//------------------------------// // [FIXED] Episode 17: Helping Applejack Get Some Rest. // Story: The Life of a Wanted Changeling (Comment Driven Story) // by Down with Chrysalis //------------------------------// Find out what "Applebuck Season" is and help with that You decide that the best way to help Applejack is to stop whatever is causing her to be so tired. Sure, a tired out Applejack means that she won't be able to catch you as easily as before, but you made a vow to help anyling in trouble. Even though she was technically your enemy, she needs help, and she's gonna get it. But first, you need to figure out what’s causing her tiredness in the first place. You look back at the conversation you had with her before she went back to sleep. She said something about how she didn't want any help with harvesting the apple trees for something called ‘Applebuck season’. You slowly, very slowly, begin to put two and two together. 10 MINUTES LATER *ding* "Ah ha!" you say to yourself after finally figuring out what was making Applejack so tried. "It must be this 'Applebuck season' that's making Applejack so tired," you say to yourself in triumph. "But...what can I do to help with it?" you question yourself quietly. Then you remembered how Applejack said that she was harvesting the apples for Applebuck season. *ding* Then you get a great idea. So great of an idea that there's no way it could fail. Your plan is too… Buck ALL the apples! Buck all the apple trees You’re going to BUCK every single last apple tree, or as much as you can so that Applejack will have less work to do and have more time sleeping. You drop your disguise, seeing as the only other pony around is fast asleep, and start to grin ear to ear. You can't help but jump up and down like a little filly/colt who just got an awesome gift for Haymas [my ponyfied version of Christmas]. You begin to walk deeply into the apple tree field, when you realize something very important. "How do you buck an apple tree?" you ask yourself...oh well you’re just gonna wing it. 2 HOURS LATER You finally figured out how to buck an apple tree. After many mistakes, most of them ending with you getting hurt, you finally got it down pat. You first thought that you had to climb up the tree to get the apples, but a few splinters in places you wish not to mention later, and you gave up on that theory. Then you tried to use your head...literary. Lets just say you have a newfound respect for hard-hats. You didn't even know changelings could get lumps that big on their heads. You angrily kicked one of the apple trees later after another failed attempt to get the apples. That caused every single apple on the tree to fall off. You looked at the tree in surprise, but then you smiled when you finally learned how to buck trees. You found a whole shed filled with buckets, so you decide to use does for where the apples would fall into. You would then teleport the filled bucket back to the barn, you checked the first time you did it to make sure that they actually made it. Luckily, it had, so that's what you've been doing the rest of the time. You had just finished another tree, and you had moved on to the next one. *snap*You turned around, surprised, and you expected to see Applejack be hide you ready to clobber you into next Tusesday, but there was nothing there. So, you shrugged and turned back to the next tree. What you didn't notice however, were a pair of orangish-reddish eyes watching you. What do you do?