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// Rainbow Dash 
// Story: What you asked for 
// by HeartShieldFiM 
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	The bell above the door rang again. Discord cringed, biting his lower lip and wrapping his left claw tighter around the broom stick. 'For Celestia's sake,' he muttered, 'can't we ever clean up?'

'No!' Pinkie Pie said, and jumped towards the door. It was already half-open, but she was kind enough to open the other half as well. 'Oh hey Dashie!' she squealed upon seeing her flying friend kinda levitating in the doorway.

'Oy!' the Pegasus replied. 'Am I interrupting? Oh... hey, Discord.'

As a reply, the draconequus growled a greeting under his breath and continued to sweep the floor. He eventually sighed and snapped his finger, giving up on the hand work and letting the broom do its own work.

Dash sat down at one of the tiny tables in Sugarcube Corner. 'So... hey. 'Sup?'

'Nothing, just keeping the Corner clean while the Cakes are away,' Pinkie Pie replied. 'Let me get a menu for you.'

'No thanks, Pinks. I'm not hungry, I just wanted to chat.'

Discord let out a low sigh. 'Rainbow Dash, not to be unfriendly, but we were actually-'

'-having no fun at all without you here!' Pinkie said, finishing his sentence as usual. 'We're sooooo glad you're here! For realzies! Right, Discord?'

'Right,' Discord answered, and turned to the kitchen. 'I'll go... make some stuff. You know.'

'The stuff! That's cool.' Pinkie sat down next to Dash and leaned back, only to find out that it was a stool she was sitting on, not a chair. Luckily, Dash was fast enough to catch her friend with her wing.

'Sorry,' Pinkie Pie said, and brushed a pluck of pink curls out of her eyes. 'You know me, always fighting with chairs!'

'That's... not a chair,'Rainbow muttered, but her friend didn't hear her over her own talking.

'Hey, Rarity and Fluttershy just left, they told us the sickest stories, really!'

The Pegasus grinned. 'Sick, as in, super-extremely-epic?'

Pinkie nodded eagerly. 'Oh yeah, did you know Rarity used to be super duper poor? And Fluttershy lived in Canterlot!'

'I knew those things, Pinkie. Flutters and I were best friends, even back at school.'

Pinkie squinted. 'Oh, yeah. Well... since we're at it, do you have any juicy stories for me? Y'know, something traumatic or so?'

Rainbow Dash reacted surprised. 'You're into trauma stuff? Wow, I certainly didn't expect that from you.'

'Hey,' Pinkie started, 'I need something to balance out that happiness, dontchathink?'

'...no?' the Pegasus replied, still a little stunned. She scratched the back of her head with her hoof, trying to get herself out of this odd situation. What could she possibly think of? 'Ehm... I might have something to tell..?'

At that moment, Discord came back from the kitchen. In his claws, he held a large pot. 'Here's the stuff, Pinkie.'

'Thanks! That didn't take very long, did it?' the pony replied.

Rainbow Dash squinted, her rainbow eyebrows forming a frown. She had no idea what "the stuff" was, and she honestly didn't give a damn, she just had to get out of here immediately.

Pinkie sat back down, pulling the draconequus on a stool with her. 'Well?' she asked.

The Pegasus sighed uncomfortably. 'Well... I don't know... eh... when I was a filly, my mum would always get pissed at my dad and stuff. That's about it.'

'That's it!?' Pinkie squealed. 'Are you kidding me? That's your traumatizing life story?'

'Calm down, Pinkie Pie,' Discord muttered, wrapping an arm around the pony's shoulders. 'Not everyone's had an... interesting life, so to say.' He turned to Rainbow Dash. 'I sure thought a pony like you would have had the most dashing life one can possibly imagine... but for the first time in centuries, I'm wrong I guess.'

'Are you saying that my life isn't interesting?' Dash said, a little louder than she intended to.

Discord shrugged. 'Apparently it was quite boring, I mean, you really don't have anything to tell, do you?' He stood up. 'C'mon, Pinkie. Let's get back to cleaning the bakery.'

A little disappointed, Pinkie looked up to the draconequus. As she opened her mouth to say something, Dash said, 'Get me a cupcake. This story is gonna take ages to tell.'

Discord could've sworn Pinkie's hair got a little more bouncy by hearing that, and he quickly slit to the kitchen to get the Pegasus a cupcake. Long stories never interested him, but maybe he could do some cleaning while Pinkie was enjoying her daily dose of drama.





'I was born on a Wednesday...' Rainbow Dash started.

'I was born on a Tuesday!' Pinkie chirped, totally unaware of the fact that she just rudely interrupted her friend. 'Isn't that great? 
Maybe I'm exactly one whole day older than you are! Wait... how old are you again?'

'Pinkie, you were at my twenty-first birthday this weekend. You know, the one with the dude named Cheese Sandwich?' Rainbow Dash sighed. 'I'm a year and a day younger than you, smartass.'

Pinkie squinted. 'Wait... oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right, sorry Dashie. What were you saying?'

'I was born on a sunny Wednesday in January. I was not planned, but nonetheless quite a gift to my mum and dad. I mean, hey, look at where I'm now, right?' Rainbow grinned. 'Anyways, for four years I had the life every filly would've wanted. I was incredibly close with my dad. Of course my mum was nice, but dad and I had something special. Maybe it was the rainbow mane, maybe it was just because I was like a son to him.' The pony grinned again.

'Your mother, by the way... what was her name?' Pinkie asked.

'Firefly,' Dash replied. 'Her name is Firefly. Dad's name is Spectrum Dash, so later ma took his last name.'

Discord came back from the kitchen, leaving it clean and shiny. Shiny, as in, everything was coated with a layer of silver. 'Oh Pinkie, I'm done cleaning! And here's a cupcake. I hope you don't mind it's a carrot cake.'

'Nice, sit down with us!' Pinkie squealed. 'Dash! Daaash! Continue with your story! Discord, did you know Rainbow's mum was Firefly Dash? She was the accountant of the Wonderbolts!'

'She was,' Rainbow said. 'Not really an exciting job, but hay, she got to work with Spitfire's older sister, Fireblast. And she pretty much got me every piece of Wonderbolt merchandise you can think of.'

'Wonderbolt... merchandise...' Discord muttered. 'You mean like plushies and such?'

Rainbow Dash nodded. 'Yeah, I ended up with a freaking Fireblast plush once, it was creepy. I mean, why'd you wanna have a plush made of yourself!?'

'I can think of somepony,' Discord said. 'But hey, it's your story. Proceed.' He had a feeling that this story was gonna take ages, so the sooner Dash continued, the sooner it was over.

'Dad always took me to Wonderbolt races. Races, shows, derbies, whatever. Every Wonderbolt-related thing, dad and I were the first to get tickets. Front row, every time. He would let me stand on his shoulders and wave flags, he knew how much I loved the amazing 
Cloudsdale flight team.' Dash's face suddenly turned from bright to gloomy. 'That didn't last too long.

'One night, I heard my parents arguing. I was in bed, under my Wonderbolt bedsheets with my Fireblast plushie in my hooves. I don't think they knew that I was listening. I was shocked, something like that never happened to them. They were... the perfect couple.' Dash took a bite from her carrot cake. 'How old is this?'

'Freshly baked... last week,' Discord replied.

A little grumpy, Rainbow Dash swallowed the small bite of cake and put the rest back on her plate. 'Gross. Anyways, they were so cute together. Firefly and Spectrum. And their filly, Rainbow Dash. It was their first fight, but certainly not their last. Every night from then on they were shouting at each other, a little louder every time. It was frightening, I had never heard them being so mad at each other.

'One night, after weeks of listening to my parents fighting, I was done with it. With my Fireblast plush wrapped under my wing, I went to the living room. At first, they didn't even know I was there, but the moment they saw me standing there it became dead silent. They had no idea where to look, it was a little funny really.' Rainbow let out another grin, a painful one this time.
'Anyways. I'm not gonna, you know, get into detail with this, but basically dad had been cheating on Firefly. For ages. And she didn't even know.'

Pinkie gasped. 'Wait, for real? Spectrum... wow.'

'Even I did not see that coming,' Discord said, looking a little puzzled. He had been drawing a portrait of Pinkie on the table, with something that appeared to be the carrot cupcake Rainbow Dash didn't eat.

The Pegasus rolled her eyes. 'Yeah, I know. Spectrum Dash, professional cheater. Not only did it break my mother's heart, it broke mine as well. I mean, I loved my father so much, how could he even do something like this?'

'If I may be so rude to ask, who was your father cheating with?' Discord asked. He had become a little more interested in the story, since cheating came from a chaotic disturbance between two ponies.

Rainbow Dash sighed, looking at her front hooves. 'I don't know if I should tell you that, guys.' Her eyes met Pinkie's. 'Especially not to you, I'm not sure you can take it.'

'Are you kidding me?' Pinkie replied. 'I can take everything, I mean, I have befriended a draconequus. There's nothing the Pinks can't handle.'

The Pegasus pony sighed again. 'It was a Wonderbolt. That's basically why dad - I mean, Spectrum, went to the shows all the time. He took me with him just as a cover-up. And Pinkie... you know... it was your cousin.'

'My cousin!?' Pinkie yelped. 'Wait...'

'Yeah, it was a huge surprise to me as well...'