Applejack blinked. She was sitting in a circle with her non-unicorn friends. To her right, Rainbow Dash was wearing a pair of round sunglasses with green lenses. Her tongue was sticking out in concentration as she was building a card house. Beside her was Pinkie Pie blowing bubbles. When the bubbles flew from the wand, her eyes followed them and a silent “oooo” could be heard from her. To Applejack’s left was Fluttershy. In her hooves was a bluish vase like object with a round bottom and a narrow neck. Wound around the object’s neck was a black coil made of glass. Fluttershy’s mouth was over the top and a bubbling sound could be heard from it. When Fluttershy lifted her head, her cheeks were puffed out. Applejack giggled at the sight. Gentle music and a pale smoke were drifting around her and all of her friends. Fluttershy exhaled the same coloured smoke from her mouth. Applejack stopped for a moment. How did I get here?
*
Pinkie was hopping down the road alongside Applejack.
“What exactly are we going to do?” Applejack asked.
“You’ll see,” Pinkie said. “It’s something Rainbow Dash and I do on a weekly basis. For a while, it was just the two of us, and then once we let Fluttershy try, she started joining us in our little escapades.” Applejack gawked. Had Pinkie admitted to being in a… no, that was impossible. Fluttershy would never try something as risqué as that. Would she?
“Why are you letting me in on this?”
“Well, when Dashie and I spun the Wheel of Friendship!” Pinkie’s words echoed around them as if she were speaking into a loud speaker. Applejack looked around in confusion. “You came up. So we decided to let you try this with us.” A grin appeared on Applejack’s face. If Pinkie was talking about what she thought she was talking about, it would turn out to be a fun night.
*
Applejack’s face took on one of understanding. Oh, that’s how. She looked at each of her friends. All of them had a goofy smile on their face. When she looked at their eyes, she noticed that the whites of their eyes were a gentle shade of pink. Applejack stopped again. Why am I here? Wasn’t I walking with Pinkie just now?
Fluttershy was moving her body along with the music. She looked at Applejack and began to giggle. On the earth pony’s face was a confused expression.
“Dashie, Pinkie,” Fluttershy whispered. Her friends looked up at her. “Look, I think Jackie is spacing out.” Pinkie and Rainbow looked at Applejack. When they saw her expression, they began laughing.
“Holy hay,” Pinkie gasped between breaths. “That’s just hilarious.”
“I know!” Rainbow laughed. “This is way funnier than what happened to Shy when she first tried this with us.” Fluttershy tilted her head in confusion.
“What did I do?” Pinkie and Rainbow started giggling again.
“We were outside your cottage and a pile of bunnies slept on top of you. And then you said,” Rainbow began. Her giggles refused to let her finish her trip down memory lane.
“It feels like I'm being crushed by...softness...duuuude!” Pinkie finished perfectly mimicking Fluttershy's voice. "Then you followed it up by saying 'I feel...so warm and fuzzy, man'." Fluttershy looked at her pink friend.
“That is a terrible impression of me,” she deadpanned. Applejack meanwhile, looked up at her friends.
“Hey, girls,” she said. Her friends turned their attention to her. “Weren’t we just outside?” All of her friends burst out laughing.
“Wow Jackie,” Fluttershy laughed. “You’re at the moon right now aren’t you?”
“I don’t know what that means, but I guess I am,” she said. Applejack dipped a bubble wand into Pinkie’s solution and blew a few bubbles. She looked at them as they flew in the smoke. Again, she stopped. “Does the world look like clay to you girls too?” All of them nodded.
“Glad to know I’m not going insane.” Applejack followed Fluttershy’s example and moved with the music. After what felt like an hour, she stopped again.
How did I get here?