No Two Flakes

By Mist

Chapter X

Rainbow pressed her hands hard to her temples and groaned as she walked in circles in Rarity’s apartment. The fast few days were running through her head over and over at this point. She couldn’t get the idea of CJ laying on that table out of her head. Her nightmares had gotten worse and her anger was boiling at this point. She could feel the pressure in her head building as she tried to remain calm.

“Fuck! Just fuck!” Rainbow exclaimed. “I can’t take this! CJ is fucking dead, and we’re next…”

Rarity offered a hand to comfort her. “Calm down.”

Rainbow swatted her hand away. “No. I won’t fucking calm down. First Light and now CJ, Ice has to pay for this! I’m going to kill that mother fucker!” She growled and pulled her gun out and gripped it tight. “I’m gonna go there right now and blow his fucking dick off now!”

“Rainbow, no!” Rarity protested and grabbed Rainbow’s shoulder and made her face her. “It’s too dangerous…”

“Rarity, you shouldn’t be involved anymore. I can handle this from here, I don’t want you getting hurt.” Rainbow instructed.

“Too late. I’m already involved.” Rarity said.

“Then get uninvolved, this is too dangerous for you.” Rainbow growled as she pushed Rarity’s hand off of her.

“No, I am going to see this through to the end, I have my reasons.” Rarity demanded.

She kept thinking about what Ice had said to her. Rarity couldn’t let a threat like that just slide. Ice had entered her home and placed a gun in her mouth, and she couldn’t get that out of her mind. The fashionista knew that the only remedy was to make sure that Ice paid for all he had done to her and Rainbow; because of that, she wasn’t going to back down until she saw him get punished.

“Just stay out of it, Rarity! It doesn’t concern you!” Rainbow hissed.

“Rainbow…” Rarity attempted to protest again, but Rainbow let herself out and slammed the door behind her.

Rarity knew though that after what had happened the other night that she wasn’t going to be able to let it go. Ice was willing to do anything to get to Rainbow, and because of that, Rainbow wouldn’t stop until she or Ice was dead.

Pinkie had been getting ready for all of her afternoon appointments. She prided herself on staying ahead of schedule, especially since she loathed having to give up precious time off to make sure work related tasks were done. When she wasn’t at work, she was out partying, throwing parties or just having general fun. On days where she couldn’t get into any wild misadventures or be with her friends, she found herself staying up past midnight with her Playstation.

Today she was fortunate that all of her appointments were simple orders, a cake for a wedding, assortments for upcoming Christmas parties, and a couple dozen cupcake orders. All easy tasks that she could knock out before her lunch break and then the rest of the day would be smooth sailing.

Working on a pie crust, she noticed a familiar scruffy programmer enter the bakery. With no other guests in sight, she couldn’t help but grin as she saw him again. She was hoping he would return. “Well, hello there Mr. Script.” She stated.

He chuckled a bit and approached the counter. “Hey, I was hoping you’d recognize me…”

The grin plastered to her face just grew larger. “Oh?”

Nodding, he placed a hand on the counter and smirked. “What can I say? I like cake.”

“Especially the frosting right?” She bit her lip a bit as she finished that sentence.

“What flavor would pink frosting even be?” He asked.

“Are you flirting with me, Mr. Script?” She responded.

“Is it working?” He grinned.

Pinkie leaned over the counter with her arms pressing her chest together as she leaned forward to purposely show off her cleavage more. She had always been a busty girl which she often used to her advantage. “You’re supposed to tell me…” She nearly whispered.

“And if I was?”

Pinkie looked around and then leaned in more as she used her finger to signal for him to get closer. He did so to listen. “I go on break in a few minutes… And my bosses aren’t here today… If you know what I mean...”

“What are you suggesting?” He blushed.

She grabbed the collar of his shirt and spoke breathily. “Let’s have a party.”

Applejack and Cloudchaser were conversing as they finished lunch and exited the eatery they had just dined at. With her stomach full, Applejack found herself having to hush her romantic partner as they walked. “I swear, you have like the loudest orgasm ever. I don’t know how your neighbors don’t know we’re doing it.” Cloudchaser teased.

The two had been right back to their old arrangement the past few days. Applejack would go to Cloudchaser’s place or vice versa. They would both pretend they were going to listen to some music or something, even though the end result was always the same. Before they knew it, they were rolling in the sheets again and Applejack was trying her best not to enjoy it too much so their neighbors didn’t hear. While Twilight knew about AJ’s on and off again girlfriend, she was confident that no one else did and she preferred to keep it that way.

“Shut up…” Applejack hushed her; her face turning crimson.

“Oh please if people don’t find out from your moaning, they aren’t going to from me saying anything.” Cloudchaser remarked.

Strangely, she almost had a valid point, AJ thought for a second. Part of her wished she could just not hold back and enjoy it to its fullest, but then she snapped back to reality and realized that wasn’t possible.

“Seriously… Someone’s gonna hear…” AJ pleaded.

“Oh please, what does it matter if random strangers overhear us?” Cloudchaser asked.

She had a point there, AJ wasn’t sure why she was so embarrassed about the thought of random nobodies knowing of her sex life.

Cloudchaser and her came to a crosswalk. Applejack had been too distracted from their conversation and wasn’t paying full attention. Cloudchaser began to step across the street without guidance. Traffic was still whizzing past the two with lightning speeds, and Cloudchaser was too busy chuckling at Applejack to notice. Fortunately for her, Applejack snapped back to reality not a second too soon as she reached out and grabbed Cloudchaser’s hand and halted her from moving forward. A car zipped past them only inches in front of her, with a horn blaring to tell her to get out of the road.

Cloudchaser took a step back and chuckled nervously.

“Heh… That could have been nasty.” She commented.

“Y’all need to pay more attention!” Applejack scolded.

Her companion just shrugged. “I’m fine. No sweat.”

Applejack released her hand and sighed. “Yeah… Sure…” She replied.

“What’s eating you?” Cloudchaser asked.

Applejack looked at the ground awkwardly. “Nothin’ just a little stressed about some school stuff is all…” She lied.

“You are the worst liar. I already told you, I’m fine. Don’t worry about it.” Cloudchaser reassured.

“Yeah, y’all are probably right…” Applejack responded.

Rainbow pulled herself up on her pullup bar that she had mounted in her apartment for the fiftieth time. She had a good deal of exercise equipment to stay in shape for soccer season, however she now had other intentions in mind as she tried to stay in top form.

After about another dozen or so pull ups she dropped to the floor and walked over to her vanity mirror. On top of the dresser she picked up her firearm and popped one of the half dozen clips into the weapon and slid it into her waistband. Opening the top drawer she pulled out the switchblade she had used before and gave it a test before retracting the blade and pocketing it.

She watched herself in the mirror and grabbed a hair band and tied her long silky hair back into a ponytail. To complete the look, she grabbed a snap back hat that her brother always wore and placed it atop of her head. He had worn that hat often and it was one of the few things she had left of him.

Staring back at her in the mirror was an angry person, someone who had met her breaking point and kept pushing further and further. It was the face of a little girl who had lost everything and had nothing left to lose. Ice had taken everything from her, and she was ready to take it back.

Rarity’s voice rang in her head telling her to stop before it was too late, but her fury was only building everyday. She couldn’t sleep at night anymore because of all of this.

The conflict in her head only enraged her more. With a loud grunt she punched her mirror and shattered it. Breathing hard, she looked down at the shards in front of her and then to her knuckles which now were leaking dark red blood down her bronzed skin.

She knew that Rarity was right, but she wasn’t able to make herself let go of what had happened. If she let Ice off the hook, she wasn’t sure she could sleep at night. The nightmares would just keep coming. She had to know though; she couldn’t let this rest until she understood why all of this happened, why Light had to die in the first place. Rainbow was determined to have that question answered even if she had to beat it out of Ice himself.

Lying down in her bed, she didn’t even bother to bandage her hand. The tired girl closed her eyes and hoped that nightmares would stay away just a bit longer. In the next few days she would finally be putting a close to all of this, or die trying.

Spike found himself staring at his phone for nearly an hour in debate of whether he should give the girl of his dreams a call. He felt their time together the other day went well, but he wasn’t certain as it had ended so abruptly. Rarity had rushed so quickly to help her friend Rainbow, and the two had been hanging out a lot lately. Was it possible that Rarity was interested in Rainbow Dash? Was that even possible? Spike had never even considered if Rarity was even into guys, let alone him. What if all of his efforts were pointless?

He knew wasting his thoughts on such questions was pointless as they would never be answered unless he actually talked to her, but he couldn’t help but panic a little inside.

With a deep breath and exhale he finally punched in her number and placed the phone to his ear as he waited for her to hopefully answer.

After about three rings, he could hear her pick up and that sweet voice with the British accent rang in his ear pleasantly. “Spike? How are you?”

He smiled that she instantly wanted to know how he was doing, it gave him just a little bit of reassurance. “I’m good, how about you?”

“I’ve had better days, but so far today is going alright, I suppose.” She answered.

He had noticed there was something off about her for a while now, but it was clear she avoided talking about it. He was curious, but he didn’t want to pry.

“It sounds like you’re going through a lot…” Spike attempted to soothe her.

She sighed. “Yeah, that’s accurate… I don’t want to go into too many details, but I’ll be honest with you Spike… I’m scared…”

Spike sat up a bit worried and blinked. “Scared of what?”

“It’s complicated, but I worry that I won’t be strong enough to face the challenges ahead of me… Once again I don’t want to say too much, but something is happening and I’m afraid that the outcome will be determined by my strength and that I won’t be strong enough to make a difference…” She replied.

“You’re the strongest girl I know.” Spike responded.

She laughed a little before answering. “Thanks Spike. Truthfully though, I don’t really feel that strong, but I appreciate you thinking so.”

“Rarity, you’re far more capable than you give yourself credit for. You have a big heart and I know that it won’t let you not do something what it needs to be done. I would trust you with my life, and that’s the truth.” Spike said.

Rarity paused for a moment, clearly taking in what he said. “Heh… I guess you’re right. Hopefully it never comes to that though. Still, I worry about Rainbow…”

There was the topic he was hoping to avoid, but there was no escaping it now. “What about her?” He asked begrudgingly.

“I fear that I’m not getting through to her… She’s very pig headed.” Rarity began before sighing again. “I am worried that I’m losing her, she’s slipping and I am not strong enough to keep her from going over the edge…”

“Is this about her fight with Twilight?” Spike asked, remembering his sister complaining about the issue. He didn’t have all the details, but he knew that it was tearing Twilight up and that it started over something that Twilight felt was not worth losing a friend over.

“No… Though I’m sure it won’t help…” Rarity replied.

“You really care about her, don’t you Rarity?”

Rarity sighed again, “Yes… But it’s not like I can do anything…”

“Yes you can, go talk to her. Tell her what you’ve told me.” Spike instructed.

Rarity laughed happily. “You’re such a sweetheart, Spike. I don’t know how I’d get by without your nod of confidence. We really should hang out again sometime, I liked last time and I felt bad that I had to leave so early.”

His heart nearly skipped three beats upon hearing that statement. It put so much of his mind at ease. “Well how about we meet up sometime this week?”

“Sounds like a plan; I’ll give you a call when I figure out what the bloody hell is going on.” She replied.

“Okay cool. Let me know.” Spike answered before the two ended their conversation. Setting his phone down, he sighed contently and fell back down onto his pillow with a smile plastered on his face.

“I can’t believe you’re pregnant!” Twilight exclaimed as Fluttershy stood before her nervously.

The shy young girl looked away embarrassed and her voice was down to a hardly audible squeak as she spoke, and accepted some books from Twilight. She had come over to borrow some books on pregnancy as she was too embarrassed to go to the library and check them out.

“Well… It sort of happened so quickly… I don’t know… We got caught up in the moment and things just sort of… Progressed…” She squeaked.

Twilight nodded and sat down. “And you haven’t told Soarin yet?”

Fluttershy looked to the floor. “No…”

“Why not?”

“He’s a big soccer star with a whole future ahead of him, I don’t want to ruin his future for my sake… It was my fault, I didn’t think… I just reacted without considering the consequences…” Fluttershy explained.

Twilight shook her head. “No, Fluttershy. It was a decision you both made. He deserves to know, he’s the father…”

“It’s alright, I already have a plan in order… I’m going to stay with my parents for a while after I give birth and I’ll figure out what I’m going to do from there. I don’t want Soarin to throw away his whole future because of me; I could never live with myself…” Fluttershy said.

Shaking her head again, Twilight patted her seat for Fluttershy to sit next to her. Quietly and nervously, Fluttershy did so for Twilight to pull her closer with an arm around her shoulder. “Fluttershy… You have to tell him. Regardless of what he does, he needs to know that you are carrying his child. It’s his right as a father to know. That child deserves it as well, they deserve to know who their father is and that he is given a chance to be a part of their life. You’re not protecting him by not telling him.” Twilight explained.

She knew that Twilight was right, but she was clueless about how she would muster the courage to even talk to Soarin about all of this. “I guess you’re right… I’ll tell him when I’m ready…”

Twilight smiled and petted her friend’s hair softly to soothe her. “Whatever he says, just know I will gladly help you in any way I can, okay?”

She smiled and nodded. “Thank you, Twilight… That means a lot to me.”

After her long talk with Spike, Rarity slept on the idea, but realized he was right, she needed to talk to Rainbow and if she wouldn’t listen then Rarity would have to make her listen. If she didn’t do this, then she feared the consequences of what would happen.

She opened the door to Rainbow’s apartment which had been left unlocked. Entering quickly, she made her way to the bedroom to find Rainbow sitting in front of a broken mirror with a knife that she was stabbing repeatedly into a photo of Ice that the two had acquired some time ago. She didn’t even turn to greet Rarity when she entered, her mind focused on stabbing the picture over and over.

“Rainbow…” Rarity spoke.

“What’re you doing here?” Rainbow asked.

Rarity took a few steps forward and turned the chair that Rainbow was in to face her. Her expression stern and commanding, hoping it would help Rainbow take her seriously. “You can’t do this. You can’t kill Ice.”

Rainbow looked up at Rarity and gave a scowl. “It doesn’t concern you.”

“No, it does concern me. If you kill Ice then they are going to throw you in prison and you’ll be exactly what your brother told you not to be.” Rarity reminded.

“I DON’T CARE!” Rainbow yelled as she pushed Rarity back and stood up.

Trying to keep her balance, Rarity grabbed hold of the bed post and kept herself upright.

“I don’t give a damn anymore… Ice killed the only family I have left, and I am not about to let him get away with it.” Rainbow spoke powerfully.

“At what cost, Rainbow? Do you think Ice is going to just roll over for you? I know you Rainbow, you can’t kill Ice.” Rarity replied.

“YOU DON’T KNOW SHIT!” Rainbow shouted, pounded her wounded hand onto the dresser she was sitting at. “How could you even remotely understand? You grew up in a mansion with servants and privilege. I wasn’t so lucky… My whole family is either dead or in prison. I came from the streets, what could you possibly know about me?”

Rarity stepped forward and regained her composure. “Rainbow… I know I could never understand what you’ve been through… I regret that I never truly got to see how a lot of the world lives, and I’ll spend a lot of my life trying to understand, but I do know that you can not kill Ice.”

“What makes you so sure?”

“You’re not like him, Rainbow. Ice has killed many people without even thinking about it. He’s numb to it; he can kill without any guilt. You’re not like that, I know you’re not.” Rarity explained. “You’ll hesitate and it’ll cost you your life, because Ice won’t hesitate. You’ll hesitate because you’re not a killer, you’re not like him.”

“You don’t know what I am…” Rainbow spoke shakily.

Rarity took Rainbow’s hands in her own. “I know what you don’t want to be. Please… Let the police handle this…”

Rainbow looked down and felt herself trying to hold back tears. She only succeeded because she didn’t want to cry in front of Rarity. Rainbow always made it a point for no one to see her crying.

“Fine… The pigs will handle this… But I’m going with them. I want answers before they take him away.” Rainbow looked up to Rarity.

“I’ll go with you…” Rarity smiled.

Rainbow shook her head. “No, I have to do this alone. I can’t risk your life any longer.”

Rarity wanted to argue, but instead she pulled Rainbow into an embrace which she took and squeezed tightly around Rarity. Rarity was a bit surprised by her strength for such a small girl.

“Thank you, Rarity…” She whispered as she dug herself into Rarity’s chest.

“You’re welcome.” Rarity replied, petting the girl’s hair.

Author's Note

Rainbow's explosive anger was actually very difficult to work with. She needed to be portrayed in a way that made her explosive, but not so much that it would be hard to believe her friends still remaining friends with her. She is a very emotional girl and often uses anger to hide how much she is truly hurting after all.