Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"I can't expect you to understand this, V, but... like..." Rainbow Dash sighed. "It's been so very long since I... y'know..."
"Uh huh..."
The petite pegasus looked down at her glass. "I just don't know if I actually can. I mean... pfft... sure I can. But building up the nerve?"
"We're in Las Pegasus," Vinyl said, sipping. "Ponies who congregate here have lost their 'nerve' ages ago. I doubt you should have much to be self-conscious of."
"Right. Guess you do have a point." Rainbow nodded into the glittery aura of the place. She turned to squint at her drinking companion. "Even still... maybe I'm better off not trying."
Vinyl shrugged. "Nopony's forcing you."
"It... seems so stress inducing for no reason."
"Although I've been told it's a good way to relieve stress."
Rainbow smirked. "Or maybe I could just try eternal abstinence. Like you."
"Hey, if you wish, all the better." Vinyl cleared her throat. "But... I dunno, Rainbow."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Vinyl's lips tightened. "I've never known a pony more desperate for cuddles than you."
"Not even Caramel?"
"Caramel could ask for cuddles any day and she'd get them. But you? You gotta fight for that stuff. You want so desperately to be loved, and yet you feel as though you have to earn it. So—let's say you decided to swear off romance and intimacy forever. Would you really be meaning it? Or would it just be another weird, nebulous, roundabout way of punishing yourself?"
"Gnnngh..." Rainbow face-hoofed. "Now you're starting to confuse me."
"All I'm saying is that you shouldn't go against who you are."
"But you're suggesting that who I am is pretty unhealthy."
"Well..." Vinyl exhaled. "Certain frailties aside, I'm saying that you shouldn't swear off being with other mares entirely if that is what you know inside your heart will make you feel most fulfilled. Just... learn to lighten up." She squinted. "Stop aiming for setting suns on the horizon. Steer for the lighthouses along the shore. For all we know, they might lead you to warmer waters... safer waters."
Rainbow sighed. "I can tell you're trying to coach me positively, but... you really don't have to try so hard, Vinyl. I know I'm a pretty hopeless case."
"I don't feel hopeless around you, Rainbow," Vinyl said. "In fact, none of the girls do."
"You really think so?"
"Something about you inspires confidence... and the courage to strive against all odds," Vinyl said. "It's just a shame that you feel as though you have to fight for everything that you richly deserve."
"Yeah, well, it's my own fault for desiring the impossible."
"Rainbow, you could have had the 'impossible' ages ago if you only allowed yourself."
Rainbow bit her lip.
Vinyl took the last sip of her drink and rested a hoof on Rainbow's shoulder. "But let's not dwell on that. Choices have been made. Paths have been paved. It's time to move on. And I think—and I'm pretty sure you would agree—that warmth and companionship is what you have awaiting for you in the future. It's just a matter of finding out who."
"Uh huh..." Rainbow sighed. "And in the meantime?"
Vinyl smiled. "I don't think it'd hurt you to get a bit of exercise... ya feel me?"
"Yeah, I feel you," Rainbow muttered. "Friggin' glad I wasn't getting advice from Lyra, or else I'd be sandwiched in the middle of an entire hoofball team by now."
"Thanks. And now I feel like vomiting."
"Heheh..."
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Mental images.
Gotta love them.
It's such a site watching the appledash ship sink out at sea, while it simultaneously explodes and is engulfed by a hurricane made of sadness
The cuddles were a lie
Go for the rising sun instead, Austraeoh.
7118890 oNe ThiRD dOne, StoRY IsnT EveN NEArlY fiNISheD m8.
...and with this chapter I'm following 'live' again.
Having marathoned from part 20 and finally having caught up, again I remember why I keep falling behind.
You have to be a special kind of masochist to submit yourself to this story
I like Vinyl. She's a nice balance between Bon Bon's perky optimistic advice and Lyra's thoughtless comments
7119011 i dont have enough hope to last another 1k chapters
7119153 trust in the short skirts friend.
You know you're in bad shape when an asexual says to you, "Girl, you gotta get laid, 'cuz dayum."
7119031
As opposed to the normal, not special kind of masochist.
7119458
... Can you not be both? No? Damn.
And thus it was I waited with bated breath to see if Rainbow Dash bones.
*glances out the window* Yep, still a big, bright world out there. Still not going out.
!0 chapters away from 1,000 chapters down.
And we're still only a third to the final chapter? Dayum.
And here I that halfway of 2,000 chapters is 1,000.
Silly me.
7119780
A third through the story, not necessarily the wordcount or chapter count.
That being said, I could totally envision this story having 3000 chapters. I mean, just look at the single inch of progress we've made in the last thousand.
7120325 Ah, okay.
Gotcha.
*eye twitch* Don't make come over there and hurt you, Zap.
'Cause with a comment like that, I just might.
What is this, chapter 900?
Damn, Dashie.
You Need To Get Laid
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Wow, Rainbow woulda looked like somepony whipped the stuffing out of her with a tubesock filled with mayonnaise and eggwhites.