Vulnerable

by Nimbus92

Am I your best friend or are you my best friend?

The two ponies positioned themselves on the edge of the cloud. Their coats were almost identical except the colt was a few shades lighter than his filly friend, but a bit brighter. The filly’s mane was absolutely colorful and amazing, where the colt’s mane and tail was a simple sparkling golden glow to it. The both took the time to look over the final product of their master piece of an obstacle course they had been slaying themselves over for the past week and a half. The tiny rainbow-colored mane filly was the first one to break the silence.

"Whew!" she let out, breathing heavily. She turned her head towards her colt friend "Sooo… if you want to back down from my challenge..." the filly started giving the colt a smug smile "You’re more than welcome to, if you’re too scared of losing."

The colt lifted his head in offense and glared deadly at her "Your challenge? I challenged you!" he snorted, lifting a pointed hoof to the fillies face.

The filly roughly pushed the colt’s firm hoof out of her sight "If the other colts in class couldn’t beat me, what chance do you think you have?" throwing a deadly hoof of her own into the colts face.

The colt knocked her hoof out of his view, just like she did with his "The only reason you won that race yesterday was because I wasn’t there." the colt confirmed. No matter how strongly his confidence sounded, he knew there was absolutely no way he could beat her if she performed the legendary Sonic Rainboom he had heard about.

"Now come on, Rainbow Dash." the colt positioned himself over the edge of the cloud again. "Are we gonna race or not? I need to get home before diner!" he licked his chops and arched his wings back. He was prepared for any of Rainbow Dash’s little tricks she might pull to get a head start. After several long seconds of silence, the colt lifted his head to see a blushing blue filly with her head lowered down and digging her hoof into the floor of the cloud below her.

Rainbow Dash lifted her head with a smile and red blushing cheeks "You called me Rainbow Dash.". She lowered her head again to hide her smile this time "No other pony has ever called me that...” she took a moment’s pause “…the other ponies, except for Fluttershy, call me Rainbow Crash….”
The colt wasn’t quite too familiar with Rainbow Dash acting so “nice”. Rainbow Dash had always seemed like the most awesome chaotically boyish filly he had ever met. Despite the fact he didn’t really talk too much to many of the other fillies in flight class anyways.

He gave a nervous smile “Well, I mean it’s nothing…I-I just uhh I just have a lot of respect for you is all.”

Rainbow Dash continued to blush “You must really…like me.” she smiled back at the nervous colt before her, moving and brushing up closely against him.

The colt brushed his mane nervously “Ahhh, well …you know…”

Rainbow Dash then donkey kicked him in the ribs and blasted right over him, leaving behind a small beam of rainbow ,taking him off his guard “Later, Nimbus!” she mocked, as she pulled her cheeks out horizontally and stuck her tongue at him.

After a few seconds of laying down in his shame, Nimbus picked himself up and snapped back into reality. Rainbow Dash had played and tricked him again to get a head start in the race. Of course, she could have beat him easily anyways. Rainbow Dash might have well just slapped with a frying pan. At least, she wouldn’t have given him false hope.

“Get back here, you disgusting mule carcass!” he insulted, chasing on after her. At first, Nimbus thought calling Rainbow Dash a rotting dead body would have caused her to turn back and punch him in the nose like she always did. If he timed it right, he could possibly dodge the punch and out a few feet between himself and her before she could turn back around He bolted towards her with a gold beam of light flying off of his mane and tail.

He had started off with fast enough acceleration to catch up neck to neck with Rainbow Dash before she could get very far. The colt turned his head and smiled at Rainbow Dash, in hopes that maybe playing friendly would rustle her feathers. Rainbow Dash groaned angrily as she caught sight of the colt winking and smiling at her. She tried to cut him off by taking a sharp turn at a cloud, but Nimbus caught sight of it and turned very early to avoid crashing into it. The two of them were successfully diving through every loop and turn they had made in their small course. They were even able to effectively glide side by side safely through a series of single cloud hoop simultaneously.

Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes at her colt friend as he continued to smile at her and had the spine to say “Try to keep up, Rainbow Dash.” Talking and flying wasn’t exactly an easy task to accomplished, nor was it advised. Having your mouth wide open during a flight without any sort of protection easily invited pest and bugs to soar towards the grand opening of the pony’s throat. It didn’t happen often, but a few pegasai would even choke on a bug and fall to their deaths.

The two reached the half-way point through the course and turned around to conclude the remainder of their race back at the starting cloud. Rainbow Dash snorted loudly out of frustration as she saw just how easily Nimbus was able to stay on her tail. She could see the starting cloud just up ahead from a naked eye view, the only guaranteed way for her to win this, and keep her reputation as the fastest pony in Equestria, was to perform the Sonic Rainboom! Rainbow Dash searched and found every amount of energy she had left in her fuel tank and pushed her body harder than she had ever expected and had intended to in this race (or any race for that matter). She could fell a cone of air surrounding her body. Breaking the sound barrier was a sure sign that she wasn’t far from performing her Sonic Rainboom, she was doing it! Tears began to drip from her eyes as more air forced and pierced into her eyelids.

Nimbus took notice of Rainbow Dash’s sudden increase in speed as she began to gradually pull ahead in front of him. He dived down, pushed, and pressed his body hard up against her side, knocking her off her concentration and disrupting her Sonic Rainboom. She started to lose her balance and began to swerve loosely, but she found her moment of opportunity as she quickly grabbed the colt by his mane and pile drove him into the starting cloud.

Rainbow Dash chuckled at her success “You’re a whole lot crazier than I thought, Nimbus.” she began dusting fluff of clouds off her light blue coat. She continued to speak “For two very good reasons. First, actually thinking I was interested in you, and second, believing you really had a chance to win against me!” She turned her flank towards the colt. "I'm way out of your league on and off the track!" she said turning her head back to him and sticking out her tongue.

Nimbus picked himself up and brushed off some cloud fluff from his mane as he rudely replied "That we can both agree on, I wouldn’t want to lower my standards that far anyway."

Offend and incredibly insulted on a very high personal level, Rainbow Dash pulled up a bit of fluff out of the cloud beneath her hooves and furiously threw it at Nimbus.

He easily dodged out of the way of the projectile. "HA-HA, you throw like a filly!” Nimbus dug his right hoof into the ground to grab a hoof full of fluff, but Rainbow Dash had already gathered another hoof full of the cloud twice the size than the last and in half the time Nimbus could get his fluff ball even started.

She arched her arm back winding up a ball of pain aimed right for his head. "Game over" she said with a smile as she released the ball from her hoof. The ball rolled from her hoof with the speed of a rocket leaving its launch pad.

The amount of force from the throw was completely anaerectic and was more than enough to knock Nimbus off the edge of the cloud and quickly send him descending down to the earth. Rainbow Dash gasped and darted towards the end of the cloud with velocity of a bullet and yelled "Nimbus!" She spread out her wings hovered over the edge, trying desperately to search for her friend but he was nowhere to be found. He was gone. There was no sight of him to be seen.

Then Rainbow Dash remembered thinking to herself with embarrassment "Wait a minute....Nimbus is a pegasus..."
She couldn’t help but close her eyes and face hoof herself at her own stupidity. Behind Rainbow Dash, she could hear the muffled laughs and the flapping wings of Nimbus.

Nimbus couldn’t hold in his breath any longer and let out a loud burst of laughter, falling on his side. Barely able to breathe, Nimbus sarcastically asked "How does a pegasus even fall off a cloud anyway?"

Behind the both of them, and giving them a slight jump, a small quiet squeak replied "It’s a lot easier and a lot scarier than you would think." Rainbow Dash raised and twisted her head around. Nimbus ceased his laughing and turned over onto his other side to face a small delicate yellow filly "I-I’m sorry I uhh ...I hope I wasn’t interrupting anything, but umm Dash you said you would help me feed the butterflies today after class." she reminded, hiding herself behind her pink mane "I mean, but if you’re busy I’d completely understand." Fluttershy spoke softly, almost a whisper at the last few words.

Rainbow Dash floated and landed gently in between Nimbus and Fluttershy "Oh yeah, completely forgot I promised that." Rainbow Dash mentioned ,making a pair of crazy rolling eyes and motioning her hoof in small circles by her head at Nimbus, referring to Fluttershy.

Rainbow then faced Fluttershy "Go on ahead, Shy. I’ll be right there, I just got to finish up with Nimbus here." Rainbow Dash then made a silent cutting sound as she brought her hoof across her neck and hung her tongue out the side of her mouth, making a mocking reaction towards Nimbus.

"Okay Rainbow Dash, you know where!" Fluttershy giggled as she flew on downwards to the earth.
Nimbus gave Rainbow Dash a disapproving look when she turned back around to face him. Rainbow Dash had no idea why he seemed so ticked "The matter with you?" she asked Nimbus, with the urge to smack the expression off his face
"I saw that" he admitted in a nasty tone. Rainbow Dash laughed at his aggravation. "So" Nimbus continued as he hovered above the cloud with his hooves crossed "What about our race?"

Rainbow Dash wiped some tears from her eyes but continued to laugh a bit "Tomorrow, rematch, I promise!" Nimbus raised an eye brow at her. "Hey!" Rainbow Dash said now getting to eye level with Nimbus “Consider yourself honored. I never give anypony a rematch, and I mean ANYPONY.”

“Forgive me if I’m sound ungrateful.” Nimbus snorted

Rainbow Dash gave a slight shrug and sighed “We need our rest anyways, from all this hard work we put into this past week, we deserve it." She began to fly off downwards towards Fluttershy "I’d love to send your blank flank crashing into a mountain next time."

Nimbus slowly uncrossed his hooves with a frown steadily forming on his face. Rainbow Dash saw how upset he looked. She thought maybe Nimbus was think that she was going to ditch him tomorrow, kind of like she was right now.

She flew back towards him "Tomorrow for sure I promise." Rainbow Dash gently patted him on the head, like he were a pet dog who just learned how to go outside by himself to “do his business” in the grass.

Nimbus just turned away from her. "It’s not that, Rainbow Dash .....It’s..." He was giving off the impression like someone had just took his toys and stomped all over them in a sand box.

Rainbow Dash lowered her head towards him "What’s wrong?"

Nimbus turned his shoulder back towards her "When you said 'blank flank'..." Nimbus and Rainbow Dash simultaneously looked at Nimbus’s bare flank.

"Whoa I didn’t mean it like that!" Rainbow said, backing up a bit with guilt. She held her hooves up to her chest like she were a hostage being held at gun point.

"I know you didn’t." Nimbus said half lying "It’s just I’m the only one in flight school without a cutie mark now. You and Fluttershy both got yours just a few weeks ago.”

Rainbow Dash placed a strong hoof back onto Nimbus shoulder and tried to be as encouraging as she could "Oh come on, Nimbus, Buck up! That just means you have potential to be something awesome." she smiled back

"No" Nimbus chuckled, feeling a bit prouder about himself. He jabbed a hoof into Rainbow Dashs chest "That’s you, you’re awesome!"

She smiled proudly at the comment, refusing to show any modesty “Oh come on now, you could be something cool, I mean not as cool as me though, but maybe something like….” Rainbow Dash thought to herself with her hoof underneath her chin “Oh, a pony with super powers! Where you fight crime and save damsels in distress from horrible monsters.” She finished her speech with hard jabs to air, pretending she were Nimbus fighting off a horde of dragons with only his hooves.

Nimbus half-heartedly laughed “Fine, I’ll remember that the next time you are in trouble.”

Rainbow Dash opened her mouth to make a smart remark again, but then remembered and blurted out the name "Fluttershy!"
Nimbus had completely forgotten about her as well. "She’s probably waiting for you, go, but hey don’t forget tomorrow!" He snapped at her.

Rainbow Dash again set off towards Fluttershy "I know!" she laughed “But right now, I got to feed these starving butterflies!"

A colorful beautiful rainbow that exactly matched her amazing mane was all that was emitted and left of her as Nimbus sat back down onto the cloud, letting out a sigh of happiness. He considered himself incredibly lucky to have a friend such as Rainbow Dash. Nimbus then put a hoof to his chin as he asked himself "How do you feed butterflies?" Nimbus then dived off the cloud and released his wings moments right before he was a few feet from hitting the ground below. "Rainbow Dash, wait! How do you feed butterflies? I want to see this! Do they even have a mouth?! How do they eat anyways? Rainbow Dash!"

***

The next morning Nimbus took his usual spot in class, sitting next to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash lowered and sent her hoof towards Nimbus holding a note in it. Nimbus curiously and discreetly took and opened the note slowly, careful not to let the flight coach see him. The note read 'I forgot about the test today.' with a frowny face also drawn in the right corner. Nimbus dropped the note and initiated the action of repeatedly hitting his head across the top of his desk. He and Rainbow Dash had been so focused on the obstacle course they been making for the past week that they both completely forgot to set up a date to study. Nimbus looked nervously at Rainbow Dash. It wasn’t for his own sake that he was worried about. He always could remember everything that was taught in the classroom and figure things out on his own fairly easy. Rainbow Dash on the other hoof had a really good habit of falling asleep during class. Now that Nimbus thought about it, Rainbow Dash actually had a really narcoleptic behavior to fall asleep just about anywhere (even in trees) if she wasn’t doing anything physically active or spending time with friends.

"If I fail this test they might have to start thinking about dropping me out of flight school." she whined quietly, keeping an eye on the flight coach as he paced back and forth to both ends of the classroom teaching today’s lesson that was completely unrelated to today’s test.

Nimbi let out a huge breath of air “And drop one of their best and fastest flyers? No way!" he said in a cheery tone, hoping to motivate Rainbow Dash not to give up on herself, just like she had with him yesterday.

Rainbow Dash lifted her head a little higher and quite quickly without getting a blood rush to her head "ONE of the fastest?” She said flipping her mane "Please! I AM the fastest in this school!" she finished raising her hoof in air like she was about to receive a trophy. Nimbus was happy to see she wasn’t showing any signs of Floccinaucinihilipilification, but not at all surprised by the fact that she was still flashing her confidence on display for the whole class to see. He couldn’t hold back a smile.

The test wasn’t as hard as Rainbow Dash had expected. She passed but barely by an inch. If Nimbus hadn’t been so considerate to allow her to look at his paper, she probably wouldn’t have made such a high score. As they both began to fly on their way to their hoof made obstacle course, Rainbow Dash mentioned to Nimbus there was a spot in the Everfree Forest, which she had been told about by another mare in the class, was a sight to see.

“If you’re just looking for a reason to back out of our rematch…” Nimbus started, but was rudely interrupted and cut off after Rainbow Dash pushed a strong hoof into his mouth.

“I swear to Celestia, if you’re about to call me a coward or a chicken I’m going punch your teeth into your skull!” Rainbow threatened.
With the hoof still in his mouth, Nimbus responded with his voice muffled and distorted behind Rainbow’s hoof “Show…thish spawt…ish purty cue, huh?”
Rainbow Dash smiled brightly and removed her hoof from Nimbus mouth, flinging the saliva off of it. “The word ‘Cool’ can’t even begin to describe the caliber of awesomeness this place has, or so I’m told.”
“So, have you been there before, or not?”

“Not at all, that’s why you’re going with me!” Rainbow Dash mentioned cheerily.

“For the protection in case something happens, or because you can’t help but to admit you actually enjoy my company?” Nimbus asked, smiling widely and talking with a strong sense of optimism enough to make a professional circus performing clown look like a background actor in a play.

Rainbow Dash smacked Nimbus in the back of his head. The emotional pain of Rainbow Dash hitting Nimbus every ten minutes hurt Nimbus more than it did physically. “Don’t flatter yourself!” She said, as she flew away from Nimbus and towards the direction of the Everfree Forest, “Now keep up! My mom thinks you and I are at the ice cream shop.”

“AH-HA, so you HAVE told your parents about me?!” Nimbus pressed his cheeks together forcing himself to make a larger-than-life smile. “You must really like me!” he squeaked with a silly high pitched tone. Nimbus loved taking every opportunity to act silly around Rainbow Dash.

At first, Rainbow Dash would openly laugh at his random colorful humor, but recently Rainbow Dash would avoid laughing to just fulfill Nimbus’s satisfaction. She knew that Nimbus liked it when she laughed at his jokes. The only times she would allow herself to laugh at his jokes was when nopony else would. “Just shut up and follow me.” she said dryly.

Nimbus released his cheeks and talked back in his normal tone “Ok, fine, but if we get chased down by a Chimaera or something I’m blaming you!”

“There are no Chimaeras in the Everfree Forest!” Rainbow teased, hoping and praying to Celestia she was right.

Nimbus flew up next to her and directly followed right beside her as she began to lead the way, “Maybe not, but I was told by Hoops that somepony saw a Zebra in there.”

Rainbow Dash stared at Nimbus with the iris of her eyes almost turning into question marks “The buck is a Zebra?”

Nimbus and Rainbow Dash argued for the next half hour about the existence of Zebras and if one really could be living in the Everfree forest. They both lowered to the ground of the Everfree Forest, once they gotten to the exact location Rainbow Dash had been told about. Nimbus shivered a bit at how dark grey and gloomy everything around them looked. Misshaped trees were scattered everywhere, many of which reminded Nimbus of monsters and old creepy mares who wanted to invite you in for a cup of tea. The horror of it all was almost agitating. Rainbow Dash moved incredibly close to him, brushing her coat up against his. Nimbus could fell the warmth of her coat up against his own, as well as the fast beating heart accelerating greatly.

“Are you as scared as I am right now?” she whispered.

“More than I would like to.” Nimbus replied behind shivering teeth.

Rainbow Dash squealed excitedly “I know isn’t this awesome! We are both scared out of our minds and are going on a wild goose chase to find some place we have no idea about!”

Nimbus looked at Rainbow Dash with terror scarred into his eyes “Who are you?!”

Rainbow Dash chuckled, trying to calm herself and Nimbus down “We are going on an adventure, come on lighten up!” she said flying into the dark trees.

Nimbus’s ears picked up suddenly at the sound of the word “adventure”. If there was anything that could pull Nimbus out of the abyss of clawing fear, it was the thrill of adventure. He bolted after Rainbow Dash, with his his hooves barely touching the ground “Just like Daring Do!”

“…Who?”

“Oh yeah I forgot you can’t read…”

Rainbow Dash stopped running dead in her path and slammed her nose into Nimbus’s own face “Hey, it’s not that I can’t read. I just refuse to!”

Nimbus backed away from her and shrugged innocently “Could have fooled me." A blood chilling merciful cry broke in between their conversation sending cold shivers down their manes to the back of their necks.

“What was that noise?” Rainbow Dash asked nervously behind shattering teeth.

“I don’t know….but can you let go of my neck, please?” Nimbus asked politely, but barely with an obligating plea. Secretly, Nimbus was kind of liked the intimacy of his and Rainbow Dash’s faces touching but the timing and location was all too wrong.

Rainbow Dash looked up and met eye to eye with Nimbus. Nimbus asked once more, slowly this time “Can. You. Let. Go. Of. My. Neck. Please? This fells a bit too….mushy.” Then again, mushy didn’t sound so bad, all present things considered.

Rainbow Dash made a high pitched “Eww!” sound right before releasing Nimbus neck. “I would never want anything like that!”
“Trust me, you’re not all that desiring either.” He then walked past Rainbow Dash and continued towards the location of the cry, hoping Rainbow Dash wouldn’t call him on his bluff. Rainbow Dash’s mouth hung open, shocked at what she just been told.

When she caught back up quietly beside him, Nimbus motioned his hoof up and down, signaling her to get low to the ground and remain as obscure as possible in the tall grass. Rainbow Dash did as she was requested and crouched down in the tall grass. Watching her lower herself behind the tall grass, Nimbus recognized just how hard it would be to hide such a colorful mane such as hers, with all its vibrant colors. He looked back over the bush that hid him from the dark silhouette he couldn’t quite make out.
Judging from his perception, Nimbus figured the silhouette wasn’t anything pony, or anything even close. It looked humanoid, like a Minotaur with a much smaller frame and small short claws instead of hands. The strange figure also seemed to have a slight hump to its back, he wasn’t too sure if that was natural to the creature or just some sort of growth defect. Either way, what this “monstrosity” was it defiantly didn’t seem very friendly. Then again, when was anything ever friendly in the Everfree Forest?

“What is it?” Rainbow Dash whispered unexpectedly, giving Nimbus a small startle and panic attack.

He gradually turned his head, with his mane lobbing in the air, and hushed her stridently. The dark silhouette picked up its head and looked over in their direction with huge green glowing eyes. The two ponies immediately ducked for cover behind the bush, barely allowing the creature a chance to catch a glimpse of them. The creature shook its head slightly and dug its face back downwards to the green earth. Nimbus held Rainbow Dash down with a hoof on her mane, to keep her calm and eased. He could fell her bones shivering underneath his hoof “Don’t be scared, I don’t think it saw us.” Nimbus reassured calmly.

“I’m not scared.” Rainbow Dash pushed Nimbus’s bolstering hoof from her head. “It’s just cold in this forest!” Rainbow Dash lied quietly. Of course Rainbow was not a pony who was normally known to be scared of anything, but this was also not your normal forest either. This was the Everfree Forest! Nopony exactly knew what was in there or what would happen once you went inside. Rainbow looked back up at Nimbus “Is it safe to look back up yet?”

“Let me check first.” Nimbus commanded. He lifted his head above the bush once again, slowly. The creature seemed to be devouring something, something small and domestic. Nimbus leaned in a bit closer. “Well it’s a biped that’s for sure” he informed quietly.

“It's a what now?”

“A biped, that means it walks on two legs, and this one looks like it has claws.”

Rainbow Dash picked her head up excitedly “Claws?! Let me see!” She stared hard at the dark shadowed creature, trying her best to conjecture what it was. Then her eyes widened with dismay, once she saw what exactly the creature was feasting on. She sent herself back behind the bush, shivering and vomiting as quietly as she could try.

Nimbus sent himself back down as well, to check on his filly friend. He figured he probably should have warned her first that the creature was eating something. He rubbed her back and asked her “What’s wrong?” It was a rhetorical question, but Nimbus reckoned that was probably a good idea to ask her anyways.

Tears dripped from Rainbow’s reddened eyes “It’s a goblin!” She put a hoof to her mouth to hold in the projectile wanting to leave from out her stomach. She swallowed the vile spew back down her throat to speak “It’s a goblin, and it was eating another filly.” She couldn’t clinch her stomach any more than she already had. Rainbow Dash let out another hurl of this afternoon’s school lunch.
Nimbus continued to rub her back as he inconspicuously looked over his shoulder towards the silhouette again. It was gone, but he could see the remains of it meal. It was defiantly small enough and properly shaped to be a pony. From what Nimbus could see of its carcass, it looked like it was an earth pony. More than likely not anypony they would have known personally, but still the sight of seeing a little pony no bigger or older than they were was still not a pleasant image to be shared. Nimbus turned his full attention back to Rainbow Dash.

“It’s gone! I say we ditch this place of yours and head back home before-” Nimbus was quickly launched away from Rainbow Dash by a strong forearm. The forearm was attached to a goblin with the same of large green glowing eyes from before.

Rainbow Dash quickly wiped the drool from her lip and strained her best to flutter out of reach from the goblin. She was successful in escaping from the goblins grasp, but her triumph was cut short as she was tackled by yet another goblin. The tackling goblin wrapped its arms tightly around her body, clinching her wings tightly to her back in a gorilla-griped takedown. She cried for help as she went crashing down into the ground harder than she could bear. Nimbus lifted himself back up to catch the sight of Rainbow Dash being pinned by two goblins. In an absolute blur, Nimbus felt himself being hurled towards one of the goblins holding her down, placing his right shoulder into the goblin’s side, and shattering its ribcage. The ribcage shattered like an egg between a mallet and a counter top. The goblin screeched in anguish, releasing its grip on Rainbow Dash as it seized onto its ribs, rolling on the deck and screaming in pain. Rainbow Dash immediately turned over and drifted herself above the ground. When she got a safe distance from the dispute, rainbow Dash looked dreadfully at Nimbus.

“Fly, Fly out of the way. I’ll be right behind you!” Nimbus ordered vociferously, hoping Rainbow Dash would be alacritous to actually do what he instructed.

Rainbow hesitated at the idea of leaving her friend behind before she flew quickly out of sight. Nimbus turned his back around to the other still standing goblin and looked at him with challenging eyes. The goblin charged at Nimbus, its claws were pulled behind its shoulders. Ready and aimed to swipe Nimbus’s head clean off. Again in another blur, Nimbus felt himself easily countering the swipe by lifting himself above the ground and pulverizing the goblin’s head into the rotted grassy terrain. He had no idea where this flash of speed was coming from, but he was definitely enjoying, and the timing this new found speed was giving him could not have been more perfect.

Nimbus attempted to take flight towards Rainbow Dash, but he didn’t consider the other goblin from before to get back into the game. The goblin caught hold of Nimbus’s lower right leg and brought him back down to the fight. Nimbus turned over on his back and brought his lower legs to his chest. When the goblin had gotten close enough, Nimbus placed both strong hooves into the goblin’s face. It cried and swiped blindly at Nimbus, effectively making contact with his lower left leg. The strike from the goblin left a small deep laceration on Nimbus but it wasn’t nothing he couldn’t shake or shrug off. Nimbus pushed himself through the discomfort in his leg and struggled as he took voyage up to Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash looked at Nimbus’s freshly blooded wound worriedly, when he finally reached her. She reached to place a soothing hoof on his leg, but Nimbus pushed her aiding hooves away. “It’s fine. I’ll be fine.” Nimbus reassured her, before she could say anything to object. He clinched tightly at the open wound. “Let’s just get back in Ponyville.” He pleaded.

Rainbow Dash nodded her head in agreement. She took one more look at his leg. A small spark had appeared right above it and flashed brightly the next second. “Nimbus, look!” She pointed her hoof sharply at his flank. Nimbus turned his head over his shoulder and saw the most satisfying gift he could have ever asked for, his cutie mark! A small tear of joy ran from eye as he looked at his flank that displayed an orange cloud circling a silver shield centered with a blood red heart right in the middle of it. If sweet victory could be described with an image, it would be drawn with the smile Nimbus wore on his face at that very moment.

***

"There were two of them and you took them both out all by yourself?" Fluttershy squealed in disbelief, still only barely loud enough for the table behind to hear her. "Oh my goodness you weren’t .....I mean ...." her hooves became shook as she took a quick drink of her milkshake trying to calm herself as much as possible. "They didn’t actually try to hurt you did they, Rainbow Dash"?

Rainbow Dash lifted herself out of her chair revealing the bruises on the left side of her body, from where she had been tackled "No of course not, Fluttershy. Goblins are incredibly nice and cuddly creatures." she said with a bit of poison in her voice.

"Hey clam down, Rainbow Dash. She’s only concerned. Sit your fat flank down and finish your shake." Nimbus said drinking a milk shake of his own, and pushing her shake closer towards her. Rainbow Dash twisted swiftly and dropped back down to her chair, angrily coming eye to eye with Nimbus.

"And you!” Rainbow Dash started, pointing a solid hoof in Nimbus’s face. Nimbus kept his lips clasped around the straw of his beverage but ceased his drinking, silencing the sucking noise emitting from his half empty cup.

Fluttershy noticed the tension Rainbow Dash had towards Nimbus at the moment and proceeded to silently drink from her own milkshake, making a quiet slurping sound out of her own cup. She pretended to act like she wasn’t even there, which for her wasn’t all that hard to accomplish or even put any effort into.

Rainbow Dash continued her tantrum "You could barely keep up with me in a race, but you moved faster than the speed of light when those gremlins attacked me. I didn’t even see you move and all of a sudden you crashed into that monster without any recoil. Explain yourself!”

Nimbus wore a confused look in his eyes at this, lifting an eyebrow up and arching his head back a bit. "First off, those were goblins not gremlins. Second…" Nimbus peered around the café a bit before finishing his sentence “Hearing you give me a little “Thank you” in public would be kind of nice.”

Rainbow Dash grabbed Nimbus by the collar of his light blue coat, lifting him off his chair as she hovered above her seat once again. "You’re avoiding the question. Where did you even learn to do that?” Nimbus would have explained himself to his angry, yelling, and beautiful friend, but he couldn’t find any sort of answer with a logical explanation.

“I don’t know!” Nimbus blurted out “It just sort of…happened!” He knew that he sounded silly, but it was the only response he could think of saying.

“There’s really no need for you two to be so loud...all the time...or in public at least.” Fluttershy whispered too quietly for either one of the two to have heard her. “Or you could ignore me…kind of like you two always do whenever you guys argue or fight.”

Nimbus gave Rainbow Dash a slight chuckle "Why do you even care how fast I moved? You scared I might at your spot at number one?"

Rainbow Dash let go off him to drop him on the floor, but she failed to remember Nimbus could actually hover midair before hitting the ground. "It’s not that!" She said crossing her hooves defensively and refusing to look at him "I just want to make sure you’re not holding back on me."

Nimbus recognized the tone of her voice. She was back to normal (or at least normal for her). Nimbus shrugged and remarked “Trust me, Rainbow Dash, if I had some sort of...” Nimbus held up his hooves and stared into them like he was holding a ball of ancient magic. “Some sort of weird freaky deeky super power that allowed me to gain a burst of speed to move faster than the eye could keep track, making it appear I teleported from point A to point B.” Nimbus lowered his hooves back down and gave Rainbow Dash a friendly smile “You’d be the first one to know.”

Rainbow Dash ignored Nimbus’s sincerity and his smile. She lowered her head and took a glance at Nimbus’s cutie mark, nearly forgetting the small laceration on his leg. It was now covered over with a small piece of yellow cloth tied together to stop the bleeding and risk of infection. She lifted her head towards Fluttershy “Thanks for treating his wound so kindly, Fluttershy.” Rainbow Dash praised gracefully.

“Yeah, I never really got the chance to thank you properly!” Nimbus added, to show his appreciation.

Fluttershy sighed “It’s kind of hard to have not to, when you two were pounding on my door like my house was on fire, and scaring my parents half to death.”

Nimbus stroked the back of his mane embarrassingly “That’s was me! My bad, Butterpie” Nimbus apologized sincerely.
“It’s Fluttter-…” Fluttershy was cut off from the loud and rude slurping from Rainbow Dash’s side of the table.

Rainbow Dash took a final last slurp of her milkshake before she asked Nimbus “Speaking of parents, don’t you think your parents would be pretty concerned to know how you got hurt, once they see that?” She used her hoof to make an imaginary circle around Nimbus’s leg.

Nimbus rubbed his hooves together awkwardly looking down at the top of the table “I’m actually a bit of an orphan” he mentioned.
Rainbow Dash’s ears lowered against the side of head significantly “Oh, I didn’t mean to-” From what Rainbow Dash had been told from other orphans in Cloudsdale, Equestria was not known to have a very orphanotrophic atmosphere. There weren’t too many standing orphanages around and those that did exist weren’t exactly all that supportive. It was actually quite common for orphans to be unofficially adopted into a family. Otherwise, the child was left to fend for themselves. It was harsh and the majority of Equestria wanted to help these poor unfortunate ponies, but it was hard trying find a system that was completely solid. It was a luxury Equestria had to afford to lose. Ponies who wanted to take matters into their own hooves and support these orphans were strongly influenced to do so, but expecting help from the government of Equestria was an unfortunate virtue.

Nimbus could see how guilt-ridden she felt for having putting the topic out on the table. It bothered Nimbus none- what- so-ever but he could see that the felling between him and Rainbow Dash was not mutual. He quickly tried to think of a various ways to cheer her back up. After a few quick seconds of thinking, Nimbus chuckled to himself as he thought of a clever joke “Well the plus side to having no parents is whenever I fail a test nopony has to sign it.”

Rainbow Dash embraced the humorous tendency and chuckled at the comment. Her ears picked right back up as she laughed at his supportive optimism.

She punched him in the shoulder “Every time you fail, I fail!”

Nimbus countered her punch with a punch to her shoulder of his own “Stop cheating off of me then!”

“Stop leaving your answers s wide out in the open!”

The two went back at each other like this for several minutes with every quick comment and witty insult they could think of.
After several more hours of joking and punches to the shoulder, Fluttershy decided it was time to fly home. She fled the building holding both of her shoulders after Rainbow Dash and Nimbus both shared turns punching her just as equally as each other, not holding back any power behind their strikes.

Watching Fluttershy going home, Nimbus suggested it was probably a good idea to head on his way home as well. Rainbow Dash and Nimbus flew together on the way to Rainbow Dash’s house. As they flew side by side, Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but to mention to Nimbus how sorry she felt for not knowing he was an orphan earlier.
“It’s no problem really. Don’t beat yourself up about it.”

“I’m not beating myself up!” Rainbow Dash snapped, making Nimbus flinch back. Rainbow Dash lowered her head a bit sadly and spoke a bit slower “…I’m just a little upset I didn’t know before.”

Nimbus shrugged “You’ve only known me for a good two or three months so it’s completely understandable.”

Rainbow Dash frowned “I know but look at how close of friends we have become the in that short amount of time we known each other. We have hung out every day since we meet. I feel like I’ve known you longer than any other pony I know.” They arrived at her house shortly and stood outside her door. “Well this is my place”" she smiled lightly “Home sweet home.”

Nimbus and Rainbow Dash both landed right in front of the house’s door. Rainbow Dash turned to Nimbus, scratching her mane uncomfortably “The way you saved me from those goblins today….” Nimbus couldn’t help but smile pompously. Rainbow Dash ignored his arrogance and continued “It was …uhh it was pretty cool.” She finished with a nod, looking at him nervously.

“Is that your way of a ‘thank you’?” Nimbus asked raising his eyebrow.

“Yeah sure I guess it can be.” Rainbow Dash said,shrugging and looking up at the stars like there was something so interesting going on up there that she just cloud not look at Nimbus.

“You really suck at this, you know?” Nimbus said in a sour tone. Nimbus was now kind of wishing she hadn’t said anything at all.

“FINE!” Rainbow Dash growled. She kept her head back towards the door of her house to avoid eye contact “thank you…”

Nimbus smiled a bit “What was that?”

“Thank you…”

“Didn’t quite hear th-”

Annoyed by his childish game, Rainbow Dash grabbed Nimbus by his blue coat and roared “I SAID THANK YOU!” she calmly threw him back on the cloud made doorstep of her house, throwing some cloud fluff to hang in the air as he landed. Rainbow Dash giggled to herself as she said quietly “Punishment from above”

“What?”

Rainbow Dash repeated herself “The way you took out those goblins! You were like ‘punishment from above’!” Rainbow Dash added sound effects as she threw punches to the air in between her and Nimbus. “That should be like a catch phrase for you if you ever decide to become a super hero or a wrestling superstar!”

“Sure I’ll do that right after I get my cape.” Nimbus added entertainingly. Rainbow Dash had really lost it now, Nimbus thought to himself. He continued to watch her as she kept throwing punches and kicks at the air, looking like she was fighting an elusive ninja. He began to believe that Rainbow Dash often shadow boxed on a regular basis when she had the time to herself.

Rainbow Dash put a small hoof to her chin “Good point, you’re too slow to be a super hero.” Nimbus huffed and swung a right hoof at Rainbow Dash but she easily dodged out the way of it. “See?” Rainbow Dash pointed out. Nimbus let out an aggravated grunt.
“The time you become a super hero is the time I wear a dress.” Rainbow Dash laughed.

“You know if you wore a dress you would look quite…” Nimbus paused for a quick dramatic second. Rainbow Dash looked at him oddly. “I’m adding a pause for dramatic effect” Nimbus said with a smile. Rainbow Dash frowned, not at all amused with the colt’s little game. Nimbus continued “…you would look quite dashing!”

Rainbow Dash mimicked a sarcastically excited voice “Oh you’re so original!” She then melodramatically batted her eyelashes at him the same way a damsel would admire her knight in shining armor.

Nimbus ignored her and whistled loudly at the sight of her house, after finally seizing the chance to take a good look at it. He looked back over at Rainbow Dash, telling her good bye and a good night before turning away. Rainbow Dash leaned out a small soft hoof towards him before he could take off, crossing her hoof with his. “You want to meet my parents?” She asked quickly. Nimbus looked at her nervously. “Don’t worry I’m sure they will like you once they hear that you saved me from a pair of goblins”, Rainbow Dash assured. Nimbus smiled confidently as Rainbow Dash led him inside through the front door of her house and the new chapter of his life.

***

“Rainbow Dash, please tell me why we are spending the day in Ponyville?” Nimbus complained, dragging his hooves across the dirt road to Ponyville, skating on the dirt. “And why aren’t we flying? We could get there a lot faster if we flew.” Nimbus stretched and flapped his wings out to show Rainbow Dash he was capable of flying, even with an injured wing. Nimbus had gotten the injured wing from racing Rainbow Dash on the old obstacle course again. He had a good lead throughout the majority of the race but his flight pattern was absolutely reckless. He had grown careless and was too busy glorying himself in an inverted flying position to have noticed the flag pole in his path. Nimbus was lucky that the accident didn’t ground him completely, but he was however completely incapable of even TRYING to fly top speed for the next few weeks.

Rainbow Dash ignored Nimbus’s complaints entirely and instead focused on the town before them “Would you have rather stayed in class?” Rainbow Dash and Nimbus commonly skipped flight class at least once a week or whenever the day was just too “dull” for them. Rainbow Dash brushed the little blue colts’ wing away from her. “We should be meeting up with Gilda within ten minutes after we arrive to the middle of town.”

Nimbus stuck his tongue out and gagged in disgust as he hung his head at the mention of the Griffin’s name.
“You don’t like Gilda?” Rainbow asked curiously, already knowing the answer.

“It’s not that I don’t like her.” Nimbus confessed “It’s the fact that she always thinks I’m trying to steal you away from her.”

“Oh come on now! She doesn’t think that at all! Gilda actually thinks you’re one pretty cool colt and she doesn’t say that about everypony either!” Rainbow Dash informed.

Nimbus grunted in defeat, too well knowing there was no chance in convincing Rainbow Dash that Gilda actually disliked his very presence or existence. “I was her best friend until you came around, feather ball!” Nimbus said, impersonating Gilda’s voice poorly.

“Just TRY to be nice, okay?”

“I’ll TRY.” Nimbus lied “Right after I hit her over the head with an apple cart.” Nimbus admitted to himself silently.

Nimbus and Rainbow Dash arrived into Ponyville successfully without any trouble of being stopped by any authorities wondering why they were not in school. Nimbus spun on his stool bored to death as he and Rainbow Dash waited for Gilda’s arrival. Rainbow Dash was also beginning to grow impatient with Gilda, as she proceeded to pick at the dirt in her hooves.

“AHHH!” Rainbow Dash growled impatiently and slamming her hoof on the table, catching Nimbus off guard and causing him to jump up from his seat into the air. “She said she was going to be here 11 and it’s almost 11:20!” Rainbow Dash turned her head towards the watch tower that sat at the edge of Ponyville.

“Well, we could just ditch the bird and do our own thing.” Nimbus suggested as politely as he possibly could. He thought that after four years of knowing Rainbow Dash, Gilda would like him or even pretend.

Rainbow Dash shrugged slightly, knowing if they were to expect to have any fun today Gilda would just have to miss out. “Fine, what should we though? We’ve spent half the morning waiting on Gilda.”

Nimbus scratched his chin roughly as he searched his mind for suggestions, but his concentration was taken away after the rumble of his belly. He patted his stomach gently “I could go for some hay fries and right now.”

Rainbow Dash sighed “We have a whole day to ourselves and you want to share some hay fries?”

“Who said I was going to share? Besides we always have the day to ourselves after school and every weekend.”

Rainbow Dash grunted at Nimbus “You know how much I love hay fires.” Rainbow Dash crossed her arms and turned away from her colt friend.

“You’re out of bits again, aren’t you?”

“Of course not, I just know how easy it is for me to get you to pay for things for me.” Rainbow Dash confessed with a smile towards Nimbus and patting him on the head as she breezed past him.

They arrived at the café within minutes of flying, getting around Ponyville as Pegasus pony was quite fast and efficient. You didn’t really have to deal with all the traffic nonsense like most of the other ponies did back down on the ground, not to mention all the vendors. Of course there were Pegasus vendors who roamed around the skies of Ponyville, but running into one didn’t happen very commonly. Nimbus just about jumped right into his seat until he decided to disregard and pull out Rainbow Dash’s seat for her. She couldn’t help but to raise an eyebrow at the uncommon gesture. Nimbus did often do nice things for Rainbow Dash but he had always did things like pay for a meal, take her places she wanted to go, save her life etc. the usual sort of thing. Today though, pulling her chair out for her before she sat down was sending her mixed messages. Was Nimbus doing this out of generosity? Was he doing it just to be nice and he was having a good day today? Was he doing it as a sign of affection? Or had he placed a small tack on the chair that she just hadn’t noticed yet?

After seeing she had been standing there looking at the chair for the past minute, Nimbus finally decided to speak “You going to take your seat?”

“What are you up to?”

“Nothing!” Nimbus admitted innocently, a bit heartbroken that Rainbow assumed his intentions were up to no good. Rainbow Dash carefully took her seat softly and slowly. She was even more surprised than before when Nimbus pushed her chair in closer to the table for her. Nimbus took his seat across the table from her, trying to figure out why she was acting so weird. Was she planning something? Is she just trying to make this an awkward diner? Is she really confused as to why he decided to pull her chair out? Or was she was just playing naïve with him? Whatever it was, Nimbus didn’t like it one bit. Speaking of bits, the restaurant of Nimbus’s choice did have quite of a “fancy smancy” atmosphere to it. There were at least two water fountains in the middle of the dining area, a very talented and well-dressed band on stage, and the price of the menu was quite expensive. Hell, the side soup was ten freaking bits, once Nimbus took a closer look at the prices. Did the soup come to life and play music? What made it so special to be tagged with that kind of price? “That better be one hell of a soup.” Nimbus thought to himself outloudly.

“So why here?” Rainbow Dash asked, looking at the display of two forks, three spoons and two different types of knives that were laid out in front of her.

“I didn’t feel like flying any farther, plus I’ve never been here before.”

“So you’re not planning anything “mushy” are you?”

Nimbus slammed his hooves on top of the table, rattling all the silver ware and shaking the ice inside the two empty crystal glasses. “What do you think I’m up too?”

“As soon as we got here you’ve been acting all weird! First you pulled my chair out for me.” Rainbow Dash reminded.

“I was just being nice!” Nimbus claimed, throwing his hooves in the air offensively “Is that so wrong?” Nimbus then played the image of him pulling out Rainbow Dash’s chair for her through her eyes, in his mind. Seeing it from another perspective, Nimbus could understand why Rainbow Dash would be getting mixed messages. He calmly took his seat back down and let a small breath of air to relax his thoughts. Keeping low eye contact, Nimbus explained himself “Look sorry if I sent the wrong message. I just kind of felt like doing something nice for a change….you know with all the crazy adventures and trouble we have been getting ourselves into lately?”

Rainbow Dash nodded understandingly. Agreed, Nimbus and Dash did share a great tale of many adventures, ones that were more times than always almost got them killed or worse. Just recently, Rainbow Dash and Nimbus took a trip to the badlands to “check it out”. Their curiosity was cut quickly though when they were chased back to Ponyville by a rather nasty teenage dragon. Even worse, they had to explain all to Ponyville why they attracted a dragon from the badlands in the first place.

Not too long before that, Rainbow Dash had flown into the Everfree forest by herself, to prove to a group of colts she had no fear. It wasn’t too long before she entered into the forest that she encountered a pack of Timber Wolves. If Nimbus hadn’t followed closely behind her, curious as to where she was going but remaining discreet, she probably wouldn’t have been able to escape unharmed.
With his eye contact still low, Nimbus gently kicked Rainbow Dash underneath the table “So…I…you’re not mad at me, are you?” Rainbow Dash had gotten so lost in her train of thought, she had become completely oblivious to the fact she was still having lunch with Nimbus.

“Yeah, of course!” Rainbow Dash kicked Nimbus back a bit harder than he had. “I mean ‘yeah of course’ as in like ‘yeah we’re cool’! Don’t worry about it, I was just being stupid.”

“You say that as if you’re not already.” Nimbus smiled with his ears picked up high. Rainbow Dash considered smacking Nimbus with one of the empty silver pewter plates in front of her, but she didn’t know exactly which one she needed for eating and which one was just there for decoration.

After placing her order from the ridiculously expensive menu, Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but wonder how Nimbus was able to pay for it, if he could.

“Nimbus…”

“Sup, Rainbow Dash?”

“How are you going to…?” Rainbow Dash looked over both her shoulders before asking her question “You know, pay?”

Nimbus crossed his fore legs “I got the bits and plenty more, don’t worry, I got it!”

“Where the hay in Equestria did you make so much money, are you selling Nightmare Moon Shine or something?” Rainbow Dash’s question echoed all across the restaurant, turning all eyes to their table. She blushed embarrassingly with her ears turning red. She tried to hide herself behind her chair from all the attention.

Nimbus slapped his hoof on his face “No, I got a small job as a courier”

Rainbow’s ears perked back up “Where did you get time to do that?” Rainbow Dash rubbed her hooves together excitedly “and just out of complete curiosity, how much money?”

Nimbus growled silently and strongly stated “I got enough.” Just on beat after Nimbus finished talking, their dinner was loudly interrupted by a screaming unicorn.

Rainbow Dash turned her head towards the entrance doors as the unicorn busted through the restaurant loudly “SOMEPONY HELP! MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE AND MY TWO FOALS ARE STILL IN THERE!”

Rainbow Dash eyes widened worriedly “Oh no! I wonder if there is some way we can….” She turned her view back across the table to find Nimbus missing gone from sight.

Nimbus had torn open the window and speed up to the open air of the Ponyville sky to spot the burning building. Scanning Ponyville for a burning building only took a few seconds as he followed the trail of smoke. Nimbus pen dropped out of the sky like a dive bomb towards the house, as he performed the signature opening of his wings back up only a few feet above the ground that he was known locally for. He looked at every window or door for a safe opening into the building, but this was just wasting time as the heat of fire increased drastically with every passing second. It was either rocket through the glass or to watch the house crumble. Nimbus took a deep breath to prepare his body for the physical punishment ahead of him. He closed his eyes and slammed in the glass, shattering tiny pieces of glass into his previous wing injury. Crimson blood was now flowing from his left wing like a busted bush of cherries. There was no way he was going to be able to properly fly now, but the lives of foals hung in the balance. Sacrificing a week of flying to save two lives was quite a bargain to Nimbus’s logic.

Nimbus could hear a cry of fear over the snap and pop of the burning wood. Luckily for Nimbus the cry wasn’t very far and had fairly safe path towards it, despite the blazing fire overhead. He trotted quickly to the foals play room and saw them completely unharmed but dangerously surrounded by the fire. Nimbus pushed his wings past their tolerating punishment meter to overcome the pain of flapping his wings fast enough to make a small gap in the ring of fire. His successful efforts lead him to immediately lift both foals onto his back. The two foals were aware enough to hold on tightly to his mane.

Nimbus tried to escape the same way he came in but he was in too badly injured to make it out properly. Besides, the hole he made wasn’t large enough to safely escort the foals away from the fire. Large heavy sounds of cracked wood popped over Nimbus’s head. Nimbus looked up in time just see a large beam of fiery death coming for the foals on his back. Nimbus roared as he saw the colors of his environment disappear around him for a spilt second. When the light finally caught up with Nimbus, he looked behind him to see the previously falling beam crash and split behind him. Again, he unexplainably teleported from short distance without intending to do so.

He lowered his head and admitted to himself in a huff of breath “I really need to find out how I do that…” Nimbus looked over his environment hurriedly but calmly, as he tried to find the safest route out. His search seemed effortlessly until he heard the sound of hooves hit the deck behind him. Nimbus turned to meet face to face with the one and only Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash looked at Nimbus with determination “What can I do to help?” she offered.

Nimbus looked back over at the window and scaled it back and forth with Rainbow Dash’s size. If she was careful enough, Rainbow Dash just might be able to leave here with the foals without a scratch. Nimbus nudged the foals onto Rainbow’s back carefully. “Take these two out the same way you came, I’ll be right behind you!” Nimbus hid his injured wing away from Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash nodded confidently and faced back towards the window and darted outside to the open without any challenge of difficulty. Nimbus took a few steps back to launch himself back out. As he came within just a few feet from the exit, a large piece of ceiling collapsed in front of him, blocking his escape route. Nimbus scurried away from the sizzling blaze. He could hear the fire cracking and snapping over him. From what he could guess he only had a few minutes before the roof was on top of him. Beads of sweat raced down his neck, his vision was going blurry from the smoke and tears in his eyes, dehydration was becoming his new enemy as the air began to decrease drastically, and the heat of the fire only assured the fact he was going to die in here if he didn’t escape soon.

Nimbus arched his wings back, crouch his body to the ground, and lowered his head down as he charged the burning piece of wood in his way. Like all previous times before, Nimbus could feel the world around him get slower as he watched the colors and light begin to disappear. He broke through the heap of burning wood and made through the previously made hole in the window, adding several chips of wood and glass splinters into his body, but at least now he was out of the hell hole. If anypony would have seen the whole act, all they would have witnessed was a pony vanish from behind the pile of fire to the other side of the window in less than a blink of the eye. The building finally surrendered to the fire and collapsed just after Nimbus’s daring escape. Nimbus fell onto the soft green grass, blinded by the shinning bright beauty of the sun. He tried to fight the urge to sleep. He wanted to make sure and guarantee Rainbow Dash and the foals were safe, but his mind and body were telling him that it was time to rest. Nimbus felt there was no reason to fight the temptation, he was indeed very tired, and he did watch Rainbow Dash leave the building safely with the foals on her back after all. Nimbus allowed his eyelids to close slowly like the heavy red curtains at the finishing act of a play. He gave himself an imaginary pat on the back. He needed somepony to tell him “Good Job”. Who’d be better than himself?

POWER UP! <Nimbus>

[Zero Shifting]: Yeah, you might suck at racing on the track, but can anypony else move 5 yards in less time than the speed of light? Nope! Only you, Nimbus boy! Make it look like you’re using a teleportation spell. Confuse your unicorn friends at this special talent. Scientist will be scratching their heads at how you can move so fast in just a short distance without your skin ripping off of your body. They won’t even be able to explain how you can crash into somepony else’s body and break their bones without busting your own! Worried about the ruining the carpet you stop on? Don’t be! So go wild, Zero Shift across your living room. Knock on your neighbors door, Zero Shift across their living room, fucking I don’t care!

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Floccinaucinihilipilification

Hmm...

Challenge accepted!

*flips through books

Aha!

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis:
Noun; a medical condition caused by inhalation of ash from a volcano, causing buildup of silicone in the lungs, eventually leading to pneumonia.

Boom.