Blaze's POV
"Phew… finally did it. I may have a cutie mark made of flames… but at least the water is the perfect temperature!"
"You do realize that Dash is going to kill you right?"
"…. Why didn't you warn me about this before?" I whined.
"I did, many many times… but you said, 'It's for the perfect bath water!'…"
"Awww man…"
As if on queue Dash shouted, "Hey Blaze you almost done in there?"
"Y-yeah! Almost!" I shouted back, plunging into the tub and…. "Oh dear sweet Celestia this feels amazing!" I gargled, sinking into the water, "I don't care if Dash kills me… this was worth it…"
"Yeah I sure hope so…"
As I was enjoying that amazing bath, Dash burst through the door and looked at me with a face that said, 'You won't escape'...
"I know I said that this was worth it… but I really didn't mean it."
"Too late to apologize now."
"I beg to differ…"
"Uhhh, I'm sorry?"
"Cannonball!" Dash shouts half a second before she plunges into the tub, spilling water on the floor.
After the water in the tub settled I resurfaced and looked at my Dashie… "I love you so much!"
Giggling she replied, "I love you too."
"I actually thought Blaze would be angry…" I heard Scoots say at the doorway.
"Hey that rhymed."
"Don't break the 4th wall unnecessarily!"
"I'm a pretty level headed guy Scoots." I chuckled, splashing water at her. The water covered her from head to hoof, "There, you both were looking a little dirty anyways."
"Oh really?" Dash and Scoots said at the same time.
Looking from Dash to Scoots, then back to Dash I sink into the water, "Well… this won't end very well…" Dash and Scoots nodded to each other and lunged at me… The battle has begun...
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The battle ended with me as the victor! Well, I may as well be the victor... Dash had lost long ago, so it was only me and Scoots left… I plunged my wing underwater to fling some water at her, but she was quicker, her wings buzzed underwater, sending a large wave towards me. Craning my neck up I thought to myself, "Where the hell are the physics!?"
The wave crashed down on me and sent me out of the water, right next to Dash. Spitting out some of the water I wave my white flag of defeat as Scoots cheers.
"Where the buck did you get that flag?"
"Don't know and I'm scared to ask."
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After drying myself off with my towel I notice Scoots is staring at me, or more specifically, my cutie mark… "Blaze what happened to your cutie mark?"
Before I could say anything Dash yelled at me, "Blaze! What the buck?! Is that why you were taking so long?"
Thinking up an excuse I say, "Uhhh uhhh, the caller you have reached is unable to answer at this time, please call at another time of which is convenient to him/her."
"Wha?" Dash and Scoots said in unison, trying to figure out what I just said.
"This is my chance!" I bolted out the bathroom and flew downstairs towards the door, just as I was about to open it and escape Dash tackled me into the wall, knocking me out cold.
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~DreamWorld~
"No Dashie stop please I beg of you!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, hoping somepony would come to my rescue.
"There's no way I'm stopping! This is what you get for turning back into Bonfire for no reason!" Dash replied, attacking me more and more with that horrible weapon.
"I swear I won't do it again without good reason! SO FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA STOP TICKLING ME!" I shouted again.
"NEVER!"
I was growing weaker by the second… she was never this brutal with that damn owl's feather, so why now?
Widening my eyes I come to a realization, "This is a dream! Dash always uses Owlicious's feather to tickle me! This one is of her own!"
Dash stopped tickling me and sighed, "Bout time you noticed…" she was speaking in a voice that wasn't hers… yet familiar.
Before I could ask, a blinding light caused me to turn away. When I looked back, I saw the hooded woman again. "Ahhh, long time no see. So to what do I owe this visit... Sally?"
The hood was removed and, as I said before stood my sister, Sally. I recognized her by her light blue eyes and long black hair.
"Well, I wanted to see where my loving big brother was all this time!" she exclaimed.
"Cut the crap Sally." I replied coldly.
"Tch… you always were the one who never fell for my 'good hearted nature'." She sighed, flopping into a chair she materialized.
"So I’ll ask you again, what are you doing here?"
"Observation." She stated bluntly, while eating a cup of vanilla pudding, "Someone… well, somepony asked me to get some intel on your whereabouts... And of course I was happy to oblige." She put another spoonful in her mouth and mumble, “This is really good.”
"Who?"
"Like hell I'd tell you." She never was the one to go to for information… unless she got something out if it.
"How about I make you a deal…"
A smirk crossed her lips for a moment, "I'm listening."
"You tell me who you're gathering information for… and you can have my gaming TV and monitor."
Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped, "You serious?! I can have them?"
"Yep. I'll even give you the password to unlock them." Getting information from her took drastic measures… and I locked my TV and monitor internally just for such an occasion.
"Ok ok. The one who told me to gather information from you is a guy name-" she was cut off by a certain somepony shouting in my ear…
"BLAZE! WAKEY WAKEY!"
"Fuck… listen we'll do this another time ok?" I sighed, turning around and materializing a door. “I gotta go get chewed out.” I mumbled in anger.
"But what about my TV and monitor?" she whined… hate it when she does that.
Sighing I said, "Love and Tolerate."
"W-what?"
"That's my password. They lock you out because you think that it's a typed password. Say that phrase and you'll be let in… cya." I said before going through the door...
~Dreamworld Past~
My sister may not look it... but she's not actually human. I found this out after I started studying Lucid Dreaming; in one of my test runs I accidentally stumbled into my memories... These were ones that were suppressed, and for good reason.
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"Ugh... i've been walking around in here for longer than I would ever want... I kept these memories locked up for a reason..."
"Stop complaining... we won't be able to leave from here until we find a door, so keep looking."
"I know that... oh hey, is that the way out?" I said, looking at a mahogany door.
"Seems like it."
As I got closer I noticed something about the door... an inscription was being placed on the border... "Sally's Memories..."
"I guess you can also view other people's memories..."
"Should we check it out?"
"Better than nothing..."
I took a few steps towards the door and extended my hand, twist the doorknob, and open it.
Past the door was a room filled with numerous screens that each seemed to be monitoring something...
Pressing forward I look at the first screen on my left... It showed Sally doing something to mom... Her hand glowed a bright blue and she pressed it against mom's forehead. Ignoring that and moving to the next monitor on my right I see Sally again.. doing the same thing to dad...
"What does this even mean?"
"I'm not sure... but keep looking, maybe we'll find out."
Ignoring all the monitors on the sides, I go to the monitor in the middle of the room... this one had Sally doing the same thing... to me.
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~Equestria~
Opening one eye I look at Dash… "Hey there Das-" before I could finish she slapped me with her hoof, over and over and over and ov- "STOP!" I shout, getting thoroughly annoyed.
She looks at me, slaps me one more time and says, "Oh hey you're awake."
"Yes I'm awake… and because of that I missed out on some vital information…"
"What do you mean 'vital information'?"
"You know that I can lucid dream, but what you didn't know is that my sister can also lucid dream… and she can hop into other people's dreams."
"You have a sister?" I hear Scoots say.
"First I've heard of this." Dash says, curious and slightly angry that I hadn't told her.
"I don't like to talk about her much…" I replied bluntly, "But it seems that she was gathering information on me for somepony... somepony!" I sat up quickly and opened the door.
"Where are you going?" Dash asked me.
"I've gotta go see the princesses, they'll want to hear about this." I was about to take off when I remembered something, "Oh yeah, and before I go…" I turned around and pressed my lips against Dash's… breaking apart I trot over to Scoots, pick her up, and give her a hug.
"Now that that's done… I'm off!" I shouted, sprinting out the door and spreading my wings, I head off in the direction of Canterlot at full speed.