Author's note: I'm glad that so far this story is being enjoyed, I hope you like where this goes. This chapter is a little more lighthearted than it's predecessor, and focuses on the friendship of Johnathan and Rainbow Dash beginning to grow by them getting to know each other. Also, interestingly enough. As this story is about getting a toy in the mail, Spitfire and Soarin' from the same line as Rainbow Dash in the story just arrived in the mail! They accompany her along with my other figures nicely, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Queen Chrysalis, and Cheese Sandwich. If anyone at Hasbro is reading this, keep that line up huh? Big Mac would be nice.
Chapter Two: Ice breakers
Part of me still expected to wake up and find out that all the events of the day before had been a dream, sure enough, they weren't. My family was still away, my package did arrive, and the contents were alive and flying around my room. As I woke up and rolled out of bed, Rainbow Dash noticed me.
"Well look who's finally awake." She smirked, hovering about five feet away. "Was wondering when you'd be up."
"Good morning to you too." I yawned standing up. "How long have you been up?" I asked.
"Couple hours now." She said. "Didn't want to wake you, you were sleeping like a baby, a big, kind of grumpy baby." I cocked my eyebrow and looked at her.
"That's not what I look like when I sleep, and don't watch me sleep. Anyway, confinement time is over, feel free to explore." I opened the door and went downstairs to make breakfast, I heard the sound of little wings flapping behind me. Rainbow Dash eventually was hovering over my shoulder when she caught up to me.
"So like, who are you?" She asked. "You never told me your name."
"My name is Johnathan." I told her.
"Nice name." She said.
"Thanks, got it for my birthday." I snickered. The conversation was pretty much over there, I was silent, she was silent, the whole thing was still a little awkward I guess. I prepared my coffee and buttered some toast and sat down to eat. Rainbow Dash just hovered around the kitchen, looking around at things, pictures on the fridge, recipe books, she stopped and posed looking at her reflection on the toaster. I couldn't help but chuckle a little watching that.
"Something funny?" She asked me hearing my snicker.
"Yeah, you." I said. "I was just watching you and the toaster."
"So that's what this is, I just thought you had a tiny mirror." She said.
"Nope." I snickered.
"Make you feel good? Making fun of somepony because they aren't used to their surroundings?" She said sarcastically.
"One of my favorite activities." I smirked.
"Oh quiet." She said. "Tell me about yourself."
"You want me to be quiet or to tell you about myself?" I said with a sarcastic tone.
"Okay smarty-pants." She groaned. "You know what I meant."
"Alright alright, well, let's see..." I began. "I'm in high school, on my last year actually. I like to draw, I can play percussion." I explained.
"What's that?" She asked.
"It's a fancy word for drums." I summed it up.
"Oh, cool!" She said. "What else?"
"Well, I've got a mom, a dad, and a little brother." I said. "They're away for the weekend. I've got a couple friends, Matt and Carla."
"Girlfriend? You're a teenager with a pony toy so probably not." She smirked.
"That pony toy can be sent back, I've got the stamps." I sneered at her remark. "But no, no girlfriend."
"Boyfriend?" She asked.
"I like girls." I said quickly. "Anyway, new topic." She chuckled, seeing see struck a nerve. "What about you?" I asked.
"What's to know? I'm a toy." She said. "My purpose is to be played with by a kid until they get tired of me, break, or loose me."
"Well when you put it that way it's pretty depressing." I remarked.
"That's my lot in life." She said.
"Yep, it's not a lot but it's your life." I joked.
"Ha." She said dryly.
"You know, I gotta admit." I began. "When I first saw that you were a toy come to life, I figured you'd act a bit different." I said.
"How so?" She asked.
"Well, your personality is still very much that of Rainbow Dash from the cartoon, but I thought that you'd-"
"Think I actually was the Rainbow Dash?" She asked, taking the words right from my mouth.
"Yeah pretty much." I nodded, taking a sip of coffee.
"Watch Toy Story as a kid didja?" She asked.
"That's where I got all my toys-to-life knowledge from." I nodded. "Wait, you spent the first half of your existence in a warehouse, in a box, how would you even know what that was?" I asked.
"Our box was next to a box of Buzz Lightyears, nice guys, little too macho for my taste." She explained, I guess her ego is enough, she looks more into someone pathetic to even the scales.
"Ah." I nodded. "That explains it, so what are the rules?" I asked.
"Huh?" She asked.
"What can come to life and what can't?" I asked.
"Okay first off, we don't come to life, we pretend to be objects." She corrected. "And to answer your question its toys, dolls, plush toys, things like that, then you've got your run of the mill bust, statue, or garden gnome, nope." She shook her head.
"And why's that?" I asked.
"I dunno, why are you alive?" She asked.
"Touche." I nodded. "So like, no eating or drinking?" I asked.
"None. Where would it go right?" She asked rhetorically.
"Good point." I said. Suddenly, my phone buzzed. I checked the message on the screen, it was an unknown number, 555-5469 to be exact. The text read: "Hey Johnathan! trying 2 study for that test this week and I can't understand it! I know UR pretty smart, wanna study w/ me sometime? It's Marie BTW." No way.
"No way..." I gasped. Rainbow Dash looked quizzically at me.
"What?" She asked.
"Oh uh... Nothing." I said. "Sure! Would love to... where and when? Also, how did you get my digits?" I texted back. I saved the number in my phone and put it away in my pocket.
"Didn't look like nothing." Rainbow Dash said.
"It's nothing that concerns you." I replied.
"Aw c'mon, who am I gonna tell?" She asked. "Listen, we're trying to be friends, right? Friends share with friends!" She haggled.
"Just... a friend of mine." I said. She didn't believe me, I could tell by the look on her little plastic face.
"Right." She said sarcastically. "Look, don't ever credit me on being the brightest, but I can tell when someone is lying."
"I'm telling the truth, Marie is a friend of mine." I said.
"Is she?" She smirked. "You didn't tell me about her when you told me about your other friends." She said slyly.
"Must've slipped my mind." I said.
"Mhm, sure." She said. Suddenly my phone buzzed again. I checked to see what it said.
"Digits? R U from the 90's? LOL! And I got UR # from Clara, knew U 2 were friends. How about Ms. Cooper's room Tuesday lunch? :)" She texted. My silly, juvenile, love-struck heart beat rapidly.
"Works for me!" I replied, putting the phone away.
"What's that sound?" Rainbow Dash asked. I looked at her quizzically.
"What sound?" I asked.
"Sounds kinda like a 'ka-thud!' 'ka-thud!' Don't you hear it?" She smirked, flying up to about an inch from my chest. "There it is!" She pointed at my chest, in which sat my hard beating heart.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"Your heart! Ticker! Blood tomato!" She exclaimed, blood tomato's a new one...
"Oh, that?" I looked down. "Too much caffeine I guess."
"Yeah right." She snickered.
"Look, it's really nothing you need to-" My phone buzzed. "Hold that thought."
"Gr8! C U then! :)" The text read. My heart beat more and more.
"What ever happened to just spelling out words?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking over my shoulder. I quickly put my phone away. "What?" She asked.
"Is it wrong for me to want things private?" I asked harshly.
"Dude, I'm a toy. Who am I gonna tell?" She asked.
"It's not about who you'll tell, I already have Matt and Clara bugging me about this, I don't need you doing it too." I explained.
"So it is a crush!" She grinned. I looked at her with frustration in my eyes and sighed through my nose.
"Yes, okay?" I said. "But it doesn't matter, we're going our separate ways this fall."
"So? What's that got to do with anything?" She asked.
"Huh?" I asked.
"I'm just sayin', what's the problem with enjoying something while you can? Let the future be a problem later!" She said. I stopped and thought for a moment, she did have a point I'll admit.
"You've got a point." I nodded. "Well, better get started on the dishes." I looked over at the pile of dishes in the sink. "After I finish up, want to go for a walk or something?" I asked.
"You trust me not to fly off?" She asked.
"You said you wanted to get to know me some, I doubt you've seen enough." I explained.
"I don't know, you seem pretty basic." She smirked.
"I resent that." I sneered.
After I finished up the dishes and put them away, I went out to the porch and got my shoes on. Tank was in the middle of a nap, I guess even toys need those... so it was just Rainbow and I. Rainbow soon joined me on the porch. I breathed in heavily through my nose, smelling the fresh air.
"Ahh... sure is nice huh?" I asked. "Wait, can you smell?" I asked.
"Yeah, weird how that stuff works." She breathed in and exhaled slowly. "You're right. It's nice." She remarked.
"Walks are nice, the cool breeze with the warm sun, it's perfect, don't you agree-" Before I could turn and finish that sentence, she zoomed off.
"Yeah! Wa hoo! Alright!" She cheered making loops in the air and flying about, at first I thought she was bolting off, but then I realized that she was only staying in about the same area of twenty feet, not moving forward. I looked up at her, it made me feel good to see her happy, she had been better this morning than the day before, but this is the happiest I've seen her.
"Having fun?" I called.
"I wasn't made with wings for nothing!" She said happily.
"I can see that." I chuckled watching her do tricks in the air, as I began to walk, she followed, flapping her wings behind me. "So what's it like, being able to fly?" I asked.
"It's great! One of the best things ever!" She flew around happily.
"Sure looks fun, you know, I used to wish I could fly." I admitted.
"I used to too... then I remembered I could! Ha!" She looped around.
"Gee, thanks for that." I said. "Nothing like rubbing it in when you can do something someone else can't." I said dryly.
"You have enough perks of being a human, lemme have this huh?" She asked, flying around my shoulders.
"How could I take it away? Pluck your wings out? I'm not that cruel." I said.
"You did strap me to a rocket." She murmured.
"I see you're the type to forgive and forget..." I said sarcastically.
"I forgive, but I don't forget." She replied.
"Smart." I said, nodding at her. "Oh boy. land in my hand." I said remarking at an approaching car.
"What?" She asked.
"Just do it!" I said, when she did, I closed my hand, hardly revealing the toy pony. Not that I was ashamed to have a toy pony of course, but because I wanted to keep her being alive a secret. When the truck passed by, I released my grasp and she flew back up, coughing and gagging.
"Little warning next time! You have sweaty hands!" She gagged.
"Sorry, I'll give better warning next time, I just, I think it's best that-" I was cut off.
"Best nobody else finds out I'm a living thing huh?" She asked.
"When you put it that way I sound like an ass." I said.
"You do, it's true, but I get it." She nodded.
"Good, I'm sorry, it's just that I don't want my family freaking out." I said.
"Yeah totally." She nodded. "I understand."
"Thanks." I said. "So... how far back do you remember?"
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"Like, you clearly remember living in a box, but do you remember anything else?" I asked.
"Oh, well, yeah. I remember somethings, not a lot. See, my earliest memory was when they finished putting my together I guess, I was in a factory, hundreds of others just like me surrounded me. It was weird, then, hundreds of memories I don't even remember living flooded my head, those were everything that Rainbow Dash did on the TV show. And I guess I have her personality and voice... and name. But I knew I wasn't really her from the start, it just wasn't possible." She told me.
"I see." I said, I definitely couldn't tell her I understood, what person can say that they understand a story like that?
"What about you, how far back do you remember?" She asked.
"I remember about as far back as when I was five years old. Everything before then is kind of fuzzy." I admitted.
"How old are you now?" She asked.
"I'm eighteen." I said.
"Eighteen huh? Lucky." She said, before sighing again. "That sounds like an eternity when you're a disposable item." Wow, this whole 'being a toy sucks' thing was really bumming me out.
"Be that as it may, I've heard tell of some toys that have lived for generations, some that outlived their owners even." I tried to cheer her up.
"Yeah but... They live in their boxes or in museums, what kind of life is that, you know?" She asked, I couldn't help but agree.
"I can see your point." I nodded. "Sorry I brought it up."
"Eh, you're just curious." She pardoned me. "So Johnathan, what do you do for fun?" She asked.
"Play video games, and sometimes I draw." I told her.
"Cool." She nodded.
"How about you?" I asked.
"Well, because I'm who I am I like to fly and do tricks and stuff." She explained.
"Not much say in that stuff huh?" I asked.
"Nope." She shook her head. "But I don't mind, it's fun!" She said before bolting around through the air.
"Sure looks it." I said, suddenly I had an idea, but I had to put it into effect later. "Say, maybe we should head on back." I said.
"Really?" She sounded disappointed.
"Yeah, but we can go for another walk tomorrow, maybe even later today." I bargained.
"Well okay." She said turning around with me. "Race ya!" She started to speed off.
"No fair!" I called, running after her.
Later that day
"So, this button is to accelerate, and this is to brake, this ones to steer." Rainbow Dash was interested in what video games were, so I decided to start her off with a racing game, Antonio Kart. A classic in racing games based off the Super Antonio Bros. franchise.
"This shouldn't be too tough." She said confidently starting the race. I played with her to give her someone to race against, but I took it easy on her, I don't mean to brag, but I'm pretty good. She was playing as the main character, Antonio, I selected the brother character, Stefano. Normally I was always Antonio, but I made an exception for today. She got good pretty quick, considering the obvious disadvantage with her diminutive stature. She drove over one of the many cubes on the road, giving her an item to use.
"What do I do?" She asked.
"Press this button." I showed her.
"Will do!" She nodded, and like that, my character was zapped with a lightning bolt and shrunk. "Ha!" She laughed. "Who's the tiny one now?" She laughed passing me.
"Hardy har har." I said dryly. "Yeah, well, looks like someone who's blue and flies is gonna be taken down by something that's blue and flies!" I laughed releasing the infamous blue turtle shell to ruin her 1st place position.
"Aw come on!" She said angrily. "You've got to be kidding!"
"I do not kid." I said with a satisfied tone. "I know you said you don't eat, but you're about to eat something, my dust!" I trash talked. Her skills had developed rapidly, she was now about as good as an average player.
"You'd better watch yourself! I'll beatcha!" She said.
"Yeah sure, even though I'm about to cross the finish line." I smirked. "Three... two... one... I win!" I boasted.
"Yeah yeah, I want a rematch!" She demanded.
"Some other time, you can keep playing, maybe get good huh?" I snickered. "I've got something to work on." I said getting up and putting the controller down.
"Fine, but when you get back you're going down!" She hollered.
"I'm sure." I chuckled, heading out to the work shed, it had the materials I needed for the little idea I had. Wood? Check. Paints? Check. Hammer and nails? Check. Wire? Check. Good, let's get started. A few hours later I was just about done, and pretty proud of what I had accomplished. I had made a nice runway and flying obstacle course, with loops to fly through and everything. After I leave the paint dry for a little I'd show it to her. I decided to head back in and see what she was up to.
"About time you got back! Come on, I wanna give you a kick in the butt at this game!" She said to me as I came in.
"We'll see what you've picked up." I said sitting down next to her picking up the controller. "Where are we racing?" I asked.
"Right here. My best track." She said, selecting Bruiser's Castle. Oooh, a good one.
"You're going down, pony." I taunted.
"You're going down, brony." She replied. And the race was on. There was one little trick I never let her in on, the speed boost at the beginning, so I used that to my advantage. I got a good start ahead of her, and held that for about half the lap, until of course she zapped me down again.
"You've got to be kidding!" I growled.
"I'm beating yooouuu." She sang happily.
"Not for long!" I said angrily. "You're taking a trip to pound town!"
"Where'd you learn your trash talk? The academy of lame trash talk?" She snickered.
"Yeah, well where'd you learn your... shut up." I grumbled.
"Someone grumpy because their losing to a toy?" She chuckled happily.
"Not for long, get shelled!" I shot shells at her, setting her back and letting me pass her.
"That the best you got, shells?" She asked.
"That the best you got, losing?" I replied smugly.
"Get bent!" She growled.
"Where'd you learn that?" I asked.
"I think you said it once when you were playing games down here." She said without breaking concentration.
"I'd believe that." I replied as we kept racing.
"Here, catch this!" She threw a bomb that blew up next to my character, stalling the car and letting her pass.
"Oh come on!" I said angrily, we were on the last lap now and I was losing.
"What's a matter? Is someone a sore loser?" She smirked.
"I still have the rocket from yesterday." I smirked back.
"You wouldn't." She said.
"You've got me there." I nodded.
"Not only that, but I've got you here, I win!" She said happily crossing the finish line.
"Dammit." I put the controller down with frustration. I got up and shut off the TV.
"Hey! Come on, another race!" She pleaded.
"Later, come with me, I've got a surprise." I said leading her outside.
"What is it?" She asked.
"You'll see." I told her. Once we got outside, I told her to wait on the porch and I went out to the garage. I put a sheet over the flying arena and brought it out.
"What is it?" She asked. "Please tell me it's a three car garage with my own Corvette."
"Tone down the sarcasm huh?" I said. "It's a little something I made for you." I pulled the sheet back and revealed the little arena. She flew up to it and looked at it.
"Whoa... is this a... flight training arena?" She asked.
"Sure is!" I said proudly. "You said you liked flying and doing tricks, so I made you a little flight zone, it's got a runway, loops to do flips through, hope you like it." I smiled.
"I... I love it!" She smiled, taking off and flying through the loops, doing little tricks. Laughing as she flew around and around.
"Glad you like it." I grinned a little. "I'll bring it inside so you can play with it in my room."
"Thank you!" She said happily.
"You're welcome." I nodded with a grin picking up the large board and taking it inside, setting it in my room. She began flying around more, doing loops and spins around over the little arena. I smiled a little watching her have fun, I left her be and went back downstairs to prepare dinner.
"Hey Rainbow Dash, I'm gonna throw on a movie and eat dinner, wanna watch?" I asked her after I prepared my dinner.
"What's the movie?" She asked.
"It's called The Emperor's New Groove. One of my favorites, it's pretty funny." I told her.
"Sure, why not?" She shrugged following me downstairs. I started up the movie and sat down on the couch, digging into my pizza. The movie was just as good as I remember, Patrick Warburton's comedic timing was on point, and John Goodman and David Spade had great chemistry. From what I could tell, even Rainbow Dash kind of enjoyed it.
"That llama guy's an ass!" She remarked at one point.
"He becomes more likable later." I said. "Interestingly enough, he always kind of reminded me of your character."
"Oh really?" She asked. "How so?"
"The ego mostly." I explained. "The remarks and sarcasm throughout too."
"Alright wiseguy. I get it." She said dryly as we continued to watch the movie. When the movie was over, I put my dishes in the dishwasher and turned the video games back on.
"How about a couple more races?" I asked.
"You're on." She grinned.
And that brings us to the conclusion of another chapter! Hope people enjoy this story, if you do and haven't read my other stories, check out Equestria's New Comedian, a humorous and romantic story about a comedian who get's another chance in Equestria. Sources say it's a good read!
