There is probably only one person who will understand this story. Others will, or might, relate to it but I am dedicating this story to someone I won't be able to see for a while. Hopefully you all will like it. And hopefully she does too.

Quick AppleDash story.

Applejack has brushed her mane, put a ribbon on her hat, and there's a sway in her step. Most ponies just want to know who the special pony is.

Rainbow Dash doesn't buy it. Love is mushy, and AJ isn't mushy. Love means liking somepony more than her friends, and AJ would never like another pony more than Dash. Love means missing a game of horseshoes to go tell a pony that she's in love with them, and if there is one thing Dash is sure of, it's that AJ is not going to miss that game... no matter what Applejack thinks about it.

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes, trying to think about anything but the straps that bound her to the wooden board. She cracked one eye open just enough to see Applejack, smiling mouth full of the knives that would soon be racing though the air towards her. The things some ponies will do for love...

Applejack and Rainbow Dash have been close friends for a long time and, for some reason Rainbow Dash has never been able to understand, it seems as if everyone she knows expects them to get together eventually. To Rainbow Dash's surprise, Applejack abruptly decides that their friends are right and asks her out on a date. To Applejack's surprise, Rainbow Dash immediately turns her down.

Unfortunately for Rainbow Dash, Applejack is nothing if not stubborn, and she declares that she won't give up until Rainbow Dash has agreed to go on a date with her, no matter what it takes.

Winner of the second AppleDash group contest.

Rainbow challenges Applejack to a dating competition. The rules: Rainbow picks a time and a place, then Applejack picks a time and a place, and whoever’s date is the best wins. Simple.

Applejack thinks that’s a dumb idea, but goes along with it. Rainbow means well, at least most of the time. It could be fun.

...Right?

Written for the AppleDash group's AppleDash Contest #5, with the prompt "Second Chances".

Rainbow Dash and Applejack have finally admitted to themselves and each other what they always sort of knew, and are now a happy couple. The only step left is telling the rest of the Apple clan after a nice Hearth's Warming Dinner. However, newlyweds Big Macintosh and Sugar Belle have a big announcement of their own to make.

Which they do.

Kind of...

Pre-reading done by Pascoite, Georg, and Edward256.

Written for Dreadnought for Jinglemas 2021. Prompt:

I'd love to see Applejack at the very least, and Scootaloo if the author could make it work.

Now with a reading by Admiral Stoic Rum!

The Everfree Forest is a dangerous place. 

Everypony, everypony, who is raised in the surrounding area is warned of the danger. Even the smallest of foals are warned away.

Applejack is trying to make a delivery, taking a route through the forest that lingers on Ponyville's collective consciousness. Rainbow Dash accompanies her. Things happen, and something develops.

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Written for the AppleDash Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Event.

There's a meaning behind every tease— behind every prank or mischief. However, Rainbow Dash didn't expect to be on the receiving end of Applejack's antics.

In other words: Rainbow Dash gives a notebook to Applejack.

My entry to the AppleDash Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Event

Following the Cutie Map, Applejack and Rainbow Dash head off to Whinnypeg to find a friendship problem somewhere in the convention center. A con is poised to start when they arrive and they check-in as attendees, ready to search high and low among the staff and the con-goers for whoever needed their help. The only real problem is that the con is a couples retreat, everypony is flashing Applejack and Rainbow Dash knowing looks, and the two of them aren’t together like that.

At least, they haven’t been together like that since they were teenagers …

A novella told in three parts.

Editing by JetstreamGW and bookplayer. Cover art by mousse.

Rainbow Dash begins looking for romance, seeking advice from all of her friends, But Applejack's a little on edge, and nopony seems convinced that Rainbow knows what she's doing. Will this end in heartbreak or a happy ending? And will Princess Celestia ever get to banish somepony to the moon?