Apple Coloured Rainbow

Chapter Four

“And that’s what we need to do, Blitz,” Blaze said as the pair did a slow circuit in the air. “Or what you need to do; we just need to work on the timing when we spread out from Fire and Glide’s burst from the start and then make sure we are parallel Silver and Surprise when we do our spins.”

“Right,” Blitz said while mentally visualizing what he would need to do - he’d be flying behind and below Glide, while Silver Zoom was doing the same above, and midway through the routine they’d fly in spins to meet one another in midair and change sides to do the whole thing in reverse but faster. And of course, Firestorm, Blaze and Surprise would be mirroring them on the other side of the arena.

After that part, Blitz knew things got a lot easier for him as there were less critical stunts, though they still required making precise timing with his partners. What he mainly had to worry about at that point was flying in sync with Blaze so it would be as pleasing to the eye as an apple fritter and that he wouldn’t crash into anypony else when he was crossing the airspace. “I’ll practice the moves a few times with you so I get the idea, then I’ll go myself to fine tune it, then back with you and Silver so I can get the timing even better.”

“You know, anyone else, I’d say you’re full of shit but,” Blaze smirked at him and shook her head. “And AJ is a lucky girl, ‘cause I’d be interested if you weren’t already spoken for.” Blitz sputtered at that as he was completely caught off guard by what the mare said. “Though I highly doubt you’ll try anything, I’ll rat you out to her in a heartbeat if you do.”

“Right…” Blitz trailed off, unsure how to respond to that. He wasn’t sure how he felt people making comments like that about his relationship with AJ but he wished they’d stop.

“Come on, Ditz; let’s start practicing before Fire gets on our asses again,” Blaze said before taking off into the air, with Bitz putting aside his troubles and focused on his job.

Applejack let out a sigh as she got ready for bed and did a rundown of her chores in her mind. Everything else around the house was cleaned and straightened up, and she’d made sure that Tank was content and well fed, the tortoise smiling happily at her from his terrarium. Casting an eye on Blitz’s home, she knew that there was a very little chance of it getting dirty again after she spent the day before cleaning up in there and she already had half a mind to read her coltfriend the riot act about all the garbage she had pulled out.

“Ah really don’t know how your owner can leave his place such a disaster area,” she told Tank. “Ah swear, one good bolt of lightnin’ and he’d come home to find his trash had turned into a whole new civilization and taken over the place.”

Tank just gave her one of his friendly looks, and she smiled back at him. “Thanks for listenin’, Tank.”

She heard a chuffing sound behind her, and turned around to rub Winona’s ears. “Don’t worry, Ah ain’t forgettin’ you, darlin’,” she told her faithful collie, who gave her a friendly nuzzle in return before moving to her own spot and laying down beside her bed.

Pulling back her bedsheets to climb in her bed, Applejack grabbed the alarm clocks she had on her nightstand and made sure that they were all set to the same time so she wouldn’t sleep in and miss the train to catch the show. While she was normally an early riser, she wasn’t taking any chances, not on a day as important as this one.

It had been a week since he’d left and she missed him terribly; she had gotten so used to him being around the farm that it was so surreal not have him fly by, help her out or just turn up napping in one of her trees after training for a while. She had to admit, she understood why he did so; she had done one of his exercises a while back and she’d been pooped aftward and the tree branches were surprisingly comfortable as a pegasus.

Shaking her head, she willed herself to sleep so she could start the next day as fast as she could.

BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP

Shaking herself awake, Applejack reached over to the alarm locks and began shutting them off, holding the blanket to her bare chest. While she had mainly slept naked to tease Blitz as he had the perfect view to her window, she kept the habit as she enjoyed how it felt. Stepping around her room, she bade Tank and Winona good morning as she gathered the clothes she was going to wear for the day and made her way to the bathroom to her morning shower.

Walking into her personal and private bathroom, which she liked as it ensured Mac or Buck couldn’t walk in on her, she placed the clothes on the sink’s edge and nodded her head at her reflection, running a hand over her breast with her thumb on her nipple. Smirking as she recalled how Blitz loved to play with them, she was a bit tempted to mimic his fingers - Solaris knew that she couldn’t do his tongue - but she knew she had to be good if she wanted to be on time for everything today and that meant no funny business. Stepping into the shower that sadly wasn’t a pegasi one that would remember the perfect temperature, she crouched under the showerhead as she began to fiddle with the taps while holding her hand under the faucet. After she found the temperature she liked, Applejack took a step backwards as she turned on the water for the showerhead and let it run down her body for a bit, enjoying the way the water warmed her up as she ran her hands over herself, feeling from her chest down to her hips and pouted a bit that it wasn’t Blitz who was doing it for her this time. Thinking of her colt got her tail swishing behind her and while she was a bit excited, she had to remind herself that there was no playing around as she could easily get carried away.

Reaching for the bottle of body wash that she nicked from from Blitz, she squirted some onto her hand and began soaping herself up, massaging the liquid over her breasts and down her stomach. Holding out a leg, she continued to wash down to her hoof, wincing a bit as she felt a twinge in her muscles as she ran her hands over them, before she shifted her positioning and did her other leg.

Slowly turning around and holding her hands under the water, she continued moving, letting the water run over her body and rinsing it all off, making sure to get a good amount of water into her unbound hair at the same time. Once she was sure she’d gotten all the suds off herself, she ducked her head under the showerhead again to get it thoroughly wet before she reached out for her shampoo.

As she worked it into her mane and tail, she began to hum a song under her breath. After she had put in enough and worked up a good lather, she began to wash them out, standing under the showerhead while doing a small little dance in the water flowing down her entire body.

WIth a soft sigh, she turned around and bent down to shut off the water, with her butt in the air and her tail to the side. With the water tapering off, she stood up and pulled open the curtain and reached for a towel. Stepping onto the carpet, she began to dry her arms off first before moving on to her chest and then going downwards. She rubbed her legs dry, before finishing with her butt.

Once she’d finished drying herself, she tossed her towel into the hamper and began to blow dry her mane and tail, while moving her clothes to the toilet seat so she could brush her teeth without getting them wet.

After she was done with her hair, she began to brush her teeth while she looked at Blitz’s house from the reflection of the mirror and smiled. It was a real marvel what that colt could do with his hands and in her opinion, Rarity could take some pointers from him.

After she was done with her usual morning cleaning routine, she began to pull her clothes on by starting with the pair of pink panties that she knew Blitz always liked to see her in. She then pulled on her slim blue jeans and slipped on the belt before reaching for her custom made button up blouse and did it up, once again giving a silent thanks to Rarity for introducing her to these type of tops.

Once she had finished and gave one last look around, she went back into her bedroom, let Winona out of the room, made sure Tank had enough food and water to last the day and gave the tortoise one last friendly pat on the head, telling him to enjoy himself. Grabbing her hat off the wall, she headed out and downstairs.

Her brothers were already at the kitchen table with their breakfasts, and the pair looked up as she entered.

“Mornin’, sis,” Mac rumbled.

“Mornin’ Mac, Buck,” Applejack returned. “Where’s Granny?”

“She had to make a quick run out back for somethin’,” Apple Buck responded.

“Raght.” Applejack started helping herself to something, and for a few minutes the trio ate in silence. When she’d finished, Applejack looked at Mac. “Remember to check in on Tank for me, okay? And Ah’ll see ya both tomorrow afternoon.”

The eldest and youngest of the Apple siblings nodded, and after grabbing her purse and making sure the tickets were inside, Applejack hurriedly trotted out of the house and made her way down to the train station. She knew she had ample time on her hands but she wasn’t taking any chances today; she’d even gotten Fluttershy to have Eris to promise to not do anything that would interfere in her plans.

Sitting on the bench while she waited for the train to arrive, she was joined by other ponies, making small talk with them for a bit until the train finally came by and she could go aboard and see Blitz.

Rainbow Blitz was pacing back and forth as he stood in the stallions’ dormitory, fiddling with his tie for upteempth time. It was finally time for the show to begin and they would be taken up to the arena by Nightingale and the other drivers for the team. The fact that this was finally happening was both exciting and, at the same time, utterly terrifying - sure, he was awesome and all, but he didn’t want to get so overly excited that he lost it and fell back into old showboating behaviors like he had during his very first performance as a full team member.

“Hey, Blitz, how are you doing?” Firestorm asked as he stepped into the room. The captain had told Blitz he was dressed just fine in the fancy black suit that Rarity had made him, although he was wearing his official Wonderbolt captain uniform.

“Good, good, I think,” Blitz said with his wings twitching behind him. “Just a bit anxious I guess?”

“Perfectly reasonable,” Firestorm said, placing a hand on his shoulder. “This is your first time up with everypony for a full tour; I’d be annoyed if you were overly confident. Last thing I need is a cocky showpony up there putting people at risk.”

Blitz winced at the reminder of his first performance after being promoted to the front line, but kept his mouth shut.

“Now buck up,” Firestorm told him. “We’ve got a big show, and I need everypony at their best.”

“Got it,” Blitz said as he followed his captain outside the training area where all the carriages were waiting for them, Nightingale waving to him to get inside with the other drivers doing the same.

Luckily, the flight to the arena went much smoother than the trip down, and very soon, once they’d arrived and gotten into their flight suits, all they had to do was wait for the signal.

“Mares and gentlecolts, fillies and foals of all ages!” the announcer finally called out. “Look to the skies and prepare to be awestruck by the incredible flying prowess of... the Wonderbolts!”

Rainbow Blitz closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and flew.

Some hours later, Blitz smirked triumphantly to himself; this was his first major show and not only had he done an amazing job, he’d also done his one scheduled mini-show and Applejack saw it. Or at least he hoped she did; he hadn’t got a chance to look at the crowd at the start of the show and he certainly didn’t stop during the middle of it to scan for her.

Before he could even think further, he heard a whoop behind him and felt somepony slap him on the back.

“That was incredible Blitz,” Glide said with a massive grin on her face, her hood already pulled off. “You really knocked ‘em dead out there today. Great job.”

“Thanks,” Blitz said with a bit of a swagger, holding his head up slightly higher, as they made their way to the locker room, with the both of them stopping outside. “Still can’t believe that they only got one stall working for both locker rooms in Canterlotof all places.”

“Eh, you get used to this kind of thing, Blitz. Not every place has everything working perfectly and you learn to adapt to what is thrown at you,” she said, leaning against the wall while she began to fiddle with her zipper. Blitz immediately turned his head away only to hear her snort. “What, you modest or something?”

“Glide, you know that I’m with AJ and-” he began to say with her snorting louder.

“Blitz, I’m messing with you,” she said, rolling her eyes as she continued to struggle with her zipper. “You’re a real gent, you know that right? Most stallions in your position would be either ogling me or something right now. You? You show no interest whatsoever and even go out of your way to avoid being possibly unfaithful to your marefriend. No wonder you got that Loyal element thing, Blitz.”

Blitz had nothing to say, a blush slowly spreading on his face. He moved out of the way when Silver came out of the locker room and was about to enter himself when Glide let out a curse.

Turning his head, he saw that the mare was still fighting the zipper on her suit before she let out a groan and gave him a weak smile. “Um, Blitz, kinda personal and all but can you help me out here?” she asked him with a fierce blush on her face as she thrust out her chest to him.

His own blush grew as he nodded his head, walking over to her. Placing one hand on her side to brace himself, he grabbed the small tag that was just on top of her collarbone and gave it a light tug to test how stuck it was, only getting to halfway over her the top of her chest. Seeing that he would need to put some muscle into it, he made sure his eyes were directed upwards before he pulled the tag up to the top before pulling it back down, using a lot more force than he had before with it going past the curve of her breasts before he stopped. Talking a step back, he could hear Glide let out a sigh of relief before the sound of the zipper going up and down quickly.

“Thanks for that, Blitz, I really need that,” she said, slapping the cutie mark on his right shoulder. “Go wash up, you earned it.”

Nodding his head, he turned around and walked into the locker room behind him.

Applejack was not lost; she knew where she was and where she wanted to go. She was just a bit unsure of how to get from point A to point B and the security that had waved her past when she had shown her backstage pass wasn’t that clear beyond that she’d find it.

She had been extremely impressed by Blitz; she hadn’t seen him move like that in ages and all the training he had done at the farm really was just a hint to what he could really do. She had to get him to train her a bit; it would be totally awesome as apple pie if she could do half of what he did.

“Um, Blitz,“ That was Glide, the second of command of the Wonderbolts. Blitz had told her all about the Bolts and he had even told her that he had had a crush on her but Applejack knew that-whatwas Blitz doing‽ For whatever reason, the mare had thrust her chest at Blitz and he was kneeling in front of with his hands on her waist.

Applejack forced herself to back around the corner and calm down; there had to be a reasonable explanation for what was going o-

Her ears shot upwards as she heard Blitz unzip the other mare’s suit and she did her best not to do something drastic like run in to punch the mare or Blitz out and decided to see what he did next.

“Thanks for that, Blitz, I really need that,” she heard Glide say, and there was a sound of flesh against flesh. “Go wash up, you earned it.”

Doing her best to control her breathing as she heard hoofsteps going away from her, Applejack made her way around the corner and over to the pegasus who turned and waved to her, with one hand holding her suit together. “Hey AJ,” she said, holding out her right hand for AJ to shake only to yip a bit as she had been using that hand to hold her suit together. “Sorry about that little peek there,” she said with a blush on her face, holding her suit tighter with her left hand. “Did you enjoy the show? Outside, I mean.”

“Yeah,” Applejack said with a frown on her face that Glide saw. She looked confused for a second before letting out a gasp.

“Oh this,” Gilde said, tugging her flightsuit a bit. “Blitz was just helping me out here. The zipper got stuck and I asked him to help me out.”

“Really?” she asked, raising an eyebrow at the mare.

“Yeah,” Glide said, nodding her head. “You really lucked out; most stallions would use it as a chance to cop a feel or something but Blitz really made sure he didn’t touch my chest and he even had his eyes pointing straight up the whole time.” Glide then frowned at her. “You didn’t think there was something going on, did you?”

“Well Ah did see mah coltfriend bending down in front of another mare with his hand on her waist,” Applejack said dryly. “But Blitz’s Blitz and Ah shouldn’t have been that worried.”

“Eh, it was a normal reaction to what looked to be a very sketchy scene, I don’t blame you,” Glide said. “Just like I won’t blame you if you go into the locker room that Blitz is in all by himself right now and lock the door behind you.” The mare gave her a wink which caused AJ to blush herself.

“Won’t Blitz get in trouble if he’s late?” Applejack had to at least make some effort to be reasonable, at the very least.

“Nah, I’ll give Firestorm the heads up; kinda an unspoken tradition for the newbie to sneak away to have some sex. This way, we know where he is and who he’s with so we don’t have to worry about any bad PR in the future,” Glide said as she leaned against the wall.

“Well then,” Applejack said as she pushed open the door to the stallion’s locker room. “See you later, Ah suppose.” She waved goodbye to Glide as the door closed behind her, with her hand going to turn the lock.