Chapter 1: One Fateful Nightmare Night...
Chapter 1
One Fateful Nightmare Night...
As I flew throut the sky in my black jumpsuit, I rediscovered where I had left my materials. I put down my paper bag I had brought, then I pulled the instructions that Twilight gave me out of my hood and started putting together my slingshot that some lucky pony would get shot with this very night.
"Ok, so, first: 'find designated destination for rotating base of projectile launcher'- ok, Twi, I can read, but did you have to make it like the instructions to build a train?" I read and asked myself as I walked over to the edge of the roof, and saw Zecora starting to walk out to tell the tale of Nightmare Moon, as she does every Nightmare Night. As I found a good spot on the roof, I continued to read the instructions to myself, "'Once you find a sustainable area for the base, securely fit the rotation disc onto base'" – I clicked the wheel into place – "'and attach weapon of choice'" - I clicked the Y-branch into the wheel and attatched a a little handle to the wheel, and put a big rubber band with a bowl at one end around the V end of the branch – "'fill with ammo, and attack!' Heh, I wonder who the lucky pony will be that gets the special edition Rainbow Dash Rainbow Balloon?"
I reached into a bag that I brought with the name of every pony in Ponyville, and when I checked it, "Pinkie, you now have the great honor of getting hit by the one time Rain-Balloon Dash!"
As I pulled back on the rubber band, I heard wings flapping behind me. "Twawght, yeh cnt scre mm."
"Uh, Dash, could you repeat that?" then I think the pony said "please". I was sure it was someone I knew, but I was unsure who it was. When I got the rubber band in place, I got the laundry hanger clip in my hair and put it and the roof and clipped the bowl to the pin. When I turned around, I saw Fluttershy. Her face was pale, and she was panting like she ran away from a pack of timber wolves.
"Eh, hey, Fluttershy? Wassap? You look like you got chased out here by me –" *snicker* "– which I can see doing to everypony else, but you? I wouldn't do that!" I told/asked her with curiosity.
"Oh, Rainbow Dash, I need your help," she whispered more faintly (and shakily, for that matter) than usual, "somepony took Spike!"
"Shouldn't you be discussing this with Twilight?" I asked as I raised one and the other took the elevator
down.
"Oh, good point," she whispered, suddenly getting her cool back. "I should've gone to her first anyways. Thanks!" Then her dirty blonde wings, dark because of the night, started flapping, and away she flew.
"Ok, time to get my 'ammo of choice'. Heheh," I chuckled to myself as I took off my jumpsuit and grabbed my balloon in the nick of time. I had told ponies I was 'The Hunchback of Notre Mane*', and they had all bought it! But, then again, I technically was the hunchback. Now, I'm a ninja.
Once I slipped on my hood, I raced back over to the edge of the roof to find Pinkie. This time, she was a ghost, completely white. She wasn't using a blanket, but just a white coat dye.
"Aha!" I whispered to myself as I found the ghoulishly white, bouncing mare, and continued, "I've got you now." Then, I put the balloon in the bowl pulled back, and aimed for her bouncing body. 'Waiting for the orders, Sergeant Dash!' I thought as I locked my sights on her. 'Wait for the kill. Wait...'
Up, down.
'Waiiiit.....' Things seemed to start going in slow motion my brain was working so fast.
Uuupp, ddooowwwnn...
'WAAIIIT...'
Just as Pinkie lowered to make another rebound up into the air...
'Ok, trigger happy! That's your cue! FIIIRRREEE!' The beutiful Rain-balloon Dash was soaring to the target! Pinkie was going up, and when she got to the highest point in her leap,
KABLAMMO!
Her cry in surprise made even me jump back, and when she came back to surface, she was doused in rainbow paint. I actually fell off the roof laughing and had to catch myself mid-flight, and when I started to catch my breath, I shouted to Pinkie Pie, "You have the honor of saying that you got hit by the one time, limited edition: Rain-balloon Dash!"
Next thing I knew, as I flapped back up to just start randomly blasting ponies with the balloon-a-pault, my sonar received a pickup from Pinkie, "Don't expect to sleep well tonight, Rainbow Dash! I shall avenge thee for thy negligence!"
That gave me chills down my pony spine because, a statement like that is pretty weird and you would have to read a lot of history books to know a sentence like that – something Pinkie doesn't normally do. So, for once, Pinkie actually scared me, big!
"Like you could do better!" I cried. Then, when I got up there, I did the routine once, twice three – BLAM! The balloon popped in my face, and there was a dart in the bowl. I got an extra big one, and shot Pinkie in the kisser so hard she fell backwards.
Then I saw her face, and her voice rang in my head – 'Oh, you're on.'
End of Chapter One.