Dash awoke the next morning, her head hang over the edge of the cloud, she could see everything from here. It probably would’ve scared her if she had been able to think of anything other than Pinkie. She’d even had some weird dream that Pinkie had met her mother in a mansion in Cloudsdale. It didn’t matter though; she just left her head hanging off the cloud-cliff, staring at the world below. She had no idea what to do when she got back to Ponyville.
Would Pinkie forgive her for what she’d done. Then again, did Pinkie even know that she had run away? It had only been four days since she left, even if she had left in the middle of one of their dates. She’d have to say something but she just didn’t know what. Maybe she wouldn’t head back to Ponyville at all. She’d go to Cloudsdale or that place in Graustralia that Tally was from.
The idea was stupid… she had to go back to Ponyville. She turned to look down to see if Butterscotch or Tally where up yet. When she turned however, she saw Pinkie, curled up asleep beside her, giving Dash a hug. “You’re not here...” she muttered, closing her eyes and the hopes of washing away the drowsiness. She couldn’t stop thinking about Pinkie and now she was even seeing her.
She opened her eyes once more and Pinkie was still there. In fact, she was snoring. Pinkie was really there. Pinkie was really... HERE!!! How was this possible? It wasn’t! Nothing made sense to her in the moment. “You’re kidding me…” was all that she could think to say. She gave Pinkie a small poke. “Pinkie, wake up!”
Pinkie stretch and yawned. She sat up as Dash did too, sitting on their haunches Pinkie exclaimed “Hi Dashie!” before taking a look around “Oh yeah, we’re here and all that… uh, hi again!”
“Pinkie I… I’m sorry I ran, I didn’t know what else to do.” Dash said, tears already bursting from her eyes.
“Its ok Dashie, I forgive you. I’m here for you now, even if you don’t want me to be… I’m here.”
That was just it though… she was here. HERE!!! At World’s End. The highest place in Equestia. An earth pony! Where in the last however-many-years, only so many pegusi had been, and so many hundreds of thousands had tried. This flightless earth pony had made it here... for her! Dash had been afraid Pinkie would hold her back? It almost seemed stupid now. Pinkie wouldn’t hold her back, if anything she would drag her forward. Pinkie could do anything. It wasn’t just an exaggeration, Pinkie could literally do ANYTHING!!!
Dash didn’t reply. Pinkie had done all this for her. Dash put her arms around her friend... her marefriend, and gave her a small kiss before leaning her head onto Pinkie’s shoulder and closed her eyes. Pinkie did the same, wrapping her arms around Dash. They stayed like this for what seemed like an eternity which to Dash didn’t seem long enough. Dash finally opened her eyes and pulled away.
They sun had moved from down on the horizon to directly behind Pinkie. It was beautiful. The sun was caught in every one of her pink, curly locks and her head perfectly covered the most of the sun leaving just the golden glow that surrounded Pinkie’s face. While Dash was perfectly fine with just letting the moment last forever, Pinkie broke the silence. “Dashie. What would you do if I fell through the clouds right now?”
Rainbow Dash instantly unfurled her wings to the question, ready to dive at less than a second's notice. But it didn’t come to that. “Don’t joke about that Pinkie! I would’ve… I would dive after you and stop you from falling. I wouldn’t let anything happen to you.”
“Well that’s good because Twilight’s windwalker spell should’ve wore off hours ago. I don’t know how I’m still up here.”
Dash just looked at her, fully aware why she wasn’t falling and what it meant. Which meant so much to her. “You’re not falling because something that belongs to a pegasus won’t fall through clouds. And Pinkie, what you are…”
“Is mine.”