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// Chapter 19: Hope Lies Even In The Sands 
// Story: Star Wars: Ponies of the Old Republic 
// by BlueSun52 
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CHAPTER 19 - HOPE LIES EVEN IN THE SANDS


The second sun began to rise over the horizon as the first one continued to trudge on closely above it, indicating that it was still morning time. Lying on top of a hill of sand, Applejack was looking through her electro-binocular at the buffalo village. She saw that the village was almost like a fortress, as it was surrounded by a large wall of scrap metal and fabrics, and had several turrets placed at certain points, especially around the fortification’s only entrance. She looked down at the valley in front of the village to see guards patrolling the area in pairs of three to four whilst keeping their eyes open for intruders.

Applejack became a little nervous, and was really hoping that their plan to sneak in disguised as buffalos would somehow work and that HK could really speak in their language. Before she did anything else, however, Pinkie popped right next to her from out of nowhere with a curious look on her face.

“What are they doing now?” Pinkie asked.

Applejack let out an annoyed sigh and looked over to Pinkie. “They’ve been doing the same thing since the last time ya asked,” she replied. “For the fifth time.”

“Sixth, if you count this time,” Pinkie added with a smile, earning her a low growl from Applejack. “Why are you being so grumpy?”

“Because, Pinkie, you’ve been asking me the same question and Ah kept telling ya the same answer. They’re just walking around, patrolling and Ah think some of them are having a conversation with each other. And it hasn’t been a full minute since you asked me the last time. So, the next you ask me ‘what are they doing’ my answer is going to be, they’re still just talking and they’re still just walking around.”

“........What are they talking about?”

Applejack’s left eye twitched and smacked herself on the face.

Down below the hill, Rarity was showing Twilight the disguises that they were going to wear. Rarity had put in hours of work into them and believed them to be perfect for this operation. However, Twilight thought she might have overdone it, maybe by just a little.

“......Rarity, what is this?” Twilight asked as she was looking at the disguises.

“Why? Isn’t it obvious? You are looking at the best buffalo clothing in the entire galaxy,” Rarity replied.

Twilight looked at the clothing in question with a long stare before smacking herself in the face. “Rarity, when I said we needed disguises for this, I was expecting you to make accurate clothing of them.” She then held up a pink version of the robes. “Not making them in different sets of colors!”

“What?! And make them into those hideous shades of brown? They should only be used in accents,” Rarity explained. “Besides, that one isn’t for you, it’s for Pinkie Pie. This one is for you.” She levitated up a lavender version with pale blue streaks in it.

“I can’t believe this!” Twilight shouted. “You were supposed to make them the same as the buffalo’s. The only one you made that is even remotely close to looking like theirs is Garret’s here.” She levitated Garret’s robes, which were a darker shade of brown.

“Oh, don’t be ridiculous, Twilight deary,” Rarity said. “His shade of brown is perfect and goes along well with his style. Just like yours is perfect for your style as well.”

“Rarity, they’ll know right away that we’re not one of them!”

“Well, at least they’ll see how well I can make their robes look.”

Twilight let out a groan.

HK looked over the the robes as well. “Observation: The chances of them falling for this are one hundred twenty-two thousand five hundred sixty-seven to negative five. And to be truthful, I’m not even sure how I came up with negative five in my results.”

“Beep boo bee.”

“Statement: Ah, that makes sense.”

“See! Droid calculations are rarely wrong!” Twilight pointed out.

“And since when do droids have a sense of fashion?” Rarity asked, cocking her brow. “Isn’t one of them designed to do repairs and the other to translate and well, assassinate?”

“Yes, but-”

“But nothing, Twilight. I won’t have my work be criticized just because it is different,” Rarity said and raised her muzzled up high as she was feeling offended.

Twilight let out an irritated sigh.

Garret leaned over to Twilight. “I think we should at least try this. If it fails, we can try it again with hopefully more accurate robes,” he whispered.

“Fine,” Twilight irratitly replied. “We’ll try it your way, Rarity.”

Rarity then looked at Twilight with stars in her eyes. “I promise you, Twilight, that nothing will go wrong with this.” she said.

Twilight rolled her eyes. “Right, like nothing was going to go wrong at all,” Twilight sarcastically said.

Applejack was done looking at the village and believed that she had memorized the buffalo’s patrol pattern. Also, she was getting tired of hearing Pinkie’s questions and thought it was best to stop before she strangled her pink companion to death. Thankfully, she had enough patience to deal with her and trotted with her back down to the group, Applejack saw some of Rarity’s disguises and her expression quickly turned from a frown to a completely puzzled expression.

“You’ve got to be bucking kidding me.” Applejack said. “We’re supposed to go in these?” she asked as she was lifting up a dark orange robe with yellow streaks.

Rarity let out a weary sigh. “Yes, Applejack, we’re going to be wearing these,” she replied.

“Not to burst your bubbles but unless those buffaloes are colorblind, we won’t even get one hoof into their territory looking like this,” Applejack explained. “And even if by some miracle it works, Ah was thinking two or three of us were going to wear something together to make it look like we’re a big buffalo, since they're twice our size and all.”

“As if I would be with somepony else whose sweat would more than likely get on me…… Unless of course it’s Garret I’m snuggled up with,” Rarity said and winked over to Garret.

Garret blushed a little and said nothing.

Applejack rolled her eyes. “Twilight, please tell me we’re not going to do this?” she asked, a last glimpse of hope on her eyes.

“As much as I hate the idea, we might as do it since we came all the way out here,” Twilight wearlily replied.

Applejack let out a sigh. “Ah have a bad feeling about this,” she said as that last hopeful glint was crushed to death and smeared all over the floor





“That bad feeling really did turn into a very confused feeling,” Applejack said under her buffalo mask. They were all wearing their disguises liked they planned and many of them, except for Rarity and Pinkie, thought it was going to backfire. But to their surprise, they were actually walking among the buffaloes as they hardly paid attention to them and their impromptu march towards the entrance.

Each of their disguises were different colors like Rarity had made them, and the fact that most of them could very well be used as light beacons didn’t even phase the buffaloes, nor did it make them surprised or confused. Fluttershy’s outfit was colored a bright yellow with pale pink streaks on it, Rarity’s was a dark violet outfit with light purple streaks, and HK and T3 both didn’t wear any on them at all and it didn’t seem to bother the buffalos either.

Among all of the group, Twilight was the one that was the most puzzled and confused as she was trying to comprehend what was going on. “I-I don’t...How is this working?” she asked, hoping for somepony to answer her question.

“See, deary, I told you my outfits would work out,” Rarity gloated with a smug face.

“This shouldn’t even be possible!” Twilight complained. “Why are they not shooting at us? Or why are they not even bothering to ask us why we look so different from them?”

“Ya know, at this point, Ah’d rather not ask and just be grateful that we’re not getting shot at,” Applejack said.

“I like that idea too,” Fluttershy said.

“Query: Did I forget to mention that buffalos are colorblind?” HK asked.

“WHAT!? Why didn’t you say that earlier?” Twilight asked.

“Exculpation: That’s a good question. I think my memory files may be corrupted in some ways.”

Twilight let out a groan. “Let’s just get inside the village and see what we can do,” she said.

They all walked up to the entrance, except for Pinkie, who just bounced around as usual, and were met with buffalo guards standing in their way. One of them spoke up in their native tongue as if it was asking them a question.

Everypony looked over to HK after a moment of listening to the guard. “Statement: I believe that they can recognize that we’re not one of them since we’re too close.” 

“Ha! Told you it wouldn’t work,” Twilight whispered over to Rarity.

“Only because we got too close, darling,” Rarity pointed out with a smirk.

“Result: He asks what business we have here?”

“Tell them that we’re not a threat and we come in peace,” Twilight said.

“Oh! Oh! Tell him we also have cake,” Pinkie added. “With chocolate frosting.” 

Twilight rolled her eyes.

HK translated both Twilight’s and Pinkie’s response and the guard spoke up again.

“Result: I believe I have succeed in confusing him. Apparently we have peaked their interests and they wish to take a couple of us to their chief…...And that they would like the cake.”

Pinkie squealed with delight and gave the guard a large, round cake with the chocolate frostings on it.

“Alright then, Applejack, HK and I will meet with their chief,” Twilight said. “Everypony else will stay out here and wait until we get back.”

“W-What if something happens to you?” Fluttershy nervously asked. “They could try to k-k-kill you.”

“Don’t worry about it, sugarcube,” Applejack said. “It wouldn’t be the first rodeo that Twilight and Ah got ourselves tangled in. And besides, the others here will keep ya safe.”

“Okay,” Fluttershy simply responded.

“Alright, since we have that settled.” Twilight then turned to HK. “Tell them that we’re ready to see their leader.”

After HK translated, the guards took the trio into the village while the others patiently waited for their hopefully inevitable return.





Inside the village, Twilight, Applejack and HK followed one of the buffalo guards while two others stood behind the trio, watching their every move with caution. The guard opened up a door that slid upwards and in it was a large circular chamber that had trophies and treasures in it. Sitting at the opposite side of them was the chief as he laid down on a pillow with several buffalo shamans. The chief himself donned on a slightly more crimson colored outfit that was different from the rest of the warriors’.

The chief stood up from his place and spoke in a deep and resounding voice, still talking in his native language. The guard that escorted the trio spoke back at the chief as it was explaining to him the reason for the outsiders’ presence. The chief stroked his loose chin hair and looked over the trio. He cleared out his throat and spoke up.

“Why have you come to my village?” the chief asked.

Twilight and Applejack were both shocked to hear him speak in Galactic Basic as it was the first they had heard any of them speak in it. Twilight looked over to Applejack who only gave her a shrug and looked over to HK to see he was just as baffled they were.

After clearing her thoughts and taking a deep breath, Twilight took a step forward and said, “I am Twilight Sparkle Shan, a member of the Unicorn Order and a commanding officer of the Galactic Republic. We’ve come here hoping to peacefully ask you to cease your attacks on Anchorhead and release any prisoners that you may also have.”

“Highly unlikely, my herd has lived here long before any of your kind ever stepped hoof onto this land’s sands,” the chief said. “However, if you want us to stop attacking and release any prisoners, we will do so if you can bring us something that we need.”

“Whatever it is, we’ll make sure to bring it to you,” Twilight said.

“So you say. What we require is what you call a ‘moisture vaporator,’” the chief stated. “If you give it to us, we will be able to move our village further from your town and I will be able to provide water for my people without relying on the caves around here.”

“Then we will get those moisture vaporators,” Applejack said firmly.

“Sorry if I don’t hold you to those words, pony,” the chief said. “You have until sunset. You are free to go.”

Both Applejack and Twilight took a curt bow and left with HK out of the chamber. They followed the same path back towards the exit and where their friends were. As they were trotting, Applejack looked over to Twilight. “So, what’s the plan?” she asked.

“I was thinking we could buy the moisture vaporators from Czerka when we got back into town and we could use the ship to get back here quickly,” Twilight explained. “Then we can use the ship to transport any of the prisoners back to the city. After that, we should ask the chief if he would be willing to give us a map of the area, so that we can search any caves that are marked on it.”

“What about Czerka? Ah thought part of this plan was to get the chief's staff and they would give us a map of what they found,” Applejack pointed out.

“I think it’s best that we don’t ask the chief for his staff. And when I think more about it, these buffaloes have been here longer than anypony else,” Twilight explained. “For all we know, they may know where the star map is.”

“Well, if ya say so,” Applejack said. “As long nothing hampers our way back, we should be clear as a diamond.”





“CONSARNIT!  WE’RE OUT OF FUEL!” Applejack looked over to the fuel gauge on the speeder to see that it was feebly pointing at the ‘empty’ marking. “It’ll take us forever to get back now!”

“It’ll take us at least a whole day before we ever get back!” Rarity cried. “We’ll never make it back with the lack of food we have. Not to mention that somepony wouldn’t let me bring my supplies with me.” She glared over to Applejack who returned the favor with an irritated look.

“For the last freaking time! Hairspray is not an important essential!” Applejack pointed out. “And ya promised y’all wouldn’t complain any more about it like a fru fru brat!”

Rarity let out a growl. “That’s it! I know this isn’t lady like for me, but-” Rarity then pounced on top of Applejack and the two started fighting with one another in the speeder. While they were fighting, one of the two accidently hit a lever on the controls and for some reason, the gauge was back up to full. The speeder went into full blast causing both Rarity and Applejack to tumble out of it. Everypony watched as the speeder went into the desert until it was out of sight.

There was a long pause of silence as they all watched were the speeder went off to in the horizon. HK let out a cough, if that was possible. “Statement: I believe we are ninety-nine percent doomed.”

“What’s the one percent?” Pinkie asked.

“Answer: That we somehow make it out of this alive.”

“Well, atleast we got something.”

Applejack let out a groan. “Of course this had to happen, this always seems to happen,” Applejack irritably said. “Nice going, Rarity.”

“Me!? This was clearly your fault!” Rarity accused while she pointed her hoof at Applejack. “If you would have left me alone and allowed me to bring my things, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”

“And if ya just stopped caring so much about your looks, we wouldn’t be in this mess either,” Applejack pointed out as she returned with her own pointing.

The two continued to argue with one another as if there wasn’t an end to it. The arguing was making Fluttershy curl up in a ball while Pinkie was listing down all the things they were saying, just to make sure that they wouldn’t cuss on a teen rated story. T3 and HK looked back and forth at the two as T3 was shivering in fear while HK was enjoying the insults that were being thrown around. Twilight let out a groan as she placed a hoof on her forehead. She was about to say something until a voice next to her spoke out.

“ENOUGH!”

Applejack and Rarity stopped their arguing as everypony with wide eyes were now looking at the pony that had shouted.

It was Garret.

“Would you two stop!?” Garret demanded. “We’re on an important mission of peace, with lives hanging in the balance and all you two can do right now is argue!?”

Applejack and Rarity both looked at him with shocked expressions before lowering their heads down in shame.

“This is not the time to argue. We have very little time and we can’t waste a second of it,” Garret pointed out. “I know that this has been tough on all of us, but we need to work together if we’re going to have a chance on getting back into town, getting the moisture vapors, freeing Applebloom and the prisoners and finding the first star map.”

Applejack looked up to see Garret with his serious expression on him and the hint of disappointment in his teal eyes. She winced when she saw it in them and it was something that she never thought he would use on her. She let out a sigh. “You’re right,” she said to Garret and looked over to Rarity. “Ah’m sorry that Ah called you a brat. That was going too far and Ah feel bad about it.”

“And I am sorry as well, darling,” Rarity said. “I promised that I wouldn’t complain about all of this. Solar Knights are trained to live under harsh conditions if the occasion ever arises for them, but I never did learn how to since I always did more tailoring for them than actually truly trained as one of them.”

“Ah guess Ah can understand that,” Applejack said. “So, friends?”

“The best of friends,” Rarity replied before giving Applejack a gentle hug which startled her at first but she returned it with her own.

“We still need to find a way back as quickly as possible,” Applejack said. “I doubt that the chief is the patient sort of fellow. Anypony got any idea?”

Everypony looked over to Twilight for suggestions, but she let out a sigh and shook her head. “I’m afraid we’ll have to trot all the way back to town. And that’ll take many hours.”

“Hours that we don’t have,” Garret said as he was seeing the two suns high above them while he covered his eyes with his front leg. “By the way it looks, we may have a few hours until the sun sets.”

“Beep boo?” T3 asked.

“Answer: More or less,” HK replied.

“Boo.”

“What, a few hours? That’s easy.” Everypony eyes were wide and they looked over to see that Pinkie said that. “What?”

“You’re telling us that you can cross the large field of sand from here all the way back to Anchorhead in just a few hours?” Applejack said as she was confused by Pinkie’s statement.

“No, silly.”

“Oh, for a moment there Ah thought-”

“I can get there in a couple of hours.”

“.....Ah’m glad she interrupted me.”

“Pinkie, while I’m glad for your determination, but it is just impossible for one pony to make it all the way to-”

“T3, hoof me my special drink,” Pinkie cut Twilight mid-sentence and looked over to T3.

T3 opened up a compartment in his chest and reaching out towards Pinkie with a claw, holding for dear life onto what could very well be their only chance of salvation - he was holding onto a cup of coffee. Everypony in the group had puzzled expressions on their faces except for the droids and Pinkie.

“Okay, Ah know that most of the things ya do don’t make a lick of sense and Ah gave up ever trying to figuring them out, but how is a cup of coffee going to help?” Applejack asked, pointing at the cup.

“If I’m going to make all the way over there, I’m going to need a careful amount of caffeine to get me where we need to go,” Pinkie said. “Also, this is the perfect excuse to drink it as my family had to give it up so I wouldn’t have any either.” She then frowned. “Poor dad.”

Applejack rolled her eyes.

Pinkie grabbed the cup of caffeine-filled drink and she stared nervously at it. She let out a shaky sigh and took one small sip of it. She paused motionlessly as the others were staring at her with skeptical eyes. Pinkie just stood there without even blinking her eyes, in a very still way, almost as if she was made out of stone. 

Rarity let out a sigh. “Let’s find a solution that doesn’t has us standing all day looking at-”

Suddenly, Pinkie twitched. The others looked at her with raised brows. She then twitched again. And again. And again. As each twitching fit was becoming more frequent than the next, for some reason, she jumped high into the air as it whistled its way out of her eyes like a train’s blow horn. She landed on the ground on her hooves and was running around the group in at a top speed that nopony thought was possible.

Pinkie was even going so fast, that her words were blended in together. “Wowie,Ifeelhyper!Doesanyponyelsefeelhyper?Isuredo!Whyarealllooksoslow?Whyareyouslow?AmIreallythatfast?Isuredofeelfast!OhmugoshIcanseeallthereaders!”

“PINKIE!?”

“What?What?Youneedsomething,Twilight?Ibetyouneedsomething!Youtotallyneedsomething.Areyougoingtotellmeorwhat?Whyarentyoutellingme!?” Pinkie said as she shook Twilight violently.

Pinkie stopped shaking Twilight and Twilight’s eyes were spinning around and around until she shook her head violently. She looked over to Pinkie with a concerned expression. “Are you okay, Pinkie?” she asked.

"OfcourseI’mfine.WhatkindofasillyquestionisthatI’mtotallyfine!Justeverythingisjustreallyreallyfast!Orreallyslowbutthatwouldbereallyreallyweird” Pinkie replied. “Nowifyouwouldexcuseme,IhavetogetbacktotownandtellRaibowDashtogetherkeisterdownhere!LET’SGOT3!”

“Beep boowweeEEEEEEE!?”

Pinkie sprinted off towards the desert after she grabbed T3 with her. She left behind a gust of sand behind her and disappeared out of sight. The others looked at where Pinkie had went with jaws wide open at what they had witnessed.

“Statement: The pink master is very unusual...I think I like that.”





In the middle of the desert, three figures were walking slowly as the heat of the two suns were beaming down on them. Sunset looked up at the sun and let out a winded sigh. There was sweat dripping from her forehead and her mouth was getting dryer by the minute.

She and her guards had to remove their armor because of the sand getting into them and were messing with the suits internal cooling systems after Calo dropped them off from in the air. Not to mention that it was very irritating for her having so much sand in her suit. The only piece of clothing she had was her belt that hugged around her mid torso with her lightsaber attached to it. She was using her tracking skills to see if there was any chance of finding a town or at least a camp to hopefully get supplies. She would have found something if it wasn’t for-

“It’s too hot out here!” Snips complained. “Can we take another break?”

“Yeah, can we?” Snails asked.

Sunset’s eyes twitched. “We already had a break,” she replied. “Suck it up and keep moving.”

“But we’re tired!” Snips said.

“And hungry,” Snails added.

“So what do you want me to do about it!?” Sunset snapped and turned to the two.

Snips and Snails both thought about it and looked back at Sunset.

“Well….Your hair does look like bacon,” Snips replied.

Sunset looked at snips with a blank look before smacking herself in the face. “We’re ponies! We don’t eat meat!” Sunset pointed out. “And no!”

“Ah come on, it’s not real meat,” Snails pointed out. “Couldn’t you just cut a bit of your hair and-”

Before Snails could finished, Sunset grabbed her double-lightsaber and ignited an orange blade at one end of it. The two looked at her with frightened looks as she started down at them with irritated eyes.

“On second thought, I’m not that hungry anymore,” Snips said.

“Yeah, me too,” Snails said.

“Good.” Sunset deactivated her weapon and hooked it back on her belt. “Now that we got that out of the way, we can now-”

Suddenly, a pink blur came out of nowhere and collided itself with Sunset thus carrying her with it. She let out a shriek before they both disappeared out of view with Snips and Snails having both wide eyes and looked to where Sunset had disappeared.

Snails scratched his chin. “Eh, should we follow her?” he asked Snips.

“Might as well,” Snips said with a shrug. “Oh, maybe we might find some food on the way!”

“Alright!”





Outside of the walls of Anchorhead, the pink blur was closing in at the main gate and it soon stopped in its track and sent Sunset flying towards a pile of trash cans and garbage. The blur was Pinkie Pie as she shook her head violently and was holding on to one of T3’s legs as the little droid shivered in fear.

“Wow, that was exciting!” Pinkie exclaimed as she did a backflip. “We should do that again!”

On cue, the droid's head popped off; landing on the sandy ground.

“Ah oh,” Pinkie said and grabbed the little droids head. She placed the head back on top of the torso piece and spun it around clockwise on it until it stopped and the droids optic was spinning around from the dizziness. “There all better.”

Pinkie then heard a groaning sound nearby and looked over to see Sunset laying upside down around the pile of garbage. Sunset was seeing small versions of her cutie mark circling around her. Pinkie winced at the sight.

“Boy, is she one unlucky mare,” Pinkie said. “I don’t have enough time to throw a 'I’m Sorry’ party' so I’ll just leave a note. “ She pulled out a sticky note and a pen from her puffy mane and wrote down something on it. She then placed the note on Sunset’s stomach and went bouncing towards the gate with T3 following as he was swerving in different directions every now and again.





A couple of hours had past and Twilight was still looking out at the desert with her mouth still open wide, with the occasional twitching of her eye, while the others were doing their own thing.

Garret and Applejack were playing Pazaak with one another. The score for the two were thirteen to seven with Garret in the lead. Rarity was using a hoof filer (which she was able to hide from Applejack) on Fluttershy as she gently rubbed down her hoof. HK stood beside Twilight as he was calculating different strategies on how to take out the buffalo populace quickly and without mercy should things go wrong, which they would likely do.

When Rarity was rubbing down Fluttershy’s hoof, she looked over to the still shocked Twilight and let out a weary sigh. “Twilight, darling, are you really going to stand there all day? Pinkie and T3 have been gone for almost two hours,” Rarity said.

“And if Pinkie was true to her words, she should be there right now,” Applejack added. “Though Ah still don’t know how the hay she was able to go that fast.”

“Well, we know now,” Fluttershy said. “Would you like your hooves to be filed? If that’s okay with you?”

Twilight didn't respond and still stood there motionlessly.

Applejack let out a sigh. “Why are you even this shocked? she asked. “Pinkie has done weirder things than this….At least as far as Ah can tell.”

Twilight then shook her head furiously and looked back at the others. “You have a point, Applejack,” she said. “It just amazes me that Pinkie is able to do all these things without even trying.”

“Well, it goes to show that’s what makes Pinkie so helpful,” Rarity said. “Even if some of the things she does seem crude from time to time.”

“Hey, Ah see something coming this way,” Applejack said, pointing towards in a certain direction.

Coming into sight was the Golden Phoenix as it flew near across the desert floor and made its way towards them. The ship slowed down and its landing clams opened as it now hovered above the ground. It gently landed and the ramps to the ship opened. After words, the bubbly, pink pony hopped out of the ship and held up a device in her hoof.

“Did somepony ask for one, thingamabob?” Pinkie asked with her bright smile showing.

Everypony cheered out for Pinkie and she had a small tint of blushing on her from all the appraisal but still had her large, toothy smile.





After they were able to give the moisture vapor to the chief, he held his end of the bargain and released the prisoners and called his forces back from attacking any of the settlers or the town itself. When Twilight had asked if they had known anything about the star map, the chief told them that his herd had seen something like it in a large cave close to the village. After she cataloged its location, she went back to the group where they were escorting all the prisoners that were being held. The group was gathering almost three dozen ponies and griffons as they brought them into the ship where Fluttershy was attending the wounded with Zalbaar’s and Rarity’s help.

As the line of prisoners were walking into the ship, Applejack was looking among them as she was looking for her long lost sister, Apple Bloom. Some of the crew were trying to help her find her sister while still helping some of the others into the ship. As it seemed like the last prisoner walked into the ship and Applejack looked back at the village one last time, she lowered her head in sorrow and tears began forming around her eyes.

“Hey look, I think there’s one more,” Spike said, pointing towards the village entrance.

“It looks like a filly,” Scootaloo commented.

Applejack shot her eyes wide open and looked up to see an earthpony filly that had a bright cream color to her fur with brilliant amaranth colored mane and tail. Her irises were a bright orange and she wore a simple light brown robe that covered her torso and front legs with a belt wrapped around the waist. She was pulling a small bag with her mouth and she was having trouble carrying it as it seemed heavy. She let go of the bag and wiped the sweat off her and turned to face the ship. Who she was seeing though made her mouth drop as she was staring at Applejack with her wide eyes.

“A-Applejack?” the filly said as her voice was filled with disbelief.

“Apple Bloom,” Applejack said with tears running down her face.

“Applejack!” Apple Bloom shouted as she galloped towards her sister and tears began dripping down her cheeks.

Applejack did the same and galloped towards Apple Bloom. When the two were close, Apple Bloom jumped towards Applejack and she was caught in Applejack’s hooves as she hugged her finally found sister.

Apple Bloom continued to cry with joy as she was being hugged by her sister. “Ah never thought Ah would see ya again, sis,” she said with her voice cracking up.

“Ah thought that too, sis,” Applejack admitted. “But Ah promise we’ll never be apart like that again.”

The rest of the crew smiled happily as they watched their friend, Applejack, as she finally gained a small piece of her old life back. And it was a past she had always wanted back.


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