Apples Falling Down

The large group of ponies all hurried off the platform and towards the train crash, along with some of the Police and Fire Department ponies. Applejack and Big Mac galloped over at the front of the crowd and Granny Smith trotted behind with little Apple Bloom who could not understand what was going on so she giggled while they ran and said, "Faster! Faster Ganny Smit!"

When everypony got there, names where being shout out from every direction, different names and from different mouths everywhere. Apple Jack and Big Macintosh had already started to move sraps of the train to look underneath for any surviors, or more importantly, their parents. Applejack was already begining to sniffle as she pushed the scraps every which way and Big Macintosh's eyes were beginning to have a frightened look to them.

Right when Apple Jack was about to quit looking and cry, the smell of fresh hay and apple juice filled her nostrils and she looked up. In front of her was her mother's hat. She stumbled helplessly over to it and picked it up to find her mom's pale, white face and strands of blonde hair covering it.

"Mom!" she screamed at the top of her lungs and put her hoof on her mother's cool face. Suddenly, her mom started to hack and cough and slowly opened her dim, green eyes and forced a smile. She slowly, and shakily, lifted a hoof and wiped away Applejack's tears as she looked at her mom dying in her arms.

"Apple Jack... Don't 'chu worry none, I know that you can be a great little gal and show Apple Bloom what a great big sister you can be..." she said, her voice cracking as she stroked the orange filly's golden hair.

"No mom... I want you to be there with me. Don't leave us!" Apple Jack sobbed over her mom. She clutched her neck in a hug and smelled in what would be the last she remembered of her mom. In that moment her mom hugged Apple Jack's small orange body close and a tear dripped out of her eye. Her mom didn't move again. Her shallow breaths stopped and her smile slowly faded from her face.

"Mom? Mom, its time to go home; go see Apple Bloom, remember? Mom? MOM!" she cried out and lay on her mom. She could see out of the corner of her eyes, the police ponies where coming to get her mom. Two of them wrenched her off of her mom's dead body while she kicked and screaming for them to give her back to her. Two other police ponies picked her up and placed her hurriedly, yet carefully, into the ambulance and closed the door. The police ponies let go of Apple Jack and she stepped forward, barely able to stand straight. She looked at the blood stains on her coat making it look more burnt orange than a shinning orange like it was this morning.

Apple Jack collapsed on the floor and started to cry silently when she heard more hoof beats trotting over to one of the other ambulances. She looked up to see who else they had found and almost instantly realized who it was. Her father's red coat and mane. Covered blood, he slightly glanced over to Apple Jack's grass, and tear, filled face and forced one of his best smiles and a wink to the daughter he loved so much. Then he closed his eyes and his whole body relaxed. They got him into the ambulance and started to drive away right when Big Macintosh got there. He stopped and stared at the ambulance racing away from him and he looked down. Suddenly, he tensed up and fell to the hard ground. Little AJ didn't know what to do so she slowly started to walk over to his shaking red body. "Mac..." she began but then he raised his head her and he looked worse then him. Apple Jack was now close enough to the see the many tears streaking his red coat. He lowered his head and started to sob silently. She let her tears loose that she had been holding in and nudged her way toward him to sit in the neck of a her big brother.

After a minute or two, Granny Smith walked up to the two little ponies and saw them. "Wha- What happened you two." tears started forming in her eyes and Apple Bloom looked down at her older siblings and frowned. She stumbled over and said," Apple? Mac? Why sad?" Apple Jack looked up and forced a smile, which quivering on her wet face, and stood up. She slowly walked over and smoothed the hair on her little sister's head down and brushed out the dirt.

"Nothing sweetie." Apple Jack's voice began to crack and she hugged Apple Bloom close as her own tears fell on the filly, "Just let your big sister take care of y'all from now on."