“I…don’t suppose we could borrow that book for a little while…do ya?”
Smiling broadly, Twilight floated the Hearts and Hooves Day book down to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. “Of course you can!” She turned her attention back to her saddlebag, grabbing a second tome in a glow of magenta. “I have another book here that I think you’ll…” The filly threesome had disappeared. A quick look around the street confirmed the unicorn was alone. Grimacing in annoyance, Twilight sighed and cracked open the book before continuing her trek back to the library.
“Ya know, if you read and walk at the same time you’re gonna knock somepony over, Twilight.” The purple mare jumped, dropping the book to the ground. Her eyes scanned up, finding Rainbow Dash hovering a few feet above her. The pegasus snickered. “You’re a riot.”
Smirking and shaking her head, Twilight grasped the book in a haze of magic and put it back in her saddlebag. “Good afternoon, Rainbow Dash. What’re you up to?”
The pegasus flipped over on her back, flying upside down. “Not much. Figured I’d find out what my favorite Egghead was doin’ today.”
“Well, I was reading a book about the history of Hearts and Hooves Day, but I loaned it out to Sweetie Belle and her friends.” The mare shook her head slowly, resuming her canter towards the library. “Why do I suddenly feel like that was a terrible mistake?”
“Seriously Twi’?” Rainbow Dash flicked her wings and spun through the air, hovering next to Twilight and matching her pace. “A history book? D’you always spend holidays reading about them?”
“Hey, I like reading. I thought maybe you’d learned how to appreciate that.” She gently shoulder-checked her flying friend, shooting the blue pony a smirk.
“Well, yeah, Daring Do is awesome and I’m sure you have a ton of other books like that, but history?” A few exaggerated retching sounds earned her another shoulder-check. Chuckling, she bumped into Twilight. They traded blows the remainder of the walk, giggling as they went.
“So how is Daring treating you? Finish Griffin’s Goblet yet?” Twilight asked between strikes and fits of laughter.
“Days ago.”
“So how’d you like it?” A bit too forceful of a charge sent both mares tumbling to the ground.
Dusting herself off with a large grin on her face, Rainbow grew distant and mumbled, “Eh, it wasn’t good.” Twilight frowned, her ears falling back. The pegasus flashed a playful eye at her before cracking an even wider smile. “It was awesome!” She leapt back into the air, flying up in a looping backflip before hovering just off the ground. “It was even better than Sapphire Statue! When I was done I wanted to crash into your window just to talk to you about it, but it was like, three in the morning.”
Twilight opened the door to Golden Oaks Library with a small effort of will, Rainbow’s infectious enthusiasm adding a bounce to her step. “Well, wanna talk about it now? I’ve wanted somepony to talk to about Daring Do for ages!”
“Okay, but no spoilers, Egghead, I’m only halfway through the Cannibal’s Crown.” The blue mare followed her friend through the library’s main room and into the kitchen. Twilight put on a pot of coffee to brew sat at the table. Rainbow sat opposite her, wings wide and twitching with keen interest. “So where do we start?”
“How about Daring’s escape at the end of Sapphire Statue?”
“Oh my gosh, yes!”
A grinding rumble shook the library, dragging the two mares from their conversation. Rainbow flapped her wings and lifted from the kitchen table, whipping into the main library. “What was that?”
Twilight trotted up to join the blue mare hovering at the window. “Can you see anything?”
“It…kinda looks like that house over there is moving…” The slowly-drifting house moved across the roofline. It eventually halted and the low vibrations ceased. “That was weird.” Her magenta eyes scanned the rooftops of Ponyville and settled on the clock tower. “Wow, we’ve been talkin’ about Daring Do for almost two hours, Twi’.”
“Really?” The unicorn glanced at the clock on the wall. “I guess we have. I didn’t notice at all; Daring Do is so fun to talk about.”
Rainbow Dash back flipped and landed with her chest puffed out and a smirk on her lips. “Time flies when you’re talkin’ to the Rainbow Dash.” Twilight giggled and shook her head. The blue mare’s expression softened to a more genuine smile. “And the Twilight Sparkle, apparently. That was a lot of fun, Twilight.”
“It was. You wanna sit back down and keep talking? We were just about to get to the part where Daring invaded the griffin warcamp.”
Rainbow Dash grew quiet and watched the clock-tower through the window, a small stillness silencing the library. When she spoke, some of the bravado had drained from her voice. She seemed subdued to Twilight; not as nervous as she’d seen the pegasus during the Best Young Flyer competition, but with a vulnerability that was rarely present. “…Twilight, wanna go to dinner with me?”
The purple mare raised an eyebrow, studying her friend’s change in demeanor. “Sure; it’s getting close to dinner anyway and I’d like to keep talking. Want me to get Spike to whip something up?”
Rainbow’s wings fidgeted. “I meant, like, to a restaurant.” She turned to face Twilight, but couldn’t meet her eyes. “It uh, would be a good day for it.”
Twilight’s eyes widened and she took a step back. “Rainbow…are you asking me out on a date?” The pegasus continued to fidget but flashed a tentative smile. Before she could help herself, Twilight blurted out, “Why?”
Furrowing her brow, Rainbow asked, “Why not? You’re smart, you’re fun to hang out with and talk to, you’re really pretty,” Twilight felt her face grow warm, “Why wouldn’t I ask you out?”
The unicorn cleared her throat, shuffling her hooves on the wooden floor. A small pout graced her reddened muzzle as she met Rainbow’s gaze. “But we’re so different. You shouldn’t be interested in somepony like me…you should want a mare or colt who can keep up with you. An athlete.”
The pegasus rolled her eyes and looked back out the window. “That sounds like fun; going out with somepony I’ll always wanna compete with. Every walk in the park turning into a race, every dinner a hoof-wrestle…” The daredevil’s voice dropped, colored with imperfectly hidden reproach. “You just had to say you’re not interested.”
Twilight swallowed thickly, cantering resolutely up to Rainbow Dash. She set a hoof on the mare’s shoulder. “I’d love to go to dinner with you.”
The blue pony straightened up, her wings fluttering against her sides. Her squeaked out response of, “Cool,” was not as suave as she would have liked, but Twilight didn’t let on that she noticed if she had.
Grinning foolishly, Twilight trotted to her desk and levitated a saddlebag over her neck. “You just surprised me. To be honest, I kinda started thinking about it after we had that chat the other day, but I wasn’t expecting you to be interested in somepony like me.”
“Oh yeah,” Rainbow smirked, “A foxy mare who I know I can have fun with, talk to about anything, and apparently has the hots for me already? Totally not my type. What was I thinking?”
Giggling, Twilight bumped the pegasus with her shoulder on her way to the door. “Come on then, sarcastic one. Let’s go to dinner. This has already been one of the best Hearts and Hooves Days I can remember; let’s not stop now.” The unicorn locked the door behind them, humming tunelessly to herself. She turned to find her date staring at her. “What?”
“…This is one of the best Hearts and Hooves Days I can remember, too.” Beckoning dramatically with a hoof, Rainbow waited for the purple mare to join her. The two fell in line together, trotting off towards the town. Rainbow thought she heard a lingering scream of ‘no’ on the breeze from Sweet Apple Acres, but it was easy to ignore. Her mind was too busy shouting ‘yes.’
My feeeeeeeeeeelssssss~~~~~~~~~~~~ You broked them.
How could anyone dislike this? So far, this is full of the d'awwwwwww.
And yay! I was hoping someone would start up a twidash project Twilight + Rainbow = best shipping pair.
continue this asap! uh if it wouldn't be to much trouble you know.... awesome so far though
FINALLY! something to counter that freakin appledash project thing! nah just kidding i like the idea of us fans exploring different ships happening in the show like its canon.
Really Bats? This is the surprise
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(I got more where this came from)
I'm so glad you're doing this because I've wanted to do it but never had the motivation to do so! TwiDash on my friend. TwiDash on.
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Read it and Weep was the best place to start The Twidash Project, and the very next episode was Hearts and Hooves Day! How could I, in good conscience, NOT release the start today? To not would have been the worst. Possible. Thing.
I like it. They're short, but sweet, and really seem to be natural.
More please.
yea good point
It comes across as a teensy bit contrived, but then, I guess most shipping is. Very sweet all the same. Twidash for the d'aaaww.
Also, RD asking Twi to dinner was criminally cute.
I always love these expanded episode story ideas, and this one is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Good work, and more please
And there's the box! :D Today is a glorious day.
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Haha, doesn't count until it's in the featured box when mature fics are visible too.
Released a TwiDash chapter of my own this morning, and what's the reward? A new TwiDash story by bats! Universe is smiling on me today.
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GOD DAMMIT!! WHY WON'T THIS SHIP DIE!?!?!?!??!?!?!
I wish I had no sense of dignity so I could downvote this fic without having to read it first.
2121740 I'm at work and it's in the box so that's good enough for me! It can only go up from here right?
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Twidash, or perhaps shipping in general for you, isn't for everyone. I see on your profile you're a fan of grimdark. Allow me to recommend for your reading pleasure one of these excellent and underrated grimdark fics:
Pinkamenace II Society
Secret of a Showmare
Rainbow Dash gets an Abortion (don't let the political-sounding title influence you; it's not really about abortion)
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NOW it's in the featured box.
2121767 See? It was only a matter of time. Plus all this commenting activity is helping too I bet.
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I'll have to take a look at some of those, thank you. I've actually never read any of them.
And yeah, I don't really like most shipping. I hope you understand that I do realize to let each their own. It's just that shipping, to me anyway, seems kind of out of place for a show like MLP (says the guy who likes dark fics, I know ). I'm sometimes alright with it if it is done well and isn't obviously forced, but the problem with me and "Twidash" is that I just don't fucking get it.
How is it that you are able to link these two? What do you see in them?? What do you see???
And maybe it's just me, but add to that the fact that "Twidash" seems to be the one subplot that shows up in the dark genre that almost always gets in the way of what often could have been a really good grimdark. It just ruins the atmosphere of the story to me.
2121627 Awww, where's the "But momma, I don't know how to paint." one?
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I could go into the details on why I like Twidash, but I don't know that either of us really have the time or patience for that. Short answer is I find their personalities to be compatible for making a relationship work. Over a long-term relationship, the things that both of them bring to the table would temper the other, resulting in them growing and changing into better ponies. That's really appealing to me. They're both independent but insecure; they'd draw strength from each other without becoming codependent. And as different as they are, they have an underlying commonality. Both are exceptional at what they choose to do, both are rather practical-minded, both have idols that they simultaneously look up to and are overshadowed by. From those commonalities, they contrast in ways that the other would benefit from; Twilight would learn to be less high-strung from Rainbow Dash, and Rainbow Dash would learn to appreciate organization and learn to think things through better from Twilight. There's more, a lot more, but that's a general run-down of why I really like the pairing. But to each their own; I have ships that I dislike so I don't expect everyone to jump up and down for the ones I do like.
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i just wonder why you bother with Twidash/shipping if you don't like it.
I don't like Grimdark storys, thus i don't read them, easy.
2121847 Omg, have you never seen that diabeetus filled pic?
Not to be nitpicky, but. . . "Bookplayer has kindly given her blessings."
Congrats on the feature box! You TwiDashers are amazing.
2121865 no
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OMG sorry!
2121882 Tears. I'd show it to you, but I can't find it. It's probably in the fillies picture thread on ponychan, though.
2121898 please find it
2121904 Can't, sorry. Ponychan is wack for me right now; but if you look yourself, you might be able to find it. Again, I apologize.
2121918 ugh I don't even know what ponychan is
Bats you are such a great TwiDash shipper, and a really good author to boot. After realizing I have read all but one of your stories (The last one being on my to read list) I decided that I am quite a fan of your writing and am now following you. I look forward to good things from you. Good luck and happy Hearts and Hooves day.
2121918 ok found out its 4Chan with ponies *shivers* not going there
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Lol, the horrors the internet brings to your doorstep, even in the comments section of a fluff fic!
So refreshing for one of them to just ask the other out on a date for once.
It's weird for people to declare eternal love at the start of the relationship? Right? Because after so much of that on fimfiction I don't know anymore.
2121953 yea I blame America for making the Internet and taking the innocence away from all those who use it
Dang it bats, this is why we can't have nice things.
Every time! Gah! I try to escapse the holiday's inevitable sadness by reveling in fimfiction, yet you just keep bringing back my appreciation of this day! This is another ship i enjoy seeing on the open waters!
just keep catching my eyes and heart with words, eh?
So, like everypony else, i must request more!'
Extremely well done. Fantastic job and an easy favorite.
More Twidash? Eh, sure why not?
2122011 hmmm.... I actually think that the internet was invented in the uk
Aaaand..... Life would be boring without the internet, 4chan and cancer, thus your argument is invalid!
2122272 no the internet was created by an American
Like. Favorite. Follow the author.
Yes, all of those things. Have them. Have them all!
Ok, so let's look at what you're trying to... Live up to? Yes. I think that's right.
You're trying to live up to the fame of the Appledash project, yes?
Tough goal, I'm not going to lie. Appledash is a very popular series (Rightly so) and it just so happens to be one of my favorites. Tough thing to write a fic with a similar concept and do justice.
I'd like to say that both you (bats) and your co-author (Subsolar Drift) have well and truely knocked the ball out of the park.
I simply loved this. Well done!
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I think what you're thinking of is that huge technological war that took place between two companies.
They were both from the UK and were fighting to be the... Microsoft, of the early days of the internet.
If my memory serves me correctly.
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Actually the internet was created for the US Department of Defense (DOD) during the cold war, so that in the event of a nuclear war they would have a way to communicate between military bases. When the cold war ended the team that made it further developed it for the commercial sector.
Ah, to ride the coat-tails of success yet again.
And thus, it begins.
Oh look, more Twidash from bats.
This story is adorable. Please don't break my heart with the doubtless inevitable argument that separates Twilight and Rainbow for weeks until one of their other friends encourages them to talk about it.
... This has happened in other fics, if you're wondering.
Really good so far, if a tad corny. Neat idea, though. I'll be following this intently.
And Indeed: TwiDash forever.