Author's Notes:

Do people even read this anymore? Also the timeline for these are random.

Have you ever been with your friends, being the only one seeing the akward moment forming, but not wanting to warn anyone? If so, that's what happened while watching my sister, applejack and Rayden try to buck apples together.

RD would kick down some apples, Rayden would try to make a compliment, then applejack would attempt to throw his compliment off with logic.

"Cool, how do you kick down a full half of the apples in one kick?" He asked. Instead of bucking the apple trees, he did the more human approach of cutting the stems with a dagger.

"The other half are hard to get" Applejack informed. "Since they're on the other side of the tree and such."

Me and Applebloom decided to begin making the applesauce. We had a big container full of apples, which we just stomped on to squeeze out the applejuice, leaving the thicker material to be mashed up. There were more conventional ways to do it, but I found this to be fun. It didn't take long for me and AB to begin wrestling in the applesauce.

She pushed me into the ground as i kicked her into a pile of yellowish goo. She made the cutest giggles on equestria until she sank into the sauce, dissapearing into the stuff.

Seconds later, Applebloom exploded out and tackled me again, pinning me to the wall of the bowl. "Gotchya!"

I laughed and tapped her hind-hoof, immediatly causing the filly to slide and fall under me. "Not quite," i chimed.

We continued to push and pin eachother, finding ways to slip out of the other's grasp. After almost an hour, Applebloom and I laid flat on our backs, my wings spread to let the sticky stew of apples trinkle through my feathers.

The crystal's magic energy boost had turned off, now that we were not in any serious trouble. That left me hot and tired, making the relaxing apple bath a lovely bed.

"So." She huffed, obviously equally tired as I had become, "are you going with Gabriel to save those other planets?"

"Yeah," i panted. "You can come with us, I'm sure you'll have fun."

"Nah, ag'd just get in y'all's way." She rolled onto me and rested her head onto my chest, the crystal squished to my heart slightly painfully. I didn't care in the slightest.

I placed a hoof into her mane and stroked the chunks of apple out of it. Her ribbon was still wrapped on my arm. "Let's go get cleaned up, the sun is almost down." I couldn't actually see the sun, but I could feel what Gabe was looking at in the back of my head.

Applebloom shuffled on me nervously. "Uhm, would you like to stay the night here? Or do your parents want you home at a certaint time?"

"My mom won't be home for a while." I stood quickly and pulled her up. "Sure, I'll stay. Besides, you guys have a warm shower."

We leaped out of the applesauce and trotted towards the Apples' home. The filly kept close to me, wiping her hooves clean in the grass.

Applejack had finished bucking the apples and slipped into the kitchen with Granny Smith, who was cool with me staying the night.

Applebloom decided that we should take showers in different bathrooms, though I wasn't sure why she cared. After a quick shower, some apple pie and an extra cookie dessert, I felt warm and cozy, even though the snow had picked up drastically, nearly making a blizzard outdoors.

Me and Applebloom sat in the living room, close to the fireplace. Nopony was anxious to go to sleep, except Granny, who passed out in her room as soon as dinner was over.

AB pulled a red blanket over us and stared into the fire. Her eyes glowed a beautiful aray of warm colors, which seemed to melt together like lava. "What happened today?" She asked it silently, as if she was miffed about all of the weird events that occurred over the day.

"Pinkie built a wall out of fruitcake, You got kidnapped, Gabriel got a giant key and I chased a dragon across a mountain to help you." I shouldered her lightly. "And in a week or two everybody is planning to go to new worlds."

"You're going too?" She asked.

"I have to go, I'm the fastest one in the team, so I'll be needed." The words felt cold in my mouth. What team was I even talking about? We have me, the pyromaniac, the guy with manic depression issues, a living computer and a human with an obsession with my sister but not with anything else in the universe. More than half of the group has some form of amnesia, I barely know any of them and I'm saying we'd be some type of team? I have the crusaders, I shouldn't turn my back on them.

~There have been worse teams,~ ship said after reading my mind. ~me and Zaanne were a very strange duo, apparently.~

~you two were?~ I heard gabriel ask.

~Zaanne can explain the memory later.~ and then they were silent.

"Wait," Applebloom scooted closer to me. "tha blue pony is named Ray right?"

"Yeah, what about him?" She was very close now, touching flanks. My face felt like it was going to melt off when she began wagging her tail, hitting my back so lightly.

Her eyes twinkled a happy light. "From what ah saw, he doesn't have a cutie mark!"

It never accurred to me that he was a blank flank. Sure, I noticed when we first got here, but at that point i had other things on my mind. The little crusader in the back of my head knocked away all other thoughts now, except that Applebloom was now pressing her entire side to mine, making my body feel weak.

"He could be a crusader with us!" I smiled giddly. "Let's ask him tomorrow!"

Her face changed from excitement to some mix of shock and urgency. "But we have the date!"

I almost forgot about the date, and I did completely forget we were going on the date because we needed to learn how to... Do something. I should really read back on this, we planned this like twenty chapters ago!

"Right, well then we'll wait until Thursday to ask him." I rested my head on the ground, feeling tired now.

She laid next to me, eyeing the bow on my hoof. "Get to sleep then Scoots." she said wearily, "prepare for a fun day tomorow."

I wasn't in the mood to sleep, even though I was tired to the bone, and the fireplace flickered softly in my face. Zaanne's magically homely fire had no comparison to the real thing once I felt it. Ship played some more soft music, and my body shut down.

Thanks to the stupid future dreams that the magic box gave me, I wasn't exactly resting in peace.

This dream lead me to the camp that the alien showed me. Me and Gabriel stood behind a large... Was that a pony? He was huge! At least, I figured it was a he, considering the height. We were human now, but this colt was still almost a foot taller than me just to his tail. He was older looking and white, with a bushy brown tail out the back.

Then the pony turned around, and something in my head broke. It was human from the waist, a slightly muscular man who looked much older than Gabriel. He had a beard and hair looked similar to his tail, also equipped with a bow over his shoulder. The bow had his apparent name, Chiron, burnt into the top limb. His legs were horse legs, so he didn't seem to need any clothes, but it still rattled my head about the horse-human thing. His face showed something like curiosity towards us, as if he knew who we were just by looking at us.

"These are the cabins." He said in a civilized voice, but with a kind tone. I hadn't realized we were walking until we stopped at a large assortment of the weirdest buildings i had ever witnessed. Each one looked nothing like the others, except the front two, though those also had small differences. They looped around in a circle, with an extra semicircle on the outside. Each one was numbered, though the numbers were weirdly placed.

I found them all amazing (except for the cabin with an 11 on the front, which was the only normal one), Gabriel was mesmerized by the third, which looked like a house made out of stuff from the bottom of the ocean.

Chiron continued his apparent tour. "You will be seperated by who your godly parent is, when you are determined." My parents were a mailmare who didn't even stay home half a day and a guard who's most likely dead now, nothing godly about that.

"What about titans?" Gabriel strolled closely next to him, looking over every detail he could after thuroghly examining cabin three from a distance.

Chiron nodded gently. "We are still considering whether or not to make cabins for the minor titans."

"Who are the major titans?" I asked.

"His dad," Gabe muttered.

Chiron looked less offended than I expected, but I found it rude to call the horseman's dad a titan.

The scene started to change, showing me a few hours ahead. Now I was in some sort of arena, with about 20 kids in orange shirts surrounding me. I had some bronze sword in my hand, covered in armor that felt like an elephant sitting on me.

Gabriel was still next to me, now with a huge grin on his face. His eyes showed behind a helm that it wasn't really Gabe, but Zaanne now. He was also wearing an T-shirt like the others, edging on a girl a few years older than him to spar. After she accepted, they started practicing swordplay.

I didn't know what to do until some boy my age pushed me to the ground. "I win!" He laughed along with some other idiots.

I got up quickly and figured he was my sparring partner, so i charged him. Seconds later I was back on the dirt, a mace the size of my head pressed to my chest plate.

"Brain the chick!" A kid yelled behind him.

"Nah, still need a punching bag!" He pulled the mace off and kicked me up.

Before I could figure out what to do, he swung the mace like a baseball bat at me, and everything went white as if to say, "That's all folks!"

When I woke up, Applebloom had gone into the kitchen and was cooking something with Applejack. I didn't feel like getting up, but it was already a new day. "I'm gonna hate next week," i growled, then dragged myself to eat.