast.
“She theemed pretty worried about thomething,” Twist said as they moved to search another area. “Wonder what it wath.”
“Ah can’t think ’bout that right now,” Apple Bloom muttered as she moved over to a bush. “We need ta focus on findin’ Bucky.”
They all nodded and renewed their searching. As Apple Bloom leaned into a bush several minutes later, she tumbled in, becoming sealed away from sight.
“Apple Bloom, you okay?” Sweetie asked the bush.
“Fine,” the farm filly’s voice called back. “Just feelin’ a little woozy. Gimme a sec, ’kay?”
The three fillies nodded, understanding the yellow pony’s anxiety and were about to return to searching, when Scootaloo noticed a yellow something charging in their general direction. It was Fluttershy.
“Hey, Flutters!” Scootaloo called, waving as the Pegasus drew nearer at rapid speeds. “What’s the rush?”
“Can’t talk! Apple Bloom injured. In hospital. Gotta tell Applejack!” were the rushed words they heard before and as the yellow mare shot passed them all, headed in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres.
The three fillies frowned, before looking to the bush where, moments later, Apple Bloom walked out, rubbing her head.
“Uh... why did Fluttershy just fly past saying you were in the hospital?” Scootaloo asked, frowning at the yellow filly. “You didn’t bang your head that hard, did ya?”
Apple Bloom shook her head to clear it, before giving Scootaloo a raised eyebrow. “Huh?”
“Fluttershy,” Sweetie pointed in the direction said mare had gone in. “Whilst you were recovering, she flew past saying something about you being injured and in the hospital.”
Apple Bloom blinked, before frowning. “Huh? Now why in the hay would Fluttershy be scared that Ah’m in the hospital when Ah...?”
She trailed off, her eyes widening along with the other fillies.
“APPLEBUCK!”
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No Problem.
I'm Pretty sure your busy on your side. We can wait till the next one.
a vary good chapter and some how I am getting a feeling there is more going on between Apple Bloom and Apple Buck than meets the eye.
Autum Breeze you should know what I am going to tell you take all the time you need for your story's I know your life is complicated at the best of times.
Sigh, Applebuck/Sam things are getting bad, and after all it's normal that she explode, being treated like a filly. Also, something I don't know but, even if Celestia can't help, why not ask Discord? He have enough power to turn Sam again in a human and return him to his dimension.
7251472 He would also have the power to make things worse. That and he is not the brightest bulb in the shed.
7251762 Well, if he make things worse, Fluttershy could send him to the dog house. Unless they don't discover he did worse.
7251768 Or he doesn't intend to do worse, but does. This is the spirit of Chaos after all. He does not have full control of what his powers do, that would contradict his existence.
Seeing how Sam has been acting so explosively toward the Apple family I wander if his anger is more the effect of at least three months pent-up frustration and anxiety of alienation and stoking in the human world that just needed an outlet to vent on and the Apples treating him like a child was what just broke the dam and he couldn't hold back his emotion anymore.
Sam has also been treated like a sort of child prince because of his sort of celebrity status and the fact has seen by his family as sick child might that needed to have his need quickly taken care of might have given him as small sens of entitlement that he himself is not aware of.
The fact the Sam is trapped if a foals body doesn't help either, anyone will thing of him as a child no matter what he say or does and their is no knowing who his body might be affecting him mind and might be prone to fits of temper tamperer tantrum like a child would.
Their is also a legal issue to consider; if Sam is to be considered a legal adult by the law then it means that he would be have to be charged with assault and batter on Applejack and would have to be charged and punish accordingly as an adult no matter in what mental distress he might be in. Also, he for his actions he can't flip from the status of a child to an adult when ever it is convenient to him he will have to be settled in one or the other. If he is an adult then he might be able to have a stipend from the Crown or welfare to live on his own if he so choses sense seeing his size he can't really be expected to take on a job during his stay in Equestria.
7251774 Who knows, Discord changed too much, if it's the Discord a little after the reformations his powers are good for pranks, if he is after the most recent, he is only a clown that want other look at him so maybe he could do it worse because he wants.
The problem is 'Innocent unless proven guilty' if there is no proof that Sam did not return, who is going to know?
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All of that is good but remember, that is Equestria... What happened when Twilight brainwashed all ponyville with the "Want It, need it"? What happened when Applejack poisoned them? Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich? Rainbow Dash when she tried to stop winter or steal a book from the hospital? The gala? Nightmare Moon? Discord pranks? The law is a laugh around, so I don't think there is going to be any problem to Sam for assault.
7251832 The first two words I agree with full "Who knows?" because really, no one can predict him. He may be reformed, but what you are describing is someone who is not a jerk. Spike himself said it "Discord is reformed, but not that reformed" He is still a jerk, and sometimes forgets important things, like plunder seeds.
7251852 Of course, and the "Blue Flu" was to show how Twilight was a good friend, making her take a very heavy carriage with her sister in law. That was being a jerk.
Trying to make the others laugh at him with a repeated joke of oranges? That is being a clown.
Trying to take care of Tree Hugger, the pony that seemed to be under the effects of weed, summoning 'The smooze' and threat to send the pony to MLP Version 0.5 (The socks puppets) What was that?
7251860 You get the idea, he may be a good guy, but he is still a jerk, intentional or not.
7251865 Discord change with the chapters, in one is a jerk, in another is jelaous of Fluttershy and in other is a simple clown. So in the next chapter he could be a Super Hero like Mare-Do-Well. But we are going away of the important thing, that is "Discord" helping or not helping Sam.
7251869 Probably not. Best to avoid Deus Ex Machina in stories.
How did you get that one?
I suppose it's "mad" that was meant to be there, but it is still very funny.
Yay for maturity and responsability!
Oh! Wait!
Sooo close! Well, better luck next time!
I'm pretty sure it should be than.
I liked the chapter, and I can certainly understand poor Sam / Applebuck blowing a fuse based on her situation. But I have one major problem with this chapter...
Sam has injured herself badly enough that Cherilee is concerned just from seeing the trail of blood she left behind... Badly enough that she passes out a few minutes later. That's no paper cut. And yet, the entire class is sent out to find her... And nopony discovers her before Fluttershy stumbles over her? Really?
Look, I know ponies aren't predators, so aren't necessarily skilled at tracking. And I know that they're just schoolkids. But come on! None of them are skilled/smart enough to say "Gee, maybe we outta follow this here trail of blood to find her!" Sheesh! Even Snips and Snails should have been able to find her if she was bleeding that bad!
(Though despite that silly, I still enjoyed the chapter, mind you.
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Well, Sams starting to catch on that he screwed up in some respects, but he isnt alone on that hayride
More please!
Yay, update!
So, the inevitable happened. So Fluttershy revealed Bucky to the world at large now. Goodbye controlled exposure!
I hope that Diamond gets into a big heap of trouble for that.
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Why would she, Buck was the one who sperged out and decided to stab himself because someone thought that that someone who looks completely identical to someone else in a world of shapeshifters may be a shapeshifter.
Sam is going to have to take responsibility for something one of these days.
7263510 I never said that it wasn't stupid. But we can't say that Diamond wasn't pushing either. Despite all the explanations.
What Sam did was stupid, but his psyche was already strained, and you never know how anyone might react when they snap.
And in the heat of the moment of the snapped psyche, he thought spilling his own blood was the best course of action to prove himself not being a 'ling.
C heerilee’s expression became a bit sterner,
Cheerilee’s expression became a bit sterner,
I like sleep.
I like....Trains
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*Bows* Thanks for understanding
7287491 Yea. Me too when I read my first HiE fic called "A Colt's Tale". Only after I got to the last chapter in it did I realize that he posted it two years ago. My heart fell when I realized that the story will never be completed.
You know that first hater call that blames Apple Bloom for Robin Williams death. I would be singing this and try to torture him like Robin died or cutting into his brain and try to a Frankenstein death or like genie from aladdin telling him to not ask to bring people back from the dead.
Edit: or probably this pain. Put the glooves on for 10 or 30 minutes then have them deal with the pain for 2 hrs and show the video in fast forward at the interview.
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Why not finish it yourself? I would do the same but I'm not really a daily writer on a constant schedule of writing.
And I think I read that one too.
7299180 Simple answer. My grammar sucks.
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Sorry it was this story I was thinking of http://www.fimfiction.net/story/115920/humans-in-equestria
Passing out from blood loss... IS NOT FUN, don't ask how I know that, just don't ..
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"What?! NO.. NO nononono..." *starts attempting to out run the oncoming train*
Fluttershy never told the fillies that “Apple Bloom” was in the hospital. She was in too much of a hurry if you go back and read it again.