Rainbow Dash stared at her new home, an ecstatic grin invading the usually cool face of the rainbow-maned pegasus. Though she was alone, she deemed it appropriate to squeal, "This house is so...AWESOME!" She was right, of course, the house WAS beautiful. It was light blue, Rainbow's favorite color, which was typical of the egotistic pony, since it was her coat's color. It it had wide windows which let sunlight easily beam through. It was the kind of house that ponies like her only got to see in magazines featuring rich Canterlot ponies. Rainbow Dash had all of her belongings in a baggy held by one hoof, which was easy for her to carry considering that she really didn't have any belongings or furniture at her old home in the sky. Well, furniture that wasn't made from clouds.
Rainbow happily sauntered into her new home, swinging the door open easily and instantly feeling the cool breeze from the ceiling fan invite her in. She entered with the same smile still present on her face as she let her eyes slowly scan the soon-to-be awesome home. It was empty now, of course, but she would take care of that soon. Pinkie Pie had promised that she'd throw Rainbow a house warming party.This was a special occasion, according to her, with this being Rainbow's first house on land and all. Rainbow dropped her lone bag containing simply a tooth brush and an under-used comb for her mane and trotted curiously through her house. It was kind of bare at the moment, but of course it was. She was the first one to move into it. Honestly, Rainbow couldn't actually recall ever seeing the house being constructed. She just woke up one day and poof, it was there. Rainbow dismissed this on account that while flying at her usual mach-speeds, she happens to miss those kinds of things. Too trivial for her to care about anyway, especially when she has a fan base to woo and a public to impress!
Rainbow quickly investigated every room, noting where certain things were. In no time, she had the layout of the house completely memorized! Feeling especially proud of herself, Rainbow decided it was time for an extreme flight session! She'd have to practice hard if she ever wanted to impress the Wonder Bolts! She exited her dream-house. "How in Equestria could that stallion sell a place like this for so cheap?" Rainbow asked herself, placing a wondering hoof to her own chin. Something about that salespony didn't smell right, like he was extremely anxious to get the house off of his hooves. Rainbow waved a naturally unworried hoof through the air and scoffed, "Eh, I guess this was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of deal! And I grasped it!" She pounded a victorious hoof into the air and set her mind back to bussiness! How quickly could she fly to Sugarcube Corner and back, and how stylishly? She planned on finding out as he stretched her light-blue wings to their full length and took off at an increasingly dangerous speed, leaving the house completely deserted.
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The sun was beginning to set on Ponyville when Rainbow came bolting back towards her waiting home. She had her mouth clamped around a pouch of sweets that Pinkie Pie had forced on her when she arrived at SugarCube Corner. Rainbow wasn't a fan of sweets, everypony knows that she prefers spicey food. Then again, it would be overly rude to just turn Pinkie Pie down. She also tends to get a little emotional over sweets. Rainbow continued to slice through the air, slightly grinning as she saw her home, sitting so proudly on the horizon. With extra vigor, she pushed her limit and began pumping her wings furiously, increasing her speed. When she had satisfied her ego by going much faster than necessary to reach her home, she stopped flapping her wings and simply glided cooly to the ground in front of her home. She looked up at the setting sun and calculated quickly, "So, I guess I took about 6 minutes to get to Sugarcube Corner and back, counting the time I spent with Pinkie." Rainbow wasn't too impressed with herself, she had definitely done better. As for right now, she was exhausted.
The light-blue mare yawned as she entered her house, once again feeling invited by the cool breeze that the ceiling fan offered. Rainbow figured she'd have to simply sleep on the floor, seeing as she had no real furniture to use at the moment. Rainbow ran a hoof through her sweaty mane and looked around her home. An unfamiliar object caught her eye. It was a black recliner chair, and did it look comfortable! Rainbow glanced quickly around her home. She called out, "Is anypony here?" No reply. The rainbow-maned pony shrugged and went over to the inviting lounging chair. Rainbow Dash sunk down into the chair as if it were made of clouds. She sighed heavily as she let the chair conform around her body and plot, making the chair even more unbearably comfortable. Rainbow yawned loudly as she spoke to herself, "Maybe Twilight brought this over while I was away, I'll have to thank her tomorrow." Rainbow began to close her eyes and quickly forgot about how odd the chair's appearance was as she let sleep easily wash over her.
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"Good morning, everypony! And how are we on this fabulous morning?! Now, we have the weather forecast here-"
Rainbow shot straight up in her chair, her mane a ruffled mess as she quickly scanned her room for the source of the voice! She looked straight ahead and was absolutely dumbfounded. A large radio was placed right in front of her, it was broadcasting a news channel as a pony with an eerily deep voice told about the workings of the pegasi. "What is going on here?" Rainbow wondered aloud. It was impossible that somepony snuck into her house while she was sleeping and placed a radio right in front of her without her waking up. Wasn't it? Rainbow slowly got up from her chair and moved towards the radio. She looked it over with curious eyes. It was nothing out of the ordinary, just a regular old radio. Rainbow switched it off and looked out the nearest window. It was bright outside, another beautiful summer day! Rainbow dismissed her fears about the radio from her head. What explanation was there? "I bet Twilight will have some kind of answer," Rainbow said to herself as she trotted to her restroom. "Eggheads like her always have a logical answer for this kind of stuff."
Rainbow lazily brushed her teeth and patted her mane back to its usual style with an impatient hoof. As she exited the restroom, she was thinking of her plans for the day, "Okay, so I need to talk to Twilight Sparkle about that freaky radio. After that, I'll see if Rarity could help me get something to decorate my walls with. Then after that-" Rainbow was cut off by her own disbelief. As she entered her living room where the chair and radio resided, she noticed something was missing. The front door! Rainbow ran a nervous hoof through her mane, messing it back up as she nervously glanced around the room. "I must be losing my mind," she thought to herself, manically. She was in a state of panic as she trotted along the walls of her living room, running a hoof over the wall as she walked, feeling for some kind of unseen exit to her house.
Rainbow inhaled and exhaled deeply, trying to calm herself. She clumsily cantered over to one of the wide windows, and tried pulling it open. It was stuck. In fact, it seemed that these windows weren't actually meant to be opened! "What kind of place has windows that don't open!?" screamed Rainbow as she angrily stomped her hooves against the ground. Maybe there was another exit to the house, like a back door? Rainbow zoomed to the back of the house with renewed hope. Her hope was instantly "dashed" as she realized that all the doors that lead outside were missing!
As she stood there, gaping disbelievingly at the wall that once featured a welcoming, wooden door, an odd sound came from in the living room. Rainbow swiftly entered and once again, her mouth fell agape at the sight that invaded her eyes. The walls were completely empty! The wide windows that allowed the beautiful sun to pour in had completely vanished, and were, instead, replaced by bare wall! The whole room was now being illuminated by a lamp that had suddenly appeared in the far corner of the room. Rainbow put both of her front hoofs on her head and tried to jar herself out of this unwakeable nightmare. Rainbow moved up slowly to where the window once was and put a disbelieving hoof against it. "It's just not possible," she mused. "There has to be a way out! I'll destroy this whole creepy house if I have to!" At these words, Rainbow Dash began flying as fast as she could towards the walls, hoping that she could possibly slam through them!
The walls, however, did not budge! It was if they were made from reinforced steel. Her repeated attacks upon the door had as much effect as it would if she were to simply walk into the wall! Clausterphobia began to set in as Rainbow realized she was trapped within this house, she was its captive. Rainbow screamed and raged throughout the house, throwing all the newly appearing furniture that she could find, and hating everytime that after she threw the furniture, it simply reappeared back in its original place. Nothing she did could change anything!
Following her insanity-induced rage, Rainbow slammed her plot against the wall and slowly slid down it, putting her face in her hooves. She wouldn't cry. Heck, she wasn't even scared. Or was she? "Why is this happening to me?" The question was directed at the house, which didn't reply. "Why won't you let me go!!??" Rainbow screamed the question at the top of her lungs, looking up from her hooves to do so, but then letting her face fall back down. A single tear fell down her face and she sniffed angrily. Rainbow roughly wiped the tear from her cheek with a quick hoof and stood back up. She decided she'd go to the restroom and splash some cold water on her face.
She quickly walked to her restroom, noticing a new picture hung on the wall by the restroom. It caught Rainbow's eyes and she stopped momentarily to gaze up at it as tears began to fill her eyes once more. It was a framed picture of the Wonder Bolts, standing proudly against a darkened sky. "If I can't get out of here, I'll never get to join them," she thought desperately. Rainbow Dash forced herself to look away from the depressing picture and pushed the door open into her restroom. At least, she thought it was her restroom. Upon entering, she quickly realized that none of the appliances that previously occupied her restroom had vanished and were replaced with kitchen appliances. The bathroom sink was replaced with a different sink that one would expect to see in a kitchen. The shower was replaced with a stove, and a refrigerator of sorts was standing next to it.
A stove? Rainbow stared hungrily at the potentially destructive kitchen appliance. A wicked grin spread over her face as she slowly approached the stove. Quickly, before the house knew what she was doing, she lit all of the burners, and ran back into the living room. The living room was now hardly recognizable. There was now a brand-new couch and the radio that had woken Rainbow Dash up was nowhere to be found. The walls had been painted a whole new color and the carpet was now a cold, black tile. The whole living room was filled with leisurely things. There was an area for painting, an acoustic guitar sat up against the wall, and a whole new shelf filled with books occupied a whole side of the room.
"You think you can keep me prisoner by winning me over!?" Rainbow yelled at the house again, feeling slightly insane as she realized that most people who yell at their houses spend the rest of their days wearing white jackets with tightly tangled up sleeves. She let her insanity fuel her as she grabbed as many hoof-fulls of books as she could possibly carry and took them back into the kitchen, where the stove's burners were still brightly lit. She hatefully ripped the pages of "Daring Do" out from the safety of their hard-covers and piled them all onto the fire that the burners provided.
All at once, they instantly burst into flame, filling the kitchen with a blast of warmth, like sinking into a hot bath. "I'll burn this whole house down if you don't let me go!!" Rainbow Dash threatened as she threw pages upon pages of paper onto the burning stove. The fire that the light-blue mare caused had easily begun to climb to the ceiling. As Rainbow felt a surge of victory pulse through her veins, her heart dropped. The stove had dissapeared right in front of her eyes, taking its destructive fire with it. "WHAT ARE YOU, AFRAID!?" she challenged. Rainbow didn't expect a reply at this point, and began hastily searching through the kitchen for anything that could destroy this forsaken house! Success! Rainbow Dash pulled out a few hoof-fulls of matches and striked them all, setting them all ablaze at once, she ran them into the living room. The spotted the book-shelf and, without a second thought, set the whole shelf ablaze!
Rainbow frowned as she watched book after burning book dissapear off of the shelf, and then the shelf dissapeared entirely, once again taking the potentially freeing flames with them. Rainbow threw her hooves up in the air, "What's wrong, house? Can't control me? I bet you're scared, huh!" She taunted the house, egging it on. Nothing happened. Rainbow Dash scoffed, "I knew you weren't going to do anything." Rainbow quickly turned around but was stopped as her muzzle slammed straight into a wall that was placed in the middle of the living room! "Oh, that's reeeeally funny," Rainbow Dash growled, rubbing her sore muzzle. She turned to her right, but as she did, another wall suddenly appeared to stop her. Panicking, she quickly turned to her left! Once again, another wall blocked her! The house had placed walls around her, trapping her in a prison of walls!
Rainbow kicked at the walls with all of her might, but to no avail. Just like before, these walls seemed to be made of something entirely other worldly! She collapsed, defeated onto the ground. She was tired, exhausted even. She realized she hadn't eaten anything since yesterday. She pictured the bag of sweets that Pinkie Pie had given her. What she wouldn't give for one of those sweets right about now. Now there was nothing. Rainbow Dash was trapped in a veil of darkness, her only company the silent walls that surrounded her. Tears dripped down her face as she knew this was her end, the house had won.
"I don't know how many days have passed now, but I can feel that it has been too many. I don't understand why my friends haven't come looking for me. Aren't they curious as to why the best flyer in all of Equestria has suddenly vanished? I'm so hungry, so lonely. All I want is to feel the sun warm my mane again, to feel the wind against my face. But I know that my house wants me here. So here I'll stay, for all eternity. Even now, as thirsty as I am, I can still taste how close death is. I'm ready, please take me away from this horrible home! I see a light..."
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Rainbow Dash frustratedly threw her controller down. "What kind of game IS this? It makes no sense!" Twilight Sparkle, who had been watching her ill-tempered friend play the new game explained, "It's called Pony Sims, Rainbow. Also, I would appreciate it if you didn't handle my equipment so harshly." The light-blue mare waved a dismissive hoof. "Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry! I just don't understand where I went wrong. Why did I get a game over?" inquired Rainbow, looking at her avatar on the screen from aerial view, who was now just a tombstone with the acronym "R.I.P" carved into it. Twilight raised an annoyed eyebrow and explained, "Well, first, you took her door away so she couldn't leave, then you took away the bathroom, and to top it all off, you imprisoned her with walls."
"But my character was trying to burn the house down! What do you expect me to do? Give her a massage?" taunted the rainbow-maned pony. Twilight just sighed heavily and shook her head, throwing her hooves up in the air. Rainbow Dash picked the controller back up, shifting her gaze back to the television. "Hey, Twi! I'm going to give this dumb game another go." Rainbow Dash licked her lips and hit the reset button on Twilight's console.
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Rainbow Dash stared at her new home, an ecstatic grin invading the usually cool face of the rainbow-maned pegasus. Though she was alone, she deemed it appropriate to squeal, "This house is so...AWESOME!"..............