//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: A Dashing Legend // by dashybrony2012 //------------------------------// "D-d-did you g-girls hear that?" Flutttershy squeaked from beside the distraught purple unicorn. "Whatever do you mean darling? I certainly didn't hear anything." white unicorn exclaimed fluffing her royal purple curls. A pink pony exclaimed with her usual bubbly voice. "I didn't hear anything either! What if it's- oh my gosh! What's if it's a big zombie pony?! Ooooh maybe I can make best friends with them! I wonder what kind of cake zombies like? Do you think they'll like my razzleberry cake?!" Pinkie squealed , her sky blue eyes opening wide as she let out an exaggerated gasp at the prospect of earning a new buddy. Twilight rolled her eyes and let out the tiniest small at Applejack who slapped an orange hoof to her equally orange face. Her friends always knew that she could count on her friends to be there for her. Well almost all of her friends she thought as the meek smile that had been put on her face vanished within a second. She looked around once again her face one of gratitude for the ponies that were in the room with her. "Pinkie Pie, there ain't no such thang as uh zombie pony. But ah think ah heard somethin' Fluttershy sugar." Applejack frowned at this. "Though it's kinda hard ta tell with all our yappin'. Could've been a squirrel or somethin'." Fluttershy looked at her hooves. A look of slight shame painted across her light yellow face. "Oh um, never mind then, s-sorry." The pink maned Pegasus whispered shyly. Twilight sighed. "It's alright Fluttershy, it happens." Twilight assured her friend which apparently worked as the said pony's face broke out into a slow smile, but genuine nonetheless. Twilight closed her eyes and recounted the days events. Bad idea. Her anger only got fed and in turn grew at Rainbow. Forget the stupid Calypso legend, forget being so lenient with that Pegasus. From now on it's no more Ms. Nice Guy. Twilight was going to go to Rainbow and sit her blue flank down, and explain everything and demand one in return. As Twilight opened her eyes again, she was surprised that she felt somewhat better. Well no use in prolonging her self pity. She got off her bed feeling much clearer in the head than she was that morning. Twilight stretched out her hooves hearing the satisfying pop of her joints. The other three ponies noticed this change in their violet friend, and the room seemed much brighter at the moment. "Thanks girls.'' her friends beamed back smiles that lifted her mood even more. And at that moment, Twilight knew everything would turn out alright, like it always did. *~*~*~*~*~*~* Rainbow flew away from the Ponyville and into a vast field next to the quiet little town where she spotted a few stray clouds that the weather team must've missed- or something, it didn't matter to the blue Pegasus. Dash floated over to the nearest one and threw herself on it, groaning to herself and going over what happened earlier. What had happened earlier? How had things escalated so quickly? Too quickly in fact. Now Rainbow was always for making things happen quicker. But this...this happened way too fast. Rainbow huffed in her frustration and buried her head in the cool white cloud. Now she was sure that Twilight wouldn't want to be her friend again, not after what Rainbow had done. How could she have been so foolish? Of course Twilight would be upset, but had Rainbow cared? Nope. Had she stopped and thought that maybe her actions were harming her friendship with Twilight? No again. A question wormed its way to her head, was she even worthy of Twilight's friendship at all? For this Rainbow didn't really have an answer, but she was leaning towards no. Rainbow slapped herself in an attemp to knock some sense into herself. WAs she really worrying about something as silly as this? It was just a little fight, friends fight all the time right? So...this couldn't be any different. A loud boom interrupted her thoughts and moping. Rainbow's head snapped up and her eyes scanned the clear sky. Well save for those big ugly storm clouds coming in from the Everfree Forest, and the sky darkeneing. Wait- storm clouds from the Everfree? Dark sky? This was definitely going to cause Ponyville some serious damage if something wasn't done soon. She galnced back at the advancing clouds and could see thorns somehow growing out of them, how that happened Rainbow didn't care the Everfree was strange beyond reason. The clouds themselves looked menacingly black and they were plump promising a harsh storm. The wind started blowing harder as if wanting to join the raid that was soon to fall on the quiant little town. Rainbow's ear twitched yet again, this time to the sound of the emergency bell that was sounding from the twon square. Rainbow scrunched up her nose and narrowed her eyes. Her problems could wait, they could be delt with later. But for now, she wasn't going to leave Ponyville hanging. *~*~*~*~*~*~* Rainbow beat her powerful cyan wings that sliced through the air easily despite the increasingly foul winds. She reached the town square in no time and landed on her hooves gently as she leaned in to hear what the mayor had been saying. "Where's the head of the weather team?" Mayor Mare shouted to the crowd as the wind picked up again and the smell of heavy rain came along with it. Dash quickly made her way to the front and approached the anxious mare. "Present ma'am." Rainbow nodded her head in respect to the mayor. Mayor Mare bowed her head quickly in recognition still wearing a nervous look and all but wringing her hooves. "Rainbow Dash what is the status of this storm?" "Well, I know it's coming from the Everfree, and it looks like there's gonna be a lot of rain, possibly a flood could happen and we could get some serious damage from it." Rainbow finished grimly, the situation getting more serious and frightening by the minute. Sure she'sd delt with strong storms before but this was on a whole other level. She didn't have time to worry, now was the time for action. She rose above the crowd and used her drill seargent voice that she had used when she was training the Pegasi for the tornado that would lift the water up to Cloudsdale. A look of pure seriousness and determination on her face. "Alright listen up! I want all of you to go home and secure yourselves, make sure everything gets brought inside and shut all your doors and windows! Bar tenders and ponies who own stores, make sure to secure those too if that's possible! We don't have much time before the storm is directly over us! Weather ponies follow me, we're gonna give this thing a piece of our minds! Everypony go, go , go!" Dash finished her instructions and after the crowd broke apart, she turned to her team who had assembled near her in five lines. Rainbow smirked knowing that they were for sure going to bust that storm apart in no time, well at least she hoped. Nonetheless she kept her cool and turned her focus onto the many Peagsi standing at attention. She landed once more and started pacing in front of them, looking at all of them deep in the eyes. "Alright team! This isn't gonna be easy so I want you all to pay extremely close attention to what I'm saying so we don't make a wrong move. Ponyville is depending on us. Got it?" "Yes ma'am!'' her team shouted back to her as a white bulky pegasus shouted 'Yeah!' with such gusto she had to suppress a small laugh. She loved her team and she was completely confident that that they would do an awesome job.