//------------------------------// // The Part Where Rainbow Dash is Awesome and Gets Exactly What She Wanted! // Story: Rainbow Dash and the Perfectly Awesome No-Bad Very-Good Plan // by Twinkletail //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash flew awesomely towards the library, her giant bundle of clouds in tow. She wasn't at all surprised by all the attention she and her clouds were getting from the ponies in town. Rainbow Dash was used to getting tons of attention wherever she went. It was the burden that came with being as utterly amazing as she was, a burden which she was more than happy to bear. Rainbow felt herself fill up with excitement as she reached the library. The slumber party was so close, she could taste it. She wasn't really sure exactly what a slumber party would taste like, but somehow she just knew that the taste she had in her mouth right now was pure slumber party. Pure slumber party apparently had a dry, nervous taste to it, which made total sense. Rainbow Dash never got nervous about anything, so it had to be the taste's fault. She whirled around the library, depositing clouds all over the place. Within moments, the entire place was blanketed in clouds. Satisfied with her job, she got herself into position. She'd laid the clouds out so they were all in contact with at least one other, a giant mesh of clouds hanging over the library. She thought about how Twilight would probably have some sciency stuff to say about the chain reaction she was about to pull off. In truth, it would probably be nice to hear her praise Rainbow and her awesome cloud-chaining abilities, but to do so would ruin the plan. Twilight couldn't know that Rainbow had set this up. If she did, it wouldn't seem real that Rainbow needed to come inside, and without coming inside, there would be no slumber party. Duh. Rainbow reared back and gave the closest cloud a mighty buck. It immediately started to pour, and one by one, so did each other cloud. Rainbow quickly dove to the ground and took her position under what had now become a giant rainstorm, centralized over the library. She watched the library door. Any minute now, Twilight would look outside, see the storm, see Rainbow standing in the storm, and invite her in. She just knew it. Rainbow waited for about a minute before she got bored. Her usual reaction to being bored with a situation was to just fly away, and she nearly did just that. Thankfully, she thought better of it, since everything would have been ruined if she did. She needed something to speed up this process, since it seemed like Twilight hadn't even noticed the storm. She found a small rock on the ground and hurled it at the library door, expecting to hear it make contact with wood. What she did not expect to hear was a small yelp of pain as the rock hit an emerging Twilight squarely in the forehead. Unfortunately, the sound she was greeted with was the latter. Rainbow's first instinct was to apologize. This was odd. She tried to avoid apologizing for things as much as possible. To apologize would be to show weakness, and Rainbow Dash was anything but weak. Seeing Twilight in pain and knowing that it was her fault, though, made her feel awful, even though it was only a tiny bit of pain. She almost called out an apology, but stopped herself. She couldn't let any of this look like she planned it. She just watched as Twilight rubbed her forehead, then looked up. "Another storm?" Twilight mused. "I didn't think we were due for another one for a while..." She then looked out and saw Rainbow standing there, dripping wet. "Rainbow Dash! What are you doing just standing out there in this weather?" "Oh!" Rainbow exclaimed. Time to call upon her great acting skills. "Uh...I was just walking around, not doing anything suspicious, when this rain started! Woe is me!" Rainbow grinned to herself. She totally nailed that. "Well, come on inside!" Twilight called out. "You'll get a cold if you stay outside in this weather!" Rainbow could barely contain her excitement. This was going great! "Well, if you insist!" Rainbow said, playing coy as she trotted towards the library. She gave Twilight a big old smile as she entered, and her ears perked up as Twilight smiled back. That was the smile of a pony who was totally about to invite her for a slumber party. "You know..." Rainbow said as Twilight passed her a towel to dry herself off. "It would be kind of a pain to fly back home in this storm. Could get zapped by lightning or something." "You're absolutely right!" Twilight responded. "Hey! I just had a slumber party with Applejack and Rarity last night!" "I heard," Rainbow answered without thinking. "Well, I'd certainly be up for having another one if you wanted!" Twilight said, smiling warmly. Rainbow felt a warm feeling in her chest as Twilight smiled at her. Probably because she was getting exactly what she wanted. "Sure!" Rainbow said, beaming. Then she realized how overeager that sounded and cleared her throat. "I mean...yeah, sure, that could be cool." Twilight giggled, which made Rainbow feel even happier. "Great!" Twilight said. "So first on the list of slumber party activities is makeovers!" Rainbow blinked. This didn't sound right. Rarity wasn't here. Why were makeovers being brought up? Makeovers were totally lame, and not what she wanted from a slumber party. She was cooler than makeovers. Twilight was cooler than makeovers. "Nah," Rainbow said. "Not really into the whole makeover thing." Rainbow smirked, expecting Twilight to agree completely, and was surprised when Twilight looked confused, her earlier confidence gone. Rainbow had never seen Twilight look quite as uncomfortable as she did right now. "...But the book says we should start with makeovers," Twilight said. Rainbow just shook her head. "But makeovers are lame," she told Twilight. "How about we do whatever's next in the book? Or, like, do whatever we want without following a book?" Twilight looked as if Rainbow had just asked her to cut off one of her hooves. "B-but...the book...says to..." Twilight stammered. Rainbow sighed. Twilight looked upset, and something in her told her that she should fix things and make Twilight not upset. "...Okay," Rainbow finally said. "But really quick makeovers, okay? I don't like getting all frou-frou." Twilight clapped her hooves and ran off to the bathroom to get the makeover supplies. Rainbow sighed to herself. This was gonna be awful. But at least it was making Twilight happy. And she wanted a slumber party with Twilight, right? So this was a necessary evil. Hopefully this particular stage of the slumber party wouldn't last long. The makeovers lasted for half an hour. That was roughly half an hour longer than Rainbow wanted them to last. She had spent the first five minutes trying, for Twilight's sake, to at least look like she was having a good time, but such a thing became more and more impossible as time went by. Finally, she could take no more. Twilight watched, bewildered, as Rainbow suddenly galloped to the window and stuck her head out, washing all the mud on her face off. She then pulled her head back inside and shook it off, somehow managing to look just as awesome as she had before the makeovers started. "Okay...I guess the makeovers are...well...over!" Twilight said, offering an awkward smile. Rainbow watched her shuffle awkwardly on her hooves, and figured she was doing so because she was only just realizing that she was in the presence of the great Rainbow Dash. "Great!" Rainbow responded. "What's next?" "Um...oh!" Twilight said, perking up a bit. "Ghost stories!" Rainbow yawned. "I've heard like every ghost story," Rainbow told her. Twilight got that nervous look on her face again. "Um...well, I mean, I've read a lot of them..." Twilight said quietly. "Maybe I have one that you haven't heard?" "Fine," Rainbow said, shrugging and plopping herself down on the couch. "Try me." "Okay!" Twilight said happily. She rubbed her forehooves together. "Once, there was a mare and a stallion who wanted to go on a date at Lover's Leap..." "Hook on the chariot door," Rainbow said, yawning. Twilight's enthusiasm began to fade. "O-okay..." she said, thinking. "...Oh! A pony was in his apartment, when somepony told him that the viper was coming..." "Windshield wiper with an accent," Rainbow sighed, waving a hoof in the air. Twilight looked even more uncomfortable, so much that Rainbow began to feel bad. She didn't even know why she did. It wasn't like it was her fault that she knew all of these ghost stories. Something about Twilight looking upset just made her feel bad. "Look, we covered ghost stories. Maybe the next thing'll be more fun?" Twilight smiled a little. "Um...alright," Twilight said, flipping through her book. "Next up is truth or dare." "Ugh..." Rainbow groaned. Truth or dare was the lamest of the lame. This was definitely not what she was expecting from tonight, although to be honest, she wasn't quite sure what she was expecting from tonight at all. She gave an annoyed look to Twilight, but then let that look fade as she saw the look of utter disappointment on Twilight's face. "I thought you wanted to have a slumber party..." Twilight said quietly, looking away. "I'm kinda getting the feeling you don't really want to." Rainbow's heart dropped. Of course she wanted to! It was the perfect way to get back at AJ and Rarity...but that couldn't be it. That feeling from before, the feeling that there was something more than just getting revenge on those two, was starting to come back, even stronger than before. "Of course I do!" Rainbow said quickly. "Uh...truth! Ask me a truth!" Twilight looked at her, seeming unconvinced. "Okay..." Twilight said. "Tell the truth. Why'd you say that you wanted to have a slumber party if you were going to say no to all the typical slumber party activities?" Rainbow blinked a few times. Why didn't she pick dare? She couldn't lie to Twilight now. She didn't even feel right lying to Twilight at all, let alone after she'd specifically promised to tell the truth. She took a deep breath. It was confession time. "So I was flying by here this morning," Rainbow said. "And I ran into AJ and Rarity, and they said they had a good time at the slumber party with you, and I got really upset because I wasn't invited, so then I said that I was gonna have a slumber party with you even if they didn't want me to, and I could tell they were already plotting to have another slumber party with you, so I made sure that neither of them would be around tonight, and then I set up another storm here so you would invite me to a slumber party, because I just wanted really badly to have a slumber party that was just the two of us!" Rainbow sighed again, waiting for Twilight to get mad and kick her out of the library. Instead, she saw Twilight staring at her, shocked. "You...just wanted to spend time alone...with me?" Twilight asked, her eyes glimmering a bit. "Yes!" Rainbow shouted. Then it hit her like a ton of bricks. "I...want to spend time...alone...with you. ...I want to spend time alone with you! Of course!" Each time Rainbow repeated that, she watched Twilight's smile grow more and more. That made her really happy. All of a sudden, she was noticing little things about Twilight that she'd never noticed before. She had this really pretty little smile, prettier than she'd ever remembered noticing before. When she smiled, it made the corners of her big, pretty eyes crinkle in the most awesome way. The weirdest thing about this whole revelation was that Rainbow had a feeling that these things were there all along, but she just hadn't noticed them before. It was like somepony had turned on a "Twilight is pretty" switch in her brain. She wanted to do everything she could to make Twilight smile more. Without even thinking about it, Rainbow trotted over to Twilight and wrapped her in a hug. She heard Twilight make a little squeaky noise as she returned the hug. Rainbow had always thought that hugs were lame and sappy, but this hug was far from that. This was the least lame, least sappy, most awesome hug ever. A hug fitting of the most awesome pony ever in Rainbow Dash, as well as another awesome pony in Twilight Sparkle. "So...does this mean that this is a slumber-party-slash-first-date?" Twilight asked. "If you want it to be, then yeah!" Rainbow responded, giving her a smirk and ruffling her mane. Twilight sighed a happy sigh before letting go of the hug. Rainbow wasn't as quick to let go. She honestly never thought she'd like hugging as much as she just did. "I think that'd be nice," Twilight told her with a smile. Rainbow couldn't help but agree. "So what's next on the agenda?" Rainbow asked, shifting herself over so she and Twilight were side by side. Twilight giggled a bit and began to answer, when the library door suddenly burst open. Rainbow and Twilight were greeted with the sight of an enraged Applejack, splintered bits of cellar door still stuck in her mane, and a slightly-less-enraged-but-still-pretty-upset Rarity. Both of them were holding sodden pillows. "Pillow fights," Applejack said. Rainbow smiled awkwardly. And also awesomely. Now this was what she wanted from a slumber party.