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// Friends and stories 
// Story: Rainbows Glows and Rainbows Falls 
// by Scootafail 
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Chapter 1: Friends and stories


Sunshine was coming in to the room filled with snores through a window, slowly but surely it reached the owner of the sounds. A rainbow maned Pegasus pony began wiggle around in the bed with sheets that has the recognizable Wonderbolt logo printed on. The sheets were dragged over the pony named Rainbow Dashes head, and complaining sounds began coming from under them. “Stupid sun... So sleepy…” After a few minutes the snores came back, and the mare showed no signs of being awake.

Her extra minutes of sleep would not last long, an alarm began beeping in the most annoying way. ‘Beep, beep, beep,’ the sheets where thrown out of the bed and on to the cloud floor, and making a ‘poof’ sound. A grumpy mare sat up in the comfortable cloud bed and reached for the alarm, despite of that the little table with the alarm on was right beside her, she missed it when she tried to turn it off, and her hoof landed on the table. With a sigh she tried to look over to the alarm, but the only thing she saw with her almost closed eyes where only three out of focus alarm clocks and three hooves. After some blinking to get her eyes to function properly she finally could see clearly and successfully turned off the alarm. 

Rainbow Dash finally decided to go out of bed, she would normally fly to get to places, even when inside her own house (but not other ponies houses, that would be rude for some), but she was way too sleepy to even try, as always. To try not to trip she walked slowly towards the door opening. Her room was filled with posters and mementos from Rainbow’s idols and experiences. The most of the posters and the decorative items was of the Wonderbolts, as she was one of their, no, their biggest fan. There was also Daring Doo stuff, but it consisted mostly of the books. 

Rainbow’s destination was the kitchen, since she felt pretty hungry. On the way there she passed her guest room, which was the room next to her bed room and the toilet in the second floor, the hallway was nothing special, just cloud and a window to the outside. The stairs in the end of the hallway led to the living room, it had couch that was surprisingly not cloud, so it was black, and there was some pictures on the walls, notably one with her father, mother and herself. The other photo on the other side was of a certain orange filly who Rainbow had just recently taken under her wing, making the filly her honorary little sister. And of course a picture with her five best friends. 

On the parallel side of the couch was a TV, Rainbow bought it not so long ago, and that kind of technology was new to Equestria so it was kind of awesome that she had that, the only other pony she knew who had a TV was Twilight. There was also a grey rug on the floor, cloud floors tend to become very cold, especially when it gets chilly outside, so it was for the best to have. 
Rainbow Dash finally reached her destination, the kitchen. It had a little refrigerator with the color of silver, she lived alone so she did not need a bigger one, and there were also some cabinets of tree to have kitchenware in, and finally an oven, but she rarely used it, she wasn’t really a pony who baked a lot and most of Pony food wasn’t fried or cooked in the oven.

She opened the refrigerator, a frown formed on Rainbows mouth, there were only a pack of milk and some vegetables and berries in there, she had forgotten to buy more food it seemed. She then tied to look in one of the cabinets, thankfully there where a pack of oats, now she didn’t have to go shopping in the morning. 

Rainbow Dash tuned on one of the plates to the oven, and found a casserole, poured some milk in to it and then mixed in the oats. A hot plate with oatmeal was placed on the table and steam was floating up in the air. The mare began eating her breakfast in an unmannered way, she wasn’t really known for her table manners, her friend Rarity always scolded her when she ate like she did now. She was home alone now, so nopony could comment on the way she ate. Who needs to be proper anyway, she was awesome and that was all that counted. 

The rainbow maned pony decided to go out to fly after breakfast, it was always good to fly in the morning. Despite the fact that she hated mornings, going out to fly when the sun is low and feel the morning breeze was always a nice thing to do. The grass was green on the outside, and the summer sun was shining brighter than ever. Maybe it would be a good idea to take her sunglasses with her? She had flown some meters away from her house now, so she did not bother going back to get them. 
Some houses come to sight, the nearer she flew the more houses there where and it was recognized as the little town called Ponyville. Many ponies where already out of their houses and doing their own business. Since it was summer break the fillies and colts had no school, and therefore they were around town doing stuff. A nice and refreshing smell caught Rainbow Dashes attention, it was the smell of freshly baked goods. That only meant the Cakes and Pinkie Pie had begun baking for the shop today. Rainbow decided to visit Sugar Cube Corner she flew down and landed in front of the bakery that looked like a gingerbread house. 

At the exact moment Rainbow Dash came in to the shop, something suddenly hit her. ‘Ouch’ was the sound that came out from the cyan mare. She opened her eyes and saw big blue eyes staring right in to her magenta ones. The thing that attacked her was a pony, and no uncommon pony, it was none other than Pinkie Pie. The pink pony hopped off her and smiled so it made a ‘squee’ sound, Rainbow smiled back and when she was about to say something the other mare began tossing words at her. 

“Hello, Dashie! What are you doing here? Eh, except for that this is a shop, so you could be here to buy something, but that’s logical. And logical is boring! Or are you here to see me, really? I’m so happy that you would visit me while I am working, working is fun of course, everything is fun, but it is even more fun when I have a friend too keep my company. The Cakes always say that I have to keep quiet, what’s up with that?” 

Rainbow Dash just rolled her eyes. “Well I actually don’t know what I’m doing here, I was just out flying when the aroma from the shop dragged me down here. I guess I can say for a while, it is not like I have something else to do. “
The pink mare began bursting with joy, jumping up and down like she normally does. She grabbed Rainbow and pushed her in to the kitchen. 

The cakes was baking the rest of the goods for the day, it must be tiresome to have a bakery store Rainbow thought.  Pinkie Pie took a bowl from one of the cabinets and began adding some ingredients. She took two eggs, one cup of sugar, one forth cup of butter and a half teaspoon of salt, she combined them all and it became a creamy butter mix. Then she got a smaller bowl and combined two cups of flour with two teaspoons of baking powder. Then she stirred the flour mix in to the butter mix and began mixing the two and adding a half cup milk in the process. Rainbow Dash just stood beside Pinkie, watching the pink pony baking from what she guessed was muffins. One teaspoon of vanilla was added as well as two cups fresh and delicious looking blueberries. 
The batter was done, the pink mare began making faces, like she was thinking really hard. ‘Hmmm... .’ She looked over at Rainbow Dash and gasped. Then she pushed the cyan mare over to the oven, then pointing at the pan that had holes in it, the holes were perfectly fit for a nice little treat called muffins. Rainbow took the muffin pan with her mouth and placed it next to the batter Pinkie just made. While waiting for something to happen, the pink pony just stood there smiling. 

Rainbow let out a “What?”. 

“Pour the batter in to the muffin pan silly, you’re here to help me, aren’t you?” Pinkie pushed the bowl with batter in it towards Rainbow. 
“Come on, do it! I don’t ever think I have seen you do anything related to baking before Dashie!” An unsure smile crept up onto the cyan pony’s mouth, Pinkie was right she had not baked with any of her friends before. 

“Well you see I’m not really the kind of pony to do this kind of stuff. It will just be a mess, trust me. Just do it yourself.” Responded Rainbow, while fixing her mane with her hoof.

The pink pony frowned, she wanted to see Rainbow Dashes baking skills, however maybe it was for the best, the cakes would be mad if they made a mess, if Rainbow really is a messy mess pony baker, it would not end well. 

“Okay then, but one day I’ll get you to make something with me, hmm?” Pinkie stretched out her hoof to Rainbow, the other mare accepted and hoof bumped the pink one. 

“Yeah sure whatever” mumbled Rainbow. 

After some fun catting and watching Pinkie Pie bake, the muffins where ready, the big blueberry muffins looked delicious. Rainbow noticed a sound coming from her stomach, seemed like she was hungry again. She looked over to the clock, it was three hours since she ate last. Well why not grab a snack then? 

“Pinkie, could I get one of those muffins?” The pink mare nodded, handing over a muffin to Rainbow. The muffin tasted as good as it smelled, and the blueberries just made the flavor even better. “Mmm, Pinkie you just make the best treats.” Was the words she could spit out while she ate, it nearly impossible to hear what she said because of all the food in her mouth. But Pinkie hugged and thanked Rainbow Dash, making it clear that she understood what Rainbow said. 

“So why don’t we go and get all of our friends and then we can sit here and talk like crazy?” Pinkie jumped while she said that and stood just on her back hooves and then placing her fore hooves on to Rainbow’s shoulders. 

“Yeah, that would-” Rainbow was cut off when the pink mare began talking again.

“That would be fun, there hasn’t been so many of those since Twilight became a super duper princess. Of course I’m happy for her, but she has been so much busier than before, it isn’t easy getting all of us together. And I know that all our other friends aren’t doing anything special and now you’re free.” Pinkie’s hooves where now on Rainbow’s face. It was formed a duck face because of the hooves squishing her cheeks. Rainbow then escaped from the pink pony’s grip and began patting on her back. 

“Like I said, it sounds like a great idea. Come on Pinkie let’s go get our friends.” With a confident smile Rainbow grabbed Pinkie and rushed down town to pick up their friends. 

After half an hour the group was reunited. Everypony was there, Twilight Sparkle and Spike, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and the ones who gathered them, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie pie. All six were sitting around a table inside Sugar Cube Corner. Pinkie was giving out muffins for her friends, everyone gladly accepted, except Rarity, she meant that too much sugary treats was bad for her fur or something.

The get together was going great so far, Twilight talked about how she had gotten better at flying and Rainbow Dash replied with that is was all because of her. The other ponies just agreed and laughed. The paparazzi that stalked Twilight had died down a bit too, but it was still there. As much as Rainbow loved being taken pictures of, they were only after Twilight so she threw a muffin at them. Fluttershy meant that she should apologize, but Rainbow did not care. They knew what they were getting in to, stalking ponies and such. 

Rarity had been working on this new dress that she could not wait to show them, and she stated that she was inspired by Rainbow Dash herself. That made Rainbow happy, she had no problem with dresses and fashion, though she rarely admitted that. Rainbow just did just not care most of the time, but she hoped that the dress Rarity made wasn’t too preppy, especially if she would be the one to wear that dress. 

Applejack hadn’t done something new, just been working on the farm. She said though that Fluttershy had been there a couple of times helping with animals, more than usual. That sentence made the butterscotch mare hide her face under the table. Rainbow knew the shy pony well, there was something going on. While Rainbow was in her own world thinking of reasons her best friend would do that, a sound became louder and louder. 

“Dashie, Dashie” a pink mare waved her hoof up and down in front of Rainbow’s face. “Raaaaainbow Daaash!” was the words that broke in to her mind. 

“Huh? Oh, sorry guys, I didn’t catch what you said.” Rainbow smiled awkwardly trying not to seem like she was not listening, but the looks on their faces told that they knew exactly what was going on.

“I just asked what you have been doing lately, soooooo, what’s up?” Pinkie then waited eagerly at her answer. 

“Well I have been sleeping, practicing, working, and all the other usual stuff I do.” The pink pony jumped up in shock. 

“What!? Haven’t you done anything super special awesome lately? Like nothing at all?” Pinkie pouted and looked in to Rainbow’s eyes. She clearly wanted to hear what Rainbow Dash had been doing the past few days. 

“Okay, I also went on trip with Pinkie here four days ago I think we were looking for some kind of stone. If I remember correct it was a stone type called Pinky, and Pinkie wanted that kind of stone since it shared name with her, though Pinkie is just a nickname for Pinkamena, so I don’t understand why she really wanted that stone...” Pinkie bounced up. 

“Hey! It’s not my fault my other siblings are called after rocks and I’m not. I want to be a rock too!” The pink party pony was now pouting and had the biggest saddest eyes she could make.

Everypony just gave the pink pony weird looks and shrugged it off, she was Pinkie Pie after all. 

“Oookay, anyway, we found the stone apparently, and Pinkie took pictures with it. She wanted to take it with her but I refused since it was too big and then she gave it a whole fucking cake by smashing it at the rock, that was our only food by the way, and we had to go all the way home on empty stomachs. I could have flown us home, but it isn’t easy flying while starving with a pony who is just as big as me.” Rainbow Dash now felt annoyed at her pink friend, frowning at the clueless pony.

Pinkie Pie just smiled and looked in to space. Then she came back to reality, putting he hoof over Rainbow Dashes neck. “But it was fun right?” 

Rainbow thought before answering, knowing Pinkie would feel down if she said she didn’t enjoy it, in fact she did enjoy it. A little bit. 
“Yeah, it was, I guess”

Pinkie accepted Rainbow Dashes answer and continued asking her friends’ questions. 
Then Twilight spoke up. 

“So Rainbow Dash, have you had any contact with the Wonderbolts since the Equestria games tryouts two weeks ago?” With her question Twilight smirked while looking at Rainbow.

Rainbow began thinking about it, over the past years with her friends she has really been seeing the Wonderbolts a lot more, even getting in to the academy and being recognized as an awesome flyer and competitor to them. So it was more of a normal thing for her to meet and talk with them, two years ago she would be fangirling so hard if they just glanced over at her. 

“Yeah, I was at the academy some days ago, Spitfire wanted me to study the other Wonderbolts training. I may be out of the academy, but it seems like I’m still in training. He he, it is so clear that I’m a future Wonderbolt. “Rainbow had a proud smile and began to settle in to a more comfortable position.

Then Rarity gasped, like if she got an idea, and began smiling to herself. “Oh? Were there any good looking stallions?”

Rainbow popped up, just realizing what Rarity had suggested. 

“Rarity what are you-“then she was cut off again. 

“Or mares?” Rarity winked at Rainbow, giggling sounds also came from that mare. 

“Seriously, I’m not after any Wonderbolts, sure they are good looking and athletic, I am too, but I’m not a fan of them because of that.” Rainbow paused, and tried to defense her orientation. “And I’m not a fillyfooler, just because I have a rainbow colored mane and am a tomboy doesn’t mean that I like mares. Stop putting me in to stereotypes, it isn’t funny.”

The other mares had some weird faces on now, like they were trying to hold something back. Pinkie was the first to burst out to laughter, and falling of the chair. 

“Ahaha, sorry Rainbow Dash, it was a joke. You don’t have to take it so seriously, but if you want to defend yourself please do.” The honest southern voice claimed Rainbow down.

But she couldn’t help it, it annoyed her that some ponies assumed that she liked mares. 

“But, if ah remember correct, there was a time were you were a tad bit too friendly with that mar-“Rainbow’s hooves covered Applejacks mouth now, giving a message that she did not want that to be said. She felt something wet running down her back and forehead, and she was a bit hot now. 

“That was one time, and never again, I just wanted to try it out, okay?”  The other five ponies nodded to Rainbow. Twilight looked up at the clock and suggested that maybe they should go home for the night, she had to wake up early tomorrow so at least she had to go now. The five other ponies agreed, they all said their goodbyes and went home. 

Rainbow flew out of Ponyville and back to her cloud home, or cloud mansion like Pinkie liked to call it. She unlocked the door and threw her keys at the little table beside the door. Rainbows let out a big yawn, instead of going to the bathroom to brush her teeth she went straight for her bedroom. She threw herself into her bed and when she hit the bed, it made a ‘poof’ sound. 

While snuggling her face into her pillow something sneaked its way into her mind. ‘Oh? Were there any good looking stallions?’ She sighted and continued to lay with her face down. ‘He sure has a nice plot…’ She remembered when she observed the Wonderbolts while they trained, they were flying, doing wingups, falling on to their plots… What was she remembering? A stallion accidently fell on his flank during training while she watched, it was nothing special, not something really embarrassing, but Rainbow Dash could not hold herself back from grinning. He apparently got a huge bruise after that. The other Wonderbolt teased him then, it was mostly Fleetfoot though. 

‘You’re the best Rainbow Dash’ Rainbows eyes popped up, she felt her blood rush, and a sound going ‘lub-dub, lub-dub’ very fast. And she hadn’t done anything to make her pulse go so high. What is going on with her heart? It is not like she hadn’t felt like this before, but why now? Rainbow Dash sat up and removed sweat from her forehead. “Why am I thinking about pie?”