My Little Pony: Friendship is Love
Chapter 2
Quick as lightning, a blue streak shot across the sky with a trail of sparks in their wake. The blue pony blasted past the other pegasai without a second glance, bowling some of them over as they darted through the clouds. The pony's luck finally ran out as they managed to knock into another pony and the two went spiraling and crashed into the clouds.
"What the hay!" the victim pony growled, brushing clouds off of her blue flank, "You think you own the sky or something." she glowered at the offending pony.
The dark blue stallion just grinned, "No of course not, that would be the famous Rainbow Dash." he gave her an over-exaggerated bow.
Rainbow Dash snorted, "Are you making fun of me?" she pawed the cloud with her hoof.
"Want to make something of it?" he challenged, spreading his wide blue wings. Parts of his wings caught the glimmer of the sun, and the silver flecks speckling his wide wings caught her view almost hypnotizing her. She shook her head vigorously.
Her magenta eyes locked with his amber gaze, and in a flash she shot off way ahead of her competition with a blazing rainbow in her wake. The dark pony dashed quickly after her and crackles of lightning flashed beneath his hooves. He caught up to the illustrious Rainbow Dash and then surpassed her doing a quick barrel roll and startling the daring mare. And just when Rainbow Dash thought she would catch up the dark pony flashed away in a crackle of lightning and dark clouds.
The blue mare's jaw dropped. She hovered over Clousdale for a few seconds before Spitfire and Sorin lighted up to her, "Who was that pony?"
"They were impressive whoever they were."
"You wouldn't happen to know who they were would you Rainbow?"
But those words fell on deaf ears as she dashed downward in a quick blast, leaving a Sonic Rainboom in her wake. She didn't know who that pony was, or who he thought he was, but NO pony shows her up in front of anyone- especially in front of the Wonderbolts, I'll show them! I'll show them all!
"Oh thank you so much for coming on such short notice." Mrs. Cake was saying to the pegasus pony that walked into Sugarcube Corner.
"Do you think you'll be able to fix it in time?" Mr. Cake frantically asked, shifting his eyes towards the twins, and then back at the cream-colored stallion with the silver hooves.
"There hasn't been a job I couldn't finish on time." the pony politely replied, "They don't call me Silver Hooves for no reason." he grinned and made his way into the kitchen, "Are you coming Brewster?"
Another stallion came trotting into the bakery, a unicorn with a coat of dreamsicle orange, and a mane of dark orange with cotton candy blue streaks, "Of course!" he chipper reply was cut off as he caught the eye of a curious Pinkie Pie standing in the stairwell, "Hello there!" he greeted, his baby blue eyes shining.
But Pinkie just stared at him with a confused look. Mr. and Mrs. Cake looked at one another before shrugging it off as Pinkie being Pinkie, "Well if you change your mind pretty filly, you know where we are." he winked, and continued on his way into the kitchen.
Upon walking into the Cake's kitchen, the machine that was broken was a dough kneading machine. It still had the remains of dough within it and was smoking incessantly. A foul smell hit the pony's nose, and he curled his lip in disgust, "I'll get right on this. You can count on me." he turned to the orange stallion, "Alright, first we need to..."
A white mare made her way across Ponyville. Humming to herself as she made her way towards Sugarcube Corner. A sudden gust of air blasted her in the face and her purple mane was blown in a spiked back fashion, "Rainbow, really.." she puffed at a strand of hair in her eyes.
"Have you seen him?" she frantically exclaimed, hopping up and down, an angry look bemusing her face, "A dark stallion shooting through here like lightning!"
"Um," her eyes half-lidded, "I have no idea what you're talking about, but if I had to guess, I would say you mean that dashing fellow there?" she raised her hoof, to point behind her.
"Why thank you- you're not so bad yourself." the dark pegasai winked at her before darting off again.
Rainbow Dash stomped her hooves in frustration, "You're in so much trouble mister! Thanks Rarity." and without another word she flew into the sky like a rocket.
Rarity smiled to herself before finishing her trip to Sugarcube Corner. She pushed open the door with a graceful nudge, and as the bell rang, she was immediately greeted by Pinkie Pie- who then proceeded to whisk her upstairs without anyone even noticing her presence. Mr. Cake's head poked around the corner from the kitchen, "Hello? Huh, I could swear I heard someone come in."
"What is the meaning of this, Pinkie?" Rarity huffed, with a laugh in her voice, fussing over her hair.
"Omygoshthoseponies areheretowork on the machineand they've beendown there all this morning and the orangeone winked at me and calledmeacutefilly and I've been up hereeversince and nowIcan'tstop pacing! It's just like whenIsawthat rainbow? You remember the rainbow don't you Rarity?" she bounded up and down, "He's so handsome!" suddenly she became quiet, "I think I'm in love Rarity..."
Rarity blinked a moment while her mind caught up with Pinkie's quick speak, "Now darling, I'm sure it's just nothing more than butterflies, or a crush." she placed a reassuring hoof on her friend's back, "Now, shall we go and introduce ourselves?"
The pink pony nodded her agreement. Happy to have a friend who seemed to have some notion of what strange feelings she was under. The two trotted down the stairs and into the kitchen,"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Cake, I'm here to pick up Sweetie Belle's cake." Rarity called, but her call was unanswered. The two mare's ventured further into the kitchen until they reached the dough kneading machines (I know it sounds stupid but I wasn't sure what else to call them :p).
"Hello there," Rarity greeted, throwing her now fixed hair back.
Silver Hooves lifted his head from his work, his eyes locked with the white mare, "Well, hello yourself." he put his wrench down, and wiped the oil from his muzzle. Pleasure to meet you." he took her hoof and gave it a quick nuzzle, "I'm Silver Hooves and this is Brewster."
"I'm Rarity and this is Pinkie Pie." the white mare replied, glancing at Pinkie who was still in an unusual state of quiet reflection, partly hiding behind her friend's flank.
"Hey there!" Brewster chimed in, "Well I was just telling Silver that we should head into town and get something to eat. I'm starved! But I can't get this stubborn workhorse to move a muscle." he playfully shouldered into his workmate.
"And aren't you charming?" Rarity smiled a slight flush on her face.
"I know the perfect place!" Pinkie blurted out, breaking her 100 years of silence, before quickly covering her mouth as though she'd said something horrible.
"What kind of gentleman would I be, if we didn't take these young fillies out?" Silver replied evenly.
Brewster and Pinkie jumped up and down at this gesture, but Silver continued, "But I promised the Cakes that I would have their machine up and running by noon. And that's less than an hour. So if you want to eat, I'm sorry but you'll have to wait."
Brewster deflated at this, "That's okay, I don't mind having two mares on my flank." he wiggled his eyebrows and laughed.
"That's quite alright. We're flattered by the offer, but I really have some dresses that I must attend to." Rarity replied, "It was very nice meeting you." she trotted by the stallions and found the Cakes working in their second kitchen.
For the first time in her life, Pinkie was actually feeling shy and awkward around the two ponies, "Actually I should probably check on the babies- they're always getting into things." she flashed after Rarity with a trail of flame behind her.
"Rarity!" she whispered, "We're missing out on our chance!"
The white mare looked at her with a flash of shock, before she realized that Pinkie had no experience with stallions, "No I'm not. In fact, by not agreeing to waiting around, we've made ourselves more interesting. Don't worry, they'll track us down when their done with work. And when they do, we'll be having all this fun together."
"Promise?" Pinkie grinned.
"I Pinkie Pie promise." Rarity nodded before continuing on her way.
After the mares left, Brewster shrugged his shoulders, and turned to Silver whom already had his nose in his work, "I guess we got shut down again."
"I couldn't image why- I mean why would any filly want to date a walking popsicle?" he chuckled.
The orange pony bustled into his flank for that, "You know that really hurts." he stuck his tongue out, and then smiled.
"Careful, you get too upset and you might melt!"
"Silver!"
As Rarity made her way back towards her home, she ran into Twilight and Rocket, "Hi Rarity!
Twilight greeted, "This is Rocket. I met him the other day."
"How delightful." she replied, "I hate to be crass, but I simply must return home so I can finish my orders." but just as Rarity was about to trot off, the glimmer of green in Rocket's eyes caught hers and seemed to hypnotize her. She felt dizzy a moment before shaking it off, "Um, Twilight, may I speak to you a moment darling?"
"Sure." she raised a hoof to Rocket before walking out of earshot with Rarity.
"This might seem odd of me, but I just can't help but feel there's something strange about that pony you're with."
Twilight gave her an uneven look, "I'm not sure I know what your talking about."
"Don't you find his gaze just a bit strange?" she shuffled her hooves, "I mean, it just seems like a really odd shade of green."
"Sure." she replied flatly, "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go back to spending time with that charming pony over there." she trotted off without another word.
Rarity wasn't convinced that everything was okay, but she headed on her way anyhow.
Rainbow Dash found herself coursing over Ponyville and caught sight of a dark figure in the distance, "Gotcha!" she huffed, crashing into the dark form, only to be disappointed that it was a dark cloud. She shook her head, "Man, I've been out all day, I must be seeing things." she sighed.
"Giving up already?" a masculine voice asked from behind her.
She turned a sharp eye upon the intruder, "Yeah, yeah I am. You're not worth anymore of my time."
"That's too bad. I was really liking the challenge. You really are as great as I've heard, Rainbow Dash." he replied evenly, his sharp amber eyes piercing through her gaze like a spear.
A spark flickered in her gaze, "You've heard about me?"
"Sure, everypony from here to Canterlot has heard of the speedy Rainbow Dash, and her famous Sonic Rainboom." he leaned against a cloud and flopped down onto another, "You're very interesting to me, I'd like to get to know you better."
"Well I don't know," she shrugged, and placed a hoof behind her head, "I'm a pretty busy pony."
"My name is Storm Chaser. And if you change your mind, just look for lightning, and you'll find me nearby." he flitted his wings, before jetting off in a dark streak.
Rainbow watched him go with his wake tussling her mane. Her eyes narrowed in avid contemplation, "I'm watching you, sir..." she gritted her teeth before soaring into the air towards her home.
"Hey Granny Smith, what was it that you wanted to tell us?" an orange mare asked walking into the kitchen.
"Applejack, this is Tornado. He's gonna be o'r new workhoof." the green pony replied.
Applejack stared in shock at the caramel colored stallion. His hooves were dusky black halfway up, and his tail and mane were jet black.; A red bandana wrapped around his neck and bandana held his tail upward, "Howdy." he gruffly greeted.
"Begging your par'dn Tornado, but we don't need any more help on the farm." she turned toward Granny Smith, "Big Mac and I do just well e'ngh on o'r own."
"It's already decided. He starts in the mor'n. He'll be stay'n down the hall from ya."
Applejack groaned at this. Applebloom piped up, "Aw this is gonna be great Applejack! It'll be like hav'n 'nother brother." she smiled quite pleased.
Applejack seemed unsure, "I'm sorry. I don't mean to seem un-neighborly. I'm just not used to new help." she meagerly offered.
"Charmed I'm sure." he replied, a glint in his dark cobalt eyes. He shuffled past the Apple sisters and trailed upstairs.
"Now what the hay was all that?" she huffed, glancing at her kin but they merely shrugged.
Applebloom and Granny Smith walked past her and headed to bed. Applejack added quietly to herself, "Well I'll allow it, just this once."
Alright, more ponies to add to the brood, We'll just have to wait and see what happens next. :)