The Fifth Sign

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Who: Anyone who wants to participate
What: The zapapple harvest!
Where: Ponyville, Sweet Apple Acres, the orchard where the Zapapple trees are growing
When: Afternoon
Warnings: None yet.

A lightning storm crackles over the orchard, lighting the sky with electricity for minutes on end. Only when it fades does a rainbow arch across the sky. As if by magic - and it may well be - the gray apples on the trees suddenly grow to three times their size and gain rainbow stripes. It looks like the zapapples are ripe and ready for picking. There's buckets and barrels in the barn - best get started before the sun goes down and they disappear.

As for that howling in the distance...well, surely it's nothing.

[Anyone can join; this plot is friendly for combatants and non-combatants alike; no tag order; further instructions as events warrant. Have fun!]

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[onehandsomeslickninja]

"So wait, we need to go through and pick all of these apples?"

Drawn here by curiosity and lightning, Edge now stared at the orchard with no small alarm at the size of the task.

[sailorlaughter]

"Yep! Or at LEAST as many as we can get!" Pinkie replied, turning to buck a tree herself. The apples didn't all come down - applebucking wasn't really her forte - but a decent few fell. They weren't all in the bucket, so she set about gathering them up. "We've got more people here than AJ usually has to help her, so it shouldn't be too bad!"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"You just -- is that what we're supposed to do? Kick the tree so hard all the apples fall off it it?"

That seemed really unlikely. Edge planted his forelegs and gave a kick backwards with a rear one just to try it out, peering over his own shoulder as if he could discern some trick to the act.

[sailorlaughter]

"Basically!" Some more apples rained down from Edge's buck, and Pinkie ran around to help gather those ones up as well. "It's easier if you're a farmer, but I'm not. I've helped with it before though!"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"I'm not a farmer either! I'm a ninja! And if I could use my ninjutsu, I could have these trees cleared in a matter of moments!"

Still, he had to prove he could do it, so he reared backwards to slam both legs into the trunk, in imitation of what he'd seen Pinkie Pie doing earlier. That took the rest of the apples out, Edge having a bit of strength in his muscles. "Wow, I have a kick like this!"

[sailorlaughter]

"Really?" Pinkie seemed suitably impressed with Edge's applebucking, but that was in no way the most interesting thing that just happened. "You're a NINJA? Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh that is SO COOL!!!" She bounced around the tree in excitement. "Can you show me some ninja moves?"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"It'd be a lot easier if I wasn't a pony! I can't make the proper gestures to perform ninjutsu! No fingers!" He lifted his forelegs to waggle them at her. "But I'll be happy to put on a demonstration of my talents in one of the other towns!"

[sailorlaughter]

"Okay! But you can be a ninja WITH hooves, y'know!" Pinkie glanced from side to side, before leaning in to whisper behind a hoof: "Donkey ninjas. They're everywhere."

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"They're not here. Donkey, pony, or chocobo, there's no ninja better than I am, and I would have sensed them!" He lifted a hoof to his chest proudly as a wing flicked, causing his cape to snap melodramatically.

[sailorlaughter]

"Ooooooh." Pinkie did indeed seem impressed by the dramatic cape snap. He and Luna would probably TOTALLY get along! "What's a chocobo? Is it made of chocolate? 'Cause a chocolate ninja would be so great!"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Ha, no, no! A chocobo is a large bird meant for riding! Funny thing is, they come in three different colors too. Yellow are normal riding birds, white are magic birds who restore your strength, and black chocobos are the only kind that can fly!"

And the rarer Fat Chocobos, which he, uh, was not going to compare to the rarer alicorns in any way, shape, or form.