I Am Who I Am

by Solarcis

Rating: everyone
Tags: Applejack, Apple Bloom, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Human
Length: 2799

Someone wakes up as a pony already living in Equestria, Apple Bloom. She doesn't recognize anything, and only has her human memories. She tries to find out why this happened while trying to act natural.

A girl somehow switches lives Apple Bloom. She wakes up to find that she's not herself, she's not in her house, and isn't even in her own world. She remembers everything about being a human, but everything Apple Bloom would remember is locked away like amnesia. She now has to fit in with her life while figuring out what happened to make her become whatever she is now.

Published 2015-11-28 04:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-12-20 03:52:51 UTC

Chapter 1: Awaken to Another's Life

I wake up in the morning, yawn, and stretch my limbs in my bed. I look around the room, and something's not right. This isn't my room. I've never seen this room before. Since when did I have a bed this big? Why is the window to my left instead of my right? What's this random heart-shaped wood thing on my wall?

Well I guess I should investigate this then. I start to get out of bed, but something doesn't feel right about me. I look at my hand, and I see nothing but a flat surface on the end of my arm. My arm is very round and doesn't seem to be human at all. Also my arm is covered in bright-yellow fur. I take off my blanket, if it's even mine at all, and look at my legs. They also stop at the ankle. I get out of bed, try to stand, and fall down. I investigate myself some more, and I come to a startling resolution. I'm no longer human. I now walk on 4 legs and have a long, bushy red tail. My hair also appears to the same. I also seem to be wearing a pink bow.

I try to remember what I did last night. I watched some TV, checked some internet sites, did a few other things and went to bed. Nothing special there. By now I am very confused about what's happening. I have no idea where I am. I have no idea what I am, except that I walk on all fours now.

A few minutes later, An orange creature not too unlike my new form opens the door and tells me to come down for breakfast. This creature has a bright tan tail and hair. It also wears a hat. It smiles at me, then leaves. It seemed to have a feminine voice, so maybe it's a female. So breakfast, huh? Well at least someone here seems to be taking care of me. I try to walk on all fours, but I fall after a few steps. This walking on all fours thing is harder than it looks. I get up again, and try to focus on walking as I leave what appears to be my new room. It's actually adequately furnished. I'm still confused about the whole situation, but if looks are to be trusted, I'd say that this orange creature actually cares about my condition.

After I leave the room and go to where I think the orange creature wants me to go, I come across a flight of stairs. Falling down while walking is easy enough, so I better be really careful going down here. I raise one of my front legs, and put it on the first step down. Success! I do it with the other front leg, but halfway to setting it down, my back legs lose their footing and I fall down the whole flight of stairs. After I reach the bottom, I surprisingly feel little pain, as if I were just a child falling down a simple flight of stairs.

"Are you all right?" the orange creature asks me after walking up to me.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Wait a second. I don't have that accent, do I? I don't think I've ever talked like that. It's the same as this orange creature's accent. Well this doesn't help my situation at all.

"So how did ya sleep, Apple Bloom?"

I don't know if that's a name the orange creature gave me, if it's an insult, or something else.

"I think I slept fine."

The orange creature laughs and sits at a table with delicious looking pancakes. I go to the table and sit at an empty area next to a plate with pancakes. There's another creature that's red with orange hair and tail, and another creature that's green with white hair. This one creature appears to be older than the rest. The red creature has a brown thing around its neck, while the green one wears a piece of cloth around its neck. This looks like a family breakfast. What exactly is going on here, I continue to ask myself. After we're all sitting down, we start to have breakfast. Everyone seems to have a nice time talking to each other, but I'm just the one person sitting down listening to everything everyone else says.

"You're really quiet today, Apple Bloom.", the orange one says.

"Oh, uh. I just don't really have anything to say this morning."

They all look at each other, and then just continue eating.

After breakfast is over, the others all go their separate ways, while I just sit there. After a few minutes, the orange one comes back to the kitchen.

"You okay there, sugarcube? You're acting kinda different today."

"Wait what? I've been here before?"

The orange creature stares at me with a frown.

"Well, sure you have. You've lived here your whole life."

Wait what? This... It just... I don't even know. Wait a second. I'm something I have no idea of what I am. This very much seems to be a family. Maybe, just maybe, I'm somehow controlling someone else's life in some alternate universe or something. What should I do? If I tell her that I don't remember this, and I remember my human life before, she might think I'm crazy. Who knows what will happen then. But if I try to play along, maybe things will get better.

"Oh I remember. Sorry for being confusing."

She continues to stare at me with a frown.

"Anyway, you should go do your chores before the day ends." she says while turning around to leave the kitchen.

"Chores?"

"Yeah, you know. Clean your room, wash the pigs, that kind of stuff."

"Oh yeah. Chores. Heh heh."

She looks back for a few seconds, and goes away, shaking her head. Pigs? The only place that I know pigs live are at a farm. I walk around the house for a bit, and decide to go out the front door. Yup. This is totally a farm. Explains the accents we all have, I guess. What exactly do these creatures farm though? I look around, and see nothing but apple trees in the distance at any direction I turn. Must be apple farmers. I need to try to find out what happened to me, but I need to act natural at the same time. Well, I guess this is going to be the start of a long day.

Chapter 2: The Start of a Long Day

So, clean my room and wash the pigs? I really don't feel like doing chores I was given just today and from a family I never knew before, but I have to try to blend in. I don't know the first thing about washing pigs, but I can surely clean my- oh. I must really be a child to have someone tell me to do that.

I walk back into the house, and come across the flight of stairs yet again. I couldn't go down them very easily, but maybe I can go up? First, I look around to see if there's anyone watching me, in case I fall again. That was kind of embarrassing. Nobody is around. I look back at the staircase, and put my front right foot onto the first step, then my other front one onto the second. I think I can do it! I close my eyes, and focus on my legs. I lift my back left leg slowly off the ground. Once I get halfway to the step, I wobble a bit, but then I focus harder and stop wobbling. I continue to place my back leg onto the first step, and I did it! I open my eyes to confirm that I'm actually still standing. Yes, I'm still standing. I focus more on my steps, and slowly walk up the entire staircase without falling.

Once I go to my "room", I see that it's not very dirty. In fact, there's barely anything on the floor. I pick up everything and put each item where I think they should go. It feels awkward picking things up with my mouth, but it's the only way I can think of picking them up. Okay, now that's done. I really don't know how to wash pigs, so I need to see the whole list of chores somehow. Maybe that orange creature can help me once again. Hopefully I can remember her name from the breakfast we had. Applesauce, I think? Last I saw her, she was heading out the front door, so I should look around for her. Well, here goes nothing.

One staircase fall later, I go out the front door and look around the property for this Applesauce. After 15 minutes of exploring and searching, I hear a voice from behind me.

"Apple Bloom. What are you doing just walking around the farm?"

I turn around and see Applesauce talking to me.

"I was looking for you. I just can't really remember what my chores were, so I wondered if you had a list or something like that, so I could see what I'm supposed to do."

"I thought you knew that the chores list is on the fridge. Is something the matter, little sis? You've been acting stranger than a cow jumping over trees."

"Oh it's nothing. I've just had a bad night. Thanks for the reminder."

I start to walk away, and while I do that, I hear Applesauce say something about something being really different about me today. I walk closer to the house and something strikes me suddenly.

"Did she just call me... Sis?"

This is not easy at all. I'm thrown into a world where I have no idea where, what, or who I am, and now people are talking like I'm related to them or something. Well, this adds evidence to my "replacing another person from this world" theory. I just really wish I knew what was going on here.

I go inside and walk to the fridge. On the side, there are many magnets holding a bunch of pictures onto the fridge. One of the magnets is holding a long piece of paper. On it, there are lots of chores, each assigned to a specific person. One is named Big Mac, another Granny Smith, the third is Apple Bloom. Must be me, seeing as everyone has been calling me that. The last person is Applejack. Applejack? Not Applesauce? I guess that's what I get for relying on memory instead of clues. Now I feel stupid. I hope I didn't call her that yet. So I look at my list of chores, and it looks to be shorter than the others. The same with Granny Smith's list.

Water the flowers, wash the pigs. Lots of chores. Yeah I'll do the ones I know how to do and go from there.

15 minutes and lots of chores later, I come to the last 2 chores on the list. Wash the pigs and help Applejack with the apples. While doing outside chores, I saw Applejack kicking some apple trees really hard with her back legs, and all the apples somehow fall into buckets laid around the tree. I don't think I can kick nearly that hard.

After doing all the other chores, washing pigs somehow makes sense. I guess doing all the other chores got me thinking. I go to the pigpen and see a bucket, a faucet, a bar of soap, and a brush. I spend about 10 or 15 minutes washing pigs. I don't think I did very well, but it looks kind of good. I don't think they're exactly clean now, but at least this is over with. Now to do this "Help Applejack" thing. I walk over to the apple orchard, look around for a bit, and see Applejack kicking more trees.

"Oh hi, Apple Bloom. Ready to help me with these trees?"

"Yes Applejack."

"I saved a few trees for you to do. Now get to workin!"

Looking around a bit, I see a bunch of trees with apples still on them and buckets waiting to be filled. After a big gulp, I walk over to one of the trees, face away from it, and try to do the kicking motion Applejack was doing. I miss and kick too high, then fall down. I get back up and try again. I kick in the right direction, but only one apple falls. I give the tree a few more kicks and another one falls.

After a few more tries, I fall down by kicking up too high again. Before I start to get up, I see the legs of Applejack walk in front of me. I look up at her.

"Apple Bloom, tell me what's wrong. Why are you actin' so strange today?"

"It's nothing. I promise!"

"No it's not. I've never seen my little sis acting so strangely in all my years of being with her. Tell me what's wrong."

Should I really tell her? I don't think I should. I'm bad at this blending in thing, and I just wish I could go back home and forget this situation even came up. I look back at the ground.

"If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

"I've seen a lot of things in my life. Try me. See if I believe you."

I close my eyes, let out a sigh, and little tears forms on my eyes.

"I... I uhm... I don't remember anything. And the only things I do remember are from another person from another world. You know how hard it is to one day wake up as someone else and have to try really hard to blend in?"

I look up at Applejack with the tears still in my eyes. She just stares back at me for a few seconds.

"I find that really hard to believe. If you can prove that you really don't remember anything, then I'll help you."

"How do you expect me to prove I'm telling the truth?"

"I'll give you a little test. Come with me."

She takes me to the barn and sits me down near where I washed the pigs. She looks at the bucket, and then the pigs.

"You did a good job cleaning the pigs, although you do usually do better than this. You forgot to clean behind the ears."

She brings me inside the house, takes me to a door, and asks me what's behind it. It looks like it might be a closet. I tell her that I think there are clothes and some simple appliances like a vacuum cleaner behind the door. She opens it and lets me see the inside. It's full of hats and bows. The hats are just like the one Applejack is wearing, and the bows are just like the one I'm wearing. All of it starts to lean outside the closet, so Applejack quickly closes the door. She then takes me outside the house and deep into the apple orchard. We reach a tree house eventually.

"Do you know what this is?"

"It looks like a tree house."

"It's more than just a tree house. It's a clubhouse that I let you use for you and your friends, the Cutie Mark Crusaders."

"The Cutie Mark Crusaders?"

"You made the club about 8 months ago. Come on. Let's go inside and see if any of this jogs your memory."

We walk up the steps, and Applejack opens the door. We both walk inside, and then I look around. There are a few windows, a table, a few boxes, and a lot of decorations. I walk around inside for a bit , and then sit down, close my eyes and lower my head.

"I don't remember."

"Really. You sure you don't remember this at all?"

"I don't remember it."

I look back at Applejack.

"I didn't even know that there was a clubhouse here or that I was part of a group called the Cutie Mark Whatsits. I mean, what's a cutie mark anyway? I never heard of it, and I don't think I ever will figure out what it is on my own."

"So you really don't remember. You dedicated so much time to this club of yours, and you don't even seem to remember it the least bit. You also didn't seem to recognize any of the other things I showed you. Okay. I believe you, but if it turns out this was just a prank or somethin, I'll get Granny Smith to punish you big time for telling such a big lie and convincing me that it was true."