"You're not going to stop until I agree, are you?" asked an orange pony with a hat on her head while walking in front of a blue pegasus who was hovering near her. They were walking near one of the barns of Sweet Apple Acres.
"You should have said yes the first time," answered the rainbow maned pegasus as she kicked the wall of the barn, causing a bucket to fall from the ceiling, dropping its contents on the cowpony mare, covering her in green paint.
"YOU! CHEATER!" yelled the mare in question.
Rainbow Dash almost laughed herself to tears, but stopped abruptly at Applejack's outburst. "I did not cheat!" She landed and looked at Applejack, wings flared as if to challenge her.
"Then how do you explain the paint?" demanded Applejack.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MURAL PAINTERS, YAY!" came a scream from somewhere nearby.
"See? It wasn't me," said Rainbow, glaring.
"And you stole a bucket of paint?" questioned Applejack, glaring right back.
"I've been near you the whole time. Besides, I saw it hanging over you," said Rainbow.
"That's a lie!"
"Is not!"
"This is obviously a prank and I know you had something to do with it!"
"It is not!" yelled Rainbow.
"It is-" started Applejack, before she was cut off by a voice nearby.
"Sweetie Belle! Where did you leave the green paint?" asked Apple Bloom. "Oh! Hi Applejack!" She looked around to where her big sister was standing. "Hey, what are you doing covered... in... green... paint...?" Her face paled as she managed to squeak out the last few words.
AJ struggled to keep the anger out of her voice. "Apple Bloom!"
"Hi Applejack, hi Rainbow Dash! What are you guys doing here?" asked Sweetie Belle, who had followed Apple Bloom in search of the missing green paint.
"Rainbow Dash is here!" yelled an excited orange filly.
"Hey girls," said Rainbow, lifting a hoof to point at Applejack. "You should be more careful with that stuff."
The three crusaders paled and shared a glance and yelled "Sorry Applejack!" before fleeing the scene.
Applejack tried to scrape some of the paint from her fur. “Why’d they have to go and try paintin’ today, while I’m around?”
“It’s not that bad,” said Rainbow, trying to reassure her friend.
“And why not?”
“Because! Now you have an excuse to take a day off!” Rainbow Dash grinned and hovered over Applejack.
“I suppose you’re right,” said Applejack resignedly.
“Awesome!” exclaimed Rainbow, doing a victory dance in the air. “Come on AJ! Why don’t we go go get all this paint off of you? I think a nice bath will do.”
Rainbow started towards the house, but stopped when she noticed Applejack hadn’t followed. “Aren't you coming?” she asked Applejack, turning her head back to look at her with a raised eyebrow.
When Applejack still didn’t move, Rainbow asked, “What? Do you want me to join you?”
“No, not this time,” said Applejack.
“You suuuure?” taunted Rainbow.
“Even if that was an invitation for… certain things…”
Rainbow hovered closer to Applejack, just enough to almost touch her. “I don't want to—”
Before she could finish, Applejack launched herself at Rainbow, tackling her to the ground, spreading the paint all over her marefriend.
“AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!” screamed Rainbow Dash as she tried, and failed, to move the cowpony mare off of her before more damage could be done to her wings. She was pinned.
“Now you have to take a bath, too,” said Applejack with a grin as she started towards the house.
“AH! MY WINGS!” yelled Rainbow as she took off towards the house, leaving Applejack in the dust.
After the initial surprise, Applejack started to run after Rainbow Dash to prevent her marefriend from redecorating the bathroom… again.