Over a course of two months, Rainbow Dash and Thunder Flash got to know each other a lot better. Rainbow had recovered pretty well, and was out of the hospital. However, being she didn’t have a house, she moved in with Flash. Right now she just sleeps on the couch, but Flash insisted on saving up for a king-sized bed for them to share. He’s still saving up, and both of them being on the weather team don’t earn them a lot of bits.
It was a Sunday afternoon, and it was very sunny outside. Flash and Rainbow had the day off, so they sat next to each other on the couch, watching Wipeout. There wasn’t much to do.
“Hey, why don’t you turn on Equestria’s Funniest Home Videos? That stuff is funny!” Rainbow suggested.
“Hold on a sec. And…oh! That had to hurt!” Flash raved as he saw a mare get owned in the groin on the show. “Okay, what channel?”
“395, I think.” Rainbow guessed.
Flash scrolled through the channels until he reached 395. Something else was on at the moment. “What the--?”
“Check the guide. It’s probably not on yet.” Rainbow said.
When Flash clicked a button, he accidentally started recording the next show. “How do you use this thing?”
Rainbow giggled. “Here, it’s this button.” Rainbow pressed the button, and the guide showed up. The show wasn’t on until 5:00 in the evening.
“Aw, man. It’s not on yet. Now what?”
Flash thought for a moment. “Hey, I got an old Xbox in my room! And I downloaded this new game called Minecraft! Wanna try it?” Flash suggested.
“Okay! You’re gonna have to teach me first.”
The two started walking toward Flash’s room. “Ya know, I think my bad luck’s gone!” Rainbow noticed happily.
She heard a noise. She turned to see what it was, and saw nothing there. Right as she turned around, she slammed into the closed door. “Oooww! Maybe not.”
Rubbing her forehead, she noticed Flash hadn’t opened the door yet. “Hey, aren’t we going inside?” she asked, confused.
“Are you ready?” Flash asked as he opened the door. “Tada!”
In the center of the room was a king-sized bed, a Sleep Number bed to be exact. Rainbow’s jaw hit the floor.
“Whoa…” Rainbow eyed the bed in utter shock. “How did you get this?”
“I know some ponies who hooked me up. Do you like it?” he asked excitedly.
“Heck yeah! I love it!” Rainbow exclaimed. She flopped down on the bed, and picked up the remote. She pressed a button, and the bed automatically adjusted to her body shape. “This is amazing Flash!”
“I knew you’d like it! Now you don’t have to sleep on that old couch out in the living room!” Flash replied.
Rainbow jumped off the bed, ran over and hugged Flash. “Now let’s play this ‘Minecraft’ you told me about!”
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Twilight paced her library, wondering what Fluttershy was going to do without her house. “What about your pets? Where do you think they went?” she asked.
Fluttershy shivered in fear. “They might of wandered into *gulp* the Everfree Forest!”
“You mean the forest that was half burned down?” Twilight answered.
“What? How?” Fluttershy asked in surprise.
“Rainbow’s ‘bad luck’ got the forest struck by lightning. It’s nothing but a clearing now.”
“Then I don’t know where my animal friends went.” Fluttershy replied.
“Man, I’m worried about Rainbow Dash. I’ve never seen her get all…mushy.” Twilight stated as she suddenly changed the subject. “I’m just worried something is gonna go terribly wrong, if it hasn’t already.”
“What is there to get worried about romance?” Fluttershy asked.
Twilight gave her an annoyed look. “This is Rainbow Dash we’re talking about.” Twilight mentioned.
Fluttershy stared at her for a moment. “Oh, now I see.” She finally realized what Twilight was getting at.
“Here’s one thing: she already moved in with him. If they break up, where will she go?”
“You should stop worrying. They’ll be fine!” Fluttershy said with confidence.
In reality, she wasn’t entirely sure.
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Flash jumped onto the bed, and Rainbow followed. Flash prepared his Xbox, and handed Rainbow a controller. Rainbow stared at it in confusion. “What do all these sticks and buttons do?”
Flash stared. “Wait…you’re the most competitive pony I know, and you’ve never played video games? This’ll be fun…” Flash said with a devilish grin on his face.
Flash spent the next twenty minutes explaining how video games work, how to play them, and then how to play Minecraft.
“It’s a block-building game. You build, you destroy, you craft stuff, and you try to survive the night. It’s really fun with two players!” Flash stated enthusiastically.
Flash turned on the Xbox, and started up Minecraft. When the title screen showed up, a little yellow text at the side of the logo read ‘Strengthens relationships!’ Rainbow blushed when she saw that.
The game began, and they had both spawned in a forest. “Man, I hope my bad luck doesn’t end up in the game.” Rainbow hoped aloud.
“Okay, just follow my lead. Hold down this button when the cursor is over that block to punch it, and you’ll collect it.” Flash spent ten minutes instructing Rainbow how to play his favorite video game. In the game, night began to fall.
“Alright, we have a shelter, now we just wait out the night.” Flash instructed. He was in the shelter, and Rainbow was running toward it. Suddenly, she heard a noise. She turned around and saw a green creature. All of a sudden, she was blown to smithereens.
Rainbow dropped the controller and screamed. “WHAT WAS THAT THING?!?!” she yelled.
Flash almost threw up laughing. “That was a creeper. They blow up when you get too close!” He continued to laugh.
“Hey, that’s not funny!”
Rainbow was also laughing, and playfully shoved Flash. He shoved her back.
Soon, they were laughing and wrestling on the bed.
After a while, they stopped and stared at each other eye to eye.
Randomly, they both leaned in and kissed each other, not pulling away for an abnormally extended period of time.
Still kissing, they lied down next to each other. Their activities heightened, and got more passionate and intense.
Before delving into a night to remember, Rainbow thought about the Minecraft logo, and the little yellow text.
“(Minecraft is right…)” she thought.
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Twilight studied a map of Equestria. It was a big map, too. She was standing on top of it, and was studying the fine details of it. Strangely, this map had the names of all the ponies who owned the houses.
“Let’s see…Thunder Flash…” Twilight muttered as she searched for his cloud home on the map. It wasn’t near as big as Rainbow Dash’s old home, and it was pretty hard to find. It’s also hard because pegasai can naturally change the shape of their houses willingly, because they’re made out of clouds.
“Hmm. I wonder why Rainbow never did that to her house.” Twilight thought aloud.
After a while, she finally found it. “Thunder J. Flash. 1283 Feather Lane. Now I know where Rainbow Dash lives!” she chirped.
“What are you going to do?” Fluttershy asked her.
“I’m probably just going to pay her a visit tomorrow morning, just to see how the relationship is going, and how her injuries are doing.” Twilight answered.
It was getting dark at the moment. Twilight checked her clock. 8:30. “I just remembered I never had dinner. I’ll probably just have a large breakfast tomorrow morning.”
Twilight walked up to bed, and Fluttershy walked in the other room to watch Animal Planet.
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The next morning, Twilight finished her large breakfast, and trotted outside to head to Rainbow/Flash’s house. She was down the street by the shopping district, when she saw a rainbow streak across the sky. She called out. “Rainbow!”
The streak stopped, and Rainbow Dash remained. She softly flew down to Twilight. “Hey Twilight! What’s up?” she asked woozily.
“Why are you talking like that? And what happened to your mane?”
Rainbow looked up, and saw her mane was a mess. A bad mess. She shrieked in panic and adjusted it quickly. “Why does it matter?” she asked quickly.
Twilight eyed her suspiciously. “Are you hiding something?”
“Nope! Just heading to weather duties! Later!” She flew off without a goodbye.
Twilight had seen enough. She headed off to Flash’s house. “I think I know what’s going on, and it’s just as I feared.” Twilight muttered.
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Flash continued to play Minecraft. “Man, why did I stop playing this?” he asked himself happily.
There was a knock on the door, which distracted him long enough to get killed by a zombie. “Aw, man!”
With his game over, he trotted over to the door, ready to give his usual polite introduction. But then he saw Twilight Sparkle at the door.
He answered it. “Hey, Twilight! How are you?” Flash asked.
“I’m fine, thanks. What’s up with your mane? It looks just like Rainbow Dash’s did earlier.”
Flash saw his mane. He gasped and adjusted it quickly.
Twilight rolled her eyes. “That’s just what Rainbow did earlier. What are you hiding?”
Flash started to sweat. His eyes darted back and forth, trying to find a way out of this.
“Oh would you look at the time you really should be going I have stuff to do bye!” He shut the door in her face.
“You know what? I already know what’s going on, so I’m not gonna get involved. If Rainbow’s happy, I’m happy.” Twilight sighed and left.
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-3 months later-
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Twilight was sleepy. Celestia had an assignment for her, and she was up all night studying. But she had to press on, she had more stuff to do today.
She trudged over to Spike’s bed and woke him up. He had been home from Canterlot a while ago.
She walked downstairs and got her checklist of things for the day. Her first item was to head to the shopping district and pick up some new quills. However, she didn’t need to do this until noon. That means she had some time on her hooves.
She thought for a moment. “I know, I haven’t seen Rainbow Dash in quite a while. Maybe her and Thunder would enjoy a visit.”
She yelled up to Spike and told him he’d have to prepare breakfast for himself, then walked out the door.
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She wasn’t that far away from where she remembered Flash’s house to be. She heard a flapping noise, and looked behind her. While looking back, she bumped into Rainbow Dash herself, eating…a coconut?
“Hey Rainbow! I was just going to look for you!”
She took a better look at her.
“Hey, have you gained weight? Or is that just me?” she asked.
“That’s none of your business.” Rainbow replied rather rudely. She seemed to be in a bad mood.
“Okay…hey do you know where Flash is? I just wanted to see him.”
“Oh, he’s at the shopping district! I think he was buying some little stuff, like mints.” All of a sudden, she seemed happy.
“Okay. Thanks.” Twilight said.
“Bye!”
As Rainbow flew off, Twilight thought to herself.
“A coconut?” she asked herself with a bewildered look on her face.
She decided to skip meeting Flash, and headed back home. She had to see what was wrong with Rainbow, because something was off.
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Back at the library, Twilight had been studying up on all of Rainbow’s weird behaviors, and came to a shocking conclusion.
“Ohh, Flash is going to hear about THIS one.” Twilight said angrily.
Twilight had just found out that Rainbow Dash had gotten pregnant.
How could she be so careless?
To be Continued…
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Author Notes:
Please don't judge me, because I think this is the best cliff-hanger I've written yet! Please give me constructive criticism, but as usual, don't be mean about it. Hope you enjoyed!