A few hours later and a few beers the topic turns to dating, much to my horror. I haven't had good experiences, one of my dates ended up started a large cyclone the had to be taken down by at least a hundred ponies. So I don't like the dating game.
I groan quietly and flutter my wings, I can only listen to Dashing drone on about how we need actual lives for so long. "Dashing Cloud, we are nerds and geeks. We don't need lives, we just need technology and mad hacking skills. Or a job doing what we love to do." I say, using Dashing's full name. The others nod, and Dashing groans. "Why is it always you, Stormy and Twistarino (Twister's preferred name, it's more of a nickname) always gang up on me?!" She complains, flopping onto the cloud floor. I wince, knowing it'll hurt thanks to how closely packed the cloud is.
"Why'd ya have to use the nickname?!" Chaser says, looking at his sister and a slight glare. "What, you hate the name Stormy? Or the name Storm?" Dashing teases. "It's a mare's name." He mutters, Twister groans. "Why do you two always do this?! Fine we get it Chaser, you hate being called Stormy or Storm and sometimes Storm Chaser even though it's an awesome name. I got stuck with plain old Twister, know how many pegasi are called Twister?! And Dashing, why must you tease him so often! It's driving Galaxy and I crazy!" Twister exclaims, I nod; agreeing with her.
"You both need chill pills." I say, grabbing a beer. Cracking it open I take a sip, ignoring the silence of Dashing and Chaser. "We'll stop." They eventually mutter, and take a sip of their own beers. "Thank you." Twister says, I sigh in relief and sit down on the couch. Making things out of cloud has it's advantages like creating a palace and it won't take much effort unless you're making it historically accurate or something.
"You do realise that you'll have to leave Cloudsdale eventually, to work on the conspiracy theory you have going." Dashing said, she had started pacing with her wings flared, I hung my head and groaned quietly. She was going to start this again, I have a theory about Celestia that depicts them as evil or more unfair than we realise. We're such goody-two-shoes that we never see the wrath they invoke on criminal ponies, ponies that go into Canterlot castle and come out looking frazzled but "cured" of their evil side. I'm thinking that Celestia scares them enough that they stop stealing for good, or casts a memory spell or something. With Luna on the other hoof, I'm thinking she either doesn't know or is in on it. She is moving the stars into a shape and no one seems to be noticing, the stars stay the same but moving across the sky during the year. The shapes don't change, their position does.
"I know Dashing, but I like it here in Cloudsdale. I don't want to go gallivanting across Equestria." I reply, Dashing frowns but doesn't pursue it. "And anyway, I stutter and I'm shy to new ponies. How am I meant to get info or dig up dirt on the Princess?" I add, taking another sip of my beer. Twister sends a smile my way, I smile back and finish my beer.
"Does anypony know the time?" Chaser asks, glancing at the wall where there once was a clock. But due to a storm it broke and now we have a useless non-working clock on the wall. "It's 9-ish." Twister says, glancing at him. "Crap! I've got to go." I say and shoot out before the others have time to reply, I shoot home and dump my coat on my table and stretch. I had to get some sleep for my new job, I was so used staying up at all hours that I was a night owl and needed to be told what tome it was or I'd stay up all night reading.
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I woke up to my alarm, I groaned and rolled over- off the bed. I growled this time and sat up, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. I clambered onto my hooves and trotted into the main room to make breakfast. And because I was focused in breakfast I didn't notice the pony-sized hole that I fell down, I'd like to say I flew back up through the hole but that would be untrue. I ended up screaming like a girl as I fell through the cloudlayer, a hole was cut very equally and allowed me to fall in increasing speed out of Cloudsdale and into the sky below it.
My wings stayed shut as I screamed, I was terrified and couldn't open them for the life of me. I glanced down and a new set of screams started, the forest was approaching at a rapid pace and I started praying to any and every god and goddess I could think of.
I suddenly hit a cloud and didn't go straight through it, I smiled maybe my praying had worked. Or not... The cloud broke and I continued falling, only this time I snapped my wings open and glided to the ground.
"Who in Taturus would do that?!" I exclaimed, glancing up at the floating city. I flapped my wings and got back into the air, it was too long to fly back up so I settled for finding a cloud to rest on. I couple were passing by, then I realised where I was. The Everfree Forest, I groaned. "Why not kill me now?" I thought, a second later I heard a howl. "I was just kidding!" I shouted, terrified and in panic mode.
I shot towards a cloud and right into it, hollowing it out slightly I settled into it's fluffy embrace and fell asleep.
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My eyes shot open to darkness, my ears were pricked and I heard a snoring coming from below. I poked my head through the cloud below me and saw a cyan pegasus snoring in a tree, she had a rainbow mane and tail. I pulled my head back through the cloud and groaned, the mare was Rainbow Dash. Element of Loyalty and pigheadedness. The cloud I was in had drifted towards Ponyville which was a day and a half worth of flying, unless you take the train which only takes a few hours thanks to magic.
I sighed, knowing I couldn't stay inside my cloud. I burrowed my way out only to stare at the blue eyes that were bobbing up and down in time to the balloons that were strapped to the pony's back.
"Um... Hi?"
"Hiya! I haven't seen ya before so you must be new! I'm Pinkie Pie but you can call me Pinkie!" The pink earth pony mare said, I just stared gobsmacked.
"Okay, she's crazy."