Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"And after that, the Windmill District is going to need a fresh batch of lumber from the warehouse," Stamps said, shuffling through papers across his desk. Ponies, stallions, workers of Banner Company trotted every which way behind him, carrying supplies left and right. "They're also going to need every box of nails and screws that they can get. A visit to the hardware store just won't cut it. So, if you can relate to me your weather flying schedule for the rest of the week, I'll do my best to work around it so that you can make your regular flights to the windmill. Okay, Rainbow?"
Silence.
At last, Stamps looked up, squinting. "...Rainbow Dash?"
The mare stared at him. Her muzzle hung slightly agape. A stallion or two trotted past her, and she flinched slightly, eyelashes fluttering. She continued to stand there, lost in a thick stupor.
Stamps' eyebrow arched. "Is everything okay there, Rainbow?"
"I... uhm..." Her eyes traced the ordinary architecture of the warehouse, its aisles and aisles of stacked boxes and crates. "Yeah... erm... the Windmill District. Lumber. I-I got it."
Stamps' nostrils flared. "Honestly. You just came back from vacation. I figured your days of zoning out were over."
"Yeah, well..." She reached towards the desk and grabbed her work order. "It wasn't that kind of a vacation." That said, she turned tail and walked out.
Stamps watched on in curious silence.
Pensively, Rainbow Dash stepped out onto the soft soil of Ponyville. Her hooves squeezed the soft, rich dirt of the central pathway. She tilted her head up, squinting at brilliant afternoon sun. Then, with a soft breath, she looked across the quaint rooftops and verdant trees populated with twittering songbirds.
Everything was gentle, vibrant, and lovely.
A warm breath rolled through her. She would have smiled, but something about the gesture felt painful. With a slight shudder, she spread her wings, flew towards the warehouse across town, and flexed her muscles in preparation for the heavy delivery job at hoof.
Part Sixteen: Ponyville With a Side of Life Slices
(Where Rainbow Dash counts her blessings)
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I hope this'll be a fairly long arc. It'd be nice to have a good while of peace before the League of Evil attacks and all Tartarus breaks loose.
Part fucking 16, what a long way this has come. Also mr 57th downvote? I aint even mad anymore. All you did was fuck yourself out of one of the best stories around.
Alright. We get the calm before the storm
Better enjoy it while you can, Rainbow. Shit's a-brewin'.
Oh yeah... jobs, money, bosses. Normal person stuff. Kinda forgot that was a thing.
Now all we need to do is wait... With bated breaths..
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Yaaaaayy!
I love slice-of-life!
I know Hasbro has a tendency to meddle with the show. However, Lauren Faust wanted to make Nightmare Moon a recurring villain, and wanted the show to be something closer to an action-adventure show in the same vein as the Powerpuff Girls.
Thinking the episodes would syndicate better if they followed a slice-of-life format, Hasbro insisted that they be designed that way instead. Compromises on both sides brought us the season format we have now.
I'm very happy with the way things worked out. At the risk of provoking the wrath of and losing respect from some of you here... maybe Hasbro's meddling isn't always a bad thing.
I guess this is a good point for a break. Playing catch up is hard and I missed all the fun of commenting with the others, but oh man is it worth it. I've had to catch up to a semester's worth of chapters in a day but it's so tantalizingly close, I'm actually kind of nervous.
It was what you might loosely describe as a dream vacation.
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Aran I love your comments dude, great part of every skirts chapter. So I have to let you know that I truly can't decide whether to up or down vote this. Good job.