The Ponyville Horror
Chapter 1
Rainbow Dash sat back on her cloud, relaxing as she normally did, she loved the feel of the cloud against her; soft, fluffy, and extremely comfortable. She felt bad for earth ponies and unicorns; they could never know the enjoyment that she got from it. She was taking it easy, physically, she had healed, but Doctor Nightly, Ponyville’s unicorn doctor, had insisted that she take a few more days off from work. The last thing that they wanted was for her to over exert herself.
Rainbow Dash rolled over on the cloud and looked down onto the town below. Construction workers had nearly completed the reconstruction of Sugarcube Corner after its destruction in the Battle of Ponyville between the residents of Ponyville and their kangaroo and gryphon allies against the Everfree Plains Missile Base’s combots. That had been a month ago, at the end of March of the year 1002 of Celestia’s reign. It seemed like that had been forever ago. Now it was the last day of April, and everything was starting to return to normal.
Mostly normal, anyway, the town was missing some of its inhabitants. Vinyl Scratch, the unemployed unicorn DJ who had gone nearly a year without playing a gig, Surprise, the giggly straw maned Pegasus pony who, despite the fact that she had wings, could easily be Pinkie Pie’s sister, and Whirlwind, a the most junior member of the Ponyville weather team. The three of them had gone to South Island, the homeland of the kangaroos for a holiday.
Rainbow Dash was somewhat jealous, she wished that she’d been able to go with them, but the doctor didn’t want her travelling.
Rainbow Dash heard a quiet shuffling noise from behind her; she rolled onto her back and sat up. ‘Whirlwind?’ she asked.
Indeed, the grey Pegasus pony was standing in front of her on the cloud that was just big enough for the two of them. His bright red eyes looking at her sadly. ‘Hi... Rainbow Dash’, Whirlwind said, there was guilt in his voice. Dash could tell that for sure.
Rainbow Dash had been injured during the battle of Ponyville by Legion, the multiple consciousness entity that had taken over Whirlwind’s body, and Rainbow Dash could tell, that even a month later, he was still guilty about it.
‘Aren’t you supposed to be in South Island?’ Rainbow Dash asked as she made room for him on the cloud and offered him a seat, which he took. He sat down gingerly, taking care not to intrude on Rainbow Dash’s personal space.
‘I came back’, Whirlwind said with a shrug. ‘Vinyl Scratch and Surprise say hello, they were in Port Beagle the last time I checked up on them’.
Rainbow Dash smiled, ignoring the fact she hadn’t the faintest idea where Port Beagle was.
‘I’ve done a lot of thinking lately, and I decided that I’m going to be tending my resignation as a member of Ponyville’s weather team’, Whirlwind continued.
Rainbow Dash’s mouth fell wide open. ‘What? Whirlwind! No! You can’t quit!’
‘It’s a free country...’ Whirlwind began, but was quickly interrupted.
‘Technically, it’s not, Equestria is an Absolute Monarchy, where we’re basically subject to the princess’ will, yeah, we’ve got laws and junk, but if the princess doesn’t like you, she can decide to lock you up and throw away the key... if she wanted to, which doesn’t sound like something she’d ordinarily do, but it’s not outside the realm of possibilities’, Rainbow Dash said.
Whirlwind raised an eyebrow at Rainbow Dash in response to her statement, which sound like something that he would have expected Twilight Sparkle to say, or something.
‘What? I do live in a Library now, you know? I do read... sometimes’, Rainbow Dash said with a shrug. ‘I read a bunch of books while I was laid up you know? You should have seen Twilight, she was so proud’, Rainbow Dash added with a smirk.
Whirlwind glanced down at the ground, Rainbow Dash mentally kicked herself, and she had known that Whirlwind had a thing for her for months. That was probably what had made things so hard from him, he felt responsible for her getting hurt. Rainbow Dash scooted over to him and gave the Pegasus stallion a hug. ‘Hey come on! It wasn’t you who hurt me! It wasn’t your fault! Stop beating yourself up over it!’
Whirlwind returned her hug and began to cry quietly into Rainbow Dash’s shoulder. This was more than a little awkward for her, Rainbow Dash was hardly the most qualified to comfort somepony when they needed it. Now she felt bad. Whirlwind was her friend, she needed to do something nice for him, she needed to be a friend to him, and she needed to figure it out now. ‘It’s okay... it’s okay...’ Rainbow Dash said quietly as she continued to hug her friend.
Before Rainbow Dash knew what had happened, Whirlwind had started kissing her. She let it happen, one little kiss couldn’t hurt. Whirlwind needed to feel better... but as the kissing continued, Rainbow Dash found herself liking it, worse, she started kissing him back.
Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle were an item. She knew what she was doing with Whirlwind was wrong, but it enticed her even more the fact that it was. The more wrong that it was, the more excited she got. Rainbow Dash was on her back now, Whirlwind was on top of her, and she felt her wings as they began to spread. She noticed that his were too.
This was wrong, she knew it, he knew it, and they both loved it all the same. That was when Rainbow Dash felt something poking her between her legs, and then she felt Whirlwind enter her. Rainbow Dash moaned in pleasure. This was wrong, so very wrong, but Rainbow Dash’s mind wasn’t interested in that, all she cared about now was the here and now. It was wrong, but that was what made it so good.
The two Pegasus ponies made love on that cloud, minutes felt like hours. Soon enough Rainbow Dash felt her back arch and she let out a cry of pleasure as she reached her peak, she felt warmth shoot through her body as Whirlwind reached his climax as well. The two Pegasus ponies exited each other collapsed backwards on the cloud, breathing heavily, and slowly having the realisation of what they had done, and the implications of it set in.
Whirlwind sat up and backed away. ‘I... Rainbow Dash... I... I’m so sorry... I... I don’t know what came over me! I... I’m sorry! I’m sorry!’ With that, Whirlwind dived off the cloud and headed for his home on the outskirts of town.
Rainbow Dash was about to call out for him, and then she too realised what she had just done.
She’d had sex. With Whirlwind. While she and Twilight were in a relationship. Rainbow Dash had just cheated on Twilight Sparkle. She’d gotten caught up in the moment, and she’d fallen. She was supposed to be the loyal friend and lover, and she let this happen. How could she let this happen? Rainbow Dash fell onto her back and looked up at the sky.
How could she tell Twilight?
...
Twilight Sparkle had just finished re-shelving the history section of the Library when there was a knock upon her door. Twilight trotted over to the door and opened it, greeting her visitor with a smile.
‘Hello Raindrops... did you forget to bring something to me when you were doing your post route earlier?’ Twilight asked.
‘Ah, no, not this time! I promise!’ Raindrops said, the beige coloured mare said, nervously running a hoof through her teal mane. Raindrops was Ponyville’s mailmare, and was, quite frankly, very bad at her job. She was clumsy, forgetful, and all around ill-suited to the job that she had been given, unfortunately, she was also the only pony in Ponyville who had been willing to take the job after the departure of Derpy Hooves, now known as Ditzy Doo, from the town. They were stuck with her.
‘Oh, well that’s good! You’re getting better!’ Twilight said with a nervous smile.
‘Uhh... not really’, Raindrops said with a shrug. ‘It’s okay Miss Sparkle... I know I suck at this job, you don’t need to pretend like you haven’t noticed... but no! I came by because I found this at the bottom of my mailbag when I got done today’, Raindrops said, she opened up her mailbag and pulled out what was clearly a book that had been poorly wrapped up in a brown postage paper. ‘It didn’t have an address on it or anything, so I asked my boss what I should do with it, well, we usually get rid of unmarked mail, but I figured... it’s a book, so why not donate it to the Library!’
‘Oh!’ Twilight said in surprise as she took the book from Raindrops. ‘Why thank you! That’s very kind of you! Do you know what the book is about?’
‘Ah... no, I didn’t look at it, I’m not allowed to open other ponies’ mail... even if it’s not actually going to anypony... I think... I’m not actually sure, but I’m sure it’ll get better use here than rotting with the rest of ponies’ rubbish, right?’ Raindrops asked.
‘That’s quite all right, thank you Raindrops!’ Twilight said brightly. Raindrops waved her goodbyes and Twilight shut the door behind her, she set the book down on the table and went back to re-shelving her books, she’d take a look at it later.