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// Applejack Adventure - Jungle 4: Bad Apple Bonanza 
// Story: My Little Pony + Rabbids: Equestria Battle 
// by SharkBowser58 
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While making haste down the trail to get to Rabbid Jack's base before her minions deliver any more Bad Apples to her, Applejack and her friends spotted a Rabbid standing on a pillar, eating and admiring an apple.
"One positive thing to come out of this is the Rabbids' love of apples." Beep-0 explained to the group, happy to have some positivity come at them for a change during this situation. "Wait until they see my Apples Foster Cinnamon French Toast Caramel Smoothie recipe. Ho, ho!"
"Not before they try my family's apple cider when it's cider season." Applejack claimed, believing that her apple beverage might be better than Beep-0's.
Beep-0 and Applejack angrily glared at each other, and as their Rabbid friends watched them, they swore that they saw a lightning bolt in between their eyes.
"Bwa Bada Bwah!" Rabbid Granny shouted as she stepped in between her comrades, snapping them out of their trance, then pointed down the path, reminding them of their mission.
"She's right, we'll settle this later, right now we have to keep movin'." Applejack stated as she calmed down.
"Agreed, I'm sorry that I even brought it up." Beep-0 said to the pony, feeling bad that he almost created an apple drink feud that could've ended up similar to the one that happened between Sweet Apple Acres and the Flim Flam brothers last Cider Season.
"That's alright, and I'm sorry too." Applejack apologized as well as she and Beep-0 shook hands, in this case, a hoof and an ear.
The group left the Rabbid, and it didn't take very long for them to reach the next battlefield.
Destroy Bad Apples - 4 Smashers, 3 Bucklers, 2 Summoners (Bad Apple Piles: 5)
Applejack had Rabbid Granny hop up onto her back, then she ran across an orange arrow and used her lasso to swing across a small chasm to the right bottom corner of the battlefield, and hid behind a full cover. She bucked Rabbid Granny, and she Freeze Blasted the Bad Apple pile and a Smasher. She activated her Hero Sight, then threw her Boomerang at the Smasher and the Bad Apple Pile, which triggered a Burn Effect that sent the enemy Rabbid running, who also gets hit by Applejack's Hero Sight that also destroyed the pile. The Smasher was defeated, but while he was running, he ran directly past Applejack, which transferred some of his Burn Effect to her, sending her running as well before stopping out in the open.
Rabbid Rarity sent a Sentry to go after the Bad Apple pile on the bottom left corner of the battlefield, and after it entered a pipe to get to the area, it exploded and damaged the pile and a Smasher when it got in range, which triggered a Push Effect that sent the enemy Rabbid out of the battlefield before respawning a moment later. Rabbid Rarity entered the pipe and dashed the Smasher, then activated her Shield.
Rabbid Granny got a Team Jump for Applejack so she could get to the high area, where she Freeze Blasted the Bad Apple pile and 2 Bucklers. She then launched a Barrel Bolt at the Bad Apple pile, damaging it and the 3 Bucklers in the area. She activated her Long Story, and put all the Bucklers to sleep.
While 2 of the Smashers began to make their way to the heroes before stopping to rest, one of them slammed Rabbid Rarity, her Shield reducing some of the damage, and also damaged the Bad Apple pile in the process, while another one activated his Weaken technique, weakening Applejack to do less damage.
The Summoners change positions and hid behind 2 full covers behind the high area.
Rabbid Granny entered a pipe leading back to the ground, dashed one of the Summoners, and hid behind a partial cover. She then blasted the Bad Apple pile in the upper left corner of the battlefield, and activated her Stink Eye.
Applejack bucked the Smasher directly at the Bad Apple pile at the upper right corner of the battlefield, damaging both him and the pile as he bounced off it and out of the battlefield, respawning a moment later. She then threw her Boomerang at the pile and the Smasher, which triggered a Burn Effect that sent the enemy Rabbid running, but when it wore off, he charged towards the pony and slammed her when he got in range of her.
Rabbid Rarity blasted her Bad Apple pile, destroying it, then dashed the Smasher, defeating him. She then made her way to an area that was near the pile that was in the upper left corner, but was close to a Smasher.
One of the Smashers made his way to Rabbid Rarity, but gets hit by Rabbid Granny's Stink Eye in the process, which not only triggered an Ink Effect that prevented him from attacking, it also diverted his attention away from Rabbid Rarity as he began to charge towards Rabbid Granny before stopping to rest. The other Smasher simply slammed Applejack, then made his way to a spot that was still right next to the pony.
The Summoners moved to different partial covers, and while one threw his Grenaduck at Rabbid Granny, the other threw one at Applejack, which bounced and triggered a Push Effect that not only sent the pony out of the battlefield, it also pushed the Smasher near her towards him, getting his attention and slamming him when he got to him. The Summoners then used their Heal techniques to heal each other and the Smasher.
The Bucklers entered to pipe to get to the ground, then took turns blasting Rabbid Granny, which may have been revenge for putting them to sleep with a boring story. One of their blasts triggered a Honey Effect that stuck Rabbid Granny in place, and one of them damaged both the hero and his teammate because he was directly in front of him.
Applejack threw her Boomarang at the Bad Apple pile in the upper right corner, destroying it, then bucked a full cover at the pile in the high area, destroying that one too.
Rabbid Rarity sent a Sentry to go after the final Bad Apple pile, and it exploded when it got in range, damaging the pile. She then dashed a Smasher and stopped near Rabbid Granny, healing her and herself when she activated her Heal technique.
Rabbid Granny launched a Barrel Bolt at the Bad Apple pile, destroying it and ending the battle.
The heroes cheered as they were healed and rewarded 1250 apples and 3 Runes.
"Great work, everypony! I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that we've managed to destroy a ton of Bad Apples!" Beep-0 cheered as he congratulated the team.
Rabbid Rarity and Rabbid Granny cheered as they began to dance a little bit.
"What's the bad news?" Applejack asked, knowing that the moment would be ruined.
"The bad news is that we didn't destroy all of them, and that most of them may have already been delivered to Rabbid Jack."
The Rabbids stopped dancing as they processed what Beep-0 just said and sighed in disappointment.
"Don't worry, every Bad Apple we destroy prevents Rabbid Jack from getting any stronger, which is a good thing. We just have to stop her before she gets anymore, and fortunately, I'm sensing that her lair is just up ahead."
"Well, what're we waitin' for, let's go before we're too late!" Applejack shouted to the group, worried that her counterpart will get stronger at any time.
"Bwa-Bwaaah!" Rabbid Rarity and Rabbid Granny cheered in agreement as the team left the battlefield.
The group traveled across as stone bridge, but stopped halfway across it when they saw a pair of Rabbids playing a game of checkers by hopping and sliding across some ancient, stone tiles.
"My current record at checkers is 456-1. My only loss was to a Tronic-O 800XL Smart Toaster if you can believe it." Beep-0 embarrassingly admitted.
"I suppose there's a first time for everything." Applejack jokingly said to Beep-0, chuckling a little bit after hearing he lost to a toaster.
The team left the Rabbids to their life-sized board game, and entered a large, open area with small water canals, golden circles with parts of the canal in them, a small golden bridge with 4 parts of it underwater in a small pool while 1 part was raised, and vines blocking a gate at the other end of the area.
"Great - the gangway is completely inaccessible." Beep-0 told the group in disappointment as he looked at the incomplete bridge, then turned his attention to the vine-covered gate. "Even if we could reach it, it's covered in vines. They obviously don't care much about lawn maintenance around here." He then looked at small canals on the ground with a puzzling look. "I suspect this all has something to do with these strange carvings on the ground. Let's take a closer look."
"I think the water in these little paths are feeding those vines." Applejack said as she noticed that a section of the canals had water flowing into one of the little pools where some of the vines were growing from, then she looked at one of the golden circles that was in the bottom right corner of the area where water was traveling through. "I wonder..." she said as she turned the circle, cutting off that section of the water. Doing this, Applejack stopped the flow of the water from entering the pool, causing some of the vines to decay very quickly, but also caused the one gold bridge part to sink into the water.
"Bwa-Bwaaah!" Rabbid Rarity cheered as she pat Applejack on the back for a job well done.
"That's the ticket!" Beep-0 congratulated Applejack for figuring out how to solve the puzzle. "It seems that an irrigation system controls the platforms there. It draws water from the pools that nourish the vines. Very clever actually."
"Well, what're we waitin' for? Let's get started!" Applejack cheered as she and the others spread across the area and started rotating the gold circles.
This puzzle wasn't an easy one, because wrong moves would cause the bridge parts to either rise of sink into the water, and cause the vines to grow back instantly. Working together, the group we're eventually able to successfully clear the vines and raise the small gold bridge. Doing so caused the gate at the end to open, and lower a golden drawbridge over a small chasm inside, opening a small path to a mini Barrel Cannon.
The group made their way inside, and they saw two large carvings of Rabbid Jack in the side of canyon, and at the top of it was a Rabbid temple.
"Bwaaah..." Rabbid Rarity and Rabbid Granny said in amazement at the sight.
"This is it girls. The Temple of Rabbid Jack." Beep-0 told the group in amazement that they finally made it.
"The Washing Machine must be up there, along with you know who." Applejack said.
"Agreed, and because of that, I highly suggest that you all upgrade your weapons and your Skill Trees. Rabbid Jack won't make things easy."
The heroes nodded in agreement as Beep-0 opened the Battle HQ. They used their apples to upgrade their weapons to deal more damage.
Applejack used 2 of her Runes to increase the damage dealt by her Hero Sight. 
Rabbid Rarity used 2 of her Runes to increase the attack range of both her primary and secondary weapons.
Rabbid Granny used 2 of her Runes to increase the damage dealt by her Stink Eye, and the range of her Long Story.
"Stay close, everypony. We don't know what else is up there" Applejack told the group with caution as they all entered the Barrel Cannon, and were blasted over the canyon.