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.

Applejack’s birthday is coming up. She can tell by her calendar. She can tell by the bitter chill in the morning air that brings a slight ache in her bad knee. And she can tell by her marefriend’s shifty behaviour. Every year was the same: Rainbow Dash would poke and prod, in her cute and not-so-subtle way, trying to weedle information out of her, and Applejack, in turn, would drop hints about what she wanted that year. It was a game they played, one that Applejack gladly participated in, just to see that happy grin on her marefriend’s face as she opened her present and told her it was just what she wanted.

Except this year is different. This year, Rainbow isn’t poking and prodding, she’s acting smug and aloof. Like she knows something Applejack doesn’t. There’s an excited energy about her, one she hasn’t had in a long time, not since she made Captain of the Wonderbolts.

No, this year, something is very different. A difference that’s confirmed when Applejack finds a box on her doorstep one morning. A box addressed to her. From Rainbow. It contains a riddle. The first of many. And she has only six days to solve them all.

Well, Applejack was never one to back down from a challenge.

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Cover art by John Joseco.

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Entry for, and winner of, the 6th AppleDash competition.

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.

Bored on her day off, Rainbow Dash decides to go visit Applejack for some quality time. Nothing out of the ordinary about that, right?

A thank you to Too Much Information and [anonymous person who helped me out - they know who they are and I would love to give them all deserved credit] for proofreading and editing before publishing.

Entry into the AppleDash Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Event.

Now with a reading by StraightToThePointStudio.

Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash have had feelings for one another for the longest time, but had no idea on how to go about expressing them. When Twilight and Fluttershy announce their relationship, it gives them a new hope on how to go about it.

Written for the AppleDash Happiness and Fuzzy Feelings event.

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On the eve of the Ponyville grand festival Rainbow Dash decides to work up the courage to Finally ask Applejack to be her marefriend and join her for the event.

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.

Preparing for Hearth's Warming on the farm, Applejack is distracted as she waits for her marefriend to return from Wonderbolts training. What she doesn't know is that Rainbow Dash is bringing news along with her. Will the news be good or bad this year? And how will it affect the two mares moving forward?

Warnings: My annual E rated Jinglemas story. This one's clean, folks.

Written for MistyShadowz for Jinglemas 2021

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

Twilight and Cadence are determined to get Applejack and Rainbow Dash to admit their obvious feelings for each other, no matter how oblivious they are.

Written for the AppleDash Warm and Fuzzy Feelings Event being hosted by KrazyTheFox.