Appledashery

by Just Essay

Round Up the Gang... No, Not That Gang

"See?" Caramel pointed at a bright patch of sky above a hilltop on the east side of town. "It's totally gone!"

Vinyl Scratch lifted her shades so she could squint with her naked eyes.

"Not a single trace of it left!" Caramel's voice cracked. "It's like it was never there at all!"

"... ... ...you sure this was the spot?"

"Yes, Vine! See? Look!" Caramel turned to gesture at the hilltop. "That's where we once set up that makeshift catapult... uh... thingy to launch her onto her front stoop! And over there?" She pointed at a stretch of trees. "That's where Rainbow would often hang her laundry out to dry!"

"When has she ever done laundry... much less hung it out to dry?" Vinyl asked.

"Look..." Caramel shrank in place, blushing slightly. "...I have clothes-senses, okay?"

Vinyl sighed heavily. "...this is nuts."

"I know, right?!" Caramel exclaimed. "I looked all over town for Rainbow, but I couldn't find her! Where in Equestria would she have moved her house?"

"It wasn't moved," Vinyl said, suddenly pacing forward.

"Huh?" Caramel blinked.

"If this was Cloudsdale, then maybe it would have been relocated. But this far from a pegasus maretropolis?" Vinyl shook her head. "I'm pretty sure it was dissolved."

"Dissolved?"

"Mmmm... so that the moisture that made up the once-hard cloudstone could be re-used elsewhere. Here. Look." Vinyl stooped low, brushing her hooves over several brown-tinged blades of grass. "Mana burns... in a perfect rectangle."

"What's... that supposed to mean?"

"I think an evaporation machine was used here," Vinyl said. "I've seen them used before in Mareami. They can convert an entire apartment of cloudstone into malleable mist—well... malleable to pegasi at least."

"You mean..." Caramel's jaw dropped. "...Rainbow Dash had her home razed to the ground?!"

"Mmmmhmmm." Vinyl stood back up. "Or in this case, to the sky."

"But... but that's insane! Do you know what this means?!" Caramel shivered in place. "She's leaving! Ponyville's most loyal pegasus is actually leaving town for good!"

"If that's the case..." Vinyl sighed, pivoting to face Caramel once again. "...then why is she joining Ponyville's very own Equestrian Marathon?"

Caramel blinked.

"Something's wrong... very wrong," Vinyl said. "And from the sound of it, Rainbow Dash is flopping all over the place."

"But... b-but I can't find her anywhere now!" Caramel fidgeted. "Oh Vinyl... what are we going to do?"

"That depends."

"On what?"

Vinyl trotted towards the outskirts of town. "On who 'we' constitutes."

"Huh?"

"Come along." Vinyl motioned with a fetlock. "Time to shake up a pair of lovebirds' nest."

"Hoboy..."

Comments

[Shotgunmerc]

And shit begins to hit the fan for Rainbow.

[Sabin]

Well someone has to has to do something around here, might as well be Vinyl since the rest of the Mane 6 (minus Fluttershy) seem to be in blissful ignorance.

"Come along." Vinyl motioned with a fetlock. "Time to shake up a pair of lovebirds' nest."

hope you aren't going to Fluttershy's Vinyl, cause Flutters isn't gonna do shit. Big Mac might unless Fluttershy tells him not to

[Hestia]

I don't know whether to be angry or sad or elated that it was Vinyl and Caramel who were the ones to find out about Rainbow's problem. I mean, FINALLY someone might be staging an intervention for Dash, but the mane six are still so oblivious it hurts.

[Hestia]

7387165 Honestly, I think they're gonna go fetch Lyra and Bon Bon

[Sabin]

7387236 I honestly forgot about those two. To be honest if that happens I'll be disappointed and not hopeful at all that they'll solve the problem. While the trip to Las Pegasus did help Rainbow somewhat, the actual plan they had for Rainbow failed miserably. It was a stroke of luck that Listing was tailing her or she would have been brought to a shady doctor and gutted like a fish.

[Phoenix Kitten]

Hey hey, intervention round 2. Maybe don't drag her out of town so she can't pay her bills for a week again girls.

[remnants]

"And from the sound of it, Rainbow Dash if flopping all over the place."

If only you knew how right you were Vinyl...

[Hestia]

7387301 It just makes me sad that Rainbow doesn't even really consider them friends (them being Caramel, Vinyl, Lyra, and Bon Bon) yet they still know more about Rainbow's problems than the mane six. That's partly Rainbow's fault, but it still hurts a little.

[Cotton Fluff]

"Something's wrong... very wrong," Vinyl said. "And from the sound of it, Rainbow Dash if flopping all over the place."

So... the story in a nutshell

I'm not surprised the B-Team found out about Rainbow's house first, it seems the mane six really are just background ponies here. I will, however, be disappointed if the B-Team doesn't get the mane six involved and tries to solve Rainbow's issues on their own again.

7387058
Yeah, this is going to domino so hard it will either knock some sense back into Rainbow... or cause her to rebel and want to leave even more.

[Doughnot_followmoi]

Alrighty then, off we go.

[DrEggnog]

"...Rainbow Dash had her home razed to the ground?!"

EyeSeeWutUDidTher

"And from the sound of it, Rainbow Dash if flopping all over the place."

And thus my mental image of Dashie was a fish.
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[AskWaffles]

Finally! Rainbow Dash faces confrontation! I hope.

[Lightning Bearer]

Kinda appropriate that it isn't the mane six who find out. They're so oblivious and uninvolved. Not that I'm blaming them; Rainbow's done everything she could to keep them at arm's length.

[zaponator]

I wonder if they're actually gonna be successful though. If they do make a breakthrough with Dash, the rest of the Mane 6 are gonna feel like crap for not being the ones to do it.
Still, I think it'd only be appropriate.

[CommanderCuddle]

7388290 To feel like crap they would first have to acknowledge the problem and ignore it

[Leftover of Saikano]

Raceponies, razeponies, it's the same.

[BabySkittleMonster]

Great. Progress. Now go guilt-trip the mane six so Dash has no choice but to listen or risk AJ's ire.

[bronyheat]

The title teases how this version of Rainbow put so little trust in the mane 6 (well outside of Flutters) that pretty much all sources of help have come from outside that group.
And that really makes me sad.