Rainbows Are For Fillyfoolers: Chapter 4: Mud
A/N Ok. This is the one you've mostly been waiting for: Applejack beating the shit outa SOMEPONY. Oh, and some mist. Watch out, weak hearted souls.
Enjoy... or not.
It had been a week since Applejack's confession, and Rainbow was getting out of the hospital.
"Ok, hon. We're letting you out now, so be safe. No charge, sweetie. Now, be careful!"
Nurse Redheart called after a very exited twelve year old filly. Rainbow was almost imploding with glee; her heart was surging with adrenaline. It flowed through her veins like the water in a river.
She spread her wings.
She ran forward, ready to take flight.
She suddenly felt something in front of her hoof. She tripped, and scraped her chin on the ground, the dirt smearing on her poor, disdain face.
"Oh, Fagbow Crash, you silly filly... I thought you were the fastest flyer around. I think something's wrong with her brain, Bon Bon. Tell me, Fagbow, just where do you think you're landing your ass toda-" crack- "Uhf!"
Her taunting was put to an end by a back hoof in her cheek.
Lyra spat a bit of blood on the dirt.
"I think you owe us an apology, Miss Lyra Hymenstrings."
"I am most certainly like, NOT, a virgin, so you can forget the word 'hymen'. Oh, wait, you can't, because you'll have one all your life, Appledyke."
"So, what's yer problem? Why're you bein' such a bitch? Do you even have a mother? What did your parents do wrong?"
Rainbow attempted to look up. "Everything."
A hoof planted itself on Dash's forehead.
"Ow!"
"Shut up, tweaker."
"I'm not a-"
Another blow. "-mare? Oh, I knew that."
"Why, I oughta-"
Applejack was pinned to the ground by Lyra's other hoof.
"I don't think you seem to understand the concept of leave. Go drink some bleach. Jump into the gorge. Hang yourself. Something, ANY thing, to get you off this planet. Just don't come back. Got it?"
No one moved.
"GOT IT?"
"UUGH!" Applejack wrenched herself from Lyra's hoof. She turned around and bucked her chin. Her head snapped backward, and she fell over.
"You are DEAD, bitch!"
Lyra got up, and slammed a hoof into Applejack's nose. A splash of blood spurted from her nostril, and she stumbled back.
Rainbow got up. By now, there was a whole crowd of fillies watching.
She ran forward and kicked the inside of Lyra's knee, making her double over.
Lyra grabbed Rainbow's bleeding face, and slammed it into her other knee. Rainbow fell over, a pressure building in her head.
Applejack reared up and beat the other mare upside the head with both hooves, then yanked her, head over heels, onto the ground. She stood up, and stomped on her ribcage.
There was a splintering, cracking sound. Lyra stopped breathing. Her eyes were wide, and her chest was a broken, mangled mess. Bumps sprouted everywhere, and when she moved, they rippled across her body like dice in a bag.
She passed out.
Rainbow, on the verge of a blackout, called for Applejack.
"AJ..."
"Rainbow! Are you alright, sugarcube?"
"No, I... I think she broke my jaw. Yeah, she... OOOW!"
Applejack started to cry. Her tears flowed down her face, and Rainbow started as well. They both lay there, sobbing. What a world.
Rainbow arrived at the hospital with Applejack.
You would not believe the look on Nurse Redheart's face.
"You... I told you to be careful! What have you done to yourselves?"
"Look Ma'am... we kind of... got in a fight."
"You two?!"
"No, us and Lyra Hy-Heartstrings. She attacked us on the road."
"Where is she?"
"I don't-"
"Oh, yes you do."
Rainbow Dash and Applejack found themselves in the principle's office, later that day. Rainbow had a jaw sling on, and applejack had a nose splint. Her head was bandaged in many places, and Rainbow had bloodstained gauze covering her neck region and her chin, cheek, and forehead.
(Warning: Principle is OC)
Principle Feather Pen looked at each of the girls.
"So, you got in a fight."
They nodded. Rainbow winced.
"With who, again?"
"Lyra Heartstrings, Ma'am, she's in the emergency room with all her ribs fractured and her jaw dislocated."
"Do you know that fighting gets you suspended, girls?"
They shook their heads.
"So, I am going to have to suspend you two and Lyra from school for two weeks. Do you understand?"
They nodded.
Rainbow looked at her hooves. She waited patiently for Applejack's grandma to come pick her up. She said that they needed to talk.
She looked over at Applejack. She had tears in her eyes, and her head hung low. Her cute mane was all dirtied up, and her hat was gone.
Rainbow gasped. Applejack looked up.
"Hm?"
"Yuhr hft!"
"Mah what, Dashie?"
"Hfft!"
"Mah..." she touched the top of her head. "Oh, no."
Granny Smith walked in the door to the office. Big Macintosh walked in beside her.
"C'mon, now, Applejack. Let's go."
"Mah hat!"
"C'mon, hun."
Big Mac hoisted AJ onto his back.
"Noooo!" She cried.
Rainbow silenty looked behind her, as she was practically dragged off by Granny Smith.
Rainbow lay in a sleeping bag on the floor of AJ's room. She watched the other pony sulk.
"Mah fuckin' hat... gone forever..." she wept.
Dash had a plan, now.
Once AJ had fallen asleep, Dash crept over to the window. She looked around, opened it, and climbed out. She landed in the soft grass.
She knew exactly where she was going, she came over to Sweet Apple Acres all the time to buy apple products.
She ran into town.
She snuck over to the place where they had the fight, and spotted a floppy something in the mud.
AJ's hat.
she picked it up with her teeth, and ran off, the mud dripping onto her hooves as she ran.
She got back to the window. She climbed up onto the sill, looked in, and saw the orange pony asleep.
She climbed in. She stuck her head out the window, and shook the hat of any loose mud. She decided to jump out again, and clean it in the grass. She popped out of the window, and began to rub the hat in the dew.
The hat was clean. She felt so proud of herself, she kissed it. It smelled like Applejack. She loved Applejack.
She climbed back in the room, and shut the window. She lay the hat in the space near AJ's belly.
AJ curled around the hat, and smiled in her sleep.
Rainbow dreamt of that smile.
A/N Ok, not as sad as I wanted it to be, at all. Not even close. But hey, it's a fanfiction story.
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