In a barn in Appaloosa, three ponies slept soundly on top of eachother. And one slept beside them, probably the result of her rolling off. The one in the middle suddenly awoke by the sun that was tickling her eyes. She carefully wiggled her way out of the small pile of ponies resembling her family. She smiled and walked over to the little filly who had been sleeping on the floor and gently nudged her. The fillies eyes fluttered open and she smiled.

"Why are y'all wakin' me up for, sis?" Applebloom said while she rubbed her eyes and tried to get rid of the drowsiness.

"Well, we're all gonna have 'ta work soon, an' yer always grumpy when Ah wake ya up last minute." Applejack said to her little sister and then she walked over to a couple of frying pans, took a small metal stick and started to hit them. The sharp sound awoke Granny Smith who jumped of Big Mac and saluted.

"Section 34 ready to go, sir!"she hollered, then realizing she was in a barn with her grandchildren and blushed slightly. In the back she heard faint snicker from Applejack. "Just you laugh lil' filly, but when war dawns upon Equestria once again, Ah might be the lone survivor!"

Applejack smiled and walked over to her granny and hugged her. Then she opened the doors and proceeded to walk out in the orchard. She turned around and faced the barn.

"C'mon Apples! Time ta work!"

"Eeeyup"

Out in the orchard in Appaloosa worked a hundred or so ponies. They were needed for the huge farm. Or at least they thought so. Most of them just stepped on eachothers hooves. In the middle of the farm sat a group of old ponies and talked while they ate apple pie. One of them was Granny Smith. She stood in the middle of the ring of chairs and talked with gestures about the time she went in to war. All of the ponies snickered and the oblivious Granny thought they laughed in awe. They didn't.

Then, just as she finished her story a guard smashed down beside her. Granny jumped up and started to yell at him.

"Oh listen now junior, Ah've..."her words trailed off as she saw the stallion for real. Granny strainghtened her mane quickly and stood up tall. She decided to do something no one, not even Big Mac had seen her do before. she unknit her bun and let her hair lay straight over her neck and over part of her face. Granny swung it from side to side as she walked up to the guard, who started to become nervous. " Want some of this apple pie son? Ah was young once to ya know."

The guard let out a pathetic squeak as the other oldies and some of the closer workers stared. The guards face turned red, and it was now that Applejack decided to look up. Her eyes widened in horror.

Oh no.

Applejack walked calmly to the train station with her bags filled with apple pastries and a letter. It was an invitation to a picnic with her best friends. Although she was still a little shaky from the whole incident with Granny and the guard, and doubted she'd ever get it out of her head. Applejack shaked the thought out of her head and walked over to the train schedule, noticing that the train to Ponyville should have arrived. As on queue the rusty speakers sparked and a stallions voice echoed troughout the town.

"The train to Ponyville is cancelled due to mass hysteria at their staition."

Applejack wondered why there would be such hysteria at the station but the thought quickly perished as she focused on figuring out a way to get to Ponyville. She looked across the station after some kind of vechile. Then she spotted it. A worn out and ripped balloon. Perfect. She walked over to thye ballon and investigated it. a couple of places where she had to se it together, otherwise it was in good shape. So with the help of apple pastries and sudden music she began to repair the balloon. when she was done, the whole thing smelled like apples. Applejack got it in the air and went in the direction of Ponyville.

After a couple of hours with relatively calm air travel Applejack found herself in the outskirts of Ponyville. she glanced down at the train station, that in this moment was set on fire. Othervise Ponyville seemed calm.

she then saw the small hill that were her destination. Applejack smiled widely and began to descend. She could now see four ponies sitting with a blanket in the middle. Applejack let out a cry of happiness and signaled that she was there. the four ponies simultaneously looked up to see her. Not to destroy anything, she landed the balloon a bit away from the hill. When she jumped off, she saw all her friends come running at her. applejack got tackeled in a group hug and they all laughed. They walked up to the blanket again, where thousands of questions were fired at eachother. One of them was applejacks.

"Has any of y'all seen Rainbow?"

Twilight frowned. "No. I really hope she can make it, because it won't be the same withuot her. But we also have to respect that Rainbow Dash has achieved all of her dreames now and might be caught up in living them."

Applejack smiled reasurringly and said calmly to Twilight

"Don't ya worry none. She'd never leave us hanging, After all, she's the element of Loyalty. Ah'm sure-"

Applejack was cut off by an earchattering BOOM! The five of them looked up in the sky just in time to see a bright rainbow spread across the sky. Applejack smiled.

"Told ya."

Author's Note

I've FINALLY finished this chapter! Ugh! I hate my stupid computer, erasing all my work and making me start from scratch. Well, here it is, at last. Enjoy!