"Ah appreciate everyone's support with all this. Ah honestly wouldn't know how to deal with all this on my own."
A now fully clothed Applejack stepped out from his room, clad in a borrowed pair of overalls, a red flannel button-up shirt (left open) and a white tank from Big Mac, seeing how his current size, though still larger then a normal girls' attire, was too tight to wear. He was adjusting the buttons on his shirt as he stepped out with his friends.
"I'm so sorry about all this, Applejack! I didn't realize-"
"Now don't you go blamin' yerself, Twilight! You didn't know about the andradite, neither did Zecora for that matter. So it was no one's fault."
Applejack stepped up to Twilight and laid a reassuring hand on her shoulder, smiling at his friend. Twilight looked up with a relieved smile on her face and nodded up at Applejack.
"Alright! Seriously! Is it me, or does anybody else feel an extreme weirdness about all this?!"
"Now Rainbow, I'm sure it must be very stressful for Applejack too.", a compassionate Fluttershy calmly chimed.
"Fluttershy is right, you guys. Until we can reverse the effects of this spell, let's try and help her out as best as we can!"
"Him, dear.", Rarity corrected.
"Oop! Sorry."
"No worries, girls. This'll be a bit...weird to work with, but we can do this! And Ah'm confident that Twilight and Zecora can fix this. It'll just take time, that's all."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Sorry, AJ. I mean, it's like the poison joke all over again! Only instead of Flutterguy-"
At hearing the familiar name, Fluttershy squee's in slightly bashful manner.
"-now we have a Jack of an Applejack to deal with!"
Applejack adjusted his Stetson in a nervous gesture, clearing his throat in an attempt to calm himself. He didn't know why, but he got this feeling that many troubles were just waiting 'round the corner. A tug at his rolled up sleeve made him snap out of his reverie.
Applejack turned his head to find an overly inquisitive (not to mention, overly enthusiastic) Rarity stretching her compact measuring tape along his arm, humming in unspoken affirmations as she took down the measurements.
"Uh, can Ah help you, sugarcube?"
"Terribly sorry, darling! But I simply can't let you walk around in your brother's attire! No! This calls for more...unique!"
Rainbow Dash scoffs loudly at hearing that. Pinkie bounces between Rarity, who was still holding onto Applejack's arm, and Applejack.
"Is that why you've been staring at AJ the way Rainbow stares at a full mug of cider?"
Rarity flinches back, as if burned by Pinkie's words.
"I...That's...N-Not in the slightest, Pinkie Pie! I'm merely concerned for our friend Applejack is all!"
Fluttershy quietly came up to the friends.
"Um, Rarity?"
The seamstress looks towards the docile soul behind her to see the pink haired girl point to somewhere beyond her sight. She turns toward where Fluttershy was indicating, and her eyes widened at what she saw. When she had flinched earlier, Rarity had coiled her arms around Applejack's arm as if she were hiding behind it, while a bemused Applejack looked at his fashion-forward friend, eye brow arched in the silent question "What the hay are you doin'?"
The pale skinned fashionista cleared her throat and calmly released Applejack's arm, smoothing out the wrinkles left on his sleeve while maintaining a lady-like poise and sophisticated air. Not in the cold manner in which the farmer was used to getting, but more along the lines of trying to maintain whatever dignity she could salvage from this.
"My apologies, Applejack darling. I...acted a bit forwardly."
Applejack cleared his throat a little uneasily as he scratched the back of his head, casting his eyes everywhere else except at anyone else's eyes while shuffling his bare feet against the floor boards.
"S'alright, Rares. No uh, No harm done."
Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Twilight watched the spectacle in silence. Pinkie then leaned in towards the others, whispering a lilting "Awkward~" and making everyone else nodding their heads in agreement.
A ringtone chirped noisily then, making everyone present jump up in alarm. Twilight reached into her pocket and saw that it was Zecora calling her.
"Ooh! I gotta take this! Hopefully, we can get this whole thing settled soon."
And with that Twilight left the room, taking the call as she walked away. Everyone looked to each other, with no clue of what to do.
