Chapter 20: Well, I think...
Rainbow Dash practically crawled out of the hospital and through Ponyville. Whatever has wrong with her made things hard, really hard. She constantly leaned and held onto her friend as focused on putting one hoof over the other. Rainbow Dash knew Rarity didn't mind helping out, and had the scenario had been reversed, she's do the same, but; regardless of necessity, it still felt wrong to take so much time and effort. Outside, Rainbow Dash kept a smile and spewed gratitude, making every effort to relearn to walk. On the inside, she felt like a sack of garbage. It hurt, not exactly pain, but painfull nonetheless. Part of her wished they'd was just leave her at the hospital. It was her own reckless ambitions that got her there in the first place, her own stupidity!!. Why should anypony take time to help her now?
Her well trained peripherals caught sight of movement skyward. Rainbow Dash couldn't help but stop and jerk her head up, and find another reason to regret everything she did. She saw pegasi flying overhead. She saw Cloudkicker tearing away at a small bit of stratus cloud. And over there flew by a trio of young colts, tossing a ball between them. Each one scattering and whizzing about as two of the colts would constantly try to catch the ball from the other as the third threw it. Rainbow Dash turned her head to look at her own wings and let out a sigh. She couldn't even feel them right now; they could be broken and she wouldn't even notice. Who knows when she'd be able to use them again, and right now, who knows if she'll ever be able to use them again.
"Aww, don't make that face darling," Rarity said, sensing her friend's sadness, "It's just a few weeks, probably less. You'll be flying around town in soon enough, and until you can get all four hooves off the ground again, I'll stand by you the whole way, I promise."
Rainbow Dash turned to look at her friend. A small smile, but a smile nonetheless, grew on their faces. It was still too much to ask of Rarity, but to be willing to do it anyway meant the world to Rainbow Dash. It was nice to have such a good friend.
"Now come on, we've still got a few parfaits to enjoy, remember?"
Rainbow Dash's smile grew a little wider. "Oh yeah...Sugar Cube Corner, right?"
"Uhh, no, not really. We still have to prepare living space and arrangements of the such at the carousel boutique."
Rainbow Dash's expression dell dramatically, "Oh, ok..."
"...After we make our own parfaits."
Rainbow Dash's smile grew faster than it fell and wider than before.
***
Pinkie Pie stood in front of in front of the register in Sugar Cube Corner. Her eager and energetic personality overfilled as she continued to place her order. The cashier was none other than Mrs. Cup Cake herself, the owner of the restaurant and Pinkie Pie's employer at the same eatery. She wore her usual frilled apron and a set of large pink pearl earrings. Her two-toned pink hair was combed into swirly patterns to resemble delicious icing. She kept her usual smile as Pinkie Pie placed her order; She'd long-since gotten used to Pinkie Pie erratic personality.
Pinkie Pies mouth attempted to move as fast as her rapidly changing mind, "...I want it with raspberries- no!-juniper berries -ohwaitno!- make it oran berries-no, nonono- I got an idea!" Pinkie Pie leaned on the counter and waved for the cashier to come closer.
Pinkie Pie quickly looked left and right for any would-be eavesdroppers before whispering nearly inches from the Mrs. Cake's ear, "Put in all threeeeee...."
Mrs. Cake leaned back, picked up her pencil, and continued to write down the order. She internally shook her head at herself; she should've seen something silly like that coming since Pinkie came through the door. Then again, anypony will get used to Pinkie Pie given time, but you'd be crazy to ever think you can predict her.
"Alright Pinkie," Said Mrs. Cake, "Is that all for now?"
"Yes ma'am!"
"Are you suuuure?"
Pinkie rapidly nodded her head, "Uhh-huh!"
"Alright, a parfait with...uh... special toppings coming up!" Ms. Cake took the ticked in her mouth and moved to the kitchen in the back.
"Yippie!" Pinkie cried out as she jumped into the air. Before descending, she dashed away mid-air towards a tabled. There, Applejack had already found a seat and was knocking back a cold soda.
Pinkie Pie quickly found a seat. Applejack put down her drink and asked, "Excited much?"
"You know it!" Pinkie replied, while Applejack took another swig. "I mean, if you ignore the alien and the tiny bit of aggravation that escalated into a big, long complex and continuously confusing chain of events, today's been super-duberly fantastic!"
Applejack put her soda down again, "Ah' don't see what's confusin' 'bout it at all. Big alien freak is a big alien freak, and it an't doing nopony 'round here anygood, so its gotta' go; simple as that."
"Maybe so, but I try to look at the big party from everypony's eyes, you know. He did hurt some ponies, but everypony tried to hurt him too. And on top of it, he's an alien. He doesn't know where he is or anything about Equestria, really. He might be even more scared of us than we are of him."
"Yeah, yeah, every lil' monster got some sad backstory. I understand, really. Like every manticore has probably got cubs or somethin' back home, but that still don't make it right to just let it just eat somepony. Shoot, the only thing worse than that is doin' nothing afterwards."
"Still, he's not just another pony-eating monster. There more to all this than that. Like, why do you think he took Fluttershy and Dashie all the way from the Everfree to the hospital?"
"I don't know, maybe he wanted his pony's fresh or somethin'. Who cares?"
"but..."Pinkie lowered her head and lost eye contact with Applejack. Her voice and tone dropped to a sadder note, "He probably saved their lives...."
"Don't tell me your gettin' all sympathetic for the thing."
"Well...I...It's just, all this hatred. All towards one pony -er- alien...thing, anyway, I just don't think he deserves so much bad things and hatred, not all of it, I mean."
"Well ah' think it does, and then some!"
"Hmmh..." Pinkie's expression fell a bit more, "Do you... ever regret... getting your element of harmony."
Applejacks eyes widened. She took an extra second to think before answering the surprising question, "Can't say ah' have; why?"
"'Cause... we always gotta save equestria. We always have to... fight. I don't like fights; I like parties. I don't like hurting anypony, even if it's a bad pony, and the bad pony will just hurt other ponies if we don't. So we just hurt only bad ponies and that make its alright? It's a bit confusing to me."
"Well, somepony's gotta' stop bad ponies from ruinin' Equestria. If not us, then who?"
"Sometimes I just wish we didn't have to stop bad ponies. Sometimes I wish I could just bake a cake and I'd be all like 'have a delicous cake', and bad pony would be like 'mmm yummy cake' and then we'd all just have cake and be..well...just not fight."
"That an't how it works Pinkie Pie."
"I know, but I still wish."
Applejack slowly shook her head, "It just an't how the world works."
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Great chapter for only 1000 words. I can't wait for the next Dave themed one or whatever happens to RBD
Is no one ever going to ask Rainbkw Dash about what she remembers or her ask why Fluttershy and Twilight are nowhere nearby of she hasn't seen them at all?
I see a lot ponies are still being dicks toward Dave I'm not gonna name any *cough*Applejack*cough*
4981492 I might've horribly overplanned and overthought this. I was trying to recall past events indirectly by detailing the emotional effects on each pony.
Applejack hates Dave because her sister was attacked.
Pinkie Pie kinda missed everything so she has a more neutral opinion.
Rainbow Dash is just glad to be alive right now.
etc.
4980729 Sooon...
It'll all make more sense soon...
4981753 I wouldn't say you're over-planning. It's nice that you're elaborating upon each character's feelings about Dave, and providing the justification for it.
Applejack hates him since he threatened to kill Applebloom.
Pinkie is pretty neutral, since she hasn't really been involved with him.
Rainbow is happy to be alive, but she's probably confused about why Dave saved her.
Rarity's feelings at this point seem to be the most mysterious (at least to me) at this point in the story. She seems like a wild card now, as she hated him but her current thoughts about him haven't been touched upon too much.
Twilight understands he's an alien, that he was forcibly thrown into this world with no knowledge or warning of what it might contain. Other than Fluttershy, she's the only one who'll believe that Dave isn't a monster.
Fluttershy obviously understands Dave the most. She is the only one who actually took time to talk with him, to understand and discover why he acts like he does. She recognizes that the hate towards him is unjustified, and his actions are only reactions against that hate in order for him to survive.
Well, that turned out to be a bit more than I thought. Still, you're justifying the thoughts and emotions of your characters. There is nothing wrong with that at all. Some authors have problems justifying how their characters feel or think, but you are doing a fine job in my opinion.
I'm also curious about Celestia's hatred of humans. Will this bit of backstory be explored in the future?
Am I watching a Naruto thing or something?
4982198
yaaaaay, It's not that confusing!
4982431
Dammit, it might still be confusing
4982898 I related it with Naruto since Naruto has a lot of filler
4982907 well...
I can assure you I don't like fillers and haven't made any nor will make any.
4983029 w...wut?
I'm sorry, but I can't figure out which detail(s) you're really talking about.
4983059 Then you don't understand English because I was very blunt. Lets try a bullet list!
-Rarity/Dash believe Dave to be threat yet just go home when Fluttershy takes him home and don't show up until late morning the next day.
-They gave Dave over twelve hours to murder Fluttershy before they brought the guard to 'save' her.
-The stayed outside where it was safe until Dave was drugged.
-Then they walked in so Dash could beat a drugged guy.
-They watched and did nothing as Dave was beating Sharp Eye to death.
-Rarity left Fluttershy alone all night with what she believed to be a psychotic killer.
-Rarity sent two guards in to attack Fluttershy and confront what she believed to be a psychotic killer while she stayed back in safety.
-Rarity and Dash watched from hiding as he came from around the back and went in and helped their friend.
-They did not warn the guard they were letting hurt their friend and risk drawing Dave's attention.
-Twilight choose to stay with Fluttershy until he woke up to make sure he didn't kill her.
-Twilight then spoke to him to see if he was an actual threat or not before going home for the night.
-Rarity/Dash went home and and did whatever trusting Fluttershy's corpse to prove he was a threat the next morning.
4983496
Oh, that's much more informative, thank you.
oh, and have you met lordofmyth. I think you two might make good friends
This story is friggin awesome so far, apart from the flood of grammar errors.
5031627 Hehe...hehe...
I try...