Authors' Note: Hey guys! Thanks to my two reviewers for, well reviewing! Answering aPAULo17's question, no, the Mario Bros. will NOT be in this fanfic. However, I DO plan on writing another fanfic involving the Mario Brothers, so that's all good! Oh, and I also plan to write a Pokemon fanfic, featuring a few Pokemon that I like!
Pony P.O.V.
Rainbow couldn't believe it. A measly ten minutes and already she was pulling the balloon along with her like some common horse! Her wings worked furiously as she heaved the heavy balloon along with her, and despite that it was filled with air, it was extremely hard to pull. To top things off, that creepy masked human was lolling around in the balloon, thus forcing Rainbow to re-double her efforts.
Aargh! If only the human could fly. Then, Rainbow would have zipped off in a rainbow blur. Still, however, the human would have told Twilight or Applejack, and maybe even gotten some of its crazy human friends to do her in!
What really angered Rainbow, however, was the fact that she was scared of the humans, big time. Their strangely shaped eyes, their weird growths, the lack of tail, the wing-less back... All of that freaked Rainbow out.
The human even knew that hateful nickname of hers! Rainbow Crash... Rainbow shook herself mentally and once again re-doubled her efforts, trying to get rid of the faces of Dumb-Bell, Hoops and Quarterback swam into her mind. Cloudsdale had come into view, and she was very glad of it. Just a quick walk around, then we're done, Rainbow assured herself.
The human's eyes lit up with excitement when it saw Cloudsdale. Pah! It was as if it had never seen clouds before! However, that wasn't so surprising when Rainbow thought about it. Twilight had explained that where humans came from, the clouds were so high up that nothing could reach them. The clouds were also weak and unstable, definitely not designed to hold any sort of weight.
Twilight had also said that where humans came from, the clouds moved on their own, the animals were secluded and wild, and the plants could creep up on them and strike their homes. That made Rainbow shiver more than anything. Talk about a weird world!
Suddenly, that hateful voice rang out from the balloon. "Oi!" it yelled. "Rainbow Crash! Could ya speed up a little? It's not every day someone gets to see Cloudsdale, especially with the fastest pony in all of Equestria touring them!"
Rainbow rolled her eyes. The human was obviously teasing her. He was taking advantage of her supreme skills and bending them to his will! Rainbow hated the lot of them, though perhaps not the blue-skinned one called Nastasia. The green girl called Mimi was okay, too, though perhaps a little girly. Rainbow didn't like the look of that O'Chunks guy much, but Dimentio simply creeped her out. No, Mr. L was definitely the dangerous one. Rainbow made a mental note to warn everypony once she got back to the ground.
They had reached Cloudsdale. It was an amazing place, known as the Pegasus City, filled with pegasi and made entirely out of clouds. The clouds were shaped in a curly fashion, and yet wasn't girly at all. Skinny rainbow waterfalls ran down in colourful torrents. Some clouds were connected with antique grey stone.
Rainbow pulled up in mid-air near some clouds and watched Mr. L stumble awkwardly onto it, disturbing the cloud and making little puffs of it shoot up into the air. However, the human leaped to its feet again, grinning, and started to run all around Cloudsdale, knocking ponies off of their hooves and not even bothering to apologise. Growling, Rainbow shot after it.
"OI!" she yelled angrily as she caught up with the human. "What's the big deal?"
Suddenly, the sound of jeering reached Rainbow's ears. The pegasus spun around, as well as the human. And there, standing and smirking, were three pegasi stallions. The first one, Dumb-Bell, was brown with a three-weights cutie mark. The second one, Quarterback, had three American footballs for a cutie mark, and was grey, with a dark-brown, almost black mane that completely covered his eyes. He never talked. The last one, Hoops, also had a brown mane covering his eyes, though this time the mane was a lighter shade. He had an orange-brown coat and a three-basketballs cutie mark.
Dumb-Bell snickered. "Hey, Rainbow Crash!" he teased. "Who's your boyfriend?"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" roared Rainbow, approaching Dumb-Bell fearlessly.
"Ooh!" chanted Hoops. "Crashie's getting cranky!"
Quarterback laughed dumbly.
Suddenly, the human approached the stallions. What was the idiot doing?
The human turned to Dumb-Bell. "Hey, Dumb-Bell!" he jeered. "What's with your name? Oh, now I get it! 'Dumb' really suits you!"
Dumb-Bell's attitude changed instantly. "Hey, buzz off, big-nose!" he snapped.
"Ooh, I'm so scared," said the human sarcastically. "Whatcha gonna do, ring a bell, Dumby?"
It - no, he - then turned to Hoops. "And you!" he said. "What kind of name is Hoops? Is it because you secretly have a stash of earrings and rings under your pillow? Or is it referring to a marriage ring? D'you have a picture of Ditzy Doo under your pillow that you snog ever night?"
"H-hey! That's not funny!" exclaimed Hoops. "In fact, th-that's really mean!"
"Good!" snapped Mr. L. "Now you know how other ponies feel if you bully them. So lay off, okay, and maybe you'll get some proper friends!"
And with that, Mr. L turned and climbed right back into the balloon. "C'mon, Dash," he said. "Let's go."
A few minutes later, the two were flying back to the ground. Rainbow considered how easier i was to fly down rather than up. She was just thinking of asking Twilight why, but then Mr. L broke into her thoughts.
"Hey Rainbow?" he said.
"Yeah?" Rainbow replied.
"I'm sorry for calling you Rainbow Crash."
And Rainbow knew that he meant it.