Several hours earlier…
A medium-blue pegasus woke up a bit early in the morning, ready for her share of work in setting up the weather. Shoving her light-blue mane out of her eyes, she got up and hovered out of the door to her room, looking over at the empty room opposite hers. “Didn’t someone tell me that room got reserved recently?” She pondered as she exited the front door of the small cottage.
Her name was Blue Sky and while she loved flying just as much as the next pegasus, there was one other thing she loved more than that: the wind. So much so, that altering the wind speed of Ponyville was her job as part of the town’s weather patrol. The good news about her initial job was that she was the first one to get her job done before having the rest of the day to do anything she wanted, but it came with the obvious downside of having to wake up very early in the morning, before most ponies even woke up.
Although Blue Sky had gotten used to waking up early after a few months of living in Ponyville, there was still one consistent annoyance about her job: Actually getting her assignment from her boss, Rainbow Dash. Sometimes (read: all of the time), she was quite difficult to make her stay awake just long enough to get the exact wind speed for the day before she immediately fell asleep again. It doesn’t help that she has a reputation of napping at sometimes inopportune moments. But, she’s the boss for a reason, and a blazingly fast reason at that, so Blue Sky puts up with it since her work only gets easier from there.
Blue Sky flew up to the window of Dash’s cloud house that revealed her sleeping in her room as per usual. “So, how many times does it take to wake her up today?” She asked herself. “Let’s find out!” She said, first knocking on the window. “One.” She said, proceeding to call Dash’s name to no avail. “Two.” She muttered, taking in a deep breath with a mental “Three” going through her mind. “I GOT YOU SOME MAIL FROM SPITFIRE!” She yelled, watching the cyan pegasus inside shoot right to the cloud window and passing through it.
“Give it here al-oh, it’s you…” Rainbow Dash said, facehoofing. “Are you SURE you don’t want a late morning assignment?” She asked Blue Sky.
“As kind as that offer is…no, thank you.” Blue Sky replied with a smile. Waking Dash up like this in the morning essentially gave her free reign for minor pranks while working at the same time.
“Alright, then…I don’t know how you put up with this sleep schedule.” Rainbow Dash said back, hovering back into her house to retrieve the to-do list for today and flying back outside. “Okay, so…just enough wind to have frequent breezes throughout the day, got it?” She read from the list.
“You got it, boss! Oh, and good night.” Blue Sky said, flying off for her daily wind generation.
Rainbow Dash hovered back inside and flopped onto her cloud bed with a yawn. “I should just leave her assignment on the window tomorrow…” She made a note to herself as she nodded off.
“A nice spring breeze today? Sure, I’d like that a lot.” Blue Sky repeated the job to herself as she hovered in place over the center of Ponyville, generating the necessary wind with her flapping wings. Once enough was generated, she started to fly all across Ponyville to spread the wind around. While she worked, she sung a couple songs to herself, one song about falling free in the wind and another about being some knight of the wind.
Once she finished her wind job, she went to Sugarcube Corner as it opened for the day to grab a quick breakfast before her morning nap. “Please don’t see Pinkie, please don’t see Pinkie, please don’t see-“
“And our first customer of the day iiiiiiiiiis…” A loud, feminine voice rang out through the store.
“Go away, go away, go away, go away, go away-“ Blue Sky repeated to herself as she was almost able to trot out with her bought muffin.
“Miss Storm Pegasus, herself…BLUE SKY!” Pinkie Pie’s voice cheered with confetti flying everywhere.
Blue Sky sighed, turning around to face the music. She’d get her nap soon at least.
“How does it feel to be Sugarcube Corner’s thirty-seventh-“ Pinkie Pie heard a meow in the background. “Thirty-eighth-time first customer?” She said, completing her interview question.
“I’m pretty hungry and pretty tired, Pinkie. You can throw a party for me later, alright?” Blue Sky told her.
Pinkie gasped. “I was gonna wait for you to hit forty times in a row, but thirty-eight is a good number for one, too! I mean, you NEVER heard that number for anything and you get to make it super-duper special!”
Blue Sky couldn’t help but smile. There’s no way anyone could be in a bad mood for long with her cheerful attitude. “Thanks, Pinkie.”
“You’re welcome as always, Blue!” Pinkie chirped. She was about to trot back to the kitchen when she suddenly paused. Her legs made a motion of wheels turning while she made train noises. Afterwards, her tail twitched followed by a gleeful smile with a hoof covering her eyes from non-existent sunlight from within the store.
“Pinkie Sense?” Blue Sky guessed, to which Pinkie zipped back up to her.
“A train impression, twitchy tail and environment adoration means someone new is coming off the train today! Oh, I wish I could meet them and throw them a Welcome to Ponyville party, but I have work!” Pinkie frowned for all of two seconds before brightening up in front of Blue Sky. “Blue, could you do me a really, really, really-
“-I’ll see who it is and tell you later.” Blue Sky replied as Pinkie proceeded to tackle-glomp her and hug her. “Just to be safe, I’ll Pinkie Promise.” She told her as Pinkie got off of her. “Cross my heart and hope to fly…” She trailed off for a second, hovering in the air. “Stick a cupcake in my eye!” She finished, doing the Pinkie Promise motion as well and leaving.
Blue went back home to have her muffin breakfast in a jiffy and let herself fall asleep for about an hour. She wasn’t the heaviest sleeper, sure, but she could at least fall asleep relatively quickly, which is very useful for naps.
About an hour later, she stirred from her nap, giving a loud yawn. She trotted outside, taking to the skies to get to the train station where she would await the supposed new neighbor. It’d be lucky if said person was the one who reserved the room in the house next to hers, so she could get introductions over with quickly. “Plus, I can save him or her from Pinkie’s party onslaught for at least a few hours so they can adjust.” She added to the rest of the explanation.
She watched a train slowing down near the station before coming to a full stop. Only one pony had gotten off the train here, so she hovered over to him to introduce herself. “Hey, new guy. I’m Blue Sky, who are you?”
The young stallion turned to her after she nearly interrupted his comment about the area being windy. “I’m Bass Treble.”