Applejack found herself standing next to the device in a wide, rocky valley with mountains all around her in the distance. In spite of how tense she had been, she couldn’t help but pause for a moment and take in the surrounding beauty of the distant, bluish mountains.
She moved herself in a semicircle, smiling as she took in the full panoramic view, until she turned around enough to notice the fence made of metal cables that seemed to go on for miles in either direction. The fences posts also all had blinking red lights on top of them. But what really caught her attention was her hat, which lay a few feet away on the other side of the fence.
Applejack looked both ways, and was satisfied that there didn’t seem to be anyone or anything around. “Well, this oughta be quick,” she remarked as she walked over to the fence. She then reared up onto her hind legs and brought her forelegs down onto the top of the fence to pull herself over.
The moment she touched the fence, Applejack felt like her forelegs were being poked by hundreds of pins and needles, and she cried out as she was forcefully thrown back onto her rump.
“Holy hayseed!” Applejack shouted, and she held up her forelegs and studied them to make sure they were okay. She then brought her attention back to the obstacle in front of her. “What in the hay kinda fence is this?” Applejack said as she stared at the fence inquisitively.
Applejack shook her head after a few seconds and quickly got back up on her hooves. “Ya know what? Fine. Ah’m not wasting time over this. No touching the fence? Fine. Ah won’t touch the fence,” Applejack said impatiently as she walked away from the fence.
Once she was a good distance away from it, Applejack turned around, rocked back and forth on her hooves, and then ran forward. Using her rodeo experience, she jumped at just the right moment and sailed over the fence.
Bolts of lightning snaked out from the fence and arced right towards Applejack’s body. Applejack was thrown backwards again, this time landing flat on her back.
“Uh. . . wha?” was Applejack could say, her entire body tingling as he legs stuck out at odd angles. Her tail was laid out in front of her, towards the fence. Another bolt of electricity shot out from the fence and struck the tip of Applejack’s blonde tail. The bolt ran right through her, causing her muscles to act of their own and flip Applejack up into the air. She landed flat on her stomach, her legs twitching a bit before relaxing and falling flat on the ground.
Applejack lay sprawled out on the ground for a moment, her mouth hanging open as she tried to figure out what had just happened to her.
Applejack carefully dragged herself forward, and slowly slid her left forehoof underneath the fence. When nothing happened, she smiled, and quickly began digging at the ground beneath the fence with her forehooves. Soon, she had created a deep trench that ran underneath the painful device.
Applejack practically hugged the ground as she laid as flat as she possibly could. Then, she carefully pulled herself forward with her forehooves, sliding down into the trench, under the fence, and out on the other side.
Satisfied that she was clear, Applejack laughed and got up onto her hooves. “Woo-eee! How do ya like that?!” she said, smirking at the fence behind her. She then gleeful picked up her hat with her mouth, her tail swinging with delight. However, her newfound excitement caused her tail to swing a bit too far out, and the end of lightly touched the fence’s electrified wiring.
Applejack felt completely paralyzed as each and every single hair on her body stood out straight. Her eye lids snapped open and her eyes bulged out, and she could feel the electric current running through her clenched teeth.
Applejack was suddenly jerked up onto her hind legs, and her forelegs jerked out from her as her whole body began to tremble. Then, without warning, Applejack was thrown straight up into the air. About eight seconds later, Applejack fell back down, landing face flat in the dirt.
Applejack slowly lifted her face off of the ground, panting shallowly as sparks ran across her body and down her legs, popping when they reached her hooves. Applejack let out a quiet cough as she tried to move her legs to stand up. Her knees wouldn’t bend, but she managed to bend her hips and shoulders to get her back up on her hooves.
Realizing her hat was no longer in her mouth, Applejack stiffly moved her head left and right to look around. Then, she staggered around in a circle to look behind her. By the time she had turned 180 degrees, she could she her hat floating down to the ground over on the side of the fence she originally was on. Her hat landed right on top of the round time keeping device, and was immediately zapped by it and disappeared.
Applejack’s bottom lip trembled a bit, but before she could say or do anything, her nose twitched and sparked a bit. This caused Applejack to let out a sneeze, and out of her nose came a large arc of electricity that struck a metal box on one of the fence posts. There was a loud popping sound, and the metal box sparked and started emitting smoke. Then, all of the red lights on the fence posts went out.
Applejack gasped as she felt her knees unlock, and she nearly fell over. Regaining her balance, Applejack took a look at the fence, now completely unlit. She carefully stepped towards it, raised her left forehoof, and quickly touched one of its metal cables. When nothing happened, Applejack didn’t waste a second climbing over the fence and rushing towards the device.
“Ah can take whatever gets thrown at me!” Applejack said determinedly as she pressed the red button, vanishing with the device in a flash.