The portal dispersed behind us, the group went back to their homes and stores. I slowly scanned Ponyville's sight, Rainbow Dash tapped my on my shoulder to get my attention.
"What's up?" I asked Rainbow Dash, turning toward her.
"Since it is still daytime, how about I show you around Cloudsdale, Lightning?" She asked me.
"Sounds good, and it gives me a chance to try out my new wings." I said, spreading my wings.
"Ok, keep up with me though." She said
Rainbow Dash spread her wings and took to the skies, she hovered a few metres from the ground. She was waiting..... I spread and flapped my wings and pushed off from the ground, I hovered above the ground and flew towards Rainbow Dash. I reached where she was flying, she looked at me with surprise.
"For a first-timer, you learn quickly...." She commented.
"Yeah, it just feels natural" I said
"Come on, I'll show you Cloudsdale!" She said enthusiastically
We both flew high above Ponyville to the large formations of clouds in the sky above, we arrived at Cloudsdale. Several cloud structures that resembled houes and work-place were laid out across the span of it. Some of them had similar architecture to roman buildings, I stopped my surveillance when Rainbow Dash snapped me back to reality.
"You coming or are you going to stare at it all day long?" She teased
"Sorry, some of the buildings remind me of roman buildings back on Earth." I explained for my daydreaming.
"Lightning.... you have to let Earth go, this is where you really belong." She broke the news to me.
"I will, it just reminds me of it." I responded, I had to let my world go and embrace Equestria.
We landed on the soft surface of Cloudsdale, Rainbow Dash first took me to the weather factory. We had to put on white hard-hats and construction vests. We walked through the weather factory, we passed many facilities. I was intrigued, I stopped Rainbow Dash and asked "Pegasi make several weather outcomes, what about rainbows?"
"Yeah, I'll show you if you want." She answered as we trotted off to the rainbow station.
Several basin-shaped clouds containing the several colours of the rainbow were suspended above a larger basin held at ground level. The larger basin contained stripes of the rainbow, I inspected it closely. I dipped my hoof into the basin and pulled it out. Upon my hoof was a mix of rainbow colours.
"I don't know what's in this, so I'm not eating it..." I said cautiously to myself, looking upon the liquid on my hoof.
"Good idea, Lightning." I heard coming from Rainbow Dash "Rainbows aren't known for their flavour."
I shook the rainbow liquid off my hoof and looked at Rainbow Dash. She stared back at me, like I was her love interest. I wasn't ready to find out what she was thinking.
"Rainbow Dash!" I heard from somewhere, looking around to find who called her.
"Who was that?" I asked suspiciously.
Rainbow Dash opened a hole in the cloud and was looking down at a pink pony.
"It's just Pinkie Pie, she is one of my friends." She answered me.
Pinkie Pie noticed me and called to Dash.
"Dashie, who's your friend? Can I meet him?" Pinkie Pie asked as she jumped around in joy.
Rainbow Dash and I flew down to the pink pony waiting to meet me.
"I haven't seen you before, did you just arrive here? Pinkie Pie asked joyfuly
"Yeah, I just arrived here from Appeloosa. Yer friend Rainbow Dash here became friends quickly after seeing some common interests in us both." I said casually with my Australian accent
"Appleloosa? That's where Applejack's cousin Braeburn lives!" Pinkie Pie said excitedly, prancing about the spot.
"Cool, name's Lightning Bolt, Pinkie" I introduced myself, keeping along with my accent.
"Lightning Bolt, huh? I'll just call you Sparky!" She said "I gotta go, see you later, Sparky!" She left as she trotted off to a store.
I turned to Rainbow Dash, she had a surprised look in her face. "You sound like Applejack, Lightning" she said oddly as to my accent.
"Your friend Pinkie is a little.... odd." I said
"That's just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie, c'mon I'll introduce you to the others" Rainbow Dash said reassuringly
We headed to a building carved out of a tree, Rainbow Dash knocked on the door and entered. I followed her inside to be met with a purple unicorn.
"Who is this, Rainbow Dash?" The purple unicorn asked as she took sight of me.
"This is Lightning Bolt" Rainbow Dash said as she turned to me "Lightning Bolt, this is Twilight"
I walked up to Twilight and held out my hoof "Name's Lightning, pleasure to meet you."
Twilight shook hoofs with me and said "My name is Twilight Sparkle, star pupil of Princess Celestia, nice to meet you too"
I thought to myself (No need to go tooting your own horn, y'know?)
"Impressive library you got here" I said as I looked around her house.
"Thank you" She said to thank me for my compliment
Rainbow Dash signalled me to go, I glanced over my shoulder and said to Twilight "See you later"
We both walked to what was called Sweet Apple Acres, I found it was farm and apple-place, I looked around as we walked in. Rainbow Dash stopped me from walking any further. We approached a orange earth pony who donned a Old West settler hat.
"Well if it isn't Rainbow Dash..." she started to say as she saw me "Who's y'er friend here?"
I walked up to the earth pony and said "Name's Lightning Bolt, I take it y'er Applejack?
"You making fun of my accent, bucko?" She said as if I had offended her
"No need to be aggressive, mate. I'm from Appleloosa" I explained for my accent
"Oh, sorry 'bout that. It's just that I tend to take it seriously when y'er the only one who speaks with an West accent" She explained her earlier aggression
Again, I thought to myself (Jeez, it's like I hooked her up to a lie detector. She spewin' her guts out)
"No harm done, Applejack." I said as I held out my hoof.
She shook hoofs with me and left me for her jobs.
I walked back over to Rainbow Dash and we both left. On the way we started talking
"I told you that you sounded like Applejack!" She said positively
"Yeah, I know" I said truthfuly "Where we headin' next, Dash?
"To Rarity's, she is a bit fashiony...." She said awkwardly
"Fashiony, you mean fancy-smancy dresses encrusted with jewels and that?" I answered her own question
"Yeah, like that" She replied
Five minutes later, we made our way to some sort of beauty parlor. We stood outside the parlor door. I reached in my jacket pocket and pulled out a blue gem.
"A sapphire? Since when did I have a sapphire in my jacket?" I asked myself
"Beats me...." Rainbow Dash said, standing near the door.