Chapter 1
The wind in Rainbow Dash's mane, the feeling of the world rushing by her faster than anypony else she knew could manage to even come close to, this was the best feeling in the world to her. This was the exact reason she knew this was what made her argument with Applejack no contest at all. "This is the life, better than that dumb farm Applejack has to work at." She continued to smile to herself as she closed her eyes and tried to perform a simple flip without looking. Her philosophy was to make things more challenging—doing things the simple way just isn't f-
CRASH
"Ow."
She'd managed to botch another trick by not paying attention, but instead of crashingTwilight Sparkle's library, she ended up in the side of Applejack's barn.
"Ah swear ya manage ta mess up more tricks than ya actually pull off Rainbow." Applejack smirked at her with that look she always used when Rainbow made a fool of herself, which, just like Applejack had stated, was quite a lot. She WAS the element of honesty for a reason. Rainbow just leered at her as she slid down the barn and landed upside-down on her head, but Applejack just kept smirking. "What are ya even doin' practicin' over here? Don't you normally practice flying in that field near Twilight's library?"
Rainbow began to right herself and said, "Well yeah, but the few times-"
"Few?" Applejack smiled.
Rainbow glared "Fine, the many times that I mess up, I kept crashing into her tree-library-house-thing. Apparently all her books kept getting knocked on the ground, and her books are more important to her than me getting into the Wonderbolts." She rolled her eyes, "Who even cares about books? They're so boring! All they do is try to teach you stuff that you could go out on your own and learn by DOING anyway!"
"Maybe they'd keep ya from crash landing so much."
"Quit smiling! And why must you always be so sarcastic?"
"Now yer startin' ta sound like Rarity, ya didn't even answer my question." Applejack stopped smiling and looked at her inquisitively "Why are ya practicin' here?"
"Oh yeah, well since her books kept getting knocked off the shelf or whatever, she said I was causing such a mess all the time that I had to either find a new place to practice, or help her clean. And there was no way I was going to clean up if I didn't have to. So I looked for a new place, and your farm is so open!"
"Just try not ta break anything. Ah work hard ta keep things lookin' spiffy 'round here, Ah'd like to keep it that way."
Rainbow started to flap her wings and fly away. "Ugh, fine, now who's sounding like Rarity?"
Applejack just shook her head, the smile back on her face as walked back to her family's house, just having finished the days work on the farm with Big Macintosh; they were going back to eat a nice supper that had already been prepared by Granny Smith. Applejack's smile grew as she thought about the food she was going to eat. "Nothing is as good as Granny Smith's cookin' after a hard day's work, right Big Macintosh?"
"Eeyup"
Applejack chuckled and continued trotting alongside her brother to supper. She looked up and saw Rainbow Dash practicing more of her tricks; Applejack knew that mare was going to end up causing more trouble sooner or later. She always did.
Rainbow mumbled to herself as she practiced a few more of her simple tricks, a little sore from yet another crash landing. "Things would be so much easier if her place was made from a cloud, it wouldn't hurt so much to crash into. Just another reason why Pegasi are the best type of ponies, there's more material for my argument, HAH!" She always knew how to turn something into something else to make her look better. She crashed into something? Their fault for not being a Pegasus. In her mind it made complete sense, if it were anypony else, they would have had a little more common sense in them. After another hour of practicing, she headed over to Twilight Sparkle's place and pounded on the door.
"HEY TWI!" Twilight answered the door and glared at her.
Rainbow just blinked. "What?"
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Never mind, just come in. What do you need?"
Rainbow started to glance around at the library, thinking that there wasn't much anything good to look at. "Nothing." She stuck her tongue at the books, showing just how lame they were. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Twilight watching her and she pulled her tongue back in and put on a big smile.
"Well no offense, but then why are you here?" Twilight went back to her desk to study from her notes more, as she was before she was interrupted for apparently no reason.
"I don't know, I'm bored and Applejack is eating with her family, Fluttershy would just try to get me to talk with animals or something, Rarity would dress me up, and Pinkie is...well...Pinkie. Relaxing is more of the thing I'm looking for after practicing for the Wonderbolts for four hours. So I came here."
"Well I'm studying right now Rainbow. If you want you can grab a snack and wait for Applejack to come by later today."
"Oh cool! AJ's coming? What for?" Maybe Rainbow's boredom would go away with her best friend there.
"Yes, I just said that. And to hang out."
Rainbow frowned, and flopped down on the couch, "But that's just so boring! Why don't we go do something!"
"Why don't you just try it?" Twilight rolled her eyes and continued to read her notes.
"Ugh, fine, I'll go get something to eat."
It seemed like she was the only cool pony around, everypony else was just so boring. "Well, that happens when you're the best and coolest pony ever," she thought to herself. "You can't compete with this, I've got the looks, the athleticism, the talent, the confidence, and everything else!" She stopped and frowned, trying to figure out what she was about to do anyway.
"You were going to get a snack."
Rainbow spun around startled and sputtering, "What...how did you...but...I didn't say that out loud...did I?"
"No, it's a new spell I was practicing on today. Before you came barging in I was practicing a mind reading spell. I must say, it's nice to know that while you aren't talking about yourself, you're still thinking about yourself, Rainbow." Twilight was smiling, it was a little obvious that's what she would be thinking about anyway. It IS Rainbow Dash, afterall.
"That seems like a personal privacy issue to me."
"Well I wasn't expecting anypony till later on, it's going to wear off within a few minutes, I had just finished and was writing down about the spell when you came pounding on the door. By the way Rainbow, you should stop thinking about yourself so much, I daresay that's maybe the reason you crash so much?"
Rainbow blushed. "No of course not!"
Twilight chuckled, "Your lips say no, but your brain is telling me otherwise." She beamed at her rainbow-colored friend.
"Horsefeathers."
Twilight chuckled again, "Go get something to eat, Applejack will be here shortly."
She sulked into the kitchen, grumbling to herself, but soon thought it didn't really matter if Twilight had read her thoughts earlier, all she was doing was thinking the truth. She looked at Twilight over her shoulder and saw her glance up from her work, roll her eyes, and shake her head before looking back down. "That's pretty creepy...this spell better wear off soon," was now her only thought. Twilight told her when the spell wore off so that her thoughts were her own again, and after having something to eat, sat down near Twilight and watched her write notes and study the scroll that she got the spell from.
When the knocking finally came Rainbow shouted, "Finally! Somepony who's actually interesting!" Twilight just shook her head, being used to this type of talk from her friend, and went to answer the door.
"Hey Applejack."
"Well howdy Twilight! And a howdy to you too Ms. Rainbow Crash." The smirking commenced.
Rainbow groaned, "Please don't start with that name again, I barely got rid of it after that competition! And how come I keep getting that look? Both of you keep giving it to me."
The other mares just chuckled. "It's all in good fun sugarcube, we don't mean nothin' by it."
"Rainbow Crash? Did she crash into your place now? Why don't you go somewhere where there isn't somepony's place to crash into?"
"Because then no one could get to watch how awesome I am! I'm just giving ponies the chance to watch the best in action!"
"Is that why ya keep crashin'?" Applejack and Twilight giggled.
"Hardee har har, whatever. So what are we gonna do? Pull pranks on somepony? Truth or Dare?" Rainbow asked with a wicked grin.
Twilight just rolled her eyes, "I already told you, we're just hanging out, probably read a book or two or something like that. You said you would try it so don't whine."
Rainbow closed her mouth as she was just about to retort. "Fine." And she laid down and just thought to herself, "This is gonna be the most boring night of my life."