"Okay, girls." Twilight addressed her friends gathered in a loose semicircle facing her. "The Map sent all six of us here, so it must have known we would need to utilize each of our unique strengths to execute this mission of friendship."

Rarity coughed. "You're certain this is the right place, darling? It's rather... unpleasant."

The girls had gathered outside a smallish, single-storey warehouse in one of Canterlot's seedier districts. The moon cast silvery rays on dilapidated and abandoned buildings, where no streetlights remained standing to provide illumination. A few dodgy-looking ponies skittered about just on the edges of shadows, watching and whispering. From within the warehouse, several rough, raucous voices could be heard talking and laughing. None of them sounded particularly friendly.

Twilight sighed. "The map was very clear about where we had to be." She rubbed her forehooves together. "I'm just... not quite certain why."

Before anypony could voice further complaints, Twilight went on. "But I have a plan! Like I said, we'll all need to work together for this. Rarity, you'll go in first and soften them up with your diplomatic charms."

"Naturally."

"Rainbow Dash, you can start talking to the pegasi and impressing them with tricks and stunts. That should immediately win them over."

"That's kinda racist—"

"Fluttershy, try to find the ponies secluded in corners away from the festivities. See if you can help them out."

"Um... okay. I'll try."

"Pinkie Pie, I'll need you to keep an eye out for anypony who might not be having a good time. Keep their spirits up!"

"Can-doodly-do!"

"And Applejack, you use your relatability and down to earth nature to talk to any of the stubborn ones." Twilight smiled proudly. "I'll be coordinating and organizing the whole operation. If everything goes according to my plan, I calculate a 32.33—repeating of course—percentage chance of friendship."

As soon as Applejack's name had been mentioned, Rainbow Dash had glanced over and noticed Applejack's glazed expression and thousand-yard-stare. When Twilight finished speaking, Rainbow elbowed Applejack in the ribs.

"Hey, AJ! You even listening?"

"Huh? Whazzat?" Applejack looked around, blinking, then tilted her hat forwards and began marching towards the warehouse door. "Alright, let's do this!"

She reached the door and slowed down just enough to spin and give it a savage buck with both rear hooves. "Friendship!" The door shattered and blasted into the warehouse beyond, followed swiftly by Applejack.

"O-Oh goodness." Fluttershy held two hooves over her muzzle. "She just ran in."

"Oh, jeeze, stick to the plan!" Twilight sprinted through the door a split-second behind Applejack, but could only freeze and stare at what she saw.

"Friendship!" Applejack delivered an uppercut to the first pony she saw, sending them backflipping into a pile of crates. Another nearby pony rushed her, but she spun and roundhouse kicked them through a wall. Seeing this, a group of three charged at once.

Applejack snorted and spread her hooves. "Y'all oughta be more friendly!" She leapt towards them and viciously headbutted the first pony into the ground, then planted her forehooves on his spine and front-flipped over the other two. The pair barely managed to spin around in time to each catch a hind-hoof directly to the face. They flew back in screaming arcs to impact the wall on either side of the still-open door, where a gaping Twilight Sparkle stood in stunned silence.

Applejack wasn't done. More ponies were approaching from all sides, so she preemptively launched herself into the fray with a cry of, "Friendship!" She knocked aside the first pony with a quick right hook, then ducked under the swing of another pony and uppercutted him hard enough to send him sailing into several others. A mare managed to bearhug Applejack from behind, and a stallion lined up in front of her to pummel her defenseless body. Applejack lifted her hind-legs from the ground and bucked the stallion in the stomach, sending him flying. She then swung her head back, cracking the mare's muzzle with the back of her skull. The mare dropped Applejack with a pained yelp, and Applejack quickly spun around yelling "Friendshiiiip!" and performed a massive suplex to finish her off.

Any remaining ponies had long fled the building, leaving Applejack standing alone amid a roomful of battered and unconscious bodies. She turned and beamed proudly at her friends, now assembled in a collectively-gaping group near the door.

While the rest of them were unable to find any words, Rainbow gulped dryly and quietly uttered, "Do it again."