Applejack gasped loudly as she reappeared, staring up at the starry night sky through the tropical trees above her. Applejack let out a sigh of relief and smiled as she let her body relax a bit, lying comfortably on her back.
However, Applejack’s moment of peace was interrupted by loud snoring that seemed to come from all around her. Unsettled by this, Applejack lifted her head slightly and moved her forelegs to see in front of her. Sleeping soundly right in front of her was a rather large timberwolf.
“Whoa, nelly,” Applejack said nervously as she quickly crawled backwards. She was quickly halted by a puff of hot breath on the back of her neck, and she rolled over to see another sleeping timberwolf.
Blinking her wide eyes, Applejack looked all around her, and found that she was practically surrounded by a large pack of sleeping predatory wooden wolves. She quickly brought her attention back to the bucket sized time machine she had inadvertently crawled away from.
“Ah shoulda stayed still,” Applejack mumbled softly, filled with anxious fear. She then slowly got up on her hooves and turned towards the device. She then slowly took a step towards it. The sound of leaves crunching caused Applejack to freeze, and her eyes darted around anxiously to check on the surrounding creatures.
Satisfied that no harm was done, Applejack turned to look down at the ground before her. The jungle floor was strewn with twigs and leaves. She scanned for any bare enough patches, and carefully, yet awkwardly, stepped forward. She stretched her back as she reached her right forehoof out towards a distant patch of bare ground.
Just as she completed the step, Applejack heard both grunting and sniffling behind her. She craned her neck to see that the tip of her tail was gently brushing against the nose of the timberwolf behind her, and beast was beginning to stir.
Applejack let out a soft whinny of fear and quickly pushed up off of the ground and spun around on her right hind leg. This moved her tail off of the timberwolf’s nose, but the beast’s nose was still twitching.
Applejack clenched her teeth nervously as she carefully put her right forehoof on the timberwolf’s nose. She pressed down gently and watched as the creature slowly began to settle down. Before long, it was breathing softly and dozing, allowing Applejack to pull her hoof away and breathe a sigh of relief.
Applejack then spun away from the timberwolf and let her forehooves fall to the ground. There was a loud crunching snap when her forehooves landed down hard on a twig and a pile of leaves. Applejack quickly lifted her forehooves back up, but quickly saw that every timberwolf had its head raised and was staring right at her with their glowing green eyes.
“Aw, why do Ah even bother!?” Applejack shouted frusteratedly, and she dashed straight towards the time machine. Unfortunately, one of the timberwolves pounced on her before she could reach it.
Applejack lay pinned down by the creature, unable to do anything but watch as it growled lowly at her and studied her with its evil looking eyes. The timberwolf raised it’s right forepaw and stuck out a claw. It then lightly touched Applejack’s left cheek, much to her displeasure, and gently traced a line down her face and neck, and across her chest. The timberwolf then sniffed its claw, and then licked it. Applejack was sure she could see a look of pleasure on the beast’s face as it let out a growl that sounded almost like a laugh.
Just as Applejack felt ready to scream, she suddenly heard more growling to her left. Both she and the timberwolf on top of her turned to look, and they saw one of the other timberwolves sniffing the round, green glowing device. As it sniffed away at it, its nose touched the red button, and one of the rounded antennas began to sparkle and build up energy.
Applejack gasped, and she quickly kicked out with her hindlegs, striking the timberwolf holding her down in its stomach and knocking him clear off of her. “That’s mah ride!” she cried out as she got up on her hooves and ran towards the device.
Applejack headbutted the timberwolf next to the time machine and stood in front of it with an eager grin on her face. The machine’s antenna zapped away her hat, leaving Applejack standing with a smile, which slowly changed into stunned look.
There was a loud snap, and Applejack cried out and turned to see that one of the timberwolves and snapped its jaws on her tail. She tugged her tail out through the beast’s teeth, and immediately noticed that the red scrunchy that held the end of her tail together was gone.
Applejack narrowed her eyes as her face went into a furious frown. She let out a loud primal neigh and swiftly roundhouse bucked the timberwolf with both of her hindlegs, sending it flying into the trunk of a nearby tree. Another timberwolf pounced at her, but Applejack turned and bucked as if she were bucking an apple tree, and the timberwolf was knocked back in an arc and shattered when it hit the ground. Two timberwolves charged Applejack at once, causing her to let out a snort before doing a backflip that resulted in her hindlegs striking the two wooden monsters under their chins with so much force that their heads flew clean off. Their bodies fell to pieces as another one ran forward and lunged at Applejack.
Applejack snorted loudly as reared up on her hind legs to catch the lunging beast. It grabbed her forehooves with its paws and tried to push the pony down. It let out a loud growl, but Applejack growled just as furiously, if not more so, in response as she pushed back with all her strength. She kicked the beast in its stomach as hard as she could with her right foreleg. The force of the blow was so strong that it shattered the timberwolf instantly, allowing Applejack to land back down on all fours and catch her breath, as any remaining timberwolves had already fled from the fierce mare.
“Breathe in . . ” Applejack said calmly right before doing so. “. . .Breathe out,” she added, and did so.
Still frowning, but feeling a bit more relaxed, Applejack walked over to the timberwolf she had roundhouse bucked. It was still conscious as it lay against the tree, and it appeared to be trying to roll off of the trunk and onto its stomach. Applejack quickly reared up on her hind legs and then stomped on the creature’s stomach with her two front hooves. The timberwolf coughed up the red scrunchy right before falling to pieces like the others.
Applejack put the scrunchy back on the end of her tail and said to the jungle at large, “That’s what yer get when ya mess with Bucky Magillicutty and Kicks McGee!”
Applejack then walked over to the device and stared at it long and hard.
Finally, she sighed in resignation and pressed the red button, and she and the device disappeared in a flash.