> Applejack and Skeleton Bloom's Wild Ride > by Protopony350 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The apples something something > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 1 THE APPLES BURN AT MIDNIGHT! Applejack hung from the rafters upside down. "Jumpin Jackrabbits, how'd I get myself into THIS one?" She asked the skeleton of Apple Bloom. Apple Bloom did not respond. "Oh Come on Apple Bloom, you've been givin me the cold shoulder all day!" Said Applejack with anger in her voice. Apple Bloom continued to ignore her sister. "Well FINE!" She said and also a flashback started. The room got really wavy, and the evil bystanders all got dizzy. Applecronion fell flat on his face and died. And that's when the flashback took hold! --------------------------------------------------------------------- The fire ripped through the barn at the speed of fire, and Twilight Sparkle lifted the Element of Magic into the air in a desperate attempt to summon her sealed power, but it was no use! "It's no use! We need Applejack!" Said Twilight Sparkle. It was at that moment that the flashback began to ripple, and it fell into explosions. "Hey, that ain't a flashback! That's what's happening right now!" Applejack was sick of the incompetent flashtime entity. Apple Bloom had nothing to add to the conversation. "FLASHBACK!" Applejack yelled and the real flashback exploded into the room and some bad guys turned fire and after fire turned dust. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Applejack woke up in her bed that was NOT made of apples but don't tell anyone also she rubbed her eyes and got out of the bed. "Hey Apple Bloom, are you on fire again?" Asked Applejack in response to the smell of burning hopes and dreams. "Applejack! The apples! All of tha apples!" Screamed Apple Bloom who was also on fire, but just a little on fire. "Apple Bloom! Call in the troops!" Ordered Applejack. You'd think that "the troops" would be the Apple family, but naw, it's a full blown military force! "COMMANDER APPLEJACK, WE ARE IN RANGE!" Announced a bomber from above the farm. "LOCK ONTO THE SOURCE OF THE FIRE!" She ordered. The sky grew dark and the bomber exploded. A monstrous figure came into view. "WHO ARE YOU?" Demanded Applejack as she put on her Element of Harmony and charged at the villain, also she sent Apple Bloom to get her friends, also Apple Bloom is a little more on fire. Applejack stopped dead before the creature. "W.....who are you?" She asked with terror in her eyes. The Pony looked at her. Also the pony is just a burning skeleton with a red also burning robe on. "I am the end of apples. I am the end of Ponies. Applejack, you will burn." Applejack hesitated, but began galloping toward the beast. "HOW DARE YOU? THOSE APPLES ARE JUST LIKE CHILDREN TO ME!" Applejack grabbed her lasso and tossed it at the monster. The villain vanished into a burst of flames, and a creepy orange Pony with a high pitched distorted voice and a purple cloak appeared in its place and also had a mask on and stitches in its head basically this is one messed up Pony. "Bring them to ruin my dear Applecronion, and do not allow them to reach the great portal!" Said the voice of the burning Pony. "NYAAAAAAA, YOU'VE GOT IT MASTER!" Said Applecronion and it shot a beam of apples at Applejack, knocking her down. "Oh man I am SO confused!" Declared Applejack. "Hya hya hya, I am going to rip the Apples right outa ya!" Said Applecronion. Meanwhile the farm is still slowly burning and no one has seen Granny but oh well. "Please.....why are you doing this?" Asked Applejack to the evil Pony. "She wishes for it.........master wants REVENGE!" And Applecronion prepared to drop a 2 ton apple right onto Applejack, but OH YEAH the other Ponies arrived just in time! "Applejack, why don't you run?" Asked Twilight. "Oh, yeah!" And Applejack ran out of the way. The Ponies all stood together and cool music was playing and they started to glow. Apple Bloom watched in awe and also was just riddled with fire. "WITH OUR POWERS COMBINED, WE WILL COMBINE OUR POWERS!" And they shot at Applecronion with the Elements. "NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Cried Applecronion, BUT OH NO NOTHING HAPPENED! "OH NO NOTHING HAPPENED!" Said a shocked Rainbow Dash. "What? Ohohoho, what a nice little twist! NYAAAAAAA!" And Applecronion vanished in a puff of Apples. "Applejack, what the DASH is going on?" Asked Fluttershy. "I have no idea! I woke up and the farm was on fire, and I'm SURE it was that evil Pony and had nothing to do with me leaving the 5 ovens on!" Said Applejack sincerely. Apple Bloom would have questioned her on that one, but was missing most of her flesh. "Guys, those monsters hurt my apples! We NEED to find them!" Demanded Applejack as she stood against the backdrop of her burning farm. "Who could have the power to light a TREE on fire?" Asked Rarity with fear in her voice and also her really neat hat blew off and into the fire and she fainted. "OH NO!" Yelled Applejack as she caught Rarity with much shipping. The Apple Silo exploded, and Applejack looked over the destruction and began to weep. "EVERYTHING I LOVE IS BURNING IN THAT FIELD!" She cried. Apple Bloom was not amused, and also mostly bones. Applejack turned to her friends and also looked angry. "Alright gang, lets go find us an evil monster!" Said Applejack! "I'll stay here and investigate!" Said Twilight Sparkle, the most powerful and essential Pony in a monster fight. "Good idea!" Said Applejack. "Me and Flutters'll fly ahead and look for more burning homes and families!" Said Rainbow Dash as the shipping intensified. "And that leaves me and you Rarity." Applejack said with a wink, but Rarity was gone! "Hehehehehe I will take EVERYTHING you care for!" Said the voice of the evil burning Pony. "NO! YOU MONSTER, NOW EVERYTHING I LOVE IS GONE!" Said Applejack while stepping over a near dead but still breathing Apple Bloom. "COME ON APPLE BLOOM, WE'RE GOING TO KICK THAT MONSTERS HEAD OFF!" And Applejack tossed Apple Bloom onto her new motorcycle. ------------------------------------------------------------- Applejack continued to hang from the rafters. "Oh man, that was some flashback, and I bet we're in for even MORE flashbacks. STAY TUNED!" One of Skeleton Bloom's legs fell off. > Something About a King > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 2 THE GAMBIT OF THE BEAR KING We last left our hero in the grip of the Big Mountain Mummy! "Oh man I sure am angry that we left the farm and drove for 5 minutes and then crashed into this mountain!" Said Applejack. "That explains EVERYTHING!" Said the the Big Mountain Mummy. The Big Mountain Mummy jumped at Applejack with a Mummy Attack, but Applejack was no normal Pony, she was Applejack! "I'M APPLEJACK!" She screamed as she picked up the flaming little Pony and swung it at the Big Mountain Mummy, killing it with the super flames. "Great work Apple Bloom!" Said Applejack with a smile. Apple Bloom made some sort of screeching sound. And with that they got back onto the motorcycle and headed out! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "WAIT!" yelled a minion of the bad guy. "What?" Asked Applejack who was really annoyed that the flashback was extinguished. "How did you get away from the 'Bear King'?" He asked. "Don't you remember nothin? The Big Mountain Mummy beat him in a chess game. He was so embarrassed that he ran away cryin." Said Applejack. "That explains everything!" The minion said and also his head inflated and exploded. Just another funny side effect of the Flashback turning back on. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The way I figure it, we gotta find that portal the evil Pony was talkin about." Said Applejack. Apple Bloom threw up. "Ya know, you're not bein all that helpful." Applejack complained just as the sky lit up with apples. "Aw NOW what?" she asked as she brought the motorcycle to a halt. "Nyaaaaaaa, you ain't going no further!" declared Applecronion. "Aw not this annoying but strikingly attractive jerk! Lets go Apple Bloom!" And Applejack pulled an apple out of her bag. "Nyahaha, not so fast!" Said Applecronion as Rarity appeared in a puff of apples. "You FIEND! Let her go right now!" Applejack demanded. "Oh, I would NEVER let HER go!" Said Applecronion as it tossed an apple onto the ground and the apple turned into an Apple Reaper. Applejack lost her footing and collapsed. "No......not that." She was beginning to tear up. "Nyahaha!" And Applecronion, along with Rarity, vanished in a puff of apples. "Apple Bloom..........it's over. We're dead." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANWHILE, AT THE APPLE FARM! "How strange, I've never seen something like THIS before!" Said Twilight Sparkle in excitement. In front of her stood 4 tiny apple creatures with sharp teeth and one big eye. "Hello? W..........what ARE you?" It was at that moment that the Apple Eaters attacked. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEANWHILE, IN THE SKY! Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had been to busy looking yearningly into each others eyes that they didn't notice the Apple Seekers approaching. "Fluttershy, look out!" warned Rainbow Dash, but it was too late. Fluttershy exploded. "No..........NO!" Screamed Rainbow Dash as she released her latent power. "NYAHAHA." Said the Apple Seekers as they began to attack, Rainbow Dash began to glow, and she prepared to attack. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Aw no that's awful!" Said Applejack "What? This is YOUR flashback, how could you be surprised?" Asked a minion. "It's the power of the Flashback!" She declared with a smile, momentarily forgetting that one of her dearest friends had just died. Skeleton Bloom had no feelings about the situation. > Battle and Apple Kings or something > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 3 THE BATTLE OF THE APPLE LORDS Twilight Sparkle stood motionless before the Apple Eaters. "W...what are you doing?" Twilight asked as the monsters approached. "EAT!" They all said in unison. "Oh NO, this is TERRIBLE!" Yelled Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie Pie? What are you doing here?" Asked Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria. "What do you mean silly? I've been here the whole time!" Replied Pinkie with a smile. "But I was-" Tried to said Twilight before she was cut off. "I'VE BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME!" Insisted Pinkie Pie who was here the entire time and i totally didn't forget to write her into the story. At that moment the barn ceiling collapsed. Also they were in the barn. Also it was on fire. "DIG!" Screamed Pinkie. Twilight was in agreement so they began to dig. And thus the "Journey to the Core" had begun. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applejack wept uncontrollably on the ground as the beast closed in. "BLECH, BLRERT, SPLOOOOOOO!" Said Apple Bloom as she attempted to speak using her missing lips and scorched vocal cords. "Y...........................................................................................................................................................................................you're right Apple Bloom, we can't give up!" And Applejack was ready to fight! The Apple Reaper lifted it's mighty trunk, and slashed at Applejack with great force. "APPLE BLOOM, WE NEED TO COMBINE OUR POWER!" And so she grabbed Apple Bloom by the leg and tossed her at the monster! "GLURBGLURRRR!" Apple Bloom gargled as she burst into even MORE fire because of the intense force of the attack! "You shall never reach the portal!" Declared the Apple Reaper as it lifted it's spider leg into the air and brought it crashing down, missing Applejack by inches. It was at this moment that Apple Bloom made contact with the monsters right bat wing, and destroyed it. "NO! HOW DARE YOU? YOU HAVE TAKEN FLIGHT FROM ME!" The beast launched a poison spore at Applejack in anger. "THIS IS THE END FOR YOU!" Applejack jumped onto the motorcycle and sped to the speed of apples! "NO! THIS CAN'T BE!" The Apple Reaper swung its mighty claws at Applejack, but hit Apple Bloom instead. "GRAGGLE!" She was REALLY on fire. And also you can see most of her bones now. She's like mostly bones. Applejack drove up the creatures tail, and pulled an apple out of her bag. "TAKE THIS YOU VARMINT!" She yelled as she tossed the apple into the Apple Reaper's exhaust port. "YOU'LL NEVER WIN!" And with that the monster exploded. "And that's how ya make applesauce!" She said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Said a bunch of the minions at that line. And back to the flashback! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash was crying on the ground and was also being swarmed by Apple Seekers. "You PINEAPPLES!" She yelled. This was a huge insult to apples. Pineapples are like the "blackface" of apples. It's really really offensive. Applejack would be kicking the crap out of her if she had heard that. Rainbow flew into the air and was glowing. "FINAL RAINBOW!" She yelled as she flashed a bright yellow and all of the Apple Seekers exploded. "I'll see you again......" Said Rainbow Dash as a single tear rolled down her horse face. She exploded into sparkly dust. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applejack watched the flashback in horror. "AW COME ON NOW HOW MANY OF MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA GET APPLED?" She said with tears. Skeleton Bloom didn't say anything. "Also I'm going to kick her dusty remains for that 'Pineapple' remark." > Flaming Femur > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 4 FIRE AND BONE "Apple Bloom I think we need ta talk about somethin." Said Applejack in a concerned tone. The motorcycle stopped, and Applejack turned around to look at Apple Bloom. "Look, it's just that you're not as appley as you used to be. i think ya need a new name!" Applejack reached into her saddlebag. "By the rights of 'The Sacred Apple of that One Tree Behind the Barn', I bestow upon you the name of 'Skeleton Bloom!'" The air all around them exploded, and the sound of soft laughter could be herd. "I knew it!" Said the voice. The burning skeleton walked out of a blue ring of fire. "Aw not NOW! Skeleton Bloom, we gotta get outa here!" Said Applejack as she jumped back onto the motorcycle and started to ride. They began to drive off, but hundreds of Apple Eaters erupted from the ground! "Aw apples, the apples are after us!" So she hit the gas or whatever you do on a motorcycle. "ADVANCE!" Yelled the Skeleton Pony. Applecronian appeared in a burst of apples! "NYAAAA, STOP!" It yelled. "MAKE ME!" Replied Applejack. "NO JUST STOP!" It replied. "NU UH!" Retorted Applejack. And thus the battle of wits was won by Applejack! Also this all happened on a train. Now back on the normal road and off the train Applejack sped up but she forgot to fill the gas tank. "Aw I think this is it Skeleton Bloom..........the end of Apples forever!" The Skeleton Pony walked right up to them, and stopped. "I just needed to see it for myself. It was you. It was ALWAYS you. i knew it deep down, but I just had to see it. You did this. You did this to ME!" Said the fiery skeletal Pony. "Wait.....what are ya sayin?" Asked Applejack who already knew the answer. "You left the ovens on..........Sis." Said the bone Pony. Applejack fell to her horse knees and began to tear up. "ya.....ya burned the farm!" Said Applejack through the tears. "What? We just established that you-" But burning Pony who is now Skeleton Bloom was tackled by an angry Applejack. "HOW COULD YA? HOW COULD YA BURN THE FARM!" She was crying and punching the Pony right in the fire. "ENOUGH!" Said Skeleton Bloom as she grabbed Applejack by the mouth and lifted her in the air somehow with bone hooves. Just at that moment a bullet hit Skeleton Bloom's hand hoof, and Applejack fell from her grasp. "RUN!" Screamed a Pony who somehow shot a gun. Applejack got up and started running. "You shall never escape me Applejack!" Said Skeleton Bloom, but she was wrong, but only kind of wrong. "Applejack, we gassed up the motorcycle! Follow us!" Said a cloaked Pony who had another cloaked Pony next to her. Applejack jumped onto the motorcycle, and followed the other Ponies who also had motorcycles. "What in tarnation is goin on here?" Asked the horribly confused Applejack. They sped up a nearby hill. "Applejack.....it's been so long." Said one of the Ponies as she removed her hood. "S...........Scootaloo?" And Applejack was flabbergasted. "We'll explain everything later, but right now we have to go save it." Said Scootaloo. "Save what?" Asked Applejack. The other Pony removed her hood. "Save the future." Said Sweetie Belle. They pressed a button, and the ground shook. The portal was open. They rode in. "NYAAAAAAAAA!" And Applecronian jumped in after them. > The Time of Bones or something > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 5 THE AGE OF SKELETON BLOOM Applejack and HER Skeleton Bloom fell through the portal with much speed! "Skeleton Bloom, this is so confusing! We got two of ya, we're goin to the future, the farm burnt down, our friends are dead, and I have a feelin things are gonna get really convoluted!" Complained Applejack. ------------------------------------------------------- "Cough!" Said a minion. "STILL A FLASHBACK!" Said Applejack who is still hanging from the rafters of the fortress. FLASHBACK! ------------------------------------------------------- Applejack marveled at the sights she was beholding in the time portal. Cities crumbled, Canterlot fell from the mountain. Celestia was executed! "Oh sweet apple dumplins, what is THAT?" A huge crystal apple filled her vision. She herd a voice. "The Apple Core waits!" The voices said. And with a flash the portal was gone, and Applejack stood in a wasteland of ash. "Welcome to the 'Battleground of Torment'." Said Sweetie Belle. "What in Equestria happened here?" Asked Applejack while still on her awesome, and now vintage, motorcycle. "At the time we didn't know what was going on, or how she survived. One day ten years ago the sky lit up a bright red, and the apple hordes descended. Millions upon millions of apple beasts. The Apple Eaters, the Apple Seekers, hundreds of Apple Reapers. After two days Equestria had fallen, and SHE appeared." Explained Scootaloo. "She.....do you mean-" "Apple Bloom. Or 'Skeleton Bloom' as she called herself. She disappeared years ago after the Apple Farm burned to the ground. We all thought that she had died until she returned. Yesterday we saw a BLUE flash in the sky, and used our future devices to track the source. It came from the ruins of old Ponyville. We saw her step through. We saw Skeleton Bloom use a time portal!" "'future devices'? Sounds contrived!" Pointed out Applejack. "No uh this is the future!" Insisted Sweetie Belle. "ANYWAY, we watched the portal site, and waited for her return. We hid nearby, and jumped in we she used it earlier today. fortunately the portal gives you a return button when you use it, so we could get back!" Scootaloo continued. "That explains everything!" Said a satisfied Applejack. Nearby, Apple eyes watched them! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hours later Skeleton Bloom returned from the past, or the present, or to the future. "What happened to that Applecronian? We have to return to our own time!" Said an angry Skeleton Bloom. "She must jump around the timeline all the time! That's how she's always able to stop our raids.....also we have a group of raiders who attack the Apple Army." Said Sweetie Belle who was hiding in the last living bush near the portal. "Yeah, I pretty much figured." Replied Applejack. "Bah, no matter! I'll find her later! I'm only an hour in the past anyway! Who am I explaining this to anyway?" And she went back to her time one hour in the future. "That explains everything!" Said Applejack. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Boy that was some adventure, but why are we back in the burning barn?" Asked Twilight. A huge futury sound could be heard, and a portal opened. "I am from the future! We need your help!" "It's YOU.....YOU'RE....." Said Twilight in disbelief. "I AM PROJECT GRANNY! I WAS BUILT USING THE REMAINS OF THE ONE YOU KNOW AS GRANNY SMITH! I AM NOW A ROBOT WHO CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME TWO TIMES AND THEN I EXPLODE!" And so they leaped into the future! Granny Smith the Robot exploded. "Well, I guess this is happening!" Said a cheerful Pinkie. "I keep forgetting you're here." Said Twilight. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Well it's been an hour so now it's the future present. "Uh, Sweetie Belle, did you see that?" Asked Scootaloo. "That looked like a time portal! Applejack, you stay here and hide. We have to check this out!" And so they left Applejack and the non evil Skeleton Bloom alone. "NYAAAAAAAA!" And Applecronian immediately captured them! > Things something something > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 6 THINGS GET CONFUSING Applejack and Skeleton Bloom had been dragged to the Fortress of Skeleton Bloom by Applecronian and tied to the rafters. So yeah all of the flashback stuff happened and now.......... THE FLASHBACK IS OVER! Applejack and Skeleton Bloom are hanging from the rafters. "And that's how we got to this point!" She said. Around her all of the minions are nothing but bones. The flashbacks killed them all. "Ha, just as planned! High five Skeleton Bloom!" Skeleton Bloom did not give her a high five. The evil Skeleton Bloom walked into the room. She noticed Applecronian dead on the floor. "Heh." She said. "What's so funny, your minions are dead!" Asked Applejack. ""So this was the moment? Time travel still confuses me, even after all of these years." "What are ya talkin about?" Applejack was getting a headache from hanging upside down for hours. "All of our actions have consequences. I have traversed the time stream for hundreds of years, setting the grounds for my empire. Countless times I have been defeated, only for the cycle to repeat. I die. I return. I die again. Every time I awaken in the same place, with a message left from myself. This time I found over ten thousand messages. I have failed over ten thousand times, yet I always return with no memory of my last failure. Ten thousand lives, and yet you somehow still have found a way to surprise me. Be it from a paradox or fate, this is the moment that shall define your future. I don't know HOW this transpired, but somehow you are to come into existence after your own death. My faithful servant. My pet. Applecronian, it is time for your transformation!" "What....me? I'm-" and she was grabbed by the neck. "You are Applecronian, and yet Applecronian lies dead a few feet from us! This temporal HELL is what my life is! All because YOU left the ovens on!" Skeleton Bloom slammed Applejack to the ground. She pulled out a knife. "And now my work begins! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo arrive at the source of the time portal. "I don't believe it..........Twilight Sparkle?" "Scootaloo? Oh man what?" "And is that the exploded remains of a robot?" Asked Sweetie Belle. "You mean you didn't send it? How can that.....oh boy." She said in realization. "What?" Asked one of them I don't know. "Girls, I think we have to build a robot!" "Why?" Asked Babs who was also on the team but just doesn't talk much. "..........To rescue me." Answered Twilight. > Something About Saving Something > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER 7 SAVE THE PAST, FIGHT THE FUTURE! So yeah off screen they totally built the robot. "So if my wild assumptions are correct, we have to send this back in time to save Pinkie and me from the barn." Twilight pressed a button, and the robot was gone. "Now, about these raiders....." ---------------------------------------------- Skeleton Bloom looked over her masterpiece. "My dear Sister, you are nothing now. You are a shell of your previous self. You are an atonement. Applecronian, prepare to gather the Apple Reapers!" "NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Yelled Applecronian. And after that the front door exploded. "APPLE RAIDERS, ATTACK!" Yelled Babs. This was a great time to attack because the minions are dead. They didn't know that before, but man was it a good thing! "Applecronian, my old nemesis!" Said Scootaloo. They've been enemies for years, but that's a story for another time. "NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Applecronian yelled as she attacked. So they had a neat fight, but Skeleton Bloom was ripping the raiders to shreds! "YOU!" Said Twilight as she confronted Skeleton Bloom. "I have NO idea what's going on! I don't know who you are or what you want, but from what little I've gathered, you're the reason for all of this happening! I probably should have asked about all of this while we built the robot, but that's in the past, or the future, or the pasts future!" Speached Twilight as she flew at great speed horn first into Skeleton Bloom. "An old Princess of Equestria? A fight like this doesn't come around often!" Skeleton Bloom shot a ball of fire at Twilight. The battle raged, but something was wrong. Something was OFF. Something was here that SHOULDN'T be here. "Hey Scootaloo, why are you fighting Applejack?" Asked Pinkie Pie. Suddenly Scootaloo stopped fighting. "This is Applejack?" She asked. "Of COURSE it is silly, don't you see her cutie mark?" Suddenly the fortress began to shake. A huge glowing void opened in front of pinkie. "What? PINKIE PIE? You..........were NEVER here! In all timelines you had NOTHING to do with this battle. Not ONE message mentioned you!" Skeleton Bloom let her guard down for just a moment, and was struck with a powerful blast of water magic. She fell to the ground, motionless. The void began to shine. An image appeared. "Is that....oh no." Applecronian looked into the rift in time. She saw ovens. Five ovens. Five ovens she faild to turn off. "No.........NO!" And with that she snapped out of her Applecronianness and returned to being Applejack. "Applejack, it's over!" Proclaimed a happy Twilight. "Not yet!" Skeleton Bloom had crawled away, and had taken the other Skeleton Bloom! "The messages.....always unclear........always vague........always mentioning this moment. The moment of my creation......." The wounded Skeleton Bloom made a mad dash out of the fortress. The battle was won! In all other timelines, this was the end. In all other timelines Applejack was Applecronian. Applejack ran after Skeleton Bloom! "STOP!" She yelled, but she had made it to the portal! Skeleton Bloom jumped in, and Applejack followed. "This is it! This is the moment I've been waiting for!" And it was before them. Skeleton Bloom jumped out of the time stream, and again Applejack followed. Skeleton Bloom was quickly deteriorating. She would soon be nothing but fine dust on the ground. She had to work fast! Applejack landed on the dust covered ground. The walls had been covered with thousands of messages. "IT'S OVER APPLEJACK! I WIN!" Skeleton Bloom tossed Skeleton Bloom into the Great Apple Core, the source of all apple power. Skeleton Bloom fell to the ground, and tried to scratch a warning about the 'Pinkie Paradox" into the ground, but Applejack was ready to end this cycle forever! She stomped on Skeleton Bloom's hoof. It tuned to dust. "It doesn't matter.........I am already returning.....the cycle will-" And she fell into dust. "Aw applesauce, I've gotta think fast!" Said Applejack as the Apple Core began to bestow power onto Skeleton Bloom. Applejack reached into her saddlebag, and retrieved an apple with a button on it. She pressed the button. A rift in space opened, and he arrived! "Applejack, slayer of the Big Mountain Mummy, how can I aid in your journey?" Asked The Bear King. "Bear King, I need to destroy that giant apple!" She said. She rode atop the Bear King, and it leaped into the air. It opened its mouth and unleashed a powerful laser. "Thank you Bear King, that is all I need!" And he returned to his own time. The Apple Core had a huge hole in it. "I'm sorry..........Apple Bloom." She jumped into the hole, and threw an apple into the exhaust port. The Apple Core exploded. Applejack was surrounded by a brilliant red light. "Please..........save them." It was the final wish of the final Apple. ---------------------------------------------- Twilight Sparkle awoke in her bed, "What? What happened?" A light flashed, and she saw Applejack. "Hey Twi, this is the last little bit of apple power. I wanted to let you know that everything is alright. The future is safe, and Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are back." Twilight didn't even know they died, but this was still good news. "Well I gotta go. The Apple Family will never exist. The timeline has been repaired, but I won't be in it. Goodbye. Tell the others that I was happy to give my life for them." Twilight was overcome with emotion, and passed out. ---------------------------------------------- Twilight awoke in a cold sweat, "WE FORGOT TO SAVE RARITY!" And Rarity was gone. THE END!