//------------------------------// // Rainbow Dash: Ch. 3 // Story: Polar opposites // by A Fox in Equestria //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash stepped out of the cloud mansion and turned to face her aunt. "Thank you." "No no Miss Dash, it was my pleasure." her aunt told her "I just hope you have luck with that pretty mare of yours." Rainbow Dash blushed "Me too, but you have no idea what this means to me." she said with misty eyes Her aunt noticed this and used a mock-serious tone "I will hear none of it. You asked me to turn you into a proper mare and that is what I did, and you were by far one of my best students." Rainbow Dash smiled gently. It was true, her aunt was an actress and took her in as her personal acting student. She would never get over owing her. Then her aunt gently pecked Rainbows forehead and ushered her off towards the cloud street. She trotted along the sidewalk giddy with excitement. This is great! Now I can act like a nice mare that Fluttershy will fall for! She let her face split with a goofy smile. Whoah there Dash, get a hold of yourself. Her lessons kicked in and her smile was reduced to a small grin she directed at the ground. "Hey! Rainbow Cra-... whoah." A stallions voice said from behind her Saddened by the turn of events, she turned to face the source of the voice she has come so well to know. Prepared for ridicule and harassment she looked into the eyes of her long-time bully. "Hello Dumbell." she said with her acting lessons holding strong He stood there staring at me for a second, his mouth moving but not making any words. she tilted head head and waved a hoof in front of him "Hello?" He shook his head and spoke "I mean, ummm, hey Rainbow Dash!" she pulled her head back and looked at him quizzically "You called me by my real name. Why?" His eyes widened and he stuttered "I- uh- well you- and I..." he exhaled and his put his head down "You... look nice." Rainbow Dah was taken by surprise by his complement "Thanks, I guess..." He suddenly snapped back to reality "Sorry for bothering you Rainbow, do you think maybe we could talk more later?" "You want to be my friend all of a sudden." "Yeah, if that's OK with you..." He has never been nice to you. Granted, he hasn't bullied you in a while and when he did it was just a little name-calling... ... "Yeah, I would like that." Rainbow said with her small smile returning "Great! So uh... see you around I guess." he said "Bye." she said as he flew away He thought I was cute. Plain and simple. I wasn't good looking before but now I am. And now I have a stallion fan! She giggled and started flying towards Ponyville. I feel a breeze... Maybe I could do a few stunts... "No. Do what she taught you." Rainbow told herself Rainbow Dash reached into her saddlebag to find the one thing that could distract her from potentially harming stunts. She pulled out a small magic music device. It held all of Dashs favorite songs and let her listen to them whenever she wanted. "No stunts. Just music." She put the small earbuds in and chose her favorite song. As the chorus started she lost all thoughts about flying through the air and possibly crashing. While listening to her songs the flight to Ponyville felt much shorter. She reached the town while idly bobbing her head to the fast paced rap. She was so entranced with her song that she didn't feel the multiple sets of eyes on her. She made her way to the library still seemingly unaware that almost the whole town had seen her and wondered 'What happened to Rainbow Dash?' 'Burn it down from dusk till dawn, rise from the ash and then i'm gone...' Her song finished and she put the mp3 back in her saddlebag. Knock, knock, knock "Who is it?" came the muffled response from a lavender unicorn "Rainbow Dash!" There was a small silence until the shuffling of hooves could be heard through the door. Then Twilight opened the door "Not that i'm complaining or anything, but why didn't you fly through the wind... oh." Twilight looked at Rainbow Dash with that same dumbfounded look that Dumbell had on. Rainbow Dash was prepared to wave her hoof in her face like she had with the stallion, but Twilight managed to recover somewhat. "Rainbow, what happened?" Rainbow smiled sweetly at her "What do you mean?" "You look... Different." She stated slowly Rainbow was having fun with this "What type of different?" she asked with a slight pout Twilight narrowed her eyes "Don't make me say it." She puffed out my lower lip "Say what?" Damn those were good lessons Twilight gave an exasperated sigh "You look like you spent three weeks at stylists house and didn't fight them at all." she said "In short; Sexy." This was just the reaction Rainbow wanted. First she got a stallion to fall for her, then she got a shut-in to call her sexy. "So who's your motivation?" Rainbow Dash froze, her eyes as big as dinner plates and her facade faltering she asked Twilight "How.. did..." Twilight smirked "Being a bookworm has advantages." she started "I can see a romantic sub-plot a mile away, and your sudden disappearance followed by a... metamorphosis... was a dead giveaway." Rainbow Dash mumbled incoherently. "So I will repeat my question." she said "Who are you doing this for?" Rainbow Dash jumped inside and slammed the door. "Whoah, you're really on edge!" she said with a smirk "Now I really want to know." Rainbow Dash looked around to make sure Spike wasn't around, then she turned to the unicorn "First, do you have a problem with fillyfoolers?" "I hate them with a burning passion." Rainbow let out a sigh of relief "Good, cuz' i'm o- WHAT!?." Twilight burst into a fit of laughter "I'm kidding! But you should have seen the look on your face!" Rainbow Dash shook off the sudden dread "Never do that again." she said "But yeah, i'm a fillyfooler." She got back up and wiped a tear "That's great Rainbow, but my question is who you're doing this for?" Twilight move face to face with Rainbow "Is it somepony I know?" Rainbow Dash had expected it to turn into a guessing game "Yeah." Twilight squeed with delight "What's she like?" Rainbow thought for am moment "Well she's kinda timid and doesn't have a lot of friends, she's also kinda isolated-" Twilight interrupted "Whoah there! I'm flattered and all Rainbow but-" "NO!" Rainbow panicked "Sweet Celestia no! I mean you're nice and all. But not you!" Twilight let out a sigh of releif "OK, so who?" she asked, genuinely puzzled Rainbow was thrown back by this "Well isn't it obvious? I'm talking about Fluttershy." Twilight thought a moment then spoke "Rainbow, you've been gone two months." Twilight leaned closer "A lot can happen in two months." Rainbow Dash turned to look into the eyes of her not-so-shut-in friend. "Are you gonna tell me what happened since I left?" Twilight popped up and promptly threw Dash out the door with her telekinesis "Nope!" she chirped with an evil grin And the door slammed in her face.