Applejack Is An Interdimensional Alien

Applejack blinked a few times, letting her eyes adjust to the light. It was bright where she was, the sun shining directly on her it seemed, and it took a few seconds before she was finally able to see where the spell she cast had taken her to.

Around her were apple trees, the ones she knew well, and she could see her home a bit off in the distance, not too far though. The sky was cloudless she noticed, the sun shining brightly, and beneath her hooves was the same symbol she drew out on the floor of the building she was in just a moment ago, the only difference being that these were black and not red. Just like Happy Hoof said, the symbols she painted were created on the Equestrian side as well, and like he suggested, she was going to get Twilight to check them out and get the two of them back there, or maybe even all six of the Element Bearers if need be.

“Applejack?” Big Mac called out as he heard a noise and turned to see her in their family orchard, a few yards away from him. “What’re y’all doin’ out here? Ah thought the doctor told y’all ta rest up.”

“Big Mac!” she suddenly yelled, galloping up to him and catching him a bit off guard, making him fall on his haunches. “Where’s that creature?” she asked aggressively, turning her head and looking around to try and find that… thing. “Y’all have to’ve seen it by now! Where is it at?”

The red stallion looked at his sister weirdly. “What’re y’all goin’ on about now? What creature?”

“That thing!” she insisted, turning around to see if it was behind her. “We have ta tell Twilight and the Princesses about it! After what it did ta that other place, we can’t let it get loose and have somethin’ like that happen here!”

“Are y’all sure y’all are alright?” he asked suspiciously with a bit of concern as he stood back up. “Ah think y’all need ta head back inside and get some rest like the doctor said instead of foolin’ around out here.”

“Ah ain’t foolin’ around!” she protested. “Ah’m bein’ serious. We hafta get ta Twilight right now and find that thing!”

He moved around her to nudge her forward as he responded, “No, Ah think y’all need ta follow the doctor’s orders and get some rest. Ya’ve been actin’ mighty strange lately, and Ah don’t think y’all are well.”

“What doctor? What are y’all talking about?”

“Ya don’t remember seein’ the doctor today?” her brother asked, stopping for just a moment before continuing to guide her inside. “That proves that y’all ain’t well. Now go ta bed an’ let me take care of these here apples. Ah don’t wanna see y’all outside again fer the rest of the day.”

“Wait, Big Mac-” she got out, but to no avail, the door being shut in her face. Trying to open it back up only brought frustration to her, seeing as the thing wouldn’t budge. She didn’t know what he did, but he was clearly trying to keep her inside, apparently thinking she was sick.

“Ah need a doctor, my flank,” she grumbled to herself, trying to debate what she should do. She figured trying to go outside would be a waste of time, seeing as her brother would likely be working nearer to their house now to make sure she didn’t leave. Not that she could let that stop her. There were ponies that needed her help, and they were counting on her to go back to help them. She promised that she would grab Twilight and go back to help them, and like she said, she wasn’t one to go breaking promises. Which, of course, meant that she had to get back outside, which would involve getting pas Big Mac.

And also that creature. That creature was here, which meant they had to do something about finding that thing. There was a lot they had to do, find that creature and teach it a lesson, and get back to where she was before and help those ponies, too. She didn’t know where she and her friends would start, but she figured getting to Twilight would be a good first step.

She tried the door again, and found that it was still blocked, which made her growl to herself. She couldn’t waste time stuck in here, she knew that much.

“Big Mac,” she told him angrily. “Ah ain’t sick. Ah need ta see Twilight right now. There’s somethin’ serious goin’ on in Equestria that she needs to know about.”

“Eenope, ya were just with her an hour ago, AJ. If y’all thought there was somethin’ serious happenin’, ya would’ve told her then. Y’all need ta rest up like she and the doctor said.”

“Do y’all think Ah’m lyin’?” she asked him with a tone in her voice. “When have Ah ever lied? We need ta do somethin’ right now before we’re in serious trouble!”

“Ah think y’all are sick and need ta rest,” he responded simply.

“Of course he thinks that,” she thought to herself. “What happened here while Ah was gone?

She sat on her haunches for a minute while she tried to think. What proof did she have? There was her word, and everypony knew she wasn’t one to start telling lies, but that was hardly proof if they thought that she was sick. She had to think hard. What proof did she have?

Then she got it. The symbol on the ground out there was her proof. She could show that to Big Mac as a sign that she wasn’t sick or whatever he thought she was. Even if it wasn’t direct proof of anything, she knew he would admit that it wasn’t nothing either. He would be able to bring Twilight over to study it, and then she could tell her about what happened and work out a plan for what to do next.

“Look, Ah can prove it,” she said. “Let me outside for one minute, and Ah’ll show ya Ah ain’t lyin’ or sick or nothin’ like that.”

“Eenope, yer stayin’ in there, AJ.”

“Look,” she continued, almost pleading, “if Ah can’t prove somethin’s goin’ on right away, Ah’ll go right ta sleep like ya want. How does that sound? Just give me one minute ta show ya.”

There wasn’t an answer to that, and she waited several seconds for him to say something, but received nothing. She didn’t know what to make of it, and was about to ask her question again when she saw the door open up a moment later.

“Ya have one minute ta prove it, and if ya can’t, it’s back ta bed where ya belong,” he told her, a slight scowl on her face.

“It’ll take me quicker than that,” she told him confidently, trotting ahead of him to where the spell she cast had teleported her in. “Follow me.”

It took only a minute to follow her tracks back to where she came in at, although it wasn’t quite the same now as when she came in.

“Wait, what?” she asked aloud, surprised at what she was looking at, or rather, what she wasn’t looking at. All she was seeing now was her hoof prints and nothing else. The symbol she saw when she came here just a minute ago had seemingly vanished.

“Where did it go?” she asked, completely confused and pacing around a bit, shifting the dirt some to see if it was being covered. “It was just here, Ah swear! Ah came in one minute ago! It couldn't've disappeared that fast! That stallion said it would be here, and it was! It has ta be that creature!” She paced around a bit more, looking around at the ground to see if she was in the wrong spot.

"There ain't no creature, AJ," Big Mac told her. "Yer just sick, like the doctor said when ya saw him this mornin'."

“Ah know it was here!” she asserted. “Ah saw it! Ah'm not losin' my mind! It has to've been that creature! Ya hafta believe me!”

“Time ta get y’all back inside, AJ,”Big Mac instructed her. “Ya need ta rest like the doctor said.”