Celestia's sun peeked through a window in a nearly run-down home surrounded by apple trees as far as the eye could see. The small crack of light struck the eyes of an Apple farmer who snorted and got up. Rubbing her eyes, she slid out of bed and headed for the door, grabbing a pair of daisy dukes, a red-plaid shirt, and a stetson hat. After getting dressed, she headed down the stairs, grabbed a quick bite, said hello to a red stallion who gave a nod, and then headed out the door. She walked a bit to the barn, loaded up a cart full of baskets, walked through the orchard, and arrived at a row. She remembered the Overlord and the Gala, but she wasn't too worked up over it; they had won and as a result, the princesses had given her some bits for the aid. She had used the bit to help her aging granny's hip and some fix-up work on the barn. She got herself in position, lifted her left leg, spun on her right heel, and smacked the tree, the apples falling neatly into the bushels.

It was a good day to be working. Pity she didn't see the ghost of the Overlord behind her, his eyes flashing with his sinister power.

MLPOV

The sun was setting as Applejack finished up the twenty-fifth row of her workload. She loaded up the cart with her bushels of apples, grabbed the handles, and began the trek up to the Barn. Once she put the bushels away, she and Big mac, who arrived after her, headed inside. Applejack saw a tiny yellow filly in overalls, her red hair done in a ponytail and sporting a large pink ribbon on top. She smiled at the filly who worked on some homework from school.

“Have a good day there at school, Applebloom?” Applejack asked sitting down with a small smile as Big Mac got the daily dinner together. The little filly looked up and gave a big grin.

“Ah sure did, momma!” Applebloom said in a excited tone making Granny Smith smile.

But Applejack was not smiling; she sat there in her seat, smile frozen on her face as her mind tried to comprehend what she just heard. Momma? Did that mean...no, no of course not! Applebloom couldn't have known of her birth from her foolish mistakes after her parents died. Seeing those eyes reminded Applejack so much of Orange Pippin', the stallion who helped make Applebloom.

Orange Pippin' was once a resident of Ponyville, but was a known scoundrel, always at the bar of the small town. Applejack wanted nothing to do with him, but after parents death at the hands of Timberwolves, well, she went to the bar and one thing led to another that night. She woke up next to the stallion with a massive hangover and no idea how she got there. Once she got dressed, she beat it back to the farm faster then Rainbow Dash. They never talked to each other about that night, but the damage was done; after a few months, AJ felt sick and went to the doctor who told her the news. AJ was horrified to find out she was pregnant and with Pippin's kid to boot! She told the stallion who went pale white in fright at the news, but he gave her a promise that he'd be there for the kid.

Well, lo and behold, that night he was gone in the wind, much to her dismay. She told Granny and Big Mac, both of whom understood the situation, but still gave her a tongue lashing for it. Nine months later, Applebloom was born. She told everypony in Ponyville that saw her that she was her younger sister. She continued the lie for as long as she could remember, watching her daughter grow up close to her mother without ever realizing it.

Applejack awoke from her musings at seeing Applebloom poking her.

“Mom, what's wrong?” Applebloom said with a small frown.

Applejack smiled, though her eyes darted left to right.

“Applebloom, this is a nice joke and all, but ah ain't your momma. Momma died giving birth to ya, sweet seed.” Applejack said with a nervous laugh.

This made the faces of the three to darken. As one, they got up or entered the room in Big Mac's case, and looked at Applejack who was scared shitless at seeing the blank looks she was getting from her granny, her brother and her younger sister.

“Not your sister, your DAUGHTER!” Applebloom, Big Mac and Granny shouted as one, in eerie tones like the Fates three. “Why must you lie even now, Jacqueline Apple? You have done nothing but lie to Applebloom. You even forced your brother and grandmother to help the lie.”

The three blended together to become...something; it had Granny's skin color, Big Mac's size, but the eyes and hair were Applebloom's. They looked at the fearful farmer's in pity and pain.

“Mama, why?! Do you not love mah? Ah love ya, mama!” The figure said in Applebloom's voice.

Applejack couldn't handle it; she raced out the door into the fields which once held healthy, living trees, now barren and dead. The wind carried the figure's voice as Applejack raced down the fields.

“Don't run away again, Mama! PLEASE! AH HATE YA, MAMA! AH HATE YA~!”

MLPOV

Applejack had run far into the orchard, the view of her home obscured by the dead trees. She leaned back against the trunk of a tree, panting and sobbing. Hearing the last words of the figure brought a guilt that wouldn't leave. She didn't know how long she sat there under the old gnarled tree, but it felt like decades. Once all her tears were gone, she sighed.

“That...that was scarier then seeing Granny in the buff,” Applejack said with a shudder. “Ah best find Twi and the others, let em know somethin' ain't right around here.”

As she got up, a set of voices spoke making her freeze; the voices that came were very familiar to her. She slowly turned around and froze again; there standing in front of her were two ponies, a mare and a stallion. The mare was bright gold in fur color, wore blue jeans and a checkered tank top with a mop of dark brown hair in twin pig tails and glaring balefully at Applejack wither her turquoise eyes. The Stallion was an Earthy brown color, wore dark blue overalls, wore a stetson on his head with bright red hair underneath and shook his head in disappointment.

“Jacqueline Apple, lying to somepony else is one thing, but lying to yerself and yer daughter!? I know I raised ya better then that!” The mare's voice snapped making Applejack quail in fear.

“M-m-m-mama...” Applejack sputtered out when the mare got in Applejack's face.

“Don't 'mama' me, child! I raised you that lying brought nothing but hurt and guilt, yet you gone and did it anyways!” The mare, Golden Delicious, berated her child.

Applejack scrambled to her feet, tears leaking out her side.

“I never lied, mama! I kept to our family creed, 'An apple never tells a bad seed lie'! I followed it to the letter!” Applejack protested making the stallion, Orchard, snort.

“Then why ya lie to yerself and the town, Jacqueline? You told yourself and everypony in Ponyville that Applebloom was yer youngin' sister, not yer daughter! Ya broke the creed.”

Applejack's tears flowed like a river at her pa's accusation. She had in fact been scared what the rest of her home would think about having a child out of wedlock; the ponies of Ponyville were very old-fashioned and if they knew what had happened, she'd be ostracized. She told the images of her ma and pa her reasoning to which them blasted back, stating that many of the townsfolk would have understood after very careful explanations from Big Mac and Granny; those two garnered much respect from the town. Applejack just shook her head before taking off again, seeing the truth yet denying it, because she felt she was in the right.

The voices of her parents faded as she raced into town.

MLPOV

The first pony she ran into was Pinkie pie. The party mare asked her what was going on and she hurriedly explained. She told Pinkie about the weirdness back at the farm, her seeing her folks again, her brother, grandma and sister-daughter merging into some horrible creature.

“Wait, wait, wait! You pulling my leg here Applejack like you did when you lied about the construction of your barn?” Pinkie pie said as her hair went limp.
Applejack gave a cry of frustration.

“Pinkie, Ah ain't lying to ya! There is something going on!”

Pinkie regarded the farmgirl with a frown on her face before shaking her head.
“Sorry, AJ, not believing a liar like you. You did after all say back at Dodge Junction that you'd explain everything at breakfast before running off. Now, if you excuse me, I gotta go get 'AJ is a liar' Party set-up.”

Applejack could only watch in shock as Pinkie Pie walked away from her, just as the trifecta of an abomination and her dead parents showed up. She took off running again, this time to the edge of the Everfree Forest.

MLPOV

Applejack pounded on Fluttershy's door as she looked around for the creature. The door opened a cracked, showing the butter mare's eye and pink hair.

“A-applejack, why are you here?” The timid Pegasus asked.

Applejack gave Fluttershy the same outline that she gave Pinkie, adding in the fact of Pinkie accusing her of lying and not believing her. The quiet pegasus sat throughout the entire story, not interrupting or speaking up. Once the tale was told, Fluttershy shook her head.

“Um, it was a great story Applejack, but I don't believe you.”

AJ's jaw dropped so far, they could see it Neighponese. She stared wide eyed at Fluttershy.

“W-w-w-wha?! Ya don't believe me?! WHY?!”

Fluttershy shrugged as she closed the top door.

“It's not that hard, after all, you lied to me about Mr. Ed the Hippo just needing some rest. When in reality...” Fluttershy explained before glaring at the farmer. “He needed to be shipped off back to the zoo where they ended up killing him.”

The door closed firmly shut and was locked just as AJ's ears picked up a distant roar. Gasping, she took off again heading back to Ponyville.

MLPOV

The scene repeated twice more with Rainbow Dash and Rarity. The two had listened to Applejack's tale, one with boredom, the other with intrigue. Once she got done explaining Fluttershy's and Pinkie's reactions to the two, Rainbow blew up.

“Seriously, AJ?! You're SHOCKED that those two didn't believe you?! Come on and listen to yourself! You're telling me, that your brother, granny, and sister became this monster hellbent on harming you with your DEAD folks following after them?” RD snapped with a glare. “That's almost as bad as the story you fed me about me becoming a Major of the Stormbolts by simply standing still! Go tell your wild stories to someone who actually cares.”

RD went off in a huff making AJ go numb as she turned to Rarity who looked a little miffed too.

“Why Rainbow's reaction wasn't needed, she does have a point, Darling. Why, that story is just as bad when you told me about a giant ruby up in your attic, but you needed help to clean the attic up to get to it. Lo and behold, we got it cleaned, but no giant ruby. Please, do not bother us with your frivolous tall tales.” Rarity said a bit harshly as she walked back her boutique.

AJ's eyes prickled with tears as her two other friends left her. There was one more hope she had. The sounds of her tri-monster and her parents approaching made her go sprinting off.

MLPOV

Applejack burst into the library, pushed past Spike who shouted as he fell into a bucket, headfirst. AJ paid it no mind as she raced up the stairs and burst into the bedroom of Twilight's. Said mare jumped at the intrusion and spun around, her horn alight with magic. Once she saw it was Applejack, she sighed in relief as she powered down. Twilight got her mane under control and sat down, grabbing the pieces of parchment.

“Applejack, why are you here? Is something wrong?” Twilight asked as she looked at her farmer friend while leaning back.

After getting her breathing under control, Applejack launched into her tale; she explained everything from when the day started to the weirdness at the farm. She told Twilight fleeing to town and their other friend's reactions to her telling them the same tale she did. Twilight sat there listening intently to Applejack as she got up and paced, her face filled with worry. After the tale concluded, Applejack settled back into the seat she was sitting in, her face sweaty and panting, both from the running and from the telling. Twilight's face did not convey any hint of emotion as she sat back, her face showing her thinking critically. Applejack swallowed some spit that had accumulated in her mouth before looking at Twilight.

“Y-yah believe me doncha Twi?” Applejack said with a nervous stutter.

The Princess of Friendship sighed as she got up, beckoning for Applejack to follow. The Farmer obeyed without hesitation and the two began to walk through the Library, Spike glaring at Applejack for his fiasco with the bucket. Twilight opened the door and stepped aside, letting AJ automatically walk out the door. Twilight spoke.

“Of course...” Twilight said making said farmer spin around and face the Princess.

“Thank ya, Twi!” Applejack whispered in relief as she listened to her friend.

“...I don't believe you, AJ.” Twilight said with a curt, yet polite tone. The words echoed in AJ's ears and rang around in her head. “and why should I? I warned you at the Wedding of my brother and Cadence. Yet you accused me of lying. Now you come here, spin me some Faust awful story and expect me to believe it? I have no time for childish pranks, AJ. Good day!”

With that, the door slammed shut, leaving the shell-shocked Farm mare standing and staring in a thousand mile stare at the door. Once the sounds of her family caught up to her, she didn't do a thing; she instead sank to her knees, sobbing as Darkness surrounded her, leaving her in an semi-empty void, just the screams of her monstrous lie and the scolding tone of her conscious as they descended upon her.

MLPOV

The Overlord let the Orb float back, sighing as Twilight stared slack-jawed. He calmly poured himself some soda while Twilight rebooted. She glowered at the Overlord who took a swig of soda, patiently waiting for the explosion.
Twilight did not disappoint.

“W-w-w-w-why?! HOW?!” Twilight roared as she shot up, her eyes and mane fiery.

“Simple; as long as Applejack denies the truth about Applebloom, so to will others no longer believe in her.” The Overlord calmly explained, using a tone one would use with a very young filly. “I did say you all embody the polar opposites of the Elements. Are you having trouble understanding such a simple, yet elegant concept?”

Twilight sat back down, fuming but at the same time, her mind reeling. She didn't claim to know her friends that well, but she thought she knew them well enough. Now to see what TWO of her friends had hiding...well, what else was there? She dimly watched the Overlord pick up another orb with three Diamonds inside.

“Ah, this one will be interesting. Greedy Generosity.”

With a shake of the orb, the two's invisible souls joined the dark, twisted reality the Overlord made.

Author's Note

Well, there we go. Hope this one turn out slightly better then the last chapter; oh don't get me wrong, i think it was a decent chapter but i fee i went a wee bit too far with Rainbow. So, to clarify:

The blending of Granny, Big, and Bloom is to be a symbol for Applejack's Lie which has just grown and grown and grown over the years.

Golden and Orchard are Applejack's Morals and Conscious respectively. I figured I'd go with a symbol of the two (five?) to show how bad it is for Applejack. So tell me how this was and i still need help with Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.