-Aj-

I looked down at the floor where there was a pile of plastic boxes. Each tiny box had different kinds of powder in them. I picked one up and trying to open it proved to be a challenge. I've never seen something like this before and it was already pissing me off.

"Okay girls," Nyiah brought in chips and soda in her arms, "This is Aj's first makeover, so tale it easy on her," Nyiah sat down and crossed her legs. She set down the food in the middle of all of us.

"What have you been doing as a child to where you've never had a makeover," my friends and I scowled at this girl, "Gee, sorry. No need to get all up tight about it. You act as though you're the Comma...," he voice trailed off because by her eyes, she just had a realiZation, "Oh my god! You're Commander Applejack!"

"In the flesh," I smiled.

The girl scooted up to me on her knees, "You're a lot bigger than I thought," she looked at my boobs.

I hugged them and felt embarrassed, "Yeah, I get that a lot," I looked away and blushed.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I just meant how tall you are. How tall are you?"

"Six foot ten inches," I responded.

"Wow!" she gasped, "I have always wanted to meet an Apple. Now I have," she giggled.

"Why is that little one?" I sat back down on my ass and looked at her.

"It is because my family is from a long line of generations of Air Nomads," she giggled again.

"What are the Air Nomads?"

"They are known to be the greatest Air Benders in the world; well, at least they were some time ago. Now we're just regular normal people."

"You sound as though your people have died?" I questioned.

"They have," her smile went away, "They were taken out by the Earth Summit Titans," before I could ask. she answered, "They were the Elementals that could control earth. Now since I have met the descendant of that heinous bloodline, I will inform my family to kill you right away," she giggled again as I stood up. She pressed herself as scrunched up on the floor as possible as she showed fear in her eyes, "...big..." she whimpered.

"What Family!" I shouted, "Everyone Is Dead! Besides, I Would Love To See You Try To Kill Me! I Am The Last Apple Of My Time!" I exhaled hard and slowly to calm down, "I am the last Apple of my time and I'd be damned if anyone could kill me," I scanned the faces of the other girls, "Makeover's over," I growled, "Get your shit and get the fuck home. We're done here," they quietly gathered their things and all of the make-up and left. Nyiah was the only one that stayed behind, "Don't you dare lecture me."

"I wasn't going to. I was just wanting to make sure that you'll be alright," she stood up and placed her hands on her hips.

"I'll be fine. I just can't believe it is all. My first night as trying to be normal for once gets ruined by some bitch that's only like eight. I really have tried being something I'm not, but I just can't act like the whole world's issues don't exist. I can never be a girl in my life, okay Nyiah."

"For as long as lives are being lost, I can't just sit down and have fun."

"Well, what is that something that you are?"

"I am a natural born fighter and my life has honed that ability. I am now a full scale warrior and I cannot and will not be able to have nights like these. Hanging out with friends and having a good time? The only time I'll be somewhat normal is if we can try to rebuild Ponyville right after we find the cure for the Z-Virus."

"Come with me," she reached for my hand and I offered it to her, "There's this place I found a couple of days ago that I think was calling for you."

She pulled me along and I followed like a stray puppy. She led me to the edge of the orchards where there was a dense forest of apple trees. We made our way through the dense forest as the ground steepened a lot. I had to hold on to the rough tree branches in order to keep standing. Even the tempurature fluxuated; the tempurature dropped so low that I could see my own breath. We made it to the bottom and I knew it was such because the trees opened up and revealed a clearing. In the middle of the clearing was a glowing clear pond. I could see the rocks and all of the fish swimming around because it was so clear.

"Come. Sit," she said softly and led me to the pond. We sat down and instinctevly something grasped my very soul. I closed my eyes and that's when I was transported to a place of clouds and sunlight.

-Nyiah-

When we sat down, Aj sat down with her legs crossed and with her hands in her lap. Her eyes immediately closed and they began glowing white. Apparently this place h as a lot to give her on another scale than I thought. I sat there watching her wondering what was happening with her.

-Aj-

I was sitting in front of my mother Sweetie Apple, "What is this place?" I looked around.

"This place is called the Hall of Spirits Past. This is where any Titan can speak to their previous generations for advice and guidance. So tell me, what is your problem child?"

"I don't know what am I supposed to do. People ask too much of me and I don't know how I can handle it."

"Do remember the image you saw in the water when you were five?" she asked.

"Of course I do, but it was just a dream after all. Rainbow Dash is dead."

"For now," Sweetie Apple dipped her chin, "But don't let go of that day. It will come to pass young one. If you can just hold that faith, all will you wish for shall be granted."

"Okay," I tried not to cry as I slumped my head to cover my face.

"Hey Applejack," I heard a familiar voice. I looked up and saw Dashal standing there in all white.

"Dashal!" I exclaimed as I jumped up to hug her, "Holy [beep]," the word I wanted to be was censored out.

I looked to Sweetie Apple and she smiled, "There is no need for that foul language here."

I just looked back into the eyes of Dashal, "It's good to see you," I kissed her lips.

"Its good to see you again as well," she giggled.

"So where is hall of ghouls place?"

"It is is a part of Cosmia's kingdom. I am surprised that you do not remember."

"I kinda have amnesia after what has just happened at the Nuke Reactor."

"Ah, I see," she nodded her head, "So you're forgetting a little of me?"

"It's not like that Dashal. I know I still love you. I just can't remember why," I held her hands and kissed them.

"Then we can not be together. We shall be with each other once you remember the reasons in why you love me," she kissed my cheek and I was sent back to the pond. My lungs screamed for air as I panted heavily. Nyiah was sleeping on her back when I looked to my left. I began wondering how long we have been here. It was long enough for a thin layer of frost to build up over her. I just snuggled up next to her and heated my core a little. The cold air turned humid like a sauna as Nyiah slowly woke up.

"Hey," she cooed, "How was your meditation?"

"It was amazing. I got to see Dashal again," I felt her aura weaken a little when I said that, "But don't take it the wrong way. I love you now and only you."

"I'm not taking it the wrong way," she lied. Nyiah sat up and I sat up too, "It's just that how can you fully love me if you are still hurting about Dashal's death? To me it just sounds like you're just distracting yourself."

"I am not distracting myself," I said forcefully.

"Then why can't you just let go if Dashal? She is dead, you are not."

"Don't do this," I tried not to cry.

"I have to," she stood up and I followed suit, "I will still be there for you. I will wait for you. I will wait until you learn how to let go of the past."

"I Can't Just Simply Let Go Of The Past!" I shouted.

"And why is that?" she folded her arms against her chest.

"Because," I couldn't tell her, but I wanted her to know, "I just can't. I can't let go of the past. It has something to do with my future."

"What would that be?"

"Ya see, I can't tell you that."

"Why?"

"The same fucking why! Why is it that some people have magic and others don't?" she scoffed, "You see. The why is always the hardest to explain."

"Then what should I think or feel or do right now?"

"I just wanted to tell you what I was doing. It was only good thing for me to see her. I got to say some things to her that I didn't do before. It was only for closure. But because you already jumped into the deep end, the question now comes down to how you are gonna make it up to me," I began popping my knuckles as I smirked.

"What did you have in mind?" she asked.

I pulled her in and wrapped my arm around her thin waist. I used my free hand to palm her breast. She moaned as I began kissing the side of her neck. She moaned and whimpered as I began groping her breast. I felt her nipple harden underneath my palm as I moved my lips to her jawline. Nyiah moved one hand to my breast and I stiffened a little bit.

An utter of appoval escaped my throat. Nyiah caught it and grabbed my other breast into her hand. She had both of my breasts at hand and I was losing my mind.

-Nyiah-

I had Aj's big breasts in my hands and she was trying so hard not to moan. Her stifled throat sounds were so cute. Her muffled mewls and moans as she kissed up my jaw. She took an earlobe into her mouth and I shivered. Aj moved her hands to my back. Her strong hands felt so good as she ran them up and down.

I pulled away from her and she just looked at me with a pout, "Maybe we should go to your room?" I asked her, "I am just a little cold."

Her body heat raised and it spread over to me, "Better?" she asked.

"Yeah," I lied and I forgot she could see through any lie.

"What is it really?" she seemed hurt at first.

"I just don't like making out outside is all. I mean, I know this is isolated, but still..."

"I got it," she smiled and helped me to my feet as she stood up as well.

-Twilight-

I was walking outside from the Apple house with Flash Sentry. He was trying his best flirting with me and I was trying so hard to not fall for it. I almost caved when the earth began shaking a little bit. I looked forward and there were two giants laughing as they jogged toward us.

Nyiah was running from Aj as their laughs turned into squeals of joy. The jet black hair of Nyiah's and the blonde hair of Aj's billowed behind them as they ran. Nyiah slowed to a stop before us as Aj came up behind her and hugged her, "How's it goin' half-links?" Nyiah asked. Aj whispered something into her ear and she gasped before saying, "You are such a bad girl Applejack."

"You were thinking it," Aj chuckled.

"But you said it," Nyiah laughed back.

I loved seeing Aj happy.

Then something felt weird. Aj sensed it too because it seemed as though she just zoned out. She let go of Nyiah and backed away, "Aj?" Nyiah turned around, "Is everything okay?"

Aj's ear twitched and her nostrils flared. I began smelling the scent of brimstone, "Wake up everyone!" Aj demanded, "We are on full alert!" Aj ran into the house and I ran in after her, "Dash!"

'Yes Aj,' the Dash Operating System came alive, 'What do you need?'

"I need all missiles pointed one-one southbound!" Aj grabbed an orange helmet from her helmet rack before rushing out of the door. When she left, the door closed and locked.

'You two are hereby sanctioned as needing protection,' Dash stated.

"Why?" Nyiah asked.

'Flash Sentry is still too infatuated with Twilight in order to focus with the tasks at hand. Twilight has the signs of a cold. Nyiah is the girlfriend of the Commander. She has no place in fighting.'

'That's a load of bullsjit!" Nyiah shouted as she looked at the ceiling, "I'm going to go help her and you're not stopping me."

'Hahahaha! Silly little teenager. You really don't think that I am not prepped to handle a giant like you, do you?' the OS laughed, "These walls have handled worse things than you Nyiah Hooves.'

"Go fuck yourself Dash!" Nyiah was soon met with chains. Holes in the ceiling opened and chains with cuffs on the ends wrapped themselves around the limbs of the Raven, "Hey, lemme go!"

'Not until you calm down,' the machine said sternly.

-Cadence-

I was standing talking to a young teen girl from Dragon Republic, "Hey!" I looked and saw Aj with her hand on top of her gun's holster, "You finally came Dragon Republic," Aj smiled.

"Yeah, I did," she smiled back, "My name is Leo Parde by the way. Thought you should know."

"That's a nice name. A little weird, but nice."

"Like Applejack isn't weird?" Leo walked up to Aj and shook her hand, "I want to start a new life here with you guys. I think I can be of some use."

"What can you bring to the table Miss Leo?"

"I have spent my entire life learning the fine arts of hand to hand and other fighting methods. I have knowlege of biochemistry and human anatomy. I have also the ability to control metal. So if you girls need a Blacksmith, I'm your girl."

"We could use a woman of your talents then. C'mon," Aj gave her a pat on the back.

"Mph!" Leo rolled her shoulder before rubbing it with a hand.

"Sorry," Aj shrugged, "Guess I am a little heavy handed."

"Just a little," Leo chuckled.

-Nyiah-

It has been a week and those two have been together a lot. Aj and Leo have been talking non stop about combat moves and human biology. It was like they were like the cool kids and I was the sad lonely girl that everyone forgets about.

I watched from behind as we walked down the street toward Rarity's old house. We needed some of her clothes for the younger teens. Leo and Aj were talking about Creation versus Evolution. Aj was on Evolution as Leo was on Creation. My anger festered into jealousy and I couldn't really hide it either.

"Have you ever thought about what our Titan Ancestors were like?" Leo asked.

"What do you mean?" Aj asked.

"As far as what they may have looked like or how they communicated. I bet that they didn't look anything like us," the only thing I had going for me was me being tall. I didn't have super strength nor did I have any powers of the elements. So them talking about the things I never had made me feel empty inside.

"I heard rumor that they all used to be a part of some kind of army a long time ago. Like before the time of Celestia and Luna."

"I wonder if the Canterlot Archives have that story filed somewhere," Leo and Aj both looked towards Canterlot Mountain.

"We aren't going any time soon," Aj chuckled, "Not until we have a stable base. Food, medicine, weapons, and clothes."

That's when a naked zombie came from the shadows. Leo and I drew our weapons as Aj whipped around and stepped in front of us, "Wait! Friend! She is a friend!" Aj jogged up to the zombie and found an old blanket to wrap around the zombie. The zombie smiled as she pulled the hems around her body.

The two walked back over to us with our guns still raised, "Easy girls, put the guns down. This is Kate. Her and her brother saved my ass on a couple of occasions. Speaking of whom, where is Grum?" Aj looked around.

"I'm trying to find his left foot. He says he can..." her voice trailed off when we heard the sound of adult laughter. We looked in the direction Kate came and sure enough, there was a foot and ankle hopping away. It was being chased by a hopping laughing zombie, "Grruuum!" Kate giggled as she ran up to the foot and caught it. Grum sat down when Kate handed it to him. Grum popped the ankle back into place and the skin seemed perfectly back together. Grum looked over at us and gave a stupid crooked smile.

"Sorry about him," Aj told me, "He is a little slow."

Grum stood up as I finally lowered my weapon. He walked all the way up to me and he stood a head shorter than I. He wrapped his arms around me and hugged me, "Gruuum, goooood."

I just looked at Aj wide eyed, "It's okay, he won't hurt you. Think of him as a little kid. He won't hurt you," Aj explained.

I hugged the zombie back and he hummed in happiness, "They're not your typical zombie," Leo stated.

"Nah. They are hybrids. Their genese were spliced with the Z-Virus and other genes."

"Like what?" Leo looked into the eyes of Kate.

"Mine," Aj cleared her throat, "Not against my will mind you. When I was younger, I went to a doctor and there he took a sample of my blood and sent it it the BioChem Lab. That is where these two were created."

"So you guys are human and zombie. The gentetic balancing system in your guys' bodies must he incredible. I wonder how your human half withstands the bombardment of your Z-Cells."

"Our bodies actually create enough of the zombie antidote to keep our zombie side from taking over."

"Do you mind if we take samples? I mean, I know you two must have gone through a lot of testing. So only if you want to that is."

"I don't mind it. The tests that were performed on us were brutal and only for to gain the upperhand against Equestrian enemies. It would be nice if we were used for good."

"You two are good. You saved my sister and babysat her. On top of that, you two saved me. So if you two aren't the good guys, then I dunno what the definition of good guys is then."

"So I'm assuming that you two have a healing agent of some sorts? Wait!" Leo shot up and looked at Aj, "If these two are a combination of the Z-Virus and Aj, what were those large zombies made out of?"

"The same thing," Kate sadly said, "We were built for infiltrating; those guys were built for combat. It is sad because they were our brothers," her face seemed to light up, "Then that means Aj is our mother sort of."

"Well if this isn't just peachy," I pushed Grum off of me, "All of you have special powers and I don't have a single one."

"Is that why you've been so agitated lately? Because you're feeling left out?" Aj walked up to me.

"Yes," I crossed my arms, "All of you are so gifted and I'm just me. I'm just normal."

"You don't need powers to make you special Nyiah. Sometimes I want to be powerless. I just want to be normal. Your gift is to remind people that one does not need all the spinning rims to make you better."

"You only say that because you have powers. You're the cool kids and I'm just that bland person of the group. The loner. You and Leo talk about all this smart stuff and I'm just trying to keep up. I wasn't gifted to even be smart."

"You have the best aim out if all of us," Leo mentioned.

"And only that!" I shouted.

"You both have years of mastering fighting and also have the abilities to control differing elements," the thing that I noticed was the fact that the more upset I became the more I felt power being drawn to me, "I'm done being your sidekick Applejack!" when I shouted that, something crackled and hit me in the arm. I flinched and fell to a knee thinking that pain would soon grip me, but I was wrong. I looked at my arm and saw that it looked as though my sleeve had been burnt off, "What the hell just happened?" I snapped my eyes back at Aj. It looked as though she had just seen a ghost.

She took a step forward and said, "Oh yeah? You don't wanna be a sidekick?" I stood back up and prepared myself to attack her, "Well you're only good as a sidekick, you Sideliner!"

"That's It!" I balled a fist and threw it. As I did, electricity shot into my arm and engulfed my fist in white. Aj dodged my punch and I stumbled forward. The electricity faded as I let go of my rage to replace it with curiosity.

"Took you long enough," Aj said as I turned around to look at my arm.

"What just happened?"

"That my dear Nyiah, was the element you have just called into appearance. Every single time you walked into a room, the lights flickered or static charge would leave your body."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that your primary element is Lightning and I find that very cool."

"What's yours again?"

"Mine is Fire and my secondary is Earth. Leo's is Metal first and Earth second."

"Why haven't you said anything to me before?"

"Because it seemed as though you didn't want to. So in turn, I had just left it alone until now. You were never trying to deny yourself of your powers, you were trying to deny the normalcy of who you think you are. You have just said that you wanted to be something more, yet you haven't tried being something more. You think that because all of these good things happen to other people means that you're not worthy of having any powers."

"I don't need you to patronize me Applejack! All I need is answers! What am I?"

"You are the bender of Lightning and I want you to just calm down."

"Don't you dare to tell me to calm down!"

-Aj-

I saw Nyiah charge herself with all of the electricity that was sapped from all of the lamp posts and from my helmet that was latched onto my hip. A ball of white energy formed in her gaping maw before it shot out. I didn't have time to react and I was simply just engulfed in pain. The explosion caused me to be flown back.

I turned my body and I was heading out of the city and toward Cloudsdale, "Dammit!" I said when I crashed into a building. It caused me to be flung into other buildings. I kept crashing into and through them. I landed hard onto concrete with a slid. I laid there for a few seconds before the gravel in my mouth got the better of me. I pushed myself onto my hands and knees and coughed up rocks.

I finally stood up and saw that I happened to land at the base of Cloudsdale and into the middle of a horde of zombies, "Ah, great," I rolled my eyes and shook my head.

I was getting ready to fight before I heard the feint sound of a sniper rifle being cocked before the heads of the zombies exploded. I just raised my hands as I scanned all the highpoints of Cloudsdale's Base Town. I finally caught the shimmer of a red dot far off in the distance; but close enough for me to yell, "Whoever You Are, I Am Unarmed!" I turned around and got down on my knees as I placed my hands on the back of my head. It was painful because of

A couple minutes later, "Who are you?" I heard behind me.

"I am Commander Applejack," thought I'd never use that to get me out of a sticky situation, "Current Commander-in-Chief."

"Why don't you prove it little Miss Commander?" a man walked around to my face and gave me a toothy grin, "What a purty one you are, Commander?" I knew that this wasn't going to end well for me at all, "Cuff her lads!" he looked behind me to say. I stood up and he stepped back. Fear struck his eyes and I had him where I wanted him, "What the hell are you?" he asked.

"I am Commander Applejack and leader of Equestria! And I will be dammed if I am to be put in chains! I have seen too much and have endured too much for a mewling quim such as yourself to bind me!"

I felt a sharp pain hit the center of my back, "Rrrraaaaaagh!" I was shoved forward at the force and used my forearms to keep myself up against the wall I slammed into.

"Hit her again!" I heard the man shout, "Hit her again!"

I felt another shot to the back and that's when I allowed my rage to take me; to fully take me. I turned around and saw a shaking teen with a gun. He looked up at me as what felt like acid dripping into my mind. I felt my muscles stretching and it made me feel uncomfortable, "You should be running," I told him. He slowly set down the gun and ran away.