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.
"So, let me get this straight..." Rainbow Dash's eyes narrowed while she pressed Silver up against the wall. "Serenity Shindig deliberately and methodically invited each of these guys to her abandoned farmland just so they could take a sip from an Alicorn Chalice and fall into an unconscious haze?!"
"Not unconscious! Er... not precisely!" Silver Shill gulped. "You see, they're all conscious... but on another plane."
"You really expect me to buy that?!" Rainbow snarled.
"But it's true! I... I-I've been there myself!"
"You've what?" Stu Leaves remarked, squinting.
The frail stallion smiled awkwardly at him. "I was one of the f-first test subjects after the Flim Flam brothers excavated the Chalice! According to legend, the alicorns who once populated this world chose to leave this plane hundreds of thousands of years ago via a separate sphere of consciousness! They essentially projected their consciousness to a higher realm! Otherwise, we'd have way more gods and goddesses controlling the heavens other than Celestia and Luna!"
"This is all bunk," Rainbow Dash grumbled. "You're just trying to distract me from a totally uncool crime you've been committing under the nose of all Fillydians for Celestia knows how long!"
"Tell us how to wake up Applejack!" Stu Leaves insisted. "Then we'll go about waking the others!"
"I... I-I can't..."
"Why not?!" Rainbow snarled.
"Because... b-because they can't be woken up once they've drank cider from the Chalice!" Silver Shill gulped. "Not now! The only way they can come back to this plane is if they willfully choose to exit the collective subconscious meeting! But..."
"But what?!"
"Well... it's j-just that Shindig and her sons organized this meeting! And they didn't tell me exactly what they would be orchestrating from beyond the enchanting chalice's influence! All I know is that Shindig sits at the heart of the sphere and Flim and Flam are acting as her buffers—a gateway into the other plane! Since they started this meeting, it goes to reason that only they have the power to stop it!"
"So, what you're saying is..." Stu Leaves rubbed his head, wincing. "They're all sharing some sort of crazy dream now... but only Shindig or her sons can bring an end to it?"
"Well... yes!" Silver Shill nodded. He then blinked, his eyes squinting beneath their thick lenses. "Erm... then again, in theory..."
"What?" Rainbow Dash hoisted him higher in her grip. "What's in theory?!"
"Guh!" Silver Shill winced, his lower legs flailing. "You don't get it! I was a failing research assistant when Frederick and Felix met me! My life was in the pits! They fostered me and gave me a second chance! I owe them everything... everything."
"So, lemme guess..." Rainbow frowned. "...you're not going to help us."
Silver gulped. "I'm sorry... but I've already made my commitment."
"... ... ..."
WHUD! The tiny door to the factory flew open. Rainbow Dash soared out, carrying a screaming Silver Shill in her grasp as she ascended like a rocket towards the blue skies above.
Two seconds later, a stammering Stu flew after her. "Rainbow! Rainbow! Don't—"
"Stay out of this, Stu!" Rainbow was already at cloud level. She tossed Silver Shill to the winds, clapped her hooves together, and dangled him hundreds upon hundreds of feet above Shindig Soils by his scrappy tail. "So, about those commitments of yours," she spat. "How about we talk about 'em?!"
"For the love of Celestia!" Silver Shill's voice cracked. His glasses flew off, sailing past Stu Leaves' panicked figure. He dangled in a twirl from Rainbow's grip of his tail. "Are you crazy?!"
"Says the stallion who willingly drugs ponies and turns them into freaky experiments for his cider-squeezing lords and mistresses!"
"But th-th-they're all part of the 'experiment' as w-well!" Silver Shill whimpered, covering his eyes. "Why would Shindig and her sons partake in something th-that would hurt them?!"
"Maybe because they're more whacked out than a sea serpent vacationing in the desert!" Rainbow hissed. "And besides, if it's so damned harmless, then surely there's a way to get in there and pull Applejack out! Now start talking!"
"Rainbow Dash!" Stu Leaves hovered at eye-level with her, shivering. "You can't just do this! What if he dies?!"
"Hey, that's a good friggin' question!" Rainbow Dash leaned in, speaking beyond her grip of his tail. "What if you die today, buddy? You think they have corrective eye surgery in the Harmonic Fields?"
"I'm n-not turning my back on Frederick and Felix!" Silver Shill whimpered. "I made them a promise!"
"Is it as unbreakable a promise as gravity?" Silver's tail slipped an inch, his whole body jostling. "Cuz the laws of physics are ahead of your cheapskate buddies by about four billion years!"
"Rainbow..." Stu leaned in, grimacing. "I want to bring back Applejack just as much as yo do, but think about what you're doing! You're an Element of Harmony!"
"Stu, I'm Loyalty," Rainbow Dash said, glaring up at him. "'Kindness' stayed at home." She glanced down at the dangling stallion. "Though, if this waste of bones does fall, I'm sorely tempted to try out 'Laughter' for a lonnnng while."
"Okay... okay!" Silver Shill sobbed, clasping his forelimbs together and pleading. "I'll talk! I'll tell you everything I know! I pr-promise!"
"Then what's stopping you?"
He hyperventilated, teary eyes squinting. "The Chalice." He gulped. "Drink from the Chalice, and you'll join them on the plane."
"Pffft. You mean, after all this, you think I'll actually fall for that?!"
"You d-don't get it!" Silver Shill gulped. "Shindig and her sons only planned for four guests! They simply don't have the headspace to handle any more visitors on their plane! They're able to control things just enough from Shindig's sphere of influence, but the Alicorn magic is still a huge mystery to them! It's a mystery to everypony!" He slipped a few more inches and yelped. "Th-th-there's no possible way to wake them from the outside! It's gotta be done from within! So, if we were to join them on the plane, we might be able to bring them back to the waking world!"
"Might?"
Silver Shill bit his lip. "When I had my turn to enter the plane, the only way I could be brought out was by Flim and Flam personally! And... and..."
"And what?"
"Well... for as long as I was in there, I-I didn't want to be brought out!" Silver shuddered. "You have no idea what it's like in there without a firm controlling sphere. All of your dreams come true. It's like heaven in a passing thought! Time slows down and... and you're experiencing pure ecstasy!"
"So what are you saying...?" Stu managed to murmur.
"Your friend Applejack?" Silver shook his upside-down head. "...she may not want to be pulled out of there by this point."
Rainbow Dash took a deep breath... then let go.
Stu Leaves gasped.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiieeeee!" Silver Shill flailed as he plummeted to his death—
FWOOOSH! Rainbow Dash flew underneath the stallion and caught him within a dozen feet of the ground.
"Guh!" Silver shuddered, breathless. He glanced down at the blue pegasus underneath him. "You... y-you caught me?"
"Don't be stupid," Rainbow grunted. "I was always going to catch you."
"Oh... bless you! Bless y—Aaaugh!" He yelped as he was tossed unceremonoiously to the dirty ground. THUD!
Rainbow Dash and Stu Leaves hovered above him.
"Now..." Rainbow Dash leaned in, glaring at Silver Shill's trembling, pale face. "Explain to us how the Chalice works."
"I..." Silver hugged himself, shivering. "I'm not sure I can..."
"Want to go for another flight?"
"Okay! I-I'll try! I'll try!"
"Much better..."
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Man, I'm liking crazy!Dash. A lot. Keep her this way!
Either I have suddenly developed dyslexia, American spelling is messed up (well... I already knew that one...) or there a problem here. And I don't think it was delibrate, either.
No offence to Americans, that was just my sad attempt at humour. Forgive me?
5500414 The correct spelling is 'deliberately'.
As unconventional as this meeting is, it's hard to imagine they won't all be coming out of it. The Shindigs presumably don't want to be in there forever. If they wanted AJ dead, there were simpler ways of accomplishing it. But on the other hoof, they planned on being in there long enough to need to use magic to keep their sleeping bodies healthy, and what was the need to hold it on that plane anyway?
Actually, we do know AJ comes out okay. Future Scoots basically said so. Kind of kills the tension, doesn't it?
I don't think there has ever been a viewpoint character other than Rainbow Dash or Scootaloo, so we won't find out what happening in there until AJ gets out—or Rainbow Dash goes in.
Rainbow Dash = Good Pegasus (because she got him to talk)
Stu Leaves = Bad Pegasus (because Shill wouldn't have talked if he had his way)
Stu... if you're not careful, Rainbow's liable to lay the pain on you if you keep getting in her way...
Anyone else up for some stu stew at the moment?
Into the mind RD goes, will she come out (if ya know what I mean) nobody knows...
All of your dreams?
... You're screwed, Rainbow. Figuratively. And then, if you're lucky, literally.
This is getting serious, man! I have a feeling we may have a few confessions being made in this other plane of existence...yesss, excellent
Next chapter has to be titled I'm the Mare With the Gun
Rainbow enters and things get trippy. I wonder if Just Essay can confuzzle us and still make the story any bit coherent. I wonder if he should try.
Well, this isn't drunken kung fu Dashie... but I have no complaints!
Although Honestly, I think she should've threatened a Generous ass-whupping first. It would've been simply Magic!
RD showing her inner Jack Bauer.
A gratuitous anti-Austraeoh reference. This flatly contradicts its cosmology. Yet Daring Do discovered the Urohringr symbol. Well, maybe this “legend” isn't actually true. And what would be the significance of that fact?
RD is going to enter and see a literal sea of freckles and apple pony.
This is why I love Dash.
Rainbow Dash scares me.
Eyup.
Well, it seems Rainbow's dreams will come true.
This is an awesome line.
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Thank you for now making me fear for their lives. You are truly an amazing person.
As for the "deliberately," that was the joke. Autocorrect screwed me over and made me look like an idiot instead. Thank you, Apple, for your truly idiotic ideas of spelling.
This is great. Dash has every right to be angry.
This is how we can justify hating stu, at the first opportunity he thinks of taking advantage of applejack, dash however, has had many opportunities to take advantage but doesn't because she respects applejack. So screw you stu.
Oh my.. If they're in a collective consciousness...
Answers.. To what's in the hat..?
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Well, the author has already created at least three completely different cosmologies/creation myths (End of Ponies, Background Pony, and Austraeoh), so a fourth one is not implausible.
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When did Stu want to take advantage of Applejack?
5508309 just me reading into things too much
RD should have threatened, "Oh good idea, let's get Princess Celestia involved in this. I'll send for her right now. Hmm, or maybe it would be better to call on Princess Luna, you know, Nightmare Moon!"
Silly villain plan is silly. After Applejack drank from the chalice, she fell immediately to the ground. Does this mean that all of the bakers came on their own and all decided to drink from the chalice inside that creepy old mill? None of them came with anyone else to see them fall unconscious and freak out? Did Flim and Flam expect multiple folks to drink from the chalice at the same time? What were the chances that this would go off without a hitch? What if someone brought a drink with them and decided they weren't in the mood for cider? Now I love me some Appledashery and am willing to suspend my disbelief in this crazy pony romance fan fiction. I'm just saying Cinemasins would be all over that shit.
Is it wrong that I thoroughly enjoyed this chapter?
Seeing Dash get serious like this is amazing.
6440468 not at all. I saw this coming the moment AJ was knocked out cold.
Rainbow has entirely run out of fucks.