//------------------------------// // Fast as lightning // Story: Boast Busters // by TheKing2001 //------------------------------// White Lightning yawned as she rolled over in bed, wincing at the sun coming through the window as she shifted closer to the sleeping form of her wife before slipping out of the bed and onto her hooves. She paused and admired Sprinkle snoring quietly, messy mane look and all. Most ponies said they would never really work out because of their similar personalities but White Lightning preferred to give those ponies the feather. It had been nine years strong since they had first gotten together and had only minor problems here and there. Definitely not as bad as others lead her to believe. She doesn’t talk to those ponies anymore. She trotted quietly to the door and opened the door slowly, wincing when it squeaked. She’d have to get somepony to come fix it in the near future, maybe Blossomforth. She was good at engineering, even if she had a flower cutie mark. White trotted into the bathroom, half shutting the door behind her and stepped into the shower and she shut the glass door, turning the hot water on and dropping her head, closing her eyes as she felt the warm water run down her back. She started humming a song she long since forgot the words to as she started running conditioner into her coat to get the shine she worked hard for before scrubbing her wings and hind quarters. “Should probably get between my hindlegs as well,” White grumbled to herself as she reached for more soap. “Not too fond of dried on cum. Makes walking in public awkward, especially with the smell. And I’m talking in the shower to myself. Again. Only crazy ponies do that stuff.” She finished scrubbing herself off, shutting the water off and stepping out with a faint smile, drawing a smiley face on the glass mirror. She tossed the towel into the basket, trotting to her fridge and started pulling eggs and pancake mix from the day before. “Want help?” White Lightning looked up a tired looking Sprinkle Medley in the door as White set down a pan and turned the stove on. “Thought you were still asleep?” White pointed out as she shrugged before kissing Sprinkle. “You taste like strawberries and smell like well-” “I know,” Sprinkle interrupted with a blush and tried to straighten her messy mane. She shrugged and trotted to the fridge, opening it and drank from the orange juice container. “You’re lucky your family isn’t here. They’d be so mad if you did that in front of your dad,” White pointed out as Sprinkle snorted and wiped off some orange juice from her chin with a hoof. “True. Now do you want help?” Sprinkle nuzzled White before stepping next to her. “Did you seriously just make my face with the pancake batter?” “Yes ma’am,” White said proudly and fluttered her wings with a grin. “Aren’t I best wife in all of Equestria?” “I’m pretty sure that title goes to me. Also, I’m pretty sure Minuette and Sassaflash would fight you for that honor,” Sprinkle pointed out and rolled a hoof before resting a wing on White’s back. “But yes, you’ll always be the best to me.” “Likewise,” White winked and leaned into the wing hug. “Now come on, let’s make breakfast because I’m hungry after last night.” “I call the strawberry syrup!” Sprinkle flung a hoof in the air and White rolled her eyes. “Oh, my parents want us to come visit in a few months in Norage.” “Oh boy.” “My reaction exactly. I love my parents and all, but Watermelody is a bit much. I’m hoping my sister got her dramatics out at her acting college she attended. That mare is going places. I tell you, we’re gonna see her on Bridleway one day,” Sprinkle mused with a fond smile. “Putting ten bits down on it.” “I’ll add to it. Your sister was quit uh entertaining to say the least,” White commented as Sprinkle got down glasses and plates. “Wasn’t she dating what’s his face?” “She’s dated a lot over the years. You’re gonna have to be more specific love.” “The guy who liked sticks.” “Mudbriar?” Sprinkle asked and Whitey nodded enthusiastically. “Oh stars, they broke up ages ago. Thank the sun for that one. He was a bit uh unique. I don’t think I’ve ever met anypony who had a stick thing like he did. He was nice though, I’ll give him that. In his own, weird unique way that seemed sweet. Certainly got Water’s attention for something.” “I know what it was. She was quite uh, honest about their sex life,” White said and the two blushed. “She was also twelve glasses of vodka in when she said that. She’s normally super sweet.” White Lightning nodded idly and placed a pancake on Sprinkles plate. She faintly remembered the night that conversation happened since it was the night she had been proposed to and Sprinkle had told her family after she had said yes. Which unsurprisingly led to Watermelody insisting on them taking shots with her to celebrate. “We should hurry up. Trixie asked us to perform in her magic show by flying overhead and we should probably get some practice in,” White Lightning commented with a small smile. She didn’t know much about the unicorn but she did know she saved Equestria and saving Equestria was a pretty good thing in her eyes. “Gonna try a Rainboom.” “Good luck. Only pony I know who managed one was Rainbow Dash allegedly as a filly.” “I know. Allegedly,” White reminded her. “The only witness was Butter Rye.” Sprinkle paused and gave White a confused look. “Who?” “You know, that yellow pegasus on the edge of town with all the animals and the butfer fly cutie mark,” White Lightning explained as Sprinkle burst out laughing. “What? What’s so funny?” “Her name is Fluttershy!” Sprinkle giggled and fell on her back. “You really thought her name was Butter Rye! Oh, sweet Celestia that’s hilarious.” White Lightning whapped her with a wing and blushed. I’ll never live this down, she thought and rolled her eyes as Sprinkle continued laughing. “You want us to what?” Sprinkle repeated in stunned silence as Trixie rolled her eyes in frustration. “Do one of those rolls thingies I hear the Wonderbolts do all the time,” Trixie rolled a hoof as the two pegasi looked at each other. “Triple barrel roll followed by us flying into the sun with water on our wings and shaking it off to create a rainbow,” White answered for Trixie. “We can set up near the hill over there and get water on hooves and fly back. This is easy for us, no problem.” “Excellent!” Trixie flung a hoof up in the sky with a grin before levitating her cape and hat on. “The Great and Powerful Trixie is grateful. When the first firework is launched will be cue.” The two nodded and hoof bumped Trixie before flying off to the side of the lake that the two had visited multiple times. “Remember when we first started dating and snuck out of our houses to meet up over here?” Sprinkle asked and nudged White Lightning as the two watched from a distance. “I do. I also remember Crescent Wrench accidentally trotting up and catching us with your head between my haunches. I’ve never seen him so embarrassed in all my life. He galloped away so fast, he forgot he could teleport!” The two laughed and yawned in unison as White dipped her hoof in the lake, drawing a circle with it. “We should bring Cotton Cloudy here in the summer if First Response is willing to come visit again like last year,” Sprinkle mused and tucked her forelegs under her. “I’d like that,” White Lightning admitted as she stretched her wings and started her pre flight stretches that she always did. “There’s the firework. Let’s go!” Sprinkle chuckled slightly and followed White’s example of dunking her hooves and forelegs in the lake before taking off after White, forming on her left wing. The two flew rapidly to the stage where Trixie was watching with a grin and White jerked her head subtly to the left and the two started a slow roll to the left as Sprinkle faintly identified all of Ponyville below. The two finished the their third roll before shooting up into the sky and shook the water off their hooves in front of the sun, causing a rainbow as the pair shot back down and Sprinkle gave White Lightning a wide berth. White Lightning continued flying faster at the ground as tears welled up in the corner of her eyes and air started forming a cone around her as she continued increasing speed and a loud roaring sound followed her. “Oh sweet Celestia!” White Lightning screamed as she flew inches over the stunned townponies, blowing some hats aside and knocking over Dinky off Roselucks back. “Woah,” Sprinkle whispered as she stood behind a stunned Trixie as White Lightning did a loop and flew back towards the pair with the largest grin. “That was incredible!” Trixie cheered and hugged Sprinkle. “She was amazing!” “Did you see me?” White Lightning tackled the two in a hug. “I’m amazing!” “That was awesome,” Sunset conceded as she and the others stepped up behind them. “I’ve never seen anything like that in all my life. Ever think of joining the Wonderbolts? The two of you?” “I’ve never seen such synchronized flying in all my life,” Silverspeed agreed as she blushed. “Can I uh have your autograph? Please?” “You see me everyday,” White Lightning pointed out sheepishly. “I’m just as normal as you and besides, you helped save Equestria. If anything, I should be asking for your autograph.” “At least Trixie is happy. Happiest I’ve seen her recently,” Derpy noted with a smile as Trixie signed a colts hat before posing next to a filly. “I suppose we owe you two a lot for that. Trixie’s been pretty depressed recently. Where’s Wild at anyway?” Roseluck and Shoeshine both shared a grin that Derpy and the others missed. Wild galloped through the field screaming and narrowly avoided a lightning bolt that Raindrops sent flying at him from the thunder cloud she was pushing after him. “Stop!” He screamed and Raindrops giggled, sending another lightning bolt at him before she doused him with rainwater, pointing at her cutie mark of three rain drops proudly. “Oh out and about is all,” Shoeshine said casually as she leaned against a wall. “Out and about.” For some reason, Derpy didn’t entirely believe her.