Pinkie Pie opens up a tourist trap in hopes of earning the Cakes some more money. She and her friends are the first to go, the gang happy to help out Pinkie. What Pinkie forgot to mention is that the attraction is and endless hole in the earth.
Pinkie Pie opens up a tourist trap in hopes of earning the Cakes some more money. She and her friends are the first to go, the gang happy to help out Pinkie. What Pinkie forgot to mention is that the attraction is and endless hole in the earth. Now, the Mane 6 are falling down, presumably forever. With no-one able to teleport or fly, what choice do they have but to pass the time telling stories? Inspired by the Gravity Falls episode of the same name.
It was a bright and sunny day in Ponyville. With a couple clouds in the sky, despite it being scheduled to be clear skies. That blame could be placed on Rainbow Dash, who at this very moment was just about to take a nap when she heard a shrill cry. "RAINBOW DASH!" Despite Dash always being there for her friends, it didn't mean she appreciated getting her ear drums shattered by Pinkie Pie's impossibly loud yelling. As she started to get up, she took the time to rip some of the cloud to make ear muffs. "DASHIE!" "Relax, Pinkie! I heard you the first time!" Dash climbed to her hooves. She got off the cloud and glided towards Pinkie. When she landed, she stretched out her legs and wings. Even though you'd think differently, clouds were no softer than your average bed. "Hey, Pinks. What do you need from your friendly neighborhood Dash?" Rainbow greeted, the last few words dripping with sarcasm. After a few seconds, Pinkie Pie got what she meant and laughed, Dash soon joining in. After a couple minutes, the pink mare started to talk. "I'm opening up a new park for everypony to enjoy, and I'd like you and the rest of the girls to test it!" That sounds like Pinkie, Dash thought. Always thinking of new ways to make ponies smile. Part of Dash was considering blowing Pinkie off, still irritable that her 9:00 nap was interrupted. Despite that little part, Dash happily joined the energetic pink mare. As the two started to walk, Pinkie Pie leading the way, Dash asked a question. "So, where exactly is this thing?" "Sugar Cube Corner, you'll see what it is when we get there." *** When they arrived, Dash saw Twilight, Rarity and the others were already there and waiting. The gang were sitting at one of the booths, the sweets shop apparently being closed for the day. Rainbow guessed they had been there a while, because each of them had a face of complete boredom and disinterest. That changed when they heard the door open and saw the missing two party attendants walking through the door. "Hello, Rainbow Dash!" "Howdy, Sugarcube!" "Greetings, darling!" "H-hi Dash." Fluttershy must have been startled by the loud barrage of voices. "Hey guys! So, what exactly does Pinkie have planned?" Dash asked. "Well, some of you may know that Mr. and Mrs. Cake have been having some money problems lately," Pinkie gave a slight frown before continuing. "So, I want to make them some more money. But I didn't want to be greedy, that's just mean. Then I got the idea to make ponies happy while making the Cakes money. Then, I made this!" Pinkie trotted over to a small sheet and grabbed it in her mouth. She yanked her head back, ripping it off, to reveal... a big hole in the ground. Looks of confusion crossed over everyone's face except Pinkie, who was still smiling with a goofy grin. "Uh, Pinkie? What is that?" Twilight questioned. Pinkie tilted her head slightly. "It's a bottomless pit, duh!" The others faces ranged from confusion to indifference. Twilight put her face in her hoof. "Pinkie, that's physically impossible." "Twilight, do I need to remind you of when you tried to figure out Pinkie sense?" Dash asked rhetorically, grinning. Her joke and expression were countered by Twilight grunting and giving an almost comical glare. The others tried and failed to hold their laughter. "Anyways, how are you going to explain this?" The others stopped laughing, opting to listen to the explanation. "Well, there's the problem: I don't know if it's endless, so I need you all to test it with me!" The assembly suddenly dropped their jaws in a synchronized fashion. After thirty seconds, Dash started laughing out loud. "Ha-ha, good one, Pinkie! This is great, priceless!" This made Pinkie confused. "Thanks Dash, but this isn't a prank. I'm serious." "But it's just so random, even for you!" Rainbow got out through her laughter. "So, are we going to test this thing or what?!" Pinkie yelled, suddenly right behind the group. The group was so shocked, they unwillingly jumped forward, all of them falling into the hole. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" The group screamed, Pinkie soon jumping after them. Instead of screams of terror, Pinkie was yelling like it was a good rollercoaster, not falling to her death.
"Wait a minute! Twilight! Fluttershy! Grab somepony and start flying!" Rainbow yelled to her friends. After five seconds, this registered with the winged ponies as they each grabbed one of their friends and opened their wings. It did nothing. "What?! Why isn't it working?!" Dash screamed in a mixture of horror and irritation. Her answer came in the form of Pinkie Pie. "Because it's a black hole, silly filly!" Pinkie said calmly, but loud enough for everyone to hear. Twilight's face filled with terror, a similar look on Rarity and Fluttershy's face, Rainbow found a particularly soft spot on her hoof and rested her head on it. Applejack just seemed confused. "Pinkie... are you an idiot?! You opened a black hole, and you kicked us in it?!" Twilight yelled, her face contorting in anger. Pinkie and the rest were taken aback by the sudden and violent outburst. "Did you really think opening a hole in reality was a good idea?! This is going to kill all of you!" "Twilight, what do you mean, 'all of you'?" Rarity questioned. "I'm an alicorn. Along with being immortal, I'm also invincible. While you all starve to death, or get pulled apart by the black hole, I'll be alone. For eternity." This made the assembly cringe and grimace. When Twilight noticed this, she softened her tone. "Sorry girls, I'm just a bit worked up about this." *** "Well, this is boring." Things had calmed down from the earlier hysteria, and now the group was just falling in silence. The utter boredom of it all was getting to Dash, and she wasn't having it. Besides, if they were going to die, she wanted it to end on a good note. "So, any ideas on how to pass the time?" The other mares started to consider the options. After about five minutes, someone spoke up. "We could tell stories. Oh, if that's okay with everypony..." Fluttershy's voice trailed off into incomprehensible mumbling. The others looked at her. "I think that's a marvelous idea!" Rarity supported. "Sounds good!" "Well, Ah can't think of nothing better." Applejack said, holding her Stetson so it didn't go flying above her. "Sure, why not?" "Oki, Dokie, Loki!" "Okay, good idea Fluttershy!" With all of them agreeing, only one questioned remained. "So, who's first?"
"Ah'll go first." Applejack stated out loud. However, she hadn't thought of a story to tell yet, because most of her life is nothing but kicking trees. Suddenly, she had a brilliant idea. "Okay, so Ah'm going to tell y'all about the time I fought a giant mech." The look on the others faces were priceless. "What?" "Really? You. A mech. Duking it out. I don't think so." Rainbow Dash replied, giving a skeptic look at Applejack. "Oh, like you could, Dash?" As soon as those words left AJ's mouth, she saw angry magenta eyes. While it was far from the real deal, Applejack briefly considered if this was what "The Stare" felt like. Try as she might, it was hard to shrink back when falling. "Yes, I can." With that Dash was back to her previous position. "What? How did you do that?" "Learned it from Pinkie. Let's see you do that, Jackie." Rainbow teased. "Anyways, let's just start this here story..."
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It was a nice day at Sweet Apple Acers. The scents of freshly harvested apples, backing pies, and saw dust filled the air. For Applejack, it was shaping up to be the best day of the week. It had been an easy day, with most of the apples already picked, and the new barn almost complete. The hardest part was baking the apples into pies, which wasn't too hard. Proud with her work, Applejack leaned against one of the blocks of hay. CRASH! This startled her. Stumbling away from the hay, she checked the barn. It was fine, and after taking a glance at the house, AJ looked over the orchard. If one of her trees fell, she would be able to see which one. While she did see that some of her trees had fallen, her wide eyes were more focused on the culprit. Walking towards the house was a five-story tall machine, vaguely resembling a pony in shape. It seemed to notice her, and a voice emanated from it. "Why dear brother, look what I've found! It's none other than Ms. Applejack! Hello, there!" The machine took a few steps closer. "Just the mare we were looking for." "Who, er, what are you, and how do you know me?" After a few seconds, an all too familiar tune started to play. It took a second, but Applejack finally placed her hoof on where she knew it from. "Flim? Flam? What in tarnation is this, and what are you vermin doing back on mah farm?" She demanded. "What, two business owners can't talk to one another? We just wanted to pay a friendly visit to our old rival." Either Flim or Flam stated through the thing. "Oh, you're probably wondering that this is, aren't you?" As he said this, one of the iron legs moved and displayed the body of the thing. "Well, if you can remember, we stopped by here a few months back with one of our best inventions-" "You mean that water you kept callin' a cure-all?" Applejack interrupted. "Perhaps... back to it, you ruined the plan. After that, whenever we tried to go to a town to sell our products, we would be run out! Word of what happened here in Ponyville got around and ruined our reputation. We can't even buy food because of it. So, we decided that since you cause all our problems, to get rid of you." Suddenly, the mechanical giant started galloping towards the newly built barn. Applejack rolled out of the way just before the large machine rammed into the barn at full speed, annihilating the newly built structure. This was AJ's cue to start running. "Flam and I are going to destroy everything you hold dear like you did to us, and then... get rid of the opposition, let's say." It started walking towards the house. When Applejack saw this, her eyes almost fell off of her face. "Look, you two are lyin', thievin' varmints, but y'all ain't murderers. Just don't, and Ah swear Ah won't ever tell no-pony about this! Just leave me and mah family alone!" She begged, but her pleas were either not heard or ignored. As the thing got closer to the house, Applejack's anger rose. "You filthy, no-good murderers! Stay away from mah family!" This time, the robot actually turned around. "Well then, do you have anything in exchange?" The slightly metallic voices asked at the same time. "Ah'll give you half of the orchard! Just move your... thing, away from my property!" Applejack shouted back. "Hmm... alright." The orange mare let out a sigh and a slight smile. "However, we still need to bump out our competitors, and it just so seems our biggest one is right here." That smile quickly changed into a look of shock and horror. Before she could fully process what that meant, the large machine was already bolting at her, full speed. It was right at that moment that she decided something: never make deals with Flim, Flam, or giant mechs.
***
"Wait, they gave up that easily?" Rainbow interrupted the story to voice her objections. "They're business ponies, right? So wouldn't they take a lot more to convince them?" "Well, Rainbow, the answer to that is that it's mah story, and you interrupted before Ah finished, so kindly shut yer yap." Rainbow had a look of objection, but a stern enough look from Applejack made it clear that whatever she said would be pointless. "Okay then..."
***
The mech was charging straight at Applejack, who was begging her legs to move so she could run, but they were frozen in shock. It was getting closer, and by now AJ was just looking for something she could use to protect herself. Then she remembered her lasso was by what was left of the barn door. That was enough to get her legs moving. It also happened to get her out of the way of the 50 foot tall death bot. CRASH! The cost for Applejack's life was 100 of her best apple trees, which increased her already simmering anger. As she grabbed her lasso, she heard the rather annoyed brothers in the mech getting the machine back up, with no shortage of unkind words for her. Once it got back up again, it started charging for a second time. Applejack ducked out of the way, but not before getting the lasso caught in between the metal pony's to front legs. This of course tripped the monstrosity, sending it crashing down. This was enough to break it. Unfortunately, it also set the engine on fire. Flim and Flam and just escaped the destroyed machine before it exploded in a ball of fire, destroying even more trees. "What do y'all have to say for yer selves?" Applejack demanded. "We should have built a better robot." As the first police and fire fighter pegasi reached Sweet Apple Acers, Granny Smith woke up from her nap.
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The other falling ponies mulled over the story before sharing their thoughts. "Well, that escalated quickly," Was the general consensus.
