//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: The rainbow story // by The Two Writers //------------------------------// Chapter 5 Its been about a month since Flash and Speedy came over and stayed for a week. You are currently resting underneath a tree, next to Twilight and Spike, Rainbow Dash was teaching Scootaloo tips on flying. “What is an 18 letter word for Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?” Twilight asked looking up from her crossword puzzle. “Hippo-what?” You ask tearing you eyes away from your book, Daring Do 3. “Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, its the fear of very long words.” Twilight explained. “Naturally, no I don't.” You say as you go back to reading. You are almost done with the third book and you want to get started on the fourth. You feel a light weight on your outstretched legs and when you lower your book, a sweaty Scootaloo sitting on your legs is revealed to you. “Hey Scoots, what happening?” You ask and you put your book mark in place and set the book aside. “Not much Sonic I just needed a break.” She said letting out a deep sigh. “Well I guess my lap is more comfortable that the nice soft grass.” You say with sarcasm as you hand her her water bottle. “Of coarse.” She says as she takes a deep drink. Rainbow Dash comes in for a landing, you toss her her water bottle as she lands. She isn't as worn out as Scootaloo, but she drank just as greedily. When she was done she let out a loud burp. “Really Dash, if you were anymore lady like you would be just like Rarity.” Twilight said looking at Dash. Dash just rolled her eyes and sat down in between you and Twilight. “Hey Dash, whats an 18 letter word for Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?” Twilight asked with a small laugh, her idea of a joke. “Sesquipedalophobia.” She said as she took another drink from her water bottle, this one not so greedy. You look over at Twilight for confirmation. She took out her pocket thesaurus and started to flip through the pages. “Holy Celestia, your right.” She says with a look of shock on her face. “Naturally.” Scootaloo said with a big smile, this earned her a hair ruffle from Dash. “Looks like we’re getting another Dash. She'll be dyeing her hair and doing dangerous stunts before we know it.” You say with a smile and a laugh. “Celestia help us all.” Spike said looking off in the distance for dramatization. “Hey is there suppose to be a parade or something?” He asks with the look of puzzlement on his face. “No, at least I don't think so.” Twilight said as she looked over to where ever Spike is staring, you look to. You can't see much except the whole town crowded around something. “Lets go check it out!” Scootaloo yells as she jumps up and starts to run towards the crowd. You all get up and start to walk after her. You get up to the crowd and the first thing that is clear is that it is only comprised of males. You spot Applejack leaning against a barrel and you walk up to her. “Whats going on?” You ask her. “Ah ain’t sure, there ah was selling apples like any normal day, then this woman came and all the boys swarmed her, her body guards seem like they have there hands full.” She said looking at the crowd. You and dash exchange a look and you both take to the air to figure out who could cause this much commotion. When you spot the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. She had long blonde hair, a face that was absolutely free of any blemish. Her dress that she had on was studded with diamonds and gems the size of softballs. Your heart drops to your stomach and you feel like your about to be sick. You snap your wings close and you drop to the ground and you instantly run and hide behind Twilight and Applejack and the barrel. “Notherenotherenotherenothere...” You kept saying to yourself. Dash drops in front of you. “What's wrong with you?” She asked crouching down next to you. You don't respond but instead you risk a look over the top of the barrel. You see a group of big men, all dressed in pink suits with blonde buzzed hair making a bee line to you. You scramble to your feet and start to back away slowly, the start to run at you and you take flight. You fly for a few seconds before looking back, you narrowly dodged a giant pink mass flying at you. They can fly now!? You ask in your head. You start to fly across the field away from Ponyville. The guards make it very hard for you to escape, every few seconds you have to do a loop or roll to dodge them when they made grabs for you. Out of the corner of your eye you catch a flash of rainbow, you snap your head to the color and you see Dash flying next to you. “What the hell did you do?” She asks, you dodge another pink mass. “I'll tell you later, just help me get rid of these guys!” You shout as you dodge another bodyguard. Rainbow Dash backs off and flies back to town. You eventually dive into a crevice, hoping to lose them that way, but there still there when you look back. At least they stopped trying to tackle you out of the sky, but you don't know when this crevice ends. You feel your pants vibrate and you pull out your phone, “Dash” Flashes on the screen. “Yeah!” You say when you press your phone to your ear. “Comeback to town and stand at the cross of Sugar and Sweets.” Dash says and she hangs up. You fly out of the crevice and you start to fly back to Ponyville. You push on more speed but not enough to do a sonic boom, but enough to keep the pink goons from trying to tackle you. You enter Ponyville and you fly low to the streets, you know where the cross of Sugar and Sweets is located at, but you take the long and winding way there. Once you are no longer in sight of the pink goons you quickly fly to the cross of Sugar and Sweets. You look around but there isn't anybody here. A door opens and you see Pinkie Pie waving you over and you run into the building, Pinkie closed the doors just as the pink goons arrive. “I hope I don't look like that.” Pinkie said as she locked the door. You collapse to you knees, panting and you look around you at the room your in. It was just a room with a big table in the center six chairs were on one side of the table and one chair was on the other. Accompanying the chairs are Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and now Pinkie Pie. You assume the lone chair is for you and you slowly sit down in it. “So, what was that all about?” Twilight asked, looking at you. You let out a sigh and rub the back of your neck. “Well, you all heard of my ex right?” You ask, a nod all around confirmed that. “Well, that was her.” You say, each of the girls eyes were very wide. Rainbow Dash's and Applejack's mouths were hanging open. It was Rarity who spoke first. “I'm sorry darling, but why would someone as gorgeous as her go out with you?” She asked, cocking her head a little. “I have no idea, but when I broke up with her, she didn't exactly take it very nicely.” You say looking away. There was silence till Rainbow Dash cracked up laughing. “So your telling me that she sent her little goons to try to catch you, just because she didn't take a break up the right way? Oh man that is rich.” She said whipping away a fake tear. You roll you eyes at her. “Yeah, and if I know her correctly, she is at my apartment right now looking for me.” You say as you run a hand over your face. “I need to hide till she leaves.” “Well it it's that big of a deal, you can hide out with me.” Dash says as she stands up and walks to the window, pushing the curtain aside a little and looking out. “Thanks Dash, oh she will find out who my friends are and she will come looking for you guys.” You say. “Don't worry Sugarcube, we won't tell her a thing.” Applejack said as she joined Dash at the window. “Yeah, we will give them a false trail. It always happens in my books.” Twilight said with a smile. Everybody leave except for you and Dash. “Ok, ready for this?” She asks as she has her hand on the door nob. You take a deep breath and nod. She opens the door and sticks her head out. “We're clear. Come on.” She says. You both move with the shadows and after what felt like an hour you and Dash are under her house. You fly very fast up to the door and run inside. You flop down on her couch and she just laughs. “Hey, you would be like this too if you have been stuck with her for the past four years.” You say, kicking off your shoes. “I bet, so what do you want to do?” She asks sitting down next to you kicking her shoes off also. “I have no idea, what do you usually do for fun on a Saturday night?” you ask, calming down a bit now that you were inside. “Wanna watch some scary movies, or are you still to scared from getting here?” She asked in a mockingly tone, poking your side, making you squirm. “I am perfectly calm.” You say as you grab her hand that was trying to poke you again, she tries to poke you with her other hand but you grab that one two and, being much stronger that her, you immobilize her. “Now try to poke me.” You say as you stick your tongue out at her. “Well I can't get the movies if you don't let go.” She says, you let go and she gets up and walks into her bedroom. You run your hands through your hair and you relax your shoulders, leaning your head off the back of the couch. You close your eyes for a minute. You feel something tickling your face and when you open your eyes you are greeted by a smiling Dash, her hair was just barely touching your face and her face was so close to yours you can spot the very light freckles that are on the bridge of her nose. “Hello.” You say. “Hi, I have the Monster of the Swamp trilogy and the Thing from the Dark trilogy. Which do you want to see?” She asks. You don't have the heart to tell her that you seen all of those movies in theaters when they came out so you pick the movie that made Flash and Speedy jump the most. “The Thing from the Dark.” You say as you tilt your head back over the couch, you twist it to the right till you hear a loud pop. Dash pops the movie in the DVD player and tosses you the remote. “I'm putting you in charge of skipping through the previews while I make the popcorn.” She says as she heads into the kitchen. It doesn't take you all of about ten seconds to skip the previews, so with time on your hands you head into the bathroom. You have been in Dashes house before but never slept over, you can't place it but you seem nervous about something. You dismiss it as seeing you ex after so long, then the chase. You exit the bathroom just as Dash closes the front door. She was holding a picture and laughing uncontrollably. You take the picture when you look at it you feel your face flooding with red. It was a picture of you tied up upside down, hanging from a crane, your ex kissing your cheek. You assume one of her pink goons was at the door just now. “You can stop laughing anytime soon.” You say as you hand the picture back. “I'm sorry but that is just too funny.” She says between giggles. “Is the popcorn done?” You ask impatiently as you sit back down on the couch. “Yeah one sec.” She says and disappears into the kitchen and returns with a giant bowl of popcorn. She switches the light off and sits next to you and you play the movie. You are surprised but the movie actually takes your mind off the earlier events of the day. You can tell the movie is freaking Dash out by the way she jumps a little at every scary part and her eyes are glued to the TV. She has also, not knowingly, you guess, moved over so that she was practically sitting on your lap. It wasn't like you were going to complain or anything. The movie ends and she realizes where she is sitting and quickly scoots over, her face splotched with red. You're not sure is she was embarrassed about her being so close to you, or getting scared so many times during the movie. You play the next movie in the trilogy. This time Dash doesn't get scared as many times but her fingers did find yours, again you assume she didn't have any control over it. The movie ended, but you didn't let go of Dashes fingers, you aren't too sure of what you are about to do, but you have an idea. Dash looks at your fingers intertwined with yours and looks back into your eyes. You close the distance that was between your lips and hers, which wasn't much considering she had moved very close again during the movie. You break and start to realize what you just did. “D-dash, I'm so sorry-” You try to explain, but you are cut off when Dash kisses you again out of the blue. You see she has a red face when she breaks off the kiss. “Sorry, but I just wanted to do that for a while now.” She said as she turned her head trying to hide a smile. You put your arm around her shoulders and she rests her head on your shoulder and you start the next movie. She didn't jump as much, but she did jump quite a bit.