slice of life Apple Jack and the Mystery Apple

[Pixel Media 25]

It was like any other day at Sweet Apple Acres. The sun was high noon, and the clouds were busted clean. Apple Jack was in the middle of her daily bucking when, out of the corner of her eye she spotted an apple laying on the ground. Being alone, and not having bucked the tree that it was under confused Applejack. However, not being one to be startled by such trivial things, she picked up the apple and put it in her basket and went on bucking the tree she was working on.

About thirty minutes passed, and the thought of an apple just laying on the ground during harvesting was starting to get to her. So she thought logically. Perhaps it fell due to the tree branch it was on getting too heavy of the weight of other apples, she reasoned that apples fall from trees all the time. Which is why she wondered why this one was perplexing her. It was just an apple after all. Apple Jack decided to examine the apple closely but when she went to get it out of the basket, it was gone.

 

Looking around and still knowing she was alone, the probability of her being pranked was increasing in her steadily growing worried mind. Immediately Pinkie Pie jumped into her head, she loves a good joke. But usually when Pinkie Pie is around there is quite a sense of cake  in the air. And today the cake was not there. So then where did the apple go? Putting her head up from the basket, she was astounded to see the apple right in front of it. The odd part was she looked around the entire basket beforehand. Then she thought that Twilight may of been using magic tricks on her to mess with her but quickly dismissed the idea since Twilight would never do that to a true friend.

 

A bit scared with sweat slowly trickling down her neck, Apple Jack decided enough was enough! She immediately got away from the apple, not knowing if it had some arcane dark magic in it. Then she looked at it. For a good couple minutes. Nothing happened.

Fluttershy was in the distance singing to her animal friends and Apple Jack heard this. Loving the voice of her friend, she went and turned around and yelled howdy. This scared Fluttershy, and she ran off. Turning her head back, the apple was not gone, but instead broken into a bunch of little apples. The colors were all that of a rainbow and she not only panicked but was completely shocked at this point. They then began to float. Being brave but still quite nervous, Apple Jack decided that since nothing else was making sense that she'd try and talk to the apples.

"Uh, Howdy there apples, what uh...types are you?" said Apple Jack.

  No response. Perhaps a different, more direct approach.

"Now listen here you voodoo fruit, I demand to know where you came from and why you interrupted my work day!"

 Still nothing. A thought crossed her mind. Discord. No one loves being a jerk to others than him, but being in stone jail as a result of too much mischief recently made this theory vanish.

 

 The apples then ascended towards the sky and multiplied by the dozens. They started moving in formation and Apple Jack didn't really know what to do at this point so she watched as what was happening continued. After thirty seconds, the floating apples had rearranged themselves into a rainbow formation and started shining like golden cider waterfalls. The sight was beautiful but confusing the same.

 

 It was at this point Ponyville noticed the apple rainbow in the sky and gathered around to witness the spectacle. Ponies started asking her questions, of which she knew none of the answers. Twilight and the others showed up with mouths flat dropped. As the glowing started to dim on the apples in the sky, Celestia came to wonder what exactly happened. Not knowing, everyone just stared. They exploded into rainbow firecrackers and make it rain rainbow cider. Pinkie Pie screamed party, and Rainbow Dash just thought it was awesome!

 

Where did the first appear, and how did it all happen? No one knows for sure. To this day it remains a mystery, in the Ponyville lore.