//------------------------------// // Misunderstandings // Story: Rainbow Dash the Sports Star // by Diablomuerte2 //------------------------------// Misunderstandings Rainbow Dash was barely paying attention in class, she had other things on the mind. What was I thinking,I have too much things piling up as is, and now I decide to reconnect with Fluttershy? she barely heard the teacher ask her a question when she snapped out of her thoughts. "Huh?" she uttered haphazardly. The teacher was bemused as he asked again, "What classification of mammals can lay eggs and show reptilian traits?" Rainbow Dash forgot the word and wasn't as interested in getting the right answer. "Pass," she deadpanned. The teacher raised his thick glasses and gave a stern look. "Ms. Dash please tell the entire class what is so important that you couldn't pay attention enough to answer such a simple question?" Rainbow Dash looked at all the faces turned her way and felt her face turn crimson. "Well..." ____________________________________________________________ Fluttershy was talking to Rarity about the event that took place earlier by the statue. "I was so confused so I just ran... I don't know what to do now Rarity?" Fluttershy began shuffling her right foot along the floor slowly. Rarity felt so awful for her dear friend. "I tell you what I will get this straightened out. I will text Applejack and have her put Rainbow Dash in her place." She took her phone out of her purse angrily and began mashing her phone keys. Fluttershy panicked and tried grabbing Rarity's phone. "Wait... don't send that text or it could make things worse," she softly called out. Rarity looked at Fluttershy with an eyebrow raised and waited for her to continue on. "I don't want any problems, and Rainbow Dash didn't do anything wrong," Fluttershy explained sadly. Rarity smirked. "Fluttershy if you don't want my help in getting rid of Rainbow Dash's 'unwanted' advances what do you want?" Fluttershy blushed and stammered, "Unwanted advances? She wasn't hitting on me... was she?" Rarity giggled excitedly. "Of course she was, why else would she be so passionate about her plea? She must be head over heels for you." Fluttershy was hesitant in believing Rarity, since nothing beyond a gesture of rekindling was made. "I'm not sure about all this." Rarity frowned. "I have an idea... I can text Applejack and have her talk to Rainbow Dash. If she can gather the information we need, we can determine whether Rainbow Dash made a pass at you. Then everything will be fine, trust me." Fluttershy seemed nervous. "Are you sure nothing can go wrong?" Rarity waved her hand passively. "Please Fluttershy, what's the worse that could happen?" ____________________________________________________________ Pinkie Pie had been given the esteemed 'pleasure' of having Sunset Shimmer be her assistant. Celestia felt if Sunset Shimmer could do community service and truly reform than she could be forgiven for her past deeds. Pinkie being the girl who loved having friends the most decided to take Sunset under her wing. "No Sunset! you are supposed to put the streamers over there!" Pinkie shouted after having to deal with an unruly assistant. Sunset sighed out of boredom and looked around the storage room. "Pinkie does it really matter? You are the only person with access to this room." Sunset hated her path to redemption that she was on. She was almost the ruler of the entire world until Twilight and the others ruined it all. Pinkie Pie was infuriated with the constant attitude that Sunset was giving her. "Look Sunset, why are you still being a meanie pants? I thought you wanted friends?" Sunset chuckled . "Yeah well look how well that is doing for me... I have no friends Pinkie Pie... and I have apologized one hundred times over." She frowned and held back the tears she shed that night. Pinkie softened and whispered, "That's not true Sunset... you already have one friend... me." ____________________________________________________________ It was almost time for lunch when Rainbow Dash went to the bathroom and bumped into Applejack. "Hey AJ, fancy meeting you here," Rainbow Dash joked. She was smiling freely until she noticed the serious look on her friend's face. "So what's with the look?" Applejack made sure the bathroom was devoid of other girls before she began speaking. "Alright sugarcube, fess up, what's with this whole Fluttershy business?" Rainbow Dash gave Applejack a nervous look. "What Fluttershy business?" The farm girl was not one for being fooled and disliked being lied to. "Don't play dumb with me RD, I got a text from Rarity sayin' ya were practically pouncin' on the poor thing." Rainbow Dash blushed at the imagery. "No! You got it all wrong. Look I was just talking to Fluttershy about helping out at the shelter... and I may have admitted something about how I feel about our friendship." Applejack chuckled. "Shoot Rainbow Dash, ain't no shame in lovin' a girl." Rainbow Dash went wide eyed. "Love? What exactly are you getting at? I just want to get close to Shy again, nothing sappy about it." Applejack searched her face for deception. "Then ya ain't thinkin' of bein' more than friends with Fluttershy?" she asked curiously. Rainbow Dash was going to answer that question but someone came into the bathroom. "Hey look I will get this all straightened out with Shy at lunch, for now I really gotta go, nature is calling and it doesn't feel like being put on hold." ____________________________________________________________ Scootaloo was sitting in class mostly looking at the clock since it was nearing lunch. She was excited about being able to spend time with her idol and honorary sister Rainbow Dash. She was hungry as well, but that wasn't as important. Scootaloo had no siblings growing up and always admired Rainbow Dash. One day while she was hanging out with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle she expressed her desire to have some time to hang out with Rainbow Dash. Apple Bloom had suggested they all go camping since she and her sister did it on some weekends. Sweetie Belle wanted to go as well and convinced, or manipulated, Rarity into going so she could attend. With their camping trip set, the excited girls were eager to spend time with their sisters and each other. The trip was mostly awful for Scootaloo who ended up getting scared and making a fool of herself. It wasn't until the final night of the trip that she ended up having her bonding time with Rainbow Dash. ____________________________________________________________ Scootaloo wasn't able to sleep, after hearing the grisly campfire stories Rainbow Dash was telling earlier. She was beginning to hear noises from lack of sleep, and she ran off scared into the woods. Her brain practically fried and paranoid was causing her to panic and run blindly. She ended up running off a cliff into a ravine. As if that wasn't bad enough, the ravine had a strong current and it forced her body to move towards the edge of the waterfall. She was screaming and crying for help, and all seemed lost. Just before she fell over a hand grabbed her from the water and pulled her to safety just in time. Rainbow Dash was relieved she was able to find the girl in time before disaster struck. "Gotcha..." Scootaloo, ever grateful, began tearing up in happiness that she was saved. "Rain...bow ...Dash,' She sobbed out. Rainbow Dash sighed and looked at the shaking child. "Hey! what the heck was that all about? You nearly died!" Scootaloo cried out even more in fear of disappointing the one person she wanted to impress. "I am sorry.. I was just... scared of the story you told and I couldn't sleep. I thought I heard noises so I ran out and ... I... well... you know the rest," she stammered tearfully. Rainbow Dash softened and got closer to the little girl. "Hey Scootaloo, why didn't you tell me you were scared?" she asked feeling guilty. She never imagined the girl putting on the brave face was really frightened beyond belief. Scootaloo looked away embarrassed. "Well I wanted to impress you, so that you would think I am cool. I wanted you to take me under your wing and be, like, my big sister." Rainbow Dash got closer to the shaking girl and began talking."Well I'll let you in on a little secret, and if you tell anyone I will deny it. When I first heard those stories..." she looked around to make sure she wasn't being heard. "I was scared as well." Scootaloo was surprised at the admission. "You were?" she curiously yelped. Rainbow Dash chuckled softly. "Yeah, until I realized that if monsters were real I could totally take em out. Still you said you’re looking for someone to take you under their wing?" She asked while wrapping her arms around Scootaloo. "I think I can do that. Just don't go falling into ravines anytime soon okay?" Scootaloo smiled with the utmost joy surging through her. "Deal." She felt Rainbow Dash's cheek rub hers and she blushed. She had never expected to have someone be as warm to her that wasn't actually family. She felt like the world did her a solid and would never be ungrateful about it. ____________________________________________________________ Scootaloo was fond of that memory. She was lucky that Rainbow Dash heard her running off and wasn't a heavy sleeper. It would have been a different story had Rainbow Dash not made it in time. Apple Bloom noticed how spaced out Scootaloo was and became worried that she would get caught day dreaming by Ms. Cheerilee. "Psst Scootaloo... yer spacin' out again." Scootaloo sighed softly. "Sorry... just school is so boring. I can't wait for lunch so I can hang out with Rainbow Dash," she whispered. Diamond Tiara noticed the two girls whispering and decided to get them in trouble. "Hey Ms. Cheerilee, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo are whispering things, and I can't focus on my reading because of it." She looked over and smiled at them wickedly. Cheerilee looked up from her textbook and sighed. "Girls, you know better than that. If you disrupt the other students again I will have no other choice but to give you detention." Cheerilee didn't like watching over detention, and with snips and snails finally out of detention, she thought it would be nice to have a break from it. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom scowled at Diamond Tiara, While Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon both stood out of it. The fights between the younger female students had been common since Diamond Tiara began picking on Apple Bloom a couple years ago. ____________________________________________________________ Lunch had finally arrived and the fabulous five, plus Sunset Shimmer, were sitting together at a table. Usually Sunset Shimmer ate alone until recently when Pinkie began inviting her to spend time at lunch together. Sunset hated Pinkie being so kind and forgiving, she didn't feel like she earned that from anyone just yet. Rainbow Dash didn't feel comfortable talking about her emotions in front of her friends so she needed to isolate herself and Fluttershy. "Hey Fluttershy mind eating lunch with me elsewhere? I want to talk with you about something personal." The silence was deafening, even with a loud lunchroom full of chatty teenagers and younger students, no noise could be heard. Rarity was giving off a starry look of excitement. She hadn't been given the bad news by Applejack that it wasn't anything romantic. Applejack was displaying no emotion towards the words for she didn't feel like it would impact her in the slightest. Pinkie Pie seemed confused and was going to ask about what was going on until Rarity put hand over her mouth. Sunset Shimmer continued eating ignoring everything since she wasn't involved in any of their affairs. Fluttershy blushed as her heart began beating faster. Fear surged through her like electricity as she slowly responded. "Y..e...s, I mean yes. Let's go somewhere private Rainbow Dash." She hesitantly got up and walked outside of the cafeteria with Rainbow Dash leading her somewhere unknown. When they were out of site Rarity giggled like the schoolgirl she was. "Oh my... did you see that. Rainbow Dash is going to confess her undying love for Fluttershy!" she exclaimed in joy. Applejack felt she better handle damage control now before rumors ended up spreading. "Now wait jus' a second sugar cube, Rainbow Dash ain't said nothin' about bein' with Fluttershy. She made it somewhat clear it ain’t nothin' romantic." Rarity felt sad. "That's tragic! Here we were on the precipice of true romance and you destroyed my hope," she said angrily. Pinkie Pie decided to jump in. "Wait a second... what's going on?" Sunset Shimmer decided to answer for them. "Well Pinkie, it seems your two friends didn't fill you in on the possibility of Rainbow Dash becoming girlfriends with Fluttershy!" Pinkie Pie waited until the words sunk in before she let out a mighty gasp. “We should throw them a huge party!” she exclaimed loudly.