Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"Trixie has just one question."
Twilight finished nibbling on a fruity morsel. She sighed, then smiled tiredly at her from across the picnic spread. "And just what is that, Trixie?"
"Why do you and all of your friends like apples so much, Sparkle?"
Everypony froze where they sat.
Pinkie Pie blinked, her eyes wide.
Rarity squirmed on her velvet cushion.
Applejack tilted her hat back. "Erm..." She polished what remained of an apple in the crook of her fetlock. "Is this mare for real, or...?"
"Trixie simply doesn't get it." The unicorn's muzzle scrunched. "I mean, apples are fine and all, but whenever Trixie would travel, she would get by on oats and hay smoothies all the same."
Applejack opened her mouth to retort—
"I think it's mainly a Ponyvillean thing," Fluttershy spoke up. She glanced aside at Applejack, all the while speaking to Trixie. "Our town owes its existence to the growth and spread of apples, after all. It's more than a matter of taste with us. It's part of who we are."
"Hmmmm..." Trixie clenched her jaw. "That's skirting awfully close to a cannibalistic metaphor, Trixie thinks."
"Now you're just talking crazy, darling." Rarity chuckled daintily. "Not that I don't mind a teensy bit of excitement in picnic discourse, but..."
"Think of it this way!" Pinkie chirped. "If we were all about lemons, then Ponyville would be a real Frowny-Town!" She stuck her tongue out. "That'd make my job all the harder!"
"I dunno, Pinkie." Rainbow Dash smirked while swirling a mug of cider. "Sounds like something of a challenge for you."
"Hehehe! You're right!"
"Heh heh heh..."
Applejack smirked. "I dun think 'bout it much, but... reckon it would be easy to get sick of apples. I mean... after buckin' them and pluckin' them and chompin' on them my whole life."
"Well, it'd only be natural," Twilight said with a shrug.
"But... it's hard to explain." Applejack brushed her bangs back beneath her hat. "It's more than food. It's a way of life... and my family's livelihood. I can't imagine a life without apples."
"Nor should you," Trixie said. She tilted her nose up. "Trixie was merely curious."
"Ain't no thang." Applejack waved a hoof. She stared suddenly past the group, beyond the woods that surrounded the clearing. "Y'know, this town was almost just as full of oranges as it was apples."
"Really?" Twilight asked.
Rainbow looked over, blinking.
"Yes. Reckon that... that..." Applejack blinked, and she winced slightly. "... ... ...eh... never mind. Ain't that important."
Rainbow bit her lip.
"Well, if you say so, Applejack," Fluttershy remarked. "But I think any story that you or Big Mac have to share is precious."
"Hmmmm... well, in that case." Applejack smirked. "Did I ever tell y'all about the time I won a blue ribbon at a rodeo during a hailstorm?"
"Oooooooooh!" Pinkie rolled upside down, munching on a bag of trail mix. "Mrmmmfff... do tell! Do tell!"
"It was a plum foolish thang, seein' as dark thunderclouds were rollin' over Dodge's Junction and not only did we see 'em, but most of the ponies in attendance had headed home to avoid the weather..."
Rainbow Dash watched Applejack. Despite the tall-tale being told, she let loose a deep sigh, then took a lengthy sip of her cider.
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Well wouldja look at that, Trixie is becoming a likeable character.
Checking in between splatoon matches I spy, a wily update trying to sneak by.
Come now Dash, don't be getting drunk, it'll send you into a funk.
It also loosens your lips and you did make a promise to Stu, so as much as you hate the guy don't give him a reason to hate you.
That and the girls wouldn't think to highly of you if you did tell, so please Dash don't fall under the cider's spell.
Oh my goodness, I thought Trixie was about to be killed!
Wouldn't it be grand if Stu was just a creation of Discord's/Lancie's that he made to try and make Dash behavior like he wanted to.
The goal is to come up with something that matches 'dainty' as closely as possible.
*looks at cards in hooves*
...Applejack?
6730249 Holy mother of fuck that woulda been one hell of a twist.
I feel like anyone whose palyed Apples to Apples has played with that one person who choses the complete opposite of the green card...when that was the only time that decided to use that one really good card.
Nvm
~ADG
Wow. If AJ's story about almost planting oranges is so personal that she won't tell her best friends (+Trixie)... Yet she told Stu Leaves...
She's gotten really close to Stu. Just saying.
6730460 That, or Stu just blindly and cluelessly pressed her for the information upon casually hearing something about it.
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Well, it helps that he actually chose to spend time around her for the past several months, instead of hiding in the bushes and clouds all the time and creepily stalking AJ from afar...
Apples are alkaline, so you ponivillains are all so basic.
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I'm stuck between laughing, applauding, crying and facepalming. So I'll settle for all four at once. If it's possible to applaud and facepalm at the same time, that is...
6731207 I can't decide whether that was absolutely horrid or unequivocally brilliant.
So, congratulations for smashing my brains out with a lemon-wrapped gold brick.
OFF WITH HER HEAD
oh dear, it's 7:44 AM and i haven't slept. i guess i'm staying up through the day doing some more reading