My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Fall Weather Friends
A/N: (Dede42 walks up to the writers studio and unlocks the door - only to have a wall of purring tribbles bury her.)
Dede42: Wah!
Dr. Hooves: (runs up with Derpy) Great whickering stallions! What happen here?
Derpy: (helps unbury the human woman) What happen? What are these purring balls of fur? They're cute.
Dede42: They're Tribbles from the Star Trek Universe and I want to know how they got into my studio.
Discord: (appears) Oopsie! I must've put one in your studio the last time I was in there.
Dede42: (glares at the spirt of chaos) Are you saying that there was a tribble in the writers studio the entire weekend?
Discord: (sheepishly) Maybe?
Dede42: (groans) Great and I have to call someone to get the tribbles out of here. My accountant is going to kill me!
Discord: Oh, allow me. (He snaps his figures and the tribbles disappear with the writers studio completely intact) There.
Derpy: (disappointed) Oh, I wanted one as a pet.
Dede42: Discord, where did you send the tribbles?
Discord: Don't worry, I have given them a good home.
Dede42: Where?
Discord: I gave them to the Kingons.
Dede42: You gave them to the Klingons?
Discord: (doing a Scottish accent) Aye, I transported the whole kit and caboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all.
Dede42: And this is what I get for introducing you to Star Trek, isn't it?
Discord: Maybe.
Dede42: (rolls her eyes) Come on, Dr. Hooves, Derpy, let's work on your next adventure, and the idea for this one came when I was watching Zootopia yesterday.
Derpy: Ooh! That's a fun movie.
Dr. Hooves: Yes, it's quite fascinating.
Discord: Can I help?
Dede42: Actually, can you go check on Thanos and see where he is in the Labyrinth?
Discord: Of course! (He disappears.)
Dede42: (turns to the camera) Yup, I'm back from the weekend and I finished another adventure for Dr. Whooves and Derpy, which I'll post after I post the first chapter for Fall Feather Friends. I hope you're a fan of Zootopia, because that's the story I'll be working on next with our favorite ponies. Later! ;)
Read, review, and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.
CHAPTER ONE: A FRIENDLY CHALLENGE. RIGHT?
It was a nice and crisp fall day, and down at Sweet Apple Acres, Rainbow Dash and Applejack were having a friendly game of horseshoes. Hooking a blue horseshoe on her nose, the blue pegasus tossed it toward a short stick that was in the middle of a square-shaped patch of sand, and the horseshoe landed fairly close to the stick.
"Whoo-hoo!" she cheered, rising up and did a quick loop-de-loop before settling back on the ground.
"Hoo-wee!" said Applejack, impressed. "Not a bad pitch for a pony who works with her head in the clouds," she added in a teasing manner.
Rainbow Dash smirked. "Oh yeah? Think you can do better, cowgirl?" she challenged.
"I know I can," Applejack said confidently, grabbing a yellow horseshoe with her teeth and tossed it toward the stick, only to have it fall short of the blue horseshoe. "Oh, for Pete's sake!"
"Heh! Looks like this Pegasus can pitch better than the workhorse," Rainbow Dash teased, laughing. "The object of the game is to get the closest to the stake."
Glowering, Applejack shoved the remaining blue horseshoe toward her friend. "All right, all right. You got another throw there, pony girl," she reminded her sourly.
Grinning, Rainbow Dash scooped up the horseshoe and tossed it, only to have it overshoot and crash through the window of the house, earning a yell of protest from Granny Smith.
"Wow, Rainbow, heh," Applejack said sarcastically. "You couldn't hit a barn door with that kind of a throw!"
"Yeah, yeah. I still have the closest throw, Applesmack," the blue pegasus reminded her friend by bumping her so that her hat fell over her eyes. "Just try and beat it."
Straightening her hat so that she could see, Applejack tossed her remaining horseshoe and this time it hooked on the stick and circled it twice before landing on the ground. "Yee-haw! It's a ringer," she cheered while her friend's jaw dropped in shock. "That's how you do it down here on the farm."
"I lost," Rainbow Dash whispered, stunned.
"Ah, don't feel bad, Rainbow," Applejack advised her. "It's all in good fun."
"I hate losing," the blue pegasus muttered.
Applejack chuckled and trotted away. "Besides, you're a mighty good athlete," she added smugly. "I'm just better. Heh heh heh."
Rainbow Dash flew after her, not about to let her friend have all the fun of winning. "All right, Applejack, you think you're the top athlete in all of Ponyville?" she demanded, landing next to her when she stopped walking.
Applejack thought about that for a moment, and then swished her tail in her friend's face with a smug smile."Well, I was gonna say in all of Equestria, but that might be gildin' the lily."
Rainbow Dash brushed her friend's tail away, and came up with an idea. "…and I think I'm the top athlete. So let's prove it," she suggested.
Applejack, who had been about to walk away, stopped to look at her friend questioningly. "Prove what?"
"I challenge you to an Iron Pony competition," Rainbow Dash challenged. "A series of athletic contests to decide who's the best, once and for all."
Applejack considered this for a moment and then nodded. "You know what, Rainbow? You're on," she agreed, and they both spit on one of their hooves and shook on it.
The next day at the farm, Big Macintosh was busy setting up the last of the events needed for the Iron Pony competition, and on a nearby hill, Rainbow Dash and Applejack were warming up their muscles when they were joined by Twilight Sparkle, Sunrise Blossom, and Spike.
"So you two are doing what, now?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
"An Iron-" Applejack began.
"Iron Pony competition," Rainbow Dash interrupted.
Applejack rolled her eyes and continued. "See, we've set up a bunch of events to decide which one of us is-"
"The most athletic pony ever!" Rainbow Dash cut in.
"And we're here to…?" Sunrise Blossom asked, exchanging an uncertain look with her twin since they knew how competitive their two friends could be.
Rainbow Dash paused in her stretching to consider that question. "I don't know," she admitted. "Why are they here?"
"To be our judges and keep score," Applejack answered.
"Right, heh," said the blue pegasus, realizing that having somepony judge the competition would help keep them both honest. "Somepony's gotta record my awesomeness for the history books," she added and went back to her stretching while her friends rolled their eyes.
A short while later, it was time for the competition to start, and Spike, who was standing on Twilight Sparkle's back, had grabbed a stick off the ground and was using it like a microphone. "Hello everypony, and welcome to the first annual Iron Pony competition!" he announced.
"Uh, Spike, who are you talking to?" Twilight Sparkle asked, looking over her shoulder at the baby dragon.
Spike flushed a little and nodded around. "Um… Uh, them!" he exclaimed as Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie arrived to cheer their friends on. "Let the games begin!" And as Applejack and Rainbow Dash took their places before the first event, a few other ponies arrived to cheer them on, having overheard Pinkie Pie and Rarity talk about the competition.
"Ready. Set. Go!" Twilight Sparkle called out and Applejack raced through the barrel weave, avoiding the barrels until she just barely brushed the last one before crossing the finish line.
Applejack looked back and she was disappointed that she'd touched one of the barrels. "Dagnabbit."
Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom looked at the baby dragon, who'd timed the barrel weave. "Time, Spike?"
Spike checked the stopwatch. "17 seconds."
"You're kiddin'!" Applejack exclaimed, surprised and delighted by her time. "That breaks my record from last year's rodeo."
"But you got a five second penalty for nudging the barrel," he added.
Applejack sighed, disappointed. "Nuts and chews!" she grumbled for a moment. "Still, that's 22 seconds. Not too shabby." She then noticed that the blue pegasus was sweating slightly and looking nervous. "Hey, don't be nervous," she suggested, nudging her friend a little. "Remember, it's all in good fun. Now git on up there."
Rainbow Dash nodded and moved into position. This time it was Sunrise Blossom who let her know when to run. "Ready. Set. Go!" And the blue pegasus zipped through the barrels without touching a sinle one.
"Woo! That was some fancy hoofwork there, Rainbow!" Applejack cheered.
"Thanks, but I" Rainbow Dash panted "couldn't have been as fast as you."
"What was the time on that, Spike?" Applejack inquired.
"18 seconds!" Spike announced.
"18 seconds," Applejack repeated, surprised and then gave her friend a friendly nudge. "Rainbow, are you sure you're not secretly a rodeo pony?" she teased and the blue pegasus chuckled.
"Rainbow Dash wins the barrel lead!" Twilight Sparkle announced and Fluttershy updated the scoreboard.
Rainbow Dash whooped it up. "Oh, I can't believe I won."
"Yeah, well, don't you go gettin' used to it," Applejack advised, yanking on her friend's tail to bring her back to Earth.
The next event was to ring the bell at the top of a tower. Having won the first event, Rainbow Dash went up to the tower, and used her back legs to kick the target hard. The punt shot upward and hit the bell, ringing it. The gathered ponies cheered, and there were more of them as word spread about the event.
Applejack, who been resting under a tree, peered out from under her hat before getting up take her turn. "Mighty respectable," she commented, spitting out the piece of straw she'd been chewing on, "but let me show ya how it's really done." She then went to the tower and with a loud grunt, slammed her back legs into the target. The punt shot upward and knocked the bell clean off, wining her the event. While the ponies all cheered, she trotted back to the blue pegasus, who was staring with a stunned expression. "Years of applebuckin'," she added, bucking the tree and walked away as a number of apples fell, doing "Shave and a haircut"…"Two bits" on her friend's head, and she groaned.
"Ugh."
The next event was the bronco buck and poor Spike was talked into wearing a cowboy hat and was now sitting on Applejack's back, waiting to be bucked off, and he wasn't happy about this. In the stands that'd been set up, Granny Smith, Apple Bloom, and Big Mac were cheering her on.
"Waa-hoo!"
"Whoo-hoo!"
"Eeyup!"
"Why me?" the baby dragon moaned.
"Go!" Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom both shouted.
Applejack began acting like a bronco, trying to buck off Spike, who was holding on for dear live. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa-hoa! Whoa!" he yelled as she managed to buck him up into the air, and he landed in a pile of straw. "Whoaaa! Ouch," he moaned, poking his head out of the straw.
Just then, the rest of the straw fell away to reveal that he was now sitting on Rainbow Dash's back. "Ready for another pony ride?" she asked with a dangerous grin.
Spike whimpered. "No."
"Go!" the twins shouted, and they watched as Rainbow Dash went into jackhammmer mode, jiggling the baby dragon up and down so much that they were a blur, and then he was sent flying into the air, screaming. "Rainbow Dash wins the bronco-buck."
Fluttershy was updating the score when Spike landed on top of the scoreboard, startling her. "And I lose," he moaned.
More ponies arrived at the competition and they were cheering with the rest as Spike stood in the middle of the area again, this time wearing a helmet with horns, and he was waiting as Applejack and Rainbow Dash prepared their lassos so that they could see who could lasso him first. Spike wasn't happy about any of this, and so when his arms and legs were lassoed by Applejack, he yelped and ended up on his back as she yanked on the rope. "Whoa!" he grunted. "How do I get roped into these things?"
However, he wasn't the only one tied up at the moment. Rainbow Dash, who'd been having troubles with her own lasso, was now tied upside-down to one of the branches of a nearby tree. "Does this count?" she asked.
Sunrise Blossom shook her head. "Sorry, it doesn't, Rainbow," she told the blue pegasus. "Applejack wins the lasso contest." And the score was now in Applejack's favor.
The next event was ball bouncing and while Applejack struggled with bouncing her ball, Rainbow Dash was excelling, and she won the event.
Up was the hay bale toss and Rainbow Dash managed to toss her hay bale really far. "Yuh!" she said, blowing a raspberry until she got pancaked by the hay bale that'd been thrown by Applejack.
Two events later, the score was tied 4-4 and Spike was once again on Twilight Sparkle's back, speaking into the stick while she was checking to see how many events were left, having just done hoof wrestling and football kicking. "Fillies and gentlecolts, at the halfway point, our competitors are tied at five and five."
"Who are you talking to?" Twilight Sparkle asked, looking up from her list.
"Them!" Spike said happily and her jaw dropped when she saw that nearly every pony in Ponyville were gathered for the competition, and that they had even set up tents to sell food, game flags, and some ponies were doing cheering routines between events.
"When did these ponies all get here?" Twilight Sparkle asked her twin sister, bewildered.
"They started arriving shortly after the competition began," Sunrise Blossom replied. "Apparently word about the competition spread like wildfire."
"No kidding."
The next even was pushups and Twilight Sparkle was keeping track of how many pushups were being done by Applejack and Rainbow Dash, who managed to get the last one in with a quick flap of her wings. "95, 96, 97, 98, 99… a hundred!"
"Yes!" Rainbow Dash cheered as she earned the point while the ponies all celebrated.
Applejack glowered up at the blue pegasus, who was flying above her like a spoiled brat. "Be a good sport, Applejack," she muttered.
However, over the rest of the events, Applejack was having a hard time in being a good sport when she lost the long jump, chick wrangling, and other events to Rainbow Dash, who was using her wings more and more to win each event. Finally they were on the last event: tug-a-war.
"All right, you two," said Twilight Sparkle as her friends took the end of a long rope with a red flag in the center. "This is the final event. Give it all you've got." And they all watched as the two ponies struggled to yank the other into the mud pit that was between them. At one point, the blue pegasus found herself being dragged toward the mud pit.
"Looks like the workhorse might come out ahead in this one," Spike commented.
Just then, Rainbow Dash took to the air, taking both the rope and the surprised farm pony with her, so that they were hovering above the mud pit.
"That's not fair," Applejack called out the best she could with a mouth full of rope. "You can't use your wings to help you win."
Rainbow Dash couldn't understand her. "Huh?"
"You're cheatin'!" Applejack shouted through the rope.
Rainbow Dash shook her head, still unable to understand what her friend was saying. "I can't understand you with that rope in your mouth."
Applejack spit out the rope. "I said… uh-oh," she began before realizing what she'd done, and in a Willie Coyote moment, she fell back down, landing in the mud with a pained grunt.
The crowd cheered loudly as the final score was 15-5. Rainbow Dash had won the competition.
"Whoo-hoo!" Rainbow Dash cheered loudly while her friend pulled herself out of the mud. "I win by a landslide… or mudslide in your case," she teased, chuckling. "I am the Iron Pony!"
Applejack shook off the mud and she was furious. "Only 'cause you cheated," she snapped.
Rainbow Dash stopped whooping it up and stared at her, confused. "What?"
"You used your wingpower to help you win over half those contests," Applejack reminded her angrily.
Rainbow Dash scoffed. "Sounds like sour apples to me."
"Are you sayin' you didn't use your wings?" Applejack demanded.
"Well… no," the blue pegasus admitted. "But you never said I couldn't use my wings," she pointed out.
Applejack glowered. "I didn't think I needed to tell you to play fair."
"Applejack," said Sunrise Blossom, looking between her two friends. "If you didn't want Rainbow Dash to use her wings, you should've told her from the start."
"Yeah, you're right, Sunny," I should've," Applejack agreed.
Rainbow Dash, however, was still miffed at being accused of cheating. "I still would have won even without my wings," she declared proudly.
"Hah! Prove it," Applejack challenged.
Rainbow Dash smirked. "Gladly. How?"
"Tomorrow is the annual Runnin' of the Leaves," Applejack informed her. "I challenge you to race me in it."
The blue pegasus grinned. "Heh! Easy shmeasy."
"Hold on!" said Applejack, yanking her friend out of the air and pinning her tail to the ground. "There is one condition: the point is to run, so no wings allowed."
Rainbow Dash snorted and pulled her tail free. "No wings? No problem." They then spit on their hooves and shook while glaring at each other. She then blew a raspberry that broke the tension a little, and they both chuckled.
Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom exchanged uneasy looks, already imagining how chaotic the upcoming race was going to be for these two.
A/N: Interesting challenge ahead. ;) R&R everyone!