by neorenamon
"Now that we've taken care of the primary food," said Spike as he checked off another item from the list on his clipboard, "so we can move onto the weather."
"Oh," moaned Twilight as she waddled along, her belly bloated, "I've... ate... too... many... apples."
"Funny. All the Apples looked fine to me."
"What?!" asked Twilight as she blinked.
"Nothing."
"Your sense of humor needs work," she groaned.
"Riiight..."
Spike looked up into the cloudy sky as he said, "Hmm, there's supposed to be a Pegasus pony named Rainbow Dash clearing the clouds."
She looked up at the white fluff floating about and added, "Well, she's not doing a very good job, is she?"
Suddenly a rainbow blur crashed into Twilight and plowed her into a random mud puddle. Twilight found herself face down in the mud with a blue pegasus on her back and a rainbow mane in her face. The pegasus mare just gave a nervous laugh. Twilight simply groaned as she looked up at the 'monkey on her back'.
"Uh, 'scuse me?" she said.
Then she continued with the nervous laugh.
Twilight moaned again as the pegasus climbed off her back. She flew off and returned pushing a gray rain laden cloud above Twilight.
She burst into laughter as she said, "Here. Let me help you with that." Jumping up and down on the cloud, she made a micro downpour onto the disgruntled violet unicorn mare. Now she wasn't muddy, but she was in fact soaked to the hide.
She laughed awkwardly once more as she said, "Oops, I guess I overdid it. Um, uh, how about this?"
Flying around the startled unicorn, she created a rainbow tornado around the soaked pony standing in a mud puddle. In a matter of seconds, she found that she had gone from soaked to fly dried, her hair puffed out like a hairdo nightmare.
"My very own patented Rain-Blow Dry! No no. Don't thank me. You're quite welcome," she added before she looked at Twilight and began laughing so hard, she keeled over.
Spike laughed hard enough to fall to the ground with her.
Twilight looked at her and said dryly, "Let me guess. You're Rainbow Dash?"
She looked back and replied, "The one and only. Why, you heard of me?"
"I heard you were supposed to be keeping the sky clear," she replied before sighing heavily, and added, "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and the Princess sent me to check on the weather for the Summer Sun Celebration."
Dash flew up to lounge on a cloud as she replied, "Yeah, yeah, that'll be a snap. I'll do it in a jiffy. Just as soon as I'm done practicing."
"Shouldn't your duties come before any... practice?"
"Relax," she replied, "I can do both."
"And just what pray tell are you practicing for?" she asked as she glared up at Dash's tail laying over the side of the cloud.
She pointed at a poster against the wall as she said, "The Wonderbolts! They're gonna perform at the Celebration tomorrow, and I'm gonna show 'em my stuff!"
The was some poster of the Wonderbolts at a show.
"The Wonderbolts?" she asked skeptically.
"That's right!" she said with an energetic nod.
"The most talented flyers in all of Equestria?" she asked in a leading manner.
"That's totally right!" she agreed.
"Pfft!" she said derisively, "Please. They'd never accept a Pegasus who can't even keep the sky clear for one measly day."
"Hey!" protested Dash, "I can clear away every cloud in sight in TEN seconds flat!"
She delivered the final jab of her argument as she said daringly, "Well then Dash. Prove it!"
Dash burst into a blur of action as she started kicking the clouds around Ponyville into nothing. "Loop the loop around, and wham!" she said as she raced and looped from one cloud to the next. Twilight and Spike watched in mild awe as she raced back and forth, making a gust over the two of them each time she flew by. The she hovered over them at last as she said, "Ten. Seconds. Flat. I'd never leave Ponyville hanging." The she looked at the blown dried Twilight's stare, the stare of the equally startled dragon and laughed again as she added, "You should see the look on your face. It's just precious. Ha! You're a laugh, Twilight Sparkle. I can't wait to hang out some more."
Spike laughed, "Wow, she's amazing!"
Twilight just groaned at Spike's outburst.
He looked at her frazzled tangled mane and said, "Wait! It's kinda pretty once you get used to it!"
...
As the shuttle moved closer to Equestria, Nightmare Moon said, "Night shall fall soon upon the land. Once Princess Celestia has lowered the sun and raised the moon, she shall be weaker. We must find her and ambush her before she raises the sun the next morning."
"Wait," said Megatron, "This Princess Celestia controls the sun and the moon?!"
"Yes," she replied, "I used to control the moon before she banished me up here!"
"How can that possibly be?" asked Lugnut.
"It's not important," he replied, "We won't be on this planet long enough for that to make a difference."
"We need to go to Canterlot and find out where Celestia is attending the one thousandth Summer Sun Celebration! Then we can go there and imprison her when big sister is at her weakest!"
"Your sister is a thousand years old?"
"Does it matter?"
"Not really," he replied, "but I have never encountered an organic that had that kind of life span."
"And how long does your kind live?"
"Barring termination," he replied, "We can easily last past ten thousand solar cycles. Are you special?"
"Yes," she replied, "We are the only two living alicorns in all of Equestria."
"Lugnut!" commanded Megatron, "Scan the area for suitable forms. We're going to add some new transformations to our arsenals."
"Must we become these nasty organics, Megatron?"
Megatron shoved his cannon in Blitzwing's faceplate and said, "YOU DARE QUESTION MY ORDERS?!"
"Of course not," he blurt out quickly, "I'm just making sure that Lugnut fully understands your commands!"
"The scan is complete, Master," responded Lugnut.
The three Decepticons looked at all of the results of the scan.
"There's too many results," he said as he turned to Nightmare Moon, "Please point out only the sentient species. Those are the ones we're concerned with."
"Gladly, Lord Megatron," she replied with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"OOH!" said Blitzwing as he changed faces and pointed, "What THAT?!"
"That's a Hydra," said Nightmare Moon, "All of its head are stupid."
"OOH!" he said as he pointed again, "What THAT?!"
"That's a Manticore," she replied, "It's stupid."
"OOH!" he said as he pointed again, "What THAT?!"
"That's a Chimera," she replied, "and not only is it stupid, none of it's three heads can agree on anything."
"SHUT UP BEFORE I JAM MY FOOTPLATE DOWN YOUR SPEAKER SYSTEM!" snapped Megatron.
"Fine," huffed Blitzwing.
"The sentient species we may well encounter around Equestria include Earth Ponies, Pegasi and Unicorns. They are the most common beings we should run into," she said as she pointed from picture to picture, "and the occasional Griffon. The Changeling Queen is intelligent, but her drones largely aren't. I would be shocked if we actually saw any. Zebras are quite rare, at least outside of the Everfree Forest. I don't personally know any. Then there are dragons. They are by and large, very violent and antisocial. Ponies tend to attack them on sight in most cases."
"Pick one, Lugnut," said Megatron.
"I prefer to remain flying," he answered, "so I shall choose the pegasus." He started downloading the data.
"I see," he replied, "and what about you, Blitzwing? Save me the argument with yourself and just pick TWO!"
"That's brilliant," said Blitzwing as he face changed, "I choose the Griffon and the Unicorn!"
"A flying form and a land form," he muttered, "Why am I not surprised?"
"I guess you just know me too well," he said as he started the data download.
"Much to my shame," he replied.
"What form shall you take, Master?"
"Isn't it obvious," he said as he scanned Nightmare Moon.
"Foal," she said, "You won't blend in as an Alicorn!"
"Oh, don't you worry," he replied, "I'm sure I can cover the wings until I need them, and I'll just pass myself off as a unicorn until then."
"Yes!" agreed Lugnut, "Only the most glorious form for Lord Megatron!"
"Whatever," sighed Nightmare Moon, "Let's just get to Canterlot."