Rainbow Dash was struggling to get a pouty Applejack into a green dress. She had been in a bad mood since she had woken up a few moments ago, grumbling and struggling against the restraints on the changing table as Rainbow Dash changed her diaper. Something was definitely off about Applejack today. Applejack was far into her head space, but she was angry and frustrated at seemingly nothing, giving her a sour attitude in contrast to her usual sunny disposition.

“I don’t want a dress,” Applejack said pouting defiantly. There was no getting the dress over Applejack in her stern pouting position.

“Fine,” Rainbow Das said aggravated. “You’re putting this shirt on at least,” Rainbow Dash said reaching for a plain white t-shirt. Applejack gave an angry grumble but didn’t protest as rainbow Dash slid the shirt of Rainbow Dash. “You need an attitude adjustment missy, time out, nose in the corner for ten minutes.” Rainbow Dash pointed out of the room. Applejack left with a hmph and Rainbow Dash followed, making sure that Applejack took her designated spot in the living room. She left to get Applejack’s harness and the mittens, she had a feeling she would need them soon with the way Applejack was acting. Rainbow Dash wondered if she had said something to make Applejack upset, or if she was forgetting to do something that was making Applejack mad.

“I want out!” Applejack yelled, breaking Rainbow Dash’s thought process.

“Three more minutes,” Rainbow Dash reminded. “I’ll make it fifteen more minutes if you keep acting up.”

“Ugh,” Applejack scoffed angrily. Rainbow Dash sighed but kept her composure. Applejack was upset about something, Rainbow Dash getting angry too wouldn’t solve anything. She needed to be nice but firm with Applejack. No matter Applejack’s mood rules were rules, and this would at least be a learning opportunity for that lesson.

“Ok you can come out,” Rainbow Dash said to Applejack gently. Applejack replied with another huff and started to storm off to the other room. “Applejack come here,” Rainbow Dash said sternly. Applejack pouted and made her way over to Rainbow Dash. “Whenever you want to talk about what is bothering you, I’ll be here. Until then.” Applejack stomped angrily as Rainbow Dash applied the mittens to her hands.

“No,” Applejack whined. It was too late for her though, the mittens were locked in place, and Applejack could do nothing to take them off.

“Yes,” Rainbow Dash said seriously. “Now if you can turn that attitude around, we’ll see about taking those off. Until then they are staying on, and you are staying where I can watch you.”

“I wanted to color,” Applejack complained.

“Well you should have thought about that before you earned yourself time in your mittens,” Rainbow Dash said unsympathetically. “Play with your stuffies instead,” Rainbow Dash said gently pushing Applejack into the living room floor where a few stuffied animals were strewn about. Applejack pouted and sat grumpily with her arms crossed, not moving to play with the stuffed animals at all. Rainbow Dash quickly got some more from Applejack’s room. By the time she had returned Applejack had given in, and was sitting on her stomach wistfully swaying her legs in the air while she was playing with the toys. Rainbow Dash smiled as this would provide a momentary distraction for Applejack, though Rainbow Dash knew it would fade eventually and she would be back to her grumpy self.

Rainbow Dash took the time to go ahead and make Applejack a bottle, she had hoped to put the girl down for a nap as soon as possible. Maybe that would brighten her mood, though she doubted it.

“Ok sweetie come get your baba,” Rainbow Dash sang as she entered the room again.

“I don’t want a baba,” came Applejack’s predicted response.

“Come on you like your baba,” Rainbow Dash said wiggling the bottle appetizingly. Applejack’s resolve broke, and at this point she was only resisting out of spite. She slowly made her way over to Rainbow Dash and stood close to her care takers lap, but stubbornly refused to take her place in it.

“I want to drink it myself,” Applejack protested mildly.

“You’re not getting your mittens off,” Rainbow Dash said happily but sternly. Applejack whined at this as Rainbow Dash positioned Applejack in her lap. Applejack only put up mild complaints as Rainbow Dash adjusted her, and accepted the nipple of the bottle without much fuss. Rainbow Dash was happy that Applejack was taking her bottle, at least the part of her that could be soothed momentarily by milk was still there. Applejack fussed with her mittens as she finished the bottle shaking her head when the flow of milk finally stopped. “Ok nap time,” Rainbow Dash said hopefully.

“No!” Applejack yelled. Rainbow Dash’s hopes of an easy nap were dashed.

“Little miss we do not yell,” Rainbow Dash said calmly.

“No!” Applejack yelled defiantly back.

“This is not up for discussion you need your nap,” Rainbow Dash said seriously. “Yelling or not. Now or you going to take it easily or am I going to have to make you take your nap.”

“I don’t want to take a nap,” Applejack said in a normal volume.

“Ok,” Rainbow Dash said with a sigh. Rainbow Dash abruptly grabbed Rainbow Dash’s mitten and slowly dragged her to her bed. Applejack put up a fight most of the way, but was largely ineffective. Even in her sour mood, she seemed unwilling to hurt Rainbow Dash on purpose, so while she resisted, she held back enough to ensure Rainbow Dash wasn’t harmed. This was enough for Rainbow Dash to overpower her though. Eventually Applejack was on the bed and Rainbow Dash had managed to secure one of her mitten covered hands with the restraints on the bed. Once the first one was secured Applejack gave up on actually fighting being put in the restraints, but continued to complain about it loudly as Rainbow Dash finished securing both her hands and feet to the bed’s restraint. “Hush and take your nap like a good girl,” Rainbow Dash said approaching Applejack with a pacifier gag.

“I don’t want a nap,” Applejack said moving as far away from the pacifier gag as she could.

“Tough, you’re taking one like it or not,” Rainbow Dash said easily securing the gag in place. Applejack gave muffled complaints from the other side of her pacifier. “You’re taking a nap for thirty minutes, and you’ve got a time out waiting for you when you’re done.”

“Noooo,” Applejack cried as she struggled against the beds restraints. Rainbow Dash didn’t bother with the baby monitor because she knew that Applejack wasn’t going to sleep at all, just spend the next thirty minutes struggling against the restraints. While not an actual nap, that plus the additional time out she had waiting for might just make her too tired to be angry any more.

In the meantime Rainbow Dash was left to worry about what exactly was wrong with Applejack. What turned her normally sweet little into the angry nightmare Applejack was being today. Even if Rainbow Dash somewhat enjoyed exerting her power and disciplining Applejack, she was incredibly concerned with what might be going on in Applejack’s head. She knew only one person to call, and proceeded to dial Fluttershy’s number to the sound of Applejack’s muffled moans and whines.

“Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy answered sweetly.

“Hey Flutters,” Rainbow Dash answered tiredly.

“Everything going ok?” Fluttershy asked immediately hearing the worry in Rainbow Dash’s voice.

“Not exactly,” Rainbow Dash said as she peeked her head into Applejack’s room, where she was still struggling, albeit more tiredly, against the restraints. She groaned angrily at Rainbow Dash and Rainbow Dash took the que to leave. “Applejack has been incredibly … fussy today.”

“I heard,” Fluttershy said having overheard Applejack’s load groan, and continuing to hear faint sounds of her struggling. “Has she been like this the whole time?”

“No she started off being pretty tame the first two days. Am I forgetting to do something?”

“You’ve been feeding her solid food and from a bottle?” Fluttershy questioned. “Waking her up early and giving her naps, making sure she’s stimulated.”

“Yeah,” Rainbow Dash huffed.

“I had heard about what happened yesterday,” Fluttershy said quietly. “Do you think that has anything to do with it?”

“Probably,” Rainbow Dash admitted. “I don’t think she’s just angry though. When Applejack was angry yesterday she wasn’t acting little, she was dealing with it as an adult.”

“Well she sounded angry,” Fluttershy questioned.

“It’s not that the same. She’s little now, refuses to come out of her head space to tell me what’s wrong.” Frustration was growing in Rainbow Dash’s voice.

“Stay calm Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy reminded. “You shouldn’t try and take care of her while you’re angry.”

“I’m not. I would never.”

“I know I’m just reminding you.”

“So what do I do?” There was silence as Fluttershy pondered Rainbow Dash’s current predicament.

“I don’t know honestly,” Fluttershy admitted. “You’ve kind of gone out of my area of expertise.”

“Yeah that’s what I thought,” Rainbow Dash said sadly.

“Well you can’t let her get away with bad behavior no matter what. Even if she’s doing it because she’s mad or sad, breaking a rule is still breaking a rule.”

“I don’t want to make it worse.”

“If you don’t set up expectations she’s just going to push you around and break more rules later. It may not seem like it now, but she probably appreciates the structure.”

“I guess,” Rainbow Dash said unsure.

“Well it’s all you can do, until she works whatever it is she’s going through out,” Fluttershy said sympathetically.

“Ok, thanks for the help Flutters.”

“You want me to come over?” Fluttershy asked with concern.

“Nah, I think that would just make things worse,” Rainbow Dash said honestly. Rainbow Dash hung up and went to face the angry girl that awaited her.

“Did you sleep well,” Rainbow Dash called in to the room sweetly. “Or did you just wiggle around the whole time?” Applejack wiggled in response. Rainbow Dash sighed. At the least Applejack seemed tired now, the thirty minutes of struggling had taken a toll on her. Applejack was surprisingly limp and compliant as Rainbow Dash released her. She continued being limp as Rainbow Dash put her chest harness and lead on her, only becoming active once she realized what was happening. “If you would calm down and be a good girl you wouldn’t be wearing your lead inside,” Rainbow Dash said authoritatively. “But you haven’t been, so this is where we’re at.” Applejack quietly mumbled pacifier gag still in her mouth. She couldn’t argue, she knew she was being bad, but she didn’t like it. “Now fifteen minutes in time out,” Rainbow Dash said leading Applejack to the living room.

Rainbow Dash tied Applejack’s lead to a small metal ring screwed into the wall near a corner, she then spun Applejack around and tied her mittens together behind her back with a pad lock. Applejack cried in frustration, she was effectively secured to the wall, the small length of the lead, and the padlock keeping her hands behind her back meant that she was helpless and unable to do anything for the remainder of her fifteen minute time out except cry, and that’s what she did. She cried as loudly and angrily as she could with the pacifier gag still in her mouth. Rainbow Dash ignored her and left Applejack to cry and struggle helplessly.

“This is not being a good girl Applejack,” Rainbow Dash said sternly as she left. Applejack stopped her crying as Rainbow Dash left her sight, but continued struggling against the restraints as she had done on the bed earlier. The wear of the long day was showing on both her face and Rainbow Dash’s.

After thirty minutes Rainbow Dash returned to a relatively still Applejack, who was sitting quietly on the floor. She gave another halfhearted angry cry as Rainbow Dash approached and released her.

“Lef me go,” Applejack complained through the pacifier as she struggled with her arms bound behind her.

“I’ll let you go when you’ve shown me you’ve calmed down,” Rainbow Dash explained. “I don’t know why you’re upset, but just because you’re upset doesn’t mean rules don’t exist, and it doesn’t mean that you’re suddenly free of consequences for breaking rules.”

“No,” Applejack said defiantly struggling against the restraints, and moving to the edge of the lead. Rainbow Dash was tired, worn down by Applejack’s antics, she sheepishly held on to the other end of the lead as Applejack struggled against it. Rainbow Dash lead Applejack struggling to the kitchen where she wordlessly sat her in the makeshift high chair and prepared a fruity puree for her.

For as long as Applejack was hungry, she quietly and quickly ate the food as Rainbow Dash fed it to her. That ended when Applejack finally got her fill. While she couldn’t do much with her hands behind her, Applejack managed to catch Rainbow Dash off guard and with a swift kick that sent the bowl of mush falling to the ground ending in a crash.

Rainbow Dash abruptly got up to contain herself. Why was Applejack doing this? It was wearing Rainbow Dash down, it was wearing Applejack down too. Rainbow Dash looked back, and could see that Applejack was stunned herself and seemed to question her own actions. Rainbow Dash sighed. What was it that Applejack needed, and why. Rainbow Dash looked at Applejack again. She had a grin on her face, a devilish expectant grin.

She was being bratty. Something Rainbow Dash didn’t expect from Applejack. None the less that was the case. She was deliberately being bad in order to get punished. She was acting out because she hadn’t gotten enough. Whether or not Applejack knew that’s what she was doing wasn’t relevant, Rainbow Dash had the solution she needed.

Applejack jumped slightly as Rainbow Dash suddenly sprung toward her, and quickly grabbed her dragging her to the living room. Applejack was kicking in a vain attempt to do something, before she knew it she was over Rainbow Dash’s knees, and her diaper was on the floor.

“Ta’ e’ ag’ ou’,” Applejack muffled. Rainbow Dash got her meaning and took the gag out giving Applejack room for her hectic breathing.

“Color?” Rainbow Dash asked plainly. Applejack was shaking with fear. She knew she was about to be lit up, her whole morning of being naughty was going to catch up to her all at once. Suddenly she came to a similar realization that Rainbow Dash had earlier. She liked this, the fear, and the anticipation. Is this what she wanted? Is this what was driving her frustrations?

“Green,” Applejack said shakily. She was scared, but there was a feeling in her that let her know that she needed Rainbow Dash to hit her, to work this emotion she was having out of her system. And with that utterance a rapid series of spanks were delivered to Applejack. They hurt, they hurt a lot. When Rainbow Dash started Applejack cried out of anger and frustration, but after a series of painful slaps her frustrated cries became cries of genuine pain. Rainbow Dash continued a little longer, to deliver the actual punishment for bad behavior before stopping. “What’s your color?”

“Green,” Applejack said sniffling. “But I want to stop.” Applejack admitted. Rainbow Dash paused. "I'll be a good girl," Applejack begged.

“Do you know why you got you’re spanking?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Because I’ve been bad all morning,” Applejack said remorsefully still over Rainbow Dash’s knee. “I’m sorry I was just…”

“Wrong,” Rainbow Dash said delivering a light smack to Applejack’s bottom. The pain she was already in made the small smack incredibly painful, more painful than Rainbow Dash intened. “Sorry,” Rainbow Dash said quietly. “I didn’t mean for that to hurt that much,” she said rubbing Applejack’s bottom gingerly.

“Ow ow ow,” Applejack continued crying.

“shh shh I’m done. We’re done ok. No more,” Rainbow Dash said quickly.

“Hands sore,” Applejack moaned. Rainbow Dash quickly released the hands and Applejack brought them to her chest stretching them out.

“Better?” Rainbow Dash asked with concern.

“Yes, thank you mommy,” Applejack said with a sigh.

“But do you know the real reason why you were spanked?” Rainbow Dash asked bringing it back. Applejack thought for a moment.

“Because I wanted it,” Applejack said tearing up. Suddenly she started crying again, but for a different reason, and she buried her head in Rainbow Dash. “Oh Dash what’s wrong with me?”

“Nothing sweetie,” Rainbow Dash consoled. “You were just confused you didn’t know how to deal with it yet.”

“I didn’t mean to be so bad.”

“That’s fine too,” Rainbow Dash said laughing, “That’s called being bratty. You were being bad on purpose so I would punish you.” Applejack had calmed down as Rainbow Dash explained this.

“But does that mean I like it?”

“Yes it does, and that’s fine. You did it how you were supposed to. And now I know what to look for. So now you can act that way again and I'll know what to do.”

“Dash I…” Applejack paused. “Thank you.”

“Back at you,” Rainbow Dash said dorkily. They both laughed as the tension of the moment died down.

“Dash,” Applejack said quietly. Rainbow Dash perked up to pay attention to the girl curled up in her lap. “I think … I like that our friends know.”

“Really?” Rainbow Dash said surprised.

“Don’t make fun of me,” Applejack said playfully hitting Rainbow Dash. “Yes really. I guess I just didn’t know how to process that. How to deal with liking the ... humiliation I guess. So I acted out.”

“That’s what you do, you’re a little.”

“Your little,” Applejack said playfully.

“Yes my little,” Rainbow Dash said giving Applejack a kiss.

“Can I get a diaper on now, I’m getting cold,” Applejack said quietly.

“Sure thing sweetie.”

Author's Note

Another chapter for you guys. I'm actually really happy with how this turned out. I was struggling for a good way to transition between this and the next arc, which will have some more of Applejack being "showed off." It was difficult to find a way to transition naturally from being kind of new and unsure about it, to being ok with some of the things Rainbow Dash is going to do to her. I thought I found a good way around that hurdle by having the reader discover that side of Applejack right along with her and Rainbow Dash. I feel like that transition is going to be more natural, and less like Rainbow Dash forcing Applejack into something she might not want to do, which isn't something I was going for. I hope you guys like it as much as I do. As always hope you all enjoy.