Rainbow Dash
It was a day like any other. Typical for Ponyville and the rest of Equestria at least. The sky was clear and blue. The run beamed down its radiant heat coating the fauna and flora in a warm glow. Flowers stretched up to the sky daring to touch the flames of the sun for its energy. Bees and birds buzzed back and forth from flower to flower collecting a thin yellow dusting around their bodies. It was the middle of spring and everything was alive. From the insects that ate the flora to the Ursa Majors that prowled for larger game.
Everypony was outside. The market was bustling with ponies selling and buying. Foals played in the warm sun with carefree smiles that would make anypony's heartstrings tug even just a little. Pegasi soared through the air dispatching any clouds that dared to form over their beautiful land today. Earth ponies were hard at work planting crops and fixing their shops. It was a rough winter that destroyed a few market stalls but the resolve of these ponies kept them going to persevere through any challenge that opposed them.
A gust of wind followed by two bright streaks of multicolored light blitzed by the market area sending a shockwave through the land knocking several ponies to the ground as the pressure wave of air slammed into their bodies. The fading streams of a rainbow light dissipated as well as the fiery streaks of yellow, orange, and red, that ran parallel to the first. The ponies knew now what was happening. By intuition and past experience they all knew Rainbow Dash and Spitfire were racing. And judging by their speed the sound barrier was long since broken and this race was soon to be at an end.
The finish line was dead ahead and closing in fast on the two pegasi mares that dashed through the market swerving left and right avoiding ponies and stalls. A pink pony hopped up and down dramatically as the first pony came through followed only by a mere second the second pegasi came blitzing through the finish line. They both hit the ground digging in their hooves to slow themselves down piling up dirt around their hooves as they finally came to a stop.
The rainbow maned pony stood where she landed feeling especially sorry for herself. She came in second which meant she lost and that took a toll on the egotistical mare. She loved to win. It was everything to her. Being the first at everything is what she always wanted. Except when it came to academics. She preferred to fly around all day rather than sit around in a boring classroom reading various texts of literature that didn't even remotely catch her interest. None of the books were Daring Doo or fiction based.
The fiery maned pegasi trotted arrogantly strutting off her victory to her opponent.
"A deal's a deal, Rainbow Dash. You owe me." She said.
"Dammit. Do I have to? Can't I just bribe you so I don't have to go?" Rainbow Dash pleaded back.
"Yes, you have to. That was the bet. I'll pick you up tonight for our date." She replied.
Rainbow Dash hated losing. Especially to Spitfire. The wonderbolt was exceptionally skilled at flying and even better when it comes to wagering bets. She had won what she wanted for a long time. A chance to go out on a date with Rainbow Dash. She always knew intuitively that Rainbow Dash was a little curious about mares despite her awkwardness when it came to that subject. She asked her out previously only to receive an odd reply of flying off looking ten shades of red in the face.
Spitfire kissed the cyan pegasus on the cheek and took to the sky, "I'll seeya' later hun!" She yelled taking off in a flash of bright yellow, red, and orange light.
Rainbow Dash shook her head trying her best to shake off the blushing her whole face was experiencing. She couldn't go back on her word no matter how much she wanted to. She made a bet and lost and now she had to go on public date with Spitfire. The thought reeled through her mind of getting close to Spitfire and being kissed once again. She couldn't deny herself the thoughts of it. Spitfire was cute in her eyes. The way her mane blew through the air as she ripped through the wind sent her heartstrings in a frenzy. Her sweet cooing voice that caressed her ears in a lullaby of pleasure made her beg for her to just speak her name. The sleek, slender body she had was as tight and tone as her own. It was as if she and Spitfire were meant to be.
She usually didn't have a problem with dating. It was just that she never dated a mare before or had any past relations with a mare. She always found stallions more attractive, but this time it was different. When she first saw Spitfire it was love at first sight. Her heart pounded against her chest. Adrenaline surged through her veins just seeing the majestic pegasus make eye contact with her. A lust of her attention drove Rainbow Dash to do anything to get closer, yet she always remained at least a foreleg's length away from her. Too afraid of the possible rejection that plagued her chaotic mind until today. She was just forced into a date with the mare of her dreams.
She tried to stand only to be met with utter defiance from her legs as they shook violently. She was nervous. She wondered what the night would contain. More than likely with would consist of a nice dinner and drinking followed by a rough and passionate night of hot sweaty love making, or at least that is the fantasy Rainbow Dash dreamed of secretly. In truth she had no the slightest clue what Spitfire had in store but whatever it would be Rainbow Dash knew she couldn't blow this chance with Spitfire. It was the clearest sign she could get from her that Spitfire was interested in Rainbow Dash. It seemed that her secret love may love her back.
The clock ticked back and forth slowly second by second. Rainbow Dash looked around the room still shaking with anxiousness of the unknown. She trotted back and forth pacing and waiting. It was like time had stopped still to the pegasus. It was taking forever for Spitfire to come to pick her up. She couldn't wait to see her smile. It warmed her heart to see it. She had the cutest dimples that formed on her face making Rainbow Dash almost mesmerized by her infatuation unable and unwilling to turn her head from the mare.
A knock at her down send her jumping from the ground landing on her belly with her limbs stretched out. She rose to her hooves gaining her composure as she tried to contain her embarrassment from what she just did. Being scared that easily felt shameful to Rainbow Dash as if a natural fight or flight response was something to be scorned. She approached the door gulping down as she grabbed the handle with her hoof opening it slowly as light poured inside the room. A figure stood in front of her basking in the radiant light from the sun. A fiery mane matched only by her eyes decorated the veteran wonderbolt. Two large bottles protruded from her saddle pack. She smiled at the mare inside the house floating in the cloud covered sky.
"May I come in?" She asked.
"S-sure. Come on in Spitfire." Rainbow Dash replied.
Spitfire placed the bottles atop a table followed by two small cylindrical glass structures. They were crystal clear through and through. Small enough to fit at least a full fluid ounce in and no more. The bottle read plainly for everypony to see in bright red color, STALLIONGRAD STANDARD VODKA. It was clear now the intentions of Spitfire. Get drunk with Rainbow Dash.
"Vodka?" Rainbow Dash laughed nervously, "glad I don't have to go out in public with you- I mean, I would love to go out in public with you, just-"
Spitfire giggled, "it's fine Dash, I wanted this date to be special and not cliche like dinner and movie then drinking and whatever-" She said cutting off that sentence abruptly not wanting to bring about talks of filly fooling... just yet.
"I find the best way to get to know a pony is to sit down and just have a drink with 'em." Spitfire said cracking open the first bottle of vodka. The almost syrupy like mixture of water and ethanol was sure to burn their throats and warm them from the inside out.
"Alcohol lowers inhibition making ponies more amenable to questions usually that they would not answer. It is still used today as a form of chemical interrogation." She said flatly.
"Is this an interrogation?" Rainbow Dash asked nervously.
Spitfire looked confused for a moment quickly changing her expression to a tender smile, "of course not Dash, Don't you remember anything from the Wonderbolts Academy? This was part of the history. Anyway, let's drink," she said handing Rainbow Dash a shot of the liquid interrogation serum. A harsh bite of heat scorched her throat as the liquid hit her stomach warming her nearly instantly.
They were now several shots in a piece. The bottle was nearly three quarters gone and the ponies were heavily inebriated.
"Dash, I have to ask you something." Spitfire said.
Rainbow Dash swayed a little back and forth as she tried to stand still and pay attention, "ok."
"Do you want to be my marefriend?" She asked bluntly.
Rainbow Dash's face turned as red as beet, "I- uh, huh?"
"Do you, Rainbow Dash, want to be my marefriend?" Spitfire reiterated.
Rainbow Dash looked around rapidly as if an escape hatch would magically appear for her to disappear in.
"I was hoping this much vodka would loosen up your lips a bit," Spitfire said swaying to the right a little, "but you're harder to crack than I thought."
"Yes!" Rainbow Dash yelled as loud as she could looking embarrassed as Spitfire's mouth dropped a little from her over enthusiastic response.
"Well, that was easy. I didn't think you'd have the guts to say it." Spitfire said.
"Hey! What the hell's that suppose to mean?" She roared in returned.
"Calm down Dash, no need to be so standoffish. I'm just saying I know you've been eyein' me for quite some time and I was hoping you'd ask me on a date, but looks like you were a bit too shy to so I decided to do it myself. Looks like it worked huh?" She said with a hiccup.
"So what do you want to do?" Asked Rainbow Dash.
"Talk." Spitfire said.
"About what?" Rainbow asked.
"Anything at all. I'll start, how have you been Dash?"
"Ok, I guess, I mean I did do this really cool trick the other day with Spike it was so awesome. I was like woosh and he was screaming and it was just so awesome!" Rainbow Dash gesturing the complex acrobatics with her hooves and adding her own variety of sound effects finished only with her face stretching to the biggest smile she could muster.
Spitfire smiled, she loved to hear Rainbow Dash talk about her life in Ponyville it was so unlike the strictness of the Wonderbolts. She envied her in a way. They were both sworn protectors of Equestria yet only Rainbow Dash was able to have a normal life. At least semi-normal from what she's had to do so far. Defeating Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis, Tirek, it was startling to know she was standing next to an Element of Harmony and the one she most adored of all, Loyalty. It was a concept she held to her heart with a passion. To always stay true to your friends and never betray their trust. The Griffons referred to this as Honor. A steadfast ability to not sway no matter the challenge and to take pride in defeat against a stronger opponent. Standing up and fighting was more noble than any aristocrat and dying with your friends was a death worthy of a king's burial.
"Have you ever been with a mare before Rainbow?" Spitfire asked.
"Well..." She said blushing while rubbing her left foreleg with her right staring down at the ground, "not until today, no."
"So what made you interested in me?" She asked next.
Rainbow Dash stuttered on her words as she tried to speak to the mare in front of her, "well, you see, I mean, you're just so... amazing. I don't know where to begin. You make me smile just by being near me. Your voice makes me shake with anticipation for what you will say next. You have a perfect body sleek and slender. And somehow you're just the only mare I've found that makes me want you more than any stallion I've had before. It's like you're a drug that I can't get enough of. A fix I can't heed and I wouldn't wish it away even if I couldn't."
Spitfire smiled knocking back another round of the alcoholic spirit with Rainbow Dash following her example.
"Can I ask you something?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Sure." Spitfire replied quickly.
"What made you interested in me? I don't think I've ever seen you with a mare or stallion."
"Hmm... tough to say really. I like attention and you were just gawking at me like I was some sort of mutant pony so that made me interested at first." She said noticing Rainbow Dash blushing heavily.
"I wasn't gawking I was just admiring you." Rainbow said.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said it like that. I appreciate it though, you admiring me. I know a lot of ponies look up to me, but I haven't met a pony as dedicated as you in a long time. That's something else that stuck out to me about you. Your undying loyalty to your friends. Your overwhelming combative nature to anything that tries to twist your loyalty to betrayal. And I must say, you are one hot pegasus. I might be the captain of the Wonderbolts, but even a mare has needs and you have the body for it." Spitfire said.
"Wow... I had no idea. That's really nice of you to say." Rainbow said in astonishment to Spitfire's words.
"Yeah, I told the rest of the bolts not to make a move on you. I wanted you to be mine and it worked out perfectly." Spitfire said.
"Wait... you did what? You actually told your team to not go after me?" Rainbow said in surprise.
"Yep, they listen to me. They know they can get any mare or stallion they want but if I say I want somepony then they usually listen and leave that one to me. They know just as well as I that my sex life isn't as great as it could be. Coordinating weather patterns, doing routine training, and active combat makes it hard to get a date. They usually go to the local bar and just pick up some random pony for a quickie but I prefer to enjoy the company of somepony I plan on sleeping with." Spitfire said.
Rainbow Dash gulped, "sleep with? What do you mean? Like a slumber party?" She said laughing nervously.
Spitfire laughed exuberantly, "you're kidding me Dash! You have to me. Come on you know, we get down in the sheets and make each other scream." She said leaning over to Dash and kissing her neck sending shivers of anxiety and pleasure through Dash's body.
"R-right, so I'm going to get us some food I'll be right back." Rainbow said trotting over and slouching against the wall to shift her way into the kitchen. She felt hot and woozy with the world spinning around her in a slight alteration from reality.
She opened her cabinets revealing little to feast upon other than saltine crackers and a bit of cheese. She had a few apples and carrots that would also help absorb the liquor hopefully dampening the excruciating headache that awaited her in the morning. She did her best with her drunk abilities to haphazardly smear the cheese on the saltine crackers and crudely arrange them on a place followed by the few applies and carrots she had placed in a small basket that hung from her mouth as the other balanced upon her wing. How in the hay did I end up in this? She thought to herself. I mean, I should be happy she's here, but are we going to sleep together? Should we sleep together? She is really cute...
"You comin' Dash?" Asked a slurred voice from the other room.
"Be right there!" Dash exclaimed.
Whatever happens, happens Rainbow. Remember that. She's the mare of your dreams don't fuck this up. She thought to herself.
She entered the room once more placing the small amount of food she had on the table in front of her for her and her guest.
"Wow, Rainbow, you sure know how to shop. Do you even eat?" Spitfire said disappointed with the food.
"Y-yes, I just haven't gone recently. I usually eat with Twilight or Pinkie Pie so I don't buy much food." She said in defense.
"Alright, as long as you're eating. I don't need my marefriend passing out from malnourishment now." She said with a smile.
It still felt odd to hear that from Spitfire call her, her marefriend. It was almost surreal to her.
Spitfire took a bite out of an apple chewing it slowly as she stared at Rainbow with a delightful smile on her face consuming the rest of the fruit with a few more bites and swallowing the mass of fruit. She felt it hit her stomach like a rock sending a sensation of nausea over her as she tried to her best to hide it from Rainbow Dash. Rainbow ate a couple of the cheese smeared crackers allowing silence to fill the room for several minutes before either pony would speak.
"You know Dash, it's been almost a year since I dated a pony." Spitfire said snuggling up against Rainbow Dash on her couch, "I'm glad it was you I decided to date. I don't think I've met a pony like you in years."
"Thanks," Dash said, "I've got to say I wasn't expecting this at all, but I wouldn't trade this moment for anything in Equestria."
"Dash," Spitfire started, "don't leave my side please. I really like you."
Rainbow Dash blushed brighter than a cherry turning her head from Spitfire in embarrassment, "I like you too Spitfire. I promise I won't ever leave your side. Friends never betray friends. I'll always stay loyal till the day I die." She said with a yawn stretching her forelegs in the air and placing a hoof around Spitfire pulling her into her side. She looked over to Spitfire who was fast asleep. It appeared the alcohol knocked her out before she could try and make a move on Rainbow Dash, but maybe it was for the best. For at the moment in time all Rainbow Dash wanted was to be right next to her.
Second place never sucked so much in a good way until now. She thought to herself. What a night to remember. She lied her head back against the plush couch closing her eyes as she drifted off into the dreamland holding the mare that held her heart right at her side.