The Pink in the Rainbow

   Rainbow Dash fluttered her eyes open as she gently awoke. She extended her wings and proceeded into a full-body stretch. She yawned, rubbing her eyes with a forehoof to clear them of the lazy haze that often came with sleeping in. When she regained her sight, what she saw startled her.

   "Goodmorning, sleeping beauty!" A pink pony floated in the air beside the cloud Rainbow occupied, smiling from ear to ear. Rainbow saw that she had multiple balloons tied around her waist. "Now get up, sleepyhead! We're burning daylight!"

   "Pinkie Pie! How long have you been up here?"

   "Long enough to know you snore when you sleep!" Pinkie imitated Rainbow's snoring and giggled.

   Rainbow sat up on her cloud and looked at Pinkie Pie questioningly. "Have you been watching me?"

   "Well, duh!" Pinkie smiled happily. "See, I really wanted to spend all day with you today, so I got up early and got all of my baking done! Then I got all these balloons so I could come and find you, which was easy because this is the only cloud in the sky today so I knew you must have made it so you could sleep, and when I finally got up here, you were sleeping, just like I thought! And you looked so comfy-cozy that I just couldn't bring myself to wake you up!" As she talked Pinkie Pie gestured excitedly, all the while entangling herself in the balloons. She noticed this and started pulling at the strings in an attempt to untangle herself, complicating the matter even more so. Pinkie somehow ended up hanging upside down. "And so I waited."

   Rainbow Dash smiled at the sight of her friend hanging there, tangled in ballons. She let out a laugh. "Pinkie Pie, you are so so random! Here, lemme help you."

   Rainbow fluttered her wings and rose into the sky, first clearing it of the cloud she was previously sleeping on and then hovering above Pinkie, beginning to pull at the strings to free her friend.

   "Aw, Dash, you don't have to! I'm sure I can do it myself. But then again, maybe not, considering it was me that got myself all tangled up in the first place!" Pinkie snorted an looked up toward Rainbow Dash. "You ok up there?"

   Rainbow Dash's mouth was full of strings as she pulled and yanked. "Hang on." Her voice was somewhat muffled. "Just hold still."

   "Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie saluted to Rainbow Dash, and the movement of her foreleg caused several balloons to smack Rainbow in the face.

   "Hey, watch it!" Rainbow released her grip on the strings and closed her eyes, struggling to push the balloons away from her face, becoming entangled herself.

   "Agh!"

   "Don't worry, I got it!" Pinkie swung herself upright and used her teeth to cut the strings of the balloons that entangled Rainbow Dash.

   Pinkie smiled. "There you go, Dashie!"

   Rainbow Dash looked down to the earth below in disbelief. "Pinkie Pie, what have you d- Ahhh!"

   As the detached balloons floated away into the sky, the two ponies began hurtling toward the ground.