Chapter 10: Mood Swinging

Applejack woke up early in the morning feeling the most bright and cheerful she had been in a very long time. Not even the pouring rain that had been waiting for her when she opened her window had managed to sour her mood. Hoping off her bed Applejack could smell Granny's delicious apple pancakes cooking on the frying pan, the smell being good enough to make her stomach growl loudly. Opening her door Applejack was greeted by Applebloom, who was obviously not as happy to be up so early on a Saturday morning.

"Morning Applebloom!" Applejack said happily, making Applebloom take a few steps back as if pure happiness was shining off of Applejack. Once she had realized that it was just her sister, Applebloom smiled tiredly, barely managing to give Applejack a good morning back.

"Guh' murnen'..." Applebloom said, yawning as if to add emphasis in showing just how tired she was. For some insane reason Applebloom's lazy good morning angered Applejack to the point where keeping quiet, wasn't an option.

"Why you being so lazy?" Applejack asked quickly, "Say it properly!"

"Why? I'm really tired..." Applebloom groaned, earning herself a stern look from Applejack until she finally cracked, "Ugh, fine... Guh-ud Morning" Her sassy response only helped to make Applejack even angrier, but when Big Mac came out of the bathroom her emotions did a complete turn around again, causing Applebloom to raise an eyebrow in confusion.

"Morning Big Mac!" Applejack said happily, going over to shake her brother's hoof.

"Uh, hi?" Big Mac replied, sounding utterly confused as Applejack shook his hoof so hard it went numb. Applejack scowled at him for a minute, but she quickly went back to smiling when Applebloom came up behind her, putting a hoof on her sister's shoulder.

"You feeling alright sis?" Applebloom asked worriedly, thinking for a moment that her sister had gone completely bonkers, but Applejack turned around, as bright as the sun on a clear summer day. Big Mac and Applebloom shared a confused look as Applejack turned around, making her way downstairs so she could get herself a giant plate of Granny's pancakes. Following soon after her they barely managed to see her freeze on the spot and glare at Granny.

"Why is there such a big mess in here?" Applejack asked, sounding like a mother for a moment.

"I was making more pancakes than normal so you could get your fill, that's all Miss Prissypants," Granny replied, still working on the pancakes so she was only giving Applejack a little bit of attention, but she did manage to catch her emotions changing yet again.

"Okay, I can't wait to have some of your delicious pancakes Granny!" Applejack said as she sat down, pulling a bib around her neck so she could eat like a maniac while not getting any syrup on her coat. The complete turn around caught Granny of guard for a second, but she quickly recovered, her old mare's wisdom letting her know exactly what it was that made Applejack act this way. Heck, she went through it twice herself, nearly tearing her own husband's head off at time, then moving in for a kiss instead.

"Everything feeling alright Applejack, dear?" Granny asked, wanting to see if her theory was going to be proven right.

"Of course Granny, can you just give me some damned pancakes already!" Applejack shouted, making Granny nod with a smug smile, or as smug of a smile her wrinkly old face could manage. Quickly moving to plate a nearly toppling tower of ten pancakes on a large plate, syrup and butter included, Granny served Applejack her breakfast, which was gone in seconds.

"This baby is making me eat so much, I bet it's going to be big and strong..." Applejack said happily, her mood quickly sowering, "But in Celestia's name why does it always have such stupid fucking cravings?! WHY WOULD I WANT TO EAT TANGERINE ORANGES?!" While Applejack angrily got up so she could gently get herself some more pancakes Big Mac trotted over to Granny, a very worried and confused look on her face.

"What's wrong with her Granny?" Big Mac asked, now thinking that his sister had lost her mind at some point.

"Mood swings," Granny said, "Apple mares always get them worse than any others"

"But Cheerilee said mares could change over time, not in an instant," Applebloom said, remembering that Cheerilee had taught them about being pregnant a few days ago, "Applejack's emotions are acting like one of those fancy spinning doors they got up in Canterlot"

"That's how we work sweetie," Granny said, "Trust me, if your grandpappy was here he'd be telling you about all the weird things I did when I was pregnant with your father" Granny smiled for a moment as she remembered her emotions flaring to the point that she was about to burn down the farm, but at one sight of her husband, she suddenly had the urge to...

"Oooh..." Granny cooed happily as she remembered that night, which scared both Applebloom and Big Mac. After sharing a nervous look the two of them headed into the kitchen, getting their own breakfasts before Applejack ate it for them. Once they were done Big Mac headed out to the orchard, hoping to get a head start on his work for the day so he could go see Rainbow Dash, since the last time he saw her she was in a pissy mood. Meanwhile back at the farm house Applejack was busy rushing Applebloom into her room, hoping to do up her mane in a fancy style today, for no apparent reason at all. Suddenly a knot in Applebloom's mane caused Applejack to go into an extreme fit of anger, throwing the brush out the window.

"FUCK EVERYTHING!" Applejack shouted as she went running outside to get the brush, which she had thrown fairly far. As the hot sun beat down on her head Applejack began to get even angrier, and with one random glare of light off the plow hitting her in the eye, Applejack went over the edge. Picking up the brush she ran over to the plow, smashing the brush to pieces on it, which made her even angrier.

"RAAHH!" Applejack shouted as she became empowered by rage, managing to flip the plow over quite a few times before it hit the fence, breaking it as soon as it collided. When the sun shone off the plow again a dent in it caused the light to focus onto a dry piece of bark that was hanging off the edge of one of their older trees. In no time at all the tree caught on fire, and what was probably the only gust of wind they were going to see all day spread it to at least five trees in every direction.

"WELL ISN'T THAT JUST FUCKING FINE AND MOTHER FUCKING DANDY?!" Applejack shouted as she ran towards the fire, hoping to put it out somehow, but it was already too far gone for her to do anything. Lucky for her though, Rainbow had been flying over head, making her way over to meet Mac, so she was able to quickly make a small storm to put the fire out.

"THANKS RAINBOW!" Applejack shouted up, barely being heard at all, "BITCH!" The last word Applejack shouted made Rainbow stop on the spot before flying down to confront Applejack about it.

"The hell you just call me?" Rainbow asked angrily as she landed in front of Applejack.

"Nothing, why?" Applejack asked, her mood having managed to flip again as soon as she turned around to see the scenic view of the sun coming around the hills just beyond the orchard. Rainbow felt a sudden urge to punch her friend in the face, but when Big Mac came running she had other things to deal with, mainly having to do with what he was yelling.

"WHAT THE FLYING FUCKING HELL HAPPENED?!" Mac shouted, his normal quietness disappearing as he saw that at least a quarter acre was destroyed by the small fire, and more would have been gone had Rainbow not showed up. She quickly explained her side of it, but when Applejack interrupted them a decision was made.

"Why are you two talking so calmly, we just lost at least 100 trees!" Applejack shouted, sounding extremely irate. With one look Mac and Rainbow shared the same thought. Lock her up somewhere dark, depressing, and hidden.

"Let me the fuck out of here!" Applejack shouted from underneath the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse, "Please?"

"Not until you're done flip flopping between sweet and hungry for somepony's blood!" Rainbow shouted back, wiping her forehead with one hoof and a sigh. Her and Mac had spent an hour trying to get her under there, in a strange cellar that somepony had built for no discernible reason, her emotions flipping so much that she may have seemed insane to anypony who might have seen her.

"Ah, I see you've found the Swing Cellar!" Granny said happily as she slowly came out of the treeline, a feeble smile on her face, "Took you guys long enough, I was just on my way to see if it was still here"

"Swing Cellar?" Mac asked for himself and Rainbow, both of them confused by what Granny was talking about.

"It's something your father made when your mom started to act crazy," Granny said with a smile, "Mares come into the Apple family usually have it worse, so he made that cellar to hold your mother for at least two days while she lost her mind. It worked well enough, too bad it hasn't been maintained over the years..."

"Do you think she'll still be okay down there?" Rainbow asked, now worried that she may have just buried her best friend alive.

"Oh yeah, she'll be fine," Granny said with a smile, "Now come one, let's go back to the house, if she can't hear us she'll calm down faster"

"You sure she'll be alright?" Mac asked, still worried.

"Yup, now quit your worrying, I got some stuff I want you guys to do back at the house," Granny said, pretty much ordering them to follow her so she could have them do chores in place of Applejack while she was locked up in the Swing Cellar. Meanwhile underground Applejack found herself both a beautiful piece of art, which was kept far from her reach, and behind strong clear plastic, as well as a punching bag for when she was angry. Looking at the art piece for half an hour made her angry, and for the last half hour she was punching the bag, switching back to the art when she was tired. Just before Applejack decided to lay down on the old bed she heard a very faint shout from Rainbow Dash.

"FUCK WHY AM I ACTUALLY PREGNANT?!"

"Because Mac's one hell of a stallion!" Granny shouted, her voice barely making it to Applejack's ears before she closed her eyes.