Chapter 15
Chapter 15
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“IfoundAppleBloombleeding, soItookhertothehopsitaland—”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Applejack cried, holding up her hooves, trying to calm down her frantic friend. She’d been busying herself with fixing some girders in the barn when the yellow Pegasus had barrelled in, speaking a mile a minute and being incomprehensible. She reached forward, putting one hoof on Fluttershy’s shoulder, while the other covered the yellow mare’s mouth. “Now, hold up a second there and try explaining slower. Ah ain’t Pinkie. Ah don’t speak rushed.”
“I found Apple Bloom bleeding and took her to the hospital!” Fluttershy blurted after pulling the orange hoof away from her face.
There was silence for several longs seconds as her words filtered into the farm mare’s mind and processed.
Her right eye twitched. “Wh-wha?”
“I was going into town to get a few small things for dinner tonight. Angel’s been so well behaved over the last few days; I felt he deserved a reward. But, as I was walking, I found Apple Bloom lying by a tree, unconscious and she was bleeding from a horrible gash on her right foreleg.”
Applejack just stood there for several seconds as her brain tried to wrap itself around what she had just been told.
Before Fluttershy could respond to her farmer friend’s silence, the orange mare bolted out the door screaming, “APPLE BLOOM!”
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Nurse Tender Heart sighed as she sifted through some papers after just having spoken with somepony coming in for a check-up.
She couldn’t stop worrying about Apple Bloom. She’d dealt with injuries the filly had gained during her and her friends many failed attempts at getting their Cutie Marks.
However, never had any of them come in as badly as when Fluttershy had brought her in. It had only been about ten minutes since the youngest of the Apple Family had been rushed into the ER.
“Where is she?!” a quartet of familiar voices shouted, causing the mare to jump, scattering the papers she’d been holding as she fell back.
When Tender Heart managed to get back up, she looked over the desk to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Tender Heart inwardly sighed. Of course they’d be here. They probably met up with Fluttershy and she told them. The four are worried about their friend. She gave a small smile. Makes sense. Those three and their other friend are so close, of course when one of their own is in trouble all three Crusaders would— Wait a minute!
Her eyes bulged open and she looked at the four fillies, her mouth agape, namely due to the yellow-coated, red-maned Earth Pony of the four, who was looking up with more worry than either of the other two.
“I— But how—? And you’re—” she turned her head from the fillies to down the hall, her brain not able to understand what was going on.
“Is Bucky okay?” the yellow filly asked.
Tender Heart felt very light headed. Leaning towards her desk, she pressed the intercom button. “Nurse Redheart? Can you please come to the front desk?” she asked in a faint voice. “Apple Bloom and her friends are here to see Apple Bloom.”
“Um, come again?” the other nurse’s voice replied from the other end.
“Just what I said,” Tender Heart replied, her eyes drooping. “Also, be sure to get somepony to take over front desk duty. I’m gonna pass out now.”
And, true to her word, Tender Heart flopped forward onto the desk, unconscious.
The four young fillies just looked to each other with raised eyebrows.
“What was that all about?” Scootaloo asked.
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Twilight stepped out of her home, intent to go and asked Applejack how things had gone last night. However, as she walked into town, an orange blur shot past her.
The Alicorn blinked, her mind doing a quick reset at the fact the blur had not been pink, before she lit her horn and teleported.
When she reappeared, she was flying alongside Applejack, who was running at speeds Twilight was sure Earth Ponies shouldn’t actually be able to... unless they were Pinkie Pie, of course. However, any questions about how Applejack was pulling a Pinkie were suddenly put on hold when she saw the look of outright fear in the farmer’s eyes.
“Applejack?” she cried, concerned for her friend. “What’s wrong?”
“Apple Bloom’s in the hospital!” the orange mare replied, before increasing her speed, leaving the Alicorn in the dust.
Twilight hovered in place for several moments as she processed what the apple farmer had just said. Once they’d worked their way through, however, her own eyes widened in horror and she shot forward, charging her horn.
She reached Applejack in a matter of seconds, grabbed the running mare in her magic and pulled her along in a teleport.
As the teleport faded to show they had appear outside Ponyville Hospital, due to Applejack having been running at the time of teleport, she was still running, thus slammed through the doors.
Everypony inside leaped as the doors were flung open and the orange mare and Princess of Friendship came barrelling in, only to suddenly skid to a stop when they saw a black unicorn stallion talking to four fillies.
“Apple Bloom!” the fillies barely had a chance to respond before the farm mare had rushed over, grabbed the yellow filly and pulled her into a bone-crushing hug. “Apple Bloom! What happened? Fluttershy said she brought ya bleeding.” She blinked, before pushing her sister back a bit and looking her over, her urgency at once being replaced with confusion. “But, ya’ll look fine.”
“She didn’t bring me, sis!” Apple Bloom said, trying to get out of the older pony’s grasp. “She brought in Bucky, thinkin’ she was me.”
“That’s what we’re talking to this stallion about,” Scootaloo said, indicating to the black stallion.
Applejack, however, had gone rigid as her little sisters words went through her mind, then processed with everything else.
Applejack suddenly launched at the stallion and grabbed him by the collar of the white doctor’s jacket he was wearing. “What happened? How is she? Why was she bleeding? What—?”
She was cut off as a white aura encased her, the stallion’s horn glowing.
“Calm down, ma’am,” he said in a monotone voice. “It’s only been a little over ten minutes. Give the doctors and nurses time. Sit in the waiting room with everypony else and we will inform you when the young filly is out of the ER.”
It took several minutes of Applejack struggling against the unicorn’s magical hold on her, before, finally, she calmed down and he released his hold on her.
With that done, he gave them a nod and moved over to the front desk, where he sat down and began dealing with the tasks he’d been left with.
However, though she had calmed down enough that she wasn’t barrelling through the hospital, trying to find the young filly under her care, she rounded on the four fillies, her face determined. “What happened?”
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“An’ then we all rushed here and tried t’ find out what happened and how Bucky was doing,” Apple Bloom finished several minutes later.
They were all sitting in the waiting room, still unsure how the youngest Apple’s doppelganger was doing. The CMC had spent that time informing Applejack of everything they could. During which time, Fluttershy had managed to catch up and had listened in too, though not before they all went through the confusion of Apple Bloom being there like when AJ and Twilight had first gotten there.
“I wondered why Pinkie seemed so upset earlier,” Twilight said, thinking back to when the pink mare had come to look for a book in the Public Reading area of the castle.
“Oh, the poor thing,” Fluttershy murmured, her ears wilting. “Lost from her family and then this?”
“Ah am havin’ stern words with Diamond's parents later,” Applejack growled through gritted teeth.
“Miss Applejack?” the sudden monotone voice startled them all and the turned to see the unicorn who’d been speaking with the CMC when Twilight and Applejack arrived was staring at them from the front desk. “You can go and see her now. Room 236.”
Twilight was disconcerted by the second more Pinkie than Applejack behaviour the orange mare had displayed that day as Applejack was suddenly gone, a fading smoke imprint of herself being the only thing left as they heard running hoofsteps on tiled floors.
Nodding amongst each other, the group hurried at a decidedly slowly pace, Twilight following the room numbers, until they found an open door with Room 236 on the front of it.
Walking inside, they all took a quick breath at what they could see. The young Apple Bloom lookalike was laying on her back in the hospital bed, a drip and heart monitor attached to one foreleg and a breathing mask over her face. Her other foreleg had a large bandage around it, causing the four fillies to squirm a little and the two mares to take another gasp.
Applejack was staring down at the unconscious filly with blank eyes as Doctor Stable was talking to her.
“... stable for now, though we’ll keep her in for a few days, to monitor her progress,” he was saying, though it was clear Applejack was not listening. He looked over to them all, nodded and headed out.
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My mind feels so sluggish. Where... where am I?
“Sam?” a faint voice calls out to me.
I slowly open my eyes, but my vision is really blurry. I notice there’s someone next to me. “Sam, hey. How are ya doing? ”Their voice is soft and gentle.
I feel my brain’s trying to tell me something, but I just give a small smile.
“Mama?” I chuckle. “Ah had the weirdest dream. Ah was in Equestria and staying with the Apples.” I close my eyes, feeling relieved that it was all a dream. That doesn’t explain why I feel so drowsy though, but I’ll ignore that for now. It hurts to think too hard.
“It’s alright, Sam,” she says and I feel her stroking my mane, though it feels weird for some reason. “You’ll be okay. Just rest, alright?”
I nod, feeling the world already fading away again. “Ah love you... Mama.”
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Applejack felt horrible as the young filly before her went back to sleep.
Stepping back, she wiped the tears from her eyes.
The whole gang had come by after a while, Pinkie, Rarity and Dash. Both Pinkie and Rarity had been shocked to see two yellow fillies that looked like her younger sister. Twilight had thankfully filled them in with Dash’s help. However, they couldn't all stay. they all had their own jobs they needed to do, and though Applejack was thankful to them for staying to give their support, she refused to let them cause themselves problems for her own mistakes. So, they left, giving their best wishes and promising to come soon, Big Mac and Granny taking Apple Bloom with them, leaving her and the injured filly alone.
Now, Sam had briefly regained consciousness. However, she’d been so out of it, she hadn’t been able to tell Applejack wasn’t her real mother... and the farm mare hadn’t had the heart to tell her otherwise.
As she sat, watching the sleeping filly, she became aware of voices outside the door of her charge’s room.
“But Daddy, why do we have to be here? It’s not like her being in here is my fault.”
“Agreed, dear,” another voice said, in a haughty tone. “Why you feel our daughter holds any responsibility for this situation, is beyond my understanding.”
Applejack turned to the door, frowning. Getting up, she walked over and pushed it open to find three ponies. A brown stallion with a black, greying mane, a pink filly with a tiara and a mare with a diamond ting for a Cutie Mark.
“Miss Applejack,” Filthy Rich said, a bit startled by the sudden opening of the door. “We... we came after Miss Cheerilee informed us something had happened to... um...”
Applejack just gave the filly a cold look. “Yeah. She’s asleep right now, but thanks fer comin’ t’ apologize at least.”
“Apologize?” Spoiled Rich asked, giving the farm mare an indignant look. “And what exactly is my daughter supposed to be apologizing for? She wasn’t the one that thrust that wooden spike into that filly’s leg. She did that all on her own.”
“After yer daughter went pushing her with accusations o’ bein’ a Changeling!” Applejack snapped back, her eyes narrowing at the unturned-nosed mare. “That filly is in mah care. She’s away fr’m her family, her home and has been dealing with Ah don’t even know what kinda stress before and after she got her and yer daughter wouldn’t leave her alone. She’s emotionally unstable right now an’ Diamond’s pushing her like she did didn’t help none at all!”
Spoiled just sniffed, lifting her nose. “Well, if she’s emotionally unstable and under your care, I guess that doesn’t say much about your abilities to care for a filly, does it?”
Applejack’s right eyebrow twitched. “Oh, really? Well, Ah’d say the fact yer daughter is so cruel to another filly that that filly ends up in the hospital doesn’t say much about yer abilities in caring fer a filly either, does it?!”
Spoiled eyes narrowed, before she pushed her face up to Applejack’s. “How dare you, you filthy farmer! Do you have any idea who you’re talking to?”
“Not a good parent, Ah’ll tell ya that!” Applejack shot back.
A vein on Spoiled’s forehead twitched. “I am the head of the school board and one of the wealthiest mares in this town! How dare you speak to me that way!”
Applejack snorted. “Am Ah supposed t’ be impressed? Cuz Ah ain’t! If’n it weren’t fer mah grandmother’s Zap Apple Jam, ya’ll wouldn’t even have all that money!”
Spoiled scoffed, giving Applejack a pitying look. “Well, I can imagine toiling in the fields all day like a beast would lead to such delusions.”
“Enough!” Filthy Rich did not raise his voice, but his tone shut both mares up in an instant. He gave his wife a disapproving look, before looking to Applejack with a stern one. “Miss Applejack, I can see you’re under a lot of stress at the moment. I believe it would be better if we came back another time.”
Applejack gave a firm nod to him, before glaring at Spoiled. “Eeyup.”
With that, the trio of ponies left, Diamond Tiara quickly sticking her tongue out at Applejack, whilst Spoiled gave her a scathing look, before they followed after Filthy and left down the hall.
Applejack took several moments to calm herself down, taking deep breaths, before returning to the room and watching over the young filly once again.
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It came out quite good, don't worry.
It's Alright. You did your best, that's good.
Seriously Diamond & Spoiled Bi
h, Do You Have Any Idea How Much Damage you've caused? Because of your Filly, How many fillies and colts are mentally traumatized from the sight of Apple-buck impaling his/her forearm into the wooden-spike and the sight of blood? The Family of those ponies can seriously charge you both for this. School Board would not be happy with the both the responses and results of what your brat of a filly did and whose responsible for raising the brat. I Hope the Brat gets Punished and Spoiled Fired for this.
What Will Happen Next?
You say it doesn't like how it turned out? After reading, I can offer some constructive criticism...
The Good
*The opening with Flutters and AJ
* everything from Twi and AJ's trip to the hospital to just before the Rich Family show up
The Confusing
*The CMC show up at the hospital as a QUARTET...who is the mysterious 4th member? (Chapter 14 ended with the 3 CMC learning of Sam's location)
Overall
Honestly, the chapter feels like it ends too abruptly and needs a little fleshing out with the ponies in Sam's room. Instead of saying in one sentence that Twilight filled in Pinkie and Rarity with Rainbow's help, maybe show it and involve the CMC somehow. The confrontation with Applejack and the Rich Family probably should've been longer and more heated, given how AJ's emotions are running at the moment. And just a BIT surprised that the other members of the Mane 6 didn't get involved to some degree (even the CMC). I half expected Fluttershy to begin scolding Diamond Tiara after hearing her callous attitude towards Sam's state, especially since SHE was the one who found him/her and saw just how bad a state he/she was in. Not to mention, have Twilight step in and really impress up Mr and Mrs Rich how serious the situation is given how one of the 4 royals of Equestria has taken an interest in the incident. After the Rich's leave, maybe have just a little dialogue with AJ and the others to make it feel...more complete?
But, I did enjoy the update and look forward to what happens next.
Autum Breez
you really need to stop doubting you ability's this chapter looks really super good.
Because it sticks out more due to author's note...
Too long to write
I feel like what's here
Because I don't think
Honestly, the most noticeable corrections to be made are in the author's note.
7317826 For your Second question im gona guess Nyx or a portal hopping Sweetyling
7317876 I agree with you While short these chapters are good. Hits alittle close to home though
... ... Seems to me like the Apples should really just cut the Riches off and start refusing to sell to them.
Meh, if Applejack wanted, she could do better
But I suposse, she don't want to do that
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Technically, it's three out of five(Spike and Cadence defeated Sombra, while Queen bug got repelled by the married couple, though she helped make that happened.) and required friends. Regardless, a national hero(along with 5 other, especially the purple alicorn who studied under the sunbutt) that can destroy political standards if she performed correctly.
7318529 Yeah, but it sounds better the five of them
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Fair enough
7318342 Probably not the best of ideas since while their business could've started with the zap apples, Filthy's probably expanded out from there. Also the Apples are probably in a contract with Filthy, meaning if they suddenly decide to pull out they'd need to find a good legal explanation or they'd be in breach of contract. Plus the Apples selling the zap apples is probably a large part of their livelihood, so suddenly dropping that could be financially disastrous.
Not really very storybookish, but a lot more realistic y'know. And considering the story has so far dealt with attempted rapists, massive racism and now a child almost bleeding to death...
I don't think Bucky will be allowed to be on his own from now on seeing the stunt he pulled. And I don't think that he can be trusted to take responsibility for himself anymore and will have to have the Apple do decisions for him from now on. After his temper tantrum he did with the Apple's, has shown that he can't be reasoned as an adult anymore, that he doesn't have the maturity any more to be a responsible adult. The Apple will have to drive the point home to him, that they are his guardians now, and that they have already have taken great pains to help him, despited being disgruntles.
7319079 You don't have to renew contracts, and it isn't as if they couldn't sell it themselves since the Apples are a VERY well known commodity throughout Equestria, so they could either sell it themselves, sell it through post, or even through another supplier. All they have to do is refuse to renew or negotiate with Filthy Rich, and suddenly the one real moneymaker that we know for sure Filthy has - the Zap Apple jam - is no longer reliable. He can no longer afford to sell everything else cheaply and has to raise his prices, which others can compete with, especially if they're suppliers rather than retailers. This means even if he doesn't go out of business, he loses profit, and potentially such that he has to reinvest his own savings in, but either way unless he finds something else like Zap Apples, he'll never be quite as successful.
What's more, if the Apples go public with what happened along with refusing to renew any existing contract - if one exists - ponies might simply elect to stop buying from Barnyard Bargains, at least in Ponyville. Thus requiring him to travel even more and acting as a further expense to manage stores elsewhere, if not outright leave Ponyville with Tiara in tow.
So glad this is back to updating again!
I actually think this chapter came out quite well.
Sure, it was a short one, but still quite a bit happened. A chuckle at the start from a fainting nurse, worry and sadness on Bucky's situation, and to no surprise, finding out that Spoiled is as rotten as her name suggests. They'll get their comeuppance. At least I hope they do.
Filthy turned out to be the most level headed one from the company there. Should have shown him that something is truly wrong when AJ loses her marbles like that.
To be entirely honest, I was rooting for Applejack to clock her one. See how she feels being put in the hospital for her daughter's actions.
at the four fillies,
Pony of the four, who was looking up with more worry than either of the other two.
The four young fillies just looked to each other with raised eyebrows.
she rounded on the four fillies, her face determined. “What happened?”
causing the four fillies to squirm a little and the two mares to take another gasp.
Isn't it three?
Glad to see Applejack's finally starting to do things the right way when caring for Bucky/Sam. Standing up to Spoiled, absolutely epic.
7319175 Problem with this is that Filthy doesn't deserve that kind of treatment. Spoiled and Diamond do, but not Filthy. Filthy clearly is upset with Spoiled's attitude, and will no doubt have a chat with them. Filthy is one of the most generous side characters in the series, and It would be cruel to see him punished for the actions of his wife and daughter.
They were all sitting in the waiting room, still unsure how
the youngestApple’s doppelganger was doing.“Ah am havin’ stern words with Diamond's parents later,” Applejack growled through gritted teeth.
all and they turned to see the unicorn
“Oh, the poor thing,” Fluttershy murmured, her ears wilting. “Lost from her family and then this?”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLcTg6kQa-C31pZKHGk5S6vvGN6qfXBRla&v=MDmvaCmi0kE
Twilight was disconcerted by the second more Pinkie than Applejack behaviour the orange mare had displayed that day as Applejack was suddenly gone, a fading smoke imprint of herself being the only thing left as they heard running hoofsteps on tiled floors.
I don't think this is probber grammar.
Nodding amongst each other, the group hurried at a decidedly slow pace,
Applejack snorted. “Am Ah supposed t’ be impressed? Cuz Ah ain’t! If’n it weren’t fer mah grandmother’s Zap Apple Jam, ya’ll wouldn’t even have all that money!”
Spoiled scoffed, giving Applejack a pitying look. “Well, I can imagine toiling in the fields all day like a beast would lead to such delusions.”
Can you just recall your products already!!!
Here's a good rage..https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XY-ynpcf7k
Kinda like what happened in this story https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YlwZhJqAA
Hated filthy rich and family appearances!
I would recommend a therapist for Sam.
I would just be standing by Sam's bed probably slowly stroking her mane and quietly be singing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPisDzhYrCg
Also during her time on earth I'll probably be doing a few quantum leap jokes by making myself Al since her name is Sam.
Both Pinkie and Rarity had been shocked to see two yellow fillies that looked like Applejack's younger sister.
noooo. I'm out of chapters
7352306
eeyup
i wanna buck spoiled BRAT in the face!
7392770 I want to leave her and her mother in frozen wasteland to die of hyperthermia
A changeling, huh? Well, what do you say about this?
*pokes the tack*
*geysers of blood*
I'm... okay... *thud*
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1:07
are you going more chapter of this story?
This story has been amazing so far. When's the next chapter?
when are you going to make a new chapter of this story?
I NEED MORE if you don't mind
Can we get a chapter? Please? If it's not too much to ask.
The funny thing is, the Apple Family is actually the most powerful family in Equestria because of their size and influence of history. Not to mention Applejack's EoH status. So, with that in mind, Spoiled rich, regardless of how much wealth she has, has no power over Applejack.
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Hehe..
I can imagine one of the Old Apple saying this to Spoiled.. "We are the Apples, we are everywhere, we see everyting, one of our number has saved this world from distruction, more then twice, we are an army unto ourselves, one of our young has been harmed, we seek recompense.. prey to Celestia and Luna that you are not the cause. For there is no place on this planet that we can not find you..."
this song is way to happy for this chapter
*gritted teeth* IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY OUTSIDE. BIRDS ARE SINGING, FLOWERS ARE BLOOMING. ON DAYS LIKWE THIS, MARES LIKE YOU TWO...
S H O U L D B E F U C K I N G B U R N I N G I N H E L L
Dear Diamond Twat and Spoiled Bitch...
Oh it went so bad
rich family.... i think it's time to do a little "anti corruption program".