Applejack Is An Interdimensional Alien

"Make sure ta write it exactly as Ah tell it ta you,” Applejack instructed, giving the nurse a look as she rolled her eyes, quill and paper in her magic. “She’s not gonna listen if ya just go writin’ whatever.”

“I’ll make sure,” the nurse insisted, not really caring one way or the other. “What do you want me to write down?”

“Tell her that her friend is here and needs her ta get here as soon as she possibly can. There’s somethin’ goin’ on, but Ah don’t know what it is. Some creature stole my appearance and ruined a whole nother place called Earth and we need ta see what we can do ta fix it. He said he was tryin’ ta get back to Equestria and Ah’m worried he’s gonna make just as big of a mess here as he did there, and Ah don’t know what ta do about it. Ah need yer help.”

“Anything else?” the nurse asked, AJ looking to Happy Hoof to see if he had anything to add.

“That should be good enough,” the stallion said. “Once she gets here, we can explain the rest.”

“Okay, I’ll go ahead and send this off now,” the nurse told her. “Now no more being noncompliant, okay? You both are really hurt and need to be treated.”

“Alrighty,” the mare agreed. “As long as ya make sure ta send that straight ta Twilight.”

“I will make sure,” the nurse replied, rolling her eyes again.

“Princess Luna,” Twilight started, suddenly appearing before her night court, interrupting the conversation she was having with somepony else. “I need to speak with you right now.”

“Good evening, Twilight,” Luna smiled, not the least bit bothered by the interruption. “It’s been quite a long time, hasn’t it? How have you been these days?”

“That’s not important,” she started. “I need to speak to you about something that’s going on. Um, in private preferably.”

“I understand, Twilight,” she replied. “Just give me a minute to finish up with those who are waiting, and I’ll see right to you.”

“This isn’t something that can wait, Princess,” Twilight urged her. “This is something we need to talk about right now, as busy as you are. It can’t wait.”

“I see…” she said thoughtfully, considering it for a moment before standing up and announcing, “For the time being, the night court will be closed. We shall return as quickly as possible. We are quite sorry if this affects your schedule poorly.”

A lot of the ponies grumbled at that, a few muttering how Twilight always got what she wanted whenever she wanted it, but the mare didn’t care. This was serious business, and she didn’t want to waste any time.

A minute or so later, the room was clear of all except for a few of the royal guard and the two of them, Princess Luna looking at the purple alicorn expectantly. Twilight took a breath to calm her nerves before she started to speak.

“There’s something going on with Applejack and Princess Celestia,” she started worriedly. “The princess was concerned about her, and now she’s here and both of them are acting very strangely. I’m worried that she might be hurt or under mind control or something else.”

“My sister did tell me about her concern with the mare, I do remember that,” Luna said. “I found her concerns unfounded, not seeing any issue myself with Applejack’s little joke, however, she was insistent. Are you saying that she was right to be afraid?”

“Well, right now she’s apparently having tea with her, but this is coming after she was just talking about how afraid and skeptical she was of her. I’m afraid that whoever Applejack actually is, she’s taking control of Celestia and manipulating her. I don’t think she’d get over being afraid in a second, especially after I’ve been doing research all day and trying to figure out what’s going on like she told me to.”

“Hmmm…” Luna trailed off, putting a hoof on her chin. “It’s possible. Although it’s equally possible that her fears really were unfounded. As we say, communication is key. Perhaps the two just needed to have a conversation to alleviate any fears she might have had.”

“I- how likely is that though?” Twilight asked. “It’s not. She was just talking about how she wanted me to do research just now, and how suspicious Applejack was being! She pointed out that she didn’t even call her ‘princess’! I don’t think any of her suspicions would be solved this fast, otherwise why would she want me to investigate?”

“That is true as well,” Princess Luna agreed. “My sister is not one to forgive or forget things so easily. Although you yourself just called my sister by her name alone a few seconds ago, so I'm not sure what you're trying to indicate in Applejack's case."

"That's because I'm getting stressed out standing here and I don't know what to do!" she said, starting to prance in place. "We need to do something! Or at least make a plan!"

"It is very curious to hear about at the very least. Although you're right, I hardly think standing here talking about it will do either of us any good. Perhaps we should be-”

“Tw… Twilight,” Spike called as he entered, jogging tiredly into the room the two were in, carrying a letter in his hands. “This just came in for you from some doctor,” he said groggily. “Right as I had just gotten to sleep in the guest room of this castle.”

“I’m sorry Spike, but thank you for bringing this to me,” she told him, interested in what it could possibly be. She quickly unfolded the page to see what it said.

Addressed to one Princess Twilight Sparkle,

We’ve written to inform you that one of your friends is here with us in Ponyville General Hospital. It looks like they and somepony else they know was attacked by a unicorn. We don’t know who it was at this time, but we’ve called the guard stationed in Ponyville to investigate the matter. Normally, we wouldn’t bother you with such things, especially at this late hour, but the two of them were insistent on having a letter sent out, to the point where both of them were willing to check out of the hospital if something wasn’t delivered to you, despite their injuries.

Both of them are in stable condition, except for perhaps a few memory problems, likely because whatever unicorn attacked them didn’t want them to remember what happened. However, we’ll take care of her, you can be assured that. Feel free to visit if and when you see fit.

-The Ponyville General Hospital Staff

Not good, that much Twilight knew. She hated hearing that her friends were hurt, especially by somepony seeking to do them harm. However, she couldn’t bother with that, not yet. She would visit them tomorrow if she could, but for now, she needed to go with Princess Luna to meet with Celestia to see what was wrong with her. She could only wonder which friend of hers it was that was hurt though. She wished they wrote it down.