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// Egg - First_Down 
// Story: AppleDash Group Collab 
// by DbzOrDie 
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Rainbow Dash somersaulted through the air as she steered towards her usual sunset spot. A day of cloud pushing was done, and she was looking forward to the next part. She spotted her target relaxing under a lone apple tree overlooking Ponyville.

“I heard Twilight pulled another all-night freakout,” Dash said by way of greeting after she landed and draped herself over Applejack’s warm body. “What was it this time?”

Applejack pushed her hat above her eyes and gave Dash a kiss under one ear. “Well, I stopped by fer a book on woodwork initially and we got ta talkin’. One thing led to another and we ended up in a discussion about eggs.”

“Eggs?”

“Yup.”

Dash shrugged and nuzzled Applejack’s neck. “Makes sense for an egghead to think about, I guess. So why’d that freak her out?”

“Ya know how chickens lay eggs?”

“Yeah”

“And ya know how eggs hatch into little baby chickens?”

“Yeah, so?”

“Well, Twilight started thinkin’ back to all them chickens that laid all them eggs, all the way back and back in their lineage. And she got herself into some kinda – what’d she call it – quandary! Some kinda quandary about whether the first chicken came from an egg, or whether it existed and laid an egg.”

Dash sat up and leaned back to look at her marefriend with wide eyes. “Seriously? …We need to find that pony a date,” she added once she resettled.

Applejack grinned, “That’s besides tha point. But think about it fer a sec. Which do you think came first?”

“Well, the egg, obviously,” Dash replied without thinking about it for a sec. “Chickens are hatched from eggs.”

“Ok, but then what animal laid the egg if it wasn’t another chicken?” Applejack countered.

That got a pause out of the pegasus. “Huh.” She furrowed her brows and then squeezed her eyes shut as though fighting off an encroaching headache. “Ok, I get it now. But I still think it’s ridiculous.”

“How come?”

“‘Cause there’s like a zillion chickens in Equestria, AJ! They didn’t all come from some first chicken. They wouldn’t have lasted five minutes in the wild if they started with one. Some dragon or griffon or pony would have eaten it within two minutes.”

“Ya don’t know that. Maybe other creatures wouldn’t know what it was. You eat the first thing ya find off the ground?”

“If it was an egg, sure. Just look at ‘em; eggs are delicious! I eat ten every morning for breakfast.”

Applejack laughed and playfully bumped Dash’s side with her hoof. “Ya do not!”

“I do too. I’m like an egg eating champion. I bet I could eat fifty eggs in an hour.”

“Dash, ain’t nopony can eat fifty eggs in an hour.”

Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow. “Yeah?” She spat on one hoof and offered it to Applejack. The earth pony mulled it over for a second, and then returned the gesture with a smirk.

“Yer on, sugarcube!”