"A tentacle monster!" screamed Pinkie Pie. "Everypony run!"

But its tentacles were already curled around the ponies' legs. Rainbow Dash tried to fly out of their grasp, but they gripped her tight. "I can't move!"

Rarity lay untouched on the ground. She put her hoof to her forehead. "Oh no! I sure hope a tentacle monster isn't going to capture me!" she moaned. As tentacles lifted the other ponies from the ground and splayed their limbs, she said, "Ahem! I said, I sure hope a tentacle monster isn't going to capture me!"

Twilight called, "I'll get us out of this!" Her horn glowed, but tentacles whipped around it. Twilight grit her teeth and thrashed. "It's got me," she croaked. "I'm sorry!"

"Don' worry!" shouted Applejack. "Ah got a plan!"

Rarity shouted, "I am a pony, and I am right here! And I really would not like to be captured by a tentacle monster, hint, hint!" When the tentacles continued to ignore her, Rarity became indignant. "This is the kind of insult I will not stand for!" she declared, galloping around and smacking tentacles.

"Rarity, calm down and lemme take care of it!" said Applejack.

"I will not! If I don't deserve to be violated by tentacles, then nopony does!"

Applejack strained her cloaca toward a tentacle Rarity had just struck, muttering, "Ah just—gotta—get it—right—ah!—there!" as she slipped the tip inside. "Let's see what ya think of this!"

Her cloaca pulsed, jerking the tentacle inside. The monster, surprised, froze for a moment. Applejack's cloaca pulsed again and sucked in the tentacle almost to its base.

The monster dropped the ponies. Four of them crashed to the ground, but Applejack landed on the monster's body. She squatted and yelled, "Don' think ya can get away!"

The tentacles tried to shove Applejack off, but with a grunt and a mighty squeeze from her cloaca, she pulled half the monster inside her. The monster flailed, grasping at tree branches and rocks. Sweat beaded on Applejack's brow as her cloaca stretched. With a pop, the monster vanished inside.

The other ponies gaped at Applejack. "What just happened?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"Ah trapped it," said Applejack.

"Um, why?" asked Pinkie Pie.

"It was gonna, um—"

"Gonna?"

"Well, y'know..."

"Yes?"

"Yeah. It was."

Twilight said, "Duh. Why do you think we're here?"

Applejack wrinkled her brow. "To stop it?"

Pinkie Pie gasped. "Did nopony tell you?"

"Ah thought we was on a secret mission."

Fluttershy said, "Last month I found a tentacle monster in the Everfree Forest. He was the sweetest, most darling little thing." Her voice dropped to a whisper. "And some of us got to talking, and we all wanted to, and he said he would..."

"Would what?"

Rainbow Dash blurted, "It's called 'roleplay.'"

Applejack's eyes bugged out. "Y'all was actin'?"

Fluttershy said, "He would never harm anypony."

"Well, this is awkward." Applejack bit her lip and rocked on her hooves. "Guess Ah oughtta let him out." She reached into her cloaca and tugged. A tentacle popped out, then another, and soon the whole monster.

The monster cowered. Fluttershy said, "We're sorry. We had a misunderstanding." It shrank behind a tree.

Rarity harrumphed. "We certainly did." She grabbed the monster and spanked him. "You were a naughty monster! I was helpless, and you didn't even touch me! Bad monster!" She spanked him again. "Bad! Bad!"

Applejack held her hat in her hoof and lowered her head. She said, "We kinda got off on the wrong hoof. Ah'm sorry. Ah shouldn'a done that. And Ah'll understand if ya can't forgive me, but, well"—she faced away from it and raised her tail—"Ah'm just a helpless pony all by myself in the scary forest. Ah'm weak an' vulnerable, an' Ah couldn't possibly fight off a—" She suddenly squealed. "Oooh, that's good—Ah mean, help!"