Thunder had turned his head as he was saying his sentence and ended up bashing heads with a Purple unicorn mare, knocking them both on their flanks. While Thunder was simply dazed, the mare was nearly knocked unconscious. Lightning was considerably luckier, as he collided with a much smaller subject, knocking him over. Lightning looked down and gasped, shocked at what he had done. He quickly scooped up the small dragon in his hooves, talking as he did.
"I'm so sorry, are you hurt little guy? Do you have a boo-boo? You want me to.." The rest degenerated to baby talk as he continued.
"Knock it off! I'm not a baby!" The dragon said at the indignity of Lightning's attentions.
Lightning looked the dragon up and down. "Could have fooled me." he finally said.
"Put me down!"
"OK."
With that, Lightning dropped the already peeved dragon unceremoniously onto the ground. Meanwhile, Thunder was helping the mare to her hooves.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't see you, I'm so sorry!" Thunder continued to apologize as the unicorn mare began to recover from the collision.
"It's OK, I'm fine. You can stop now." the mare said starting to get annoyed with Thunder's attentions.
"Oh, sorry." Thunder said, apologizing for the hundredth time.
Meanwhile, Lightning and the dragon were arguing fiercely.
"Why'd you drop me!?
"You said to put you down, so I put you down."
"I didn't ask you to drop me, you numbskull!"
"Who're you calling a numbskull, lizard-face!?
"I.m a dragon!"
"Again, could have fooled me."
"OK, that's it, let's go feather freak!"
"Bring it on pipsqueak!"
"Lightning, cut it out!" Thunder cried before the two could come to blows. "Spike, knock it off!" The mare said right after Thunder, defusing the situation. Both pegasus and dragon gave each other one last glare before going to stand next to their respective charges. A brief silence followed until Thunder cleared his throat.
"Pardon our manners. I am Thunder Boom. This is my brother Lightning Flash. Everypony just calls us Thunder and Lightning though." He gestured with his hoof both himself and Lightning as he spoke.
"Yo" Lightning said, still peeved at the dragon. After a quick glance at her companion, who waved his hands as if to encourage her to speak to them, the mare said
"Pleased to meet you Thunder and Lightning. I am Twilight Sparkle. this is my assistant Spike."
"Hey" Spike said, still peeved at Lightning.
"You're not from around here are you?" Lightning asked immediately. "Lightning, don't be rude!" Thunder said a little to loudly.
"Oh, it's alright." Twilight said. "As a matter of fact we're not from around here. we've come down from Canterlot to oversee the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration. Speaking of which, we should probably get going." she started to walk by the brothers, Spike trailing behind her.
"Hey," Thunder said as he stepped in front of her. "Maybe we can escort you around town, give you the grand tour."
"No, that's okay." Twilight said as she sidestepped him.
"Are you sure? because we would be happy to-"
"No, that's okay." an edge of agitation was creeping into her voice as she spoke.
"Oh okay. well we'll be here if you change your mind."
"I'll remember that." Twilight said, then hurried onward toward her destination. before joining her, Spike walked up to Lightning.
"This isn't over." Spike whispered so that only he could hear.
"Not by a long-shot." Lightning agreed, snarling. With a final growl, Spike ran off to catch up to Twilight. Thunder watched them leave until Lightning tapped his shoulder.
"Come on, we have to finish our patrol before we go home." Lightning said then took to the sky.
"Yeah, right." Thunder agreed, then followed him, the whole experience leaving him with a feeling he couldn't identify.
Aside from helping to clean Daisy's chimney, the rest of the day went off without a hitch. The brothers were about to fly home when a pink blur came right up to them. Before they even had time to blink, the blur reached up, grabbed them by the tails and began pulling the struggling, screaming pegasi towards the library.