Beach bee farm
Four ponies have been send on a mission to establish a bee farm where bees produce honey and enchant leather.
The four pegasi send on this mission are Crafted Screwdriver the policemare, Visionary Chaser the magic student, Morning 'Tea' Scarab the cave tender and Emerald Flitter the drifter.
Together they have build a small settlement on the coast of east Acrab. They set up everything they need to survive, including a sewege system and stone walls around the settlement.
They hed three strange encounters: The obsidian empire showed up and tried to kill them, fortunetly for the colonists , adamantium knifes are good at penetrating through strong armor. Then they hed a alicorn in powered armor crash nearby, which they recruted, the alicorns name is Instrument Ice. After that a human airship has arrived and offered them to buy a blue gootraxian out of slavery, which they accepted.
They started breeding bees when one of them got quite a interesting idea.
"I don't understand how bees are suppose to enchant leather, only unicorns and kirins can enchant stuff."
"Me neither, that is for science ponies to worry about, if it works it works, it shouldn't take long untill we create first bee that can enchant leather."
"If anypony can just breed these bees then those hairless bipedes probably can create them, why should we go through such a time wasting endevor. When they can do it for us for little silver that they are greedy for!"
"I don't think it is that easy you know"
"Watch me! i will offer any human 1 unit of silver per enchanting bee and we see if they accept it out of lust for silver!"
To suprise of everyone in the colony the offer was accepted, they really didn't need to breed bees themselfs, the humans just send them a transport pod full of these bees. Deconstructing their bee houses and buiding them in a circle around a shelf with leather, they put the bees inside and watched them work.
"Why do the time consuming work when you can make heirless monkeys do the work for you, for just some shiny metal, am i right?" said Crafted Screwdriver.
While they were trying to expand their beehouses they were rudely awaked by insectoid buzzing but it wasn't bees, it was changelings! Crafted Screwdriver with the gootraxian came out of their bedrooms and went to face buggy threat. They injured the gootraxian but it should recover. While the changelings retreated, they might still pose a threat, can't have a bug infiltration happen in a colony. They need to report this to the authorities when they get the chance.
A kirin caravan has arrived offering magical animals, they bought the magical animals. Since the animals have enchanted leather they may come usefull should the animals die, they get their enchanted leather.
59 days have passed...
A odd thing has happend, everypony was going about their day when out of the sky, honey was falling in transport pods. Who was storing honey in the orbit?
Having finished their beehouses, tailoring room and processing all enchated leather into pony outfits. They have decided to build a hotel out of stone blocks, for humans who want to learn about harmony and friendship or just help ponies. Not all humans are bad right, right?
While the hotel is being build the blue gootraxian seems to be lossing sapience.
"Hey, are you allright?" asked emerald
"No, the insticts are starting to become to much, i don't want them to overtake me! you have to find a way to fix me!"
"I don't think we find a way to fix you soon, you just have resist OK. Emerald said putting a hoof on it's paw.
The blue gootraxian only whimpered in responce, refusing to do work on it's own.
The hotel they were building eventualy turned into a bureacratic building, with each bedroom having a corresponding work desk in a dedicated work room. This building was build right on the beach next to the bee farm.
Later they did find a way to fix the gootraxian. They grew some blue plants and sythesized a blue pill, which slowly restored the gootraxians sapience.
Not much has changed since. New ponies moved in and the production and bureacracy has expanded, everypony in that beach settlement hed a decent life...