Now Apple Bloom was not the sort to give up easily. When she put her mind to getting her cutie mark by doing something apple-related, she stuck to it. Now apples are fruity like tomatoes, and who has a garden full of them?

"Angel? I like Angel, because she uses short easy words like; 'How about lunch? and 'Help yourself, Bloom!'" Bloom said, as she trotted to Angel's home.

Angel was pouring himself some tea, until he heard Apple Bloom's voice. "Bloom? Lunch? Oh no! Not again! Oh my, oh my, my goodness gracious!" Angel started to panic.

"Is anypony home?" Bloom asked, shouting there the tiny hole in front of Angel's burrow. There was no response, so she tried again. "What I said was; 'Is anypony home?'"

"No!" Angel called out.

"Bother. Isn't there anypony here at all?" Bloom asked.

"Nopony!" Angel lied, putting away all her food and dishes.

"Somepony's there, because somepony said 'nopony'." Bloom said to herself, then she giggled and said; "Oh Angel, is that you?"

"Nooo!" Angel lied again.

"But isn't that Rarity's voice?" Bloom asked.

Angel took an apple pot, and talked through it; "I don't think so, it isn't meant to be."

Apple Bloom stuffed her head through the burrow, and saw Angel; "Hello, Angel!"

"Oh, hello Apple Bloom." Angel said to her, but then he got surprised. "Uhh... Apple Bloom! A, uhh.... what a pleasant surprise!" Angel said embarrassed, hiding the apple pot behind his back. "Uhh, how about lunch?"

"Thank you, Angel!" Bloom said, hoping inside the burrow.

"Help yourself, dear." Angel said as Apple Bloom sat at the table, putting on a bid, and humming to herself while holding a spoon and a knife.

"Would you like condensed milk, or apple jelly on your bread?" Angel asked.

"Both, but never mind the bread, please? Just a small helping, if you please?" Bloom asked.

"There you are!" Angel said, pouring a drop of apple jam on her plate. Bloom just looked at it with a confused look, and looked at Angel. "Is a.... something wrong?"

"Well, I didn't mean a little larger small helping." Bloom said.

"But perhaps you'd save time if you took a whole...... jar." Angel suggested as Apple Bloom just takes the whole jar and eating up the apple jam.

"Thank you, Angel!" Bloom said happily gobbling it all up. So Bloom ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate.... and ATE! Until at last she said to Angel in a rather sticky voice; "I must be going now. Good bye, Angel!" she shuck his paw, leaving some sticky jam on it.

"Err... good bye, if you're sure you don't want anymore." Angel said in a disgusted tone.

"Is there anymore?" Bloom asked, right before she exited.

"No, there isn't." Angel said.

"I thought not." Bloom said, as she ate up the remaining jelly on her face. She jumped through the burrow hole again, but she couldn't get out, no matter how hard she tried.

"Oooo help, and bother! I'm stuck!" Bloom whined.

"Oh dear, oh gracious, well, it all comes from eating too much!" Angel said, trying to push Bloom out.

"Oh it all comes of not having front doors big enough!" Bloom said, still trying to get out.

"Oh dear, it's no use, there's only one thing to do. I'll go get Zecora." Angel started running out through her back door, and panicked as he ran out to go get help. Apple Bloom just laid there, still stuck in Angel's front door, when suddenly she started hearing a hooting noise, and saw Owlicious flying in the sky, and landing on a tree branch nearby.

"Well if it isn't, Apple Bloom!" Owlicious said.

"Oh, hello Owlicious!" Bloom said.

"Splendid day to be up and about one's business!" Owlicious said as he flew down to Apple Bloom and observed her situation. "Oh.... I say, are you stuck?"

"No, no! Just resting and thinking, and humming to myself!" Bloom said as she hummed to herself.

Owlicious cleared his throat and said; "You, sir, are stuck. A wedged pony in a great tightness. In a word, irremovable. Now obviously this situation calls for an expert!"

Just then, a hole gets dug up under Owlicious, and a gray pony with buck teeth and a western hat pops out of the ground and says with a squeak coming out of her teeth; "Somepony call for excavation expert? Ah'm not in the book, but ah'm at your service! AppleJack's the name!" she said, as she gives Owlicious a business card. "Here's mah card. What's yer problem?"

"Yes yes yes yes. It seems the entrance to Angel's domicile is impassible. To be exact, plugged." Owlicious explained, wiping the dirt off of his feathers.

"And ya want me to dig it out?" AppleJack asked.

"Precisely!" Owlicious said, as AppleJack was walking the opposite way, but Owlicious stopped her and turned her around. "I say, it's over here my good fellow!"

AppleJack turns around, and sees Apple Bloom stuck in the burrow hole. She observes the situation and says; "First thing to be done is get rid of that filly. She's grummin up the whole project!"

"Dash it all, he is the project!" Owlicious corrected her.

"Umm.... hard diggin." AppleJack said as she started digging Bloom out. "Might hit bedrock, danger can happen, risky." Just then, a clump of dirt falls on Apple Bloom and AppleJack. "Needs planks for bracing. Big job, take two, three days."

"Three days?! What about lunches?" Bloom asked.

"No problem, ah always go home for lunch!" AppleJack said. "Oh, this will run into money."

"I say, how much?" Owlicious asked.

AppleJack takes a stick and starts sorting the math in the dirt. "Er, do the job for hourly wage, plus cover materials, plus overtime, plus 10%."

"And your estimate?" Owlicious asked.

"Can't give ya estimate! Too risky!" AppleJack said, poking Owlicious stomach with her stick.

"Blast it all!" Owlicious said with an annoyed tone.

"Good idea! Will dynamite, save time!" AppleJack said.

"What's the charge?" Owlicious asked.

"The charge? Oh, about seven sticks of dynamite." AppleJack said.

"Oh no no no, the cost, the charge in money?" Owlicious added, trying to be more specific.

"No charge account, I work strictly cash." AppleJack said, as she started walking to her hole.

"Obviously, but I should think...." Owlicious started.

"Well ah can't stand around lollygaging all day, ah've got a tight schedule...." AppleJack said, as she fell into her hole. "Let me know. Ya've got mah card. Ah'm not in the book, ya know."

"Oh dash it all, he's gone!" Owlicious said.

"After all, he's not in the book you know." Bloom said.

"Oh." Owlicious said.

"Here we come, don't worry!" Angel called out, hopping back with Zecora following him.

"Cheer up, Apple Bloom! We'll get you out very soon!" Zecora said.

"Well.... maybe." Cranky added.

"Silly ol Bloom! Now here, give me your hoof." Zecora said, as she grabs Apple Bloom's hoof and tries to pull her out, along with Angel helping out, but Apple Bloom would still not come out.

"Oh, it's no use! Ah'm stuck!" Apple Bloom said.

"Well, if we can't get you out, perhaps we can push you back, no doubt!" Zecora suggested.

"Oh no, not that!" Angel panicked, hopping back inside through his back door, trying to push her out some more, and even placing a chair under her legs. "Having got this far, it seems a pitty to waste it!"

"Apple Bloom, there's only one thing left to do. Wait for you to get thin again, I'm sure it's a good plan." Zecora said.

"Oh bother, how long will it take?" Bloom asked.

"Days, weeks, months, who knows?" Cranky guessed.

"Oh dear, if I have to face that, that thing for months..... Make the best of it." Angel said to himself, facing away from Apple Bloom's flank by facing the other way, but it was no use, because Apple Bloom's reflection was on the mirror. "Oh no! There it is again! Well, I'll just turn it tot he wall." Angel tries to turn the mirror around to face the other way, but the mirror frame pops out. "Oh dear!" Just then, Angel looks through the frame and got herself an idea. "Yes, a picture frame!" Angel places the frame on Apple Bloom's flank, but her legs couldn't fit through, so he decided to rotate the frame and it worked. He wanted to decorate some more, so he placed a flour pot on her flank as well. "And a splash of color. Oh, it, it, it just doesn't have the rustic and proper look. A hunting trophy! I know just the thing!" Angel places some tree branches on Apple Bloom's flank to make it look like a moose. Angel started painting a face, which started to tickle Apple Bloom, and it messed up the look. "Oh, Bloom! You messed up my moose!" Angel facepalmed himself.

Shortly after, Spike and Twilight came by to visit poor Apple Bloom. "Apple Bloom, ol Spike has a surprise for you!" Twilight said.

"Flowers!" Spike said excitedly, giving Apple Bloom some daises.

"Applesuckle!" Apple Bloom said excitedly,

"I dunno why I agreed to do this." Spike whined, and Twilight gave him a smirk.

Apple Bloom was just about to eat the flowers, and Twilight giggled. "No, Apple Bloom, you don't eat them, you smell them." Twilight reminded her.

"Oh." Apple Bloom said as she gave the flowers a good sniff.

"It's not bad, not bad at all!" Angel said, taking a good look at the work of art he did with Apple Bloom's behind. "It's rather good, I think." Just then, the flowers that Apple Bloom was sniffing was giving her an allergic reaction, and she sneezed, which caused Angel's work of art to get messed up, and cause a big mess in the middle of his floor. "Why did I ever invite that pony to lunch? Why, oh why, oh why?" Angel whined.

So Apple Bloom just waited to get thin again. Day after day, night after lonely night. Her friends came to help her out regardless. When it was raining, Zecora held an umbrella over her, to keep her dry. At night, Twilight came to keep Apple Bloom's head warm with a little blanket over her head. Apple Bloom was snoring, and wondering what's for breakfast. Angel was laying on Apple Bloom's flank, shaking over all the snoring that Apple Bloom is creating. Shortly after, a lunch box popped out of a hole next to Apple Bloom. "Huh? A lunchbox?" Bloom observed.

"It most certainly is!" AppleJack said, popping out of the hole. "Ah'm workin the swing-shift, ya know. Time for mah midnight snack! Say, aren't y'all that stuck up filly? Ah still think ah can blast ya out of there."

"Errr... what sort of lunch is in that lunch box?" Bloom asked.

"Here, a..... let me see here...." AppleJack searched the lunch box to see what she had that's edible. "Summer squash!" Jack eats up the squash inside her mouth, biting it with her buckteeth in one go. "Summer salad.... scootash... custard.... and Apple Pie!"

"Apple Pie?!" Bloom asked excitedly.

"APPLE PIE?! Oh no!" Angel panicked as he was about to run outside, but he trips over one of his chairs.

"Could ya spare a small smackerel?" Bloom asked, trying to mimic AppleJack's squeaky voice.

"Say, ya have to do somethin about that speech impediment, sugarcube." AppleJack said, giving the pie to Bloom.

"Oh, thank ya, AppleJack!" Bloom said, and was just about to take the pie, but Angel hops in the way, and takes the pie away.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no! Not one bite!" Angel demanded.

"But Angel, ah wasn't going to eat it! Ah was just going to taste it." Bloom begged.

"I'll taste it for you!" Angel yelled at Bloom, and hoping back inside her burrow.

"That supercilious scoundrel confiscated mah pie!" AppleJack whined.

Angel came back quickly, pounding a down a sign that says; 'DON'T FEED THE FILLY!'

"Ah'm gonna skedaddle." AppleJack complained, and started walking away "Ah'm not in the book!" Just then, AppleJack falls into her hole again and says; "And ah'm a dinkdad glad of it!"

And then one morning, when Angel was beginning to think that he might never be able to use his front door again, it happened. Angel was leaning on Bloom's behind, and her flank budged. Angel excitedly ran outside and yelled; "She budged! Horray! Zecora! Zecora! She bidged! She badged! She boodged! TODAY'S THE DAY!"

Just then; Twilight, Spike, Zecora, Owlicious, and Cranky all showed up and cheerily started singing..... well, except Cranky. "Horray for you!" everypony sang.

"Horray for me!" Bloom sang.

"Horray, horray! The Bloom will soon be free!" everypony sang. Everypony started marching over to Bloom to pull her free from Angel's front door. "Now the time has come for proving, what the diet did for Bloom, and we pledged she'd be unwedged that's what we're going to do! She'll be pulled and she'll be tugged, and eventually unplugged. We'll have a tug of war, to open Angel's dooooor!" Zecora grabbed Apple Bloom's hooves, Twilight pulled Zecora for support, Cranky pulled on Twilight, and Spike pulled on Cranky. "Think heave-ish! Think ho-ish! And out the Bloom will go-ish!" AppleJack popped out of her hole, and pulled on Spike to help out. "For mind over matter, has made the Bloom un-fatter!" But Cranky's tail wasn't all that secured, and popped out, causing Spike to lose his balance, and causing AppleJack to fall back into her hole, but that didn't stop the others from trying to get Bloom out. Angel was on the other side, trying to push. Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho! Heave, heave, heave, heave, heeeeeeeave! A strong pull from the others, and a berserk push from Angel caused Bloom to fly right out of the hole and into the sky.

"There she goes!" Angel yelled.

"Suffering sassafras! She's sailin clean out of the book! Quick, turn the page!" AppleJack yelled, as Apple Bloom was flying right out of this story, back inside another page, and gets stuck inside a Apple Tree. The fruit bats all get startled and start flying away.

"Stuck again." Cranky said.

"Don't worry, Apple Bloom! We'll get you out soon!" Zecora yelled.

"No hurry! Take your time! Yum, yum!" Bloom said, as she started eating all the apples inside the tree, and continued to sing. "Apple family love apples, and ah'm the Apple Bloom! Yum yum yum yum! Time for something sweet!"

Author's Notes:

Rarity was originally going to be Rabbit, because they both like style, but then I figured out.... it would make more sense if Angel was Rabbit. Why not? Owlicious is Owl for crying out loud!