To Be a Mother

(all inbetween [[[words blah blah blah words]]] are narrations, done by a voice of your choice, not something to be taken from me, the writer. They will happen rarely. VERY rarely. I can see of about a maximum of two being in this story altogether.Beginning and end.)

[[[As always, Rainbow Dash had been lazing around on a cloud when something major happened. This time, Twilight found her. They were the only two left. Only two left who have to yet do what, you ask? Why, if you would think, the title clearly states of motherhood!]]]

"Rainbow Dash! What are you doing up there! Fluttershy just had her fourth child!", Twilight spoke.

"What?", Rainbow Dash's eyes shot open.

The cloud turned into evaporating dust as she darted away towards the hospital, busting through the doors and passing by the now sane, Screw Loose.

"Rainbow Dash! Thank you for the help treating my insanity!", came the half barks, half statement of english the pony sent off to her.

But rainbow dash was already twirling through the spiral staircase, creating a temporary vacuum and wind tunnel throughout the entire thing. Once she left, all air replaced itself properly and created a wap that sounded through the two floors she had gone through. She had done this before, so came out one floor before the maternity wing. She got onto her hooves and ran up the stairs into the maternity wing on the other end, this time, making no noise on the carpeted floor that the hospital put in to keep the hoof steps silent at night and day. She round the last and had stopped in front of an open door where everyone else stood around Fluttershy, who lay in the bed, cradling the four newborn children in her arms.

"Ohmygosh, I'msosorryI'mlateguys!"

Fluttershy looked up from the children, "Be quiet.", she whispered.

"Ya know, I didn't fly over seventeen miles, going the speed of a damned sonic jet for nothin Fluttershy!", her temper flared.

"Well, maybe you should wait here in the waiting lounge like we did?", Pinkie Pie asked.

"You know how stubborn I am about those places!"

Pinkie shrugged and as the nurse called them all out, Rainbow Dash took a look at the four children. Two fillies, two colts. Each had a characteristic of Macintosh and Fluttershy in them, but each totally different from the other.

"So four, huh?", Rainbow Smiled, a sad expression on her face.

"Yeah. Nurse, I'd like to speak with this one a few more seconds."

"You can stay Rainbow Dash, but if she tells you to leave, you get out.", the nurse informed.

"Can do.", Rainbow returned.

"Rainbow Dash, I'm not one to really intrude on one's personal love life, or family intentions and actions. But don't you think you've gone on too far?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, for starters, I never really brought this up, Mac did. You seem to have never have gone out with a stallion. Or a mare for that matter. Or atleast as we've seen. Have you ever even gone out with anyone?"

"I have, once before long ago when I was young."

"That's just it Rainbow Dash.You have no love life. You're lonely aren't you? Is that why every time you hear one of us has something happen in our lives, you rush to see and enjoy as much of it as you can? Even though most of the time your several hours or minutes late."

Rainbow Dash sighed, "Tis true. I haven't been dating because...", she trailed off.

"Is it because you're not comfortable with dating? Listen if you want ot have a child, you can adopt one, or get a...uhm...you know. You don't have to be in love, or even have to be with anyone."

"But thats the thing. I want to be with someone. But I don't know who. And for the record, I'm straight. Why does everyone ask if I want a marefriend?"

"It was always a stereotypical thing with your hair."

"Go figure. Fluttershy, you've given me advice before on dating, but I'm not a shy type. I don't know what to do."

"Rainbow Dash. I don't know when, or how, and I did talk to my matchmaker which got me and Mac together. He said that you will find your true love some day. He was sure of it. He had done something when his horn glowed. Do you remember that day two years ago when me and macintosh began dating? You were in an agility race."

"Yeah."

"He moved the cloud ring. Thats why you crashed. He did so that you would humiliate yourself. And I questioned him on that yesterday. He has done it for a reason. He doesn't know why yet."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because you need to go talk with him."

"Why should I? I don't even know who I would go to him for!"

"Thats not why, Rainbow Dash. He will help you find your true love, lets just hope that he still runs the business."

"I'm not going, Fluttershy. I want to do this on my own anyway."

"Ok. I was just trying to help.", Fluttershy smiled.

Rainbow Dash smiled and hugged Fluttershy in a way which kept them both from disturbing the newborns.

"Thanks!", Rainbow Dash flew out the door.

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Rainbow Dash had flewn out the hospital, passed by everyone who were in the waiting room without as much as a glance, and had gone off towards her home. Though something had caught her on the way there. She stopped mid flight and cut a flip, turning around to face whatever it was. A pegasus pulling a cart on the ground was what that objection was.

She landed next to him quickly, looking to appear there with her grand agility from the few years in the wonderbolts team.

"Hey!", Rainbow Dash called.

"Hmm?", The pegasus responded.

"Why are you pulling the cart by hoof?"

"I wanted to have this trail go by slowly. I'm moving on to another town called ponyville. I was told that is where the best parties are thrown, the best everything is! Fun, family, friendship, and great opportunities. I hope to even meet a beautiful mare some day."

" Really? You are a nature loving guy aren't you?"

He stopped.

"Why are you asking me so many questions?"

"Because it's very abnormal to see a pegasus pulling a cart of any type by hoof!"

"Well then, that answers my real question.", he smiled.

"What?"

"I wanted to know a little more of your personality, get a taste of it. See what you might be like. I've seen a few of your wonderbolt shows."

"Oh no! Not another fan!"

"Oh no no! Believe me, I'm not an attention hogging fan. I'd just like to say hello every once and a while to someone I rarely look up to! And Rarely in my case is a lot!!"

"So...What are you saying?"

"I'm saying I might get to know you, should nothing else come up before I make the trip home."

"O...kay then, I gues I'll be seeing you?"

"Maybe."

He continued on."

Rainbow Dash shrugged and shot back up, resuming her course home.

The night was filled with dreams resulting from her thoughts of every day, every morning, every noon, every evening. Every day. Being lonely. She saw her friends slip from reality, into death before her, each leaving her one by one, year by year, till she was left, outlasting them for more than a thousand years. These years, in her dream, did not last the fifteen seconds they were, but instead hundreds of years each. It felt horrible each time, getting worse and worse. Sometimes when she awoke in the morning, she found herself thinking of suicide, not able to think of anything else. She was tired of the older things that were fun to her. Parties, the Galloping Galla, competitive bets and bluffs between her and Applejack...It was misery, hell on earth. Yet, she got up never the less. She was beginning to take on those suicidal dreams as a second thought and if ever did want to, there would be a Knife on the nightstand. Though, she had it made by her friends, all of them, so they chose whether or not she had the choice to take her life if it were to ever happen. They supported her.

"Idiots! Those...those haters! They probably did so to encourage me!", she thought, "Why would they support their own friend in such a way?!"

She pondered the newest thought in her head several times before leaving with her wonderbolt costume on. She made it past the barrier of people which crowded her moving house door, blasting away like a bullet. She felt the impending sonic Rainboom and timed it right. She took a very small sharp dive at the right moment, releasing it an dashing off towards the destination. She was leaving to the next city over.

It wasn't Canterlot, and it wasn't Cloudsdale. Both were in the opposite direction. Rainbow Dash had gone to the one point she hadn't in ages. She was in the new settlement that the Apple family built up in the desert. Immediately, lush green life of the orchid hit her goggles and peered through the glass transparent lenses. She pulled them up and trotted to the town hall, stopping in front of the door. This was the new Wonderbolt HQ, or WHQ.

She peered in and saw the newest team member shaking the hand of the mayor. It was Scootaloo. Though, it was a shocker when she flew faster than Rainbow Dash could Manage a few months ago. It astonished everyone, even Rainbow Dash. But, not any more. Rainbow Dash, after those two months of training, beat her by a mile, literally. Thats when she achieved a new speed range. She could pass the sound barrier with ease, not having to dive down a few hundred meters. But learned it's destructive effects that way. Though, nonetheless, Scootaloo's larger than average wings were a magnificent sight.

"Hawk! Whats been happenin!", Rainbow Dash started.

"Rainbow Dash!!!!", Scootaloo Squealed.

She ran over and hugged Rainbow Dash. Or more likely to be seen as a tackle than a hug.

"I missed you so much, big sis!"

"I want to know where you started calling me that."

"The guys at the training sessions, the new coaches, they brought the subject up. They thought I was your daughter at first, but then I told them I wasn't even related to you."

"You know, I always wondered if you would go after me. So, I was told that you got your cutie mark."

"Sure did! But it's kind of a disappointment."

She lifted her large wing and showed her cutie mark. It was just like Rainbow Dash's but it had a bronze sheen bolt instead of a rainbow bolt, and the cloud was silver lined.

"Wow..."

"I kay ar?"

"What?"

"Oh im Gee! I forgot your gen doesn't talk in the new way we do. We abbreviate a few phrases every now and then."

"Oh."

"Well, have you found that special somepony yet?"

"No...I want to, but I don't know where to start."

"Well, looks like it's two thirty, might wanna go and make your appearance."

Ok."

Rainbow Dash pushed the other pegasus off of her and headed for the door, bursting out into an uncontrolled mob. She braced herself but was takin into the crowd. She flapped her wings and somehow managed to get air born. Everyone who could, climbed a wall or something else to get closer, and with that, she fled. Around a corner too. Though, as everyone saw, they headed for the corner. A hoof tapped her shoulder and she turned, about to fly off. It was that pegasus from earlier.

"Follow me."

Rainbow Dash followed and he pulled her into a near black ally which was very, very small in width. All the fans which had swarmed her now were looking for the pegasus which had just been in their sights. Once the noise died down and the sight of colorful hides stopped passing the crevice, Rainbow Dash edged herself out of the small area.

"Ok, what do you want?

The stallion squeezed himself out of the same crevice and looked at Rainbow Dash.

"Heh, I help you and you ask me what I want from you. Nothing really. I'm fine as is."

"You sure?", Rainbow Dash asked.

"Positive."

"Are you sure sure?"

"Look if you really want an answer, I'll take it as a future favor I can claim later on."

"...Wait a minute."

Rainbow Dash looked the pegasus over. It was the same pegasus she had seen moving that cart.

"Are you following me? Stalking me? Spying on me?"

"None of those. To tell the truth, I am interested in your style of life, who you are. I'm just trying to get by as well as get more information about who you are. Ya know, out of all the pegasi I had passed up, you were the only one to stop and ask me about the reason why I was drawing a cart by hoof."

Rainbow Dash was confused, but got most of what he was saying, making her cheeks turn a slight red.

"So..."

"It's quite simple, you have an admirer!"

With her suspicions confirmed, her blush grew deeper and she smiled nervously.

"Wait.", Realization struck her, "You're just trying to get close to me aren't you?"

"What makes you think that?"

"I've had it happen before, being desperate to fall in love, settle down, but ended up finding out the truth and had to piece together my shattered heart after that."

"Sounds rough. Listen, I'm not a big fan anyway. Sure, the Wonderbolts are cool, but they are just a bunch of show offs, you are a show off."

Rainbow Dash gasped.

"But that doesn't take from the fact that you're cute. If you wanna talk, I'm open to you any time. Just come by my shop. I sell metal wear for fashion."

Rainbow Dash's blush disappeared slowly, but surely, "You mean to tell me that you're Rarity's type, yeah, good luck with the wedding, the services, and all that jazz. But I gotta go, I've wasted enough time already with you."

She took off without the two of them saying another word and once she was out of sight and ear shot, the stallion turned to the white mare which had been hiding.

"So, you're right. A deals a deal. Seven hundred gems."

Rarity squealed lightly, "Yes! Oh victory is sweet!"

"Don't get ahead of yourself to making us enemies just yet. I'm not goin for just her, and I've already shared more personal stuff with you than any one else."

Rarity sighed, all joy leaving her, "Fine. You're actually right about that. But you puzzle me. But, I am also married and have a child. A filly, Leasha."

"Really? You think I'm going to choose in the beginning, or even go for someone who is already a mother?"

"So you don't choose?"

"I'll leave you to figure that out. Thanks for the help on getting her alone though."

"But...I...We..."

It was too late, he'd flown off. Rarity sighed again from agitation and activated her teleportation spell, reappearing in her boutique a few miles away. The sonic boom indicating Rainbow Dash's return sounded off a few minutes after, which made her miss a stitch in a new dress and she put it aside, going for a walk.

Rainbow Dash didn't go to her house immediately, she instead flew to Twilight's library. Upon entry, Twilight noticed her and put down the book she was reading.

"What's up Rainbow Dash? Problem?"

"Yeah.There is apparently a new stallion, well, he's a pegasus, he's moved into town, you see. But I can't get what he is saying to me. First, I see him pulling a cart by hoof, then he helps me get away from a raging crowd of insane fans. Though it seems he knew all too well that was gonna happen."

Rarity entered just as Rainbow Dash finished, "Twilight, dear, could you help me with something?"

"Well, Rainbow Dash was already here.", Twilight said, "And it seems me and her are in a competition over a certain somepony."

"Scuse me? You've met him too?!", Rainbow dash exclaimed.

"Why yes, he passed by here. I offered him some help, asked if his wings were ok, he refused both, but said that he likes that taste of my kind personality. It was weird at first, but then I met him again just before he flew off. He had asked something about you, then I answered. Thats all."

"Do...Do I seem desperate?"

"About what?"

"I mean, I've been wanting a stallion to settle down with for a long time now."

"I'd say you're not. If you were desperate, you'd be going for every single stallion in cloudsdale and Ponyville. Trust me."

The exact pegasus which had started the conversation appeared outside of the door and entered, no look of concern or care of what would happen to him.

"What?", Twilight asked, "Are you following us? A creeper? Or some kind of Spy for a neighboring kingdom?"

"Oh heavens no. I came for Rainbow Dash. I need her help with something."

"Why would you need my help?"

"Why to help with a few things, of course! First of them being a gathering of clouds. I need to shape my home."

"Why not live in cloudsdale?"

"Too much pegasi there, not enough earth ponies or unicorns. I'm interested in any of the three. Just, I prefer to be in a town with a majority of it as earth ponies and unicorns."

"Fine, I'll help. But what about something in return?"

"You're only gathering clouds for me. But I'm to choose where it will be moved. It's a two pegasi  job. We're moving a house of clouds the size nearly a mansion!"

"Rainbow Dash's jaw dropped, "Scuse me! You're making a cloud mansion?!"

"Why yes. No, I mean no. It's about half as big as a full size mansion. I don't want people under the house getting wet ya know!"

"Fine, but whats my pay?"

"If you do a good enough job...", he began thinking, "...I'll...Well, I might think of furthering our relationship, and the quality of the cloud left from the movement will go towards pay! Thank you, good day!"

He trotted out the door.

"Wait! There is no...Oh, who am I kidding. I want there to be a relationship..."

"Rainbow Dash.", Twilight spoke up."

"Yeah?"

"He's after the both of us. So, I'll make it clear to him that I'd rather you go out with him. After all, you've not been on an actual date, or even had a coltfriend in years! It's time to pull you out of the dirt, and get you some wonderful sunshine."

"Thanks Twilight, but would you really want to?"

"I'm not doing this for just me, or you. I'm doing this because it benefits both you, him, and me. By the way, his name is Red Feather. Check his cutie mark next time you see em. I promise it's something you'd think is cool."

"Thanks Twilight. I don't know what to give you in return."

"Just promise me that you will have a good time."

"I will."

With a final thanks, Rainbow Dash bolted out he door.