Applejack Is An Interdimensional Alien

“Okay, it’s been almost three hours and she's still now back,” Angelina said. “What on Earth is taking her so long? What is she doing?”

“Maybe she’s getting something to help my mom remember us?” Blue suggested. “Hey! Maybe she found something that can help us!”

“She said she would just take a quick look around and be right back and yet she’s been in there forever. We should go in and check on her.”

“Ummmm… I’m still not sure what you all need me for,” Blue’s mother said. “I mean, I still want to know why I don’t have a cutie mark, but…”

“Do you really not remember anything about being a human?” Angelina asked. “What’s your first memory?”

“Ummmm…. well, I remember seeing this colt, Blue, but he’s not my son. Uh, I remember walking here. I remember… ah, I remember… an explosion a few weeks ago? Or months maybe? But I- I don’t really know… I guess I don’t remember a lot of stuff… but I do know I was always a pony. Why I don’t have a cutie mark though…”

“Maybe we should go in and try to find her,” Angelina said. “What if she’s hurt?”

“Or maybe she found something!” Blue said again. "I really think she did, because I don't think she'd get hurt. She looks too strong."

“Like about why I don’t have a cutie mark maybe? She said she would see why.”

“Probably not, but still. We should go in. I hope she’s coming up with a way to fix this, as much as I can’t really say I trust her yet. Hopefully, that’s what’s taking her so long.”

“Applejack! What happened to you?” Happy Hoof asked concerned as he took in the sight of her. “What in the world is going on over there?”

Quickly, he bent down to untie her, taking a while as he was forced to use his teeth. She flinched as rope rubbed into her now splintered and cut up body, grateful that he started working on the rope that gagged her first, spitting it out once it was loose enough.

“Ah found that creature,” she responded, sounding a bit hoarse. “Couldn’t get ta Twilight though. It looks exactly like me and is makin’ ponies think Ah’m crazy. Ah couldn’t even leave Sweet Apple Acres.”

“What happened?”

“Apparently Big Mac think’s Ah’m crazy or somethin’. Something about how Twi took me ta the doctor earlier and me needin’ ta rest. Ah was gonna try an’ convince Big Mac that Ah was okay, but then Ah saw it, and… well… you can see what happened.”

“Why didn’t you show him the symbol? If Big Mac saw it, I know he would've gotten-”

“It wasn’t there anymore. That… imposter, it probably wiped it away when it saw me. Ah don’t know. But it wasn’t there.”

“Ummmm… let me think, let me think, let me think…” Happy Hoof said aloud, mostly to himself, ignoring AJ for a minute to pace around the backroom. “Ummmm… do you think you can go back? I mean, you need to get better and all, but we don’t really have anything to clean up wounds and stuff, and you… you’re all cut up. You look bad.”

“Ah’m fine. Ah’ve had worse. Just keep untyin’ me. But Ah don’t know about goin’ back. Ah mean, there’s still Angelina and Blue and that colt’s mother and… and- and this is so overwhelmin’!” Applejack suddenly yelled, shutting her eyes tightly. She didn’t cry, but she was clearly getting upset. She took deep breaths as she continued to be united, the stallion doing his best not to injure her or hurt her further.

“Ah’m not meant for all of this! Ah’m meant to help my friends out, not… come up with the plan and figure out what ta do! Ah can’t do all that! It’s hard and Ah don’t know what Ah’m doin’!”

There was a long moment of silence before Happy Hoof started, “Well… umm… well, I can say that at least you're here, because… well, as far as I know, you guys have always succeeded, and like I said, Twilight should be here since you’re here. I… I don’t see how she wouldn’t know what’s going on. She’s too obsessive to let something slip past her.”

“...yeah, that’s true. That pony is something else.”

“Plus, you’re an Element of Harmony! So I don’t see how you can fail. I mean, everything always works out, right? So I don’t see why it would be different now.”

“Yeah, but… Ah mean… Ah- Ah don’t know what ta do. Ah really don’t know, and Ah just wish Ah had my friends here ta help me…”

“Well… I still think that maybe you should go back? Like I said, I know you’re hurt, but maybe we can make a plan for what-”

“Hey!” somepony, Angelina, called as she suddenly walked into the back room. “What’s going on here?”

“Who are you?” Happy Hoof asked, a confused look on his face.

“Who are you?” the mare shot back immediately. “Why are you hurting her? What’s going on?” As she said it, she took threatening steps towards the stallion.

“Ah’m fine, you. Why’d you come in here? Yer supposed to be with Blue and his mother in the car.”

“Because you’re taking forever in here. You said you’d just be a minute, and we started to get concerned that you might be hurt, which you clearly are, seeing as you were all tied up by him.”

“He didn’t tie me up. Y’all don’t need ta worry about that.”

“Then what happened? Who did this to you? Because you look bad.”

“Who did this ta me? The same pony who turned y’alls live upside down, and we’re about to come up with a plan for how ta fix it,” AJ replied, already more confident than before.