Part 3, Chapter 2 -- "The Turn Around"

2
"The Turn Around"

The falling rain had silenced Apple Jack's approach. Even so, as Pinkie felt the twinge of her Pinkie Sense, telling her some other pony was in the room... her mind drifted to Rainbow Dash. Pinkie's eyes had gone from relaxed to wide very quickly hearing the surreal sound of her friend's deep voice. This was not the right pony, it was as if she had materialized in her place. The exposed mare's eyes were illuminated by the flash of distant lightning as she looked over her shoulder at the pony standing there.

"Apple Jack!?" She squealed, turning around and quickly covering her lower body with a blanket, the pacifier falling from her mouth. "Wha- what're you doing here?"

Apple Jack casually cantered towards the bed. She spoke plainly, eying the pungent diaper in the trash as she passed it, not answering Pinkie's question:

"Pinkie, me an' Rainbow've tried to keep things on the lowdown for quite some time now. I take it you and she had a bit of fun up here." The orange pony glanced back at stairs, seeing Dash's mane just peeking above them. "It's fine by me, Pinkie..."

"I didn't mean for anything to happen, AJ," Pinkie Pie cried, a look of panic on her face. "I just really like Dashie, and it kinda just... well, happened."

Apple Jack chuckled.

"I know what you mean, Pinkie, Ah know all too well. One thing leads to another, you find yourselves smoochin' in bed... then even more stuff happens."

Pinkie heard Rainbow's voice speak up from behind Apple Jack:

"Pinkie, your drink's downstairs." She slipped passed the orange farm pony. "I don't want to play this game anymore."

Pinkie couldn't look either in the eyes without feeling judged. She kept her head down as she answered:

"Me neither, Dashie."

Smiling coyly, Apple Jack's eyes darted between the two remorseful mares. Gears were turning in her head as she spoke:

"Might I ask what game ya two have been playing? I know Pinkie was gettin' ready to drink from a foal's bottle... and I know she's wearin' a diaper. No need to hide it from me, Pinkie Pie, Ah saw it plain as day. Same as the used one in the trash."

Pinkie still kept hidden under the sheets, now wrapping herself in them for extra security.

"Um... that's okay, AJ," Rainbow Dash said. "We're just cleaning up."

"Cleaning up!?" Apple Jack laughed. "Boy, howdy... you're not gunna let me in on this one bit, are ya?"

Looking over at Pinkie, Rainbow nervously forced a smile. Pinkie looked utterly confused as Dash spoke:

"Uh, AJ... what'd you mean?"

Sighing, Apple Jack looked up at her marefriend with a blank expression. She couldn't believe she had to go into this, but Rainbow Dash could actually be that dense sometimes.

"Rainbow," she said, firmly. "Ya got me worried half to death running off like that, so much that I tracked ya down the first moment Ah could get free, which turned out to be in the middle of the greatest down pour since, oh... lemme see, the last three months."

"I'm sorry, AJ," Dash immediately replied, lowering her head and rubbing it with a hoof. "I guess I wasn't thinking..."

Apple Jack approached, nuzzling her marefriend gently.

"You've got nothing to apologize for, sugarcube. I am a might... well, irritated to say the least, but Ah came to find ya just to set the record straight and 'cause... well, I love you. Any other customer would have gotten their stuff tomorrow. Granny Smith and Big Mac'll be fine. If anything, Granny Smith must be holding back Big Mac by now, makin' sure he's not getting too articulate while talkin' with the weather patrol leader about the rain."

"Thunderlane... you nitwit!" Dash laughed, heartily. "I told you!"

"Really, now that does not become you." AJ chided back playfully. "Ain't it his first time?"

"Yeah, well... he didn't listen to me."

Again, Apple Jack rolled her eyes.

"Pride can cause even the best of us to make some pretty silly mistakes, RD." The farm pony laughed, remembering back several years before when she really needed help harvesting apples but told Twilight she didn't want her help again and again... and again. "It ain't kind to kick a pony when he's down."

"She's right, Dashie. It's not nice."

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes:

"Yeah, fine. Whatever."

"That is so like you, Rainbow." AJ chuckled. "Apologizing for the wrong thing and being so gosh darn stubborn about the other!"

Pinkie Pie laughed, nodding her head in agreement. Rainbow furrowed her brow in response.

"Hey! That's not true!"

Pinkie and Apple Jack exchanged glances. Both were grinning in total disbelief while shaking their heads. They knew their cyan friend well, perhaps a little too well, and were annoyed by this behavior. They saw it all too often. While Rainbow Dash scowled and gritted her teeth, Apple Jack spoke:

"Ah don't know, Pinkie Pie," she said, in almost a whisper. "Wager she needs somepony to set her straight?"

Smiling, Pinkie nodded. Feeling a bit brave now that the pressure was off her, she uncovered herself so that both ponies could see what she was wearing, all the while imitating Big Mac:

"Ee-yup!"

Apple Jack had trouble keeping a straight face looking at Pinkie Pie in her pastel pink diaper. She was used to her zaniness so that helped her keep it down to only a grin. She focused on her marefriend instead.

Rainbow Dash had quickly gone from resentful to confused. She looked at both ponies with a wide-eyed expression.

"Wait... what?"

Apple Jack didn't bother explaining. She simply showed the Pegasus what she meant instead...

* * *

When it came to tests of strength, Apple Jack usually had the advantage by a small, but noticeable margin... especially if she got the head start. Granted, Rainbow Dash was pretty strong for a Pegasus, but all AJ needed to do was playfully tackle RD, stop her wings from fluttering, and she was as good as grounded. Everything else was basic physics and raw power, both things Apple Jack was well acquainted with from years of apple bucking.

Together the two ponies wrestled on the floor. Dash knew it was partially in fun, but she was not in the mood... and she still had to pee. She also knew that Apple Jack was probably going to make her shout uncle before she let her go, but by then the only problem she might still have with the playful scuffle was not being in the mood for it.... that and explaining the carpet to Mr. and Mrs. Cake after they got back.

"Get off me, AJ!" Rainbow Dash growled as the two tussled. "Let go!"

"Ain't happening, sugarcube!" Apple Jack laughed, pulling Rainbow in the direction of the bed.

Soon enough, AJ was sitting on top of the bed with RD face down in her lap, kicking and attempting to flap her wings, all to no avail. AJ held them close to her body.

"Now what, Pinkie?" Apple Jack said, smiling slyly down at her captive marefriend. "Do I let her go?"

Dash looked over her shoulder as Pinkie thought for a moment. The pink mare pondered with a furrowed brow, long enough for Dash's mind to begin to wander. When Pinkie finally spoke, her tone was both jarring and joyous: (as usual):

"Oh, don't let her go! Spank her like a filly, silly!"

Dash looked directly up at Pinkie, horrified by her suggestion:

"Really? Et tu, Pinkie?"

Pinkie just giggled in response. This was just one big game to her, after all... and it would take a lot to convince her otherwise.

Rainbow Dash was shocked to find that not only was she unable to get out of this hold Apple Jack had her in, but Pinkie also provided an extra set of hooves to help in the matter. Pinkie held down RD's back legs to keep her from kicking, the one thing that could keep AJ from actually swatting her. Pinkie also raised her tail, which Apple Jack restrained with the hoof holding her wings.

"How many times, Pinkie?" Apple Jack asked in a hushed voice all too familiar to her marefriend Rainbow Dash.

Again, Rainbow watched helplessly as Pinkie thought from behind her. After a moment of contemplation the pink mare whispered something in AJ's ear.

"Boy howdy, Pinkie!" Apple Jack chuckled. "She's gunna have one sore keister by the end of all this!"

"Wait," Rainbow chuckled nervously. "You guys are serious...?"

"This is for running off with Pinkie and drinking way too much, Rainbow," AJ said, coolly. "And for feeling good about your own co-worker's blunders!"

AJ was serious. Rainbow barely had the time to process that thought; her flank stung before she even realized the farm pony had taken her first strike.

"Ow!" Dash cried, looking up. "Not cool!"

"Oh, I'm just gettin' warmed up, RD," Apple Jack said, winding up for another strike.

Rainbow Dash really couldn't move and this proved it. Apple Jack struck her again, her flank stung once more. She was struck again and again, each strike causing the pain to become more concentrated and piercing. Thankfully Apple Jack wasn't hitting her anywhere near full-force, but it was still hard enough to make Rainbow wince. By the 5th whack, tears were beginning to well up in her eyes.

"Stop! Stop!" She cried. "That hurts!"

"Ah know it does, Rainbow!" Apple Jack laughed and smiled. "That's why I'm doing it!"

The farm pony wound up for a much harder strike as Rainbow Dash desperately cried out:

"Wait!"

Being familiar with her marefriend in these scenarios (where she always had reins), and knowing the type of cries she makes and what they usually mean, Apple Jack stopped and listened in:

"What is it, Sugarcube? Ya got ten seconds 'fore I think you're just stallin'."

"AJ, I really have to go to the bathroom! If you keep spanking me, I'm just going to lose control and pee everywhere... all over you, all over the bed, all over Pinkie. I won't be able to help it!"

Dash was now in tears, real tears, looking up into the farm pony's green eyes for any sign of mercy. Apple Jack grinned back in the usual, smug way. Rainbow looked around the room for anything to help her out. She found Gummy staring at her from Pinkie's vanity with seemingly empty eyes. The creepy factor of Gummy, the need to pee, the mild hang over, and the new in her flank made Rainbow Dash start crying less like an adult and more like a foal. Hearing this, Apple Jack's coy grin quickly deflated into a frown.

* * *

"Alright Rainbow." AJ slowly released Dash's wings and allowed her to slip off her knees. "You know Ah'd never do something like that to you, besides... Ah think I'm done. Now, do ya have anything to say for yerself?"

Dash gently hit the floor. She rubbed her flank and backside. She was more focused on her warm, glistening rump, and holding her water than the pony who had just spanked her. Dash said nothing, so Apple Jack kept talking:

"Now I trust you'll stop all that foolishness and come to your senses."

The Pegasus had definitely come to her senses: she looked up and glared. Apple Jack's eyes went wide with surprise and amusement.

"Aw, there's no need to pout, RD," the farm pony cooed. "It's all over now."

Pinkie leaned over whispered something more in AJ's ear, glancing down at the Pegasus on her floor with a mischievous look in her eye. She must've thought Dash was just pretending, Pinkie was never normally this daydreaming. The cyan mare gritted her teeth to think Pinkie was still mentally playing the game.. even after all that.

"Really now?" Apple Jack blinked a few times. "Rainbow, Pinkie still wants to play!"

"Good for her, AJ," Rainbow grumbled, trying to get up. "I'm so done here."

"Oh, come on Rainbow!" The farm pony tenderly offered her a hoof. "It'll be fun... consider it ma way of making it up to you. Again, no more spankins. Ah promise!"

Dash hesitantly took AJ's hoof, looking up into her quixotic green eyes. It was hard not to trust the Element of Honesty.

"Well, maybe... but how exactly do you-"

Apple Jack didn't give her a chance to finish that thought.

"Glad you see things ma way!"

As if doing the do-si-do, Apple Jack used her entire body weight to pull the lighter Pegasus off the floor and fling her onto the bed in one, fluid motion. She nearly clunked heads with Pinkie again, but thankfully Pinkie had enough of her facilities back that her Pinkie Sense was almost in full-swing and she dodged Dash's body with incredible ease.

"Hey! Let me go to the bathroom first!"

Apple Jack grinned again, sitting on top of Dash's hind legs, as Pinkie slipped off the bed.

"Sorry 'bout that, Rainbow." The farm pony rolled her shoulders. "Ah honestly thought you liked it rough, sugarcube."

"Not like this!" Dash whined.

"Oh, come on, Dashie!" Pinkie said, passing Apple Jack the white package from the floor. "We're just having fun... you two looked so cute together, rough housing and having fun on my floor. And then she gave you that spanking and you were crying and everything! Makes me wish I hadn't lent the Cakes my camera!"

Rainbow Dash wasn't focused on what Pinkie was saying. She was more focused on the package Apple Jack held in her hooves.

"Hey, hold on a sec AJ... What're you doing with that package?"

"Oh, this?" Apple Jack smiled devilishly. "Thought I'd make you and Pinkie match. That pink'll go real nice against your cyan coat, afterall."

Rainbow narrowed her eyes:

"If you're thinking of doing what I think you're thinking of doing then the answer is... no."

Apple Jack raised an eyebrow at the Pegasus, flipping her mane gracefully to the side in a way that Dash was known to go crazy over... especially whenever they were alone in the more secluded parts of the acres.

"Come on, now... Don't ya want mama to take care of you?"

Rainbows response was to scowl at the farm pony in a way that reminded Apple Jack of Opalescence.

If looks could kill Ah'd be dead by now.

"Pinkie," said Apple Jack, turning her head in the direction of the diapered mare right beside her. "Can I ask you to do me a small favor?"

"Of course, AJ. Fire away!"

Apple Jack smiled warmly.

"Go and get that bottle from downstairs... warm it up for me, will ya? Make it nice 'n hot."

"Aww, are you gunna give it to Dashie?" Pinkie asked, giggling. "I kinda called dibs on it, but it's okay!"

"When you get back up here we can talk about that. Ah need just a moment to think about what I want to do next."

Pinkie, though in her own house being given painfully transparent instructions, saluted AJ and began carrying out her request. Down the stairs she went without a word, crinkling and clomping the whole way to the bottom. Pinkie was having fun, Apple Jack was having fun... Rainbow Dash, however, was not.

* * *

Rainbow was still pouting even well after Pinkie left the room. All fell silent as the two remaining mares looked at each other.

Apple Jack got more comfortable, pulling herself up by Rainbow's side and grinning, happy to be making the best of this potentially awful situation... on Pinkie's bed, no less. She had started off wanting to physically hurt Rainbow, but instead she found herself snuggling the Pegasus's side tightly, tenderly... looking into those magenta eyes. She was far too forgiving, especially of overly impulsive rainbow-maned Pegasai.

"Come on, Rainbow," she said softly. "We're just having a bit of fun... I ain't gonna hurt ya and no one's mad."

Even though the Dash wasn't looking directly at her, Apple Jack could see the anger in her eyes.

"Well, I'm mad!" She groused, through gritted teeth.

The farm pony sighed and took a moment, as she was known to do in these situations. She thought about telling Rainbow Dash that she owed her. They were gonna do what AJ had in mind, no discussion. After all, she no reason to be mad! Apple Jack just couldn't open her mouth to talk like that, though... as much as she wanted to.

"Lookie here, sugarcube... even Pinkie sees this as just a game. Is there any way Ah can get you to play along?"

"You're not putting diapers on me!" Dash grumbled. "Besides, I'm pretty sure Pinkie sees everything as a game... even brushing her teeth each morning!"

"Well, Ah don't doubt that," Apple Jack laughed, narrowing her eyes. ""There ain't no how about this... is there?"

"No way, no how, Apple Jack. You should know that."

"Alright then." The farm pony sighed, shaking her head. "You know what, Rainbow? You can be so gosh darn stubborn at times it's almost off-puttin'... but, what am Ah sayin'? I still love ya. Afterall, you're my gosh-darn stubborn Pegasus and no one else's." Apple Jack reached down and tenderly squeezed Dash's rump, working the tip of her tongue through her teeth.

Rainbow Dash did not answer right away. She could tell what AJ was trying to do:

"Classy, Apple Jack."

The farm pony scowled. Rainbow Dash actually thought she was trying to butter her up. When AJ thought about it... she kind of was.

AJ thought for a moment of something else to say. She thought hard. Then it suddenly came to her.

Gaging her position, it might actually work. While the Pegasus kept her closed posture, Apple Jack rose up on the bed, looked as though she was getting up, then oh-so-gracefully fell down between Dash' legs... licking her exposed genitals before her body even jerked forward due to reflexes. Rainbow had an immediate reaction, closing her legs:

"Hey!"

Apple Jack grinned, getting up slowly.

"What? I just lost my lost ma balance there. Honest!"

"You're a bad liar, AJ." Rainbow shook her hoof. "You're lucky I didn't lose my bladder while you were down there... or clock you one."

"Well, did it feel good?"

Rainbow Dash hesitated. She answered too softly to be heard for sure by anypony but herself. Apple Jack knew what she said even without hearing it.

"What's that, Rainbow?"

The Pegasus now shouted her answer:

"I SAID YEAH, IT DID!"

The Pegasus was so loud Pinkie actually heard her through the floor over the rain. She giggled, thinking they must be having a lot of fun to be making that type of noise upstairs.

Apple Jack grinned hearing that. She had Dash right where she wanted her.

"Well, in that case come by the farm house this evening and we can spend some quality time together... alone. Right now, Ah wanna spend some time with you and Pinkie but there's only room enough for one mommy, and Gummy here's taken up the one spot for spectator," Apple Jack pointed to the table where Gummy now stood, blending in perfectly with a plant behind him. "Rainbow, Ah love ya to death and all, but... Ah want you to be a baby. My baby." Apple Jack looked into Rainbow's eyes. "It would make me happy... just this one time?"

Apple Jack's pleading green eyes also had a hint of arousal to them. She wanted to be in charge. Rainbow Dash knew that from many, many times before... even though the game could get old, she found herself grinning.

"Fine, but... don't think for one second I'm gunna like it. Or use it, for that matter."

"Oh, you always like it when Ah take care of you, Rainbow. Reins or diapers, it makes no difference! And dun worry... Ah'll let you go to the bathroom once I'm done with you and not before."

Apple Jack was already removing a pink diaper from the package, opening it up wide. She took a good look at the fully opened diaper.

"Sweet mercy, this thing is huge!" She held it up high. "Ah think this thing might be big enough to be worn by you an' Pinkie at the same time!"

Rainbow rolled her eyes, looking at the thing she was going to be wearing.

"Yeah, well... don't get any ideas."

Apple Jack smiled, putting her face near the leak guards and taking a deep sniff.

"Whew! That is strong... your rump's gunna smell like foal powder for a week! Not that Ah'll mind." Rainbow said nothing, so Apple Jack set it on the bed. "What'd ya say we wait for Pinkie first, huh? That way we can all have fun. Sure she'd love to watch... and Ah'd love to have her watch."

Rainbow Dash hesitated before answering, looking towards the one closed window in the room... wishing it was open so she could bolt.

"Not a bad idea."

The orange mare sighed. Now that things were set, she put a foreleg around her cyan marefriend and chuckled.

"Rainbow?"

Dash laughed nervously... what was she gunna say next?

"Yeah AJ?"

"Sorry Ah spanked you so hard, RD." Apple Jack blushed. "Ah took it a little too far."

Dash sighed happily.

"It's okay. I'm over that. My flank's still a lil sore, but it'll feel better in a bit. I still have to go to the bathroom."

"Good to hear, RD... I'll let you go in a bit." Apple Jack stroked her mane. "You always look so cute when ya have ta make a wee."

Rainbow's cheeks turned red.

"Yeah, yeah... I'm still not using that thing, just to let you know."

"Ah promise, once it's on... I'll let you use the toilet. Not before though." She beeped Dash on the nose. "Yeah, I'm mean like that."

"I know, AJ." Rainbow Dash grinned. "I know."