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Muffins side story
chapter 3

The next morning was the beginning of training. Applebloom and Babs seed along with Tiny Tim, SunDew, and Hero Brine were up before the crack of dawn. The very annoying sound of a trumpet being played horribly woke them up to be exact. Babs seed opened her eyes to see her regiment leader, Fireheart, fully dressed in a similar outfit to her own. "Up, and at 'em maggots, its training time." The red unicorn stallion growled. "Uh, sir?" Hero Brine mumbled as he dragged his brown body out of bed. Fireheart gleamed with anger as he retreated back on his hind hooves. "Mumbling is one of the fastest ways you pathetic losers can hitch a ride straight to Ponyville, do I have to repeat myself Brine?" The colt's ears went flat against his head as he scrambled to get in position, everypony was full awake now. "No sir, I understand sir. I was just going to ask about training sir, and if we have to defeat monsters today or if we are going to get trained first." Fireheart snorted in mild amusement as he settled back down on all fours. His long legs boomed as his hoofs landed not far from Tiny Tim. The shock of the impact caused the colt to jump and fall over. "Today will be your evaluation day. You mutts will also be trained on how to properly use your gear. Get dressed and head out to the mess hall for breakfast. You have one hour, if your not ready by then I will be forced to punish you." And with that the red unicorn swirled around and disappeared out the cabin door with speed that would rival Rainbow Dash's on opening day of cider season. Babs and Applebloom wasted no time and rushed over to the bathroom stalls to quickly relieve themselves after a nights rest. "So how good do ya think we're gonna do in our evaluation WaterLily?" Babs Seed asked, slipping on her white tank top. The blue filly, AppleBloom, turned toward her companion, finishing with her outfit. "I think we're gonna have 120%. There's no way anypony here could possibly beat you or me, I mean come on you single hoofed took down a pegasus, an earth colt who specialized in explosives, and an unicorn filly who could shoot fire balls." Babs smirked and buckled the last belt as the timid light pink colt snuck up behind her. "Um, hi. Babs is it? I just herd miss WaterLily say you beat a pegasus and a unicorn, you must be pretty tough." Tiny Tim looked down and offered a hoof to the brown filly, Babs looked at his outstretched hoof and took it with pure intentions, his soft spoken nature reminded her of her friend Minkie Pie, and his pink coat resembled the same pink mare who always made Babs laugh. Babs quit shaking Tiny's hoof when Applebloom stifled a laugh with her hooves. Blushing, Babs released the relieved looking colt and rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment. "Yeah I did. They were the biggest bullies in school and almost killed me, I knew that if I didn't stand up to them then one of these days I or somepony would be murdered." Tiny Tim's eyes grew wide as they entered the mess hall and settled in line with the other earth ponies. "By Celestia, are any of them here?" AppleBloom and Babs gave each other an unsettling look of dread. Babs decided to trust the colt, besides he was being generally nice, and it had been awhile since she interacted with anypony else besides Big Mac and the other bakers, plus he didn't look scared or horrified when he heard that she had "took care of" her bullies. "No soon after I had defended the class and myself, the police found them dead." "Well," the colt whispered, leaning in and looking to make sure nopony was listening, "I hope those bakers got a hold of them. Ponies who bully other ponies, and especially ones who try to kill other ponies just to prove their the higher horse should be put to death." Applebloom gasped and then quickly covered her mouth, "I feel the same way!" The brown filly next to her nudged her shoulder in an attempt to calm the blue filly down. "No nothing like that, they were major druggies, they found them dead after they had overdosed accidentally on some street drug."

It was Applebloom who finished the last of her oat meal and honey breakfest. "So," she mumbled, drinking the rest of her apple juice. "Why did ya want to talk to us." "Oh yeah," the pink colt replied, as him and Babs also hurried down their meals. "I was wondering if when we have free time you guys could give me a few pointers."
"Why not ask that Hero Brine or whatever, I mean he is a colt."

Tiny Tim laughed in slight awkwardness as he gestured the two bakers closer. "Well, he told me he got his cutie mark by stalking this girl he liked. He bragged about how every time she turned around he'd briefly let her see him but he'd disappear leaving the poor girl to question whether or not he was actually there." Babs Seed blew her orange mane out of her eyes and laughed. "Well Tiny, me and Lily here would be honored to give you some lessons. And thanks." "For what?" The colt asked, tilting his head slightly to the left. "Fer warning Babs and I about Brine. I will diffidently sleep with one eye open from now on." AppleBloom, Babs Seed, and their new friend Tiny Tim laughed until they settled onto the training field next to the rest of their regiment. "Now that your all here, I will start training by explaining your belts." Fireheart turned to show the ponies his sword attached to his side. "This beauty is called slayer, for every enemy I've ever had I have slayed them down with this sword." He magically lifted the sword and floated it in front of each pony. His sword, Applebloom noted, was made of pure gold and had a rather large diamond in the center where a pony would hold it with ones teeth. The blade itself was a sight to see, silver and shiny, Bloom could tell that Fireheart regularly sharpened and repaired it. The unicorn shielded his sword and then grinned, "Now I am going to take you to the armory, it is there that you will select a few weapons of your choice. We will then go into the training field. There you will learn if your weapons are the right for you, and if so it is there you will master them." Fireheart turned around and galloped away towards a large warehouse at the end of the barrier.
Applebloom's and Babs Seed's eyes practically popped out of their eye sockets at the sight of the armory. Rows and shelves were stocked full of the most dangerous weapons. There were spikes to throw at an enemy that left them paralyzed for a short while, all types of blades, and even whips were adorned on the walls. "Listen up," Fireheart commanded as he stuck his head out from behind a wall of Razors. "You may grab three weapons for now, the higher the level you are, the more weapons you get to carry. You maggots are getting an hour to pick some out and your clock is ticking so I suggest you move NOW!"
The bakers separated and everypony on the regiment went in opposite directions. Babs Seed looked at her blue cousin, who had already left for the samurai swords. She took a few steps toward her friend but cautisly stopped. Something in her gut told Babs Applebloom was in her own little world, and that she deserved to be alone. The tan filly turned around and galloped to the back of the armory in search of her own personal, monster killing weapon.
Meanwhile, Applebloom had halted in front of a row of samurai swords. "I wonder what one is the best for me?" The blue filly asked herself as she ran a hoof tentatively over a particularly smaller sword. Applebloom carefully picked up the black sword and rested it against herself. She grabbed the white tag that was attached to the hilt of the sword and slowly read out loud to herself. "Black Rose, Katakana, Lighter in weight than it's relitive the samurai sword, but just as dangerous and sharp. The black Rose is one of a kind, it was hoof crafted using pegasi feathers as fuel for the fire. The silver that this sword is krafted from is a rare currently unknown black silver, to fully mine the silver needed, a pony has to die, usually by some freak accident, and bleed out, forming a natural rose shaped design. This is the only sword successfully wielded out of Black Silver, and the owner who holds this sword must give it their own blood as a sign of ownership. Cut your hoof and allow the blood to drop on the sword, when the holder has done that if the sword accepts its owner's blood then a red rose design will appear on the blade. If the blood is rejected then the sword simply disappear to places unknown until it is found once again."
Applebloom looked at the black sword and grinned in malicious content. Without a second thought, the blue filly made a horizontal cut on her right forearm with the katakana. Applebloom then held her hoof over the black sword and watched as her blood fell on the blade like red raindrops. The sword glowed a bright red, the light was so bright it caused Applebloom to flinch and close her eyes shut tight. After the light faded, the blue filly slowly opened her pink eyes and looked around. She gasped in delight as she spotted the sword laying by her hooves. Applebloom crouched down and picked up the black katakana. She inspected the beautifully encrypted rose designs, which cascaded down the blade like a vine that was climbing up the side of an old building. The excited blue filly noticed that a shield, which she slid her new sword into, had magically appeared. She adjusted the katakana on her flank and hurried on to continue the search for two more weapons.

After an hour had passed, the five fillies and colts gathered in front of Captain Fireheart. The captain led the group out onto the field they had passed before and motioned for them to line up single file. "Now it is time for show and tell. Tiny Tim, show is your three weapons of choice."
The small pink colt gulped loud enough for Applebloom and Babs to hear.
Tiny reluctantly dropped a brown burlap bag in front of Captain Fireheart who lowered his head down to stare into the cowering colt's eyes. "Don't tell me your weapon is a sack, what are you going to do, hide in it? Level 1 creatures would sniff you out in a matter of seconds, so don't try my patience boy." "S-sorry s-sir," Tiny Tim replied, shakily reaching in the bag to pull out his first weapon of choice. (W.O.C.) After fumbling in his bag for a moment the small colt reveled two sharp blades strapped to his front hooves. "This is my first choice, You see, I can retract this straight blade in and out, so when I don't need to use it," Tiny clicked a small button on the left inside hoof strap and his blade folded into the bracelet with a few silent mechanical whirls. "I can safely move around without having to wield a weapon." The brown colt shielded his remaining blade and reached into his bag to retrieve his second weapon.

"Hi, may I interest you in a sample of our finest Apple pie on the market?" The orange earth mare bellowed, as she pointed to her cart full of apple pie's, fritters, and candies. The blue pegasus who the salespony was addressing fluttered over and halted in front of the stand. "Oh my this does smell lovely, may I hear about your products more while having a sample? My name is Rain Dew by the way, what's yours?" The orange mare pushed back her short red bangs and greeted Rain Dew with a warm smile. "My name is Orange Sunset, this is my apple stand, I'm very happy you'd like to try a slice, with everything that's been happening I was worried to set up a stand and make all this food. I didn't know if anypony would even give me a second glance." Orange Sunset cut a small slice of apple pie and sprinkled some cinnamon on the top. "I don't see why anypony wouldn't stop here," Rain Dew spoke up, as she ran her hoof across her green leaf cutie mark that had drops of crystal blue water falling on and off it, in an attempt to flatten her fur. The orange mare sat up after giving Rain Dew her slice of pie, Her orange head tilted to the side. "What do you mean?" "I mean," Rain Dew explained, scarfing down her much needed food. "You're a very good salespony, not to mention don't match the description or personalities of any of those convicts." The orange mare blinked and nodded a small thank you. "I mean look at you, your orange fur and red hair don't match any of those cannibals. And your cutie mark," Rain Dew pointed to Orange Sunset's flank, "That cutie mark is a beautiful sun, so I'm surprised you don't have a long line of ponies waiting to have a bite of some happyness for once." Orange Sunset sat on her hind haunches and smiled sadly, "Unfortunately I'm moving back to New Stable, With all these terrible crimes going around, ponies don't trust pastries anymore, I had moved here a few days after the bakers had been caught but when they escaped again...." Her voice trailed off as a remorseful Rain Dew finished her line for her. "But now ponies don't even trust their best friends." "Exactly, I even bought a beautiful cottage outside of Ponyville too, It's small but it was all I could afford. Today was my last day in Ponyville, and I needed to get rid of my produce somehow." Orange Sunset paced around her stand of produce and looked up and shouted an unnecessarily loud "Ah-ha"
"What If you helped me? If you help me load the last of my supplies in my wagon I'll pay you in return all my leftover goods!"
The blue pegasus shared the orange mare's joy and followed close behind. From the sky, the blue pegasus couldn't see the hidden smirk from the orange mare below.

Sorry for the wait my little ponies! I have been super busy with finishing my GED and getting prepped for taking the first steps into becoming a dentist. Anyways, I will have pictures up of the characters and their new weapons within a week or so. ^-^ Ah And as always I'd love to hear so feedback on my stories, Just like how I proxy promise there will be lots of death in later chapters, but must like a good book, sometimes you just have to wait.

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Muffins side story
chapter 3

The next morning was the beginning of training. Applebloom and Babs seed along with Tiny Tim, SunDew, and Hero Brine were up before the crack of dawn. The very annoying sound of a trumpet being played horribly woke them up to be exact. Babs seed opened her eyes to see her regiment leader, Fireheart, fully dressed in a similar outfit to her own. "Up, and at 'em maggots, its training time." The red unicorn stallion growled. "Uh, sir?" Hero Brine mumbled as he dragged his brown body out of bed. Fireheart gleamed with anger as he retreated back on his hind hooves. "Mumbling is one of the fastest ways you pathetic losers can hitch a ride straight to Ponyville, do I have to repeat myself Brine?" The colt's ears went flat against his head as he scrambled to get in position, everypony was full awake now. "No sir, I understand sir. I was just going to ask about training sir, and if we have to defeat monsters today or if we are going to get trained first." Fireheart snorted in mild amusement as he settled back down on all fours. His long legs boomed as his hoofs landed not far from Tiny Tim. The shock of the impact caused the colt to jump and fall over. "Today will be your evaluation day. You mutts will also be trained on how to properly use your gear. Get dressed and head out to the mess hall for breakfast. You have one hour, if your not ready by then I will be forced to punish you." And with that the red unicorn swirled around and disappeared out the cabin door with speed that would rival Rainbow Dash's on opening day of cider season. Babs and Applebloom wasted no time and rushed over to the bathroom stalls to quickly relieve themselves after a nights rest. "So how good do ya think we're gonna do in our evaluation WaterLily?" Babs Seed asked, slipping on her white tank top. The blue filly, AppleBloom, turned toward her companion, finishing with her outfit. "I think we're gonna have 120%. There's no way anypony here could possibly beat you or me, I mean come on you single hoofed took down a pegasus, an earth colt who specialized in explosives, and an unicorn filly who could shoot fire balls." Babs smirked and buckled the last belt as the timid light pink colt snuck up behind her. "Um, hi. Babs is it? I just herd miss WaterLily say you beat a pegasus and a unicorn, you must be pretty tough." Tiny Tim looked down and offered a hoof to the brown filly, Babs looked at his outstretched hoof and took it with pure intentions, his soft spoken nature reminded her of her friend Minkie Pie, and his pink coat resembled the same pink mare who always made Babs laugh. Babs quit shaking Tiny's hoof when Applebloom stifled a laugh with her hooves. Blushing, Babs released the relieved looking colt and rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment. "Yeah I did. They were the biggest bullies in school and almost killed me, I knew that if I didn't stand up to them then one of these days I or somepony would be murdered." Tiny Tim's eyes grew wide as they entered the mess hall and settled in line with the other earth ponies. "By Celestia, are any of them here?" AppleBloom and Babs gave each other an unsettling look of dread. Babs decided to trust the colt, besides he was being generally nice, and it had been awhile since she interacted with anypony else besides Big Mac and the other bakers, plus he didn't look scared or horrified when he heard that she had "took care of" her bullies. "No soon after I had defended the class and myself, the police found them dead." "Well," the colt whispered, leaning in and looking to make sure nopony was listening, "I hope those bakers got a hold of them. Ponies who bully other ponies, and especially ones who try to kill other ponies just to prove their the higher horse should be put to death." Applebloom gasped and then quickly covered her mouth, "I feel the same way!" The brown filly next to her nudged her shoulder in an attempt to calm the blue filly down. "No nothing like that, they were major druggies, they found them dead after they had overdosed accidentally on some street drug."

It was Applebloom who finished the last of her oat meal and honey breakfest. "So," she mumbled, drinking the rest of her apple juice. "Why did ya want to talk to us." "Oh yeah," the pink colt replied, as him and Babs also hurried down their meals. "I was wondering if when we have free time you guys could give me a few pointers."
"Why not ask that Hero Brine or whatever, I mean he is a colt."

Tiny Tim laughed in slight awkwardness as he gestured the two bakers closer. "Well, he told me he got his cutie mark by stalking this girl he liked. He bragged about how every time she turned around he'd briefly let her see him but he'd disappear leaving the poor girl to question whether or not he was actually there." Babs Seed blew her orange mane out of her eyes and laughed. "Well Tiny, me and Lily here would be honored to give you some lessons. And thanks." "For what?" The colt asked, tilting his head slightly to the left. "Fer warning Babs and I about Brine. I will diffidently sleep with one eye open from now on." AppleBloom, Babs Seed, and their new friend Tiny Tim laughed until they settled onto the training field next to the rest of their regiment. "Now that your all here, I will start training by explaining your belts." Fireheart turned to show the ponies his sword attached to his side. "This beauty is called slayer, for every enemy I've ever had I have slayed them down with this sword." He magically lifted the sword and floated it in front of each pony. His sword, Applebloom noted, was made of pure gold and had a rather large diamond in the center where a pony would hold it with ones teeth. The blade itself was a sight to see, silver and shiny, Bloom could tell that Fireheart regularly sharpened and repaired it. The unicorn shielded his sword and then grinned, "Now I am going to take you to the armory, it is there that you will select a few weapons of your choice. We will then go into the training field. There you will learn if your weapons are the right for you, and if so it is there you will master them." Fireheart turned around and galloped away towards a large warehouse at the end of the barrier.
Applebloom's and Babs Seed's eyes practically popped out of their eye sockets at the sight of the armory. Rows and shelves were stocked full of the most dangerous weapons. There were spikes to throw at an enemy that left them paralyzed for a short while, all types of blades, and even whips were adorned on the walls. "Listen up," Fireheart commanded as he stuck his head out from behind a wall of Razors. "You may grab three weapons for now, the higher the level you are, the more weapons you get to carry. You maggots are getting an hour to pick some out and your clock is ticking so I suggest you move NOW!"
The bakers separated and everypony on the regiment went in opposite directions. Babs Seed looked at her blue cousin, who had already left for the samurai swords. She took a few steps toward her friend but cautisly stopped. Something in her gut told Babs Applebloom was in her own little world, and that she deserved to be alone. The tan filly turned around and galloped to the back of the armory in search of her own personal, monster killing weapon.
Meanwhile, Applebloom had halted in front of a row of samurai swords. "I wonder what one is the best for me?" The blue filly asked herself as she ran a hoof tentatively over a particularly smaller sword. Applebloom carefully picked up the black sword and rested it against herself. She grabbed the white tag that was attached to the hilt of the sword and slowly read out loud to herself. "Black Rose, Katakana, Lighter in weight than it's relitive the samurai sword, but just as dangerous and sharp. The black Rose is one of a kind, it was hoof crafted using pegasi feathers as fuel for the fire. The silver that this sword is krafted from is a rare currently unknown black silver, to fully mine the silver needed, a pony has to die, usually by some freak accident, and bleed out, forming a natural rose shaped design. This is the only sword successfully wielded out of Black Silver, and the owner who holds this sword must give it their own blood as a sign of ownership. Cut your hoof and allow the blood to drop on the sword, when the holder has done that if the sword accepts its owner's blood then a red rose design will appear on the blade. If the blood is rejected then the sword simply disappear to places unknown until it is found once again."
Applebloom looked at the black sword and grinned in malicious content. Without a second thought, the blue filly made a horizontal cut on her right forearm with the katakana. Applebloom then held her hoof over the black sword and watched as her blood fell on the blade like red raindrops. The sword glowed a bright red, the light was so bright it caused Applebloom to flinch and close her eyes shut tight. After the light faded, the blue filly slowly opened her pink eyes and looked around. She gasped in delight as she spotted the sword laying by her hooves. Applebloom crouched down and picked up the black katakana. She inspected the beautifully encrypted rose designs, which cascaded down the blade like a vine that was climbing up the side of an old building. The excited blue filly noticed that a shield, which she slid her new sword into, had magically appeared. She adjusted the katakana on her flank and hurried on to continue the search for two more weapons.

After an hour had passed, the five fillies and colts gathered in front of Captain Fireheart. The captain led the group out onto the field they had passed before and motioned for them to line up single file. "Now it is time for show and tell. Tiny Tim, show is your three weapons of choice."
The small pink colt gulped loud enough for Applebloom and Babs to hear.
Tiny reluctantly dropped a brown burlap bag in front of Captain Fireheart who lowered his head down to stare into the cowering colt's eyes. "Don't tell me your weapon is a sack, what are you going to do, hide in it? Level 1 creatures would sniff you out in a matter of seconds, so don't try my patience boy." "S-sorry s-sir," Tiny Tim replied, shakily reaching in the bag to pull out his first weapon of choice. (W.O.C.) After fumbling in his bag for a moment the small colt reveled two sharp blades strapped to his front hooves. "This is my first choice, You see, I can retract this straight blade in and out, so when I don't need to use it," Tiny clicked a small button on the left inside hoof strap and his blade folded into the bracelet with a few silent mechanical whirls. "I can safely move around without having to wield a weapon." The brown colt shielded his remaining blade and reached into his bag to retrieve his second weapon.

"Hi, may I interest you in a sample of our finest Apple pie on the market?" The orange earth mare bellowed, as she pointed to her cart full of apple pie's, fritters, and candies. The blue pegasus who the salespony was addressing fluttered over and halted in front of the stand. "Oh my this does smell lovely, may I hear about your products more while having a sample? My name is Rain Dew by the way, what's yours?" The orange mare pushed back her short red bangs and greeted Rain Dew with a warm smile. "My name is Orange Sunset, this is my apple stand, I'm very happy you'd like to try a slice, with everything that's been happening I was worried to set up a stand and make all this food. I didn't know if anypony would even give me a second glance." Orange Sunset cut a small slice of apple pie and sprinkled some cinnamon on the top. "I don't see why anypony wouldn't stop here," Rain Dew spoke up, as she ran her hoof across her green leaf cutie mark that had drops of crystal blue water falling on and off it, in an attempt to flatten her fur. The orange mare sat up after giving Rain Dew her slice of pie, Her orange head tilted to the side. "What do you mean?" "I mean," Rain Dew explained, scarfing down her much needed food. "You're a very good salespony, not to mention don't match the description or personalities of any of those convicts." The orange mare blinked and nodded a small thank you. "I mean look at you, your orange fur and red hair don't match any of those cannibals. And your cutie mark," Rain Dew pointed to Orange Sunset's flank, "That cutie mark is a beautiful sun, so I'm surprised you don't have a long line of ponies waiting to have a bite of some happyness for once." Orange Sunset sat on her hind haunches and smiled sadly, "Unfortunately I'm moving back to New Stable, With all these terrible crimes going around, ponies don't trust pastries anymore, I had moved here a few days after the bakers had been caught but when they escaped again...." Her voice trailed off as a remorseful Rain Dew finished her line for her. "But now ponies don't even trust their best friends." "Exactly, I even bought a beautiful cottage outside of Ponyville too, It's small but it was all I could afford. Today was my last day in Ponyville, and I needed to get rid of my produce somehow." Orange Sunset paced around her stand of produce and looked up and shouted an unnecessarily loud "Ah-ha"
"What If you helped me? If you help me load the last of my supplies in my wagon I'll pay you in return all my leftover goods!"
The blue pegasus shared the orange mare's joy and followed close behind. From the sky, the blue pegasus couldn't see the hidden smirk from the orange mare below.

Sorry for the wait my little ponies! I have been super busy with finishing my GED and getting prepped for taking the first steps into becoming a dentist. Anyways, I will have pictures up of the characters and their new weapons within a week or so. ^-^ Ah And as always I'd love to hear so feedback on my stories, Just like how I proxy promise there will be lots of death in later chapters, but must like a good book, sometimes you just have to wait.