Month's after their adventure in Reinsburg, it's Applejack and Rarity's first Hearth's Warming Eve together as a couple. But instead of spending the special day together, Applejack reluctantly waits at the newly built Canterlot International Airship Dock for Rarity to return from a business trip with Hoity Toity.

But with Rarity's brand new wagon impounded and severe delays caused by a freak snow-storm blowing in from the Everfree Forest, her long night is already off to a bad start.

And things only go from bad to worse for the Element of Honesty, when a group of ex-Stalliongrad Army Special Horses take the Airship Dock hostage in order to intercept a VIP aboard the very airship Rarity is returning on.

It looks like the rough-and-tumble farmgirl is just the wrong pony, in the wrong place, at the wrong time!

You won't just want to Neigh Hard. You're going to want to Neigh Harder!

When Rarity invited Applejack to spend a beautiful summer's day together, neither pony could have imagined it would be brought to an abrupt end by a Prince from the neighboring country of Saltlickenstein inviting Rarity to his magnificent jeweled city to commission her fashion skills.

The regal and charming Prince Lazuli sweeps Rarity and her friends off to his beautiful kingdom, but as things start to go wrong for the unlikely friends it's up to Applejack to uncover a sinister plot and stop a ruthless villain.

But can she do it in time to rescue the elegant purple-haired unicorn? And can she face her fears of destroying their friendship forever for the sake of something even more special between the odd-couple?

(For those who have read the previous version of this story, you'll notice the old chapters have been removed and I will be re-adding them once edits have been completed.)