Unscheduled
Hoofsteps echoed down the empty and dimly-lit corridors of the Wonderbolts’ Cloudsdale headquarters. Spitfire sighed behind tired eyes and leaned on the door to the fortress of solitude which passed for her office. There on her perfectly grey desk among flight schedules, weather reports, personnel reviews, and a hundred rejected applications sat a hoof-sized crystalline statue topped by a stylized golden pegasus. Dangling from it was tag that read, Spits - Sorry I threw the Best In Show trophy at your head. Got you a new one. Aren’t I amazing like that? - Dash.
The Wonderbolts’ Captain growled, “You’d be more amazing if you’d have put this in the trophy case like I asked you at least three times to.” Shaking her head, she scooped up the statuette in a powerful yellow wing and backed down the hallway. Pausing, she added, “Listen to me! Sent everybody home for a week’s vacation and I’m already talking to myself. Not a good sign, Spitfire, not a good sign.”
Trudging wearily past faded posters and long-empty water coolers, she made her way to a dusty glass-fronted wall where dozens of statuettes and trophies gleamed next to plaques and ribbons and certificates. As she nudged the little trophy into a gap between two near-identical though somewhat dustier copies, its translucent base knocked a large envelope to the floor. “Brilliant. She didn’t forget after all,” Spitfire muttered, “she just put the trophy on my desk and the mail in the trophy case.
Envelope clenched in gritting teeth, Spitfire trotted through the double doors to the headquarters’ entrance, wincing involuntarily as they slammed shut behind her. Down cloud-formed walkways she walked until she came to a bank of mailboxes whose single outgoing bin was dwarfed by row upon row of boxes for incoming mail. Easing the sliding drawer open with a wingtip, she snarled as she deposited the envelope and pulled out a scribbled note. Her own hoofwriting was clear: Dash, sweep the flightline before you head out for the week. Don’t wait up for me, I’ll be muzzle-deep in paperwork while you’re gone. And lock the door when you leave. - Spits.
“I’d bet bits to bagels she didn’t bother,” spat the fuming pegasus as she stomped back to the doorway. “That filly can’t do two things right in a row. Never listens, never pays attention, and half the orders I give go in one ear and out the other. I ought to - ” She pulled the door once, yanked the handle twice, and rattled with all her strength a third time, and neither door budged. “Locked out. Just feathering great! The one thing she remembers to do - my luck.”
Rocketing off the walkway, she flew a wide curve around the squat, utilitarian building and blazed a path toward the elevated practice field that served as flightline and training ground. “Please let that featherbrain still be sweeping,” she whispered into the wind. Cresting the cloud-plateau which supported the Wonderbolts’ private runway, her jaw dropped as she saw the bulbous shape of an airship parked on the field, a rainbow-maned pegasus leaning against its gondola.
“Rainbow Aeryn Dash! What in Tartarus has gotten into you today?” she yelled as she lit on the windswept field barely a muzzle’s length away from the blue mare. “You haven’t done a single thing I asked you to do today, and - “
“Nothing? Really?” grinned Rainbow, her hooves crossed as she leaned against the airship’s boarding door. ” ‘Cause I think I remember locking the doors, at least, and that’s something, right?”
“Fine,” Spitfire hissed, “you did exactly one thing. And what in blazes is an airship doing parked here? First, this is a private field, not for use by civilian traffic, and second, I asked you to clear the flightline before you left.”
Easing the airship’s door open, Dash leaned inside and called, “Hey Airhoof, you gassed up and ready?”
From inside the cabin a nasally voice answered, “Yes Ma’am! Ready when you are, Ma’am. The beaches of Barhaydos await you, just give the word.”
“Barhaydos?” Spitfire’s brow furrowed and her voice leapt a few decibels. “You shirked half your duties and booked a personal airship to Barhaydos?”
“Actually, I decided we could both use some duty-free time. You gave the rest of us the week off but you never treat yourself the same way, Spits. Now that you’re locked out - and let me remind you, you promised me a key two months ago and never delivered - we don’t have much choice, do we?” Trotting up the entry ramp, she called over her shoulder, “You coming, or are you sleeping on the flightline for the next week?”
“Coming? What do you mean, am I coming? Dash, I don’t - “
Rainbow rolled her eyes and smiled. “Well, I did have this extra boarding pass, but if you want me to toss it overboard, I guess I can sweep it off the flightline when I get back.”
Spitfire stood wide-eyed and frozen for long seconds before galloping up the ramp. “Dash, you did remember to pack sunscreen, right?”
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Woooo, Barhaydos for hot pegasi sex all week!
Ah the beach! I wonder if ponies wear swim suits or bikinis?!
(Probably not but you never know)
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Remember, I write for Thirty Minute Ponies, not Sexty Minute Ponies... so far.
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Fan art... please, fan art!
I think Rainbow Dash forgot the sunscreen.
2093145 I think Hasbro alos announced a toy line called "Equestria Girls". I can imagine Rarity would likely wear one.
2093615 Well at least Spitfire's sun burn will go nicely with her orange coat.
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...oops.
How would sunscreen work on a pony? They have fur all over.
2093468 Well, get to it!
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Barhaydos for hot pegasi smoochies all week, then!
Well finally got around to reading this, and despite my reservations about TMP based stories this was an interesting read so far. I do think that the TMP format does show it's limitations in multichapter stories like this as you haven't got the time to spend on the little moments that build a relationship. You've read Fire & Rain, so you've probably got a good idea for the kind of pacing I go far.
Still, more DashFire is always a good thing* and I'll be keeping an eye on this.
*In my totally unbiased opinion >_>
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Rainbow Aeryn Dash, actually. It's a Farscape reference.
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Check out the Season 3 finale clip released by TV Guide. The "cutie mark destiny" song shows sunburned ponies and has Rarity mention it, so apparently I was psychic.
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Hope you had a happy one!
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A week of sun, surf, and sand... Dash is a champion napper, but I wonder if Spitfire even remembers how to relax?
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Patience! One day, one day. New avatar again?
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Glad you found it interesting and many thanks for giving it a shot! The TMP format certainly does have its limits, I'll grant. Each slice has to have a clear point and come to some sort of conclusion or resolution; stringing these tiny fictions together into an ongoing story arc doesn't always work, especially in the early stages. I do think TMP-style pieces work well with episodic fics where each chapter is a self-contained story. With Luna's Librarian, Rustic and Romantic, and Egghead and Featherbrain I've been able to fill in more backstory and little details as I go, thanks to the larger number of chapters. With Flight Suit I haven't gone back to write the prequels yet, so hopefully one day I can fill in those gaps.
2125632 HECK YES
CRYSTAL VINYL FTW
Based on the description this story is finished but it still says "Incomplete". The cover art is absolutely beautiful and I can't wait to read this. Is this story continuing off from "Luna's Librarian" and "The Rustic & The Romantic" or do they continue this story?
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I'll double-check the description, because Flight Suit definitely isn't finished. Dash and Spitfire's relationship will more than likely crash and burn before it's all over, so the question is really whether they can pick themselves afterwards and do what it takes to make this really last.
Flight Suit, Luna's Librarian, and Rustic & Romantic all take place at roughly the same time. You'll see little references to each other in places, like Twilight planning Rarity & Applejack's wedding and signing her name as "Her Royal Highness, the Princess Consort Twilight Sparkle", or AJ & Rarity being together when Luna & Twi take off after Nightmare Night. Officially Flight Suit takes place a little after the others, but there's a good bit of overlap. I haven't written any real crossovers yet, where they all get together and catch up, but I will. There's also this short story which is kind of an epilogue to all three collections.
Maybe this weekend I'll sit down and lay out a chronology, which I haven't yet bothered to do. Mostly I write these from memory and work out the integration during later edits.
Oh, and that cover art is amazing, isn't it? I love celebi-yoshi's style, and when I saw that piece on DA, I asked if I could use it here & happily I got permission. That piece was featured on EQD, too.
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Thank you for the reply. I am starting to find it difficult to keep track as to which stories are in affiliation with each other. I have 30 stories in "Read Later" and over 400 chapters of stories to read in my favorites section. I have made a bunch of groups to organize what it is I want to read. The only reason that I really got into MLP was because of a few PMVs on youtube and then the fanart that was linked to the video. And in just a few weeks I watched all 3 seasons of MLP I have read half a million words of fimfiction.
Sorry about this, I got to rambling...
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It's funny, because I've just always pictured Spitfire with the voice of Claudia Black. The one on the show is fine too, but...
About what I expected from Rainbow^^