Something I couldn't resist writing.
Disclaimer: Mickey and the Beanstalk belongs to Walt Disney, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro, The Hub, and Lauren Faust.
Applejack and the Beanstalk
Chapter 1: My What a Happy Day
Applejack was putting her little sister, Applebloom, to bed with two of her best friends, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie.
"Now go t'sleep Sugar Cube." Applejack said.
"Could ya tell us a story, Applejack?" Applebloom asked.
"Well, I guess one wouldn't hurt." Applejack answered.
"Yeah!" Applebloom called out. "Isn't that cool Rainbow?"
"Well..." Rainbow Dash said. "Uh... No."
"This is a story everyone should hear." Applejack said.
"Yeah, but not everyone should tell it, and you know who." Rainbow Dash said.
"Well I'm gonna tell it anyway." Applejack said.
"Alright, suit yourself." Rainbow Dash said with a sigh.
"Now, once upon a time-" Applejack began before Rainbow Dash interrupted.
"Funny how nothing happens now-a-days." Rainbow Dash mused before she stopped when Applejack glared at her.
"Now, once upon a time there was a place called Happy Valley." Applejack began again. "It was called Happy Valley 'cause everyone who lived there was happy."
"Well that makes sense." Rainbow Dash said with a shadow of a smile.
"Okay Sugar Cube, now close your eyes and tell me if you can picture it." Applejack said.
"I think I can." Applebloom said.
"It's all nice and green with a lotta hills." Applebloom said.
()()()()()
Happy Valley was often called Nature's garden spots, nestled among green rolling hills. A lovely brook, the laughing brook, flowed through the valley. Winding roads connected the valley with stately trees lining them. They also connected the lush fields and prosperous farms that dotted the landscape, and on a hill top over-looking the valley and shining like a jewel stood a magnificent castle, and two precious princesses lived in the castle. One was the fair maiden Celestia who rose the sun, made fair rules and kept the country clean. Her fellow princess was Luna. Luna rose the moon and kept the country bright, cheerful, and happy with her excellent diplomatic skills and her beautiful singing voice. Mares, stallions, and foals came from all over the world, feeding the country's trade, just to hear her beautiful voice.
My... What a happy day.
What a sunny sky.
Kinda make you sigh
In a happy way.
What a very merry day...
All the world is gay.
When your cares are light.
And your heart takes flight.
And you're swept away.
The air is sweet with clover.
The clouds are turning over.
Oh yes they're turning over
Just to show their silver lining.
My what a happy day...
Never knew such bliss.
Never read of this in a book or play!
What a lovely day!
What a great big gorgeous, sumptuous, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scrumptious!
My what a happy day!
When Luna would sing, all the farmers would join in as well, and their work got twenty times quicker.
My what a happy day...
Never knew such bliss.
Never read of this in a book or play!
What a lovely day!
What a great big gorgeous, sumptuous, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scrumptious!
Oh me, oh my, what a happy day!
The voice of Luna cast a magic spell of joy and prosperity throughout the land, but it was too good to last, for one day a mysterious shadow crept over the valley and something dreadful happened.
()()()()()
Celestia and Luna were talking. Being sisters, they were the only family they had since their parents passed on. When the sky got surprisingly dark, they all screamed and tried to run, but they were caught by the creature who had caused the darkness grabbed them, and they knew no more for a long time.
()()()()()
When the shadow lifted, Celestia and Luna were gone. No longer was the valley happy, for without the magic of Luna's voice and Celestia's wise guidance, all was misery... Misery... Misery.
The grass fields and trees all became a depressing reddish color as the desolation spread throughout the land and everything dried up. The fields of corn turned to dust almost before you could say kerplop. The Laughing Brook flowed no more, and what little water remained fell down the cracks that appeared in the river bed.
To think that this land was once happy valley, and now it was little better than gruesome gulch.
Days passed. Then weeks passed. Then months passed.
()()()()()
A group of humble peasants, three orphaned mares, were hit the hardest. All they had was a cow who had dried up with the Laughing Brook. The three mares were all that were left of three proud families who had tilled the land together. Among them were Applejack and her closest friends, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. The house was so much to handle for the three girls that it was in a derelict state with one of the doors having fallen off very recently. The three poor farmers sat at the dinner table as they were on the edge of starving to death. By some combination of miracles and careful planning, the three were still alive, still breathing, and sharing a pitiful crust of bread between them. Applejack made as thin cuts with her knife as she could to save the last loaf of bread they had for as long as they could.
Were their spirits broken? Did they lose hope? Yes. The three teenagers were facing famine and were left only with beans... Well a bean by now. One bean to split between three ponies. Applejack cut it as thinly as possible until there were three semi-thin bean slices that barely made the bread bulge. The only bright side anyone could have found was that at least the bean didn't have any bones. Rainbow had become gaunt from lack of food already being little more than a bag of bone and weakening muscles. A true picture of despair, but Rainbow never whimpered. Rainbow never gave up.
"SHUT UP!" Rainbow called out. "I CAN'T STAND IT!"
Rainbow then grabbed as many plates as she could and attempted to eat them like a sandwich before Applejack and Pinkie grabbed her and pulled the dishes away.
"Okay Rainbow, easy now." Applejack said as Pinkie and Applejack rubbed her back in an attempt to calm her. "Easy now."
"Don't worry girls." Rainbow said with a heavy sigh as she breathed hard from the rush of adrenaline. "Yeah... I'll be alright. I'll be alright."
Rainbow said she'd be alright, but Applejack wondered. Rainbow had suffered too much. Pinkie, knowing how Rainbow got when she was riled wondered what plan was forming in the mind of the desperate Rainbow.
Rainbow meanwhile saw the axe they had used to chop down wood and got a sinister smile on her face as she slipped away and grabbed it.
"RAINBOW NO!" Applejack called out in alarm when she saw the empty space where the axe usually hung.
()()()()()
"Here cowsie-wowsie." Rainbow said in a raspy, demented voice as she approached the cow. "Nice old cowsie-wowsie."
"Rainbow!" Applejack called out as Rainbow suddenly shouted out and lunged at the cow with the axe. The cow mooed in alarm and jumped onto a tree as Applejack pulled the axe out of Rainbow's wings, and she then began chewing on the tail before Pinkie and Applejack grabbed Rainbow and held her down.
"But guys..." Rainbow panted as he began to come back to his senses. "I've just gotta eat. I'm so... Hungry."
Pinkie and Applejack brought Rainbow into the house where she rested on the couch.
Aw, poor Rainbow.