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// Story: Rúmcierr 
// by Matthais Unidostres 
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There was a flash of light as Applejack suddenly reappeared in a dense, green forest.

“Huh!? What in tarnation?” Applejack said as she looked around at her unfamiliar surroundings.

“How did Ah-?” Applejack stammered out, but was interrupted when she caught something in the corner of her eye as she was looking around. Stepping off of the device, she turned around and saw her hat lying on the ground about two yards away from her.

Calming down slightly, Applejack smiled and said, “Whew! Boy, howdy.”

She trotted over to her hat and swiftly placed it back on her head.

“Well, that’s one problem solved,” she remarked, then she looked around at the surrounding trees and said, “Now, where the hay am-?”

An arrow suddenly whizzed right past Applejack’s nose and thudded hard into a nearby tree, scaring her into silence.

Applejack stood wide eyed for a moment, then quickly turned to glare angrily in the direction the arrow came from and shouted into the woods, “You oughta be more careful!”

A reply came in the form of another arrow thudding into the ground right next to Applejack’s right forehoof.

Applejack yelped as she quickly pivoted to her left and backed away from the second arrow, only to yelp again as she felt another arrow brush against her rump as it whizzed by. This spurred her to immediately start running.

“What’d Ah do?! What did Ah do?!” she shouted out in desperation to her unseen assailants as dodged and weaved around trees, arrows either sticking in the trees or in the ground right behind her. A full volley of arrows landing right in front of her caused her to drift and skid in a semicircle, her hooves kicking up dirt as she did so, and run back the way she came.

Applejack saw the device that got her into her current predicament, and with a frustrated groan, she grabbed the top of it in her teeth as she ran by, still conscious of the arrows being fired at her.

Applejack galloped through the woods, jumping to the side to avoid trees, until she came to a large bush up ahead of her. She jumped and tore through it without a second thought, coming out the other side and landing in a large, wooden bowl like structure.

Applejack carefully got up on her hooves and got a better look at what she had landed in. She could see a large wooden structure, and when she looked down, she could see a large rope coiled around a drum. At that moment, she could identify the structure as a catapult.

Then, without any warning, the catapult launched, sending Applejack and the device flying high into the air.

Applejack cried out in terror as she flailed her limbs and looked over at the hard, rocky, barren ground she was headed for. The device was tumbling through the air in front of her, and she quickly pulled it close with her forehooves and quickly pressed the buttons on the side keypad as well as the red front button in panic.

“Send me back, send me back, please send me back!” she begged the device as jabbed the button repeatedly.

The device emitted an arc of electricity that struck Applejack’s hat, causing it to vanish.

Applejack looked up at where the brim of her heat used to be disbelief, and then resumed slamming her hooves on the different buttons as she shouted, “Me too! Send me too! Please!”

Another arc of electricity came out and connected with Applejack’s body, causing her and the device to vanish as well.