TRPAFD: Try-Pathed

by overlord-flinx

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Rainbow Dash, Other, Romance, Comedy, Random, Crossover, Human, Twilight Sparkle
Length: 1213

A simple story of love, romance, lust, desire, and other synonyms. A tale only one that is Red Like Roses could tell.

One day, Twilight Sparkle walked into her library...

The rest? Well, you'll have to read to find out, right? That's how a story totally works! Hook in the reader and reel'em in! Are you hooked? Well you would be if you ready the first page already! - Ruby Rose.

A one-shot RWBY/My Little Pony crossover... For now... Maybe...

Published 2013-10-03 16:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2013-10-03 16:00:01 UTC

TRPAFD

Twilight Sparkle, magic's guardian and harmony's aggregate...

It was a bright, sunny day in little sweet Ponyville when Twilight Sparkle galloped a cheerful stride through the streets. To her, a pony that had been held up in Canterlot for all her life, after adapting to the feel of Ponyville, it felt so great to her. The birds twittered and twattered; the ponies down the streets waved hello's here and there. It was an all around pleasant place to be in her opinion. It was only a bonus that she had such amazing friends to boot. It felt like an eternity ago to her when she thought of those days where she never had a friend in the world. Now? She had six of the greatest best friends a pony could ask for.

Even more to it, among her friends -well- let's say there was a special some-pony. She never said it. Celestia almighty, she never said it. It was a mixed bag why, really. Twilight was embarrassed, she didn't want things to change, it would make things weird. What would everyone else say? There was just way too many things boggling her mind over just thinking about it. It just sort of sat wrong with her deep down inside her. Hiding something from a friend? From a partner?

It didn't matter right now anyway. If anything, it just sort of killed her 'high-spirit' mood and chilled down her gallop to a small canter. A canter she used to head on home to the library that she made into her own house when she first came to Ponyville. Her magic made quick work of opening the front door to the library and she moved along in. But, she was surprised when she came into her own house. She expected to see Spike lazily slumping around the shop like he always did when she left him to the morning work; but he wasn't the one waiting for her when she got back.

Twilight Sparkle was a bit surprised to see that it was Rainbow Dash waiting for her in the library. Well, not so much 'waiting' as standing around by the counter flipping through a book, back turned to the front door. If anything, it was just by random-crazy chance that Rainbow Dash was even there at the exact moment Twilight Sparkle was consuming her thoughts over her in the first place. That's right, Twilight Sparkle was really, really, really into Rainbow Dash. Maybe it was fate? Twilight was just thinking about her a minute ago... Maybe this was a sign for her to say something to her. Please Celestia, let it be a sign, Twilight silently hoped.

Her muzzle chafed a moment, quivering and wobbling in-time with her thumping heart. Twilight's hooves dug hard against the wood of the library floor, not giving an inch for her to use as she tried to inch over to Rainbow Dash. Why did she have to be on the other side of the room? Ugh. How far across the library was Twilight Sparkle at this point? Looking back at the front door over her shoulder, she guessed about half a foot. To buck with this she cursed within her head as she charged up her horn.

Across the room from her, Rainbow Dash was taken up in the unseen force of Twilight's magical grasp. Before she knew it, Rainbow Dash was yanked across the room and brought to flop at the hooves of Twilight Sparkle herself. "Woah! Hey! What's the big idea!?" Rainbow Dash brushed herself off with her wings as she wobbled up to her own four hooves.

Thump-thump went Twilight's heart faster and faster. Her hooves were sweaty, knees weak, legs heavy; and from deep down in her stomach, she could feel Spike's spaghetti from last night fighting to get up. But like her freaking out body, she kept it down and visualized her goal. The goal standing right in front of her. With no words, Twilight took hold of Rainbow Dash once again with her magic and forced the other mare to dip down into Twilight's now bent front legs to cradle the body of Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow Dash, you are my special-mare, baby. I've loved you since the day you doused me in water when we first met," Twilight combed her hoof through Rainbow Dash's mane, speaking to her in a so romantic way, "I cannot bare to be without you!"

And then they ki--

"Ruby!" Reality struck against Ruby Rose's ear like a thundering clap, shattering the imaginative world she was creating.

As that fictitious world of ponies shattered into small pieces, Ruby blinked her dried eyes and scratched her pen against the piece of notebook paper she was so enthused with. Weiss peered down at her colleague, bemusement and the clear layer of appalled very evident on her clear expression as she looked over what Ruby was doing. Ruby in vain tried to sweep the notebook under her pillow as she lay in her normally cloaked over bed; but Weiss' sharp eyes told her that hiding it was a failed effort entirely. Even if Weiss was standing on the stepping ladder leading to her bed, Ruby could hear the distinct tapping of Weiss' heel against the wooden peg. She was caught, deer in headlights...

"Ruby? Are you...?" Weiss tried not to, but a sly smile and escaped laugh just had to escape her on something like this, "...Are you writing a fan fiction?"

"It's not a fan fiction!" Ruby retorted as fast as she could along with a well placed pillow thrust into Weiss' face in an attempt to knock her off, "It's -you know- extended reality of the publicized material..." Ruby muttered off to herself as her face burned as red as her name.

Even though the pillow hit home against Weiss' face, her nails dug deep against the ladder and she refused to fall. The pillow slipped between her and the steps of the ladder before Weiss moved back in to talk to Ruby once more. "In other words, a fan fiction. It doesn't matter how you paint it up; by the way, that's completely out of Blake's book: 'extended reality of the yadda-yadda'. Fan fiction's a fan fiction." Weiss shrugged to herself and allowed her form to slide down the ladder and leave Ruby to herself. "Besides... Aren't you a little old for My Little Pony?"

Ruby listened to the gradual sound of Weiss leaving before hearing the sound 'clink' of the bedroom door shutting. When she heard that, she flopped her face hard against her mattress, making her groan dull and muffled along with her agitated thumps of her fists hitting against the mattress as well. "My Little Pony's not a kid's show... I mean, it is... But it's still cool! I..." Ruby huffed, stopping her groaning and thumping to just lay against her bed face down, "...I don't know... I think it's pretty cool anyway..."

Slowly, Ruby drifted off to sleep, ignoring the droning tone of the class bell ringing off in the hall. It may have well been a fan fiction; but even in a world of magic, swords, and epic heroes... It's only natural for any young girl to just wonder.