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// Apples and apples 
// Story: Adventures of Shasta Two: Adventures in Ponyville 
// by veteranbrony 
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	The sweet smell of apples hit my nose as we slowly made our way towards the farmhouse in the middle of the large orchard. Apple Jack gave me a sideways glance and asked:
"So, whaddya think?"
"I think that you have a lot of apples" I replied like the idiot I was. Thankfully she didn't seem to care how stupid my comment was. We walked through the rows and rows of apple trees and she told me the names of each of the types of apples. I nodded understandingly, but in reality I knew I would never know their names. They would always be apples to me. It actually bothered me, and without trying to I voiced my opinion.
"So why do all the apples get different names? I mean like sentient beings, sure. But apples?"
We stopped walking for a while as she thought of how to respond to that.
"Ah'm not entirely sure ah know what ya mean." she said.
"Like why don't all the blades of grass have names?" I asked her. She opened her mouth to say something but before she could, I decided to add in,
"By the way you're stepping on Benjamin, George, Bob, Daniel, and Billy."
She looked at me and gave a small chuckle.
"Well then, Ah do apologize for any inconveniences, my friends." she said as we resumed making our way towards the center of the apple fields. A thought crossed my mind and being the impulsive fool I am, I just blurted it out.
"Why exactly do we have to go to the farmhouse? Wouldn't any of these apples work?"
"Well as Granny Smith always says, If ya want to make an impression, at least make it good. Besides, these apples aren't ripe yet. It will take about three more months until they're ready. Here we are! Lemme go get some apples. What kind do ya want, sugarcube?"
"Uh..." I should have payed more attention. I didn't know there was going to be a quiz! "the kind that is an apple..."
Brilliance. Pure brilliance.
"Uh Ah'll just go get some Cortlands."
Once she was inside, I face-pawed so hard. I couldn't believe how stupid I was around these ponies. Was I always like this? Taka had always said that I was the smartest of the pack. I find that hard to believe. Maybe I was dropped on my head as a pup...
I didn't have time to finish that thought before I was knocked on the ground by a powerful hoof to my right thigh. I immediately thought rainbow dash, but when I looked, it was not the cyan pegasus, but a large, golden maned stallion. He raised his back hooves to buck me, but I ran before he could land his attack. But my attacker was not satisfied. He gave chase, as I darted through rows and rows of trees, hoping he would not have the swiftness to maneuver around the trees. The adrenaline was rushing through me, and I looked back just to be smacked with the trunk of an apple tree. I was dazed, and he was not going to give up. I was starting to slip into unconsciousness. I tried to stay awake, but the darkness was so sweet, so welcoming. It seemed so much better than the alternative which was facing a giant angry stallion.
As I slipped into the sweet embrace of the darkness, I was suddenly brought back to reality when some apples fell on me. I snapped into action, realizing that he had bucked at me and hit the tree. I ducked to the left and sprinted. I decided against trying my best at weaving between rows and just ran alongside one. I turned, and saw my attacker falling behind. My spirits started lifting. I was going to live another day! But something was wrong. The look on the stallion's face was not one of anger anymore, but of fear and concern. He was shouting something... something about fillies? 
Before I could figure out what that meant on my own, I was confronted with the answer. I collided head first into a group of three fillies wearing some sort of capes and we all fell to the ground. As I got up, one of the fillies jumped on me saying something to the effect of "Don't worry brother, Ill get it!" Oh great. Now I had to play rodeo with a little filly, who I really did not want to hurt. That would not look good on my part, and besides, who really does want to hurt little fillies? My thoughts were clouded, however, with the adrenaline pumping through my veins. I kept on running, with the yellow filly on my back. As I ran, she was hitting me. It didn't hurt much, as she wasn't very big, but it was annoying. I couldn't stop running, or He would get me. I couldn't run off with her, and hurting her was not an option. Actually, apparently I could run off with her, because that's just what the numbskull known as myself did. I ran off with the filly. I got to the edge of the fields, the filly still holding on to me. I jumped over the wooden fence, and kept running. I didn't look back, for fear of running into something and hurting her. I just kept on running. Eventually I got to the edge of the Everfree forest, and just went right in. I kept going until I caught myself right before running off a cliff leading down into a river about fifty feet below. I was about to congratulate myself on saving the filly and I from falling off a cliff, until I saw a yellow figure launch in what seemed to be slow motion off my back and towards the ravine. I had no idea what to do. I couldn't grab the filly with my teeth without tearing her leg off or something, until I remembered she was wearing a cape. She might get choked a bit, but it was probably a better option than letting her die. I planted my paws firmly into the ground and grabbed the cape. I jerked my head to the left, and swung the filly back onto land. She fell on her side as I stood there panting. The world reached normal speeds, but nothing was really happening, so it may as well have stayed the way it was. After what seemed like an eternity, she looked up at me and said in disbelief, 
"Y-You saved m-my life."
I responded brilliantly, 
"Yeah I did."