//------------------------------// // Work Can Be so Boring // Story: True Harmony // by ddstory25 //------------------------------// They knocked on the door, but got no response; so they opened it anyway. The door creaked as it opened, and they found Rainbow sitting at a desk, deep into her paperwork. Applejack spoke up, concern invading her voice, “Ummmm Rainbow Dash.” She didn’t respond, other than just letting out a grunt. Frowning, Applejack yelled “RAINBOW DASH!” The blue mare let out a little squeal and flew out of her chair. Once she recovered, she turned her head towards the direction of the noise, and wore an annoyed look on her face. She addressed them, her voice angry and tone serious, “Why aren’t you ponies cleaning up the factory from that rainbow spill? Do you want to get fired, because I will fire you four.” They looked at each other confusion on their faces as Pinkamena spoke with concern, “Well no - you can’t fire us because we don’t work here, and neither do you Rainbow Dash. We need to go stop this crazy pony from destroying Equestria, and for that we need you. So come on and drop the paperwork and lets gooooo!” Rainbow looked at her, a deep a scowl on her face as her eyes squinted “If you don’t work in the factory, then why are you here?” Fluttershy rolled her eyes “Pinkamena just said why we’re here, we need your help to stop Equestria from dying and falling into an endless wasteland of despair and chaos.” Rainbow looked Fluttershy right in the eyes “I’m busy with the factory; I can’t just stop what I’m doing, tell my staff ‘Oh hey, I’ve got to go to save Equestria from madness and chaos but you guys keep working’. That's not how I run the Weather Factory, I won’t just abandon my co-workers like that.” The group all looked at Rainbow with concern, and Twilight stepped forwards, speaking up, “Rainbow, I know you would never leave any pony you believe in behind, but we need you, I need you, to join us. We really need you and your element of harmony to stop Dark Blitz. If not for us as friends, then I ask you to do it as one of the Princess of Equestria.” Rainbow looked at Twilight, as she unfolded her wings to show her that she was an alicorn. Rainbow sighed “Look Princess, I’ll join you, but only after all the paperwork is done and I have to do it alone. So don’t even ask to help me with it.” Twilight smiled “Thank you, Rainbow Dash you--” Rainbow cut off Twilight “While I finish this paperwork go help my team clean up the factory.If you don’t mind?” A smug smile crossed Rainbow’s face as she finished her sentence. Applejack started to protest, “ Why in th--” But before Applejack could finish Twilight put her hoof to her mouth and then said to Rainbow “Ok, we can do that.” They walked back out of the office the door slamming behind them, as Applejack stared to speak, in a huff “Why would you’ll make an agreement like that Twi? We need to get going and we need to go now. Just look at Canterlot - it’s raining ice cream down there. Oh, and don’t cut me off again.” Twilight looked at her annoyed “I know, Applejack but I had to make a deal like that because she wouldn’t have agreed to come along if I didn’t. Plus I’m sick of wasting time too, and if we didn’t make a deal we would be wasting more time; also, sorry.” Applejack seemed to accept it, the group standing still, somewhat disappointed with the whole situation. With a bounce, Pinkamena chimed in, “Ok, well let’s get cleaning, it shouldn't take too long right?” The others looked at the factory floors and all around at the walls that were covered in rainbow goop. They all sighed in unison as they grabbed mops and scrubbing brushes to clean up the mess that had been made by Discord’s magic. What seemed like twelve hours went by and the factory was now mostly clean, only a few rooms still needed to be wiped down. That's when a note appeared in front of Twilight. She grabbed it up with her magic and looked at it as her face started to get a worried look to it. It only read ‘One and a half days left honey’. Twilight’s eye twitched as she kept reading the note over and over, Fluttershy looked over at her and noticed the note in front of Twilight. She walked over and grabbed the note from Twilight's magical embrace, before tearing it up, “Don’t worry Twilight, this is almost done and Rainbow Dash will be joining us soon; you don’t need to worry. You just relax and take a nap.” Twilight looked at Fluttershy, her eye twitching more, “I can’t do that; I can’t sleep now - we're down to just one and a half days. This is annoying. She... Dark Blitz is messing with us. She has probably made her spell stronger to make us move slower. Or she put another spell on Rainbow and Rarity. Ugh! What if we don’t make it in time?” Applejack looked over and went back to cleaning but threw her two bits in while mopping up the floor “Twilight calm down, I know you want to beat this pony but stressing ain’t gonna help us. An besides, Rainbow has to be done with that paperwork by now.” Twilight looked over at Applejack and then looked up at Rainbow’s door; Twilight flew up to the door, opened it and walked in. The others just looked at each other confused as to why Twilight would do that since Rainbow would be joining them anyway. Inside the room Twilight saw Rainbow napping on her desk, on top of the paperwork, drooling all over it. Twilight was enraged to see such a sight, “WAKE UP!” Rainbow jumped up and bashed her head on the ceiling. Dust and with some ceiling pieces swirled in the air, falling down around her, and once her eyes stopped spinning she looked at Twilight. She saw that Twilight’s face was red and twisted into a dark painting of anger and fear. As her eyes were somewhat small and her bottom lip was slightly over her upper lip. Rainbow quickly composed herself, her cheeks red an spoke in a slightly embarrassed tone, “Oh ummmm, I was just umm looking over the paperwork.” Twilight looked at her, rage building in her eyes and snapped, “That's it! I’m helping you with this paperwork because you clearly can’t handle it, demonstrated by the fact you were just sleeping on top of it. No ifs, no buts, I’m helping you.” Before Rainbow could even say anything the papers were scooped up in a magenta aura and all around Twilight. She divided the work in half between the two of them. Rainbow looked at her annoyed “I don’t want your help Princess, I can do this on my own like I have for years.” Twilight looked at the paperwork and snapped back, “No, you haven’t been doing this for years. You just think that you have. You’re a Wonderbolt, and even you need the help every now and them. So far everything you’ve filled out is wrong. So shut up and fill out your paperwork and I’ll fill out mine.” Rainbow was stunned; she never thought a princess would say something so cruel to one of her loyal subjects but she respected that she talked to her as an equal. So Rainbow looked at her paperwork, said sheeply “Alright umm Twilight was it, well I’ll get this done quick and thanks for the help. Paperwork always bores me to death.” Twilight looked over at her and gave a little smile, “Well your welcome, but we have to get this done because we only have about two days left to stop Dark Blitz. So stop talking and finish that work.” Rainbow looked at her half of the paperwork and started working on it just like Twilight wanted her to do.