“You want me to do what?” Rainbow Dash sputtered, her wings bound tightly to her side.
“You know exactly what ah said,” Applejack huffed.
“But what’s up with the rope?”
“Yer one who wanted it the hard way.”
“What did you expect me to do, you ambushed me in my sleep!” Rainbow Dash protested.
“In my tree again ah’ might add.”
“Don’t blame me if your trees are the best napping spots.”
“Ah’ don’t blame you, just wished you’d find somewhere else. An’ here we are.” Applejack said, untethering Rainbow Dash with a jerk of her head.
“I still don’t see how you suckered me into this.” Rainbow Dash grumbled, glaring at the bridge.
“It’s yer fault that you missed the thunderstorm last week, again.”
“How is it my fault, we haven’t made that up yet.”
“Because the next one is going to be a doozy. Ya’ll end up flooding the river again. An that ole’ log under the there will end up comin’ loose causin all sorts of problems downriver, again. An some poor farm pony will have to fix up the mess you made instead of other things she rather be doing, again.”
“And?”
“Just get down there and push it out of the way and quit your procastinatin.” Applejack said, pushing her friend out over the water.
“Fine.”
“An’ stop sleepin in my trees!” Applejack yelled as she was walking away.
“Never!” Rainbow Dash proclaimed, hoof held defiantly in the air.
“Do ah’ need to tell Big Mac about that secret of yers?”
“No.” She said glumly as she flew under the bridge, settling onto the log in question.
Rainbow Dash stared at the large moss covered log as if it owed her a large amount of money. She wondered why everypony in town was worried about this log, it looks like it had been there for years and had no intentions of moving anywhere.
Sighing, Rainbow Dash floated up and gave a half hearted shove, to only be rewarded with nothing but the clop of her hooves on the wood. She braced her hooves against the wall and pushed harder, the log creaking back and forth a fraction.
Grinning in victory, Rainbow started rocking the log back and forth, gaining an fraction of an inch with each rock. When it reached a good swing, she gave it a mighty shove.
The log rolled over once and wavered, and rolled right back into the indention it was originally in.
“Oh you gotta be kidding me!” She yelled as she stamped her hoof on it, putting her hoof clean through up to her elbow.
“Great.” She grumbled, smacking her forehead on the log with a hollow thunk.
“Buck, why is everything against me finishing my nap today.” She complained, trying to pull her leg out.
Rainbow winced as the splinters stabbed her in the leg. So she pushed her hoof in, feeling something crack under her hoof, she used her free hoof to break the wood around the edges of the hole. She had only half freed her leg when something stung her.
“OW!” She yelped, yanking her leg out, ignoring the numerous splinters it earned her.
Out of the hole a small bug zipped out and flew circles around Rainbow Dash’s face. Rainbow tried to wave it off but threw herself off balance and fell backwards into the water.
“You stupid little bug!” She yelled, splashing water up at it in anger.
The little bug skidded to a stop mid air and zipped down, ramming Rainbow’s nose.
“Who are you calling a bug you ugly meanie!?” A tiny voice called out.
“Who said that?” Rainbow asked, looking around.
“Me!” The voice came again as something stabbed Rainbow between the eyes.
Looking cross eyed at the bug on her nose, Rainbow saw that it was in fact a tiny pony wielding a toothpick sword.
“How did you get so small?” Rainbow asked, confused.
“How did you get so stupid, I’ve always been this small, and that’s my house you broke!” The voice yelled, the tiny pony bouncing in anger.
“That pile of garbage is your house?” She laughed.
“That pile of garbage is your face?” The little one fired back, stabbing Rainbow’s nose again.
“Ow, stop that!” Rainbow said, shaking her head, sending the tiny pony flying off into the air.
The tiny pony zipped around her head, getting in close enough to scratch Rainbow time and again, too fast for her to block. Looking around she saw an old mason jar sticking out of the mud. Jumping over, she grabbed the jar, and swung through it through the air, a small clink as she caught the tiny aggressor mid-dive bomb. She then firmly planted her hoof on the opening and looked for a lid in the various pieces of trash under the bridge.
“Ow,” She yelped as the tiny pony stabbed her in the hoof.
Holding the jar up to her eye level, she stared at the angry pony as it bounced around in it’s prison, it’s tiny voice only faintly heard as it repeatedly stabbed her in the hoof. Rainbow, quickly growing angrier by the moment, shook the jar vigorously for a moment.
“Stab me now you little jerk.” She smirked as she looked at the dazed pony.
Looking around, she spotted a rock half buried behind the log. Setting the jar down, she picked up the rock and placed it on the lid, sinking it into the mud. Turning back to the log, she saw that by removing the rock, the whole log had started to sink into the muddy water.
“You gotta be kidding me, all I had to do was move a rock and it would have done all the work?” She grumbled.
Looking back at her little captive, she saw the tiny pony begging something. She picked the rock and jar up and held it to her ear to hear what the tiny pony was saying.
“My sister is still in there and she’s too sick to fly!” It screamed, pounding on the glass.
Rainbow Dash’s eyes shot open and she dived at the log, tearing at it trying to find a grip to pull it up, but only succeeded in tearing parts of the top off. The muddy water lapping over her hooves, she knew that she would never pull the log out, so she grabbed at the hole she made earlier and yanked up, tearing a long strip up, revealing a shattered home. Furniture made from thimbles and scraps were laying in heaps in corners, the kitchen was a wreck of nuts and berries, and the bedroom had two beds laying against the wall. Rainbow grabbed the beds and looked under them, revealing another tiny pony, wrapped in soaked blankets, half submerged in the water.
Gently as she could, she scooped up the sick pony lifted it out of the house as water crashed over the edge, filling the house to the brim with muddy water and carrying everything that was in the house downstream. The house itself, not used to the stresses it had just endured, splintered and broke under Rainbow’s hooves, causing her to fall into the shin high water.
The other tiny pony zipped out of nowhere and crashed into Rainbow’s cradling hooves, holding the other pony.
“I’m sorry. Is he okay?” She asked, bending her head down low.
“She, and no. She needs her medicine, which just floated away.” The tiny voice sobbed.
“What can I do?” Rainbow asked.
“Just go away! You’ve done enough, and somehow I doubt you know anything about doctoring.”
Rainbow looked guiltily at the pair for a moment before she realized something, her whole face lighting up.
“I might not, but I know somepony who does! Hold on down there, they don’t call me Rainbow Dash for nothing!” She yelled as she zipped out from under the bridge into the beautiful sunny day towards her favorite ponies cottage at the edge of the Everfree.