The day had at last concluded, they had all finished their classes and were now going to go watch Applejack and Rainbow Dash run practice for the school Basketball team. They had a big game against Everfree High School in two weeks and so Rainbow Dash and Applejack wanted to take some special time to bond and get a groove going together on the field, it wasn't actually school mandated practice since Rainbow Dash with the permission of coach Spitfire had run all the teams she was captain of rampant all week already and so she would give them today off and simply train with Applejack instead.

On the sidelines all the Rainbooms sat in attendance and in the front rows on the turf stood, jumped and cheered Rarity, Pinkie Pie & Fluttershy all of whom were apart of the cheerleader team with Pinkie Pie as the newly appointed captain. She was without a doubt the most spirited, energetic and flexible girl in the entire school. She loved to cheer and sing and jump about and lift everyone's spirits so her being the captain of the team made total sense.

"GO APPLE-DASH, GO, GO AND KICK THEIR-!" Pinkie jumped back and forth waving her palm-palm's while some music bumped in the background.

"Language Pinkie!" Rarity chastised

Fluttershy only really joined because she liked to cheer on Rainbow Dash and was by far her biggest fan and supporter during her games matched only by Rainbow's mother Windy Whistle, her father Bow Hothoof and her adoptive sister Scootaloo. Ever since they were little kids Fluttershy had always been there to cheer Rainbow on whenever she was doing something related to sports or even just something cool.

"GO FOR THE DUNK DASHIE!!!! WOOOOOOH! LOOK AT HER FLY!"

"Booyah! What's my name Shy?!" Rainbow put a hand to her ear to hear Fluttershy shout as she finished a slam dunk on Applejack having soared over the farmers head and slammed the ball into the net.

"AIIIIIIIR DASH!" Fluttershy chanted much like how she did when they were children and Rainbow used to beat the boys in basketball in elementary school where she had gotten that nickname along with many others including her most hated one.

She was also a nurse in training and so she was always ready to run onto the field at a moments notice to help patch Rainbow or anyone else up who got hurt and this had become even more of a enjoyed task for Fluttershy when she discovered that her magic not only allowed her communication with wild life but also gave her a healing touch that allowed her to heal wounds as bad as a fracture or broken limb as far as she's tested it.

Then there was the newest addition to the cheer team and the creator of the brand new uniforms they were currently wearing. Rarity also was trying to get in more physical activity as to increase some of her marks in P.E. as well as keep her figure in check having taken up doing yoga and going to the gym every so often with one or two of her friends.

Since it was currently the winter season Rarity wanted to design something that not only fit the schools spirit but the spirit of the time of season and year it was. The outfits were of course the school colors yellow, white and blue, each outfit consisting of a skirt that was short but not too short, thigh high stockings that read "Wondercolt" on the sides, a V-neck top with the Canterlot Wondercolt "C" shaped horseshoe on the chest and each of them had palm-palms that were the school colors as well.

Each of them also had on the iconic clip-on ears and tails that had been brought back into style when Princess Twilight had arrived at their school all that time ago and changed things for the better. Rarity felt a wave of nostalgia wash over her every time she wore them, while she was incredibly thankful to have Sci-Twi around she did always have a place in her heart for the Princess of Friendship. After all without her she never would have regained her friendship with Applejack, the other girls or even become friends with Sunset for that matter.

"Don't let her get in your head AJ darling! Defense!!!!" Rarity said shouting out to Applejack as encouraging as she could.

Applejack who had been trying her best to keep up with Rainbow Dash smiled as she heard Rarity cheering for her. Looking over she smiled more when she saw how cute Rarity looked as a cheerleader with her hair tied back into a ponytail and her chest bouncing in her outfit. 'Looks like she's been drinkin' more milk' she thought with a blush which didn't seem to go unnoticed by Rainbow Dash who said.

"Oi; keep your eye on this ball, not Rarity's" Rainbow snickered as she saw Applejack's and Rarity's flustered expressions.

"Oh yer gon' get it Dash. D-up" Applejack said narrowing her eyes and taking her stance to try and get the ball from Rainbow. This was harder training for them both because they were allowing themselves to use their magic and tagging Rainbow when she had actual super speed was close to impossible unless you were Pinkie Pie but Applejack was getting better since she was learning to use her super strength in new ways.

Rainbow would grin at this taking it as a direct challenge. "Fine, just be ready to have shy heal your ankles after I break 'em!" Rainbow Dash said dribbling the ball forward at high speed with her rainbow coattail trailing close behind her.

"Hey Rarity!" Applejack shouted over to Rarity without taking her eyes off Rainbow Dash.

"Yes darling?" Rarity asked curiously.

"How do I get the apples off the family trees?" Applejack asked smirking the whole while.

"Why you pick them of course" Rarity answered and then was astonished by what she saw Applejack do next.

Smiling still Applejack's magic began to glow to life and her hair became its extended ponytail and she gained her ears. Then planting her feet firmly, the ground beneath her would begin to crack a bit and once Rainbow got close enough? She pivoted, reverse twirled around Rainbow and power snatched the ball from her. Before Rainbow could react Applejack had already spun around her and made for her basket and before Rainbow could dash back to steal the ball? She power jumped from half court to the net and power slammed the ball in the net with the resulting force bending the metal hoop.

"Yeeeeehaw!!! What's MY name?" Applejack put a hand to hear ear to hear her friends shout out.

"They call her Apple-Swish yeeeeah, Apple-Swish!" Rarity and Pinkie called out giggled. It wasn't as clever as Air-Dash but it still worked for Applejack.

"Oh goodness the rim" Fluttershy said looking at the bent metal rim. "Ms. Luna isn't going to be happy about that."

"Eh don't sweat it shy ah already talked it out with Ms.Luna. She said long as ah fix it back it's fine, wouldn't be the first time ah've power slammed the rim" Applejack chuckled scratching the back of her head and holding the ball under her right arm.

"Yeah I bet" Sunset said blushing over to the side as she watched them finished their practice having been pretty reserved the entire time.

"Bravo darling! Simply marvelous!!" Rarity said running over to Applejack and hugging her not even caring that she was all sweaty. She smiled broadly when she noticed the sweatband upon the girls forehead as it was one that Rarity had personally made for Applejack when she had started playing Basketball for the team and was delighted to see her wearing it.

Applejack blushed and chuckled a bit as Rarity embraced her, she knew that after the practice and before the movie they had planned to reveal their relationship at Sugarcube corner while they had a little cool down period after the practice with milkshakes. The group has a whole knew big news was about to get dropped because they were all getting milkshakes specifically and Rarity was paying for it all.

"Wowie that was awesome AJ! That's a new distance for you!" Pinkie said from the sidelines.

"Indeed; it would appear your magical strength has increased considerably Applejack. Just look at those dents your feet made in the ground." Twilight pointed out to where Applejack had once been standing and where she planted her feet firmly. While the entire court was covered in skid marks from Rainbow dashing all over the place the impacts Applejack made with her feet as she chased after Rainbow or went to make power shots were very noticeable.

"Heh reckon yer right Twi; any reason that is?" Applejack asked taking a towel from Rarity who had brought one over to her and wiping her face with it.

"Not entirely sure. Our magic is powered by our emotions and the bonds between us all as friends so any number of things could have triggered a surge in strength as far as you are concerned." Twilight explained putting a finger to her chin and looking to the sky. "I really do hope that we can get to study magic more. It's obvious this world has magic all its own and some of it has seemed to have fused with Equestrian magic somehow. What do you think Sunset?" Twilight said asking the pony turned human.

"Huh?" Sunset said turning to face Twilight having spaced out again.

"I was just asking what you thought about the possible connects between our worlds magic and your home worlds magic and how we can study it." Sci-Twi asked.

"O-Oh um I think I might have a few ideas but its to complex to try and explain right now. Just um...bring your flash cards. a lot of them"Sunset delighted in seeing and hearing the squee come from the dorky girl.

"Eeeee! yes yes yes yes yes!" Sci-Twi jumped up and down with glee.

"Pinkie? Gimme a N"

"N!" Pinkie flexed into an N.

"Gimme an E!"

"E" Pinkie shouted and flexed into an E

"Oh no she's not" Sunset chuckled and rolled her eyes.

"Gimme an R.D.!" She smirked

"R.D." Pinkie cheered and flexed into an R and then a D.

"What's that spell? Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd!" Rainbow teased Sci-Twi playfully giving her a noogie frazzling her hair and skewing her glasses.

Sci-Twi flailed and laughed and pouted all at once trying to escape the jocks grip. "Gyah! R...Rainbow!!! K-Knock it off!" She whined trying to get Rainbow to stop.

"Heheh c'mon Dash let her go" Sunset said playfully punching Dash in the arm to get her to release Sci-Twi from the noogie headlock she had her in.

Rainbow soon relented and let Sci-Twi go finally causing the dorky girl to blush and pout at how frazzled her hair was now as she fixed her skewed glasses upon her face with the most adorable crossed pout ever as she did her best to look cross at Rainbow Dash. "Meanie!"

Rainbow laughed and put a hand to her heart. "Ouch my fragile pride." Rainbow pretended to be hurt only to have Fluttershy almost rush over with a first aid kit. "Not actually hurt Shy; just kidding"

"Oh" Fluttershy blushed and smiled sheepishly as she held the first aid kit.

"Anyway I think that's about enough practice for one day; we got in some good shots and we've learned to channel and control our powers better. Even though we can't use 'em during actual matches it still helps to train with them so we can keep the powers under control." Rainbow stated as she used a towel given to her also by Rarity to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

"Ah reckon yer right Dash; 'sides we got some things ta talk 'bout 'fore headin' off to the movies." Applejack said slinging her towel over her shoulder.

"Well what're we waiting for? C'mon and lets grab a couple milkshakes so we can get to the movies! I can't wait! This movie is gonna be EPIC!" Rainbow said excitedly.

"What're we going to go see again?" Sunset asked still unfamiliar with the film that they were going to go see. She had only started getting into things like video games, comic books and anime within the past few months and needless to say she was HOOKED on video games and she loved to draw comics however she was still trying to catch up in the anime department. Unsurprisingly she found she was fond of magical girl anime and shonen battle anime respectively.

"BROLY!!!!" Shouted Rainbow, Pinkie Fluttershy and Sci-Twi who were all the hardcore otaku and weebs of the group.

Rarity giggled rolling her eyes. "Honestly I can't imagine how an hour of screaming and fighting can be entertaining."

Applejack smirked at Rarity "Says the gal who can always re-watch the protector."

Rarity scoffed and waved a dismissive hand. "Please that is completely different."

Rainbow cocked an eyebrow. "The dude literally has an entire 8 minutes where he just screams and breaks the legs of like...everyone who runs into that room!" Rainbow laughed remembering that scene from the movie where the young boy played by Tony Jaa went on an ass kicking spree after finding out his pet elephant was murdered and turned into a statue.

"That poor elephant" Fluttershy wiped a little tear remembering seeing the image of the boys pet elephant turned into a bejeweled statue. She didn't feel bad at all about cheering the hero of the film on as he utterly broke every single last combatant that entered the room.

Rarity nodded. "Yes and that was very well built up story! Based on what you've told me and from what I have gathered from the trailers and the previous movie-" Rarity began to rant.

"WHICH ISN'T CANON!!" Sci-Twi rebutted.

"Regardless. The character seems bland and nothing more than a hulking brute. And I mean just how can he be so strong as to take on the main characters? They are Gods now are they not?" Rarity asked

"I mean well yeah but Broly is like you know...special! Just wait and see Rarity!" Pinkie said trying to defend the movie and franchise.

Rarity shrugged. "Very well but I will not hold my breath. Come along darlings, let us have a little sit down over shakes; I'm buying!" Rarity said cheerfully as she began to walk off towards her car with Applejack and Pinkie following close behind her.

"Whoa ho-ho we've got big news coming girls!" Rainbow Dash announced knowing something big was about to be told to the group. Rarity always did things like this when she had either a big announcement or bad news. But given Rarity's tone? It was good news.

The rest of the girls would follow with Fluttershy going with Rainbow Dash to her car and Sci-Twi going with Sunset to her motorcycle. Once everyone was loaded up in or on their respective vehicles they'd head off to Sugarcube corner which thankfully wasn't far away from school.

On arriving there they entered as usual and greeted all their friends that they saw there. They saw Octavia and Vinyl, Lyra and Bon-Bon, the CMC with a group of other freshmen and even a girl from Gryphon-Stone High! That was incredibly rare since it was widely known that GSH students were usually all assholes. Getting their usual booth Rarity would go up to the counter along with Pinkie Pie in order to place their orders.

"The usual's darling." Rarity said as she went into her purse to pull out her wallet.

"Right-O Rarity!" Pinkie Pie said as she went behind the counter. She worked here part-time along with her job at the roller restaurant so she would often ring the girls up and would use her discount to help them save money. The cakes didn't seem to mind especially considering that Pinkie Pie was also their go to babysitter and Rarity had designed multiple closets worth of clothes for their toddlers Pumpkin and Pound.

Each of the girls all had their favorite milkshakes. Rarity's was French vanilla with chocolate bits. Applejack's was ironically strawberry. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy liked chocolate. Pinkie had chocolate with marshmallow. Sunset had cookies and cream and Sci-Twi had Mint. Once all the shakes were expertly made by Pinkie Pie she would ring them up at the register.

"That'll be $25!" Pinkie Pie said cheerily.

"Well worth the price even with your discount. I daresay you make the best shakes in town darling." Rarity said with a smile as she paid Pinkie the $25 for the shakes and then slipped a $10 in the tip jar for her friend and was very happy to see the big smile plastered on the pink girls face when she did so. Pinkie worked very hard and Rarity always made sure to make sure she was rewarded for that hard work.

"Thanks a bunch Rarity!"

"Anything for a friend darling. Come, come! We have much to discuss!" Rarity said taking her's and Applejack's milkshakes while Pinkie Pie grabbed the rest on a tray to bring over to their booth.

Once she came back to the booth she handed Applejack her beverage with a smile and instead of simply sitting next to her? As a way to prep herself and everyone else for the news that was about to come she sat in Applejack's lap and she could see a few instant reactions from her friends at the table and a few of the patrons around the cafe including her little sister.

'Feel however you wish little sister. Do whatever you feel is right. I will do what my heart and soul tell me'Rarity thought as she looked in her sisters direction.

"So um what did you want to talk about Rarity?" Fluttershy was the first to ask.

"I'm curious as well" Sci-Twi replied.

"I think I can see where this is going and at least 10 people in this place are gonna owe me money" Rainbow said with a grin.

"Well since you are all so eager to know then I suppose its time to; as Applejack put it. Let the apple fall from the tree." Rarity said coyly.

"We're datin'" Applejack said flat out.

"Well I think someone should pick up the phone" Rainbow said as she lounged back in her seat sipping her shake and then slamming the cup down on the table with a big smirk. "CAUSE I FUCKING CALLED IT!" She ignored the sour looks she got from the few parents in the cafe who covered their kids ears.

"Language Dash please. But yes. As Applejack so bluntly put it. We are together romantically now and have been for about two weeks. We've resisted telling you all because things have been well; rather hectic." Rarity said somberly as she truly didn't wish to keep secrets from her friends. She knew they would support her but with all the other drama she had going on? She didn't want to drop this information just yet but she felt she was ready now.

"Yeah and with Rarity's family not all exactly bein' on board with the whole LGBT thing given everything that's happened? It ain't hard to see why." Applejack said. After her father passed away her mother had gone through a lot of hardship but managed to find love again in a divorced woman named Cherry Jubilee and they had gotten married not that long ago however also around this time? Rarity's parents had suffered the effects of a divorce because Rarity's father had come out as homosexual and left Rarity's mother to be with another man leaving Rarity's mother bitter and angry.

"We completely understand girls and know you have our full support." Sci-Twi stated fully ready and happy to support her two friends.

"Rarity?" a young voice asked.

Rarity felt her blood run cold when she saw it was her sister who had approached her along with Applebloom who seemed to be confronting Applejack albeit in a different manner. Applebloom was hugging and embracing Applejack saying things like 'about damn time' while Applejack smothered.

"Y-Yes Sweetie Belle? Is something the matter?" Rarity asked nonchalantly.

"Are you and Applejack really dating?" Sweetie asked, her tone unreadable.

"Yes. We are. Is that a problem?" Rarity affirmed ready to stand by Applejack no matter what her sister said.

Sweetie Belle smiled a wide smile and hugged her big sister. "Pft heck no! I've been waiting forever for you two to finally stop with the will they wont they! But um...what about mom?" Sweetie asked curiously.

Rarity sighed and hugged her sister back, relived that she had her sisters support even for as much as her mother attempted to brainwash her. "She can think what she wants. I don't care. If she wishes to throw me out for simply embracing who I am? Then so be it. Applejack and her family already said I could move in with them should that happen and I am more than savvy enough to keep business going with my clothes and designs without her money." Rarity said turning her nose up in defiance.

She loved her mother and that would never change, she would never abandon her simply because she didn't find love in the opposite sex. She knew this would be a tough road to ride but as long as she had Applejack? It was worth it.

"Well you know I've got your back! I'm happy for you big sis. I'll talk to you later." Sweetie Belle said going back over to her friends along with Applebloom and it didn't go unnoticed that the two began to hold hands as they walked back to their group of friends which got a giggle and a smirk out of both Rarity and Applejack.

"I'm soooooo happy for you two! I can't wait to throw you a party for this!" Pinkie cheered happily.

"We look forward to it sugarcube. And uh Sunset?" Applejack looked to her pony friend.

"Y-Yes?" Sunset asked blushing still.

"Sorry about earlier, I know you ain't mean ta read my mind like that." Applejack said

"O-Oh its okay it was my fault for not remembering how my powers work. Gotta work on that." Sunset chuckled sheepishly.

"I think we can work on that tonight during our date" Sci-Twi said and then realized what she had said and blushed greatly and waved her hands frantically. "I-I mean study date! Not like a date-date! I mean not that I wouldn't date-date you because you are super date-dateable but uh...I mean um...I'm gonna stop talking now" Sci-Twi said going back to sipping her milkshake.

Rainbow smirked looking between the two of them and said. "50 bucks says they fuck by the end of tonight"

Both Sunset and Twilight lit up like Christmas lights and shouted. "RAINBOW?!"

Rainbow Dash merely laughed holding her sides.

"Our friends are a bunch a dopes" Applejack chuckled shaking her head.

"That's the honest truth." Rarity giggled, smiled and gave Applejack a quick kiss on the lips making her blush around the freckles on her face as it would make this the first time Rarity had ever kissed her in front of anyone. "And I wouldn't have it any other way."

The End.

Author's Note

Phew! Another finished story! Lets see if I can make this a habit! Hope you all enjoyed this.