“Lalalalala…” Rainbow Dash quietly sang as she reached for a bottle of citrus scented shampoo, then squeezed a larger than needed amount of the liquid into the palm of her fore hoof, splattered it on top of her head, and began rubbing it into her prismatic mane, the shampoo started to foam and engulf her hair, and bubbles started floating everywhere–
“AAAAHHHHH!!!” Someone cried out.
“What the–” Rainbow Dash’s words were cut off when she quickly peeked out from behind her shower curtain, her mane covered in white bubbles.
BOOM!
Her bathroom door was flung open by Soarin running in and screaming with his eyes closed, arms flailing, and not looking where he was going.
“AH! SOARIN, WHAT ARE YOU–” Rainbow Dash shouted out then was quickly silenced when Soarin ran into the shower curtain, ripping it out of its hooks as he fell into the tub, and landed right on top of Rainbow Dash…
Rainbow Dash’s rosy eyes quickly grew into the size of saucers; her face was as red as bright cherry tomatoes.
Soarin quickly shook his head then looked straight ahead; his emerald green eyes meeting with Rainbow Dash’s magenta ones.
He then realized what he had just done…
“Oh my gosh! I’m so, so sorry Rainbow Dash!” Soarin’s face matched the red color on Rainbow Dash’s face as he quickly got up from on top of her; his navy blue mane was now soaked from the water spraying out of the shower head.
Rainbow Dash quickly stood up and got the shower curtain to cover herself even though ponies normally didn’t wear anything.
Both ponies were silent for a few seconds, the only sounds came from the steamy water spraying out from the shower head, until Rainbow Dash broke the awkward silence.
“What the hay happened?!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
Soarin looked at Rainbow Dash. “Oh uhh, something was flying around in your room! It came right towards me! So I ran in here without thinking, and yeah… This happened…” Soarin said while looking down at the floor.
“Huh? What’s in my room?” Rainbow Dash asked with concern.
Bzzzzz…
The flying object came buzzing in through the bathroom door and landed on the counter of the bathroom sink.
“That!” Soarin jumped and pointed a fore hoof at the now descended object on the side of the sink.
Rainbow Dash looked at the object, then started to burst out laughing.
“HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!” Rainbow Dash threw her head back, shampoo flung off her hair as she hollered.
Soarin stood there and watched her with a confused expression.
“Hahahaha, whew!” Rainbow Dash calmed down a bit before explaining to him what it was.
“That’s just my pet tortoise, Tank! He probably just wanted to say hello! Bwahahaha!” Rainbow Dash told him before she started laughing again.
Tank stood on the edge of the sink with a sweet smile on his face. He had what seemed to be a propeller strapped around his green shell, and wore flight goggles over his eyes.
Soarin quietly examined the tortoise, and then looked back at Rainbow Dash who turned off the running water before stepping out of the tub and wrapped her pink towel around her rainbow mane.
Rainbow Dash looked up at Soarin and chuckled. “Heh, let’s just pretend that this whole situation never happened alright?” She said as she walked passed him towards the bathroom exit as Tank ascended and followed her out the door.
Soarin stood there in the bathroom for a moment, and then quietly followed Rainbow Dash to her bedroom.
“Tank will watch the house for me when I’m gone, won’t you, Tank?” Rainbow Dash said to the green creature.
Tank made turtle noises as a response.
“Great! I knew I could count on you!” Rainbow Dash said and gently patted him on the head before turning around to face Soarin who was still blushing.
“Hey, it’s alright, accidents happen right?” Rainbow Dash insisted.
Soarin looked at Rainbow Dash. “Heh, yeah, I’m really sorry, it’s just that he startled me.” Soarin said while rubbing a fore hoof on the back of his neck.
Rainbow Dash let out a loud snort.
“Pfffttt, heh, here, you look like you could use one of these.” Rainbow Dash threw an extra towel towards Soarin.
Soarin caught the towel and laughed when he remembered that he was drenched. He sat down and threw the towel over his head and vigorously started to dry his mane.
Rainbow Dash trotted over to her closet door and opened it revealing different kinds of hoodies and T-shirts that hung from hangers.
Rainbow Dash took a simple, plain, black hoodie with two slits on the back for ponies with wings off a hanger and threw it on to the floor before she went back inside her closet and began rummaging for something else. Now normally she didn’t wear clothes unless the weather was cold, but it was the end of fall, winter was about to start in two weeks, so the weather was pretty chilly.
She pulled out a simple, tan saddle bag with her cutie mark on it–a cloud with a lightning bolt coming out of it colored with the three primary colors: Red, yellow, and blue.
Rainbow Dash was very proud of her cutie mark; she earned hers in a race when she performed the first sonic rainboom, which is achieved when a Pegasus breaks the sound barrier and a sonic boom and a rainbow happen at the same time. Rainbow Dash being the only Pegasus that has been able to pull it off multiple times.
Rainbow Dash found her sleeping bag and tied it around her saddle bag. She then took off the towel around her mane, threw it to the side, and shook her mane out with a fore hoof before putting her black, hooded sweatshirt on.
“Darn it!” Rainbow Dash said as she was once again looking around on the inside her closet.
Soarin took off the towel on his head and looked at Rainbow Dash. “What’s wrong?” He asked.
“I forgot that my old tent got ruined the last time I went camping and forgot to buy a new one!” Rainbow Dash told him.
Soarin thought for a moment.
“Oh, that’s okay I have a tent, we can share it… If that’s okay with you?” Soarin asked.
Rainbow Dash was quiet for a moment before responding. “Oh, yeah I’m cool with it as long as you are.” She said while she closed her eyes and shrugged.
“Alright cool.” Soarin said.
“Hey, let’s go get some breakfast and some food to pack for our trip.” Rainbow Dash suggested as she put on her saddle bag.
“Oh yeah! I’m starving!” Soarin said with large, hungry-looking eyes.”
“Heh, good cuz I know the best place to get the best tasting snacks.” Rainbow Dash said.
Soarin nodded eagerly and threw on his saddle bag.
The two Pegasi flew downstairs to the front door. Rainbow Dash opened the door and they both walked out onto the ledge of her house, both looking up at blue sky that had a few puffy clouds scattered around it.
“Wanna race?” Soarin asked while smirking at Rainbow Dash as he spread out his wings from underneath his saddle bag.
“Oh hay yeah!” Rainbow Dash quickly spread out her wings and crouched down in starting position.
Soarin’s smirk disappeared when he looked at Rainbow Dash’s left wing which had a huge, indigo scar that started from the tip of her wing that continued to spread down to the base of her wing. The scar looked like a tree without leaves, and it actually looked pretty cool, but that wasn’t important at the moment. He remembered that her wing took most of the damage when she was struck by lightning last week.
“Oh, I mean… If you’re feeling okay, if not we can just normally fly there.” Soarin said quietly with concern.
“Huh? What are you talking about?” Rainbow Dash asked and stood up straight, cocking an eyebrow at him.
“It’s just that I forgot that you’re still healing from last week’s incident.” Soarin said as he pointed a fore hoof at her scarred wing.
Rainbow Dash turned her head around to look at her wing.
“Oh that? Psh, that healed quickly a long time ago, I took that week off from work, now let’s race!” Rainbow Dash said as she went back into starting position.
Rainbow Dash loved to race; it was in her blood. The day she denied a race was the day the world ended.
“Hahaha, alright, whatever you say, Dash.” Soarin chuckled as he too, got into starting position..
“First one who reaches the fountain in the middle of town wins!” Soarin stated. “Okay, on the count of three… One… Two… Thr–
“THREE GO!” Rainbow Dash shouted and darted off at the speed of light.
“Hey!” Soarin laughed as he sped off towards her.
Rainbow Dash wore an all-knowing smirk, confident that she would win.
Just when a light, blue blur darted right past her…
Rainbow Dash’s eyes shot open wide before she realized what had just flown past her.
“HEY!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed and began to beat her wings faster.
Soarin looked back at her and smiled while moving his eyebrows up and down giving her a look that said, “You can’t beat me.”
“Grrrr…” Rainbow Dash grumbled. She felt her wings start to become sore and started to slow down.
Soarin saw the fountain in the center of Ponyville and quickly sped up.
WHOOSH
Soarin landed perfectly right in front of the fountain and looked back up into the sky to see where Rainbow Dash was.
CRASH!
Soarin blacked out for a few seconds before opening his eyes.
Right on top of him laid a certain, cyan Pegasus mare.
Both Pegasi looked straight at each other, muzzles only inches apart, mouths slightly agape, both not saying a word, too dazed to think clearly.
“Uhhh I–uhh…” Soarin muttered out.
Rainbow Dash was right on top of Soarin; she looked into his green eyes and froze up when she realized that he was right underneath her.
All around the fountain, ponies stopped and stared at the two young Pegasi.
Soarin shook his head and cleared his throat. “Ohh uhm, hey! I won!” The Pegasus stallion said loudly while forcing a grin.
Rainbow Dash didn’t respond. She laid there looking at Soarin as she felt something welt the inside of her chest, like that weird feeling she had when they hugged last week before saying goodbye. She still couldn't understand why she got this strange feeling.
“Soooo, are we gonna get going soon?” Soarin asked hesitantly, still pinned to the ground by Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash came back to her senses and jumped right off of Soarin and stood up on the ground on all fours looking tensed up.
Rainbow Dash quickly eased out. “Oh, uhhh, hey! No fair, you do remember that I’m injured, right?” Rainbow Dash said while wiggling her left wing with the large scar on it to make her point.
Soarin picked himself up off the ground, dusted himself off with his feathered wings, then looked at Rainbow Dash.
“Hah, I thought you said you healed quickly?” Soarin smirked.
Rainbow Dash puffed out her cheeks into an angry pout.
“You started off too quickly, Dash!” Soarin chuckled.
Rainbow Dash sighed. “Whatever, let’s just get going, the place is just right over there.”
Rainbow Dash pointed in the direction where their destination was and both started to walk over. A large building that looked like a larger version of the homes around Ponyville came into view, only that it seemed to have a roof made to look like gingerbread outlined with white frosting instead of the normal roofing material.