The same day, early in the morning, back in Cloudsdale(ain't that a mouthfull?)
After Dark had snapped me out of my depression last night, we had spent the entire night trying to figure out a way for me to get Dash back before she leaves town today.
Dark suggested I just beat her until she listens to me. I then punched him right in the face. What made him think I'd even CONSIDER using his idea? Moron.
Anyway, through a lot of time, we, mostly me, came up with an idea. First thing is first, we need to make sure Dash doesn't leave before we're done. Since she hates both me and Dark, we're getting Haily to get her to stay.
Even though Haily hates being woken up early, this is important. Plus, I'm sure she won't mind helping out with this. I mean, she's always hated to see my sad. She even spent every Hearts and Hooves Day with me since I never had a marefriend before Dash. But I digress.
I tiphoof(hooves, remember?) through the hallway as to not wake anypony up. I come over to Haily's room and gently turn the knob as I push the door open and it makes a creaking sound. I peer in to see Haily sleeping soundly and her mane in a miss from a combination of sleeping and not wearing her headband.
I walk over to her bed as I nudge her a bit. "Haily?" I get no response. "Haily?" I whisper a bit louder, this time getting a bit of an annoyed grump out of her. "Haily?!" I say at silently shout. Yeah, I know it doesn't exactly make sense, but buck ogic at this point.
"Woah!" she says as falls out of the bed. She gets up and glares at me. "What the buck, Blue? It's only six thirty. What's the big idea?"
"Sorry about that, Haily. But this is important."
"Well, what is it? Can't you see I'm tired."
"Dark and I came up with an idea on how I can get Dash back."
"Really? That's great to hear."
"Yeah, except we need time to set it up and she plans on leaving today. She won't isten to me or Dark, so we need you to keep her busy and make sure she doesn't leave."
"You can count on me, Blue." she says with a mock salute.
I chuckle as I walk over and hug her. "Thanks, Haily. I knew I could count on you."
"By the way, what is your guys' plan?"
"Oh, you'll see. You just go back to sleeping and make sure you catch Dash before she leaves. Dark and I will get to work in the mean time."
"You got it, Blue."
I let go of her as I let her get back in bed and let myself out of the room, closing the door behind me. I look at Dark who had been silently waiting outside this whole time.
"So, she said yes?" he asks.
"Yep, it's set. Now all we need to do is get a bit of help from the others."
"Um, it's a bit early to do that, don't you think?"
I look out one of the windows in the living room to see it's still only dawn out. "Oh. Yeah, I guess you're right about that. How's about we sleep for a bit and then head out."
"Sounds good to me. I'm beat from being up all night."
So it was all set. Later today I'd save my relationship. But first I need a nap.
Two hours later
Haily gets up from out of bed and immediately starts straightening herself up so she may catch Rainbow Dash as I instructed. As she finishes up her mane, she exits her bedroom and sees Rainbow Dash exiting from my bedroom.
"Morning, Dash." she says.
"Oh. Morning, Haily." Dash says, still saddened.
"So, any plans for the day?"
"Yeah, I was just gonna leave. No reason for me to stick around after what happened."
Haily goes over to Dash. "Oh, don't say that. You can't leave yet."
"I'm sorry, Haily. But it doesn't feel right to stay here."
"Come on, Dash. Just 'cause Blue messed doesn't mean we still can't hang out or be friends."
"Well, I don't know..."
"Please, Dashie?" she pleads, fluttering her eyelashes for increased effect.
Dash smiles at her. "Alright, you got a deal, Haily. But this better not be any kind of set up."
"Oh Dash, I would never. Promise."
"Really?"
"Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye." she says while doing matching motions.
Dash giggles a bit. "Pinkie taught you that too, huh?"
"Yep."
"Okay, I believe. Now come on, let's get some breakfast."
"Right behind ya, Dash."
Haily follows her into the kitchen as she glances over at the living room to see I've already left, presumably with Dark. All according to plan.
Over to us
Dark and I walk down the cloudy sidewalks as I lead us towards our first destination.
"Where are we going anyways, Blue?" Dark asks.
"We need the others for this to work. We need Blaze's help the most." I explain. "Ah, here we are." I say as we reach the house. We walk up and knock on the door for it to be answered moments later by Blaze.
"Hey, guys. What's up?" he greets.
"Blaze, you still got your guitar?"
"Do I still have the guitar? Of course I do. I'd never give up that thing."
"Great. Go get it and come with us."
"Uh, sure thing." he says in a bit of confusion. He goes in for a second and quickly straps his guitar to his back before joining us back outside.
With Blaze now in tow, I start leading us on our way again.
"What's this all about, Blue?"
"No time to explain, Blaze. I'll let you know when we find Zoom and SeaBreeze."
"Um, okay, I guess."
Skipping ahead because I can't think of an interesting set up
After searching around for a bit, we find Zoom and Breeze together just casually hanging out.
"Phew. Finally found you guys." I say.
"What's the matter, Blue. You seemed to be in a hurry yesterday. Is something wrong?" Zoom says.
I sigh. "Guys, Dash and I are having some hard times."
"Ouch." they all say.
"Yeah. She basically hates me right now and I could really use your help with thid."
"Sure, bro. No problem." Breeze says.
"Always willing to help." Zoom says.
"Did you even need to ask?" Blaze says with a bit of smugness.
"Thanks guys. I'm gonna need all your help. First thing we need to do is get some building clouds and columns and make a stage in an unoccupied area."
"Ooh! I can already see where this is going! Can I sing back up?" Breeze asks.
"No! Breeze, you know as well as us how bad you are at singing!" I say.
"*sigh* Yeah, I know."
"Can we just get started already. We're burning daylight." Dark says.
"Right. Let's get to work."
After grabbing some clouds, columns, and tools we "found lying around", we start to get working the stage. Don't worry, we'll give back the tools later.
With Zoom's talent for multi-tasking, SeaBreeze’s athletic abilities, and the rest of the work from me, Dark, and Blaze, the construction goes pretty well. Well, except some incidents with hammering in some nails, but nothing bandages can't fix.
After all of our work, it is now evening as we get some microphones set up for me and Blaze to use. I can't sing to save my life, but I'm gonna put all my heart into this if it means I get Dash back.
Dash and Haily walk together down the streets, having spent the day together.
"I'm glad I let you talk me into that, Hail. It really helped cheer me up." Dash says.
"I told you so." Haily says.
"Hey, what's that?" Dash asks, pointing to a crowd of ponies infront of a stage.
'So, that's what they were doing.' "I don't know. Let's go check it out."
The two mares make their way over and push through the crowd and reach the front.
Dash becomes angry as she sees me up on stage. "I'm not sticking around for this."
Haily grabs her. "Oh yes, you are. Dash, Blue isn't the kinda guy to hurt anyone he cares about. And I know darn well he cares for you. Now, you're gonna stay here and listen to him."
Dash crosses her horlegs as she drops to the cloud ground. "Fine, but I'm not gonna like it."
"Oh, I think you will."
I grab the microphone ion stage and bring it close to my mouth. "This is a special message I want to send to someone I love very much. I hope you can find it in your beautigul heart to forgive me."
Blaze starts up his guitar as I begin to sing.
(AcouticBrony and MandoPony - Loyalty. I know, it's cheesy. But I couldn't help but use it. It just fits so well.)
"You see me soaring through the sky
I see you below as you walk on by
I could clear the sky in ten seconds flat
How about that (How about that)
I could be sitting here on a cloud
Watching the sun as it starts to go down
the only thing missing
is you by my side
give me a smidge of confidence
give me a speck of something that makes sense
give me an idea of dependency
give me a dash of loyalty (Loyalty)
I could save my lonely soul for you
but the feeling in my heart can't follow through
you can give your broken heart to me
cause you know that i'll stay with you
That's why they call me loyalty
The sun shines bright, yet the rain pours on
rainbows here one minute and then they're gone
they remind me ... of me and you
what did you do?
what did I do?
determination in those eyes
where has it gone? has it said goodbye?
a lot has happened
but I'll stay by your side
give me a smidge of confidence
give me a speck of something that makes sense
give me an idea of dependency
give me a dash of loyalty (Loyalty)
I could save my lonely soul for you
but the feeling in my heart can't follow through
you can give your broken heart to me
cause you know that I'll stay with you
That's why they call me loyalty
Time stands still when you're with me
how can i make you see?
your crazy antics make me want to scream
your name so loud till my throat starts to bleed
I could save my lonely soul for you
but the feeling in my heart can't follow through
you can give your broken heart to me
cause you know that I'll stay with you
That's why they call me loyalty
I could save my lonely soul for you
but the feeling in my heart can't follow through
you can give your broken heart to me
cause you know that I'll stay with you
That's why they call me loyalty."
As the song finishes, I put back my mic and look up to see Dash looking at me with a smile and tears flowing freely down her face.
She swoops in and I grab her we twirl around each other. We look into each other's eyes for a good bit.
"I'm sorry, Dash."
"No, I'm the one who's sorry."
"Apology accepted?" we both say.
We kiss in agreement as the crowd goes wild with cheering and my friends watch us in satisfaction of a job well done.
Later that night
Dash and I get in bed together as we share a long, passion-filled kiss. We look into each other's eyes again as we feel comfortable sharing a bed together agsin.
"So, you wanna do it?" Dash asks me.
"No, I just want to hold you tonight." I answer.
She gives me a warm smile as she cuddles closer to me. "You got it."
I wrap my legs around her tightly as I feel an overwhelming feel of comfort as I hold her. Forget what I said before. This is my Heaven.
Author's Note: This would've been up WAY sooner, but my internet conked out and then when I shut down my internet to restart it, my computer started automatically installing twenty updates which I couldn't control. Ain't life freaking grand sometimes?