//------------------------------// // Applebuck season-Applejack's hallucination // Story: Surprise! // by Dragonfire2lm //------------------------------// A very tired Applejack continued to buck her way through her farms orchard, her rear legs making a suond thwack as they hit their mark on the tree, sending apples raining down to fill the conviently placed baskets below. Pop! "SURPRISE!" somepony yelled, sending the orange pony whirling round in shock. "What in tarnation?" Aplejack declared as her sleep deprived senses took in the form of the pony before her. It was a small white filly, about a year or so older than her little sister Apple bloom, loking slightly gangly and awkward on long legs. she had a yellow mane and tail that could only be compared to the fluffy, unkept mess that was Pinkie Pie's hair style.this young filly had vivid purple eyes a shade lighter than vilet that seemed to sparkle with joy and mystery at the same time. Applejack was also surprised that this young pony had wings and a horn. "Ah don't mean to rude an' all but who are ya?" she asked this newcomer. "My name's Surprise!" the alicorn filly chirped brightly. "An' you're a princess?" Applejack asked. The filly tapped a hoof on her chin, tounge sticking out of the corner of her mouth as she frowned in thought. "Well gee I must be, I do have wings and a horn and my parents are certainly magical enough" Surpride replied. "Well howdy there Princess Surprise, my name's Applejack and welcome to Sweet Apple Acres, the best apple orchard this side of Equestria" The farm pony welcmoed the filly like she would any of her guests, but looked a little confused. "Say uh what's a princess like you doin' all the way out here?" "Sightseeing" Surprise stated. "What are you doing all the way out here?" Applejack couldn't help nut chuckle at the question. "This is mah home and mah lively hood, and right now it's time to harvest all the apples so we can sell 'em, mah job is to buck these here trrees and collect the apples" the earth pony replied, giving a demonstration to prove her point. "Wow! Can I Help?" "Ah don't know about that little missy-" Applejack began as the white filly's horn glowed yellow. Pop! The element of honesty's mouth grew slack as an amzing feat of magic happened before her eyes. the small alicorn filly had used her powers to make the fruit on the dozen or so trees closest to them become insanly large to the point where the plants they grew on began to sag from the weight. "Wh-wh-" she was left speechless as Surprise giggled. "Do you like it? now that they're all big you won't have to kick the tree, you just pull them down..Hey! you could proabaly make like a dozen more stuff from one apple than what could before! isn't that great?" Surprise rambled. Applejack was horrified as she looked at her aple trees, it wasn't normal..it was all due to..to... She finally put her hoof down. "Now you see here, this Mah farm and we do things here Mah way! And ah don't take kindly to some pony goin' around using magic on Mah trees" she scolded the filly. "Oh is that all?" Surprise didn't miss a beat, her tone as chipper as ever. "Ok then!" Pop! In a small flash of yellow magic, the white filly was gone, and the trees al back to normal. "Now then, time to get back to work" Applejack sighed in relief and turned back to the tree she was working on before. Only to have her head hit an low hanging branch, the Earth pony's ears rung like somepony was playing wind chimes inside her head and failed to notice Twilight Sparkle approach her from behind. "Applejack can we talk?" Twilight asked.