1. Figure out a way to get the weather working.
2. Deal with the animals and this “Fluttershy” girl.
3. Get the sun moving again.
That was a lot of work just for some apples. Oh well, at least she had a plan. That was better than nothing, right?
She was pretty sure the pony in charge of weather was some girl called “Rainbow Dash”. That was what Applejack implied, at least. This whole “creating ponies to deal with stuff she didn’t know how to deal with” thing wasn’t quite working so far—both Pinkie and Applejack had just sent her on further fetch quests rather than doing what they were supposed to do—but… she would rather not admit it, but she really couldn’t think of any other ways of fixing her problems. She sighed. Oh well.
She focused.
The stars shined and gathered.
The shape of a pony was formed in bright white light.
The white light changed into the colors of the rainbow, and shone bright multicolored light across the sky and earth. Oh! That’s new!
The rainbow dimmed, and revealed a grinning Rainbow beneath.
“Hey, Twi! What’s up?” she said cheerily, beginning to hover automatically. “Make it quick, though. I gotta get someplace soon.”
She might as well cut straight to the chase with this one. “The weather is what’s up.” She mentally snorted at her unintended pun. “Applejack’s crops won’t grow without rain. So what’s up?”
Rainbow frowned and started buzzing around above her in agitation. “I told her already that the new clouds from Cloudsdale won’t make it here for another couple days. The weather team can’t do anything until we get them. I know her farm isn’t doing so hot, but there’s nothing I can do about it! Can you please tell her that, Twi? Please?”
She blinked at the pegasus above her. That wasn’t quite the reaction she expected. “You’re sounding a little stressed.”
Rainbow stopped hovering and landed back on the ground. She sighed. “Yeah, I know, it’s just… it’s hard enough seeing AJ’s farm all messed up, but it’s worse when it feels like she’s blaming me for it. I can’t do anything about the lack of rain until the clouds get here, and I wish everyone would stop getting on my case about it. It’s… it’s not my fault.”
Well, that made things easy enough. “So, the clouds are coming, and they’ll be here in a few days, and when you get them you’ll start the rain?”
“Yeah.”
Awesome. So she wasn’t going to be getting a new fetch quest after all. “You said you were going somewhere a minute ago? Where are you off to?”
A huge grin spread across Rainbow’s face, completely dispelling all traces of her brief stint of melancholy. “I’ve got the most awesome of awesome pranks ever in store for our own dahhhhling Rarity,” she said, stretching out the “darling” with a mock-posh tone of voice. “It’s going to be epic!”
Rainbow’s grin was infectious, and she soon found herself grinning too. “You mind telling me what the prank is?”
“Sorry, nope!—wait, no… I mean yes, I do mind,” Rainbow said, fumbling with her words. “You’ll get to see it like everyone else later tonight.”
“Heh, well, then I’m looking forward to it!”
“Right you are! See ya, Twi! I got things to do and awesome to be!” She laughed and flew off, leaving a rainbow trail behind in her wake.
She watched Rainbow Dash fly off somewhere into the distance, grinning inwardly. Well, that was easy! Her conversation with Rainbow had been as speedy and erratic as the pegasus mare herself, and had resulted in a cemented solution that required nothing from herself to give.
She smiled. Things were looking awesome.