Once upon a time, when Applejack was a little filly, and her parents were still alive, the Windigos seem to have come back, and the farm isn’t doing so well. The snow and cold weather had killed all the crops, leaving the Apples poor and hungry. Not to mention the cow, the only livestock on the farm.
One day, Applejack’s mother decided it was time to trade the cow for food. “It is very important that you get some food. We could die if you don’t get the food!” she told Applejack.
“You can trust me.” said Applejack.
“You must not talk to strangers.”
“I know” she said, and left for town.
Now it just so happens that the town is 15 miles away, and there was basically a blizzard that Applejack had to go through. Halfway to the town, the little filly, now cold, tired, and miserable, in general, met a little old, wrinkly pony on the side of the road. She decided to talk to the colt. “Howdy, sir. How are you today?” she asked
“I’m just fine. In fact, I’m a bit better than you look. Why don’t you trade me your cow there for these here apple seeds.”
“That wouldn’t be a fair trade now would it?”
“Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be, but these are magic beans. They’ll grow thousands of feet tall, and produce enough beans for you, your mom and dad, and your brother, not to mention the town.”
“Hay, how’d you know I have a brother?” asked Applejack, starting to get suspicious. Whatever she thought, and accepted the deal.
“Very good choice” said the old colt, disappearing.
“You traded our cow for apple seeds!!!”
She had just got home and showed her family the beans. “But they’re magic-”
“I don’t care! Where did you get these anyways?”
“An old colt on the street. He was about halfway between here and the town.”
“You promised not to talk to strangers!” her mother yelled, throwing the seeds out of the window
“But-”
“No ‘buts’. Now go to bed, and don’t even think about coming back down for dinner”
“Yes, mama”
Applejack woke up to a lack of sunlight from the window. She looked out the it, and saw only green. She ran outside to see what it was that had obstructed her window. “Wear your boots!” called her mother “All the snow melted last night, and the fields will be muddy.”
“Ok.” she said, putting on her boots on and running outside. It was then she saw the thing that obscured her view out the window. “Oh… Mah… Goodness…” she breathed, because in front of her was the thing promised by the old colt. A giant apple tree, and it lead right to the top of a cloud.
Now knowing that usually only pegasi could stand on clouds, she was skeptical about climbing the apple tree. It’s a magic apple tree, she thought so maybe I could stand on that cloud. There is some reason for it going to that cloud, right? So, in the end, she decided to climb it.
When she got to the top to of it, she saw a giant cloud house. Like Rainbow Dash’s, but bigger. She walked into the house and saw that everything in the house was bigger than normal. She went on exploring the house when she ran into a golden harp that was playing all by itself. She grabbed it and ran down the apple tree, hoping the house owner didn’t notice her.
When she showed it to her mom, she was so delighted that she didn’t think to ask where her daughter had gotten it. they showed it to other ponies and eventually sold it. But there came a time when they, again, ran out of money. She decided to climb the tree again to see if she could grab anything else.
This time when she went, there was a giant pony in the house. so she decided to hide under the coffee table. The giant was dark blue with lighter spots. She had blueish-green eyes and a green mane with light purple highlights. She was playing delightedly with a brown hen. Her voice was higher than the orange filly expected when the giant yelled out “Lay!”. And as she said that, the hen laid a shiny golden egg.
Another voice called from the back of the house “June, time for your nap” it called, and the giant walked off towards the voice. After a few seconds, when the orange filly thought the giant was gone, she ran out from under the coffee table. She grabbed the hen and started to run towards the exit. But just then, the hen in her arms cried out, “Master, master, there is another pony in the house trying to steal me.”
Just then another giant came out and chased Applejack. She was faster in steps than the giant, but the giant covered more ground. When she got to the apple tree, she started to climb down as fast as she could. When she got to the ground, she ran for the shed and grabbed the ax they used to cut down dead trees. She ran back to the tree and started hacking at it with the ax, which, for a pony, is quite difficult and hard work.
Just as the giant was about to reach the ground, Applejack knocked out the last bit off wood. The giant made it to the ground safely, but she didn’t notice the tree toppling down wards. She started to walk over to where Applejack was but before she got there the tree fell on the giant and it laid there, unmoving.
Applejack went into the house to show her mom what she got. The hen provided the an infinite source of gold with which they could buy stuff. No one knows, other than Applejack why there was a giant pony in the fields. Nor does Applejack know what happened to the young giant. As for the Apple Family, they lived happily ever after.