The Diary Of Twilight Sparkle
Chapter 4: Applebuck Season
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Today, I woke up in quite a shock because of a stampede of cows. Everypony started to run around screaming in fear, I guess the citizens of Ponyville are racist to cows or some thing. Applejack was the one who came to save the day, she kicked the cows out of Ponyville. Later on, the mayor of Ponyville decided to reward Applejack for diverting the cows. My first thoughts were, what?! Rewarding her for racism towards cows? I decided to go along with it.
About a few days later, the mayor decided to reward Applejack with a party. I was asked to give a speech that was wrote down on five hundred pieces of paper, which I didn't think was long at all. I was trying to give my not long speech, when Rainbow Dash interrupted me, to talk about her new flying trick. She was starting to come over to me, in my mind, a hot head, show off. I was really annoyed because she did it like the way she did. I swear to Celestia, I was going to transform her into a cow and watch a angry mob rise after her, judging that the town seemed racist against cows to me, I thought it would be fun to teach her a lesson. Suddenly, everypony started to interrupt each other, talking about how awesome Applejack was, which I thought was ok, rather than my speech, since the party was Applejack themed. All of the speeches were over and it was time to reveal the pony of the spotlight. When we pulled the curtains back, Applejack wasn't there, which we all thought was very strange.
About five minutes later, after everypony has stopped wondering what happened to her, Applejack showed up with a barrel of apples on her back. She had huge bags under her eyes and she looked like she had been awake for hours on end. Apples were most of her life and now it had been effecting her sleeping hours. I don't think I had ever heard of an apple addiction. She didn't seem to know where she was, and it got worse, she actually fell asleep on stage and then dragged the trophy that she was given home, recklessly. She obviously wasn't herself.
I decided to go to Sweet Apple Acres to see how Applejack was doing. When I saw her, she first attempted to buck an apple tree, but missed, plus she was wobbling around like a drunk. I called her name but she didn't respond, and then she fell asleep again, which was weird since she was sleeping, while standing up. I woke her up and she surprisingly recognised me. I asked her what she was doing and she said it was something called Applebuck season. She had to buck the entire apple farm by herself, then I realised why she was behaving they way she was. I asked if she wanted my help and she instantly rejected my proposal. She, for some reason, asked if I was challenging her and then she acted very obnoxiously towards me. She then accepted the challenge I didn't even propose for some unknown reason.
I decided to go back to my library and go back tomorrow. I got my book out and sat on my balcony to read it, when suddenly, Rainbow Dash came crash landing towards my balcony. I asked what she was doing and she said that Applejack was helping her with a new flying trick, but she wasn't paying attention and made her crash land. I decided to go see her.
When I got back to Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack could hardly hear me. We ended up having a very short conversation and she left because she said she needed to help Pinkie Pie. I couldn't help but think that it was about to go terribly wrong.
Later on in the day, I was called to the sick bay in Ponyville hospital. I went over as fast as I could, eventually, when I got there, there were ponies vimiting rivers. Pinkie Pie said it had something to do with Applejack, again.
I went back to Sweet Apple Ares once more to see Applejack. She refused my help, she obviously didn't realise the damage she was doing to herself and others.
Later on I heard that Applejack was helping Fluttershy with her bunnies. Fluttershy said that Applejack, apparently done something incredibly stupid. Applejack sent a dog to chase bunnies. I was suprised there wasn't a dead bunny in Winona's mouth. You wouldn't think Applejack would do something that dense.
Another thing happened, another stampede, but this time of bunnies. Everypony hid away from them. Great! So now Ponyville are racist against bunnies. What was stranger was that they were Fluttershy's bunnies. I didn't have to ask anymore, I knew it was Applejacks fault. I decided to go back to Sweet Apple Ares to finally confront her.
I returned to Sweet Apple Acers with huge amounts of anger. I went over to Applejack who looked even worse than she did before. She looked like she had been smoking some... Actually, I won't say. I told her that I would no longer take her refusal and I gathered our friends and helped her if she liked it or not. After we had finnished helping Applejack buck every apple on the farm. She realised the error of her ways and thanked me for my help.
At the end of the day, Applejack learned a very valuable lesson; Don't be an arrogant cow.
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