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.
I tweaked and rotated the wheel of my scooter until it spun true again. With a breath of relief, I planted the thing back on the ground and pushed it back and forth in my forelimbs. Sure enough, the vehicle was gliding straight again. I don't think the waking world was ready for the intense moan of frustration I was going to let out at having to squat down and repair the darn thing again.
It still didn't change the fact that it was a lazy, lazy Saturday. With bored breaths, I glared across the windswept fields outside Ponyville. Every jump and ramp—I had practically memorized by then. I was starting to wonder if the village and everything surrounding it was starting to run out of pizazz. I pondered going to knock on Sweetie Belle's door, or stumbling upon the front gate to Sweet Apple Acres to see what Apple Bloom was up to.
Instead, I just stood there, leaning against my scooter, feeling the warmth of the morning sun roll slowly over me. I had a lot of sighs to give, and ultimately found myself staring at the dirt and gravel underhoof.
It was then that her shadow darted by, and my ears tickled to her cracking voice. "Why so glum, kiddo?" she chirped. "Any filly within spitting distance of a killer set of wheels shouldn't be frowning, y'know!"
I about ripped my muzzle muscles apart with the force of my instant smile. "Rainbow Dash!" I twirled to look up at her. She orbited me and the hill I was on in a low, lazy glide. "I... I didn't see you!"
"Most ponies don't." She winked. "It's not their business to." She twirled, landed in a grind, and came to a stop just inches from me and my scooter. "What's up, kid?"
"You're up! Or... at least you were." I couldn't help but giggle. I could never help it. "Where've you been, Rainbow Dash?" I hadn't expected to blurt that question out, and it made me wince slightly. "I mean... y-you haven't been around lately, and... uh... I was starting to get worried."
"Didn't I give you heads up?" She arched an eyebrow, smirking. "I was heading south with Applejack and her friend to do some cider business!"
I gulped. "Oh yeah. Right." I gazed down at the grass. "Stupid me."
"Hey." She tilted my chin up with a blue hoof. "None of that, now. Have you been exercising your wing muscles?"
"Err... yeah. Why?"
Her teeth glinted in the sun, and I could almost see my reflection in her smile. "Cuz I can think of a certain filly who deserves more flight training!"
My hear leapt through my chest. "Really?!"
"Yup!"
"You're not super tired from your long trip or nothin'?"
"Hehe! Nope!" She rested a hoof on my shoulder. "And boy do I have a doozy of a story to tell you, too!"
"What, did you run into danger down south?"
"And how." Rainbow chuckled. "Evil psychopaths. Dreamy explosions. A whole fantasy world." She brightened. "I even met best pony!"
"Heeheehee! But Rainbow Dash! You're best pony!"
"Ehhhh..." She waved a hoof, smirking. "I like to keep it a trade secret."
"Pffft! No you don't!"
"Guilty as charged."
"Hehehehe!" I fumbled forward. That was a good enough excuse. I found myself hugging Rainbow close, nuzzling her fuzzy chest. "I'm so glad you're back, Rainbow."
"It's great to be back, kiddo," she said, squeezing my shoulder. "Super great."
"Mmmhmmm..." A happy breath escaped my nostrils, followed by another. I leaned back to return to my scooter, but I didn't go anywhere. It took me a few blinks to realize that Rainbow Dash was still hugging me. In fact, I would have ventured to guess that she was hugging me harder than I had ever hugged her. "Uhhhh... Rainbow Dash? Is everything okay?"
"Yeah, kid," she said, more like breathed. I felt the slow, delicate flutter of heartbeat through her warm chest. She stared past me, and my peripheral vision caught the hint of a placid smile. It was if Rainbow had fallen from a great height and had landed at the last second. I was a little bit worried at first, until I heard the steady vibrations in her voice: "Everything's super okay. About as okay as they've ever been."
"Erm... good?" I smiled awkwardly.
"Nope. Not good." She leaned back and stared at me, fluffing my mane. "Awesome." She flexed her wings. "Now... let's earn you those feathers, right?"
I giggled and took her hoof. "Roger."
She gripped my fetlock and the two of us soared skyward into the morning air.
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You know what? I'm alright with this. Appledash is dead, long live Scoootalove.
Makes me wonder what skirts did today.
Daww.
I'm always down for some Scootalove, but Rainbow's starting to freak me out a little. She's starting to give off someone-who's-making-peace-with-their-terminal-illness vibes.
Wow. No wonder Scoots is the one telling the story. She's the only pony RD's been herself with! I mean, she's been confiding in Flutters, Lancie, and now Epcot, but who's the one filly she's been her daredevily overconfident fuzzy self with?
Yay, Scoots! Looking forward to seeing more of every ponyville pony now that RD is back home.
I can't . . . Stop smiling! !!!
My face hurts . . .
I'd honestly be okay with this ending here.
5960193
I would for about two minutes, before remembering that:
1) There has yet to be snuggles.
2) I'd remember that if this ends, there would be no more updates to look forward to.
5960244
We were promised snuggles and we are yet to find out whats inside AJ's hat or who's in her heart. Besides, theres the whole thing about Rainbow's sickness and how she's going to deal with it.. How the mane six especially AJ are going to deal with it.
5960193
I'll agree that with the way this chapter is written, it would make for a good ending, but there's the whole plot with Lancie that wouldn't be finished or the whole 'bad buys are coming to ruin everyone's day' thing that's about to happen any minute that wouldn't get resolved.
5960096
Scootalove is always great to see in a RD fic, but you're right RD's behavior does seem a bit too much like giving up and accepting things for how they are. On one hand, it would be nice to see some progress in regard to her illness. Perhaps she could finally come clean to her friends? On the other hand, this whole giving up on everything - even Applejack - is quite out of character for our brash and awesome pegasus.
Wow. Beautiful.
5960193 Go hug a telekinetic squirrel with tesla coils while the rest of us wonder what more could have happened! Oh, wait... nevermind. Too much glimmer glimmer...
Simon...
Not really liking the whole 'Lets keep calling Epcot best pony until it sticks' routine to be honest. She's a nice interesting character but breaking the 4th wall kinda takes away from the story a bit. At least for it does.
5960431
Yes! Yesyesyesyes! I completely forgot about that! Thank you, you marvellous person. From this point on I shall not lose faith - is it bad to be really glad that Dash has a crippling illness? It is, isn't it? Ah well...
Silly FIMFic is broken, it won't let me like this each chapter. So, have a yay?