AN: I renamed Derpy for the sake of this fic, so just remember that for this particular story Aqua=Derpy and we'll be good

Also, I'm not sure how many chapters I'm going to make this but if you want more story, all you have to do is ask. I'm even open to plot suggestions, if you want to get really hands-on. Anywho, enjoy :)

A young, blond-haired pony walked somewhat apprehensively towards the town hall. She had been asked to clear clouds today, likely due to the fact that so many other pegasi were busy with other preparations for Applejack's big send off, or else had their hooves full with something else entirely. That had to be the reason she was asked, since she was so awful at cloud clearing, flying, and really anything that was supposed to come naturally to a pegasus. As she neared the town hall she spread her grey-feathered wings and took off towards the building's peak.

At first things went well, she had no trouble clearing the wispy white clouds she was faced with, and she relaxed a little, enjoying the warm sun and the feeling of the wind ruffling her fur and feathers. She let her mind and her eyes wander, looking down at all of the unicorns and earth ponies excitedly decorating in celebration of the best rodeo pony in all of ponyville. She watched Rose and Daisy as they decorated the stage with their flower arrangements right up until she smacked face-first into a storm cloud. After righting herself and flying back up towards the cloud, she saw that the impact had sent a bolt of lightning straight into the peak of the town hall, leaving a very noticeable mark that nopony would be too pleased to see, especially today.

She racked her brain, trying to remember the best way to handle these awful storm clouds. What angle was she supposed to go at it from again? How was she supposed to move it? Could she break it up without causing more damage? She had seen other pegasi break these up before, easily in fact, so she flew up above it and decided to give it another shot.

Once again, she bounced right off of it, sending another bolt flying. Before she even had time to wonder what she'd hit this time, she got her answer in the form of an angry pony with a singed rainbow tail flying towards her.

"Careful Derpy. You don't want to do any more damage than you've already done." Rainbow Dash gestured to the small hole in the tower, indicating that she had seen her previous blunder too.

"I'm sorry Rainbow" the flushed pegasus stammered. "I- I just don't know what went wrong". She looked away, too embarrassed to even face Ponyville's unquestioned top flyer. Even her words were embarrassing, of course she knew what went wrong. What went wrong is that a clumsy, scatterbrained, poor excuse for a pegasus was asked to clear clouds and she couldn't even manage that simple task.

"Yeah, it's a mystery". Rainbow rolled her eyes and flew back over to the banner she was hanging. She, of course, could manage all of her tasks with ease, and certainly without breaking anything. The blond pegasus slowly flew over to her, hoping to maybe make amends, and decided a compliment might help.

"Nice work Rainbow Dash" she said as she flew around the banner to admire it. As she flew backwards, eyes darting between the banner and the pony who's favor she was trying to win, she smacked into a beam hard enough to knock it loose and send it crashing down. As she watched Rainbow Dash try unsuccessfully to stop the beam and saw it and her crash through the floorboards of the balcony below all she could do was hover in place, horrified and mortified. She slowly descended and landed on the balcony in front of the newly-created gaping hole.

"You ok Rainbow Dash?" she called downward. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

Rainbow flew straight up out of the hole and hovered right in the thoroughly ashamed pony's face. "No! Nothing! In the name of Celestia, just sit there and do nothing! In fact, why don't you just go down there, plant your hooves firmly on the ground, and stay there for a while? I think the rest of us will be able to get everything done up here without you."

The grey pony sighed. "Sorry Rainbow." She spread her wings and returned to the ground, trotting off with her head down to avoid the eyes of any pony that happened to see her make a fool of herself.