AppleDash Group Collab

by DbzOrDie

Unsee - Tyro

“Well sweet, sassy molassey, would ya look at this place?”

Rainbow resisted the urge to squee with excitement. One of the first things she had been looking forward to doing after becoming an official Wonderbolt, was to bring her marefriend up to the academy and properly show her around. And judging from her reaction, it was safe to say Applejack was impressed.

“So how’s about we mosey on over to the mess hall and get something to eat?” Applejack was saying. “I’m so hungry I swear I could eat three whole bales o’ hay!”

“Yeah, yeah in a sec,” Rainbow cut her off, “but first you gotta see the coolest part of the compound!”

Without waiting for an answer, Dash picked A.J up by the armpits, ignoring all protests, and flew her over to the barracks. There might technically not have been any need to do so, the barracks were on the same cloud as the one they had started on after all, but darn it, she was excited! She couldn’t wait for Applejack to see everything!

“Aaaand this locker right here belongs to, oh I don’t know, me! How cool is this?” Rainbow stood proudly next to her locker, eagerly waiting for Applejack’s seal of approval. The farmgirl chuckled and leaned forward from her seat on the locker room bench.

“Well lookee there, gotcha name on it an’ everythin’!”

“You know it! They get these name plates specially made! Nothing but the best, for the best of the best-“

“Hehe.” Applejack cut her off with a laugh. ”You get your own personal locker and you’re still too dang lazy to lock it, huh?”

“Huh?”

Applejack got up from the bench and moved forward. She stuck a hoof out, pointing at the padlock lazily hanging off the door by its unlocked hook. “So whatcha keep in this thing anyhow?”

“What? No! Wait, don’t-“

It was too late. Rainbow tried to stop her but Applejack’s curiosity had got the better of her. She reached out and swung open the door, casually ducking past Rainbow’s flailing attempts to stop her from seeing whatever was in there.

“Hoowhee, would ya look at this!” Applejack pulled out a bomber jacket, crisp, new and adorned with flight badges. “They sure give you some fancy gear in this place!”

“Heh, yeah they sure do!” Rainbow sweated. “So hey, how about we head over to the mess hall now? I hear they’re serving cabbage soup today! You know how you love cabbage soup!”

Rainbow made a grab for the bomber jacket, but Applejack pulled away. Clearly sensing that something was up, she started looking over the garment, trying to find what Rainbow was trying to hide.

“No! She can’t see it! She can’t, she-“

“Hey, what’s this badge right here for?”

“She saw it...”

Rainbow sat down in defeat. A.J had seen it. There was no way to make her unsee it.

“Uh, this looks like a picture of your Cutie Mark-“

“Crashing into a sign, I know.” Rainbow sighed heavily and looked down at the floor. This seemed to catch Applejack’s attention.

“Hey there...” A.J sidled up to her and laid a hoof on her shoulder. “You okay partner?”

“Why’d you have to go and look at that stupid badge? Why’d they have to go and put it on the stupid jacket?”

“Aw Sugar, is this about that nickname thing again? I thought you were past that.”

“I am! Really, I am, I just... I hate that stupid name so much!”

“Aw come on now, it’s just a name. So what?”

“So what? It hurts! Have you ever been called names?”

“Well sure, all the time.”

“Wait, what?”

“Yup. Pretty much every day in fact.”

“Every...” Rainbow suddenly turned wrathful. “Who? Who’s doing this? Why didn’t you tell me? If I ever find the punk who-“

She was stopped by A.J’s hoof being shoved in her mouth. The farmer gave her a flat look.

“I was talkin’ about you, genius.”

Rainbow sprung back. “What? I don’t...what’re you talking about?”

“Just the other day you called me ‘Applequack’.”

“I was just... You fell in the pond! You were surrounded by ducks, I was just...” She wasn’t sure what to think. A.J didn’t seem to be mad, heck; she was smiling at her right now.

“Just what, Sugarcube? Making fun? Teasing?” She was still smiling.

“I wasn’t trying to be mean, I was just...I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt your –“

She was cut off as A.J’s lips met hers in a quick kiss.

“You didn’t hurt my feelin’s at all Rainbow. I get it. When you tease me it’s just a bit o’ fun. Heck, I do it to you too. You didn’t mind when I call you ‘Rainbow Rash’, the time Pinkie put itchin’ powder in your flight suit.”

“Well yeah, that’s just...I mean you and me smack talk each other all the time, we’re just... We’re not trying to be jerks to each other...”

“Well that’s how you gotta think o’ your team mates. I know some o’ them colts gave you a hard time at flight school, and that was mean of ‘em. But I reckon most folks don’t really mean the harm they’re causin’. You just gotta try and not take it all too seriously.”

“I...I guess so...”

A.J gave her another quick peck on the lips. “So whaddya say, you wanna head on over to the mess hall, Crash?”

Rainbow’s eyes narrowed. “Hey! Just because we talked this over, it doesn’t mean its okay for you to call me that!”

Applejack rolled her eyes. “Aw come on Sugarcube, we just talked about-“

“I mean it! How would you like it if I started calling you Appleslack?”

Now it was A.J’s turn to narrow her eyes. “Rainbow Dash,” her words were slow and icy, “how do you-“

“Know about that nickname? Let’s just say Granny Smith has some interesting stories to tell. Lemme see, it was something to do with a mud hole, a tree branch and a length of rope, right?

“Shut up Rainbow.”

“Or what?” Rainbow looked directly in Applejack’s face, bearing the smuggest look on her muzzle possible. “You gonna leave me tied upside down from a tree over a mud hole? Oh wait, that was you, wasn’t it...Appleslack?”

“Rainbow Crash!”

“Appleslack!”

“Rainbow Crash!”

“Appleslack!”

“Rainbow Crash!”

“Appleslack!”

And so the two continued to trade barbs with each other all the way to the mess hall.