Applejack and the device reappeared, and Applejack’s frozen form fell sideways and landed on the ground. The landing caused cracks to form on the frost around her, and Applejack quickly began to move her body in order to widen those cracks. She spread her legs apart, and the frozen coating shattered, allowing Applejack to let out a sigh of relief and lay down on her side to relax for a moment.
“Woo, doggie, that was more frustrating than frightening,” Applejack remarked as she laid there. Then she stood up and looked around to see that she was standing inside an iron cage. It was also rather dark, due to the cage being inside a large tent. The only light available was that coming between the bottom of the tent and the ground.
Applejack huffed as she leered at the bars surrounding her and said, “Well, ain’t that just the-.”
Applejack’s comment was cut off by the low growling coming from behind her. She slowly turned to look, and saw a huge lion slowing rising to its feet. It fixed his eyes on Applejack and ran its tongue across his lips.
Applejack gave a forced, toothy smile to the lion, and then quickly pulled the machine in close to her. She then waved to the lion and said, “Sorry partner. Ah ain’t on the menu today.”
Applejack then quickly pressed the device’s red button, only to have nothing happen. Applejack looked at the machine in concern and pressed the button a few more times. The lion’s fierce growling caused her to refocus her attention on it, and she kept her eyes on the beast as she began pressing buttons on the device’s keypad with her right forehoof.
The lion scraped the ground with a forepaw, and then began to stalk his was towards Applejack.
Applejack jabbed her forehoof harder into the buttons as sweat ran down her head, unable to look away from the lion as it crouched down into a pouncing position. The lion let out a roar and sprang, and Applejack cried out terror as she pushed the device’s red button again, resulting in her and the device vanishing right when the lion’s claws were a centimeter from her face.