Rainbow Dash slowly opened her eyes. Her head was ringing and what's more there seemed to be a black ring around her face which slightly obscured her eyesight. Her vision was partially slanted too. It felt as if she was in a party costume. How exactly? No idea, but this definitely wasn't her style. She had to act fast before anypony found out. Dash shook her head vigorously trying to get off whatever was on it but it wouldn't budge. Strangely, she couldn't move her head at all and stranger still: she was staring at something big and brown. Just what was going on? Panicking, Dash tried shouting to at least establish she was still alive but no sound came out. Surely it was just a weird dream? She remembered the portal,“ah it takes you into your dreams!” Dash made a brief mental note to tell Twilight but in all honesty her attention was back on the Daring Do book now.
Relaxing slightly Dash let the dream continue but didn't like how she wasn't in control of anything. Also she found it difficult to think straight as other thoughts; something about muffins, kept interrupting. Finally, after what seemed like a good 5 minutes dream time, her vision zoomed out revealing that the brown object was in fact a muffin. Dash heard the sound of licking lips which were unsettling loud before she lurched forward and engulfed the treat. Now that was a good a muffin. There was no denying it. She had never really had it going for muffins until now. Dash leaned back , chewing the muffin but growing increasingly edgy. It didn't feel like her mouth was grinding away; the sound was distant and muffled slightly.
“Derpy Hooves! What do you think you're doing?” a voice echoed from behind Dash, she was Rainbow Dash right?
“Muffins!” Derpy excitedly replied. “Muffins everywhere!”
She extended a grey hoof and picked up a muffin before swivelling around to face the other pony. “Okay, last time I checked I wasn't grey,” thought Dash. “Nope, definitely wasn't grey. Name's not Derpy either.” Just end this stupid dream already. Although Dash had to admit that the muffin was very good; she could see why Derpy had such an obsession with the things. She even kinda hoped that Derpy/herself would eat another.
“Leave it Derpy; this isn't even your house. This is a bakery!” the earth pony replied whom Dash identified as Carrot Top. A saddened Derpy looked down at the floor- she had only had one. Dash felt her pain: “Oh I hear ya Derpy. I wish I could stay here all day and eat them with you.”
“Aw don't be like that Derpy. I have plenty of muffins waiting at home!” Carrot Top revealed.
“Can me have some?” Derpy questioned.
“Of course! Now come on, we're not meant to be here!”
“Can me have some?” Derpy repeated, this time gesturing at the stack of muffins behind her.
“Oh all right Derpy,” Carrot Top conceded, “but be quick and don't forget to pay The Cakes back!”
Derpy wasn't interested. There were muffins to be had. She took one off the shelf and hid it in her mouth. “More,” Dash purred. Derpy did not need to be told twice. In fact, she didn't need to be told at all: she was already holding five in her hooves.
Rainbow Dash's non-existent eyes widened. All these muffins. All hers. Derpy gracefully bounced towards the door where Carrot Top took her hand and quickly led her out.
Dash was happily led outside too but before she could take a step further she heard a sucking sound in her ears as she began to leave Derpy. She tried to fight back, tried struggling but it was no use.
“My muffins! We were gonna have so much fun together! Please let me stay!”
Her cries fell on deaf ears and Rainbow Dash was yanked upwards out of the grey mare. She was sucked back into the vortex, into its blackness, before being compressed and spat out into fresh air.
*****
“Oh my goodness, Rainbow Dash are you okay?”
Dash rubbed her head, struggling to take in her surroundings. That was surely the second weirdest dream she'd ever experienced.
“Can you hear me?” the yellow pegasus repeated.
“Yes of course I can Fluttershy,” she irritably replied. What was up with her head?
“You don't look so good Rainbow Dash. You fell out of the sky right above me.”
Rainbow Dash got off her hooves and looked around. She was at the edge of the Everfree forest, the grass was a bright green and also moist; glistening in the sun. This was the place where Fluttershy usually liked to tend to the animals.
“How did I get here?”
“Umm, there was a flash you see and I just saw you falling. I tried to catch you but couldn't. I'm sorry,” a miserable Fluttershy answered. “Are you sure you're feeling all right?”
“Don't be sorry. I'm fine, see? Now I gotta get back and tell Twilight something. See ya Fluttershy!” said Dash, her head still a bit uneasy. She flew off before Fluttershy could answer, excited to tell Twilight of her strange dream. Oh and after that she would settle down to... some muffins. Yes, that's exactly what she needed: a good muffin...
*****
Rainbow Dash quickly stopped flying; she was still feeling rather giddy. Slowing down to a walking pace she looked back on the dream; if you could call it that. It had all seemed a bit too realistic and she had never dreamt she was another pony before. Whilst she was having her doubts a conversation she overheard caught her attention:
“Derpy, you really shouldn't have done that. It's not right to take other ponies' things without telling them.”
“They told me to though Carrot.”
“Who did? The Cakes?”
“The muffins, eat me they said!”
Rainbow Dash froze as Carrot Top and Derpy passed in the opposite direction; the latter holding a stack of muffins. Surely it hadn't actually happened? Dash had had that thought nagging at the back of her mind, ironically where she was in Derpy, but seriously? That's where the portal went? Rainbow Dash didn't know whether to be:
A) Distraught
B) Traumatised
C) Any other negative emotion
D) None of the above
She chose option D as she didn't feel bad at all. Dash didn't feel guilty or upset: she thoroughly enjoyed the experience and, dare she say it? Wanted to go back?
Wanting to step once more in the weird and wacky mind of Derpy Hooves; Rainbow Dash returned to Twilight's house with new intentions.