Rainbow jumped down from her tree branch. "Hey, now wait a minute! Just because I don't have a pet now doesn't mean I never want a pet!"
"Ohh! Oh, really? You really want a pet? Really?" Fluttershy caught her and dragged her away. "Because I have exactly the pet for you!"
* * *
Rainbow Dash stared at it. "A turtle?"
"Tortoise."
"Fluttershy, this is not flying or cool."
Fluttershy pushed the two of them closer together. "Rainbow, remember when you said you owed me one?"
"No."
Fluttershy smiled. "Well, way back in flight school, when you'd gotten your tail stuck in the locker, remember when I..."
"Oh." Rainbow rubbed the back of her head. "Right. Let's not re-live that again."
"Well, I'm calling in my debt. This tortoise is the perfect pet for you, and you need to trust me... if that's okay with you."
Rainbow winced. "But... Fluttershy. It doesn't fly! How am I supposed to take him home?"
"No problem! Here, I keep these around for pegasai who come looking for pets." Fluttershy rushed inside, then back out, holding some propeller with a strap. "They're good for keeping all kinds of animals up in the sky where pegasai can enjoy them."
A few minutes of fumbling with straps, and the tortoise was flying around merrily.
"Well..." Rainbow watched it careen around. "It is flying now... and big."
Fluttershy winked. "That's two out of three!"
"But it's still not cool. Can't I have that falcon instead?"
Fluttershy had to duck to avoid the flying tortoise. A moment later, it smashed into the falcon, knocking it off its perch with an ungraceful squawk.
Rainbow stared at it. "Oh... heh. That was kind of cool."
"And you do owe me one," Fluttershy added.
"Okay, fine." Rainbow shrugged. "I'll take The Turtle."
"Tortoise."
"Nope. I'm naming him 'The Turtle'. I don't wanna be corrected about it all the time."