Rainbow Dash flew over Ponyville. Warm, mid-morning light falling on her back and wings. She was glad to have the day off from weather duties on such a nice day. Her mind wandered, pondering how to spend her increasingly rare day off. Unfortunately, the weather was about the only convenient thing about today as most of her friends were busy. Rarity and Fluttershy were going to the spa. Applejack was swamped with her chores and even Pinkie pie was busy babysitting. Normally, the last place she wanted to spend a day this nice was in some dusty library, but She hadn't seen Twilight for almost a week anyway. Dash had wanted to set things straight much sooner, but it seemed neither was free when the other was since the incident.
It was a little over a week ago that it happened now. Twilight had gone out flying alone. It was overcast, a storm had been planned for later that evening, Dash had been tasked with the responsibility of overseeing it's development. She dived in and out of the cloud cover, it was hard to tell if she was doing her job or simply playing, though it was both really. After she was thoroughly convinced that the storm was properly on track she got ready to return home when she caught a glimpse of violet. She banked, bringing it into view. It was Twilight Sparkle and she was carrying a decently large cylindrical black case. It almost surprised her that the egghead could fly while hauling something that big. She snickered as she silently glided behind her. As she approached it became clear that her friend was distracted, very deep in thought as she would often become over anything that piqued her interests and that was usually either magic or studying, or both. The mischievous pegasus could hardly suppress her laughter as images of a startled Twilight ran through her mind. Then it happened. She was only feet away when a bolt of lightening came out of nowhere, flashing close enough to them to singe her feathers, then came the loud, Crack! The Sound rang in Dash's ears, deafening her momentarily. She had to struggle to keep her wings from locking up, something an experienced flier had to know how to do. Twilight, was not an experienced flier. She plummeted, the cases strap fell over her head and detached from her as if it were trying to avoid the same fate. Dash dived for twilight, but the lightening had done more damage than she first thought, it was slowing her down. She powered through the pain, flapping as fast she could she started gaining on Twilight. She collided with her friend with enough force to knock the wind out of them both. They were only about a fifty feet away from the ground before Dash had caught her, way to close for either of them. As they breathed a sigh of relief, a black object fell past them, smashing open upon impact with the ground below. Fragments of glass and plastic flew out, scattering across the ground. Twilight went limp in her hooves and Dash could swear she saw tears beginning to form in her eyes as she stared speechless at mangled contraption. It was her telescope.
After that, when ever Dash asked to hang out or offered to buy her a new telescope she would always dodge the subject. She felt really bad about the whole thing. Today she was going to be more forward. She was not taking no for an answer! With that she made her way to Golden Oak Library.
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Dash descended as the library came into view. She meandered in the air above the door for a few extra moment before landing. Raising a hoof she steeled herself for a confrontation before setting it to the door. Her heart thumped faster as a light hoof beat approached door. It seemed to creak open in slow motion just to make her more nervous! Then there she stood. she didn't look mad or upset?
“Twilight! I need to talk to you!” She spoke determinately, trying to sound as serious as possible.
“That's perfect!” She smiled warmly, breaking Dash's bravado into confusion. “The newest Daring Do just came in this morning! I was thinking we should read it together, but I figured it was so nice today you probably wouldn’t have come by but here you are.”
“Wait you're not mad?” Dash raised an eyebrow disbelievingly.
“Mad? For what?” She had a genuine look of surprise in her eyes.
“I broke you're telescope”
“Dash, you saved me. It was my fault for going out when I knew there would be a storm. How could I blame you for something like that?” Relief flowed over her body. She gave a tentative smile, still not entirely convinced.
“Then, if you weren’t mad why were you avoiding me?” Twilight's eye's widened for a moment before she gave a light giggle, to which dash didn't know whether to be relieved or offended.
“I wasn't avoiding you. Our schedules just didn't cooperate this week that's all! Gee Dash, I never knew you were so sensitive.” She giggled even louder this time, intentionally provoking a blush out of the pegasus. After she finished another bout of laughter at her friends expense she continued.
“Anyway, if you're up for it I'm free now so how about it? Care to dive into another thrilling adventure of Daring Do? I can start us some tea while we read?” Not even awaiting a response Twilight gestured for dash to follow her as she walked back into the library. She stood there in the door way for a moment, feeling slightly let down after all the effort she built up but simply shrugged it away content that she was still on good terms with one of her best friends. Dash proceeded to follow her into the library, ready to settle in for a relaxing day of reading with Twilight.