Applejack walked slowly back towards her house, pondering the whole explosion peice. She was starting to get unusually hot, so she planted her hindquarters on a rock. A cold wind suddenly swept through her, leaving her chest shivering where her heart skipped a beat. 'Too creepy,' she thought to herself, and quickened her pace on the way home - this time, it wasn't warmth that bothered her, it was the chilled to the bone frost that seemed to coat her invisably.
"Where ave you ben?" Grannysmith croaked at her. She scowled.
"I was just baking cookies with Pinkie Pie, sheesh," Applejack forced the lie through her teeth. She smiled at her ability to lie cleanly. Her mouth was getting better at it by the second. Grannysmith shrugged as best her creaking shoulders could and muttered under her breath about 'children these days.'
Applejack wrapped herself in blankets, but nothing could aid her escape from the cold. In the morning when she awoke, goosebumps covered her limbs. "Gol danged cold," she muttered menacingly to herself. She stomped to the table and ate quickly, ignoring the looks given from Grannysmith and Big Mac. Galloping away, her hooves took her towards the Everfree Forest. 'Whahy are mah hooves takin' me there?' she wondered. Control over her madly moving feet was something she enjoyed five minutes ago. Now the pleasure was gone.
"APPLEJACK!" Fluttershy shouted. Applejack reeled. 'Did Fluttershy just SHOUT?!' her mind asked. Her hooves froze (almost literally) and she turned.
"WHAT?!" she shouted back. Fluttershy was standing in her yard, so Applejack walked over.
"Get your stupid, ugly, mangy MUTT out of my house! She whines ALL NIGHT and barks and pees! OUT!" Fluttershy screamed at her.
"Whatever Buttshy! Try being nicer for a change!" Applejack screeched back. Fluttershy sneered at her.
"I'm done being nice! In fact, butterflies are nice. I don't want them on my side anymore!" she said, and with a pop, the three butterflies that made up her cutie mark were gone. Applejack stared, but held her poker face.
"Well, you SUCK! I hate you, you're stupid, you're bad with animals, and you are a HORRIBLE PONY!" she countered. Fluttershy screamed loud enough to breack glass.
"LIES! YOU ARE A LIAR!" she screeched at the orange pony in front of her. With that, the three apples that made up Applejack's cutie mark fell off.
"GOOD RIDDANCE!" she said finally, and stalked off. She knew that the buttered up ol' Fluttershy would try and apologize. She wouldn't accept, although, she didn't need to because the apology never came. She was almost sorry, but then the cold came back, and the feeling vanished.