How Many Apples 2: Applejack's Revenge

It was early morning; way earlier than Rainbow Dash liked to be up at normally. If she had to get up at the crack of dawn, it was usually for a damn good reason. Today met the bill. She stood outside the entrance to the Apple family home. She hadn’t been here in a while. Not since a fateful bet made over hard cider a solid two or three weeks ago. A bet involving apples. Lots of them. Shoved into places apples had no business being, even if it was Applejack doing the storing. It had been a wild time, all right. But at the end of it, Applejack had been in pieces. Her skin had been stretched out to an impossible degree, and then left empty on the grass like a flesh-coloured tarp. Her bones and various insides detached and spread over the ground. Rainbow had held her skull in her hands, unsure if her friend was dead or alive, and yet undeniably turned on by what she had witnessed.

Weeks had passed. Twilight had helped her friend heal, but AJ had gone into seclusion, refusing to be seen. From what Twilight had told her, AJ had made a remarkable physical recovery-not perfect, but very much alive and able bodied. And Twi had been told to instruct Dash, specifically, that Applejack was not angry, but that she had won the bet, and that Dash was to report to Sweet Apple Acres at the designated time and place. Dash had agreed, in the event that said bet had been lost, to be the official maid of the farmhouse for a week. So here she was, standing in the morning sun, feeling on edge and yet excited all at the same time for what lay in store.

Deciding to get right to it, Rainbow walked up the porch stairs and knocked on the door. There was the patter of feet on floorboards, and then the door opened, revealing Applebloom, AJ’s younger, teen aged sister. She was looking well these days, with the same healthy complexion and figure as all the Apples. Perhaps not quite as...jiggly as Applejack was, though. Or had been. She was wearing her usual combination of a yellow shirt under denim dungarees, and seemed in good cheer.

“Morning, Rainbow Dash! Sis is waiting in the living room, and she’s excited as all hay to see you.”

“Really? I mean, heh,of course…uh, she’s ok now, right?” asked Dash, who still felt a little guilty about the whole apple affair. Applebloom put on a thoughtful face.

“Well…she’s happy, and she’s ok. You might be a little…surprised at some of the stuff she can do now, though.” She said. Dash snorted, wondering exactly what she was implying by that. She wondered if AJ had told her much about what had really happened. Sisters or not, that would be one awkward conversation to have, even if it did have some valuable morals to teach. Like “Drink on moderation” and “Be careful what you stick up your butt.”

Dash was led into the living room. There she was, lounging on the sofa with a big goofy grin. She looked in one piece at least, from this angle. She was wearing an orange and white shirt, and a pair of jeans; both looked fresh, as if newly bought. In fact, they looked a size or so too small for the farmer, clinging to her frame, emphasizing her form. Dash wondered if she was trying to tease or entice her. Fine by her.

“Well, if it ain’t my new maid.” Drawled Applejack, standing up. “I’ve been looking forward to this.”

Dash wasn’t really sure what to say, other than a simple, nervous “Hey.” AJ seemed ok after all, which was a relief. It now dawned on her that she would be working here for a full week now. AJ went over to behind the sofa and produced what was going to be her uniform for the next seven days, a classic black and white maid outfit. Applejack pushed it into her arms. Something about her face seemed ever so slightly off to Rainbow, but she couldn’t quite place it.

“Well, might as well get started, girl. Get yourself changed.”

“Yeah, fine. One week of this, huh?” said Dash, taking the dress. AJ chuckled ominously.

“Oh it’s going to be a week to remember alright. And don’t bother leaving the room, just get changed in here and get it over with.”

“Uh…sure, ok.” Said Rainbow. Well, she wasn’t shy, and after what she had done to AJ, a little stripping was pretty mild. She quickly peeled her t-shirt over her head, revealing her white sports bra, before ditching her pants in short order. Acutely aware of two sets of eyes staring at her, Rainbow quickly donned the maid costume. The skirt reached just down between her knees and her hips, and there was a window meant for cleavage that wasn’t much of an issue for a girl like Dash. There was no hole for her wings, which meant they had to stay inside and out of use-probably deliberate on her new boss’s part. She felt more silly than anything, really. Well, whatever AJ wanted.

“Ok, there, I’m your maid. Hurray. So what, is there an apple that needs polished somewhere?”

“Now hold your horses there, Dash. We’re not done here just yet. Applebloom?”

“Yup!”

Applebloom walked over and produced two small bottles filled with a bubbling something or other. It looked like a potion. Dash took them and gave AJ an inquiring look.

“Well, go ahead. Drink them.”

“Uh…no?”

Applejack shook her head and laughed.

“What, you don’t trust me? You’re the maid, I’m the employer, I say drink up, you drink up.”

“Fine, fine, ok!” said Dash. She downed the two mystery liquids swiftly, and felt the warmth travel down her throat and into her core. She made a face at the taste, which was like a very strong cough syrup.

“Urgh…ok, I drank it. What was it?”

“Well,” said Applebloom, “I think the idea is to stop you bleeding out or from feeling much pain”

Rainbow Dash blinked, then turned around to see Applejack holding a very large, very sharp looking axe. Her eyes went wide as saucers and she put her hands up over her face.

“Aaaah! Ok, I’m sorry, Jack, I’m sorry for the bet, I’m sorry for the whole stupid thing, just don’t hurt me!”

She closed her eyes, only to hear yet more gentle laughter from the both of the Apple sisters.

“Dash, did you hear a word Applebloom said? We specifically don’t want to hurt you! We ain’t monsters. But uh, after, you know, how things went with me, I think I’m owed a little more than just the pleasure of seeing you in that cute outfit.”

“What do you mean?” said Rainbow, opening her eyes and rounding on her “employer.” Again, there was something off about Applejack’s grin. Her smile looked a little too wide for her face, somehow. And her skin seemed to ripple on occasion…

“Well, I’m thinking I make things interesting. You’re here seven days. If you mess up, you get punished. And as a starter, I’m taking those arms of yours.”

“…You’re taking my what? My arms?”

“Yup. So arms out,sugar.”

“But-“

“Oh quit bellyaching, you’ll get ‘em back. Consider this part of your terms of employment. You ain’t gonna back outta the bet, are ya?”

“This was never part of the bet!” said Rainbow. Applejack stayed silent for a moment, and nodded, as if to herself.

“Suppose that’s true…” she said, quietly. She put her hands to her lips, and to Rainbow’s amazement, she began to pull them upwards. Her upper lip went up past her face and past the top of her head, the hole yawning wide.Aj pulled the skin of her head down her skull like it was a hoodie, and let it hang around her neck. Rainbow looked at her friends skull for the second time in her life. Only this time it was staring back at her.

“…but then again, neither was this.” Said Appleack, finishing her thought. “Yeah, Twilight put me back together, but some things don’t fix so well. Having your skin stretched out like mines was is one of ‘em.”

Rainbow stood there, feeling guilty as sin for what she had inadvertently done. She went to apologize, but AJ waved her off.
“Aww don’t sweat it. I’m still alive, and I’m getting used to it. Point is, you owe me. So, like I said, arms out. If you’re a good little maid, you’ll get out of this fine.”

Rainbow felt compelled to obey at least for now, thankful that she at least might get off lighter than that. She held her arms out straight as Applejack hefted the axe and swung, taking off the pegasus’s arm at the right shoulder. Dash felt the impact but no pain-just a numbness where her arm had been as it fell to the floor. Oddly, she caught herself thinking how fortunate it was that her outfit was sleeveless. Rainbow’s left arm soon joined it, and Applebloom quickly scooped them up before promptly leaving the room.

“She says she knows how to keep em from going bad, or whatever.” Said Applejack, seeing her now armless maid’s look. “That girl’s good with this kind of stuff. She’s had some fun with me, I’ll tell you that. Now…”

The farmer walked over to a desk and produced a duster as Dash tried to get a feel for her new body, shifting from foot to foot and testing her sense of balance. AJ walked back over to Rainbow and, without much ceremony, shoved the handle into her mouth.

“Get to it.”

Dash spent the rest of the daylight hours figuring out how to clean without using her arms. It was, shockingly, not that difficult. Rainbow Dash was a world class athelete, and she found that her body adapted intuitively to the new challenge present to her. Which was just as well, because the feather duster really didn’t taste all that great. No, it was much better to grasp it with her toes and clean using her legs as surrogate arms. It wasn’t as easy to clean as it would have been had she still been in possession of her arms, of course. But it was amazing what you could accomplish f you had a sense of balance, flexibility, core strength and the threat of having more limbs amputated.

Applejack was an intermittent presence, alternating between going out into the farm and coming to check on her new maid. Apparently, Mac insisted on taking on most of AJ’s responsibilities for the time being, having chosen to consider this as sick leave of sorts. Applejack wasn’t one for just lying on the couch all day though, and would still go and check up on him and do some work herself.

But she would always show up again, usually just as Dash was standing on her tiptoes on one foot and stretching for a hard to reach spot with the foot holding the duster. Dash was keenly aware of the farm girls stare, and the skirt in her outfit was far too short to protect her modesty, exposing her white panties to the blonde. Applejack wasn’t shy in voicing her approval of the view, either. She wouldn’t touch her physically-she was content to catcall on the sidelines before disappearing again, compliment her maid on her work.

Applebloom’s sister would come and go, asking the occasional question to Applejack about being armless, which helped pass the time at least. She was sweet and all, but Rainbow couldn’t help but find it strange how she seemed to be taking all of this in her stride. Not only that, but she appeared to be an active participant in Applejack’s revenge. Oh. Maybe that was it-revenge, for what had happened to her sister? If it was, she was an amazing actor, for she seemed to treat Rainbow with the same sunny manner that she had always used.

As for the other Apples, well, she didn’t get to see them until dinner time. Rainbow had wondered how Applejack was going to explain this to Granny Smith, and as it turned out, the answer was to just be completely up front about it. “Taken her arms off and made her yer maid over a drunken bet? Eh, whatever, I don’t understand you young folks .” was as much fuss as she had made over the whole thing. AJ had at least put her face back on for family dinner. Now that Dash knew the truth,she couldn’t help but notice the looseness of her skin, and the way it would occasionally move an inch or two away from where it should be, before Applejack would correct it.

Rainbow herself stood by the side, not eating with the family (a maid eats separately, after all). Wrapped around her neck was a tray bearing a large jug of apple juice, which she would bring to whoever asked for it. Applejack would also give her the odd request, such as to pass the applesauce. Which Rainbow would of course pass by using her feet, in silence. She wasn’t going to complain though, in case AJ asked her to make dinner next time. Rainbow’s cooking skills were virtually non-existent, and she really hoped AJ didn’t find this out.
The rest of the day was fairly easy-she helped clean the dishes and had to fetch another drink or so using her tray, but soon most of the family were away to bed. Dash was asked to have the house looking clean before going to her room, which was an old guestroom just across from AJ’s own. Rainbow did the rounds as efficiently as she could, wary of Applejack failing her on it and getting that axe out again. When she was absolutely sure she was done, she retired to the guest room, stripping herself out of the maid’s uniform and sinking into the bed.

Dash must have fallen asleep, because she soon felt herself being woken by the sound of walking in the hallway outside. She tried to ignore it, but whoever was out there seemed to be going back and forth aimlessly, and it was driving her mad. Groaning, she got up, still in her bra and panties, before opening the door. There was a naked figure wandering the halls, lit by the moonlight pouring in from the windows. She had her back turned to the sleepy Pegasus, standing pensively by the stairs like it was lost. At first glance she wanted to say Applejack, from the shape of her body. But then she noticed that this figure was all body. As in, she had no head.

Rainbow rubbed her eyes, then looked again. Yup, it was definitely Applejack, she even had her cutie mark on her thigh. But there was empty space where the head should be. Well, that wasn’t entirely true. Rainbow could see a mess of long blonde hair trailing down her back, still attached to the skin of her head, which was hanging down like a hoodie again. But her skull was entirely missing. As Rainbow tried to figure out what was going on, Applejack turned around again. Rainbow flinched and ducked behind the door again, before realising that she surely couldn’t be seen. So she peeked round again.

Applejack slowly walked towards her, hands occasionally jerking out and feeling the walls, as if for support. She did seem to sense someone’s presence, somehow, as the headless body would pause and, for lack of a better word, stare at Rainbow. To be fair, Rainbow was doing plenty of staring herself. Head or no head, Applejack was one hot girl. In fact, the lack of a head only seemed to enhance how sexy her body was, with its generously sized breasts swaying in the dark. And Rainbow did at least confirm that the apple incident had taken a toll on Applejack further south. Her pussy , even at rest and without prompting, lay open in a permanent gape, at least a few inches across. It brought back pleasant memories alright. Made her wish she still had fingers.

Rainbow let Applejack bump into her, feeling the warm flesh hit hers and then recoil in apparent surprise. Then the farm girls hands came up, as if to explore. Dash smiled as they encompassed her bra, grasping and groping. She wondered if she knew it was her. If this was some big act. Or maybe…it was part of her ongoing assessment. Her smile disappeared. Would she be judged on how she acted here? Was she being watched? She turned her head around, and saw no one, as AJ continued to feel her up, tracing her hands over the skin of her back and stomach.

Thinking it over, Rainbow decided that she should be a good girl and at least find out if Applejack was fully ok. She walked over to the farm girls room and quietly opened the door. Straight away she saw the sight of Applejack’s skull sitting on her bed. There was a sleeping mask over her eyes. She really had changed. Rainbow walked over and pulled the mask off. It wasn’t long before the unblinking green eyes that lay underneath slid into focus.

“Who…wha…Rainbow Dash? What in tarnation are you-“

“Shh! Everyone else is asleep. Look-“

She pointed at the naked body walking the halls. Applejack stared at it, although given that she had no eye-lids, this didn’t mean much. Then she chuckled.

“Heh. That rascal’s getting real smart. Musta figured out how to open the doors.”

“What’s going on? Did you do this?”

“Well, funny thing.” Said AJ bashfully, still whispering. “When Twi was putting me back together she put my body back together first, and it was like this. Even Twi doesn’t know how it works, or if it’s just a thing I can do or what. It’s like mah body works just fine without me, like its own person.”

“So you just…take your head off for fun?”

“It’s relaxing as anything I know. Like all my aches and pains just pop off, and I can just sit here and chill….”

As she spoke, her body walked back into the room. Dash shut the door behind them.

“Well, maybe lock your door or something next time.” She said.

“Yeah…hey, thanks, Dash. That was generous of you.”

“…No problem, boss.” Replied the maid. Applejack laughed again, her eyes twinkling.

“Heh, I like that. Boss. Hey, actually…could you do me a favour? Could you…well…polish me a little?”

“Huh?”

“Oh, it makes me feel a little better. Go on, this isn’t even a maid thing, Applebloom even does it sometimes. Should be a cloth for you on the bedside.”

Rainbow retrieved the polish with her foot, not believing that she was spending her night doing this. She put it on the bed and sat on it, next to her employer’s skull.

“Here, let me get you into a good position…”

Rainbow managed to use her knees to hoist Applejack onto her lap. Then she began her work, using one foot to wipe at the bone and the other to keep it in position. She had to admit, it was somewhat therapeutic. Intimate almost. She just had to avoid sticking her toes into Applejacks eyes. At one point she turned her over so she was upside down so she could better clean the jaw and underside. Soon the bone was positively shining in the dark, helpfully illuminating Aj’s naked body as it wandered in circles around the room.

“Thank ya kindly” said AJ, when it was done. “I’m glad that, no matter what’s happened, or what…may happen…we’re still friends. That means a lot, ya know.”

“Hey, don’t get all mush, you’re embarrassing me.” Said Dash. But she was heartened by the tone, and it made her feel a lot better about all of this. Perhaps things wouldn’t be so bad here, after all…