Later that evening, spike sat in front of the window, looking up into the clouds and daydreaming. A goofy smile spread across his face as he watched the sunset. Suddenly a pang of guilt hit him. How could he have gotten over rarity so easily? Had she really ever meant anything to him? Or was her pretty face all he had liked about her? He also felt slightly embarrassed that he had asked applejack out. He wouldn't be able to face her for a while now. He then smiled again. He was going out... with rainbow dash! He was so lost in thought that he didn't even notice when twilight came into the room, a suspicious smile on her face.
"Why so happy spike?" the purple unicorn looked at spike, curiosity in her violet gaze. It had been a while since she had seen spike this exited.
"I found a date for hearts and hooves day!" Spike's grin became wider as he looked at twilight. "Guess who?" twilight tossed her mane and answered without the littlest hint of hesitation.
"Rarity?" Twilight knew that rarity was the only pony who could possibly make spike THIS exited. He was practically bouncing off walls. Well, sort of. Twilight had to admire his balance between his excitement and his responsibilities. All his chores were done ahead of schedule. Twilight knew that whoever the young drake was taking, she must be smart, responsible, patient...
"No, Rainbow dash!"
"What!?" Twilight felt her jaw drop at spike's news. "You... and rainbow dash!?" Twilight was shocked. Rainbow dash was the last person she would expect someone like spike to like. Spike spun in a circle happily.
"Yep!"
"well... that's great spike!" twilight backed away quickly, starting to go down the stairs in reverse. "Call if you need anything!" And twilight disappeared around the corner and out of spike's view. Spike shrugged.
"Well she seemed a little worked up about something." spike decided not to worry too much about it. Twilight was probably just startled that he had gotten over rarity so easily. But he was done with rarity. If she didn't like him, at least rainbow dash did. And at that moment, dash was all the rarity he needed. He stopped himself and sighed. Rainbow dash had said they were going as friends. He was getting ahead of himself. Spike still smiled all the way to sleep. He still had a special some-pony.
Spike woke up the next morning so ecstatic that he could barely see straight. He quickly ran a claw over his scales. He took a deep breath, remembering for the millionth time that rainbow dash did say they were only going as friends. She wouldn't care too much about how he looked... right? spike didn't have anymore time to worry, for her heard his bedroom window being opened as rainbow dash flew inside. "Hey dash!" spike suddenly looked nervous. "It.. it is OK if I call you that... right?" 'dash,' started to laugh as she said,
"Of course its OK spike! We're cool." spike breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks."
Rainbow dash smiled and spread her wings, eyes sparkling.
"Get on my back! Lets fly to the dance!" spike looked surprised. In his excitement, he had nearly forgotten about the special-some-ponies dance. And, as silly as it sounded, he had certainly forgotten that rainbow dash had wings. And he didn't think that twilight would just love the idea of him flying off.
"Shouldn't I at least tell twilight I'm leaving?"
"Nah. The egghead will know where we are." rainbow dash looked at spike, excitement bubbling up in her voice. "Hop on!"
"Ok..." spike cautiously hopped onto the blue Pegasi's back and could barely grab her forelock before she took off, flying straight back the window and not bothering to close it behind her. Dash flew so fast, spike was gripping on for dear life, but part of him wanted to shout in joy. Being a wingless dragon, flying was an awesome experience. Suddenly rainbow dash took a nose dive towards the ground and landed just outside of the area where the dance would be held. Legs shaking, spike hopped off of dash's back and landed safely, if not a little dizzily, on the ground.
"Was that the fastest you've ever flown,sSpike?" rainbow dash tossed her mane and grinned at spike.
"Definitely!" spike smiled back at rainbow dash, realizing for the first time that rainbow dash was just as beautiful as rarity. Because rainbow dash was beautiful on the inside. Suddenly a question hit him. "Why did you choose to go out with me? Couldn't you have gone with soarin'? Or big mac? Or-"
Rainbow dash cut spike off with a sigh. "Because... well, to tell you the truth, I've liked you for a long time. Since I met you, in fact. You can be an egghead at times, but you're a different kind of egghead. You're a cool egghead. And you never give up, like me. I think we have a lot in common!"
Suddenly rainbow dash looked at spike with those beautiful magenta eyes and said,
"Hey spike. remember when I said we could just go as friends? Well, I say this is whatever you call it." And with that, rainbow dash kissed spike quickly on the cheek. A deep blush spread across spike's face and he looked at rainbow dash. Rainbow smiled and rolled her eyes at the arena in which the dance was being held. "I don't really like dancing anyway. Lets go for a fly around ponyville!" spike snapped to after a moment of surprised shock. He grinned and hopped on dash's back without further hesitation. And they together flew into the bright sky full of hope.