Chapter 9: To outdo

I woke up next morning. I heard snoring. She's still here. I smiled. I stretched and got out of bed. I sniffed myself to see how bad I stink. I'm not sure if Rainbow would mind or not, but it wouldn't hurt to smell nice. I looked at the time. It was midnight. I think I could get away with taking a shower. Out of caution, I closed the door to the bathroom and took a shower. I turned it on hot. Out of stupidity, I took a step in. and yelped while jumping out. I forgot it needed to warm up.

"Sam? Are you okay?" I heard.

"Sorry, just taking a shower, don't mind me!" I yelled. I waited a few minutes before getting in again. It was nice. Steam was filling the room. I sighed in relief. It felt good. I quickly took got it done and put my clothes back on. I noticed the shirt was really wet. It rubbed me the wrong way. I took it off and got out.

"Morning Sam," I heard. She's in the living room. I walk in smiling.

"Morning to you too," I say. She looks at me and her eyes are pin pricks. Her wings slowly go up. I looked at her strangely. "What's wrong?" I ask.

"O-oh, um, nothing.," She says, stuttering. I followed her gaze. She's looking at my chest.

"Is something wrong with my chest?" I ask.

"N-no, it's... cool," she says. I smirk.

"My chest isn't something cool, if you look at Joe's chest, he has a six-pack," I said. She chuckled nervously.

"Heheh, yeah..." I felt bad.

"Am I disappointing?" I ask. She shook her head. "Want to touch?" I ask. She blushes and nods. She trots over, and puts a hoof on my chest.

"Wow," she hit my stomach, I flinched, but stood my ground. "You're sturdy, that punch usually makes you say ow," she said.

"Have you noticed that I didn't say ow the last time you punched me?" I ask. She shook her head. "Yeah, sometimes I go to the gym."

"I noticed!" She says surprised. I smiled.

"Thanks!" She smiled looking at me. I smiled back.

"You know, it's one in the morning, maybe we could cuddle?" She asks. I chuckled and nod. I get on the couch and cuddled with her. She felt warm against my bare skin. I enjoyed the cuddling. We fell asleep but woke up at four. I stretched. Rainbow was still asleep. I smiled at the sight of my marefriend sleeping cutely. I kissed her head gently, waking her up. She moaned. "I don't wanna get up," I rolled my eyes.

"We have work today," I said. She nuzzled into me. I sighed. I pat her head. "If I don't go to work, the factory may disassemble," Rainbow yawned.

"Fine, but in a few minutes, you're a nice bed," I smiled.

"You're a nice blanket," She smiled. We got up thirty minutes later. Rainbow trotted out sleepily. I had a working shirt and jeans on. When we got outside, we went to Sugercube.

"Hey Sam, back from the hospital?" Max asks. I nod.

"Got out yesterday," I said. When I got to the counter, Pinkie was upfront and gave me an unglazed original doughnut, while giving Rainbow a chocolate doughnut. We thanked her, and I paid for it. Me and Rainbow ate our doughnuts and got to work. I sighed when I sat down. Thunderlane got to my office.

"Hey Sam, how're you since you got out?" He asks.

"Good, Rainbow had a good time too," I said.

"So, you and Rainbow got together?" He asked, smiling.

"What?" He kept smiling.

"You know, did you and her click?" I nodded. He had a shocked look. "You had sex with her?!" My eyes went wide and into pinpricks.

"No no, I meant we spent the night together, but we didn't have sex!" I said. He had a disappointed look.

"Oh, that would've been cool though," I had a confused look.

"How the hell could it be cool?" I ask. He had a puzzled look.

"So you don't want to f-" I cut him off.

"I don't know!" I said. He backed up.

"Jeez dude, sorry," he said. I face-palmed.

"You know, sometimes you have a nasty mind," he snickers.

"I know I do," he smiled.

"So, what did you come here for?" I ask.

"Well, since you were gone, we had a few problems come up," he says. He points to where all the problems are. I nod understanding everything and hurried with him. I get to the cloud room. The water was sitting still. That's not a good sign. "The thing just started to slow down everyday, and today it stopped completely," I nod. I look around to see any problems. I looked at the circuitry. I saw the one plug had been unplugged.

"You didn't check the plugs, did you?" I ask. He nervously laughs. I plugged it in and it worked fine. We then went into the lightning room. I did not like this room. This room could have millions of problems happen in one second. I wasn't too surprised though. Turns out, the lightning machine just stopped one day. I looked at the circuitry. It wasn't plugged in. I looked at Thunderlane not amused. "The next machine that has a problem that turns out isn't plugged in, you owe me five bits," I said. He looks down in shame. The next room was the computer room. I looked at the plugs first. "Thunder, you owe me five bits," I said smiling. I plugged the huge computer in, and it worked like a charm. Thunderlane gives me five bits. I was chuckling when I get into my office. What I didn't expect was that a stallion was in my chair. I tapped him on the shoulder. He turns and almost yelps. "You're in my seat," I said dead-panned. He breathed and looks at me.

"Sorry, but this seat is Sam's, he's apparently not around yet, so I'm waiting for him," he says and kicks back.

"Alright, in that case, get out of my seat," I said. He looks at me.

"This is Sam's seat, not yours, now scram off mr..." I rolled my eyes.

"My name's Sam," I said. Realization hit him.

"Oh, sorry, I thought you would be a pony," he said. I nod.

"It's okay," I said. He smiled and let me have my chair. I sat down. I realized who he was. "Hoy crap you're Soarin!" I said. He chuckles.

"Yeah, so you're the one dating Rainbow Dash?" He asks.

"Yeah? Why?" I ask.

"Well, there were reasons," he says. I had a puzzled look.

"In that case, you're gonna have to stick by me most of the day," I said. I filed in the problems so far as Soarin starts talking again.

"Well, me and Rainbow had it too, so just telling you," he said shrugging. I paused. I raised an eyebrow at him.

"So, you're her ex?" I ask. He nods.

"Oh, and Sam, I'm going to get my Rainbow back," he says. I roll my eyes. I decided the best thing to do right now, is be a smart-ass.

"Rainbows are in the rainbow production room," I say smoothly. He glares.

"So, you're a wise guy huh?" I smile and nod. "Well let me tell you something kid, you are not worthy for Rainbow," he says. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Do you think I care about what you say?" I ask. He glares.

"You better not ignore me," he said. I picked up my phone.

"Yeah, I'm going to need security," I said. I wasn't talking to anyone, but I was wondering if he'd fall for it. He did.

"Now let's not be hasty," he said. I shrugged and down the phone down while smiling. "You weren't calling anyone were you?" He asks. I shook my head, and grinned.

"I think we can agree on something though, we both care for Rainbow," I said.

"Except, I'm getting her back," he said. A knock was heard on the door.

"Come in!" I said. Cloudchaser came in.

"Hey Sam, there's a problem with the rainbow machine again," she said. She looked up to see Soarin and squealed. "OH MY CELESTIA IT'S SOARIN!!!" She screamed. We both covered our ears.

"Alright, um Cloudchaser could you go get Rainbow?" I ask she nods and waves as she left.

"See Sam, I'm more famous," Soarin said. I sighed.

"I do not give a damn Soarin and neither does Rainbow," I said. As if on cue, Rainbow entered my office smiling.

"Hey Soarin, nice to see you again," she hugs him, I smiled.

"You got friend-zoned," I mouthed. He glares at me.

"Hey Rainbow, once you are done, want to go get a bite to eat?" He asks. That was it. It's one thing to me to just say he'll take her away, but to do it? Oh hell no!

"Hey Rainbow, can I join you two?" I said, trying not to grit my teeth.

"Sure Sam. So where do you want to eat Soarin?" He looked up in thought.

"How about that burger place down town?" He asks. She nods.

"Sound good Sam?" She asks. I nod. I don't know what I got into, but I am not going to like it.

Later

I get to this fancy restaurant, and I don't like it. I walk in. Guess I'm the first one here.

"Hello, are you Sam?" Well shit. They got here before me. I nod. She leads me to the table they were at. I saw Rainbow wave me over. I went over and sat down next to her.

"Hey guys, what did I miss?" I ask. I tried my best not to glare at Soarin. I smiled and looked at the menu. I did like what was on the menu. Everything was on stuff I couldn't eat. Everything was fine hay. Rainbow looked at me.

"Hey Sam, what're you going to get?" I smiled,

"Um, I'm not hungry," I say smiling. In truth, I am starving. Rainbow gave me a questioned look, but I stood my ground. I smiled and she shrugged it off. Soarin smiled and ordered. I just listened in on their conversation as they talk. They had a long conversation. I felt lef t out. I kept smiling and nodding. They ate, and once they were done, we left.

"Hey Sam, I haven't heard you all night, something wrong?" Rainbow asks. I shook my head.

"I'm fine, I'll go ahead and go home," I said I started walking to my house. Soarin scoffed. Rainbow and him kept walking together, as I walk back to my home. Maybe I don't deserve Rainbow Dash. Soarin seems to get along with Rainbow perfectly. I sighed once I was inside my comfy home. I finally got something to eat. I started to sleep in bed when I heard knocking on the door. I sighed and got out of bed. I opened the door and I was surprised to see Rainbow Dash.

"Hey Dash, what's up?" I ask. She smiled.

"Well I saw that you didn't really have a good time tonight and I want to make it up to you," she says. I smiled.

"Nah, you don't have to," I say. She sighs.

"Okay, oh and if you think I'll leave you for Soarin, you're dead wrong," she says chuckling. I raised an eyebrow.

"Why? I'm not like Soarin, I'm not famous or interesting," I said. She shakes her head.

"Sam, I'm like an idol to the Wonderbolts, even to Soarin, he was only going to use me for popularity. That, and I overheard you two talking," I chuckled. She smiled and hovered up to kiss me. I broke the kiss to think about something.

"What happened to Soarin?" I asked. She giggled.

"He's in his place, he tried to kiss me when you left," I smiled.

"Trashcan with a shiner?" I asked. She nodded. We both laughed and she kissed me goodnight before going to her house for the night.

Author's Note

Hey guys, I hope you like this chapter <3