~Back at Sweet Apple Acres~
"Miss Applejack, you said the unicorn seems to know your element, and that element is?" Justice asks as he looked over his notes in his small notebook of the recent interview with Miss Applejack.
"Honesty is my element, Mr. Justice." Applejack answered as he wrote the information into his notebook.
"What makes you think that Miss Applejack?" Justice asked, getting ready to write down more information into his notebook.
"As I said before, the unicorn threat to keep Apple Bloom from me and hurt her. I couldn't let that happen; she's my little sister. So I promise to let her go free and let her keep the money. All I wanted back was Apple Bloom. But she knew I would do that. If she didn't know that my element was honesty. Do you think Mr. Justice she would risk that." Applejack posing the question to Justice as he was fanning the ransom note Applejack gave him unintentionally near his snout.
"Huh?!" Justice exclaimed as his sensitive sense of smell, pick-up a musty odor coming off the note. He stopped and inhaled the unusual scent deeply as Applejack rubbed her chin with her hand, watching him smelling the note.
"Miss Applejack, you said you been carrying this note with you since you found it, correct," Justice asked as he looks around Sweet Apple Acres.
"That right, Mr. Justice. I have been carrying this note with me all the time, why?" Applejack inquiry as she was still a bit puzzled with the question.
"Are there any disused or disrepair structures that get wet a lot in Sweet Apple Acres, Miss Applejack?" Justice asked as Applejack thought for a little while before answering.
"Nah! We apples pretty much keep the homestead up. If something needs to be repaired, I get right on it." Applejack explains as Justice rubs his chin with his hand a few times.
"If that the case Miss Applejack. Have you been anywhere that is disused or disrepair that gets wet?" Justice asks as Applejack blink with surprise with the question from Justice.
"Nah, again, Mr. Justice. Since the return of Apple Bloom, I have been here at the homestead all this time." Applejack answers honestly as her answer just eliminate another possible scenario for the investigation.
"Hmmm, is there any place around here that get a lot of rain or is wet with structures?" Justice asked as Applejack thought once again.
"Not around here, Mr. Justice. I can't think of any place like that." Applejack answered as Justice feels that Applejack is not telling him the whole story, but he doesn't want to push his luck with her.
"Thank you for all your help, Miss Applejack. I hope to return under better circumstances to Sweet Apple Acres. You, Miss Applejack seem to be an honest mare I would love to start a long friendship with." Justice said honestly as Applejack started to chew on her lip as the feeling was mutual.
"You are welcome, Mr. Justice. It might be a pleasure to meet you too. You will always be welcomed here at Sweet Apple Acres. I will greatly enjoy allowing you to get to know this hard-working earth pony mare for a possible long term friendship." Applejack said politely, shaking his hand as she watches him head off back to town.
Applejack was not lying; there was no place like what Justice was looking for around Ponyville. But southeast of Ponyville was Hayseed Junction. It matches the criteria of someplace wet with structures. So Applejack hopped into her old truck and drove down to Hayseed Junction. Using the business contacts she made in Hayseed Junction, she learned from the Cajun ponies' residence that a unicorn mare that out of place in this swampy area of Equestria. Rented a Cajun cottage deep and far from town in the swamp.
Quickly Applejack went in search of the shack and found it before she could head back to Hayseed Junction to get some help; she was struck on the back of her head and knocked unconscious. She came to a few moments later and found herself magically bound to a wooden chair inside the single room shack. She knew it would be useless to struggle as the magic bindings are just as strong as the strongest rope she uses. Applejack's face glazed with shock approach; here was the unicorn mare that she had to let go, so she would give back Apple Bloom.
"I don't know how you found my hideout in this Hayseed Swamp, Miss Applejack? But it doesn't matter anyway. You will soon be telling me everything I want to know?" The unicorn kidnapper said, threatening as she pulled a second chair over in front of Miss Applejack.
The kidnapper stretched Applejack's legs out and cast a second holding spell on them. Binding them to the other chair, her feet protruded through the natural holes in the chair designed backing.
"Miss Kidnapper what make you thinks I'll tail you anything?" Applejack said in sarcastic southern accent as the unicorn mare began to untie Applejack's work boots.
"You see Miss Applejack, I watch you for months before I even kidnap your little sister. So I know your little secret." The unicorn mare said as she pulled off Applejack's work boots, exposing her yellow-orange bare feet with green, yellow nail polish. She intentionally brushed her nails against Applejack's toes, and she unleashed a small squeak and started to squirm.
"I know you have ticklish feet, Miss Applejack." The unicorn mare said as she runs her fingers across the soles of both her feet, Applejack's squeak was much louder this time. She lost it went she started to tickle her between all her toes.
"Pleeeheeaseee stop tickling between my toes. I can't take it. I'll talk." Applejack screamed with laughter as the unicorn mare stop tickling between her toes.
"I must say for a tough farm girl like you, Miss Applejack. I would never imagine your feet were that sensitive. I guess all those super-secret trips to the local Day spa in ponyville that you do regularly is paying off for me." The unicorn mare commented as she can tell by just looking at Applejack's bare feet. That they are very soft and supple the result of the lotion and massage cream, she rubs on her feet in her bedroom in secret at Sweet Apple Acres ever day.
"(Chuckles) I work all morning in the fields and kick trees to pay the bills. The work is rewarding, but it hard on my feet. But first and foremost, I am a mare. A tough farm girl I might be. But even a farm girl likes having her hard-working tootsies pampered once in a while. What of it, Miss Kidnapper?" Applejack said brazenly as Applejack composed herself.
"Oh, there nothing wrong with that, Miss Applejack. I too indulged in that treatment went I was living in Canterlot. It was one of the few guilty pleasures I partake in." Unicorn mare said as she crouches down in front of Applejack's bare soles, and she wiggled her toes nervously.
"So Miss Ticklish Applejack, how did you find my hideout?" The unicorn mare asked as she slowly drags a single finger from Applejack's toes straight down to her heel over the middle of her right foot. This caused Applejack to curl her toes and unleashed forced laughter as unicorn mare finger went back up towards her toes and back down again several times.
"I-it was not me who found your hideout. It was the Royal Investigator sent by the Princess to look into your kidnapping scheme. I just put two and two together; it led me to Hayseed Junctions." Applejack screamed with laughter as the unicorn mare ran her fingers across the bottom of her feet; this allowed more forced laughter out of her.
"Did this Royal Investigator have a name, Miss Ticklish Applejack?" The Unicorn mare inquiry as she insert several magically created feathers between all of Applejack's toes.
This caused Applejack to twitch, as she splayed and curled her toes as each feather was slotted in place. The unicorn mare simply snapped her fingers, setting off the spell. Applejack went wild with laughter, her feet shake as her toes squirmed and wiggled as each feather sawed in between her toes.
"Justice Silverlight!" Applejack screams through her laughter as she passes out from the tickle torture she just endured at the hands of the unicorn mare kidnapper. The blood drains from unicorn mare's face upon hearing the name that was spoken.
"Was the Princess with him?" the unicorn mare inquiry terrified as she grabs Applejack by the collars of her work shirt and roughly shook her.
But to no avail, Applejack was too far gone, totally unconscious but breathing steadily. Knowing she will get no answers from her ticklish guest anymore, the unicorn mare releases the grip on Applejack's work shirt and pushes her back up. Slowly her moderate sap green eyes open as she felt someone tapping a hand against her cheek. Slowly her vision clears, she finds herself sitting in the driver seat of her old truck. As Royal Investigator Justice Silverlight looks her over for any kind of injuries, went none are found. Justice asks her the most obvious thing about her.
"Miss Applejack, do you routinely drive this vehicle barefooted, or is there some other reason I don't know?" Justice asks to point down toward the naked yellow-orange feet with green, yellow nail polish sitting on the floor of the truck.
Applejack's face glazed with shock; she is indeed wearing no shoes on her feet. The sight of her naked yellow-orange feet sparks a memory in Applejack's head. She quickly leaps out of her old truck and insists that Justice follow her. A sudden spurt of adrenaline courses through Applejack's veins as she sinks to her knees the Cajun cottage she was tickle torture in is burning to the ground. Quickly Justice gestures several Cajun ponies to put out the fire before the whole swamp goes-up in flames.
Its sometime later back Applejack sits on the tailgate door of her old truck. Why letting Justice examine her soft and supple feet for any clue to back-up her account of what happened.
"Justice! Stop fondling Miss Applejack's feet right this instant! You may only fondle my feet! You belong to me!" Celestia shouts with some jealousy in her voice as it catches Applejack by surprise.
"I don't know, Princess why you are yelling, I told Mr. Justice to check my feet to see if he can find a clue stuck on my foot and nothing else." Applejack explains as Celestia's mouth crimps in annoyance.
"That not the point, Miss Applejack. He is promised to me. This way." Celestia comments showing Applejack the gold engagement ring on her finger. After seeing the engagement ring on Celestia's finger.
Applejack takes Justice side to talk with him in private, and alone this cause Celestia to begin to grind her teeth together. Applejack's pitter-patters over to her old truck and start it up to head back to ponyville. Celestia watches as Applejack leaves, Justice walks up to her and grabs her left hand. He pulls the engagement ring off her fourth finger and she begins to whimper watching Justice stick her ring into his jacket pocket.
"Justice! Please! Give me back my engagement ring! I am sorry!" Celestia said embarrassed feeling totally self-conscious with her naked fourth finger of her left hand.
"If you want your engagement ring back Celestia, you have to earn it. I will not give it to a jealous mare." Justice said sharply as Celestia's ears drooped down on top her head and she shook her head.
"All right Justice, what must I do to earn my engagement ring back from you?" Celestia asked as Justice quickly jots down a cell phone number and floated it over to Celestia.
"You should know who cell phone number that is," Justice said as Celestia look at the cell phone number on the paper. Her eyes blink with surprise; the number belongs to her adoptive niece, Cadence. She instantly knows what Justice wants her to do, and she's willing to do it.
"I understand, Justice; I will contact her and talk out my feeling with her. Do you still love me?" Celestia queries as Justice looks over his shoulder at Celestia.
"It hard to tell at this moment, Celestia. But if you look at your feet, that should ease some of that pain in your heart." Justice said as he climbs into his rented car and drives back to ponyville.
"Huh?" Celestia exclaimed as she looks at her feet and discovered on the second toe of her right foot was her gold toe ring that Justice took from her went he left Canterlot to investigate the kidnapping in Ponyville for her.
"Hehehe, he still loves me. Because of that, I'll try doubly as hard to keep my jealousy in check. No matter what, I will earn back my engagement ring and once again wear it proudly and really keep my promises to marry him and bear the name Ms Celestia Silverlight." Celestia said excitedly as she prances around before flying back to Canterlot to keep her promise to talk to Cadence about her feeling for Justice.