Chapter 9
Twilight knew something was up with their pink party friend. She could smell the baked goods wafting from Sugarcube Corner as usual but it was strangely quiet around and inside the shop. That usually meant that Pinkie Pie was up to something. Twilight hesitated a bit before opening the door to the shop.
“SURPRISE!!!!” Yelled the pink pony as she popped out and surprised the group. Fluttershy instinctually hid behind the nearest pony, which happened to be Rarity, who along with Applejack were in on the surprise party. Twilight nearly had a heart attack as her adrenaline was still pumping from the near-death experience she had to resolve. Rainbow Dash, on the other hand, was smiling brightly, her eyes darting across the decorated shop, from the balloons, to the streamers, the cake, and finally the banner draped across the far wall with words she couldn’t read. “Do you like it?” Pinkie Pie asked Rainbow Dash.
“Yeah!” Rainbow Dash bounced in the air to match the party pony, her wings flapping. “Who’s it for?” She cocked her head.
“For you silly!” Pinkie laughed and pointed a hoof at the banner. “See? It says ‘Congratulations on Re-Learning How to Fly Rainbow Dash!’” She read. A look of concern befell Twilight’s features. She had never considered the idea that Rainbow Dash couldn’t read.
“Can you read it?” Twilight asked Rainbow, pointing to the banner.
“Congradubilations of wearning fwy Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow Dash just repeated her memory of what Pinkie Pie just said. Twilight rubbed her temples again.
“We’ll just work on that later.” Twilight made a mental note to teach Rainbow Dash how to read. If a pony can’t read they might as well not be a pony at all, according to her.
“Ya put a lot of work into this Pinkie” Applejack praised as she wondered through the maze of balloons.
“I had to! Dashie learned how to fly again!” Pinkie Pie smiled brightly. Rainbow Dash immediately went to the cake table, licking her lips and opening her mouth to take a huge bite out of it.
“No!” Twilight stepped in to stop Rainbow Dash from throwing her face into the cake. “We don’t take bites out of cake, we wait to be served.” Twilight instructed, knowing Rarity would be best fitted for this.
“But I want it.” Rainbow Dash whined.
“You can’t always get what you want Rainbow.” Twilight rolled her eyes as a pout crossed Rainbow Dash’s face.
“Why not?” Rainbow Dash retorted. Twilight Sparkle sighed, not wanting to get into an argument.
“Because I said so.” Twilight rebutted. Spike heard this and his eyes went wide. Twilight only used that phrase when he was little and he knew from experience that she was serious. Spike casually set his drink down and walked to the dance floor.
Pinkie Pie turned on some dance music. “Who’s down to par-tay!” Pinkie Pie yelled and grabbed Fluttershy and brought her to the makeshift dance floor. Rainbow Dash smiled and galloped out to meet them to dance. Twilight shook her head, grateful for Rainbow Dash’s short attention span. Twilight levitated a cup of punch with her and she walked over to Rarity and Applejack who were casually talking.
“Thanks for being there today, I appreciate it.” Twilight said gratefully.
“Not a problem darling.” Rarity sipped her punch. “We’d do anything for a friend.” Applejack nodded in agreement and Twilight smiled appreciatively.
Meanwhile on the dance floor Pinkie had let Fluttershy go and was dancing with Rainbow Dash. Her uncoordinated movements left Pinkie Pie giggling. Fluttershy wearily walked over to Rarity, Applejack and Twilight.
“Fluttershy, I was just telling the girls thank you for helping out today.” Twilight smiled at the yellow pegasus. Fluttershy broke into a genuine smile.
“It’s not a problem Twilight.” She got herself some punch and sipped it gently.
“What are we talking about?” Pinkie Pie appeared behind Fluttershy suddenly, scaring the poor pegasus causing her to nearly choke on the punch.
“Twi was just thanking us for helpin’ her out.” Applejack explained.
“Pinkie darling, if we’re all here then who’s watching Rainbow?” Rarity asked. Twilight’s eyes went as wide as saucers and she whipped her head around to see Rainbow Dash, with her mouth wide open and hovering over the cake.
“Dashie! No! Not the cake!” She yelled and ran off. Rarity turned back to the rest of her friends, her voice lowered enough to just be barely heard above the music.
“Alright, has any pony else noticed Twilight has been acting…differently?” Rarity asked. Applejack nodded.
“I ain’t never seen her like this before.” Applejack added. “All worrisome and doting.”
“It happens.” Fluttershy shrugged, hiding behind her mane. Rarity tweaked an eyebrow.
“Say that again?” Rarity asked.
“Well when you care for something or somepony it changes you I guess.” Fluttershy meekly explained.
“I guess that’s true.” Rarity tapped a hoof to her chin. “But this is…different…If I didn’t know any better I would think that Twilight was actually her mother.”
“Twilight? A mommy? I don’t see it.” Pinkie Pike giggled.
“Ok. So the cake is only half destroyed.” Twilight panted, rejoining her friends. Pinkie Pie zipped her mouth closed. Rainbow Dash with her tail in Twilight’s magical grip whined.
“Mommy! I want the cake!” She screamed, cake remnants smeared all over her face.
“I said no!” Twilight snapped. She then turned back to her friends. “Well, this party’s been great but Dashie’s getting tired and it’s getting late. We should get going.” She excused herself. “C’mon Spike.” She urged her dragon companion and he took one final sip of his punch.
“Coming!” He scurried out the door after the two mares. Rainbow Dash whining and complaining the entire time as the door shut behind them.
“Yeah. I see it.” Pinkie Pie stated, looking to her friends.
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“It’s bedtime Rainbow Dash.” Twilight rubbed her eyes, Spike had gone to bed a few minutes ago and she was exhausted.
“No.” Rainbow Dash crossed her hooves defiantly. “Story first!”
“Fine. One story, make sure it’s short.” Twilight gave in. She couldn’t help it; Rainbow Dash just had this pleading look about her and grew on her.
Rainbow Dash bounced up and down and picked out a small book from the shelves. “This one!” She set it at Twilight’s hooves.
“The Littlest Pegasus? Are you sure?” Twilight raised an eyebrow. Rainbow Dash nodded. “Alright, you have to get in bed first.” Twilight ordered and Rainbow scrambled up the stairs and into Twilight’s bed, snuggling under the covers. Twilight sighed and moved the blue pegasus to the side so she could get in herself.
She opened the book and started reading the story of a small pegasus filly who lived in the city of Cumulonapolis. She was made fun of by all of the other fillies and colts. But she could fly faster than all of them. Soon her size no longer mattered she rose above her physical disability and proved them all wrong.
Twilight finished reading the story to Rainbow Dash to find out the pegasus had fallen asleep. Twilight smiled and put the book away before blowing out the candle and settling in for the night.
Twilight felt as if she hadn’t slept for more than five minutes before she was awoken by a familiar sound. Scrunching her eyebrows she looked over to the sleeping pegasus in her bed and the snoring dragon in the basket. Her ears perked at the sound of hoof steps downstairs. Something deep inside of her flared up and Twilight went into defense-mode and readied her magic. She threw the covers off and gently placed her hooves on the floor.
With the dexterity of a cat she walked outside of her room to the hall that overlooked the library below. There stood a very familiar figure, standing tall with a glowing aura. It was her mentor.
“Celestia?” Twilight rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, hoping that this was some dream.
“Twilight.” Responded the regal but tired sounding voice. “Get your friends, get Rainbow Dash. We’re going to Canterlot.”
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The suspense is overwhelming... Must have another update.
Something tells me Celesita is anything but pleased with how Twilight's been acting lately.
Celestia......? Didn't see that one coming. Another awesome chapter gah! The suspense is unbearable! !!!! I need more!!!( Oh whenever you're ready to put up another story if you want)
........what does celestia want? is she mad at twilight for using her influence to snatch rainbow away?
We have a breach in the multiverse again. Someone contact Princess Aurora and tell her to take her capricorn back.
Something tells me celestial is mad but has a solution to help twilight with rainbows problem. I'm betting 10 bits on it
Suspense!!! I'm dying! Release another chapter really soon please!!!!
Darn this inconvenient plot twist, and there only one person responsible for this and that is M. Night Shamamalama.....samba......KUN!!!
Damn...
seriously still think Twilights going about this all wrong. She needs to learn that she's not taking care a friend but a child, and being a parent is more then telling her no all of the time. I realise that this is still new to her but she still has Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy to learn from.
I feel Twilight is getting the hang of it and I couldn't help but think of my own situation when the mane 6 chatted about how she was acting towards Dashie. I'm disabled and in a wheelchair. My younger brother is paid as my caretaker and we've been living together since 2001. He thinks he's in control and in charge of everything blah blah blah and has even admitted to thinking of me as a son. It does anger me sometimes-mostly when he thinks he can decide what i can or cant do. I'm an adult and should be treated and respected as such. Plus i've been to college and he hasn't. He says i'm smarter than he is but seems to forget that fact.
But he's my brother. We share a strong bond because of what happened to us as kids. We were both in an explosion 24 years ago this month on april 19th. I recieved much worse than he did. Because of that he feels obligated. So when ppl say he's a jerk or i should find somebody else i simply say i know him better than others. It's not perfect but nothing is.
TO THE TARDIS!! No wait, something's wrong.
TO THE TARDIS!! No wait, something's wrong.
TO THE TARDIS!! No wait, something's wrong.
This is gonna be a dud, seeing as the element of loyalty, considering the state of rainbowdash, doesn't even exist yet since her mind is much to young to even understand the value of loyalty...
This chapter annoys me a bit, since it highlights that Twilight never told Celestia about Rainbow's condition. Given how often they correspond via dragon fire-teleported letters, I find it very out of character that Twilight didn't immediately ask Celestia for aid, and even more so when she declined to inform her of the situation after Rainbow was released from the hospital.
Twilight really is a terrible parent.
I look forward to seeing her learn.
4467980 is right, it is extremely out of character for Twilight to not contact Celestia at all.
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4289581 oh no a time loop!
4289581 That awkward moment were you can't remember if the triple comment was intentional or not. :/
5086673 I was thinking about that
Wait... What?
6484983 that's exactly what I thought!