AppleDash Group Collab

by DbzOrDie

Banana - UnlicensedBrony

Applejack had set out that morning to get an early start at Applebuck Season. She'd left the house with a smile on her face and a cheery swing in her step as she made her way down to the west orchard. She'd set her first basket down beneath the first tree to catch the first apples of the season. She'd kicked out with all her might, felt the familiar tremble of the tree beneath her hooves, and heard the satisfying sound of fruit falling from the branches into the waiting basket.

It was a moment she treasured, each and every year – turning around to see that first harvest of the season, reaching down and taking a bite of Sweet Apple Acres' world-renowned crop, tasting the first of the sweet apples that she'd spent all year cultivating...

This time around, she hadn't gotten as far as the tasting. She was still at the 'seeing the first harvest of the season' part. After a minute spent processing the information in front of her, another to convince herself that she wasn't having a nightmare, and one more minute of blank staring for good measure, the pieces finally fell into place.

“Dash,” she said.

She was met with silence. Unless you counted the poorly-masked snicker from one of the nearby trees. Applejack did. She grit her teeth.

“Dash,” she growled.

The snickering stopped. There was a faint rustling of leaves as Rainbow Dash poked her head out. “How did you know I was here?” she said.

“Why am I lookin' at a basket of bananas?” Applejack asked, in a level tone.

Applejack didn't look at Dash, she just kept staring at the basket, filled to the brim with the yellow fruit that was decidedly not apples. Even without looking, she could picture the look of silent terror dawning on her marefriend's face, as Dash darn well recognised the tone.

Dash dropped out of her tree and stood a 'safe' distance away as she spoke. “Hehe. Uh, okay. So, this is a little obscure, but hear me out,” she said. “Remember April Foals day, when you took me out for lunch? Then we went back to my place and you told me to meet you upstairs, 'cause you had a 'surprise' for me. And then you took a picture of my face when I saw that you'd had Pinkie paint my entire bedroom pink, with hearts? Remember how we had a good old laugh about that and then swept it under the rug?”

“You didn't speak to me for a week,” Applejack pointed out.

“O-oh, right...” Dash gulped. Applejack could practically hear the sweat beading on Dash's forehead as she spoke. “Well, I had this great idea for how to, uh, prank you back, and stuff. So I waited 'til last night, then mentioned to Discord that you wanted to, uh...”

“Wanted to what?”

“...'Mix things up', this season,” Dash said, cringing around her words. “I just asked him to change a couple of trees, but oh wow, would ya look at that, he did the whole orchard and then skipped town. Hehe. What a guy, right?”

Applejack was silent.

Dash took a couple of tentative steps closer. “...Honey? Y-you see the funny side, right? Ha ha. Right?”

Applejack slowly tilted her head up, to look into the branches of her tree. Bananas hung in place of her carefully loved and tended apples. She panned across, looking out over the entire orchard of banana-laden apple trees. Then she looked at her marefriend, whose face was held in a terrified grin.

“H-hey, how 'bout I 'make it up to you',” Dash said, shifting closer. She tried for a husky voice, but desperation made it come out as more of a broken squeak. “What d'you say we, uh, go back to the barn and I'll--”

“Rainbow Dash,” Applejack said.

“Aw, horseapples.”

“Start runnin'.”

Comments

[_That Guy_]

Consarnnit Discord. We've told you time and again not to monkey around with the Apples' apples.

Poor Dash; if it had been the one tree, she probably would have laughed.

[LucyHorseThing]

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monkey

'Cause of the bananas.