Twilight's pupils slowly crossed her eyes, found the end of the page, and shot back to where they began. Every once in a while her horn would light up and the page would flip. It was quiet in the library, Spike was out running some errands and the birds had found somewhere else to chirp.
Five hundred pages into the Big Book of Equestrian History, Twilight slowly examined each page. She needed to find the section that explained when Ponyville was colonized, and none of her other books seemed to explain it. Most of the information about the discovery of Ponyville had been lost or destroyed, and anything that could contain something about it had already been read by Twilight. This book was her last hope.
Each page was a new-
"Twilight!"
Twilight's concentration snapped, her head jerking toward the source of the sound and her eyes un-sticking themselves from the book. She blinked twice, her eyes that had spent so many hours glazing over words on a page adjusting to looking at the room around her and all the new colors. After she was done blinking, she looked at the door, and sure enough Spike was standing, his arms empty.
"I thought you went out to run errands. Where are the quills and parchment that I needed slave?"
Spike looked at the ground and dragged his foot in a circle. "Well, you see, I was going to do the errands, I swear, but Rainbow Dash wanted me to hang out with her."
"Alright Spike, I guess it's fine, but if could please go and get the quills and parchment now I would be ever grateful," said Twilight, her eyes flicking toward her book to make sure she didn't lose her line on the page.
"I was going to get them, but Rainbow asked me to come ask you if you could come see her. It's super important, and she said she needs to see you right now."
"I'm busy now Spike, I'm reading this book and I can't lose my place."
"But Twilight, Rainbow needs your help right now."
Twilight rolled her eyes and snorted. "Fine, but if I come back and I don't remember where I left off, Rainbow is never going to her the end of it."
With that, Twilight shot a final glance at the page and line she was on, quickly memorized it, and bounded out the door hastily.
As she sped past Spike he yelled,"She's at Applejack's barn!"
Twilight sped on, mentally noting Applejack's as her destination. Within a few minutes, Twilight was already there.
And, just as Spike had said, so was Rainbow Dash.
"Hey Twilight!" she chirped. Twilight didn't respond with her cheerfulness, her mind still on her book.
"What do you want, Rainbow," she said.
"Okay," said Rainbow Dash,"I need you to untie that rope over there while I stand here." Rainbow pointed at a rope that was tied to the trunk of a nearby tree.
Twilight rolled her eyes and discarded all the questions she had in favor of saving time. She trotted over to the rope and asked Rainbow to tell her when to untie it.
Rainbow spread her wings out wide. "Now!" she yelled.
Twilight lazily untied the knot around the tree, and the second it became undone the rope was already on its way up the trunk. Twilight turned around, only to realize that she had let an anvil loose, and it was above Rainbow Dash. Before she could react, the anvil landed directly on a smiling Rainbow Dash's open wing.
"Rainbow Dash!" yelled Twilight as the anvil crushed Rainbow's wing. Twilight galloped over as fast as she could, and using a powerful amount of magic she lifted the heavy anvil off of Rainbow's wing.
The wing was broken in many places. Rainbow was groaning in pain, her body lying on the ground with the injured wing extended out. Twilight took a few moments to examine the wing and Rainbow Dash, making sure the anvil hadn't hurt anything else.
"We have to get you to the hospital!" said Twilight.
Rainbow Dash opened her eyes and looked at Twilight.
"No."
"What? But your wing is crushed, we need to get you medical attention!"
"No Twilight. Medical attention is for the weak and puny. Only love can heal me." Rainbow let out another moan in pain.
"Rainbow Dash, WHY was there an anvil at the end of the rope, and WHY did you put your wing directly under it?!"
"Because Twilight, we were meant to be. That anvil symbolizes love. My wing symbolizes you. I am going to smash you with love."
"You know what, that's it, you're going to the hospital whether you like it or not."
"I don't want to go to the hospital."
"But you have to. Why wouldn't you want to go to the hospital? Any pony with a brain would choose hospital in this situation."
"Twilight... I want you to take care of me."
"What?"
"Take care of me Twilight. Nurse me back to health."
"Rainbow, there's literally a hospital one minute away. Here, let me get you onto my back." Twilight leaned down and attempted to get her head underneath Rainbow Dash.
"No Twilight, you have to take care of me. It's the only way. You need to tend to my wing." Rainbow Dash lowered her voice into a whisper,"And my heart."
Twilight didn't hear the whisper, she was too busy assessing the situation. "Rainbow, I'm not going to take care of you. There is a hospital with licensed doctors that are being paid to deal with injuries like this. The only logical action in this situation is to take you to the hospital. Only an idiot would decide against that and take care of you themselves."
"You need to wrap my wing Twilight. You need to visit me every day in my home. Any you need to sit by my bedside and read me stories." Rainbow's eyes looked up at the sky, as if she was remembering some fantasy she had every day.
"And you have to take care of my wing. AND THEN WE HAVE TO KISS!"
Rainbow Dash stared directly at Twilight as she spoke. Twilight stared back, their eyes lost in each other. "And as our relationship grows stronger over my broken wing, it will get fixed, but you will still visit everyday, and then we're going to get married. Then we're going to have a romantic dinner, and after a short fight over our marriage and how I planned the injury on my wing to win over you, we bond closer and have a baby."
"Yeah that's it we're going to the hospital."
Twilight's horn glowed and she picked up Rainbow Dash. Ignoring her protests, Twilight dragged her all the way to the hospital and brought her to a doctor. Nurses came and wheeled her away in a gurney.
As she was carried away she yelled,"But we were meant to be together! The broken wing was the key!"
The doctor looked at Rainbow Dash and her broken wing.
Twilight leaned in close to him. "A few weeks in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt."
The doctor nodded.
Haven't updated this in a while...
Probably won't update again until Season 3 is under way.
I feel like these are getting less comical and more critical. Gr. I can never seem to find the balance.
Wait, what? Insane asylum?
Finally I'll have a cell-mate!
Th-that's all, folks!
No, but seriously. Perfect analysis.
While the other chapters were pretty accurate, I don't buy this one. I honestly don't think Rainbow Dash would act like that in that situation.
Wow, I'll never look at at Twidash story the same way again.
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It was still funny though.
Yes, this is so absolutely correct. Dear lord I hate the shipfics that have one pony get injured and then taken care of by somepony with absolutely no medical knowledge or training.
Yet the ratings are always absurdly high.
"Where are the quills and parchment that I needed slave?" <--that was ... random o.O
1243766 oh shit did I leave the word slave in there.
Where are the quills and parchment that I needed slave?
Well then. I was expecting RD to crash into a window and break her wing, but self inflicted shipping works.
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still just as in character as Twilight suddenly being a doctor
1243785 did you not mean to? Why was it in there in the first place?
1243805 I put it there on purpose but was planning to remove it upon publishing. Guess I'll just leave it there...
1243753 Rainbow wasn't supposed to be in-character in this story. Originally I was going to have her crash into a window or something, but... you know... anvils.
This one... was... it was...
...yeah, I got nothing.
1243833 Yeah me neither.
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Iron Will and Fluttershy next?
That was amazing...
1243852 You done Shining and Chrysalis yet? I'm sure Cadence won't mind.
That's, pretty funny actually. Not really the way I would've thought RD would've tried to get Twilight's attention but the end result still leaves me chuckling.
Now you just need to do it he other way around.
"But, Dash, you're a brash, rainbow-colored tombow, it's obvious that you must like girls! And since I like girls—"
"Twilight, no. First, that's crazy. Second, I like boys, and you are not a colt."
"I could become a colt! With magic!"
"Third, that just unbelievably creepy. I am not going to do you."
"But I made a checklist of sexy things for you to do to me!"
"Yeah, I'm gonna go now. Just let me know when you get the next Daring Do book in, okay?"
"AT LEAST COME BACK AND DO NUMBER SEVEN!"
That's "founding;" you don't discover towns
Also, 1243928 this. This a thousand and three times
Gonna be honest: this is not nonsensical enough.
Rainbow, take me! We were meant to be together! I'm the only one for you!
Look, Twilight, I already told you why you'll never be qualified to be my pet.
Out of character alert!!
1243994 yeah I forget why I put that in
1243994 Cool story braugh, go read the discussions addressing this
1243736 Nah man this is funny.
so true, dash breaks her wing and twi takes care of it instead of a hospital.
good job on finding the twidash cliche.
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Well, if anything, it was delightfully silly.
Most of the other chapters are bland. So bland, in fact, that I decided faving was a mistake, so I de-faved it. With TwiDash, however, I'm starting to question that decision. This chapter is great!
I'm going for Shining Armor being involved in the next one, because that just has so many possibilities.
1243736 I see you're criticizing the whole romance after broken wing subgenre of Rainbow shipping. I'm with you there. Here's an idea: How about those persistent Chrysalis/changeling ships?
> writes chapter about How Rainbow Dash is straight.
> writes chapter about How Rainbow Dash is madly in love with a girl.
Goddamn
1244447 cut me some slack man the stories are all separate
1244377 those exist?
This became extremely painful to read rather quickly...
Well done, 5/5, would read again /
How does any of that make sense Rainbow? I mean really! Well, perhaps Twilight would take care of you once you were discharged. But that would only happen once you're healed. Unless there was some epidemic and they were short on beds.
Where was I getting at? Oh, yeah, it doesn't make sense! Is this how most of these stories go? I never read that.
I thought this was complete!
AMAZING, as always sir. Had a few good laughs over Rainbow's hamminess. Yeah, tis was gud.
" The only logical action in this situation is to take you to the hospital. Only an idiot would decide against that..."
Sorry Twilight, but you're wrong. With this kind of injury (crushed bone) the victim shouldn't be moved unless by trained professionals. Contact the hospital, keep RD supervised and don't let her move until help arrives, and let the paramedics deal with her. The only thing to add would be to stabilize the victim if, and ONLY if, there was serious trauma that could kill the victim before help arrives, such as using a tourniquet or applying pressure to reduce blood loss.
That was bugging me and I'm really bored. Sorry.
A few small writing errors (grammar, spelling, missing words), but mostly good. Not the same quality as the earlier chapters, but better than a lot of other authors can manage.
Now, back to my corner. Jaelommiss away!
I'm faily certain that this is based off a very specific TwiDash fic... Could anyone tell me which one?
The best one yet!
1244471 Whoa there. Calm down. I don't really care, it was a joke about contingency.
1244475 Quite a few, actually. Some have made it into the feature box once or twice.
1243753 Then again, how out of character would both of them have to be to fall in love with each other in the first place?
Um Dash can be a bit reckless but I think she's sane enough to not do that...
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OUT OF CHARACTER ALERT!
"Twilight's pupils slowly... The doctor nodded."
"Because Twilight, we were meant to be. That anvil symbolizes love. My wing symbolizes you. I am going to smash you with love."
So awesome.