A Rainbow of Personality

Chapter 2.7

“How did I not think of that?” Twilight exclaimed. "Here, this is a temporary spell that will make you look normal to everypony. Be careful, though; it will wear off after an hour."

"Okay," Rainbow Dash said after she had been disguised, "So we have an hour to find and round up all the other mes."

“We’ll need to split up,” Twilight said, “Rainbow, you take the market and see if you can get our red friend to not kill anypony. Pinkie, you come with me and we’ll see if we can find the others. I think I might know where they are.”

    “Oooh! It’s like a big game of hide and seek!” Pinkie exclaimed joyfully.

    “Yeah, sure,” Twilight said, “You think that.”

    “Don’t we have to count though, so that they can hide?” Pinkie asked.

    “They’ve had time enough,” Twilight said, clearly annoyed at how long Pinkie’s questions were taking. “Now let’s go.”

    Rainbow Dash dashed off toward the market, scanning below her for her red doppelganger. As she approached the market she noticed a strangely high number of red ponies. She flew down, intrigued at this observation. She stopped a passing red pony.

    “Dude, what’s with all the red ponies?” She inquired.

    “It’s red pony appreciation day, didn’t you hear?” He responded.

    “Of course that would be today,” Rainbow Dash said, annoyed.

    “Well sorry that you have something against us!” The red pony snapped, walking away.

“Ugh, I’ll never find her in this crowd!” Dash complained.

“I am not paying two bits for a cherry!” A familiar voice yelled to Dash’s left.

“How long have we been having this argument now? 10 minutes?” The shopkeeper said annoyed. “The price isn’t going to change! Two bits, or no cherry!”

Rainbow Dash ran over to the stand to find her red counterpart looking even redder than usual with anger.

“Well you know what I think of this stand?” The red Dash yelled, preparing to smash the stand.

“You think it’s a wonderful place, and you plan to shop here again!” Rainbow Dash said, quickly restraining the Red Dash.

“Please don’t,” The shopkeeper said as Rainbow Dash dragged the red Dash away.

“What are you doing?!” Red Dash yelled once they were safely out of the crowd. “Can you not just leave me alone?!”

“No, I can’t!” Rainbow Dash yelled. "If I let you just wander around you'll end up ruining my awesome reputation!"

"And what's that supposed to mean?" The red Dash said, offended. "Are you saying I'm a bad pony?"

"Well yeah," Rainbow Dash rebutted, "You're rude to everypony! Can't you be nice for once?"

"Why should I be nice to anypony when they are all mean to me?" The red Dash asked angrily.

"The only reason they are mean to you is because you are to them!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "You would see that they are all nice if you tried being nice for once!"

“Just shut up!” The red Dash yelled. “I don’t have to listen to you rant on about your friendship! I don’t need friends!”

Red Dash sped off into the sky in a blur of red, leaving a few red feathers floating where she had been standing only moments before.

“Is she gone?” A quiet voice asked nervously.

Rainbow Dash turned to find her Blue Dash cowering behind a bush.

“Yeah, she’s gone,” Rainbow Dash replied, trying to comfort the scared pony.

“I hate it when ponies fight,” The blue Dash said, tearing up, “It’s so loud and scary. Why were you guys fighting?”

“Well I’m just trying to get all of you guys back so that we can fix this mess,” Rainbow Dash explained. “Would you mind coming back with me, so that we don’t need to worry about any of this?”

“Sure,” Blue Dash said hesitating before continuing, “But… can I snuggle with you?”

Rainbow Dash sighed but then decided to allow it.

“But just this once!” Rainbow Dash said as the blue Dash leaned against her.