“Rarity, you’re being ridiculous,” Twilight called, rolling her eyes upon hearing yet another shrill scream coming from the adjacent room. She knew her marefriend wasn’t really all that fond of insects and the like, but there was really no need for her to be screaming her lungs out because of a cockroach.
“Ridiculous?! The bloody thing is practically the size of Opalescence!” Rarity screeched back, her almost painfully high-pitched voice followed by the sound of something being thrown against a wall. “Why are these things so fast?!”
Twilight let out a deep sigh and put down her book, rubbing her forehead with a hoof. “Rarity,” she called again, looking towards the door to the other room. “Just use your magic to put it outside! Or teleport it, even!”
“Hah! If you think I’m going to let my magic go anywhere near that filthy thing, you are terribly mistaken, Twilight Sparkle!”
Twilight swallowed down the urge to point out that Rarity was the only pony being affected by the cockroach’s presence, but for the sake of peace and quiet, she reluctantly got up and trotted to the other room. Inside, she found Rarity standing atop a chair, a magazine floating next to her and pointed menacingly at the small, harmless insect on the wall.
“Fine, I’ll do it,” she said, taking aim with her horn.
“Ooooh, my princess in shining armor!” Rarity cooed playfully, lowering the magazine and blowing the alicorn a kiss when she looked her way. She then looked back at the wall and her face turned to one of terrified confusion. “Wait, where did it go?”
Looking back to the wall, Twilight realized the cockroach was nowhere to be found. She took a tentative step forward. “It can’t be too fa—“ Her voice was cut off when she felt something land on her extremely sensitive ear, and Rarity’s absolutely horrified look told her what it was. Before she could stop herself, Twilight let out a shrill scream. She desperately swatted away at her ear, backtracking and clutching onto the unicorn, using her marefriend’s body as a makeshift shield against the bug.
Almost an entire minute of silence followed, broken only when Rarity cleared her throat and teasingly said, “My hero.”
“Oh, okay already.”