Author's Note: CAUTION! The following fic contains ponies. Those of you not accustomed to the pure awesome may want to skip this chapter!

AKA- My first ever attempt to write a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfic. It's basically plotless fluff. BUT IT HAS DERPY HOOVES AND THAT MAKES IT GREAT ACCORDING TO THE FANDOM! Right?

Rain

"I wanna know/ have you ever seen the rain/ coming down on a sunny day?"

-Creedence Clearwater, Have You Ever Seen The Rain

It was early spring in Ponyville, which was a busy time for the weather pegasi. The new spring crops required regular sprinkles to keep up their growth, and the occasional spring thunderstorm, just to liven things up. Of course, this was also the time of year when rogue storms tended to pop up.

It was one of these storms that Rainbow Dash was rushing to break up now. She'd dropped into the weather station to pick up her weather schedule for the week, only to hear there was a rogue storm heading towards town, and there weren't enough ponies on-hand to break it up. Dash had zipped off to help, not even stopping to leave here schedule somewhere safer than in her mouth.

Two other weather pegasi were already doing their best to buck the clouds apart, but the high winds made it difficult. Rainbow Dash flew straight through a big grey thunderhead, splitting it in two with her wings.

"Ha! This shouldn't take too long!" she huffed confidently, coming to a halt in mid-air. Another nearby cloud erupted a bolt of lightning that she only narrowly avoided, as if to humble the rainbow-maned pegasus. Dash's eyes narrowed and she tightened her grip on her schedule. So the storm wanted to play rough, huh? She'd show it rough.

Dodging lightning, Rainbow Dash flew up through the columns of thunderheads and burst out the top of the storm. She flew a few feet higher before peaking and turning into a dive. She pulled into a downward spiral, opposite of the spin of the storm, breaking it up from the inside.

When she pulled up, the storm was finally dissipating, and still a few miles out of town! Dash swelled with pride. Well, time to move on to the next job on her schedule. She headed back to Ponyville, only to bounce into a grey, wall-eyed pegasus.

"Ugh, careful Derpy!" Rainbow Dash groaned at the other pegasus.

"Oops, sorry." Derpy Hooves apologized, "But you dropped these!" She pulled a stack of papers out of her mail-bag.

Dash started. She'd dropped her schedule in the storm! "Ohmygosh! Thanks Derpy!" She grabbed the stack.

"Glad I could help, but I think they might be…"

The blue pegasus glanced at the job at the top of the first page. She needed to be at a job right now! "Gottagoseeyalater!" She rushed off in a rainbow-colored streak.

"… out of order." Derpy finished. She blinked her miss-aligned eyes. "Oh well! Time to get some muffins!"

Meanwhile at Sweet Apple Acres, Apple Jack was helping her family sow a new field of apple trees. The sun was beaming down especially hot for a spring day. She wiped away the sweat that was collecting along her hat band. She wished there was some sort of shade over the field.

Suddenly, a shadow fell over the field. The orange pony looked up to see Rainbow Dash pushing a large grey cloud in front of the sun.

"Well would ya look at that! Rainbow Dash musta seen how hot we were and grabbed a cloud for us!" Apple Jack said happily.

"Eeyup." Big Macintosh stated simply, moving on with the planting.

"I gotta say, that is right-near the sweetest thing I've ever seen her do." His sister continued to muse as she too continued sowing. "I'll have to thank her next time I…" She trailed off when a raindrop plopped onto her shoulder. She looked up to see her pegasus friend was now bucking the cloud, causing it to spill its contents onto the field.

Apple Jack's mood quickly turned to annoyance, and she galloped directly under the bucking pegasus.

"Rainbow Dash, what in tarnation do you think you're doin'?"

"Sorry I'm late!" Dash replied, "There was a rogue storm, got distracted, but don't worry, the field'll still get it's water!"

"Late?" Apple Jack asked. "We're in the middle of planting! You're supposed to water the field Friday mornin', after the seeds have had time to germinate and lay down roots! You water 'em now, and they'll all wash away!"

"Friday?" Dash asked, "But today's schedule says…" She lighted down next to the table where she had left her scheduled weather assignments for the week. There, sitting on the top was a sheet that clearly said 'Light Rain, Sweet Apple Acres, 8 am'. But, there at the top of the page, was the word 'Friday'.

"Uh-oh…" Rainbow Dash looked through the rest of the papers. Underneath Friday was Wednesday, and the page after was Saturday. The pages were all mixed up! So then where was Monday's schedule?

"Sorry Apple Jack!" The blue pegasus zipped back to the field and pulled the cloud away, stopping the rain from drowning the seeds. "I had a little mis-hap this morning, got today's schedule mixed up with Friday's."

"Well what are you supposed to be doin' this mornin'?" Apple Jack asked.

"I dunno, I can't find the sheet for today!" her pegasus friend explained, "Maybe it's back around where I stopped that storm… I don't know exactly where the rest of them fell, Derpy Hooves picked them up for me… Derpy! I bet she has it!"

"Well, good luck findin' 'em." The orange pony tried to tell her friend, but before she'd even finished 'luck', she was gone, leaving a rainbow trail in her wake. Apple Jack shook her head. That Rainbow Dash, always in such a rush.

Back in town, at the post-office to be specific, Derpy Hooves was returning from her first mail rout of the morning. Suddenly, in a flash of rainbows, Rainbow Dash was barring her way.

"Derpy! My weather schedule for today is missing! I think you might still have it in your bag!" The blue pegasus said quickly, sticking her own nose into the mailbag. Derpy smacked her away.

"Only mail ponies are allowed to handle the mail, thank you." She then put her hoof to her chin in thought. "I'm sure I gave you all the pages I caught, but that was a pretty windy storm. Maybe a page or two blew away before I caught them."

"Aw man, it's gonna take me forever to find it, and I'll never get today's jobs done!" Rainbow Dash pawed the ground impatiently. She was about to take off at top speed to the site of the storm, when someone called her name.

"Rainbow Dash! Hey Rainbow Dash!" A purple unicorn called to her.

Dash sighed in irritation. "Can't talk Twilight, I gotta go find my…"

"…Missing weather Schedule." Twilight Sparkle finished. "I know, I found it!"

"Ohmygosh! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" the pegasus made to grab the list, but Twilight pulled it back with her magic, reading it over.

"You know, Rainbow Dash, you should really keep better track of your things. This just blew into the library this morning."

"Yeah, it blew away while…"

"But I am glad to see you're using such a useful time management tool!"

"The weather station makes…"

"Although it could definitely use some improvement. I'm no expert, but I think you should allot more time between jobs got gather more clouds. Oh! I could give you some scheduling pointers! I make a lot of schedules!"

"TWILIGHT!" Rainbow Dash finally yelled. "Give me the schedule so I can go do my job!"

"Oops." The purple unicorn gave a quiet, sheepish giggle. "I guess you caught me rambling." She gave the sheet to her friend.

"Thanks!" Dash said through her teeth, clenching the paper. She would read where her next job was on the way. She was already almost half an hour late as it was.

Finally, Rainbow Dash arrived at the morning's first job, at the pond, where she was supposed to be providing rain for the ducks and frogs.

"I'm so sorry Fluttershy!" the blue pegasus said as she pushed the cloud into position over the field.

"Oh no Rainbow Dash, I understand." The yellow pegasus assured her. "It's not trouble at all."

Dash looked down at the ducks and frogs, whose miffed expressions said otherwise. She bucked the cloud, releasing the water, and then looked back at the schedule. Well wouldn't you know it? On the day she'd felt the most rushed, it was the day with only one job.

Once the rain shower at the pond was done, Rainbow Dash took off.

"Where are you going?" Fluttershy asked.

"Back to bed."

"But it's only 10 in the morning."

"I know, but today's been long enough already."

AN: I had a really hard time coming up with something for this prompt, and after struggling with a Time Warp Trio idea that would never fit into a one-shot, all I could come up with was this. It's kinda pathetic, but I gotta write something before the next calculus exam steals all my free time.