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// Chapter four: Hidden Feelings Coming to Light 
// Story: One Big Applemac 
// by Foal Star 
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Applejack was sleeping in the next morning being still quite drunk from the small party he and Braeburn had. The room was dark, and Apple Bloom slowly opened the door with a tiny sliver of light into the room. She then peeked into the room and saw that he was completely passed out as Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo peeked into the room. Apple Bloom slowly turned to Scootaloo and whispered, "hey, stay here and keep watch."

Scootaloo gave a nod and whispered back. "Yeah, I'll knock on the door three times if somepony comes over here."

Then Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom both slowly walked into the room, and they peered over the snoring stallion as Sweetie Belle asked: "so...what are we doing here?"

Apple Bloom gave her friend a mischievous grin and pulled out a small vial filled with a green liquid as she explained, "This potion will make him be more...energetic that's what Zecora told me. I just want him to play with me before we go back to school. It's not fair that Granny and Big Mac get to hog him all to themselves."

Sweetie Belle blushed as she nervously replied, "Um Apple Bloom, I don't think this is a good idea. You sure this is safe?"

Apple Bloom rolled her eyes. "Zecora said this, "sometimes I work late, which leaves me to need for a way to alleviate. This potion will keep me from falling asleep, to keep me from losing all the work I reap."

Sweetie Belle scratched her head, and with a confused look and asked, "so...what is she trying to say?"

Apple Bloom chirped, "it's just like coffee. that's all now stop your worryin'."

She then took the vial poured it into Applejack's mouth, and they stepped back as he groaned rolling over and squeaked falling off the bed. He slammed onto the floor and then looked up at the fillies giggling as he grumbled, "what are you two up to?"

Apple Bloom stomped a hoof and snapped, "Well, I just wanted to get you up, so we play together. You didn't take any time to hang out with me yesterday."


Applejack groaned as he rubbed his fine and shouted, "fine! What do you want to do at five in the morning?"

Apple Bloom tapped a hoof to her chin. "Well...can you come and help us with something at the treehouse?"

The big stallion rolled his eyes as he followed the cutie mark crusaders slowly and carefully out of the house. They continued to walk through the apple orchard and went on their way to the tree house where the cutie mark crusaders hang out. There were some trees knocked over as Apple Bloom pointed at them and asked, "hey, these trees were knocked over during a storm a few nights ago can you help break them with your bucking?"

All three fillies nodded as Applejack eyed them," did you cut these trees down just to watch me buck them?"

They all shook their heads no with sheepish grins. Applejack rolled his eyes and went about smashing the trees with his hooves and breaking the wood and smashed it into tiny pieces. The stallion was somehow so energetic he started to gather the wood into a wagon as the cutie mark crusaders watched with their mouths wide open. He then to began to dig a ditch with his hooves like a giant dog, the big stallion then poured the pieces of wood down into the pit. He then threw a match in there as well and burned the pile into cinders. After that Applejack used his back hooves and shoved all the dirt all over the cinders and looked up as he shouted, "there, is that it!"

Apple Bloom came over and giggled, "well, um I wasn't expecting you to get all that done that fast! You're amazing!"

Applejack started to stomp about with a crazed look in his eyes. "Come on, give me another job! I feel like I can run around the world and back!"

Sweetie Belle jumped up and down as she exclaimed, "oh, can you help my sister! she needs gems for some new designs she's making!"

Applejack already took off and a few moments later he was back dragging a giant wagon load full of gems. The fillies squealed, as Scootaloo asked, "hey! could you build a Halfpipe for me! that would be so cool!"

He then went about constructing a half pipe out of wood, and the fillies squealed on delight as they continued to give Applejack more jobs.





Braeburn also woke up quite groggily as he was hungover that morning. He slowly walked down the steps and saw Big Mac with his mouth wide open. The yellow coated stallion was curious as he asked, "hey, what's going…"

They both looked out and blinked to see that there was a stone tower, a cabin and there was even a pool with the cutie mark crusaders swimming about. Braeburn blinked and asked, "Um...Who did all this?"

They all pointed to Applejack patching the pool with cement he waved a hoof and shouted, "Hey! I made a pool want to jump in!"

Big Mac's eyes narrowed walked over and asked, "what's gotten into you."

Applejack who was still energetic sit up wide-eyed as he exclaimed, "I don't know! I just got up this morning, and I feel like my brain is on fire!"

Big Mac glared at Apple Bloom who blushed as she explained, "well...I may have given him a potion to give him more energy. It was so we can hang out together this morning."

The big red coated stallion roared, "ugh seriously! What did I tell yall you about giving potions to ponies like that!"

Apple Bloom whimpered as Applejack ran over to Big Mac and defended the fillies, "hey, it's ok I'm feeling great right now! Also, Braeburn I'm so sorry for last night. We were both probably drunk, and we weren't thinking straight when we kissed. I'm sure it was nothin' am I right?"

Braeburns face turned a bright red as Big Mac's eyes went even more extensive and stepped back. The cutie mark crusaders all swam over to the edge of the pool with surprised looks on their faces. Apple Bloom shouted, "Applejack, you kissed Braeburn!"

The orange coated stallion paused, releasing what he just said and turned around and stammered, "what no! That's not what happened! I mean...it was just a small kiss on the cheek."

Sweetie Belle giggled, "aww, that's so cute, It's nice to see you two actually being nice to each other for once." The fillies all burst into laughter as Braeburn slowly walked back into the house as Big Mac just grumbled, "I'm going to go buck apples and try to forget what you just said."

He stomped off as Applejack slammed a hoof to his face. "Buck! why did I say that!"

He then turned to the cutie mark crusaders "hey, aren't you three supposed to be in school or something anyways?"

Apple Bloom shook her head. "No, Its Saturday silly!"

Applejack shrugged as he walked off following Big Mac to go buck some apples as well.





As Applejack was bucking trees alongside his brother. They went about working for some time before the orange coated stallion turned to Big Mac and explained, "look, Braeburn and I were really just drunk and being stupid."

Big Mac sighed and grumbled, "I know, but you should know that Braeburn is well...gay."

Applejack paused and turned and asked, "say that again? Braeburn is gay! but wasn't he dating that buffalo Little Strongheart."

Big Mac shook his head. "He was, but they broke up a while back after she found out about it. I think he's just still in the closet about it as I'm the only one he's told."

Applejack paused, and sweat started to pour from his forehead as he stammered, "wait...so...he...actually… kissed me because he found me attractive?"

Big Mac gave a simple nod. "Ey' yup."

He groaned and slammed a hoof to his face as Big Mac gave his brother a pat on the back, "it's fine, I just think that your cousins so it might not be a good idea to date each other."

Applejack gulped as she stepped backward and stammered, "right, well... I'm going to go and think about this...also um don't punish Apple Bloom too much she just wanted to hang out with me?"

Big Mac who was still angry growled, "she did give you a potion without you knowing. I thought she would've learned her lesson after what she did to Cheerilee and me."

Applejack chuckled, "yeah, we better make sure she doesn't do that again."





Applejack was now walking through Ponyville again with many ponies still whispering behind his back or giving him odd glances. He felt so awkward about everything and now knowing about Braeburn and Rainbow Dash both having feelings for him it was a lot to process. But out of the blue, he spotted Rainbow Dash again going about her business buying some groceries. The stallion gulped he began to sweat and shake about with anxiety, not knowing if she was still mad at him. He slowly walked up to the pegasus and asked, "hey...R...Rainbow Dash?"

The pegasus blushed as she turned around and gulped seeing Applejack as she whispered, "hey...uh Applejack... didn't expect to see you up so soon considering how much you drank. I think I'm going to go now."

Applejack raised a hoof as he exclaimed, "wait, I need to talk to you about last night!"

He rushed over in front of Rainbow Dash, and Rainbow Dash slammed into him as she growled, "can you just get out of my way?"

Applejack smirked, "actually I thought we could do something like a hoof-wrestling contest or a race just you and me."

Rainbow Dash looked the stallion over and shrugged, "alright, let's go and race then! I bet I could take you on!"

Applejack gave the idea some thought before he replied, "alright, let's run to the train station and back! If I win, we talk and have lunch."

Rainbow Dash gave a nod as she smirked, "alright, first one to run to the station and back here wins!"

Applejack turned into the direction of the train station and shouted, "Alright, let's go!" They two then burst off in a cloud of dust as they both ran as fast as they could down the street. The two ponies continued to run at breakneck speed for some time, and Rainbow dash saw that Applejack was beating her as he sped to the train station and started to run back down already! As Applejack and Rainbow Dash crossed, he boasted, "you might as well start flying Rainbow! There's no way you're catching up on hoof!

He thundered onward as Rainbow Dash spat as she did fly up and sped they to the train turned around and zoomed past dozens of ponies towards the market place. Applejack who was now heaving badly as the potion wore off, leaving him exhausted and out of breath. Rainbow Dash who was flying fast couldn't break in time as she slammed into Applejack and they tumbled about and slammed into Twilight! They all groaned as they all slowly got up. Twilight adjusted herself as she turned to her two friends, both rubbing their heads and asked with a hint of worry in her tone. "Hey, are you two, ok?"

Applejack, who was rubbing his head grumbled, "no, I just got a few bruises, we were just having a race."

Rainbow Dash was fixing her wings and replied: "yeah, we're fine, Twilight; it's not like we haven't gone through worse."

Twilight smiled and explained, "Well, Applejack, I was actually on my way to see you! I have some exciting news!"

Applejack's face brightened up and asked: "what about!"

Twilight then continued, "You should be happy to know that I'm making a lot of progress in your cure! In fact, Celestia has her best students in Canterlot working on it. However, I do need some measurements from you just to see how much we need to give you."

Applejack stood up with wide eyes and asked, "really..well...I don't see why not?"

Rainbow Dash smirked as she trotted over. "yeah whatever, well you owe me now for that I might as well stay and watch Twilight poke and prod you."

Applejack just rolled his eyes and followed Twilight into her library as did Rainbow Dash who was snickering behind their backs.





Twilight was using a measuring tape and was measuring her body parts. The unicorn first took the tape measuring her giant thick legs. She commented, "my goodness they're as big as tree trunks."

Rainbow Dash crossed her hooves admiring them. "Yeah are you sure they're not actually tree trunks?"

Applejack was going to shout at Rainbow, but Twilight thrusted his large square jaw down with ger magic and felt around his face. "hmm, strong and quite sturdy...I would suggest drinking more milk seeing your bones are probably thicker."

Rainbow Dash snickered as she joked, "I can just see you going around and asking cows for milk."

Applejack stomped a hoof and snapped. "Just shut it Rainbow Dash!"

Twilight then went about and measured each apple of her new cutie mark. She then asked, "I have a theory that your increase strength may also be a result of your altered cutie marks."

Applejack scoffed, "I guess, I dun know if that has to do with anything."

Twilight then went about and measured the stallion's giant muscle-bound chest, his long muscled body, and placed a protractor under each hoof and traced each one with a quill and measure the circumference of each one. After completing her measurments Twilight whispered, "hmm, seems like overall your more muscular than when you were a mare that's for sure."

Rainbow Dash snickered, "Maybe I should consider turning into a stallion as well."

Applejack grumbled irritably, "it's not like you need muscles for flying? Didn't you say that before?"

Rainbow Dash shrugged, "well at least I would beat you in just about anything."

Applejack just scoffed, "in your dreams featherbrain. Even if you were turned into a stallion, I would best you in just about anything."

Rainbow Dash flew over and shouted "oh yeah! I bet I could beat your sorry rump in any contest even as a mare! So bring it on Apple balls!"

Applejack stomped a hoof and snorted but squeaked out in pain as  Twilight then took a hair from both his head. Applejack shouted, "couldn't you have used scissors!"

Twilight shrugged as she casually replied, "oh, I could have, but I need you to calm down."

The purple coated unicorn then took a pair of scissors in her magical aurora and clipped some from Applejack's tail she then clipped some fur from her coat. She then went to her work station and started messing around with some tubes and placing them into a machine. Both Rainbow Dash and Applejack looked over with confused expressions on their faces as Twilight wrote down some notes. The worried orange coated stallion then nervously asked, "so...what did you get from my measurements?"

Twilight was tapping a hoof on her chin as she rambled, "well I have to admit...I don't know if it was the spell, or maybe you thought about him when the spell hit you...maybe you and Big Mac had contact mixing with each others DNA?"

Applejack blinked as he replied, "so what are you saying?"

Twilight turned around with a surprised look to face her friend and explained, "y...you have the same exact features, body mass, and your DNA all matches nintey nine percent with Big Macintosh's."

Applejack blinked as he turned to Rainbow Dash who stood up and shouted, "Woah seriously? is Applejack his twin or something?"

Twilight nodded and continued," yeah he's pretty much an identical twin, it's weird huh? I don't know why though I'm just letting you know."

Applejack asked, "so...um...am I the same age as Big Mac too?"

Twilight shook her head, "actually no, your twenty the same age as when you were transformed. It's just your DNA matches with Big Mac's."

Rainbow Dash burst into a fit of laughter, "oh wow! I wonder if Twilight had a crush on Big Mac when she zapped you."

Applejack glared at Rainbow Dash and shouted, "hey, that's my brother your talking about!"

Twilight came over with a blush growing on her face as she explained, "Alright, you two calm down, to be honest, I do find Bi...Big Mac attractive. Maybe I did think about him  accidentally when I turned you into a stallion."

Applejack's ears went flat as he gulped as Rainbow Dash was now rolling on the floor kicking and laughing. Twilight looked over at the pegasus and asked, "um Rainbow Dash can you leave the room? I need to talk to Applejack about something...private."

The league was still snickering as she gave a nod and left the library. The mare turned around and asked, "now...Applejack,  I know this may sound weird but can I see your records on your genitals."

Applejack's ears went even lower as her face turned red and instinct crossed her front hooves over the midriff and whined, "why would you need to do that!"

Twilight also with a sheepish grin explained, "mostly for scientific purposes. Redheart won't send me any of your medical records without your consent. If you allow me to look them over, I could maybe see some insight in this spell and perform research on what may help speed up the process in creating a cure."

Applejack groaned as he looked down and sighed, "fine, I guess I wouldn't mind...as long as its for research purposes only."

Twilight gave a nod as she crossed her heart with a hoof. "Of course, I would never abuse your trust."

She then pulled out the forms and gave them to Applejack as she read them over and signed them. Twilight still blushing clopped her hooves on the ground as she asked," So how is everything with you being a stallion?

Applejack shrugged, "things have been up and down, I hate how everypony treats me like I'm different. They can't seem to treat me like a mare or a stallion, and I hate that."

Twilight gave a nod as she replied, "Well if it helps, to me, your always going to be the welcoming mare I first met who tried to introduce me to every member of her family."

Applejack gave her friend a sheepish smile and replied, "thank you, I guess you would want to write a letter about friendship to Princess Celestia about this as well?"

Twilight shrugged, "we can wait until after you're cured, and you can decide to do that if you want to."

Applejack gave a small nod and slowly walked out of the library only to see Rainbow Dash looking down at the ground seeming to be a little distraught with sweat pouring down her face. The mare looked up and sighed, "hey Applejack, I need..need to tell you that.,.um..last night I...well...I was out of line, and I...ju...just want to say sorry…"

She turned away as Applejack stood there and asked, "um...well...I guess our race ended in a tie...wana still go out for lunch and talk about it? My treat?"

Rainbow Dash looked up and asked, "How about dinner...at your place...I wouldn't mind hanging out with your family, especially Braeburn I need to get into his head for our upcoming hoof ball game."

Applejack gave a big smile as he replied, "sure, why not? I'll tell Granny so we can plan the meal."

The pegasus gave a quick nod before zooming back into the air as Applejack once again looked up with a serious expression and whispered, "I wonder...if once I turn back into a mare would she still have the same feelings for me?"