Chapter #29Sweet Apple Acres by: irven   You wake up feeling very sore. Your mind is hazy, and the last thing you can remember is taking a walk near your home. It was going fine, but then a bright flash of light came out of nowhere and knocked you out. You aren’t sure what it was, but on the bright side, you seem uninjured aside from the soreness.
You sit up groggily and look around. You’re still outside, and it’s still daytime, but everything else is wrong. You don’t recognize your surroundings at all. You’re surrounded by tall, thin, green structures, and there are enormous brown towers rising up as far as you can see in every direction, topped by green canopies with red spots.
Wait, they look just like apple trees. But why are they so huge?
You almost faint as the realization sets in: you must have shrunken. The green structures and brown towers are grass and apple trees. And not only have you shrunken, you’ve also ended up somewhere different, because there were no apple trees in the place you were walking earlier.
However, there’s a silver lining: the apple trees mean you might be in some sort of apple orchard or farm, so there are probably people living around here. And if you can find someone, you might be able to get help.
Sure enough, you hear noises nearby, and you assume it must be a person. Either that, or a predator—but you decide to take the chance and start walking in the direction of the sounds. The tall, wild grass blocks most of your view, but you find a rock that pokes up above the grass, and you climb up so you can look farther.
You’re able to see a lot more now. The apple trees are arranged in rows, and you can see a dirt path and some fences. This is clearly a farm, not wilderness. Plus, you can see the source of the sounds now, a moderate distance away.
It isn’t what you expected.
Instead of a human, you see a sort of cartoonish pony with a brown cowboy hat. The creature has an orange coat, green eyes, and a freckled face, along with a yellow mane and tail, both of which are tied with red ribbons near the tips. On the creature’s flanks are markings that look like a trio of red apples.
You can’t believe what you’re seeing—this is Applejack, one of the main characters of that one My Little Pony show you’ve watched before! That means you not only shrunk, but also ended up in a fictional world—specifically, Sweet Apple Acres in Ponyville, Equestria. It seems like a bizarre dream, but after pinching yourself, you’re certain that it’s actually real.
You aren’t really sure how to respond to this, but from what you know of the character from the show, she’s a very friendly and dependable pony, so you think it may be a good idea to approach her and try to get her help. But first, you simply watch Applejack for a bit, still in awe at this strange situation. She’s doing her job of harvesting apples, bucking the trees with her rear legs and shaking the fruit so they fall down into a basket nearby. She then grabs the basket in her teeth and drags it to the next tree, repeating the process.
She’s going down the row of trees, and getting farther away from you. You realize you’ll have to chase after her if you want to catch up with her. But that will probably be a challenge. Since you’re so much smaller than Applejack, she’ll be able to move faster than you, and she’s already some distance away from you. If she keeps moving farther away, you may not be able to catch up.
Still, you decide to give it a try. You’re about to climb off the rock and start running when you notice some movement out of the corner of your eye. You look over at it, afraid of seeing some sort of predator. You’re startled to see a brown-and-white dog resembling a Border Collie, which you recognize as Applejack’s faithful pet Winona. She’s playing around in the grass, and unlike Applejack, she’s gradually wandering closer to you.
You gulp and look back and forth between the pony and the dog. If Winona catches you, she may treat you like a toy or food. On the other hand, if she’s actually nice, then she may listen to you and bring you to Applejack. This would be very helpful, because you doubt you can reach the pony on your own. But is it worth the risk to trust the dog, or would you be better off trying to reach Applejack by yourself? | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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