Chapter 4
Times slowed to a halt and her motionless body started to plummet to the ground, time had come to a halt for me and the only thing I worried about was getting to her as soon as possible. As I closed the gap between us I could barely make out the cerulean of her coat between the haze of adrenalin and the dust kicked up by the storm, through the peripheral of my vision I could just make out the ground approaching faster and faster with each passing second as both me and Dash plummeted down to the ground. The moment I had my hooves around her back I maneuvered my wings so I would take the brunt of the landing, and it was one hell of a landing. As soon as I felt the ground impact my back I heard a snap a twang and something that reminded me a rope snapping. The only thing that ran through my head at that moment was ' Well that probably isn't good' and then it went black.
As I woke the only thing I could sense was the monotone Beep, Boop of a heart monitor in the background ' well I'm alive so that's a start, now let's see if I can get my eyes to open. As my eyes slowly and weakly opened I noticed it was very bright so I immediately shut them. 'Ok, let's just take a mental check here, eyes, functional, hooves, functional, wings not functional, nose, fun.. WAIT wings not function able!' I immediately rocketed out of the hospital bed and tried to get airborne where I was immediately brought back down to my bed via purple telekinetic magic "Stupid unicorn magic" I whispered under my breath.
" I heard that!" Came the immediate reply from the one and only Twilight Sparkle.
"Heard what" I replied even quicker followed by a slight snicker.
"Sadly I don't have time for your games Soarin but I'm sure Dash does" Twilight said a bit sympathetically.
I took in a big breath. "How's Dash doing?!" I asked with the intake of breath.
"Why don't you go find out for yourself"
With all thoughts of my broken wings out of my mind I hurried to where Twilight told me Dash's room was, which was conveniently placed next to mine, as I entered I was prepared for the worst but all of a sudden a flying Dash came in and tackled me to the ground giving me a death squeeze of a hug.
"Uh he- hey Dash, I'm guessing your doing ok then?" I asked nervously
She looked down at the ground kinda sheepishly "Well um, my left wing is broken, so I would total get it if you don't want to hang with me now" She said with a big frown on her face.
"You kidding me? Dash I'm not your friend just cause your probably the most radical flyer there ever was but because you're probably the most radical person ever" I replied with a steady voice, and her face lit up like the fourth of July, Equestrian central time of course. "Anyways my wings are goofing up on me to, so we can rehabilitate together!"
"You really mean it! Practice, with you!" Rainbow Dash was practically melting right now, ' Now I just need the ultimate cheesy pick-up line and this would be perfect'
"Of course I mean it, anyways the fact I'm practicing with the coolest mare in all Equestria is awesome enough!"I said with a suave look, 'Nailed it!'
"You're not doing anything till we readjust those bones and they've set for the proper time!" Came the calibrated answer of Twilight and the nurse from down the hall.
"Oh Twilight your such a worry wart, what's the worst that could happen" I said as I started writing the release papers.
"Famous last words" Twilight remarked as she rolled her eyes.
"This is the worst possible thing that could ever happen!" I yelled as I started falling from a cloud and plummeted toward the earth for the second time that week," I really gotta stop with the whole falling to my death thing, its kinda starting to lose its excitement. Nevertheless I was screaming my head off and thought of all the things that lead to this as I had nothing better to do at the time. Me and Dash got out of the hospital, we got some food, we took her hot air ballon to her house, on the way which I dazzled her with my sparkling personality or rather lack of sparkling, I'm not sure which one she likes more, never less after that I asked her if she wanted to go for a test run and see if our wings were feeling better, so instead of trying to jump and fly I took the much safer route and jumped of the could having full trust in my capabilities which I now no longer trust quite so much.
So back to where we were, plummeting to my death, last hour flashing before my eyes the whole 9 yards, and then out of nowhere like a saving grace a giant orange pillow appeared on the ground under me, it seemed to have a southern drawl as I landed on the pushiness.
"Wait a sec, when did pillows start talking?"
"Well if ya would kindly get off me I reckon I could explain." To which I promptly got off her and stood there kinda stupidly and as soon as I was on all fours Dash landed next to me and gave me another big hug
"Soarin please stop doing that, I would really appreciate you not trying to jump of stuff every week or two." Dash exclaimed as she nuzzled into my neck, not that it wasn't freakin fantastic but it did make the situation a slight bit awkward.
I coughed nice and loud motioning to Dash," Um Dash we have some company you see" Dash instantly looked to the side then took three step to her immediate left once she saw her other best friend, as a blush started to come across her face.
"Oh, uh hey there AJ, how are you doing?" She asked embarrassed
" I was doing mighty fine till yer little coltfriend here landed on me." She replied in a annoyed attitude.
"C-c-coltfriend, nonononono were just really good flying partners!" Dash sputtered out quickly.
"Flying, yah rightttttt" I said with a goofy grin on my face, to which Dash wacked me over the back of the head.
"Well while you two flirt like two squirrels in summer I actually have work to do, so I'll bid you a good day" AJ said as she started walking away with a roll of her eyes.
"Oh you are so getting beat up for this" Dash said with the light of joke in her eyes.
"Hey! You're not a loud to hurt cripples!" I teased at her as he pointed at his back wings. To which Dash softly replied with a swift pile driver then making a break for it. I tore after her and caught up quickly and gave her a small noogie and laughed she met my eyes and we laughed with each other. As we started to quick down we didn't look away, I was captivated by the beauty of her deep violet eyes and couldn't help but get lost in them. "So whatcha lookin at" I inquired smoothly.
"Oh nothing special" She replied back with a small snicker, I held her joking gaze with my more serious one and I started feeling really squishy like I was made of rubber. "I just wanted to say Dash, that I really am sorry for what happen with the storm, I really am and I know there is no way to make it up so all I can really do is just try to say how I feel."
"You big knucklehead" She said kindly "I forgave you the moment you walked into that hospital room, I was really worried about you, you took the main brunt of that fall and you took more damage than me" Then she did something I wouldn't have expected to happen in a million years she leaned forward and gave me a peck on the cheek and let me tell you, hot damn I was on cloud 9, I'm pretty sure my body went paralyzed for a second, to which Dash replied seriously "You alright there wonder boy?"
P.S. Vegas baby...