Rainbow Dash felt light as air as she landed in the Argo hall and pulled the hatch closed behind her. “Applejack!” she called, starting towards the cargo hold. “You won’t believe what just happened!”

A door clicked open behind her, and Rainbow turned to see Applejack’s head, sans hat, leaning out of Flint’s room with wide eyes. “Rainbow Dash, I swear to Celestia, Luna, my parents, and everythin’ I can’t think of right now, if you’ve flown off and killed somepony else, I’m disownin’ ya.”

Rainbow frowned. “Wait, are you two banging again?”

Applejack pursed her lips. “I really don’t see how that’s important here, sugar cube, considerin’ y’all’re covered in blood.”

Rainbow cocked her head. She looked down, and only then realized that in her excitement she’d forgotten that yes, actually, she was covered in blood. “Oh! No, don’t worry, this isn’t pony blood, this is yak blood.” She grinned and struck a pose. “I went out on a hunt with the crystal ponies like Twi suggested, right? And there were all these yaks running around—that hairy thing that attacked me earlier was a yak apparently—and then one of the crystal ponies was in trouble, so I swooped in and saved her!” She jumped into the air, doing a loop for emphasis. “But then I realized one of the yaks was the same one I’d fought earlier, and I couldn’t just let it get off scot-free, so I challenged it to single combat and cut it down with all the hunters watching! And then I ate its heart and everybody cheered, and now they’re all calling me Yakslayer!”

Applejack blinked. “I ain’t even sure where to start respondin’ to all that.”