Title: [Corn/Bigpone] Corn and the Bigpony - 2 Author: NukePone Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/ad1cPCVy First Edit: Friday 12th of June 2015 06:49:51 PM CDT Last Edit: Friday 12th of June 2015 06:49:51 PM CDT >A loud, thudding stomping caused Corn's home to quake. >She woke up, less worried that there was an earthquake, and more worried that Sequoia had returned. >She hadn't even been gone a month. >Corn jumped out of bed, quickly put her scarf on, and rushed out of her house. >She started shouting in pops as she ran across her empty fields. "Pop! Pop pop!" >She popped her lips at the two towering ponies that stood by her abomination of a corn tree. >The sun silhouetted them, but she already knew who one of the ponies was. >"Oh! Good morning, Corn." "Pop!" >"Sorry, I should have sent a letter. I found Gloomy!" >Corn turned her head from Sequoia to the new pony. "Pop." >"What?" >"She said 'nice to meet you." >"Oh." >Corn trotted between the two ponies and approached the tree. "Pop." >"Right. We need to uproot the tree and plant it on the north side of the farm. We, uh... Didn't think about the positioning. We kind of made this one accident." "Pop!" >"It was mostly my fault." >Corn nodded in agreement and glared at Sequoia. >"And you needed me...?" >"To help uproot it." >Gloomy nodded. >"Great." >"I figured you could help the most, since you aren't going to be busy for a while." >Corn looked up at Gloomy, and blinked a few times, wondering if she wasn't incredibly sleepy. >Gloomy had grown slightly larger. "Pop?" >"I get bigger when my shows are between seasons." >Corn shook her head and started trotting back to her house. >Gloomy and Sequoia stayed behind and started digging at the roots of the tree to pull it up. >"She's weird." >"I think she's nice. She did try to make bigger food for us." >"Oh, is that what this tree is? I didn't think corn grew on trees." >"I kind of... messed that up. She tried to do it alone, and I offered to help. It kind of turned it into a tree." >"Nice job." >"Well, it was better than her rolling giant cobs of corn over the cliff!"   >Corn approached the two with a shovel in her mouth. "Pop." >"No, we are grateful that you did this for us, but you did waste food by throwing it into the ocean." >Corn shrugged and started digging around the roots of the tree. >"So, can  you actually talk, or what?" "Pop." >Gloomy looked up at Sequoia. >Sequoia shrugged. >"I've only heard her pop her lips, or... speak corn facts, I guess." "Pop." >"But you can understand her." >"Kind of? Like, not really? It's just... a context thing?" >Sequoia scrunched her nose up and held her head. >"I'll try not to think about it, then." "Pop!" >"So, how exactly did you two make a corn tree?" "Blasphemous earth magic from a certain big pony acted as added nutrients and hormones for the cornstalk which allowed it to grow much broader than usual. As a result, it developed a trunk similar to that of a tree, leaves to absorb the sun's light to grow, and hanging fruit." >"Which is the corn." "Pop!" >Gloomy frowned as Corn popped her lips. >"Okay, I think we're done digging." >Gloomy and Corn looked down to find almost all of the roots exposed. >"How are we going to move this?" "Pop! Pop pop, pop." >"What?" >Corn sighed, pointed to her back, made a pushing motion, and started trotting across the field. >"She wants us to carry it on our backs." >"Yay." >Gloomy laid down beside the tree as Sequoia pushed it over. >Gloomy grunted as it landed on her, but started to stand as Sequoia trotted over, wedged herself under the tree, and stood up. >They carried the tree across the field, and stood over Corn as she finished digging a deep hole. >"How'd you dig that so fast?" >Corn looked up at Gloomy, then down at the shovel. >She shrugged and chucked the shovel into the grass. >"So, we just dump the tree in there?" >Corn nodded. >They dumped the tree into the hole, roots first, and started pushing the dirt back into the hole.   >Once finished, they trotted back to the other side of the field to fill the first hole. >"So." >Gloomy and Sequoia started stamping the dirt down. >"You're paying us for this, right?" >Corn looked up at Gloomy, sighed, and led them to a large barn on the north side of the field. >She opened the doors and held a hoof up as she revealed nearly two dozens cobs of corn nearly twice her size. "Pop." >"Oh, dang." >"Told you. It's better than having to buy a bunch of little foods." >"Right?" >Corn rolled her eyes and left the two massive ponies to eat their fill.