It was a somewhat dim and overcast night in Applejack’s bedroom, as well as the rest of Ponyville. The rest of the Sweet Apple Acres residents were asleep, but Applejack was awake, and had a horny Rainbow Dash tied to her bed.

“Now are you gonna do what Ah say or not?” Applejack said.

“But your orders sound worse than the actual punishment!” Rainbow said. “You’re basically giving me a choice between the two, and I like the punishment better!”

“Ah... er... y’do?”

“Please, just let me go! I swear I won’t do anything!”

“Let you go? You’d tell everypony! Ah finally have you right where Ah need you ta be, an’ if anypony found out about this, Ah’d be jailed for lahfe. Did you really think that was gonna work? Just askin’ me?” She slapped her cheek. “Now, are you gonna listen or will Ah make you listen?”

Someone knocked the door.

“Um, AJ,” Rainbow said.

“Ah already explained Ah’m not gonna just let you go like—”

“Peroxide.”

“What? What did Ah—”

The door was knocked again. Applejack went to the door, unlocked it, and opened it.

“Twilight! Hey!”

“Hi, Applejack.” Twilight looked towards the bed for a moment. “Why is Rainbow Dash—”

“Makes sense in context. Too long to explain. What’d you come here for?”

“Well, I noticed a slight—”

“That’s good.” Applejack slammed the door in Twilight’s face. Undeterred, she knocked on the door again. Applejack answered it.

“Is this about savin’ the world or somethin’?” Applejack said.

“No. I just thought you—”

“We’re busy.”

“It’ll only take a minute to explain—”

Applejack slammed and locked the door again.

“What could be so important?” Twilight said to herself, despite knowing.

Applejack looked back towards Rainbow. “Now where were we?”

“You already forgot?”

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