Celestia's sun rose over the horizon of Sweet Apple Acres bringing light to the little farm and waking all who lived there. In her room, Applejack started to rise from bed for the day as her usual routine she got up walked to the mirror in her room and grabbed the brush from top her chest drawer and brushed her messy mane clean then put on her hat.
She walked out her room and down the hall and stopping in front of another room, she opened the door and gently walked quietly walking towards the crib at the other end of the room. She got to the side of the crib and looked down at an already awake little Granny Smith who looked back up at her.
Applejack cooed. "Aw hey Granny how are you this morning, did you have a good-"
She was cut short as she was hit with the end of Granny Smith's cane. "OW! Why would you do that, Granny!?"
"What did I teww you about baby talkin' at me like that Appwejack? I told you ten times now, even though I'm a foal I'm still your Granny and still demand respect." Granny said shaking her cane in her hooves threateningly.
"You're asking a lot from me, Granny, Ah'm not about to be bossed around by a pony shorter then me. How did you get your cane back anyway?" Applejack asked remembering she put her cane in the attic.
"I told Appwebloom to get it for me."
"Applebloom!"
"I'm sorry sis, she made me do it." Applebloom apologized poking her head into the room.
"She's a foal, she can't make you do anything!"
"Have you felt the way she swings? She may have little hooves but she hits kinda hard."
"Apple's are naturawwy stwong earth ponies, even are youngin are tough, I wemember when you were widdle and got cranky you would punch and cry with such a fit." Granny said with a smile.
"Alright whatever, Applebloom you get ready for school I got to take care of Granny and tell Big Mac I'll be outside soon he should be out in the fields by now."
Applebloom nodded and left to go do what she was told leaving Applejack to deal with Granny. She turned back to the little filly then picked her up into her forelegs, one supporting her back and the other under her bottom.
"Looks like somepony flooded the orchard this mornin'." Applejack commented patting the bottom of Granny's wet diaper while carrying her to the changing table in the room.
Granny rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah just huwwy up and change me while you're yappin'."
Applejack laid Granny on top the table and started undoing the taps on her diaper. "Granny, why do you have to be so stubborn?" the farmer asked as she threw away the wet garment.
"What awe you tawking about AJ?"
Applejack went under the table and got the baby wipes and started cleaning Granny's fur, then once she was cleaned got a fresh diaper and lifted her legs sliding it under her rump. "I'm talking about why can't you just let me be in charge of everything, you ain't an adult anymore, Granny, yet you still try to make the rules like you are one."
"Cause, I am still one, I may be in a yougin's body, Appwejack, but I can still do whatever I want, nothing has changed or needs to be changed." Granny said flatly crossing her arms.
Applejack put the taps in place and sat Granny up. "You can't do whatever you want now Granny, you're just too small to do anything yourself now, just look at you." she retorted pointing a hoof at her.
"So what? I can still do anything I could when I was older."
"No you can't, Granny, I know I'm coming onto you, but you have to understand that you can't do everything like you used to. You may have your kick back in your bones but you can't go doing what you want and ordering everypony here around, Ah'm mostly worried you're gonna do something stupid."
"When did I evew do somting stupid?" she asked squinting her eyes menacingly at AJ.
"A few weeks ago you went into the Everfee forest alone with Rainbow and the others to go see Kit and his castle that was in the middle of them dangerous woods!" She yelled. "You could have gotten seriously hurt or even worse, you should have known better then to go there, yet ya did!"
Granny opened her mouth to retort but then sighed. "You're right I should have known better then to go in that fowest with the othews and I'm sowwy about that. But that doesn't mean I can't still be the boss around hewe, Ah'm youw Granny!"
"I know that Granny, but you're just too young now, how can you even be the boss if you can't even do anything yourself. You even need help changing your diapers and eating meals so tell me Granny how can you be boss?"
Granny thought about what her granddaughter said, she knew she was right in a way but just couldn't accept over her own stubbornness and the fact that's she's been in charge of the farm for years. Even in her old age she had control and though she wasn't in the field bucking apples like AJ and Big Mac, they always did what she told them and respected her authority especially Applebloom who has so much love for her and she did not want that to change.
"I'll pwove I can stiww be the boss." Granny said with a determined expression.
Applejack smirked "Oh you'll prove it huh? I'd like to see that. We have to go right now though Big Mac's waiting in the fields." she said then picked up Granny up and putting up on her back she walked out the room and down the hall.
'You'll see AJ, I'm going to prove you wrong then you'll see, Ah'm the Boss.' Granny though to herself as she rode on AJ's back.
****
Applejack walked through the forest of apple trees, baskets surrounding each one ready to catch any falling apples, Pulling a cart behind her with Granny riding in the back, Applejack, stopped in the middle of the apple forest and unhooking herself from the cart she walked up to a tree and bucked the trunk making the apples shake from there branches and fall right into the baskets below.
Granny looked over the edge of the cart at Applejack bucking the tree again making more apples fall then going to the next tree and doing the same. Seeing her chance, Granny climbed out of the cart and landing on her bottom Granny crawled next to a tree and looked up at the branches above that held many apples on its bows.
"I can at weast make a few appwes fall wight how hard can it be." she said to herself.
Granny turned around her aimed her back legs at the trunk she kicked her legs as hard she could slamming her hooves into the hard wood. Granny looks up to see if anything fell but to her disappointment nothing has not even a leaf was shaken by her efforts, scowling at the tree she started frantically bucking the tree to make something fall but it failed all the same.
Applejack walked back towards the cart with a full basket of apples on her back, then she saw Granny bucking a tree angrily with her little hooves. She giggled and walked up to her with a smirk on her face.
"Hey Granny. how's it going over here?" Applejack asked with a playful tone.
Granny looked up at her and scowled when she heard that playful tone from her. "Fine you just wait wight thewe and I'll have a big bunch of appwes for ya." she said then went back to bucking the tree with all her might.
Two things happened at that moment.
One: A apple finally fell from the tree. Two: It landed right on Granny's head.
Granny held the top of her head with pain trying not to cry, she didn't notice the tears flowing from her eyes. Applejack quickly got to her side picking Granny up in her hooves rocking her back and forth.
"Shh. It's okay Granny, please don't cry it'll be alright." Applejack cooed.
Granny sniffled looking up at AJ. "It's okay. I'm awight now...don't coo at me."
Applejack smiled lowering Granny back to the ground. "Alright if you say so, Granny, but next time how about you leave all the apple buckin' to me."
Granny frowned with a growl behind her voice. "Err, fine you do it." she said crossing her arms.
Work went on without anymore problems, Applejack, got the cart loaded with apples and pulled it back towards the farm to get it unloaded with Granny riding on her back this time. As they rode Granny thought about what else she could do to prove herself after that failed attempt.
'I know I can bake.'
****
After work was done for the day the sun was starting to dip down beginning the end of the day, that soon will be night. In the Kitchen it was Applejack's turn to cook tonight's meal, she was at the stove stirring the pot of soup they were having tonight while Granny sat on top of the table with a bowl in front of her.
"Granny, what are you doing over there?" Applejack asked looking over her back at Granny still stirring.
"I'm gonna make an appwe pie for desert tonight." She replied pulling the bowl of apples on the table closer to her.
Applejack smiled. "An apple pie hmm, that sounds like a good idea, I'll help ya." she said leaving her work and walking over next to the table.
"I don't need your hewp, AJ, I'mma going to do this mysewf." Granny said sternly.
Applejack smirked and leaned on the table. "Okay then, go ahead and make your pie."
"I will, thank you."
Granny took an apple from the bowl and tried to squish it with her hooves but she couldn't get it and just struggled there trying to crush it, that is until Applejack reached a hoof over the table and easily crushed it with her hoof. Granny looked at her and the smile she had on her face.
"Um tank you." she said shyly.
"Your welcome."
Granny continued crushing apples (With Applejack's help) until there was enough apple mush and dumped the mush in the bowl. "Okay, now I need flower."
Granny crawled to the edge of the table and climbed down on to the chair then to the flower then pulling the chair along with her she got next to the counter and climbed back up the chair and pulled herself onto the counter and looked up at the open cabinet where she saw the flour.
"Now how do I reach up there?" she said to herself.
She was answered as Applejack reached up and grabbed the flour putting it down next to Granny.
"Thank you...again." Granny said then looked back at the table that looked far from her perspective. "Um, can you put me on the table?"
The Apple Family were sitting at the table, apple based foods spread across apple soup, fruit salad and apple pie. Applebloom smelled the delicious pie where she sat and hummed.
"Mmmmm that pie sure smells, good did you make it, Sis?" she asked.
"Actuawwy Appwebloom, youw Gwanny made it." Granny retorted from her highchair with a big smirk.
Applebloom beamed a smile at her little Granny. "Really?"
"Yeah with help from me." Applejack interrupted with her own smirk.
Granny scowled at her. "You onwy helped me a widdle!" she retorted.
"What did I help you with?" AJ asked keeping the smirk.
"You onwy hewped with the apples and the flour and getting me everything else I needed...and hewping me mix it all in the bowl...and with getting it in the oven and getting it out..."
The whole room went into and awkward silence except for Big Mac who made one. "Eeyup"
"Let's forget about that, let's eat." Applejack said putting a bowl of applesauce on the table of Granny's highchair.
Everypony started eating as Applejack grabbed the baby spoon in her hoof and lifted it up to, Granny's mouth, till Granny took the spoon away from her and stuck it in her mouth some of the applesauce spilling onto her chest.
"I'll feed mysewf!" Granny yelled through the spoon.
Applejack rolled her and sat back down. "Alright, suit yourself."
Everypony ate their dinner and when they were done got up and washed their dishes, once she was done washing Applejack checked on Granny to see her covered in applesauce.
"Now I'm going to have to give ya a bath." Applejack sighed picking the foal up and carrying her upstairs.
"I don't need anypony in the bathroom with me, cant you just leave me there and I wash mysewf?"
"NO!"
****
After getting cleaned up, Applejack carried Granny into the nursery and sat down on Granny's old rocking chair rocking back and forth with her in her arms.
"Do you think you can still be boss, Granny?" Applejack asked looking down at her.
Granny sighed and shook her head. "No, you wewe wight AJ. I can't do nothing mysewf, I can't apple buck, I can't bake, I cant feed mysewlf, I couldn't even wash my own body without getting soap in my eyes." she said remembering what happened in the bathroom.
It wasn't fun.
"You see now why I can't let you be in charge now, Granny, so please can't you let me and Big Mac takeover from here?" She asked kindly.
Granny looked up at her and nodded. "Okay AJ, you and Mac can be in chawge...but onwy till I get back to normal or I get older, then I'm in charge again."
Applejack smiled. "Alright, I guess that's good enough." she reached behind her and pulled out a bottle of milk from one of the pockets in the back of the chair and stuck it in Granny's mouth.
She eagerly suckled out the milk till all of it was gone and Applejack took it out and putting her over her shoulder started patting Granny's back till she burped. Then digging in the back pocket again she got a pacifier and stuck in her mouth, Granny couldn't complain because of the pacifier making her very relaxed and the milk making her tired.
Applejack walked over to the crib laying her down and kissed Granny on the head tucking her in. "Goodnight Granny, I know being in charge is a big deal to you but no matter what we all still respect and love you." she said as she watched Granny close her eyes then going over to the door and switching the light off. "Who knows Granny, maybe there is a way for you to be in charge while you wait to grow up."
As she left and Granny's eyes started to close she got an idea. 'Maybe I can be in charge.' she thought before she fell asleep.
****
The next morning Applejack took Granny to Fluttershy's house to play with the other foals, even Onyx, Trixie and Sunset were there with their mommies as they played in the back yard with them watching over there little foals.
Granny crawled up to them. "Hey guys what'cha doin?" she asked.
Rainbow looked at her. "Hey Gwanny, we're trwing to make a fowt with these boxes we found, but they keep falling down on us and we don't know what to do." she said pointing to the boxes on the ground in front of the Onyx poking his head out of the pile with a small box on his head.
Granny smiled. "I can help you girls, if you want."
"Weally? Gweat let's get started wight now!" Rainbow said excitedly running to the pile.
"Alright everypony, let's build us a fort, I'm the boss." Granny said putting on some sunglasses.
The mares watched as the foals build there fort with Granny giving the orders. Twilight looked at Applejack. "So how things going for you Applejack? Are you having any trouble taking care of Granny?" she asked.
"No nothing I can't handle." she replied eating one of the cupcakes set on the table in front of them.
"Are you having fun with it? It must be hard settling in with the change of Granny being a foal." Fluttershy said taking a sip of her tea.
"It's okay, but I wouldn't mind if Granny was turned back soon."
"Why, is there a problem?" Rarity asked with concern.
"No, it's really nothing. It just feels weird to see Granny like this, plus Granny use to be our accountant, Big Mac's been handling it but i think he's having trouble." Applejack remembered last night her brother was still in the kitchen struggling to count all those numbers.
"I love Granny and Ah'm happy she got her kick back but It would be nice to have a young granny who can help around the farm."
"If she did turn back to normal would you want a foal?" Pinkie asked suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
"Well seeing Granny as a foal and taking care of her I wouldn't mind having foals of my own but I'm not sure if I could do it the natural way." Applejack shivered at the memory of Granny showing her and Mac the pictures of there birth imagining how painful that would be. "I think I may adopt or something."