> A Couple Stories in a Small Town in Equestria > by jnormaldude > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rainbow Dash > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash had just awoken from her slumber, looking around Ponyville on that cloud in which she took a nap on. She decided to do some flying exercises, considering she had the energy at the moment. She started off by flying all around Ponyville, wind soaring through her mane like a wave coming towards an oncoming jet skier, and then she accidentally hit her wing on an old totem pole like statue, looking as if it were staring right at Rainbow. "This right here is a Zebra tribe land marker, signifying where one certain Zebra owns their land," a voice sounding like Cheerilee said, "some legends have also deamed them cursed, but it's probably just a myth." Rainbow thought the same, and decided it would be better if she just went by the hospital, maybe see if the rooms have improved a bit. As she was sitting in the waiting room, she noticed a small brown coated earth pony with an amber mane, kind of looking like he had the flu. Rainbow recognized him as Button Mash, and decided to talk to him a bit. "So, how has Sweetie Belle been?" Rainbow asked him, "Oh, well, I think she may have the same flu," Button said, "her parents are letting us stay in the same bed." Rainbow couldn't resist saying how cute that sounded, but noticed Scootaloo there as well, she didn't want to show too much weakness to her biggest fan. "Oh, that's, uh, very nice." she said, though Scootaloo hadn't noticed her yet somehow, until... "Rainbow Dash, we're ready for you," a nurse said, "What was that?" Scootaloo said, "Just forget about it," a yellow coated pony, Apple Bloom, said. "One moment," Rainbow said to the nurse, Rainbow walked up to the two crusaders who were there, wondering what they were there for. "Hey, Scoots, what's going on?" she said, "Oh, well, I'm just checking up on my friend, Sweetie Belle," Scootaloo had said, "I heard she got some kind of flu," Rainbow noticed that Scootaloo was kind of cuddling with Apple Bloom, which was a tad bit suspicious. Rainbow decided to see what's happening. "Hey, Scoots, why are you cuddling Apple Bloom?" she said, "Oh, haven't you heard?" Scootaloo said, kind of smiling, "Heard what?" Rainbow said, kind of puzzled, as if she missed an episode of a TV show that had something important and fans of that show were talking about that episode. "We're dating!" Scootaloo said, kissing Apple Bloom, Rainbow was actually kind of proud of Scootaloo. It seemed nopony wanted to date her except Rumble, who had already been with her before, so it was kind of obvious she'd ask one of the crusaders. "Well that's nice," Rainbow said, rustling up Scootaloo's mane a bit, "Well, see you later," "See ya!" Scootaloo said, Rainbow followed the nurse into a room that had a doctor in it. He looked young, but still trustworthy, "Uh, what can I do for you?", the doctor said, "I think I broke my wing," Rainbow said, trying to lift it up the wing that had broken, "I'll see about that, we'll need X Rays," he said, After he got done getting the X Rays, he noticed something very odd going on. "You seem to be growing a third wing," he said to her, "WHAT?!" Rainbow said in reply, shocked a bit, "Don't worry, there is a treatment for it," the doctor said "What is it?" Rainbow asked him, shaking him from his shoulders, "You just need to stop heavily flying for a month and eat a banana a day," he said, "Thanks, by the way," she said, "what is your name?" "Christopher," he said. After a while, the third wing started to go back into her body. She decided to stop flying intensely around the areas that had used to be owned by the zebra tribes. She decided to ask Zecora about the third wing, "Hey, Zecora, I need to ask something," Rainbow said, "For what it is, you need to ask, just don't be rude, and don't be crass," Zecora said, "Well, a couple months ago I was flying around Ponyville and I hit my wing on some kind of old Zebra land mark thingy, and I started growing a third wing," she said, "is that some kind of curse?" "For you see, I had a croak, which could only be solved by poison joke," Zecora replied, "What does that have to do with my third wing?" she replied, "Well, as you see, I wasn't trying, but I put some down, where you were flying," "Oh, well, can you get me one of those baths you did last time this happened?" Rainbow asked, "Yes I may, but I must warn, you have just grown, a unicorn horn," Zecora said, Rainbow looked up in excitement, thinking she became an alicorn, but instead, Zecora had put an ice cream cone on Rainbow's head, "A similar thing, to all Zebra folk, is that we love ourselves, a grand old joke. > Button Mash > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Button was walking down the streets of Ponyville, playing on his JoyBoy, wearing his classic propeller hat and adding a new edition with a scarf. Still, it wasn't the best day to be outside for a foal. Flu season had just sprung up, and most of the people getting colds were little colts like him. He decided to maybe just go back home, when he ran across his friend, Rumble, who had gotten the cold, "Oh, hey Rumble," Button said, "What's going on?" "Not much," Rumble said, sneezing afterwards, "Hey, I need to do something," "What?" Button replied, Just before Button could say another word, Rumble had kissed him. This wasn't out of love, however, for he was snickering a bit. Rumble had just given Button the cold. "Well that was... weird," Button said, walking to his marefriend's, Sweetie Belle, house. Sweetie was in her room, combing her hair, when she saw Button walk in, looking a bit out of the ordinary, but whatever. She kissed him as he walked in, not realizing he had the flu. "So, how are you, Button?" Sweetie said, "I don't know," he said, "Rumble kissed me," "Really? You think he's a colt cuddler?" "Probably not, still wants to date Scootaloo," he said, "Speaking of, you probably shouldn't have kissed me, because I don't feel that well," Sweetie Belle then just felt the cold coming on to her. "Now I don't either," Sweetie said, looking kind of similar to Button, "Should we go to the hospital?" "Yes, that'd be good," "Hey, you know what'd be really cute?" "What?" "If we could stay in the same bed while having this cold," Button imediately blushed. "Yes, that'd be nice," After a trip to the hospital, it was confirmed, they were both sick with the flu. "So, what should we do?" Button said, "I guess go back to my place and cuddle," she said, Button blushed. "Yes, lets do so," he said, walking to her house, At her house, she snuggled up in bed with him, blushing intensified her face. She kissed him goodnight, for it was pretty late, and fell asleep. He also, soon after, fell asleep too. The next day they played Minecraft most of the day and ate a bit when given food. They also occasionally kissed, and then, at one point... "Uh, Sweetie, your horn's glowing randomly," Button said, Sweetie looked up, and noticed that her horn was in deed glowing for no apparent reason. It also had a pulling sensation on her forehead. "I've heard about these," Sweetie said, "They're called 'horn boners', I forgot what they're triggered by," Button giggled as he kissed Sweetie, and fell asleep.