Soarin knocked on the familiar hardwood door of the Wonderbolts Captains Office, like he had done many times before.”Come in” said a female voice from inside.
He reaches up and hears the creaking as he opens the door and steps into the office. The Wonderbolts Captain looks up from a pile of paper work on her desk. “Ahh Soarin good to see ya, what can I do for ya?”
“I’m going after her” He says quickly, trying to sound confident.
The Wonderbolts Captain looks at him with an unsurprised slightly annoyed look on her face “Really...again?”
Soarin looks at her a little surprised. “What do you mean by that Spitfire?”
Spitfire sighs “Soarin I’ve known you for going on ten years and you’ve tried to go after it several times since you met her”
“So what about it” He says with a hint of irritation to his voice.
“Everytime you try to go after her you end up getting drunk and then turning back and crying about it to me for a few days and you or I don't get any work done in practice and then we get behind and end up having to make it up doing over time...and I’d like to avoid that...ok?”
Soarin just looks away blushing and grumbling to himself, then turns to her. “I did not cry…”
Spitfire looks at him with a smirk. “We had to get a towel for my shoulder cause it was soaked.”
“Shut up!” He yells at her. “I will ask her to be mine!” He says, trying his hardest not to show any hint of how nervous he actually is.
“Calm down...I will be here just in case but I really want you to go out there and finally do it,” She says with a smile that makes Soarin smile back confidently. “go get ‘em tiger!”
“I will, and thanks...for believing in me.” With that he turns around and heads out the door. Spitfire smiles and shakes her head then returns to the paper on her desk.
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“Where do you think you are going mister big shot?” Fleetfoot asked as she saw Soarin trotting out the door of the Wonderbolts Training Facility, with a large smirk on his face.
“Oh nowhere in particular...I’m just off to Ponyville to win the heart of a certain mare” He says holding his head high in confidence.
“You sure you don't want some in line speed lessons, you're more of a trick flier than speed. Rainbow Dash prefers speed to style...to a certain extent” She flares out her wings showing the muscles “speed is where I’m best and you're not that fast.”
“With my moves I’ll be just fine. After all I am the best style flier in the Wonderbolts” The pale blue stallion flares out his wings showing his muscles that are admittedly smaller than Fleetfoot's but still rather impressive.
The pale mare shrugs her shoulders. “Whatever you say, hey...go get her tiger!”
Funny...that's what spitfire said. He thinks to himself but decides not to mention it. “Thanks I could use all the support I can get” And with that he takes off into the air, leaving Fleetfoot on the ground shaking her head with a smile spread across her muzzle.
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Back in Ponyville Rainbow Dash is just finishing up her cloudbusting duties for the day. "Good work Cloud Kicker" She says to the blonde maned Pegasus before turning and looking at the sky, now clear of all clouds as the sun began setting on the horizon, giving way to Luna’s beautiful night. Then she turns to her weather team. "Great work everypony." She smiles and signals with a nod that their job was done and they could go home for the day which they all did without hesitation, leaving the Cyan colored mare floating there for a second before flying off in the direction of her own house.
As she flew she reflected on how the day had gone. First she woke up and nearly caught her kitchen on fire trying to make breakfast before putting it out and settling on a bowl of cereal. Then she went to Fluttershy's cottage to help out with the animals which also went badly, as she got all the food on her while carrying a massive bag of feed that slipped from her grip and spilled all over herself. Then it was off to Twilight's to get the latest 'Daring Do' book and read it till she had to go out with the rest of the weather team and clear the sky and check up on everything around town.
So she had had a very eventful day. But now it was time to go home and relax with a nice bath and then off to bed to rest up for tomorrow. She soon spotted the cloud home on the outskirts of town and quickly swooped down to land on the soft plush cloud surface. The rainbow maned mare wiped her hooves on the door mat she had placed in front of the door.
She quickly walked into the living room and plopped her rear onto one of the cloud sofas placed around the room. She sat there not wanting to move off of the soft plush sofa but knew that if she fell asleep she wouldn't wake up till the next morning so she reluctantly pulled herself from the sofa and walked up the stairs to the bathroom. Walking in she looks into the mirror and sees that her mane was more unkempt and tattered than usual. She usually made it a point to keep it looking good but right now she was at home and didn't care.
Turning away from the mirror she looked at the shower and smiled at the thought of the warm water trickling down her back and rolling off her shoulders. So she quickly steps into the shower and turns on the water and flinches as the water is cold at first but soon warms up as she relaxes. She stands there for a few moments just letting the water warm her and sooth her tired body. After a while the rainbow maned mare reaches over and grabs the bottle of shampoo that she uses and puts it into her mouth then squirts a little into her hoof, then puts the bottle down and begins lathering and rubbing the shampoo into her mane. After her shower she quickly climbs into her large cloud bed and quickly melts away into dream land.
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Soarin lands softly in front of the inn near the edge the small town. The pale blue stallion walks in the front door and looks around and sees the clerk at the front desk. "Uh is there a room for rent?" He asks.
The clerk looks up from her magazine "Is it just you?"
The clerk asks looking at him with a bored look. Soarin answers promptly with a nod. Reaching behind her, she grabs a key off of a hook and tosses it to him."Room 5" She says turning back to her magazine. Soarin takes the key and walks down the hall where a bunch of doors a lined up with numbers on them, he quickly finds room 5 and unlocks it using the key and walks in.
The room is very bland and plain looking. It had one window that gave a view of the town, and a bed with bland covers on them. Next to the door was a single tiny bathroom with a toilet, shower, and a sink, but nothing else. The dark maned stallion sighs and walks over and set his saddle bag down next to the bed and sits on the end of the bed. He was here...in Ponyville. He had done it, now all he needed to do is ask rainbow dash out on a date. Deciding to go to bed, thinking he could deal with it all tomorrow, he climbs into the bed and gets under the covers and slowly drifts to sleep.