Chicken

The mane six all huddled around each other in Twilight’s library, giggling and laughing as they joked and talked about the weeks that passed.

Twilight had organized a slumber party and was glad everyone could show up, though Spike did feel a little overwhelmed with all the women in his home. But it wasn’t anything he wasn’t used to.

The girls sat in a circle as they ate popcorn and chatted. The night sky outside was clear and bright as the moonlight shone down through the window and Twilight continued with her friends.

“Okay, Pinkie truth or dare.”

“Dare!” Pinkie said in glee and Twilight raised her hoof to her chin thinking before giving a big smile and looked at her friend with a wryly grin,

“Okay Pinkie, I dare you to hold your breath for five minutes.”

“Come on, Twilight,” Applejack said with a small laugh, “be more inventive.”

“I’ll do it!” Pinkie said eagerly and her cheeks ballooned with air holding it in. Twilight got the timer and Dash rolled her eyes bored.

“This game could be awesome! But these dares are LAME!”

“I think holding your breath for so long…” Fluttershy said meekly “Is really h-hard.”

Twilight hit off the timer after the minutes came to an end and said cheerfully, “Done!”

Pinkie blew out the remaining air like a vacuum and grinned widely saying,

“Easy peasy!”

“Yeah, like seriously?” Dash said with a roll of her eyes, “Even Fluttershy could do that. That wasn’t dangerous or embarrassing at all.”

“Well we’re not trying to embarrass each other, Dash.” Twilight said confused and Rainbow knew that Twilight obviously did not get the point of the game.

“Yeah but you have to ask something the other will hate to do, to make it interesting!”

“Oh I see, Rainbow Dash,” Rarity chimed looking at her pegasus friend with a sly grin, “Well why don’t you match your words. Truth or dare, my dear?”

“That’s easy!” Dash said with a wave of her hoof, “Dare! I ain’t no woose!”

“Well then,” Rarity said and looked around the girls till she spotted Applejack chatting quietly to Fluttershy beside her, “I dare you to play chicken with Applejack.”

“What?” Dash said suddenly stumped. She looked over to Applejack who had also stopped what she was doing and was looking at Rainbow with a face of disdain, “Nice try, but you’d never get Applejack to agree to something like that, she’d chicken out in the first few seconds.”

“Ah would not,” Applejack said, the last thing she was was a chicken, “Ah have never lost a round of this game.”

“Yeah?” Dash said sizing her up and simply put, “I’ve never lost ANYTHING.”

“Well dare to prove it?” Rarity put, a grin wide on her face, “The two bravest ponies in the world wouldn’t be afraid of a kiss?”

“No,”

“Are ya kiddin’ me?” the two replied as if not threatened from the prospect of losing anything.

Applejack knew Rainbow was all talk.  She knew deep down Rainbow was a little afraid of her authority and would back down when things got too close. Whereas Rainbow just had one thought in her head.

I never lose.

“Well all talk and no action” Rarity said, enticing the scene to happen, wanting to see what would happen… knowing that both were as stubborn as the other and that a competition like this would make things interesting.

The two tomboys looked at each other, scooting next to one another as they looked into the other's eyes, neither showing a sign of weakness and began the nose dive slowly. Pinkie got a microphone out of nowhere to commentate.

“Applejack and Rainbow Dash are proceeding with caution an inch away from the other, no two centimetres! No a centimetre!”

Applejack was going slower than Dash in the approach expecting the pegasus to back off a little but when their lips finally met in the inevitable lip lock, she cringed… so Dash wasn’t backing down.

“I guess neither wins nor loses,” Twilight said not surprised that neither had chickened out. Rarity hushed her looking at the two as she said slyly,

“No Twilight, you see it’s called chicken for a reason, the first one to chicken out loses, so they have to keep going until one backs down.”

Applejack could hear Rarity say this with disdain in her heart as she felt Rainbow Dash kissing her. Those blue lips pushed against hers hard. Her eyes were closed tight as she imagined it was a handsome stallion but froze in shock when she felt Dash’s tongue daringly slip into her mouth.

She blushed from the added addition… so Dash was playing dirty, was she? Applejack should’ve expected that this wouldn’t be a fair fight but would not be put off by this and her tongue fought back just as hard. The two kissed harder and inevitably more passionately.

“Oh my…” Fluttershy said looking down nervous at her friends’ display. She felt awkward at any type of public display of affection but between two of her best friends… it really made her shy.

“The two are neck and neck!” Pinkie shouted through her mic with glee, “Oh should I say lip to lip as neither is willing to back down! But Rainbow Dash seems to be making her move-!”

As Pinkie said this Dash’s hoof reached around Applejack’s head. She pulled AJ's face closer to hers and Applejack quenched her eyes heatedly, doing the same back to show that she was no coward.

Rarity and Twilight just looked at each other, both of their eyes wide. The two embracing ponies were blushing so fiercely, the two unicorns were almost certain that AJ and Rainbow Dash were enjoying this.

“Er girls?” Twilight said clearing her throat awkwardly as Rainbow Dash and Applejack kissed more vigorously but then Dash did something unexpected. She reached her free hoof down Applejack’s thigh to her privates touching them and with that Applejack jumped surprised, pushing her away in a gasping voice. Rainbow grinned widely as she shouted,

“YES I WIN!!”

“You cheated!” Applejack proclaimed, gasping as she wiped her mouth. Her face was bright red from anger she’d like to confirm with her friends- not arousal.

“I did not!” Rainbow Dash said also still bright red in the cheeks, “It’s called chicken, Applejack! And what are you? A chicken!”

Applejack shook her head quickly and turned to Rarity saying, “Rarity, where in the rule books does it say a pony is allowed to go down there?!”

“Well,” Rarity said nervously, not expecting her little game to get so out of hand, “No pony has ever gotten that far before.”

“So what?” Applejack said in shock, “Are ya sayin’ that if Ah hadn’t chicken’d out Ah’d have to have sex with her?”

“Yeah, as if.” Rainbow said with a smirk, “You would chicken out in the first few minutes, just face it Applejack, you aren’t as brave as me.”

“Ah am too!” Applejack said, hating she lost. She wasn’t a sore loser usually but Rainbow Dash just knew how to push so many buttons. She could just tear her up.

“Listen girls, it doesn’t matter.” Twilight said going between the two to stop a fist fight from breaking out, “This was only a game, it doesn’t matter who won,”

“Because I did.” Dash said triumphantly and Applejack pulled her an angry look.

“All that matters is that we had fun and now we should go to bed.”

“And at least we know how far those two are willing to go,” Rarity whispered to Fluttershy with a wink. The yellow pegasus blushed.

The girls headed upstairs quietly but Applejack stepped in front of Rainbow Dash just before she was about to go up and said,

“You didn’t win.”

“What’s that chicken?” Dash asked with a grin and Applejack grew red in the face in fury.

“Ah’m not a chicken! If Ah knew ya were goin’ to do that Ah would’ve been prepared!”

“Face it Applejack,” Rainbow said with a smirk, “You can’t beat me so just admit defeat and be done with this.”

“Ah can beat you!” Applejack yelled, her face right up to Rainbow’s and Rainbow just grinned. She looked into her eyes as she said,

“Yeah, prove it.”

“Tomorrow night, my place.” Applejack said ramming her face right up to Rainbow in anger “We’ll see who’s the chicken.”

“Can’t,” Rainbow said, glaring back into her eyes with determined pink ones of her own, “Wait.”

The two glared into each other’s eyes for a few more seconds before they broke apart. Rainbow walked up the stairs in little nonchalant skips. Applejack eyed her slowly as she said,

“Ah’m not a chicken.”

Usually this didn’t matter to her but Dash had made it personal like usual and she would for once have her beaten. She would have Dash admit defeat to her just to get that pegasus off her high horse.

This wasn’t over.