"Ok, Rainbow Dash." Scootaloo grinned. "Dare?"
"You know it!" Dash replied, smirking...and hoping that it wouldn't be anything massively ridiculous.
"I dare you to act like Rarity for thirty minutes." Twilight said, smirking. "In every single way, too. Which includes fashion."
Dash looked horrified at that prospect, while Rarity chuckled at the idea of watching her cyan friend act like her for even two minutes, let alone thirty.
"I like that idea!" Sweetie Belle crowed. "I second that dare!"
"Ah third it!" Apple Bloom announced.
"That's not fair!" Dash exclaimed. Scootaloo giggled.
"I was gonna dare ya to act like somepony, too." She said. "But I was gonna say Pinkie Pie or Twilight. But I think I'd like to see your Rarity impression, too."
Both mares laughed at the death glare Dash sent her sister's way.
"This is treason, Scootaloo." She said with a huff. "Treason I tell you!"
"Sorry, Dash." Scootaloo's sparkling eyes stated she was anything but sorry.
"I want to switch." Dash said, glaring at Twilight.
"Nope." Twilight said, grinning. "Once you pick, you can't change your mind. You know that."
"Oh horseapples!" Dash said. "Why'd you have to pick Rarity?? Why not Pinkie, or yourself, or Fluttershy, or even Starlight? Why Rarity? Why?"
"Because we live to make you miserable, darling." Rarity said, eyes twinkling.
That brought a round of hysterical laughter, as Dash glowered at the fashionista briefly before looking back at Twilight.
"Fine. I'll do it." She said. "But you are going down when your turn comes." Her grin was almost evil.
"Ok." Twilight smiled. "Spike, set the timer."
Spike obeyed, settingnthe timer for thirty minutes and got ready to start it.
"Oh, wait a moment!" Rarity exclaimed. "If you're going to act like me, darling, you need to look the part!"
"What the-?!"
Dash was cut off when Rarity pounced on her, employing hooves and magic to transform her. At last she stepped back.
"There!" She said happily.
It took every ounce of self control the group had not to break down into hysterics again. Dash was currently wearing one of Rarity's scarves and had her mane styled exactly like hers. Her coat had been brushed down smoothly and eye shadow applied to her eyelids. She scowled fiercely.
"You will all pay for this." She fumed.
"I started your timer." Spike said.
Dash blinked, then huffed.
"You will all pay for this, darlings!!" She ground out, matching Rarity's accent almost perfectly.
That did it. Scootaloo broke first, collapsing backwards and holding her sides as she howled with laughter. Her friends quickly followed, then the others. Soon they were all laughing hysterically.
"Well, I never!" Dash scoffed scornfully, deciding to at least play her role to the fullest...and poke some fun at the real Rarity, who was giggling.
She lowered herself down on the grass with a sniff, and eyed the howling Scootaloo. Reaching over, she thumped the filly lightly on the head with her hoof.
"Sweetie Belle, do stop laughing so hard, it isn't ladylike."
Scootaloo stopped laughing at gaped at her.
"I'm not Sweetie Belle, Dash!" She said, stating the obvious.
"Why, of course you are, darling!" Dash returned. "If I am Rarity, you are Sweetie Belle. Now do sit up, Sweetie, and behave like a proper young filly." Her grin was positively wicked.
Scootaloo blinked up at her sister in complete bewilderment. And then it struck her: Dash was paying her back for her 'treasonous' act by making her play the part of Sweetie Belle. Well, two could play that game!
"Why, of course, Rarity!" She said, sitting up immediately and smiling innocently. "How could I have forgotten all the...the..." She floundered.
Sweetie Belle, giggling, leaning close and whispered something in her ear.
"Ah! Yes! All the proper and genteel manners you so kindly taught me?" Scootaloo finished. "Why, after all, you are the most mannerly pony in all of Ponyville! So generous and kind hearted and...and so sweet!"
Dash was starting to look a bit green at all the sappy, emotional nonsense. Her friends were doubled up in a fit of silent giggles.
"Stop that!" Dash ordered, glaring at Scootaloo.
"Why, of course, big sister!" Scootaloo's eyes were wide, and her smile even wider. "I want to be just as mannerly as you are. So, I will sit right here and smile and look just as pretty as you do."
Dash broke.
"Gah!! I give up!!" She yelled, yanking off Rarity's scarf and throwing it at her before messing up her mane. "I can't take it!"
"How long did she last?" Twilight asked Spike with a grin.
"Exactly three minutes." Spike said, chuckling.
"Ah wouldn't have thought she could last for one!" Applejack hooted.
"Of course, since you failed to complete the dare, there's a consequence." Starlight spoke up, smirking.
"I don't care!" Dash said. "Lemme have it! Anything is better than being Rarity! Bleh!!"
"I should be offended." Rarity sniffed. Then she grinned. "But I'm not."
"Dash, as your consequence," Twilight said, "you can do...oh, say, thirty wingups in thirty five seconds."
Dash gaped at her, eyes wide. "Are you serious?!"
"Very." Twilight said.
Grumbling, Dash got up and moved into position. Thirty five seconds later, she completed the last wingup and groaned.
"Ow."
"Who's next?" Applejack asked.
"How about we let Fluttershy go next?" Rarity asked. "She looks ready to run away."
"Oh...oh my." Fluttershy said nervously.
"Ok." Dash said. "Fluttershy, Truth or Dare?"
The timid pegasus gulped as she pondered the choice. It was very unclear what she would be asked either way, but Truth seemed safer. Maybe. On the other hoof, she didn't want to seem cowardly when most of the ones before her had chosen dare. Finally, she took a deep breath.
"Dare." She squeaked, surprising herself.
"Wow. Ok." Dash said. "I dare you to...to...dang it. What kind of clean dare can I give her?"
"Ooh! I got one! I got one!" Pinkie squealed. "Fluttershy!! I dare you to hug as many trees as you can in two minutes and tell them you love them!!"
All eyes locked on her in astonishment.
"That's your dare?" Dash exclaimed. "What kind of dare is that??!"
"Its a Pinkie Pie Dare Special!" Pinkie said giggling.
"I'm not even gonna try to understand this." Dash muttered. Then she brightened.
"I dare you to give Angel Bunny to Pinkie Pie for the rest of the day!"
"Oh, now, Rainbow Dash!" Rarity exclaimed, as Fluttershy eeped and Angel hid behind his mistress. "That is just...well...not very nice!"
"I know." Dash said, grinning wickedly at the bunny and recieving a glare from him in return.
Pinkie would never hurt Angel, but she would sure make him absolutely miserable, without any malicious intent, of course. And Fluttershy would find being seperated from her favourite pet quite unsettling.
"I'll...take Pinkie's dare..." Fluttershy whimpered.
Spike set the timer as she rose. He started it, and the others watched in amusement as she flew from tree to tree, hugging each one and telling it how much she loved it, much to Pinkie's delight. Twilight kept count, and when the timer went off, Fluttershy had managed to hug a total of twenty-five trees.
"I'm impressed." Dash said.
"It was a real tree-t to watch!" Pinkie giggled at her own joke.
"Ok, ok! Next!" Dash said.
"I'll go." Twilight offered, only to immediately regret speaking when Dash grinned wickedly at her.
"Truth or Dare, Twilight?" Sweetie Belle asked.
Twilight pondered it briefly before smiling.
"Dare." She said.
"You asked for it." Dash said. She leaned closer. "I dare you to take your favourite spell book and let me destroy it without stopping me."
She didn't mention she would have Starlight perform a reconstitution spell afterwards. Twilight sat stock still, open mouthed. Then her eyes narrowed dangerously.
"Uh oh." Spike muttered.
"Rainbow Dash." Twilight said icily, with a smile that was not at all friendly. "I thought you just dared me to let you destroy a book. But I know you did not just say that, because you already know that if you do I will end you. Painfully. So, please, tell me that you did not say it."
"I said it." Dash said, grinning, knowing she was risking life and limb and not caring.
Twilight looked beyond mad. A hint of steam came from both ears.
"Rainbow Dash." Applejack said, shaking her head. "Now ya went and done it. You just had to use that as a dare, didn't ya?"
"I'm sticking by it." Dash said.
Twilight scowled fiercely. "Alright, Rainbow." She said coldly. "Please move away from everypony so I can obliterate you!" Her horn sparked.
"Whoa! Hold on!" Starlight shouted, leaping between the two and raising a protective barrier to shield Dash. "Twilight, let's not do anything hasty. Dash is your friend, remember?"
Twilight took a breath. "You're right." She said. "Ok. I'm fine. But somepony else better have a dare thought up, because if this is the only one, I will end her. Here and now. Slowly and with vast amounts of pain."
"I have a dare!" Scootaloo yelled, not wanting to see her sister blown off the face of Equestria. "I dare you to...to..."
"To do a chicken dance!" Sweetie Belle supplied for her struggling friend.
"Yeah!" Scootaloo said. "I dare you to do a chicken dance! Complete with noises! For five whole minutes!!"
Dash snickered. "You heard her." She teased. "Do the chicken dance...egghead."
Twilight glowered, but since there wasn't much choice, she moved into position and started doing a chicken dance, flapping her wings and bawking and squawking, redfaced with exertion and embarrassment.
"Oh, come on! Put more squawk into it!" Dash taunted.
Twilight glared daggers at her, but complied. Once the timer dinged, she dropped onto the ground, panting.
"Are you a little eggs-hausted?" Dash quipped.
Twilight muttered a word that fillies didn't need to hear, but three did, and they giggled.
"My, such fowl language!" Dash said.
"I will end you. So help me Celestia!" Twilight growled.
Dash laughed heartily. "Did you know chickens read hencyclopedias?" She asked.
Twilight groaned while the others burst out laughing at her obvious frustration.
"Ok. Ok. Enough." Applejack snorted. "Back to the game. Ah'll go next."
"Great!" Dash said. "Hey, why don't you ask first, egghead, instead of just laying there."
Twilight could only groan as everypony once more burst out laughing.