Life's Little Fortune Cookies

Chapters

Coffee
Sunsets
Miracles

Coffee

Life's Little Fortune Cookies
Chapter 1
Coffee

Twilight Sparkle wasn’t a unicorn who wasn't impartial to many things of life. She had a knack for finding an aspect of something likeable, and with this wasn't the type to be angry or overly dramatic about things on most occasions.

However there was one aspect of life which failed to provide her with any sort of optimistic or positive feelings, no matter how much effort she made into doing so. This happened to be a time of day.

It was morning time.

Twilight always was a naturally born night owl, as she happened to take great satisfaction in the late hours of the day. During this time, the majority of Ponyville had gone to sleep, or was already deep into slumber, providing a serene calmness which was perfect for her studies. Especially nice was that Spike usually went to bed much earlier than herself, and while the little dragon was quite helpful during the day, Twilight did appreciate some alone time to think and study.

As a result of her more unusual sleeping habits, the unicorn was more susceptible to crankiness in the morning. After all, going to sleep near 2 am in the morning and attempting to always wake up at 9 am provided her with exactly 7 hours of sleep, if she happened to fall asleep the second her violet and sapphire mane hit the pillow. Normally, this didn’t happen, although Twilight would consider it a blessing if it did.

So as a result of less than 7 hours of sleep, Twilight turned to a fairly useful simulant in the form of a liquid. This rather bitter liquid quickly turned out to be her saving grace, as the morning beverage helped her rapidly awaken from her half sleep riddled state. You may know this substance as caffeine, found most often in coffee.

Twilight could definitely use a gallon of it right now.

She groaned as sunlight peeked its way through the curtains of her bedroom windows, creating a piercing ray of light which just so happened to find Twilight’s face. The unicorn buried her face under one of her pearl white pillows, muttering to herself about how she needed to make sure she got thicker curtains in the near future.

Twilight then suddenly made a realization of a lack of somepony in the room, more surprisingly, the mare who usually slept beside her. Rainbow Dash wasn’t a pony who normally woke up early, but Twilight had no issues whatsoever with the pegasus sleeping late. Besides, she always melted into a puddle every time she would lay her violet eyes on Dash’s sleeping form, admiring how cute she looked when she slept.

The unicorn walked over to her mirror and pulled out her hairbrush out of the top drawer. Slowly, she began to brush her mane, enough so that it was at least properly down and not sticking out from all different angels. Twilight cursed her tendency to get major bedhead on most mornings, and wondered if all her friends had the same issue.

Swinging open her door with authority, Twilight made her way downstairs to grab some breakfast before going in for her daily shower. It seemed a little backwards to most, but she had always done those in opposite order since she was a filly, and it stuck with her. Besides, it helped eliminate potential fights between Rainbow and herself for showering times.

She wondered now if she was home alone, as Twilight knew Spike had gotten up extra early to aid Rarity on a morning gem hunt, his enthusiasm fueled by potential alone time with the mare, as well as a gift in the form of a snack. Twilight smiled to herself and shook her head at the thought of a love-struck Spike following Rarity around aimlessly.

However, the lavender unicorn was unsure about the whereabouts of her marefriend, as she never woke up earlier than 10 am on any day of the week, especially weekends.

The scene in the kitchen before her just about answered that question, while creating a bunch of other ones.

To begin, Rainbow was standing near the sink, bits of coffee beans strewn around her mane and fur which also seemed to be wet as well. The pegsasus seemed to be glaring angrily at what used to be her coffee machine, which was now a seemingly discombobulated pile of parts, of which Twilight had no explanation for how that could possibly happen.

The kitchen was just as worse. A mixture of whole and grounded coffee beans, water, and some actual brewed coffee was splattered all over her cabinets, appliances, and dining room table, not to mention the floor, which at this point looked like a hazard zone.

Rainbow sensed Twilight’s approach and spun around within a split second, her face flaming red as she tried to hide the destroyed coffee machine.

“Rainbow… what happened to my coffee machine?” Twilight asked softly.

Dash just stood there, attempting to formulate a response.

“Umm… Discord returned and set chaos onto it?” She weakly smiled.

Twilight just stood there and deadpanned at Rainbow, not sure whether to laugh hysterically at the scene before her, or yell at Rainbow for breaking one of her most important possessions. Yes, a coffee machine was that significant for Twilight.

The unicorn merely sighed.

“Dash… do you know how to make coffee?” Twilight questioned.

“Well I was trying to surprise you with breakfast and I put the coffee where it said to put it then the thing just started to….”

“DASH!” Twilight narrowed her eyes.

“… I have no idea.”

Twilight facehoofed. She knew the mare had never drank coffee as her natural adrenaline was plenty enough on its own. But she thought that at least she would have an idea of how to use such a simple appliance.

“Do we at least have any coffee left to use?” she asked, hoping for a yes.

“If you mean other than what is all over the kitchen… then no.”

Twilight merely groaned, grabbing a bowl and a box of cereal out of one of the coffee splattered cabinets. Dash came over and hugged her from behind as she did this.

“Good morning,” the Rainbow maned Pegasus whispered.

Twilight couldn't help but smile.

“Good morning Rainbow Dash.”

Author's Note

So most of this will be little dabbles like so. Some might be sad, some might be happy, who knows? I won't even know half the time.

Thanks for reading!

Sunsets

Life's Little Fortune Cookies
Chapter 2
Sunsets

Rainbow Dash used to be a pony who didn’t know how to enjoy the simple things in life. Instead, she wanted a life full of action and adventure, one which had no time for stopping, and one that definitely didn’t involve sitting around in one place too long. In short, Rainbow could have been called an adrenaline junkie.

Which is why her current activity just showed how much the pegasus had changed over such a short amount of time.
Here she was, sitting on the top of one of the gentle rolling hills on the outskirts of Ponyville, watching the sunset.

Such a mundane activity would usually be something she never would consider doing, not until she found somebody to enjoy it with. For Rainbow did truly enjoy sunsets, but never had a pony who would watch them with her. This could partially be blamed on the pegasus for never asking anypony to accompany her, as she never wanted to admit to her friends that she enjoyed sunsets for some reason. Rainbow associated sunsets with being uncool, and a pony as awesome as herself would never do something uncool.

But having Twilight’s body snuggled up to her own while watching the sunset?

That was extremely cool… and awesome.

Rainbow watched as the sky turned from its normal bluish color to that of a palette of different colors, ranging from oranges and yellows, to purples and even some pink mixed in. She admired how this would happen every day, and watched with amazed eyes as the sun slowly sunk into the horizon while Luna began to prepare the night’s arrival.

Twilight had attempted to explain how sunsets work the first time they had watched one together, but with all her fancy scientific knowledge, Rainbow didn’t understand the majority of what the unicorn said, nor did she even know most of the words Twilight was using. Since then, the duo preferred to watch in mutual silence, letting the wondrous sight in front of them do all the talking.

Rainbow was curious about something however…

“Hey Twi?”

The unicorn raised her head off Rainbow’s lower neck, which she had been lying on while watching the event unfold. “Yes Rainbow?”

“Why are sunsets so relaxing?”

“To be honest, I don’t really know,” Twilight responded. “Perhaps it’s all the warm colors that a sunset has.”

“Orange and yellow are warm colors right?” Rainbow gestured towards certain spots in the sky that reflected this color.

“Yes, and pink also to an extent,” Twilight added, Pinkie Pie immediately coming to mind with the mention of the color pink. Rainbow had identical thoughts about the color as well.

“Purple is a cold color though isn’t it?” Rainbow remarked, earning a bit of a glare from the violet unicorn. “And just what is that supposed to mean?”

“Umm… well I didn’t mean it like that…”

“Relax I’m only teasing you,” Twilight interrupted, chuckling at how gullible her marefriend could be sometimes. “Besides, I think purple is better referred to as a cool color. And we know just how much you like cool colors, right Dashie?”

It was Rainbow’s turn to laugh, both at how gullible she could be, and also at Twilight’s use of the word cool, which wasn’t usually part of the unicorn’s vocabulary. “I suppose, but I think blue is much cooler than purple.”

“Oh? How so?”

“Well, blue is the color of oceans and the sky, both of which are extremely important,” Rainbow argued playfully.

“But purple is a color of royalty, and has been since prehistoric days. Back thousands of years ago, purple dye was considered very rare and held to the utmost value, thus becoming a commodity of the very rich and powerful,” Twilight countered, making sure to use her wide array of knowledge on the subject.

“So… blue is the most popular color!”

Twilight raised an eyebrow at the claim. She knew there was no way Rainbow could back up such a statement “… And how did you figure that one out?”

“Back in Cloudsdale, my fight class chosen blue as the most popular color,” Rainbow explained, now grasping at straws to try and win the argument.

“And how big was this said class?” Twilight squinted her eyes at Rainbow, watching as the pegasus searched for answers, and realizing that she was being backed into a corner.

“Around 30 ponies I’d guess.”

“So let me get this straight, you decided to generalize a group of 30 ponies’ opinions as being the same for all of Equestria, which is populated by millions of ponies. How does that make sense?” Twilight had her head cocked to the side now while she looked at Rainbow, who started to have a defeated look plastered on her face.

“Well… I uhh… You’re advocating for a color that isn’t even you skin tone. Purple and lavender are two different colors!”
Twilight groaned, facehoofing herself. “And this is coming from the cyan pegasus? From anything that I have read… cyan is not blue. Lavender is actually in the purple color family.”

Rainbow stood up and stomped her hoof on the ground in annoyance. “Lavender is lavender! It isn’t purple!”

“It is so, my books say so,” Twilight corrected.

“Is not, books don’t make it automatically right.”

“Rainbow this was in an encyclopedia, of course it’s true! Those types of books are all facts!” Twilight retorted, getting a bit peeved at the pegasus for now turning the argument towards something Twilight knew more about that just about anypony in Ponyville.

“Are not!”

“Are so!”

“Are not!”

“Are so!”

“… Well at least lavender is a sexy color.”

Both of them halted in their tracks at Rainbow’s out of left field remark, and at nearly the same instant, both ponies erupted into hysterical laughter at the ridiculousness of the argument at hand.

“That is definitely true,” Twilight answered, blushing a bit at the comment. “Cyan is a pretty sexy color in its own right.”
“Why thank you my beautiful,” Rainbow responded, imitating what seemed to be something out of royalty. Twilight merely chuckled and shook her head.

The pair turned their heads towards what was remaining of the sunset they had been watching earlier on, and were both amazed to see that the sunset now consisted of only two colors… blue and purple.

“Well, this is a fitting end to the day isn’t it?” Twilight remarked, laying her head against Rainbow’s shoulder.

“It sure is.”

Miracles

It stared her down. Every single aspect of it seemed to beckon her, draw her in and clutch her tightly like a sweet smelling pheromone. The sleek, voluptuous curves were quite pronounced, sliding down and meeting to a point. In a way it was able to envelope itself within her mind, as if she was becoming high off its essence.

For most ponies, this would describe a special someone.

In Twilight's skewed world, it described a math equation.

With a quill held in her hoof, she checked her work for the umpteenth time, going over each part with a fine toothed comb. Despite her cautiousness, there was still something wrong with what she wrote, and she was well aware of it. Yet as hard as she looked, even with an eye as critical as hers, she couldn't figure it out.
For the 10th time that day, a poor quill gave it's life for the cause.

"Grrr... stupid Starswirl the Bearded. Stupid equation," she grumbled, rubbing her temple as a headache began to mount, "Did he really have to go through all this to make an equation for..."

CRASH

She looked up and turned to her front door. What once was a beautiful wood carved masterpiece now had bore the scars of battle, as if it was a shield on the front lines of the last Equestrian Civil War.

Instead it was just the outline of a pegasus.

"Come in Rainbow Dash."

The door finally gave way, splitting in two, and revealing Rainbow. She stood there wearing the poorest look of innocence anypony could possible conjure up, and Twilight just rolled her eyes before turning towards her desk.

"Hey Twi! I was doing some new tricks, but I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to grab some lunch." The cold chill of silence greeted her. "Uh Twi? Your ears are on right?" She began poking Twilight's head.

"If you're wondering, I can hear you, and yes my ears are on because you can't turn them off," she replied flatly.

"Woah, sorry. Didn't know you were getting down and dirty with, um, the math books today?" Rainbow focused in on whatever mixture of numbers and letters decided to vomit on Twilight's book. "Say, that is a math equation right?"

Twilight nodded. "It's a unsolved Starswirl the Bearded equation on the speed that magic travels in a vacuum. I found it when I was reading one of his older books, when it mentioned nopony ever solved it. So I decided to give it a shot."

"Well it doesn't look like you've solved it." Dash backed up at the deathly glare she was given. "Guess not huh?"

Twilight huffed and threw her hooves in the air. "I've tried to solve it for the past 3 days now! But I keep getting parts of it wrong, and then other parts of it are wrong, and then other parts of those parts are wrong and..." She was stopped by a hoof in her muzzle.

"Twilight, 2 plus 2 is four right?" Rainbow nearly started laughing at the dumbfounded expression Twilight gave her. "I'm serious though, it says right here, two plus two is five, which using my brilliant addition skills, is wrong."

"You're joking."

"Nope. Look where my hoof is."

Twilight obliged, focusing on the near microscopic arithmetic in the vastness of the entire equation. Sure enough, Dash's word held true, and some say Twilight's eyes grew three sizes that day.

Rainbow chuckled. "I'll see ya later Twilight, have fun with that." She flew out the empty doorframe, just as Twilight began to scribble like mad.

Rainbow Dash put her hooves up, sinking into her soft, fluffy couch as she prepared her body for a well deserved nap. Her recent tricks had taxed every single fiber of her body, and the thought of doing anything just didn't click with her right now.

"By Celestia! It's a Miracle!"

Her eyes flipped open as she recognized Twilight's voice, remembering that it had been 3 days since she had seen the alicorn. She assumed Twilight was busy doing her equation, and prior experience told her not to interrupt her.

But Twilight didn't live near her at all.

...And that voice was unmistakable.

"3... 2... 1..."

CRASH

Rainbow could only snicker at the alicorn indent that just appeared in her front door.

Author's Note

First thing I've put on this site since April. Man, I need to step it up.

This was a little blurb I wrote for the Twidash Prompt thread. You can find it here