Wonderful

by Closer-To-The-Sun

Chapter 1: Closing Time

Chapter 1: Closing Time

“Last call!” the bartender shouted out to the crowded bar.

This announcement caught the attention of a number of patrons. A few ponies trotted up to the bar to make their last purchase of the evening. Among them was a blue pegasus with a multi-colored mane. Already tipsy, she had to use the barstool to support herself as she arrived up to the bar. After shuffling around a bit and sitting her flank down on the stool itself, she ordered.

“One more hard cider, my good stallion!” the pony spoke with an inebriated slur to her voice. She couldn’t help it by this time; she had already drunk five ciders previously.

The barkeep nodded as he went off to fulfill the order. As the pegasus reached to take out the currency to pay, she noticed the red stallion she was sitting next to. “Oh, hey there, Big Mac. How the heck are ya?” she playfully hit his back with her hoof.

Big Mac turned to see the rainbow colored mane sitting on top of the blue mare, “Good evenin’, Miss Rainbow Dash,” Big Mac greeted back. He had to blink a few times to make sure that he had called the pony the correct name.

“It ain’t evening anymore, its past midnight,” Rainbow corrected, trying to not fall off her barstool. “Anyway, what’s up? Wasn’t expecting to see ya out this late drinking.”

Big Mac chuckled slightly, “Ah could say the same ta you, Miss Rainbow Dash. Don’t ya gotta work with the weather patterns in the mornin’?”

Raising her hoof up, Rainbow brushed it off, “Please, I can do that in my sleep….and sometimes I do.” She laughed loudly, as if she was trying to prove she could be louder than the chatter of the rest of the bar patrons.

Taking a drink of his alcohol, Big Mac couldn’t help but chuckle as well. Rainbow Dash’s contagious laughter and the alcohol already in his system mixed to relax the red stallion. As the two were sharing a moment of laughter, Dash’s last drink of the night had arrived. Rainbow quickly shuffled around trying to pull out her money. However, Big Mac stopped her by slamming down coins of his own.

“Ya don’t have to pay for me, Big Mac,” Dash commented.

“So ya don’t want me to pay fer yer cider?”

“Nah. Like I’m gonna pass up a free drink! Take the stallion’s money!” Rainbow ordered the bartender with an intoxicated laugh.

After the barkeep left, the two continued their drunken conversation. However, most of the conversation was filled with laughter at the smallest of things, slurred speech, and saying things that seemed really odd to somepony that might be listening in.

“Look, ah’m jus’ sayin’ some apples are better than others….” Big Mac tried to speak coherently as he leaned on the wooden surface.

Rainbow seemed to be intently listening despite being completely drunk, “How so? Like how cider apples are better than the others?”

Big Mac laughed slightly, “Heh heh, no, not like that. An’ what’s with you an’ cider?”

“I like the poison!” the pegasus proclaimed proudly as she downed the last of her cider.

The stallion laughed again, “There’s more ta apples than just cider, Miss Rainbow.”

“And I don’t care about them; only cider for me!” Rainbow Dash exhaled the statement the second she finished swallowing the last of her drink, “It’s what Celestia herself would drink!”

Both Rainbow Dash and Big Mac laughed at her last statement. They were interrupted however, but the bartender.

“Sorry to do this to you two, but it’s closing time.”

“Does that mean we have to go home?” Rainbow asked, leaning on the counter.

The barkeep continued, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. We’re closing up for the night.” He pointed to the rest of the bar, which was empty save a few ponies putting the chairs on the tables, cleaning the floor, and turning off some of the lights.

The two ponies looked at the vacant bar. With a bit of sadness in their expressions, they hopped off the stools and trotted to the exit. However, they had to take their time as they had trouble standing, let alone moving. While doing so, they couldn’t help but laugh at themselves trying to get out the door.

Once outside, both Rainbow and Big Mac looked up at the sky. Luna’s moon was shining down brightly, lighting up the darkened Ponyville square.

“Well, it t’was pretty cool to hang out with cha, Big Mac,” the blue mare tried to speak. The alcohol in her system was getting the best of her however, causing her to slur her words.

“Same ta ya, Miss Rainbow Dash,” Big Mac replied, trying to keep standing without wobbling left and right.

Rainbow chuckled, “Ya don’t have ta call me that, Big Mac. It’s not like I’m some princess or something like that.” Finally stopping her laughter, she continued, “Alright, time for me ta fly back home.”

“Ya sure yer okay ta fly?” Big Mac asked.

“Sure I’m sure! I just gotta flap my wings, like this!” the pegasus started to move her wings up and down. However, even though she moved them, it was not fast enough to lift her body off the ground. She continued to flap for a few more moments before finally saying something, “I forgot how to fly.”

Both of the ponies laughed at the comment.

“How can ya ferget ta fly?” Big Mac was still laughing.

“How can you forget to be blah blah blah!” Rainbow Dash mocked as she stopped laughing herself.

“Well, ya can stay at the farm fer the night if ya want,” Big Mac stated, taking a step toward his home. His footing was off and he fell to the ground.

Laughing hard, Rainbow Dash commented, “You’re so smashed you can’t even walk!”

“Well, ya can’t even fly!” Big Mac retorted without missing a beat.

Offering a hoof to help him up, Rainbow continued, “Come on, I think we’re both too drunk to trot alone.”

Taking her hoof, Big Mac and Rainbow Dash slowly trotted along the path to Sweet Apple Acres while supporting each other. It was as if the two ponies were a part of a six-legged race, but their intoxicated state made it more of a challenge for the two of them. They continued to joke and laugh as they neared the barn.

Upon entering the barn, Rainbow had her eyes fixated on a single location: a large bale of hay in the middle of the barn. “There! We’re going there!” she verbally pointed.

“Huh?” Big Mac wasn’t paying attention to what she was saying.

Taking the lead, Rainbow Dash directed and moved toward the pile of hay. This sudden jolt of direction caused Big Mac to trip over his hooves, falling forward while still holding on to Dash for support. The two started to fall down, but were lucky enough to fall onto the hay bale that Dash was aiming for. Rainbow managed to land on her back, however, Big Mac wasn’t as lucky and landed with his muzzle buried in the pile of hay.

A loud laughter came from Rainbow, “Smooth one, Big Mac!” Her amusement echoed through the empty barn.

Raising his head up and out of the hay, Big Mac spit out the few strands of hay that were in his mouth. This just caused Rainbow Dash to laugh even more. Finally adjusting himself, he rested his back against the hay and looked up at the rafters of the barn along with Rainbow.

“So this was we’re you were aimin’ ta go?” Big Mac spoke, the taste of hay lingering still in his mouth.

“Yup! Nice a comfortable, ain’t it?” she asked, turning her head slightly to look at him from the corner of her eye.

Big Mac shrugged, “It’s alright, ah guess, but it ain’t mah bed. And speakin’ of such, ah think ah’m gonna go in the house ta sleep. Rest well, Miss Rainbow Dash.”

Just as the red stallion was starting to get up from off the pile of hay, he felt something on his body, pushing down on him. It was Rainbow Dash’s hoof. “Aww, you’re planning leaving me out here all by my lonesome?” her words were both playful and suggestive, “Now, why would you do that?”

This completely caught Big Mac off guard, “B-Beg pardon?”

The rustling of hay echoed through the barn as Rainbow moved around until she was sitting up, looking down at the red pony lying down on the hay, “And here I was hoping you’d stay out here and keep me company….”

Big Mac could tell by looking at the maroon eyes of the pegasus that there was some sort of intent behind her words. Her face as matching the shade of red in mane, but it didn’t seem to be just from the alcohol she had consumed.

Without second thought, Rainbow leaned in to plant a kiss onto Big Mac’s lips. The stallion was surprised by not only the mare’s action, but also by the sensation. Big Mac could taste the cider upon Rainbow’s lips, the fermented fruit was heavily present. He could also feel a warm feeling coming from Rainbow’s face, as if her face was ablaze.

Breaking the kiss, the pegasus looked down back at the red earth pony. A sly smirk appeared on Rainbow Dash’s face.

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Big Mac woke up as the early light of Celestia’s sun shined in through the open barn door. Rubbing his eyes with his hooves, he saw that Rainbow Dash was standing in the doorway of the barn. Blinking a few times to adjust his eyesight to the light, he saw that Rainbow was stretching her wings out and what seemed to be other routine exercises for her. Everything from her mane to her tail seemed to be perfect about her, as if she had not slept on a pile of hay in a barn. Her ears twitched at the sound of the rustling hay, causing her to turn her head to see the red stallion.

“Mornin’, sunshine,” Rainbow Dash smiled. She snickered as she saw how his mane and tail looked with bits of hay in the unkempt mess of orange hair.

With a yawn, Big Mac replied, “Good mornin’, Miss Rainbow Dash….” his statement trailed off as he tried to quickly piece together the night before in his mind. However, his efforts were fruitless which led him to his next statement, “Ah don’t mean ta give the wrong impression or nothin’, but do ya know happened last night? Ah can’t remember a thing….”

Continuing with the stretching of her wings, Rainbow commented, “Heh, are you kidding? I was way too smashed to remember anything. I remember that we met up at the Salt Lick and had a few drinks together. After that, I remember you offered to have me crash in the barn.”

An uneasy expression was on the stallion’s face as he stood up and started to pick the pieces of hay from his mane and tail, “Is that it? Do ya know why ah’m out here?”

Rainbow paused for a moment to think, “Well, when I woke up and saw ya, I figured you were just as wasted as I was, so you just decided it’d be easier to sleep out here than go back inside your home. That’s what I thought anyway.”

“Hmm….” Big Mac thought for a moment, still not completely sure about what had happened the night before.

“Well, don’t let it worry ya, Big Mac,” Rainbow insisted as she resumed her exercises, “What’s in the past is in the past, not like we can do anything about it now. Besides, if we can’t remember anything, then nothing really could have happened, right?”

“Ah guess….” Big Mac half-heartedly agreed, “Still, ah’m curious of what happened. Aren’t ya curious?”

Finishing up the rest of her exercises, Rainbow Dash looked towards Big Mac, “Sure, I’m a little curious, but it’s not like we have something to let us see what happened or whatever. Let sleeping dogs lie, or whatever.”

Big Mac sighed and agreed.

Rainbow gave a smile and nodded, “Good, now I gotta get to work with those weather patterns. I’ll catch ya sometime later. See ya around, big red.”

With that, Rainbow Dash turned to the open barn door and began to flap her wings. Taking off and flying into the sky, the blue pegasus disappeared from Big Mac’s view. With the morning sun shining down on and warming up his red coat, the red stallion was left with his questions of what happened the night before.

Comments

[The Yaoi Mistress]

Next one, please! I want to know what happened and if they have consequences!!

[Closer-To-The-Sun]

4083474 Sorry, you're going to have to follow along to find out! The story is going be updated two to three times a week.

[The Yaoi Mistress]

4083502 nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

ok, I wait. :P

[Celestias Paladin]

Hate to break it to you Miss Dash, but Her Serene Majesty contrary to popular belief prefers a nice good beer.

So far a good start, really the only issue I have is Mac calling Rainbow Miss Rainbow Dash, that's bit of a mouthful to me.

[Closer-To-The-Sun]

4083646
Beer, you say?

The way I see it, is that Big Mac is always trying to be formal to each and every pony. That's just my opinion, however.

[Celestias Paladin]

4083695
Yes beer, goes with growing up as part of a medieval Earth Pony clan. I'm sure he would formal, I'm just saying say Miss Rainbow Dash is a mouthful to say. Miss Dash is less of one.

[knetch]

5 bucks to a future pregnancy

[Sky Way]

4083863 Second It

[ThatGuyYouForgot]

its good so far so ill give you a like so far there was an error here

” Big Mac half-heartedly agreed, “Still, ah’m curious of what happened of what happened. Aren’t ya curious?”

and i think he would try to be formal to everypony too but i think he would just say miss Dash not miss rainbow dash thats just my opinion though

[Closer-To-The-Sun]

4084401 Fixed that error, thank you!

[FelixTheBrony]

I like where this is going. Have a like and a moustache

[Gustauve]

This is the problem with you auslanders. You can't hold your alcohol. Then again, I've been drinking since I was 5... >_>
Don't judge me! Do you know how boring East Germany was? There was literally noting to do but drink. Any ways, I'm pretty sure my liver is dead, because I don't get inebriated... I should probably go see a doctor about it one of these days.
Good story as always, Sunny, can't wait for the next chapter.

[KarmaDash]

Dis story is so good

[Godiswithus3]

What on could they have done in six hours besides sleep in the barn. This I would like to know.