[Corn/Bigpone] Corn and the Bigpony - 2

>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.