The Cold War
An awkward silence quickly fell between the two of them. Twilight simply stared at Rainbow, her right ear twitching on its own. She moved her lips and tried to speak, but it felt as if her throat had seized up. She coughed a couple of times and shook her head before looking back up at Rainbow. “I’m sorry, what? I didn’t quite catch all of that.”
Rainbow giggled nervously. “Uh… you into me? ‘Cuz it really sorta seems to me like you are. And, uh… you know, it’s totally c-cool if you’re not,” Rainbow quickly stammered out, noticing Twilight’s perplexed expression.
Twilight cleared her throat as she tried to get her thoughts in order. Speaking in a somewhat rough voice, she slowly said, “Well… you’re one of my closest friends, if not my best friend, if that’s what you mean.” When Rainbow cocked her head to the side, she thought, Hold on… Surely there’s no way that she thinks that I think of her like that… “Um, wait… are you asking if I have serious feelings for you?”
“Well… yeah, sort of. You’ve let me come over, we snuggle, and then we fall asleep together. Heck, while we were waiting for Scootaloo to come back a little while ago, we held each other in our wings and you had your head on my shoulder. Even though I enjoyed it, it’s just something that regular friends don’t really do.” Rainbow started squirming, mainly because she was just expecting a yes or no answer, not this long, drawn-out process.
“Oh, uh… really? I did that because, um... I thought that’s what really good friends do,” Twilight said, biting her bottom lip.
“Not stuff like that…” Rainbow replied with a nervous chuckle, flicking a few stray hairs out of her face. “I just didn’t know what to expect, I guess.” She looked down, her shoulders slumping ever so slightly. “So, um… does that mean no more cuddling?” she asked wistfully as her ears folded back.
“Well, um… just because we aren’t together doesn’t mean that we can’t still cuddle and stuff.” Twilight felt herself blush as she glanced away, feeling Rainbow’s eyes bore into her face.
“Um… you sure? Those are things that special someponies do, ya know? And since we aren’t together, I don’t want to creep you out or anything. We’ve got such a nice thing going, after all.”
Twilight giggled softly. “Rainbow, you can’t creep me out! Trust me, I’ve enjoyed snuggling with you just as much as you have, and I definitely wouldn’t mind if we keep doing it, especially on nights as cold as these.”
“Heh, glad to hear it… And to answer your question… I’ll think about it,” Rainbow said rather shakily.
“Huh? What question?” Twilight cocked her head to the side.
“The one about me living with you and Scootaloo. Even though we aren’t together, I… I don’t know how that would work out. I don’t really want to give up my house, you know? I’ve put a lot of work into building it up, and I really like it.” She shrugged and looked back out the slit in the wall. After a few seconds, she looked back at Twilight. “Don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing wrong with the library. To be honest, I like it a lot, but I like my house a little bit more. It’s the one place that I can use to escape from everything and just relax, you know?”
Twilight took a few moments to think before she responded. “Yeah, I do, and Rainbow?” She waited until Rainbow looked back at her. “Since we’re gonna be taking care of Scootaloo, I want you to know you can stay at the library whenever you want. Scootaloo is going to depend on the both of us, and I know she’d love it if you were around a lot. Also, I guess that asking you to move in with me may have been a little too much to ask,” Twilight said with a small giggle. “Hmm… maybe we cou–” She paused when a deep horn sounded off in the distance right out in front of them, another one echoing its call from behind them.
“What the heck is going on?” Rainbow asked, her ears flicking forward as she tried to pinpoint exactly where the sounds were coming from. She turned her head and cocked it, pressing her ear right up to the slit in the wall. “There’s no way that that’s Pinkie…” Rainbow glanced at Twilight and raised an eyebrow. “Right?”
“Rainbow!” Scootaloo yelled out from the igloo on the other side of the fort. “There’s a lot of ponies heading our way!”
“Fire when you can hit ‘em, squirt!” Rainbow yelled back, her conversation with Twilight shoved to the back of her mind. She turned back around to face Twilight and paused, noticing the look of intense concentration on her face. “Uh… hey, egghead, you okay?”
“Yeah,” Twilight said as she lit her horn. “Listen, I’m gonna need you to be my eyes for this, alright? I can’t really look around when I’m doing this...”
“Uh… what exactly are you doing?” Rainbow asked slowly.
“Heh, just watch…” Twilight said with a sly grin. A few moments later, her purple aura surrounded most of the snowballs that Spike had made. As a low humming sound filled the air, they all rose into the air and formed a ten by ten block all floating on a single plane.
“Oh, I get it… You want me to tell you where to shoot, right?” Rainbow asked. “Alright then, let’s take a test shot.” She moved back to the slit in the wall and saw around ten ponies forming small walls to hide behind just thirty feet or so down the street. A few pegasi were hovering in the air just above Pinkie Pie, who was standing right behind not one, but two party cannons. She couldn’t place a hoof on it, but they looked a little different from the one that she usually used. Rainbow squinted as hard as she could, trying to make out what Pinkie was doing with them. She had the two of them connected, sitting on the bed of an empty cart. After watching the ponies outside the fort make their own little walls, Rainbow thought, Heh, this is for making me spill my hot cocoa! “Alright Twilight, shoot one forty feet dead ahead!” Twilight’s horn grew a bit brighter, and a snowball launched forward as if it was shot out of an invisible slingshot, hitting the ground just in front of Pinkie Pie. Dang! “Almost there, Twi! Raise your elevation by five-ish degrees, then fire when ready!”
“Got it!” With a small smile, Twilight not only shot one, but three snowballs on the new trajectory. As they neared their target, Rainbow’s smile grew wider and wider until all three hit Pinkie Pie square in the chest.
“You got ‘er, Twilight!” Rainbow exclaimed, thumping Twilight on the back. “Nice shot!” She turned her attention back to the slit in the wall and saw that Spike and Sweetie Belle were already engaging the enemy from their own little fort. For every snowball that came near their fort, Spike would turn it to water with a quick burst of fire, and Sweetie Belle would return fire with at least three snowballs.
“Ahem!” Pinkie said quite loudly as she tried to get everyone's attention, almost breaking Twilight’s concentration.
“What’s going on, Rainbow?” Twilight asked as she kept her eyes closed. She knew opening them might risk losing her magical grasp on her arsenal of snowballs, and she didn’t want to be unprepared for when Pinkie Pie and her forces attacked.
“Um… I dunno, something?” Rainbow replied with a soft voice, her eyes locked on Pinkie. “Shush, I think she’s about to say something.”
All was quiet for a few moments as everyone waited for Pinkie to say something. Turning her attention towards the fort standing strong before her, she called out in a strange accent, “Well… well… well… I was going to offer you the chance at a peaceful surrender to General Pinkie, but it seems that you have attacked us unprovoked.” She took a moment to brush the snow from her chest with a hoof. “I see that as a declaration of war, madams, and I will have you know that we are well prepared for a siege of the most epic proportions!” Pinkie stomped her hoof once and said something to the pony beside her that neither Rainbow or Twilight heard. Rainbow watched as a few of the ponies around Pinkie Pie started loading massive amounts of snow inside each of the cannons.
“Uh… so any idea why she’s talking like that?” Rainbow asked, casting a sideways glance at Twilight.
“Yeah, about that… I may have lent her some history books concerning the past few wars we’ve had, so… yeah. I think we’re gonna be in for one heck of a snowball fight!” Twilight said, her excitement apparent in her tone.
“Heh, I don’t think Pinkie’s here for a fight, Twilight. I think she’s here for war…”
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Oh come on! nope, nvm, don't rush it. We all know one of them is gonna pop the question at some point or another.
So...is it Twilight doesn't actually like Rainbow that way, or she doesn't know what it feels like to like somepony that way? I'm thinking the latter.
And here's hoping the trial doesn't have too many complications.
Forgot a 'be' at the end there, but otherwise good chapter. Keep doin' watcha doin'. Oh and, will we get a scene with Rainbow pulling off a Sonic Rainboom?
Woo! Another chapter in the winds.
Twi is in so much denial. Cute though.
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I'm thinking the same thing TBH.
4591640 Got it, and thanks. As for your question, I shall not say.
Its amazing!
This is what I imagined Pinkie dressed as, yeah you can imagine the hesitation when facing her in actual combat.
4591636 we want complications too make the story more interesting. If it were just a strait boring book who would want to read it
Twilight has no idea what she just said. The total lack of innuendo in that statement is just too funny for words. Actually, I found some, by Ned Flanders, "What a perfectly innocent single entendre."
Twilight sure dodged a bullet there. If she would have confessed her feelings for Rainbow Dash, there would not be any awkward tension in the chapters to come. Whew!
I predict that within the next two chapters we will be getting to the trial.
KBO.
This chapter was sweet. Again, I am going to praise you for great pacing.
There will obviously be some complications at the trial, but nothing the world prettiest Egghead can't fix.
This error, it concerns me greatly. Depending on the nature of the error this can go two different ways.
Good.
Bad.
4591782 Someone else had already pointed that out, thanks!
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It definitely sounds like the latter.
And while I am not hoping for complications, I am expecting them.
4591636 It is the latter.
4591772 True that!
So...Twilight's a cock-tease...or whatever you call the emotional equivalent since I can't really call what they're doing your basic friends with benefits package.
Can't really say I agree with the idea of Rainbow just nodding her head to Twilight's deceleration that she doesn't want to create a deeper emotional attachment to what they already have after just going out and asking Twilight about her feelings and finding out that Twilight has no wants beyond friendship (as Rainbow understands it). Sure she replied shakily to the moving in question after Twilight just turned her down, and was given the snowball fight to focus on later, but she still had plenty of time to work it through her head that Twilight is apparently uninterested in her and formulate an internal response.
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You actually got it spot on. There's the chapter of them going to Canterlot, then the actual trial.
4591733 God, can you imagine the sort of havoc that Pinkie could wreak in actual combat? I don't even want to think of the things she'd be capable of...
4591660 Twilight really is in denial. Then again, she's never experienced love, so...
Why do I get the feeling that Scootaloo's egg & sperm doners will have hired some seriously powerful lawyer...
4591623 Oh yeah, like... 20k more words to go methinks?
I have an idea,
what if somehow Rainbow moved her house closer to Twilight's?
I'm...kinda worried for that trial with this build-up. As much as I'd call Rainbow's boasting tempting fate, it IS two Elements, Celestia and her guards having caught them in the act. Not even Phoenix Wright could get those parents asses out of that, so I hope this kinda is just Twi over-thinking it.
4592000 That is an ingenious idea! You are a genius!
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Line it up so that RD's front walkway ends at Twi's observation deck? Could be fun.
4592088 but I still think that it's up to the author
If I were rainbow, I'd move her cloudhome closer to the library, then build cloud-stairs from the balcony to the cloudhome.
Whew, I thought that letter was going to be much worse, and sillier.
4592088 Thanks.
Argh, the sexual tension is driving me nuts! And the trial's been moved up. I smell shenanigans.
4591969 It wouldn't surprise me if she somehow managed to access a CO Power from the Advance Wars games.
It's a good job Twi's the Element of Magic, because that was a very bad attempt at lying,
4591636 Neither, they're both a river in Africa. De Nile!
4592301, oh god I can see it. Pink Rush and Pink Crush would be good names for Power and Super Power. Probably would do something with moral, supplies, and lots of cannons. I'm also sure her power bar would raise faster and opponents raises slower.
Now I want to play AW with ponies as COs. GAH!
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I can't really see how it would happen since they waste pretty much every penny they have on booze. Unless they bribed one with a bottle of whiskey.
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DO IT!
Of course nobody expected the enemies of harmony to use Scootaloo's case as an excuse to defame the element bearers.
So, how about a bonus chapter that goes in depth into the Ponyville Snow War? Because I know that if you had included it in this chapter, it would easily be around 10k words. XD
4592601 I too would enjoy that immensely, also this blossoming romance just got awkward.
Something tells me the court case won't be as one-sided as RD thinks it will be.
Epic war XD Also, so much tension with the trial
Drama demands complications at the trial. But in spite of her tempting fate, Rainbow is absolutely right, it's hard to imagine a more open and shut case than this, which makes me worried that the inevitable complications are going to be arbitrary and unbelievable just to maximize pain and suffering
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Considering that Scootaloos parents were caught abusing her by the highest level law enforcement available and there are medical documents to prove the serious injuries (all the way to broken bones) that she received from the said abuse and almost certainly marks of long term abuse on her, Equestrian legal system would have to seriously FUBAR for Twidash not to win this rather easily. Seriously the Royal Guards report on that arrest and the doctors report on Scootaloos condition when she was found should be enough to make this a clear cut case. Any even slightly realistic possibility of Scootaloos parents having any kind of chances with this case should evaporate completely when these documents are taken into consideration and if they aren't brought forth in the case then that's already enough to start a serious corruption investigation that will get several ponies fired from their jobs. So unless Celestia in this is completely incompetent when making and/or approving laws (in which case Equestria shouldn't be standing anymore), it shouldn't be too hard for them. Really there is a limit on how idiotic legal system can be before it crumbles either under the weight of its own stupidity or there is a serious revolt among the citizenship.
4592589 Debase them with what? They have clear evidence that their actions saved a young fillys from serious domestic abuse and quite likely even her life. How are they going to debase the element bearers with that or did you mean that legally taken it seems that an unmarried lesbian couple took the said filly in? Either way they would need to move very carefully or they would risk getting themselves under heavy surveillance as potential traitors. The element bearers are national heroes of proven valor several times over after all. Not to mention that one of them is a royalty and as such unprovoked action against Twilight could be considered a serious crime and attack against the Equestrian crown. Something I don't think even Celestia is willing to look the other way from. Though again this is completely dependent on Celestia not being completely incompetent and if she was then Equestria would have no right to having been standing this long.
Sorry for the rant but needed to let of some steam. As for Celestia is incompetent cliche, let's just say that I'm growing tired of it. As far as I'm concerned this story is able to stand on it's own without too much courtroom drama by just relying on all the stuff that happens as Scootaloo, Twilight and Rainbow get used to the situation and the resulting character growth it brings.
EDIT: There's also the fact that Scootaloos mother has a documented and reported (so authorities are aware of it) long term drinking problem and from looking at the situation so does her father. This is another point in favor of Twilight and Rainbow winning this case with ease, with Tranquil Breeze and Brick Lump are going to get into some very deep shit if the author remembers half the things he has written about them and if not. may I recommend rereading chapter 4 - Revelations. That should already have enough stuff in it with the necessary evidence to have Scootaloo taken out of her parents custody permanently.
Glad we're almost to the trail, sad we are delaying the romance
4592873 Probably the trial will go without any complications but the adoption of Scootaloo will have complications, as far as I know adoption is not such an easy matter, even if they have the support of Celestia. Laws will be laws.
4592984 Though I agree on the trial part I don't see them having much of a problem with the adoption process outside of being required to have their living conditions checked and that they will have to bring Scootaloo in for therapy and to give an officer some level of report on how they are treating her periodically at least for a few years. Try to remember that Twilight and Rainbow have a few factors in their favor even in that department:
1) They both have a steady income with ability to spend time with Scootaloo. Her parents clearly lacked on the income part.
2) They both are going to have it very easy getting recommendations from Ponyville citizens. As far as I know they have no criminal record and are well respected members of the town with lots of friends to offer support.
3) Twilight already has a recorded experience of raising a special case (Spike anyone, not that many have been able to raise a baby dragon).
4) Their time as Scootaloos temporary guardians and their willingness in taking her under their care in such situation can only be considered a positive thing.
5) Their part in saving Scootaloo already proves that they care about the filly. Try to consider that even on earth law enforcement officers are, as far as I know, legally obligated to add things like these to their reports. Those reports should be taken into consideration in these situations.
No matter when the chapter comes out, or what it's about, you always manage to deliver, don't you?
Anyway, just a couple of teensy little "errors". To be honest they're hardly noticable.
When Rainbow says;
egghead should technically have a capital "E", as it is being used in place of Twilight's name, as a form of address.
Secondly, when Apple Bloom says;
It should really be have instead of "has", but I guess this could be part of Apple Bloom's dialect, your choice :p.
Finally;
You put the apostrophe on the wrong side of "ol" here, it should be " ol' ", as you're missing the 'd' from the end, not anything from the beginning :p.
Aside from those little things, perfection as usual; well done
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Urgh, you unbelievable tease. Sooooo close, I probably should have guessed it was too soon. Of well, this chapter was great and I seriously look forward to future chapters. Keep up the good work <dude/dudette> (delete as appropriate)
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4592265 Fixed, thanks!