*Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap-*
"Scootaloo! Can you stop with the tapping?! I'm trying to think!" Sweetie Belle snapped.
Scootaloo shot back an angry glare. "And you think I'm not?!"
"Shut it! Both of you!" Applebloom shoved a hoof in their mouths. "Neither 'f us can concentrate with yer fightin'!"
Scootaloo broke free. "Hey, she started it."
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"AH DON'T CARE WHO STARTED IT, BUT AH'M ENDIN' IT!" Applebloom yelled.
The two fillies slumped back down silently at Applebloom's outburst.
"...................Alright. Now, any ideas for the new Gabby Gums column?"
The two shook their heads.
"No, but I would've gotten one, had it not been for Sw-"
"Don't you dare finish that sentence." Applebloom interjected.
"Fine." Scootaloo replied hesitantly, crossing her forelegs.
"......Good! NOW can we focus on the column? Ah mean, it's not like we got ALL of Ponyville waitin' for another 'juicy' story, huh?!" Applebloom said sarcastically.
Scootaloo pushed her pencil away from her. "Whelp! I got nothing!"
"Me neither." Sweetie Belle said softly.
She sighed. "Well ah don't, either, but we can't just quit! Ah mean, how else would we be able to get our-"
"Hat! Give it t' me!"
"Huh?" the three fillies said in unison, looking towards Sweet Apple Acres.
"You want it? Huh?" Rainbow Dash teased, waving the hat above Applejack and placing it on her head with a devilish grin.
"Ah'll git you you varmint!" Applejack said playfully with a goofy grin on her face.
Rainbow Dash kept playing with the hat and rubbing it in the owner's face when a lasso grabbed her hoof and brought her to the ground.
"Gaah!" she said with a thump.
And before she could move, Applejack got her in a headlock and started to give her a noogie while chuckling like a foal.
"Ah told you ah'd git you!"
Then Rainbow Dash broke the grasp and tackled Applejack to the floor with a toothy smile, both of them laughing in a way similar to a hyena.
After tons of silence, Scootaloo turned around slowly with a confused look.
"What did I just see?"
"Ah...ah don't know. Ah know they're friends, but that seemed a little....."
"Gay?" Scootaloo blurted.
"What? NO! That's rude! It wasn't that, it was......strange."
"Well I just think that's a little too playful, for two mares." Sweetie Belle added.
"Hey! Mah sister's barn door don't swing that way!"
"And how do you know for sure? Did she tell you?" Sweetie Belle responded.
"Well, uh, no, but-"
"That settles it, Applejack has a thing for mares!" Scootaloo blurted out.
Applebloom's face gained a shade of red.
"No she's not! And quit yellin' like a manticore is chasin' you, yer callin' attention to us!" Applebloom yelled.
"You're bringing attention to us, too, so stop yelling!" Sweetie Belle hollered.
"But yer makin' a scene givin' me this stupid lecture on not yellin' by yellin!"
"Because you're yelling! And the only way to make sure you hear me is to yell, because you keep yelling!!!-"
"What's goin' on here?" Applejack asked, walking up to the two fillies.
The two seized up and put on their best poker faces while watching the two panting mares uncertainly.
"Uhhh, paper?" Applebloom said, holding up a blank paper.
"Yeah, paper! Where doing stuff, with...paper?" Sweetie Belle said.
"What kinda stuff? Like, paper airplanes and stuff?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Uhhh, yeah! Paper airplanes!"
With that, Rainbow Dash almost instantly created a paper airplane and threw it, watching as it flew around speedily. She grinned with pride at the small paper figurine. Sweetie Belle, Applebloom and her sister just stared at her blankly.
"......What?" she asked with an annoyed tone.
Long, awkward stares...
"Hey, were's Scootaloo?" Applebloom broke the silence.
Everyone looked around and found no sign of the orange filly.
More awkward silence followed, and Applebloom saw this as an opportunity.
"Welp, I guess we better go looking for Scootaloo!" she nudged Sweetie Belle nervously.
"Yeah! I guess we should look for Scootaloo. Over there. Away from here." Sweetie Belle stuttered.
Then the fillies dashed off.
"What was that about?" Applejack asked.
Rainbow Dash shrugged.
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The fillies walked around aimlessly before meeting her friend in front of the school.
"Hey guys!" Scootaloo beamed.
"Where were you?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Yeah! Why'd ya ditch us!?"
"Well..." Scootaloo brought a newspaper to her hooves. "I just finished a Gabby Gums column!"
"What? How? Why?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Well, when I saw your sister playing with Rainbow Dash, I thought of this!" she held up the paper to the fillies.
"Rainbow Dash and Applejack: More than friends?" Sweetie Belle read.
"WHAT?!" Applebloom shouted. "AH TOLD YOU, MAH SISTER'S BARN DOOR DON'T SWING THAT WAY!"
"Of course not, and neither does Rainbow Dash's, but just think of how the rest of Ponyville will eat this story up!" Scootaloo said excitedly.
".....Well, that IS true, and also we already made a story about the both of them individually, so how could this be any different?" Sweetie Belle pointed.
Applebloom sighed. "Well, I guess so, but it still don't seem right."
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"WHAT?!" Applejack screamed. "M-M-MORE THAN FRIENDS?! WHERE THE HAY DID THIS 'GABBY GUMS' VARMINT GET THIS FROM?! MAH BARN DOOR DON'T SWING THAT WAY!"
"I don't know." Twilight said calmly. "But she obviously doesn't care whose reputation she destroys."
"YA DARN RIGHT SHE DOESN'T CARE! AND IF AH FIND HER, I'LL BUCK HER TO KINGDOM COME!!!" Applejack shouted before storming out of her friend's house.
She marched over to Rainbow's typical napping cloud and threw a pebble at it.
"Ow!" She peeked over the cloud, rubbing her head. "What gives?"
"DID YOU READ THE NEW GABBY GUMS COLUMN!?"
Rainbow's ears perked up despite Applejack's angry tone.
"There's a new one? Cool! Who's it about this time?" Rainbow asked excitedly.
Applejack threw the paper on the ground furiously. "WHY DON'T YA COME SEE IT?!"
With that, Rainbow Dash flew off of her cloud and shoved her face in the paper, reading it as her smile dimmed into an angry-look that-could-kill with every word. Upon finishing the article, she growled, tore up the paper with her teeth and stomped on it with extreme hatred and frustration. When the paper was shredded completely, she looked up to Applejack with the same expression and growled, "Where is this 'Gabby Gums'?"
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"So." Applejack said calmly. "YA'LL three are Gabby Gums?"
Applebloom was a bit disturbed by her sister's tone, but she responded anyway, despite her gut telling her not to.
"Uh, yeah." she said nervously.
Applejack stood silent a bit, then nodded. She pulled a newspaper up to her hooves.
"And, THIS ya'll wrote?"
"Yeah." Applebloom sighed.
"........Ok, ok." She took a deep breath. "Ah just have one question for you."
Applebloom felt a chill run through her as she answered.
"Shoot."
Applejack straightened her back, as if to provide a dramatic effect. She stared coldly at the three fillies before a small grin came across her face.
"Do you enjoy life?" she whispered.
"Ah love mah life! Whut are you, crazy?" Applebloom said boldly, trying the hide the obvious feeling of fear in her.
Applejack snickered.
"Naw, ah ain't crazy, but that cloud up there?" She pointed to a small rain cloud above the fillies. "The one on top of there, is crazy. And I'd give ya'll about, oh, ah don't know, five seconds?" she smiled darkly.
THOOOM!
"GAAH!" the three fillies cried, running away from the crazy pegasus.
"I'LL DESTROY YOU!!!!"
THE END