“Rainbow, are you sure about this? Applejack wouldn’t just… do something like that without a reason!” Twilight was looking over at Rainbow who was still shaking.
“I don’t know Twilight, I need time to think... this is very hard for me to explain, but I think we both know that Applejack had something with me” Twilight stared at the ground for a couple seconds.
“She must have had a reason…” Twilight put a hoof on her chin as Rainbow trotted in circles rubbing her face.
Twilight looked over to Rainbow, who noticed and turned to Twilight. “What if…”
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-Two days earlier-
Spike was sleeping on the couch as Twilight opened the door and walked in with Rainbow, who had her wings locked up tight, to stop them from moving. “You can stay here for as long as you want Rainbow, I don’t mind… Oh, wake up Spike if you can, he should be working on the space analysis book”
Rainbow nodded and walked over to Spike, who was in a deep sleep. “Hey uh… Twilight?” Rainbow looked over to Twilight who was working on a book she picked up from the floor.
“Yes Rainbow?” Twilight never made any motion and was still reading at the same time.
“How do dragons react when water is dropped on them?” Twilight turned round and giggled as she knew exactly where Rainbow was heading, she used her magic to create a temporal bucket and made it float over to Rainbow, who grasped it in her mouth.
Rainbow went outside and filled the bucket with the cold water from the hose outside the library. She walked back in with a freezing cold bucket of water and trotted up the stairs to a point where the bucket was lying just above Spike. “You sure I can do this?” Rainbow asked, almost dropping the bucket.
Twilight looked over to Rainbow and giggled again. “Yes you can, he deserves it for walking off into Ponyville” Twilight grinned and closed her book to watch as Rainbow was about to drop the water all over the couch that Spike was sitting on.
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“You are cruel you know that?!” Spike walked up to Rainbow and Twilight who were laughing hysterically. Spike squeezed his tail to get most of the water out from his scales.
“Sorry Spike, me and Rainbow couldn’t resist… and you do sleep a lot more than you should” Twilight was smiling at Spike who was still shivering from cold water.
Rainbow walked into the basement of the library. Twilight followed slowly behind. “This is where you will be sleeping Rainbow, I know it’s not that special, but it works” Rainbow sat on the bed next to some electrical equipment.
“What is this for Twi…? I’ve never seen these before, when did you get all this… sciencey stuff?” Rainbow looked around the room, it was almost fully empty, and the only things in the room were a small table, a chair, a bedside cabinet and the bed she was sitting on.
Twilight walked up to the electrical equipment and turned the power off on them “Remember when I tried to get readings off Pinkie’s Pinkie sense?” Twilight used her magic to teleport the technology out of the room.
Rainbow nodded, came off the bed and walked towards Twilight as she was focusing on getting the science equipment out the basement. “What are you doing Twilight?” Twilight was still concentrating hard as she answered Rainbow’s question.
“I’m trying to move this out of here so I can have more room to put in more… civilized stuff” Rainbow walked out of the basement after Twilight answered her question.
“Where are you going Rainbow?” Twilight saw Rainbow walk out and up to the main level of the library, Rainbow walked through the doorframe just to see Twilight looking up at her.
Rainbow took almost no time to answer. “I’m just going for a walk to clear my head, I might go visit Applejack too” Twilight put a hoof on her chin.
“Alright then, but remember that you can’t use your wings, you could get badly hurt” Rainbow nodded and waved to Twilight.
Rainbow opened the door outside. The day was beautiful and luscious and the sun’s rays shined on her coat. There weren’t even any clouds in the sky which just made the day better.
Ponyville was lucky that it never got hit harder than it did, Sugar Cube Corner was getting repaired and every other building was getting redone, all the paint was burned off and some tiles were getting put back on to the buildings.
The town looked like a mess, but they were cleaning it up pretty quickly. Rainbow walked into the middle of the town, where Sugar Cube Corner was. She looked at the building. It was crumpled, destroyed and the framing was still on the ground beside the store.
“Dashie! You’re here, what made you come over to Sugar Cube Corner… well, what’s left of it?” Pinkie was hopping around Rainbow; she seemed excited… a bit too excited.
“Pinkie, are you happy about the store getting destroyed?” Pinkie froze mid-air and looked over to Rainbow, who fell from her short hover.
“Happy? Why would I be happy that the greatest sweet treat store in Equestria got destroyed?” Pinkie then put a hoof on her chin. “Ohh… you mean my bouncing? Well I always try and stay positive!” Rainbow raised one eyebrow and Pinkie looked at her in confusion.
“Pinkie, there are no positives to your favourite store getting destroyed” Rainbow said, confident that she could speak some sense into Pinkie. Pinkie only smiled and bounced around again. Rainbow was still confused at what positives there could be.
Pinkie stopped and put a hoof round Rainbow’s shoulder. “The shop is getting redone! We will have even more stuff to make cakes, cupcakes and muffins with! It’s going to be amazing! Don’t you agree Dashie?” Rainbow gave off a sudden sigh of defeat, she expected Pinkie to be smart enough that she would understand her statement, but she never knew she was smart enough to make her own point in the face of the logical side of life, it was clever what Pinkie said.
Rainbow just nodded slightly, Pinkie bounced away as Rainbow was slowly edging towards Sweet Apple Acers. Rainbow was trotting slowly, admiring the great day… when suddenly she got hit by a scooter, on the scooter was her dedicated fan and idoliser. “Scootaloo, what are you doing speeding around Ponyville?”
Scootaloo immediately hugged Rainbow tightly, Rainbow felt a little uncomfortable. “Rainbow Dash! You’re okay! I was just speeding to the hospital to see if you were alright, I heard what you did. You’re amazing!” Rainbow swam in the glory her friend stated, and then Rainbow remembered the true hero.
“Scoots, I think the real hero was Applejack, she saved me from dying. She should have more glory than I should have” Rainbow smiled down at Scootaloo.
Scootaloo smiled back and hugged her again, only sending small chills down Rainbow’s spine. “I should thank her too I guess?” Rainbow nodded and Scootaloo went and searched for her scooter, she found it and got on it.
“Hey scoot, are you heading to Sweet Apple Acers?”
“Yeah, why?” Scootaloo looked back at Rainbow, she was slowing down her scooter.
“I’m heading to Sweet Apple Acers too, so we could go together” Scootaloo motioned for Rainbow to follow her, they talked about how Rainbow stopped the hurricane and Rainbow asked how Scootaloo was doing in school and how she was doing with her friends.
The usual was said, Scootaloo, Sweetie and Applebloom were trying different ways to get their cutie marks. Scootaloo said they tried tennis, alchemy and even tried reading. After Scootaloo finished talking about the adventures she had with her friends, Rainbow asked where the two were on the night of the hurricane.
“Were they at the party? Because I never saw them there and I heard they got invited” Scootaloo just shrugged.
“I’ve never seen them for about 4 days, they don’t seem to be home today either” Rainbow thought about how they might have gotten hurt.
Scootaloo saw that Rainbow was thinking hard on something, she had an idea of what it was and decided to try and comfort her. “I’m sure they’re okay, it’s not like them to not be home, but they could just be doing something”
It never really comforted Rainbow, as she was still concerned of where the two of them were. Rainbow decided that after she went to Sweet Apple Acers, she would go visit Rarity to see if she knew anything about where the two fillies were.
“So Scoots, is there any reason why you’re going to Sweet Apple Acers?” Scootaloo hesitated to answer as she turned round to look at Rainbow.
“I’m going over to see if Applebloom was there, you know? See if she is okay” Rainbow raised an eye at Scootaloo.
“Why wouldn’t Applebloom be okay?” Scootaloo just shrugged and continued leading Rainbow to Sweet Apple Acers.
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They reached the barn of Sweet Apple Acers as Applejack finished carrying the last of the bad apples into her barn. Applejack caught eye of Rainbow and Scootaloo and decided to walk over to them. “Howdy partners, what can I do for you” Scootaloo came up to Applejack, Applejack just motioned towards the barn.
Scootaloo just trotted into the barn and Applejack looked back over to Rainbow, who was smiling at her. “So Rainbow, what can I do for you?” Rainbow just placed a hoof on Applejacks shoulder.
“I’m only here to say thanks again, is there anything I can do to for you, I’d feel guilty if I never helped you with something” Applejack smiled back at Rainbow and hugged her, she felt the need to tell her that she had stronger feelings for her than any other pony she ever met.
Rainbow returned the hug in comfort. She started feeling weird as the hug lasted longer than they ever hugged before. “Uhh, Applejack?” Applejack opened her eyes and pulled back out of the hug.
“Oh, sorry Rainbow… I uh… got a little carried away” Rainbow smiled, allowing Applejack to sigh in relief that Rainbow never suspected anything.
“Would you like to help me harvest some of these apples?” Rainbow placed a hoof on her back to say that she couldn’t do any hard work that required strength. Applejack realised and nodded, she should have known Rainbow wouldn’t be able to do any hard work.
“How’s the wing sugar cube?” Applejack asked as Rainbow felt the need to try and shake them.
“Been better, but it’s fine, thanks to you” Rainbow smiled and walked over to Applejack.
Applejack just placed a hoof onto Rainbow’s shoulder and smiled, “I wouldn’t let my any of my friends die, especially not you Rainbow Dash”
They went in for another hug, pulled out after a while and stood there for a moment. Applejack was looking into Rainbow’s eyes. They were amazing, the shade of purple made her eyes stand out, lustfully.
Rainbow’s coat was light blue, cyan, it was magnificent. It let of a glow of colour than stood out from every other pony she knew, it was beautiful…
Rainbow’s mane was glorious, truly the greatest in Equestria. It was really shiny and colourful, Applejack couldn’t take her eyes off those beautiful eyes, then her mane and then her coat… she was magnificent.
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Rainbow walked home from Sweet Apple Acers, still thinking to why Applejack always went into a trance when ever she was near her, she thought nothing of it and just entered Twilights library.
As Rainbow walked in, she saw Twilight sitting down with a frown on her face. “Twilight, what’s wrong?” Rainbow trotted over to Twilight, it looked as if she was crying, if she wasn’t just now, she was earlier.
Twilight just looked over at Rainbow and stood up and walked towards the book she was reading, Rainbow just raised her eye in confusion. She looked around, normally Spike would be cleaning up the library, but he wasn’t even here.
Rainbow suspected that what Twilight was upset about was something to do with Spike, as that could have been the only thing. “Twilight, is this something to do with Spike?” Twilight turned around and just nodded slightly, she then carried on reading.
Rainbow put a hoof on Twilights shoulder, “Tell me what happened Twilight, I’m sure I can help” Twilight took in a deep breath and smiled at how Rainbow was always so supportive, she was the element of loyalty for a reason.
“I may have got Spike annoyed again, but this time he left and said he wasn’t coming back” Rainbow raised an eye at the fact that this happened before, why would Twilight be so upset about it this time… just then Rainbow noticed a small red patch on her cheek.
Rainbow ran her hoof down Twilights cheek, she frowned at Twilight. “Did… did he hit you?” Twilight nodded sadly, Rainbow took her hoof off Twilight and gave her a hug.
“It was an accident, he never meant to…” Rainbow looked at her in confusion “He was arranging the books in the upper level of the library, he walked down with a book in his hand, he threw it in my direction and it hit me”
“Didn’t he say sorry?” Twilight shook her head.
“Why not? Did you anger him or something? He would never do something like that” Twilight just shrugged.
“I think he meant to throw it at me, but I don’t think he expected it to hit me. I guess I may have over reacted at him and he walked out, leaving this… mess behind him” Twilight pointed to the library floor, it was covered in books.
Rainbow just went over and cleaned up the floor, it took Rainbow one hour to clean up the entire library. It would have taken Spike twenty minutes to clean it up. “Alright, the library is back to what it used to be, you okay Twilight?”
“Yes, I’m fine…” Twilight was still sad; Rainbow could see that she would start crying at anytime.
Rainbow walked over to Twilight, she was reading a book… it looked to be her diary or some sort of journal, the book had a small patch of blood on it in the corner. “Is that the book he hit you with?” Twilight closed it and nodded.
“Its more of a journal, he must have read it and saw some of the things I wrote about him… they’re nothing bad, it’s just that I wrote some things that might have upset him” Twilight just used magic to put the journal upstairs and under her bed.
Rainbow just hugged Twilight. It was an emotional hug that Twilight needed. It was comfortable, beautiful and warm. Twilight let her emotions spill out, she started crying onto Rainbow, her crying was happy and was the most emotional thing she ever did with the loyal Pegasus.
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Spike came up to the door of the library, he was upset that he hurt Twilight and just wanted to sleep over it. He hesitated before opening the door, when he opened it, he saw Rainbow hugging onto Twilight. He tried not to make a sound. Twilight was crying on Rainbow… it hurt Spike inside, knowing that he upset Twilight so much.
He decided that he wouldn’t move until they finished their hug, at that moment, Rainbow turned round to see Spike standing there. Spike looked as if he was going to cry too, he only walked in and shut the door quietly. He never wanted to disturb their hug. He put a finger over his mouth as he walked in. Rainbow noticed that he wanted to keep quiet and just let him do what he wanted to do.
Spike walked up the stairs, into the bedroom. Twilight opened her eyes as he entered the room, she never moved as she was too immersed in her friend’s wet coat. Eventually, Rainbow pulled Twilight onto the couch in the library. Rainbow hauled Twilight on top of her. Twilight fell asleep first; allowing Rainbow to look at her… she was beautiful…