“No. I am Rainbow Dash, the one and only.” The one and only Rainbow Dash stood on the balcony of the Golden Oaks Library, hooves crossed and face scowling.
Twilight Sparkle’s eyes were watering and her voice quavered. “But Dash, we talked about this. You promised!”
Dash snorted. “Have you been taking whining lessons from Rarity? ‘Cause that was epic whining, egghead. You have the nasally tone just right, and those eyes are really top notch.”
Wrinkling her lavender muzzle, the librarian glanced sideways at Rainbow through squinting eyes. “I’ll have you know that was not whining, featherbrain! It was emphatic pleading, which is entirely different. And I only took the one lesson.”
“Yeah, well, I promised nothing and we didn’t talk about this at all. You talked about it, and I might have been in the vicinity, but that doesn’t count. It’s not my fault that my snoring sounded like acknowledgement to you.”
The unicorn stepped to the other side of the balcony and drew her hooves tight around her, shivering in the evening breeze. Her gaze downcast, she sniffed, “I… I guess that’s it, then. You really don’t love me, do you? If you did, you’d say yes. Instead I’ll be alone here, the old spinster librarian, unloved and lonely, heartbroken and pining away for the mare of her dreams, now long lost.”
“Nailed it, Twi! Nope, I don’t care in the slightest.” The pegasus put a hoof to her temple and shook her head. “ I’m just here for Spike’s cooking and the Daring Do collection. Your smokin’ hot flank’s got nothing to do with it.”
Twilight’s expression changed instantly from downtrodden to decidedly sultry and she sidled over to the azure mare. She ran practiced purple hooves over suddenly flaring wings, leaving a trail of hot breath and biting kisses up her lover’s neck. She stopped to draw teeth across the tender tip of a twitching blue ear before whispering, “Just say yes, Dash. My sweet, sexy Dash… I promise, I’ll make it worth your while.” Her hooves traveled down, down, past athletic hips and muscled flanks and lightning-cloud cutie mark and she added, “Very, very worth your while…”
Stepping away with wide eyes heart pounding, Dash spun and held a hoof out to stay the stalking unicorn. “Wow! Just - wow. Okay, seriously, that was amazingly hot, Twilight. And it would totally have worked to get me to agree if we didn’t, you know, do that anyway. All the time. Constantly.”
Twilight arched an eyebrow. “We do? Since when? What other lavender unicorn librarian Element-bearing students of the Princess have you been seeing?”
“I’ll have you know that one time for real is worth three or four times in my dreams and at least twice in my daydreams, egghead! So there.”
“Stick that tongue out again and it’ll be on my desk in a jar of formaldehyde, filly.” Twilight slid next to Dash, taking a place alongside her against the balcony railing. She lay a hoof around the pony’s shoulders and sighed. “Okay, I give up, Dash. What will it take to get you to agree? It’s not that big of a change, you know.”
The pegasus leaned over and lay her head on the cushion of a silken pink-striped lavender mane. “It is to me, Twilight. It’s part of me. I’m ‘the’ Rainbow Dash! It’s part of my identity, as much as my wings and my cutie mark and my mane and tail. I can’t just give this up!”
“But you’ll still be you, Dash! You’ll still be the Best Young Flier. You’ll still be the Element of Loyalty.” She nuzzled the prismatic mane beneath her muzzle and smiled. “These gorgeous wings will still be my two favorite blankets when I’m cold. None of that will change.”
“And the fastest pegasus in Equestria! Don’t forget fastest.” Rainbow fought back a quiet sob and drew Twilight closer. “You swear you won’t think any less of me, Twi?”
Laying a soft kiss on Rainbow’s forehead, Twilight whispered, “Not a bit. You’re the bravest pony I know, Dash, You can do it.”
Rainbow held the embrace for a few long minutes. “Okay, you win. I’ll do it.”
Twilight turned to face her beloved, muzzle to muzzle, and held her hooves. “Can you say it to my face, Dash?”
Dash looked up and locked her gaze on Twilight’s. “Rainbow.”
“Go on.”
“Dash.”
“Almost there.”
She gulped visibly, her muzzle contorting as if she’d swallowed something bitter and viscous and wriggling. “Sparkle.”
Twilight launched forward and threw herself into a warm, smiling, and tearful hug. “I knew you could do it! Oh, I love you, Dash! I can’t want to tell everypony!”
Silently Dash mouthed the words, “Rainbow. Dash. Sparkle.” Shaking her head, she muttered, “I swear, Twilight, the first time anypony calls me Rainbow Sparkle, the wedding’s off.”
Not what I had in mind... But equally cute (and hot for what it was) nonetheless.
HNNNNNNNNNNGGGGG...
Oh god it's too cute. Your characterizations are still absolutely wonderful. And Rainbow Dash Sparkle is a decidedly cute name.
Eureka! I have just successfully contracted the seventeenth known form of diabeetus! I most go now and record my findings. Your contributions are most appreciated. I will return at a later date. Hopefully we can reach another successful agreement.
Hmm....
Yes. I approve. wholeheartedly.
Bwaha. Silly Rainbow. Rainbow Dash Apple sounds much better, and doesn't sacrifice any dignity at all!
Until we meet another married couple (by name), I do not accept that Carrot and Cup Cake took each other's last name in marriage. I think they just had coincidental names, as they're both clearly bakers, and Equestria has prophetic naming.
That was hilariously cute
good job man can't wait for the next one
I will forever be baffled by your ability to compress emotion into these short, crisp segments, but at the same time my heartstrings will be plucked by a pro, so I can't really care much about that.
Seriously, as much as I love you for these little compilations of wonderfully crafted moments, I would kill to see a full length fic from you. You don't have to do it, but I'm just putting that out there.
Now, I think I have some TwiLuna of yours to catch up on
Squeeeee
Excellent very cute along with a twist ending just take my mustache
I suppose "Twilight Dash" doesn't roll off the tongue as well. Now "Twilight Sparkle Dash" actually kind of works.
With that said, this does cause me to once again to wonder about the naming conventions within Equestria and my hypothesis that Equestrian last names are not the same as with human cultures...
Rainbow Sparkle... why yes in fact they do.
pony nomenclature is just the funniest thing
I guess we know who wears the tux in this relationship
Anyway, great chapter!
yay a wedding! i think we all know who the guy in the relationship is...
TheLastBrunnenG... what did you do to my arm?
It.. it won't stop pumping...
All of my d'aaaawwww!
Aww... All of my yes.
"Rainbow Sparkle" does seem to be lacking something, doesn't it? Then again "Twilight Dash" actually sounds vaguely criminal. I think that a hyphenated family name is the best option here.
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Many, many thanks - glad you all liked it!
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Questionable naming conventions - check! Really I imagine that it's up to the ponies involved - change one name, change the other, hyphenate, change neither, invent something new, whatever they want. This was something Twilight convinced RD to do, not something required by Equestrian law or tradition. As for prophetic naming? In the last ten or fifteen years I've lived places which had TV meteorologists named Larry Sprinkle and Storm Field, so it's not just a pony thing.
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Gracias! New avatar?
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Full length? Maybe one day. The thought still makes me nervous, like there's no way I could keep it from derailing if I went over 1500 words. There's a writer on TMP right now (Rawtooth) who's doing an ongoing RariJack piece. They're like mine, all self-contained stories, but Rawtooth's are linked together much more closely and could probably be pasted together into a 5000+ word piece without any extra editing or filler. They're superbly done and I'm watching Rawtooth's stories to try learning exactly how he's weaved them into a longer work so seamlessly (while staying on prompt).
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That was well done so many Daaaaws there can't wait to see the next one Rainbow Sparkle I think I will have to poke fun at Rainbow with that one Well done can't wait for moar
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Appreciate it!
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Horse romance isn't everyone's cup of tea, doubly so when they're all mares. If I helped make it interesting and readable, then - success! It's a real compliment, so thank you!
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Except meterologists tend to change their names to fit the profession. And Larry Sprinkle is Upstate South Carolina, right?
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Yep. Rock Hill SC / Charlotte NC last I heard, though I haven't lived there in a while. Still, did he get into weather because his name was Sprinkle, or vice versa? Was his cutie mark a Doppler Weather Radar 9000?
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He got into weather, and changed his name to Sprinkle
But totally the cutie-mark thing
*snerk* Nice. Surprised they didn't manage it the other way round tho.
I feel like your story just keeps skipping through time way too much.
I would also like to point out some capitalization errors, Egghead and Featherbrain and nicknames and there for pronouns.
1920010 Gotta compliment you now, that is a delightful avatar.
1922088 Well, no one, please don't credit me. I found it off of Google. Who knows where it's from. Still... Dislestia forever!
I love how Dash is characterized in this. Definitely head-over-hooves for Twi, but doing her best to seem aloof despite it. Failing miserably, but trying nonetheless.
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I love this format of writing, it allows for you to create structure, and then let us fill in the blanks.
...Although I still think a full length from you would be spectacular if you tried.
These two crack me up.
Rainbow..........Sparkle.......
Oooook i'm with Dash on that one.
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I do know of a way where you can link your chapters together, as of right now these are just different stages in the relationship, dates, and all of that stuff, also the side-stories with Fluttershy in it, maybe when you go to write this as a full story, start it out with Twi asking Dash out on a date, then following dash for a while to see her reaction and all of that, then swap back to twilight to see how she is feeling and if she is worrying herself sick or freaking out about something
I can’t want to tell everyone!”
Little oopsy there!
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That made me hhhhhnnnnnnngggggggggggg
epic win is all that come in my mind when im reading this
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Your comment is so funny!
I laughed for a minute straight!