A/N: Hey everyone. This chapter is much shorter than I had intended and I have mixed feelings about it except for the ending, but I have a good feeling about the next chapter and hope you are excited as well. Thank you to raven 2012 for the idea in the next chapter. I also want to thank both Steve03 and billykilly for the ideas as well, because... why not mix both ideas together? :P
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P.S. Just a reminder, I will be combined both Parts 1 and 2 together for the next chapter, and then after that chapter is done I will be working on a two part chapter that should have something rather 'surprising' at the end of the chapter. What is it you might be asking? Just wait to find out! ;) Alright, enjoy the chapter.
"Ohmigoshohmigosh! This is going to be so much fun!"
Indeed I can tell that this was going to be some BIG fun coming along my way, especially when I am accompanied by my friend Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich. In case you forgot for a moment there, Cheese was also the same occupant as a party pony just like Pinkie. I actually helped out Pinkie into getting her to offer to have both him and her go out together. Pretty much like a date, but there's a twist in the tail there!
We were on a train, moving away south-westbound from Ponyville. Now I can sense you're asking yourself this: where are you going to this time? Well, after having helped out Pinkie there, they invited me to go with them to the Pie Rock farm so Pinkie can both introduce myself and Cheese Sandwich to her family. Besides Pinkie, the only member of her family that I seem to know was her sister Maud, the one individual that was obsessed with rocks and even boulders.
Yes, it's true. I am pretty excited to meet Pinkie's family even if I only knew about Maud the entire time but not everypony else in the family tree of hers.
While I was away in Manehattan for the first time, Pinkie was beginning to explain what had happened while I was away and with Twilight in the mirror world. She dug down into detail and even going as far as explaining how well the first date was between both her and Cheese. Both of them gone out to dinner, in a party kind of style. No first kisses between them are shared to my own disappointment, as they were still taking it slow at that rate even after the first date was finished. I was also happy to meet Cheese again, having only met him briefly and even seeing him in the one episode when Pinkie and him were rivals, only to make up in the end which made me happy.
Other than hearing about how well their date went, some other stuff happened after the Celestia fiasco that went on. Hmmm, well Twilight thought that Discord was causing trouble once again and that he brainwashed her friends but only to find out he just being a good friend. I felt bad for Discord when Twilight told me about it, because at the time I was just talking with Lyra and Bon Bon at the time.
I also could recall that Twilight and Fluttershy had been called out by the map to settle a friendship problem between two families... what were their last names again? Oh wait. Yes, I believe they were the Hooffields and McColts. Yeah, fighting for no reason until the animals there told Fluttershy about it. Thank goodness both families came to a truce then and there.
Besides those two, there was a concert that I was attending that featured a famous earth pony named Coloratura, whom Applejack told me was her childhood friend. There was a bit of conflict however, as her manager Svengallop acted like a complete dick to everypony and even going as far as to making demands for Pinkie or he'd pull Coloratura out of the charity concert. Thank goodness he got caught in the act and booted out of there, I didn't want to force myself to escort him personally out. The night went on pretty well after that serious matter and Applejack introduced me to her at the end of her show, which both and me made pretty good acquaintances if either me or her want to sing together on stage at some point of time.
Those three events were the only things that I knew happened recently. I was there for the concert, but the Discord incident and the map quest... was not there and busy communicating with others to my own dismay as I wish I could have been there. Speaking of Discord... shoot! I forgot that there was the Gala. Oh well, there's always next year for me to attend it. Something about a Smooze there and an earth pony named Tree Hugger giving him problems. I was going to personally scold Discord, but was assured in the end that the problem was resolved pretty quickly before anything else started.
The train kept rolling along while my eyes turn to look out the window at those valleys full of rocks whether giving off a bit of a brown color or dull grayish color, the dirt in the ground remains the same brown that was always known about it. But I can see the station in the distance from shifting my head to the side to see that station with a building that looks somewhat familiar to the homes in that one show I watched as a kid.
Cheese was holding onto Pinkie's right front hoof with his left front hoof. They are seated across from me, but are facing me by the way their seats were. From a different perspective I would be sitting on the right, whereas my two friends sit on the left.
"It's quite an honor for you to bring us along to see your family for the first time." I said to her, finally engaging in a conversation.
"Oh it's nothing!" Pinkie tells me with a bright smile on her face. "Every one of my friends has also been over to the farm as well, but have never been inside of it when they were visiting. And it was only once they've been there!"
"Maud Pie, right?" I asked, remembering how that episode from Season 4 went through.
She nods with the follow of a brief giggle. "Of course! I mean, I'm planning to ask Applejack and her family to come and join us for Hearth's Warming Eve! All I would have to do is ask my family to see if they are okay with that idea of both mine and the Apple family to unite together for that special holiday!"
"And I'm sure that it'll be the best holiday that both you and Applejack will spend together. After all, it is only 'possible' that you and her are cousins."
"Precisely!" Pinkie says to me, keeping that smile and putting a serious look on her face at the same time. "Only thing is, yes it is only possible but neither her nor me know after having gone down a river to find out. Cousins or not, Applejack is one of my best friends in the wide world of Equestria. And don't you worry, you are on the list of my best friends!"
"And everypony is your best friend too, am I right?!" I said, putting an excited tone in my voice with a smile on my face at the same time.
"Well, duh! I wouldn't be one of Equestria's party ponies if I didn't show that spirit of laughter and excitement!" Pinkie says to me, sounding very happy like she usually would be, especially after I had sounded excited. "I'm not the only one though, the other is sitting right next to me holding onto my hoof."
Cheese chuckles lightly listening in on the conversation before taking his turn there to speak to the both of us. "Well, of course Pinkie. And with the both of us, we'll make the party twice as fun for everypony whether it's a random party, birthday party like we did for Rainbow Dash or any kind of party."
I look at Cheese from my own seat, his green colored eyes turning to look at my brown eyes. "If it is my birthday again, you and her definitely got to make it big, even if it does turn out to be the smallest and most simple birthday party!" I told him, smiling brightly as being in Pinkie's presence always made me feel this happy since she knows how to cheer me up with both the brightest and happiest smile I have ever seen from any mare in Equestria.
"And we won't forget that!" Cheese responded to me, sharing the same friendly smile as I was in return. After having said that, he begins to look a bit unsettled. "I'm just hoping myself that I can make a good impression on the Pie family."
"You will, Cheese!" Pinkie says with a smile on her face before she made a funny face of realization, then continuing to speak afterwards. "We don't have to worry now about that! We're already here at the station!" She makes another 'squee' that brings joy to my face.
The train is slowing down at the train station, so I get up and off of my seat with both Pinkie and Cheese following after. Having made our way to the end of the train car, all three of us could only stand there and wait for the train itself to come to a full and complete stop before we proceed when the doors open up. Pinkie stands there next to Cheese, no longer holding his hoof; but she is bouncing up and down with excitement.
The train eventually does stop and its doors open up automatically with the conductor having stood there. The intercom goes off making the announcement that we arrived at our destination and that the next stop would be Los Pegasus according to the scheduled tracks of the track number at the Ponyville station.
The three of us got off of the train, having stepped onto the platform of woodpen planks to accompany this station and the building made of rock itself. Having stepped off and being the only ones who have got off the train, the conductor could only check the time quickly, and get back into the train car before the train doors closed and the mechanical machine continued on its way down the tracks to the next destination within Equestria.
Remind me to book a trip to Los Pegasus if I am ever to obtain any possible wings on my back which might never be something to ever come true.
"We're here!" Pinkie sounds very cheerful when she exclaimed that. "Come on you two! I know where the rock farm is! It's this way!"
Pinkie began to lead the way for us while both myself and Cheese follow right behind her. We walk along the platform making our way down the small set of stairs for my boots to tread onto the soft dirt below after having stepped off. Pinkie continues forward whilst hopping up and down non-stop, which is something I didn't mind because it's Pinkie being just herself and the proud and young mare that was one of my friends.
Besides the tracks to my right growing distant and apart, all that could be seen across the land from the environmental perspective is all just rocks and dead trees fueling the environment with oxygen and carbon dioxide as I was pretty sure that such the nature elements acted differently here than on Earth, but it was something that wasn't bothering me at all as there was no issues with climate change... a perfect world no matter which environment it was.
The rocks are scattered throughout the dirt lands, standing there alone or in twos in any random place not obscured by a pathway of soil. The dead trees do not bother by the shortened branches they have, as it could be the case that long branches would effectively be dangerous for any of the ponies venturing to send supplies or visit the Rock farm by chance.
The clouds overhead cover the sky with gray, but aren't that cloudy as I thought that it would be. When you usually see these kinds of clouds, you would think that there would be just a normal rain shower to come down eventually for the time, but here it's just empty from rain, but at least looks very light than a dark and dullish gray for that matter. The last thing I would already want on my list is to get myself wet from the rain. The way I am seeing the place though... all of it is practically a wasteland of some sort.
I continue onward through the rocky wastes, past dead trees and moderate sized stones lying there and dug into the ground of soil and dirt as Cheese Sandwich trotted faster for a few moments to join up next to Pinkie, and I remain behind just to keep an eye on the both of them in case anything happened, like a bad situation like an argument which I don't think could be the case as those two have got along well.
I trust Cheese Sandwich... I might not have been there when Pinkie was special someponies with that other stallion she mentioned to me when me and her first both spent some time together to go to lunch as she does for everypony and all her friends. If I remembered correctly, she brought up that stallion and how he had yelled at her over an incident that had happened in Canterlot while they had dinner. It broke my heart to see the friendliest pony in all of Equestria start to cry and I had to comfort her.
All I can really hope now is that the rest of her family will accept Cheese Sandwich as one of those special someponies for her and that he could win their approval...
It took many turns down the trail that looks exactly like the same environment to me and Cheese Sandwich, but it seems like with the wooden building and water tower close by along with the farm-like equipment there, I could proudly say that all three of us had arrived safely at the Pie's rock farm and Pinkie's childhood home before and after she found her cutie mark.
There's a giant rock that almost looks like an egg sitting there by itself by the end of the farm, remaining motionless as nopony would touch it there in all of its glory. Everything else on the farm was rather tidy or had rocks scattered in the small fields and around the home of the Pies and away from the path of dirt leading up to the front door. Pinkie continues to bounce up and down like she was doing the whole time, with giggles accompanied.
"Isn't this exciting?!" Pinkie exclaimed happily to both myself and Cheese. "You and Brayden are about to meet the family that I grew up with for most of my childhood until the day I moved to Ponyville where I would eventually meet all of my friends!"
"I believe the only one that I seem to know about is your sister Maud." I said to her, remembering when I encountered and said hello to the mirror world counterpart when I decided to venture into the other side to see Sunset when she was still there.
Speaking of Sunset, I did get to see her yesterday and talk for a bit together. She told me that she was going on her way back to the mirror world as she was going to make a visit with a few friends and probably check up on both Adagio and Aria while she is there, visiting our counterpart friends. She of course had promised me that she'll tell me about how both of the sirens are, and if they are doing much better than they were before when they had the touch of evil with them.
Sonata remains in Ponyville, still remembering the both of her two friends but has been such a great help for the Cakes there in helping to make recipes and other baked treats thanks to Pinkie being able to teach her some things when she took her in. The other time I've been with Sonata was the adventure into Mortem, but then there is nothing else after that but the drop-bys whenever I needed a snack from Sugarcube Corner with me just saying hello to her and to check up on how she has been doing.
I finally set foot onto the earth, the property of the Pie family for the first time. I don't feel too tense about being able this, but I knew that I couldn't expect how her family, mother and sisters would react to seeing me there as a visitor and a best friend to Pinkie. The pink earth pony herself, accelerates forward ahead to get right over towards the front door of the farmhouse.
She sets her left front hoof onto the wooden door of oak, knocking onto it excitedly before standing back and just standing there and waiting for somepony in the home to respond. I tread onto Pinkie's right side while Cheese joined on her left. We could hear a bit of the sound of hooves inside of the farmhouse, probably on their way to answer the door and to see not only the energetic pink relative, but me and Cheese as their guests.
"Get ready..." Pinkie says, sounding very enthusiastic in the tone of her voice.
I can hear the doorknob begin to turn and twist there. Pinkie continues to look like she was about to burst like a balloon, unable to hold her excitement. Cheese looks only a bit nervous, as he could be worried that her family might not be able to approve of him after all if something went wrong. Myself? I was nervicited. What? I adopted that line from after Pinkie had said it before in the Equestria Girls movie.
The front door finally opens up, with the first at the door that I should've expected would be there is Maud Pie herself. As usual, her face gives off the same bored expression on her face that I knew of whenever she was in the room... practically anywhere in Equestria so it is very rare to see her smile like she did in her debut episode I've seen back on Earth.
"Maud!" Pinkie says with the joy of seeing her sister. She zips right over to her emotionless sister and gives her a hug with another 'squee' from her while Maud just stands there. I swear if Pinkie squees again, I might go into a HNNNNG attack. The sound of it always gets me every time and sounds cute at the same time.
"It's been quite a while Pinkie." Maud says in the bored tone that she spoke in like usual, even when telling poems of rocks and just explaining some scientific facts about rocks.
Pinkie lets go of the hug and turns to look at both myself and Cheese. "I know, but I decided it would be fun to bring two friends along from Ponyville to come and meet you and the other members of my family!" She zips right over to my left side, raising the both of her front hooves to place on both my back and Cheese. "These are my two friends visiting with me! On my right, this is my new friend Brayden!"
Maud still looks bored, but her eyes turn to look at me. She doesn't seem to look surprised by the height I am. "Aren't you that human that we hear about in Equestria?" She asked.
"That would be me," I said to her with the brief nod of my head and a smile abroad my face. "I take it that you must be Maud Pie, sister to my best friend Pinkie."
"You got it correct." Maud spoke again.
"And this..." Pinkie spoke up once again, interrupting me before I could say something else to Maud who stands there at the door. From inside of the farmhouse, a few other figures are coming along to join with her at the front door. One of the figures has a shortened mane, kind of like Maud, but she has a cutie mark that has two small stones with a lime on top. Hmmm, a new sister I'll be introduced to very soon. "This here is my new special somepony, Cheese Sandwich!"
"I can see the difference there," Maud spoke up again. "You and him seem to almost have the same mane and tail, except the colors are different."
More figures began to approach the door from the interior. From there, I can see an older stallion and mare coming into the picture and I thought I saw another member of the family in there besides the one with the lime on its cutie mark. In fact, she was right behind what seems to be the parent figures that I am not able to see her cutie mark, but know she has a pretty long gray mane to cover one of her eyes.
"Truth be told, I got to meet Cheese Sandwich in Ponyville one day because it was Rainbow Dash's birthday and anniversary of her move to the same town. It was quite an event I tell you, me and him started off with a goof-off, and long story short he wanted to show me how much I inspired him to also be a party-planning pony!" Pinkie explains in the shortest time when both of her other sisters came trotting out from the farmhouse.
The older stallion and mare trots forward to approach me first. The expressions on their faces were quite clearly surprised a little to see somepony like me who isn't a pony, but more solely a human being in their eyes. The stallion himself is wearing a black hat with a silver lining that does remind me a bit of a picture I have seen back on Earth, but he is the first to approach me.
"Greetings," The stallion opened his mouth and spoke to me for the first time, sounding like the figures of older parents I knew back on Earth that would be close to the elder years with a relative sound of gruffiness found in it. "Thy name is Igneous Rock Pie, and thou beside thee is thy wife Cloudy Quartz."
I nod my head with a welcoming smile on my face. "Greetings to you too Igneous." I respond back to him in return, bringing my left hand forward to offer Ignaeous a hand-hoofshake. I suppose Cloudy Quartz would want to shake my hand as well, so I brought my right hand forward towards her as well to offer her another hand-hoofshake like with her husband.
"We welcome thou to thy peace of our humble home." Cloudy Quartz said to me, which sounds like she is close to hitting the elderly stage soon. Judging by what I could see, she looks to be slightly a bit older than her husband by only a few... months maybe? Nevertheless, she and Igneous took my hands with one of their hooves to shake them.
"It is very much an honor to meet the both of you." I said to them with a calm and proud tone in my voice. "As you probably might know from your daughter Pinkie, I am her friend Brayden."
"Such news we've heard from her we are already aware of," Igneous spoke up once again. "Thou are known by our daughter for having saved Equestria a few times."
I could understand their archaic language as I remember reading a bit of Shakespeare at one point during Summer School for an English and Literature course. Which was it again that I read? No it wasn't 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', as it is more known as having been read by my own friends back on Earth. Oh yeah, it was 'Romeo and Juliet' that helped me understand the language of Shakespeare and why it sounded like it would be back in that era back on Earth.
"Yes, that is me. I bid you welcome a million times more, as I am aware about the family and the farm you run out here. It took some time to get here, but we are glad to be here. A human man myself, with the family of Pie itself." I continued after Igneous spoke to me.
"Perhaps thou can share some stories about how thou saved Equestria." Cloudy asked me when I let go of their hooves that finished shaking my hand from introduction.
I nod in understanding the comment that she told me. "That's something I can tell you at dinnertime." I told her, a smile upon my face when I was talking to them.
"We're interested in meeting Pinkie's other guest, we'll talk more inside at the table." Cloudy told me, beginning to trot over to Cheese Sandwich to meet him and find out more about him by Pinkie who's telling the story to Maud Pie and then them as soon as they joined.
I was happy to have met Pinkie Pie's parents. They seemed quite calm and welcoming when it came to visitors approaching their property and rock farm in general, so it must be something new that they don't see everyday like seeing a human in the flesh before their own eyes. I knew this was a joyful moment, but I can't really expect that when the same earth pony I saw coming out with a lime and two rocks on her cutie mark is looking me straight in the eye from there when I turn around with those lightish apple green eyes of hers.
"Do you know exactly who I am?" The mare told me, giving me some sort of a rude tone in her voice that sounds almost like she was trying to scare me in that threatening kind of way.
"No, not at all." I told her, keeping my smile there in case she was joking around but judging by the emotion... I can tell she's going to make a big deal out of me.
"You are dealing with none other than Limestone Pie!" She says to me, beginning to sound very annoyed. By the way I am hearing that tone, I just couldn't stop smiling at all. It just sounded like she was trying too hard to be firm with me. "Look, you may be different from all of us, but if you so forth as to disobey the rules of my parent's farm-"
Pinkie had to butt in and interrupt her at this point, which wasn't really necessary but rather amusing at the same time. "Uh Limestone, I think he gets it and will respect the rules just fine. I don't even remember him once breaking a single rule at all."
"All I want him is stay away from Holder's Boulder!" She responds back to her pink colored sister, giving off that same kind of rough attitude I could now see. "If I am to even see him lay a single part of his human hand on it, he's in BIG trouble!" Her hoof points towards the giant egg-shaped rock that sits near the edge of the farm.
I rose my hands upward slightly in a way to keep her calm and to give her assurance that I would never do such a thing. "Now Limestone..." I had begun to speak to her, still rather amused by how rough she sounds to be for a mare. "You just gave me the rule, and I will stay away from the boulder."
"Good, and second..." Limestone said, her face now squeezed up in front of my own. "If you don't bother me, then all is good between the both of us, kapeesh?!"
I chuckled for a few split seconds before I responded to her with the answer. "Okay then, I won't bother you at all."
"Good." She says to me, still giving me some attitude. She moves back after having that glare in my face when speaking to me. "Now wipe that smile off of your face, and keep it off when I am talking to you."
I didn't put that smile down though, and all that Limestone Pie can do is stare at me with the glare that basically told me that she was watching me the whole time in case I did something stupid. But again, I'm pretty sure from that behaviour she was displaying, she probably could give me the tell-off again.
"Yes, I'm sure he knows that!" Pinkie says, giving off a little bit of a nervous giggle and giving me a kind of sheepish looking grin on her face when the both of her hooves are in the more kind way, to keep me back from Limestone in case she was kind of the hostile kind if aggravated.
Somepony else catched my eye though as it slips past Limestone. There was that other one in the Pie family with that long mane of Dark cynaish gray and the violet eyes that she seems to be trying to hide as soon as I laid eyes on her. Her cutie mark kind of look like marbles, the kind back in my childhood days on Earth when seeing kids around the elementary age playing with them. Could it be that or just marble as a rock itself based off of the cutie mark's description?
I didn't notice quite just yet, but Pinkie turned back to see me looking at the shy member of her own family, though I do recognize her from the Season 1 episode as a filly at the time, but was unable to know what her name was. "Oh! I see that you're looking at my youngest sister in the family!" She jumped up and down right over towards the shy mare, standing there against the outside wall of the farm house. "I would like to introduce you to my sister, Marble Pie!" She gave her sister a friendly push towards me to get a little more closer.
Marble Pie was brought forward, now setting those violet eyes right towards me, with only one eye being seen in the flesh by my own. I can only suggest to myself her mane was known to be hiding her right eye from her point of view, but she looks quiet still. "Don't worry about her, she can be a little bit shy to newcomers. Why don't you introduce yourself to her? I'm sure you and her will get along just fine and dandy!" Pinkie continued and then hopped along back to Cheese Sandwich, most likely to introduce Limestone to him.
All was quiet between both me and the mare herself standing there before me, unsure as of what to say to me. Well, I figure that I could make a go ahead and start by telling her my name and see if Marble responds to me, while those eyes stare back at me.
"Uh... hi." I said to her, sounding a little bit nervous myself, especially after having Pinkie push her closer towards me in the light kind of matter. "My name is Brayden and I probably already know from your sister Pinkie that you're Marble Pie. Am I right?"
No direct response really came from the mare though. All Marble really gave to me was just a simple nod with a very tiny smile on her face as if to keep the peace and then hearing her emit the tone. "Mhm."
I could totally understand what was going on here. She isn't exactly like Fluttershy when she first saw me, but I could tell that this was the way she was meant to be even as a member of the Pie family. The concept of 'quiet' makes a lot of sense with her as I can understand if she isn't really that comfortable with talking to others who are directly talking with her. I was shy once before too, you know.
I gently move my right hand out towards her, offering her a friendly hand-hoofshake greeting from me to her. Marble takes one hoof backwards, almost like I was going to attack her at first. Seriously though, you should already know my oath that I swore to myself never to inflict harm onto anypony. Her left eye observes my open hand for a few moments and then lifts her left front hoof off of the ground.
Her hoof gently touched my hand, allowing me to curl my open fingers around the bottom of her hoof and give her a hand-hoofshake from there while I can see a pink blush appear on her left cheek whilst doing that. I'm not blushing like her, as I know that I just met her and I don't show any 'interest' like that because it is not going to be like that. I only see Marble Pie as a friend even if I just met her, so it is out of the question to do something like that especially if Limestone is right there possibly watching me interact with her and looking suspicious about me.
After shaking her hoof with my hand, I let go of it and she places it back onto the soil of earth. I place the both of my hands together, holding them there while my eyes are still focused on her after having briefly looked at my hands.
"You... you don't seem to talk much, do you?" I said, hoping that I haven't offended her in any way.
"Mhm." There's the same response to me from her. A smile forms on her face again with that nod to physically respond to me with the understanding tone I knew coming from it. I could only smile right back at her not knowing how to respond either as I don't think any of us would really have anything to say but more solely me saying something to hear and expecting that warm response in return from her.
I can hear Pinkie giggling and turn my head to see her right next to Cheese, everypony in the family except Marble and I. "Come on everypony! Dinner will be starting up soon, and it is quite chilly out here! We best get inside to warm up!" She called out to all of us.
Marble is joined up next to me, following beside me when Cheese, Pinkie and the rest of her family gathered into the farmhouse... I will admit that I am feeling a bit chilly myself. Better head inside, I don't know what awaits me, but I am sure that everypony will have questions to ask me about how life in all of Equestria is treating me.
After Maud had gone inside before me, I set foot into their farmhouse. I can feel the chill of autumn weather begin to lift a bit off of me, setting warmth from the interior of the room onto my cold skin. I am aware that Marble followed right behind me, being the last one to enter into the farmhouse. I move to the side by the open front door after she has passed, closing the door shut behind her.
Ah, it's feeling a lot better now that I'm out of the cold. Temperature has been dropping since the days that have passed and it's close to becoming one of my favorite seasons known as Winter.
Headed away from the front door, right ahead in front of me is the living room. I wipe my boots on the mat down below and take them off, heading over towards the open seat on the couch where both Maud and Marble. Pinkie is seated on another three-seat couch next to Cheese, with Limestone seated next to him in the progress. Pinkie's mother and father have gone into another room, probably going to start making dinner for all of us.
Most of the furniture around the room were made most likely from the wood of the dead trees around the farm, and used to be craft into chairs, tables whether they were end or not, wardrobes and even most likely the farm house which seems to look steady on its own. Even though the Pie family's specialty is probably rocks just like how Maud is obsessed with them whether any type or size of the rock.
Speaking of this rock farm... didn't Trixie work here? I don't think I've even seen her anywhere in Equestria since I first arrived here and since I saw that episode "Magic Duel". Where the hay did she run off to?
After having approached the couch, I turn around and take my seat between the two members of the family. Maud's face still looks blank like she can't really progress on what she wants to tell me. Marble on the other hand, doesn't know either but is happy to see that I have joined with her and her sister. Pinkie on the other couch is chatting away with Cheese about the place and how well it looks, especially with the pictures on the walls... which are best described as paintings of rocks, boulders and stones alone or in twos. Sometimes in groups from the art on the walls of spruce.
I guess I could begin my conversation by talking to Maud Pie as me and her have only exchanged a few words most likely, especially having met her mirror counterpart in the other world. "So... Maud?" I said, turning to look at her. The mare turns and looks at me, keeping that blank face. "I was wondering about what you like to do in your spare time."
"My spare time?" She sounds a bit curious as to why I could be asking her that question. "Rocks, most likely. Do you have a favorite kind of rock?"
"Obsidian was my favorite rock for some time." I responded to her question. "But the kind of rock that I know of is different from the ones you see on the ground or on the sides of a mountain."
"What do you mean?" She asked again.
I knew where this was all going to go as soon as I told her. "This rock that I know is not based on that, but more rather music."
She began to become informative again after I had told her this. "Making music was rocks is like banging them together to create a hard sound based on both of them striking."
I chuckled for a moment and reach out into my right pocket. I brought out my phone, attached with the earphones to hear and listen to music when there wasn't really much else at the time. "It looks like I will have to show you. It's different from what you described, and you could learn a little bit about this kind of music I heard back on Earth."
"Earth... it's a kind of rock." She said to me.
"Uhh, yeah. The only difference from the alternate word for rock is that Earth is a planet light-years far from Equestria," I said sounding a little bit thrown off there. I unlock my phone and access the music app to select the genre of rock. "Rock music I listen to is much different from what you will expect."
Maud doesn't respond back to me, as that could probably mean she could only be listening to what I have to say. Checking through the artists on my phone, I can see quite a few that I could most likely introduce Maud to that best describes rock music. I scroll to the letter 'B' and select one of the albums while at the same time, I am offering my earphones to her to which she looks at them confusingly. I helped her out with showing that they go in her ears, setting the volume at a decent level and my index finger touching the song name for it to start playing automatically.
I can hear the music from out of the earphones a bit, but Maud can only sit there and listen to what I am offering she should hear. Marble on the other side of the couch right behind me, looks a little curious about my phone as she's never seen it before. Again, this is probably the first time that anypony besides Maud and Pinkie from the family have seen technology like this. Limestone is also watching as well, quite surprised when I turned to glance at her reaction quickly only to have her catch me and give me quite a glare.
After those seven minutes pass of that song itself, Maud Pie looks at me in silence giving me the expression based on how blank it usually was that it was finished. I take the earphones out from her ears and turn off my phone, putting it back in my pocket. "Well... that was a completely different sound from what I expected."
"Now you know what the music from my world sounds like." I said to her, a bright and eager smile upon my face. Sure there wouldn't be no reaction from her as of yet, but I wouldn't expect it if I could. Still, the next conversation topic between me and Maud should be interesting from here on.
Half an hour of us chatting among ourselves pass by and I seem to have settled and got myself comfortable after having spoken to Maud Pie during that time. Most of the time, she is probably telling me rock poems, information and facts about even a certain type of rock that I brought up to her whenever I could or just anything about rocks. She even went as far as to show me her small pet that I remember... Boulder the small rock.
As soon as I saw the small Boulder, I was instantly reminded of his 'role' in the episode this Season 4 she was placed into. All that time that they were playing hide-and-seek with their pets, it just SO happens that Boulder has to be in her pocket the whole time. Rainbow Dash was already pissed off after that and was hilarious to see what looked almost like the Flutterrage scene from Season 1's finale.
Ring-ring!
The sound of what seems to almost be like a dinnerbell ringing sounds off, except it isn't like any other bell, but more of the traditional. Again, most farms would have this kind of stuff to announce that dinner is being served before our own eyes. Thank goodness... I am already starving and ready to eat!
Pinkie's ears were already perked upward even before the sound of ringing even occurred from the other room. "Oh!" She says, bouncing up and off of the couch she had been sitting on with both Cheese and Limestone. "Dinner is all ready! Everypony get ready, it's going to probably be the best meal of all time!"
I surely know Pinkie is right about anything and that there hasn't been even a time when I had not lost my trust in her. Even then, I would not ever lost the trust between the both of us as she understands sometimes when I am that troubled.
I got up off the couch and began following my friend into the other room where there was a table already seated out for the family, and both Cheese and myself as their guests at this time of supper. Cloudy Quartz already has placed a giant pot made for most likely soup for probably all of us. Well... soup is probably better than nothing at all, as even the smallest supper meal can make a big difference.
I take my seat right at the end of the table, facing both Igneous and Cloudy on the other side of the dining room by the window. On my right, I can see Pinkie and Cheese taking their seats with the pink pony sitting the closest to me. On the left of the table after having seen who was coming to sit on the right, I can see both Limestone and Maud take their seats. To make the matters worse for me is when Limestone has taken the closest seat. Hmm... probably to glare at me like she did when I was introducing myself to her.
Marble takes her seat next to me. I turn my head to look briefly at her and then turn back to look at the rest of the Pie family.
"Maud, thou wilt do the honor of serving us and our guests dinner this time?" Cloudy asked, a still-calm tone in that voice of hers.
"Alright." Maud says, getting up and off of her chair to edge closer towards the table.
She uses her teeth to grab ahold of the ladle and begin scooping it into the soup pot while I can hear the liquid dripping down from the pot landing back in again. Once that first scoop is taken out, I watch Maud as she pours the first batch into Igneous' bowl, still looking as calm as ever. Limestone looks like she is bracing herself for something and giving me some sort of... evil look with a smile. From across, I thought I heard the sound of a plump hitting the bowl of Igneous.
I was surprised to see a rock colored in gray included with his soup... why would they have that? Wait, I'll save the questions for when I recieve my batch of soup provided.
Cloudy got the second batch of soup in her bowl and Maud continues from the right, pouring a batch from the ladle she scoops into the pot for Cheese Sandwich who looks a little confused. Probably the texture and how it looks, but you never know it until you try it. Pinkie came up afterwards and was pretty excited to get her batch from the soup pot. Then it was me who was getting the share especially if I saw each bowl getting a rock in it, so mine shouldn't be too bad...
Maud pours my batch of soup into my bowl provided, but I didn't expect that the color would look to be a dull green. Even the rock itself was provided before me in my bowl, its weight landing in the middle of the bowl itself while Maud pours out the last of the current batch and moves over between her seat and Limestone's to pour her sister her batch and then one for herself.
"Uh, what is this exactly?" I question while scratching my head with my right hand.
Cheese seems to have nodded in agreement looking a bit nervous about the soup's 'quality', speaking out. "Is this our appetizers supposedly?"
"It's rock soup." Maud spoke out in that blank tone in her voice like she usually spoke. "It's a recipe that we use all the time in our family."
Pinkie on the other hand... or hoof, manages to take her bowl with both hooves and start drinking it down at what seems to be like she is chugging all of her bowl in one sip. After those few moments, she places her bowl down back on the table with a soft slam. There is still a bit of the green liquid left on her face when she had finished, but takes the time to use a napkin to wipe off the juices.
"Deeeeeelicious!" She comments to herself. She turns to look at me. "I called the first turn! You're next Brayden, and then we'll all have dinner." She takes the time while talking to me to take the ladle by... stretching her hoof across the table and taking the ladle to pour another batch from the soup pot into her bowl.
I was a bit nervous when taking the bowl in the both of my hands. I perk my eyes off of it briefly to see everypony else in the room staring right back at me. Limestone's evil look doesn't change, as that smile of hers looks directed towards me with something that told me that she'll laugh if I vomit.
So after having exhaled a breath quietly, I put the edge of the bowl to my mouth and allow the soup to flow right into my mouth...
Really? This is what rock soup tastes like? Well, it kind of tastes a little bit... off like it needs a bit more salt while I am drinking the liquid. My eyes are no longer focused towards the looks on the family, but more of the soup itself I am drinking. I can't see the emotion on my face based on what I am tasting, but by the way I said that it was 'off', I meant that this taste was completely a mild yet murky sour.
Almost finished this bowl and I am swallowing all that I can with each gulp, trying to both tolerate the taste of rock soup, and not make myself sick to my stomach in the process. Each sip of soup I gulp down brings me closer to having emptied it out. The rock is sliding towards my slightly-opened mouth but only drives itself closer as soon as I was down to the last sip when it finally hit my lips slowly with a gentle bump on the teeth there, but the interior of my lips are there to shield the impact.
My bowl was now empty, and I place it right back onto the table, wiping the wet soup bits off from around my mouth. Pinkie looked so giddy and excited, Cheese looks rather worried about how I look and Limestone wants to see me barf most likely. Everypony else looks more rather blank after having watched me go through the entire thing whereas in comparison it took her only a few moments to slurp it all down.
"Way to go there, it must have tasted so good!" Pinkie says to me, seeing how I look a bit like I smelt dead fish in the ocean with the salty smell with flies flying about around them trying to get a piece of fish meat.
"Yeah..." I manage to get out, faking a smile to keep a good impression on Pinkie and her family. "That really tasted good."
"You see, he thought it was good!" She says, turning towards the wall for a moment which gave me a rather awkward look on my face. Noticing the awkward look on my face, she just shrugs as if nothing was wrong with a rather questionable look on her face. "What? I'm just talking to whoever is reading this."
"Pinkie, what are you talking a-"
"NEVER MIND!" She says, going right back to her super happy mode that she always was in. "Time to dig in everypony!"
Limestone takes advantage of the ladle that Pinkie put back on the table, taking another batch from the pot of rock soup and pouring it into my bowl for another serving. No other rocks join with the one in my bowl when she has poured it in. "Drink away human, you're going to need the strength."
I pick up my bowl again, knowing that it could be almost be pointless to try and talk with any as of the moment. Cheese gives the rock soup a taste, but obviously seems to look like he is trying to tolerate the taste of it as well. I'm not insulted by what Limestone said to me, as she's probably annoyed with guests coming onto her parents' farm which she happens to run. Pinkie is going all out on getting more batches each time and slurping the bowl empty each time before going for another refill.
Igneous and Cloudy aren't distracted from eating at all, and everypony else is obviously too busy drinking their rock soup with any of the Pies eating the rocks in their bowls each time the soup was out of their bowls and into their mouths.
"Um... can I get a bit of salt?" I said quietly, as if not to start trouble at all.
"WHAT?" Limestone said to me with a raised and alarmed tone in her annoyed voice at me with a suspicious glare as if I said something offensive.
"Nothing!" I said to her, no longer sounding quiet. "I just asked for salt."
Limestone doesn't respond back to me, but glares at me for a brief moment before going back to drinking her rock soup. Maud was happy to pass me down a roughly made salt shaker for me made of rock and stone. I mouth the two words 'thank you' to her once I have recieved the salt, but she goes back to her rock soup instead of responding back.
I make haste and shake in a little bit of salt into my rock soup. Once a few have settled in, I take the bowl and put the edge of it to my mouth, allowing me to take a few sips. Doesn't really have much a taste, but it'll do as it doesn't have that sour and bitter taste that I can recall myself from drinking the first time.
All is peaceful and quiet with all of us, like not a single one of them talked at all but to focus on their soup. I turn my eyes to look at Marble next to me, as she was also focused on her soup, but taking smaller sips. I grab onto my bowl that I had put down after the last few sips, going for another few sips. It was only when I had put that half-empty bowl of rock soup down when I can feel that thought coming to me again...
Everything had paused before the sight of the Pie family quickly flashed into what I can totally make out to be something I have experienced before... a vision. No... I only had that when Nightmare Moon was returning. How could I be having this right now while I'm having dinner with Pinkie and her family?
The vision wasn't clear just yet for that moment but when the watery effect had risen over, I think I was able to catch onto what I could be seeing right there before my eyes but yet unable to react. It's myself and I seem to be falling from the skies of Equestria... Twilight reaching for my hand with her left front hoof and a shadowed figure of what seems to be a mare behind her about to fire a blast of light turquoise magic at her.
Another vision that had seemed to flash in... it seems to be in a complete rage. No... why would I be making a mess around the shop and why does Pinkie in that vision look like she is trying to get me to stop... but from the split of that image... what seems to be a figure of my imagination tears through and reveals itself with the blackest of shadow wings with demonic red eyes. I don't know what that demon signifies, but that was all I could see before the visions ended and I felt a bit light-headed.
I found my vision set right back at the table with the Pie family, but find myself in a bit of shock but everypony else except Limestone and Maud (cause she always has a blank look on her face from the times I've seen her except for the time in that episode when she first appeared) looks really concerned about me judging by the look of worry on their faces.
"Brayden... I... I don't think you look so good. Your face is practically almost green in the cheeks." Cheese tells me.
My cheeks are green? Oh Celestia, don't tell me it's a part of the rock soup's effect on me because I don't even have any allergies at all. Though when I lived on Earth and was ill, I thought I was allergic to a certain type of medicine but I think my stomach feels a bit weird inside... and my head remaining light-headed.
Then there came that gag-like noise from me. Pinkie gasped with worry there as she realized what was about to happen and that I was going to 'let it out'. Limestone holds a cruel smile upon her face as she knew what she was expecting that entire time, Maud's face remains blank like usual and everypony else was shocked at that point of realization as well.
I couldn't take it no more in keeping myself at the table. I got up out of my chair, and began to start making my way out of the dining room and making an immediate right in the living room towards the front door. I can hear hooves right behind me, probably following me to make sure that I was going to be okay. I open up the front door, and not bothering to close it behind me began to run out towards the giant egg-shaped boulder at the edge of the farm.
I can't hold it in anymore... I feel myself falling onto my knees right next to the boulder and look towards the ground of dirt and soil. When my mouth opened, I had to close my eyes and couldn't inhale when I begun to barf on the soil, releasing fluids of green that I know were most likely of the rock soup that I was fed.
Some really bad burps were sounding out while I was retching out the rock soup that I had consumed at the table... my legs felt a little bit shakey and I can hear the sound of those hooves coming up right behind me. Whoever it was, it's probably the saddest thing they've ever seen and they are probably disgusted with me especially having them see me vomit. For that I do feel a little embarrassed, and ashamed for having this happen at the Pie Rock Farm.
That burning touch in my throat eventually ends and I couldn't find myself to let out anymore vomit that remains in my stomach that rose up. I was already done doing that, and to relax my stomach I was taking deep breaths. In... out. In... out.
"Are you alright now Brayden?" I can hear Pinkie right behind me, sounding a little concerned. From behind my back, I can feel her hoof touching and giving it a gentle rub to ensure that my stomach will calm down from all that.
My deep breathing begins to slow down and become normal again, but I have to be a bit careful from there as I don't want to risk throwing up again even after having my dinner ejected out of my system. I turn around slowly to look at Pinkie who seems to look a little panicked and worried about what just happened there.
"I'm soooooo so sorry Brayden! Me nor anypony else thought that you did or didn't like rock soup!" She said to me, sounding like she is begging for forgiveness.
"Pinkie..." I said weakly to her. I'm not ill with the flu or anything, but it was probably my body that couldn't tolerate the taste of sour, bitter rock liquids. "It... It's not your fault."
"I didn't know though! It's something me and my family have always had. With that, I accidentally gave it to you without you knowing about the contents it had which are... rocks!"
"The liquid though... what was that?" I asked.
"The only ingredient was that of a few rocks around the farm when turned into powder to consume in the soup. I know that you're not allergic to anything, but it could be possible that you can't swallow the powder of rocks, dry... liquid or not!" Pinkie inhales a bit after having lost that breath. "You might be allergic to that, and neither of us knew! I am really that sorry!"
"Pinkie." I said to her, my right hand reaching out to her and placing it upon her left shoulder. She stops talking for that moment and continues to look worried while I'm not as worried, but have that feeling of understanding on why it could be a bit of a troubling moment. The glimpse of colors on the top left of my eye caught my attention, for me to turn to them and see Cheese Sandwich and all of the other members of the Pie family joining in to see what happened. I turn back to look at my best friend. "It's not your fault at all."
"Of all the places you have to let it out, why Holder's Boulder?!" I can hear Limestone Pie shouting in annoyance having seen the mess beside the giant boulder there. All she can do there is groan loudly and complain. "Now I've got to clean up that mess, thanks to you!"
"Whatever, Lime Rocks." I said to her, not taking my eyes off of Pinkie when I said that.
"Limestone!" The arrogant mare on the farm corrected me. All I had to do at this point is just ignore her for now as Pinkie seems a bit distressed.
"Now look Pinkie..." I said to her, exhaling a soft sigh. "It wasn't your fault in the end. For some of that time, it could practically have been mine. What I just did embarrassed myself, and it probably has affected this day between you and Cheese Sandwich... I messed it up..."
"But you didn't Brayden, what do you mean?" Pinkie asked me, still sounding a bit panicked.
I stop for only a few moments to think of what I was going to say. "I'm saying that I fear I might have embarrassed you all in the process."
"Brayden, you did not embarrass any of us," I can hear Cheese to my left, and the sound of his hooves trotting closer towards both me and Pinkie to join in. "We only are showing concern for you and your health. You might feel that you would do the same for any of us, but having heard of those times where you fainted or spaced out, we feel worried."
I was not going to tell them about the visions that I had just experienced right inside during supper, but I'm not sure if it was the rock soup that caused it, or if it was just me and it came to me as a warning of things to come in the close future. I was probably just going to keep it in my mind for now. "I would say the same thing as well. If somepony was hurt, it would just pain me inside to see them in that state whether ill with a simple cold or flu."
"And with that, don't you see?" Pinkie says to me, her hoof placed onto the top of my right hand. "You're not alone, and I'm pretty sure that it might not have been the rock soup that could have caused the mess in the first place. I couldn't see it, but I did have that feeling that you didn't really like it..."
Igneous trots forward a bit. "Surely thou have something that our guest can eat Pinkamena Diane Pie?" He asked.
"Yes father." Pinkie says, her eyes turned for that moment to look at her father past between myself and Cheese. "After all, I never leave home without my party cannon."
I can hear Limestone growling to my right for a moment before hearing her loudly mutter to herself about me. "I wanted to see him have to drink another bit of rock soup..." I just ignore and try not to argue back at her.
"And Brayden?" Pinkie sets her blue eyes back onto my brown eyes. I had a feeling by that gasp of air she was inhaling in, she had something to say to me. Her hoof is removed off of my right hand and is placed onto my right shoulder. Everypony else around me is quiet, and I can't really see the emotions on their faces but they probably look serious. At this point when Pinkie is about to tell me something I will keep quiet and let her tell me as I know this will be important.
"I am going as honest as our friend Applejack is... When I first saw you with Fluttershy on the day you arrived in Equestria, I had a very good feeling that you were one of those perfect friends that I will ever meet. You've been really kind to all of my friends and you definitely know how to party! Even in the most sad times for me which was something you rarely saw from me, you know how to keep my smile up and bright all through the days that go by. You're one of the closest best friends that I have even got to know and I feel proud and eager to keep going each hour of each minute of each second that probably just passed right about now, and I hope that you understand that just like you do for everypony else. You may look different, but I can see that stallion inside your soul that's always willing to be there for me or anypony in their time of need. It's that sympathy you hold inside."
Inside I felt touched by those words that Pinkie have told me and I had no idea how to respond back to her verbally, with the exception of the smile abroad my face. I could only motion my right arm to offer her a gentle, yet friendly hug from me. Pinkie's face brightly smiles again and she trots closer towards me, wrapping her left front hoof around my shoulder and onto my back to allow me to share the hug with her.
I can feel the same kind of bond inside me once again...
It was another spark that had gone off while I was hugging Pinkie Pie. Within the friendship circle of my heart, another spark has been formed just like how I earned them from both Applejack and Fluttershy. The sign of Pinkie being a close friend was true and it shines fluently alongside the other sparks. The spark was a little more bouncy as it was the Spark of Laughter after all. It joins between both the Sparks of Honesty and Kindness, bright as three to form the colors of orange, blue and yellow like it was slowly forming a rainbow.
The few moments pass, but me and Pinkie eventually release from the hug and smile at one another as a sign of trust. I turn to look at Cheese and then everypony else followed by what had happened. All of them seemed to feel a bit touched by what Pinkie has said to me. Limestone looks a little guilty as well, but when turning to look at her she put that glare back on her face.
However, she came trotting towards me after having dispensed that glare on her face quickly. "Brayden?" She said to me, her tone sounding a little more sincere and guilty. "I do want to apologize to you for that attitude I was giving to you."
"It's alright Lime Rocks-"
"Limestone!" She corrects me again, sounding a bit annoyed.
"Whatever," I said to her. "I'm bad with these kinds of names so get used to that for some time. I understand that you are just trying to do your best in working around your father and mother's farm seeing that you are in charge. While you do have that tone in your voice, it does remind me very much of the military back on Earth where I came from. Nevertheless I accept your apology." But with all honesty, she almost does remind me of the drill sergeant from that one movie I remember watching when I first got it.
"Thank you," Limestone smiled at me when she said that. Then her face turns back into a glare and her right front hoof is pressed onto my chest. "But don't think from here on forward that I will trust you completely, regardless if you are Pinkie's best friend."
"Okay. I completely get it and will stay out of your way still until you do." I told her, raising the both of my arms into the air to signal a calm sign with my open hands.
Maud trots a few steps forward and keeping that blank look on her face, says "I trust Brayden completely. His perspective of rocks are completely different from what he had me hear through the music he introduced me to."
Cloudy Quartz nods her head in agreement, responding "The boy has been a gentlecolt to the family and we assure thee that thou are welcome in thy household anytime by our generosity." Her husband Igneous nods in response, agreeing with her.
Marble Pie hasn't responded at all for the entire time and could only watch sadly for the first part, but then was slightly happy at the result of things that became. Cloudy turned to look at her shy daughter, giving her an expression that could tell her that she needs to say something to me. "Mhm." That's the response I needed to hear from Marble Pie, and even I will admit that she seems cute.
But don't think that I'm going to have a crush on Marble Pie, because I'm pretty sure both me and her will want to be friends even if that is the only way she responds to me.
"Shall all of us head inside to have the rest of our dinner?" Cheese offered to everypony, who nods in accepting that request, and due to the fact that it feels really cold. I even nod as well, seeing that I can feel the chill upon my arms.
"Alright!" Pinkie says, bouncing up and down again. "Let's go back and dine on some rock... soup! Yeah!" She joins me by the side to whisper in my ear like she was being super-secret like the days back when Cadence and Shining Armor announced that the Cadence herself was going to have a baby in royalty. "Don't worry Brayden, I have one or two slices of cheese pizza for you stored in the party cannon!"
As of the moment, only Twilight and Fluttershy are aware of the big news from last time with Celestia, but I will have to wait for the right moment to tell Pinkie and the rest of my friends the news. Even then if I spoke about it, rumor will catch on and become true like all of those in the Equestria Times reporting news honestly like the weather.
I began to walk back with the other members of the Pie family towards the farmhouse from Holder's Boulder, with Marble standing there like she wanted to trot by my right side together. I was happy to allow her to join me as we continue together on the soil under the grey cloud skies to get back in from the autumn weather. I turn to look at Marble, her violet eyes staring right back at me with a meek smile.
"Mhm..." I said to her, knowing that it was the same response she would give me. My right hand gently touched her back as a sign that I trusted the member of the Pie family like all the other family. A pink blush appears on her cheeks when I did that and knew the same response in return that she'll give me.
"Mhm."
I could only smile and return back to the Pie household, knowing that the rest of the day should be good from here on forward for the rest of the evening, even if Limestone will still give me a bit of flak. As for the news of me being Celestia's son...
...I'll just save those news for later. I've got dinner to catch up on, and some poems of rocks to hear from Maud Pie later. Those should be interesting.
"Where is that spell?! I had put it somewhere... ah, yes! Here it is, stolen right out from the Canterlot Archives that had been placed in!"
"Yes... this spell of time travel will do just great. I'm only missing one thing: where in time I would need to go back to. Hmmm... if I am aware I was following in the shadows hidden from Twilight for a while, trying to observe and see if there are any clues I can find on how to put an end to Twilight and her friendships with those 'friends' of hers that stopped me at the village! All I wanted was for everypony to be equal and she ruined my plan!"
"No matter... there's a human with her. A supposed creature of myth according to the books that I've read while training myself to be powerful at the magic within me, and have seen him while Twilight, him and her friends were having dinner for this one other mare. I don't think he recognized me though, but I feel I could have some plans for him coming right up..."
"Wait, there's an upcoming lecture at the School for Gifted Unicorns in Canterlot that she will be teaching at. This could be a great idea for me, as the lecture in detail is talking about both herself and those friends on how they got those 'cutie marks' in the first place! That should be something to help me finish the spell so I can go back and prevent them from ever being friends again! I have something else in mind, but it'll be up to Twilight to figure that out."
"This is going to be perfect, and once I stop whatever this event is from happening... all of everypony in my own universe will be equal and I can start again! This is going to be perfect... and as for that human, he... will be mine to have..."