By the Nightly

Pinkie and I left the Everfree after a hour or two only to come into a forest of apple trees. REALLY, there were freaking HUNDREDS of apple trees. Every two meters or so was another one, and it felt like never ended. 'WHO THE HELL NEEDS THIS MANY APPLE TREES!?' I scream mentally.

Then while staring at the apple trees I realized something: I'm hungry. I ran out of food around two days ago and I'm on the brink of passing out from exhaustion since I barely got enough sleep for the entire time I was in the Everfree, so right now I need either coffee or a nice bed to sleep in.

"Miss Pinkie are you hungry ma'am?" I ask hiding the exhaustion in my voice.

"A little, why?"

I pulled out my wand and pointed it at the nearest tree, then two apples floated down in my magical grip. "Because I am too ma'am." I replied to Pinkie, taking a bite out of one of the apples. Pinkie grabbed the other one and ate the entire thing in one bite leaving me with my mouth slightly agape, but I shook it off thinking of Screwball's impossible stunts.

"Impressive ma'am." I say with a slight smile after thinking of Screwball, "I've only met vone other person who could do something like zat."

Pinkie just ignored me and looked at me with eyes that yelled "Can I have more PWWWEEAAASSSEEEEE?". I just sighed and walked up to the nearest apple trees and gave it a kick causing a few apples to fall down onto the ground. "Here'z your secondz if you're still hungry.". She squealed and limped toward the apples as fast as she could and ate about five apples core and all. Then out of bloody nowhere a country voice rings out of the silence.

"Ahlright you varmint. You better hope on paying for thos- Pinkie?" I turn my head to see a girl with a orange t-shirt, dirty jeans, a pair of work boots on her feet, a brown stetson on top of her blode hair that was done up in a pony tail. She was looking at Pinkie with piercing green eyes and freckles under them. Then she turned her gaze to me with a furious expression. 'Oh I'm not liking where this is going.'

"Gutentag ma'am. could you point me in ze direction of Pony-...Vhat are you doing?" Then suddenly at unbelivable speed the girl ran at me, not giving me enough time to draw my spell gun. She delivered a swift kick to my head, sending me into the apple tree Pinkie was next to. "Ow..." my vision was slightly blurred from just ONE kick to the head?! 'I'm getting rusty.'

I got back up,but the girl wasted no time and rushed me again. She extended her left arm and slammed my head against the tree I was next to. 'This is getting tiring.' Once the girl let go I extended my right hand and grabbed her by her throat and lifted her into the air. She beat at my arm trying to get me to loosen my grip on her, but it only made me grip her tighter.

"Vell ma'am I'd say you put up a gut fight, but I didn't even break a sveat." I spoke with a bored expression, staring into her hate-filled eyes. "Shut up you kidnapper." she whispered.

I blinked in confusion from that statement "Vhat?"

"Nightly put her down now!" I turn to face Pinkie and she looked very angry,

"Very vell ma'am." I dropped the girl and listened to her cough and sputter trying to regain her breath while Pinkie glared at me, "You didn't need to take things that far!" I just shrugged.

"And you Applejack," she yelled turning to the girl whose name is apparently Applejack (how poetic), "you attacked him just for feeding me after taking me out of captivativaty! Nightly saved my life from those two kidnappers and he's asking for nothing in return, he's been nothing but nice to me, and on top of ALL THAT he's called me Miss Pinkie the entire time which I'd prefer he'd stop." she finished the last statement turning to me with an annoyed expression.

"Nein." I responded with a blank expression ((que an internal troll-face)).

She let out a huff of frustration, but continued to yelled at Applejack.

"But Pinkie, what if he's in league with those kidnappers?"

"He fired his spell gun at one of them."

"That could've been part of the plan."

"Then why am I here?"

"Ah....he....what if....."Applejack stammered trying to counter her, but let out a sigh and spoke after a minute of silence, "Fine Ah trust ya' Pinkie," she turned her gaze to me, "but if you do anything ta' hurt her you go down partner."

"Very vell, I have nothing to gain from hurting her anyvay." I said with a shrug.

She glared at me one more time, but replaced it with a light smile "Good enough, Ah guess."

Applejack stuck out her hand and gestured for me to shake it. I took hold of her hand and she shook it as hard as she could. After she let go I rubbed my shoulder to try and not feel numb 'Ow...'. "Now git' going to the hospital so Pinkie's limp can git' fixed." she pushed me towards Pinkie.

"She'z right Miss Pinkie we'd best get going ma'am." I turned to Applejack, took off my hat, and bowed "Thank you understanding Miss Applejack.". At first I thought I saw a blush on her face, but I dismissed it as glare on my sunglasses.

"It's nothing partner, now hurry up an' get Pinkie to the hospital." she responded with a tip of her stetson.

I nodded and helped Pinkie back onto my back and walked past Applejack.

Once we were away from the apple forest and moving up a hill that led to the hospital Pinkie spoke up, "Nightly are you okay, you're bleeding." I put a hand to my forehead and felt a slight wetness. I pulled my hand away to see my blood, 'Shit'.

"I'm alright ma'am. Besidez you're in vorse condition zan me." I try to reassure her.

"But you're still hurt! Hold still." she took a piece of torn cloth off herself and pushed it against my head.

I sighed knowing there was no arguing with her "Fine, but ve're gonna arrive at ze hospital soon according to ze signz."

"That should be enough time to fix you up." she responded putting more pressure onto my head.

I walked up the hill in silence as Pinkie pushed on my wound with the cloth until I speak up, "Miss Pinkie how long vere you gone before I saved you?"

Pinkie didn't respond which made me a bit concerned, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that.'

"Nevermind you don't have answer if you don't want to."

"Thank you Nightly." After that both of us remained silent on the rest of the walk

When we reached the hospital my wound stopped bleeding. I walked up to the door and pushed it open to see no one except a woman in a yellow hoodie, blue jeans, and had a bunny on her lap laying in the corner in the waiting room sleeping. Her hood was up so I couldn't see her face, but her hair was long enough for me to see it's color: pink...'What is with the color pink and me lately.'

I walked up to the front desk and rang the bell that sat there, no one came. After about five minutes I rang it again. Still no response. I set Pinkie on the desk carefully and looked her in the eye, "Stay here vhile I see vhat'z taking ze doctorz so long." she nodded and started drawing with a pencil on an empty piece of paper she found. I turned towards a door that led into the office.

I opened the door and found a large group of doctors sitting in a break room sipping on coffee. My eye twitched a bit from anger at the sheer laziness of these morons. I walked up to the nearest doctor grabbed him by the back of the collar of his white coat and dragged him into the waiting room.

"What in Celestia's name do you think you're doing?" the doctor protested as I let go of him.

I pointed at Pinkie who was drawing a picture of me apparently. The doctor turned his head and his eyes went wide. "I'm so sorry sir I jus-"

"Shut up and help her or she von't be ze only vone needing medical attention." I interrupted glaring at him through my sunglasses.

He shuddered a bit then called for other doctors to help him with Pinkie, she waved as she was helped onto a gurney, "Bye Nightly, thanks for helping me here." after that she was already in the operating room, leaving me alone with the girl in the yellow hoodie. I sighed and slumped down in the nearest chair letting my exhaustion take over and let me fall asleep.