A Week Of No Flight (In other words, life as an Earth pony)

“GIV' IT BACK, RAINBOW!”

Applejack glared with daggers in her eyes as she roared those words at the pegasus.

Rainbow just smirked as she stood on the cloud with Applejack's hat on her head and pulled a mocking stupid expression, imitating Applejack, as she said.

“Gav it bock, DAINbow!”

“Gun sannit! Ah don't speak like that!”

“You're right.” Rainbow sniggered as she danced on the cloud in hysterics, “You sound ten times dumber.”

“Grr...”

Suddenly a gust of wind caught behind Rainbow's head as the hat was whooshed off in a furious breeze. Applejack gasped as her eyes widened, and ran after the hat- but Rainbow shot forward trying to get it before her.

The two darted down the fields to a river, the hat landing in it and getting drenched in waves while the two watched from the shore. Applejack just cried.

“No-no-no!”

“It's okay!”

Suddenly a crocodile lunged out of the water, swallowing the hat whole. Applejack's eyes and mouth fell open.

Before she glared at Rainbow and the pegasus gave a nervous smile, etching back.

“Heh, heh...”

“Rainbow..”

“So a gator ate your hat... you'll get it back in a few hours.” Rainbow laughed and Applejack just stepped dangerously closer to her. The pegasus swallowed, getting ready to take flight when suddenly-

Applejack burst into tears.

Rainbow blinked her eyes a couple of times lost... er, what was happening?

“Mah mother gav' me that hat!”

The pegasus just stood there, feeling like the biggest bitch ever and asked after a second... her voice small.

“You mean... your mother that... died?”

“Yes!”

“Oh...” Rainbow said, and gave a nervous smile, before adding. “Well I'm sure it'll look fine once it's-”

Applejack just turned and left.

Rainbow blinked a few times. She thought Applejack had hundreds of those hats? How was she supposed to know that that one was special?

She stumbled a little forward as she rose off the ground and followed after the pony, saying to her in barely a voice.

“Well... I'm sure you'll get another one.”

Applejack didn't reply. Rainbow felt the guilt rising higher and higher inside of her.

“Is there anything I can do to-?”

“Yes!” Applejack said, turning her tear stained eyes to the pegasus and shouting in her face. “You can jump of a cliff and die!”

“Ha ha ha ha!” Rainbow laughed in hysterics, making Applejack pull a cautionary face and the pegasus stopped immediately. She looked at Applejack, and tried to mumble not in chuckles. “I thought you were making a joke... considering I have wings... and... a-and can fly...?”

Applejack glared at her, before storming on and the pegasus landed in front of her, begging on her knees.

“Please Applejack! Please! The guilt is eating me alive!”

“It's been two minutes...”

“Is there anything I can do to please you?!”

Applejack just stared at her, incredulous at Rainbow's terrible attempts.

“It can EVEN be SEXUAL!”

“...what?”

“Nothing.” Rainbow peeped and crawled towards her begging more. “Anything... just... JUST NAME IT! PLEASE! OH CELESTIA, APPLEJACK! JUST TELL ME!”

“Alright...” Applejack said, stepping back a little awkwardly. It seemed-impossible as it was- Rainbow was taking this harder than her. “You can... um...?”

“Remember.” Rainbow said to her, coming closer as she said. “It can be anything!”

She whispered in her ear.

“...anything.”

Applejack leant away from her awkwardly and just gave a quick nervous smile before saying.

“Ya can... just... um... not fly for a week!”

“Anything but that!”

“Rainbow...”

“Heh, heh...” Rainbow just said, standing beside Applejack as she pulled her hoof around Applejack's shoulder, pulling her close. She said. “Applejack, I need my wings. I need to fly just like you need your ha---hey!”

Rainbow trailed off as she realised where she was going and looked at Applejack with a brave face- but only saw one of despise back. “Yeah sure... I can give up flying.”

“You will?”

“Yep.”

“And ya don't mind if-”

“-Twilight does a spell ta disable your wings?”

The two stood in Twilight's kingdom's main hall and Rainbow looked petrified, wondering why the hell she agreed to this.

Oh yeah... cos she was a bitch.

“Now, are you sure you want this, Rainbow Dash?” Twilight asked warily. Her horn pointed to Rainbow and the pegasus gulped, saying with a nervous voice.

“Do I have a choice?”

She was literally asking this question, and Applejack shook her head. No. Rainbow did not have a choice.

It took seconds before magical sparks flew out of Twilight's horn and Rainbow shut her eyes in fear. She stood there as magic sunk into her wings and when the spell was done, she opened her eyes and tried to move her wings...

...but couldn't.

She sighed.

“Well I'm sure this will lead to some interesting shenanigans...”

“Shut it, Rainbow.” Applejack just grunted and left the castle after that. The heat from the rage fumed off the orange pony and she was gone in a second.

Rainbow looked at Twilight and laughed, adding, “Well now that Applejack's gone, you can just- y'know...”

Twilight looked at Rainbow confused and the pegasus pulled a blank expression, continuing.

“Reverse it.”

“Rainbow!”

“That's my name...” Rainbow chuckled nervously, trying to move her wings but couldn't. “But it can't really be Rainbow, with out the Dash... and I can't really Dash if I don't have-”

“You are unbelievable!”

“It's not like Applejack was married to her hat! And I just didn't want her mad at me anymore...”

“Well, do this... and she won't be.”

“You can say that again...”

“Do this, and she won't be.”

“Oh Celestia! Shut UP, Twilight!”

The alicorn looked at Rainbow Dash slowly for a second, before asking.

“Is it... that time of the month again?”

Cocking an eyebrow up and Rainbow just looked at her. She turned her ruby eyes down to the ground and rolled her hoof in a small circle on the floor, mumbling.

“...yes”

Twilight just smacked her hoof into her face. Deeply... deeply disappointed.

“Get out of my castle.”

Rainbow sighed. She began walking out of the hall and just mumbled to herself, feeling like life for the next week would just be unbearable.

“I hate my friends...”