Coda
Rainbow Dash finished another slice of cake, looking around her with an expression somewhat akin to amazement. Her family, mingling with her friends. Not the Canterlotian 'let's get connections' kind of mingling either; no, this was the genuine kind where everypony wanted to just talk and... well, hang out.
"Hey Rainbow Dash!"
The pegasus turned to her egghead friend. "Oh, hey there Twilight. What's up?"
"Well, if you're not too busy partying, I just wanted to see if you think I did everything I needed to with the weather." She gestured at the clouds. "I've read a lot of books, and the team was quite cooperative but this is the first time I--"
A blue hoof cut her off. "It's fine! Don't worry, Twilight, it's perfect." Dash smirked. "Well, a few things are different then the checklist, but most of that relates to... well..."
She flicked a wing at where her cousin was chatting with Scootaloo.
"Seriously, though. How did Pinkie arrange this entire thing without me noticing?"
"You were too busy moping to notice." The pink pony bounded up with a grin. "I don't like seeing frowny faces, but I have to admit that it helps make a surprise party a surprise."
"I guess that makes sense."
"Now I have one really big important ultrasuperduper important question that I want to ask you, and I want you to answer with complete utter total honesty and truthyness. Are you ready for this?"
"...you're going to ask why I didn't tell you I was a duchess."
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU WERE PART SNAKEYBIRD THING?!"
The pegasus blinked. "Er, what?"
"Your mane," Twilight explained casually. "It means you're part Quetzalcoatl. And, well, a lot of the Quetzalcoatl were granted duchies for their actions in the Era of Discord."
"Wait, seriously? I'm a duchess because of something some snakybird thing did thousands of years ago?"
"...Yeah pretty much."
"That explains a lot."
"Wait." Pinkie tilted her head. "You didn't know you were part snakybird thing?"
"Nah, I just thought the rainbow mane was just something we had, you know?" Dash grinned, pulling on a fetlock thoughtfully. "Part snake, huh?"
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Quetzalcoatl. Quite a few generations removed."
"...Still neat." The pegasus shrugged. "Wow, you learn something new every day."
"Why would you want to be part snake anyway? Snakes are freaky!"
"No, Twilight, you think snakes are freaky. I like 'em. They're awesome. Not radical, though."
"So you didn't know you were part snakeybird thing?" Pinkie asked.
"Nope, had no idea."
"Oh, alright then."
"My, this is quite the smashing party!" Rarity walked up, giving the weathermare a coy look. "And it's all thanks to you, darling. So... why didn't you tell us you were a duchess?"
The pegasus sighed. "I... look. I just... It doesn't fit who I am. I mean, I... Okay. I was embarrassed, I guess." She kicked the ground awkwardly. "I mean... I thought if everypony knew about this... I'm wearing a tiara for crying out loud!"
Twilight frowned. "What's wrong with tiaras?"
"How many awesome pegasi have you seen wearing tiaras?!"
"I've see you wear a tiara," Pinkie replied brightly, "and you're pretty awesome!"
Rainbow Dash stared at her, uncomprehending.
"I believe what Pinkie is trying to say is that your nature is not in what you do, but in how you do what you do." Rarity smiled. "When I see you wearing that tiara, I don't see you as... well, as a soft-spoken fashion obsessed mare. I see you as one of the pegasus warriors of old. I see nobility, true nobility, not the kind that Blueblood purports to have, but the kind that is worth praising precisely because the one with it will do anything for their companions."
"You'll never be Duchess Silverhoof to us," Twilight agreed. "You'll always be Rainbow Dash, world's most awesome pegasus."
Pinkie bounced up and down with a wild grin. "Twenty percent cooler in ten seconds flat!"
"...Thanks, guys. You have no idea what that means to me."
"Mind you, Dashiel is a rather elegant name. Perhaps I should use it more often, seeing as we're dating."
"What? OH! That thing at the--Look, um, Rarity, that, uh, that wasn't--"
"Wasn't what? Genuine?" The fashionista pouted. "I'm hurt, Dashiel. I truly am."
"....you're just having me on, aren't you."
***
The nobles of Cloudsdale smiled, danced, hugged, and eventually dispersed throughout the day. when the time finally came for Rainbow Dash to say goodbye to her namesake, there was much hugging, most of it genuine, some of it awkward. Dazzler Prism had given her action-obsessed granddaughter a bit of advice; "If anypony comes by asking for favors, not help, just tell them you'll look into it. If they keep pressing, actually look into it. They're probably the cause of the problem."
That had been some surprisingly good advice.... then again, grandma was always a surprising mare.
Now she relaxed with her friends in Sugarcube corner, still wearing her dress and most of her finery. She'd taken off the slippers though. Those things were just irritating.
A smile quirked onto her face. "Hey everypony?"
Applejack turned to her, shaking her mane loose from the style it had been in. "Yeah Dash?"
"I just thought of something. See, you all know my big secret. Out in the open, yadda yadda yadda." She leaned forward, still grinning. "I think it's only fair that you all let me know one of yours."
Silence filled the room.
The pegasus continued to smirk.
"...er..." Applejack was the first to speak up. "Um... Ah, uh... Ah kinda, ya know, collect.... doilies."
And with that, the dam burst.
"I... well, I am something of a fan of the electronic music genre. Wubs, and... all that, it's actually rather conducive to making dresses."
"Okay, so my favorite food? Asparagus. I tried making an asparagus cake once, but the Cakes said it tasted awful and I guess they were right but I just can't help but like ASPARAGUS!"
"Well, I... have a small recording studio under my cottage, where, I, um, make musical albums and, um, my publisher says I'm almost as popular as DJ PON-3."
Rarity blinked. "Wait wait wait. Are you... are you saying that you're Mama Tomcat?!"
"Menea esa cola hacia mí, corcel, porque yo seré quien la encadenará." Fluttershy blushed lightly as she sang.
"I know this is going to sound rather... fanish, but I have all your albums! Are you working on a new one?"
"Well, yes. I... could give you a signed copy from the first edition line, if, um, if you like."
Rainbow Dash couldn't help but giggle at the absolutely elated expression on the fashionista's face.
"Come on, Twilight." Applejack gave the librarian a friendly nudge. "All of us have gone, it's yer turn."
"Oh! Um, well, I.... I kinda have a cosplay hobby." The unicorn giggled. "I like to dress up in period accurate costumes of famous historical figures, and I like to check the costumes myself or even make them--"
"Everypony knows about that," Rainbow interrupted.
"What? No they don't."
"Uh, yeah, ever since Nightmare Night they've figured it out."
Twilight's eyes narrowed to pinpricks. "You're... joking. Please, please tell me you're joking."
"She's not joking," Pinkie replied, deathly serious.
The protegee of Celestia accepted this new knowledge with the dignity and aplomb that befitted her position.
That is to say, she fainted.
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "Wow. Such a drama queen."
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It's done, it's done, it's finally done, I just had to wrap it up. Dance of the Rainbow, in twelve parts. I hope you enjoyed this waltz, sirs and madams.
If you're lucky, I may commence another piece.
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Can it be a sequel/in the same timeline universe thingy? Also, well done, but hopefully you got that from my polite rephrasing of 'MOAR PLZ'.
We need a story with Twilight in a Pre-Classical Reenactment Society. This is a thing that needs to happen. It will be glorious.
Thank you for a most delightful tale of Dash's conflict against herself. The moral of the story? Snakeybird pegasi are awesome pegasi.
Fluttershy can speak Spanish? Huh, didn't see that one coming.
2144756On it right now. Actually, was already writing it.
Hmm... Twilight should try anime cosplay instead. Or she and Luna go to a Renaissance Faire and troll for inaccuracies.
Eeeeee!
This bit with everypony else's secrets is amazing! And overall, a fine story indeed.
Fluttershy's secret...did not see that coming...at all...the rest made sense...but that...wow...sweet.
I wanna know more about that Quetzalcoatl thing, perhaps there are some unusual side effects of being decended from them? Perhaps after exposure to Discords magic over a larger period of time? Say...now that he's been 'reformed'.
Great story though, would thumb-up again.
That was a good end. Those secrets were rather funny, really. Listening to Rarity talk about Wubs...
Great story!
This fic is all the laughs and all the d'awws! Thanks so much!
"Oscillation (noun) that the attractive tail (could be translated more vulgarly, depending on region) inside me, stallion, cause (noun) I'm the kind of girl that will chain it down below"?
Seems legit.
That aside, I liked the story. I always enjoy reading world-building for characters.
2144917 yes the side effects being that she is genetically able to perform a sonic rainboom that causes a disruptions with unicorn spell matrixes
Yep, defiantly one of my favorites.
You used Google Translate for the Spanish, didn't you? It's grammatically AWFUL (Brony from Mexico here).
Interesting that there would be nobles from Cloudsdale, but being pegasi, I thought they'd all be more leaning toward having a military background.
2145404
You're forgetting the part where they battled mountain lions made out of SOLID ROCK.
It's a shame that this if finished, but hey it had to finish sometime. Loved this story, and thank you for writing it.
I believe that was worthy of an actual episode although I don't know where our Rainbow got her ideas about who her grandmother was considering the way she acted in the little bit of screen time she had. I'll be looking into your other stories.
That was a fun little ride, too bad its over but it ended perfectly. I really enjoyed this one, and look forward to reading more stuff from ya.
500th like!
Bravo
, when is the next one?
2145404
Could you give me a more accurate sentence then?
2146827
Well, first of all, what did Fluttershy try to say in English?
2146906
A slightly saucy comment. "Shake that tail my way, stallion, 'cause I'm the one to chain it down." Tail is literal here.
2146909
That translates to:
"Menea esa cola hacia mí, corcel, porque yo seré quien la encadenará."
*sunglasses* YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
2146909
2146996
Actually acording to BING it translates into this: WAGs that tail towards me, steed, because I'll be who chained her
loved it!
2144678 This should've been a S3 episode.
2147958
And who would you rather believe? A native Spanish speaker, or a machine translation?
2150458
That was a translation of what he wrote origonaly in the chapter. Not yours.
PHENOMENAL!!!!!!
All in all, a good fic, funny and you added something new to Rainbow Dash's personality. To a job well done.
Hehehe. Nice. A very satisfying ending to a rather amusing tale. I'm on the fence with accepting this as headcanon. I wonder if I could work this into my new story? Hmmm...we shall see. Loved the little secrets at the end, too.
I think I'm having a stroke from Rainbow Dash overdose.
Something tells me a Mexican wrote this story...
NO PINKIE! DON'T CROSS THE MEMES!
So anything that's made of rock can be communicated to using Pinkie, genius.
Great story and very silly, good times.
Huh, I must admit I wasn't really that surprised with most of these secrets the other gals came clean on. I saw Twi's coming as obviously as it was for the rest of the gang did. Applejack's didn't surprise me that much either; you see dollies frequently in the Apple home, so she probably grew up with them, thus it makes sense for her to fancy them. Knew Pinkie's would be something contrary to her perceived character, and a love for asparagus fit that perfectly. Not even Fluttershy's little reveal even surprised me that much (though I do want to ask, seeing that it didn't really make it clear, what genre of music does Mama Tomcat record in?)
It was RARITY'S little secret that caught me off guard. Her? A fan of dubstep? Dude, I can't even picture it, and probably won't until someone sticks a picture of it or something in my face.
Anyway, great story, liked it from start to finish.
2169804
Mama Tomcat, as a stage persona, has a day job as a matron at an orphanage (which she loves) and a highly saucy nightlife in Mexicolt (which she also loves). She dabbles in all musical genres.
Also, seriously. There was a rumor waaaay back when that Vinyl was Rarity's mom.
2169871 Really?
I must confess, I hadn't ever heard that one.
2144678 Alright, not gonna lie. Great fic man, great fic.
2202704 I think there's a little too much removal from the progenitor to be half anything there.
This was a wonderful story.
There's one thing I don't get however. Why did Rainbow Dash not expect her grandma to be the way she is? Did her grandma change on her or was she not very familiar with her in the first place, along with the rest of her relatives excluding her aunt and mother? I think that's a detail worth implying somewhere.
Also, I noticed some missing commas and periods in there.
well this was a truly interesting story. I liked it a lot and couldn't stop reading it. I kept thinking I was gonna finish the chapter and go to bed but I just couldn't.
Fluttershy... A Regetón Singer!?
Why...
WHY!
WHY!!!
Now I want to hear Flutttershy Sing!
That was pretty good short-story.
I guess my guess was close. Grandkid of a duchess rather than a princess.
Some of the details I was thinking of were completely erroneous, though.
2169871
New Futtershy Headcanon Accepted! It seems trolling is something all ponies enjoy.
Awesome job. You portrayed all of the characters, with their mannerisms and way of speech, perfectly. I thought you did a good job with the lore behind the story, and even though Rainbow had to dress up for her family of nobles, you still made her family awesome in its own way. (Weapons hidden in the regalia? Excellent!
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Great job, and please keep writing!
I read your blog, "Desperate Times." (http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/336632/desperate-times , for those who haven't read it.) I don't know if I can be of help yet, as I don't have a job, but I am praying for you.
Os sht... pinkie made my mind explode...
Spike: TWICE!
NO! SPIKE! YOU STOLE MAH THUNDER!