This is My Idea

Cheese Sandwich watched from the castle watchtower. He hollered out, "Here they come!" He saw the train coming into the station.

Twilight and Spike stood in front of the castle doors while the train pulled in. Big Mac carried his little sister on his back when arriving to greet them.

Cheese blew a flugelhorn poorly above them. Big Mac cleared his throat, "Princess Twilight, it is with great-" He was interrupted by the flugelhorn, to which all four royals had to cover their ears.

Twilight shouted, "Cheese! Stop!"

He did stop and yelled out, "Sorry!"

She sighed and took over introductions, "Welcome to our fair kingdom, Macintosh, and to you, young princess."

Big Mac lifted Apple Jack down. She was hesitant to move forward.

"Go on, Spike…" Twilight whispered.

"But, Mother…"

"No buts, Spike." she magically moved him as Apple Jack moved towards him.

Barely looking at her, he greeted, "Hello, Princess Apple Jack. I'm very please to meet you."

"Please ta meet you, Prince Spike." she bowed her head, scaring Spike into running back.

"Ahem." Twilight pointed him back.

Spike slowly walked back, took Apple Jack's hoof, and grimaced while the young mare waited impatiently. He bended down, kissed her hoof, and cried, "Yuck!" In his mind, he was going, "I can't believe I'm stuck with her all summer, I'll bet she doesn't wrestle, buck or box!"

In AJ's mind, "He looks conceited…"

"What a total bummer…"

"If I get lucky, I'll get cutie-pox!"

"So happy you could come."

"So happy to be here."

"How I'd like to run!"

Apple Jack sang through gritted teeth, "This is not my idea…"

"This isn't my idea…"

"Of fun!"

Moments later, as Twilight and Big Mac were going around the castle, the princess sang.

"The children seem to get along quite nicely."

"We'll join our lands if this arrangement clicks!"

"My dear Big Mac, that's my point precisely!"

"It's such good parenting…"

"And politics; so happy we agree…"

"I think we got a deal."

"Spike is quite a catch!"

"This is my idea…"

"This is my idea…"

"Of a match!"

"And such fun!" she said.

Slowly, a couple years went by.

Big Mac was waiting outside the Pony-Ville castle, ""Sweet Celestia, AJ, don't dawdle! We can't keep Spike waiting!"

Apple Jack called out from the balcony, ""I haven't packed, or washed my mane, and Brother, trains make me sick!"

In Canterlot.

Twilight goes into Spike's room, "They soon will be arriving. Is that the respect you're showing?"

"Don't make me kiss her hoof again. I swear I'm gonna be sick!"

When they met them at the station, Big Mac sang.

"One day, Prince Spike will be her intended!"

"Splendid!"

Spike and Fluttershy moved down the stairway, with Apple Jack galloping right behind them.

"We've tried all summer, but we just can't lose her!"

"Hey, wait up!"

"Quick, fly, Fluttershy!" They made it into a tree house in the gardens.

"When picking teams…"

"Or friends…" sang Fluttershy.

"I never choose her!"

"You'd think we should be more nice?" Fluttershy sang.

"This really isn't fair!" AJ sang below.

"I really couldn't care!"

"Boy, it's all or none!" she kicked the tree with her hind legs and it all came crashing down. As they were leaving… "This is not my idea…"

Both Spike and Fluttershy sang, "This isn't my idea of fun!"

Ponies around them in both kingdoms sang, "Long before they met, Spike and Apple Jack were destined to be wedded!"

Throughout the winter, Spike and Apple Jack sat comfortly in their own castle homes.

Spike's servants sang out, "However, any pony could see… the only point on which they didn't disagree…"

AJ's servants sang, "Was that the very thought of summertime… Was dreaded!"

Another Summer Sun of loathing had arrived. By this point, Apple Jack got her cutie mark. Big Mac had to pull her out of the cart while Twilight had to get Spike down from a tree.

Spike sang, "She tries to talk me into being louder; she's always flirting with the castle guards."

"I think you really sort of like her. Tell her!"

"I'd like her better if she'd lose at cards! Four sevens and a ten…"

"I think I've won again."

"Every time she's won!"

"This is my idea…"

"This isn't my idea…"

"Of fun!"

While on a carriage ride around Canterlot, the ponies sang, "We need a royal wedding… I'd love to be invited! At least we'll get a holiday to rest our plows and axes!"

As usual, Apple Jack and Big Mac took their leave.

"Someday these two will marry… Two lands will be united! And with some luck, their marriage may result in lower taxes!"

During that winter, Big Mac wrote to Twilight, ""What if AJ doesn't go for the merger?"

Twilight responded, "Urge her!"

A grown Apple Jack and a grown, but still short, Spike paced their rooms. Their guardians tried to come in, but they won't let them. Both sang out of frustration, "For as long as I remember, we've been told we'd someday wed! Every Summer Sun til Running Leaves!"

"All their pushing and annoying hints!"

"I've got bruises with his claw-prints!"

They got pushed into the ballroom.

"I could do much better, I am sure!"

"He's so immature!"

They turned to see each other…both with looks of amazement.

"I see him smiling and my knees start buckling… I see inside him and my doubts are gone…"

"She started out as such an ugly duckling, and somehow suddenly became a swan…"

"So happy to be here…"

"Till now, I never knew…"

"It is you I've been dreaming of!"

"This is my idea…"

"This is my idea…"

Big Mac and Twilight rushed in, "What a good idea, such a charming and romantic notion!"

The servants all walked in and sang in harmony, "This is my idea! Such a good idea, what a good idea! Such a powerful and magic potion! This is exactly my idea of…"

"Love…"

They dance romantically for a bit… even it was kind of awkward.

"This is my idea…"

"This is my idea…"

Both sang, "This is my idea of…"

A choir of mares sang while they had their first kiss, "Love…"