"AJ! Mails here. Ya got a box sis'," AppleBloom's calls out from down stairs curiosity staining her voice. AJ knew that if she didn't go and get the box now Applebloom would open it and either keep it or never give her a moments peace about what it is.
“Be righ’ there,” she threw on her signature stelson and almost ran straight into her closed door and trip down the stairs. The family didn't get much mail so her curiosity was out weighing her sisters. When she did reach the bottom a flat box was sitting on her sisters back who was waiting for her.
“It came wi’h this,” she handed AJ a note and put down the box with wide eyes. AJ read the note just not aloud. It said,
Applejack,
Its nice to be able to give you this small gift. Now i warn you it can give any knowledge you want. But theres is a cost. Do not share this gift with anypony. This is for you only and only you can know it exists. I understand your family knows you have received it so there are two things in that box. The false gift and the real one. You will just know which is the real one.
~That Dude
She opened the box and as the note said there were two gifts inside. One she recognized and one she didn't. She took out the one she recognized and closed the box. Its was a very expensive saddle bag. She could see her sisters eyes go wide and the grin on her face fade.
“Thats it. Ah means its nice and shinny and all but Ah was expectin’ something better,” Mac glare at her silenced any father comments. “Wha’ tha note say?”
“Ah’ll just take this up stairs and go ta bed. Ah’m tuckered out. Night,” she scurried up the stairs completely ignoring her sisters question and curiosity making her almost explode as she closed the door and opened up the box taking out the mysterious object.
It was smooth, flat, and silvery. On it was a apple with a smooth bite mark in it. When she opened it up the flat black material lit up and below it read ‘Macbook Air’. The first thing she saw on the page was a colorful background of her smiling with a rainbow tail in her mouth and a heart above her head. Rainbow Dash blushing but sulking willingly.
“Oh... Ok!” She murmured before she went back to looking at the strange device.
Below the ‘picture’ was a bunch of letters and symbols as well as a square made of a different material and the rest of the bottom part. When she ran her hoof over the square a little arrow on the picture moved. When she guided it to the bottom of the page a bunch of little boxes popped up. She clicked on the one that looked like a circle. It had three different colors wrapped around a blue circle. It said it was called Chrome!
The only thing in the history was a ‘website’. http://www.fimfiction.net/group/956/appledash, she clicked on it and gasped with a evil grin on her face. Her brain filled with only one thing. An idea.
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She read story after story from everybody to mature, from friendshipping to romance, from adventure to slice of life, from tragic to merical, and she loved it. She loved the idea and the emotion. She even looked up this so called ‘appledash’ and the pictures were funny and cute, the perfect image, to her. She needed to make them real. She picked her favorite story Pick me up at Seven and would work off there. With some pranks in between. She thought it was the perfect plan, if it went to plan.
The next day when Rainbow knocked her to the ground after she bucked the pegasus favorite napping tree Applejack knew she was ready. Stumbling, she got up and Rainbow flapped her wings once to steady herself onto her four hooves. Laughing awkwardly and rubbing the back of her head with a hoof Rainbow says,
“Oh-um, hi AJ how have you been?” Applejack just glared at her for a second before she remembered her plan and just ended up blushing.
“No biggy Rainbow!” That just made the pegasi even more confused. The lack of the usual grilling and speeches she usually got was something but blushing and twiddling was a whole nother story.
“Are you ok AJ?” So far so good. Right on plan, just not the next comment, “Well thanks for waking me! I go to get going, need to do some pranking with Pinkie and turn down Rarity about a spa appointment.”
“W-what?” Applejack’s jaw hung loose as her plan crumpled in her hooves. She then she started feeling dizzy and the world outside started blurring. Probably from the lack of sleep. Ah stayed up all night planning and got up early for work. Even skipped breakfast. She thought as she started wobbling.
“Not ok! Not ok!!!!!” Was the last thing she heard as she fell unconscious into Rainbows awaiting hooves.
She woke to the smell of rain and hay. That was not the smell of her bed which is why her eyes flew open and she looked around. What she saw wasn’t what she expected, “Where am Ah?” Rubbing her head she wondered why her very comfortable bed was sky blue.
“You're awake! I was beginning to worry,” Rainbow says with a yawn. Applejack even more confused than ever.
“What's going on? Did ya fillynap me? Ah feel like Ah’ve been fillynapped!!!” The shocked expression on Rainbows features proves her wrong before the rainbow maned mare could open her mouth. Applejack didn’t sit up to see it, she was comfortable right where she was.
“I didn’t fillynap you, gosh! The stuff you think of! You passed out so I brought you to the barn,” she stated flatly.
“Why not mah room?” Her feathery blue blanket shifted slightly but didn’t leave her. Happy as she was she chose her words carefully as not to make her friend move.
“It was locked. You family said you hid the only key!” She points out. Applejack made herself more comfortable making Rainbow giggle quietly. “Comfy much?”
“Very much!” Holding Rainbow close she went back to sleep. Her plan could wait for now.
“Well you're in luck, I am too!” And with that said the rainbow pegasi went to sleep, as a pillow.
