Toxic Apple

by mavrckshld

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Granny Smith, Thriller, Drama, Original Character, Braeburn, Big Macintosh, Adventure, Applejack
Length: 17253

This story arc focuses on Applejack and her entire Apple family including her cousins as they are in a peril of danger when Sweet Apple Acres is quarantined by an unknown virus poison that is spreading in the apples.

This story arc focuses on Applejack and her entire Apple family including her cousins as they are in a peril of danger when Sweet Apple Acres is quarantined by an unknown virus poison that is spreading in the apples of the field causing some of Applejacks cousins and Granny Smith to fall fatally ill from the toxic poison apples. Many are pointing the hooves on Flim and Flam, unaware that they are working for some pony else, whom has a grudge on the Apple family.

Published 2015-09-14 03:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-11-19 19:57:55 UTC

4 The Plan’s In Motion

Around Sweet Apple Acres, Flim & Flam hatched up their plans to take the many apples but not knowing what’s to be expected on expectations for the Apples and their many families at the reunion event. Flam mentions to Flim that their boss wants this done as soon as possible. Flim with true frustrations of being told what to do along with Flam prepare for their secret weapon by slipping in a black vial of toxin into a patch of apples and blending in the color red with an invisible potion. After all that was done, Flim and Flam setter the apples back in the Sweet Apple Acres barn with no pony seeing them. Then they give the message to their boss, the job is done and leave Apple Acres, as Applejack and Big Mac return home to set up the apples for the big reunion event unaware that they are toxic poison.

5 Pre-Apple Family Gathering

As the family reunion event grows closer to begin, things become fair and calm between Candy Apples and Apple Bottom. Bottom admits he was wrong for talking bad about Charade, Candy forgive Bottom and the two agreed to get along for the family reunion. Meanwhile, Charade is in contact with some pony with a note that went to the direction of unknown. Candy Apples witnesses it at first and asks Charade, what’s with the note. Charade circle around a lie in telling her about some new material ideas for his business. Candy Apples fell for the lie and invited him to the family reunion, in which he accepted. Apple Bottom and Charade came face to face and Bottom asked for them to become friends, Charade accepted, but Bottom had a secret plan to watch Charade real closely, to see what he’s up to. Candy Apples gets excited in hopes of seeing her brother and sisters again at the reunion, and also has a special postcard to give to them as a gift for her traveling with the fair and selling her best candy apples. Bottom is excited as well to share the reunion event with his favorite cousin.

Apple Dumpling sets up to meet with Apple Leaves as they got acquainted with themselves and conversant over the upcoming Apple Family reunion event in Sweet Apple Acres, Leaves talked about feeling some urge on the reunion becoming an event that it will not ever be forgotten. She then went on talking about fillies and family and how they are doing in life, Dumpling and Leaves always love to talk a lot but in many case, that’s what to expect with family. Meanwhile, Braeburn was suddenly busy in cahoots with his own agenda with a female pony with no name. For some estrange reason, she didn’t seem to make Half Baked Apple impressed by any means. Half Baked felt something very strange about the female pony, as he decided not to get into Braeburn’s personal affairs. Even half Baked’s sisters didn’t like the pony at all. Especially, Sweet Tooth she gave the female a nasty look in not liking her at all completely but Braeburn putted a stop to that causing Half Baked to argue with him and for Bushel to break up the argument. Bushel tells Half Baked to let Braeburn be happy. Without arguing with his father, Half Baked accepted and kept his opinions to himself for the time being. He then decided to focus on being ready for the Apple Family Reunion event. As he walked away and Braeburn step out to talk to Half Baked the mysterious female pony made contact with an unknown source in giving a heads that the plan is already in motion.

Braeburn stopped Half Baked from walking in sadness and anger and apologize to him for his behavior and for talking bad to Sweet Tooth. Half Baked then tells off Braeburn in stating, He’ll be seeing Gingerbread at least when the reunion comes. Braeburn then tells him, Gingerbread won’t be there and that he’s going to be busy with his bakery shop. Half Baked feeling cornered and a bit out of show off ideas, decided to not make himself a little embarrassed and accepted Braeburn’s apology. Although, Apple Dumpling informs her son, Half Baked that Gingerbread will be their as well after talking with Leaves who spoke with Apple Bumpkin about her brother being far away and taking a break from the bakery. Half Baked was with joy and Braeburn started to show a little green envy look with jealousy. Yet and still the two made their apology and peace with each other and prepare to return back to Sweet Apple Acres for another family reunion event hosted by their cousin, Applejack.

Half Baked and Braeburn informs Granny Rose about the reunion event just as Apple Squash, Red June and Sweet Tooth have her exhausted from looking after them a while. Granny Rose thrilled about the event cannot wait to see her favorite cousin, Granny Smith again, then she get’s this very strong feeling that this reunion vent will be an event, any of the Apple family will never forget.

6 The Apple Family Gathering

The time has finally come, Applejack, Big Mac, Granny Smith and Apple Fritter set up everything to be made for the big Apple Family Reunion event yet. Fritter talks with Applejack about her sister, Candy Apples new friend, Charade and feels that he’s indeed full of secrets. Applejack doesn’t feel that she or other ponies should judge him before getting to know him better. Just as they end their conversation, the entire Apple family comes from the hills on the rush to ‘land ho’ as they all arrive with their wagons ad riding together in many different angles. All the ponies arrived and started gathering themselves in welcoming each other and celebrating together in reuniting with each other. Granny Rose and Granny Smith once again, embrace reuniting back together again. Aunt Applesauce as usual arrives and showoff her beauty new mane style that makes her a real superstar pony, yet that doesn’t even bother both Granny Smith and Rose one bit. Yet they still go at it over their golden days for teasing each other and getting each other into trouble.

Half Baked Apples was soon beginning to lose hope when he didn’t see Gingerbread in the crowd, but bumps into another Apple pony, and it’s Gingerbread. The two happily exchange graceful welcomes and they start beginning to hangout. Since Half Baked and Gingerbread like spending some time with each other, they both decide to sneak off from the reunion yet again to find some place quiet where they can communicate, but Braeburn interrupts with his female pony friend as well. But the female doesn’t want Braeburn to get too into Half Baked and Gingers privacy and so she asks for Braeburn to introduce her to his family and cousins. Braeburn without arguing decided to let his cousins have their privacy and he takes lovely gal to his cousins and family. Half Baked looks on with serious trouble in his eyes as he feels the gal could be a bit more trouble than she looks or behaves. Gingerbread a bit worried about his cousin in his objective to keep an eye on the gal to make sure Braeburn doesn’t get into much trouble, tries to take his energy away from worrying and focusing on catching up with each other.

Candy Apple introduces Charade to her family including her mother Apple Dumpling and father Bushel. Apple Fritter finally meets with Charade and starts questioning him about his background and becomes more cross exam towards Charade. But not knowing it doesn’t bother him one bit less, Charade plays it very well and answers all of Apple Fritters questions and excuses himself into getting some fritters. Candy Apples then starts going off on her sister, Apple Fritter in calling her a jerk. Fritter tries to tell her sister, she don’t trust him at all and feels he’s big trouble. Candy Apples then goes in on how Fritters catering business is soon going to be out and rubs in on how it feels since she’s cook less without a business. In a heated rage Fritter and Candy start arguing allowing Applejack to break them up and asks for Candy to introduce her to Charade to see what Fritter feels that is troublesome to this pony. Candy agrees and walks away from Fritter in turning her back on her. Bushel walks by and doesn’t like what he see’s between his two daughters. He talks with Fritter and asks her what’s going on. She admits she’s not into her new friend. Bushel suggest she works it out with her sister before the event comes to an end later on, so Fritter tries to look for Candy to apologize.

Near the apple trees in Sweet Apple Acres, Flim and Flam are snooping around watching to see how everything is going without being seen.

7 A Deadly Feast

Film and Flam snooping around the Apple trees in trying to get information on what’s going on with the Apple family are bickering about how to stay patient and be still. Flam admits to Flim that he doesn’t feel very good about what they’ve done. But Flim warns Flam about the consequences that they’ll face if they try to backtrack their deal and decision, as the continue to argue, Liberty Belle bumps into them and accidentally knock them down while playing with her cousins. Liberty sees Flim and Flam and apologizes for running into them. As the two forgive her, they ask and beg on her not to tell any pony that she saw them in the Apple bushes, she agrees and goes back and plays. Film and Flam leave Sweet Apple Acres before they soon get caught.

After the gathering and getting together and the games, the Apple family prepare for their feast specials with grown ups finishing up the gathering settings for the feast, Granny Smith, Granny Rose, Uncle Apple Strudel and Aunt Applesauce were asked first to be seated as they were given their apple fritters early. Applesauce kept spoiling herself on how her beauty dentures would not be too dirty for the fritters to mess up. Granny Smith made a rude remark once again to her cousin. Apple Rose giggled from Smith’s rude remarks while Applesauce gave them both the evil eye. Just in time for Strudel to sideline the two before an argument gets ready to be heard. Applejack asks for the elderly ponies to be seated in the main row while others gathered in a circle as Applejack began to introduce every pony with an Apple Family Speech Announcement. Following her deep emotional speaking the feast began and the entire Apple family were enjoying the food and still having a great time being around each other. Charade found Candy Apples enjoying the feast and the delicious treats the Apple family made. Half Baked walks by and sees his sister with Charade, as Charade calls for Half Baked to come and join them, without hesitation Half Baked agreed to spend a few minutes with his sister as Candy asked where’s Braeburn. Half sighing in stating, he’s with his new mate, Dove. Charade suddenly looked very shocked and with a ticked in his eye of revenge, Candy and Half Baked looked at him as if he knows her, but immediately Charade retract his response and claims that he has no idea who she is at all.

Charade decided to let Candy and Half Baked spend time together as he stepped out from Sweet Apple Acres for a bit. Half Baked questions Candy about her friendship with Charade asking if she likes him. Candy Apples replied with seriously look in calling her big brother, nosy. Her brother with cute freckles blushed in making sure that his sister was just doing fine and being careful. Candy made sure to her sweet brother she will be OK

Dove tells Braeburn that she will be walking around for a bit while he’s spending time with his family, and Braeburn accepted it, but replied back to Dove to hurry back for a load of fun with the family. Doves leaves but also sighs as well. Just in time for Applejack to step in in questioning her cousin’s relationship with the Dove. Braeburn assures Applejack that he trusts his new partner, but Applejack honestly admits that she doesn’t trust the pony for one minute. Braeburn soon argues with Applejack as he gets caught off guard and before Applejack can even try to reason with Braeburn, he walks away leaving Applejack very unhappy.

Suddenly after finishing their fritters, Applesauce starts getting dizzy spells and looks around and then at Granny Smith seeing four heads of her and starts yelling at her telling her to be still. Then her fur turns blue and she suddenly collapse. Apple Rose then starts getting the same dizzy spells but then begins to become breathless and loses her breath into screaming for help as she faints besides Applesauce. Apple Studel gets the dizzy spells but then starts hallucinating that the entire Apple family make fun of him in his dizziness he accidentally bumps into Big Mac and starts hallucinating him talking garbage about him being old and useless while in the other true side, Big Mac was asking if Strudel was OK. Strudel then screamed at Big Mac thinking he's a big dark black monster trying to attack him. He runs in trying to hide and then begins to sweat and dehydrates himself and he too afterwords faints. The entire Apple family begin to fear on what’s going on including Applejack and Big Mac, as they rush over to Granny Smith to see how she’s doing. But before she can even speak a word, she now too faints and is in a coma along with the other three, causing a shocking reaction on the whole Apple family. Fritter, Half Baked and Apple Dumpling rushed over to Apple Roses side to help her out as Braeburn and Hayseed Turniptruck rushes over to Apple Strudel to see if he wakes up, but no luck. Apple Leaves, Apple Bottoms and Candy Apples try to wake up Applesauce but everything else fails. Applejack is left in shock and horrified that she believes that it's suddenly her fault things went wrong but Big Mac rushes to her sisters side and calms her down and two decides to get rid of all the food in keeping the Apple family safe from being poisoned. Applejack suggest to Big Mac to get the grandparents and grandaunts and uncles to the hospital immediately.

As the family gathered to help out one another, outside the fields looking was Dove as she walked away from the situation. Dove then goes somewhere private and meets up with another pony, and surprisingly enough the pony is now known as the master planner and is wanting revenge on all the Apple Family. Dove’s silent partner is…. Charade.

8 A Plot Takes a Turn

Charade and Dove plan there next agenda as they reunited and smirked at the disaster that was going on at Sweet Apple Acres. They decided to make sure that no pony saw them and Charade vengeful stating that he was ecstatic that Dove kept her end of the bargain and obeyed the deal that they both made with each other. Dove explained that Flim and Flam did everything right on the dot. Charade then explains to Dove that once one of the place Sweet Apple Acres is quarantined, he will plan on buying it into destroying the pace and build a new constriction business oil company in the farmland. But somehow, Dove already knows that Charade has a personal agenda against Appejack but for what reason, she hasn't gotten much from Charade about that information yet.

Liberty Bell fearing rushed off away from Sweet Apple Acres to get help from somewhere else outside of Apple Acres, just as soon as she tried to reach for help she eavesdrops on the conversation between Charade and Dove. Liberty not knowing what was going at first decided to ask for help but stayed out of sight to hear what the two were talking about. Dove then tells Charade that she plans on taking care of a few loose ends that are interfering in their path, including Applejack and Half Baked Apple, whom they suspect her motives. Dove vows to make sure they stay out of her way or suffer some serious consequences. As for Charade, he vows to have serious plans for Candy Apple and Apple Fritter that put them in a near grave danger. All the plots suddenly gives Liberty Belle who listens a true gasps of shock and fear, and decides to runs off to tell her family about what she heard, but mistakenly rushes to make a squeaky noise that both Charade and Dove hear. The two realize some pony was listening and vow to keep that pony quiet, when they peek in the circle field woods, they see Liberty Belle running back from their hideout back to Apple Acres. Doves decides to keep her from telling anyone, but decides to go gently on the little filly so that she won’t say a word.

The Apple Family are in shock and some argue with each other in asking what kind of sick joke was this. Applejack and Braeburn both looked shocked in wondering what really happened, as Big Mac takes the elderly Apples to the hospital to have them being taken care of, as far as some of the Apple families, Candy Apples was looking for Charade and found hm just in time, and asked for his help in wondering if he knew what the causes were and how to cure the horrific situation. Charade admitted within’ his act that he doesn't know, but won’t know much until thy find out what the cause is. Candy Apple feeling scared and worried, hugged on Charade while Apple Fritter rushed to tell her sister that Granny Rose is in the hospital and were waiting on the results for the poison, Candy rushed with Fritter to leave to the hospital and see their grandmother. Half Baked Apple and Braeburn were shocked and Half Baked became scared in not knowing what was going on. Braeburn comforted his cousin while Dove arrived to be by Brae’s side for comfort as well. Half Baked decided to leave to check on Granny Rose and the others, leaving Brae and Dove to talk. Liberty Belle rushed and bumped into Apple Bottom as she tried to catch her breath, Apple Bottom calmed her down and asked what was wrong. She tells him everything that she heard from Dove and Charade, as Apple Bottom soon started to listen with reason as into why Charade and Dove plot the whole toxic spread in Sweet Apple Acres, Liberty Belle decided to promise with Apple Bottom not to say a word to any pony until the situation was solved. As LIberty Belle decides to rush to go to the hospital to be with her family, she purposely trips over somepony’s hooves and gets knocked into a tree where she soon becomes unconscious. Liberty becomes dizzy and looks up to see standing on top of her was Dove. Liberty Belle passes out and Doves walks away from her leaving her knocked out with no help at all.

9 Waiting For the Results

At the Ponyville hospital, the Apple Family await on news about their grandparents and their conditions that they are currently in. Applejack quietly walked away from the family and took a private walk by herself as Big Mac followed her and suddenly, Applejack breaks down in tears. She breaks down blaming herself for the horrific actions of the Apple family gathering and Big Mac comes to her aid in supporting her and comforting her with a big hug as she continues to cry to let out her sadness and anger. Golden Harvest walks around the hospital and asks in respect if any pony has seen Liberty Belle. No pony saw or heard a word out of her, Golden Harvest in fear knowing Liberty was suppose to help her with her carrot farm, goes out in search to look for her. As the rest are waiting for results Doctor Whooves comes out and makes a big shocking announcement that the conditions of the grandparents is very fatal and dangerous as ever. Meanwhile; Golden Harvest goes on a search in Ponyville to find Liberty Belle but with no luck in finding her, then she returns to Apple Acres and searches each bushes and finally finds Liberty Belle unconscious and helpless without even a single response. Harvest freaked out in scream and called for help as other Apple family members rush to the bush and find Harvest with a move-less Liberty lying with no life as they rush her to the hospital immediately before it’s too late. Harvest then breaks down in tears and freaks out when she can’t get the horrific image of Liberty Belle lying to her near death, Caramel arrives on Golden Harvest’s side and comforts her after her scary discovery and calms her down completely nice and easily making Harvest feel safer than ever. As she continues to lean on Carmel for comfort, Whooves revealed that the grandparents of the Apple family are diagnosed with a deadly fatal chemical weapon that is ordered to annihilate a group of family members, in shock Applejack and Big Mac look stoned as if they are haunted by a gloomy spirit that is planning on destroying the Apple family. Big Mac asked the Doctor if there is a cure to the virus that will save the grandparents. Sadly, Doctor Whooves couldn’t bear to answer the truth and tried to make up a lie but was unsuccessful with his ongoing fables and admit with his statement ‘Unfortunately, this virus poison is so strong that it will kill any pony in a heartbeat! It’s fatal and as I have tried to look up for an antidote…. There is no cure.” The Apple Family all gasp in shocked and some afterwards cried in tears, others lashed in rage in attacking one another. Applejack tries to calm every pony down but is unsuccessful and then Doctor Whooves drags her out of the commotion and tries to tell her the truth about the poison virus.

Applejack livid with the Doctor’s answer demanded in rage and anger to give her the cure and antidote and tell the truth, Whooves however stood his ground with his hooves in admitting there’s no cure for this! However there is a way that some pony could help out with the situation. Applejack with short joy hypes up with hope in asking who it could be to help out with this sudden emergency. Whooves admits that he’s not sure but he suggests that Applejack finds a family member that knows about the secret toxic virus that caused it to be spread on the grandparents, but first she should go to Zecora to find out more info about the toxic virus, and search for the rest in order to find the antidote to stop the virus immediately. Applejack leaves the office and asks for Big Mac’s help in traveling with her to Everfree Forest to meet up with Zecora. Candy Apples goes privately away from the commotion and Charade from behind follows her and offers to give her some comfort into making her feel better, but she admits she would rather not want to talk about it and Charade respects her emotions, Apple Fritter walks into the two of them and decides to turn the other way in with true disgust over her sister to not help out with her family and there time of grief. Braeburn asks Half Baked Apple if he’s seen Dove, but he answers with rude remark into not knowing where she is. Braeburn then disrespects Half Baked and Gingerbread rushes over to whisk Half Baked Apple away from Braeburn just in time for Dove to show up and give him comfort. Brae asks Dove, where she was and Dove lies in stating, she stepped out to give the family some privacy, Brae feeling very loved by Dove hugs her while she gives an evil smirk behind him.

Gingerbread and Half Baked Apple talk and Half Baked thanks him for saving him from arguing with Braeburn and Gingerbread welcomes him back with all pleasure. Then Ginger informs Half Baked that Liberty Belle is in the hospital because she was unconscious in the bushes as Half Baked fears in shock and rushes to her hospital bedside to check up on her. Gingerbread comforts his cousin with love and hope that Liberty will be OK. As the two sit by Liberty Belle’s bedside for her to wake up, Outside the door, Dove looks at Half Baked Apple and Gingerbread at Liberty Belle’s bedside and fears that she will name her as the pony who tripped her, so she plans to eliminate Liberty immediately but Charade walks behind her and warns Dove not to touch or go near Liberty, because she doesn’t know a thing. Dove confronts Charade as into not ending Liberty’s life but Charade made it clear, Liberty will not say anything when she wakes up. Doves uncertain if he can trust Charade but agrees to go by his orders for now.

10 Cure with Consequences

Film and Flam are snooping around Sweet Apple Acres making sure that the plan goes as it was told by Charade. Flam is not at all comfortable with what he and Flim have done to some of the Apple family members, but Flim with an anxious plead of help warns him not to mess this up or else he and Flam will be dealt with personally by Charade. Unaware that Big Mac spotted the two walking into the bushes hiding in each side of an apple tree, he figures out what’s going on and has a plan to capture the two to get answers, but he asks for Bushel and Hayseed Turnip’s help in setting a trap for the two.

Elsewhere, in Everfree Forest, Applejack met up with Zecora as she tries to examine one of the apples that made her grand Apple family members fall fatal and ill. She fears that Zecora may never find a cure, but surprisingly enough with hope and faith, Applejack was happy to learn Zecora found out more about the poison that was in the apple and what was the case of it. Zecora explained that the apple was somehow dipped or planted with bio-toxic chemical virus that has the power to eliminate a group or a number of species and ponies in Equestria. Applejack with shock and confusion on her face, begin to beg the question on how in the world did this virus even exist in Equestria and more importantly, why was it spread in Sweet Apple Acres? Zecora finds out that the chemical virus was once used to eliminate and annihilate ponies in Equestria to create disease and virus that once could never be cured. It's also revealed that at one time, a former place in Equestrian was so deadly with the virus, some of the ponies experience a near death and nothing was going to save them.

Applejack in stoned shock realizes that this virus may have already done the damaged that was necessary and begins to once again lose all hope and blames herself for having an Apple Family get together for her own sake, in tears and complete shame, she guesses to Zecora that there’s no other hope to stop this virus. But, in surprise of a light of hope once again, Zecora brought Applejack back to strength when she reveals that there is a cure indeed that can end the virus spread and the toxic completely. Applejack wiped her tears and was happy, but Zecora states that the antidote is a rare find that can only be found by the pony whom started the virus spread in the first place. In details Zecora that a simple makings of Zapp Apple can diffidently save the distruction of the Toxic virus spread in Sweet Apple Acres. The only thing that she and her entire family needs to do is to cut down all the dark toxic tree plants containing the poison and replant the entire farmland with fresh new seeds to build and make a new delicious Sweet Apple Acres with the Zapp Apples. With a look of vow and acceptance, Applejack thanks Zecora with a hug and leaves Everfree Forest to head back to Sweet Apple Acres to inform the others about the toxic virus and the antidote. Big Mac sees Applejack running from the dark forest and she comes out of breath telling his big brother to gather the entire Apple family and prepares to reveal the bad and good news. After leaving, out of the bushes rises, Dove as she starts to puzzle a fear that Applejack may know something about the virus and she decides to find Charade and keep him informed about there meeting.

The entire Apple family gather at Sweet Apple Acres with fears in there conversation, as Big Mac tries to calm every pony down and explain that Applejack has some news about the cause of there grandparents fatal illness. Applejack reveals in an announcement, that there is a toxic black virus being spread in the apples around Apple Acres and wants all the ponies in Sweet Apple Acres to not touch or eat one single apple from the trees or the buckets until the situation is solved. With no hesitation, each of the members of the Apple family started putting all the apples in the abandoned shack shelter until the antidote is found to cure and remove the virus. Hayseed and Big Mac talk privately in revealing there big trap for the Flim & Flam and that it has to go down, tonight in order to get more ideas about there associations with the virus spread. Braeburn questions Half Baked about where Dove is and Half Baked admits in not knowing where she is and or doesn’t care much about her at all. Candy Apples reveals to Half Baked and Braeburn that she’s leaving Sweet Apple Acres with Charade to help find a way to save her family from a dangerous disaster spread. Charade reveals to Dove privately in the dark bushes that he has plans for her when he returns to the deep south in Applewoods, but then unaware that Apple Fritter is listening in on their conversation and immediately runs of but not before Charade hearing hoover steps being made from exiting the dark area and as he realizes that they were being spied on, he plans to put that to rest immediately.

11 Dangerous Altercation

At the hospital, Liberty Belle finally wakes up with Golden Harvest and Half Baked Apple by her bedside as she becomes very active and still her same young self. Harvest cheering with joy and relief that Liberty made it, as Half Baked started to laugh along with Liberty on relief enjoying her recovery, unaware that outside the door watching was Dove and she had a deadly evil look of wanting revenge as she planned on having Liberty become silence if she revealed about hers and Charades plot. On that occasion, she decides to go behind Charades orders and targets Liberty Belle to keep her from remembering and revealing there secret to the entire Apple family. Braeburn shows up wondering why Dove is angry and Dove reveals she’s not angry but happy that Liberty is awake but is mad that some pony could harm the young filly. Braeburn hugs her with comfort but Dove gives an angry mean look behind him with livid frustrations.

Apple Fritter meets up with Applejack and tells her about a secret meeting that Charade had with Dove and that the two of them were up to something, Applejack knowing that things have become very gritty since the two showed up in Sweet Apple Acres and demands to know more intel on there relationships. Once Fritter and Applejack shake hooves in agreeing to confront the two, Fritter leaves Applejack back to farming and suddenly she is chloroform from behind by Charade as she tries to fight his strength in overpowering her but it’s already too late, Apple Fritter passes out and Charade has his goons take Fritters away where no pony can find her. Charade with an evil smirk and quiet chuckle, sets sight on taking Fritters sister, Candy Apple away to the deep south for a surprise.

Film and Flam are walking around Ponyville plotting to scam ponies with there new plot but as they plan on making there accomplishments be fulfilled, they enter back into Sweet Apple Acres where they fight and bicker and started to hoover punch one another until they suddenly fall into a pit hole down the underground bottom that was set up by Hayseed Turnip Truck and Big Mac.

After there capture, the two are brought into a private shack where they are being interrogated by Hayseed, Big Mac, Apple Split, Braeburn and Carmel. Flam and Flam begin to loose patients in the shack and decide to play crazy so that they could escape, but to no avail from the Apple family. Then they decide to leave the shack and let the two brothers spend the night to have second thoughts on there decision to keep quiet on what they know about the virus spread, and what they’ve done to the grandparents.

Dove is spotted at the hospital hovering over Liberty Bell as she tries to sweet talk her into being calm and try not to scream, but Liberty tries very hard to remember just who Dove really is. But while she tries to recollect her memories, Dove plans to expose some of the deadly virus on Liberty into making her death be natural causes, but as she attempts to make Liberty drink her milk which she laced with the toxin, Half Baked Apple and Apple Split arrives in time to put Doves plot on pause. Split and Half Baked look at Dove as if she was caught stealing something from a haystack. Split guessed she was worried that her relationship with Charade would be revealed about the two of them being a couple and she replies back with backup from her behavior in admitting, she’s sorry. Split accepts her apology but Half Baked isn't buying her act one bit less and decides to go to Liberty’s bedside and check on her, while Dove leaves with an evil anger of frustration and livid that her plot to keep Liberty silent was ruined, and vows revenge.

Liberty Bell confides in Half Baked about what Dove was talking about and Half wondered instead of interrogating Liberty, he quietly asked if she was asking you personal questions, Liberty admitted in stating ‘No.’ But somehow Half realized there was more to Dove that what Braeburn even knows, then Applejack came over to visit Liberty Bell and see how she was doing, as Half Baked took Applejack to the side and explained that Dove came to visit Liberty and Applejack with a shock look then reveals to Half Baked that she doesn't trust Dove one bit and decides that Half must find Braeburn and tell him about her immediately. With no hesitation, Half Baked Apple agree to tell his cousin about Dove as soon as possible and as he continues talking with Applejack, she reveals a way the family can stop the toxic spread but eliminating all the dark tree containing the poison and plant new ones containing the Zapp Apple antidote that will save Sweet Apple Acres and their grandparents as well. With relief that he’s not being paranoid, Applejack and Half Baked Apple teamed up to help find Braeburn and inform him about Dove and Charade’s relationship at once.

Author's Note

This is the first part of the 'Toxic Apple' story arc. More to come.

12 Betrayal

Candy Apples and Charade return back to the deep south where she feels confident with feelings for Charade believing that he will live up to the hope that will save her grandparents from the virus spread in Sweet Apple Acres. As they enter into a southern corporate organization in Applelosa, Candy Apples lets Charade go and makes his announcement. As Charade keeps his announcement positive for Candy Apples, he turns heads when he makes fun of Sweet Apple Acres quarantined crisis and laughs it off at Candy Apples face.

Candy Apples shocked and livid over Charade’s evil diabolical laugh starts screaming at him and confronts him with a hooves punch in his face and then Charade begins to turn the cheeks in showing his true evil side and giving Candy Apples an evil disgusting smirk and Candy Apples shows a slow sign of tears in her eyes with heartbroken and betrayal. Candy Apples is humiliated and embarrassed when one of the board members then decides to insult her style and heritage as an Apple, then she goes angry and asks for Charade to stop them from insulting her. But Charade shows no sympathy, making Candy Apples more angry but confused at the same time, not knowing that Charade finally in minutes shows his true colors that he’s the culprit and responsible for the toxic spread in Sweet Apple Acres and this meeting event was focused on destroying Sweet Apple Acres. Candy Apples in shocked and scared for her life suddenly feels foolish and trapped by their evil surrounding as Charade grabs her hooves and pulls a dagger to her neck and threatens to hurt her if she dares tries to escape.

A scared Candy Apples shakes in fear and of disbelief that she has been made a fool out of and then tries to escape Charade’s clutches but is unsuccessful and he becomes more aggressive in keeping her in check and trapped under his skin not letting her go. Candy Apples grunts into escape but it fails, and Charade makes a threat to her that he will kill her sister, Apple Fritter, which he also reveals he has her captive as his prisoner as well. Candy Apples tests his patients but then brings up her family including her three youngest sisters being made ‘filly wagon carriers for his next toxic shipment.’ Candy Apples feeling helpless with no chance of resisting gives up in loss and with no choice or help, she decides to obey every order or demands that Charade gives. Charade then holding a dagger behind her orders her to exit the building and to keep quiet until they reach there destinations.

13 Truth or Consequences

Flim and Flam wake up tied up thanks to Big Mac, Hayseed and Apple Splitter. The three gang up on the two sneaky greedy shade stallions until Applejack enters the private barnyard and tells the boys to settle down and back off for now, she has some serious interrogations for the two that she plans on making them be put on a hot seat and burning their tails off. Applejack becomes very rebellious in wanting the truth coming out from either Flim or Flam, but the two continue to be even more unbothered by AJ’s adamant request on the truth. So suddenly, Applejack decides to play hardball and asks for Big Mac to take the two to the river and with Apple Splitter’s help they both drag the two to the river and plan to use them as crocodile baits in order to get the truth from them. At first Flim stands his ground and continues not to talk, but Flam gets sudden setback feelings and decides he’ll co-operate with the Apple family, Flim still refusing to talk reaches his near sacrifice near the crocodile pit in the river, finally gives up and deices that he too will co-operate with eh family as well.

After all is said, Flim and Flam reveal they were threaten and blackmailed by both Dove and Charade to set toxic poison around Sweet Apple Acres, then they reveal that they had plans to turn the farm into a construction toxic waste zone. Both Flim and Flam apologize to Applejack and the entire Apple family for the tragic mishap on what they put them all through, Applejack is willing to forgive but decides to ask for their help, and both Flim and Flam agree without hesitation. Soon AJ felt the relief of hope and faith that this will all be over as soon as possible, but still hasn’t found the true antidote to save her grandparents from this vital despair.

15 Trapped

Candy Apples wakes up unconscious, bound and gagged and feels a certain some pony behind her and she is relieve to see her sister Apple Fritter with her safe, but bound and gagged like she is too and tries to wake her up as she surprisingly does and the two gaggle with fear unaware of where they are and what has happened to them. Candy Apples tries to find a way to unbound herself to set herself and Apple Fritter free from there captive positions. The two struggle and find themselves in a tight spot as they look for a sharp object to break the ropes the bounds them together.

Charade tells his goons to keep an eye on the locked closet room with the two guests (Candy Apples and Apple Fritter) and make sure they do not try anything to escape. Charade then reveals he has special plans for the two…very, very special plans. After his conversation with the goons, he receives a message from his partner, Dove about another pony knowing there secret and asks what to do with him (Half Baked Apple). Charade decides to meet up with Dove in order to handle the situation and with his horn, he vanishes to meet up with Dove.

Apple Fritter refers Candy Apples to a sharp broken glass object that’s over in the end of the room wall and the two struggle to get to the sharp material and use it as a knife to break away from the bound ropes. The two struggle together to steadily and easily break piece by piece the tight ropes to un-bound themselves and as they continue to do so, the two begin conversation with each other to keep occupied as they break free from the ropes, dissing each other but soon becoming more supportive and sharing there emotional feelings about there mistakes and mishaps they’ve put themselves into.

As the two sister struggle even more to get out of there tangled situation, in a dome room, Half Baked Apple wakes up and is in a total knockout and complete fear after realizing that he’s not where he thinks he is. Half begins fearing for his life in knowing that he’s trapped and starts screaming for help but with no answers then he goes into a panic fear mode, until suddenly he witnesses some pony coming from out of the shadows and who is it none other than… Dove. Half becomes in total fear in not knowing what to expect from Dove and tries to escape from her clutches but is stopped by her bodyguard goons and Half with no way to escape or leave surrenders as Dove taunts him and makes things clear about what her plans are for him and his entire Apple family.

With a twisted evil smirk look to him, Half looked disgusted and vulnerable that he couldn’t stomach the whole though of her twisted evil ways. As Dove goes to close the door, Half quickly rushes to the door, but Dove slams it shut and locks it with Half in it and Half cannot open it to get out and struggles to find a way out but with no luck, he screams for help, but to no call or answer, any pony reply to him. A helpless trapped Half fears his fate being held in Doves hand wondering what she has planned for him. Dove returns back to Sweet Apple Acres and Applejack crosses her way and the two have a conversation, as she questions where Half Baked Apples is and Dove lies with calmness stating that he’s wondered off somewhere. But Applejack isn't buying it one bit and begins ordering her into questioning her where her cousin is and Braeburn walks in on the two having a confrontation and demands that Applejack, back off and leaves Dove alone, Dove shooting Applejack the evil eye of a warning back at her as Applejack doesn’t fear her one bit and cows to get to the bottom of this whole game between Dove and Charade once and for all. She rushes back into the barn to inform Big Mac and the others on her sources. Applejack and Big Mac set up a plan to trap both Dove and Charade and demand the antidote to be given to them before their grandparents die, but as they plot together they understand the consequences of serious actions to be made in order for their scheme to work out.

16 Fateful Escape

Half Baked Apple ponders in fear and becomes scared about his fate being held by Dove’s hooves as he’s prisoner of her next scheme, and in not allowing himself to be weaken or trapped in his prison, he attempts to find a way to escape in time to warn the others and save himself as well. He even tries to send a paper plane with note calling for help. But around the next hour or so, Dove appears again and shows Half Baked the paper plane he attempted to sour into the sky to get the message spread, in an epic fail. Dove laughs and taunts Half in referring to him as a typical geek stallion and Half feeling useless and vulnerable continues to hear Doves evil plan as she plans on taking care of him personally where he won;t live to say a word about her scheme for the Apple family that she a Charade have in store for them. But Half has enough and sneaky rushes out from behind when Doves back is turned to prevent him from making any attempts to escape and Dove goes hysterical and insane demanding her goons to capture Half immediately. Half Baked runs around trying to find a hiding place so the goons won’t find him, he continues to run around to find a way out, as the goons get tired from finding Half, half finally see’s a light of air and feels the sense of freedom, as he prepares to step into the light of escape he’s purposely knocked from behind by Charade and see’s him while laying unconscious as he and Dove plot to take care of him immediately once and for all.

Half is thrown into an elevator and stands helpless while both Charade and Dove give him a evil look with a last deadly message, in stating that she plans on exterminating his family and himself all in one. Shocked in fear, Half is then ordered at whip point to get into the carriage where they lock the carriage door in preventing him to escape and as he loses hope in being rescued he see’s from behind him that theres a wooden crate box the side that is open, and it doesn’t take a minute for him to realizes that his remains will be their. Charade orders his goon stallions to take him far away with no witnesses. As they ride off to a find a far away abandoned desert they are stopped by Braeburn, and as Half Baked suddenly hears his voice outside, he’s with relief and happiness that he opens the carriage window and yells his name. Suddenly, Braeburn see’s Half Baked and stops the wagon to confronts Charade’s goons in wondering what’s going on and where they are taking Half Baked, one of the goons gives the evil eye look on Half Baked as he is ordered to keep quiet but suddenly reaches his breaking point into getting out of the wagon and telling his cousin that the driver is one of Charade’s goons and they plan on killing him. Braeburn in shock uses his hooves to break open the locked carriage to free his cousin from their clutches and he too witnesses an open twig sizes pine box in knowing what they were planning on doing to him as well, and in anger of rage, Braeburn starts fighting with the goons as one of them knocks him out cold and prepares to finish him off deadly, but thanks to a shocking allies, he annihilates him with a hard rock on his head in knocking out cold in causing him to be dead and as the goons have fallen down, both Braeburn and Half Baked Apple run with the traitor goon far away from the setting and they soon demand who this goon is that helped him. And in a shocked he unveils himself and it’s Full Steam. Half and Brae in relief and happiness in seeing him and tell him thanks for saving them from Charade and Doves goons.

Full Steam tells Half Baked that he was with him during the time both Charade and Dove plotted to kill him in the carriage and reveals that he blended in to inform Braeburn about there plan and about Doves betrayal. Braeburn in sadness and anger is heartbroken and feels foolish that Dove took advantage of him and tried to kill his cousin Half in the process apologizes to Half Baked Apple for his idiotic choice and being a jerk to him, Half Baked accepts his apology and the two hug it out emotionally and after short forgiveness the three plot to find a way to stop the two evil doers deadly plot in exterminating the entire Apple family, but Braeburn reveals that Applejack already knows about the whole game between the two and decides to he, Half Baked and Full Steam head back to Sweet Apple Acres to tell Applejack what they know and learned.

17 Plot Backfires

Liberty Bell feeling much better is sleeping in her hospital bed for the last and final time, as she wakes up with a smile in her face, she’s suddenly startled by the standing sight of Dove, who gives her a dangerous cold stone face look to Liberty Bell. Liberty realizes her memories are back in full circle when she witnesses that Dove has closed the door and begins approaching Liberty as she remains fearful and afraid in her bed. Dove begins taunting and making serious scary threats to her in asking what she knows, Liberty refuses to say a word as she becomes more fearful of her life. Then Dove grabs a pillow from behind and fluffs it up in planning on smothering Liberty as Liberty tries to escape and screams, she struggles to fight off Dove’s strength, until Applejack thankfully arrives and attacks Dove from behind. And in an anger, Dove see’s red and attacks Applejack and the two go at it in a heated bowl in the hospital room. Applejack tells Liberty to run and warn the other Apple family and Dove immediately hits Applejack in the head with a metal pot knocking her out cold. Livid her plan backfires, Dove’s goons arrive and orders them to take Applejack away, she then reveals in an evil smirk, she has a very special plan for Applejack. Applejack unconscious is dragged out cold by the goons and then they disappears without a trace.

Liberty runs out of the hospital to get to Sweet Apple Acres to inform the others about Dove and what she has done with Applejack. Big Mac starts to fear that her sisters in grave danger and decides to immediately allow Hayseed and Apple Split to watch over the others while he finds a way to save his sister from Dove’s clutches. Liberty Bell with all her courage started to reveal to the entire Apple family that both Charade and Dove poisoned the entire farm of Sweet Apple Acres and that they plan on taking over as a factory company for bits profits. Every Apple member showed there disgust and outrage over the twos evil deeds and vowed to save the land from their dark destructive twist of fate by cutting down all the Apple trees and planting brand new ones with Zapp Apples in order to save their grandparents and save Equestria as well. Liberty also reveals to the family that Charade mentioned about having a grudge against Applejack but to no avail reason was he able to explain his motives. Apple Dumpling makes a serious shout stating that we must stop them and save Sweet Apple Acres this instant before the entire farmland goes dark and toxic.

Film and Flam show up and as the Apple family look at them with guilt and vengeance they explained that they did not know about the personal agenda between Charade and Applejack, in fact they reveal that the two were only told to spread the toxin and they deeply apologize for it, but in some hopeful way they reveal hope that they can help out with saving Sweet Apple Acres from despair and forsaken doomed place.

18 Suffocated Dream

Applejack wakes up but realizes that she’s trapped laying down and realizes that she’s boxed inside a wooden crate and feels totally weaken that she cannot fight to get herself out quickly. She then screams for help but no one hears her as she’s locked inside a storage room of nowhere, also she realizes that either Dove or Charade gave her an oozy dose of sleeping gas to put her energy to be weaken and distraught. Applejack in tears cries to a savior to come and help her but soon the dose starts to grow stronger and she falls completely weak and faints until she’s silently sleeping. As the storage room grows even darker and quieter, Applejack falls asleep and starts to hear voices in her head.

Applejack wakes up in a dream and see’s a destructive place in Equestria that bares a resemblance to her, at first she feels disconnected with the place but as soon as she does, she hears the same voice calling her and turns around and see’s a pony standing behind her in the shadows and it’s Granny Smith. She appears to Applejack in her mind and dream and reveals to her that this is the future of Sweet Apple Acres and see’s the total forsaken hopes of the home that was once a beautiful farmland of dreams and delicious foods. Applejack see’s a total blindside of her blaming herself for this but Granny Smith calms her down in revealing that this will not ever be your fault because she’s stronger than she can even imagine and believes in her granddaughter that she can fight against the demons and evil to save her home. Then as Applejack tries to talk to Granny Smith, she disappears.

Then out of nowhere enters Big Mac and asks for her sister’s hooves to show her the trouble that her family with be in under orders and control of Charade and Dove. As she see’s in total sickness and complete disgust, her cousins are being treated as prisoners and poor ponies and stallions with no hope or faith in anything anymore as the toxic sucks the atmosphere of there joy and positiveness away from them making them become gloomy and dark with no emotions. Applejack feels absolutely distraught with no words and is left speechless and lost with words. Big Mac guides her sister with confidence and strength in making her realize that she may not win this battle alone, but guarantees her little sister that he and the other Apples with fight with her all the way to the end to stop and prevent this future from ever happening. A teary Applejack starts to feel her strength grow back again and vows for her brother, her sister Applebloom and the rest of there family that she will believe and come out strong again.

Applejack wakes up with the feeling and energy back in her soul again and begins to struggle in getting out of the crate but doesn’t give up and begins to hoover punk the crate and it finally budges and breaks apart and Applejack shouts in cowgirl victory and triumph of being free and vowing to take care of some business. She rushes out of the storage house and rushes back over to Sweet Apple Acres as soon as she can to find Big Mac and team up to stop this toxic nightmare.

19 Two to Handle

After Candy Apples and Apple Fritter break free of their gagged ropes they figure out a way to get out of this closet room. But before they can even begin to plan, enters Charade and with a whip in plotting to torture and taunt the two sisters. With the evil look Candy and Fritter realize that Charade has a sick twisted mind in his brain with the whip on his hooves and that he plans to make the two beg for mercy in showing respect and deal to give up their home to him. But Candy Apples without any words viciously spits out red mist on Charade’s face and plots in telling her sister to escape as she can. Fritter tries to escape but Charade grabs her hooves and they struggle, Charade grabs the whip but Candy Apples kicks it away from him and loses they weapon. They Charade pushes Fritter to the wall in knocking her unconscious and then Charade and Candy Apples toggle in a war and Candy hoover slaps Charade in trying to grab an unconscious Apple Fritter and leaving the closet room. She also grabbed the whip for protection. As Apple Fritter wakes up the two try to run as quick as they can to find a place to hide. They run down into the basement where they realizes there’s no way out and shocking from behind Charade enters with an evil deadly look.

The two sisters look in scared fear and cornered like trapped mice as Charade decides to not even waste his breath on them he takes the whip but Candy Apples struggles to get it back from him, but his strength makes her completely weak as he pushes her back into the corner and cracks the whip on a pipe that lets out a gas leak. Both Fritter and Candy look in shock and as Charade closes the door in locking it, Candy tries to rush to get it open but is too late and the sisters try to find a way out but there’s no where else to turn to. Charade laughs evilly in hoping the two sisters enjoy their last time together forever and walks up out of the basement.

Candy Apples and Apple Fritter struggles to find a way to stop the gas leak, but they soon fall weaken into the gas smell and begin to fall asleep, but Candy Apples fights back as hard as she can and see’s a tiny shed of light from the broken basement wall and begins to bang it off with her hooves to break it apart. Just as she’s near the destined escape, Apple Fritter faints and falls asleep from the gas leak. Candy Apples see’s her sister falling down and she tries to wake her up but can’t as she tries to find a mass to cover her face in not succumbing the gas leak, she continues to break the broken wall and at last is successful when she see’s light and drags her unconscious sister out of the deadly gas leak.

Candy Apple drags her sister far from the abandoned house and takes her to a shade area with clear air and oxygen. She stands a side by her sister and tries to wake her up but with no response. Then Candy Apple begins to cry in blaming herself for bringing Charade into their families lives, but as she continues to cry, Apple Fritter finally begins to wake up and comforts her sister in stating tis not her fault at all. She was used by a jerk that took advantage of her bravery and kindness for greed. Candy Apple and Apple Fritter giggled with gracefulness and both showing joyful smiles at each other and hugged each other. Then Apple Fritter suggest that they should get back to Sweet Apple Acres to check on the others. The two immediately rush back to Sweet Apple Acres to warn the others about Charade’s evil twisted plot.

20 Vengeance

Back at Sweet Apple Acres, the family gather together as they plant out Apple seeds in each and every empty wasteland in the field in order for the Apple trees to grow with the Zap Apples as quickly as possible. Following there mission, Apple Dumpling fears for her kins and confides in Apple Leaves about the worrying about them including Candy Apples and Half Baked Apple. Apple Leaves lets Dumpling know that she finds that Charade is very strange when it comes to blending in on the Apple family and they both agree that they believe that Charade has something to do with this catastrophe in which they all are fixing to save Sweet Apple Acres. The two then decide to let some of the family members know about Charade.

Charade and Dove arrive back at Sweet Apple Acres and both are in furious rage over their plans being backfired and sabotage by some of the Apple members. Charade learns that the entire land with the toxic trees have been cut down and the entire Apple family are planting new healthy trees with some including Zap Apples to save the home and save their grandparents. Charade deices that the staging is over and vows revenge, Dove agrees to team along with they but is asked by Charade to do one more favor, to find Flim and Flam so that they all can complete the final stage and revenge plot that was destroyed by the entire Apple family.

Dove looks for Flim and Flam quietly and finds them inside the barn and confront them on how they both could betray her and Charade. As she argues with the two sneaky duels, Braeburn comes out of the shadow and confronts Dove. Dove in a shocked cold busted face look form, shows shock and outrage over Braeburns livid behavior and Braeburn goes in more on how she dare tried to kill his cousin, Half Baked and Liberty Bell to keep her secret quiet. With the boiling point, Dove tries to hooves slap Braeburn but fails as Braeuburn vows to make her pay. Suddenly, Flim and Flam knock Braeburn out with a cow bell and leave him in the barn unconscious bound and gagged as the two along with dove escape from the barn. Suddenly, Big Mac sees Dove leaving with Flim and Flam and goes to the barn and see’s Braeburn tied up and tells him to stop the three immediately. Braeburn chases them outside Sweet Apple Acres where he’s ambushed and attacked by Charade. The two get into a physical toggle fight and a hoover knockdown until, Braeburn teams in to stop Charade from almost killing Big Mac. Dove sneaks from behind and attacks Braeburn, but surprisingly is pulled off by Apple Dumpling as she drags Dove from her mane away from Braeburn. Then Charade pulls out a crack whip and tries to attack Big Mac with it but fails when Braeburn tackles him down.

As the fight continues, Applejack arrives just in time to save her brother and cousin from both Charade and Dove. Applejack grabbed the cracked whip and started cracking on Charade and saving Big Mac from being attacked. Dove then hits Applejack and grabs the crack whip and tries to hit Applejack with it several times but misses until Braeburn grabs Dove from behind and forces her to drop the whip. She does and suddenly tussles from his vicious grab and punches Braeburn in the face and escapes with a brutally wounded Charade as Flim and Flam carry him out of the woods into the Everfree Forest.

Applejack checks on Braeburn as he admits, he’s OK and kinda feels good that Dove punches him in knowing what a true canning manipulating pony she truly is. Big Mac tells Applejack about what Dove planned to do and revealed of Flim and Flam’s ultimate betrayal and turn coat actions. Applejack soon learns that every Apple family members have planted the entire acres with Apple seeds in order to have them grow fresh and healthy with the Zap Apples. But Applejack realizes that they don;t have enough time, and decides to go call on Rainbow Dash to see if she can send the weather ponies to help bring rain into the acres for an immediate grow. As far as Charade and his gang goes, Applejack decides to settle the score with them once and for all. And so she plans to go to Everfree Forest to confront and put n ending to their ongoing spread of toxic chaos. But she learns she might not do it alone as Big Mac and Braeburn decide to tag along to help Applejack stop Charade’s madness once and for all.

21 End of the Line

At the Everfree Forest, an argument ensues between Dove and Charade and the two’s voices become raw and emotional over their failed plot being exposed. Dove demands that Charade gives her he rest of the toxic vial that he spreader in Sweet Apple Acres but he admits that he no longer has anymore and that it was all used on the other trees before the Apple family cut them off there fields. Dove begins to become livid and explodes on Charade but both Flim and Flam pull Dove off from losing her mind. Charade then tells the two to get Dove out of his sight for good and Dove breaking free from both Flim and Flam’s control deices to leave by herself but then decides to leave a short message to Charade that he better watch out because he’s now on his own. Dove also claims she’ll handle her rivals her own way instead.

Charade looks back at Dove as she leaves and tries to throw a wasted apple on her but Dove laughs at him in response to the throw and making fun of him, causing Charade to be even more anger and vows to get revenge on Applejack.

22 Grow Together

After getting help from Rainbow Dash about re-growing Sweet Apple Acres many of the weather patrol ponies decide to team up to help re-grow Sweet Apple Acres by sending in many gray clouds over the land and raining them in ever form as the Apple family enter into the barn house to wait for results for at least until the next day tomorrow for the apples to grow along with some of the Zapp Apples to grow as well. The Apple family all gather together in the barn house and enjoy the relief that there’s hope for Sweet Apple Acres into becoming a newer land of fresh apples and a healthier environment.

Candy Apples sees Half Baked Apple and is in shocked of happiness the two begin to hug as they both reveal on who and what Dove and Charade really are and what they’ve done to them both. In the process of their reunion, Apple Dumpling rejoices her young kins by letting them know that everything will be taken care of but Half Baked wonders where Braeburn is and Gingerbread tells him privately in the corner that he went with Big Mac and Applejack to confront both Charade and Dove. Apple Fritter talks to Liberty Bell and makes sure that she’s ok. Bell admits that she was at first scared that Dove would plan to shut her up for good in order for their plot to work but it failed and she began to feel even more brave when she revealed the truth about them and Fritter assured Bell that ever member of the Apple Family was indeed proud of her bravery of not fallen weak into Dove’s gravely plot of silence.

Apple Split talks to Candy Apples privately and before he could even get a word out, Candy Apples talks to him and starts apologizing for her behavior and for defending Charade to the entire family especially to her big brother, Half Baked. Split doesn’t care about the apology and understand that Candy Apple was being used like Braeburn was used by Dove and he declares that he loves his cousin unconditionally no matter what circumstances or the situation is all about and the two hug out there forgiveness and Candy Apples pauses in questioning that what if Dove was really no on Charade’s side after all and was trying to get the full shares of taking over Sweet Apple Acres, Split then realizes that it’s possible that there was no team between the two and that both of them were there own worst enemies. Then Split informs her that Braeburn and Applejack went to find the two and confront them and put an end to their madness, Candy Apples wants to go and help but Split doesn't want Candy to be harmed anymore than she and Fritter nearly were. Candy makes herself clear to Split that she’e no one’s victim and wants to help, Split seeing a bravery side to Candy retracts his behavior and decides to let her go but only if he teams up to help her out and with a smile of relief, Candy agrees and the two leave the barn house after the rain clears.

Apple Leaves and Apple Dumpling fear that this situation is not even over yet and they plan on making sure that Flim and Flam do not go anywhere near Sweet Apple Acres again in order to protect the family and to save their parents as well. They then turn to Hayseed Turnip and ask if he could help them out with their special project into protecting Sweet Apple Acres, and hayseed with no hesitation agreed to they’re plot.

As the family began their conversations and reuniting even more stronger, the trees began their process of growing and it looks like a new leaf is ready to be born.

Author's Note

Although Rainbow Dash is mentioned, she's not seen and is considered in the background for emotional cause with this story.

23 TIMBERWOLVES!

The search for their enemies begin as Applejack, Braeburn and Big Mac enter the Everfree Forest searching and preparing to go to war. Applejack suggest they split up in order to not be ambush or attack by any setup from Charade and his team. So all three split up into finding one of them in knowing they have a backup plan in order to avenge their failed plot in taking over Sweet Apple Acres.

Braeburn walks around to continues as he promise to help stop Charade and Dove but suddenly becomes a little bit afraid and starts to talk to himself in order to keep himself calm and confident that he will not allow anything or any pony to scare him away from his focus on accomplishing his deeds to help out. Suddenly as Braeburn is over his fear, he’s ambush and attacked from behind by Dove. Dove walks over an unconscious Braeburn and reveals a special plan for him personally. Big Mac walks around the other side of Everfree Forest and is cornered by Flim and Flam and Big Mac see’s red in his eyes when looking at the two sneaky duels taunting him and charges over to attack them both. Film and Flam run for their lives as Big Mac charges for them and suddenly as the chase continues a bright light of eyes emerge from the dark bushes of the forest.

Later, Applejack wonders into the main path of the Everfree Forest and begins feeling a bit scared as she continues to walk and has flashback of the recent sickening events that lead to the toxic spread and how Granny Smith fell to her illness. Applejack feels the fear but learns she cannot back down for no circumstances then some pony sneaks up behind Applejack and she begins to scream loud and is calmed down when the pony in the cloak hood is Zecora. Applejack with relief calms down and takes deep breathe and is grateful to see her and reveals to Zecora that the family is back at Sweet Apple Acres regrowing the farm plantation in order for the new trees with apples and the zap apples to emerge. Zecora however has other news to tell Applejack, Charade invaded her home and had her locked out while she went to get a few things from Ponyville, and Applejack with a vengeful look realizes that this is her big chance to get revenge on Charade for the pain and chaos he has caused on her entire family. AJ and Zecora decide to head over to Decor’s home immediately to stop Charade.

Braeburn wakes up all bound and unconscious as Dove stands in front of him and looks at him with an dangerous allure scene that makes Braeburn betrayed and uncomfortable. Dove taunts Braeburn by calling him a fool and an idiot for letting his entire family be around her and Braeburn retaliates back at her comments and taunts by saying that she was a complete waste of a loving character to even be considered trustworthy to be involved with him or his family and friends. Braeburn goes on by calling Dove delusional and a nuisance and Dove loses her patients and confidence and begins wanting to hit Braeburn but she haunts when she see’s Flim and Flam running from Big Mac and they charge to Dove and she pulls out twig branch in hitting Big Mac as he falls unconscious infant of Braeburn and Dove begins using the twig from her mouth in order to finish off Big Mac and Braeburn yells for for Mac to get up but is unconscious to reply and as Dove, Flim and Flam stand over a lifeless Big Mac and prepare to attack him, a awful odor smell lingers to their nose and they begin losing focus on concentrating on annihilating Big Mac, but the three get a shocking look from behind when they see a big hugh wooden creature with a roar of it’s bad breath smell, and it takes no second to know that it’s indeed a Timberwolf.

Dove looking in fear orders Flim and Flam to take care of the Timberwolf and they take a big branch and the two along with Dove begins to swing at the Timberwolf order to destroy it from attacking them with their force of strange in carrying the big three branches. Braeburn calls out for Big Mac to wake up and finally Big Mac response and get’s his energy back as Braeburn asks for him to untie him from the branch trees and Mac releases him as the two begin to sneak up from behind on Dove, Flim and Flam and as the two get the upper hooves on Flim and Flam by tying they up, Dove sneaks away and tries to escape but Braeburn chases her to block her from escaping away and Dove dares him to attack her, but Big Mac immediately replies back for Braeburn not to listen to her and suddenly flying pieces of branches begin surfacing around the area and they split up into threes and the dark magic of the Timberwolf emerges again this time with backup of two more and they become vicious and mad. Flam and Flam start growing scared and immediately break from their bound and run for the hills away from Everfree Forest. Dove livid of the two’s betrayal for leaving her then tries to use Braeburn as a shield to have the Timberwolves go after him but Big Mac distracts them by having them chase him instead, as they do, Dove tries to hit Braeburn with a branch but Braeburn with all his force and power removers over on Dove and tossed her over the top from him and she flies all the way up into hitting on the Timberwolves as Big Mac runs and the branches break into pieces and Dove is unresponsive and Big Mac leaves away from her and the shattered branches. Mac and Braeburn check each other to see if their okay and they get a surprise ally from Candy Apples and Apple Split as they check on them to see if their okay and the four see Dove left unconscious and they leave her alone as if she’s dead. Knowing how evil and crazy Dove is, they leave the half side of the forest.

Just after they all disappear Dove wakes up and more branches begin surrounding her and the Timberwolf grows even bigger than ever and Dove in shock goes in complete panic mode and runs for her life and the giant Timberwolf chases her al the way to the abyss of the forest never to be seen again.

25 Endgame

At Zecora’s hut, Zecora is startled by a sudden shadow appearance on her doorstep as it appears to be Charade with a raging eyes of revenge as he puts the pieces together knowing that Zecora gave Applejack the key antidote task to save her home Sweet Apple Acres, he then see’s a deadly intention in trying to eliminate Zecroa but Zecora standing on her own hooves in the ground not fearing anything that Charade has to let out and lash into in her hut makes it be known that she’s not intimidated by his presence of his twisted behavior or his evil rage of anger. But Charade makes it be known that he plans on making her and Applejack pay for ruin his plans to takeover Sweet Apple Acres as a money making factory monopoly in Ponyville. Zecora begins to have a deeper though on Charade and ponders the question on what it is that he has against Applejack and why he wants her to suffer. Charade begins to tell the truth about his agenda against Applejack.

Apparently, Charade reveals that Applejack was the young filly girl that was so worth on her life into being devoted into loving her family and being the honest pony ever, but when he was nearly two years older than Applejack, she called him out for scheming with his family on trying to make her family go out of business in Sweet Apple Acres by trying to add some poison into one of their batch of apple treats during a Gala special’s event that almost caused the Apple family to loose their home and Applejack was blackmailed by Charade to keep quiet on seeing Charade add the poison to try to harm other ponies into being sick, but she refused as she called out Charade and his father for being sneaky, manipulative and calculating in trying to grab attention and create a dangerous cartel on the Sweet Apple Acres home. Charade also reveals that he will never ever allow Applejack to get over on him again and vows to make her suffer by harming her home once again and going after most of there family.

Zecora with a look of shame and disgrace looking down on Charade feeling very sorry for him for becoming very angry and totally depressed in being obsessed with revenge on Applejack about a past situation that she did was right in saving all the other ponies and her family as well from being the brunt of all blames at the Gala event when they were fillies. Charade then comes closer in trying to make Zecora be more fearful but yet again with bravery and bold stance, Zecora doesn’t budge one bit as she dares him to do whatever he thinks he will do to make her feel weak, Charade with anger begins in wanting to attack her but his stopped with a yelling voice by the doorsteps of the hut as he turns around, he see’s Applejack standing with anger and revenge looking at Charade as his target. Charade with an evil smirk looking at Applejack as she’s going to be his first prey to hunt off as he plans on defeating and destroying her once and for all.

Applejack makes her statement and taunts Charade as being a big little filly for wanting more attention in the past and being jealous of Applejack’s honesty and respect for her family and friends, as Charade begins to blow a hot smoke as a kettle and begins to spear at Applejack the two come to a huge blow of a fight that soon gets dangerously deadly.

26 The Final Showdown

Braeburn and Big Mac both rushed together to find Applejack in her timing need but then stumbled upon a vicious scuffle between both her and Charade as the fight began to become more brutal and dangerous, Zecora rushed back to her hut to give something to Big Mac in order to save her sister from Charade’s clutches. She hands Big Mac a secret dust poison that resembles a creation of best and monsters, where Mac begins to become confused but then suddenly fears in knowing what must be created, a timber wolf. The fight between Applejack and Charade continues on as she becomes weaken from Charade’s vicious evil strength and Braeburn jumps in to stop Charade from finishing off his cousin. Charade manages to fight back against Braeburn and begins to use a lethal leather strap to choke Braeburn to a near suffocation, Applejack wakes up and see’s Braeburn being strangled and rushes immediately to save her cousin by hitting Charade with a tree branch knocking him unconscious. Braeburn thanks his cousin for the help but their suddenly being jumped by Charade as he tackles both of them down and plans on cutting them to pieces with a deadly sword branch that it lethal enough to cut a meet, both Applejack and Braeburn struggle to get out of Charade’s clutches but failed in becoming helplessly weak and out of energy.

Big Mac arrives and immediately lets out the dust potion that lingers into the forrest and Charade begins to stop his attempt into murdering Braeburn and Applejack and witnesses the dust collaborating many broken branches and logs into creating a mighty powerful timber wolf as Charade begins to get scared he fights the timber wolf with the lethal branch sword and breaks off most of his branches and the wolf begins to fall apart with his branch pieces as Charade chuckles on with an evil smirk look as he plans to back after Braeburn to finish the job, Applejack haunts him and gives her all energy into fighting Charade as he uses the sword to battle and fight AJ to last limit. Surprisingly enough, Applejack restores her strength and becomes unstoppable when he outwits Charade in his every skill chance to destroy her with the sword and as he falls tired and worn out from trying to defeat AJ, she charges at him and Charade drop the sword branch as it breaks into pieces and Applejack taunts at Charade with victory in knowing she’s defeated him, but Charade pushes her off him and begins to run for his life and as Applejack and Charade run as far as they can in a cat and mouse chase Charade trips on a rock and get knocked out. Then the potion dust that Big mac let loose begins to wander again surrounding Charade and as Applejack pauses from running and steps back a two, she see’s the dust circling around and collecting the broken branches again and this time creates three dangerous timber wolf monsters and Charade become hysterical and scared as he escapes the wrath of the timberwolves angered rage into eating him and he runs in each corner but with no where to hide, he runs for his entire life, Applejack looking in fear hiding in the shadows, see’s Charade being scared and running for his life as he heads far to the Everfree Forest and disappears into the mist of abyss with the timberwolves never to be seen again.

Applejack feeling relieved that Charade is gone from her and her entire families life, takes deep breath and leaves with relief. She then heads back to Decor’s hut where Braeburn is nurtured in good shape and Big Mac with happy relief that his sister is safe and sound and they all thank Zecora too for her help into stopping Charade and Dove’s evil twisted reign of terror as they are relieved that it’s finally over. Braeburn reveals to Zecora that the farm is growing back to normal again and with the Zapp Apples growing with the apple trees they can cure their grandparents from the quarantined virus spread.

As Big Mac and Braeburn rush to leave Everfree Forest and back to Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack thanks Zecora deeply for her help and support into saving her family and stopping Charade and Dove. Zecora with a humble approach towards AJ wishes her well and to take care, and Applejack before leaving gives Zecora a great big hug with love in saving her and her family, Zecora admits in feeling uncomfortable with her strength feels rewarded none the less and Applejack leaves Everfree Forest to head back to save her grandmother.

Author's Note

This is the last chapter to feature both Charade and Dove.

27 Zap to Normal

A new day has approach and the entire Apple family surround their parents/grandparents in waiting for the results of their cure with the Zap Apple. The nurses give out a spoon full of zap apple jam to feed to the grandparents and parents of the many Apple families. The results take about an hour and a half but in good fair surprise, the zap apple sure does the trick and becomes the #1 antidote that cures all the quarantined apple family members. Applejack and Big Mac surrounds Granny Smith in awaiting for her response to the zap apple cure, and Granny Smith wakes up in full color and with the regular behavior attitude, Applejack and Big Mac shout with exciting relief in happiness that Granny Smith is back to normal again. Granny then gets a hug from both Applejack and Big Mac in blessed relief that she’s safe and back to normal.

Granny Rose is awaken back to normal as well with Half Baked Apple by her side and he’s with tears of happiness in relief and glad that his grandmother is alive and back to normal, he gives her a big hug with relief and blessed joy that Rose is out of the toxin virus spread as well. Apple Strudel wakes up as well with Hayseed Turnip on his side and receives a hug and Granny Applesauce awakes with Apple Leaves by her side and happy that she’s back to her old yet insecure beauty self again. The whole entire Apple family celebrates the joy of their grandparents coming out of their quarantine stage and all dance and cheers in the hospital with Applejack announcing the entire family to return back to Sweet Apple Acres for a real gathering event special.

28 An Apple Gathering Celebration

With the excellent health of the grandparents and grand aunts and uncles of the Apple Family, every pony returned back to Sweet Apple Acres for a redo celebration gathering of the Apple Family Gathering event special with the provider of zap apple jam as a special recipe treat for being the savior and antidote to break free of their quarantined scenario drama that almost left the farm land to be exterminated by Charade and Dove. The entire Apple Family danced, eat, talked, laughed and played various games that made this gathering a very special event to remember.

Big Mac talked with Hayseed Turniptruck in thanking him for all his help in keeping the family together and being the main guard in protecting the Apple family from being saved away from the dark evil duos clutches. Turpin gives Mac a big hug of love and laugh at each other with joy and happiness and they continued to enjoy the festivities in Sweet Apple Acres.

Half Baked Apple turns to Braeburn and gives him an emotional thanks for being their for him and saving him from Dove’s clutches after being kidnapped and almost killed by her, Braeburn does a little show off in being too cocky, but he then has a change of heart and becomes emotional as well as saying he would not want anything to happen to his favorite cousin and is happy that he’s safe and okay and thanks him too for helping him out in being protective towards Liberty Bell, the two hug each other and continue to have fun with each other.

Candy Apples and Apple Fritter have a private conversation moment outside of Sweet Apple Acres and share their true honest feelings in thanking each other for being there for each other and saving there lives from Charade’s evil clutches, then they become very stubborn with their jokes in making it seem, Candy was dumb for bringing Charade around but to no avail in Fritters true heart she doesn’t blame her sister for any harm or chaos that was done on most of the Apple family members. Candy becomes teary as well as Fritter and the two give an emotional hug of compassion and healing and head back to Sweet Apple Acres for the dance off special.

Apple Split announces a special dance off special where Granny Smith, Apple Strudels, Apple Cinnamon, Apple Bottoms, Half Baked Apple, Apple Cinnamon, Apple Brown Betty and Candy Apples all join for a big dancing spectacular round off. As the music plays most of the dancers show off their skills and eloquent dance skills including Half Baked being more handsome and a gentle stallion dancing with Apple Cinnamon and being more charming than ever that makes his mother, Apple Dumpling blush with grace and proudness of his son. Candy Apples and Apple Split dance together and as they continue dancing, Split tells Candy that he’s happy she’s okay and everything is back to normal and Candy gives him an apology and a thanks for keeping an eye on her knowing how dangerous Charade really was, but Split does;t want the apology and is okay that every pony is safe and that Candy is especially doing better and more vibrant in this dance. The main focus on the dance is then focus on Granny Smith and Apple Strudel as they make a big impact on the dance floor and every pony cheers on their style and skills that they offer to the Apple family. Strudel and Smith show their passion and desire for one another making them become so intrigue many of the Apple family members look on with adore and happiness.

Applejack looking at the family with grace and becoming emotional with teary eyes of happiness then gathers the Apple family together for a special announcement. She then stands in the middle of the circle surrounded by her family speaking how happy and blessed she was to have the whole family together and reveals how grateful she is to have the honor of presenting this gathering special for the entire family, before the family could cheer Liberty Bell makes a small announcement giving to her cousin AJ a big warm thanks for saving her and the entire family from danger and that this event was all meant to be giving for her, in the end Applejack hugs Liberty Bell and the family makes there cheers to each other and celebrate until sunset approaches and the fun is finally over.

The many cousins prepare to leave Sweet Apple Acres to head on back home and travel elsewhere as they clean and pack up.

1 Preparing for the Apple Family Gathering

Applejack, Big Mac and Granny Smith are setting up invitations for all the Apple Family members to return back to Sweet Apple Acres for another traditional event of the Apple Family Reunion special. Applejack is very excited although yet very sad that Applebloom will not be involved in this event, since she and the other members of the Cutie Mark Crusaders have ventured off on a treasure hunt with safety guardians helping them out. Granny Smith is sure that Applebloom is safe along with the fact that Babs Seed has joined the Cutie Marks in their treasure hunt adventure trip. Big Mac sets up the invitations in order and it goes out to all the Apple family around Equestria.

2 Trust Issues

Somewhere in the deep west side, Candy Apples and Apple Bottom are having a disagreement over Candy Apples new friend, she tells her cousin that he’s a very nice elegant stallion, but Bottom has a big problem with the young stallion, beginning to questioning his appearances and his lifestyle. Not being able to get much except for his name is ‘Charade’. Candy refuses to listen to any of Bottom nonsense and turns to help out with Charade’s preparation on his presentation on the economic money project for Equestria. After the presentation becomes a successful work, Candy Apples and Apple Bottoms settle their difference and suddenly were handed special letters from Applejack about another Apple Family Reunion event coming. Candy excited with cheers was willing to go to the event, but with one occasion, she wanted to bring Charade to the event as well. Apple Bottom at first planned to say ‘no’ but instead of fighting his cousin that he loves so much, he agrees by saying ‘yes’, which saves Candy Apples from expecting an argument all over again. Apple Bottom, though had serious doubts over Charade and decide to keep his eyes on him to see which bad move he would make to expose himself in front of Candy Apples.

3 Orchard Problems

Apple Dumpling has experience financial problems that causes her to lose interest in running her restaurant and worries Half Baked Apple. Apple Fritter asked her mother what was wrong, as she becomes tired and stressed out, Half Baked explains what’s going on and decides to leave in order for Apple Dumpling to figure out what her next move will be. Bushel asks Half Baked Apple to find Braeburn as he’s late to do his work in helping out with the garden. He returns to Braeburn’s shacks in which he lives their too and asks for Braeburn to help out Half Baked’s father, Bushel with the work in the garden. Braeburn becomes distracted after receiving invitation letters from Applejack for another Apple Family Reunion event. Half Baked becomes excited but questions if Gingerbread will be there as well. Braeburn shows his envy side once Half Baked mentions about Gingerbread being there. Braeburn then wonders what’s wrong with Half Baked as he explains what’s going on with his family’s problems to his cousin. Braeburn makes it clear that he’ll help out in any ways necessary as possible. Half Baked shows sign of relieve in his emotions hearing Braeburn’s words of promise, but now Braeburn must help out Bushel.

14 Kidnapped

Liberty Bell starts to regain her memory back while she’s sleeping and remembers a moment between Charade and Dove and how they interacted secretly and dirty. Just as Liberty regains her memories, Half Baked walks in and quietly lets Liberty sleep, but just as soon as Liberty wakes up, she see’s Half Baked and begins to tell him on what she remembers in regaining her memory back. Half becomes adamant in hearing on what Liberty has to say. When she reveals that she saw Charade and Dove together plotting something, the rest of her memory is vague and Half begins to privately in his head put the pieces of the puzzle together and hints that both Dove and Charade are responsible for the toxic apple spread in Sweet Apple Acres. Liberty becomes exhausted from regaining her memories and Half Baked suggest to her to get some rest and calm down, he talks to Applejack. And afterwards, the two vow to make sure that Liberty is safe.

Half Baked Apple tries to look for Braeburn but suddenly he realize that he’s being stalked by some pony and is unaware of there motives and soon begins to fear that some pony was after him. Surprisingly, they were and Half Baked runs for his life and tries to find a quit hiding place to ditch the stalkers. In the neck of time as he feels that he’s safe, a shadow of some pony from behind traps Half Baked and chloroforms him to be put to sleep, and that some pony was none other than… Dove! The ponies were one of Doves bench-ponies and as she stands on Half’s helpless body, she gives the order to take him away but be gentle of Half Baked because she has some special plans for him to keep him from knowing or revealing anything to the Apple family or to Braeburn.

Just as the bench-ponies leave no trace in sight, Applejack looks around for Half Baked Apple and has a sudden fear of his disappearance from the hospital when she finds his hat, then Braeburn comes and also is looking for Half as well, but also is curious of where Dove’s whereabouts are too. Applejack questions Braeburn about his new friend, Dove, but Braeburn refuses to listen of any of her accusations and leaves with anger and a snort of heated rage. Applejack suddenly stops him from leaving with an attitude and demands him to listen. Braeburn dropped the attitude and listen to Applejack as she makes Braeburn put the pieces of the puzzle together when it comes to Dove and her relations in Sweet Apple Acres. Brae originally fears that she and Half Baked are getting closer more than friends, but AJ does’n’t even believe that for a second and fears that Dove may have done something dangerous with their cousin Half Baked and want to go and look for him. Braeburn agrees and starts to learn of having second thoughts when it comes to Dove. The two leave and split up around Equestria to find Half Baked, while Applejack also decides to meet up with a special some pony that can help her get the antidote to stop this nightmare toxic spread.

24 Team Players

As Flim and Flam escape from the Everfree Forest they are being fault in the way by Apple Dumpling and Apple Leaves. The two look at the traitors as a target for their prey to feast in and Flim and Flam with no other ideas into bribing themselves back into Sweet Apple Acres turned to ultimate ambush plot in trying to attack both Dumpling and Leaves, but the two strong mothers were stronger than the sneaky duos even expected when they defeated them in knocking them out unconscious and tying them both up in bound on the tree leaving them knocked out unconscious and dazed from their fight with the two Apples.

Full Steam checks on his best friend Half Baked Apple as he’s conversation with Gingerbread about the chaos going on around the Apple family in understanding that he’s recovering from being shocked by his kidnapping from Dove, he admits he was so happy to see Full Steam and Braeburn come to his rescue in preventing them in trying to eliminate him from knowing their secrets. Half Baked tells Gingerbread that this home would’ve been quarantined and destroyed if the whole family had not helped out and thankfully they did and as a result of their effort in saving Sweet Apple Acres, the tress begin to magically grow each in different areas surrounding the farmland. Gingerbread begins to have worried feelings about Applejack and Braeburn as their still in Everfree Forest ready to end Charade and Doves evil reign of terror. Apple Fritter calms her cousin down and soon realizes that her sister Candy Apples is missing and begins to fear that she may have gone to Everfree Forest to help out her cousins in their desperate need of support and backup. Hayseed also realizes that Apple Split is missing as well and believes the two went to the forest, and has the urge to go after them, but Apple Fritter stops him and talks him out into getting lost into the dark forest and calms him down into having faith and trust that the others will come home safe and sound, as she’s is doing indeed since her sister Candy Apples saved her and herself from the clutches of their tourtured captive scenario by Charade.

The apple trees begin to grow as fresher than ever and the entire Apple family begin to rejoice with happiness and celebration of the growing victory of the farmland regrowing with a special surprise of Zap Apples. The Zap Apples are mixed in many of the apple trees for a purpose as they are the antidote to save their grandparents from their fatal illness as they are in the hospital waiting for the antidote to be given to them as they feel more weaken from the fatal toxic virus within their body system.

Author's Note

This is the last chapter to ever feature Flim and Flam.

29 A Breathe of Sweet-Fresh Air

After the entire Apple family leaves, Applejack is left all alone as she walks through Sweet Apple Acres looking with calmness and relaxed that she takes a sweet breath of fresh air and looks around the farmland and realizes that she has accomplished what she was meant to do to save her family and has a few flashbacks with her encounter against both Charade and Dove, but in the end she learns that they made her stronger into not letting them beat or get the best of her.

As Applejack becomes relax, she’s caught off guard with a surprise hello from her young sister, Apple Bloom whom returns from her big adventure with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Applejack and Apple Bloom hug each other with laughter as she reveals to her young sister that she has a story to tell her as well and it’s even more exciting than she would even though afterwards, the two head back to the barn house as the sunset begins to fade, Applejack takes a look again at the land again and is happy that everything is back to normal the way it should be and walks back into the barn house as the sun disappears and the beautiful night approaches with stars marking an ending to an extraordinary day of adventures.

Author's Note

The last chapter of the story. Applebloom makes her appearance in this chapter.