

Twilight Sparkle suggests infiltrating the apples' ranks with a spy, and she uses a spell to temporarily turn Pinkie Pie into an apple.

The Mane Six gather in secret in Fluttershy's cottage cellar to come up with a plan to stop the apples, but Fluttershy's animal friends have been unable to gather information. Mayor Mare is forced to surrender Ponyville to the apple leader, and the ponies live under the apples' strict rule as they prepare to spread out and take over other cities. The apples' leader orders them to attack Ponyville, and they seize complete control of the town by nightfall. Before the Mane Six can warn the rest of Ponyville of this danger, the apples' sheer numbers overwhelm them, and they are quickly captured as well. When the ponies go to Sweet Apple Acres to check up on Applejack, they discover that she and her family have been captured and enslaved by the apples. Unbeknownst to the ponies, more living apples appear to take Spike prisoner. The next day, the rest of the Mane Six, Spike, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo have a lunch outing and notice Applejack has yet to arrive. The apples, affected by the magic of the meteorites, suddenly come to life and swarm over Applejack. When Applejack goes to investigate, she notices apples falling out of the trees earlier than they're expected to. A thousand years later, the meteorites fall to the earth and crash outside Sweet Apple Acres in the middle of the night.

One thousand years ago, when Princess Celestia banished Nightmare Moon to the moon, remnants of their battle-meteorites tainted by Nightmare Moon's magic-drifted through space.
