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// A familiar face 
// Story: Rainbow Dash and Soarin: Wingbeat 
// by Pimped Kiwi 
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Morning sunlight spread across Soarin's face and the distant buzz of hummingbirds filled the air, "What a great way to wake up", Soarin thought to himself as he stared up into the blue sky above him. For a moment Soarin laid there, just thinking to himself, until he heard a silent "poomf" sound from beneath him as the cloud below him disappeared. As he suddenly realised he was falling Soarin began to flap his wings rapidly to try to keep him from hitting the ground or at least absorb some of the impact. Soarin landed with a loud thud, the stallion immediately got up and dusted himself of, relieved that he wasn't injured he looked up in confusion to where his makeshift bed used to be until he was greeted by a voice from behind him.

"Woah! sorry about that mister!" Soarin spun to face the voice but found himself blinded by the morning sun causing him to close his eyes tight,
"What... What happened?" Soarin asked the voice,
"It was a complete accident, I swear I didn't even see you on that cloud" the voice replied,
"You...you kicked me off the cloud?" Soarin asked still dazed by the sunlight,
"We'll not exactly" the voice replied, "I'm part of the Ponyville weather team and I was just clearing the sky when you fell right out of that cloud I kicked, you're not hurt or anything are you?" The voice asked,
"I'm fine" Soarin replied waving a hoof dismissively, "Names Soarin" the stallion said finally opening his eyes to meet the source of the voice.

A cyan Pegasus mare with a familiar rainbow mane stood there before him with a sudden look of recognition frozen on her face, "Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! You're a Wonderbo..." The mare stopped halfway through her sentence, a look of horror spread across her face as she realized that she had almost killed one of her idols, she stood there for a moment, blankly staring into Soarin's emerald green eyes,
"Uh miss? Are you okay?" Soarin eventually asked, the mare slowly began trying to talk but unexpectedly collapsed forwards into Soarin's arms,
"Oh... Uh... Okay?" Soarin said to himself as he stood there awkwardly supporting the mare.

The cyan Pegasus opened her eyes, she found herself in an unfamiliar room, she sat up to analyse her surroundings, "Was... Was that all a dream?" she asked herself aloud,
"Nope" came the response from the doorway, the rainbow mane's Pegasus turned to meet Soarin's familiar emerald green eyes, as the mare sat up Soarin entered the room, "Don't try to get up to fast" he said putting a hoof on her shoulder, "you feelin' okay?",
she let out a silent fan-mare squeal at the sudden physical interaction between them, "uh, yeah, I'm fine, just kinda tired" the mare spoke trying to sound as unexcited as possible by the presence of her idol.

"Well, we should probably get you home" Soarin said finally, "you okay to get up?" he asked, the mare nodded as Soarin helped her up,
"Name's rainbo..." she began
"Rainbow dash" Soarin interrupted "You're the one who saved my pie at the gala" He said with a sudden grin spread across his face, Rainbow dash blushed at the fact that one of her her idol's remembered her name, "So where do you live?" Soarin asked, Dash looked at him for a moment slightly confused, "Well you said you were tired didn't you?" he continued "Don't want you flying home all on your own incase, y'know... Anything happens", Rainbow dash blushed as she once again stared deep into Soarin's emerald green eyes.

After a few minutes Soarin and Rainbow Dash were speeding through the air towards her house, when they arrived at the front porch of Dash's cloud house she turned to face her companion, "Thanks for flying me home Soarin" She blushed,
"Oh.. Uh no problem" Soarin said quickly softly kicking the cloud floor underneath him, "Uh... Dash?" he looked up to meet her magenta eyes,
"Yeah?" Dash responded still clearly excited by Soarin's presence,
"You wouldn't wanna like... Uh... Do something tonight would you?" Soarin asked timidly,
"Is he asking me out!?" Rainbow dash thought to herself, "YES!... uh I mean... Sounds good" She said excitedly,
"Great so I'll pick you up here at like seven?" Soarin replied quickly,
"Great!" said Dash now failing miserably to hide her excitement.

Soarin went to fly of the balcony when he was stopped by a cyan hoof on his shoulder, "Oh and uh Soarin?" Dash said, "Thanks for looking after me" she said hugging him, Soarin nodded and returned the hug before flying of back to his hotel room where he had taken Dash leaving the mare alone on her balcony to watch him fly of into the distance, "I've got a date with a Wonderbolt!" She said aloud to herself before letting out another fan-mare squeal and trotting inside.