Camping With Rainbow Dash

Chapter 3

Monday: It Starts

Rainbow Dash woke up to find Rugia outside the tent preparing breakfast. Rainbow climbed out from under the covers and stretched. She let out a soft yawn as she did. Rainbow slowly emerged from the tent and walked over next to Rugia and sat down.

“Morning Dash,” Rugia said shuffling the skillet of eggs around, “did you sleep well?”

“Yeah,” Rainbow yawned, “did you sleep ok?”

“Best night of sleep I’ve had in two months.” Rugia said as the toaster dinged and some toast came out of the slits.

Rainbow Dash had seen a toaster plenty of times before now, but never had she seen one that operated without a power cable. As curious as she was about how it was able to work that way, she was still a little drowsy and didn’t really feel like asking Rugia how it functioned without a cable, or why he brought the thing in the first place. She just sat and watched Rugia desperately try to turn the toaster off as it began firing off rounds of toast like a Gatling gun. When he finally turned it off, toast had been flung everywhere. Some of it had landed in the lake, and some of it landed in the camp fire and burst into flames.

Rugia chuckled uneasily at the drowsy Rainbow Dash and said, “It’s a prototype, I still need to work the glitches out of it.”

“I guess its supposed to create it’s own toast.” Rainbow Dash said watching a slice of toast burn up in the fire.

“Yeah,” Rugia said eyeing the toaster carefully as he set it down, “But it tends to over load itself and create toast continuously.”

As soon as Rugia set the toaster down, another piece of toast shot out of the toaster and smacked him in the forehead, causing him to fall backwards off the log he was sitting on from the surprise. Rugia quickly crouched behind the log, waiting for the toaster to start launching toast again. The toaster jumped and Rugia quickly grabbed the nearest stick and knocked the toaster over with it. He held his position waiting for it move again. Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but giggle at Rugia’s reaction to the dysfunctional toaster. Rugia paid no heed to her and continued to stalk his nemesis. The toaster shook violently and opened fire with a storm of toast flying in every direction.

“Take cover!” Rugia shouted as he covered his head and hid behind the log.

Rainbow Dash began laughing until a dozen slices of toast pelted her in the face knocking her over. Rugia started laughing at Rainbow and he got nailed in the head by a piece of toast himself and scrambled to hide behind the log again.

“Why did I ever think it was a good idea to invent the evil toaster from hell?!” he asked himself aloud as toast sailed over him.

Rainbow Dash crawled as quickly as she could behind a boulder and peeked around it to watch the toast fly. Rugia ran at the toaster as quickly as possible and football-kicked it into the air. The rouge machine sailed through the air continuing to blast toast in all directions as it flew. The toaster disappeared into the trees and wasn’t seen again.

“Take that you factory recall!” Rugia shouted at the toasters flight direction while shaking his fist, “Labor saving my butt!”

“Well at least we have enough toast to last us the rest of the week.” Rainbow said as she snagged a piece of toast off of the boulder she was hiding behind and began eating it.

Rugia shrugged and sat down on the log. Rugia grabbed two paper plates and dished out the eggs he had prepared. He handed one plate to Rainbow Dash who had already started on her second piece of ground toast. Rainbow didn’t waste any time consuming her share of breakfast. She was finished before Rugia was done with his first egg. As soon as she was finished she started eating more of the toast laying around the area.

“I wouldn’t do that Dash,” Rugia said watching Rainbow eat the toast on the ground, “for all you know some animal could have relieved itself there and you could be eating it.”

Rainbow Dash stopped dead in her tracks, mouth wide open preparing to eat another slice. After a moment she backed away from the toast slowly. Rainbow looked at the toast with disgust before turning and walking back over to Rugia and sat down next to him. Rugia finished up his breakfast and tossed the paper plates into a plastic bag and set it next to the log he was sitting on. Rugia watched the embers glowing in the fire as it burned. Rugia appeared to be in a much better mood than he was the day before, mainly because he finally got a full nights sleep. Rugia continued to stare at the fire as if he had a trance on him. To Dash’s surprise, Rugia put his hand in the fire. When he pulled his hand out of the fire, he had a large flame in his palm. Dash watched as the flame migrated to Rugia’s other hand and then back to it’s starting point.

“I didn’t know you could do that.” Dash said watching the flame split into two and form wrist bands on Rugia’s arms.

“Yeah…” Rugia paused as he shifted the flames to a single palm again, “I can control fire in a number of ways, as well as other elements like water, ice, earth, wind, and my primary element lightning.”

“So Rucans can control certain elements?” Dash asked a raised eyebrow.

“Actually,” Rugia replied, “it’s the Luquian side of me that can control elements.

“What are Luquians by the way?” Dash asked Rugia, “You mentioned them but never told any of us about them. Mainly because we needed to know more about a race that was going to destroy us in the blink of an eye.”

“The Luquians are a race of nobles.” Rugia began, “They resemble humans, but the only difference is, Luquians have skin whiter than snow and have tales similar to reptiles. The Luquians are capable of controlling elements like I can, but only one element. They have incredible strength, which makes them very difficult to fight unless you are a Luquian yourself, or a Rucan, or even someone like me. At one time the Luquians believed that all other races were inferior to them and would conquer other planets through martial arts tournaments. But that all changed when I defeated their emperor in a fight.”

“Did he try to take over your home world?” Rainbow asked.

“In a sense, yes.” Rugia said as he shifted the flame into a ribbon and made it dance around them, “Shatokahn wanted to use me to conquer Earth. He told my purpose was to be a weapon for him to use in conquering planets.”

“What do you mean?” Dash asked looking very concerned.

“Well Dash,” Rugia said, “I have three dads.”

Rugia snapped his fingers and the flame disintegrated, “Its complicated, Shatokahn wanted to create a being that had Rucan and Luquian DNA. However he did not have any success. So Shatokahn and the emperor of the Rucan home world, Genzai, came to earth to talk Charles R. Nelson, into help with the help with the creation of… well, me.”

“I know you said that Charles was your birth father,” Rainbow said, “by that, you mean he was the one who impregnated your mother, did the other two guys as well?”

“No,” Rugia replied with an uncomfortable expression, “With the help of science, Charles was able to combine the three DNA’s together.”

“Three?”

“Oh sorry, they found out that they required human DNA for a successful procedure. Anyway, Charles injected himself with the DNA he had combined.”

“How did that work if he put the DNA in his bloodstream?”

“Actually, he didn’t inject the DNA into his bloodstream.”

Rainbow Dash looked at Rugia with a confused expression.

“Don’t think about it too hard.” Rugia said looking into the fire.

Rainbow Dash gave a painful expression along with her realization, “I may be a female, but that makes me cringe just to think about it.”

“Yeah,” Rugia said as he cracked a smile, “Dad did the same thing when he first told me about it when I was nineteen. My mother hates to hear about it.”

“Is your mother human like Charles?” Rainbow asked.

“No she is a fox like my wife.” Rugia said.

“I would like to meet your parents sometime,” Rainbow said with a happy smile, “I would also like to meet your kids too. That is… if you ever tell them where you are. Do you miss them Rugia?”

“Every day.” Rugia said standing up and stretching, “Well, I think we should talk some more over a hike in the woods.”

As the two left the camp, Rugia activated a force field to keep the camp from being ravaged by wild animals. With safety precausions out of the way, set out for their hike.

Author’s note: Sorry for the long wait I was side tracked by a lot of things, so yeah here’s chapter three.