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// Rainbow Dash and Applejack's Mud Challenge 
// Story: Messy Equestria Girls 
// by The Dark Wolf 
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It was a summer day, but it was raining very hard. There was no thunder, however, so people who liked to go for a walk in the rain would have a lot of fun.

In two cases, a run in the rain.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack were running around a concrete racetrack, three laps. Rainbow Dash was wearing her usual black compression shorts under a dark pink miniskirt with a white tank top and blue T-shirt vest over top, and Applejack was wearing her usual white and green T-shirt but with jean shorts today, feeling they would be better for a race than a jean skirt.

Upon seeing the rain, Rainbow Dash had challenged Applejack to a race at this track, to see how well they could run in the rain. Applejack accepted, on the condition that Rainbow leave her geode behind so she'd run at her normal pace.

They were neck in neck, occasionally pulling ahead, and Rainbow Dash just barely won. The instant they crossed the finish line, the rain stopped.

"Congratulations, Rainbow," said Applejack, shaking Rainbow Dash's hand.

"You weren't so bad yourself," said Rainbow. Like Applejack, she was dripping wet and out of breath, but had enjoyed the race thoroughly.

"If you wanna real challenge, let's race on the dirt track," said Appleajck. "See how we can run on the mud!"

"You're on!"

In a few minutes, they stood on the dirt track, which was now mud.

"Three laps, just like last time," said Applejack. "Ready... set... go!"

They started to run, but they were halfway around the track when they both slipped on a particularly slick section of mud and fell on their backs.

Rainbow sat up. "Mud wrestle!" She jumped on Applejack and they rolled around, wrestling each other and forgetting the race. They often got each other in headlocks, or sat on each other and held their legs in place, only to be shaken off, enjoying the competition.

"All right, you win!" said Rainbow Dash once Applejack had her down and held both her legs in place, with Rainbow unable to shake her off.

Both athletes were covered in mud. Which gave Rainbow an idea when she saw two empty discarded metal containers about five times the size of a big bucket of ice cream,, and a bigger section of ankle-deep mud near the track.

"Hey, I won one, you won one, let's try for a tiebreaker!" said Rainbow Dash. "See those containers over there? Let's go into that mud over there" - she pointed to it - "and fill those containers up. Without holding any mud in our hands. We have to scrape it off our bodies. First to get their container full wins."

"You're on," said Applejack. "But remember the hands rule. I'll be watchin' you carefully to make sure you don't break it."

"Trust me, I won't," said Rainbow, and she meant it, for she liked getting dirty and she was already excited for this contest.

They set their containers, Rainbow's on the left and Applejack's on the right. They set them a fair distance away so Applejack could have more openings to make sure Rainbow didn't cheat while still focusing on the competition.

"Ready... 123 go!" said Rainbow, and she and Applejack jumped into the mud, getting as much mud on them as they could, which was easier in this mud than on the track.

At the same time, they both got out of the mud and walked to the containers. Applejack glanced sideways at Rainbow and was pleased to see her hands were separated, in running motion.

They reached the containers and started scraping as much mud off of them and into the containers as they could. Rainbow Dash brushed the mud off her arms, her skirt, her mid section, her back, her butt, her legs. Applejack did the same, and started wringing her hair out into the container. Rainbow noticed this and quickly did the same. How could she have forgotten?

Once there wasn't much more mud on them to fill the containers with, Rainbow and Applejack ran back into the mud and rolled around some more. Then they ran back to the containers and continued to fill them up. Rainbow Dash continued to play fair, and Applejack continued to check to make sure she did.

After several trips, the containers were almost full, and Rainbow Dash and Applejack ran extra fast to finish, each having seen how full the other's container was - though one was a little higher than the other.

They ran to the containers for what they was sure was the last time. After getting as much off the rest of them as they could, they started to wring out their hair and get as much as they could off it.

"I win!" said Rainbow, whose container was now overflowing slightly.

"Dagnammit!" said Applejack, who was close to full. She quickly looked at Rainbow's container to confirm. "Yep, you win."

They shook hands.

"I can't wait until the next rainy day," said Rainbow as they walked away from the track. "That was really fun!"

"Next time ah'll try twice as hard!" said Applejack. "Now let's find somewhere to wash off."

Both Applejack and Rainbow Dash laughed at how dirty they were.