Chapter 3: Preparations
The training with magic went well. Granted it was really just flying lessons, making sure Izuku and Momo had a grip on basic telekinesis and making sure that Tenya's front legs would be able to catch up to his back. Thanks to his new Earth skills they were.
But it was the next day that would be important. After all they were going to meet the locals… and the Apple Family from all Across Equestria.
But still they were humans transformed into ponies and their introductions to Ponies had to perfect!
Which was why Twilight came up with a simple equation.
Well… a simple equation for Twilight.
A ton of lists, pieces of paper, charts and other various things.
"And that is how we're going to handle the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration." Said Twilight.
"Interesting." Said Tenya who seemed to be the only one who understood.
"If you're wondering…" whispered Spike, "She was always like this!"
"Maybe you should explain it again… without showing your graphs…" said Sunburst.
"Fine!" said Twilight, "All right! So the perfect way to do is to divide you into two groups!"
"Is that a good idea?" asked Momo.
"It is… plus it would probably be a good idea not have you all at the Apple Family Farm." Said Twilight, "You will be there for hours unless something goes wrong."
"Why what happens?" asked Ochaco.
"Oh their just a big open family who let's any pony join in their festivities." Said Spike.
"They decided to have their family reunion at the Summer Sun Celebration since well… minds as well." Said Starlight, "Also you won't be able to leave… Apple Bloom is still at the age where disappointing her is like kicking a puppy."
"What?" asked Shoto.
"You'll understand when you get there." Said Twilight, "Anyways group 1 who will check on the weather progress and food preparation will be Shoto Todoroki, Momo Yaoyorozu and Katsuki Bakugo, with Starlight accompanying you."
"Why do I have to do this!" yelled Katsuki.
"It's either that or help us get ready for the party." Said Spike, "You do not want to help us get ready for the party."
"Oh come on Spike it's not that bad." Said Twilight, "I mean the placement of everything have to be absolutely perfect in order to maximize capacity."
"Okay I'll go out and meet some damn ponies!" yelled Katsuki.
"When she was little her favorite doll came with a notepad so you can pretend to do her homework." Whispered Spike.
"Team 2 will see how the decorations and music is coming along, of course you can figure that group consists of Izuku Midoriya, Tenya Iida and Ochaco Uraraka with Sunburst accompanying you." Said Twilight.
"As we mentioned during this time you can test the spell that prevents us from telling the ponies that would have been Twilight's friend what happened." Said Sunburst.
"Wait is Applejack going to be there?" asked Starlight.
"From what Big Mac said she's definitely coming… besides she doesn't want to disappoint her little sister." Said Spike.
"Still at that puppy kicking age." Said Starlight, refering to disapointing her, not that she would kick a puppy...
"So you all ready for your jobs!" said Twilight.
The others nodded.
Later the two group separated and went to do their jobs and meet the ponies around town, exchange polite greetings along the way.
However Tenya did get a few looks thanks to his back legs.
Soon enough Group 2 got the Town Hall were two ponies were decorating it, one was a ruby red earth ponies with a pink and purple mane and a comic book for a cutie mark and the other was a deep sky blue unicorn (that's the actual name of the color) unicorn with a medium blue and pink mane who also wore a pair of medium blue glasses, she had a quill writing in a book as a cutie mark.
"Look! All I'm saying is that living will envy the dead!" said the earth pony, "Wow… I really went off a tangent there!"
"You did!" said unicorn.
Then the two noticed the group.
"Oh hey Sunburst!" called out the Earth Pony.
"Here to check our progress?" asked the unicorn.
Sunburst nodded.
"This is Raspberry Swirl." Said Sunburst motioning to the earth pony.
"Sup!" said the earth pony named Raspberry Swirl.
"And Everlasting Imagination." Said Sunburst motioning over to the unicorn.
"My friends call me Evy." Said Everlasting Imagination.
"This is Izuku Midoriya, Ochaco Uraraka and Tenya Iida." Said Sunburst, "Their helping us with our project."
"Awesome." Said Raspberry.
"Cool! Those are Neighpponese names!" said Everlasting Imagination, "But… you don't look Neighpponese…"
Everlasting Imagination began to sweat and then walk away without saying anything.
"Is she all right?" asked Izuku.
Raspberry Swirl sighed, "I know what's wrong."
She picked up one of the decoration and tossed it at Everlasting.
"Raspberry!" yelled Everlasting Imagination.
"Evy! They're clearly not Weebs!" yelled Raspberry Swirl throwing another decoration at her, "Also you don't have much room to judge Ms. "I learned how to use a katana and I named mine Yuki-Chan.""
Everlasting caught that decoration with her magic and put it up on the wall.
"Well how am I supposed react?" asked Everlasting Imagination.
"Like a polite normal pony!" yelled Raspberry Swirl.
"The decorations look like they're coming along." Said Tenya.
"So… yeah…" said Sunburst who knew it was a good time to leave.
"What's a "Weeb"?" asked Ochaco.
"You don't want to know." Said Sunburst.
Outside Starlight took her group to the point where the pony in charge of weather would be.
They watched a green-yellow Pegasus mare with a bright yellow and orange mane with a 20 sided die for a cutie was destroying cloud in a rather interesting way in the sky.
"Hey! H.P! I want you to meet some ponies!" yelled Starlight.
"Sorry! I cannot interact for I am destroying my enemies!" yelled the Pegasus apparently named H.P.
The three human turned ponies stared at the Pegasus.
"So…" said Wtarlight.
"I am ahead of schedule!" said H.P. "But I still have more foes to vanquish! FOR EQUESTRIA AND THE PRINCESS!"
"Is she okay?" asked Momo.
"She's just trying to make her job more interesting." Sighed Starlight, "I figured that might happen…"
"I thought we were supposed to meet the ponies of the town. Said Shoto.
"That's why our group is going to Sweet Apple Acres!" said Starlight.
Little did they know what was going to happen on that farm.
Meanwhile Group 2 headed to where Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich were practicing.
"Just a word of warning, I've met them a few time before, they can be pretty intense." Said Sunburst.
They approached the pair of ponies, one was a very pink mare and the other was a yellow stallion with a brown mane and tail. Both of their manes and tail were both equally poofy. They were clearly Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich.
"Sunburst!" cheered Pinkie.
She immediately hugged him. Then saw the three former humans.
"New ponies!" yelled Pinkie.
She shook all three of theory hooves very quickly.
"So here to see our practice." Said Pinkie.
"We are." Said Tenya.
"Have you been practicing?" asked Sunburst.
"We are consummate professionals." Said Cheese Sandwich.
"What's that thing back there." Said Ochaco noticed a strange thing nearby.
A thing that suddenly exploded in a weird explosion that had a mix of various colored smokes, food and confetti.
"We are consummate professionals in the field of Comedy Music." added Pinkie.
"So let's get ready to rocky road you!" yelled Cheese Sandwich.
"Let's do this!" yelled Pinkie.
And so the four viewed the musical practice.
Elsewhere Group 1 made it to Sweet Apple Acres.
Along the way Starlight explained the apple family being a huge family that specialized in apple production (but they did grow other foods depending on the location).
"Do all of them grow apples?" asked Momo.
"Applejack has another job." Said Starlight, "There's a few who also don't work in the apple department."
They got to the farm and saw a large celebration going on of ponies of all ages most of them earth, though they did see a pinkish unicorn with a purple mane.
"Remember be on your best behavior." Said Starlight.
"Oh what? "Bad foal jail?"" asked Katsuki.
"No I have something worse in mind." Said Starlight.
Katsuki just glared at Starlight, he knew that she could pull off any sort of punishment she had in mind.
They entered the farm.
"Hey! Summer Celebration food inspection!" called out Starlight.
The crowd of ponies immediately converged on the group with a rather fast talking pony giving introductions to everypony.
"You have to stay for lunch!" said one of them.
"Please stay for lunch." Said a small yellow filly giving the four big puppy dog eyes.
That filly was indeed aforementioned Apple Bloom. The four stared at her, each of them feeling guilt for disappointing her, even Katsuki… but it was clear he was angry about the guilt.
"I told you…" said Starlight in a low voice, "Disappointing her is like kicking a puppy."
And so they were welcomed to the Apple Family Reunion.
Back with Group 2, Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich had finished their practice.
Ochaco and Izuku both enjoyed the music, while Tenya was unsure why a pair of Comedy Music's were chosen for some sort royal event.
He didn't know Princess Celestia at all and didn't know that she enjoyed livening things up.
But still they knew that they had to test out to see if that spell was really there.
"Hey there's something we wanted to ask you." Said Ochaco.
"Really what?" asked Pinkie.
"It's about…" said Tenya, however that was when he voice suddenly failed him, his mouth was moving but no sound came out.
"What was that?" asked Pinkie.
"It's nothing." Said Tenya.
"Well see you are the Summer Sun celebration." Said Cheese Sandwich.
"Now if you excuse us we have a grand finale machine to fix." Said Pinkie.
They began to work on the strange thing that blew up.
The four headed back to the library.
"It was very concerning." Said Tenya once the musical comedy pair was out of hearing range, "I tried to speak but it was like my voice box refused to work."
"I know the feeling." Said Sunburst, "I've met all five that were supposed to be the elements of Harmony. And trying to tell them each time…"
"Maybe all of us should have tried to say something." Said Izuku.
"Maybe you should… I'm surprised you just left it at that." Said Sunburst.
Ochaco and Izuku both blushed.
Meanwhile Group 1, Momo and Shoto were talking with the lone unicorn and a large red Stallion.
Turned out the two were dating.
"This is my first Apple Family reunion too." Said the unicorn was named Sugar Belle, "so I understand if you're overwhelmed."
"Eeyup." Said the stallion who was Big Macintosh, one of Apples that lived in Ponyville.
"So you two are working on the mysterious project that Starlight's group been working on?" asked Sugar Belle.
"Wait you know about that?" asked Momo surprised.
"Everypony in town knows about it." Said Sugar Belle, "We don't know wat they're doing only that Princess Celestia backs it up."
"Eeyup." Said Big Macintosh.
"Really the only thing we know about it is that weird curse that effects Applejack." Said Sugar Belle, "That she can't see Spike or be told about him. "
"Eeyup." Said Big Macintosh.
"Wait you know Spike?" asked Shoto.
"We do." Said Sugar Belle, "In fact Big Macintosh goes to the Library for Guy's Night if we deicide it's not a date night."
"Eeyup." Said Big Macintosh.
Shoto and Momo looked at each other, unsure if they were telling the truth.
Meanwhile Katsuki and Starlight had found Applejack. And orange Earth Pony with a short blonde mane wearing an old Stenson. However the most concerning thing about her was that she had a few scars.
"There she is." Said Starlight, "Be on your best behavior!"
He glared at the unicorn mare then walked over to Applejack.
"Hey!" he yelled.
"What is it?" asked Applejack.
Katsuki was going to say "There's a pony that said you're supposed use this magic thing against something evil".
However much like his class mate, his mouth moved but no words came out.
"Oh cute!" said Applejack in a patronizing voice, "You have a crush on me!"
"What!" yelled Katsuki.
"You were speechless!" mocked Applejack, "How adorable!"
"I don't even know who you!" yelled Katsuki.
"I'm Applejack! And I heard you name was Katsuki Bakugo." Said Applejack, "Interesting name."
Katsuki just glared at the mare.
"So… where do you want to go on a date." Said Applejack with a smirk.
"I'm not interested in a date!" yelled Katsuki.
"Could have fooled me! Or what are you into Stallons?" asked Applejack.
That was when Katsuki blew up both literally and figurately as he punched Applejack in the face. With an exploding punch.
Everypony stared at the two.
"You have go to be kidding me!" yelled Starlight.
"That's an interesting trick you got there!" said Applejack.
Katsuki glared at the mare in front of him.
"But too bad for you I'm used to those kinds of tricks!" said Applejack.
She got up and appeared behind him and kicked him right in the frank.
Katsuki got up.
"If it's a fight you want! I'll give it you!" yelled Katsuki.
The whole Apple family saw this.
"Whoo! Kick his flank Applejack!" yelled one of them.
"Show him what the Apple family could do!" yelled another.
Applejack just smirked at the exploding pony.
Meanwhile back at the library, Twilight and Spike had finished the decorations for the party.
"All right! Everything's perfect!" said Twilight.
Group 2 entered the library.
"So how did things go?" asked Spike.
"It was very disconcerting when I tried to speak to Pinkie Pie." Said Tenya.
Twilight nodded.
"What about the rest?" asked Spike.
"Pinkie Pie was nice." Said Ochaco, "But she had so much energy. "
"You should see her prime timeline self. She's even more hyperactive than she is here." Said Spike.
"Really?" asked Izuku.
"He's right." Said Twilight, "Plus she doesn't have the abilities she had in the original timeline."
"What do you mean?" asked Izuku.
"You don't want to know." Said Spike.
"I still don't know how she appeared in that bucket of sponges." Said Twilight in a haunted voice.
"What about the decorations?" asked Twilight.
"One of the pones mistook us for something called a "Weeb"" said Tenya.
"Seriously?" asked Spike knowing what it meant.
"Anyways." Said Twilight, "I found two books that at least one of you should read. Ones about the Elements of Harmony and the other is about the Everfree Forest."
"The Everfree Forest?" asked Ochaco.
"That's' where the Elements of Harmony are located." Said Twilight.
"It's a very dangerous location, it's filled with monsters and other dangerous things." Said Spike.
"If you know what you're getting into it's not that dangerous… but it's still very dangerous." Said Sunburst.
"It is better to prepare." Agreed Tenya who walked over and began to read the book with the title "The Everfree Forest: Flora, Fauna and everything in between".
"What could be in between?" asked Ochaco.
"Timber Wolves." Said Spike, "They're giant wolves made out of wood."
"Oh…" said Ochaco who wasn't expecting that answer.
Back at Sweet Apple Acres the fight was under way.
Bakugo tried another explosive punch however Applejack managed to dodge it and unleash a punch of her very own. Knock him onto the ground.
"Die!" yelled Katsuki as he up and readied for an attack.
However Applejack managed to give him a good buck to the face.
Katsuki landed hard and even had a bloody nose.
However he got up, but when he did he front leg was suddenly lassoed. She pulled him towards her and proceed to hogtie the hero in training.
Starlight, Shoto and Momo all watched in shock and horror.
"We have to go." Said Shoto.
Starlight grabbed a mug of cider which she quickly gulped down.
"Don't leave just yet." Said very old green mare with a pie for a cutie, "Let me get a young'un to give you an extra-large barrel of cider."
"Thank you Granny Smith!" said Starlight.
Applejack stood proudly having completely tied up Katsuki.
Who was struggling and yelling.
However that was when Big Macintosh started dragging Applejack by the ear.
"Hey! Stop it Big Macintosh! Let go!" yelled Applejack.
"Nope!" said Big Macintosh.
"Sorry about this." Apologized Momo as she and Shoto began to drag away Shoto.
Starlight got a very large barrel of cider and they all left the Family Reunion.
Meanwhile at the library, Ochaco was reading a book called "Soul of a Dragon" which as it turned out was by Everlasting Imagination, while Tenya still read the book about the Everfree Forest and Spike and Izuku talked about super heroes.
"The only one in this world is Wrangler who live in Manehattan, and even then all she has are her Earth Pony abilities." Said Spike, "But she is extremely terrifying with a rope…"
That was when the door to the Library opened and in walked Group 1.
"Hey you're back!" said Twilight who was cleaning the bathroom, "I wasn't expecting you for another few hours."
"Well… you know!" said Starlight teleporting the barrel of Cider into the library.
She then grabbed her mug and filled it.
Then Twilight saw the bruised and battered Katsuki, and the embarrassed look on Momo's face.
"Kacchan… what did you do?" asked Izuku.
Katsuki just glared at Izuku.
"What did you do…" Twilight asked.
"I got into a fight with that pony you wanted me to talk to!" yelled Katsuki.
"You what!" yelled Twilight with an eye twitching.
Sunburst who was doing some cleaning in the kitchen ran in.
"Is everything all right!" said Sunburst.
Then he saw the state Twilight was in.
"Oh no…" said Sunburst.
"This is fine!" said Twilight with a demented smile, "Everything's fine…"
"IT'S A LEVEL FIVE!" screamed Spike.
Starlight teleported everyone but Twilight out of the library… she also teleported the barrel of cider.
Then suddenly there was an explosion from the library.
"Wait! You saved that!" yelled Tenya to Starlight, "What about the books!"
"Two things! You haven't gotten a chance to try to cider so don't judge me!" yelled Starlight, "And the books are magical protected from a Level 5! So don't judge me on that either!"
"You really screwed up." Said Shoto.
"Shut up Icy Hot." Growled out Katsuki.
And with that they got some proof that the story might be true… but they also destroyed Twilight's faith that they could bear the Elements of Harmony.
Overall the day before the summer Sun Celebration was not going well…
Next Time: As the time when Nightmare Moon is set to appear draws ever closer, Twilight gets hope that it will work from a reliable source and a very unexpected source. Meanwhile Spike and Katsuki get into a fight... Also the party and the Summer Sun Celebration! What will happen? Will Nightmare Moon appear? Find out next time!
A/N: For those that don't know Everlasting Imagination is one of the mane characters in my fic An Extra Three, a retelling of Canon with her, Derpy and Carrot Top as a part of the mane cast. In this story I'm playing up her more nerdier qualities and downplaying her writing skills. Also I gave her different friends since it would hit the story better... For those who read the story... yep! She's here so yeah...