"Momma! You're home!" Applejack cried and ran to the white mare and hugged her.

"Yes, sweetie, ah'm home." She cooed and stroked her young daughter's scruffy, blond hair.

"What about me?" Their father, Red Gala, said and he trotted through the door and Big Macintosh galloped over and hugged him.

That's when Applejack noticed that her mom had a light blue carriage behind her and her stomach had shrunk in size quite dramatically. Applejack's light green eyes opened wide and sparkled in the light from the overhead light and she bound over and looked into the carriage with Big Mac right behind her. When they looked in, they both gasped at the sight of the sleeping, yellow and red pony.

"What was her name again Pa?" Macintosh said softly as not to wake.

"Apple Bloom." He said, then turned to his wife, Apple Strudel, and kissed her on the forehead after drawing her close and pushed his hat down to the back of his neck.

"Anyways, ah assume that Granny Smith is already asleep? But where's Winona?" Their mother asked as she tossed her blond braid to the other side of her neck.

"Oh, she's just waiting in my room because we didn't want her to wake the baby." Applejack said to Apple Bundle with a smile and some giggles.

"Alright, well, sleep tight; ah'm gonna put our lil' bundle of joy in 'er crib. Night sweeties," Apple Bundle then hugged Applejack and kissed Big Machintosh. Carefully, she lifted Apple Bloom out of her carriage and walked up the stairs to the nursery they had worked on building since the announcement of her pregnancy.

"Better do what she says or else she come back and bite yer' head off." Red Gala said and gave Big Mac a nudge on mthe flank and the two siblings trotted upstairs.

Currently the two shared a room until Big Mac got his own, so they both raced into their room just in time to see their mom slip through the nursery door. Winona bounded around next to their legs and Applejack rubbed her between the ears and giggled. Big Mac picked her up by the scruff and placed her carefully on his bed. They said goodnight and both hopped in their bed and waited for the sweet bliss of sleep wash over them.

" I can't wait to talk to Apple Bloom tomorrow. I hope she'll be happy to see her two older siblings!" Big Macintosh said to Apple jack as he stroked the brown dog's back as it rose in sync with her breaths.

"Yah, she looked as cute as a button with that little red bow in 'er hair." The orange pony said half asleep, "Well, I'm gonna sleep, 'night!"

"Alright, goodnight little sis." He reached out his neck and blew out the small candle on his nightstand shortly after Applejack had blown her's out and they both fell asleep with smiles covering their faces.

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After a year passed after Apple Bloom's birth, and their parents decided to visit Apple Strudel's sister, Orange Peel, to celebrate her 8th anniversary with Orange Slice. They stayed for a week and Granny Smith looked after the little ones. They took the Friendship Express to Manehattan, and they were supposed to come back on September 14th. Now, Applejack the the rest of the Apples' are waiting by the tracks to welcome their parents home.

"Hey sis, what did Mom and Pa say when you talked to them on the phone before we left?" Big Mac said as the two siblings were jumping up and down in the excitement of their arrival.

"She said that they would be coming on the two o'clock train and would be here aroun' 4:30 an-" Suddenly, everypony there ran to the right edge of the platform and gapsed and screamed at the sight, On the way to the edge, one pony who was pregnant bumped into Applejack and pushed her down. Ponies were crying everywhere and Big Mac helped his little orange sister up and onto his back.

"What do you see? What's everyone freaking out about?" He cried over the noise. Applejack squinted to see what was in the distance and she finally saw what everyone was looking at. In the distance, just barely, she could see a small puff of smoke; but it wasn't from a normal train, no, she could see the train. It was lying on it's side and the smoke was black as night.

"It... It..." she stuttered.

"What?" He yelled up to her

"It crashed," she looked down at Big Macintosh with tears coming to her eyes, making them slightly red and swollen," They're dead."

Author's Note

Okay, I just started the series so if i get a lot of good ratings on the next chapter, I'll continue.