Gallop from the Ghosties!

by protractror

Okay, that might not have been a ghost.

It was just passing noon when Rainbow Dash woke up on one of her favourite clouds, just according to her schedule. Nothing exciting, let alone radical ever really happened early in the morning, so Rainbow optimized her time awake to be as much fun as possible. Rainbow Dash often wondered why she was the only pony to sleep that way, but she was perfectly fine with everyone else waking up early. If everyone worked like her then the whole scheme just plain wouldn't work.

Right now Rainbow Dash was contemplating what she was going to have for lunch, her most important meal of the day. No cereal for her, Rainbow Dash only ate the imporant meals. She was soon interrupted from her day dreams when she heard a very familiar greeting.

"Dashie!" Pinkie Pie called to her sleeping best friend. However it was then that 'Dashie' suffered the one downfall in her sleeping arrangement, the world shattering, all encompassing, scorching light that was the sun. Rainbow Dash opened her eyes into a direct view of the sun and let out a brief yelp as the adrenaline started pumping through her veins. Covering her eyes with her hoofs her brain barely registered a quiet sorry from beneath.

"Heya Pinkie, long time no see" Rainbow mumbled, trying too calm her heart rate. It had been a long time of sorts, six days in fact. Ever since Rainbow Dash had tried to help Pinkie, the little baker had decided to wait a bit before seeing Rainbow again. It was actually a pretty hilarious sight, Pinkie Pie hiding all over town in a cheap wig and trenchcoat. She jumped into alleyways, piles of hay, fountains, etc with over acting only Rarity could hope to match. But what Pinkie lacked in seriousness, she easily made up for in results to the point that Rainbow Dash hadn't the slightest of clues where Pinkie had been all week. She had assumed that Pinkie was probably in her room all week.

"Sorry about that Dashie! I've just been so busy with the bakery you know? I mean there's cakes, and Cakes making me make cakes and then the cakes that I eat, and the cakes that the Cakes want me to bake. Oops, I mean cake."

"No, you don't Pinkie. Anyway, what brings you here now?" Rainbow managed to get out inbetween deep breaths.

"I haven't seen you here all week Rainbow! If you weren't all bruisey from last week..." Pinkie Pie trailed off for a moment from her previous pep. If Rainbow Dash wasn't blind she would have seen a rare look of nervousness pass her pink friend's face. However, the bubbliness came back in an instant. " I would just jump up there and give you a gigantic Pinkie Pie hug!"

"Yeah, my bruises and twenty or so feet. Actually, my bruises are all healed up now so I guess its only physics thats stop- " Rainbow Dash never got a chance to finish that thought as she was tackled out of her cloud by her best friend. Pinkie pie had brought a trampoline for just the occasion, as well as a nice, fluffy cushion to land on. However when Rainbow finally opened her eyes as she lay on the ground, all she knew was that somehow Pinkie had scaled twenty feet in a single bound to give her a hug.

"That's Pinkie pie" she thought to herself.

It wasn't until Rainbow Dash tried to breath that she remembered that not only was she on the ground, but Pinkie Pie was hugging her, possibly to death as Dash tried and failed to inhale. As much as Dash would never admit it, she did love how emotional Pinkie Pie was. Rainbow Dash was never the type of pony to say how much she cared about others, that wasn't cool and it was pretty obvious if it mattered. But every once in a while it felt nice to know for sure how strong a friendship was. This one seemed to be able to bench 200 pounds if the hug was any indication, so Rainbow coughed out a warning.

"Whoops!" Pinkie exclaimed as she loosened her vice grip on Rainbow Dash. "So, about last week, I just really wanted to say thanks. I know that you probably think what you did was useless, but it wasn't. I might still be afraid of ghosts, but there's just somethings in life you can't change. Like ghosts. But do you know what makes my day Dashie?"

"Zombies?" Rainbow joked with a dead pan expression. If ghosts were fair game...

"Zombie ponies? Where!?" Pinkie Pie leaped up about to pounce onto the cringing Rainbow Dash before stopping and giving Rainbow the same look she had been given moments before. "Har, har, very funny. No, what really makes my day is when someone goes out of there way to help me Rainbow! You really are loyal."

"Yeah, I've heard as much."

"But seriously Dashie, nobody is as good a friend as you! Sure everybody wants to hang out with me at a party, and you can't spell laughter without Pinkie, but nobody really treats me just like you do. Now of course all of the other girls are great and I love them all to itsy little pieces, but Dashie, you most of all... you don't see me as a thing. I'm not just a random force of nature, I'm a random force of nature being piloted by a pony! And when you take a few new shades black and blue to the rainbow so that I can have a better time, well it means a lot to me. I just wanted to tell you that."

"Hey, thanks Pinkie but don't sell yourself short. You're a lot more than just a random force of nature," Rainbow said as she put her fore leg around Pinkie in a reassuring manner. "You can also bake a mean danish."

"Hehehe *snort*. Why can't you ever be serious like me Dashie!"

"I don't think I could ever be that serious Pinkie, even I only have so much energy."

"So lets just have a normal day today Rainbow. If you really want you can try and scare me tomorrow but I just want to prank today. Its prank Tuesday is it not?" Pinkie Pie said to her bestest friend. However, her friend had the face of a pony who just saw their priceless vase fall off its table, as it slowly fell to its inevitable fate. "It is Tuesday right?" Pinkie asked, slightly worried.

It was Tuesday, and there wasn't anything Rainbow wanted more right now then to go pranking with Pinkie. This was one of life's beautiful moments, the type Rainbow Dash would put in a scrapbook if she was about 20% lamer. If Rainbow Dash's special talent wasn't speed it would have been coolness, and she knew that the coolest thing she could do was to hang out with Pinkie Pie. However, over the hill she saw possibly the lamest thing in Equestria marching towards them. Dash had no choice but to look, and see her perfect moment crumble.

Crossing the hill in her ridiculous ghost costume Twilight saw Pinkie and Dash together and figured that she must have been right when Rainbow said twelve, she meant twelve noon and not midnight. With a gulp and a cry of "ooga booga" Twilight went down the hill.

For friendship.

Comments

[Balancer]

At first twi was like :let's do this
Then pinkie was like :GHOST (runs off)
The twi was like :horse apples
Then rainbow dash was like , much

And some where, far away, celestia was like :son, I am disappoint