There was no denying that Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust made the best middle school badminton team, so it surprises no one when they decide to switch gears to volleyball. But with tensions between them already at its peak, an incident at their new high school's girls volleyball tryouts gets them both removed from being able to play on the team. In order to claim back their stolen prides, the girls swear to beat each other at the beach volleyball doubles tournament at the end of the school year.
There's just one problem: Rainbow Dash needs a partner.
Enter Applejack, a hardworking farmer with natural athleticism that could prove very useful in a volleyball game. But with her family dangerously close to losing their apple farm to a pair of flashy supermarket-owning brothers, will she be able to take enough time off to play? And if so, will Rainbow Dash and Applejack be able to cooperate as a team long enough to pull off a win against Lightning Dust?

WARNING: Some AppleDash inferences. If you don't like the pairing, don't read stuff containing it. But there isn't that much and the story's not really about romance anyway. I guess that I just really wanted to write something about Applejack and Rainbow Dash working together instead of competing... They would be such a great team...

**THIS TAKES PLACE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS THE EQUESTRIA GIRLS MOVIE** (Just a few years earlier before the whole plot of the movie happened and at this time, Sunset Shimmer doesn't have any power over her classmates yet.)

An errand for the Princess that goes deep into the Everfree Forest turns sideways for Twilight Sparkle when she finds herself suddenly trapped in an asylum in a dark alternate universe where the only way to survive is to escape.
With the help of five other ponies that parallel her friends, Twilight struggles to return to her own universe, but even the world she knows is not at all what it seems...

This is my one of my first pony fanfics, so if I make a mistake, please feel free to correct me.