Changeling Dash

by Sc0ut

At First

Dash smiled. She felt really good. She turned and looked at the wall. She tapped it. It rippled gently, like water. It was obviously fake, as it didn't have a brick wall texture, only the smooth, tingling sensation of magic. The mare spread her wings. Then she saw a wooden board at an angle. She grinned, running at it as fast as she could, kicking in dirt. She ran up it, hooves thumping across the board. Then at the last moment, she jumped.

She flapped, turning in a barrel roll as she soared upwards, directly on a cloud. Her momentum from her run up the board caused the cloud to surge foreward. It kept going forward, assisted by the fast beating of her wings. Then, she hit a large cloud. Her speed caused her to lurch foreward, which turned into a soar to the door of her cloud home. "Oh yeah!" Then she opened a Daring Do book on her bed, and was reading it until she slept, only to be awoken by excruciating agony and the feeling that someone was in her house. A familiar pink pony was standing in her room.

"Pinkie? This is a bad time."

"Oh hi Dashie! I was playing with balloons and tied one too many and whelp! Here I am!"

Dash grinned. "So you took off with too many balloons?" She laughed, even though she still was incredibly sore.

The pink party pony giggled. "You fell asleep reading? Isn't that for... eggheads?" Pinkie Pie winked. Then she found a shard of glass that was so shiny, and when she angled it correctly,the light shot off in another direction as a rainbow. "Cool! Oh. AnddoyouwantamuffinbecauseDerpyaskedmetobackesomeand..." Pinkie grinned as she took another deep breath and continued babbling like an out of control river. "Wehadsomeleftoverandsinceyouhaventcomeoutofyourhouse..." "IdecidedIwouldbringyousomemuffins." She panted. "SowhenIwasfloatingupTwilightzapped... ThetrayofmuffinswithmesoIcouldofferyousome." Then she grinned. Dash got up, but stumbled.

"Oh, damnit. That... Really hurts..." She finally stumbled, knees buckling.

"Rainbow Dash!" In her haste to reach her friend, the shard of glass flew from the hooves of the party pony and sliced away the strings of the balloons. One. By. One.

As Pinkie fell, she relaxed herself, and as the wind battered her body, it blew her mane and tail, both of which straightened. Rainbow Dash, on the other hand, was struggling, and cursing a bit too. She saw the hole, and then, wings folded to her sides, allowed her sky blue form to drop in free fall..

Midair, she flipped her body, so she was facing the ground. She put her front hooves foreward. Her mane was starting to blur, and the moisture of the air formed a rainbow streak behind her, combining with the multicolored blur. Then, as she flew past her friend, gritting her teeth, the flared open her wings, which acted as a parachute. The pain was almost unbearable, but she stayed strong. The sudden move caused her to rise upwards. She 'parachuted' downwards, bracing herself. Pinkie slammed into her, and the sudden stop caused her to bounce back to consciousness. It also caused the same fore her hair, for it poofed up on impact.

"Dashie? You party hard..." Pinkie said as she slipped back into unconsciousness...

She added extra weight, so their fall was speed up. Rainbow angled herself, and pointed her hooves straight down. As she fell, she opened her wings, which balanced out the speed. In a gentle descent, they landed. Then she felt pain shoot up her body, as if she were hit by lightning. Sighing, she glanced at her unconscious friend, who Twilight had taken as soon as they landed. Rainbow Dash walked foreward, and her knees wobbled. She fell, only to be caught by Applejack.

"Come on now, sugarcube. Ah reckon that cost ya some energy. Why don't ya come with me, seein' as ya can barely keep yourself on your own four hooves." Then she noticed something on the pegasus's hooves. Or lack of it. Some bits of fur were missing at the tips of her hooves. Up her front legs, actually. Beneath it was grey skin. "Ouch. Ah reckon that hurts." Rainbow Dash winced.

"Yeah. Which makes me saving Pinkie from death about 20% less cool." AJ picked up the pegasus and put her on her back. "Hey!" She struggled, but found herself too weak to move that much. "Ow," she muttered.

"Alright y'all. Ah'm bringing Rainbow with me." The two mares then left, as a single feather flew from the sky blue pegasus's wing, soaring to a cave in the Everfree...

Comments

[Winterman]

Good story, but there's a problem in spacing in Chapter 2.