I walked over to the barn and stopped in front of Big Macintosh. "I'm guessing you have questions?"
"eeyup." he simply stated as I walked past him, put down the toolbox, then walked back out to him.
"Alright..." I leaned against the barn.
"none of your kind would help us without reason... answer honestly and I might not break you in two..." he stated casually.
"My parents forced me into a situation. I had to own 10 ponies by the time my brother came tomorrow. No doubt the girls already told you about my family?" he gave a slow nod. "they were going to take the farm away from me. They stopped my flow of money from my farm and are giving me a monthly allowance. At the moment I own 11 ponies with the other 3 coming in tomorrow. Any other questions?"
"I must hear it from your own mouth... do you approve?" I narrowed my eyes as my anger made itself known.
"do I approve of what? My family? What they've done? The empire they have built?! What they have done to your damn races?! No! I fucking do not approve of what they have done and I am tired of having to repeat my damn answers." I snarled at the end as I looked at the taller anthro who stood at 6 foot 1 inch. He narrowed his eyes at me as I turned around. " I hate having to repeat myself on a matter like this... I hope you can forgive my outburst." I started to walk away until I was stopped by his voice.
"need any help with anything?" I shook my head.
"not today at the moment. I'm probably going to have to get more stuff to be able to harvest and sell... considering they could just stop the monthly allowance and screw us over. I know how much I make every few weeks and if they cut me off in an attempt to get rid of all of you and get me to do what they want me to do... they would succeed." he looked off towards the herd of cows checking out the repaired fence posts. "any suggests from one farmer to another?" I then asked with a small chuckle as he looked towards me and nodded.
"how much of the land do ya own?" he then asked.
"one mile... each direction. Grandfather put the farm in the exact middle of the land he owned." I stated.
"then I guess that's a lot of areas to work with." I nodded at the true statement. "my family knows how ta take care of apple trees. Get a lot of them and we should be alright. At least when they start bearing their apples." I gave another nod.
"ill put half of the money I have left after tomorrow for future investments." he nodded. "I'm worried about tomorrow though... know anything about a Soarin, Fleetfoot, and Spitfire?" his eyes widened as he paled. "and I'm guessing that its a yes. Should I be worried?"
"they were apart of the Wonderbolts before all of this kick started After that happened and the princesses were incapacitated they took charge over the rebellion..." I sighed. "problem?"
"yeah... reward for finding out what they know about the rebellion.. if my brother knows about this he might force me to allow him a go at them... I worry about the two mares..." he gave me a saddened look. "but I didn't choose my family..." standing up straight I walked into the barn with Big Macintosh following. " I just have to hope and pray that the rebellion wins... even if it means the extinction of my race..." I said this in a mutter as Big Macintosh looked at me confused. " I said that maybe I should look and see how much I'm going to earn a month at the moment." he nodded as we walked towards and into the house. I walked upstairs to get my old laptop while he walked into the living room.
Walking in I found that my door was slightly ajar but thought nothing of it as I walked in, grabbed my laptop, and walked out and into the living room. Sitting down in the corner while the ponies all talked with one another I turned on the laptop.
As soon as I logged in I immediately went to my savings and my eyes went wide seeing how much was deposited yesterday. Quickly doing the math in my head I found that I would earn 4400 every month... I now had at least 2000 dollars in my credit card... immediately seeing that I put the website on half size on the right side of the screen and then pulling up a notepad and creating a new tab. I typed away on the website search engine before I began typing on the notepad.
Farming
Apple Tree's
Large Garden
Duck's
Turkey's
Herbs
Spices
Pig's
Anthro Traits
Teaching
Baking
Farm work
I leaned back in the chair as I put estimates to how much it would possibly cost to get each one going.
Farming
Apple Tree's 1000$
Large Garden 500$
Duck's 200$
Herbs 300$
Spices 300$
Pig's 400$
Anthro Traits
Teaching 1500$
Baking !200$
Farm work
I began to attempt to figure out what would work out the most in the long run... Apple trees were a definite due to me having Applejack, Applebloom, and Big Macintosh on the farm... Baking would be another good one if all the sweets I see in the kitchen are anything to say and talk about.
It would mean having to add a new addition so Pinkie would have a good place to bake and store her goods... I would also have to potentially modify the truck since all I really use it for is heavy loads. And now that I no longer earn any money from my own work...
and the money on my credit card doesn't include what I already have put away for my savings. I use my savings every winter by putting half of what I earned every month into it. And considering that its close to winter means I would have to transfer money over to my card soon. I clicked on my savings and quickly found out how much money I had put away, plus grandfathers secret savings, as my savings were the only things my family had no control over me for:
1,987,000
this surprised me... last time I saw it I wasn't close to having a second million... I just got above 1 million two years ago...
so... considering these new numbers I brought up the map of the farm. I then made of copy of it as I also began to add things to where I think I should. Also creating another building entirely with rooms. I was brought out of my planning by Pinkie Pie setting a cup of coffee down next to me. I jumped at the action as I looked up to see her smiling at me. "Hiya! Whatcha doing?!" she suddenly appeared on the other side.
"just doing some planning Pinkie. Thank you for the coffee." she gave a quick nod before she zoomed away into the kitchen. I took a sip as I looked around and realized that it was dark out. The only ones who seemed to still be awake looked to be just Pinkie Pie and me.
"you've been sitting there for hours! Applejack tried to get your attention but you were to busy doing what you were doing!" Pinkie Pie said from the kitchen as she cleaned up the kitchen. "eventually she just gave up."
"ah." I took another sip before setting it down and looking at my laptop screen... all the work that was in front of me was only halfway done.
"Goodnight!"
"oh uh... goodnight Pinkie!" the light in the kitchen turned off as she rushed up the stairs with a happy smile on her face. I simply chuckled as I went back to work on the laptop. I continued to work as I leaned back and looked at the first full blueprint of the farmland... I looked over it before deciding to put it away for later.
I brought up another copy and began making changes to that one as well... that is when I blinked I found myself jolting awake to the large horn. I quickly looked around the room to find that I fell asleep I looked outside and looked in shock as I could see a familiar truck in the distance. I quickly rushed to my feet and over to the door as I saw Big Macintosh walking down with a confused look on his face. "their here..." he nodded as he rushed up the stairs for reasons I have no idea about. "remind them to not act up no matter what they see!" I took a few deep breaths to assure myself... before I opened the door and gasped...
the truck was halfway to the farm...
just slowing down...
and the driver...
my brother...