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// I Want to Come Inside, Rainbow Dash 
// Story: Equestria is a Silly Place 
// by Bootsy Slickmane 
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	A turquoise hoof pounded the double doors for the seventeenth time within the last three minutes. A muffled voice finally drifted in through the entrance, and a lock clicked out of place a moment later. The door swung open to reveal the mare of the house, Rainbow Dash. Her scowl only intensified at the sight of just who was pounding at her door.

"What do you want?" Rainbow spat.

Lightning Dust was dancing in place on her porch, teeth digging into her lower lip and eyes squinched almost shut. Her saddlebags shifted on her back with each step she took. "Hey, Dash. Can I use your bathroom, real quick?"

"No." Rainbow shut the door, only for Lightning to immediately hammer her hooves against it again, whimpering. A groan came from inside the house, and the door opened again.

Lighting pleaded, "Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Please?"

Rainbow slammed the door.

Lightning leaned across the porch, pressing her hooves to the door. "Listen, Rainbow, I know we got off on the wrong hoof. I'm sorry for getting your wing hurt back at the academy."

The door slowly cracked open slightly, a rose-colored eye glaring at her through the thin gap. "And?"

Lightning sighed, shifting on her hooves. "And I'm sorry we made that big tornado that almost killed your friends."

Rainbow threw the door open further. "We?"

"Well, you made it too. You could've said you weren't in."

Rainbow just gave Dust a level stare. "Yeah, and gotten kicked out of the academy for disobeying my lead pony."

"I'm not sure it works like that in training. Besides, I'm the one who got kicked out." Lightning crossed her hind legs, rubbing one against the other as she grit her teeth for a second. "I'm sorry. Now can I please come inside and use your bathroom?"

Rainbow put a hoof to her chin, humming for a second. Then she sighed and opened the door fully, stepping aside for Dust to pass. "Yeah, okay. It's just to the right of the entryway." Lightning immediately shot through the doorway in a two-tone blur, kicking up a breeze that sent Dash's mane and tail rippling like dual flags. Dust zipped straight into the bathroom and kicked the door shut behind her.

Lightning Dust smirked, narrowing her eyes as she chuckled. "I'm finally in," she whispered to herself. "Now it's time for payback. Nopony gets me kicked out of the Wonderbolts and gets away with it." She raised her right hoof, shaking it at the ceiling. "Nopony!"

"Nopony what?" came Rainbow's muffled voice from outside the bathroom.

"Uh," Dust began, eyes darting about the room. "Nopony has... ever had to pee this much, like, ever." Lightning clenched her teeth, back pressed against the bathroom door. After a moment, she heard the faint piff-puff of Dash's hooves on the cloudy floor. She let out her held breath and stepped away from the door, lifting the lid from the toilet.

Lightning retrieved the little red ball from her bags, the long, green fuze trailing behind it. It looked like an ordinary cherry bomb, but it was, in fact, a chimicherry bomb. What this meant, Lightning didn't actually know, but she was sure it would be enough to give that potential-stifling Rainbow pony a plumbing headache. Dust grinned widely, striking a match and lighting her little bomb. The fuze burst into yellow sparks, and Lightning Dust hurled the bomb into the toilet, slamming the lid shut.

Dust punched the door open and blasted out into the wide entryway. "Thanks for lettin' me use the bathroom, Rainbow. Well, gotta fly. Later!" And with that, Dust was gone, flying right out the door. Outside the house, she made a few concentric circles and drifted down to the ground. Only when all four hooves hit the dirt did she allow herself to let loose and finally laugh at her genius plan.

And laugh, she did, as well as bellow, guffaw, and especially cackle. She certainly didn't titter or giggle, though. In fact, she found herself laughing so hard at the revenge she was about to have that the strength of her legs failed her, rolling the mare onto her back where they could freely kick about in glee.

It was at that exact moment, with Lightning Dust wheeling her forelegs in the air, that she heard the tell-tale kaboom of the chimicherry bomb. She gasped at first, then laughed harder, pointing a hoof up toward the house. She opened her mouth at to speak, but was instantly struck dumb by a sudden realization.

It was shocking.

It was a revelation.

It was the shocking revelation that Lightning dust was lying directly below Rainbow's house, and more specifically, the guest bathroom that she had just bombed. This wouldn't normally be a big deal to the pegasus, but she had clearly underestimated just how much more powerful a chimicherry bomb is in comparison to a regular old cherry bomb. What made this clear was not the kaboom, nor was it the girlish screech of surprise from inside the cloudy house. No, it was the large volume of murky water that was now pouring freely out of the house's bottom and all over Lightning Dust's body and face.

After several seconds of screaming and failing, Dust finally removed herself from the less-than-pleasant-smelling waterfall. She shook herself, bringing her glaring eyes to the floating house above. She shook her hoof at the home. "I'll get you next time, Rainbow! Next time!"