Ponyville was a small village located somewhere in the glorious and magical land of Equestria. Amongst the random clusters of ponies roaming the usually normal and calm village, lived six friends. But amongst those six friends was Twilight Sparkle stood over her studies in Ponyville Library. Studying was a fond habit that the unicorn always enjoyed experiencing in her spare time, which for some reason; she had awful lot of. Which was quite sad. Twilight could be quite angst at times, and occasionally she’d get a huge mood swap and would be lively, energetic, and the complete opposite of angst.
The lavender unicorn scribbled down notes on a piece of parchment. For once, she had no clue what she was studying. It had come to a point where she had finally read just about every book in her Library, and had run out of things to read and experiment with. Also with no new deliveries of no books for a whole week, it only worsened the situation.
Sadly, the unicorn rested her head on the table and let out a loud sigh. Twilight Sparkle was bored out of her pony mind.
She considered going out into the open and looking around for one of her friends. Perhaps, Pinkie Pie, who Twilight had claimed to be one of her bestest friends, though she had no idea what the pink pony would be talking about half the time she spent with her. Then she thought of Rarity. A fellow unicorn, yes. But sadly Rarity was a bit too…fancy per say for a bookworm like Twilight. They had little to talk about, considering their different interests. Rarity was almost immediately crossed out of Twilight's mental list of ponies, and so was Pinkie Pie.
Next was Applejack, a strong farm pony that was almost constantly bucking apple trees, and today was Wednesday; meaning Applejack was bucking apples. So she crossed her off the mental list too. The only two ponies that remained were Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash never really seemed to be doing anything of importance to Twilight, so without too much hesitation, Twilight closed the random books that were sprawled across the table, and headed out to search for the cyan pegasus.
Twilight stopped at the door, “Wait a minute, I forgot about Fluttershy! I can’t forget her.” The unicorn thought for a moment, considering if she should go and visit. After about a minute, she giggled, “Oh…I’ll um, see her later. She’s probably tending her animals friends anyway.”
With her decision confirmed, she continued her way out the door.
In the cerulean sky flew the radical Rainbow Dash, the fasted flier in all of Equestria, and the awesomeness mare that ever lived (to her at least). Twilight watched the cyan pegasus do loop de loops and spirals through the sky, obviously practicing to become a Wonderbolt. Which was all Rainbow ever practiced for. Unless she was really bored, and just felt like flying. But other than that, it was to become a Wonderbolt one day…or for what ever her reasons were. Twilight had forgotten mostly because she didn't give a buck.
Sure it was Rainbow’s dream, but after hearing her constantly talk about it and how awesome the Wonderbolts are, Twilight had become agitated of just thinking about Rainbow’s dream.
“Hey, Rainbow Dash. Down here!” Twilight shouted out to the pegasus.
Rainbow looked down below her and chuckled from above, “Oh hey there Twilight. What’s up?” The pegasus flew down to the ground and landed in front of Twilight.
“Nothing actually, that’s why I was looking for you.”
“Why? Did the egghead run out of books to read?” Rainbow laughed at her own joke, as Twilight rolled her eyes, even though that was the case.
“Actually yes. I did run out of books in my Library, and now I don’t have anything to study until I get a new assignment from Princess Celestia, or until some tragedy comes across Ponyville.”
Rainbow Dash looked up at the sky and nodded, “I see…have you ever thought of maybe, studying something that wasn't in your Library?”
Twilight blinked and shook her head, “No. Do you have any suggestions?”
“Well…” The cyan pegasus put her hoof to her muzzle and began to think. After a minute she let out a ‘gasp!’
“Hey I just got this totally awesome thought Twilight. Wait. Have you ever studied, dating?”
The lavender unicorn thought over all the topics she had studied in the past, and realized that she hadn’t. Twilight shook her head, “No…I haven’t. But it’s a very good idea Rainbow, just…where would I even start? I’d need to make a checklist and make prepar-”
Rainbow cut her off, “Don’t worry about that Twilight. All you need is to find a pony to experiment on. Like, I dunno…a date!”
Twilight scrunched up her muzzle and shook her head, “Rainbow a study can never go well if you don’t plan it out first, and you have to make sure you have the right attributes.”
“Well, Twilight. Dating is different. I’ll tell you what you need don’t worry abo-.”
The unicorn cut her of as she giggled, “No offence Rainbow, but what do you know about dating, or even romance? I’d have a better chance of this turning out right with Rarity explaining the matter.”
Rainbow gasped, “Hey! I do too know about romance, and stuff. Who are you to say that I know nothing on the matter. At least I’ve had marefriends, and maybe even one coltfriend. From what I’ve heard, you haven’t even had your first kiss!”
It was Twilights turn to gasp, “Excuse me!? Who, what…who told you such a thing!”
“No one,” Rainbow coursed her hoof through her mane, “It’s obvious Twilight. You always hold back from talking during our get togethers with the rest of the gals. Not to mention you’re kind of angst all the time…heck, even Fluttershys got some pretty good stories about her love life!”
“Ha. Yeah, not to mention that you were in most of them. Meaning that she’s only dated one pony. And I am NOT angst all the time!” Twilight shot back.
“Um. So what? And that’s one pony more than you’ve ever had,” The pegasus snorted, “At least Fluttershys got some action, unlike you. And yeah yeah, you‘re not angst all the time. Whatever!”
Okay, this is getting too far. Twilight thought to herself.
“Alright, alright. I’ve never been with anypony. Lets go back to subject at hoof, okay?”
Rainbow Dash sighed, “Yeah ok. So, do you want to hear what I have to say?”
Twilight nodded, “I’m all ears Rainbow.”
“Alright. To save time, I’ll be your date for the experiment, ‘cause I got stuff to do; and looking for a pony to date you is going to take forever. Okay?”
Twilight felt a little insulted but nodded nonetheless.
“There. That’s all you need.” Rainbow concluded.
Twilight blinked, "Well that's less steps than I expected there'd be.”
Rainbow nodded, “Yep. Now we just do stuff that ponies would usually do on a date, but sadly I never actually been on a legit date. So, we should go ask Rarity or something.”
“Sounds like a plan, but Rainbow?”
“Yeah, ‘Twi?” The cyan mare responded, as she scratched her ear with her back hoof.
“How have you never been on a legit date, but you said that you've had more than one relationship?”
The pegasus smirked as she got off the ground and onto all four, “I don’t need dates to have a good time Twilight.” Rainbow walked up to Twilight and brushed up against her, making the unicorn freeze up. Dash came back to Twilight’s ear and continued, “Now come on. Lets head over to Rarity’s boutique.”
Twilight caught a glimpse of Rainbows flank as she trotted forward, as if the mischievous mare was doing so on purpose. Twilight looked away from her friends rump and followed her friend to Rarity's boutique.