It's five in the morning and it's the first full day on campus and Applejack is up and ready for the day. After living on a farm for years, shes used to waking up early to get started on the morning chorus. She walks down the stairs and reaches the kitchen but to her surprise, she finds Fizzlepop Berrytwist cooking breakfast. "Good morning there Miss Berrytwist," said Applejack.
Fizzlepop turns around to see Applejack, "Your Applejack yes."
"Yes ma'am," said Applejack. She looks to see that Fizzlepop has her right arm in a sling again and asked her, "I don't want to sound rude but do you want any help with the mornin spread."
"Thank you for asking but I'll be fine, I've gotten used to fixing food with one arm for years so don't worry about it. Why don't you go back to sleep, it's still dark outside," said Fizzlepop.
"Well after living on a farm my whole life, I'm used to waking up early. This is actually sleeping in for me, but you sure you don't need any help," asked Applejack.
"I'll be fine if you want to Central Park opens in an hour so you can check it out, It's a nice place for morning exercise," said Fizzlepop.
Applejack agrees and decides to go back up to her room and changes into some work out clothes and watches TV in the living room until then. A few minutes passed and Applejack hears a couple of people walking down the stairs. She looks over to see it's Rainbow Dash and Rosebud with her dog Wally. "Well, mornin you two."
"Morning AJ," said Rainbow Dash.
"Morning Jackie," said Rosebud.
Applejack looks confused and asked her, "Um is that me."
"Of course it is, I like giving all my friends nickname, right Bowie," said Rosebud.
"That's you I'm guessing Dash," asked Applejack.
"Yep and mine make me sound like a rock star. So what are you up to AJ," asked Rainbow Dash.
"Oh, I'm just wanting for Central Park to open up. I was thinking of getting some morning exercise," said Applejack.
"We doing the same thing, why don't we all go together," said Rosebud.
So the girls agreed to go together and waited in the living room. It's close to six, so they started to head to the park.
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They make their way to the park with Rainbow Dash leading the way and Applejack, Rosebud and Wally following behind. As their walking to the park, Rosebud decided to have a chat with Applejack, "Hey Jackie, your not upset with me about yesterday," asked Rosebud.
"About what," said Applejack.
"Well, Burnie has told me that when I see a cute girl, I tend to be little over "flirty" with them that I end up making them feel uncomfortable. So if I did that to you, I just want to say sorry."
"No no, it's fine."
"Really, that's good to hear. By the way, do you have a dog because when I saw you yesterday, you looked like you knew Wally."
"Sure do, in fact, I have a dog the same breed as Wally there. Her names Winona."
"So where is she at?"
"I thought it would be best if she stayed home on the farm with my family."
"Well, that's nice of you."
A little bit of time passed as they walked to the park until Applejack asked Rosebud, "So you think I'm Cute."
"Sure do," said Rosebud causing Applejack to blush. So Rosebud asked her, "Why, do you think I'm cute." But before Applejack has a chance to say anything, "He girls, you might want to check this out," said Rainbow Dash.
They reached the park but as they arrived, they see that it's blocked off by the police. They walk to an officer to ask what was going on. "Excuse me sir, but what is going on in the park," asked Applejack.
"I'm sorry miss, but you and your friends need to evacuate the area," said the police officer. Rainbow was about to say something to the officer, the geodes around hers and Applejack's necks begin glowing. They leave the officer alone and out of his sight.
"Rosebud we need you to head back to the house and tell the rest of the girls to come to Central Park right away," said Rainbow Dash.
"Why what's going on," asked Rosebud.
Applejack looks Rosebud in the eyes and tells her, "Please Rosie, it's important."
After seeing how serious Applejack is, Rosebud nods and tells them, "OK, I'll get them as fast as I can. Come on Wally let's go."
After Rosebud has left, Applejack asked Rainbow Dash, "You reckon it's something equestrien Dash?"
"Might be, we better check it out before someone gets hurt," said Rainbow. So the two girls activate their geodes to transform into Crystal Guardians and headed into the park.
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Inside the park, two police officers are hiding from three otherworldly creatures behind a boulder. "What in the world are those thing," one of the officers said. The other officer try's to call for backup, but one of the creatures smacks away the boulder away exposing the two officers. The beast lunges at them to try and bite them, so the officers tried to shield themselves from the oncoming attack. Nothing happens, they looked up and saw a girl with long blonde hair in a teal-green outfit holding the beast back, it was Applejack. "Are you two okay there," said Applejack. She uses her enhanced strength to throw the beast back. Suddenly Rainbow Dash shows up thanks to her super speed telling Applejack, "I've gone around the whole park, it looks like there no civilians around and just three of...whatever those things are."
They look at the creature who is joined up with the other two just like it, their appearance looked like a giant wolf only made out of wood. "What in tarnation are those thing," asked Applejack.
"I forgot to mention, but I also found a portal that looked liked the ones Twilight made during the Friendship Games," said Rainbow Dash.
"So we were right, it does have something to do with Equestria," said Applejack.
Suddenly the two police officers approached them and one of them asked, "Do you two know what these creatures are."
"We're not sure but we might be able to send them back. I'm going to try and lead them to the portal," said Rainbow Dash. She runs to the creatures and starts to run around them to try and get their attention, "Try and catch me you pine breath puppies." Rainbow Dash then starts to run in the direction of the portal. Applejack was about to follow them but is stopped by one the officer and tell her, "Look we have no idea whats going but when this is all over, you two are coming down to the station to answer some questions." Applejack nods to the officer and begins run in the direction Rainbow Dash ran off to.
Applejack makes it to them and finds Rainbow fighting off the beast trying to get them into the portal but is having trouble facing all three alone. "Oh come on, get into the portal already," said Rainbow. Applejack runs and slams into one of the beasts, grabs it by its tail and throws it into the portal. "Come on Dash, don't tell me you were having trouble with these guy right," said Applejack.
"You just got lucky AJ," said Rainbow.
Trying to deal with the remaining two, they notice a rustle in the bushes and see a park security guard. So Rainbow goes to make sure the guard is alright, "Hey are you alright, it's dangerous around here." Suddenly he grabs her by the wrist and starts to squeeze, "Hey what are doing, let go," yelled Rainbow. She try's to wrestle out the guards' grip but is unsuccessful. The guard looks up at Rainbow and she looks back, and she sees that he has all white eyes. He then throws her in the air and Applejack see her in the air while fighting off one of the wolfs.
Rainbow balances herself a glides back to the ground thanks to her wings and runs toward Applejack's direction, Applejack sees her coming and comes up with an idea and hope Rainbow can adapt to it. She firmly places one of her feet in place, grabs a wolf by its paw and throws the beast over her shoulder. Rainbow sees this and notices that the direction the wolf is heading in will put it in front of the portal. She starts running faster and is a short distance away from the wolf and the portal. At just the right moment, she jumps up and kicks the wolf into the portal and bounces of the wolf as to not fall into the portal.
"Good thinking there AJ," said Rainbow.
"I'm just glad you figured out what I was thinking. Now we only need to deal with one more," said Applejack.
"That's not the only thing we need to deal with," said Rainbow. Both AJ and Dash look over to see the wolf but alongside it is the security guard that Dash ran into just a moment ago. "Careful AJ, that guy is really strong," said Rainbow.
"Let's just focus on getting that wolf-thing through the portal and try to close it, we'll deal with him later," said Applejack.
They charged for the wolf and the guard but the guard garbs and pins down both girls. They try to escape but are not to break free, Urg, you right, he is strong," said Applejack. But then suddenly they hear the sound of a barking dog followed by, "Wally get back here." Rosebud shows up chasing after Wally and stumbled into the fight. The two sees Rosebud and she sees her two new friends pinned down by a security guard and the giant wolf made of wood. Wally starts to bark at the wolf, causing it to run after them. Rosebud goes to grab Wally and try's to run away but is so scared her legs give out on her and falls to the ground.
"ROSIE RUN," yelled Applejack. Her strength starts to rise and is able to break free by kneeing the guard in the gut, causing him to let go of both AJ and Dash, making him fly into a tree. Applejack gets up and goes after Rosie. But the guard gets up and start to go after Applejack but is stopped by Rainbow who grabs him with her speed and slams him into a tree causing him to pass out.
Applejack runs to try and stop the wolf from reaching Rosebud and Wally, but it looks like she won't make it in time. Her mind begins to race, thinking she not going to reach them in time, how she, Dash and the rest of the girls are going to lose a friend. But worst of all, how Sunset, who just got reunited with her old family, is losing a part of them again. But at that moment, her geode glows brighter then it ever has before and a surge of energy flow through her whole body. She uses her strength to takes one step to push herself, causing the earth beneath her shatter, to be right next to the wolf and punch it in its face causing it to fly, hitting a bunch of trees.
Rosebud, who is shocked by what just happened, faints and starts to fell backward but instead of hitting the ground, she falls into Applejack's arms. "Rosie, Rosie can you hear me," said Applejack. Rosebud wakes up a sees Applejack and starts to blush, reliving shes in her arms. "You saved me," said Rosebud, who goes in to hug Applejack, "You're my hero."
This causes Applejack to get all flustered but pushes her aside. She gets up and walks over to the wolf. It gets back up and sees Applejack walking to it and starts growling at her. She stops and slams her foot on the ground causing a tiny earthquake and cracking the ground beneath her foot, causing the wolf to go from a growling beast to a scared puppy. "Portal, NOW," yelled Applejack as she points at the portal. The wolf obeys and heads into the portal with Applejack closing it by opening her hand at the portal and closing it by closing her hand.
Rainbow Dash is in so much awe at what just happened that she didn't notice that a small shadow is coming off the guard and makes it way over to a man in a hoodie who watched the whole fight and vanishes into the shadows. The security guard wakes up starts freaking out, "AHAHAH where is his." Rainbow try's to calm to guard down asking him what wrong and the guard tells her what happened last night.
Rainbow gets to Applejack and Rosebud and tells them, "Hey AJ that was so awesome."
"Thanks but we need to get out of here, I don't think we can explain to the police what those things were or why part of the park is destroyed," said Applejack. The three girls agreed and they, along with Wally, head back to the Tempest Shadow house without running into the police.
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Back at the Tempest Shadow house, Sunset and the rest of the girls are up and enjoying breakfast that Fizzlepop Berrytwist had prepared before she went off to work. "Has anyone heard anything from Dash, AJ or Rosie yet," asked Sunset.
"No but I'm sure they'll be back before you know it, darling," said Rarity.
The sound of people walking on the house's porch can be heard from outside, "Ooooh, I bet that's them right now," said Pinkie Pie.
The door opens up and the three girls walk into the house. Sunset turns to greet them saying, "Hey we were just talking about you three."
"Hey girls, boy do we have a story for you," said Rainbow Dash. So the three tell them about what happened to them while at the park including the wolf creatures and Applejack's power boost.
"Timberwolves, you three actually Timberwolves," said Sunset.
"Is that what those things are called," said Applejack.
"Yes but how can that be, so there are portals all the way here in Manehattan, interesting," said Sunset.
"I'm just surprised that those necklaces give you all superpowers," said Rosebud.
"So what, AJ has super speed now," asked Rainbow Dash.
"From what you told us, I don't think that's the case," said Twilight.
"What do you mean Twilight," asked Fluttershy.
"Well let's take the laws of motion into account, Applejack seemed to have tapped into her geode's magic to boost her strength and the amount of force she used to get herself from point a to point b within such a short amount of time would mean she the ground she was on couldn't handle the power she had used," said Twilight.
"Do what now," asked Rainbow.
"It means that instead of super speed, her super strength just got more powerful," said Sunset.
Everyone begins to go and congratulates Applejack for becoming more all except for Sunset, which Twilight noticed right away. "Is everything alright Sunset," asked Twilight.
"Well I'm happy for AJ and all, but it's what Rainbow said that's got me thinking. It's what that security guard said, A Shadow Man," said Sunset.
"You think it might have something to do with that vision into the future you had before," said Twilight.
"Maybe, which mean we need to be prepared for anything."