//------------------------------// // Chapter 7- Whodunnit // Story: Dashie and.... Splashie? // by Sapphire Harmony //------------------------------// POUND POUND POUND Rainbow woke up to the sound of someone pounding on her door. She rubbed her eyes, stretched, said good morning to Tank before opening it up. She smiled when she saw Paint. "Oh hey Pai--" "Who do you think you are?!" Rainbow stared blankly at Paint. She was confused, what did she do? "Um, Paint? Whats wrong?" Paint, in a sarcastic tone replied. "Oh nothing really, just that my sister thinks she can make out with my coltfriend! Thanks to you I had to break up with him!" Rainbow's eyes widened. "Wait, what? Paint, I never kissed him, I wouldn't hurt you like that! Who told you I did?" Paint then dropped the newspaper at Rainbow's hooves. "Right there on the cover, you said you felt a spark light when he kissed you before you left. They don't lie about this, Rainbow!" Rainbow looked over the paper, she never kissed Streak! As she looked, her eyes fell to the writer. She rolled her eyes. "Gabby Gums wrote this. So, I didn't kiss Streak." Paint was confused. "What do you mean?" "Gabby Gums was a gossip writer who went around Ponyville, took pictures of everyone living here, and made a fake and embarrassing story about them. Yeah, Streak and I talked last night, but she cut out Rarity who was right there. And the whole 'spark' thing was something he said about YOU last night. I don't know who is the real Gabby Gums, because the Crusaders ended that a long time ago. If you don't believe me, ask Rarity. She was next to me when Streak left." Paint sighed. "I'm sorry, Rainbow. Something took me over and made me become defensive, and forced me to break up with Streak. What's wrong with me?" She began to cry as Rainbow pulled her into a hug. "I don't know, Paint. But I think you're just in love. You got jealous over one little thing and overreacted. Trust me, we all been there." Paint sniffed. "Really? Even you?" "Uh, um, well, I uh, don't, I d-don't know what you're talking about." Rainbow said, trying to hide her blushing. Paint gasped dramatically. "The great Rainbow Dash of Equestria has a SOFT SIDE?! Has the world spun off its axis?" Paint burst into laughter. Rainbow put her hooves up to her sister's mouth. "You can't say this to ANYONE! Deal?" Paint calmed herself down before speaking. "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Rainbow laughed. "You spent way too much time with Pinkie. Anyways, I think we should get you and Streak back together before you two are being more depressed than Electric, and find out who wrote this." Paint nodded her head as they flew back to her house. "By the way, aren't you a little worried what the ponies are gonna say about this?" Rainbow scoffed. "Please, it's not the first time Gabby Gums wrote a story about me being in love or dating another pony." ----- A few hours later, All the ponies of Ponyville were grouped together in the center of the town. "Okay, as you all know, another love story about me has gone around. Not surprising, I'm too awesome!" Rainbow said with her usual cockiness. Twilight cleared her throat dramatically. "Uh, right. Anyway, to start it off, I never kissed Streak, and I don't have any feelings for him! I need to know who wrote this, anypony know anything? You don't want to do it my way." She finished as she scanned the crowd. All the ponies muttered about each other and Rainbow huffed. "Okay, we'll do it my way." ----- It had been hours of interrogating the ponies, Carrot Top, Roseluck, Rainbow's friends, Streak, Electric, the Apple Family, everyone. The last ponies were Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo. "Okay girls, I'm gonna make this easy for ya, only if you cooperate. You tell me who did it, and I'll let you walk out of here with no further questions. Or, we break you girls up, and I ask you a bunch of questions, and we could be here all night. It's fine by me, I have off from work tomorrow." Rainbow said while eyeing them carefully. The Crusaders sat in the chair, sweating nervously and thinking of the pony who did it. Finally one of the girls spoke up. "I did it!" It was Scootaloo. Rainbow's eyes widened and her mouth opened. "Why would you do this? Don't you remember what happened last time a rumor like this went out? I was scared to death, I canceled your flying practice for those following three weeks, and I shut myself out, thinking people would think I was a stallion's toy?" She shivered at the recap of the last story. Scootaloo lowered her head. "I'm sorry, Rainbow Dash, I really am! It's just, I didn't want Paint to distract you from me. I guess I just got jealous. I promise I won't do it again. Plus, that one story from before, I only made that up for fun, I didn't actually think it would hurt you!" Rainbow sighed. "Scootaloo, it did. It really did." She said with a sad tone in her voice. She flew away to her home where Paint looked at Scootaloo. "I know you're a filly and all, but you have to think before you act. Rainbow is a tough bolder on the outside,nut in the inside, you poke her feelings and she shuts down. I don't want to see another Gabby Gums story again, and if I do, you will be in serious trouble. You're very lucky to have Rainbow Dash as you're sister. You got that?" Scootaloo nodded her head slowly. "Good. Now, I'm going to talk to Rainbow, and you three better go home, it's getting late."