Power Misuse : Chapter 3

“Cause I’m way to shy to ask her out on a date,
So I just wait, in your neighbour’s lawn,
With my camouflage ready and my camera on.”
- RayWillamJohnson

The tension was indeed, unbearable. Rainbow streamlined herself, aligning her hooves with the rest of her body. She was almost there, around fifty more meters to the falling hot air balloon.

Rainbow briefly saw a purple and black equine figure grab the mare, before she smashed right into the envelope and her world faded into darkness.

The hot air balloon landed with a huge impact. Luckily, the envelope was soft and cushioned most of her crash landing. A quick, sharp pain spread throughout her body as she hit the ground. The folds of the balloon quickly falling on Rainbow, as she became concealed in darkness.

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes. They hurt. Her entire body ached, down to her every last muscle. The first thing she heard was the roar of a crowd. She lifted the covers, only to see a masked pony with a huge hat, cloaked in purple, and with a black cape streaming behind her. The masked mare lifted the victim up off the ground, a huge crowd filling the air with praises afterwards.

"Who is that?" she muttered, shaking her head to clear her mind, blinking in disbelief.

The mare then leaped into the air and off the scene, leaving the mayor to dub the new hero “The mysterious Mare-Do-Well.” The crowd once again cheered for Ponyville’s new hero.

“Mare do Well huh? Well that mare would do well to stay out of my way! Ponyville’s only got room for one hero, and that hero is me!” Rainbow growled in irritation as she stood up, not noticing there was a rope tangled on her hoof. She slipped and fell back on the soft covers.

She tossed and turned on her cloud bed, eyes squeezed shut, body tense. She felt frazzled and she couldn't sleep. Her brain kept spinning in circles, faster and faster, fluctuating thoughts.

Who in the hay could Mare Do Well be? Wearing a disguise to humiliate me, who does she think she is?

When she closed her eyes, all she could see was a mental image of everypony showering Mare Do Well with praises instead of herself. Also, there was an irritating feeling that came along with it; knowing that she was so close to unmasking her

Rainbow could not bring herself to admit it, but deep inside her she was raging with jealousy.

“Ugh... I don’t feel so good.” Rainbow mumbled to herself, trotting back home after a buffet at the local restaurant. Pegasus ponies needed a lot of food as flying required loads of energy, but Rainbow definitely had too much. All that starch made her feel really sleepy. She decided to walk through the alley, as it was the fastest way home if she didn’t fly. She could, but for now, flying just a few meters would drain all her energy.

She pulled on her mask, and levitated the hat nicely on her head. Twilight, now in her costume, stood on the edge on the roof of Sugarcube Corner, surveying the streets below. It has been an hour since her patrol, and there was still no noticeable dangers. Actually, she haven’t even seen one pony walk through the alleyway since she was here.

She gave a sigh. Why did she agree to patrol the alleyway at night? For some weird reason, all the recent accidents only occurred in the afternoons, and never at night.

Slowly lifting her head, she saw Rainbow Dash trotting ever so slowly. She checked around her again. Nopony else walking through the alley, it was only two of them together.

She continued to watch her multicolored friend. Her eyes were hungry for her, she wanted to see everything there was on the slender mare to see. Her eyes followed the street as far as they could in the direction Rainbow had gone. She gazed upon everything there was to look at, mesmerizing every detail.

She knew this was considered stalking, and it was wrong. It was usually stallions who stalked mares, but this time it was the other way around, except she wasn’t stalking another stallion, she was stalking another pony of the same sex. And not only that, she was stalking one of her best friends. It was just so wrong. Yet it strangely aroused her. Twilight wanted to stop, but her fleshly desires wanted otherwise.

Twilight almost got a perfect view of her flank, until she turned at a corner, leaving her sights. She let out a long sigh of disappointment in her head. Quietly, she leaped to another roof, managing to regain her view of Rainbow.

Twilight slipped from street to street, ducking behind cover and leaping from roof to roof as she trailed the pegasus, and Rainbow continued to trot her way back through the alley, never realizing that the pony she who stole her title was much closer than she thought.

She leaped off a building, landing on another roof closer to Rainbow. Her hooves hit the surface with a loud clopping sound. It was just her luck, she had landed on creaky wooden boards, covered with a little bit of hay.

“Who’s there? I heard that!” Rainbow shouted, as her paranoia meter blew up.

Oh Celestia! Buck. Hurry, telepo- wait no. That will give away my position. Stay calm...

She jumped off to the ground, and sprinted away, trying to avoid the pegasus. But of course, she was no match for the athletic mare.

“Who in the hay are you?” She snarled in anger. She began to pace around her briskly from side to side in quick little trots, as her multicolor tail swished back and forth.

Her voice echoed through the houses, as the two of them faced each other in silence.

Rainbow lunged forward towards her, in a attempt to bite her mask off. Twilight managed to react in time, a quick jerk backwards saving the whole scheme. Rainbow stumbled, and Twilight used this opportunity to sprint away from Rainbow’s sights, teleporting her way home afterwards.

She searched the whole alley, but it only proved fruitless. She even patrolled the air despite her fatigue, scanning from house to house for what felt like countless hours. She'd lost track of time a long time ago and had no idea how long it had actually been.

Rainbow rubbed her eyes wearily with a hoof as a small tear came out together with a loud yawn. Her wings ached, and drowsiness kicking in. Giving a sigh, she gave up the search and began to fly the other way around. Then she saw it, just in the distance; her cloud house, not too far away. She began to fly her way back home. Some sleep would do her good.

Twilight breathed out heavily in exhaustion. The quick, long distance teleportation spell had depleted a great deal of her stamina. She removed her costume and threw it on the floor, not caring where it landed. She paced back and forth relentlessly, hoping her heart rate would drop, but it did not. That had been too close, if not for reflexively jerking backwards, The whole scheme would have failed, and it would be a lot of trouble explaining everything to Rainbow.

But somehow, she had enjoyed every second watching Rainbow in the dark. All that waiting, and evading, was totally worth it.

It was so horribly wrong, taking advantage of a mission to humble her, to stalk her best friend. Yet it felt so good. Every part of her just wanted to see more of Rainbow, and touch her. Secretly, she wished there would be days like this again.

Maybe next time she should play with Rainbow. Maybe she should purposely walk in front of Rainbow, catching her attention, then run away. She wouldn't know who she is behind her mask anyway. But would that be too dangerous? Well, it would be fun to tantalize Rainbow, and like the saying goes, all good things come with a risk.

A loud yawn escaped her mouth, indicating her drowsiness. Spike snoring away in his basket, snug in the covers, along the base of the stairwell only reinforced the droopy-eyed mare’s want to rest. She took a much needed shower, and proceeded to her bedroom upstairs afterwards. As she descended on to the bed, she could feel the sweet ethereal slumber coursing through her body, making her drift into a deep sleep.

Power Misuse

by Jinadan

Chapter 3