Through the vast fields of apple trees and hidden from the rest of the world lies a small clubhouse, but not just any clubhouse. It was the club house of the CMC, the Cutie Mark Crusaders!

Young Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle were sitting in their clubhouse, surrounded by mountains of papers, glue, glitter and other assortments of craft supplies. Each filly was cutting shapes into pieces of red construction paper, making designs of hearts.

“These here cards are gonna be the best hearts and hooves day cards ever!” Applebloom said as she squirted an entire bottle of glue on a violet heart shaped card. “Hey which one of you ponies have the glitter?”

Scootaloo threw her a container of glitter. “Here you go Bloom, hey what do you think of this?” she grabbed a large sheet of paper in her mouth and lifted it up to show her friends. It was a large white piece of paper with a crudely drawn picture of a smiling, sky blue pegasus with scribbles of colors representing the pegesi mane and tail. Behind it was a large, deep red heart, and above the heart it said ‘You make everyday’ and at the bottom of the heart it said ‘20% cooler’. “Guess who this is for?” she grunted, difficult to talk with paper in her mouth.

Sweetie Belle half-closed her eyes. “I have absolutely no idea” she said sarcastically. “But I thought Rainbow didn’t like Hearts and Hooves day?”

“What?” asked Scootaloo, spitting the giant poster out. “Everypony likes hearts and hooves day!”

“Really” said Sweetie Belle said smugly. “Then how come she doesn’t have a coltfriend?”

“She’s just waiting to for somepony that’s as awesome as she is!” responded Scootaloo. “And she just too awesome for anypony at the moment!

“Yeah, either that or no buck in his right mind would want anything to do with her!” barked Sweetie Belle, getting louder every second.

“Hey any buck would be lucky to have such an awesome mare like Rainbow!” screamed Scootaloo.

Applebloom jumped up and screamed “Listen to you ponies!” all eyes fell on the yellow little filly. “You two are argue’n ‘bout somethin’ that ain’t worth the argue’n!”

The small unicorn and the little pegasus stopped arguing to look at the disgruntled earth pony. Applebloom was breathing heavily over the two.

“Besides you two, we got much more important things ta be doing” she walked over to a giant sheet of pink paper rolled up in the corner. “We got to get this here Hearts and Hooves Day card for Cheerilee ready!” she knocked over the roll of paper onto the floor and started to spread it out.

“Your right Bloom” said Sweetie apologetically. “We shouldn’t be arguing about something so silly.” She looked to Scootaloo. “Sorry I said those things about Rainbow Scoot.”

“Yeah whatever, it’s okay” replied Scootaloo. She gave the unicorn a forgiving smile. Sweetie responded by giving the orange pegasus a big bear hug.

“Alright you too, if yer all done, we got ourselves a card to make!” said Apple Bloom.

“Yeah!’ screamed Scootaloo.

“Let’s Do it!” screamed Sweetie Belle.

“CUTIE MARK CRUSADER CARD MAKERS!!!” they all said in unison as they began to frantically work on their teacher’s card.

Meanwhile, just outside the CMC’s clubhouse a certain glowing green pony was making his way back to the farm. Gigawatt was unaware, however, of the orange mare secretly following him.

Applejack hid behind an apple tree as she spied on Gigawatt. “What am I doing?” she whispered to herself. “Here I am followin somepony I barely even know.” She peeked out from behind her tree, glancing at the glowing pony. Why was she so obsessed with him? He was just so different than everypony, and yet that seemed to be the thing she found most interesting about him. she realized she was staring at his flank again. “Dang it Applejack! Come on girl, get your head on straight!” she said shaking her head. What would it take to get him out of her head? Should she confront him about these feelings?

“Applejack?” a static voice called out. Gigawatt had turned around and was looking straight at her.

“Oh horse apples!” she muttered. She quickly jumped behind her tree, hoping that he didn’t see her.

“Applejack?” the voice was getting closer. Applejack prayed that he was talking about another Applejack. It was a common name, right?

“Hey Applejack, what’s up?”

“Oh, hey…” she laughed nervously. He was staring right at her, with those thick sunglasses. She never could get a good look at those eyes.

“Were you following me?” he ask, staring in to Applejack’s eyes, or at least, she thought he was.

“Wha……. Umm, shoot no” her face began to redden as she started to get flustered. “I was just……. picking……. Apples” she gave a guilty smile.

“Apples?” he asked.

“Umm yeah Apples!” she quickly searched for a tree with apples in it. “You know, Apple bucking. That’s what we do here at Sweet Apples!” she quickly bucked a nearby tree, apples raining down on the two ponies. “There now I just gotta grab them and…” she picked up one in her mouth, and then another. But when she tried to grab a third, she was unable to cram it in her mouth. “Shoot” she grunted.

Gigawatt smiled at the mare as she tried to stick an apple in her mouth, thinking of other things he could stick in there. “Need some help?” he asked playfully.

“No” she grunted, almost getting another apple in her jaw, only to slip out at the last minute.

Gigawatt couldn’t help it any more. “Here, let me help you” he said. Before Applejack could react, Gigawatt had opened his mouth and took a bite of the apple in her mouth.

Applejack couldn’t believe what was happening. She had never been this close to another colt’s mouth before. Her jaw instinctually pushing forward, his jaws doing the same. The taste of apples in her mouth was overpowering, but she wanted to taste him. Wait, why was she thinking these things? Her heart raced as she heard the sound of an apple cracking. Slowly, the apple was ripped from her mouth, leaving just a small chunk in her teeth. She watched as Gigawatt slowly devoured the apple. Eating all but the core.

“Delicious” he said, licking the last bit of apples on his lips. He took a look at Applejack. Her face was completely red like the skin of an apple. She just kept staring at him with these big school girl eyes. “So, do want to walk the rest of the way back with me, or would you rather stay back and stalk me?”

Applejack let the reaming apple fall out of her mouth. She just strolled up next to the glowing pony. “I wasn’t stalking you” she grinned playfully. “I was just walking behind y’all is all.”

“Sure you were” the green pony said sarcastically, as they both began walking towards the ranch.

They were completely unaware that three snoopy fillies had seen the whole ordeal, each with a look of confusion or disbelief on their face. Scootaloo broke the silence.

“What and who was that?” she asked.

“Oh, that was just Gigawatt” said Applebloom. “He’s a friend of my brother.”

Quickly, a smile grew on Sweetie Belle. “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” she cooed. “Is he Applejack’s coltfriend?”

“What, shoot no” frowned Applebloom. “He’s just visiting. Besides, my sis don’t believe in Hearts and Hooves day love and stuff.”

“Well that’s not what I saw” said Scootaloo mockingly. “They sure look like they like each other.”

Sweetie then got an idea, a brilliant, brilliant idea. “Maybe all they need is a push in the right direction” she said wickedly.

“What are you saying Sweetie Belle?” asked Applebloom.

“All I’m saying is that those two clearly like each other, and your sister can’t seem to grasp it. So all I’m saying is that we help…… Get things started.”

“Wait, a second” began Scootaloo. “Don’t you remember what happened last time we tried to make two ponies fall in love?” flashbacks of Big Mac and Cheeiliee making their kissy faces and lovey names still haunted them to this day.

“Trust me” Sweetie shuddered. “We won’t do anything like that again.”

“I don’t know girls” said Applebloom nervously. “My sis said she didn’t want me meddling in her love life.”

The two other ponies shared a look of disbelief before the yellow earth pony cracked a smile.

“Then again, I never listen to my sister!” she laughed. “Come on girls let’s do it!”

The three ponies jumped up in a circle and places their hooves in the middle. In unison, they all screamed as loud as they could….

“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS: PONY MATCHMAKERS!!”

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