Song Prompt - "To The Sky" - Owl City
Twilight sat on the balcony of her home at Golden Oaks Library. She looked towards the horizon, at the looming mass of darkness slowly approaching Ponyville. All was still and quiet; the deep breath before the plunge.
The weather team had scheduled a massive thunderstorm for the afternoon. It was supposed to be quite the lightshow according to some of her pegasi friends. She was originally looking forward to spending a quiet day at home, curled up in front of the fireplace reading a good book with Rainbow Dash.
But, as it turns out, Rainbow had other plans for the two of them. She insisted on taking Twilight out today. Despite all of Twilight’s inquiries and despite the oncoming storm, Dash would not be swayed.
“Would you at least tell me where we’re going if you insist on going out during a thunderstorm?” Twilight asked Dash as she prepared to leave for weather duty earlier that morning.
“Nope! It’s a surprise Twi’! I promise you’ll love it though, I’m gonna show you something I’ve never shared with anypony before,” she turned to give Twilight a quick kiss before leaving, “so try not to worry too much, okay? I would never do anything to put you in danger.”
She didn’t know whether it was the kiss, the promise of seeing something Rainbow had never shared with anypony else, or the simple sense of safety and security she felt around the reckless daredevil (in fact this was pretty ironic in hindsight), but Twilight gave in. She agreed to whatever it was Rainbow had in store for them.
Twilight watched Rainbow fly out the window that morning with that same sense of longing she always felt when watching the cyan pegasus take to the sky. She always loved going out flying with her. Twilight always felt safe in Rainbow’s capable hooves and knew she would never drop her. If there was one thing she wished she could do, Twilight wished she could fly with Rainbow all the time and share the joy and beauty that a pony could only ever see from up above.
Lost in thought, Twilight failed to see Rainbow Dash come in for a landing.
“Hey Twi’! You ready to go?”
Startled by her marefriend’s unnoticed appearance, Twilight jumped straight into the air with a loud ‘EEP!’ and landed sprawled out, legs splayed in all directions on the balcony.
Unable to contain herself at the sight of the scared unicorn, Rainbow collapsed as a fit of laughter overtook her, lying next to the librarian who was wearing an annoyed frown on her face. Rainbow’s laughter proved to be contagious, and soon Twilight was joining her with barely restrained giggles.
Recovering first, Rainbow apologized, “Sorry about that. I didn’t mean to, heh heh, scare you like that Twi’.”
Standing up, Twilight shook her head, and addressed Rainbow, still giggling a little bit, “No problem. And yes, I’m all set to go. Will you tell me now where it is we’re going?”
“Aww, come on Twi, if I tell you now it’ll ruin the surprise!” Rainbow said tauntingly.
“What about the storm?! I shouldn’t have to tell you how dangerous it is to go flying when a thunderstorm is rolling into Ponyville!” Twilight exclaimed, more than a little worried. She turned her head away from Rainbow, her gaze downcast at the floor, “I…I’m scared, Rainbow. I don’t want anything to happen to either of us. I…I don’t think I could live if something happened to you…”
Rainbow stopped and walked up to Twilight. Suddenly very serious, she lifted Twilight’s chin with her hoof so the two faced each other once more.
“I promise nothing bad will happen. I love you, Twilight Sparkle, and I would never, ever, do anything reckless if it would hurt you.”
Twilight looked into Rainbow’s rose-coloured eyes and saw nothing but honesty, determination, and love. She couldn’t help but smile.
“Okay, Rainbow. Let’s go.”
Smiling ear-to-ear, Rainbow took to the air with a single flap of her wings. She swooped down and picked Twilight up in her strong fore-hooves. Clinging onto Rainbow for dear life, Twilight watched as the ground below quickly got further and further away as they flew high into the sky, higher than Rainbow had ever flown with Twilight before.
The sun had finished setting, and the first of Luna’s stars began to shine in the dark night Equestrian sky. This high up, Twilight looked at the stars in wonder as they shone with newfound brilliance past all of the light and noise of Ponyville below.
Rainbow saw Twilight staring slack-jawed at the sight above. She whispered in Twilight’s ear, “If you think that’s impressive, just wait and see. The real lightshow’s about to begin.”
Confused by what she meant, Twilight stopped her stargazing to see what Rainbow was talking about. She turned her head to the dark mass of billowing thunderstorm cloud below her.
Amazing, she flew us up above the thunderstorm. I should have had more faith. The weather should hardly disturb us up here…
Twilight’s inner praise of Rainbow Dash was silenced by the load roar of thunder. Rainbow flew them in a little closer to the thundercloud, and Twilight was simply awestruck by what she witnessed.
Lightning flashed and danced across the sky in a symphony of blues, whites, yellows, purples, and reds. Bolts arced across the sky, dashed in-between clouds, collided in a flurry of electric sparks. Twilight was so captivated by the sheer beauty of the storm that the booming thunder didn’t even disturb her.
The lightning crackled and crashed, it zapped and zoomed, and all the while Twilight couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed by joy at the display before her and by the love she felt for the cyan pegasus who carried her up to see this performance of nature few would ever witness.
“It’s beautiful Rainbow Dash. It’s the second most beautiful thing I’ve seen.”
“What’s the first?”
“You.”