The Purple in a Rainbow

by Stormy Dawn

Rating: teen
Tags: Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Rainbow Dash, Comedy, Twilight Sparkle
Length: 3720

Rainbow Dash is surprised to find herself taking care of Twilight, instead of Twilight caring for her.

When the alicorn, Twilight Sparkle crashes and lands hard, Rainbow rushes to her aid. Was she confused? Yes! Normally Twilight would take care of her, but when she has to take care of Twilight, she pulls a blank.

What happens when the two are under the same roof? Will stronger feelings emerge?

I might get cover art, might not.

Published 2014-01-26 14:30:03 UTC
Last updated 2014-02-22 17:03:55 UTC

Did You Know Crashing Hurts?

"Flap 'em hard!" Rainbow Dash instructed. The alicorn rolled her eyes.

"You do remember what happened last time you told me that, right?" Twilight skeptically asked.

Rainbow thought for a moment. "Ok, maybe not that hard." She sheepishly said. Twilight let out a small giggle as she struggled to keep afloat in the air.

"Ok, different approach." Rainbow said. "Flap 'em like this!" She said as she pointed her hoof at her own wings. "Since your wings are more powerful than mine, you shouldn't have to flap any harder than me!" Rainbow informed. The wings of the princesses seemed to be bigger, with more feathers. This makes the wings much more powerful.

Twilight nodded as she slowed her flapping pace. The princess had now had her wings for almost a month, and still couldn't use them properly. Some lessons from Dash were greatly needed. The purple alicorn teetered still, attempting to stay in the air.

"Woah!" Twilight's wings stopped working and she fell towards the ground, before Rainbow caught her hoof in midair. "Thank you, Rainbow." Twilight said.

"Yeah, ok! You can try to flap now!" The pegasus said. Basically carrying her own weight, Rainbow sunk lower.

"Oh, right!" Twilight said as she began flapping her wings. As soon as Twilight regained her balance, Rainbow let go.

"Yeah, number one thing to work on is to stay in the air for longer than ten minutes." Rainbow Dash said as she shot an annoyed look at Twilight. The pegasus flew further away from Twilight, making a distance for her to fly. "Ok! Fly as fast as you can to me!" Rainbow instructed.

"As fast as I can? Isn't that pushing it a little bit, this early in my lessons?" Rainbow rolled her eyes.

"Just try!" Dash said, clearly running out of temper.

"Fine." The alicorn said. She pumped her wing faster than before, making her speed up. She shot forward, making a small cloud of dust appear where she was. Twilight had to admit, the wind on her face felt good. She reached the cyan mare and gave her a high-hoof.

"That was pretty fast!" Rainbow said. "For a amateur." She added.

"Very funny." Twilight flatly said. "Now what?"

"Bigger distance!" Rainbow said as she floated further away. "With obstacles!" Rainbow added as she pointed at some relevantly placed trees. They were tall trees, spaced apart in the form of a zigzag. "You can fly between these on your way over to me!" Rainbow said.

Twilight raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?" Twilight asked. Rainbow let out a loud frustrated huff.

"For Celestia's sake, YES!" She shouted out across the trees. "Now go!"

Twilight nodded and sped her flapping yet again. She darted towards the trees. She zigzagged past the first one, nose dived under the second one and swerved around the third one. As she flew past the last tree, her wing hit against a sharp branch.

"Ouch!" She chirped. She quickly flapped it off and continued flying towards Rainbow. Her speed became slower, trying not to irritate the scrape that appeared on her appendage.

"What's with the slow-down?" Rainbow questioned as Twilight approached her.

"I think," she said as she regained her stamina. "I hurt my wing." Twilight said.

"Lemme see!" Rainbow said as she opened the lavender wing with her hoof. Shocks of electricity shot up and down her appendage as Rainbow touched it. The flapping of Twilight's one wing and both of Rainbow's kept then in the air. "Mm, that's not very threatening, but maybe you should take a break anyways." Rainbow suggested.

"Okay." Twilight said as she rubbed the scrape on her wing.

She landed on the ground and looked for her saddlebags. She levatated a first aid kit out with her telekinesis. She opened it and found the right size of band-aid and kept it in her magical grasp as she dabbed an alcohol swab on it. As she was doing that, Rainbow landed behind her.

"Y'know, sometimes I with I had a horn." Rainbow said.

"Really?" She questioned as she stuck the band-aid on her wing. "Why?" Rainbow snorted.

"Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my wings, but do you know how friggn' hard it is to put a band-aid on? Let alone pick things up?" Rainbow ranted.

Twilight giggled. "Yeah, Rainbow, I couldn't see you giving up your wings for a horn in which you would only use for one spell: levitation!"

"Yeah, how would I be the Element of Loyalty if I didn't have wings!"

"You probably still could." Twilight answered.

"Yeah, right! Wings is the key to loyalty!" Rainbow shot back.

"That proves absolutely nothing, Rainbow. What about when your wings were taken away from you by Discord?"

"There was nothing loyal about that!" Rainbow argued back.

"Yes, you stick to your friends, everything about that is loyal." Rainbow rolled her eyes.

"You did seee fly away, right?"

"Yes, but if Discord hadn't bribed you to do so, I bet you that would have never happened."

"Whatever, this is getting off topic, are you ready to fly?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes, I think so." Twilight answered.

"Then let's fly!" Rainbow enthused.

Twilight nodded as she began flapping, and slowly making her way into the sky.

Okay let's try the one with the trees again!" Rainbow suggested.

"Okay....."

Twilight zoomed past the first few trees just fine, but when she approached the last tree, she didn't just scrape her wing. The same sharp branch gashed along her entire appendage. Her wing got caught on the branch. She desperately tried to pull free of the bracnch. She managed to pull her wing free, but gravity kicked in, and she hurtled towards the ground.

"Oh, dear Celestia....." Rainbow mumbled as she darted towards the falling princess. "Come on...." Rainbow chanted as she attempted to catch her. "No!"

Twilight felt all the air in her body being knocked out as she landed hard on her back. She started coughing and gasping to get air back into her lungs.

"Twilight! Are you okay?" Rainbow asked, worry in her voice.

Twilight coughed once. "I... Think so..." She said in a raspy voice, still gasping for breath. She slowly stood up with shakey knees. She yelped in pain as she stepped on her right forehoof. She quickly lifted her hoof off the ground. She opened her right wing. There was a long gash along the apendage. Several feather were missing, and dozens were out of place. "Ow."

"You're not okay." Rainbow said. "Where's that first aid kit?"

Twilight weakly raised a hoof in the direction of her saddlebags. Rainbow trotted over to it and pulled out the white box. She walked back over to her injured friend. She stared at all the contents inside

"Uh..." Twilight giggled.

"You don't know what to do, do you?" Twilight asked.

"No...." Twilight giggled again.

"Rub this on the cut." She said, pointing at a large alcohol swab. Rainbow fiddled with the swab, attempting to peel the cover off.

"Hey, Twi?"

"Yes?"

"Can you use your magic to peel the cover off?"

"Ok, I'll try."

"What do you mean, you'll try?" Rainbow asked.

"I'm not in fit shape, making it harder to cast spells." Twilight answered.

"Oh, ok." Rainbow said.

Twilight clenched her teeth and pinched her eyes close. A faint aura enveloped the swab. The cover of the swab peeled off, and was sent fluttering to the ground.

"Thanks." Rainbow said as she picked up the cotton swab. She rubbed it on the large gash, and Twilight winced in pain. "Sorry!" Rainbow said.

"No need to apologize. This would've happened if I did it to you." Rainbow blinked.

"Ok." She said as she continued to rub the cut. Twilight was on her back, both her large wings spread out across the ground.

"Mm, Twilight? Can I look at this wing? She said, pointing to her other wing.

"Sure." Rainbow inspected the wing. She touched the apendage and Twilight winced in pain. Rainbow rubbed her hoof along the apendage. Twilight shivered. When Rainbow rubbed her wing, it felt... Good. But it hurt at the same time.

"Yep, you've got a broken wing." Rainbow informed.

"Great." Twilight flatly said.

"C'mon, let's get you home."

Author's Note

Mhm I had a sudden urge to do a TwiDash, so here it is! Chapter two will be coming out soon!

Am I Loyal?

Rainbow bit her lip as she tucked her knees against her stomach. She was in the waiting room of the Ponyville Hospital. The same thought had been running through her head. It was her fault. She sent Twilight to the hosptial.

"Ahem, Rainbow Dash?" A doctor said.

"Hm? Oh, yeah. What?" Rainbow said.

"Come withe to Primcess Twilight's room. We have things to discuss." He said.

"Um, okay."

As Rainbow entered the room, Twilight opened her eyes.

"Hi, Rainbow!" Twilight beamed. Rainbow offered a confused look.

"You're happy to see me?" Rainbow asked.

"Of course! Why not?" She asked.

"N-never mind." She said. "How are you doing?"

"Good! My wings hurt a lot and so does my back."

"Welcome to my world." Rainbow commented. Twilight giggled. Her wings were bandaged up, but her feathers were still every which way.

"So," the doctor started. "Twilight here needs someone to watch over her." He swallowed. "Are you willing to do so?" He asked.

Rainbow glanced at Twilight. She sighed. "Yeah, okay. It's only right for me to." Rainbow said.

The doctor's face brightened. "Brilliant! You will have to live in Twilight's house, because you live on a cloud, and she isn't fit to be flying." Rainbow sighed.

"Okay....." She said, a little disappointed. "Alright, doc! When is she out?"

"Now." Rainbow's eye twitched.

"But, when I broke my wing, I had to stay for like, a week! She's got injuries worse than me, and she's leaving now?" Rainbow yelled.

"Acually, your broken wing was much treatable out of the hospital, you're just so attached to flying that we had to keep you here. But Twilight however, doesn't seem to be that in need to fly." The doctor said. Rainbow swished her tail.

"Whatever, can we go now?" Rainbow said. The uneasy feeling in her stomach stayed put.

"Of corse." Rainbow helped the alicorn out of the hospital bed. She kept her sprained hoof off the floor as she walked. They checked Twilight out of the hospital and head for the library. Twilight noticed Rainbows shoulders slumped and her head was dipped towards the ground.

"Rainbow, are you okay?" She asked. "You seem a little sad."

"I'm fine." Twilight gave a quizzical look.

"No you're not." Rainbow shot Twilight a annoyed look, but soon it softened.

"Aren't you just a little bit mad at me?" Rainbow asked. Twilight gave a surprized look.

"What? Why would I be mad?!" Twilight asked.

"It's all my fault, Twilight." Rainbow said.

"What?" Twilight cried.

"It's my fault you're like this," she said pointing at her injuries. "If I never pushed you so far, this never would have happened!" Dash said.

A small chuckle escaped Twilight's muzzle. "Oh, Rainbow. It wasn't your fault. It was acually sort of my fault!" Twilight said.

"How?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, if I didn't continue flying after I scraped my wing, we could've avoided this whole conflict!" Twilight said.

Rainbow looked down. "I-I just feel I wasn't very loyal." Rainbow said, sounding defeated.

Twilight placed a hoof on her back. "Of course you were loyal! You desperately tried to saved me!" Twilight reassured.

"But I've done this before! I saved Rarity just fine, AND the Wonderbolts!" She said. Her shoulders slumped farther. "But I couldn't save you."

"This time, you didn't preform a Sonic Rainboom, which makes you faster." Twilight said.

Rainbow looked up at Twilight. There was no worries in her deep purple eyes. She felt better, knowing Twilight wasn't mad at her. Her small smile only made it better.

Rainbow cheeks flushed. "I-I guess you're right." Rainbow gave in.

"That's better." Twilight said. "Oh look! We're here!" Twilight said. She opened the door with her magic. Immediately, Spike ran down the stairs.

"Oh, thank Celestia you're back! I was getting worried, and I came home after playing with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and you weren't home y-" Rainbow stuck a hoof in his mouth.

"Take a chill pill, Spike! Twilight's fine!" Spike looked at Twilight.

"She is?" Rainbow rolled her magenta eyes.

"Yes, she just a little..... bent." Spike raised am eyebrow.

"Yeah, okay. It looks like somepony beat her up." Spike said, putting a poker face on. Twilight shot the baby dragon a glare.

"Alright, Spike, time to go to bed."

"Well, acually, she did get beat up! By a tree." Twilight rolled her eyes.

"Rainbow has to stay with me until in healed, so can you make us some dinner, please?"

"But you just told me to go to bed!" Spike said, with a confused look on his face.

"Oh, right!" She said sheepishly. "Nevermind, I'll make some daisy sandwiches for us."

"Ok, is that your final choice?" Spike said, with an annoyed look on his face.

Twilight glared at him. "Yes."

"Okay..." Spike said as he walked up the stairs.

"Alright! I need to make dinner!"

"Nah, you go sit down, I'll do it!" Rainbow cut in.

"Really, Rainbow. It's not a problem for me to do it." Twilight said.

"No, I insist!" Rainbow countered.

"Okay....." Twilight gave in.

As Rainbow made the sandwiches, Twilight walked up the stairs slowly and slumped onto her bed. She sighed.

Why did this happen to me? She thought. Why not Rainbow Dash? I know how to take care of her, but does she know how to take care of me? She thought. No sooner did she finish her thought, that Rainbow came up the stairs.

"Here ya go!" Rainbow Dash said. She floated into a chair near her bed and slumped into it. "How are you feeling?" Rainbow asked.

"Good." She said. "Do you even know what you're doing?" Rainbow snorted.

"Trust me, you've taken care of me enough to know what to do!" Rainbow said.

"Okay, hopefully that works." Twilight said.

After they finished thier sandwiches, Twilight shimmied under the covers. Rainbow looked around.

"Uh...." She started. "Bed?" Twilight bonked her head with her hoof.

"Shoot! I threw out the other bed when it got crushed by a tree!" Twilight cried.

Rainbow decided not to ask. "So, what's gonna happen?" Rainbow asked.

"I guess we can share my bed..." Twilight suggested. Rainbow blushed uncontrollably.

"O-oh, you d-don't have to do that..." Rainbow stammered.

"No no! It's okay!" Rainbow sighed.

"Ok..." Rainbow said.

Twilight rolled over to make room as Rainbow got under the covers. She layed on Twilight wing and she yelped in pain.

"Sorry." Rainbow said as they shuffled and rolled Until they found a comfortable position... Exept for the fact that thier muzzles were only mere inches apart. Rainbow awkwardly laughed as she shuffled away from Twilight.

Both the ponies fell into a sleep, unaware that Rainbow had rolled back over, and was now closer to Twilight's muzzle than before.

Author's Note

Sorry it took me longer than normal to get this out, I was busy. :/ Can't wait to finish this (not that I don't like it) so I can do I PinkieDash! The timing hasn't been more perfect! Episode 12 of season 4 just came out at the time I am writing this. The episode is perfect for a PinkieDash in my perspective!

~PinkCrazzypony

That Dream Ouviously Wasn't Normal

"Ahhhhh! Rainbow Dash! Help!" Twilight screamed. Rainbow zoomed towards the falling Twilight. She beated her wings until they hurt. She clenched her teeth as she zoomed downwards towards the alicorn.

"Come on!!" Rainbow yelled. The one thing Rainbow noticed was that the ground wasn't getting any closer. She checked her wings. They were still beating. She was still going downwards. No matter how fast she flew, she didn't get any closer to the ground, or Twilight.

All the sudden, the ground came zooming down on her, and Twilight crashed into the ground.

"Owww!!!" Twilight cringed. Rainbow landed beside her.

"Are you okay??!?!" Rainbow asked, panic in her voice.

"Yeah..." Twilight coughed.

"You're not okay!!! Stay with me!" Rainbow screamed. Twilight's eyelids drooped. "No..." She leaned her forehead against Twilight. "It's gonna be okay." Rainbow could feel Twilight's horn against her head. Rainbow leaned in, and their muzzles touched, in a kiss.

"What the...?!" Rainbow bolted up from the bed she was sleeping in. "What kind of dream was that?" She whispered to herself. She glanced over at Twilight. She was sleeping soundly. She looked at the clock. 9:31. It had only been half an hour since she fell asleep.

She floated away from the bed and looked out the window. The streets were empty and every single light was off. She looked back at Twilight. Her wings unknowingly sprung open in her sleep.

She chuckled. Thats gonna hurt in the morning. She thought.

Her smile faded when the dream she previously had creeped back into her head.

She didn't get it. Okay, she got most of it, but last part? What was that about? And why did Twilight have to die? She didn't in real life. She knocked on her head.

"Work right, brain!" She whispered to herself. "I don't like her!" Her eyes widened at what she just said. "That way." She added.

She peered at herself in the mirror. There was a light pink hue on her cheeks.

She settled on the floor beside Twilight's side of the bed. She watched her. A strand of mane hung in front of her closed eye. The end moved back and forth in syncro with her breaths. Her bandaged wing shivered. Rainbow stared at her open wings. Her feathers were still sticking every which way. She flattened her ears. It bothered her when she saw feathers out of place. It made flying impossible.

She fidgeted with her front hooves. She wagged her tail back and forth. Her eyelids drooped and went under the influence of exhaustion. Rainbow's quiet snores echoed throughout the room.

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Twilight slowly fluttered her eyes open. The room was lighten with natural light coming from the middle. She noticed the space where her cyan friend had been was empty. She turned over and came snout to snout with a slumbering pegasus. She didn't seem to take notice, but Twilight sure did.

"Wha!!" She cried as she rolled away from her friend. "Ouch..." She moaned as she rubbed her wing. Her horn glowed with a magenta hue. She levatated Rainbow onto her bed and walked down the stairs. She soon remembered that she had a sprained hoof when her stepped down with it.

She limped down the stairs and into the kitchen. Her horn beamed again as she gathered things for breakfast. She could do things herself. And after all, both Rainbow and Spike had been up late being concerned about her, when she was just fine. She didn't mind Rainbow's company, but she didn't get why the doctor wanted someone to watch over her.

She was always smart about injuries. Not that she got them all the time. She secretly doubted Rainbow could take care of her, based on only what she'd done her her.

She wondered how Rainbow had gotten to where she was when she had woken up.

Her thoughts rambled on as she mindlessly made a batch of pancakes.

"Twilight?" Spike said as he walked down the stairs. "What are you doing up?" He said as he rubbed his eyes.

"I could ask you the same question." Twilight said.

"I thought me and Rainbow were supposed to be doing all the work." He said.

She giggled. "Spike, it's not like my hooves got cut off." She said. "I can manage normal things like making meals." She said. Spike shrugged.

"Okay, Twilight..." He said. "Just don't fly or anything." He said.

She chuckled. "Spike, honestly, after what happened yesterday, I won't be flying out of will for a long time." She said.

"Mmmm, what did happen, anyways?" Spike asked.

"Long story short, I got my wing caught on a branch and then crashed." She said.

"So you did get beat up by a tree!" Spike joked.

"Very funny." Twilight scowled. "I wouldn't count that as being beat up." Twilight said.

"Yeah, okay, whatever." He said as he walked into the library. Twilight brushed the conversation off as she poured some of the pancake batter onto a pan.

Back upstairs, Rainbow Dash began to stir. She slowly opened her eyes.

"Huh?" She grunted. "How'd I end up here?" She mumbled. She noticed that Twilight was not on the other side of the bed. where did that egghead go? I'm supposed to be watching her, not sleeping in her bead while she does something else! The smell of pancakes reached her snout and she licked her lips. Doing something delicious... she started to flap her wings and float towards the stairs, but soon stopped dead in her tracks. Her heart hammered through her ribcage as last night's dream crept back into her mind.

A shiver ran through her spine as she took a deep breath. She grounded herself and stepped down the stairs.

"H-hey, Twilight!" She said. The alicorn turned around.

"Oh, good morning, Rainbow Dash." She said.

"What's for breakfast?" Rainbow asked as she sniffed the air.

"Pancakes!" Twilight responded.

"Awesome!" She said while rubbing her hooves together and licking her lips. She sat down at the table and waited. Her mind started wandering back to the dream again. Why did she kiss her? Why did she seem to be dying?

"Rainbow," Twilight said. "RAINBOW DASH!!!" She shouted.

"Buh!" Rainbow cried.

"Here's your pancakes." She said as she placed a plate with steaming pancakes in front of her. Twilight stared quizzically at Rainbow. She seemed to be staring off into space. She blinked once and started to eat her pancakes.

Something's up with Rainbow, Twilight thought. But what?

Author's Note

Well there's the third chapter, sorry it took so long to come out, but here it is! Hopefully you won't have to wait as long as you had to with this chapter!

~PinkCrazzypony