Chapter 1
Daring Dash and Rosetta Sparkle in the Jungle of Perils
by elPossenreisser
Chapter 1
“No!” Dr. Negative cried, scrambling backwards on the ground as his own groaning servants began to swarm him. He managed to get a short distance across the courtyard before he backed into a wall. “What have you done? Wha-what have you done?” He fumbled through his satchel and seized a small vial with his hoof. His triumphant cheer was cut short though, as the vial was knocked out of his grasp and crushed beneath the hoard of drugged ponies. Frantically, he reached for his bag again, only to find it trampled beneath the hooves of a large red stallion; multicolored fluids coated the ground around it.
“No!”
“It's no use, Doctor,” Daring Do called out as she watched the physician's struggle from her perch on the balcony above. “You did this to yourself.” She hopped off the railing and started for the door, walking past a fedora-wearing Earth pony.
“You're just going to leave him?” he asked, following her back into the manor. “Seems a little cold for you, Do...”
Daring paused as the door shut, canceling out the screams of agony now echoing about the place. Her gaze fell to the floor with her wings.“It's not like he doesn't deserve whatever happens to him down there.” She shuddered. “Brainwashing ponies like that... It's... It's just wrong.”
When no response came, Daring's eyes shot up. She could handle danger; give her a crazed doctor with way too many drugs or an ancient temple filled with traps and she couldn't care any less—but him? She needed him. If she upset him—scared him off or ignited his righteous fury—she'd never forgive herself. A quivering desperation seeping into her tone, Daring asked, “You... You don't think I'm a horrible pony for this, do you?”
A brown hoof settled on her shoulder as Manehatten Silver looked her straight in her watery eyes. “No,” he said softly, pulling her into his embrace. “Negative's the monster here, not you.”
Daring choked back a sob as she nuzzled deeper into Silver's chest. “Wh-when he had you—back at the lab... You... a-and the syringe... When you... When you...” Her words failed her and turned into incomprehensible sobs. Gently, a hoof patted her back. Soft words were whispered into her ears, causing her to only hold on tighter to the stallion she'd so nearly lost.
“I was so scared,” she whimpered. Her whole body trembled in his forelegs, but he only held her tighter. “I wanted to kill him—I wanted to rip his throat out and stomp it into the dirt! I-I—”
“Shh,” Silver whispered, running a hoof down the pegasus's gray-scaled mane. “It's over now,” he said. “It's all over.”
“All I could think about was that night in Fillydelphia,” Daring continued, “And how stupid I was for walking out and... I'm so sorry...”
Biting his lip, Silver shifted his weight and looked away from his long-time friend and rival adventurer. “Look, Dare, you don't have to—“ A tan hoof interrupted him and jarred his face down towards Daring Do's. Her eyes shone like rubies in the dim light of the hall.
“Just shut up and kiss me,” she whispered, pulling him closer. Her wings flared as their lips furiously collided in a passionate—
“What?” Rainbow Dash cried indignantly, raising her hooves in the air. She glared at the book before her with furious distaste. “That's... that's...”
“So sweet,” Twilight sighed dreamily. She closed her eyes and smiled, her tail lightly sweeping across the wooden floor of the library. “Don't you think so, Rainbow?”
“So stupid!” the pegasus finished, batting the novel aside. It flew across the room and smacked the wall with a ruffled thud. Paying no mind to Twilight's irritated stare, Rainbow began pacing around the room. “What about Rosetta?” she growled, flapping her wings furiously. She glared out the window at the sunset.
“What about her?” Twilight asked as she picked up her new copy of Daring Do and the Devious Doctor Negative and carefully placed it back on her personal bookshelf. “She's still back at the college, right?”
Dash huffed and blew a stray bit of her mane out of her face. “So?”
“So...” Twilight rolled her hoof in the air, gesturing for her friend to explain further. When Rainbow didn't turn around, she sighed and continued: “What's the problem?”
“Everything!” Rainbow roared, spinning around. Twilight stumbled back in surprise as Dash's hooves slammed into the floor and shook the picture frames on the walls. Nostrils flared, she began prowling around the room, circling Twilight like a hungry lioness. “How can Daring just... Why would she...”
Twilight's brow furrowed. “Rainbow?” she said slowly, watching Rainbow curse and kick another book into a wall. “Are you okay?”
“No!” the pegasus groaned, bringing her hoof to her forehead. “Yes!” She growled at the floor as Twilight stood up and stepped closer. “Ugh! I don't know! I don't get it!”
“What don't you understand?”
“She kissed him!” Dash spat; just saying the words left a bad taste in her mouth. “I can't believe it!”
Frowning, Twilight gave her friend a curious look. “What's wrong with that? I think it's a very sweet conclusion to the story.”
“But what about Rosetta?”
Twilight brought a hoof to her head and rubbed her temple. “I don't think I understand where you're going with this, Rainbow,” she groaned. “What do you mean?”
Dash rolled her eyes. “I mean that Daring totally belongs with Rosetta—not stinkin' Silver!”
Jerking her head back, Twilight's curious expression quickly switched from bemused to amused. An eyebrow raised as Twilight shook her head. “What?” she snorted. “You're joking, right?”
Rainbow's face hardened. Her wings ruffled. “No,” she said. “I'm not.”
“But there's been no evidence that Rosetta and Daring feel anything more than platonic friendship at all, Rainbow,” Twilight giggled despite Rainbow's steadily growing scowl. “Not a single scrap in the whole series.”
Dash's eyes drifted down to the floor and cursed silently. Without thinking, her gaze shot back to her friend and she protested, “They got milkshakes in the beginning of the book!”
“Oh,” she said, smirking, “Then it must be true love!”
“It was a date!” Rainbow stuck her tongue out. “And that's way better than some stupid kiss!”
“It was not a date!” Twilight countered, “Daring Do has never gone to her for more than advice or to hang out!”
“That's not dating?” Dash huffed, glaring at Twilight. “Daring's totally crazy for her!”
“Just because somepony gets a milkshake with somepony else doesn't mean that they're romantically involved, Rainbow Dash,” Twilight said, a hint of annoyance seeping into her tone. “How many times have we gotten milkshakes on reading days?”
Dash's wings flared and her ears slicked back behind her head as she turned to the side; the setting sun peered through the window and lit her face, coloring it red. Her cheeks felt warm. “I-it wasn't about the milkshakes, Twi...” she mumbled to the floor. “I mean, I could totally see that... that they were happy together...”
Twilight shook her head. “Rainbow, I'm sorry. I don't know how you got the idea that Rosetta and Daring love each other—let alone the fact that they are both homosexual—but it just isn't there.”
Rainbow's eyes never rose from the floor. There was a crack traversing the length of one of the boards on the far side of the room, she followed it across the floor to Twilight's hooves. “But... but it has to be...” she whispered so low that Twilight didn't manage to catch it. “Daring... Daring totally loves her...”
“Besides,” the unicorn added, tapping her chin with her hoof. “Daring and Rosetta would make for a very strange couple—don't you think so, Rainbow Dash? I mean, Rosetta's a professor at Canterlot University—it'd be awful hard for somepony as adventurous and free-spirited as Daring Do to stick around and be in a real relationship with her.”
Dash jumped to her hooves, her hackles raised. “She could do it if she wanted to!”
Twilight raised her hooves. “I'm not saying that she couldn't,” she reasoned calmly. A scroll on a shelf on the far side of the room lit up in a purple light. It floated over to the duo and presented itself to Twilight, who opened it. An illustration of a unicorn wearing glasses and a lab coat adored the back. “And I guess I don't see any major flaws in their dynamic...”
Rainbow's face lit up for a ghost of a second and she looked at the floor once more. “See?”
“But, there's still the complete lack of anything beyond friendship exhibited in their actions, Rainbow,” Twilight sighed, setting the scroll down on her desk. “Just because they get along doesn't mean that they'd make a good romantic couple. Daring Do has been known to have a soft spot for Manehatten Silver—she is obviously in love with him if she asked him to kiss her.”
***
Dash’s wings flared up. “No! That – that was just in the spur of the moment! Why should she be in love with that annoying Manehattan Silver? He’s always so smug and perfect and – augh! No way! Don’t you see that Rosetta is so much cuter and sweeter than him?”
“Rainbow, it’s just – “, Twilight tried to calm down her friend, but the pegasus just continued ranting.
“It ruins everything! Manehattan Silver!” she spat out his name. “Of all ponies! She has known Rosetta so much longer, it’s just supposed to be! How can you not see that?”
“Rainbow – “
“I bet it’s just because he’s a stallion!” Rainbow fumed.
“Rainbow, can we just calm down and continue with the book, please?” Twilight asked, getting more and more annoyed by the pegasus’ insistence on the matter. “I really don’t see the point in discussing this any further!”
Rainbow failed to realize that Twilight was getting worked up now as well and continued. “I’m totally gonna write my own story where Daring totally gets together with Rosetta. Because Silver – that is just stupid!” she shouted.
“No, Rainbow, you know what’s stupid?” Twilight interjected before Rainbow could burst into another rambling rant. “Getting all worked up about a little romance in a novel, that’s stupid! It’s all printed now, and you can either – “
“Don’t call me stupid!” Rainbow yelled at the top of her lungs.
Before Twilight could stop her, she was already out of the window. As she stared at the rainbow-colored trail the pegasus drew after her, her anger deflated like a cooled down soufflé. Had she really just had a shouting argument with her best friend over the world-shattering question of who a fictional character in a novel was in love with? Despondent, she sat down on her haunches, her ears drooping and her head hanging low.
Going over the argument again in her mind, she couldn’t help but come to the conclusion that she had completely overreacted and had probably deeply offended Rainbow Dash. Of course, the blue pegasus had been quite annoying in her insistence on a potential romance between Rosetta and Daring Do, but still, that was no excuse for Twilight to have lost her calm and, yes –
“I really did call her stupid, didn’t I?” she whispered dejectedly. “I have to make it up to her. That’s way too big for a simple sorry. But what in Equestria can I do?” She lay down on the floor and tried to resist the urge to curl up into a tight little ball. Her gaze fell upon the Daring Do novel that had caused all this, lying on the bookshelf. “And all because of that stupid romance plot”, she growled to herself. “If only…”
With a sudden jerk she sat up, fighting the sudden impulse to chirp “Idea!” in her most high-pitched voice, like Rarity did when inspiration struck her. She jumped to her hooves. It could work. It was going to be quite a bit of work, but she felt she owed Rainbow that much. Without further hesitation, she grabbed a bunch of empty scrolls and some quills with her magic and galloped to the cellar door.
“Spike!” she yelled as she ran, “I’m in the basement; I’m working on a project. You have the library; I don’t want to be disturbed!” She opened the cellar door where she hesitated for a moment. “And could you make a cherry soufflé for dinner? I’m really craving one right now.” With that, she stormed down the stairs to her laboratory to start working on her apology to Rainbow.
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Just reading through the first chapter, and I'm looking forward to the rest of this! The idea itself is amazing, and I wish I thought of it first.
One thing though, you shouldn't be capitalizing "pegasus," as it's just the name of the species. Pegasus (with a capital P) refers to the Pegasus from Greek mythology.
Cool cant wait to see what happens next!
I feel like I just watched an argument between a shipper and a normal fan of the show.
Moving on now.
2867150
XD I know right?!
2867150 I totally ship normal fan and shipper. No one else can see it, but I know they love each other.
It's not right!!!!
Twilight's supposed to be dating MY OC!!!
When I was reading their argument I though of what me and my sister was saying about Flash Sentry. I hated him because I thought Twilight should be with Rainbow and she was saying Twilight did have a crush on him and Rainbow and her were just friends.
Yet we all ship Twidash and other ponies with each other despite the fact they are nothing but friends in the show. Its amazing what imagination can create.
Insert animated James here
All right! This quote right here wins you a favorite! For some reason, most people are really oblivious to the fact that most authors (who are looking to get published) don't like risking things like this.