Behind them a soft thud came as Spitfire landed fast on the ground.Her bright yellow coat and orange mane blew slightly in the wind. Her flank had a cutie mark of a bright orange meteor that seemed to be surrounded by fire. She walked up to the new couple and smiled, "what you did," she pointed her hoof at Rainbow Dash, "was honestly, the most brave thing I have ever seen. You fly fast and strong, but most importantly. You care, you have to care about your friends, that is what being a Wonderbolt is about. Caring for your friends and team, while keeping people entertained. You do all of these things so well," She finished before she turned to Fluttershy. "The same applies to you," Spitfire said.
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"Thank you, but if you will excuse me I think I need to drag Dash to the hospital," Fluttershy said kindly as she grabbed Dash's mane before hoisting Rainbow Dash onto her back. Slowly she walked away from the crash site as Dash, again, fell unconscious. The journey was hard but she found the energy, even though she could only use three of her legs. Her wings seemed to be useless again so they were dead weights limp at her sides. Any pony who asked if she wanted help, she immediately turned them down saying, "Rainbow Dash is counting on me, please let me make it on my own." She couldn't really logically explain to herself why she didn't take the help. She just knew this, it was a sort of payback for all the times Dash had helped her.
"That is one powerful pegasus," Spitfire said to herself as she was amazed, watching Fluttershy hobble along.
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About a quarter way through the journey to the hospital Dash started to stir and Fluttershy carefully put her down. Rainbow Dash got up slowly as waves of pain pulsed through her body from her head to her feet, he wings bent back completely. Rainbow Dash's eyes started to water up as she felt the nearly indescribable pain.
Seeing this Fluttershy kindly put her hoof on her friends back lightly. Dash looked over and stared into Fluttershy's eyes before a small smile cracked from underneath her mask of pain. They walked together the rest of the way their heads touching together softly, just as Fluttershy had wanted it all along, as partners, for then, and forever.
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'Why does this bed seem so familiar to me?' Fluttershy asked herself as she started to regain consciousness. Her mind flashed back to what had happened and she sat up immediately hurting herself in the process. Next to her on a white bed similar to her own was Rainbow Dash, laying there, her wings bandaged tightly to her frame. Reaching across the gap between their beds, Fluttershy almost fell out of her bed as she reached for Dash's hoof. She smiled as she felt that it was still warm and relaxed a bit.
"Don't worry she'll live," A nonchalant voice said from the middle of the room where the doctor was watching them. "I told you not to try it, didn't I?" doctor Card asked slightly bemused, "but then, I never thought you would follow that advice. Not if she told you otherwise." The Doctors hoof pointed lightly towards Rainbow Dash.
"Ya," Fluttershy said, lowering her head, "I'm sorry."
"However I assume, other then your body and hers, nothing was injured? At least judging by the way your holding her hoof," he said as his eyes flashed from Fluttershy to her hoof, which quickly dropped Dash's hoof to avoid the attention."
Blushing deeply Fluttershy said nothing and picked up Dash's hoof again before rubbing it tenderly with her own.
"You should know by now how this goes, so let's get to it," the kind doctor said as he raised a clipboard. "You have a broken leg, you'll need to stay of it for a while. You also broke the bones in your wings. We had to use some pretty strong magic to fix them, but they will be OK. You went to fast and your skin was still weak from the sudden change in your habits. This cause it to pretty much erode away partially, that particular injury is very nasty, and it will hurt quite a bit in the days to come.
If you truly love your friend and she loves you, then she wont force you to do the sonic rain-boom again, not for another year at least," the kind old doctor told Fluttershy.
"Thank you doctor Card, but what about Rainbow Dash? she's more important to me then my own health at the moment," Fluttershy said with an unusual amount of rudeness in her voice.
"Very well," the doctor said picking up a similar clipboard from the foot of Dash's bed, "Ms. Rainbow Dash has been waking and falling back unconscious randomly. Every time she wakes she stays awake for longer so she should be OK. Her wings, however, had completely snapped, the bones were broken to the point where we had to call in a specialist all the way from Fillydelphia. It took days of hard work to finally get them into half decent shape. The rest of the healing process will be natural, so after a week in here, you both will be able to leave. But you must promise me to take the flying easy for a little bit, nothing major. It will be a struggle to get up to your house in the clouds, but I am sure together you two can make it. Once their take good care of yourselves, or you will be, yet again, in here.
Now that both of you are in here I doubt you will try to hurt yourselves by leaving early. So I feel no need to put a binding spell on you this time. Please don't prove me otherwise," he said smiling before turning to leave closing the door softly behind them.
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Fluttershy sighed loudly as relief swept over her. Her hoof slowly continued to go in small circle's around Dash's hoof. As Rainbow Dash slept, Fluttershy could swear she saw Dash smile.
Fluttershy stayed there holding Dash's hoof for two hours before, finally, Rainbow Dash started to awaken. Her eyes popped open much like Fluttershy's did and she looked nervously around the room before her eyes found Fluttershy's. Fluttershy squeezed Dash's hoof lightly. The rainbow pegasus' eyes flashed down to their hoofs. Dash's face developing a red color, yet she didn't pull away, instead she slowly tightened her own hoof around Fluttershy's.
"Good morning Dash," Fluttershy said completely casual.
Dash responded in earnest, "good morning Fluttershy," They blushed and stayed there before Rainbow Dash called out for a nurse.
A young mare in pink walked in and asked curiously, "yes, Ms. Rainbow Dash?"
"Can you please move our beds next to each other?" Dash asked as Fluttershy started to blush.
Without another word the mare walked up to the side of Fluttershy's bed and pushed hard, causing the wheels to squeal in protest as they rolled next to Rainbow Dash's bed. Quickly the nurse left. The two ponies were alone.
They slowly lowered themselves back onto their pillows and rolled towards each other looking into each others eyes. Fluttershy told the rainbow pegasus what the doctor had told her, however, Dash simply responded with, "I don't care how long we stay here."
Fluttershy looked up to Rainbow Dash and said quietly, "Rainbow Dash, I lov," she was cut of as Rainbow Dash slid closer to her. Lifting Fluttershy's head up to show her face from behind her pink mane.
Just like they had weeks before, their lips touched, only this time it seemed more natural and relaxing. Dash tasted incredible, much better then before. A few weeks ago Dash had cringed back as Fluttershy's tongue invaded her mouth, this time Dash was doing half of the work, and neither wanted it to end. Their tongues started a complicated dance before Fluttershy finally broke it up saying, "Dash I don't want to stop, but we both need our rest." Nodding her head Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash fell asleep in each others embrace.
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Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy spent their week in the hospital laying next to each other and laughing at each others experiences. Their minds almost constantly struggled with the pain. The other parts of the day Fluttershy and Dash spent complimenting each other, giving massages, or just kissing.
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Finally the day came when they walked out of the hospital together, clean bandages covering their bodies. Once outside they walked slowly through Ponyville getting stares from everypony. They thanked what seemed like hundreds of ponies who wished them good health. However word did not seem to have spread that they were a single item now, for which they were extremely grateful.
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After a few more seconds of walking, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were blocked by Pinkie Pie, "Hey, we have a surprise for you Fluttershy!" she said in her overly excited voice.
Fluttershy looked at Dash, who quickly gave a shrug indicating she had no clue about it. They followed Pinkie Pie as she jumped around the two pegasus ponies. They struggled to the town center and there, near the bell tower was Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack. Pinkie Pie skipped forward and stood next to them as Rainbow Dash slowly walked up with Fluttershy a bit behind her.
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"Well, we've been thinking, Fluttershy; about how you lost your home," Twilight said before continuing, "So we decided to draw up a plan for your newest house, if you like it, we can start building right away." Twilight stepped to the side and showed a blueprint of a gorgeous cottage before Fluttershy walked up to it. She asked for a pencil and quickly got to work editing the design. She made the master bedroom bigger and added a bath just like the one in Dash's house.
Finally she handed the pencil to Dash and said to her, "where do you think my new house should go?"
"I think you need to completely redesign it," Dash said grabbing the pencils eraser. She erased the entire thing before she started to draw. Ten minutes later Rainbow Dash stepped back and examined her work as the other ponies looked at the paper curious to see what she had drawn.
"But Rainbow Dash, that's... just your house next to the tall hill with a bridge going from your house to the hill, isn't it?" Fluttershy asked slightly confused.
"Exactly, I figure instead of making a new house, you can live in mine, and the bridge is so your little animals can come to. Of course ill make the floors wooden so your animals can walk on it and we can have visitors but it will mainly be the same," Rainbow Dash explained as she started to blush fiercely.
Blushing just as red,Fluttershy responded with, "I would love to move into your home, and I thank you for the wooden floors, I know my friends will be very happy there.
"Ok it's decided then, once you can, you will just help move Rainbow Dash's house and live there? Well if that's what you really want; who are we to say no?" Twilight Sparkle said smiling at the two ponies as she figured out the situation. Quickly Twilight left along with Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack.
"Thank you Dash," Fluttershy said as she leaned in and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. Blushing deeply the two ponies walked away from the bell tower and continued on their way to their home.
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Once they had reached the cloud they wondered how they would make it up until they remembered the doctors words, and they were true. They had each other, taking of each others bandages they stretched their wings and held the bandages in their mouths. They kicked of and flapped hard as they started to climb. It was strange for something that should be so easy, to provide such an intense struggle. They flapped strongly as they slowly gained the altitude required. They looked at each other as they both struggled. Dash grabbed Fluttershy's hoof tightly in her own before a final push.
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They collapsed in front of their house before they started to laugh knowing it was their own ignorance and foolishness that had caused that, they laid there for a minute looking up at the gorgeous sky, hoof in hoof until a voice interrupted them.
"Hey you two pegasi, come over here will you?" a familiar voice said to them.
Slightly annoyed at the voice ruining their moment, Dash stood with Fluttershy and turned to face the voice, it was Spitfire. Her cutie mark now covered in the blue and yellow uniform, next to her was Soarin, and a third Wonderbolt who stayed behind the other two.
"I heard how impressive your flying was, both of you. Just as I would have expected from the mare who won best young fliers, and saved my pie," Soarin said kindly and fondly as he remembered. "Anyways," he continued now looking at Fluttershy, "I never pegged you as a stunt pony." He stood there for a second, obviously waiting for an answer from Fluttershy.
"Well I wasn't, I mean I'm not. I mean..." Fluttershy struggled to talk in front of the two new pegasus ponies.
Rainbow Dash smiled at the pink pegasus next to her and took over, "What she is trying to say, is that she tried very hard, and learned on her own."
Fluttershy went quiet and nodded slightly.
"Well that certainly shows you are dedicated, and I feel it's only right to make this decision. As one of the two co-captains of the wonderbolts, I hereby officially extend to you a invitation to join us. Once you have healed of course," Soarin said formally as he nodded slightly at the third unnamed Wonderbolt who stepped forward.
He slowly walked up to the two ponies and spread his wings over Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's backs. Two sleek blue and yellow uniforms fell from his wings down on them. On the flank on both sides of the uniforms were yellow lightning bolts.
Rainbow Dash stood there completely speechless before Fluttershy nudged her side lightly, "Their waiting, Dash try it on," her soft voice said in Dash's ear as she pulled on her own uniform.
Dash scrambled with the uniform and halfway in got her hoof stuck. She lost her balance and fell flat on her face. everypony soon started to laugh including her. She jumped on three hooves as she stuck the last one in and stood tall next to Fluttershy.
Smiling at the two new Wonderbolts Spitfire nodded approvingly and took in how well the uniforms fit them before declaring, "they look like they fit great, what do you two think?"
They looked at each other and both confirmed how snug they were before they took them of.
"Well I expect to see you both at canterlot. Go to a bar named, 'Bill's,' it's a good place. You'll see us there sometime around 5 in the afternoon." Soarin said as he stretched his wings.
Dash and Fluttershy nodded as they were still overwhelmed by the turn of events. The wonderbolts turned and left. As soon as they were gone Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy turned around and walked silently into the house.
Finally breaking the silence Fluttershy asked, "so how do you feel?"
"Amazing," Rainbow Dash responded simply before continuing, "so many things and dreams are coming true at once. I'm a Wonderbolt now. I get to fly with my heroes as my job, and better yet, I found the exact right mare for me. One that's kind and compassionate, yet not afraid to stand up when she needs to. Your beautiful in every sense of the word, and I lo" She was cut of by Fluttershy this time.
After a quick passionate kiss Fluttershy leaned back and said, "Sometimes actions speak louder then words and sometimes, you just need to be quiet, if that's ok."
Laughing lightly Dash teased her by saying, "You know I never thought of you as a filly fooler, Fluttershy."
"There are some things you still don't know about me," Fluttershy responded blushing brightly.
Rainbow Dash grinned and said, "how about we explore what we don't know about each other then?" As she pushed Fluttershy lightly to the floor, they locked themselves into an embrace and kissed. Their tongues dancing.
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