My Little Wizard Of Oz

Chapter 1

It was a bright and sunny day in the land of Equestria, and running on the path to Sweet Apple Acres was a little yellow filly with a brilliant amaranth mane, brilliant gamboge eyes, light brilliant crimson bow in her mane, and no cutie mark named Apple Bloom. Running next her was her dog named Winona. "She isn't coming yet, Winona." Apple Bloom said talking about Princess Cadence who was on her way to Sweet Apple Acres to pick up Winona because Winona bit her on the leg. "Did she hurt ya'll? She tried to, didn't she? Come on, we'll go tell Uncle Big Mac and Auntie Applejack. Come on, Winona!" Winona barked as if she said that she agrees with her. They ran to Sweet Apple Acres, and spotted Big Macintosh and Applejack working with baby chicks. "Aunt Applejack! Aunt Applejack!" Apple Bloom called out as she went up to her and Big Mac. "Fifty-seven, fifty-eight-" Applejack said as she was trying to count the baby chicks, but she lost her train of thought when Apple Bloom said "Just listen to what Princess Cadence did to Winona! She-" "Apple Boom, please!" Applejack yelled out interuppting her niece. "We're trying to count! Fifty-eight-"

"Oh, but Aunt Applejack, she hit her over the-!" Apple Bloom tried to say, but then Big Mac said "Don't bother us now, Apple Bloom! This old incubator's gone bad, and we're likely to lose a lot of our chicks." "Oh, the poor little things." Apple Bloom said as she looked at the chicks in pity. "Oh, but Aunt Applejack, Princess Cadence hit Winona right over the back with a rake just because she says she gets in her garden and chases her nasty old cat every day!" "Seventy-." Applejack said trying to count, but she was once again interuppted by her niece. "Apple Bloom, please!" "Oh, but she doesn't do it every day!" Apple Bloom said. "Just once or twice a week. And she can't catch her old cat, anyway. And now she says she's gonna get the sheriff, and-!" "Apple Bloom! Apple Bloom! We're busy!" Applejack yelled out interuppting her niece. Apple Bloom then sighed and walked off. "Poor little orphan, and her Princess Cadence troubles." Big Mac said talking about Apple Bloom. "Gosh all hemlock. You know, she ought to have somepony to play with."

"Ah know, but we all got to work out our own problems, Big Mac." Applejack said. "Eeyup." Big Mac said. "Oh, Ah hope we got them in time." Applejack said. "Eeyup." Big Mac said. Working on a wagon were three ponies named Bubble Berry, Elusive, and Butterscotch. Elusive and Butterscotch lowered the bed of wagon into place. "How's she coming?" Butterscotch asked. "Take it easy." Bubble Berry said. He suddenly got his hoof caught under the wagon bed. "Ow! You got my hoof!" He called out in pain." Elusive and Butterscotch held the wagon bed, and said "Well, why don't you get your hoof out of the way!" Once Bubble Berry moved his hoof out of the way, Elusive and Butterscotch put the wagon bed in its place. "Come on. Come on. Over this way." Elusive said. "Okay." Butterscotch said. "There you are." Elusive said. Bubble Berry then yelped in pain when he hit his hoof with his hammer. "Right on my hoof!" Bubble Berry cried out. "It's a lucky thing it wasn't your head." Butterscotch said.

Apple Bloom went up to Butterscotch and said "Butterscotch, what am Ah gonna do about Princess Cadence? Just because Winona chases her old cat-!" "Listen honey, I got the hogs to get in." Butterscotch said interuppting Apple Bloom as he went over to the hog pen." "Now look, Apple Bloom, you aren't using your head about Princess Cadence." Bubble Berry said. "Think you didn't have any brains at all." "Ah have so got brains!" Apple Bloom said feeling offended. "Well, why don't you use them?" Bubble Berry asked. "When you come home, don't go by Princess Cadence's place. Then Winona won't get in her garden, and you won't get in any trouble. See?" "Oh, Bubble Berry, you just won't listen, that's all." Apple Bloom said. "Well, your head ain't made of straw, you know." Bubble Berry said. "Oh! Oh, it feels like my joints are rusted." Elusive said as he tried to get up from working on the wind machine. "Listen, Apple Bloom, don't let Bubble Berry kid you about Princess Cadence. She's just a poor sour-faced princess. She ain't got no heart left. You know, you should have a little more heart yourself, and have pity on her."

"Well, gee, Ah try and have a heart." Apple Bloom said. "Now look, here's something that really has a heart." Elusive said. "This is the best invention I ever invented." "This?" Apple Bloom asked refering to the wind machine. "Sure." Elusive said. "It's to break up winds, so we don't have any more dust storms. Can you imagine what'll mean to this section of the country? I'll show you. It works perfectly now. Here's the principle. You see that fan..that sends up air currents into the sky. These air currents..Oh, stop it!" Apple Bloom spotted what was bothering Elusive and said "Oh!" "Who did it?" Elusive asked. "Now wait a minute." "Elusive!" Apple Bloom called out. "Now what happened?" Elusive asked. "I'll bet Bubble Berry did that." As Butterscotch was driving the hogs into the pen, Apple Bloom went up to the railing of the pen, and walked on it.

Butterscotch poured the feed into the pen. "Say! Get in there before I make a dime bank out of you!" Butterscotch said as one of the hogs pestered him. He looked at Apple Bloom and said "Listen, Apple Bloom, are you going to let that Princess Cadence try and buffalo you?" He poured more feed into pen, and said "She ain't nothing to be afraid of. Have a little courage, that's all." Apple Bloom walked along the railing between hog pens, and said "Ah'm not afraid of her." Butterscotch picked up another bucket of feed and poured it into the pen, and said "Then next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That's what I'd do!" Suddenly, Apple Bloom lost her balance on the railing, and fell into the pen. "Oh! Oh! Oh, Butterscotch! Help! Help me, Butterscotch! Get me out of here! Help!" Apple Bloom yelled out as Butterscotch jumped into the pen, and took Apple Bloom's hoof out of the wire.

He then carried her out of the pen, and placed her down with Bubble Berry and Elusive. Butterscotch then jumped out of the pen, sat down, and wiped her brow. "Are you alright, Apple Bloom?" Elusive asked. "Yes, Ah'm all right." Apple Bloom said. "Oh, Ah fell in and Butterscotch-." Bubble Berry and Elusive looked at Butterscotch, and laughed drowning Apple Bloom's voice. "Why, Butterscotch, you're just as scared as Ah am!" Apple Bloom said looking at Butterscotch's frightened face. "What's the matter, gonna let a little old hog make a coward out of you?" Bubble Berry asked. "Look at you, Butterscotch." Elusive said. "You're just as white-." "Here, here, what's all this jabberwapping when there's work to be done?" Applejack said walking in on them. "I know three shiftless farm hooves that'll be out of a job before they know it!" "Well, Apple Bloom was walking along the-" Elusive tried to say, but Applejack interuppted him as she said "Ah saw ya'll tinkering with that contraption, Elusive. Now, you and Bubble Berry get back to that wagon!"

"All right, Applejack." Elusive said. "But some day they're going to erect a statue to me in this town, and-." Applejack interuppted him, and said "Well don't start posing for it now. Can't work on an empty stomach. Have some apple turnovers." She gave some apple turnovers to the working ponies. "Gosh, Applejack." Bubble Berry said as he took an apple turnover from the plate Applejack was holding. "Just fried." Applejack said. "Thanks." Elusive said taking an apple turnover. "Swell." Bubble Berry said taking a bite out of the turnover. "You see, Apple Bloom toppled in with the big Duroc-." Butterscotch tried to say as he took an apple turnover, but Applejack interuppted him, and said "It's no place for Apple Bloom about a pig sty! Now ya'll go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!" "Yes, miss Applejack." Butterscotch said as he ate his apple turnover, and went back to work.

"Auntie Applejack, really, ya'll know what Princess Cadence said she was gonna do to Winona?" Apple Bloom said. "She said she was gonna-!" Applejack interuppted her niece, and said "Now, Apple Bloom, dear, stop imagining things. Ya'll always get yourself into a fret over nothing." "No-!" Apple Bloom tried to say, but Applejack once again interuppted her, and said "Now, ya'll just help us out today, and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble." Applejack then tossed Winona an apple turnover, and walked off. "Some place where isn't any trouble." Apple Bloom said to herself as she and Winona walked over to the fence. "Do ya'll suppose there is such a place, Winona? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away, behind the moon, beyond the rain, and over the rainbow." Then Apple Bloom imagined a magical land somewhere over the rainbow.