Silence in Equestria

The Sector II: Episode V:

A friendly farmer

After having a little talk with Rarity, Silence went to Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack's home and workplace. The scenery was beautiful, the dirty road, the white fences and all the beautiful apple trees behind waiting for harvesting. It was truly spectacular. The path led Silence past a giant red, countryside house. This must be it.

She opened the fence. "Hello? Is anybody here?".

For the voice, a little filly appeared: "Good day, ma'am! Can I help you with something?" The yellow filly asked. She had that strange yet badass countryside accent making her even cuter.

"Yes, actually. I'm looking for Applejack."

"AJ is buckin' apples since Big Mac is hurt. If it's that important you can look around though."

"Fine, thank you."

And so she started looking for AJ in the giant apple tree forest behind their house. After a while Silence started to hear someone, kicks and the noise of the apples falling. She headed straight that direction, and in less than a minute she found a girl. She wore a nice cowboy hat and her hair tied at its end. She was kicking the apple trees with such power almost all the apples fell in one-two kicks, filling the buckets under them. Silence came closer to greet her. "Hello, excuse me, I'm looking for Applejack."

The cowgirl kicked a last one and answered. "I'm Applejack."

Silence was confused. This was the last thing she expected: a girl with the name AppleJACK. However the girl continued "...however this is private territory ma'am, strangers aren't allowed here."

"But I was just sent here by a filly."

Applejack sighed and kicked the ground in anger. "Okay, then. Let's speak outside." she headed back to their house and as soon as she saw the other girl she told her off "Applebloom! What did I tell ya' 'bout the strangers?"

"But it seemed to be important, sis. She said it like it's urgent."

Applejack turned to Silence "Is it urgent?"

Silence answered "Actually, Twilight sent me, as you're her only friend I haven't met yet."

AJ replied "Can't it be some other time? I have to buck that entire area today."

But Silence didn't give up that easily. She got something in her mind.

"What if I help you bucking all these apples? We could even get to know each other more that way."

Applejack approved with a nod. She rarely gets help from strangers in the farm. As they headed back to buck the rest of those apples AJ asked with gratefulness "Thank you for your help ma'am, but don' mind if I ask your name?"

Silence got shocked a bit "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, didn't I? My name is Silence."

"Ah, the new fella who Pinkie threw that party for."

"Well, yes." replied Silence as they shook hooves.

"Here we are." said Applejack as they arrived the area she was talking about. Even though they started to work, AJ kept up the conversation. "An' how was the partay?"

"It was quite nice, from a slumber party."

"Slumber partay? How the hay does that happen?"

"Let's just say I arrived a bit late."

"Hah, just a bit?"

Applejack noticed Silence can't really take much of the work. While she finished with a tree in seconds, Silence needed about triple or even more time with each. And she was kicking it with all of her might. However, after a few minutes she stopped as she saw something.

"Hey AJ!"

"Yeah?"

"I don't think I can buck this all alone." she pointed up at a smaller house in the tree. It looked like some kind of clubhouse. Applejack - after a little laughter responded "That's my sis' clubhouse. She tends to spend her time here with her friends hunting for their cutie marks."

"Team headquarters, eh? That's neat." said Silence while she walked around to check it out from different directions as AJ went back to work. After she finished, Silence also went back to help.

As the two pony were doing the farm work and chatting with each other, after a while they became much more open towards each other. However, unlike the skilled applebucker Applejack, the pegasus wasn't used to this kind of labour. Eventually, Silence collapsed.

AJ walked to her with a warm, friendly smile and asked "Tired already, suga'cube?".

She lent her new friend a hoof and helped Silence up, who definetly had bruises on her hooves now. She hardly could stand on them and they were swollen, mostly her back ones.

"You know, if ya'd like to rest feel free to do so."

"How are you even able to do this all day?"

AJ giggled "If ya bite too much you can't chew, suga'cube. Don't try to take on the whole field on your own. Go, take a rest while I finish of them few trees left."

Silence laid down on the ground, watching Applejack finishing her job. "(And she is doing this all the time... I swear she could kick an entire house down with those legs...)" she thought. However, suddenly she noticed something falling from the sky. It was all blury, she couldn't see it well. As AJ lift her legs to buck a tree something else hit it before her making the apples fall. One even hit her head.

"What in tarnation?" she looked back then shouted "Rainbow Dash!".

Dash apologized with an embarrassed smile "Heheh, emm... new trick, sorry for that."

Applejack put her palmed her face and sighed. Silence shouted from behind "Are you okay?" she slowly stood up and with some flaps she flied there to check them. Of course, she kept herself in the air afterwards too, sparing herself from an even bigger pain.

"How about practicing somewhere you don't mean potential danger to anybody?" she asked the pegasus with anger.

"Why would I? Rarely I crash while flying, I don't even remember hitting somepony before." replied Rainbow.

"You said jus' the same last time you blasted through Twilight's roof." said AJ.

"That was.... an accident, and hey, no risk no rewards."

"Take your fancy flight tricks elsewhere, Rainbow. We're trying to work here."

"Actually AJ, we're already done." corrected Silence.

"Fine, fine. At least the Rainbow Raindance will be a surprise for you too." said Dash.

"Raindance?" asked Applejack.

"Do you even read the weather schedule the pegasi send weekly?"

Applejack remaind silent looking at Dash with a stare that pierced through her soul. It was like a lion's that is about to rip it's victim into pieces.

"Ah, yeah, you have to work." told Dash with another embarrassed smile. "Anyway, see you later, I have practice to be done." and then she dashed away.

"She isn't a really sympathetic person." noted Silence.

"Don't mind Rainbow, she is quite show-offy when it's about flyin', but still a nice gal." comforted her AJ. "Let's get back an' tell Big Mac I- ehm we've finished his job too." she continued.

"Good idea, the sun is unbearable." approved Silence.

As they went back Silence noticed a little piece of paper in the mailbox. It was the weather schedule Dash mentioned.

"Looks like here'll be a storm the day after tomorrow." Silence noted.

"When!?" AJ took a look at it too. "Shoot, we won't have enough time for doing the harvest!"

"I can come to help you tomorrow too." offered Silence.

But AJ refused: "No, you have to rest them hooves for now. Just go, tell Twilight to bring the band. You did more then enough already suga'cube." she finished her sentence with a warm, lovely smile. Silence nodded and flew back to the library to tell everything.