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Big Macintosh has always watched over his family, but sometimes watching over them means he learns things nobody else is supposed to know. What is he supposed to do with a secret that isn't his own, which clearly wasn't meant to be public knowledge?

Applejack/Rainbow Dash.

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Windfall takes place seven years after FiM's main timeline. The Elements of Harmony have gone their separate ways, but are still close, and all the girls come running to be there on the eve of Fluttershy bringing her first foal with Big Macintosh into the world.

If you enjoyed this story and this fanfiction future extrapolation, please consider reading the sequel Earth & Sky

For the mare who's forever and always honest, it's damn near impossible keeping your most passionate and heartfelt confessions a secret. Thankfully, there's a hat for that.

After much soul searching, Rainbow Dash has realized that she loved Applejack all along. All those years of games and playful banter have added up to a perfect revelation of love! In a flash, she shot across the sky toward AJ's farm and her bright future with the mare of her dreams.

But Applejack is less than enthused about this turn of events. In fact, she's downright furious.

Applejack and Rainbow are summoned by the Cutie Map to solve another friendship problem. But to their surprise, the problem lies on the other side of the portal to the human world.

Now, finding themselves as funny looking, two-legged, small-nosed, mostly hairless monkey people, the two are faced with some important questions:

Can they survive life in this brave new world? Will they discover what the friendship problem is? How long will they be stuck here? And just why do their human counterparts seem to not be getting along?

Written for the fifth Appledash contest, "Second Chances".

Following a very successful first date, Rainbow Dash decides to crash at Applejack's farm, both quickly getting down to some much needed cuddling. So where's the trouble?

Neither one of them wants to be the little spoon.

Cuddly competition soon follows.

The thing is, sometimes in life there are things you have to do that are hard. Like, way hard. Harder than they should be. Harder than bucking storm clouds someone overfilled with lightning seeds. Harder than pulling off a sonic rainboom in front of a cloud of ponies who don’t believe you can do it. Harder than … other hard things. That are hard to do. Yeah.

Shut up.

Like you've ever tried to confess your feelings for a stupid apple-bucking farmpony.

Rainbow Dash narrates her own life. Because you just know she would do that.

It's a quiet day like any other at the Apple Family homestead until an incensed Applejack storms into the kitchen. Rainbow Dash has finally told her something which she was not ready to hear and her response leaves her siblings shocked into silence. A resolute Rainbow Dash must dig in and stand strong to face her best friend and fight to drag the real truth out, for both their sakes.

After Rainbow's "surprise" for Applejack gets out of hoof, Applejack is left to sort out how she feels about being in love with a pegasus who likes to go too big with every darn thing she does.

Rainbow Dash arrives at Sweet Apple Acres, looking for Applejack and finds her coming out of the woods. Just where was she last night?

Second place in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Classic Contest #52 with the prompt "where'd you go?"

Idea inspired entirely from cover art, made by the talented yakovlev-vad.

A thank you to Zontan, TheDriderPony, Nailah, The Red Parade, Seer, and _Moonshot for proofreading and RubyDubious for prereading before publishing.

Now with a reading by StraightToThePointStudio.

Russian translation by NovemberDragon.

Spanish translation by SPANIARD KIWI.