Chapter 4-A Missed Chance
"Well, I think that we should go ride the twirl till you whirl." Twilight said, smiling enjoying the thought of the ride taking them around and around, faster and faster till everypony is disorientated and wondering which way is up.
"No, that's no fun, Ah say that we go find us some cotton candy," Applejack put in.
"Ugh, guys will you just wait until I meet Flash Fahrenheit, then we can figure out what we want to do," Rainbow turned back to the cart.
Pinkie bounced up to the group, excited about something, "Hey girls I just met this really, really nice pony. It's kinda of sad though because he was sad until I was talking with him, but since I was talking to him he got happy. He said it was the first time he smiled in a really, really long time. But he had to go but before he did he gave us…Hmmrph…" Pinkie was stopped short because an orange hoof in her mouth.
Applejack smiled apologetically and said, "Ah'm sorry sugarcube, but you was going on for a mite too much."
"Oh that's okay Applejack." Pinkie then tossed some skittles in the air and caught them with their tongue.
"Ugh, why can't you guys be quite," Rainbow Dash complained, turning her head back for an instance. When she turned back she noticed that the clerk of the candy stand was taking down the cart. Her eyes widened and she flew towards him. She had already gotten her trademark rainbow following her just to cross the street she was flying so fast.
"Wait! Why are you closing down? I thought Flash Fahrenheit was going to come by!" Rainbow Dash shouted at the clerk.
The clerk jumped back and whimpered at the volume of the angry pegasus. He began to stutter out, "Well… yo-you see… he d-d-did."
"What?! When?!" Rainbow eyes opened wide with shock then furrowed once again in anger.
Recovering from the shock of having Rainbow in his face, "he came by and bought his candy during your friend's song."
"Why didn't you tell us he had already came?!"
"I thought you new, because your friend was talking to him."
"What? Pinkie!" She growled.
Pinkie Pie seemingly out of nowhere appeared behind the counter and asked, "Did you call, Dashie?"
Rainbow Dash only momentarily startled by her friend's sudden appearance, "Yes, I did. Now why where you talking to Flash Fahrenheit?"
"Wait, who? Oh do you mean that nice pegasus that liked my song. I didn't know that was his name. What a silly name Flash Fahrenheit well I guess we all have weird names. Like Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle and Flutter…Shhump…" Once again Pinkie was stopped short by hoof in her mouth, this one belonging to Rainbow Dash.
"Stop, just stop, please." Pinkie nodded in agreement.
Rainbow Dash walked over to the group with her head down low. She then asked to no pony in specific, "Well how am I going to race him now?"
"Don't worry Dash your pal Pinkies got your back. Like I was trying to say earlier, he gave us all front row seats!"
Rainbow Dash's jaw dropped at how fast Pinkie could get something from a stranger. "Pinkie how did you get him to give us front row seats?"
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Great now to save Pinkie some seats.
Flash had just finished practicing his grand finally. It was a really great trick, he had just perfected it. The tent's roof would open and he'd fly and sign Angel out with the flames. When the flames disappeared from the sky he'd challenge anyone to out race him. It was a regular trick, it's been a while though since he had gotten challenged. Ever since beating Spitfire no one even thinks they have no chance.
Let me see, I could put up a sign that said Pinkie and friends, or maybe I could gate off the area and have one of the ticket takers lead them to their seats. Flash decided that the latter was the best course of action and looked for something to gate off some seats with. After looking around the tent he found some old blue ropes that may have once been at the entry flap. He took the rope back to the seats he had picked out for them.
Sheesh… I hope they like the seats I've never gotten to just watch a performance. Maybe on the other side would be better. I don't know…
Flash decided not to second guess himself anymore and set the ropes around the seats using some spare tent stakes to hold them in. He then looked for a ticket taker to tell them that he had saved some seats and who to watch out for.
Where are they? Maybe their playing Rummy in the back.
Flash walked behind the curtain that hid the props for each act and looked for ticket takers. They were always slacking off. As he expected he found two playing in the back on top a barrel covered by a broken crate lid.
One large red pony with a green mane was smoking a cigarette and reorganizing his cards. Flash took a peek at his cards it was easy to see that in a few rounds he could win the pot, which looked to be a decent amount of money. The other, a smaller pony with a purple mane and an orange coat was sitting across the makeshift table from Flash and was nervously glancing at his cards then the pot. The one smoking put out his cigarette on the ground with his hoof. He began laying out some of his cards. He was now smiling at the other pony while discarding signaling that his turn was over.
Something changed in the other stallion he stopped glancing nervously about and began moving as if with new found purpose. The smokers jaw dropped as the seemingly timid colt turned out to be a card calculating genius. His moves were quick and soon there were no cards left in his hoof.
"Games over."
Flash turned to the winner and started to talk to him, "Well Spade, got another one."
With a smirk, Spade turned to Flash and bragged, "Nope its one of the same ones. They never learn that my names Spade for a reason."
"Anyways I'm saving some seats for some mares."
"Really? Do tell?" Spade asked mockingly. Spade was one of the few ponies that would talk to Flash when he didn't need to. They weren't close enough to consider one other a friend but they held a certain respect for each other.
Flash blushed lightly at what Spade was implying and shook his head, "No, nothing like that. One of them sang a nice song and well…"
"Say no more, I get it," Spade waved a hoof dismissively.
Flash's eyes opened slightly wider and asked, "Really? Could you explain it to me then?"
"No," Spade said easily, and he continued, "I'll have some guys get them to their seats."
"Great! You'll know them by the Pink…" Spade held up a hand and said, "Don't worry we know what to look for."
A thought quickly dashed through Flash's mind. Goddesses! Why is everyone interrupting me today?"
Flash cocked his head to the right and asked, "How?"
"We all saw the show. Simply an awful song wasn't it?"
"I rather liked it actually,"
"Whatever." He turned towards the table and began collecting the cards.
Flash walked away leaving Spade to clean up his cards.
A/N The Race is coming up soon. And I may seem like I'm shoving unnecessary characters in but have faith every character has a role to play.