Camping With Rainbow Dash

Chapter 1

I Can't Take It Anymore!

Five months had passed since the battle with Resnoff, and life in Ponyville was peaceful. The town’s citizens had been going about their peaceful lives. No one had to live in fear wondering when they would be attacked, they could just live easy. Since nearly loosing Spike for ever, Twilight Sparkle had been even more considerate to him than she normally would, not to say she never was. The apple family had become even closer to each other as well. If any soul were to visit, the family would be together in the living room most of the time talking, playing board games, or some activity; along with keeping up with their chores. Pinkie Pie’s hyper behavior seemed to have increased quite a bit over the past five months. At times she would become a little obnoxious. Fluttershy hadn’t gone through much of any changes, besides being more cautious around a nest of hornets that had recently appeared on the front of her house. To enter and exit the home, one would have to move very slowly to seek pass them. Apple Jack had offered to remove it, but Fluttershy’s love for animals kept her from doing so. Rainbow Dash had been living life more to the fullest since dying and then coming back to life. Only, her way of living life to the fullest was just continuing her habits of taking naps in trees and on clouds, or doing tricks in her free time. From time to time, she would get a small amount of time with Rugia, but for the past two months he had been very busy working. Speaking of which, Rarity’s business was booming ever since she brought Rugia on board to be her business partner. Life for everyone was wonderful… Well, almost everyone.

For two months, Rarity had let her booming business go to her head and had Rugia working over time every day instead of Monday through Friday. For a while Rugia was fine with it, but after two months it was starting to work his nerves. He barely gets anytime with his wife or to himself, and no time to hang out with the others. Rugia had tried to talk to her about the situation, but she was apparently to busy. It got to the point where Rugia was loosing patience and was on the verge of loosing his mind.

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It was Saturday night and Rugia had just got off work later than usual from being left to deal with some last minute costumers, while Rarity had to keep up with her beauty sleep. Rugia’s patience had finally worn out, he had had enough. He didn’t care what the consequences were, it was time for a vacation, permission or not. But Rugia wasn’t going to go by himself, he had to take someone with him. The only question was who would he take? Candace was away on a business trip, Fluttershy had animals to attend to, Pinkie Pie would be too rowdy for a relaxing vacation, Apple Jack had chores, Twilight was always knee deep in her studies, and Rarity was the one he was trying to get away from. They only pony he could think of that he would rather spend a few days with was Rainbow Dash. Rugia decided that Rainbow Dash would be the one he would take with him. For a long time he had been wanting to get some time with her, but couldn’t because of his job. Rugia didn’t want to spend another day at the Carousel Boutique, he wanted to leave first thing in the morning. But the only problem was that Rainbow Dash was already asleep. But still Rugia took flight and headed for Rainbow’s cloud mansion.

Inside Rainbow Dash’s home it was dark, as it would be at the dead of night. Rainbow Dash was sound asleep in her bed when she felt something tapping her shoulder. She nudged a little and tried to ignore it but it tapped her again. When she opened her eye’s she saw a dark figure sticking halfway up through her floor.

“WAAAAAAGH!” she creamed as she fell off her bed backwards and landed upside down and her floor.

Getting back up and peeking over her bed she could see that the figure was Rugia. She was unsure whether to be happy to see him, or angry for sneaking up on her like he did.

“What’s the big idea Rugia!?” she demanded, “Why are you up here trying to give me a heart-attack?”

“I can’t take it anymore.” he replied.

“What are you talking about?” Rainbow yawned.

“Rarity is driving me nuts!” he said, “I haven’t had a single day off in months!”

“Oh,” she yawned again, “that’s a shame. I’m sorry about your hernia Rugia.”

Rainbow Dash fell back to sleep and started snoring. She didn’t hear a single word Rugia had said. Rugia grew frustrated and disappeared through Rainbow’s floor and came back a few minutes later with a bucket of cold water. Rugia dumped the whole thing on Rainbow Dash and she gasped loudly. She jumped off her bed shivering and looking at Rugia with an angry expression on her soaked face.

“What the hay, Rugia!?” she shouted, “Why did you do that!?”

“To see if you would melt.” he replied with exaggeration in his tone.

“What is so important that made you have to dump ice cold water on me?” she demanded.

“I’m going on vacation,” he said, “and I want to take you with me.”

Rainbow Dash forgot her anger and was then confused by Rugia’s reply.

“Your going on vacation?” she said, “And you want me to go with you?”

“That’s right.” he replied.

“Just the two of us?” she asked, “No one else, right?”

“You got it.” he said.

“Awesome!” Rainbow exclaimed, “Finally we get have some time to hang out! It feels like it has been for ever! Wait a minute. Does Rarity know you are going on vacation?”

“Nope.” Rugia answered.

“Your going to keep this a secret from her aren’t you?” Rainbow asked with a smirk.

“Yup.” Rugia replied.

“Ok you can stop talking like Big Mac.” Rainbow said and Rugia let out a small chuckle.

“For this vacation,” Rugia said, “your going to need to pack enough supplies for five days.”

“Alright,” said Rainbow Dash, “So what are we doing?”

“We’ll my fine feathered friend,” Rugia said, “we are going camping.”

Camping? Rainbow Dash knew Rugia wanted to go on a vacation with her, but didn’t expect it to be camping. Rugia didn’t seem like the type to want to go camping, and it seemed boring to her. But this was the only chance she would get to have some long awaited time with her friend, so reluctantly she agreed to go.

“Camping it is then.” she said with little enthusiasm.

“If you don’t want to go Dash I could probably beg Twilight to go.” Rugia replied, “It won’t upset me any.”

“I’m sorry Rugia,” Rainbow said, “I really want to go with you. I may not get another chance like this. Besides, when I think about, everything is fun with you around.”

“Except when it comes to working for the Fusspot Of Fashion.” Rugia said referring to Rarity.

“That’s true.” Rainbow said, “But I won’t say that to Rarity.”

“I’ve called her other things.” Rugia said.

“You actually called her a name!?” Rainbow exclaimed.

“Yes I did.” Rugia replied with disappointment in his voice, “Yesterday she called me a lazy oaf for just taking a five minute break. So I got a little angry with her and lost my temper with her. I think she’s pretty upset with me.”

“What did you call her?” Rainbow asked kind of wishing she hadn’t at the same time.

“She started in on me saying how I don’t work hard enough and I’m lazy, stuff like that.” Rugia continued, “Regrettably, out of anger with her I jumped to my feet and called her a whining, fat little dwarf and told her to shut her mouth before I ripped the hair out of her head.”

“Wow,” Rainbow replied shocked, “that was mean Rugia. She must have pushed you really hard for you to say something like that to her.”

“She didn’t take it well either.” Rugia said with depression in his tone, “It got worse from there, she called me a vicious monster and I threw the tape measure and hit her in the head with it. It was the dumbest thing I could have done in response to her. I just proofed her point and hurt her feelings at the same time. She started crying after that, and told me just to go home and come in the next day very early, again. She hasn’t spoken to me since yesterday. Rarity is my friend and I was just… so cruel to her. I should have responded differently to her.”

“So do think you should try to talk to her tomorrow,” Rainbow asked, “before you run off on a vacation?”

“Rainbow Dash if I am not going to do anything but go on a vacation for next five days,” Rugia said, “I’ll give her some time to feel like talking to me.”

“Won’t she know your missing if you don’t show up tomorrow?” Rainbow Dash asked Rugia.

“I have a plan for that,” Rugia said, “You just pack your things and be at my house a five in the morning, ok?”

“Alright.” Rainbow replied.

Rugia bid her goodnight and disappeared through her floor. Rainbow Dash went to her living room and slept on her couch, seeing how Rugia had drenched her bed with water.

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The next morning Rainbow Dash arrived at Rugia’s house as requested. She knocked on the door and he answered immediately. He led Rainbow Dash to the living room and she hopped on the couch to wait for him to finish tending to Arckamedes, his pet bird. Rugia set his bags in front of the doorway and turned to Rainbow Dash to discuss his plan.

“Ok,” he said, “I was up all night on this. So here’s the plan; so no one knows we are really gone, I made robotic doubles of us to take our place while we are gone.”

Rugia walked to the door leading to his lab and opened it. A robotic copy of Rugia came walking out of the lab with a permanent smile on its face.

“Say hello to Dummy Rugia.” Rugia said in a yawn, the long hours at Rarity’s had been hard on him.

“Hello Rainbow Dash,” the double said, “Have you seen Rainbow Dash? She has a mane that’s as ugly as yours.”

“Is this thing supposed to be insulting?” Rainbow asked annoyed with Rugia’s double which started walking around the room.

“I accidentally used a computer chip that only has twenty gigs on it.” Rugia said, “So he’s not too bright.”

“Isaac Newton did not invent the light bulb.” the robot said, “I was actually Charles Washington.”

“You didn’t build it like the sentries?” Rainbow asked watching Rugia’s double spin it’s arms.

“It would have taken too long.” Rugia replied, “besides I don’t need another me around here anyway.”

“Einstein’s theory of relativity states that gravy comes from cows.” the robot said turning its torso in a complete 360.

Rainbow and Rugia stared at the robot oddly for a few moments before returning to their conversation.

“So where is my double?” Rainbow Dash asked Rugia.

Before Rugia could answer, a loud thumping noise came from the other side of the wall that didn’t stop. Rugia opened the door to see the Rainbow Dash robot constantly bumping into the same wall over and over again. Rugia watched it run into the wall a few more times before it realized the door was next to it. The robot came into the room making the sound of a RC car as it went.

“It moves on wheels?” Rainbow asked with an eyebrow raised.

“I was running out of time,” Rugia said, “so it’s legs don’t move.”

“Hello everypony!” the robot exclaimed, “I’m Rainbow Dash, and I am a rainbow colored wuss!”

“Rainbow, I swear it’s not supposed to say that.” Rugia said looking at Rainbow’s angry expression.

“Did you know there are no negative repercussions for putting nitroglycerin in the microwave?” the Rugia robot blurted as it walked by and stood by Rainbow. “If you believe everything I have said so far you are smarter than I am.”

“This is not going to work Rugia.” Rainbow said.

“Of course it will,” Rugia replied, “They’ll just think there is something wrong with us.”

“I can fly!” the Rainbow Dash robot exclaimed as its wings buzzed like a plane’s propelor.

The wings buzzed for a few seconds before the robot fell over and started giggling.

“Ha ha ha ha that was fun!” it exclaimed with its wings still fluttering which caused it to bounce around on the floor.

“Great!” Rainbow Dash shouted, “It can’t walk, it can’t even fly, and it’s an idiot!”

“Relates a lot to you doesn’t it Dashie?” Rugia said with a smirk.

Rainbow Dash shot Rugia a dirty look as the robot started spinning on the floor.

“Don’t worry Rainbow,” Rugia said, “it can fly, its got a thruster on it.”

“Where is it?” she asked puzzled.

“I have gas!” the Rainbow clone shouted as fire shot out its rear and it took off through the living room and crashed through the window.

“Wait for me Rainbow Dash!” the Rugia robot said firing its feet thrusters and flew out the window after its friend.

“You put the thruster in its butt!?” Rainbow exclaimed.

“I had to make it conspicuous.” Rugia defended as he grabbed his bags, “Since they have started their day we can hit the road.”

Before Rainbow could say anything else, Rugia slaped her saddle bags on her and dashed out the door with his bags in hand. Rainbow Dash came out of the house to see Rugia watching his double flying circles in the air and the Rainbow Dash double stuck in a tree with its thruster still going. Rainbow Dash gave Rugia another look of uncertainty, but he ignored her and went about his way and she followed.