We continued to walk down the road, passing small homes as well as other two story buildings, one or two of them looked light it might be a hotel, or maybe an INN. I still didn't exactly like all the bright colors that were all around me; however, I was getting used to seeing them by now.

I felt my hooves slowly shuffle along the somewhat dusty dirt road as we walked. After a few minutes of walking, we seemed to be at the last few buildings of Ponyville, and a few yards away from us was an arched gate with a fence around what seemed like a farm. The white painted gate was open and decorated with a green plant. Up the hill I saw a large red barn that the dirt road continued to lead to; also, not far from the barn there was a good sized two story house.

We stopped at the gate.

"Here we are, Sweet Apple Acres, this is Ponyville's main supply of… well… apples, of course."

I looked off at the distance; covering the hills in the background I saw miles of apple trees.

"That's a lot of apples for such a small village."

"It's not that small of a village; and no, we don't use all the apples here in Ponyville. Some of them are sold to other nearby towns for profit; some are sold at the local market as well. They're also used to bake other goods that they sell."

"Good to know, now are we going there or not?"

"Yeah, follow me."

She entered the gate; I was walking somewhat behind her, but mostly by her right side. We came closer to the two story house not far from the barn, once we got there Twilight knocked on the door a couple times and then waited, soon the door was answered by an apple green old pony.

"Wha? Huh? Who's there?" Said the old pony, looking around for someone even though we were right in front of her.

"Right in front of you, Granny Smith." Said Twilight.

Then the old pony named Smith looks in front of her and recognized Twilight, it seemed she was looking everywhere but where we were.

"Oh! Twilight, dearie, what a lovely surprise!"

"It's good to see you, too. Is Applejack home?"

It seemed it was too late, for the old pony had fallen asleep where she stood. Twilight looked at here with a brow raised, and then put her hoof over her mouth.

"Ahem." She coughed.

The old pony woke up, wide eyes and looking around.

"Wha? Huh? Who's…? Oh, Twilight. Yeah um, Applejack's in the west field harvesting some apples."

"Thank you Granny smith, see you later." Twilight waved bye and walked away, I followed her.

We were no longer walking on a road, but on grass and dirt, and soon we entered the thin line of apple trees.

We walked for a good thirty seconds after entering the tree line before I started hearing a faint thumping noise. It became clearer as we went along; I was now able to make out the sound of leaves rustling after each thump. After another moment, I saw an orange pony that was carrying two half full buckets of apples on her back; I knew they were apples because I saw her buck a tree and watched a few apples fall and disappear from me sight into the bucket with excellent accuracy.

After the apples fell safely into the buckets, the orange pony looked over at us and smiled brightly.

"Oh, Twilight. Mighty nice seein' you here."

She spoke in a joyous tone and with a western accent as well.

"Hey Applejack, I came here to introduce a new pony in town, I'm showing him around right now."

Applejack, as Twilight announced her name to be, looked over at me with a curious look.

"This here the one?"

Twilight nodded. "Mhm."

After hearing here say that, Applejack tipped her hat forward a bit. "Why hello there, partner. Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres of Ponyville, got a name there?"

"Allard." I said.

"Well it's mighty nice to meet you, Allard; any friend of Twilight is a friend of mine."

"Nice to meet you, too."

"Would you like me to give this here fellow a tour of the farm for ya'?"

"That won't be ness-" My sentence was interrupted when Twilight put her hoof over my mouth, preventing me from talking.

"That would be great."

Applejack nodded and put the apples she had into a large wheelbarrow and rushed over to me. Twilight let go of my mouth and I looked over at her with an annoyed look, then back at Applejack.

"Well this here is the west apple field, pretty self-explanatory." Then she pointed east and I followed my gaze to where she was pointing. "Way over yonder is the east field, also self-explanatory."

I was all of a sudden wide eyed in surprise when she grabbed me and rushed elsewhere, within moments we were back at the barn.

"How the…"

"This here is the barn, most of the cows and pigs live in there and we do our best to take care of them, in return they help us as well."

She pulled me again; we were at a small field that grew carrots, lettuce, and other vegetables.

"This here is where we grow out non-apple crops. It's small but it works."

I was pulled once again; we were in front of a storage shed next to the barn.

"Our tools and barrels are stored here in the shed, along with other things used for different harvests."

Once more, pulled else ware, I wasn't sure how she was moving so quickly. We were in front of the house. In a rocking chair was the old pony I met earlier, and moving a different wheelbarrow was a large red pony that I didn't see earlier at all.

"This here is my home. That over there is Granny Smith, and the red one over there is my big brother, Big Macintosh. I'd introduce you to my little sis Apple Bloom but she's off with her friends at the moment."

I looked around, and then I nod slowly. "Well… um… nice to meet your family and all, but I think it's about time for me to go now."

She looked a bit disappointed. "Oh, come on, stay a bit longer. It's not very often that you meet new folk around here. Folk often come and go through Ponyville, but never long enough to properly meet them."

"He's right, though." Twilight said as she walked towards us, we both turned out heads to see her.

"We're in a bit of a hurry to finish the tour of Ponyville, we have a lot of business to do and I'm only giving the tour because he'll be staying for a while."

Applejack huffed a bit. "Well alright then, Twi." She turned to see me. "I guess I'll be seein' you around then, partner."

"Yeah, see you later." I said as we both turn around and began walking away.

We headed down the path again and exited the way we came, through the gate. Down the same path, we headed towards Ponyville once again, not taking long to re-enter town.

"So, where next?"

"Well, next we'll go to-" She was cut off when there was a loud voice shouting.

"LOOK OUT!"

Suddenly a blur crashed into me, just barely missing Twilight by an inch. Whatever hit me and I both tumbled down the road for a bit before stopping. I groaned in pain as I stood back up and looked over at what hit me. I saw a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane on the ground, slowly getting back onto her feet.

She looked at me and recognized me as someone she never met before.

"Sorry about that, the name's Rainbow Dash!"