Luke could barely keep his hands from trembling long enough to get the key into the transmission. His mind was racing to figure out a way to get past the police without getting caught with Rainbow.
There has got to be a blanket or something back here! He thought as he frantically looked around to find something to conceal her with. Unfortunately it was in the middle of summer, so he had taken out all of the blankets and similar objects from his car.
He did, however, have his friends' hoodie in the back seat. He didn’t know how or why his friend could stand wearing it in the summer, but he was grateful that he did.
"Here, put this on,” he told Rainbow, as he tossed the hoodie to her.
“Not to rain on your parade or anything Luke, but I don’t think this is going to work.” She said while trying to pull the piece of clothing on. “I mean really, how is this going to help us?”
“Just trust me. When they ask who we are, I’ll tell them that you are my cousin that likes to dress up as a pony and-” Luke abruptly stopped as he saw the flashing lights of police cars behind him. “Oh shit,” he mumbled as he turned to look at Rainbow.
What he saw made his stomach drop. It also made him nearly burst out laughing, despite the danger they were in. She had put the hoodie on horribly wrong. Instead of going over her head, the piece of clothing was on both of her left hooves.
“It goes over your head, not on your legs.” He said as he mentally face-palmed.
“Well how the hay am I supposed to know that!” She retorted, while pulling the hoodie off. “I don’t wear clothes in Equestria, so how would I know how to wear them here!”
“Whatever, just get it on the right way! And fast, because the cops are nearly here!”
Rainbow had just gotten the hoodie on - it had taken some help from Luke - as the police cars came into view.
“Well, here goes nothing.” Luke mumbled under his breath, as the police pulled up next to him.
One of the officers stopped and stepped out of his car, while motioning for his partner to go ahead.
“Sir I’m going to need you to step out of-" he stopped mid-sentence as he saw the cyan Pegasus sitting next to Luke.
Luke nervously cleared his throat as he saw the confused expression that the officer wore. “Is there a, uh, problem officer?” He asked hesitantly.
“Yeah. I would like to know who, or what, is sitting next to you.”
“Oh. Her. She’s my, uh, cousin. Yup. My…cousin. Who likes to dress up? As… ponies.” Luke gave a nervous grin to the officer that was eyeing him.
“Well, I would ask what you two were doing out here, but you know what? I don’t even want to know. You two can go.” The officer said to them. As he walked away, Luke heard him continue. "Who the hell would dress up as a pony? Even if it was a pretty good costume, that doesn’t make it any less weird.”
Luke and Rainbow both gave sighs of relief as the police officer drove away.
“I can’t believe that actually worked.” Luke said to Rainbow.
“Truthfully,” Rainbow replied, “I don’t even know what happened just now.”
“We just got a free pass from the police! That’s what just happened!” Luke said triumphantly. “Now we just need to get outta here and head back home.”
Aw jeeze. What am I going to tell my parents? Hey mom and dad! Look what I found! A talking flying horse! Did I mention it talks and flies? Oh, and the government is probably going to be looking for it, so we can’t let her be found! He resisted the urge to hit his head off the steering wheel. Ugh, this is going to suck.
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15 minutes later
It had started to storm on the drive back. Sheets of rain buffeted against the car as lightning lit up the sky, revealing the landscape every couple of seconds with an eerie light. Luke looked over at the Pegasus next to him. She was still wearing the hoodie he had given her from before.
“Do you like that?” he asked, gesturing towards the hoodie.
“Yeah, it’s pretty cool.” She replied while trying to stifle a yawn. “When are we gonna get there?”
“Soon,” he replied. “It’s only another couple of minutes away.”
“Mm'kay.” Rainbow said sleepily.
She started to drift off to sleep, only to be awoken a moment later by the blaring of a siren. “What is that horrible noise that is stopping me from sleeping?!” She demanded, glaring out of the window.
“It’s a tornado warning.” He explained. “It lets us know that there is a very strong possibility for a tornado.”
He pulled over into a ditch as the rain and wind intensified. He could feel it rocking the car slightly. This is bad,[i/] he thought to himself, I’ve never had the wind move my car.
“Do you hear that?” Rainbow asked.
“What?”
“Listen, it’s like a ‘whooooosshhhh’ kinda sound.” Rainbow waved her hoof around for emphasis.
Luke listened for a second before hearing it. “Grab onto something! Now!” He yelled. Rainbow gave him a quizzical look. “Just do what I tell you!” He yelled again.
The sound was getting louder. As he looked out his window, he could see the rain had turned into golf ball-sized hail. He watched while a wall of rain, wind and hail seemingly materialized and hurtled towards them.
Time seemed to slow as the tornado slammed into the side of the car. He could feel the car being lifted up into the air. He felt the glass explode towards the inside of the car, only to get sucked out in an instant. The sound was now an overpowering roar. Hail was being flung into the car at dizzying speeds. Luke felt his breath leave him as a huge piece of hail hit him in the chest.
They had to be at least thirty feet in the air. Luke could feel gravity starting to pull the car back down to the earth. As it hit the ground, he heard a sickening crunch. He quickly checked himself to see if he had been hurt. It seemed like except for a couple of cuts and bruises, he was fine. As he was about to breathe a sigh of relief he heard Rainbow moan in pain. His head shot to the side to look at her. He didn’t want to believe what he was seeing.
Damn.
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Authors Notes: Sorry I took so long in updating this; I had writers' block and self-doubt about my writing. But here it is! (Finally...) If you have any ideas or anything you feel like I should know, then let me know! It would be greatly appreciated! I will try my best to get chapters out faster, but I can't make any promises. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and I will see you all later! IceOfWaterflock is still best pony.
(I really suck at authors notes, don't I?)