Rewrite: Your Little Adventure

by My Only Weakness


Working For Team C

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Groaning you slowly open your eyes. Still being blurry you managed to make out the sight of your alarm. With another groan, you sit up on your bed and slap your clock to stop the horrible sound. Stretching, you sit on the side of your bed just staring off into the dark corner of your bedroom and wonder… why did you agree to have your contract to be morning shifts?

Today was your first day working with the weather team. And you had to get up at 7:00 am to get to work at 8:00. The reason why you set your alarm at 7 is to have some time to wake up and get some food before your shift starts.

Hopping off the bed to trot, very zombie-like, to the front door of your house. Shutting and locking the door behind you, with a big yawn, you take off to the sky and fly toward a small shop that you’ve grown to like quite a bit, the Fillydelpha styles breakfast shop. You land in front of the door and slowly open it, a bell rung letting the employees know that someone has entered the shop.

“Hey StarGazer” A female voice calls out from behind the counter. This pony, called Eva, has become a close friend of yours since you’ve moved here. You bonded on the fact that you’re both originally from Fillydelpha “You look like death, dude” she continues with a giggle at the end

“Hey, Eva” you greet her back in a very tired tone “Yeah, let's just say that I’m not used to getting up at this time,” you say whilst walking to the counter and taking one of the seats.

“The usual I'm assuming?” She asks, to which you nod. “Why did you take the morning shifts if you’re not used to it?” She asks while fixing up a cup of coffee for you.

“Because the boss asked me to in the interview!” you defend yourself “I can’t just turn around and say I’m not a morning person, makes me look bad”

“As bad as you look now, you zombie?” She says back with a joke on your appearance while putting the cup of coffee in front of you.

“Haha funny,” you say sarcastically, whilst picking up the cup and taking a sip, in which Eva then turns back around. As the warm liquid hits your tongue you’re taking back by how strong it was. Putting the cup down you look at Eva and say “Gah, why is this so strong?”

“Because look at you StarGazer, you look like your about to pass out any minute” She answers, turning back to you. “Plus it will give your energy for the first day at work”

Well, you can’t argue with that, you did look like you’re on the brink of death. With a slight chuckle, you look at Eva and say “Well thank you for looking out for me”

“Anything for my favorite customer,” She says back with a wink. She then turns back around to finish off making your waffle.

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After finishing your breakfast you place the amount of bit that would cost you for your meal plus tips, that Eva said that she doesn’t want but you give anyway. You thank her for the meal and start to walk out of the diner to head to work.

“StarGazer!” Eva shouts, in which you turn around, “Catch!” She then throws some sort of baked product at you, with your quick reflexes you catch the product in one hoof. Looking at the food item in your hoof to see that it's a small muffin. You look at her in confusion to which she answers “It’s a new recipe I’ve been trying and I wanted to get your opinion on it”

“What's the recipe?” You ask just in case it had something your allergic to in it

“It’s almond and raspberry” she answers

“Oh, Awesome. I’ll let you know what I think after work okay?”

“No worries, see you then,” She says with another wink

You smile at her say your goodbyes and fly off into the air. With the muffin still in your hoof, you fly towards a small building just outside of Ponyville. This was the weather control building and the place you imagine you’d be spending most of your mornings.

Landing in front of the door, holding the muffin in your mouth but not taking a bite, you push the door open and walk inside. Scanning your eyes around the room you see a mare sitting behind a desk, you remember her from when you came here for your interview, so you walk over to her and say “Excuse me, ma’am”

She looks up from the desk to look at you and she smiles and responds “Hi, you’re StarGazer right?”

“Yes I am” you respond while taking the muffin out of your mouth

“Good,” she says happily “if you just want to take your folder for that holder over there” she continues, pointing to a folder holder on the wall “and have a quick look at where your team's meeting point is and head over there”

“Ah okay, thank you,” you say to her and, placing the muffin back into your mouth, trot over the holder. You give a quick look up and down of the holder to see that it’s arranged but teams. So with a quick look, you managed to find your teams holder, but you notice that your file is the only one there. Shrugging it off you grab the folder to see a timetable of the day. At the top of it, it says the meeting point is at the park.

“Oh yeah, one more thing!” The mare behind the counter calls out grabbing your attention “once you’ve had a look at your folder you’ll need to place it in this basket here” she continues, giving a little shake to the basket she was referring to.

Nodding you close the folder and walk to the basket. You see five other folders already in there and place your one on top.

“Thank you,” you say, well, try to through the muffin, which makes the mare laugh. You then turn around and exit the building and fly your way through the sky to your first day on the job.

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As you’re flying through the sky you’re looking around to see if you can spot a bunch of ponies standing around in a group, hoping that that will be the team you’ll be working with. Just to your luck, you manage to see a group of six ponies standing around talking to each other. You start to descend down to them and land a couple of feet away. Finally, you take a bite of the muffin you’ve been carrying around for what seems like ages and OH MY! Did it taste delicious, the flavors mix together so well and it was so soft and you could probably sleep on a giant version, you’re definitely going to have to tell Eva what you think of this muffin in a long rant. As you’re enjoying your treat you’re interrupted by a female voice saying, “Excuse me”.

Looking over to where the voice came from you see two mares standing there. Both of them had bluish-grey fur, but one was slightly darker than the other. One of them had a crazy styled blue mane and tail with white highlights, while the other one had the same shade of blue in her mane, but hers was nicely combed and brushed straight whilst wearing a cute pink bow.

“You’re StarGazer, right?” The one with the bow in her mane asks

Swallowing the peace of muffin you had in your mouth and answer by saying “Yup, that’s me. This is where Team C is meeting right?”

“Indeed it is” She answers you “I’m Flitter, by the way” she continues introducing herself “And this is my sister Cloudchaser” To which she gestures to the mare standing beside her

“Hi, nice to finally meet you,” Cloudchaser says to you with a smile

“Finally? You’ve been waiting for me?” you ask

“Yeah, there's been talk of a new guy joining us for a while now,” Cloudchaser says answering your question “And you know Rainbow Dash right?”, to which you nod “She’s the one who told us a newbie will be starting with us soon”

“Ahh right,” you say with a slight chuckle “I’ll be looking forward to working with you guys”

They both giggle at your comment and wave a hoof to signal you to follow them “Come on, we’ll introduce you to the rest of the team” Flitter said before turning away to walk to the rest of the group. You eat the rest of your muffin and start to follow Flitter and her sister. You notice that Cloudchaser starts to slow down until you reach her side. She then starts up a conversation with you by saying

“You know I remember you from that ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party that Pinkie threw at your house”

“Oh really? I don’t think I remember that party to be honest since I was pretty drunk” you say with a laugh, which causes her to giggle.

“Yeah can’t say I blame you, I pretty sure most everyone there gave you a drink,” She said with a slight giggle “Though it's a little disappointing that you don’t remember me since we danced together for a long time”

You were taken back by that comment and suddenly feel a bit of shame for not remember someone you probably spent most of the night with “oh no, I’m sorry I-” to you start, but were cut off by Cloudchaser giggling

“Don’t worry about it… besides I was only pulling your leg, we didn’t spend that much time together during that night” she says with a wink and sticking out her tongue a little bit

You can’t help chuckle at the thought that you’ve just been played, on your first shift nonetheless. You reach all the other team members with the two sisters and they all continue the conversation they’re having only to turn toward you then Flitter says “Guys, this is StarGazer”

“You know the newbie that Dash was talking about” Cloudchaser adds

“Ahh, nice to meet you man,” a dark gray stallion says “I’m Thunderlane!”

“I’m Silverspeed,” a gray mare with a lighter gray mane said smiling at you

“Hi! I’m Blossomforth!” A very light pink coated mare with a mane streaked cerise and mine green said, very enthusiastically “And this is Bulk Biceps” she continues pointing to the very huge and muscular white stallion, to which he just nods to you.

“He doesn’t talk much” Cloudchaser leans in and whispers to you.

“Ah” you respond to that piece of information “Well it’s very nice to meet you all,” you say to all the ponies in your new work team.

A couple of minutes went by pretty quick when you were talking with your new co-workers, all you talked about is what everyone did on the weekend. Just as you were listening to how Silverspeed had a romantic dinner with her boyfriend, a rainbow trail flew right past all of you, followed by a huge gust of wind. And the only cooperate for this was none other than the self-proclaimed, Equestrias fastest flyer… Rainbow Dash.

“Hey, guys!” She said greeting you all “sorry I’m late” she continued. She then looks at her team and then spots you and smiles “I see StarGazer here for his first shift”, to which you nod and smile back “Welcome to the team, Star. So anyway let’s get down to business, luckily we’ve got an easy day today. Clear skies all other the town! So let's get to it, shall we? You all know the drill, split into your teams and get going”

“And what about the new guy?” Asked Thunderlane

“He’s going to be with me for today, someones gotta teach him. And who better than the captain” she answered, stroking her ego a bit more.

All the ponies nod and begin to fly off into different directions, leaving you and Dash alone in the park. Flapping her wings your captain begins to ascend into the air, to which you follow suit. Waving her hoof, signaling for you to follow her you fly off after her to start your first day on the job.

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After a couple of hours of Rainbow Dash teaching you basics of the whole cloud system, which you sort of knew already thanks to your Dad working for the weather team back home, she moved on to getting rid of the clouds.

“So all I have to do is kick it?” You say looking at the white fluffy cloud in front of you.

“Yeah, but you have to kick it dead into the center and with enough force, otherwise it won’t disappear completely,” said Dash

“What happens if I don’t hit the center?”

“Then it will explode into loads of mini-clouds, and they are a pain to get rid off” Dash answers your question, She then hovers in front of you with her back to the cloud. She then gets into a bucking position and reels her hind legs back and kicks the cloud right in the middle of it. Right before your eyes the cloud completely poofs out of existence.

“Wow” was all you could say to the display.

“Pretty awesome, right?” She said sweeping her shoulder, thinking that she looks cool

“Yeah, I guess” is all you could respond to her boosting her ego more.

“Alright, now it’s your turn. Give it a try on that one over there” Dash says pointing over your shoulder to a lonely cloud.

Nodding with confidence you fly over to the cloud that dash was pointing to. You place yourself in, what you hoped was the center of the cloud, you get into a bucking stance and reel back your hind legs and kick the cloud as hard as you can. As soon as your hooves made contact with the white mass of fluff your hoofs no longer feel anything. Turning your head to look over your shoulder you see that the cloud had disappeared.

“Yes! First try!” You shout loudly, whilst hoof pumping.

After your little celebration, you turn back to Dash who has her hoof over her mouth trying to hold back her laughter.

“What’s so funny?” You ask

Taking her hoof away she says “Good first try rookie.. but you might want to have another look”

Confused, you turn around and your eyes widen. Where the cloud used to be where many different smaller ones. You don’t get it, you were dead in the center and you put all your power into that kick.. what did you do wrong? Not to mention that your ridiculous celebration was all for nothing. Lowering your ears in embarrassment you turn back around to Dash, who has completely lost it and is laughing her head off.

After, what seems like five minutes, Dash finally calms down and wipes the tear away from her eye.

“You finished, laugh track?” You ask with your arms crossed and with a little smirk

“Yeah, yeah I’m good” Dash answered, still giggling “anyway, I need to check on the others. You going to be okay by yourself?”

“Probably,” you say “But how do I get rid of these” you continue, turning around to look at all the smaller clouds.

“Just punch them. They’re easy to get rid off. I’ll be back in a few minutes” Dash said before flying off at incredible speed.

As she’s flying off you can help but think “Damn she’s fast. I can see why her ego is so big, she's pretty amazing” you then get started destroying all the little clouds that caused your embarrassment in front of your captain.

Punch after punch after punch, you finally managed to get rid of all the little buggers. Once they were all cleared you then noticed a couple of more clouds in the distance that needed getting rid off.

Flapping your wings as fast as you could you bolt all the way over to them in a couple of seconds. Turning yourself around you buck one of the clouds, using your speed as momentum for added power. You then turn back around to see the cloud has completely vanished, no little clouds either. Filled with joy you let out a “WOOHOO!” Followed by “THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!”

“Very nice,” a female voice says from behind you. Turning around you see Cloudchaser floating there with a smirk “take it that was your first time making a cloud disappear entirely?”

“Yeah, it was. On my second try as well” you say with pride, putting your hoofs on your hips and puffing out your chest.

Cloudchaser giggles at you patting yourself on the back. “Alright hot stuff, stand back and watch a master at work” she then flies past you and stands in front one of the white puff balls. And with a swift kick, with one leg, the cloud departs from existence.

Your jaw drops, this mare just kicked a cloud out of this world with just one leg! ONE LEG! How on Earth does she have that much power in just a single limb, just imagine what she could do with both legs.

“Impressed?” Cloudchaser grinned flying back over to you.

“Yeah, you could say that,” you say, still in shock of what you just saw “How did you even manage to do that?”

“Just a lot of experience” She boasted “Plus I put in a lot of hours at the gym and on the race track”

“Wait! There’s a race track here?!” You gasped. You then get close to the persian blue coated mare and grab her by the shoulders “Where is it?”

“We’re literally right on top of it,” she says, a little uncomfortable with the fact you’re so close to her that your noses were almost touching.

Letting go of her, you look down to see that there was, in fact, a race track right underneath you.

“How did I not know about this!” You shout “I could’ve been improving my speed for racing instead of sitting around all day!”

“So you’re actually a racer huh?” A voice chipped in from behind. Looking over your shoulder you see that Rainbow Dash has returned.

“Yeah” you confirm “been racing since as long as I can remember”

“Kinda figured as much, since you almost beat me in our race a couple of weeks ago”

“Almost? I was ahead of you throughout the whole race by a nose until the end” you say defensively.

“Well don’t you just keep getting more and more interesting” Cloudchaser adds, to which you flash a cocky smile at her.

“Anyway!” Dash boomed, clapping her hoof together “back to work both of you, still plenty of clouds need to be cleared”

“Aye, aye Cap’n” you replied, saluting her before you and Cloudchaser flew off in different directions.

It wasn’t long until the work day was over. Thanks to how quickly your team got the sky cleared you all got to finish early. Everyone meets back at the meeting point all ready to head home and enjoy the rest of there day.

“Good work, guys” Dash began “We got the sky cleared in record time!”, to which you all cheered “now lets all head home”

Once everyone said they’re goodbye they all flew off in different directions just leaving you and Dash alone together.

“You not got any plans for today, Star?” Dash asked walking over to you

“Not really” you replied “I was just planning on going over to the race track and get back into practicing”

“Well if not really that busy then you could come with me to sugar cube corner. My friends and I were gonna hang out, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if you join too.” The sky blue Pegasus suggested.

“Are you sure? I mean I don’t want to intrude”.

“It’s no problem” Dash reinsures “Plus the girls really want to get to know you more… specifically Pinkie Pie”.

“Wait, why?” You ask tilting your head.

“Well, she pretty much knows everything about everyone in town except for you since you’re new here” Dash answers.

“Bit strange, but sure I’m down”

“Awesome!” She cheers “I’ll race you there!”

“You’re on!”

Within a flash, you both fly off as fast as you can leaving nothing but dust behind you. Obviously, it doesn’t take you that long to get there since you both were going as fast you could. Sliding across the dirt and stopping in front of the door you manage to beat Dash by a couple of seconds.

“HA HA!!” You roared “I BEAT YOU!” You continue pointing your hoof close to her face continuing your taunt, and she did not look happy about it.

With a little huff, she walks past you saying “Whatever, it wasn’t a proper race so it didn’t count” then opening the door to the bakery.

“Didn’t count? a race is a race and I beat you fair and square” you argued, following in after her.

All that Dash replies with is another “Whatever”.

Walking over to a table, already occupied with five other ponies, the southern earth pony notices the two of you walking over to them and greets you by saying “Afternoon Rainbow. Hello StarGazer”

“Hey, girls,” Dash says taking a seat next to a yellow Pegasus.

“Hi everyone,” you say back taking the only seat left, next to a beautiful white unicorn.

“So how was your first day on the job, Star?” Applejack asked

“Ahh, you knew about that too huh?” You chuckle as it seems that everyone in this town knows about you and this job “It was pretty good actually. I mean not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I’m very good. Ain’t that right Dash?”

Dash just looks you in the eye and says “yeah you’re alright” as she shrugs which causes everyone in the table to laugh, including you.

“So StarStar!” Pinkie peeks up looking across the table “How do you find Ponyville? Do you miss Fillydelphia at all? What was your life like back home? Do you have any Fillydelphia type treats you could recommend cause I want to try a treat from every city in-“

“Pinkie!” Twilight speaks up, cutting Pinkie off “Please one question at a time”

“Oh right sorry” Pinkie apologizes with a cute little giggle at the end

“It’s no problem,” you say waving off Pinkies apology “to answer your questions, I think Ponyville is very nice” you continue, smiling “Definitely one of the nicest towns I’ve ever been too, and I could see me living here for a long time”

Your comment about there town got all the girls flashing very cute smiles at you. Knowing that you’re enjoying your time here brings you a lot of joy. But your smile fades away when you start to say

“But... I do miss Home… a lot” you say with a sigh, which also causes the smiles on the girl's faces to slowly turn into worried looks “I mean… I think about it every day, my friends, my family, everything.” You continue on, with your voice getting more and more shaky “I was so used to seeing everyone every day that I guess I didn’t really prepare myself for a time where I wouldn’t. Now that I’m here all by myself… I really miss everyone”.

Feeling a bit of embarrassment from spilling out your homesickness you look down at the table so none of them see the tears starting in your eyes. Swallowing the lump in your throat, and shaking off the tears, you lift your head up to see all the mare around the table looking at you with sadness.

“Heh, sorry, I didn’t mean to get all emotional about home,” you say chuckling and scratching the back of your neck.

“It’s no problem, StarGazer” Twilight reassures you “Homesickness is a very common thing. We don’t blame you at all. I was the same when it came to me moving here from Canterlot”.

“And besides, I think it’s very cute when a stallion shows his emotions” Rarity says, cuddling up to you and fluttering her eyelashes.

You can’t help but blush as this, very good looking unicorn, is so close to you that your bodies are touching. You can definitely feel your face get redder and redder as she closes half her eyelids and smiles at you.

“Alright, come on Rarity, that’s enough,” Dash says, interrupting the uncomfortable, but very nice, moment between the two of you

“Is there a problem, Rainbow Dash?” Rarity asks

“Yeah, this whole thing you’re doing”

“Really? What’s wrong with it? I’m just having a bit of friendly banter with this fine colt” The white unicorn explains, patting your knee “It's not that big of a problem for you is it?”

Slightly blushing Dash blurted “N-No! Of course, I don’t have a problem with it!”. slamming her hoof on the table, causing it to rock slightly “I-It’s just embarrassing to see you do it in front of us” she finishes slumping back into her chair and crossing her arm

“Oh really?” Rarity asks curiously. She then raises her eyebrows and gets a cheeky grin, knowing that she can’t tease her friend a bit more “so you wouldn’t mind if I took StarGazer back with me and toyed with him a bit” she says leaning on you a bit more and draws a small circle around your chest

You couldn’t help but blush harder when the words ‘toyed with him’ escaped her lips. Now you feel your face go completely red once you feel the sensation of her soft hoof on your chest.

“N-No! Of course I wouldn’t! Do whatever you want!” Dash said closing her eyes and looking away, whilst scrunching up her snout.

Rarity then let’s go of you and begins to let out a laugh, which causes the other to laugh as well. Dash then reopens her eyes and turns back to Rarity all confused.

“I’m sorry, dear” She starts “I just couldn’t help myself, The way you were reacting I just couldn’t help but continue” she explains through her giggling “Besides, StarGazer isn’t the type of stallion I would go for anyway”

“Wow, thanks,” you say chuckling, though a little disappointed.

“I’m sorry, hun” Rarity apologizes, whilst patting your shoulder “Maybe in another lifetime” You can’t help but laugh at her comment, besides the joke was more or less at Dash’s expense so it was all good in your book.

After that interesting little interaction, you continue your conversation with Pinkie and the others about your life back at Fillydelphia. Telling them about your racing career and your life with family and friends. And by sun princess did you miss them a lot.