//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: Spike and Rainbow Dash // by winzaur //------------------------------// Rainbow’s cloud house was easily one of the most recognizable buildings in Equestria. It was about two stories off of the ground and was had a giant rainbow fall, making the building seem to be quite large from the outside. As Rainbow came in to land, Spike saw Tank standing on the porch of Rainbow’s house, “Hey Rainbow,” he said, “How’s Tank able to walk on your cloud house?” “Oh, after I got him, I had Twilight enchant the clouds so that he could walk around without the helicopter on his back. She offered to just enchant him, but I figured it would be easier to do this.” Rainbow explained, “So Spike what you wanna do first?” Twilight and Rarity arrived a few minutes after Spike and Rainbow walked inside the cloud house. Rarity leapt from cover to cover glancing up every so often to see if the coast was clear, while Twilight followed her around in a much more calm way. “Rarity, are you sure this is a good idea? What if Rainbow or Spike sees us?” Twilight whispered, still highly entertained by Rarity’s strange antics. She wasn’t entirely sure why Rarity was also using a giant cardboard box to sneak from place to place, but hey, it seemed to make her happy, so why not. “Twilight, the reward is equal to the risk. We must find out more of this juicy juicy gossip!” Rarity said, looking around before diving into a cloud that Rainbow appeared to have made into a statue of Daring Do. “Now get in here before they catch us!” Twilight sighed and walked over to the cloud statue. Rarity pulled her inside and said, “Now let’s see what their up to…” Rainbow and Spike of course, were doing the best and most exciting thing that any male and female can do on a bed together. Building a giant fort, with pillow turrets. They both had crawled into the fort and had set up a flashlight so that Rainbow could show Spike her giant Daring Do collection. Spike also loved Daring Do, living in a library meant that he was able to read almost anything he wanted and these were the first books he picked up. Right now though, he and Rainbow were having a heated discussion about whether or not Daring Do was going to make it through the pie throwing tunnel of doom. This continued for some time until they agreed to disagree, then on the count of three, they burst out of the pillow fort. “What do you want to do now Rainbow?” Spike asked. He was having a blast; he didn’t know that Rainbow was so much like him. They both enjoyed Daring Do, she had the same kind of kidlike personality and she also loved pranking people. Spike continued, “We could play a game if you want? Or we can go look at the stars, their always really cool near midnight.” “Sure thing Spike, want me to grab like a blanket or something? It’s kinda chilly outside.” Rainbow said; she loved looking at the stars. Sometimes she would take Tank up with her and just watch them for hours and sleep in. No one ever knew that was the real reason she slept in all the time, she usually only fell asleep as the sun came up. “Nah, I’ll be fine Dash, internal fire and all” Spike said, Rainbow laughed and they both headed outside. “They’re coming!” Rarity said, peering through the binoculars at the windows. She and Twilight both dived further into the cloud structure trying to be as quiet as possible. “Um, Twilight, why are your wings so stiff?” Twilight of course, had been shoved up against Rarity as they were hiding and was now effectively lying on top of her. “Nothing… nope. Nope nope nope.” She said, a massive blush taking over her face. “They’re not stiff, what are you talking about?” hoping that Rarity would stop asking questions. “I see…” Rarity said, completely confused about the situation. Rarity had absolutely no idea about why a pegasus’, or in this case alicorn’s wings got stiff. In fact the only time she had seen it happen was when she was at the spa with Fluttershy who was getting some sort of massage. When she mentioned it to her later, Fluttershy turned pure red and teleported to her house for a week. “Well hush, it looks like they’re going to the roof. We need a closer look!” Rarity picked up her trusty cardboard box and put it over Twilight and her. They crept forward until they were within listening range of Rainbow and Spike’s conversation. Rainbow and Spike had set up on the roof of her cloud house and were staring up at the sky. “Look over there!” Spike said, “It’s an Ursa Minor and Major!” he pointed to the eastern edge of the sky. Rainbow looked over brushing up against Spike to get a better angle, her head just touching the bottom of his chin as she gazed at the sky. Spike glanced down when he felt her brush against his chin but didn’t want to move as she looked so enthralled by the sky. He smiled down at her and as she moved back to her hold spot she looked at him and… “NOOOOOO” Rarity hissed, “A cloud blocked our view! Now I don’t know what they did. Did they kiss? Did they look awkwardly away? Gahhh stupid clouds!” Rainbow and Spike were smiling at each other, neither one wanting to look away and neither one feeling awkward at all. “Spike, you’re a pretty great guy you know that right? You don’t actually need all that mare training.” Rainbow said, looking away with a small blush starting to form on her cheeks. Spike started to blush as well and said, “Rainbow you never needed my help for the best young flyers competition, did you?” Spike said, not really sure what he was doing. He had a feeling that although he didn’t quite know what it was. “I don’t mind helping you but you’re already the best young flyer once in a row. I’m sure you’ll blow them all away.” “You don’t know that, what if I’m not good enough? What if I mess up like last time and only win with a random sonic rainboom?” Rainbow said, shrinking down. She tried to avoid Spike’s gaze but he put a claw under her chin and lifted he face up gently. “Rainbow, you’ll be fine. Besides, you’ll have the best cheering section ever!” Spike said. “How’s that, none of you are coming to the competition. You were only going to go because of Rarity! Twilight is busy with princess things, Applejack has harvest season, Fluttershy has a giant animal shelter to run, and Pinkie Pie is building a party howitzer.” Rainbow said. Spike instantly started laughing at the top of his lungs. He fell over and started rolling around as Rainbow’s blush got bigger and bigger. “What?” “Rainbow, you really think that I’m not going to the competition to see you fly? I’ll go by myself if I have to. You’re my best friend Rainbow and I care about you…” He started to blush again. “I wouldn’t miss it for all the gems in the world.” Rainbow looked at Spike with a small smile, “Really? You’d do that for me?” “Anytime Dash, anytime.” At that moment the cloud moved from Rarity’s view and she immediately moved a little bit causing the box to shake. “What was that?” Spike said, as he looked around. “Probably nothing,” Rainbow said as she walked to the edge of the roof and looked around the solid space around her house. “Hey, what’s that box over there?” “Derpy probably delivered it to the wrong house. I’ll send it to the post office with my flame.” With that, Spike walked over to the box, took a deep breath, and whoosh. The box disappeared in a puff and the ashes floated over to the Ponyville post office. “That took care of it, now do you wanna keep stargazing or do something else?” Spike said, “We should probably crash Spike; I’m kinda tired from today. Here we can use my bed.” Rainbow stopped, realizing what that sounded like, “It’s a big bed! We can share it. Um, yeah…” Spike laughed, “Sure Rainbow whatever you want.” The two hopped into the bed and Rainbow turned off the little lamp that she kept next to it. “Night Spike.” She said, cuddling deeper into her bed “today was great by the way,” “Night Rainbow; and it was. Thanks for cheering me up earlier; you really know how to make me laugh.” Spike said as he rolled over and closed his eyes. “Hey Spike?” “Yeah Dash?” “Tomorrow is going to be awesome,” Rainbow said. And with that last thought in her head she fell asleep. Meanwhile a very confused mail pony was trying to explain to his supervisor that there was an element of harmony and a princess in the mail sorting bin. His supervisor of course, thought he was insane and chalked it up to licking all those envelopes and stamps, when he saw a floating cardboard box and the very two ponies that his employee was talking about. They did not look very happy. “Well it could have been worse Rarity; at least they didn’t catch us.” Twilight said, just happy the night was over. She was looking forward to a long shower and then a goodnight’s sleep. “I missed it.” Rarity said again, she had been repeating this phrase for the entire unboxing process and appeared to still be stuck in the loop. Twilight looked over and said, “Come on, might as well stay in the library with me tonight, you don’t look like you can get yourself home.” Rarity just turned, still muttering to herself and started to follow Twilight to the library. “We will have to share a bed by the way, unless you want to sleep in a basket.” She said. It looked like Rarity had calmed down enough, well; she had stopped muttering to herself so that technically counts. “You shall have no complaint out of me my dear. If I can stomach a bed with Applejack then I will be alright with you.” Rarity said, “And my thanks for letting me stay over, I don’t think I would have snapped out of that without your company.” They both went upstairs and got ready for bed. Rarity and Twilight got in and just as they were about to go to sleep Rarity said, “Get some rest Twilight; we have a long day ahead of us.” “Ugh…”