My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: The Last Roundup
A/N: As promised, here is the second update. So, with the first of the New Year falling on a Tuesday next week, I will be busy with work at the movie theater that day, and I won't have time to update. Which means, I will do a back-to-back update on Wednesday and Thursday like before. Hopefully, things will calm down by then so that I can go back to my normal update twice a week routine. Now, on with the story!
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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 FOUR: PINKIE PIE TALKS A LOT!
After changing out of the juice-stained uniform, Applejack went out to the cherry tree orchard, where she went to work on bucking cherries into the baskets when Pinkie Pie popped up, startling the orange pony.
"Hey, Applejack. Need some help?" the pink pony asked cheerfully.
"You promise not to ask me any questions?" Applejack asked suspiciously.
Pinkie Pie nodded eagerly. "I promise." And while Applejack bucked the cherries out of the trees, she shook the tree so that the cherries rained down into the baskets. This went on for several minutes, and then she broke the silence.
"Have you ever had a cherrychanga?" the pink pony asked and when her friend looked at her, she blanched. "Ooh! Sorry, that was a question."
"That kind of question is fine, Pinkie," Applejack assured her friend and turned to resume bucking. "No, I-I never had a cherrychanga."
"Well, no wonder, because I made it up myself!" Pinkie Pie explained, popping up next to her friend, who backed away to get some space, but she followed. "A cherrychanga is mashed up cherries in a tortilla that's deep fried. Cherrychanga. Great name, huh? Oh, but maybe I should call it a chimicherry. Ooh, that's good too. Which do you think sounds better? Cherrychanga or chimicherry? Or what if I combine them? Chimicherrychanga!" She noticed that her friend had picked up a basket full of cherries and was walking away, so she bounced after her, still talking. "What sounds the funniest? I like funny words! One of my favorite funny words is 'kumquat'! I didn't make that one up. I would work in a kumquat orchard just so I could say 'kumquat' all day! Kumquat, kumquat, kumquat! And 'pickle barrel'!" She bounced ahead and blocked her friend's way. "Isn't that just the funnest thing to say? Pickle barrel, pickle barrel, pickle barrel! Say it with me! Pickle barrel, kumquat, pickle barrel, kumquat, pickle barrel, kumquat, chimicherrychanga!"
Applejack backed away, realizing that the pink pony was in full talking mode and wasn't going to stop anytime soon. "No! Make it stop, make it stop!" she pleaded, running into a large rock with a terrified expression on her face.
Rainbow Dash, who had earplugs in her ears, popped up behind Pinkie Pie, and she covered her friend's mouth with one hoof so that her voice was muffled. "The only way to make it stop is for you to spill the beans!" she announced.
"Never!" Applejack declared., and the blue pegasus shook her head, removing her hoof.
"Speaking of beans," said the pink pony, "did you ever realize how many words rhyme with 'beans'? Lean, mean, spleen, unclean, bean…"
"Alright, alright!" Applejack wailed, falling to the ground and covering her head with her forelegs while their friends came out from behind the trees and surrounded her. "I'll tell everypony what's goin' on! Just please stop talkin'!" she pleaded and Pinkie Pie did stop talking. "But… can it wait 'til tomorrow at breakfast?" she requested. "I'm plum tuckered out."
Rainbow Dash eyed the orange pony skeptically, and glanced at the others, who weren't looking convinced either. "Tomorrow, huh? I don't know…"
"Do you Pinkie promise?" Pinkie Pie questioned, making the gestures of a Pinkie promise.
Applejack sighed and did the same gestures. "I will tell you the whole truth at breakfast," she promised. "Pinkie promise."
The next morning, the six ponies were heading to their friend's room as the rooster crowed with the rising sun.
"I'm glad we're finally gonna get some answers from Applejack," Twilight Sparkle remarked.
"Yeah, and once we get those answers, then we can convince Applejack to come back to Ponyville with us," Sunrise Blossom agreed.
Rainbow Dash wasn't entirely convinced. "Yeah, maybe."
"Don't worry, Rainbow," Pinkie Pie said confidently. "She's gotta 'fess up after making a Pinkie promise." She went to open the door after Twilight Sparkle knocked on it. "Good morning, Applejack," she began. "You ready for br-" She gasped and so did her friends when they saw that the bed hadn't been slept in, and there was now sign of the orange pony.
Making the sound of a kettle boiling, the pink pony's face went power ranger red and she screamed, making her friends cover their ears. "Nopony breaks a Pinkie promise!" She then ran for the front door and her friends chased after her.
Over at the train station, Applejack was impatiently waiting for the train to arrive with her saddlebags on her back.
'Just how long is it going to take for that train to get here?' she wondered, tapping her hooves impatiently when she heard somepony scream her name.
"Applejack!" Pinkie Pie shrieked, racing toward the station, seeing red. "You Pinkie promised!"
Applejack yelped and bolted with her friends giving chase.
"Applejack, come back here!"
Running as fast as she could, Applejack spotted a stagecoach and leapt onto it. "Giddy up, fellas, I gotta get the heck out of Dodge!" she ordered and the Coach ponies neighed, and took off toward the other end of town.
"She's gonna get away!" Pinkie Pie yelped when they couldn't catch up.
"Oh no, she won't!" said Twilight Sparkle, pointing to a nearby wagon. "Look, girls!" She and Sunrise Blossom got Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash into the harnesses on the front before climbing in with the pink pony and Rarity.
"Follow that stagecoach!" Pinkie Pie ordered and soon they were catching up with the coach. "Oh, we have you now!"
However, a grey rabbit hopped into the middle of the road and Fluttershy came to a screeching halt to avoid hitting it. The rabbit sniffed the wagon wheel and then it hopped away. She smiled sheepishly at her friends, and then they took off after the coach.
A/N: Well, the chase is on, and you'll have to wait until Wednesday and Thursday of next week to see what happens next. Now, I'm going back to bed since I'm exhausted from working late last night at the movie theater. We go by Mountain Standard Time around here, so it was after midnight when I finally got home. _ R&R everyone!