Me: Welcome back!

Tigress: Turn away before your eyes bleed.

Me: I would like to start this chapter by saying thank you to all those reading this. I wouldn't be surprised if, before this is done, it becomes the most veiwed story I've written. It is currently in the top five, and the other four have been up for quite a while.

Tigress: Surprising it even has veiws.

Me: Well, enough babble, Enjoy the story!

Applejack had told Big Mac that she was going to pick up Sprocket from the hospital at the time school was letting out and he needed to pick up Applebloom. The two were working in the field, bucking apple trees, when they needed to leave to pick up the other two residence of the farm. Applejack walked in and aske dabout him. The nurse smiled and replied, "He'll be down in a few minutes."

A few minutes later, he was down in a wheelchair. The doctor that was walking beside him said, "Well, he's ready to go.* The doctor pulled out a bottle of pills. "He's going to be needing to take one every morning and night. And, remember, no strenuous activity."

"Ah got it, doc." Sprocket got up out of the wheelchair and the two began walking towards the farm. "So, how do ya like that ya don't have ta do any real work?"

Sprocket sighed. "I'll at least be able to work on that thing I'm planning for taking care of the timberwolf problem. I just can't really just sit without doing anything."

"Well, that just adds onta the list a things Ah like about ya. Yer a worker at heart, just like an Apple."

Sprocket chuckled slightly. "It's just the bay I've always been."

"Just the 'bay' yall have always been?"

"Way." Sprocket groaned and Applejack chuckled.

"Well, at least yall can still instruct Applebloom on what she's supposed ta do."

"I just hope she can do everything. I'm gonna have trouble not helping."

"Well, how 'bout if ya are, we have a late night picnic."

"What about the whole thing about needing to get up early?"

"Ah just needed ya ta git used ta gittin up early for when ya do stay up late fer somethin' important. Sides, Big Mac can handle the early mornin' chores."

"Alright. You have yourself a deal."

"Good. Cause we was gonna have a late night picninc anyways." She gave him a kiss on the cheek. Sprocket chuckled.

evening, hilltop

The two were sitting on a hilltop, enjoying a meal and staring across the land. "This is a beautiful view."

"Ah thought ya might like it. Ah use ta come up here all the time with mah pa. We would stay out here late at night, just watchin' the night."

Sprocket nodded. "I see." He looked towards the sky, and smiled slightly. "Applejack."

"Hm?"

"I'd like to tell you the whole story."

"What do ya mean?"

"My entire story." Applejack and Sprocket turned towards one another. "You see, my boss, he runs this entire organization that is a complete secret. We've got tech that is more advanced than anything."

"Ah'm sure yall had a hoof in that."

The two chuckled. "Well, only the most recent leaps in advancement. It was fairly advanced before I came along. Especially under the current boss. He joined a month before I did. He rose through the ranks in one direction. I rose through in another direction. I wasn't the head of the technological division. Anyways. I was carrying some things that I needed for a personal invention that I had been inspired to make through an invention for the organization I had helped create. And, well, I tripped and fell into another invention that had been made that I did not help make. The stuff I was carrying crashed into it, as well. That destroyed it. It might not of been a problem if it wasn't for the fact it took them several months to invent. The boss of the tech division told me that he was reporting it to the boss and that he would have my head for it. He isn't one to exagerate. Well, I seen him in the boss's office. The boss began walking towards me and, I panicked. I noticed the only invention that would help me get away. I put in a random destination and set it to self-destruct. I entered, and well, I'm not sure where I was for a while before I exited into the Everfree with an explosion."

"So, yall are runnin' cause ya tripped?" Sprocket nodded. "That ain't right."

"I know. I wouldn't be scared if it wasn't for the fact the boss is a great fighter. I learned some stuff from him, but only the basics. He could easily out smart a dragon and kill it in under a minute if he really wanted to."

"Woah. Ya sure 'bout that?"

Sprocket nodded. "That is why I am trying to hide. Hiding is the only chance I have."

"If he even attempts ta attack ya, he'll be meetin' the moon, courtesy o me."

"wish it was that easy. But, I do know, that no matter what happens, it will all be okay as long as I am with you." The two kissed and embraced one another. When they parted, they were smiling. "Now, shouldn't we get back to the farm and head to bed?"

"Why? there ain't no rain comin' tonight. We can just sleep out here."

Sprocket smiled. "Well, it may be cold."

"We'll just wrap up in the blanket together."

"And how could I say no to that?" The two pulled the ends up and over them and laid in each other's embrace before falling asleep.

Me: And there's that chapter.

Tigress: I do not like the description he gave of his boss.

Me: Me neither, but it is needed for the story.

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