everything: ruined (visual)

[appletastic]

[Applejack appears, but she's not really looking at the camera. She's holding her hat in her hoof, and her mane hangs over her eye. It's safer that way, because she's really about to lose control here.]

I know some of y'all are waiting to hear how it went, meeting her. Calice.

Well, we know a few things more about her, and we'll tell you what you want to know, but more important than that right now is...I failed a friend of mine. Two friends, counting Calice. Our words couldn't reach her, and she's more determined to fight us than ever.

Worse, Fluttershy---the one with the little digi-critters---she saved our hides, but Calice snagged her. She's trapped, and knowing what I know now....

I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

[Unable to say another word for now, she closes the scroll, about ready to cry.]

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[audio]

[appletastic]

...show her we weren't mad. That we care. That she's still got friends.

But it got off the rails when we got upset.

[audio]

[stormbroken]

Everypony needs a friend. I won't argue that.

But wasn't the big story about Twilight Sparkle about how she didn't get what friends actually were before she met the other Elements?

[Sorry, but 'world-saving heroes' kind of comes with a little bit of a loss of privacy, guys. At least in her Equestria.]

How do you think someone like that would react when you had so many people backin' her into a corner, and then losin' their crap all over the place?

You need t'show her what you meant to in the first place, then. In a way she won't get spooked, or angry, or worst of all vindicated.

[audio]

[appletastic]

[She's far past caring about everypony knowing their business.]

...you're right. Absolutely right. We've gotta take this calm and quiet if we're gonna have any chance. I should've known that.

[audio]

[stormbroken]

Don't beat yourself up over it. Flut wouldn't've wanted that.

[At least, based on how little she knows about the Fluttershys still here.]

If you did everything you could, nopony could ask for more. If you didn't, then it's just a sign you have to try harder as you move forward.

But don't just dig yourself a hole t'lie in, yeah?

[audio]

[appletastic]

...right. You're right.

I owe it to her to keep moving forward.