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// Moment - bahatumay 
// Story: AppleDash Group Collab 
// by DbzOrDie 
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It was a brief moment, really. The tiniest of moments. One of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of moments.

It was Rainbow's absolute favorite.

She was hoping to see it again today. She hid a smile as she pushed the bushels with her head back to the farmhouse.

She arrived and knocked on the door.

Applejack opened it. Her eyebrows raised. “Well, hey there, Rainbow,” she said. “What brings you here today?” She glanced back at the clock on the wall, double checking what she already knew. “And so early, too?”

“I found these,” Rainbow said, gesturing at the bushel in front of her. “Figured you'd want to be the first.”

Applejack squinted. “Are those… zap apples?” she asked. “Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit.”

“You go first,” Rainbow said.

Applejack picked one up. “Well, thank you, sugarcube,” she said reverently. She took a bite of the apple. The juicy, waxy, dripping…

Wait.

Applejack pulled back. Though the apple was colorful, it had not remained so; the colors had washed off as if they had been…

“Paint?!”

There it was. That moment when she realized she had been pranked. Her face grew red, her nose scrunched up, and her tail flicked erratically.

She looked so cute for that split second.

And then Rainbow had to quite literally flee for her life.  

“Rainbow Dash!” Applejack called after her as she flew away, giggling uncontrollably.

Applejack threw her hat to the ground. “I see you again I'm shoving all those apples down your throat see who's laughing then,” she grumbled under her breath as she returned back inside.

But there also might have been the tiniest smile there, too.