And my three bodies split up and each one recieves a name. The second one closes his eyes and seeks for a bright, orange point.

I'll name this body Ag. For I'll use the silver one to help the mare with a heart of gold.

The orange point is easy to find. Here at the void, everything else is white.

She's Applejack, and she's desperate, trying to find her lover and failing. She can't control her body here, in the Void. There is no floor, there are no walls, and a simple earth pony doesn't now how to use her legs to float in such a strange place.

She's not crying. Her eyes have a worried look. She's screaming the name of Rainbow Dash, and she seems terrified.

Ag approaches her, bur before revealing himself, he changes his body. He was invisible until now.

Now he has the body of a green earth pony. He's wearing a top hat and a black tuxedo. His fur is green. His mane is white. A pair of glasses cover his nose. He seems like any other pony of Equestria.

Applejack sees him inmediatly. For a second, her face glimmers with hope as she thinks Ag may be Rainbow Dash. But once she notices who's the one she's looking at, anger replaces hope.

"YOU!" the mare screams. She tries to approach Ag and hit him, but fails again. "YOU MONSTER! WHERE IS RAINBOW?! WE HAD A DEAL, YOU LIAR!"

"We hadn't," Ag says. "You're mistaken about my identity: I'm not Greentalk. I'm a friend."

The soft voice of my second body, completely different than Greentalk's, seems to calm AJ. The mare stops fighting against the Void and looks at Ag fiercely.

"Then who are you?!" she asks. "And where's Rainbow Dash?! Is she safe?!"

"Rainbow Dash is with Ar", Ag says. "And the name of this body is Ag. For the silver one shall talk with the mare with a heart of gold."

The farmer blinks. "What the...? Silver? What are you talking ab...?" Suddenly, she stops and shakes her head. "I don't have time for this! If you're not Greentalk and you know where's Rainbow, then...!"

"I'll take you with her", Ag says. He's saying the truth, after all, and Applejack really needs to hear that. "She's perfectly fine, and you will be together in a few minutes. I'm a friend of yours, Applejack, and I want no harm for you or your friends."

The change in the mare is obvious. Suddenly, her whole body is relaxed, her frown dissapears and her eyes seem to shine again. The news had relieved her.

But she doesn't trust Ag yet. "Then take me to her right now! And where in tarnation are we?"

"Don't worry. You'll be with her soon." Ag smiles. "But first, we need to talk. We're in the Void, Applejack. Here, I know everything. And now, you need my advice."

"And you are...?"

"Ag," repeats my second body. "That's the name of this body."

"Well, I don't know you. Why should I listen to you? I want to see Rainbow Dash!" The orange mare looks at my second body, doubting him. She can't trust anybody but her friends right now. She has been insulted, betrayed, lectured and manipulated by a monster. Ag just can't reach her heart, no matter what he does, no matter what he says. The only thing able to warm her is Dash.

And Ag can't let her see the pegasus, not until he says some things. Rainbow Dash needs the truth, she doesn't want pity, she doesn't deserve lies. But Applejack is not defeated. Maybe she has lost, but her heart is still complete. She needs the truth, but she needs it in a different way than Dashie.

Dash just needs to understand what happened, to understand she's still a the mare she was once. Applejack needs to change.

And my second body can change her.

"You can't see the pegasus," Ag says. The mare frowns and looks at him angrily, but my second body doesn't take back his words. "We need to talk first. If you go with her right now, Rainbow will end hurt again."

The fury in AJ's eyes can't be described by words. A few moments ago, Dash was hitting my first body with anger, and every hit had fire in it.

The mare in front of my second body doesn't have just a fire. She has an inferno.

The fire of love, the heat of a lover. Powerful things that can warm the heart or destroy the world, heal a wound or kill a man. Applejack's love is purer than a diamond, and Ag can end burned if he doesn't let the farm girl see her loved one.

"I swear that if you dare to even touch a single feather of that pegasus, I'll kill you." Her voice is low and sharp. She's serious. Her eyes are the eyes of someone who would harm for the sake of the ones she loves. "And it won't be nice. Take Dash as a hostage like Greentalk did, and you'll learn I'm not a pony you can play with the hard way."

Ag closes his eyes. He's afraid of Applejack, but he doesn't step back. "I'm not menacing her," he says. "I'm not the one who'll hurt her. It will be you."

Silence covers the Void as the mare hears Ag's words. She looks at my second body's eyes, and sees nothing but truth in them.

She shakes her head one more time. "That's not true! I will never harm her!"

"You'll do it. And then you'll harm yourself, and your friends too." Ag frowns. "But you will not do it with your hooves. You'll hur them..." slowly, my second body points at Applejack's chest "...with this."

"My... chest?"

"Your heart."

It's time for the orange mare to frown now. It's clear that she would like to hit the ground with a hoof, but here at the Void there is no ground. She just waves her leg. "Now that was just stupid!" she says. "Excuse me, but my heart is none of your business! So stop with the...!"

"I'm serious." Ag interrupts Applejack, his voice sounding a bit angry for the first time. "You were defeated because of your heart. The same happened to Rainbow Dash. You two will hurt each other time and time again unless you listen to me now."

The orange mare laughs and shakes her head again, trying to seem funny. It's clear that she's annoyed. "Excuse me, but as I said...!"

"You love Rainbow Dash."

She stops and looks at Ag with a frown. "I love each one of my friends."

"But right now, your love for Rainbow Dash is deeper. Right?"

Silence again. AJ doesn't seem pleased by Ag's words. The mare has a wound in her mind, and my second body has put a finger on it.

His words aren't the most elegant ones, but they're pragmatic. Seeing the way the farmgirl reacts, Ag sighs and touches her face with his hoof.

Applejack pushes it away.

My second body closes his eyes and takes off his top hat. "Applejack, I know this is not a normal issue. Love is..." he doubts, trying to find the correct word, "...complicated. And you've been hurt. Not by Rainbow Dash, but by Greentalk.
I know what he did. He lectured you. He said horrible things. He said the truth." Ag frowns. "And it was terrible. He used your feelings against you. He destroyed the door you had built around your heart and forced himself in... He violated your privacy."

Applejack's eyes are dry. She's not crying. But she doesn't seem to like what she's hearing. A weird mix of sadness and anger are covering her face.

"I don't want to destroy that door." Ag smiles and looks AJ eye to eye. "I want you to open it for me, so I can enter, and heal the wounds Greentalk did there."

"You're asking me to... be vulnerable." The mare doesn't look at Ag's eyes. "Yo're asking me to let you know... things... that nopony know. How do you want me to do so? I barely know you!"

"Because I'm honest." My second body doesn't smile. He's as serious as AJ was when she menaced him before. "And you, especially you, should know that a honest pony's word is more valuable than anything in this world. Look me in the eyes, Applejack, and you'll see I'm not lying."

She gulps and finally looks Ag eye to eye. She loses herself into his green eyes. And finally, she laughs.

"You're right. You have honest eyes," the mare says. "But... I'm..."

"You're in love. And you're scared."

"No." Applejack shakes her head and frowns. Her eyes are determined this time. "I can't lie and say that I'm not in love. You already know that. But as Celestia as my witness, I swear I'm not afraid of it."

"What?" Ag raises an eyebrow and moves around AJ, forcing the mare to turn to the right. "But... you're denying it! It's obvious you're scared!"

"I said I'm not afraid of..." she cringes a little before saying the world. "Of being in live with her. I'm scared, yes... but I'm scared of something completely different."

Ag smiles. I already know that. Because here, at the Void, I know everything. But Applejack must see it on her own. "Which is..."

"What if...? What if Greentalk is right?" The mare is trembling and looking at her own hooves. "I'm fake after all. I was created by an author. What if I don't love her? What if I'm being manipulated by an author and I hurt her? What if this is just a huge lie? What if one day I break free and realize I never loved her? What if...?" Her eyes shine with tears. Now its the mare's turn to put off her hat and hug it. "What if she hates me?!"

She has opened her heart, I can see it now. Applejack is trembling like a newborn in winter, tears running down her face. She's embracing herself, trying to look less vulnreable.

I can see the pain in her. I can feel it. And in this moment, I hate Greentalk. I hate him so, so much. And I hate myself too, and I hate this story. Because I really care for the ponies, and they are only suffering more and more.

I want to hug Applejack, I want to comfort her and lie to her. But I can't. I'll use the truth, and only the truth. So Ag doesn't move. He stays still.

"You are fake." My second body puts on his hat once again. "You're afraid that your feelings are fake too?"

"N-not exactly." She gulps one more time. "I... I think I love her. But I started loving her the moment Aragón wrote me kissing her! What if the true Applejack doesn't love Dash, and everything is just a misunderstanding, and...?! What if Greentalk is right?!" She repeats.

Ag touches AJ's face once again, and this time the mare doesn't push his hoof away. Instead, she covers it with her own.

"Greentalk was... right, from a certain point of view." AJ weeps at this, but my second body doesn't stop. "But only from a certain point of view. As you said... your love is fake. The true Applejack is not in love with the true Rainbow Dash."

The anger is completely gone. Now, the orange mare is crying, and she's not trying to hide it.

Ag shivers, seeing the sadness of his partner. "You need to understand it, sugarcube," he says reluctantly. "Greentalk used this to hurt you, and you need to understand that it's true, so you'll never be hurt again."

"Then... then it's all over." The mare tries to smile underneath the tears. "I can't love her, because..."

"You can love her." The green stallion interrupts Applejack with a sharp voice. "You can do it, and she can love you too. You don't need to be unhappy just because you're fake."

"But how?!" The mare pushes away Ag's hoof and looks at his eyes, hurt. "I'm the damned Element of Honesty! I can't lie to myself, I can't lie to Dash like that! It's not okay!"

"But you won't be lying yourself, nor Dash!" Ag screams, his patiente gone. "There is no lie in this, Applejack, unless you want to see it that way!"

"There is no other way to see it!"

"Of course it is!" Ag growls and starts floating around, angered. "Can't you understand it? The love can be fake, but that doesn't mean that it's a lie!"

"You're just saying...!"

"I'm saying the truth! And you don't want to see it because you're afraid!" My second body stops and breaths deeply, trying to calm himself. "You were created," he says. "You are artificial, you're NOT the real Applejack. Who cares what does the real Applejack feel!"

"I care!" Applejack is furious now as well as sad. "Because that's all I am!"

"But you're not! You already say it, you're a copy! You can be whatever you want! There is a real Applejack already, the world doesn't need another one!"

"BUT I NEED IT!" The orange mare screams. "I am what I am, and you can't change it! And I don't want it to change! I'm Applejack, no matter if I was created or if I was born the usual way! I won't neglect my nature just because that way I can have a happy-fancy-frufru-cuddling live with Rainbow!"

Ag frowns. "You said it then! You are who you are, and you can't change it! And you were created with your love for Rainbow Dash!"

"That's just messing with..."

"I'm not messing with anything." Ag, completely calmed now, puts off his glasses and cleans them with his tuxedo. "Look, here in the Void I know everything. I know you won't love Rainbow Dash if you were the real Applejack. I also know that, as you are not the real Applejack, you do love Rainbow Dash.
Maybe Greentalk was right. Maybe if you confess your feelings to her and you two end like a couple you both will be lying to each other. Because technically, your love is fake. And it's, subsequently, a lie."

My second body finishes his cleaning and puts his glasses on one more time. "But ask yourself, Applejack... If you deny your love, then won't be you lying to yourself too?"

"No." The orange mare shakes her head, her sadness only smaller than her determination. "I'm not living a lie, no matter how painful it is."

"You'll be causing pain to Rainbow Dash too," says Ag. "You know that?"

AJ seems to boggle a little. "That's... unfair. You're not playing by the rules."

"There are no rules in war or love," answers Ag. "And no, I'm not playing fair. And you know what? This time, I'll be worse than Greentalk. I'm not only going to manipulate you. I'm going to make you manipulate yourself."

"That doesn't make any sens...!"

"You feel a warm in your chest when you see Rainbow Dash laugh!" screams Ag, ignoring the cowgirl. "You feel hapiness when she's happy! You care about her!"

"I don't...!"

"You love her and you know it, Applejack!" Ag smiles fiercely and looks the mare eye to eye, one more time, one last time. "And can you feel it's fake? Can you feel all the overhelming warm, all the sugar in your veins, all the red in your face and the beating of your heart and call it fake? Can you think about the light Rainbow shines with when she smiles and call it fake? Can you pay attention to the sappiness your own mind thinks about when you see your loved one, can you meditate about the incredible luck you've got at falling in love with such an incredible mare and call all of it fake?!"

Applejack shakes her head. "I-I can't...! Don't do this...!"

"Is that love you feel as strong as a real one? Is that love as deep as a real one? Is that love as dangerous, as painful, as unpredictable, stupid and irrational as a real love?!"

"I-I don't know!"

"BUT I DO!" Ag smiles and laughs, as if he just had won a battle. "I do because here at the Void, I know everything! And tell me, Applejack... If your fake love is as strong, deep, dangerous, painful, unpredictable, stupid and irrational as a real love, then is it fake anymore?!"

The mare screams. "I don't know, ok?! I'M AFRAID! WHAT IF...?!"

"And what if not?!" Ag puts his hooves on AJ's shoulders. "What if not, Applejack?! That's everything love is about! You feel it, she feels it, and it's pure and magical! You were born with it, so who cares if Greentalk thinks it's fake! Who cares if your friends, or the author, or even the readers think it's fake?! You know that, at least for you, is real!"

AJ screams one more time. She shakes her head, she moves her hooves and tries to run away, but he's unable to do anything, and finally, after a while, she calms down.

Breathing heavily, she looks at Ag, tears down her face again. "I... I can't lie to Dash... Even if I think it's right, even if I..."

Ag laughs and hugs her. "It's Rainbow Dash we're talking about. You know she won't mind about all this metaphysical stuff. She's a simple one."

They both chuckle.

"In fact, maybe being simple is easier," says my second body. "You love her, she loves you... screw all this metaphysical stuff and be happy together. Am I right?"

Applejack puts Ag away and sighs. "...Maybe", she says. "But... You know I'm not confessing my feelings to Rainbow Dash, right?"

Ag nods. "I know. Here at the Void, I know everything. But now, you know things you didn't know before."

"You didn't teach me anything."

"But I made you think about your feelings." Ag smiles. "And now you know what to think about your situation. You can explain it to Dash, and... you two can decide what to do." My second body shrugs. "I'm not going to lie, I would love to see you two together. I think your love is real, and you know your love is real. But it's your decision after all."

"What?" The mare frowns and loosk at my second body with a raised eyebrow. "Then why did you give all this fancy speech about love and...?"

"Because now, Greentalk can't use your feelings against you. Nobody can. Because now you won't hurt Dashie when you meet and you'll know what to do.
And, I'm not gonna lie to you, AJ. I'm a shipper, and AppleDash is my OTP."

Before Applejack can say anything, Ag travels trough the Void and carries the mare with him.

And he finds the other bodies, and they reunite, and I have just one body once again.

And I return to my real form.