Applejack sipped at her glass of lemonade as she reclined in her lawn chair outside of the farmhouse, overlooking the southern apple orchard. Normally, this would be a perfect time to go over to Ponyville Spa with Rarity, but she was out of town at the moment. Maybe Rainbow would end up being another spa partner, if she could manage to get the pegasus to get more in touch with her feminine side, and not be so ashamed of it.

No sooner than she heard a set of hooves drop down directly behind her chair, her vision was obstructed by a pair of light blue feathers.

"Guess who?" A familiar teasing voice asked behind her.

The farmer smirked, and tilted her head up to nibble on one of the feather tips.

"Hey, that tickles!" Rainbow replied, withdrawing her wings, and came up beside her. Applejack saw that in the couple hours she was gone, she had changed into her formal dress uniform for the Wonderbolts; it was what they wore in any official capacity when not performing. A small cluster of service ribbons was on the left side of the jacket, along with the single gold bar on both sides of the collar, denoting her rank of Second Lieutenant, something she had been sure to point out she had attained a bit faster than most performing Wonderbolts of her tenure.

"Well, what are you all dressed up for? Didn't think you'd be back for a few hours, closer to dinner."

"A bit of change in plans, if you don't mind. Figured I'd treat you to a little surprise before lunch, and then take you up to my place for dinner. Speaking of which..." Rainbow paused, starting to dig into her saddlebag with her left wing, coming out with a small glass vial, two-thirds full of a sparkling purple liquid. "Mind a little flavor in the rest of that lemonade?" She asked, yanking the cork off with her other wing.

"And what is that stuff?" Applejack asked, eyeing the contents of the vial.

"Well, you want to come up to my place, right? Gonna need a little magical assistance for that. Starlight told me that it lasts about 72 hours; more than enough time, I'd say."

AJ had never taken a cloudwalking spell orally before, it was always direct from a unicorn horn.

"Well, here's hoping the flavor is good," she said, pushing her half-full glass of lemonade to the edge of her lawn chair's armrest, inviting Rainbow to pour her potion in.

"Well, to be fair, I didn't ask Starlight how it tasted," the pegasus replied as she poured the potion into the lemonade, turning the faint yellow liquid to a darker magenta, giving it the appearance of a rich berry lemonade. She picked up the glass, swirled it around to get it as mixed as she was going to get it without a spoon, and then brought it to her mouth.

"Bottoms up," she told herself, tipping the glass up and swallowed it all in three gulps, noting that it did have a bit of fruity taste now, but what she noticed the most was how it tingled. The sensation wasn't sour, but she felt it move down her throat and settle in her stomach for a moment before spreading out across her entire body.

"Alright, now while that takes effect, I'll be right back," Rainbow told her, spreading her wings, jumping up, and launching herself skyward. Applejack watched as she flew quickly from cloud to cloud, seemingly testing each one with her hooves. After seven of them, she came to one she appeared satisfied with, took it in both of her front hooves, and brought it back to the farm house's backyard. The tingling all around the farmer's body began to subside as she looked on as the pegasus pushed and pulled, manually molding and forming the cloud into a nest of sorts.

"Alright, ready whenever you are. Just come lay down in whatever position you find comfortable." Rainbow told her, standing beside the shaped bundle of cloud.

Leaving her empty lemonade glass on the arm of the chair, Applejack got to her hooves, and trotted over to the cloud, and stepped up into it. It didn't feel any softer than when she had gone up to Cloudsdale with the others, but certainly comfortable, as she stretched, then got down in a nice relaxed position. Satisfied with her marefriend's position, Rainbow bent down, and began to push up on the edges of the nest, pushing them inward and over Applejack, who, as Rainbow made her way around the edges, found herself securely wrapped up as the pegasus essentially reformed the cloud with her inside it. When Rainbow had made her way the whole way around, she gave the cloud a few test pokes to make sure the integrity was sound, with her marefriend's head halfway sticking out of the front of the 'cloud pod.'

"Alright, you ready?" Rainbow asked, coming up next to her.

Applejack tried to wiggle around, and found that while she could turn her head, the rest of her body was quite secure like it was under a considerable weighted blanket.

"Yeah... Yeah I think I'm good," Applejack said, not quite able to get rid of all the nervousness from her voice.

"Hey," Rainbow began, coming up to her, leaning forward and kissing her softly on the cheek. "Don't worry. I've got you."

Applejack smiled at her, her cheeks blushing lightly at the cheeks from the kiss. Rainbow walked around to the rear of the cloud. The farmer didn't feel her grab hold of anything, but she saw the grass below her slowly fall away, and watched herself rise above the tree line of the closest orchard before she felt herself start to float forward. She heard Rainbow's lightly flapping wings as her view of the south orchards only got more impressive as the pegasus slowly took her higher.

"Well, AJ, hope you're ready for the best aerial tour of Ponyville ever."

Author's Note

Hope you folks are enjoying the slower pace of this. I don't want to move things too fast, but at the same time, I don't know if I'll get everything figured out and finished in time, before, well, other things come up.

Unfortunately, I can't promise that I'm not going to up and vanish for a bit once Cyberpunk 2077 launches on the 10th.

As always, thanks for reading! Feedback and suggestions are most welcome.

-milesprower06