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.]

Comments

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[mostloyalpony]

Hey, now...don't put so much on your shoulders, okay? Hehe, you're not Big Mac, after all!

(Rainbow leans in to raise AJ's face back up so she's not hanging her head.)

Besides, Fluttershy wouldn't want you to feel sorry about this. Knowing her, she'd just blame herself for everypony worrying about her. Even if that's kinda what's going on right now.

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[appletastic]

I don't think even he could lug all of us.

[She forces herself to smile.]

...I know she wouldn't. I know she'd feel just awful, looking at how we're acting. But I've got to work on reaching her somehow---not racing in blind, but. Something.

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[mostloyalpony]

(After a nod and a smile of her own, a thoughtful look crossed the Pegasus' face; she's grown since their past adventures!)

So...do you have a plan or are you just gonna do what I do and rush in while hoping things will work out?

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[appletastic]

No rushing in. Not 'til there's a plan. I've learned a thing or two.

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[mostloyalpony]

Hehe, good idea! What'd you learn about this?

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[appletastic]

About how to act? That we've gotta stop and think. Charging in after her now'll get me swallowed up too.

And about her? Well...we think now it's Twi and somepony else talking. Don't know how much is her and how much is them, but...it's a fight, and she's losing. And Calice...there's something of an anomaly here that she's after.