My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Look Before You Sleep

A/N: Hello, I'm back! So, there's two reasons why I didn't want Timon and Pumbaa messing with my mom's garden: one, is that they tend to make a big mess and I really didn't want to explain to my mom how her garden got ruined. Also, my brother-in-law came over during the weekend and installed a beehive in the backyard, and I didn't want to run the risk of the honeybees getting eaten. I have seen all three Lion King movies and I saw a number of episodes from the Timon and Pumbaa show, so I know what kind of mischief they can get into. Any-who, 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 THREE: STORMY BREAKDOWN

After getting out a second bed for Rarity and Applejack to share, Twilight Sparkle was sleeping in her bed, and the two ponies were trying to do the same, but the tension from earlier was still rearing its' ugly head.

"Keep your muddy hooves on your side of the bed," Rarity hissed quietly at the orange pony, whose back was to her.

"My hooves ain't muddy," Applejack hissed back.

"They were," Rarity retorted, doing her best not to wake their sleeping friend up. "There might still be a little on them."

Applejack turned to face the grey unicorn, holding up one of her hooves. "There ain't. See?"

"Eww!" Rarity cringed away, taking the whole blanket with her.

Applejack glowered. "Now who's bein' inconsiderate?" she grumbled, yanking the blanket back so hard that the grey unicorn fell to the floor, and tried to go to sleep.

Rarity got up and glared. "I have to make the bed again so the blanket will be right. Get up," she ordered, shoving the orange pony out of the bed and, ignoring her protests, magically made the bed. "Ah ah ah! You'll ruin it," she scolded her friend when she tried to get back into the bed. "You have to do it like this. Mm, uh, ooh, u-u-u-uh, uh, ah." She then got back into the bed without messing up the blanket.

"Yeah, that's not gonna happen," Applejack said and leapt into the air. "Geronimo!" She landed on the bed, bouncing the grey unicorn right out, and she settled herself down under the blanket with a satisfied smile.

"Hey!" Rarity protested, getting back up while the orange pony ignored her. "You did that on purpose."

Applejack smirked. "Um, yeah?"

"Get up so I can fix it again," Rarity ordered.

"Can't hear ya, I'm asleep," Applejack said mockingly and began doing fake snoring.

Fed up, Rarity clamped the edge of the blanket between her teeth and yanked it off, nearly knocking the orange pony onto the floor. "M-mmm!"

Managing to stay on the bed, Applejack glared at her. "I ain't budgin'."

"You will if you want any blankets," Rarity snapped, her voice muffled by the blanket.

Standing up on the bed, Applejack grabbed the other end of the blanket, hopped off on the other side, and they began a tug-a-war with the blanket. "Give it back!"

"I will not!"

"Yes, you will!"

"Won't!"

"Will!"

"Won't!"

"Will!"

"Won't!"

"Will!

"Enough!" Twilight Sparkle shouted, sitting up in her bed and her friends froze as she glared at them having been trying to ignore their arguing, but she couldn't anymore, and she showed them the book. "It says right here that the number one thing you're supposed to do at a slumber party is have fun, and thanks to you two I can't check that off!" she raged, shutting it and tossing it aside as she crossed her forelegs.

Applejack dropped her end of the blanket, feeling bad. "I've been tryin' my darndest to get along," she insisted.

Rarity also dropped the blanket. "No, it is I who have been trying my best," she insisted.

"No, it was me," Applejack snapped as they faced each other.

"No, it was I."

"Me!

"I!"

Twilight Sparkle looked between them before shooting off a few sparks from her horn to stop their arguing… again. "I hope you're happy, both of you," she snapped. "You've ruined my very first slumber party. The makeover, the s'mores, Truth or Dare, the pillow fight I mean, is there anything else that could possibly go wrong?"

Just then there was a loud clap of thunder and lightning struck a nearby tree just outside the window, and Twilight Sparkle cringed under her blankets. "Sorry I asked."

Getting out of her bed, the three ponies went to the window, where they could see that there was a branch, which had been hit by the lightning, and it was on the verge of crashing through the roof of a nearby house. They all gasped when they saw the branch.

"Ya see?" Applejack snapped, shooting a look at Rarity. "That's why we needed to take down all those loose branches in town, not spiffy 'em up."

Rarity flushed a little. "But I-"

Retrieving her rope, Applejack ran to the window and shoved it open. "Outta my way, missy! Time's a-wastin'." And she lassoed the branch, pulling it away from the house.

Rarity saw this and she panicked. "Wait! Stop! Don't!"

"No waitin'!" Applejack shouted around her rope. "No stoppin'! Doin'! And that, my friends, is what we call gettin' 'er done." And she yanked hard on the rope – and the next thing she knew, the branch went straight through the open window, nearly running over Rarity and Twilight Sparkle, and the orange pony found herself dangling above the main floor. "Oops."

Rarity unburied herself from the pile of books that'd been knocked off the shelves and glared at Applejack as she rejoined them. "I tried to tell you it would come crashing down in here."

"Well, ya shoulda tried harder," Applejack snapped and sighed. "I'm mighty sorry, Twilight," she apologized to the purple unicorn when she dug herself out from under the branch that was on top of her bed.

Twilight Sparkle looked around at the mess. "It's… Well, it's not okay," she complained, retrieving her book. "There's a giant tree branch in the middle of my bedroom, and the book doesn't say anything about having a giant tree branch at your slumber party. Or at least I haven't found that entry yet. Ooh… ah!"

Applejack made her way over to Rarity, who was putting books back on the shelves. "What in tarnation are y'all doin' over there?" she asked.

"Cleaning up this mess somepony made," Rarity, who had a book on her head, snapped. "Who was that again? Oh, right, that's you."

Rolling her eyes, Applejack went back to the purple unicorn, who was frnatically looking through the book. "We gotta do somethin'!"

"Baking… BFFs… Brothers…" Twilight Sparkle muttered, eyes fixed on the book. "There's nothing in here about branches."

'No point in asking her for help when she's like this,' Applejack thought and she tried to move the branch herself, but it was too big and heavy. Grunting in frustration, she called out to the grey unicorn. "Rarity, for pony's sake, stop sweatin' the small stuff and help me get rid of this thing!" she pleaded. "I said hussle over here and help me! Look, I'm sorry, all right?"

Rarity, who'd bent down to retrieve another book, looked up. "What was that?"

"I said I'm sorry!" Applejack apologized desperately. "I shoulda listened to you when you noticed where this here branch would end up. Yer annoyin' attention to detail would'a saved us from this whole mess. But right now, ya need to stop bein' so dang fussy pickin' up all the little things and help me move the one big thing in here that actually matters! Please!"

Removing the book from her head, Rarity started toward the branch and then hesitated. "Uh. Uh, but I'll get all icky."

"Consarnit! What the… eh… you…" Applejack began, but then she took a deep breath, calming herself down. "I mean, yes, ickiness is often a side effect of hard work," she agreed. "But y'all need to get over it, on account I just can't fix this mess I made myself. I need your help."

Rarity stared at the branch and then nodded. "Oh. Let's do this."

"Well, they do have a section about backyard slumber parties," Twilight Sparkle remarked, still engross in the book. "Is that what we're doing right now? Does this count as camping?"

Rarity shut her eyes and concentrated, her horn glowing brightly and with a flash of light, transformed the majority of the branch into bush sculptures, and raised her eyebrows when the orange pony started to buck the remaining piece out of the window. Applejack paused for a moment, and then she used her fore hooves to push out the remaining piece and shut the window.

Rarity smiled in approval and then grimaced when she saw that she was covered with wet leaves and twigs. "U-ugh. Oh, I look awful."

Applejack thought for a moment and then she applied cucumbers to her friend's eyes after applying mud to make a mud mask. "Better?"

Smiling, Rarity felt around and then she gave her friend a hug. "Hmph, thanks."

Twilight Sparkle looked up from the book and her expression brightened when she saw the sculptures scattered around her room. "Oh, pretty!" she exclaimed. "Where did these come from? They're not in the book either." And her friends giggled.

A/N: And that's a wrap for today! R&R everyone!