Aren't you glad y'all came with me to see Applejack competing in the Appleloosa Rodeo?
Totally!
This place is a cutie mark goldmine.
There is barrel racing,
roping contests,
rodeo clowning,
steeplechase.
If we can get into some of these events,
we can all three walk up to train back in Ponyville
with brand sparking new cutie marks!
Wouldn't a barrel look good here?
I wanna lasso!
I don't know.
All these events look a little…
Well…
Dangerous.
No risk, no reward.
Alright, everypony listen up!
We need a big presence in this here rodeo,
so make yourself menacing.
I want that low-down varmint
to know that we mean business!
I hope nothing bad is going on.
A cutie mark-apalooza and a low-down varmint?
This is shapin' up to be the most exciting rodeo ever!
Yeah, come on!
That's my cousin!
Go, Applejack, go!
It's been a dog's age since I got to compete!
All the rodeos around Ponyville are closed down for some reason!
Well, I guess, having injured kinfolk in Appleoosa
sure paid off then, huh, cuz?
Just doing my best to fill your horseshoes, Braeburn.
Keep tossing like that and I'll be out of a job!
Sorry.
Say, where's my sister and her friends?
See, I…
I guess I got so caught up watching you, that I…
You said you'll keep an eye on those fillies!
How am I supposed to focus on practicing if you're not gonna…
There they are!
Right where I left 'em.
Don't be mad!
My foreleg!
Hurts so much!
Y'all can't go running off like that, ya hear?
Backstage at a rodeo ain't no kind of playground.
Sorry, Applejack.
We won't wander off again.
But, uh, speaking of the rodeo…
What would you say about me and the Crusaders
maybe competing in one teensy-weensy little event or three?
Look out!
What the hay just happened?
You fillies all right?
Yeah
Sugar and saltlicks!
Well I'll be…
What is it, Sheriff?
Is it him?
Ain't no doubt.
It's Troubleshoes.
Is it true?
Is Troubleshoes here?
You ain't going to shut down the rodeo, ain't ya?
All right, now I have called for a meeting, not a mob scene.
Now, as many of you know, the Equestria rodeo circuit has been
plagued by the dirty dealings of a notorious outlaw.
He knocked barrels every which way in the Hoof City rodeo!
Nearly crushed my aunt Bae Mare!
That's nothing!
He sabotaged the steer pen at Pinto Creek rodeo!
Setting off such a stampede they
cancelled the whole daggone thing!
Now, now, it's true we had an incident this morning
at our own Appleoosa rodeo.
Hay bale stacks came down right near on top of three little fillies.
I examined them hoofprints myself and
it was Troubleshoes all right.
I reckon I oughta cancel this rodeo like all the others done.
But dag-hoof it, this has gone far enough!
We'll double the patrols!
This rodeo will go on!
Appleloosa ain't gonna be intimidated!
Glad that's settled.
So, uh, Applejack,
about me and my pals competin' in the rodeo…
Don't send us home! It's not fair!
Now, quit yer bellyachin'.
I can't have y'all around here with some outlaw on the loose.
Aw, maybe I oughta call it quits and go home too.
No, you can't!
This rodeo is important to Appleloosa!
And with you in there, we got a real shot at winnin'!
Come on, now, you head on back to practice
and don't worry none about these three.
I won't let 'em outta my sight.
Ya hear?
Y'all ain't leaving my sight!
I thought we weren't gonna wander off again.
This ain't wandering.
We know exactly where we're headed!
To find Trouble Shoes.
But isn't he a dangerous criminal?
We only need to find him.
We don't need to capture him.
The sheriff can handle that.
Once he's in jail, we'll be competing!
And then it's…
cutie mark city!
Worst idea ever!
It's another giant hoofprint!
Do either of you have any idea where we are?
Uh…
Maybe we should head back and try again later?
Come on! Before we lose the trail!
Come on.
We've gone far enough!
It's time to go back!
The rain is only getting worse, Apple Bloom!
Let's come back tomorrow?
Maybe y'all are right.
So, how do we get back?
Mean you don't know?!
Good job y'all!
I know they need lots of mud for the rodeo tomorrow,
but I wish they would have warned us about this rain storm.
Braeburn,
where are the girls?
WHAAAAAAT?!
Fish my wish!
Sheriff Silverstar! You gotta help!
My sister's gone! And her friends too!
I've searched and searched, but no sign of them anywhere!
It must've been Troubleshoes!
Now, now, hold on there.
Troubleshoes done a lot of bad things in his day,
but nothing like that!
You really wanna take that chance?
Come on, y'all!
Let's ride!
You sure about this, Scootaloo?
I thought I was, but… now I'm not.
So I pretty much got us completely and totally lost.
How could this get any worse?
We gotta get out of this rain.
There's no telling how long this storm could last.
Look!
It looks abandoned.
Let's go see if we can find some blankets or something.
Hello?
You alright?
Surely.
We didn't mean no harm.
We just came in to get out of the rain.
Had some hot cider a-cookin' in the kitchen.
Doubt it survived.
Ain't gonna rise to greet y'all, awfully rude I reckon,
but as you can see I'm the fresh casualty of an unusually unfortunate circumstance.
My lot in life, I suppose.
Are you… Trouble Shoes?
That's me.
W-what are you doing?
I'm gonna unravel him.
You can't do that!
That's Trouble Shoes!
Aw, he don't seem so bad.
Of course, guests would arrive while I ain't got no pie to offer.
Scores more misfortune points for old Trouble Shoes.
Typical.
Bad luck never rests.
You sure that's bad luck?
Seems like maybe you're just a little, um…
Klutzy?
Tell that to the flank!
Upside-down horseshoe, bad luck.
Follows me wherever I go like sour on old milk.
Y'all best vamoose before my bad luck rubs off and sticks to y'all.
Get along! Skedaddle!
Am-scray!
Um, we don't really know the way back to Appleloosa…
But of course I do…
Wouldn't you know it, my lucky day.
It's actually kind of sweet of him to help us out like this.
I know! What do we do if he takes us back to Appleloosa and the Sheriff arrests him?
If I get a cutie mark for that, I'll feel guilty every time I see it.
Say there, Troubleshoes,
you might not want to take us all the way back to Appleloosa.
The sheriff sorta has it in his mind that you're no-good outlaw looking to shut down the rodeo.
My kinda luck he'd think that.
But… is it true?
Y'all like stories?
Just my luck… I was hoping you'd say no.
When I was a colt I wanted to be a rodeo star somethin' fierce.
I just didn't seem to have a neck for it.
I practiced and practiced…
And finally I wrangled up the guts to audition for rodeo school.
Right in the middle of that tryout I knew I was doing what I was meant to.
And wouldn't you know it, in a flash comes this here cutie mark.
I can still remember them judges all laughing.
I didn't even finish my routine cause right then I knew bad luck was my fate.
That fire for rodeo never did leave me though.
Couldn't keep away from 'em.
So I'd sneak down and have a look. And wouldn't you know it,
bad luck at strike again.
Just my lot in life, I reckon.
Poor Troubleshoes.
I can't believe those mean judges would laugh at him like that.
Don't you see? They weren't laughing at him,
they were just enjoying the show!
What are you saying?
Think about it. If we saw a rodeo clown doin' what he did back in that shack,
we'd think he was the greatest!
You're right! He can still be in rodeos, just not the way he thought!
So he's been looking at his cutie mark wrong the whole time!
It's not bad luck, it's…
Gotcha!
Just my luck…
Troubleshoes, you're under arrest.
For vandalizin' the property and peace of mind of the good rodeo-lovin' ponies of Equestria!
Not to mention fillynappin'!
And… generalized mayhem!
Wait!
Braeburn, get these fillies someplace safe.
Wait, no! Listen! Applejack!
No!
But Troubleshoes isn't the menace everypony thinks!
Sakes alive, what's with you?
Why in tarnation would you want me to help get him out of jail,
when he's the one who run off with y'all to begin with?
Now if y'all excuse me, I'm off to win the Appleloosa rodeo hay bale monster stack.
Um, Applejack?
Well, at least I get me a view of one small corner of the rodeo.
Figures.
Oh come on now, Troubleshoes, I'm running out of mattresses!
Come on, Sheriff, you're about to miss hay bale monster stack!
Jiminy, that's startin' already?!
Let's go, Troubleshoes, this here is a jailbreak!
Ain't no need. Can hear the rodeo just fine from this vantage.
But we've got a plan to help you live your dream!
Listen y'all, I'm a known criminal.
How are you proposing on getting me to a rodeo?
Go! You can do it!
Well, how do I look?
Come on now, stack them bales, woohoo!
Okay now, Troubleshoes, you're on!
Say what?
I may be dressed like one, but I ain't no rodeo clown!
You got your cutie mark all wrong, Troubleshoes!
You were born to entertain!
You've got a gift for making folks laugh, don't you?
But my cutie mark's an upside down horseshoe!
And that means bad luck.
It all depends on how you look at it.
You always wanted to be apart of the rodeo, right?
Well, now is your chance.
Go on!
Alright! Yeah!
There y'all are.
How about your big sis, huh?
Yeah. Way to go.
Since when y'all so into rodeo clowns?
Just leave me be, cutie mark.
Aim to clear that there hoop.
Come on, now, get this….
That's the best rodeo clown I've ever seen!
Troubleshoes?!
What the hay?
He escaped form jail!
Ruining another rodeo!
Let's get him!
Wait' y'all!
He ain't what you think he is!
Stand aside, youngings!
This one's going back to jail.
But he never wanted to ruin any rodeos.
Those were just bad accidents!
Sweetie Belle, what are you talking about?
Troubleshoes has a gift for making ponies laugh.
He's maybe the best rodeo clown I've ever seen.
That's true.
He is awful funny.
He thought his cutie mark was telling him to keep away from rodeos,
but deep inside he knew that's where he was meant to be.
He just didn't know how to do it!
What she says is true.
This here enetertaining y'all with my klutzing,
that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
I know it now.
I didn't mean no harm.
Honest.
I just never loved nothing like I love the rodeo.
So I kept on, sneaking back and making a big old mess of things.
Turns out I was just looking at my cutie mark all wrong.
That may be so, Troubleshoes,
but you still gotta face charges for the problems you caused.
If I done wrong, I'll see to it that I take my debts in and square my accounts.
Truth be told, we could understand all the trouble with the rodeos,
But why'd you have to run off with these here little ones last night?!
Uh, yeah, about that…
You really want us to clean up all this mess Troubleshoes made?
Maybe it will teach you not to go wandering off after I say not to!
Ain't it bad enough that you get to go back to Ponyville with a shiny trophy,
and all we're bringing back is these same old blank flanks?
Y'all helped Troubleshoes realize what his cutie mark really means.
Ain't that a nice feeling you can take back with you?
I guess we did make things a little better.
Does feel kinda nice!
So, we can stop now?
N-nope!
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