30 Minutes of TwiDash

The Prompt (by Echz in the TwiDash group): "Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving"

Of Destruction and Forgiveness

It was a perfect warm, tranquil, bright and shining, summer day in Ponyville. Fluttershy was on her way to the market place to buy some fresh carrots for her bunnies while Cheerilee was involved in a chat with a quite uncommonly talkative red stallion. Lyra was playing a harmonious new song on her harp just a few meters from Sweetie Drops who had just reopened her candy shop after lunchtime and some fillies and colts were cheerfully playing on the streets when all of a sudden a thunderstorm, the size that ponies have never seen before, emerged and raged over the town. It caused nothing else than massive amounts of destruction.

Within seconds, debris and wreckage were uncontrollably flying through the roads, demolishing windows and lanterns that was in their way. Trees were violently uprooted and knocked over and even some roofs were blown off while the weather manager in charge of the small town was peacefully taking a nap somewhere high in the skies above Sweet Apple Acres, far off from any dark cloud. It was a little wonder that no pony got severely injured or even worse regarding the extent of destruction the tempest left behind in the small village.

A few hours have passed since the force of nature devastated most of the town. With a nervous expression on her face and shaking knees, Rainbow Dash was sitting on a chair in the waiting room of the new mayor’s bureau, knowing exactly what would come next.

The mayor’s personal assistant would come out of the office at any second, call her in and close the door behind him, from the safe outer side of course. After unsuccessfully trying to swallow down her fears, she would slowly and uneasily trot to an isolated, rather uncomfortable wooden chair in the middle of the room and sit down on it casing herself in silence, just waiting for the other pony to start talking, scold her, shout her down and make her getting closer to shed tears with every word she would say.

And everything happened just as she suspected.

Not daring to move just an inch she tensely sat on the same spot of the disagreable chair for already more than half an hour, waiting for nothing else than the final judgment, in fact looking forward to it - no matter whatever it would be - since everything was better than getting yelled from the other mare.

Usually she didn’t mind getting scolded or even insulted at all, but every phrase the mayor used to describe her irresponsible and intolerable behavior felt like a needle getting slowly pulled out of her heart just to violently get rammed back into it the next second.

Bearing every word the other pony threw at her during the past thirty minutes, Rainbow Dash was already slightly sobbing and not far from uncontrollably breaking out in tears, but pulled herself together as she knew that a few minutes later she would have been through it.

“You’re a true disaster and considering the responsibility I’m carrying for this town, I should not just suspend you from your duties, but banish you from Ponyville, if not from all of Equestria...” Twilight furiously barked, impetuously flapping with her wings and wildly stomping with her hooves in her continuous rage as she was barely able to manage holding herself together, just enough that she wouldn’t slap the lovely face of the pegasus who was silently and remorsefully sitting right in front of her.

Within a blink of a second, she turned away from the sky blue mare and went to the huge broken window of her usually orderly, but through the storm that raged through chaotic appearing office. Averting her view from Rainbow Dash and deeply inhaling the cold fresh air for a few times, she somehow managed to slowly calm herself down again.

“...But after all, you’re the mare I decided to love,” She suddenly broke the several minutes of tense silence using a soft and soothing voice, just like she wanted to excuse for all the horrible things she said before. “So, if you promise me to not neglect your obligations again, you may go home,” the alicorn gently offered with an affectionate undertone, still looking out of the window, admiring a beautiful rainbow which ornamented the sky above the devastated town.

Without saying a word as she knew that it wouldn’t be appreciated, Rainbow Dash stood up from the chair she was crouching on, headed to the door, opened it and had almost left the room when the mayor unexpectedly opened her mouth to add another statement, “and if you happen to pass by the market place on your way, would you be so kind and buy some salad and bread for dinner.” With a broad smile growing on her muzzle, Rainbow Dash left the office and closed the door behind her.