Chapter 2... yah/nah whatever. I got bored of sitting around my computer and pressing F5 for hours so I decided to make this up with all my free time.
It was the night of the gala and Soarin was getting nervous, he knew that the beautiful mare that he had never stopped thinking of since the best young flyers competition was surely going to come, but he had a nagging feeling that something might not go right tonight.
"Looking kinda nervous there fly boy" Spitfire surprised him with a smile "What's on that mind of yours."
"nothing" Soarin tried to slide by without her noticing. Can she really read me that well?
"I can tell something's up and you're not going to hide it so spill it" She said with almost a demanding voice. "Is this about the mare we met at the competition?"
"What how did you know" Then collecting himself. he replied again "Maybe what about it?" How could she have know what he was thinking, man I get to get better at this whole emotions thing.
"Well from the picture of her with a heart around it in your eyes, I'm amazed I'm the only one that guessed." She replied with amusement in her eyes.
"ok you got me, but what am I supposed to supposed to do?" He was getting desperate he started to think to himself.
"As your captain, and your friend, I say that you take a chance with her. You'll be no help to the team thinking about her the whole time." Replied the captain prepared for the amazed shock that went through his face.
"You mean it?" Came the shocked reply after a pause.
"Yeah now hurry up and get out there I think I see her chariot" She said to him while looking behind Soarin.
"thanks so much" Came the yell of Soarin as he slowly glided down to the greeting hall.
'Ok' Soarin thought to himself, let's go over the plan one more time. First get her into the VIP section, then get her to talk to you, and if all goes peachy, which never happens, ask her to dance with you. After having the conversation in his head he was ready to put it into action. 'Well here goes nothing' was his last thought before heading to the VIP section, then out of the corner of his eye he saw the most beautiful thing in the world, other than dash of course, "PIE!" He yelled
Then as fast as his feet could carry him he launched over to the vendor. "hey, um can I get that pie" He replied ecstatically to the happy earth pony.
"One apple pie, and thanks for the business" came the reply from the pony as he placed the bits down
Getting Rainbow into the VIP can wait, for there was pie to be eaten. As he approached the VIP room he figured out to late that he was starting to trip over a trailing leg from a guest.
"Noooo!" came his horrified voice before he saw a flash of multi-colored pony come up right beneath him. The pie momentarily forgotten he now had a very up-close view of dash's face, and he was stunned. He had never really seen a pony as good looking as rainbow dash up-close. But his thoughts were quickly interrupted by Spitfire coming over and inviting her in. Well, stage 1 complete, uhh that worked out pretty well. And his mind slowly started to remember the fact that there was pie to be had. He spared no time digging in.
He then saw Rainbow dash looking at him with a Bemused face, "enjoying that?" She asked.
"You know it" He replied happily, but just then some uptight rich pony started asking him questions, and the moment he could get away to see if Rainbow dash was still their he noticed she had moved off. Silently cursing himself he started to look for her, but between getting asked by interviewers, fans, and rich people for questions and autographs. He still did not find her, but just at the moment he found her he started to here a noise coming from, just outside a wall, it sounded just like a stampede. But what kind of stampede would be here?
The next thing he knew there was a statue falling, pillars tumbling and squirrels, deer, and birds flying and screeching throughout the place. Man, this had to be the fastest party crash he had ever seen. And a few moments later he felt a presence beside he quickly looked hoping to see Dash, but came face to face with Spitfire
"Oh, hi Spitfire" He said to his captain.
"No time for small talk Soarin, Rainbow is leaving with her friends to the donut shop, if you wanna talk to her you better hurry up" Said the Orange pony before leaving to go help with the clearing.
I wander how she figured that out, wait I got to go. Then he flew of making record time to the donut shop thinking about going in to talk , then he thought he would rather talk to her alone as he heard the voice of 7 ponies. After a little while of waiting he started to realize that Dash was barely talking. The next thing he noticed was that he was starting to look like a bit of a stalker just sitting around listening to them so he decided to wait across the street.
After what seemed like hours of waiting, and a much needed nap he saw the six friends and princess come out of the shop. While the princess flew away he saw five of the friends get in the chariot while Rainbow Dash stayed outside. Well, that's weird, he thought.
Just then Rainbow Dash noticed him and slowly walked over. 'What do I do, what do I say, wait a sec, just play it cool. "Hey Soarin" Rainbow Dash said with a little of a yawn "What's the famous wonderbolt doing out here?"
"Oh you know just relaxing and enjoying the breeze" Now that he thought about it he was surprised that he wasn't be flocked by fans, on the other hand it was nearly 1 in the morning. The next thing he noticed was her sad looks, and that got him a little upset, he didn't know exactly why but it did. "And why do you look down in the dumps?"
"Well I thought I would create a huge impression on you guys but I don't even think I talked to any of you guys once, referring to a wonderbolt of course" She said still looking a little sad
"well here's your chance" He pulled out a chair next to him " I don't know about you but could we not talk about the wonderbolts for a sec and have a normal conversation, I don't think I've had a talk with anyone about anything other than the wonderbolts."
Rainbow Dash looked like she was at a loss for words and then said " Ok, tell me about yourself" Soarin already knew that she would know most of it so he decided to tell her most everything about his life.
"Well I was born in Cloudsdale, went to flight school early, got put in advanced classes, picked top out of class to go to special flying for the gifted students. From there I joined the wonderbolts junior team and then the Alpha Squad. After about a year, I became Co-Captain, and that's is pretty much it. So what about you"
"Born and raised in Cloudsdale, Joined flight school, graduated, went to ponyville, went into the weather team, and now I'm the top weather pony. Oh, yeah and I stayed awesome the entire time. Now I pretty much just do crazy tricks ad fly around getting into adventures in ponyville, which for some strange reasons there is always something happening in poneville." She replied with a smile
Right then and there Soarin decided he liked that smile and didn't want to see it go away. So just wanting to see the smile for a longer time he said " Hey you wanna hang out sometime on Thursday?" And that did it she would be smiling from ear to ear if it were physically possible.
"uh...er...uhhh...huuhh" Came her reply, still dumbstruck by his offer.
"I'll take that as a yes" He smirked, the one thing Dash didn't know was that Saorin was almost as excited as she was"
"So two days from now what time" Dash replied, still looking extremely happy.
"Lets say 5:00" He said as he started to leave, but before he left he had just enough time to say "Stay pretty" he nearly punched himself at how corny he sounded.