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Applejack opened her eyes. She was in a smallish room with hospital beds everywhere, and she was lying on a hospital bed, just like a couple of other ponies in the room. Her back right leg was in a sling, and there was a nice looking nurse standing next to the bed. Wait. Wasn't I supposed to be dead, she thought.
"I'm glad you're awake," the nurse said, "You're just in time to see your cast get taken off."
"Why am I alive?" Applejack asked.
"You'll find out when you get there," the nurse answered as she took the cast off, "It's been two days since you 'died.' I'm just glad you've woken up. Be thankful that our doctors could create a medicine to heal your leg, almost immediately." Applejack got up out of the bed on the nurses instructions. "Be careful, your leg might still be tender."
"What's going on?" Applejack asked. The nurse led her to a large room with a bunch of ponies sitting around a table.
"I can't go from here," the nurse answered, "I don't have high enough access." Applejack walked to an open seat next to a stallion with dark brown fur. The stallion had a light brown mane, and glasses. "Hello," Applejack said to the stallion.
"Hi," the stallion answered, "My name is Redwall. I'm in charge of making and classifying weaponry." Redwall looked toward the head of the table. The seat was very large, and looked quite important, but the chair was empty. "I think the meeting's about to start."
The door opened and a tall pink mare with a unicorn horn and pegasus wings walked in. Applejack had seen her somewhere before, but she couldn't put her finger on it. The only thing she could think of was Pinkie Pie burning alive. Her screams of pain ran through Applejack's head. "No. Don't think about it," she whispered to herself.
"I'm glad to see that you're alive," the mare said. She was referring to Applejack. All of the ponies except for Applejack saluted.
"What are you doing?" Redwall whispered, "That's President Cadence."
Cadence.
"Hello?" Redwall asked, "Are you even listening?"
"Cadence!" Applejack shouted. She jumped out of her seat, ran toward Cadence, and hugged the mare tightly. Cadence hugged back. "I've missed you so much!"
"So have I," Cadence said, "But we can talk later, we have a meeting to attend to." Applejack turned and saw all of the ponies looking impatiently at her. She went back to her seat, next to Redwall, who was straightening the papers she must have blown away by running to Cadence.
"Sorry," Applejack slumped in her seat, "What's going on? I was just in the games!"
"The Capitol thinks that you are dead," Redwall answered, "That way, we can use you for the rebellion."
"Excuse me?" Applejack answered, "I never signed up for this."
"Let me put it in terms you would understand," a pink mare across the table answered, "This here, is the rebellion against the Capitol. We have ponies on the inside, playing their role as gamemakers. One of them was a changeling, and she got put into the games. But we still have ponies in there, not as changelings, but regular ponies."
"Where are you going with this?" Applejack asked.
"I'm getting to you, be patient," the mare said kindly, "The gamemakers that we have on the inside created certain parts of the arena that we can use for the rebellion. We noticed that you, Applejack, have certain traits that you can use for leadership, so we created the ash. The ash would make you appear dead to everyone, even the Capitol, but you'd still be alive. Obviously, it worked. We also meant for your friends Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy to suffocate on the ash, but the lava got to them first. We were also looking at another pony. Rainbowdash. Both of you need training, but I would handle that."
"I'd expect so, General Cheerilee," President Cadence said, "Considering you train all of the new recruits."
"Then why are you a general?" Applejack asked.
"I went insane from all of the violence, so I had to go to rehab. The safest way for me to help, but not bring back horrible memories is to train recruits," General Cheerilee answered, "But I was a general at one point. The name just stuck." Cheerilee continued on her story, "Back to the games. The plan is, for Doctor Whooves to get out of there, by other means, and Rainbowdash to win. That's the idea, anyway. So if all goes according to plan, Rainbowdash will be your new ally."
Rainbowdash. She's the one pony who's already gotten the most kills. That heartless monster, Applejack thought, but maybe not. Maybe she can be helpful to us. Maybe. Applejack got up, "Can I leave? I've heard enough."
"Of course," President Cadence answered, "I'll make sure that you are informed of the next meeting."
"Okay," Applejack left the room as the ponies started talking about weapons supply or something. Applejack found a television in the room outside, it was playing the games. Rainbowdash was onscreen at the moment, there was mist all around her, and she was freaking out. Screaming something about apologies, and such. Could this really be someone who Applejack could trust? It didn't matter. If Applejack was going to do this rebellion thing, which she most definitely was, then she would have to accept Rainbowdash as her new ally.
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