- >You are Anonymous and you are in trouble.
- >As a merchant you are required to purchase and sell goods for profit in the market each day with a small fee to the owner of the produce.
- >Leafy Green, what a kind mare, has sold her harvest of cabbages to you.
- >Poor as you are, you cannot afford to hire ponies to carry the produce and you end up pulling the carriage yourself.
- "It is blistering hot out here today!" Feeling the sun ,merciless on your predicament, beating down on you.
- >You speed through the road toward the market and are taken surprise as a trio of fillies run down through an alley tilting your cart over.
- "WHAT ARE YOU DO-" That's when you crash underneath your cart, the cabbages spilling all over the street. The quality is ruined.
- >Seething with rage and grief at the lost shekels, you exclaim, "MY CABAGEEEESSSSSSSSS!"
- >The three miniature criminals look on embarrassed and in shock.
- >You start grinding your teeth in anger.
- >Grabbing their ears you tug them over to your fellow merchant and friend AppleJack.
- "Your sister has been-" You put up both your fingers in emphasis. "Adventuring"
- >AppleJack looks in disappointment at the three and gives them an angry stare.
- >"Now what were you doin' dashing around the streets like that, You could've hurt somep0ny real bad!"
- >"We're sorry mister Anon. We were just playing aroun' that's all." Cries the three.
- "Sorry doesn't replace 50 cabbages and the money i'm going to lose.
- >Rarity and Twilight both appear at the end of the marketplace carrying bags of goods they had brought.
- "Troublemakers destroyed my cabbages, it will take so much time to regain the profit here!"
- >"What have they been doing this time?" Asks rarity.
- "Have they been doing this already to people?" You ask.
- >Rarity looks at them with disappointment, after seeing the scene, adding to AppleJack stare.
- >"The fillies were trying to get their cutiemarks in something, they call themselves the Cutiemark crusaders."
- "They need a punishment for what they have done.Will you see to that?" You spit out.
- >"I think i know what can help you and teach them to stop getting into so much trouble." Rarity calmly says with a grin on her face.
- >"We were just trying to get our cutiemarks in running sir!" The orange one squeaks out in fear. So...Cute.
- "HMPH" you sound out as you pull your cart and the dirtied cabbages away.
- >Soon you arrive home and walking into your ratty home you lock your door and walk to your bed.
- >You have a dreamless night.
- >Something your eyelids.That must be the sun.
- "Does Celestia have any mercy on me!?"
- >The sun persists and confirms what you knew.
- >Yawning you walk to your bathroom and clean yourself up.
- >You walk to your dresser and put on a new set of clothes you ordered from Rarity while in town a week ago.
- >Feeling refreshed you head to the nearest bakery, the best bakery.
- >The walk there is long but you are fine with it.
- >You enter the fine establishment.
- "Hello Pinkie"
- >Your monotonous voice makes its way to the kitchen where a flurry of powder was erupting everywhere.
- >Silence.
- >A loud but cheerful voice greets you, "Hiya Anon would you like something to put in your belly!" She exclaims giggling.
- >A smile makes it's way onto your face.
- "Ill take a blueberry muffin please, thank you very much." You happily say.
- "I am feeling lucky today." You say.
- >In an instant a fresh muffin on a plate finds its way into your hands.
- "Amazing service, as usual." You take a bite out of the muffin.
- >You instantly walk out the door placing the bits into pinkies hoof on the way.
- >As you enjoy your morning , you see a few colorful figures in the distance of the market.
- >Rarity quickly walks toward you with the three crusaders.
- >"My idea for the punishment was for them to help you with your work for a day and learn discipline" she quickly pushes them into you.
- "I-I'm not sure about this?"
- >"Don't worry anon it will be fine its only until they learn discipline!"
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