Rainbow Dash dipped her hoof into the rainbow water outside of her house. She looked out over Ponyville. She could see the library from here, and she forced herself to look away.
“Don’t be lame,” she muttered, turning back to the water. She could see her reflection in the brightly colored liquid; changing from yellow to blue to red to purple.
“Rainbow Dash?”
Rainbow Dash’s stomach did a flip. It was Twilight Sparkle.
“Just lay low; she won’t have to know you’re home.” Rainbow Dash huddled low, wings pressed tightly to her sides.
“Rainbow Dash, the meadows on fire!”
“Very funny,” Rainbow Dash shut her eyes tightly.
“Rainbow Dash, I can see your tail!”
“Alright alright…” Rainbow Dash sucked in a deep, deep breath. You can do this! You’re no coward, you can handle it! You aren’t Equestria’s coolest, bravest pony for nothing!
“Oh but what if she doesn’t want to be my friend anymore?” she whispered to herself.
“Dash?”
Finally, Rainbow spread her wings and leaped off the cloud, gliding towards the ground.
Twilight felt the gentle rush of wind as Rainbow landed, she couldn’t help but close her eyes – it felt so nice!
“What is it?” Rainbow’s voice startled Twilight, and she opened her eyes. Rainbow's fur looked matted in places – this was normal, but Twilight was really only now noticing it.
Naturally, her mane was messy – but not tangled. Strands of hair hung wild, some even sticking straight up.
And her face… those big, dark pink eyes; Twilight always liked them. They were such a pretty color.
“Did you need something?” Rainbow Dash repeated, sounding somewhere between irritated and emotional.
“Oh!” Twilight remember. “Um… yeah, look. About last night…”
“What about it?” Rainbow muttered.
Twilight rubbed the back of her head with a hoof. “Look Dash, I know I played with your feelings, and I’m sorry. I know the hurt is… well, hurt. But can you ever forgive me?”
Rainbow pawed at the ground once with a hoof. “Twilight, I’m not mad at you.”
“Well, maybe not, but…” Twilight trailed off.
“Hey, uh” Rainbow started suddenly: “Would you like to come inside? I mean, cloud walking spell, right? I mean…” Idiot, what are you doing?!
Twilight smiled. “Yes, hang on,” she focused her magic, and then enchanted herself. “I’m ready, I can just teleport and-“
But before she could finish, Rainbow Dash had wrapped her hooves around the unicorn’s middle and was lifting her up.
Twilight felt her hooves lift off of the ground and started to panic. “Ah!” she struggled wildly, she hadn’t expected that!
And then she was dropped gently onto the fluffy doorstep.
Rainbow landed next to her. “Okay – hey, are you okay?”
Twilight realized she was shaking a bit, and tried to force herself to stop. “Sorry! I just – wasn’t expecting that.” She said.
“Are you sure?” Rainbow Dash looked her over then lowered her eyes.
“…Sorry.” She mumbled.
Long awkward silence, Twilight thought over and over in her head. “So!” Rainbow said, pushing the door open and flying in. Twilight followed close behind.
She’d never actually been in Rainbow’s house. The inside was less… cloudy then she’d thought. It looked pretty normal, actually. It was pretty much only the outer walls that were made of cloud.
“It’s… beautiful,” Twilight said.
"Huh, what?” Rainbow Dash looked at her.
“Your house. It’s very nice!”
“Oh! Yeah, only the best for the best, right? Ehehe…”
Rainbow Dash paused. “You… sorry about carrying you up so suddenly. I'll warn next time, kay?”
Twilight smiled. “It’s fine. Now, uh…” She trotted a little closer to Dash, swallowing hard. “Okay, we need to talk about last night.”
Rainbow Dash turned away; “I already said, it’s nothing! Nothing at all!”
Twilight winced at the force of Dash’s words. Rainbow turned back to her and Twilight didn’t make eye-contact, staring at her hooves.
“You smell like Rarity’s shampoo.” Rainbow muttered.
“Oh, yeah…” Twilight blushed a bit.
“Ya got something on your face,” Dash said suddenly, and Twilight jumped as the cyan hoof wiped something off of the corner of her mouth.
Dash sniffed the white stuff and then licked. “What’s this? Whipped cream?” Suddenly her eyes widened and she stomped a hoof down. “Oh, oh no! NO way!”
“What? What?!”
“I can’t believe her!” Rainbow Dash leaped into the air and made for the window, but Twilight grabbed her tail in her magic.
"Rainbow, hold on! I don’t know what you think happened, but it… isn’t what you think happened!”
“That prissy, no-good little!”
“Rainbow Dash!” Finally Rainbow stopped, folding her wings and dropping to the ground. She turned to face Twilight.
“Are you okay? Did she hurt you?”
“Of course I’m fine! What could you possibly think she…. Ohhhhhh. Okay. I get it now.” A bright red blush rose to her cheeks. “Wow.” She whistled. “Hehe… awkward.”
“So…” Dash started. “She didn’t…”
Bright red, Twilight shook her head. “Nothing like that happened.”
Rainbow sighed, and said nothing.
Long awkward silence, Twilight thought again.
“Hey, you uh – want something to drink? I got apple juice, orange juice…”
“Yes, please. Apple juice sounds fine.” Twilight smiled sheepishly. She followed Rainbow Dash into the kitchen, and watched her pull the juice out of the fridge and pour it into two glasses.
“Hey, Twilight?”
“Yeah?”
Rainbow slowly walked towards Twilight, and lowered her head a bit. “Have I ever told you… how pretty your eyes are?”
A heated blush rose to the unicorns cheeks until she felt her head might catch fire.
Finally Rainbow Dash looked up and into Twilight’s eyes, seeing her own reflection. Twilight didn’t know what to say; what to feel, she felt she couldn’t even breathe.
Neither of them noticed the pink-maned ninja slide down on a rope and drop something into the glasses of juice, before climbing back up the rope.
Twilight forced herself to look away. “Thanks…” she murmured, and Rainbow found herself blushing as well.
“Well,” Twilight coughed, picking up her glass in her magic. She held it out towards Rainbow Dash. “To…. Good friends?”
“To good friends,” Rainbow said, glad to have the subject changed. She picked up the rim of the glass in her mouth, clinked it with Twilight's and both turned their heads back, drinking.
“Ahhhh,” the both said as they finished, setting the glasses down.
“Thanks Rainbow,” Twilight said. She looked at Rainbow, who looked deep in thought. Twilight knew she couldn’t leave yet; she hadn’t really finished her… apology?
“Rainbow?” Twilight asked, but she didn’t feel afraid anymore, or nervous. She felt quite pleasant, actually. Mellow. Happy.
“Yeah?” Rainbows eyes had glazed over, and she turned to Twilight.
“I… want… I… feel so…” Twilight’s world did a flip and she stumbled forward into Rainbow Dash, knocking them both onto the table.
“Woah.” Rainbow said, feeling quite dizzy herself.
“Rainbow…?” she said dully, she felt Rainbows feathers tickle her sides as the cyan Pegasus wrapped her wings around her. She couldn’t help but rest her head on Rainbow’s chest. She was so warm, so pleasantly warm.
“I want… I need…” and then everything went black.
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I changed the chapter name because it made me feel weird
Any reason for the spacing gap?
1602156 Forgive me for being an idiot, but what's a paragraph break?
lol. Nice chapter! Really had me going with that drawn out spacing at the end.
I found a couple of errors.
Probably should be 'I'll warn you.'
Next.. You missed a period here:
Other than that, very good. I can't wait to see what happens next. I seriously hope the shipping continues, even though I can see someone will end up sad.
Although, I have to admit.. I was kind of not sure why RD got so mad over pie frosting. Did she mistake it for something else...?
Seeing as Twilight has met with all the others and apologized, I wonder what will happen next. Looking forward to seeing an update!
Needs a once-over from an editor / proofreader. Missing punctuation, odd line breaks, some awkward sentence structures...
None of which really takes away from the story, of course, which is full of omniship goodness.
1602177 You mean at the end there?
The readers are supposed to get the wrong idea you see I'm making fun of the book Twilight. In the part where Bella and Edward had sex, if my memory serves correct, the author skipped the sex scene with an 'And everything went black'
So I did that, except at the end it revealed they were just falling asleep. Although I could have done it better, I might re-write it slightly
1602207 She smelled Rarity's shampoo, and saw the whipped cream so she assumed that Twilight and Rarity had... hehehe... yeah.
Also, thanks for pointing out the errors
Extreme paragraph break?
1602235 It was supposed to be making fun of the book Twilight, but I guess it just doesn't work
1602257 I wouldn't have gotten the reference, but other may have.
Loved it, "As the two settled down for a nap."
I let out a very loud "ha!" and got yelled at for waking up my brother...
Totally worth it.
1602220
Ah, gotcha
maybe if I had read Twilight I would have gotten it
Nice chapter. Good to see more updates!
1602232
Ohh...Eh...My bad. Should have caught that. It's late. I should probably be headed to bed if I'm not catching something like that. lol.
You're welcome.
1602278 I don't recommend reading Twilight. I read all four books and lost about fifty IQ points
How you've got it written makes me think they got drugged then passed out... You expect people to get a reference to what is possibly one of the most hated series out there? Then you make another reference to ANOTHER book that's hated on with the chapter title... Even Derpy can tell you where you went wrong here.
But all that aside I still enjoyed the chapter
1602358 Meh, the Twilight reference wasn't really supposed to be very 'out there', I just hoped that people thought that they were going to have sex and then they'd see the 'nap' part. I'll probably slightly alter the end
1602397 No, Pinkie dropped drugs into both glasses. She was the ninja.
And yes, the title is a combo of both of those Isn't it funny how things can work more ways then one?
Pinkie Pie!
I think Pinkie's trying to get everyone in bed with Twilight.
1602301
Hell, I read 4 CHAPTERS and lost that many.
1602478 My female body parts shriveled up and died every time Bella did something
I see more drugs being used later in this fic. LOVE the chapter and I wonder what will happen when Twily trys to "apologize " to our little ninja pony, let the possible soft-core clopping. . . . BEGIN!!!!
1601705
Ah, yes.
Pinkie Pie, the roofie ninja!
Oh, man, it was Pinkie who dosed the sandwich back at Fluttershy's place too, wasn't it?
That mare needs to learn about boundaries, I swear.
1602596
1602182
New paragraph.
Like this. What you normally do when a new character speaks. You already do it, that was just a rare error you made.
*unicorn's
instead of the semicolon, use "or" and replace the comma after "feel" with a semicolon.
Missed a comma after "Finally"
Ship everyone pinkie...
eVeRyoNe...
Hm... If Pinkie's only started... 'helping' since AJ, does that mean fun time revisits for Rarity and Fluttershy?
...Wait! There's still time for party shenanigans Of course!
Paying attention to every detail Twi. The idea has been planted. Resistance is futile
oh pinkie
Pinkie be druggin' everyone!
Huh. Pinkie didn't fall for Twilight's lines, so what is she doing?
My common sense is tingling
So... in addition to assault and attempted murder, we can add drugging to Pinkie's list?
Sooo... when will she be arrested and thrown into the loonie bin? Yyeaah... I pretty much hate Pinkie.
Yeah yeah, it's comedy, but it also deals with real feelings, and it's also clear that Twily has some very special feels for RD. Also the ending worked nicely, but you might have even ended it with a cliffhanger and described how they woke up next to each other and wondered WTF.
Also... another knockout drop plot? Didn't we have that one already with Flutters and Angel? Hope you ain't running out of ideas.
1602220 You read Twilight?! I can't believe you!
1602232
I read "The Last Brony Gets his Wish", and he is VERY fond of those things. Except he breaks for whole pages at a time.
And reading Twilight is cool, bro. I honestly can't judge you based on some of the fanfiction I've read recently.
1603596 I read Twilight. Hell I read the whole damn series!
Purely because I wanted to know what it was all about.
Literally nothing to do with the fact that I was, at the time, kind of enjoying them.
Literally nothing.
Awesome story! This one of my favorites. Thank you so much for writing this. And Pinkie is the best spy
Sooo...Was the apple juice drugged or something...?
Edit: based on the comments...I'm betting Pinkie Pie did it.
1602924
That's a good little minion!
1603531 The 'knock out' will be explained in the next chapter
1603596 I know right? I friend suggested it to me as 'The best book ever written'
*Shivers in fear*
1604812 Yeah, did you miss the line when the 'pink-maned ninja dropped down on a rope and put something in the drinks'?
Yay! Twidash!
I'm hoping that, by the end of this, Twilight will choose a friend to date.
I'm also hoping that it's Rainbow Dash.
Things seem to be working out in my favour.
pinkie's got some plans... very big plans.
Oh Pinkie Pie, always up to something.
And what made Pinkie want to ship everypony with Twilight? Did I miss something in previous chapters?
would everyone stop drugging Twilight
So not only did Pinkie drug Twilight (and Rainbow Dash) here, and mess with Applejack and Twilight, but I'm assuming she also did the same at Fluttershy's? *reads comments* What the hell, Pinkie? I don't know if I should laugh or get some rope to catch that crazy bitch. Her motivations are not even clear, so I can't find it in me to hate her. She's basically trying to get one of them to actually be with Twilight. Though seriously, she's doing it over and OVER, to a point where I want to scream, "Clam it, Pinkie! Let her actually talk with them for one stupid second!" Honestly, her motivations not all that clear; does she just want them to be happy or something? Hmm. I don't know. Pinkie Pie can be about as simple as Calculus (which I am taking, and let me tell you, it ain't easy!).
Pinkie, I would like to know were you got those ruffies from!
~ Scare
Wow that was a good chapter. Didn't expect Pinkie to do that and the end made me laugh quite a bit.
~ Timid
1604925
Yes.