Friendship was Magic pt1
After experiencing a rather bizarre dream André found himself looking up at the ceiling with a long blank stare.
“What was all that about?” he asked himself. “That sure was a weird dream…” He gave a long yawn before rising up and stretching his arms above his head.
André looked around and was surprised to see that all the others were still sleep. To his right was Rainbow Dash who was sleeping soundly beside him. André figured she must’ve felt guilty for making him sleep on the floor and decided to join him on the floor as a way to make him feel better.
He took out his phone to view the time. “10AM” he quietly said “I guess all the partying made them really sleepy. I guess I'll go for a walk to kill some time.”
“Heh…” the sleeping pegasus muttered beside him.
Looking down at her André noticed that she was smiling in her sleep. Seeing her smiling face André snickered to himself and he gently stroked her mane as she continued smiling in her sleep.
Afterwards he neatly placed his blanket and pillow on the sofa bed, tip towing as quietly as possible. He then proceeded to the bathroom to get himself ready for the day. After cleaning himself up he placed his night clothes on the nearby table and left the library.
“Whenever I have free time I usually go to Sweet Apple Acres to help AJ but since she's still sleep there's no need for me to really go down there…I guess.”
“Morning, André!” an earth pony greeted as she passed him.
“Good morning.” He replied as he turned and waved to the earth pony before continuing his stroll. “And with Rainbow Dash sleep I can't go to Cloudsdale.” he said as he continued to think aloud. “Not only that I don't have the spell to walk on clouds. I wouldn't be able to go regardless.”
“Hello, Mr. André!” a group of fillies happily skipped by.
Noticing the fillies he gave them all a warm smile. “Hey kids.”
The fillies mildly freaked out after André replied to them, they shyly continued on.
“Huh…” he said as he stopped to look in the direction the fillies were headed, “a lot of the ponies sure are being really friendly today.” the thought of the ponies positive reactions to seeing him made André’s heart fill with joy, he could only express this with a small grin.
“You’re still new here.” A voice said from behind him. “Why wouldn’t we show a little kindness?” André turned and was surprised to see Spitfire approaching him. “Besides it's not every day we get the chance to see a human, y'know?” she gave a small giggle to show that she was coming to him as a friend. “What's up?” she asked with a curious smile.
“Hey, Spitfire, it's good seeing you. Uh, what are you doing here in Ponyville?”
“I heard you and Babe were back so I thought I'd come by, I’m surprised I ran into you so quickly, I’m not interrupting you from anything, am I?”
André shook his head. “I was just going out for a walk. I didn’t really have anything else going on at the moment.”
“If you don’t have anything else planned how about we hit up that drinking place I talked about a little while back?”
André didn’t answer right away, Spitfire started to fear a hint of rejection. “That sounds good and all but aren't you on a really busy schedule? I mean…you're captain of the wonderbolts.”
Spitfire lightly laughed. “It's cool. We don't have anything going on. Hey, we need breaks too y’know?” she said jokingly.
André chuckled. “I can understand that. Okay,” he agreed, “let's go check out that drinking spot.”
“Cool!” Spitfire nearly squealed at his answer but she managed to keep her calm composure. “Just stick with me. We’ll be there in no time.”
André nodded as he followed behind Spitfire. Most ponies eyed the two as they walked together.
Back at the library all the other ponies were up and about getting ready to start their day. All the blankets and spare pillows were all put back in the closet and neatly put up.
“Thanks for helping me straighten up guys.” Twilight thanked her friends after they finished putting everything back.
“No problem!” Pinkie Pie replied in her casual joyful tone.
Rainbow Dash took a look around the room and noticed they were a head short “Hey, where’s André?” she asked sounding a bit concerned.
“I’m not sure.” Fluttershy replied “I haven’t seen him.”
Babe was just coming out the bathroom and heard Rainbow’s question “Don’t sweat the man.” he said with a teasing smile “It’s not like he’s seeing some other pegasus.”
Rainbow lowered her eyes at Babe knowing he was trying to imply something “What are you saying?”
“Nothin’.” Babe continued to smile as he playfully tossed his friendship charm up into air.
“What’s that?” Rainbow asked as she caught glimpse of what Babe was holding.
Babe caught the charm and turned his head to Rainbow Dash. “This?” he asked holding the charm up, “It’s a friendship charm Fluttershy made for me.”
“Friendship charm…?” Rainbow said with one eyebrow raised.
“Yup.” Babe nodded.
“It’s a special charm.” Fluttershy spoke out as she walked over to Rainbow, “It keeps us connected forever. It represents a really special bond. If you share one with somepony you’ll be connected forever. Rainbow Dash, would you like me to teach you how to make one?”
“You want to teach me how to make one?” Rainbow hesitantly asked.
“In case you want to make one for André.” Fluttershy added.
Hearing Fluttershy’s words spoken aloud in front of the other’s made Rainbow feel like the center of attention “M-Make one for-” she started sounding very defensive “what are you trying to say?!” she was now nose to nose with Fluttershy. A small pinch of red covered her cheeks.
Babe smirked and shook his head at Rainbow’s reaction. He backed her away from Fluttershy to ease her embarrassment. “Let Fluttershy teach you how to make one Rainbow,” he gave her a straight face to show there was nothing to be embarrassed about “it’ll mean a lot to André.” He carried on.
“But-”
“I know what you feel but let me tell you Rainbow, there’s nothing worse than regret.” Babe continued, wanting to get his point across. “I’m NOT implying anything, I’m just saying. Maybe André and I will leave again soon so make him one. Maybe it really will bring us all back together someday. I’m sure you’d be sad if only I came back thanks to the charm Fluttershy made for me.”
Rainbow suddenly perked up. “If you do come back I’d still be happy! So there!” she said with a victorious smile believing she had found a flaw in what Babe was saying.
“You know you’d be torn if André wasn’t here to tell you how awesome you are.” Babe teased.
Her eyes widened but she couldn’t find words to counter. Babe was right and Rainbow knew it as well. She’d like it if Babe really did come back but without André it just wouldn’t be the same.
Fluttershy smiled as she saw Rainbow’s face warming up to the idea. “I’ll go get the material and I’ll show you how to make one.” She said in her usual soft voice.
“…Ok.” Rainbow said to Fluttershy, accepting her help. “Let’s do it.”
Fluttershy squealed in excitement and Babe happily nodded at Rainbow’s choice to create the special bonding tool.
Meanwhile Spitfire and André sat together on a park bench enjoying the beverages they got from the juice bar Spitfire mentioned prior.
“Delicious” André complimented his drink after taking a long sip.
Spitfire chuckled, happy to see André enjoying himself. “Can I ask you something?”
“Yeah, anything.” He turned to Spitfire.
“What’s it like back where you’re from?” she asked sounding a bit excited. “Are their only humans there?”
“Nah, there are a lot of other living things back where I’m from. It’s just like Equestria except ponies don’t rule over everything. Most animals and trees you’d see here you’d see back in my world the only difference is that we don’t have ursa’s, dragons, hydras and things like that.
“How about ponies? Are their ponies there?”
“We…kinda do.” He said hesitantly.
Spitfire giggled at his answer, she wasn’t too sure what he meant by ‘kinda’.
“Well we do but they’re not like….you guys.” André tried his best to not make the situation anymore stranger than it already was.
Spitfire’s expression slowly turned to confusion the more André lead on.
“I-It’s sort of hard to explain.” He admitted. “I’m not sure I can really give you a straight answer.”
Spitfire placed a hoof on André’s shoulder to reassure him. “Don’t worry yourself about it. Let’s just leave it up to my imagination, ok?” she smiled warmly.
André smiled back. “Sounds good, I doubt I could explain without freaking you out or something heh.” He continued drinking his mango flavored drink.
Before Spitfire could get back to her own beverage she removed the goggles from around her head and removed the upper half to her flight suit revealing her face and light brilliant gold coat much to André’s surprise.
“Phew,” she wiped the sweat off of her forehead “that’s better.” She said in relief.
“I’ve never seen you without your flight suit on.”
Spitfire turned to André once more. “You haven’t?” she asked sounding a bit surprised.
“Your coat is really nice.” He complimented as he admired its rich color “The gold color is just really nice for you.”
Spitfire smiled happy to receive such a nice compliment “That’s sweet of you to say, thank you.”
“Don’t mention it.” He smiled back at her.
They continued talking and drinking. They laughed and talked with each other, they were just being friends. Their laughter caused more attention to them from the ponies nearby.
Eventually the two finished their drinks and were feeling completely refreshed upon finishing.
“That was great.” André said satisfied while he rubbed his stomach in a slow circular motion.
“Definitely” Spitfire agreed with him.
André stood up to stretch and exhaling after doing so. “So,” he said turning back to Spitfire “what do you want to do now?”
“Huh?”
“Wanna hang out some more?” he asked.
“Of course,” Spitfire replied with an enthusiastic smile “that’d be great.”
“Great. You know any other places we could check out?”
Spitfire tapped her chin with her hoof to think of a good place. “There’s a lake nopony really knows about. We could hang out there.”
“That sounds good to me.” André agreed, ready to follow Spitfire’s lead.
Before heading off the duo took their cups over to the nearest trash can to dispose of them. As they were making their way lots of other ponies were still eyeballing the two strangely.
“I wonder how far it is.” André said to keep silence at bay, “I hope walking won’t take too long.”
“We could fly.” Spitfire offered.
André gave a minor chuckle. “But I can’t fly.” He reminded her.
“I know. You’re going to be riding on my back.”
André didn’t say anything. He just looked to the side looking a bit unsure.
“Is something wrong?” Spitfire asked.
“No,” he looked back at Spitfire “it’s just that I only feel comfortable flying on Rainbow Dash.”
“You think I’m going to drop you or something?” she smiled with one brow lowered and the other slightly raised.
André shrugged sheepishly. “Eh, well…”
“Trust me on this.” Spitfire stood in front of André with a stern look on her face. “I won’t let anything bad happen to you.” She promised.
Even with her assuring words André was still uncomfortable with the idea.
“Sorry,” he apologized “I only have one life and I trust it with Rainbow Dash when I’m here. If I fall I know she’ll be there to catch me. Not that I don’t trust you or anything it’s just how I feel, I’m sorry. You don’t mind the walk do you?”
“No. Of course not, it’ll just give us more time to know each other, I guess.”
Seeing that Spitfire was understanding of his request put André at ease. He was beginning to fear he’d make her feel bad not trusting her. “Great! Please, after you.”
The celebrity flyer continued leading the way. “You seem to trust Rainbow Dash a lot, you two must be really close.” She commented.
“We’re good friends.” André clarified.
Spitfire smiled at his answer. “Sound more like life partners or...”
“It’s not what you think.” André laughed at Spitfire’s assumptions, “Rainbow likes Soarin.”
“She does?” Spitfire asked in a surprised tone.
André simply nodded.
“Ha…I should probably let him know of his admirer.”
“Go for it. Rainbow would love that, she idolizes you all, Y’know.” Just then something came to him. “Hang on, speaking of which, can I ask you something? Well, it’s more of a favor.”
“Of course.”
André was starting to lose confidence in what he had in mind but seeing that he already made it this far there was no point in going back now. He had to go for it. “Can Rainbow join you guys?”
“Join the Wonderbolts?” Spitfire questioned.
“Yeah, you see, Rainbow’s a great flyer and has great potential. She’ll make a great addition to the Wonderbolts.”
Spitfire didn’t really have to give it much thought. She knew of Rainbow’s potential and that she was definitely a great candidate for a spot on the team. This was the same pegasus who performed a Sonic Rainboom and saved not only her life but Rarity’s and two other Wonderbolts as well.
“Yeah, I don’t see why not.” Spitfire said, giving her answer.
“Really?!” André’s eyes widened in excitement, he looked as if he was given the position. “Thank you so much, Spitfire. It means a lot to me! And it’ll make Rainbow Dash happy too.
“Don’t mention it. She certainly has the talent.”
“I can’t wait to tell her!” André could barely contain his own excitement seeing him like this made Spitfire giggle.
“You really do look out for your friends, huh? I really like that.”
André nodded. “Of course, Rainbow’s my wingman, I mean winggirl...pony, uh…” if he had to try and correct himself one last time he was going to curse the day he learned how to talk “-I just want to see her happy,” he continued on “I want all my friends happy.”
Spitfire was happy to see how nice André was to his friends, if anything it started to make her feel a bit jealous. “Right…” she softly said sounding a little less than cheery, “We’re almost there.” André didn’t really notice the change in Spitfire’s tone.
Meanwhile in Canterlot Princess Celestia was reading over a letter by the fireplace in her bedroom. A gentle knock fell upon her door.
“Come in.” the benevolent princess said in her angelic voice.
Princess Luna entered the room. “Good evening sister.”
“Ah, Luna, how are you?”
“I am well.” Luna approached her sister with a smile. “Have Babe and André made it back?”
Celestia happily nodded, “Yes. They’re with their friends back in Ponyville.”
“Fantastic.” Luna revealed her own joy on the boy’s reunion with their friends. “Though, I wish I could have seen them upon their return.”
“Don’t worry. You’ll see them again.” Celestia assured her sister.
“Of course but…there’s the question of how they got here.” Luna’s smile was replaced with a more serious look. “Nopony used any kind of magic to summon them here.”
“I believe the elements have led them here.” Princess Celestia stated.
Luna glanced to the side in thought. “Is it possible…?”
“I believe so.” Celestia added “While it is wonderful they’ve returned there’s still a problem.”
Luna turned back to her sister. “A problem?” she asked in worry.
“It doesn’t mean trouble for Ponyville or Equestria, I’m sure of that.” Celestia eased Luna’s conscious “One of them is losing sight of friendship. It’s only my hypothesis but I do believe the elements have summoned them here to-”
“To help them regain sight of their friendship.” Luna continued Celestia’s sentence.
Princess Celestia nodded. “Those were my thoughts exactly.”
“It’s hard to believe…” Luna lowered her head at the thought, “how could they lose sight of such an important value? Especially after everything they’ve done…”
Celestia walked over to Luna and placed her hoof underneath her sister’s chin to raise her head. “I believe in them. These are the same boys who helped save Ponyville from the changeling invasion. We owe it to them, to trust in them and be there when they need us.”
Seeing her sisters beautiful smile made Luna forget her worries…she smiled back as she looked deeply into Celestia’s eyes. “…You’re right. We’ll be there for them.”
Celestia nodded. “You should rest. You will need your strength when it comes time to raise the moon.”
“You’re right. Thank you, sister.”
After a quick hug Princess Luna leaves her sisters room and went back to her own quarters to rest so that she will ready to guard the night.
After a brief stroll away from Ponyville Spitfire and André made it to the lake, as Spitfire mentioned before, there was nopony in sight. The scenery was similar to Fluttershy’s secret place the only difference was that there were less trees and a beautiful mountain range. The lake’s watered sparkled. Spitfire stood at the lake’s edge looking at her reflection.
‘…What’s wrong with me? I feel like I’m…missing something’, the troubled Wonderbolt thought to herself.
“WOO!!”
The random shout caused Spitfire to flinch. Following the shout was a loud splash coming from the lake, a small wave of water splashed Spitfire’s entire body, soaking her. The cold water made Spitfire’s eyes shrink and caused her teeth to chatter.
André was briefly swimming underwater. He left his pants, shirt and shoes back on dry land to swim in his boxers. He came back up for air.
“WHOA! Man, hey, Spitfire, come on in!”
“C-C-Cold…” Spitfire stuttered.
André tried not to laugh. “Hehehe….sorry.”
“Oh, you’re sorry huh?” she glared at him with a vengeful grin.
Spitfire began removing her flight suit. Once it was off she kicked it to the side. She was standing as just your regular pony with her golden coat showing.
André quickly looked away… “Whoa! What are you doing!?”
“I’m just taking off my flight suit.”
“Don’t get naked! Put your clothes back on.”
Spitfire raised a brow in confusion, “André, we don’t normally wear clothes….”
It took a minute for the realization to sink in…the majority of ponies really didn’t wear clothes. André just had to question his pony knowledge at this point.
“….Oh yeah.” he turned back to her, “Hehe…it’s just weird because you’re always in your suit and suddenly taking it off is just kinda revealing to me.”
Spitfire laughed. “Don’t think I forgot about you splashing me either!”
“Uh oh…”
“Geronimo!” she shouted as she took a big leap toward André.
André quickly dove back underwater while Spitfire jumped in after him. She spots him and they started playing underwater together, André was a pretty good swimmer but so was Spitfire. Since the lake wasn’t too deep André swam to the bottom however no matter how far he went Spitfire was right behind. She raised her hoof and playfully hit the top of his head.
Afterwards the two started an underwater slow motion play fight. After horsing around the two got back on land and were relaxing in the grassy field resting by their clothes. The sun began to set.
A vibrating sound came from André’s pants pocket. He knew it was his phone and reached in to answer whoever was calling or texting.
From: Babe
Yo, where you at? Everyone’s worried about you. We haven’t seen you this morning and you didn’t call or text to tell anyone to let us know you were ok. Twilight wants you to come back to the library so she knows you’re ok.
Thu, Oct 4
After reading the message he got up and started putting on his clothes. “Hey, I gotta go.”
“You’re leaving?”
“Yeah, my friends are all worried about me. I’m going to head back and let them know I’m ok.”
“I see.” Spitfire smiled.
“Thanks for such a great time today Spitfire, it was really great hanging out with you.”
“Same here.” She spoke softly, it was evident she still wanted to have fun and hang out more.
“Right…well, see ya.”
She raised her hoof back at him. “Bye…”
André turned around and started heading back toward Ponyville, Spitfire watched him walk off.
“…André!” she called out to him.
André turned back to Spitfire, there was a bit of silence between them.
“Um…” she shyly continued “i-if you’re not too busy let’s get together again…sometime.”
André could only smile at Spitfire’s rare shy side, he nodded at her. “Loved to.” He replied.
A look of happiness formed upon Spitfire’s face and her eyes sparkled in joy. André waved to her and continued making his way back to Ponyville. Spitfire couldn’t help but feel happy, she couldn’t wait until their next meet up.
Meanwhile all the other ponies waited patiently at the library for André’s return. Rainbow was sitting on the couch holding her, now finished, friendship charm she had made for André. It was made from the same material and was even in the same shape as Fluttershy’s except the color was blue with silver outlining. There was a picture of a rainbow thunderbolt coming out of a cloud. This picture was Rainbow’s cutie mark.
Rainbow Dash held the charm in her hoof, inspecting it to make sure it was perfect. “I guess it’s pretty cool. I wonder if he’ll like it.” She was too busy with the charm that she didn’t notice Applejack approaching.
“Hey, whatchu got there Sugarcube?”
Rainbow yelped upon seeing Applejack standing in front of her, she quickly hid the charm behind her back. “Uh, nothing, why?”
“You can’t lie to me. Whatever it was you had there was mighty impressive.”
“…You think so?” Rainbow asked as she brought the charm back out. “It was a little difficult to make.”
It wasn’t like Rainbow Dash to create something hoofmade, Applejack could tell it must’ve been made special. “ You didn’t make that for André, did you?”
“Uh-” Rainbow tried to think up of another tale to tell.
“She sure did.” Babe answered as he walked by the two.
Babe giving Applejack the truth made Rainbow facehoof herself.
Applejack laughed at Rainbow’s reaction. “Well, that’s nice of you. There’s no need to be embarrassed Rainbow. Ah think it’s really nice of you making him somethin’ like that.”
“Fluttershy said if you give it to somepony then you’re sure to be friends forever and if we’re ever far away then it’ll lead him back to us. When he goes home it could lead him back here one day.”
“Ah hope it works.” Applejack looked down at the charm, intrigued with the story behind it.
Meanwhile Twilight was pacing back and forth, constantly looking at the clock every 10 steps. Babe approached her while biting into an apple.
“Hey Twilight, what’s up?” he asked after swallowing a chunk of the apple. “You look worried, you want a bite of my apple?”
Twilight turned to Babe with a sarcastic look upon her face, “Ahhhh, well I hope you’re having a good time because I’m out of my mind with worry here!”
“Why?” Babe asked before taking another bite.
“André, he’s been gone for too long. I’m just worried.”
“He’s fine. I sent him a text message. He should be on his way.”
Two knocks came upon the wooden door. Rarity opened the door and standing there was André. He walked into the house and Rarity closed the door behind him.
“Hey guys. Sorry I’ve been out so long.”
Twilight walked up to him not looking too happy…“Where have you been?” she started to sound like a mother who’s been waiting on her son after he’s been out for too long.
“When I woke up you were all still sleep so I thought I’d just go out for a walk. I couldn’t find anything to do and Spitfire found me. She asked if I wanted to hangout and-”
“Spitfire??” Rainbow asked in eagerness, showing her fangirl side.
“Yeah, we just hung out today, she’s really cool. And guess what Rainbow?”
“What?” she asked.
André took a small pause to get himself ready for the big and exciting news, “I talked to Spitfire and put in a good word for you. She said she’ll see what she can do about getting you a spot on the Wonderbolts.”
Everyone gasped in shock, Rainbow’s jaw dropped not believing what she just heard.
“SERIOUSLY!?” She asked as she flew up to him.
“Yep.” He answered with a bright smile.
Needless to say Rainbow Dash was overjoyed at the news she just heard. She jumped onto André and tightly held him. “THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!”
André chuckled as Rainbow flew back, “It’s alright, no need to thank me. We’re friends.”
“What do you mean it’s ‘alright’? Don’t you realize how much this means to me!? I’m so happy I could kiss you!”
André slowly started to back up. “Heh, no need to go that far-”
Without warning Rainbow delivered a barrage of happy kisses on the side of André’s cheek, too many to count, obviously she was beyond happy. The others laughed at the series of events, they were just as happy as Rainbow Dash was.
André couldn’t find it in himself to really fight back against her happiness, the more he tried the weaker he got. He could only laugh and just be happy like the rest of his friends. “It’s starting to tickle a bit Rainbow, hahaha! My sides can’t take it!”
Rainbow backed away, tears of joy nearly showing themselves. “I can’t thank you enough for this! When did she say I can come out and see them?”
“She didn’t say. You can go talk to her about it later on.”
“Ok. Here, I made this for you.”
Rainbow Dash happily presented her gift to André. She placed the charm in his hand giving the charm to its owner. André was impressed with the charm’s design.
“For me?” he asked softly.
Rainbow nodded.
“…It’s just like Babe’s. And it’s my in my favorite color, just like-”
Before he could finish his sentence Rainbow Dash found herself giving him another hug, taking him by surprise. André didn’t really know how to react to the sudden hug as he didn’t know what he had done to earn a second.
He turned his head to Babe for help on Rainbow’s sudden act. Babe used sign language that read: “Hug her back” which André did. All the others happily watched their embrace, Pinkie Pie nearly in her comedic tears. This act of kindness and gratitude signified their growing friendship.
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ITS ALIVE
2959841I laughed harder than I should've when seeing that.
2974350 Has it really been that long? I need to get myself together lol