Awesome (The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well)
“You really had to do that?” Rainbow Dash asked, as she and Applejack watched the sunset over Sweet Apple Acres. Dash had an emotionally draining few days, and finding out that AJ, along with the rest of her friends, had been avoiding her to play the part of her hated rival was just the confusing cap on it. She knew she acted badly, but she still couldn't see where she had acted badly enough that they would just. . . abandon her like that.
“After that stunt ya' pulled with the picture?” Applejack said, raising an eyebrow. “You know darn well how I feel 'bout that in public. Immortalized as your friend. . . you're lucky Twilight talked me down, 'cause my plan was to immortalize your tail by nailin' it to the wall.”
Dash smiled and relaxed a little. That made more sense, she did know that AJ hated anything mushy between them in public, and she had gone a little over the line there. “So instead of nailing my tail to the wall, you just turned into a masked hero. . . remind me not to tick you off again.”
“Another fine lesson to learn.” Applejack smiled and said with a nod.
“Maybe I should have added that to my letter.” Dash grinned. “'Dear Princess Celestia, PS: I also learned that my marefriend turns to costumed heroics when I act like a jerk. Let me know if you ever need the Mysterious Mare-Do-Well, 'cause I am awesome at making Applejack mad.'”
Applejack smiled and nuzzled Dash. “Dear Princess Celestia, Today I learned that there ain't a force in Equestria that's gonna keep Dash from actin' crazy. But for some darn reason I go right on lovin' her.”
Dash returned the nuzzle and ran a hoof down AJ's side. “Dear Princess Celestia, Today I learned that Applejack looks amazing in a skin tight body suit. I hope this will be really important to certain activities later tonight.”
“I'm pretty sure the Princess don't need to know about that one.” Applejack chuckled.
“Are you kidding? Your flank looked so hot you could stop the royal guards in their tracks. She needs to have somepony keeping an eye on that. And I'll selflessly and humbly volunteer, for the good of Equestria.”
AJ paused for a moment, “So. . . my flank looked hot, or Mare-Do-Well's? There were four of us in those costumes.”
“Well, I guess you all looked pretty hot.” Dash said, smiling. Applejack's glare told her that this was the wrong answer, so she went on quickly, “But, I mean, you looked the most hot.”
“You didn't know it was me, Dash.” Applejack noted, clearly not appeased.
“Hey, before I knew it was you guys I wasn't even thinking of her flank, except how I wanted to kick it!” Dash said.
Applejack latched onto the flaw in that, with the instincts of a jealous marefriend. “So you're sayin' that you were thinkin' Twilight, Pinkie, and Fluttershy looked hot after ya' knew it was them?”
“Um, there's no good way out of this conversation, is there?” Rainbow Dash finally admitted. “Look, there are a lot of good looking ponies in the world, and some of them are our friends. But you're the one I'm in love with, and you definitely have the best flank.”
Applejack was still pouting a little, so Rainbow Dash grinned, and leaned over and whispered, "Personally, I like Kicks best, but I'm don't want to make Bucky jealous."
Applejack had to chuckle at that. “I don't rightly care if you think I got the best flank, but I'd rather you weren't checkin' out other mares, and especially not our friends.”
“Can I still check out stallions?” Dash grinned playfully.
Applejack glared.
“It was a joke!”
Applejack raised her eyebrows, “I catch you checkin' out anypony else, and you can forget 'bout Kicks and Bucky both for a long while. Got it?”
What Dash got was that AJ was jealous, just like she had been of Dash's heroics. She also got that she had not done anything wrong, she'd never so much as winked at another pony since she asked out AJ. And she could have called AJ on it, then they could have had a fight, which Dash was pretty sure she could win.
But the feeling of loneliness from the past few days came back to her, hard. The cost of winning a fight with AJ didn't seem worth it. Applejack could leave her, she was pretty sure of that now. And she couldn't leave AJ. It seemed impossible.
Dash swallowed, “Yeah. I got it. I'm sorry.”
“Well. . . good.” Applejack watched Dash for a moment, before suspicion turned to concern on her face. “You okay?”
Dash nodded and leaned against AJ. “Fine. Just fine. I was really lonely without you. Without everypony. I hate being alone.”
Applejack put a front leg around Dash, “I'm sorry, but I just couldn't take ya when you got like that. I love ya', but that don't mean I gotta put up with anythin' disrespectful.”
Rainbow Dash nodded, and hesitated before she whispered, “Applejack. . . you still think I'm awesome, right?”
“Course I do, Sugarcube! I was darn proud of ya, before you started puffin' up, and I'm proud of ya now.” AJ answered, smiling.
“Do you think Scootaloo and the other ponies in town still think I'm awesome?”
Applejack laughed, “I can promise Scoot does. But I do hope they threw away those wigs, or hats or whatever they were. That was kinda creepy.”
“Okay, yeah, I guess it was.” Dash said with a nod. “I should have had a talk with Scoot about that. But it's so cool when ponies think I'm awesome.”
Applejack smiled, “Can I tell ya' a secret? Ya' ain't allowed to tell anypony I told ya. . .”
“Pinkie promise. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. What is it?”
Applejack got closer, and Dash felt AJ's warm breath on her ear as AJ whispered “You are awesome, Rainbow Dash. That's just a fact, and anypony with a brain ain't gonna need t-shirts and autographs to remind 'em of that.”
Rainbow Dash wasn't sure if it was the feeling of Applejack's breath, or her voice, or what she said, but Dash's whole body relaxed. Applejack somehow made everything perfect, and Dash could never give this up.
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Why do I think that Dash believing "Applejack could leave her" might come up again?
love it although now rainbow cant say shes awesome anymore due to the fact that would be telling
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I know, it's almost like I know what I'm going to write more then a story in advance for once!
Sorry it was short, but I'm glad you liked it.
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Thanks!
And of course Dash can still tell people she's awesome. That would just be cruel to make her stop. She promised that she wouldn't tell anyone that AJ told her she's awesome. AJ wouldn't want word of that getting around.
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ah good i think rainbow dash would fall over dead if she didn't mention she was awesome
D'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!
Yay! Another wonderful couple of chapters. Personally, I think Dash's friends should have talked to her about her boasting problem before they made her publicly humiliate herself (they had to know how she would react to a challenge). I liked the episode, but it rubbed me the wrong way, seeing as Mare-do-well was a bit of a hypocrite, showing up to the appreciation parade and everything. Anywho, rant over, keep up the awesome writing, you're definitely one of my fave Appledash writers
I think Rainbow Dash should have been furious.
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I have said before, and I will say again, I love kissyDash's!
Thank you!
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I agree, especially considering that her friends should know by now how insecure she really is. Purposely showing up Dash is like pranking Fluttershy, it's just not cool with how you know they're going to react.
But I work with what canon gives me. Them's the ponies.
I'm glad you're enjoying it.
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I don't know. I mean, she should have been furious, but one of the things they did was hit her right in her insecurities. They left her alone and forgotten, which is pretty much Dash's greatest fear. So the way I see it, when she found out it was her friends she couldn't be mad at them without risking losing the ponies she was closest to. That makes what her friends did even worse, but it also makes her reaction understandable. You know, if you want to psycho-analyse ponies. (And who doesn't, really!?
I at least tried to give AJ a legit reason to have been willing to do that, by tying the fight from my story "Playing it Cool" to the "Immortilized as my friend" "kiss." In my stories canon, even if Dash didn't realize how she was acting in terms of ego, she knew exactly how Applejack felt about keeping their relationship private.
I still very impressed, it seems each chapter is getting better and better. Its not over the top romance, and it seems real(I may have said that before, oh well) just one question, are you going to end it or are you planning on just continuing with the third season?
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That's okay, I've said thank you before, and I'll say it again.
As far as season three, there are a couple of variables. I may or may not be into it, I might be working on a different project by then, and I have other fandoms and original fiction writing that grabs my interest sometimes. If I am interested, the progress will have to be a lot slower. I'd have to have an episode or two of lag, so that I know if one fic has to lead into the next episode, and I'd have to work with whatever episodes come up, or risk taking two or more weeks between stories (I obviously skip a lot of episodes where AJ and Dash don't have big roles, or where I can't really think of how it would impact their relationship.)
So that's a definite maybe! But I do have ideas for other projects in the mean time.
Rainbow Dash wasn't sure if it was the feeling of Applejack's breath, or her voice, or what she said, but Dash's whole body relaxed. Applejack somehow made everything perfect, and Dash could never give this up.
Screw the numerable times I've read this... it'll always pull my heartstrings
I'm rather impressed by how you made this one work. Did you write these during the season, or afterward?
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I started it just after season two ended. In fact, that's part of the reason the sequel that was supposed to cover season three crashed, because I tried to do it as the season was coming out, and I promised longer chapters, and that I wouldn't skip episodes, and that there would be more multi-chapter arcs. And my mouth is apparently way bigger than my writing ability, so that didn't work.
I've always had it on the back burner to go back to the sequel and just throw out what I wrote, and start fresh using the original recipe.
Says the cowpony who has dozens of trophies from dozens of rodeos, and who tried to skip town and work in a different one to raise money for Ponyville because she failed at the rodeo when she went last during "The Last Roundup" after a friendship lesson wrote by Twilight Sparkle in "Applebuck Season" about how
When Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttershy, and ESPECIALLY Pinkie Pie, (Cranky Doodle Donkey, anybody?), all stop craving the acceptance of their fellow ponies, and realize that the only person that really needs to accept them is themselves, then, and only then, will that episodes supposed moral bear any merit. Until that time has come to pass, though, Mare Do Well is nothing more than a shameless attempt to draw in Batman fans.
FREAKING! MARE-DO-WELL! I HATE THIS STUPID EPISODE! GAH! I'M SKIPPING THIS CHAPTER BECAUSE OF TRIGGERS!