My little Pony: Uncommon Connection II

by Spitfire16

Friendship was Magic pt2

-A few days later-

In celebration of Rainbow’s new position as a Wonderbolt Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, André and Babe were all putting together a party just below Rainbow Dash’s house. They had to throw the party just below her impressive home because none of them could fly or walk on clouds. Babe was helping Applejack and Twilight lay out the food they prepared for the day. Fluttershy was bonding with the local animals by a nearby lake.

“Ok. We’ve got enough drinks, food and dessert?” Babe asked after counting the number of seats they had to make sure there would be enough.

Applejack placed a tray of apple tarts besides a wide serving of sweets on one of the neatly decorated tables. “This should be plenty.” She answered.

“I’m so glad Rainbow Dash is finally a Wonderbolt.” Twilight said to the group, “Her dream finally came true.”

Applejack nodded, “She’s come a long way. Hopefully she likes the party we’re throwing her.”

“It was Pinkie Pie’s idea.” Babe reminded Applejack of who exactly was in charge “Who wouldn’t like this? I’m sure she’ll love it.”

“You called?” Pinkie Pie asked randomly appearing beside Babe after not being there a few seconds ago.

“Ah!” Babe flinched at the sudden sight on Pinkie.

Seeing Babe’s reaction caused Pinkie Pie to give an innocent laugh. “Did I scare you Babe?”

“…N-Not really.”

Applejack trotted over to the two. “Did you get the cake, Pinkie Pie?”

“Did I get the cake?” she asked before reaching to her back side and bringing forth a pink cake box out of nowhere, much to Babe’s confusion, “Of course I’ve got the cake!”

“….Where does she put these things?” Babe asked himself unable to comprehend Pinkie’s actions.

The hyperactive party pony laid the pink box on the table and opened it, revealing the cake inside. It was rainbow colored strawberry shortcake with a large “Congratulations Rainbow Dash!!” as its icing covered writing.

“Hey, the cake’s here!” André went to see the cake for himself and was stunned by how delicious it looked. “It looks fantastic.” He complimented.

Pinkie nodded, agreeing with her human friend, “Straight out of Sugarcube corner!” she said with pride.

“Cool, let’s dig in!” André impatiently grabbed a plastic knife, ready to cut himself a piece of the cake.

“Wait a minute!” Pinkie tapped André’s hand with her hoof, stopping him from getting into the cake. “Remember whose party this is! We’ve gotta wait.”

“Oh right. Sorry about that.” He chuckled while rubbing the hand Pinkie tapped, slightly embarrassed that his hunger showed itself in front of his friends.

While things were nearing completion Rarity joined the group after a short walk from Ponyville. “Sorry I’m late everypony. I had to run a few errands back at the boutique.” She observed the food table and was surprised at how good everything looked. “My, this spread looks absolutely stunning.”

“It’s all thanks to Pinkie.” Babe said as he gave the party planner a congratulatory pat on the back.

“It’s Pinkielicious!” she spurred.

André squealed on the side, “AHH! She said it!”

The others couldn’t help but laugh once André squealed. For them laughing was extremely contagious but it didn’t matter because the laughing just makes them even happier to be friends, while they were laughing the guest of honor was making her entrance.

“Hey, what’s so funny?” Rainbow Dash asked in her new Wonderbolts uniform.

The group was surprised by Rainbow Dash’s appearance.

“Rainbow!” Twilight shouted in joy.

“RAINBOW DASH!” Pinkie shouted seconds after Twilight.

Rainbow did a few poses in her new attire. “So?” she asked, “How do you like the new look? Pretty cool, huh?”

“It is. The costume really suits you.” Rarity complimented with a smile.

Rainbow flipped her goggles up revealing her beautiful cerise eyes. “You know you guys really didn’t have to throw this party for me, thanks a lot.”

Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Babe and André stood together all happily looking at Rainbow Dash. They were all overjoyed to finally see her in a Wonderbolt uniform.

Not too long after Rainbow showed up Soarin landed next to Rainbow Dash. Soarin’s appearance took all the others by surprise. He wasn’t invited and he just randomly showed up.

“Phew!” he exhaled, “You sure do fly pretty fast Rainbow.” He turned to the others, “Hi everypony.”

“Soarin?” Babe spoke with a raised brow, “Hey, what are you here?”

“Rainbow told me about her party and I just had to come. I hope that’s alright with all of you.”

“Of course!” Applejack said in an upbeat and welcoming tone, “Its Rainbow Dash’s party. She can invite whoever she wants.”

Soarin nodded. “Thanks guys.” He looked back to Rainbow Dash with a look only certain someponies give each other. “Besides,” he continued “I wouldn’t miss my pony pie’s big day.”

There was a small silence.

“…What?” Babe asked from the now quiet group.

“Rainbow, she’s my wittle diamond in the sky. Isn’t that wight, smoochie poo?”

Rainbow blushed and gave a small giggle. “Heh, right…”

“Diamond…” Twilight repeated with a sick sound in her voice.

“In the sky?” Applejack finished a bit uncertain of what to really expect from what she was seeing.

Rarity blinked twice before speaking up. “Whatever do you two mean?” she asked.

“Rainbow Dash, she’s my special somepony. We’re dating.” Soarin bluntly stated to the group.

Babe took a step back after the big reveal. “You two are dating!?”

Twilight, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie stood in shock they didn’t even notice that Babe had slightly raised his voice with a highly confused look on his face.

“Yeah, we are.” Rainbow answered.

“W-W-W-When did this happen?” Babe uncontrollably stuttered before finally asking his question.

“A few days ago.” Rainbow answered. “The offer just kinda came out of nowhere. Soarin’ asked if I could be his special somepony and I just said yeah. I’d be crazy to turn him down.”

“It’s about time!” André said smiling much to the group’s surprise. “Congrats, let’s toast to that-” André was pulled away from the group by Babe to talk in private.

“What’s going on?” Babe asked.

André was a bit confused as to what Babe had meant. “What do you mean?”

“Why are they dating? You don’t seem the slightest bit concerned about this.”

André chuckled. “Why should I? Rainbow Dash likes Soarin, remember?”

“Who said that?? Was it on the My little Pony wiki or something? ANYBODY can edit things on there.”

“I’m the one who told Spitfire about Rainbow’s crush on Soarin.” André admitted. “Spitfire must’ve told him and he asked Rainbow out when she went to get recruited for the Wonderbolts.”

Babe smacked his own forehead with an open palm. “…Are you blind to the future? You know she-”

André already knew what Babe was going to say and shook his head to dismiss the rest of Babe’s sentence. “Babe, why are you supporting Rainbow Dash and me? She’s a pony.”

“So?” Babe shrugged. “There’s a difference between an Equestrian and one of the ponies we have on earth. Besides you said you liked her as well.”

“Yeah, as in one of my favorites of the mane six, look, if she didn’t like him don’t you think she would’ve said no?”

Babe slightly hung his head to the side seeing the point André had made, he looked back up to him, “Well, yeah, but…you’re just going to let her go out with, with…ugh, it just doesn’t seem right.”

“Drop it. She’s happy. She joined the Wonderbolts and she’s getting the chance to date one of her idols, a celebrity. Why would you want to take that from her?”

Babe took a minor pause. “Dré, I don’t but I’m just saying-”

André placed his hand on Babe’s shoulder to level with him. “Drop it.” He said in a dull tone, “I want her happy, what would even give you the idea? There’s no way a pony could like a human.”

“And I guess that makes Fluttershy and me wrong, huh?”

André didn’t answer because he didn’t know what to say…

Babe removed his friends hand from his shoulder and shook his head. “Alright André, you win.” He said. Babe silently walked back to the group, leaving André to watch him walk off.

It didn’t take much for André to just shrug the whole thing off himself. He was more concerned on celebrating than causing some kind of scene. He walked over to the table behind Babe.

Rainbow couldn’t help but notice the expression on the boy’s faces. “Was everything alright over there?” she asked in concern, “You two were talking for a while over there.”

“It’s all ok, everything’s cool.” Babe claimed. His blank expression was still present. André looked over at him knowing Babe was lying.

“You alright André?” Rainbow asked.

“Yeah, is everything alright André?” Before André could answer Babe spoke directly after Rainbow Dash, repeating her question but in a more clear tone.

“Yeah,” he smiled to convince the others “everything’s fine. Let’s get this party started.”

The mood now was rather depressing. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Babe and even Pinkie Pie seemed to have fell upon disappointment after realizing Rainbow Dash and Soarin were each other’s special somepony.

Rainbow Dash on the other hand/hoof was a bit confused to the sudden change in mood. Fluttershy was still occupied with the animals by the lakeside and wasn’t aware of the situation.

André went over to check on Fluttershy. He crouched down and tapped her shoulder to get her attention.

“Hey, Fluttershy” He called to her.

“Hm?” she turned not knowing she had company, “Oh, hi, André.”

“You’re still over here making friends with the animals?”

Fluttershy happily nodded, “Of course. The animals here are just as cute and friendly as could be.”

“Haha, I bet.” He held up a small paper towel full of sweets, “I don’t want to distract you. Here, I brought you some of the food we had over by the table.”

“Thank you.” Fluttershy opened the paper towel to see what was in it, inside were small cookies and mini cupcakes all of which had unique flavors and tastes.

Back at the table Soarin’ was feeding Rainbow Dash cake on a spoon while Babe, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie watched. The two seemed happy to be together just like Big Mac and Ms.Cherilee under their love poison.

“I don’t get it…” Pinkie Pie spoke up as she continued eying Soarin and Rainbow Dash, “I thought André and Rainbow Dash had something going on.”

“Ah did too.” Applejack added “Ah wonder what happened.”

Babe lightly huffed at the two mares “André said Rainbow likes Soarin.” Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie Pie and Rarity had theirs eyes on Babe once he spoke. “From the looks of it I’d say he may have been right.” He continued “I didn’t actually believe it but I guess he just knows Rainbow. All we can do is support them.”

Applejack adjusted her hat, slightly hanging it over her eyes as she looked over to André and Fluttershy. “Poor André must be heartbroken inside.”

“Doubt that.” Babe had quickly dismissed Applejack’s claim “He’s the one who helped set them up together.”

“He was?” Twilight asked sounding a bit sad to hear it.

Babe nodded. After having a brief conversation with Fluttershy by the lake André went back to the others.

“Hey guys, what’s up?” André greeted his friends after rejoining them though judging by their faces they had something on their minds. “Why the long faces?” André asked the group.

Applejack slowly scratched the back of her mane “So, uh, André you’re not worried?”

“About what AJ?”

“Well…uh, y’know, Rainbow and Soarin”

“Of course not, I couldn’t be happier actually.”

Babe crossed his arms, standing there with a straight look at André’s face.

“But what about everything you two have done?” Twilight asked.

“That little doohickey she made for you.” Applejack said mentioning the charm she made.

“Not to mention truth or dare.” Pinkie Pie brought up.

Twilight sheepishly scratched the side of her cheek, “We just thought that….Rainbow Dash was your special somepony.”

“You guys crack me up. Rainbow and I are just friends. Nothing’s going to change that.”

Twilight sighed. “Well…I guess if you’re sure.”

“Yeah. I’m sur-” André was suddenly pulled back a few steps away from Twilight and the others. An unknown mare had placed her hooves over his eyes.

“Guess who.” The familiar voice spoke to blinded boy.

“Spitfire?” André guessed as the mare removed her hooves and revealed herself to him and the others. “What are you doing here?”

“I came here for Soarin. I heard he was going to be here for Rainbow Dash.”

André nodded “Yeah, he is.”

Seeing Spitfire Soarin and Rainbow Dash flew over to the others.

“Spitfire, what’s up?” Rainbow Dash asked giving a friendly greeting to her idol and now partner.

“Hey Rainbow, you’re lookin’ good in the uniform.” Spitfire complimented with her casual cool smile.

Rainbow could barely manage to keep her cool after the compliment from Spitfire. Her eyes lit up with joy and pride “T-Thanks!” it was as if she was on the verge of passing out.

“Soarin, I know you’re here for Rainbow Dash but we’ve got a meeting to attend to.”

“A meeting?” Soarin asked not wanting to really go “Can’t it wait?”

Spitfire shook her head with a frown. “Afraid not.” She knew today was important for both Soarin and Rainbow Dash but work was work and it had to be done.

“Can I come?” Rainbow asked as she took a step closer to Spitfire.

“Sorry, Dash, it’s only for higher ups.”

Rainbow’s ears dropped, “I see.” She was feeling a bit small and excluded due to her low rank in the Wonderbolts.

“C’mon, Soarin’. We don’t want to be late.” Spitfire spread her wings and took to the skies.

Soarin turned to his special somepony with a look of disappoint, “Sorry, Rainbow.” He sincerely apologized.

“It’s cool.” Rainbow perked up “You’re a busy guy.”

Seeing Rainbow Dash’s smile caused Soarin to smile back at her, “Thanks for understanding. I’ll see you a little later then?”

“Of course.”

Babe huffed at the two, “Oh please…” He mumbled under his breath. Applejack heard him and tapped his leg with her hoof, prompting him to keep it to himself for now. “Sorry, sorry…” he reluctantly apologized.

“How about a little goodbye smooch?” Soarin asked with a hopeful smile.

Rainbow Dash raised one eyebrow at Soarin. Twilight, Pinkie Pie and Applejack gasped. Rainbow’s cheeks turned red as she looked back and forth, unsure of what to do. She raised her hoof and patted Soarin on the head.

“Um, yeah, see ya later…” Rainbow kindly declined Soarin’s request.

“Aw…we’re going out now. That kind of thing is nothing to be embarrassed about.”

“I’m not embarrassed I’m…just not really into the whole ‘smooch’ thing.”

Soarin laughed. “I’ll get it eventually.”

“Um, yeah…” Rainbow said in doubt as she nervously looked to the side.

Soarin then turned to Twilight and the others, “Also, it was great meeting you all.”

“Same here” Twilight said with a ‘happy’ smile.

“Pleasure’s ours.” Applejack spoke after Twilight with a similar look.

Soarin’ spread his wings and quickly took to the skies in an attempt to catch up with Spitfire. After the two Wonderbolts departure the party still seemed a bit off.

“Let’s not have this party go to waste! Let’s party!” she said out to her friends in a hyped tone but despite her eagerness to continue on with the party the others weren’t as ready to carry on.

“…”

“…”

“…”

“...”

André took a look to his left only to see Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rarity in a state of silence, he looked to his right and saw Babe who just looked back at him.

“…Awkward silence” Babe said with a shrug.

“Hey guys…what’s with all the concerned faces?” Rainbow Dash asked in concern, hoping everything with her friends was all right.

Nobody responded. Pinkie took a quick look at the others with one eyebrow raised. “Really?” she asked as if she was waiting for one of the others to speak. “I’m the one who’s going to have to say it?” she asked one last time. Attention was now on Pinkie Pie.

“What’re you talking about?” André asked in confusion.

Pinkie Pie sighed at the group. “Alright, Rainbow, how could you just dump André?”

Rainbow cocked her head to the side, unaware of what Pinkie Pie was talking about. “Dump?” she asked softly.

Twilight rolled her eyes and stepped in for Pinkie Pie to make things clearer. “I think what Pinkie Pie means is that we thought you and André had something special going on this whole time.”

André chuckled softly at the group, “Guys, there’s nothing going on between Rainbow and me. There never was.” He explained calmly.

“Seriously?” Applejack slightly questioned with doubt.

“Of course” Rainbow added on to André’s claim “what would make you guys think that?”

Applejack took a quick glance over to Twilight and back to Rainbow Dash, “Yer kiddin’ right?” making obvious reference to everything the two have done in the past.

“Pfft, I mean, how could we?” Rainbow flew over to André and wrapped her forearm around his neck, dragging him in for a friendly rough hug “We’re such good friends!”

André playfully struggled against Rainbow Dash’s grip and smiled in agreement, “Exactly.”

“Besides André’s been seeing Spitfire this whole time.”

Hearing Rainbow Dash’s words took André out the playing mood. “What?” he asked as he stopped struggling.

Twilight’s eyes widened “You have??”

“No!” André quickly defended himself as he got out of Rainbow Dash’s grip.

“Yes you are.” Rainbow continued “She told me all about your time together. It’s practically Hearts and Hooves day when you two are together.”

“No, no, no! What Spitfire told you was a lie. What about you and Soarin?” André asked as he slightly narrowed his eyes “What’d you two do over the course of the week? Take a love poison, kinda soon to be calling it hitched, isn’t it?”

“I wasn’t the one who asked him, he asked me.” She flew over to André and got up close and personal with a rather serious look on her face. “And how can you lie and say there’s nothing between you and Spitfire? Were you doing that on purpose?”

“What?”

Fluttershy nervously stepped forward to Rainbow “N-Now, Rainbow Dash…there’s no need to get upset…”

“No. It’s ok.” André spoke to Fluttershy “Let her speak her mind, there’s obviously something she needs to get off of her chest.”

Seeing how serious the two were Fluttershy slowly backed away. The two continued their argument.

Rainbow Dash turned her back to André and crossed her forelegs as she hovered in the air “I should’ve known you would’ve done something like this eventually…you were never interested in being my friend.”

“What are you talking about!?” André asked in slight frustration.

She turned back to face him with her look getting more intensified, “You were only interested in being friends with me so you’d get closer to Spitfire. You knew of how awesome and cool I was and tried to use me to get to her because she’s captain of the Wonder bolts! You weren’t interested in being friends with me at all!”

“Rainbow,” Twilight spoke up seeing Rainbow Dash was out of line making such claims about their friendship “you shouldn’t-”

“Geez Rainbow….” André started talking over Twilight, “I didn’t think you’d be the type to say something so….so stupid!”

“What was that!?” Rainbow asked in a rather aggressive voice.

“Oh! And as for being with such an ‘awesome’ and ‘cool’ Pegasus such as yourself, please! You’re not as awesome or cool as you think! You’re an egotistical, self-absorbent cheater! I’m the one who got you on the Wonderbolts! I’m also the one who got you the hook up with Soarin too, isn’t that something that you’d want?! Thank me, because without me you wouldn’t even have been a second thought to the Wonderbolts no matter how good you think you may be.”

Before André could go on any further Babe stepped in, “André, chill out. You’d better stop before you’d say something you’d regret.”

Applejack nodded. “Now, André, there was no need to say those kind of things!”

André turned to the two, “What?” he felt as if they were blaming him for the argument.

“Rainbow is still your friend. How could you say those things?” Applejack asked with a look of disappointment on her face.

“M-me!? Are you…serious?”

“You should think ahead before you go about spurting things out.” Twilight added on.

“What is the matter with you guys!? You think it’s my fault? I’m not the one who started this! It’s Rainbow Dash’s fault! If she thinks I wasn’t really her friend then…maybe we weren’t ever friends!”

Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity all gasped. Rainbow’s eyes were filled with anger.

“You know what, I don’t care. You all think it’s my fault then fine, I don’t need this. I don’t need any of you.”

Wasting no time in talking André turned his back and ran away from the ponies and Babe. Rainbow Dash watched him run off with anger still in her eyes although there was a lot more hurt and sadness underneath her anger.

Author's Note:

Uuuuh, I dunno, when I did this back in 2012 I didn't really have feelings for when I did this but now I just get the feeling like I took it in the wrong direction or at least handled it wrong, I'm not sure but I'll continue to tread down the road anyway besides I'll let you guys be the judge of this. I wish I could write a little better, it's like I'm back at square one lol