Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
Rainbow Dash poured a muzzle-ful of potion down her gullet. Swallowing hard, she shuddered from the bitter aftertaste. A few breaths later, she closed the lid with a rattling sound and screwed it on tight.
"Perhaps a bit of food is in order?" Lancie spoke.
Rainbow's eyes squinted across the way.
A flickering campfire rested between them, crackling and spitting tiny ashes into the dark air. The two were perched on the top of a granite megastructure. A canvas of stars stretched around them on all sides, and the dark air echoed with sporadic shrieks and banshee cries. The world was deathly alive with unsightly things, and this was the safest spot the pegasus could find after a full day of flying.
"I'm sure if I looked hard enough, I could spear something on this rock with less than four legs." He did a double-take. "Oh, right. Pony. No likey likey meat. My bad."
"Mrmmmf..." Rainbow Dash sighed, curling up under a blanket. She stared out at the western horizon as her vision grew blurry and blurrier.
"Reckon he's a real gabber."
She blinked, then glanced over to the side.
Applejack sat a few inches away, looking completely visible in the dead thick of night. "Y'all know just where this Aatxe fella is by now." She shrugged, a glint to her smiling teeth. "Why not just toss this dead weight? You'd fly faster without 'em!"
Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth.
"Of course... if you tried it..." Lancie smirked. "...you didn't have to tell anypony. You could start small, feasting on lizards and mice. I doubt even whatshername—your childhood sweetheart—Shutterfly would mind."
Applejack's brow furrowed. "Ya think my sister could afford ya bein' sagged down by his lonesome hide any longer?"
Rainbow Dash cleared her throat. "Uhm... Lancie...?"
"Hmmm?" The statue looked across the crackling haze of the fire. "What is it, Sparky?"
"Could you..." Rainbow gulped, her eyes growing misty again. "...could you just... I dunno..."
"Gonna spit it out or will I have to squeeze it out of you?"
"...could you talk about stuff?"
The statue blinked. "Like what kind of stuff?"
"And since when did ya put the ramblin' nonsense of puny lawn ornaments above the mare of yer dreams?" Applejack hissed.
Rainbow winced, then broke a tender smile. "Anything, really. Just anything..."
Lancie cocked his head to the side. Gradually, he nodded. "Well... alright then." He cracked his stone talons and scuffled closer to the fire. "Did I ever tell you about the one time I got this bald friend of mine to reevaulate his own life after his mechanical heart exploded?"
"Uhhh... no."
"Let me see if I can remember it..." Lancie murmured, tapping his stone goatee in thought. "...it's a bit foggy." He arched an eyebrow in her direction. "And not because it is a complete and utter fabrication of my own wild imagination."
Rainbow shuddered. As she focused on his face in the firelight, the other mare on the plateau faded away.
"It's okay," Rainbow murmured, stifling a yawn. The traces of a smile lingered on her muzzle. "I don't care if it's made up... just... ramble away."
"... ... ..." Lancie smirked. "As you wish, champ..." He leaned back. "So, there I was, sporting a pretty happenin' silk black robe."
"Uh huh..."
"When my old friend shouts at me, claiming that his other self that I showed him in a vision lacked ambition and inspiration and—above all else—hair..."
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Wouldn't those large monsters notice a flickering fire light in the distance? Or are they too busy murdering each other?
But anyway, it's nice for Lancie to 'help' our little pegasus with his babbles. :3
I wonder if anyone's found that letter yet.
Phantom AJ, DelusionJack, honey.
Weren't you a symptom of the venom?
Why are you still here? Please go away.
If you don't go away, it means Dashies brain went a bit boily with venom and the psychedelic medication she's been chugging.
That's bad, so kindly go back into RD's Id.
Please? I'll make you cookies.
My cookies are delicious.
6324478 You vastly underestimate the collective tentacled disney/wrestlemania themed mass that is JE's concsious.
Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespearean comedy.
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Hmm. I seem to remember that potion she's been drinking is made with spider something-or-other.
I really hope the matriarch-spider venom isn't just exacerbating something that may have been inevitable with her consumption of that arcane concoction anyway.
I kinda hope these hallucinations are going to be some what permanent. It's definitely an interesting concept being constantly taunted by the one you love.
Yeesh.
I wonder how much longer that venom will be in her system. Mixing it with that potion probably doesn't help.
Also, here's to hoping Rainbow reaches Aatxe soon. This trip is already taking a lot of the time out of what they have for Apple Bloom.
Tell her of that one time a game of minigolf ended in a continent sinking.
That's the sweetest friggin' thing.
I swear, these two are my favourite.
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Hhm, thats clever!
By the way, I was just the other day thinking in this fic and I couldn't rembember ; it was in this story in wich something enigmatic have happened betwen Rainbow and Applejack after the grand galloping gala, something that was several times mentioned but never said clearly what was?
Anyway, cool chapters, these interactions between Dash and Lancie are great
Man... I fall behind on this series for a week or two and I miss out on Rainbow kicking flank, monsters, hallucinations, and giant Lord of the Ringsesque spiders. I need to make sure I don't make this mistake twice.
And as a giant nerd, you just made my day JE!
I'm suddenly very intrigued, I just realized most of us assumed at some point Lancie was going to betray Dash, as it currently stands it seems like Lancie actually really likes Dash, and sees her as a good friend. Dash's hallucinations however seem to be driving her into betraying Lancie, she doesn't seem to be giving into them though. You can all insert the "you don't say" meme here, and thank me for the obvious mid plot recap.
6330636 I still think he's gonna betray her... or at least he's going to try very very hard.
and he's going to regret it immediately. And fix things.
I haven't watched enough Star Trek, but this feels like a Picard reference?
(Only guessing because of the hair thing and because it's the one other thing I know De Lancie was in.)
But what he meant was, "I love you."