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.
"Winsome Falls!" Epcot grinned, sitting across a floating tea set. "Why, that sounds delightful!" A giggle. "With places as pretty as you've described, just who would need to build a Cider Space anyways?"
Rainbow lowered a cup from her lips. "Did I say 'Winsome' Falls?"
"Didn't you?"
"For some reason, I could have sworn I said 'Rainbow' Falls." She shrugged. "Eh." A sip. "Guess everything's me-colored in my head."
"Except when it comes to freckles."
"Heeeeeeeeeeeee-hehehehehe-yeahhhhhh..." Rainbow Dash sighed. She placed her teacup down and leaned back, gazing at an ocean bubbling overhead. "Mmmmm... Well, I'm friggin' stoked. It'll be just us girls... plus Trixie.."
"Uh huh..."
"Hanging out. Hoofing it. Sharing stories. Making new ones."
"Well..." Epcot smiled, pretending to sip from her own cup. "Don't you sound positively enamored?"
"It just seems so darn simple, y'know?" Rainbow sat back up and squinted across the table at her. "Like... why didn't I think of it before?"
"From what you've said, you didn't even think of it this time. You have Fluttershy to thank."
"Well, true. But still." Rainbow gulped. "It's like I'm... waking up to the fact that my friends are right frickin' there. I could have hung out with them at anytime. I could be hanging out with them at anytime!"
"Including Applejack..."
"Especially Applejack!" Rainbow smirked. "I mean, why not? She means a lot to me. I mean a lot to her."
"Love has its many degrees of expression and purpose," Epcot said. "It would be silly to sacrifice one tier for another."
"Right?" Rainbow gulped. "And... who knows? Maybe... maybe this is the sort of foundation I need."
"Hmmmm..."
"I just need to... start at the roots." She gulped. "Work my way up."
"But you use that word, though."
"Huh?" Rainbow blinked.
"'Work,'" Epcot remarked. "Seems a bit forced to me."
"In what way?"
"Friendship shouldn't have to be about labor," the chaperone said. "Of all the mortals and immortals I've ever studied, the majority of them formed social bonds through natural means—without having to resort to obligations or self-imposed commitments."
"Well... that's kinda sorta what this is." Rainbow Dash hugged herself as she spoke. "I'm just learning to... to relax."
"Well, that most definitely is a good thing, Rainbow Dash."
"I know that..." Rainbow gulped. "...it almost appears as though I'm settling."
Epcot's narrowed. "Now, I never intended to imply that..."
"Oh, for sure." Rainbow sighed. "I just... I just gotta catch up, y'know?" She cleared her throat. "Unlike Experimental Chaperones of Tomorrow, not all of us live forever."
"Of that I'm quite aware."
Rainbow winced. "Sorry."
"Don't be." Epcot smiled, leaning her head to the side. "However, you could answer a question for me, if you're of a mind."
"Shoot."
"Does any of this have anything to do with the friend you've just lost contact with?"
Rainbow blinked. "Huh...?"
"Your friend. The one you called 'Lancie,'" Epcot remarked. "With his departure, I can only assume you've received greater motivation to preserve that which you have."
Rainbow bit her lip.
Epcot leaned back, blinking. "If that's too forward of me, I apologize—"
"No. It's fine." Rainbow coughed. "And... yeah. There's some truth in that, I suppose. Even though... I-I don't think anything I could have done would have changed the fact that Lancie had to go take a hike for... p-personal reasons. For so long, he was so obsessed about changing me. And... and I get what he was trying to do? Y'know? I mean... sorta. He wanted to make a decision that was beneficial for myself... or at least my heart's desire. But... but I just couldn't, y'know? One thing or another got in the way and... and I think he lost a lot of faith in me right at the end."
"Oh?"
"These last few days and nights, I've been obsessed over... over whether or not I respect Applejack," Rainbow said. "And I still believe that the reason I never gave in to any of Lancie's offerings or temptations is because of that respect. But... but it goes deeper than that, and I think this is where Lancie was onto something... whether he knew it or not." Rainbow leaned back, brushing a hoof through her bangs. "To respect Applejack, I gotta level with her. I gotta be there by her side, instead of... y'know... what I've been doing." She gulped. "Which is... j-just obsessing with her from the shadows. No, I... I gotta be with her... to figure out where she's at... and where I'm at. And... and if there's a chance... even a snowflake's chance in Tartarus of us being in the same place... together."
Epcot gently nodded. After a while, she said, "And if you determine that there isn't such a chance?"
Rainbow sighed, her ears folding. "...then we'll always have Rainbow Falls..."
"Don't you mean Winsome Falls?"
"Pffft." Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Whatever."
"Heeheehee!" Epcot giggled.
Rainbow chuckled... then chuckled some more. With a sigh, she raised her hoof and rubbed her eyes dry.
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We'll be studying the rare breed of the Applejack up close and personal. It's a pretty big step for Dash. I'm feeling pretty proud of her at the moment.
I wish Lancie would come back eventually.
I'm really diggin' this new outlook of Rainbow's. It's... almost optimistic, if such a thing is possible.
Just another reason why Epcot is another Best Pony.
Best Pony strikes again! Also, actual progressive thinking from RD? An actual plan to develop her relationship with AJ?
What in the Blueberry fuck is going on here?!
Now.. I'm half expecting this to go pear shaped, cause.. this is a skirts fic, and skirts is good at getting our hopes up only to nuke them into their composite atoms at a crucial moment.
But... it seems too predictable for the camping trip to be spoiled by Stu's appearance.
Same with the whole tornado formation thing, I know I said earlier I predicted Stu was gonna get treed or rocked with extreme prejudice and that was going to lead to AJ taking care of him, but again.. too predictable.
I could be wrong in those thoughts, but at the same time, this is a skirts fic, and skirts is nothing if creative about how he tears our hopes and happy's apart.
So I'll just expect everything that could possibly go wrong will, that way I can be happily blindsided by having the rug whipped into the side of my head instead of pulled from under me.
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What about Lancie's appearance?
6686339 Rainbow will ruin everything without Stu's help.
Time to start counting the ways this can (and probably will) go wrong.
Then again, everyone (myself included) expects this trip to go... How can I put this... Catastrophically wrong. And Skirts, if anything, knows how to continuously surprise us. So... Maybe everything will go alright? For once?
You know what? Fuck it! I'm just gonna be contrarian and decide that this whole trip is going to go swimmingly. Rainbow's gonna have a grand time with her friends and rebuild her foundation with Applejack without any unforseen complications or awkwardness of any kind!
Calling it now.
You see guys? Leave Stu out of the equation for a few chapters and look what we get! Rainbow's character developing, more Epcot, some actual optimism for once...jeez Stu sure does put a damper on things doesn't he?
I'm sure they'll love the one about how you fought dragons and an assassin and psycho's and even reformed somepony for your crush's little sister, Dashie.
JEEZAAHS!!! 82 CHAPTERS LEFT!
With as often and insistently as Dashie repeats this line, I'm already waiting for the moment where Stu shows up.
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*Sigh.* Eeyup.