When Pinkie Pie waddled through the door, she heard the sound of Applejack’s hind hooves bucking a cage; Applejack was trying—and failing—to escape by means of brute force.

“Applejack, stop dat!” shouted Pinkie.

“I’m twyin’ to get out of dis heah cage!” answered Applejack. “But nuttin’s wuhkin’!”

Pinkie spied a huge yellow floor switch and waddled over to it.

“I wonda what dis one does!” squeaked Pinkie, and stomped on the switch with her front hooves.

Suddenly, a huge window in the wall opposite Applejack’s cage opened wide, revealing four targets: Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and an apple tree.

A number display next to that window lit up, an apple-shaped bean bag fell through a hole in the ceiling, and Pinkie caught the bean bag in her front hooves.

“Ooh!” squealed Pinkie in excitement. “Tawget pwactice!”

Pinkie threw her bean bag at one of the targets, but it hit the wrong one—Scootaloo!

With that, the display turned off and the window closed.

“Awwwww!” whined Pinkie.

“You can’t just twow dem bean bags at any tawget, Pinkie!” shouted Applejack. “You gotta aim ’em at de odd ones out!”

Pinkie tried again. She stomped on the floor switch one more time and caught another falling bean bag, but this time, she looked at every target and aimed for the one that didn’t belong with the others.

She threw her bean bag at the apple tree, and it hit it!

The number on the display changed from 0 to 1.

Pinkie caught another bean bag and aimed it at the apple tree again.

She succeeded again, and now, the number on the display was 2.

She threw bean bag after bean bag, hitting a Cutie Mark Crusader from time to time, which cost her a point.

However, her score didn’t go below 0—unlike last time—and eventually, she got 10 points!

There was a barn opposite the door through which Pinkie went in, and its window opened up, revealing a yellow key with the Element Of Honesty on its head!

Author's Note

This chapter and the next one have the same main title, because the word clean has a double meaning. Find out what it is in the next chapter, when I put the spotlight on Rarity! In addition, the odd-one-out bean bag game is inspired by Krazy Kong Klamour in Donkey Kong 64, in which the object is to avoid shooting the Kongs and to shoot only the Golden Bananas.