Rainbow Dash was engaged in her favorite pastime when Applejack and Rarity finally found her.
She was atop a cloud, limbs akimbo, stretched out in a position that would have been considered risque if anypony could see her, but she was on a cloud, and nopony could see her, so she could sleep however she wanted. Ha.
The summer sun was warm on her belly. The cloud was soft beneath her back. Wonderbolts filled her dreams – Wonderbolt stallions, to be specific – and she was having a wonderful day.
“Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash I know you’re up there!” Applejack’s voice drifted up from below.
Dash ignored it. She was good at that.
“Consarn it, Dash! Wake up!”
So it went for a while. She might have been able to ignore it for the rest of the day, had not Rarity’s voice joined Applejack’s.
“Rainbow Dash!” she shrieked, as only Rarity could. “Wake up right this instant!”
Ugh! Fine. Dash rolled to the edge of the cloud and glowered down. “What?”
“Have you seen our sisters?” Applejack yelled up at her. “I need to talk with them. Now.”
“I told you, she’s not my sister!” Dash shouted back.
“You know what I mean!”
“Regardless, where are they?” Rarity said. “I told Sweetie to go and play, not become a property-destroying ruffian.”
“Look, you two, I’m very busy today,” Dash said. “Can’t this wait?”
“Busy?” Applejack had the gall to look shocked. “Busy doing what? Napping? Today is supposed to be partly cloudy, but you’re sleeping on the only cloud in the sky!”
That was unfair. Dash scowled at them. “The forecast calls for variable weather!”
“Variable, or lazy weather?”
“What are you, the weather police?”
“No, but I can call them! You want that, Dash?”
Ugh, no, she didn’t. The weather police were harder to deal with than Rarity after a bad date. “Oh, for the love of… No, don’t call them. I’ll get some clouds. Just, you know, give me a minute.”
“And our sisters?” Rarity asked.
“Eh, I’m sure they’re fine. They couldn’t have gone far.” Before the two could respond, Rainbow Dash was in the air, zooming away to find a quieter cloud to finish her nap.