"Applejack?" I shuffle across the apartment, slipping on a jacket and fumbling for my belongings. "Hey! Applejack? Where'd you run off to?"
Silence.
With a slight groan, I wander to the four corners of the living room. At last, I find my missing glove lying on the edge of a table.
"Praise Zoram. For a moment there, I thought she used it for a friggin' bridle. Applejack?!" I pace back and forth across the apartment while slipping the glove on. "I have to go out for a bit! There are some errands I gotta run before the end of the next Gallilean rotation! Where'd you gallop off to, girl?"
More silence.
"It's been fun, but I think I'd better send you back home! Who knows how much juice is left in the article and..." My words trail off. I turn around.
The door to my bedroom is ajar.
I blink. With quiet steps, I walk forward and lightly push the door all the way open. "Applejack?" I step inside the dim room. "Applejack, are you in here—?"
I stop in my tracks.
There's a blue-and-orange shape curled up in the middle of the bed, incidentally right on top of a heap of t-shirts, pants, and socks. Applejack's body slowly rises and falls. Her freckled face is locked in a perpetual smile.
I walk over, lean against the bedpost, and sigh. "Well..." A dull smile. "Looks like you found the laundry."
There's no response.
With a defeated breath, I lean over and carefully finger the hem of the hoodie against her orange coat. I pull the tag out and read the flickering numbers: 07%.
"Sorry, AJ. But it's best you got sent home peacefully instead of letting the quantum fissure drop you like a bad habit." That said, I reached for the strings dangling out from the neckline.
"Mmmff..." Applejack murmurs something unintelligible and turns over, burying her soft muzzle in between her forelimbs. The strings are next to impossible to grasp now. At least, not without waking the little pony up.
"Nnnngh... God's hooks..." I prop my chin against my palm as I lean on the bed. After a few seconds, I smile, then rush out of the room.
After a bit of rummaging, I walk back in carrying an extension cable. I blow dust off the wormy thing, unravel it, and plug it into an outlet. I then run the other end onto the bed, loop it around Applejack twice, and plug it into the tagpiece at the hem of the sweatjacket. I watch the thing quietly for a minute or two, careful not to wake Applejack up. Not long after, I see the number blip to: 08%.
"Yeah. That'll do." I turn to leave, but pause. "Almost."
I reach into the pile of clothes, pull out a large t-shirt with my broadcast's production logo on it, and drape it gently over Applejack's figure like a duvet. Her ears twitch, twitch again, and are still. She curls up happily under the blanket and continues slumbering away.
"You made that bed..." I wink as I flick a glowing key into existence and march towards my front door. "Might as well lay in it, girl."
Way...too....CUTE!
DAW!
Geeze, ponies are very catlike in this world, aren't they? It's just too cute.
So, any chance we'll learn why Applejack was the pony that got linked to this hoodie? In story reason, I mean.
All of the D'aww. All of it.
I'm not sure how you did it, but somehow you managed to make AJ even more adorable.
You should've combined this chapter and the last one. Still, it's cute.
As if we don't already.
Now the reverse technology is needed
this might be the cutest thing i've ever read
4385985 Agreed, the fluff is real
Dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
4385881
But will the proportions remain the same?
4386126
You read my mind. There's also the question of if the ponies are really this size, or if they're being compressed by some secondary technology
Wish I could give more than one thumb up.... I really do....
4386419
And how many species have been killed off by nature?
Favorite pony
+Cat-sized
+Technology
-Conflict
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Smiling like the Joker
4385753
Applejack is best pony. That's all that needs saying.
4384916
If you mean the fairy, I think she was watching Disney, and that was a reference to Tinkerbelle.
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Argh. Too... CUTE!!!!
hnnnnnngg.
4382384
All of the below.
Give me Rarity.
Please?
Front page featured! Congrats!
You need some more hoodies. At least Rainbow Dash is required. Imagine the possibilities of a colorful blur streaking around the house with Applejack in tow. I need this.
LUNA NOW AND TIA
4385865 but what about cute canser
It's been a while since there has been some good old-fashioned heart warming cute pony fiction on the front page. This has been well worth it!
4386431
Can't compare natural selection to pollution, over-hunting, deforestation, population-clearing, and food-chain disruption. What we've done is unnatural, many things which likely had eons left, or might have made it all the way are now gone because we decided that we needed more condos and more strip malls for our vapid and arrogant species, and that money matters more than the stability of the ecosystem.
I really hope you aren't one of those rubes who believes the Earth is invulnerable and we can't hurt it, because the blessed thing's suffering something fierce and that's our doing. But by your earlier post it seems you probably are that sort, with the "humanity is the best thing ever" attitude. Which is a pile of shit, frankly.
Hhhhnnnnggh! BEE-BEE-BEEP-BEEEEEEE.....
4387749
Then the cord gets pulled and AJ gets stuck!
oh, I like this. +1 to encouragement.
4387510
And coddling Earth like a little baby is a pile of shit too, frankly. I mean, yeah we can't really do everything we can think of, but it's not like Earth hasn't made it through worse, which it did.
Really. We wouldn't be having this conversation if it didn't.
And there's one of them. Not even going to bother arguing with it.
This is a very interesting format with these short chapters! It seems to concentrate the kawaii even more!
4387510
Oh… but you see, I can and will.
Humans are part of nature and everything we do is natural. We're the strongest animal on this planet. Which means, we do, what we want. It's how nature works. The apex predator rules it's kingdom. And Earth is Humanity's kingdom. The wolf depopulates the elk in Yellowstone, Humans hunt and exterminate the pest (wolf), and then bring them back from the brink of extinction. Animals that can't adapt, do not survive. Just because that polar bear is pretty, does not mean it should automatically take top priority.
Are the from an AU... or just far across the same universe?
I vote for the latter...
4387510
Aurora Dimmet, we are part of natual selection. Our intelligence, tested by how we could cope against nature, proved dominant. We'll find a solution to our problems eventually.
If you can't deal with it, read my story that I'm writing. However, I haven't published it yet, for the first part has nothing to do with ponies. If you want, I can tell you if it's done. Please don't think of this as spam; don't stop reading the story above and go to my story; that's just rude.
Why is there argument about whether Humans suck or not? I thought it was unanimously agreed that individually, we're smart, while humanity as a whole is retarded together.
4388406
Okay, I'm done replying to crazypants above, so I'll reply to you. No, this isn't slavery. From what's being suggested, Applejack has some sort of matching hoodie or other somesuch device on the other end, and she can decide whether to go over to the human world or not. She can apparently also leave whenever she wants, nothing has shown she's incapable of doing so. Nothing is depicted as showing characters being unwilling, coerced, or making decisions while their rational minds are compromised.
Applejack chooses to be there and enjoys herself. The human... well, it's his job (which IS a form of slavery /canned laughter) and also enjoys her company. It's fairly innocent all-told.
4385753 THESE are the kind of cats I'd gladly keep in my house
4389171
I just got to say, I normally avoid human-ish related fics like the plague. Only this one has ever caught my eye. I'm thinking I should get an appointment with my heart doctor, because this overly adorable fic can't be healthy!
I look forwards to the next chapter.
4387302: Nah, t'was just triple nuclear warfare, nothing too bad.
Please don't make the third encounter is in his deathbed or something.
Just....
So...
ADORABLE!!!
4388737
Humanity as a whole is retarded?
Want to know where the civilization that keeps you safe came from?
Holy mother of HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG this is amazing.
Please continue.
Oh my gawd this is amazing! it's cute, funny, adorable, and has no clop or suggestiveness in it! Amazing!
4390339
The repeated mention of "Zoram", a name from the Book of Mormon. You never know with Skirts, though.
This is...I don't even...
UGH! This story made me go AWWW so many times that I now have to go punch a big muscular dude just to reclaim even a small percentage of my manliness!
4390515 The idea of civilization starts with one person, and the idea would slowly spread until it is accepted.
But that's besides the point. We shouldn't be arguing over whether or not humanity sucks in the comment section of a story about ponies being the size of cats, and love to cuddle.