A Clone Gargoyle's Equestrian Tale

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S2 E14 Everypony! Super Speedy Cider Squeezy is up next with the Flim Flam brothers!

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At the farm Sweet Apple Acres where Malibu still lived, he and Applebloom are watching Applejack practicing for an upcoming rodeo contest. She jumped over the hurdles, running faster and faster.

Despite how strong and impressive AJ was she could never be as good as Rainbow Dash in the clone gargoyle's eyes, but he still appreciated her skills. Malibu had a big grin on his face while Applebloom wore her sister's hat. She had cheered, nearly falling over.

"Maybe you can try taking off the hat?" Malibu suggested but AB shook her head. "No way!" He chuckled when Applejack jumped over the last hurdle, barely touching it and managing to land in record time.

"Woo-hoo!" Applebloom cheered again, this time the hat falling off. "Applejack, you're sure to knock off everypony's hat in the Equestria Rodeo Competition!"

Applejack turned pink. "Aw, shucks, Applebloom. I sure hope so." Malibu stared in disbelief. "How could you not believe that? I mean, look," He complimented, gesturing to the wall of blue ribbons the orange earth pony had. "Yeah! After all, you're the ten time rodeo champeen of Ponyville! Why, you've got more blue ribbons than any pony in Ponyville ever like what Malibu showed! And I can't wait for my big sis to win every blue ribbon in Equestria and bring home the title of Equestria Rodeo champeen!"

Malibu's grin grew bigger at the sight of now Applejack's even more noticeable blushes. But then he remembered. "Uh, gotta go help Rainbow Dash to repair the town hall. But I'll be back to see you off, AJ, alright?" He said, Applejack nodding in response. He took to the air, flying to the middle of the town.

He saw Rainbow struggling to hold up a sign and decided to surprise her by using his magic. A smile showed on his face when she turned, startled. "Oh, hey Mal! You made it! And in time too. Things have been a little slow since another certain helper hasn't really been... helping." The cyan blue pegasus gestured to a storm cloud.

The teal alicorn prince saw what she was talking about when suddenly lightning zapped, nearly singing his mane. "Ah!" He yelped. "Careful, Derpy!" Rainbow Dash yelled out to the gray pegasus with the bubbles for her cutie mark. Malibu didn't blame Derpy since she had that disability. "You don't want to do anymore damage than you've already done," Rainbow grumbled to Derpy, who simply jumped on the cloud blissfully.

"I just don't know what went wrong!" Derpy said cheerfully, ending up being zapped by her own cloud, smiling goofily. Malibu thought he heard Dash mutter something under her breath but he didn't quite catch it. "It really is alright, Derpy. Just happy you volunteered," Malibu said, trying to be nice.

Derpy then flew backwards. "Nice work, guys!" She exclaimed, before her butt hit against a beam, making it fall over, Malibu's ears flattened, going up and catching the beam, but Rainbow accidentally flew into him, and the duo crashed through the deck floor.

He groaned, feeling Rainbow Dash on top of him, and the two turned red, quickly getting off each other, Derpy looking down at them. "You ok Rainbow Dash and Malibu? Anything I can do to help?" The gray pegasus asked, a piece of wood falling, smaller this time.

Rainbow zipped up out of the hole, her face panicked. "No! Nothing! In the name of Celestia just sit there and do nothing!" She shouted. Malibu frowned. A little too harsh if you asked him. But this was his marefriend so he couldn't yell at her. Derpy did sit; however she cracked the wood, and collapsed down, taking Dash with her. This time Malibu kept himself free from crashing again.

"Oops! My bad!" Yelled up Derpy, the teal alicorn just grinning still. There was just something about her clumsiness that made her charming in a way.

He soon heard cheering from the center of town, which sounded like them yelling out Applejack's name. Malibu saw Mayor Mare there on a stadium. "Everypony, can I get your attention? Your attention please!" The crowd stopped cheering. "Yes, we are all here to send Applejack to compete in this year's Equestria Rodeo Competition in Canterlot!"