Apple blooms mechanical mark

by Litch

Chapter 1

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"OK CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MUD SLED here we gooooOOOOO!"

Applejack could hear the familiar sound of tree sap covering her sister and her friends. She could only resist a sigh, as it was only a few days after discord left his stoney prison and wrought chaos. And the cutie mark crusaders were already starting there crusading again.


Apple bloom sighed as her body was being cleaned from the tree sap. Another attempt to gaining her cutie mark failed in getting covered in tree sap again.

"You ok sugurcube?" Asked applejack

"Yeah, just frustrated on not being able to get my cutie mark." Answered apple bloom

She was distracted by her thoughts when she was cleaned from all of the tree sap. As she got out of the wooden tub she thought about the assignment from class. Creating something new from the old. She thought it was going to be super difficult as all of the broken equipment was either in the shed or barn. But that's when she thought about the broken gramophone, the broken plow, some of the rusty screws, and a broken off shovel head.

Each broken farming equipment was in different a place. First of wich was the easiest, it was the farm plow. Where it was In the barn.

It was late in the day as she walked to the barn. she was supposed to be in bed but she needed to do this. As she thought that she opened the barn door.

The barn was eerily empty as apple bloom trotted in. The plow was near the back corner, but apple bloom couldn't find it. Until she reached the dark almost pitch black corner, and saw a glimmer in on of the cardboard boxes. but it was under two other boxes, she wondered how to get it. when she spotted a bundle of ropes. She picked it up and lasso the top boxes and pulls them down to reach the bottom box. But she forgot about the top boxes as it falls on her. Fortunately it's only some dirty hats and horseshoes. So when she got out of the pile, she was relatively unharmed with only a few scratches as the horseshoes were still metal, but the plow was now free from the boxes as it now could be taken. But the crash made some noise so apple bloom quickly took the plow and made a hasty escape.


Next was the rusty screws. It was easy as it was being kept in a box on the top shelf of the closet. luckily apple bloom kept her rope and quietly yet quickly take the screws. Unfortunately applejack was going to the closet to fix the mess from the barn so apple bloom ran back to her room where she hid the plow.

Next was the gramophone. The barn was now being garded by big mac and applejack, the gramophone was being stored in the donate box on the porch. It was in the donate box as the gramophone is a very recent invention and somepony could fix it up for themselves. But the box was watched by granny smith, However when apple bloom reaches the box and was planning on making an excuse when she saw granny smith was taking a nap, So she quickly but quietly took the gramophone and ran into her room as fast as she could.

Finally was the shovel head. it was late in the day almost night. But as she got to the shed she started to question why she was doing this. Now that she thought of it, she found that some of the past actions she did was on some sort of instinct and she wasn't thinking rightly when she did some of them. But now that she was this close she might as well finish it as it was to late to reverse the stuff she did. So she snuck through as quietly as possible and watched her brother standing in front of the shed door guarding the stuff inside. As she watched she found applejack come in and swap out. They did this 2 more times in an hour. But when they swap once more she snuck in. It was nearly a complete void in the shed. But she found the box of broken tools. As she rummaged through the box she found the shovel head. but it was buried under the other tools. So she had to pull with all her filly earth pony might to get it out. Unfortunately it made a lot of noise, so when she got the shovel big mac started to investigate. Thinking quickly, apple bloom hid in an empty box. When she heard big mac leaving apple bloom sighed as she was almost caught. With shovel in hoof she snuck out and ran into her room.

As apple bloom gathered the collected broken stuff into a pile. Her lack of sleep was showing as it was at least a day of non-stop hiding, stess, and collecting that was taking a toll. She was half aware when she started constructing the thing before passing out.


Apple bloom woke up. She was groggy and slow. When she got up though she found a weird construction in front of her. It had the plow as a sort of anchor. The moter from the gramophone was attached to an arm holding the shovel head. And a switch to presumably turn it on or off.

She had no recollection of making this thing so she took it outside to see what it does. She was up earlier than normal so she had some time before having to go to school. So not knowing what it does or if it'll even do anything she places it on the ground and turned it on. To her astonishment it started to dig the ground like it was being controlled by a unicorn. She was flabbergasted that she created this while tired. That's when she felt a tingle on her flank. she was confused until she looked back and found her cutie mark. It was a picture of a zap apple with a bit mark taken out of it. She was ecstatic and squealed for joy rushing of to show applejack and anyone that would listen.


Author's Note

So this is my first fan fic, sorry for the lack of the apple family accent as I have 0 clue on how to do so, and as well fir the short chapter

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