twilightpony | Electroshock Harvest

It's the sixth day following the harbinger howls of the timber wolves. I had anticipated the final meteorological event so this morning I was watching from the front balcony with Spike and Starlight Glimmer. The thunderstorm rolled into Sweet Apple Acres, ending in a brilliant rainbow over the zap apple orchard. That's it, the zap apples are ripe! There was no time to waste, they have to be harvested today.

Starlight Glimmer, Spike and I finished breakfast, piled the dishes in the kitchen, and trotted down to Sweet Apple Acres to help. Since we can't use magic to harvest these apples, we had to slowly hoof pick them, taking care to avoid bumping into the trees. I made use of my wings to pick the top apples, the ones growing too high up to be easily picked by the Apple family.

At first I had Spike on my back, I'd fly and he'd pick, but after I'd bumped into a tree for the second time Spike decided to go help Applejack instead. Those trees pack quite a wallop. Starlight Glimmer was laughing in her mane up until she backed into a tree by accident. Even without Spike on my back, I still managed to brush up against the trees as I picked apples. So did Starlight Glimmer and Spike. By noon we'd had enough shocks and jolts and left the picking to the experts.

I think Pinkie and Fluttershy had planned on helping too. They probably dropped by later, during the afternoon. But we didn't leave empty hoofed. We brought home two dozen zap apples. I only ate one so far. I'm exhausted and my flank is still twitching from where I last bumped into one of those trees.