//------------------------------// // Chapter four: Rarity's new project // Story: Applejack's New Dress // by Foal Star //------------------------------// Rarity and Big Macintosh finally came bursting through the front doors of sugarcube corner and they both started gasping out of breath looking around the room. It was full of patrons eating their pastries as Mrs.Cake was handling the service. All the while Mr. Cake was at the front counter he looked up instantly and asked, “hey Rarity, Big Mac what brings you two here?” Rarity gasped, "has Applejack came by.” Both ponies looked at each other with concern and were nervous. Mrs. Cake came over and whispered “so do you two know about Applejack thinking she’s a little filly?” Rarity nodded, “yes we're here to make sure she’s alright.” Mr. Cake got up and said, “well she's here and playing with pinkie pie and spike.” The two ponies sighed in relief as they were head upstairs and now they can hear laughter and odd crinkling noise coming from behind. Mr. Cake blushed as he slowly opened the door and what the three ponies saw made them all start bursting into laughter. Spike squealed as he kicked about in his high chair with his diaper clearly visible with foal food all over his face. With Applejack who had a spoon in her hoof as she turned around and asked, “hey you two want to play house with me!?” Rarity got up first cooing, “oh maybe I want to change a spikey wikey little diaper right Big Mac?” Big Mac was still chuckling gave the nod. “ey’yup.” Spike growled as he kicked about in frustration.  “Stop it! Gah pinkie!” Pinkie blushed seeing how this wasn’t how she wanted things to me and asked, “hey you two uh...guess you were looking for Applejack huh?” Rarity giggled, “Yes and was happy to see she and Spike are playing along nicely.” Spike rolled his eyes and Mr. Cake blushing asked, ”uh guess I’ll just uh leave you ponies alone. Uh, don’t make too much of a mess.” He then quickly ran downstairs still laughing. Spike just looked down in humiliation at his diaper and thought just wonderful only when everypony was starting to forget about that stupid incident! Big Mac came over and poked Spike’s diaper and with a smirk asked, “so you still need these?” He sciofed shoving Big Mac's hoof aside and shouted “no! I’m just doing this to play along with Applejack!” Applejack laughed, ”he's such a silly baby he needs diapers. Not like me or Rarity we just got out of potty training.” Rarity blinked in surprise at what Applejack just said and began to correct her mentally regressed friend. ”Oh, darling I’m…” Pinkie interrupted and jumped up shouting, ”yep she just graduated from diapers! Rarity is a big filly now!” She gave Rarity’s mane a pat as Applejack squealed and gave the bewildered Fashionetta a big hug. ”Yay! congrats Rarity ya a big filly now!” Rarity rolled her eyes but blushed seeing how happy her friend was. The white-coated mare simply cooed, ”yes darling, uh I’m happy I can go on the potty all by myself.” Applejack giggled jumping up and down with her dress flying all over the place. “me too! I wuv going potty!” She then took out her dress and did a cute curtsey and asked,”wuv my pretty dress?” Rarity nodded with a smile looking at the plainly stained dress. “Yep it’s adorable but um I think we should get that washed darling.” Applejack blushed seeing the stains. “Yeah probably…but not right now maybe after when it’s time for night nights.” Rarity cooed, “Oh but…uh…” She was starting to get a feeling that the dress may be the culprit in why her friend was acting so strangely and asked, “Uh what if I helped get you a better dress? While this one gets washed?” Applejack paused tapping a hoof on her chin then exclaimed, “sure that sounds great!” Rarity sighed in relief, but Applejack then looked her freind over and asked, “but Rarity why aren’t you wearing a frilly dress? I thought you liked frilly dresses.” Pinkie giggled as Spike smirked seeing Rarity blush making her face turn a deep red. “Uh…I just didn't feel like wearing one today.” Pinkie cooed. ”Oh that’s alright, I think I have a dress just for you!" She took out a copy of the big blue dress and slammed it over rarity show squealed as he fell back with the blue frufru dress flew upwards. Spike laughed and kicked about in his diaper. Rarity scoffed and fussed around but saw Applejack smiling and having a good time and the white-coated mare  sighed, ”thanks Pinkie it's lovely but if you can get dresses why can’t you give a copy to Applejack?” Before Pinkie could respond Applejack giggled, “Well I want ya to make one! now come Rarity lets go!” She took Rarity by the hoof as the two ran downstairs. Pinkie then turned her attention to Big Macintosh. “Hey uh I need to clean this place up and stay to help Mr. and Mrs. Cake.” Big Mac chuckled “it's alright I'll keep an eye on them.” He then slowly downstairs as pinkie turned to the padded dragon still in the highchair cair crossing his claws. “you’re going to make me a hundred sapphire swirl cupcakes.” Pinkie giggled, ”oh don't worry spikey I’m sure everypony isn’t going to tell how you're still in diapers.” She then lifted him and plopped him down with his diaper making the dragon bow his legs a little. ”Now can you help me clean up.” He blushed and asked, ”uh Pinkie can you take the diaper off now.” Pinkie booped his nose. “Maybe, if you want to.” He blushed knowing she somehow knew he liked wearing the foalish garment, and Spike sighed,  ”alright I’ll keep it on until this place is cleaned.” Pinkie pie produced a broom and cooed, "okay Spikey Wikey!" Spike took it chuckling as he waddled across the room and began sweeping the floor. Pinkie who was now removing the foal toys and putting them in the toy chest she watched Spike waddle around in his thick diaper shaking about and giggled, “oh he’s just so cute! Maybe he can be a practice baby!” As Spike swept the floor, Big Macintosh watched with a smile as Rarity was being dragged through town with a cute pout in a copy of Applejack’s embarrassing blue dress.  The fashionista could feel everypony’ s eyes were drawn towards her as she stumbled through the crowds. All the embarrassed mare could do was blush as she slowly walked alongside her friend. Oh dear! Oh dear! How am I going to explain this later! Applejack, however, was still in her naïve young mind was just talking about how she wants to go to the galloping gala. “I want to dance with a handsome prince then get married so I can become a princess!” Rarity blinked at this and asked, “Hey that’s what I wanted to do at the gala?” Applejack paused and turned around. “oh really? well, guess you're going to have to watch out because Blueblood is gonna marry me first!” Rarity rolled her eyes thinking a handsome prince such as Blueblood would never marry a farm mare…much less one who thinks she’s a five-year-old. But then she saw Applejack’s reaction who scoffed and turned away, and Rarity sighed as she chirped, "uh that’s wonderful darling I’m sure that he is going to just adore that dress.” Applejack blushes as she does a cute curtsey. “Thanks, Rarity! You’re the best!” She threw herself onto her friend and hugged the mare close as Rarity squeaked and squirmed as she could hear ponies all around chuckling at the antics even Big Mac gave a few hearty chuckles. Rarity pulled herself from Applejack and plopped onto her dress making it fly upwards and the mare squeaked as she fussed around with the dress, making ponies watching burst into more laughter. Rarity then got up and growled, “alright that’s it! We need to go to the carousel boutique now!” She then took Applejack by the hoof and started to drag her rump across ponyville as the regressed farm mare squealed in excitement. “Yay! Can’t wait for a new dress and show it off to everypony!” She continued skipping across town with Rarity following along with a smirk. Just wait until the curse is lifted you won’t be excited then. Twilight, however, was walking back towards her library grumbling how she waited all day for rarity.  But as she walked along, she heard whispers about Applejack in a frilly dress which made her think… Applejack in a dress? Could she… Then all of a sudden Scootaloo burst through on her scooter and skidded to a stop in front of the purple unicorn and gasped, “Twilight! You need to come to Sugarcube corner! Applejack is under some curse!” Twilight gasped releasing now that Applejack must be wearing the enchanted dress! “We need to find her now we don’t have any time to lose!” She ran across town towards Sugarcube corner burst through and before she said anything every patron pointed a hoof upstairs as if this has happened a few times already. Twilight ran up the steps and then heard a strange crinkling sound. She burst through the door to the nursery and gasped upon seeing Pinkie pie holding Spike in her hooves with him suckling a bottle filled with formula and crushed gems. He was sleeping soundly as Pinkie shushed, “hey the baby is sleeping.” Twilight had to put a hoof on her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud. She gasped calming down and whispered, “I was told that Applejack was here?” Pinkie Pie nodded as she explaine, “yeah she left with Rarity who said she’ll change the dress into a pink frilly dress. That way she’ll get out of the enchanted dress and Applejack should be back to normal.” Twilight shook her head. “No, it doesn’t work like that! She can’t just take it off she needs to defy it! That’s only going to make things worse!” Pinkie blushed “sorry I didn’t know.” Twilight shook her head. “It’s not your fault, just um…don’t tell Spike I was here.” She winked as Pinkie giggled patting Spike’s diaper. “Of course not it will be our little secret.” Rarity was finally back in her boutique working on making a poofy pink dress. She was taking fluffy pink fabric and stitching them together. Big Macintosh just stood by watching as Applejack has buried herself   looking around the other dresses in rarity’s workshop and whined, “ugh all these dressies are boring why don’t you make more pretty princess dressies?” Rarity rolled her eyes. “Well darling…uh…not a lot of ponies are fillies like you and me.” Applejack whined. “well-being an adult is boring I dun want to ever grow up.” Rarity blushed as she explained, “but growing up can be so much fun too! I mean yes you have to work, but if you like the work, then it can be fun.” Applejack shook her head and protested, “Nah uh, playing and going to school is fun! Work is boring.” Rarity just rolled her eyes and sighed, “Okay darling, but I need help making your dress.” Applejack  bounced over and chirped, “okay what you want me to do?” Rarity waved a hoof. “Come here I need to make some measurements,” Applejack shrugged and was about to pull the dress off but stopped not wanting to take off her favorite dress as the voice whispered, it's alright you can take the dress off as long as you believe you’re a little filly right? Applejack thought to herself, of course, I am! I’m only five! The farm mare then began to take the dress off wiggling about as she pulled herself from the suit. Big Macintosh and Rarity watched with anticipation as Applejack whined and stomped about pulling the dress off.  The mare then took her skirt and threw it to the side then looked up at Rarity and Big Mac in confusion and asked, “Why are ya two staring at me like that?” Both Big Mac and Rarity groaned in frustration as they both hoofpalmed.