//------------------------------// // Log 4155: "Sweet Apple Acres" // Story: Equestrian Human // by TheMajorTechie //------------------------------// Another place to go, another pile of bits from us for whatever company it is that runs the Sky-Taxi fleet. Also, yes, turns out that the tiny airship taxies are literally branded as "Sky-Taxi". Reeeaaaal original there. Also, I may or may not have forgotten about the fact that Rainbow Dash has absolutely no way to actually play the disc. I guess I can give her a portable player or something if we ever meet again. It's not like I have a shortage of them when I can just go back through the portal to get another. ANYWAYS... Welp. Here's Ponyville. Again. The place we were dumped in even though our pod and beacon are still in our garage in our new house in Canterlot. And boy, does this place look different from the show's Ponyville. Like, seriously. It's faaar from a small, cozy village. From the looks of it, it's more along the lines of a minor city, complete with manufacturing and office buildings smack in the middle. It's kinda weird how I didn't notice that before when we first arrived. Obviously, being so different from the show's Ponyville, there's not exactly much anything that I can recognize, let alone name. The only exception? Even though it seems to mostly be a manufacturing facility, I still see the dusty road I met Apple Bloom and Big Mac on when we exited the portal. And from the looks of it, said road leads to the actual plantation that Sweet Apple Acres is supposedly known for. Now then. As to actually finding Celestia... I guess we'll just ask around again, I guess? "Excuse me?" I asked, tapping a nearby pony on the shoulder, "Have you seen Celestia anywhere recently?" The mare shook her head, and left without a word. Whew. We've pretty much gone through the entire town, save for Sweet Apple Acres, and nobody has seen their Princess... er, Queen anywhere. I wasn't expecting that Celestia would be at Apple Bloom's place, given that the town hall is still pretty much smack in the middle of the city, but... I guess she wanted cider or something? Me and Delmar... erm, Delmar and I, continued on our way towards Sweet Apple Acres. Or at least, this Equestria's equivalent to it, which means "Apple Family Manufacturing and Bottling, LTD." I'm still gonna call it "Sweet Apple Acres", though. It sounds much better than some boring old corporate name. "Hello?" I shouted, cupping my hands to my mouth, "Apple Bloom? Big Mac? We came back to ask you some questions!" We didn't ever hear a reply, so we continued on into the small (compared to the show's Sweet Apple Acres) forest of various apple trees. The funny thing about all this is how incredibly quiet Delmar's been all this time. Ever since we left Cloudsdale, he's just kinda shut himself into his own little field of thought, and I've noticed that he's been paying a lot more attention to his surroundings. I'm not sure if it was because of us discovering that Cloudsdale seems to be made of one of the lightest solids to exist, or if it's simply because he's tired. After all, we have kinda been all over the place for the past day or so. Not to mention that it's kinda getting dark now. but never mind the dark, I'm a big girl now, and that means I've got responsibilities to handle. ... ... WHAT WAS THAT RUSTLING NOISE?! I turned to Delmar, who was currently staring at a laminated paper hastily nailed to a tree depicting to rather familiar con-artist ponies from the show. Seems like Flim and Flam are pretty much the same in this universe. Not that I'm surprised or-- User has disconnected.