Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
Rainbow Dash's ears tickled with laughter. She looked over from where she perched in a dead tree along the edge of the Everfree Forest.
Stu and Applejack were just finished with packing up the last empty baskets into the apple cart. Most of the pegasi had flown away, leaving Rainbow and a few of the Cloudsdale Weather clerks lingering along the woodland fringes.
"Hah hah hah!" Applejack guffawed, waving a hoof. "Stop it! That's too much!"
Stu smirked. "Well, it's a proven fact that pegasus flight formations are always ruined by spontaneous flatulence!"
"Hahah... I simply refuse to believe that hogwash!"
"Pffft! You'd wish for hogwash instead! Believe me! Have you ever smelled a fart flying into your nose at eighty-five miles per hour?"
"Snkkkt—hahaha! Good lordy, Stu..."
"This one time, at flight camp, they let us eat baked beans for lunch. Nopony could fly straight for a solid three hours afterwards! And believe me! We tried!"
"Hahahaha... whew..."
"I think we would have been a lot better off if we weren't practicing wingponying that day. Yeesh... I got to know my flight mate's insides pretty well that afternoon. But hey... that's what you get when living in a cloud. Just one big... floating water fart."
"Snkkkt... heehee... Celestia spare us all..."
"Heh heh heh..."
Rainbow Dash's nose scrunched and unscrunched. She gazed deep into the Everfree Forest... gnashed her teeth... then flapped her wings. Fwooosh! She hovered above the wagon, suddenly sporting a smile. "Say... uhm... hey, Applejack. Do you... y'know..." She gestured at the cart. "Need help pulling that home or anything?"
"Hahahah... nah, sugarcube," Applejack said. "We got it just fine."
"Oh... erm..." Rainbow gulped. "You do, huh?"
"Besides... I ain't particularly in a hurry to get back to Sweet Apple Acres," she said as she hitched herself to the front of the cart. "It's such a nice... cool... breezy evenin'. Stu and I were fixin' to just stroll along and gab for a bit." She looked aside. "If that's okay with you."
"Oh! I've got nowhere else to be!" Stu smirked. "You know... living in Ponyville has given me a new appreciation for what it means to just... trot places and get a feel for one's surroundings."
"Alright, T.S. Hayliot. Nobody was askin' ya to get all poetic." Applejack rolled her eyes. A twitch of her ears, and she smiled up at the other pegasus. "Yer welcome to join us, if you want."
"Join... you...?"
"Yeah! I mean... shucks..." Applejack adjusted her hat with a smirk. "Feels like ages since we caught up! I've been busy... you've been busy..."
"I've been busy too!" Stu said with a grin.
"Erm..." Rainbow winced. "You haven't... both been busy, have you?"
"Huh?"
"I mean!" Thwooosh! Rainbow Dash flew down and sat in the cart, situating herself between Applejack and Stu. "Sounds awesome! Let's stroll back to town together!" The hint of a devilish smirk. "...catch up... all three of us."
An hour and a half later...
Rainbow Dash's smile was gone, replaced with a dull, drooping muzzle.
Her ears ached from Applejack and Stu chatting and laughing on either side of her as they rolled down the dirt path that skirted the edge of town.
"Hah hah hah!" Applejack grinned, looking over Rainbow Dash's head. "And so... when the rich, hoity toity businessstallion from Upper Manehattan asked me who did my mane, I was all 'You want it? I can cut it off for ya!'"
"Hahahaha!" Stu held a hoof over his chest. He smirked over Rainbow Dash's shoulder. "Yeesh, you didn't hold back when you were a kid?"
"I-I know!" Applejack wiped a tear from her eye, smirking. "Eheheh... Auntie Orange tells me that I even grabbed a carving knife and tried cuttin' my hair off for the feller."
"Whoah! You mean you don't even remember it?"
Rainbow looked aside as Applejack replied.
"Pffft! I was tinier than a pile of apple-seeds at the time! Almost everythang I remember about that trip to Manehattan was just how plum homesick I was."
Rainbow looked to the other side as Stu spoke.
"Well, no wonder you were distracted. Did you end up giving your mane to him?"
"Pfft! Of course not. But when next summer came, Granny Smith sent me to Camp Friendship instead of Manehattan. Boy, that sure did keep me occupied. And I kept my mane too!"
"Camp Friendship, huh? Did you meet anypony special there?"
"Eenope!" Applejack smiled over Rainbow Dash's head. "How about you, Stu? Ever did anything embarrassing as a colt?"
"Erm... well." Stu brushed a hoof through his mane. His eyes twinkled from the starlight above. "When I was super... super little, I might have accidentally touched the exhaust pipe of a cloud-making machine."
"Get out of town!" Applejack giggled. "Why on earth would you have done such a thing?"
"I dunno! I got second degree burns all over!" Stu chuckled dryly. "Had to wear a sock over my fetlock for a month so I wouldn't hurt myself while trotting."
"Hahahah... awwwwwwwwww..."
"Heh. It sounds cute. You ask me, it was just plain stupid."
"Yeah, well, stupid can be cute, y'know."
"Heheheh..."
"Heh heh heh..."
"Uhm..." Rainbow Dash cleared her throat, ears perking up. "This one time... I... uh... outflew another colt so fast that I sent his body slamming violently through a column of sky marble! Heheh! Heh..."
Applejack blinked.
Stu winced. "That... that sounds... erm..." He cleared his throat. "...adventurous?"
"He wore a neckbrace for half-a-year!" Rainbow's voice cracked. "That's... that's cute, right?"
"Ehhh... uhm... I suppose..." Applejack wheezed.
Stu blinked. "Was it a pink neckbrace?"
"Err..." Rainbow fidgeted where she sat on the wagon. "I don't remember."
"Huh. Well then." Applejack glanced forward—then suddenly brightened. "Oh! I just remembered something?"
"What's that, AJ?" Stu asked.
"Heheh... this one time—according to Auntie Orange—I mistook the apartment's ironing board for a bed. So I slept in it one night, with a blanket and everythang, y'know?"
"Go on..."
"Well... eheheh... reckon this next part is plum embarrasin'..."
"Honesty never hurt you before, huh?"
"Well, as a wee little filly, I always had... erm... trouble holding it in at night..."
"Oh no..."
"And... to make a long story short... when Uncle Orange went to iron his workshirt the next morning..."
"Oh goddess—snkkkt—"
"I swear! It's a miracle the whole apartment complex didn't smell it! Snkkkt—hah hah hah! Ohhhhhhhh heavens to betsy, I did so many silly little thangs. It's downright crazy I made it to adulthood in one piece."
Rainbow Dash opened her mouth—
"Say! That reminds me of this one time I had to babysit for my cousin's infant one week in Las Pegasus."
"Oh gosh. Do I wanna hear this story?"
"I dunno. Do you?"
"Trick question! Hah! Lay it on me, Stu!"
Rainbow Dash stifled a groan. She slumped until she rested her chin on two hooves. Meanwhile, Stu and Applejack continued their aching conversation directly over her skull.
"So, you see, I was in Las Pegasus for the week and my family caught wind of it. So, naturally, they asked me to look after their little one when all I expected to do was hang out at the casinos and try my luck. But then out of nowhere—"
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I'm imagining Rainbow doing this 90% of the time during this arc, I really am:
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Exception, of course, being this chapter.
Welp. AU, everyone.
Well . . . Applejack and Stu seem to be getting along fabulously
This chapter name... Goddess.....
Rainbow is best third wheel.
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...huh.
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Well, at this point, I'm assuming the cuddling at the end is between Stu and AJ
RD just seems awkward around them both, which doesn't make for great marefriend material silly dashie.
Seriously though, I'm not even sure I can imagine RD and AJ hooking up at the end of this, nothing so far has pointed to it...
6659778 I dont know why, but I find that extreamly adorble.
~ADG
Poor Rainbow.........
It'd serve BOTH of 'em right if Dash just suddenly said, "Ya know what? I've got better things to do than sit and listen to you two laugh. See ya later!"
Then she'd take off, leaving both of them with their mouths hanging open is shock.
Honestly, I don't know who I'm losing patience with more; Rainbow, for being too danged afraid to tell Applejack how she feels; AJ for being so darned clueless; Stu for sticking his muzzle in where it doesn't belong, or.........
Or the author, for drawing this out for so long and making Dash (and by extension, all of us) suffer the uncertainty of she's gonna finally win her mare or not.
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Probably because it is. =P
Ugh this is so painful to read, but Dash definitely brought it on herself.
Am I the only one sensing something off about Applejack? I mean:
It's almost passive-aggressive, isn't it? Is it the hurt Rarity was alluding to, or something else? Or am I looking too closely?
Also:
Dayum.
Oh, yes. Third-wheel. That's always fun.
6659983 It'd serve em both right as well since it was AJ who invited her along and is not even making any attempt at including Dash in the conversation.
For what's supposed to be them catching up, she's not really making an effort to do any catching up.
Also, I'm amazed no one else has posted this yet, but just seeing the chapter title.. now I've got this song stuck in my head.
There's only one possible explanation: this AJ is really a changeling, and Stu is working with Chrysalis!
Get a clue, Dash! Only you can defeat them!!
And I've finally finally finally caught up!
Now begins the interminable wait for updates...
6660187 Thank you, and my point exactly.
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And AJ, being the ever honest one, should know better than to leave her "best friend" out of the equation. It's goddamned rude. It's like when my mom and sister come to my room and talk among themselves and force me to kick them out. If you're not adding the other person in the convo, chances are you'll end up looking like an asshole.
"Huh. Well then." Applejack glanced forward—then suddenly brightened. "Oh! I just remembered something?"
"What's that, AJ?" Stu asked.
"That I'm starting to be a huuuuuuuuuge jerk."
Oh... my... god... Could Applejack be anymore of a goddamn ***** you don't invite someone along to talk and then just ignore them... i detect bullshitery and I'm still positive Stu is going to be evil... maybe a changeling or something.
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I know that feel, Dash.
Welp, I'm gonna take a nap. Wake me when this extended torture session is over. Zzz...
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As long as AJ is happy with whomever she hooks up with, I don't care who it is.
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Blaming AJ for being clueless is silly. Maybe she's been expecting someone to court her first and if Dash wants to keep quiet, that's on her.
6660656 Well put, on all points, hun.
That's what I was seeing, as well.
Dangit, AJ!
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I could see it, Stu is just a little too nice and Applejack is practically all over him a little too quickly. Then again, who really knows what happened while Rainbow's been risking her life for Apple Bloom.
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No, you're right, something is a bit off here. It does seem like the rest of the mane six have noticed Rainbow's absence but don't want to confront her just yet about it. Twilight's probably scheduled an intervention and is making everyone keep quiet about it.
Damnit, you.
No. Not in the slightest. Sorry, RD. Better luck next time.
Dash... STAHP. Your likability is dropping like as stone. Meanwhile, Stu and AJ seem to have pretty good chemistry. I can't help but feel like they'd be good together.
This arc. This is not the "awwww, oh noes, i wanna give her a hug" kind of depression. This is the more realistic kind.
"And to think, he could have completely avoided this terrible fate by not flirting with my crush. Isn't that interesting, Stu? "
I relate so painfully.