“Look at him, he's up to something?” Rainbow narrowed her eyes suspiciously towards her neighbor, he was walking across his yard holding a large black trash bag.
“I think he's just takin’ out the trash.” Applejack sat on the soft grass of the lawn with her friend, both enjoying a nice little picnic atop a vibrant checkered blanket.
“Om-nom! No, he's up to something else... something sinister?” Rainbow chomped a large bite out of her dandelion sandwich.
Applejack's green eyes drifted across the street to watch the young man in question check his mail. He quirked a brow at a colorful red envelope for a second, only to shrug and cast it away into a silver trash can in a lackadaisical fashion.
“Why don't you come with me? I need help down at the orchard and we'd be happy to have you over!” Applejack placed a gentle copper hoof on her friend's shoulder.
“Nah, I got stuff to move around here.” Rainbow was quick to flash a sly grin.
“What stuff!? You live on a gosh darn cloud?” Applejack scrunched her tiny muzzle confused.
“Cloud stuff.” The pegasus replied her eyes shifting slightly.
“Mm-hmm, I jus’ think yer’ a pile of lazy bones!” Applejack punched her friend on the side playfully.
Both mares soon burst out into giggles. The sun happily shining down upon them from the lovely sea of blue high above, it was a wonderful day to spend close to a friend. Rainbow Dash was lucky to have such great friends in her life.
If only she could've gotten just as lucky with her neighbor.
Rainbow let the day slip through her hooves, much like grains of sand drifting across a timepiece. Her cloud was in perfect working order at the moment and that was a pleasant sight indeed. If she wasn't mistaken it might have even gained a bit of girth, her firm blue hoof running across the cotton surface in delight.
A loud crash suddenly lashed through the open air. Rainbow’s ears pricking upward in utter shock of the odd noise, her glowing violet eyes were quick to dart across the street to Psychopath McGee's house.
The noise had erupted from within his dull-colored residence. It sounded almost like a cross between a car crash and a boulder falling off a nearby cliff. Rainbow opened her wings impressively with a small huff, the pegasus gliding across the street in one swift motion.
Making sure to not make too much noise at the moment. She chose a nice lush patch of grass to land upon, her hooves firmly planting on the firm earth below her. Rainbow popped her back as she lowered down to the grass. Matching the poise of a lioness on the prowl, the little pegasus skittering across the grass on a mission.
A nosey one at that.
Rainbow let her muzzle pop up on the edge of the window first. Her nose twitching cutely as it inhaled the scents around her curiously. She could make out a sweet scent of flowers, the bold smell of cologne, and yet the stinging aroma of bleach against her nostrils.
Nearly gagging the mare blew a silent raspberry to the air. Lifting her head upward she peered into the large living room window she found herself under, everything inside looked perfectly normal at first glance.
The television was for some reason on a static snow channel. His living room wasn't cluttered but actually pretty tidy, which was odd Rainbow figured the guy for a total slob or at least a kind of messy guy. His couch had a mysterious magazine tossed haphazardly on the surface.
It might have read…
“Stuffing a pony?”
“What kind of stuffing? Eating, fluff, or…” Rainbow felt a firm hand squeeze her shoulder hard.
“I wasn't prying!!?” Rainbow screamed out in terror pouncing back in catlike motion.
“Why are you poking that humongous nose into my window?” Rooke glared with those soulless eyes of his towards the frazzled mare.
“One. My nose isn't huge!... It's average.” Rainbow hid her muzzle cutely behind her hoof.
“Whatever, get off my lawn!” Rooke lifted his hand up to point across the street.
Rainbow took note he had a bite mark on his wrist. If she wasn't mistaken, it looked like the bite of a pony. “I heard a noise?” Rainbow narrowed her eyes up to this rude human with ears completely folded back.
“Not that it concerns you, but I dropped a box down my basement by accident.” He flaunted a hand dismissively towards the tiny equine.
“What I heard wasn't a box!” Rainbow snorted.
“Perhaps, you're just hearing things!?” Rooke chuckled as he started off towards his front door casually.
“Whatever! Did that box bite you too!?” Rainbow blew a loud raspberry to the man, her voice overflowing with sarcasm.
Rooke glared turning to face the rude little creature. His towering body quickly darting over towards Rainbow Dash. “Uhh, not that boxes bite…unless they have mice in them.” The mare nervously gulped in fear, his shadow engulfing her completely.
“Get off my property!” His hand tightly gripped the back of her neck.
Rainbow squealed helplessly being carried across the large open lawn. Rooke plopping the mare on her rump upon the firm cement sidewalk.”I better not catch you snooping again.” He huffed before leaving the frazzled mare alone with her thoughts.
The sound of his front door slamming soon danced across the open sky.
Rainbow Dash was certain now that something was awry on Rainbow Road.
It wasn't the extremely low-interest rates either. No, it was this Rooke fellow, he was up to something big and she was going to find out what. Giving a loud hmph into the sky, Rainbow purposely used her hind legs to kick a few clouds of dust onto the man's lawn.
Praying under her breath it would soon be infested by fire ants.
Would serve the jerk right.
Rainbow slowly made her way back towards her lawn, hoof tracing her nose in deep thought.
She was sorely in need of a long nap.