Have you ever had a moment in your life where your body were randomly switched with somepony and you have no freaking idea what happened or what might have caused it; and to make things worse, the pony you were switched with is the same pony that you hated for all your life! Has something as crazy as that ever happened to you?
Yep, that never happened to me either…. until now that is.
My name is Thunderlane and right now, me and Rainbow Dash are trapped inside a dead end of a cave with a couple of rocks just in front of us, or to put it simply, we're trapped. Dash was lying beside me, resting his head on my chest, crying his eyes out, I lifted up one of my front hooves and started to stroke his mane. "Don't worry Dash, everything will be alright. Your friends will save us... I hope." I said, attempting to at least calm him down. Dash then looked up at me, his eyes were still filled with tears. I looked back at him.
Just by looking at his teary-eyed face made my heart break, but after a few seconds looking at each other, he eventually said "I know that, Thunderlane... but what if they can't save us in time. Sooner or later, the air’s going to disappear, you know." I heard him sniffle as he stopped looking at my face and started to lay down and rest his head on my chest again, after a few seconds, he let out a sigh. At least he wasn't crying anymore... although he was right above the air though, the longer we stay in this cave, the higher the chance that me and Dash will die of suffocation. I can only hope that somepony will save us soon.
Now, I know what you're thinking:
"Why did you emphasize he, his, and him when you were referring to Dash?"
"How did you two manage to get trapped in this cave?"
"Are you two gonna die?!"
Well then, to answer all your questions, I’m afraid I have to tell you what happened yesterday; between me and Rainbow Dash of course.
Again, my name is Thunderlane and this is my story.
Celestia’s sun just rose up through my room when I slowly woke up from my bed, the sun rays just hitting my still-closed eyes. I let out a little yawn and started to lift up my hooves to rub my eyes “Another day, another adventure.” I thought to myself as I was still rubbing my eyes “And by 'adventure', I meant another whole day full of mail delivering and weather controlling.” I let out a unusually loud sigh at my own thoughts and got off from my bed, I then started to walk to my right, towards the bathroom door… or at least what I thought was supposed to be the bathroom door.
SLAM!
A feeling of shocked and embarrassment washed over me when I happen to slam face-first onto a cloud wall, quickly realizing my clumsy action, I backed my face away from the wall and started to adjust my vision a bit more.
Mind you, I was still tired at that time and I can’t see anything quite clearly so when I did adjust my vision, I just saw a cloud wall in front of me, nothing more; nothing less. “What the---?! Wasn't there supposed to be a door in here?” I let out a grunt and started to turn around and right in front of me, stood a poster of Daring Do, the protagonist of the popular book series of the same name, written by some mare named A.K. Yearling, as I remembered.
“Huh? Since when did I get a Daring Do poster?” I paused myself to examine the poster a little closer, taking in the features, I have to admit, this poster was amazing ”I love the series and all but WHAT the hay is a poster of Daring Do doing here in MY room?” I thought in pure disbelief. I quickly shook it off as I turned my head to the right and saw something else that caught me eye... a balcony.
“Wait... a balcony?!” I know strange things happen in Equestria sometimes but this is ridiculous. First, there was no door in the right wall where it should have, a randomly appearing Daring Do poster from who-knows-where, and now, a freaking balcony right there in front of me where it shouldn't be! “Just where am I exactly? Am I even in my room? What kind of sorcery is this?!” These questions ran through my mind as I quickly took in my new surroundings.
Instead of the arched windows I had, these windows were quite circular. The exit to this room was now right beside my bed instead of in front, they were more posters here and there (some of them were quite… exotic), the bed was completely different, a lamp randomly appeared on top of my dresser beside my bed, said dresser contained nothing but Daring Do books and some manebrushes, and there was no bathroom door at all!
I was starting to freak out but looking at this strange room again, a thought entered my mind “Okay, so my room is totally different, hmm..... Yep! This is totally a dream. Why else would my room be so different.” I turned my head around and saw the balcony again, it seems that the longer I looked at that balcony, the more I wanted to fly outside using it "... It wouldn't hurt to fly outside, right? I mean this is just a dream after all, or more specifically, this is MY dream so I can pretty much do anything I want." I put on a smile on my face as I trotted towards the balcony.
“This should be fun right? Dreams can't hurt OR scare me. So far, I've only seen a brand new room, that didn't hurt or scare me.” I thought while my smile turned into a cocky grin, I was getting closer and closer to the balcony and I was pretty much ready to spread my wings and fly out of this place.
“It can't scare you..... unless it's a nightmare.” I suddenly lost my grin and I started shivering at the thought as memories from my last nightmare slowly start to resurface in my mind. I quickly shook the horrible memory off of my head and I realized that I was now standing on the balcony. Feeling the cool breeze blowing my mane, I started to spread my wings. Celestia really outdid herself with the sun this morning, the air wasn't really cold but the sun wasn't really that hot either, but then again, this was my dream so I was pretty much the 'Celestia' in here. I let out a quick laugh as I started to flap my wings.
Feeling that my hooves were now off the cloud house, I flapped my wings a little bit faster and then I took off to the sky. I didn't look back, I didn't even look back at the cloud house, I just flew and let my wings control my flight, feeling the warm air blowing on my mane.
A few minutes or so has passed on my dream and I’m still not waking up. It was fine though since that means I can start doing my tricks but before that, I got an idea "Hey wait a minute! Since this is my dream and all, maybe I should summon the Wonderbolts right here so I can show them my slick moves!" I started to feel giddy just imagining them right here, being impressed by my tricks and all that. Though I admit, me being all giddy because of a famous aerial team was pretty much girly for my tastes but who can blame me, they are the Wonderbolts after all.
Stopping myself from my seemingly endless thoughts, I started to summon them in my dream, but unfortunately, they didn't. I got a little bit confused but I tried again, and again, and again, and again but to no avail "Why won't they appear to me? This is MY dream, I demand that they appear here RIGHT NOW!" This time, I used all my so-called 'brain' power to summon them, I tried as hard as I could, but when I opened my eyes, right there in front of me... was the sky. "OH COME ON!!!" I shouted from the top of my lungs, after that, I quickly covered my mouth with my hoof, and no, it wasn't because I shouted at nopony, it was because....
"Did I just shouted..... in Rainbow Dash's voice?
Before I could react about the freaky voice change, a black blur suddenly bumped into my chest. The impact hurt a little bit but it quickly faded away when a stray cloud, not too far from where I was hit, stopped both me and my assailant from going further away. I could feel my assailant resting on my chest but then, I heard something flapping its wings, possibly from the one who just bumped into me.
I feel its body lifting up, away from my chest but I can still hear it flapping its wings. I was thinking that my assailant was preparing to fly away so I opened up my eyes, but after I did, I saw the most freakiest thing I will ever see in my entire life and that's saying something. I was so consumed by my own shock that I couldn't move, I couldn't even speak. I was just lying there, on a cloud, hanging my mouth open like I was waiting for a fly to go inside.
Hovering just in front of me, a black pegasus stallion with light cyan and white mane was using one of his hooves to rub his head around gently, possibly hurt from the impact, all the while flapping its wings; the mane I mentioned earlier was styled into a mohawk, his tail was pretty much short. I tilted my head to the right, and right there, plastered on his flank, was a thundercloud with a yellow lightning bolt coming out of it.
Both of his eyes were still closed but after a few minutes, he too, was opening his eyes. When the black stallion looked directly in front of me, his mouth went agape, just like I did not too long ago. After a few seconds, my sense kicked in along with my voice and, at the same time with the all-too-familiar pegausus stallion, we both shouted:
“ARE YOU ME?!?!”
Chapter 2: The Lazy Story
"I can't believe this. I can't believe we're trapped in here and there's no way out. I just... no..."
I started to lay down and sob into Thunderlane's chest, she was just there, lying beside me. Lifting one of her front hooves, she started to stroke my mane. Now, I know she's trying her best to calm me down but looking at the situation we just got ourselves into, it's really unlikely that I'd be smiling at this right now!
Yep, my name's Rainbow Dash and right now, me and Thunderlane are stuck inside a cave with a couple of rocks in front of us and there's no way out. Not too long ago, we tried to push the rocks away, but that didn't work; we tried punching a hole on one of the walls, including the ceiling but that didn't work either, so trying to exit from the inside was pretty much hopeless. I know it's really unlikely for an awesome pony such as myself to just go and cry, let alone in front of somepony but who can blame me?
I continued to sob into Thunderlane's chest as she continued to stroke my mane. "Don't worry Dash, everything will be alright. Your friends will save us... I hope." Thunderlane said with a gentle tone. I looked up at her to see her face. There were just so much tears welling up in my eyes that I can't even see clearly, but at least I know she was staring back at me. After a few seconds spent looking at each other, I said "I know that, Thunderlane... but what if they can't save us in time. Sooner or later, the air’s going to disappear, you know." I sniffled as I stopped looking at Thunderlane's face and started to lay down and rest my head on her chest again.
I wasn't crying anymore but I was still scared, I knew that the longer we stay here, the higher the chance that me and Thunderlane will die of suffocation... I can only wish that somepony will save us right now. Anyway, you must be wondering how I got into this mess and why I keep referring Thunderlane as she and her and well, since I've got nothing better to do, I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell you what happened yesterday.
Anyway, my name is Rainbow Dash and this is my story.
YAAAAAAAWN!
It was just a few minutes after sunrise when I woke up from my bed; the beams were just hitting my eyelids. I knew there were still crusts in my eyes so I rose my hooves up and started to wipe them off. After that, I slowly opened up my eyes, ready to take on another day full of adventures, fun, work and whatnot, but when I did open my eyes, what greeted me in front of my eyes was a simple cloud door, with a few framed photos beside it, unfortunately, they were too far away to see what those photos were but I knew I had only one framed photo in my room and that photo was sitting on my drawer but when I looked to my left where the drawer and the framed photo were supposed to be, I only saw a simple cloud wall.
“Wh-where am I?”
Knowing something weird was going on, I looked around the room and noticed that instead of the circular windows I owned, these windows were horseshoe-shaped, and when I looked to my right, I was expecting to see a door exiting to this very room but nope, all I saw was just a cloud wall. I also realized that my balcony that was supposed to be to the left of this room was gone. Getting off from my bed, I walked around and noticed that there was a door to the right of this room and judging by the sign posted on said door, this was a stallion's bathroom.
"Oooookay, so bathroom door, arched windows, and no balcony........ yup, this ain't my room! I must be dreaming."
Pacing back and forth in this totally different room, I was thinking about flying outside since this was my dream and all but when I rose my head up to take a final look at the room before flying out, I was shocked to see what stood up before my eyes. What stood right there, hung up on a cloud wall was a medium-sized framed picture of a black pegasus stallion with blue and white mohawk mane, this stallion also had a cutie mark of a thundercloud with a lightning bolt coming out of it. There was also a little pegasus colt sitting beside him but that wasn't the one that caught my attention, it was the black-coated stallion that was with him that did and I'm sure as heck I knew what his name was.
"Thunderlane..."
I gritted my teeth and let out a growl as I stared into the insulting picture, anger slowly starting to take over me as the Thunderlane was wearing a smug expression on his face, looking down at me like he was at the top of the world while I was way below him.
"That lazy bum Thunderlane.... what the HECK is this guy doing here in MY dream... and in a picture of all things?! ......I swear to Celestia that if this was a cruel prank by Princess Luna, I'm sure as hay ain't laughing right now." Me and Thunderlane go way back
"Oh wait, did I say 'until' we graduated? I meant HE NEVER STOPPED!"
I wasn't overreacting either, just a few years after graduation, me and Thunderlane somehow managed to get into the same weather team but lucky for me, I was the leader of said weather team so I was practically his boss but nope, when I asked him to do something for the weather team like move some rain clouds over at Sweet Apple Acres or whatever, he just says a simple nope and just flies away. To him, it means he simply doesn't want to work right now but to me, this was a big hidden profanity with a bow on it and proof of his own laziness, in fact he still does it to this day onward and I'm sure he's not gonna stop anytime sooner. I just can't believe he's still getting paid for this when he deserves none at all!
"And that pretty much sums up our relationship..... Ugh! I swear if I was the leader of the whole weather team, I would've fired him by now. When somepony else like Blossomforth asks him to do something, he just nods and does it but when I ask him to do something, he just says no and flies away!" I thought as I started to shift my gaze to Rumble, the little pegasus colt on the picture. "On the other hoof, Rumble here is pretty much like Scotaloo, always nice, honest, loyal, and all around obedient, unlike his BROTHER here who is nothing like HIM at all! I can't believe they're even related..... I wonder if Rumble's adopted, hmmmm."
"Annnnnyway, enough about Thunderlane, I gotta---"
I spoke for the first time in this dream and just when I did, I interrupted myself by covering my mouth with my hoof, and I wasn't even saying a bad word, I did what I did because...
"Did I just spoke... in Thunderlane's voice?!"
At that very moment, I was drowned in pure horror and shock as I quickly examined myself, and to tell you the truth, things weren't sunshine and butterflies anymore. "Black hooves, black wings, black body, mohawk mane, square muzzle and..." I turned my head around to see what my cutie mark was. When I saw what it was, I shouted in a masculine voice "AND THUNDERCLOUD CUTIE MARK!!! I TURNED INTO THUNDERLANE!!!" Without even thinking straight, I quickly flew out through the open window and flew as fast as I could as several things were enterting my mind.
"Th-th-that room I just woke up in right now.... was it... Thunderlane's room?"
"This is a dream right? If it was, there's nothing to scream about, I'm sure this will all be over soon!"
"Oh for pete's sakes, Dash! IF IT WAS A DREAM, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TURNED INTO A THUNDERLANE! You wouldn't dream as crazy as that, and even if you did, why him of all ponies?! And don't even get me started on how you dreamed up his room!"
Tears were starting to well up me eyes when suddenly my flying was put to a sudden halt when I bumped on to a pony, I didn't have the time to tell who I crashed into because as soon as I bumped into him or her, I was immediately knocked unconscious by the impact.
I let out a loud groan and started to came to when I slowly opened up my eyes, but unfortunately, what I saw in front of me was a mix of blue and a little bit of white.
"Oh wait, my vision's messed up! That crash must have done quite a number on me, I have to get my vision fixed first.... oh hey, my wings are still spread!"
I thought to myself as I slowly flapped my wings, whoever I crashed into, I must have been lying on their chest when I was unconscious. After making sure I wasn't near him or her, I lifted one of my black hooves and started to rub my head in a circle, all the while flapping my wings, I wasn't planning to fly away from the pony, or at least not in this state! After a few minutes or so has passed, I was feeling better and I was pretty much ready to open up my eyes again.
"There! That's much better, I think I can finally open up my eyes now! Time to see this.... pony who I crashed into. Hope she or he isn't angry with me." As soon as that thought entered my mind, I opened up my eyes and what stood right in front of me was the most freakiest thing I've seen in my whole life.
It was a cyan colored pegasus mare with a rainbow-colored mane and tail, it had a cutie mark of a cloud shooting out lightning with three colors: red, yellow, and blue on its flank. The mare was just lying on the cloud, looking at me with its magenta eyes. Just then, I finally found my voice kicked in and together with the mare, we both shouted.
"ARE YOU ME?!?!"
