A Harmless Plague

I woke up the next morning to my window open. I turned around and saw Rainbow lying on the floor. “Rainbow, again?”

“Shhh.” She grabs her head. I slowly walked out as Rainbow climbed into my bed. Beautiful, I thought. Just beautiful. I walk downstairs and outside as I look towards Canterlot, my home town.

“You look amazing as always.” I say in a low voice. I start flapping my wings. I hover for a few seconds before falling flat on my face. I knew it, I thought. I walked back inside and made myself breakfast as well as making some extra for Rainbow. My parents had gone to work already. I was half-way through when Rainbow walked downstairs into the kitchen.

“Any for me?” She asks.

“I left it on the counter, enjoy.” She starts eating. I finish and put my plate in the sink. “So Rainbow, what’s today’s excuse?” This isn’t the only time that Rainbow snuck into my house. She’s done it nine or ten times, not counting today.

“The same, I was hammered and wouldn’t have made it to my house.”

I wanted to say, “I thought you went to your house after the fight.” But I instead said, “You couldn’t have at least given me a text before then?”

“I didn’t know I was coming to your house.”

“What about when you did know?”

“It passed my mind. Besides, I didn’t break anything. What’s the problem?”

I calm myself down and say, “Sorry Rainbow, this infection is just getting to me.”

“It’s getting to everyone. Not even the nobles are having a good time.”

“The Nobles” are what we call the snobs of Canterlot. They think they’re all that simply because they aren’t infected. Even I hate them, and I lived with them at one point.

“Well, you better go Rainbow. I don’t want my parents getting the wrong idea.” Their work hours are from 5-8 A.M., it was 7:33.

“Oh, that we’re dating? I see.” She said that in a teasing way.

I blush and say, “That’s not what I meant.”

She puts her hoof to my mouth and, again in a teasing manner, says, “Oh, just friends with benefits. I get ya, I get ya.” She winks.

I blush even more and tell her to go. She kisses me on the cheek and walks out. It was clear to me that she was just teasing and didn’t mean it, but I don’t like being found either way.

A couple hours later, I’m lying down in my room again when Rainbow flies in. She’s wearing some strange outfit; in fact I can’t even describe it. “So, ready for the party?” She asks.

“Yeah.” I reply. I climb on her back and we start flying. We go to a wooden building with flashing lights and music coming from inside. When we go in, ponies are dancing, either drunk, high, and I think one of them was both.

Rainbow hands me a pill and says, “Take it.” She takes another pill and swallows it. A moment later, her pupils dilate and she walks off. I take the pill she gave me. I stay conscious for a moment before everything goes to black. However, according to Rainbow, this happened.

A Pegasus mare comes up to me and says, “Hey big boy, wanna dance?” She had a cream coat and red mane. Despite her resemblance to Apple Bloom, she has no correlation to the apple family.

I turn to her and say, “Yes.”

We start dancing and she says, “I saw your fight last night.”

“It was harder than it looked.”

“So are a lot of things.” She says, teasingly.

I smile and she starts kissing my neck. After a while, she asks, “Your place or mine?”

“Either one is fine with me.”

“Let’s go to yours.” She leads me out of the building. The next time Rainbow saw me, the mare jumped out my window and went home while I was lying in my bed fast asleep.

I woke up the next day to a voice say, “I had fun last night.” I couldn’t remember what happened the previous night, just that fun was, indeed, what I had.

“Me too.” I say looking at the voice. To my horror, I saw Rainbow smiling up at me. I nearly jumped through the ceiling when I saw her.

“Wait, so you… and I… did we…?”

She giggles and says, “Nope, but I knew it’d funny if you thought we did.”

I sighed in relief as I climbed out of bed. Unfortunately, my body was as sore as can be and I fell back. She helps me back into my bed and asks, “You alright?” I nod.

“I may not be out of bed for a couple hours, but I’ll be fine.” She walks out.

A couple hours later, I get up and hear giggling from outside my window. I look out and my face collides with that of another pony. “Hiya!” She says.

“Ow.” I say. I look up to see an earth pony hanging by balloons. She was pink with a fluffy pink mane and balloons as her cutie mark.

“Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie, ooh, nice room, I had a nice room…” She kept talking and talking and would never shut up.

I put my hoof in her mouth and say, “Calm down Pinkie Pie.” I take my hoof out of her mouth and she smacks her lips.

“Mm, illegal substances. I like that.” Could she taste the pill? I thought.

“Anyways, what do you want?”

“I want you to join me. I want to do something about this.” She points towards her white eyes.

“You’re going to find a cure? Pinkie, scientist ponies have…”

“No, no, no, no, no. I’m going to spread the disease!” I was horrified.

“Pinkie…”

“Even if you don’t want to join us, we need you. If you don’t, ponies will die from the fights.”

I sigh and say, “Okay.”

She cheers and says, “Okay, meet me at the club tonight at 8, don’t be late.” She flies away.

I decide to go out and meet Rainbow. Maybe she can help with this. I say in my head.