Chapter 2: An Immodest Proposal
" The trick will be to get him away from Applejack..." Twilight said, musing thoughtfully over her snack.
" Howdy Twilight, what'cha doin?" Apple Bloom asked, her eerie smile and unquenchable optimism unnerved Twilight more than a little. One of Twilight's ears twitched nervously.
" Just trying to figure out a way to get Big Macintosh away from Applejack long enough to ask him for a favor for the slumber party I'm hosting tonight." Twilight said, blurting out the truth before she could stop herself. Idiot! What were you thinking just saying what you were thinking like that. To Apple Bloom no less! She reprimanded herself, faceplanting the table in front of her.
" That shouldn't be too hard, Big Mac is going to be in the Western orchard today, and Applejack is working on her Apple cellar, something about an expansion for herself. It didn't make no sense 'tall to me." Apple Bloom said recalling her sister's strange behavior in the cellar. With a look of confusion that shattered her otherwise intense exterior.
" Thanks Apple Bloom, this is just the chance I needed!" Twilight said, running off towards Sweet Apple Acres before she could give anything else away to the precocious earth filly crusader. Spike was right! I suck at keeping secrets!
" But Twilight, you didn't finish your snack..." Apple Bloom said, her voice trailing off as Twilight shrunk into the distance, intent on her own thoughts and plans.
Apple Bloom shrugged off the peculiar actions of the sometimes helpful sometimes harmful Unicorn her sister had befriended. The deranged actions of Twilight Sparkle were still fresh in her mind, despite her memory while under the compulsion spell being fuzzy. If anyone could handle Twilight Sparkle's particular brand of crazy, it would be Big Macintosh.
" I wonder what else this day will have in store for me, I guess my cutie mark isn't going to be in informing." She looked hopefully at her flank, knowing before her head had completely turned that it would be as blank as it had been a week ago. Her enthusiasm was dampened by her harrowing experience with magically assisted cutie marks not too long ago.
As Twilight neared the farm, she could hear Applejack working furiously at something in the Apple Cellar. It wasn't hard to sneak past, what with all the noise coming from the cellar. A cacophony of metal on metal and the sound of industrious wood sawing covered the sounds of Twilight's hoof beats as she passed by on the way to the Western Orchard.
" Big Macintosh, I've been looking for you, do you have a moment?" Twilight asked the stunning Stallion as he bucked a tree full of ripe Red Delicious Apples.
" Eenope." Big Macintosh said, before placing the now full baskets of apples into the collection wagon.
" It'll only take a minute, and all you have to do is listen, and then either agree or disagree." Twilight said, pleading, her mane becoming slightly disheveled.
" Twilight, not now, I still have most of the orchard to buck." Big Macintosh said, only the faintest shadow of annoyance tainting his otherwise smooth and attractive voice.
" That's exactly what I'm saying!" Twilight said in exasperation. Following the stallion to the next tree.
" Umm, then why are you still here?" Big mac asked, idly bucking the tree and filling more buckets.
" That's what I'm trying to say! Big Mac, sweetling, I'd like you to do something for me, for us at my slumber party. Not now, but tonight." Twilight said, smiling and putting on her best cute pleading face and crossing her front hooves.
" What would you want me to do at a sleepover full of mares?" Big Macintosh said reluctantly, carrying on with his work.
" Well it'll sort of be a surprise for everyone but you, me and Spike. But I think we might be able to pull off an orgy." Twilight said offhoofedly.
" Say again?" Big Macintosh asked, after his buck missed the next apple tree and he fell onto the ground.
" I want your help in the grand finale surprise for my slumber party. Which is an orgy. And I think that you'd add just the right kind of variety I'm looking for. Everybody just adores you, and I can't think of a better Stallion for the job." Twilight said, smiling nervously.
" Won't my sister Applejack be there? Don't you think that'll be a little odd?" Big Macintosh said, getting back to his feet and properly bucking the tree this time.
" You do know that she's into you right?" Twilight said, her eye twitching in barely contained frustration at the Stallion's seemingly deliberate obliviousness. I should probably get that fixed.
" Uh, what? " Big Mac asked, catching himself before he fell again.
" Is this really just one impressive revelation after another to you?" Twilight asked incredulously.
" Eeyup..." Big Macintosh said simply.
" How is that even possible?" Twilight said venting.
" Twilight, I spend most of my time in the orchards or doing research in the barn, I don't have much time to get out and about. And being one of the few unattached stallions that make their home in Ponyville it's not like the other mares are just clamoring to tell me that even my sister is interested in me." Big Macintosh explained, saddling up to the now full wagon.
" I... see, will you at least consider it? I think that everyone will have a great time." Twilight said hopefully, straightening out her mane with her magic.
" I suppose it couldn't hurt to go." Big Macintosh said, heading towards the barn.
" So you'll show up with Applejack? Thank you Thank you Thank you!" Twilight said happily, hopping back off towards the library.
Reader's Note: Thanks for the advice Anon, I hope that I did better at spacing out the blocks on this one. Also, out of courtesy for people who always want to know what's up, I posted Bios for the OCs that I used to enable the story. I don't know if you're reading this gutovi-kun, but I fixed GC part 3 for you. Let's see, I'm flattered at the attention this story has gathered, but I do have other things I need to do other than writing this. Like I said earlier this month, I can't maintain the same release schedule that I had in December.