//------------------------------// // Camp out in the Truck // Story: Summer of Spike // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// At Spike and Twilight's place, the boy was showing the girls some of the pictures taken of the second guys night. Pinkie laughed, as Spike showed them one picture of him and the guys attempting a human pyramid like cheerleaders, "Oh, that's good!" Pinkie chuckled. "You guys sure are strong to hold for how long?" Applejack asked. "About ten minutes so to speak," Spike answered, "I mean if cheerleaders can do it so can guys." "Difference is, we girls can be just as light as feathers." Rarity replied. "Point." Spike admitted. "Next picture." Rainbow said, as Spike continued. The next picture they showed was of Koda lying on top of a bench passed out with some pigeons on him, until the next few pictures were shown of him slowly waking up and started lashing around with all the birds flying away in fright. "We're lucky none of the birds marked Koda." Spike laughed with Pinkie and Rainbow. "That would've been disgusting." Twilight said. "No kidding." Applejack agreed. Next picture was of all five of the boys at the clothing shop dressed in visual kei outfits, "Oh, my. Now there is an interesting look for you five." Rarity said. "Yeah, we pull the look off well." Spike said smugly. As they completed the pictures, Spike sighed, "That was an awesome guy's night." "Well, I'm glad you and your friends had fun." Twilight said. "So I guess you're going to want to take the day to relax?" Fluttershy wondered. "Yeah, but not in the sense I'm gonna sleep all day." Spike answered. "Yeah, sleeping all day is for weekends, not summer vacation." Rainbow added. "Or in your case 24/7." Applejack joked, and Rainbow sent her a glare. "So anybody up for anything exciting or something?" Spike asked the girls. "Sorry, I have to help the Cakes plan a birthday party for a customer." Pinkie answered. "I'm supposed to be pet sitting for my neighbors who'll be away for three days." Fluttershy added. "And I volunteered to help out at the public library today." Twilight finished. "Well, that's a bummer." Spike sighed, until Applejack and Rainbow plopped on the couch on both sides of Spike. "Hey, don't sweat buddy, we're still free." Applejack said. "Yeah, you just stick with us." Rainbow added, as she playfully punched his shoulder. "I don't have any work at all, so I'm free too." Rarity put in. "That's good, so what do you three have in mind?" "Well, we after this morning's apple harvesting we're supposed to be making some of our more tasty apple products." Applejack explained. Suddenly Rainbow Dash looked to her, "Does that include..." Applejack playfully rolled her eyes, "Yes, Rainbow, even apple cider." "YES!" Rainbow cheered. "So you three wanna join me at my family's farm and help us make some stuff?" Applejack offered. "As long as we get to eat what we make, I'm good." Spike answered. "Same here." Rainbow added. "Sounds like a good idea." Rarity admitted. "Well, you four have fun then," Twilight said, "But make sure to be back home when it gets dark." "Yes, mother." Spike said sarcastically, as Rainbow laughed. And so as the other three left to do their jobs, Applejack took her other three friends in her truck all the way out to her family's farm. They spent the whole day there helping Granny Smith, Big Mac, and Applebloom make some apple products. Once they were finished they were allowed to feast upon what they made. When nighttime was upon them, Applejack, Rainbow, Spike, and Rarity were in the living room resting on the couch or armchair, "Boy, that hit the spot." Spike groaned as he rubbed his stomach. "I agree, I feel as if I made a pig of myself." Rarity added. "And that's definitely not like you, Rarity." Applejack said. "You'd need to learn some self control as you would say, Rare." Rainbow noted. "Oh, and just how many apple ciders have you had?" Rarity asked, while crossing her arms. "Two, three, twelve... Lost count." Rainbow shrugged, before she felt her stomach gurgle, "Uh-oh. Call of nature!" she ran from the living room to the bathroom, as Spike, Rarity, and Applejack laughed. "Thanks again for inviting us over here, Applejack." Spike thanked her. "No trouble at all, sugarcube." Rainbow Dash came back sighing in relief, "Man, that apple cider really goes right through me." The three laughed until a thunder clap and lightning flash interrupted them. Applejack looked out a window and saw some storm clouds rolling in, "Looks like a storm's blowing in." "Oh, dear." Rarity gasped. "I think it's about time we headed home." Rainbow said. "Well, ya won't be makin' it home by the time the storm reaches," Applejack noted, "Don't worry I'll drive yall back." "Are you sure you're ok with that?" Spike asked. "Yeah. Can't have my friends walk home in the rain now can I?" Applejack asked, as she grabbed her car keys, "Just let me go tell Big Mac and Granny Smith." she went to tell them. Soon enough Applejack was driving her friends back home, with A.J at the wheel, Spike up front with her, and Rarity and Rainbow were in the back. They drove down the road that was surrounded by wilderness preserves, "Thank you ever so much for the ride home, Applejack." Rarity thanked her. "No trouble at all, Rarity." she replied. "And it is relaxing driving at night on a road like this," Rainbow said, as she relaxed, before she saw some lightning flash outside, "And we get a cool light show to boot." Spike looked out and saw the lightning flash again, but saw it was blotted by the sudden rain that was coming down hard, "Well, we would if the rain wasn't coming down." "It looks like it's coming down very hard." Rarity saw. "Will you be able to keep on driving, Applejack?" Spike asked. "Well, I'll be fine as long as it don't get any worse." Applejack answered. But it did, the rain just kept picking up, and the lightning was striking more, "A.J, you should pull over. Any sane person wouldn't drive in these conditions." "I agree with, Spike, the last thing we need is to be in an accident." Rarity nodded. "And I don't want to end up in a car crash that'll lead me to getting a broken body." Rainbow added. Applejack seeing they were all right agreed, "Right, we'll pull over and wait for the worse to pass." "Pull over where, though?" Rarity inquired. "Look!" Rainbow pointed to an entrance to the parking lot of a forest preserve. "Good a place as any." Applejack admitted, as she pulled into the lot and parked the car. They waited for a whole half hour, but it didn't look like the weather was getting any better, "I don't think this weather's going to be letting up any time soon." Spike said. "Yeah. I hate to say it, yall, but we'll probably have to be spending the night here." Applejack said. "Oh, say it isn't so Applejack! Say it isn't so!" Rarity pleaded. "Yeah, how can we sleep in this truck all night? I'm more of a lying down sleeper." Rainbow said. "Not to worry, me and the fam sometimes use this as a camping vehicle. All we gotta do is pull the seats down and we'll have plenty of space." the cowgirl explained. "Will that be a problem for you two?" Spike asked the two in the back. "It sounds good to me." Rainbow answered. "While I would prefer my warm bed, the situation can't be helped." Rarity admitted. "Well, looks like we're gonna be having ourselves a sleepover here." Applejack said, as she turned on the inside lights of the truck, "You two should try and squeeze up front here so we can fold the seats down." "All right." Rainbow said, as she and Rarity tried squeezing up front, but found it to be very crowding. "Rainbow Dash, move over!" Rarity groaned, as she tried to get some space. "I'm trying!" Rainbow answered, as she was extremely close to crowding into Spike. Or rather her chest was crowing up into Spike's face putting a blush on his cheeks. "Ugh, Rarity, I can't reach back to fold the seats!" Applejack groaned, as she tried to get past her. "Well, I'm trying to move, but Rainbow Dash isn't making it any easier." "What was that?" Rainbow asked, as she accidentally used her head to flip the switch for the inside lights making it dark again. "Hey, what's going on, who turned out the lights?!" Spike cried. "Stay calm, and let me find the light switch." Applejack said. "Hey, I think my foot's stuck in something." Rainbow said. "Ow, Rainbow Dash you hit me!" Rarity cried. "Sorry!" "Let me try finding the light," Spike said, as he made an attempt to get up and find the swtich only to fall over, "Ow! What the, hey, what's this I'm holding onto feels soft and such." he felt what his hands were on, and Applejack let out a moan. "Spike, I think you've got me..." she began. When Spike realized what he was feeling off Applejack, he cried, "Oh, my God. Applejack I am so sorry!" "What's happening?!" Rarity cried, wanting light. "Hold on!" Spike said as he reached up and turned the lights back on. When the lights were back on, they saw they were all in a tangled mess, with Spike caught in between the girls. He looked around and started laughing. Rainbow spoke up, "What's so funny, Spike?" she began laughing just because he was. "Nothing, it's just funny how we find ourselves in the weirdest of situations." he joked, and the girls started laughing with him on how accurate he was. So Applejack was able to wriggle out of their tangle and was able to fold the back seats forwards giving them a flat surface to lie on top of, "There, that should do it. Luckily we got up a spare sleeping back in the far back. We just unzip it and it can cover us all." "Pardon me for sounding a tad prissy, but doesn't it still look awfully cramped?" Rarity wondered. "Well, I don't think it was meant to hold four teenagers." Applejack admitted regretfully. "No sense complaining about it now." Spike said as he climbed in back with the girls. "We best text our families and let them know of our situation." Rarity suggested. "Wait a minute, we have to do this carefully." Spike warned them. "What do you mean, Spike?" Rainbow asked. "How do you think our families will react if we text them and say we're camping out inside a truck in the middle of a storm. Don't you think they might take it another way?" Spike asked. The three started processing what he meant and realized that their situation may be taken out of proportion if they tried explaining it to their folks, "I see your point." Rarity nodded. "So what can we do?" Rainbow asked. "We'll simply tell our families we've decided to bunk at A.J's until tomorrow. And Applejack, I know this is taboo for you, but you'll need to text your fam and tell them you're staying with one of us for the night." he explained. "Well, I hate lying, but I hate it even more if Granny Smith heard what we're doing right now and take it the wrong way. Big Mac would be no better about the idea." she admitted. "Right. So let's get our messages out." Rainbow said, as they began texting their families about them staying the night at their friends places. When they all received confirmed texts they sighed in relief and could relax. Applejack started unzipping the sleeping bag turning it into one big blanket, "Hey, you know we don't have to go to bed right away do we?" Spike asked. "Yeah, this is like a sleep over, and at sleepovers you do more than just sleep." Rainbow said. "Well, what do yall have in mind?" Applejack asked. "Why don't we play the 'would you rather' game?" Rainbow suggested. "Hmm, seems like a good game to play especially since it's us four." Rarity admitted. "Yeah, can't imagine what else we can do to preoccupy ourselves." Spike agreed. "All right. Let's play that." Applejack declared. "But first let's get comfortable," Rarity said, as she removed her boots and her socks exposing her bare feet, "Ah, much better." she wiggled her toes a bit seductively, which Spike noticed making his eyes widen. Realizing he was alone with the girls didn't want to look awkward shook it off, and removed his own sneakers and socks to let his feet breathe. What he didn't noticed was all three of the girls were staring at his feet in awe like he did to Rarity. Not wanting each other to notice, they shook it off, as Rainbow removed her footwear and socks, followed by Applejack who removed her hat as well. "So who goes first?" Spike asked. "Well since it was Rainbow Dash's idea, maybe she should." Applejack suggested. "Thanks, A.J," Rainbow said, and began to think of a choice for them, "All right, I got it. Would you guys get a massage from someone who's gay or skinny dip with an overweight person opposite of your gender?" The three were shocked at her question, and started pondering to themselves, "How overweight are we talking for the second one?" Spike asked. "About as big as sumo wrestler size." Rainbow answered. "If that's the case, I'd rather take my chances with the gay masseuse." Spike answered. "So would I. The idea of skinny dipping with someone overweight is just too hideous to comprehend." Rarity added with a dread tone. "Got that right, so I take the masseuse as well." Applejack agreed. "Good choices." Rainbow said. "What about you, Rainbow?" Spike asked. "Me? I'd take the massage as well, even if it's from a gay." "So we'd all prefer a massage from someone gay. We're already seeing we have more in common than we had." Rarity said. "Yeah." Rainbow and Applejack nodded. "I'll go next," Spike decided, as he began thinking, "Got it. Would you girls kiss another girl or run through the school stark naked?" The three were taken aback by his question to them, and began pondering, "Where would we have to kiss them?" Applejack asked. "The lips." Spike answered mischievously. "And as for the naked thing, would it be during class?" Applejack wondered. "In between classes, actually. Where the students are roaming the halls trying to get to the next class." With both specifics given to them, the three girls were really debating on what to choose, until Rainbow Dash answered, "Hell, I'd run through the school naked if anyone was watching." "Rainbow Dash!" Rarity gasped. "What, I'm not afraid to expose my body. Besides I'd be famous for doing something like that." she explained. "Yeah, that'd be a real shot for the yearbook." Applejack said imagining they'd have a whole page dedicated to a streaking Rainbow Dash. "Let's pray they'd use censor bars for the exposed areas." Rarity said. 'I'd hate that.' Spike thought to himself about censor bars ruining nudity on TV and such. "That's my answer, what about you two?" Rainbow asked her two girl friends. "I'd rather kiss a girl than embarrass myself like that in school." Applejack answered. "Me too, if I ran through the school naked I'd never live it down." Rarity added. 'I'd commit it to my memory for life.' Spike thought. "Ok, Spike, what about you?" Applejack asked. "Yeah, would you run naked through the school, or kiss a boy?" Rainbow wondered. Spike answered, "I'd go naked in the school as well. Even if Twilight would give me more of an earful than my parents." "And that's bold." Rainbow admitted. "Ya got that right. I'm talking about having major balls to go through with what follows after the streaking." Spike said. "I'll take the next question," Rarity said, and came up with her question, "Ok, would you all dress in drag or dress like a baby with a diaper and bonnet?" The three started pondering as Rainbow answered, "I'd go with drag, you could get a rash if ya wear a diaper all day, especially if you had accidents. Not that I do." she defended herself. "I don't think dressing in drag is really any different from how you dress, Rainbow." Rarity noted. "Hey, I may not dress like a stereotypical girl, but that doesn't mean I'd dress in an all boyish look." she retorted. "Applejack?" Rarity asked for her answer. "Shucks, I'd settle for dressing like a boy. Rainbow's right, wearing a diaper would just be uncomfortable." she answered. "And you, Spike?" Rarity finished. "I'd rather wear a dress than a diaper, as long as the dress is my color." Spike admitted. "What about you, Rarity?" Rainbow asked. "I'd actually want to dress in drag. Men's style would feel like a new experience for me." she answered. "So would you dress in drag even if it wasn't a dare?" Applejack asked. "Let's not go that far." Rarity sent her a glare. "Applejack, it's all you." Spike said. "Shoot, I'd take dressing in drag over diapers." "So it's decided we'd prefer drag over wearing diapers." Rarity said. "Well, just wait until we're all elderly, then we'll need to wear them like we did as tykes." Rainbow joked. "All right, Applejack, lay it on us." Spike said, as they were prepared. Applejack got her choices for them, "All right, yall. Would ya rather roll in a mud pit or sleep in a barn filled with gassy cows?" Rarity looked reach to choke on the options, as Spike spoke, "How big of a mud pit?" "About as big as the ones the pigs roll around in at my farm." she answered. Spike and Rainbow Dash started thinking, while Rarity was still feeling horrified at the choices she had to decide between. Rainbow spoke up, "Hey, I'd play sports in the rain and get dirty from it, so mud's not going to be a problem." "Yeah, between mud or gassy cows, I'd stick with mud, that can wash off while gas from cows could linger on you, plus i'd have to burn my clothes." Spike joked, as Rainbow and A.J laughed. All eyes fell on Rarity, "What do ya say, Rarity?" A.J asked. "Um, can't we have a third less smelly or dirty option?" she asked hopefully. "No can do, girl. Either the mud or the gas." Applejack answered smugly. Rarity looked back and forth between Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Spike before she finally cracked, "ALL RIGHT! I'LL TAKE THE MUD!" she bawled on how painful it was for her to decide. "Relax, Rarity, it's not like you really have to do it." Rainbow calmed her. "Yeah, it's just a game." Spike reminded her. "I know, but the idea of either choice is still frightening to me." "So, A.J, what's your choice?" Rainbow asked. "Well, I already get myself dirty from all the work I do. So I'd probably take sleeping with the cows." "WHAT?!" they gasped. "You'd sleep in a barn with cows passing gas?" Rainbow asked. "The sounds of that would help me sleep." Applejack admitted. "Applejack, there are some things about you I'll never understand." Rarity said, until they all burst into laughter on how much fun they were having. About thirty minutes in they were all getting comfortable underneath the sleeping bag blanket. Rainbow Dash was on the far right, Applejack was on the far left, while Spike and Rarity were in the center with Rarity sleeping on Dash's side and Spike sleeping on Applejack's side. "There, that should about do it." Applejack began. "Everyone comfy?" Rainbow asked. "Comfy enough." Rarity admitted. "Yeah, let's try and get some sleep." Spike said, as they got comfy. A few minutes later, Spike, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash were lying awake, while Applejack was snoring loudly. Rarity was frowning, "I'm going to have bags under my eyes in the morning!" she whispered in irritation. "I know. I'm surprised her own snoring hasn't woken her up." Spike added. "Well, I remember in one class during freshman year, she fell asleep and snored like this. I tried to wake her up, but Ms. Cherilee caught us both and gave us detention for disrupting class." "Ouch." Spike said. "Any way we can make her stop without waking her?" Rarity asked. "Well, I heard Twilight once say sleeping on your side can help cure it." spike answered. "Well you try pushing her." Rainbow ordered. "All right." Spike sighed as he was nudging her over so she would sleep on her side, but was struggling, "Oh, man. This is hard." "Come on, Spike, put some muscle into it!" Rainbow cheered. Spike continued to struggle with rolling A.J over, until Applejack spoke in her sleep, "But I wanna ride the pony, daddy." she rolled over and on top of Spike. "Girls, help!" Spike cried, as Applejack was on top of him cheek to cheek. Rarity frowned, "Get off my Spike!" she tried to attack Applejack, only for Rainbow to hold her back. "Take it easy, Rarity, you wanna cause a commotion?" "But she's sleeping on my Spikey-Wikey!" "Deal with it, and let's try and sleep now that she's stopped snoring." Rainbow said as she rolled over to get some shut eye. Rarity looked back at Spike and Applejack's position, while glaring at Applejack, but was too tired to deal with it. She fell asleep, while Spike tried wiggling out of Applejack's embrace. Eventually he got out of her embrace and fell asleep as well. Much later though, Spike woke up, "Call of nature." he said to himself, before slipping out of the blanket to put his shoes on. He carefully opened the back window and tailgate of the truck, and saw the rain stopped and the storm passed, "Well, at least I can do my business in clear weather." he stepped off the truck and walked over to the trees away from the lot so he could have some privacy. Soon he was standing in front of a tree relieving himself of a full bladder, "Ah, this is more like it," he sighed in relief, until he finished his business and zipped up his pants. Before he could go back to the truck, he heard a growling sound very close to him, "What was that?" he asked nervously. He looked around seeing nothing in sight but darkness and the trees, "It's probably nothing." Spike brushed it off, until he heard it again, "Or maybe it is." he said in worry. The growling kept getting louder and louder, until Spike cracked, "I DON'T WANNA BE EATEN!" he ran from where he was standing. Back at the truck, the three girls hearing Spike's scream woke up startled, "What's going on?" Rainbow asked. "Where's Spike?" Rarity asked seeing he wasn't with them. "Look!" Applejack motioned to Spike running out from the forest preserve looking scared out of his skin. "IT'S COMING TO GET ME, HELP ME!" Spike jumped into the truck and cowered underneath the blanket, "Spike!" the girls cried as they opened the blanket up seeing him tremble. "Are you ok?" Applejack asked in concern. "What's wrong?" Rarity asked in worry. "There's a wild animal out there and I think it wants me!" he whimpered in fright. "A wild animal?" Rainbow asked, as she looked out through the open tailgate seeing nothing approaching, "I don't see anything." "Maybe it went away." Applejack suggested. "I don't know, it sound very close to me." he heard the growl like before, "There it is!" he panicked, until the girls looked down seeing the growling was coming from Spike's belly. "Sure, a real hungry animal, Spike." Rainbow said dryly. Spike sitting up with the blanket wrapped around him with his head exposed blushed sheepishly, as Rarity and Applejack giggled, "Oh, Spike." Rarity smiled. "Hey, that could've happened to any of you. And it came out of nowhere!" spike protested, until Applejack wrapped an arm around him. "Ya got nothing to be scared of, sugarcube." Applejack comforted him. "Yeah, you just leave everything to us. We'll protect you." Rainbow added, while sitting on the other side of Spike. "After all, that's what friends do." Rarity said, as she hugged him, with A.J, and Rainbow joining in. "Thanks, girls." Spike blushed. "No problem, buddy. Now let's go back to sleep." Applejack said, as they closed up the tailgate and window, before going back under the blanket. When the sun rose up the very next morning, all four were sleeping peacefully, while Applejack was rolled over and licking behind Spike's ear. Spike who was feeling it was smiling in his sleep thinking it was a dream, "Oh, that's it, Rarity, get all the marmalade." he panted, until Applejack stopped, and they all started waking up. They sat up yawning and stretching, before looking at each other, "Morning, everybody." Applejack greeted them." "Morning, Applejack." Rainbow greeted back. "And what a glorious morning it looks." Rarity said seeing how beautiful the day looked compared to last night. "That's good." Spike admitted, as he stretched his arms up. "Well, why don't we back on the road and get yall home?" Applejack suggested. "Sounds good to me." Rainbow answered, as they got their shoes on, brought the back seats upward and returned to their respective sitting spots. Applejack started the truck and drove off back to the city with no problem. When she pulled up in front of Spike's place, she spoke, "Here ya go, Spike." "Thanks, A.J. And thanks for the fun night girls." Spike said. "No prob." Rainbow replied. "And remember, what happens in this truck, stays in this truck." he warned them. They giggled and nodded, before Spike got out, and went inside. Inside Spike walked in seeing Twilight watching TV, "Spike, welcome back. How was yours and girls night at Applejack's?" "Oh, it was fun, Twilight." he answered, before she could try and get more answers out of him he went to his room. He plopped onto his bed and stared up at the ceiling, "That was some night."