Commander Hurricane would have approved, thought Rainbow Dash. A moment later, she scrunched up her nose in distaste. Great, now even the inside of her head was starting to sound like Twilight! This was getting out of hoof.

She shook her head, still frowning, as she swooped through the gap in the cloudbank. It was a thick bank—even at Rainbow's habitual pace, there was a long moment of shade before she emerged through the other side of the wall of cloud. There wasn't much more sun on the other side than there had been inside the tunnel, but it was enough to be noticable.

The reason it was still so gloomy was easy. Or, well... easy enough to say, anyway. It was an entire, enormous room in a really big cloud, and as easy as it had been to say “no problem!” to Twilight when she'd asked, it had not been easy to do.

The view opened up in front of Rainbow: a hundred yards away, the far wall loomed. The entire area had a cloud floor, and looking up, maybe fifty yards overhead, there was a puffy, light grey cloud ceiling. And smack dab in the center was the only dash of color in the whole place: Rainbow's cloud house, same as ever. Except for the 'being built into an enormous cloud fortress' part. That was pretty new.

It was... weird. A room this big was just wrong. It was too big to feel like 'inside', so it felt like she ought to be able to see free, open sky somewhere. The fact that she couldn't set all her instincts to twinging, telling her it had to be some kind of horrible, freak thunderstorm artifact, or the center of a tornado, and to get get getout getout. All she actually did was ruffle her wings for a moment before taking off again, towards the house.

Yeah, this really needed to change. She couldn't live like this any more. Twi was gonna have to find a new way to deal with her little infestations. She was a princess—couldn't she just make it legal to turn ponyrazzis into frogs or oranges or something?

That seemed like it would be for the best for everyone.

Author's Note

Prompt #550: Two or more of the Mane Six move in together