//------------------------------// // Turn-around // Story: Outings // by Isolation //------------------------------// It was unbelievable, a date with her?! She could not comply. The feeling she possessed of how much she wanted to get back at Pinkie Pie! But it wasn’t her character and she tried to make the best of the scenario. Tears materialised at the back of her eyes but she fought to keep them in, not wanting to be seen as a wimp in public, especially not in front of Derpy Hooves. She longed for Angel but pets were forbidden inside the restaurant. “Well,” uttered Fluttershy, “I guess it kinda funny that-” “Tell me about it,” Derpy said leaning forward with an obvious odour of some kind of alcohol causing Fluttershy to jerk back suddenly. “I’m sorry,” she apologised, “it’s just I think I’m a little tipsy.” Derpy then allowed some time to pass by diverting her attention from the already uncomfortable Fluttershy. “So.....” trailed Fluttershy, “I guess it’s kind of funny that we were set up on our own blind dates. Oh I really want to kill Pinkie Pie!” she said in her manliest voice, “Well, not literally of course.” She finished shying away. The grey pegasus let out a spasm of enthusiasm. “Me too!” she cried. “I feel like killing Rainbow Dash and Applejack ‘cos they’re the ones who set me up on this! Rainbow even called me her ‘literal wing women’; I mean what the hay does that mean? Then they made me drink something.” Fluttershy absently tilted her head gasping slightly at the news; however she took little notice as she absorbed herself back into her anxious mind; the one place where she truly felt safe. What am I doing? Do I look funny? Do I smell? Is she recording this?! God no! Worst yet, is R.D. recording this?! Paranoia swept into her mind like a flash flood. Suddenly the front doors of the restaurant café burst open, a gust of wind trailed inward and spread into the building extinguishing petite candle-lit tables. Two dark figures rapidly approached a single candle light adjacent to the two pegasi revealing a pink mane on one carrying a pair of binoculars and a cyan coat on the other. At two metres apart, the figures exploded into rampant, uncontrollable laughter. “You should have seen your faces!” laughed Rainbow Dash waving her hoof at the pegasi, “Priceless!” Pinkie Pie crudely joined in. Some of the tears behind Fluttershy’s eye escaped now and quickly trailed down her face. But wiping them off she cleared her throat, “A-actually Dash,” she said trying her best to hide her face, “I’m really glad you set us up.” The laughter stopped immediately. “Wait,” blurted Pinkie Pie, “You can’t be serious?” “Oh yes, me and her are,” she paused to wink at Derpy, “we really like each other.” Derpy understood at once. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash faced each other and resumed their laughter again. The two seated ponies patiently waited for their mockery to subside keeping their chins high with confidence. “You-c-can’t be-s-s-serious!!!!!!” Rainbow Dash barely managed to say. “Oh we’re serious,” said Derpy firmly as she nervously extended her hoof onto Fluttershy’s. “Just w-watch us!” “There’s no way.” whispered Pinkie Pie doubtfully. Derpy and Fluttershy’s faces tensed up again. They knew they were expecting a result. Fluttershy who had been exhausted of ideas tightened her grip around Derpy’s hoof which seemed to be changing colour. Meanwhile the anticipated faces of Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash glared eagerly for the outcome. Trembling with sweat racing down her forehead, Derpy hesitantly rose from her seat and gently fastened her hooves onto her partner’s cheeks. Now’s the time! She then proceeded to lean forward ever so slightly, until she was a nose away from Fluttershy. A gentle peck and their lips met with passionate rage almost as if they were instantly glued together, or at least that was what it appeared to be. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash’s jaw dropped instantly buying the illusion. Faking, the blind dates embraced each other trying to make it look as realistic as possible, tensing face expressions and heads swinging side to side. Derpy’s lip however was cleverly hidden into Fluttershy’s neck and hers on Derpy’s opposite cheek invisible to Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. What have I gotten myself into?! thought Derpy. “Ooh, don’t uh, stop?” mumbled Fluttershy. “I won’t?” moaned Derpy. Even a retarded being could depict it was false but somehow despite how obvious, it was enough to convince the pranksters that they were really smooching. Derpy decided to take it a step further. With great reluctance she started to rub her hooves down Fluttershy’s shoulder and back up again, continuing down to her abdomen and hips then repeating the process. Their heads swayed more intensely and it continued until it was a point that they looked like they had fused and become one big jiggling mass of movement. “That’s uh, some, sweet...rubbin’?” Derpy did not reply, for she was going through her own dilemma. Regretful and disgusted by her rash decision, her head began to feel and weigh like a boulder almost dragging her physical body to the ground. From all the intense movement, the feeling in her hooves disappeared and rapidly spread to all parts of her body until she became completely numb. Next was her eyesight, rapidly fading into a tunnel-like enclosure engulfed in black. In one massive swing she fell not feeling the ground impact her, but falling into a bottomless empty void not even wondering why. In a different world, Fluttershy noticed her partner had collapsed. “Derpy?” she said concerned, “Girls, help?” Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash did not budge, dead struck into the seemingly inconclusive results of their prank. ~*~ Authors notes: Well this is my first time to write comedy(ish) and a little drama (which I hate doing) so I decided to perform some experimentation. I wonder how I faired. Anyway praise, suggestions, constructive criticism, deconstructive criticism is all welcome here.