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// One - bahatumay 
// Story: AppleDash Group Collab 
// by DbzOrDie 
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Applejack skidded backwards, twisting and landing face-first in the mud. She stood up slowly and brushed off a piece of mud that clung to her hat before putting it back on defiantly.

Rainbow Dash flew triumphantly overhead, apparently oblivious to the pouring rain around her. "There can only be one!" she crowed.

"Stop sayin' that!" Applejack snapped.

Rainbow Dash's only reply was to turn and charge again. Applejack braced herself, waiting until Rainbow was only one foot away before side-stepping, grabbing her tail, and slinging her into the orchard.

"If'n there is only one, it's gonna be me!" Applejack called her own challenge out into the night.

The pounding rain rang in her ears as her only answer. In retrospect, that should have been clue number one, but she too busy peering through the trees looking for Rainbow to notice that she had flown up and around and had snuck up on her from behind.

She did notice, however, when Rainbow Dash physically picked her up and dropped her in one of the many trees that dotted the land.

"Haha!" she yelled, pointing a mocking hoof at the tree. "If you like apple trees so much, why don't you live in them?"

Her only reply was one apple to the face. This stunned her enough that she dropped slightly, giving Applejack the opportunity to tackle her out of the air and slam her down on the ground, sending mud splashing everywhere as the two ponies battled for control. Applejack somehow ended up on top, pinning Rainbow face down in the mud. She held down one of Rainbow's wings with a hoof and said, "Give!"

"Never!" Rainbow spat.

"Ah'll pull out yer pinion feathers!"

"You wouldn't dare!"

"...You're right. Just admit defeat anyways!"

"No!"

"Do it."

Rainbow Dash grumbled before muttering, "...fine. You can have the last slice of pie."

"That wasn't so hard, was it?" Applejack asked as she lifted Rainbow up and helped clean her off.

"You got lucky," Rainbow said, brushing away Applejack's help.

"It's been one fer one fer a while now," Applejack said flatly.

"Whatever. Let's go inside."

As both wet mares entered the house, they saw Apple Bloom trotting to the kitchen sink with an empty pie tin in her mouth.

Applejack sank a bit, too. "AB? Did ya eat th' last slice of pie?"

Apple Bloom's ears dropped a bit guiltily. "Yeah... there was just one, an' everypony else was gone, so Ah figured nopony'd mind if Ah ate it. Ya ain't mad, are ya?"

Applejack shook her head. "Nah. There'll always be more pie."

Relieved, Apple Bloom continued to the kitchen.

"'Sides," Applejack continued, just loud enough for Rainbow to hear but too quietly for her little sister to hear, "Ah got my own supply of sugar." She accentuated this last sentence with a flick of her tail against Rainbow's cutie mark.

Apple Bloom paused before leaving the kitchen. "Rainbow Dash? Why're yer wings out like that? You're drippin' mud all over the floor!"