Bad Luck

by MIKEANTHONY321


It Begins

On one rather hot summer day in Equestria, Rainbow Dash sat back in her cloud sofa, fanning herself with a Daring Do book (volume 4), eyes fixed on the wall. It was a staring contest, Rainbow vs. the portrait of her and her five friends.
No matter how long she stared, she couldn’t seem to win this endless battle.

“Ugh, I’m so bored!” Rainbow complained. “I just wanna take a nap!”

However, she wasn’t sleepy, and the more she tried to fall asleep, the more she wouldn’t be able to. The worst part of this situation was her air conditioner was busted, and she hadn’t worked up the strength to get Applejack to come ‘whip’ it back into shape.

“Maybe I should go see what Pinkie Pie is up to. Maybe we could go for some pranking again!”

Rainbow Dash set her book down on the table, and took off out the door.

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Once she left her home, she realized it was a baking oven outside.

“Dang, it’s gotta be 500 degrees out here! Why did the pegasi have to clear all the clouds today?”

After a couple minutes of wondering if she was gonna throw up, Ponyville came into view.

Dash touched down on the sidewalk, and took a good look around. Town seemed to be bustling a little too much for how hot it was outside.

“Doesn’t anypony know at all how hot it is out here?”

She trotted around a bit, seeing how many ponies were active, especially in the shopping district.

“What’s everypony doing in such weather? It’s melting out here!”

“Well of course…”

”GAH!” Dash screamed. “WHO’S THERE?!”

“It’s just me!” Twilight Sparkle replied.

“Oh, okay. You scared m—uh, I mean…caught me off guard.” Rainbow Dash lied.

“Everypony’s so active today because it was the summer sun celebration this morning. Don’t you remember?” Twilight stated.

“(Aw, pony apples. I slept through the celebration!)” Dash thought. “(No wonder it’s so hot outside…)”
“Uhh, of course I remember the celebration! Rockin’ party that was!” Rainbow lied again.

“Right…” Twilight stammered. “Are you looking for somepony?”

“Just Pinkie Pie. I thought we could continue pranking some more.” Rainbow replied. Twilight chuckled.

“Interesting. You’ll probably find her at Sugarcube Corner. Why don’t you go look?” Twilight suggested.

“Can do! Bye!” Rainbow flew off.

“And she says Pinkie Pie is random…” Twilight muttered, laughing.

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Rainbow took her time, she was in no hurry. She waved to some of the ponies down below.

One of them seemed to be freaking out. She shot them a confused look. The pony seemed to be trying to get her attention.

She was about to yell “what”, when she smashed face-first into a large cliff. She slid to the ground, a pained look on her face.

“That’s the SECOND time I crashed into this cliff!”

Rainbow was not amused. She was still trying to find Pinkie Pie.

She sputtered, then managed to get back off the ground. She clumsily flew to Sugarcube Corner.

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By the time she arrived, she had a noticeable bump on her forehead. It throbbed every time she moved her head too much.

She pushed open the door to Sugarcube Corner, and found Mr. and Mrs. Cake trying to fill an order.

“Hey, dear! What brings you here?” Mrs.Cake politely asked.

“Just trying to find Pinkie Pie. Know where she is?” Rainbow answered.

“She should be upstairs, but don’t keep your hooves crossed, you know how much she likes to go outside.”

“Tell me about it.” Rainbow replied as she trotted upstairs.

There she was, on the floor, playing with Gummy, her pet alligator.

“Hi, Dashie!” Pinkie blurted out, suddenly jumping up and down.
Gummy just flipped over and lied there, belly up. He didn’t seem to care.

“It’s so good to see you! What do you wanna do? Huh huh huh?” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Whoa, settle down, Pinkie. I was just bored, and wondering if we could go pull some more pranks!” Rainbow asked, getting excited.

Pinkie’s expression fell.

“What’s wrong?” Dash asked.
“Oh Dashie, I’d love to, but the Cakes won’t let me. They said it hurt other ponies’ feelings.”
Pinkie’s expression was grim, and her hair was down (which rarely happens!).

“What? But they’re always laughing once we’re done!” Rainbow was disappointed.

“Beats me.” Pinkie replied.

“Oh…well I guess I’ll see you later.”
Dash slowly trotted down the stairs, and out the door.

Rainbow Dash stood outside, her head down, which caused her bump to throb again. She was so bored, and in pain at the moment. Twilight trotted up to her, wearing her saddlebags.

“Hey Rainbow! Man, these shops have more good merchandise than I imagined! Wait, what’s wrong?”

Mumbles from Rainbow Dash.

“And what is on your head?” Twilight poked Rainbow’s bump.

“Ow! Don’t touch! Still hurts…” Rainbow ordered, still grim.

“I can use magic to heal it, if you want.” Twilight offered.

“No. I just don’t care anymore.” Rainbow flew off, depressed.

“Whatever her problem is, it’s definitely not something for her to get her mane in a tangle about.” Twilight muttered to herself.

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As Rainbow flew home, she saw other pegasi flying around, having fun with their friends.

When she reached her doorstep, there was a package on the front porch. She looked at it, and couldn’t find who it was for. What she did see however, was that it was from the Wonderbolts.

Rainbow’s jaw hit the floor.

“OmigoshomigoshomigoshomigoshomiGOSH!!!”

Rainbow grabbed the package and bolted in the house, nearly toppling over all her furniture. She slammed the package down on the table, and tore it open at surprising speed.

Inside was a note saying, “Congratulations! Your skills and bravery has finally showed something to us, and we decided to make it up to you! We give you a warm welcome to the Wonderbolts! -Spitfire (555) 555-5555”.
There was also a neatly folded Wonderbolts uniform.

Rainbow nearly peed the floor. She started dancing around the room, laughing hysterically. She nabbed the phone and dialed the number.

Spitfire answered and said, “This is the Wonderbolts!”

“Hi, this is Rainbow Dash, the one you sent the uniform to! I just wanted to say thank you SO MUCH for this opportunity! I won’t let you down!”

“Wait…Rainbow Dash?” Spitfire replied. “That package was supposed to go to a pegasus named Thunder Flash.”

Rainbow Dash's expression began to fall, taking in the unpromising news.

“Sorry for the inconvenience, I’ll have Derpy Hooves come and intercept the package. Have a nice day!” Spitfire hung up.

Rainbow dropped the phone, keeping the same position. Her eye twitched, and a single tear rolled down her cheek.

Well, that did it. Rainbow flew to her room, slammed the door, flopped on her cloud bed and sobbed. This day had been horrible for her. Missing the Summer Sun Celebration, getting bored, the heat, not getting to hang out with Pinkie Pie, and getting SO CLOSE TO HER DREAM! There was nothing else she would have done right there.

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Derpy flew along happily, trying to find her destination.

“So, I gotta visit the Rainbow’s residence? Wherever could I find that?” Derpy asked herself.

She turned once and saw the huge cloud structure, rainbows pouring out on some sides.

“Think I found it!” Derpy exclaimed.

Derpy arrived a few seconds later and knocked on the door politely. A few minutes passed.

“Hm. Perhaps she’s not home?”

Derpy was about to fly away, when Rainbow Dash answered the door, wearing a bathrobe, her mane messed up.

“Whoa…” Derpy stuttered.

“Yeah, I know. Why are you here?” Rainbow replied, rather glum.

“No, it’s just I didn’t know you owned a bathrobe!” Derpy mused.

“You didn’t answer my question…” Rainbow sounded annoyed.

“Oh yeah! I’m here to take back the package the Wonderbolts accidentally sent you.” Derpy explained.

“Oh, here to steal away more of my hopes and dreams? Be my guest…”
Rainbow was starting to heat up.

“No, nothing like that. I just need the package.” Derpy happily answered.

“Well you can’t have it! It showed up on MY doorstep for a reason!” Rainbow raised her voice.

Derpy started to cringe.

“Can I just…get my package? Please?”

“Or what?!” Rainbow angrily replied.

“Or I’ll lose my job…” Derpy almost whispered in fear.

“YOU THINK YOUR DOPEY JOB IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY LIFE?!?!?!” Rainbow screamed.

Some of the other pegasi turned to see what was going on.

“GET AWAY FROM ME! YOU CAN’T HAVE MY PACKAGE! STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!”

The other pegasi stared as Derpy flew off, crying. They shot Rainbow extremely dirty looks.

“What are YOU looking at?!”

Rainbow stormed inside, anger fading, continuing to feel sorry for herself. She sat on her cloud sofa, and began to think.

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Twilight was at her library, enjoying some of the cool stuff she bought. She heard something out the window.

“What in Celestia’s name?”

She looked out the window, and found Derpy, the mailpony, streaking across the sky, crying her eyes out.

“It doesn’t take a detective to know who caused THAT.”

Twilight marched out of her library, and toward Rainbow Dash’s house.

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“Why can’t I sleep? I just want today to end and tomorrow to begin!” Rainbow complained, trying to nap on her cloud sofa. She heard a faint call from the ground.

“Gee, I wonder who that could be.”

Rainbow lazily dragged herself off the sofa with a thud on the floor.

“That was uncalled for…” Rainbow muttered.

Twilight looked up and saw Rainbow trudge out onto her porch and look down. She turned around, and walked back inside.

“Well THAT was rude.” Twilight thought out loud. “Rainbow Dash! Can we talk?” she called to up to Rainbow.

After a long two minutes, Rainbow Dash walked outside, and softly flew down to her. She touched down, then plopped onto the grass.

“What’s on your mind?” Rainbow impatiently asked.

“What’s going on today? You’re in a terrible mood. And you scared off Derpy!” Twilight immediately got to the point. “Today’s actually supposed to be a good day! First of all, it was the Summer Sun Celebration, and—“

“I didn’t actually get to see the celebration.” Rainbow interrupted. “I…I slept through it.”

“Oh….well—“

“And my air conditioner is busted, and it’s getting really hot in my home.”

“Well, we can—“

“And I wasn’t able to hang out with Pinkie Pie.”

“Well that’s not really—“

“AND when I got home, I saw an invitation to the Wonderbolts, which actually wasn’t supposed to be for me!”

“WILL YOU LET ME TALK?!?!” Twilight suddenly bursted out. This seemed to scare Rainbow Dash, and she started crying again. Twilight realized what she had done.

“Hey, hey, I’m sorry. You just seem to be having a bad day.”

Rainbow stared up at her, her face still damp, her bump throbbing so bad, you could practically hear it.

“Seriously, you’re a pegasus, the best one ever at that. You were last year’s Best Young Flier, you can perform Sonic Rainbooms with your eyes closed, and you look incredibly unique. Seriously, how many other ponies have a mane and tail with SIX different colors? And best of all, everypony wants to be your friend. Heck, a stallion asked me a couple weeks ago if you were single! I would kill for that to happen! …I don’t think you’re used to having bad days like this one.”

Twilight finally finished her speech.

Rainbow Dash stared up at her, fascinated. Suddenly, a smile spread across her face, and she asked, “Was the stallion hot?”

“You’re missing the point! You have a great life that many other ponies wish they could have. You have no reason to complain.” Twilight stated.

“…..You really think so?”

“I KNOW so.” Twilight replied.

Rainbow jumped up and enveloped her in a huge hug. “Thanks.”

“Don’t thank me, I didn’t do anything!” Twilight chuckled. “But seriously, where did that bump come from?” Twilight asked curiously.

It took Rainbow a minute to answer.

“A mountain…” she stuttered out. Twilight laughed, and Rainbow joined in.

“Now I gotta go fetch Derpy after what happened!”

Rainbow waved goodbye to Twilight, but then stopped and looked back at her.

“Oh, Twilight?”

“Yeah?”

“Seriously, was that stallion hot?” Rainbow asked.

Twilight sighed.
“Yes, the stallion was pretty good-looking. Could you go now?”

“AWESOME! Okay bye!” Rainbow flew off happily.

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Rainbow was streaking by over Ponyville, but had no idea where she would find Derpy. She could be anywhere, and Rainbow didn’t know where she lived.

About five minutes into her flight, two stallion pegasi flew up to her…wearing police badges.

“Are you Miss Rainbow Dash?” one of them asked in their low, stallion voices. Rainbow was pretty shaken up.

“Y…Y…Yes…”

“Please come with us.”

The two sheriff ponies escorted her to the town police station, where the chief of police awaited her.

“Miss Rainbow Dash?”

“P…Please. J…Just call me Rainbow Dash…” Rainbow managed to choke out. She was shaking badly.

“I have been informed by a derp-eyed source that you stole something, a package to be precise.”

“I didn’t steal that package! It accidentally showed up on my doorstep!” Rainbow almost yelled, because she was incredibly nervous.

“Yes, but you refused to return it. That qualifies as stealing.”

Rainbow Dash gulped. Her life was on the line right now, a criminal life in prison…or on the moon! She could get banished!

“Trial starts in 2 days. You better get a good lawyer.”

“WAIT! I can return it right now! I’ll be right back!” Rainbow ran outside.

When she got outside, the sun was setting. She turned the corner, bent over and threw up. This caused her bump to throb SO badly, she threw up again.

“I gotta (burp) get that package!”

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She flew as fast as her wings could carry her, so fast she nearly did another Sonic Rainboom.

Like a bullet, she whizzed into her house, now hotter than it was outside. She went straight to the table, where she had left her package.

Once she found it wasn’t there, she had a mass panic attack, and threw up again, soaking the floor. She went for the phone to call Spitfire and ask where it was, when she found that missing, too.

She shrieked, and searched her house to find everything gone. This time Rainbow Dash literally did pee the floor, soaking it further. She had been robbed!

There was a knock on the door, and Rainbow instantly felt light-headed. She fainted right there on the soaked floor.

Twilight (using a cloud-walking spell) burst in, and found Rainbow Dash unconscious on the wet floor. She whipped out her cell phone, and dialed 911.

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When Rainbow Dash woke up, she didn’t know where she was, and nearly fainted again.

A nurse pony trotted in, and turned and said something to somepony else in the room.

Twilight emerged, smiling down at her.
“Great! You’re awake! I was so worried…” Twilight said, relieved. “I cleaned up the mess on your floor once the ambulance picked you up. Interesting smell, that was. What happened?”

“I…I…” Rainbow was still trying to recover her voice. “I was robbed.”

Twilight was surprised. “Robbed?”

“Y…Yes. Everything was gone.”

“What happened, anyway?”

“Well, soon after I left last night, the police caught up with me. They said I stole a package, the one still at my house from earlier. They said I would have to enroll in trial, but I said I could recover the package, and ran outside. I flew to my house to get it. But when I got there, the package was gone. I had a huge panic attack and threw up on the floor, so I ran to the phone to call Spitfire. The phone was gone too. That’s when I freaked out even more, and searched my house to find nothing there. I accidentally peed the floor, and……………I don’t remember any more.”

Twilight stared at her in shock.

“Where am I, anyway?” Rainbow asked.

“You’re at the Ponyville Hospital. They rushed you here as soon as you fainted. Strangely, you’re in the same bed, in the same room as last time.”

Rainbow looked around. “Do you have my Daring Do book?” Rainbow asked, hopefully.

“I do! Right here!” Twilight pulled Rainbow’s Daring Do Volume 4 book out of her saddlebag with her magic. “It was the only thing left in your home after the robbery!” Twilight happily stated.

“Aw, THANK YOU. It’s too bad nopony else is here to keep me company, could you go get hurt so you can join me?” Rainbow joked. They both laughed.

“It’s so weird…even the rainbow ponds outside your house were completely dried up, they were also stolen. All the furniture, everything you could think of except the foundation was gone. All except your Daring Do book.” Twilight wondered.

“Is my portrait of the six of us embracing gone, too?”

“Yes, I’m sorry to say it was.” Twilight answered.

“Aw, dang it! That was really valuable to me!” Rainbow looked depressed over it.

“Well, we know the robber is a pegasus, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to walk on clouds to walk in my home.” Rainbow deduced.

“Yes, but did you see? They stole EVERYTHING. A pile that big has to be as big as Fluttershy’s cottage. The
robber had to of had an ally, who was probably the pegasus. The robber themself was most likely an earth pony.” Twilight objected.

Even though Rainbow Dash was unconscious for a while, she just realized how tired she became. She was still weak, and all this thinking wasn’t helping.

Rainbow fell asleep right then and there after Twilight stated that. Twilight pulled the covers up around Rainbow, then walked out of the hospital.

To be Continued…