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 rummaged through the branches of a pine tree. She looked up... down... left and right. At last, there was a patch of scurrying movement. Rainbow squinted into an array of intersecting branches. There, she spotted a bushy tail and a pair of beady-eyes glinting back at her.
Rainbow pointed her hoof at the figure, then raised a clipboard to her lips. She drew an additional hash-mark across the sheet... then dove off the tree.
Fwoooosh! Rainbow joined Fluttershy on the ground of the Ponyville park where she was sliding beads across an abicus.
"Found eight more," Rainbow said, waving the clipboard. "Three in the thicket, four in the bushes, and one in the pine tree up there."
"Oh, how wonderful!" Fluttershy smiled, sliding another bead across. "At this rate, I'll be able to feed the otters by sundown!"
"Yeah, well, there's still the southwest end of the park to cover."
"There aren't many trees there," Fluttershy said. "It shouldn't take much longer." She looked up with a grin. "Thank you so much for helping me accomplish the annual Ponyville Squirrel Census, Rainbow. Who knew you had such an eye for finding bushy-tailed rodents?"
"Yeah, well..." Rainbow Dash coughed, then looked over her shoulder. "It wasn't exactly a talent I was born with."
Fluttershy giggled.
Rainbow squinted. "What?"
"I'm just trying to imagine you with a squirrel for a cutie mark." Fluttershy covered her grinning muzzle. "Strangely appropriate."
"Yeah...?" Rainbow slid a pen behind her ear and smirked curiously. "In what way?"
"Well, sometimes, if I squint really hard... I can imagine you as a fuzzy blue squirrel with a rainbow tail."
"Eugh..." Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Fluttershy, I swear. You're as weird as they get."
"Maybe it's because you're so fuzzy and pet—"
"Don't you start."
"Erm... r-right." Fluttershy nervously picked up her abicus and began strolling towards the southwest edge of the park. "Still, it is nice of you to help out. I would have asked Big Macintosh, but..."
"But what?" Rainbow followed her with the clipboard.
"He's been super busy as of late."
Rainbow arched an eyebrow. "Coltfriend problems, Flutters?"
"Oh no." Fluttershy shook her head with a grin. "He just has to pull double-time today and tomorrow at the farm ever since Applejack—" Her pupils shrank and she bit her lip.
"... ... ...ever since Applejack what?"
"Oh! Uhhhh... look, Rainbow!" Fluttershy pointed high at the nearest branches. "There's a whole family up there! Including Albert! Have you ever seen an albino squirrel?"
"Is Applejack okay?!"
"Rainbow, I-I thought you came here so that you would—"
"She's not sick or anything—?!"
"Oh, goodness, no!" Fluttershy shook her head. "She's merely having a... a..." She grimaced.
"... ... ..." Rainbow Dash blinked. "A date."
"Well..." Fluttershy fidgeted. She blew a lock of pink hair out from before her face. "What's in a word? Things... are up to interpretation, after all."
Rainbow clenched her eyes shut. She shook in place.
"Uhm... Rainbow?" Fluttershy winced. "Are.... are you going to be okay?"
At last, Rainbow relaxed with a sigh. "...of course, Flutters. After all..." She flapped her wings. "I've got squirrels to count." FWOOOOOOOOOOSH! She soared into the treetops with the force of an exploding rocket.
"Rainbow! Please! Not so fast—!" Fluttershy winced as a resounding THUDDDD emanated from the trees. The air filled with angry barking, and two squirrels fell from a great height. "Eeep!" Flinching, Fluttershy darted left and right, catching the angry rodents in her soft embrace. She sighed, nuzzling them so that they calmed down. "Thank Celestia I didn't ask her help in the annual Porcupine Round-Up..."
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Yeah.. then she could forget about being a master flyer, she'd be a master pincushion.
A bit of acupuncture might do her some good though.
Edit: I'm so happy at how many people seem to remember where that master pincushion joke is from.
Get used to it Rainbow. Stop acting like a sore loser baby and go on another 50 chapter long adventure! We all know no Appledash is happening, so go fight some bad guys!
Please tell me Applejack and Stu won't accidentally rub it in Dash's face that they're "together."
Truthfully, I don't even think I'm over the Applejack and Stu thing yet, I still feel a jab in my gut everytime they're implyed as being together.
6853145 Oh you know they will
The thing is, I'm glad that Applejack is happy, but, where is the friggin letter, and whats in the friggin' hat!?!?!?!?
Seriously, its been more than a hundred chapters.
~ADG
Oh no... the flashbacks... The Moose is Loose! But with squirrels. Russian Squirrels instead of Canadian Moose.
It seems to me that Rainbow has two choices. Either she goes for it, and tells Applejack how she feels. Or, if she's determined to be a "good friend", then she actual acts like one, and support AJ. She's trying to have her cake and eat it too... except the opposite.
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It's more like she really wants to eats her cake and have it too, but never even accepted to have it when it was offered. And even now, when the cake was given to somebody else, she wants to eat it desperately.
She really should have just eaten the cake.
Why didn't you eat the cake Rainbow Dash?
As I described this to someone recently: "It's an experience to read."
(Also, you keep saying abicus when I think you mean abacus.)
Meh. So much meh
6853145 this is short skirts and torturing dash explosions were talking about. Of course they will.
This doesn't sound very good - Rainbow Dash needs to at least get it out eventually, or she'll break. Oh, wait, that's already happening. Over and over again.
...Where is Lancie?
6853145 The best way of predicting the next chapter is by these kind of comments. Because we don't want it to happen, and JE knows we don't want it to happen, and we know that JE will do it anyway, and JE knows that we'll keep on reading regardless, and thus the cycle continues as nature intended.
In my country we have a term, "Tatu capataz", armadillo foreman. As tatu is also a slang for female genitalia, the term is used for a person who, while not being together with the woman, makes sure other interested people don't get to be together with her.
Rainbow doesn't eat the apple and doesn't want others to eat it either.
Ah, 'tis time or Rainbow to fulfill her destiny as whipping horse.
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You aren't the only one...
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Aaaand you jinxed it. Thank you so much. When the AppleStu gets mashed into every orface of our faces, I'm blaming you. (*takes shelter from the oncoming storm*)
Rainbow's cutie mark should've been a Voltorb.
Because the only move she knows is self-destruct.
6854735 Hope I'm not seeming rude but...
*orifice
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Not rude at all. I often miss a letter or two by accident but catch it when I read over it. I missed that one. Thanks!
My first thought was that she's feeding the squirrels to the otters.
Fuzzy blue squirrel!
Poor Dashie... There's no escaping the Stu.
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