In a semidesert environment, where the land was flat and the plant life consisted of shrubs, cacti, and the occasional tree, Applejack and her mysterious devious flashed into existence, and flew straight into a large boulder.
Applejack was sprawled out against the side of the rock for a moment, until she finally peeled off and landed flat on her back on the dry ground, the device laying on its side next to her and no worse for wears.
Applejack groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. She blinked, and she realized that her hat lay upon the top of the huge rock.
Applejack stood up and looked around quickly, and gave a sigh of relief. “Thank Celestia. No one around to bother me here,” she said gratefully. She then focused her attention on her hat, which was currently out of reach, the boulder being no less than three times her height.
Applejack blew her blond mane out of her eyes and put on a confident grin. “Huh. That’s no problem,” she said as she backed up a few feet. She then ran forward towards the rock and jumped, only to hit the rock about two feet from the top.
“Ow,” she moaned as she fell back to ground. But she quickly got back up and ran several yards away from the boulder. She then turned and eyed her hat atop the massive rock. She crouched down low and scrapped the ground with her right forehoof.
“This ain’t even a challenge for a rodeo pony,” she said confidentially, and then she broke out into a full gallop towards the boulder. Then when she got within a yard of the boulder, she put all the strength she had into all four of her legs, and made a might jump upwards and forwards.
Applejack had a proud smile on her face as she performed her jump, but that smile fell when she saw herself going about a foot too high. She sailed right over her hat, and ended up dropping down into a small and narrow gap between the boulder and second boulder behind it.
“Aw, nuts,” Applejack said as she lay upside-down within the gap, with piles of smaller rocks in front and back of her, preventing her from simply falling out. She looked upwards between her hind legs and sighed, “Well, Ah ought to be strong enough to climb outta this.”
Applejack then pressed each of her back hooves against their corresponding sides of the gap. She then pushed her forehooves against the big rocks on either of her and slowly lifted her body upwards. It was tough going, as she had to carefully walk her back hooves up the sides of the gap as she pushed up with her forehooves. But, eventually, she managed to reach the top, where she hooked her legs against the ledges on either side of her.
Applejack took a deep breath, and the pulled the rest of her body up with all the strength she had in her hind legs. She placed her front hooves solidly on the top of the boulder where her hat was, while she quickly moved her back hooves to the other boulder. She then quickly snatched up her hat with her teeth, and tossed it into the air. She got up on her hindlegs just in time to have her hat land right back on her head.
Applejack nodded contentedly, and was about to drop down back on all fours when one of her hooves slipped on the smooth rock. This caused Applejack to lose her balance, and she fell backwards off of the boulder, and off the side of the cliff the boulder was resting on and into a deep ravine.
Applejack yelled fearfully as she fell down several feet, but her descent was suddenly stopped by several vines that stretched across the ravine.
Applejack breathed heavily, her eyes still wide with panic. She calmed down a bit and actually reclined on the tangle of vines as she said with a relieved smile, “Whooeee! What a break.”
The vines then snapped back upward like rubber bands, launching Applejack back up and out of the ravine, over the rocks, and right back down on the device. Applejack plopped down on the ground next to it, and let out a moan before it zapped her, her hat, and itself away.