It had been a normal day in Ponyville when there was quite the earthquake.
"WAAAH! WHY IS THERE AN EARTHQUAKE?!" Sunset said. She was with Ray and was keeping an eye on Applejack's sister a yellow earth pony filly named Apple Bloom when the earth began to shake.
"WHY ARE THERE EARTHQUAKES IN EQUESTRIA WHEN I'M TRYING TO TAKE A NAP?!" A female voice called out. It belonged to a cyan creature.
"Um, who are you?" Sunset asked.
"I'm Gloria. Oh, you must be that orange pony my husband mentioned." Gloria said. "Sorry if I sound a bit grumpy. I wanted to take a break from the kingdom for a bit, and wanted to nap here when these earthquakes happened." She added.
"It's cool." Ray said.
"STAMPEDE!" Rainbow Dash could be heard yelling.
"Not an earthquake then." Gloria said.
Said stampede was then calmed down by Applejack.
"That was very nice of Applejack to stop that stampede. But I'm surprised you convinced the town to just give a cake to the farmer." Sunset said.
"Applejack probably handles cows and other farm animals a lot. So for her, that was just another day for her. Still, I figured the town at least owned her something." Twilight said before the pair of Unicorns arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, finding the mare using her back legs to hit trees in a weird motion.
"Uh...Applejack, if you don't mind me asking: WHAT THE BUCK ARE YOU DOING!?" Sunset asked.
"I'm Applebucking. It's a pricise method of hitting trees just right to get them to drop their apples." Applejack said.
Sunset couldn't help but notice. "Uh...Applejack, are you feeling okay?" Sunset asked.
"I'm fine sugarcube. It's just Applebucking Season." Applejack asked.
"Applebucking what now?" Twilight asked.
"It's what the apple family calls harvesting. And I've got a lot of trees to cover." Applejack said.
"Is there a reason Granny Smith or at least Big Mac isn't helping you?" Sunset asked.
"Granny's getting up there in years, and Big Mac got hurt enough to be able to help so, I'm on my own." Applejack said.
Sunset looked out to the various trees. "...And your sure you can handle this all by yourself? I won't lie, this seems like a lot of work for one pony." She added.
"Ah don't need any help. Ah can do this on my own." Applejack said.
"Well alright then. But I really hope I don't hear any problems showing up because your too stubborn to ask for help or Luna forbid, GET SOME REST every now and then." Sunset said.
"Why do you care so much? Do your really gotta try and be a big sister to every pony else because your brother went missing?" Applejack asked.
Sunset glared and got up in Applejack's face. "That, was a low blow Applejack. Strike one." The orange Unicorn said before going off ahead of Twilight.
"...No offense, but that was not cool Applejack." Twilight said.
"Ah guess ah should apologize next time ah see her. What's the cake for?" Applejack said.
"A little something from the town to say thank you. I think your going to need the energy if you plan on tackling this project of yours alone." Twilight said before leaving the cake behind.
A bit later, Sunset was coming into the Library with Gloria.
"Heh heh. Yeah, Throsten went through a lot when he was away. He told me he battled a living machine that could make realstic projections of your worst fears just before he came up against the most psychotic villain ever conceived. By Arceus, when Throsten told me and my father the details of just how psychotic of a villain he went up against, I think I saw my father actually get scared for the first time in his life." Gloria said.
"And Throsten talked about it so casually too huh? Guess that sort of thing would make Throsten feel like his new repsonbility is nothing. So, how psychotic are we talking?" Sunset said. Gloria then whispered in Sunset's ear, which made the Orange Unicorn's eyes become pinpricks. "A-ARE YOU BUCKING FOR REAL?! HOW IS THROSTEN EVEN OKAY AFTER WITNESSING THAT HAPPEN NOT JUST ONCE, NOT JUST TWICE, BUT THREE TIMES?!" Sunset exclaimed.
"Made me realize just how much braver Throsten has become as a result of his journy." Gloria said. The two entered the library, and saw Twilight patching up Rainbow Dash. "Whoa. What happened here?" Gloria asked.
"Applejack accidently made Rainbow Dash sustain a few injuries. I did talk to her a bit about it, but she wanted me to tell you that it was an accident and that she's sorry for what she said to you before." Twilight said.
"...Well I suppose if she's sorry for what she said, I can forgive her and I suppose this was just an accident." Sunset said.
Suddenly the local hospital nurse Nurse Redheart showed up. "Twilight, Sunset, we need help at the hospital!" She said. When the two got to the hospital with the nurse, there were quite a few sick ponies. "There seemed to be some kind of mix-up with the baked goods that Pinkie Pie and Applejack made." Nurse Redheart said.
"Not baked goods..." Pinkie Pie, who was one of the sick ponies said before throwing up. "Baked bads!" She added after the fact..
"...Applejack." Sunset said before heading off.
Sunset caught Applejack with her apple cart tilted up. "Applejack, we need to talk." Sunset said. "I get that your sorry for calling me out like that, and while I could've easily chocked the Rainbow Dash incident, your continuing negligence has caused you to put a number of ponies in the hospital with food poisoning." She added.
"Ah said ah don't need help." Applejack said and got her apple cart in order. "See?" She added.
"I get that you want to do this traditionally, but if there are any further problems, I WILL make an intervention." Sunset said. "Strike two, Applejack." She added as she trotted away.
Sunset was enjoying some time with two local musicians, Octavia and Vinyl Scratch. When she heard who Vinyl Scratch really was...
"OH...MY...GOODNESS!" Sunset said. "YOU...YOUR DJ-P0N3!" She exclaimed. Vinyl Scratch just nodded. "Wow. To think that the most well-known DJ in all of Equestria is mute and lives right here in ponyville..." Sunset said. "Twilight is going to F-L-I-P!" She added.
"Well she is my roommate. I'm just surprised you're not disowning her as a music artist just because of well, you know." Octavia said.
"Why would I? Vinyl's music is some of my favorites. Not that your music doesn't have its own charm Octavia, but Vinyl Scratch mixes some good beats." Sunset said.
"Well we are hoping to one day help one another become even better in our respective fields. And we are courteous with one another." Octavia said. "But...our styles just don't mix." She added.
"How do you know that? Don't knock it unless you try it after all." Sunset said.
"That's not bad advice. Perhaps we will try it at some point." Octavia said. Vinyl Scratch nodded in agreement.
Suddenly there were a few screams outside. "Okay, what the hell is going on now?!" Sunset said as she went outside, finding bunnies all over Ponyville. Some of the mares were freaking out.
"Sunset, your here. Good. Fluttershy and I need help rounding up her bunny friends." Twilight said. She was with Fluttershy gathering the bunnies.
"Really? What happened?" Sunset asked.
"Well, Applejack frightened the poor critters." Fluttershy said.
Sunset opened her mouth to speak but was cut off when they heard "Hey Fluttershy was it?" Gloria's voice said, with the Glaceon coming up to the group. "I think I have two things that belong to you." She added showing off that two bunnies had become stuck frozen to Gloria's side.
"What? How did that happen?" Fluttershy asked.
"We Glaceon can control the temperature around us, so I created this napping spot by freezing my surroundings in ice. I guess these two didn't notice where they were going and jumped onto me." Gloria said. "They'll be fine once they get unstuck from me and get unfrozen. Though they will have colds for a couple of days." She added.
"...Okay this has gone far enough." Sunset said before getting the bunnies off of Gloria. "Come on Gloria, if need be, I need your help with something." Sunset said.
Sunset and Gloria found Applejack still bucking her apples, pretty much almost spent. "Applejack, I'm pretty sure I've warned you enough that I would intervene if you caused too many problems." Sunset said.
Applejack didn't answer at first, when she bucked the tree again, causing the last of it's apples to fall. "Ha! Ah did it. Look out there." She said. Sunset did: Quite a lot of trees didn't have apples on them. "Ah did it. I managed to pick every single last one of them. All by myself. How do you like them apples?" The farmer asked.
Sunset was about to say something when she noticed Big Mac was there. "Uh, how do YOU like THEM apples?" He said, motioning to a bunch more trees with apples still on them.
"...Where...did all the apples..." Applejack suddenly fainted.
"Applejack, are you okay?" Sunset said. Applejack slowly came to. "Look, normally I wouldn't even try to stage an intervention, but your constant insistence has caused Rainbow Dash injuries, gave several ponies food poisoning, and sent bunnies on stampede through town eating the vegetation. Not only that, but because two of those bunnies were so frightened, they hopped onto Glora here and will be having colds for the next couple days. And all of that is because you are just too stubborn to ask for help. Either you agree that you need help, or I'm staging an--" Sunset was explaining.
"Y-yes..." Applejack said. "Ah...ah need help." She added.
"...Well. That was easier than I thought it'd be..." Sunset said.
The rest of the elements and Gloria were helping Applejack out at the farm picking the last of the apples.
Dear Princess Celestia
While Applejack is a hard working mare and trust me, that's saying the least, she had to realize when to swallow her own pride and ask her own friends for help. After all, there's no shame in asking your friends for help, a lesson I'm sure not even the rest of my friends will ever make her forget.
Your student, Sunset Shimmer
Applejack would call for a break, and then apologize for the trouble she caused.
This was written in the book by the bipedal creature. "Honey, don't forget to come take a break yourself. Our favorite show is on." The voice of the quadruped creature said.
"Coming!" The bipedal creature said. For a brief moment, one could swear they saw a tail with a spaded end exit via the mirror next to the desk with the book that's been being written in.