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Chapter 1: Running1,128 words
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Chapter 1: Running

From the Hospital Bed

Chapter 1: Running

Rainbow dash couldn't run any faster. Time seemed to slow to a near stop whilst being in the hospital hallway.

"Ya know you don't have ta do this for me sugar cube."

"Na, it's fine AJ a little help couldn't hurt. Could it?"

Applejack huffed a big sigh, "If ya say so"

Running on the verge of tears and the brink of collapse.

"Thank you very kindly Rainbow Dash, but it's late and you probably should head home. Maybe you will get better at apple bucking tomorrow, than just bucking three apples from trees." They both laughed a little as Rainbow Dash turned around to leave.

Slamming the door open to find her friends huddled around the hospital bed.

Applejack sighed, "You probably need to get better at cooking before we can make apple pies Rainbow."

"I know I can't tell salt from sugar, but I probably could if you were to teach me."

Applejack laughed at that, "OK then sugar cube. I guess I could teach ya. Come on."

Charging over and pushing her friends out of the way.

"Sug, you are supposed to take the contents out of the egg first. And also the flour is not the potted kind."

Rainbow Dash frowned slightly, half jokingly, while Applejack face-hoofed.

Hearing a loud, continuous noise coming from the small screen on her right. Tears started to well up in her eyes and her jaw tensing.

"Sleeping in trees can't be the most comfortable of places in Equesria can it?" Applejack shouted up at a specific tree that had a rainbow tail sticking out of the foliage.

Rainbow Dash was startled, falling from the tree face first into the ground.

"Ow AJ, whaddya do that for?"

Applejack laughed. "Come on sugar cube. Let's get ya to Twilight before that thing starts to bleed more."

The doctor looked over to her, weakly smiling out of what seemed like sympathy.

"Oh shush Rainbow, it couldn't have hurt that bad." Applejack chuckled, looking at her cyan friend with a face made of bandages. "It's not like it's broken or anything."

"You saw how crooked it was. It couldn't not had been broken."

"Run that by me again?"

"It's broken."

Hearing Fluttershy squeak before bursting into tears on Twilight's shoulder.

"Just five more minutes AJ, please" yawned Rainbow Dash, swatting at the air.

"Ya got a cute little snore Rainbow, and I thought you wouldn't sleep in trees anymore after what happened."

"That's what this cloud's for, and what are you talking about, I snore like a mammoth." Said the cyan rainbow pony patting a white thing and turning back over and receiving a chuckle from Applejack.

Walking slowly backwards. Receiving teary stares.

"Ya just gotta lift one leg about this far away from the tree, and" Applejack kicked a tree, apples falling neat and orderly into the buckets.

"It takes a little getting used to but trust me, you will-" She heard a loud thump and turned around to find a rainbow tail sticking out of a pile of red apples. "Great job! Just try to get them to fall into the bucket next time." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes as she brushed apples off herself.

Bursting trough the door and bolting toward the exit, friends running after her.

"Are ya gonna just sit there and stare at the salt or are ya gonna eat your alfalfa?" Applejack said while poking Rainbow's hoof.

Rainbow Dash snapped back to reality, "Oh, sorry, I was lost in thought again."

"Sure ya were."

Running until her legs burned. Running until she felt them no more.

"See AJ? It's a 3D puzzle, you put the pieces together to make an apple shape."

"I'm not really that good at doing puzzles, I like the challenge though. Thank you so much!"

Pinkie Pie burst into the middle of them, "Cake time everypony! Because what's a party without cake!"

Running through bramble. A steady stream of tears flowing behind her.

"And remember that *hic* time that you *hic* got your hoof stuck under that *hic* rock with a *hic* giant monster chasing you?"

"Sugar cube, that happened two weeks ago." Applejack rolled her eyes. "Come on, let's get you home, you're drunk."

"Applejack, I live in the sky. You *hic* are an earth pony and have no wings as far as I can *hic* see. Unless you hid them, Applejack do you have secret *hic* wings that you didn't tell me about?" Rainbow dash started to poke and prod Applejack in the sides, suppressing a small squeak from her.

"Hey, hey, be careful there. You know that I am ticklish there."

"Oh yeah, sorry"

Leaving a grounded sonic rainboom in her wake.

"Hey sugar cube, wake up." Applejack poked Rainbow Dash.

"Huh, wha?" Rainbow Dash looked around to see herself on an unfamiliar couch, having no recollection of the night before. "What exactly happened?"

"You insisted upon us going to a bar. Soon after arriving you somehow got yourself drunk off of two ciders, me being a responsible mare, remained sober so you would have a way home. While walking out of the bar you stated that I could not get you home and soon after fell asleep on my back. I brought you home to the farm and let you sleep on the couch."

"Oh, ok." Rainbow's head tilted back and she began snoring again.

Greeting the face of a cliff with the crown of her head.

"Dang AJ, how do you do all of these apples in one day?"

"I do one side of the orchard and Big Mac does the other."

"Still, that's a crap ton of apples, unless Apple Bloom does some."

"We decide the halves into seven sections, one for each day. That lessens the amount of work that would need to happen in one day."

"Oh pony feathers. Not again."

Applejack turned around to see Rainbow Dash blow her bangs out of her face while being under a pile of apples. Applejack couldn't help but start to laugh uncontrollably.

Falling unconscious.

Author's Note:

I practically went insane correction all of the errors on a phone. From all of the glitchyness of the keyboard and the website. So I hope you guys are happy!

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