6 stairs...

It's hard to appreciate everything that you have. Most things you take for granted till their gone. But when it is gone, you will regret not respecting the power it had on your life. Though sometimes it is the smallest of things that you have to be thankful for that will get you though your darkest moments. Just like Rainbow's friends and family are what was giving her strength at this moment.

Heat started erupting through the cracks in the door hitting her at full force. It was like a furnace.

The one dim light that hung over the mares head started to flicker.
Staring at it intently, not wanting to look ahead, Rainbow noticed a sort of buzzing sound that came with the flickering.

Realising what was about to happen, she raised a wing over her head as the lightbulb shattered. Small prices of glass flew in many different directions and cut up her feathers. It was alright to Rainbow,... her wings had been pointless for a while now.

Glancing at what remained of the lightbulb, she turned her attention to the same electrical buzzing sound outside. It sort of resembled one of the horror films she had watched with Pinkie one time. For such a joyful mare, she sure had good taste when it came to horror.

Though the town was empty, it was far from quiet.

Flashback

"Scoots!" Rainbow called over the heads of the crowd. "Scootaloo!"

The meteor was now visible in the sky without a telescope. Time was running short.

Hovering a few feet off of the ground, the tried calling out again, but alas, had no response.

The meteor was bringing all kinds of electrical disturbances in the atmosphere. This imbalance in the air made it particularly hard to use magic for the unicorns but it had its effect on everypony. For many Earth ponies, they lacked their normal physical strength and for the Pegasi, they could hardly lift off of the ground without tiring themselves. What little magic they had inside them was being drained by the electrical storm.

Everypony was heading underground. The Princesses had opened up the bomb shelters that was sure to keep its occupants safe.

For the elements of harmony though, and their family's. they would be staying in Princess Twilights bomb shelter. They had to be protected too as it was the Princesses job to help repair the city's and towns as soon as the event was over.

Flapping her wings in quick succession, Rainbow frantically scanned the crowd for any sign of her surrogate sister.

She was just about to call out again when something collided with her side.

"Oh my gosh! I am so sorry, here let me help you."

Scowling at the tall figure she stood up quickly. "There will be no need for that. But than-" She stopped and focused on his green, emerald eyes. "S-Soarin?"

"Hi Rainbow Dash." He replied quietly.

"Wh-what are you doing here?"

"Oh! I was posted here by spitfire to help everypony underground. Unfortunately, that means that I am stuck here too till we get our magic back..."

Suddenly, Rainbows mind clicked back to her current situation.

"It's really nice to see you and all Soarin," She said quickly turning away from him "but I have to find my sister."

Soarin grabbed her on the shoulder making her turn back to look at him.

"Wait, maybe I could help you find her! Two voices are stronger than one."

Gazing into his eyes, her mouth opened and closed trying to find the right words to say.

Soarin, her hero.

Slowly, she nodded, indicating the search had begun.

Returning to her previous pattern, Rainbow began to call out Scootaloo's name again.

Soarin, who had never met Dashes sister, decided to copy Rainbows method by calling out her name as Rainbow had done.

As they moved their way through the crowd, their persistence was finally rewarded when they heard a small cry coming from the back of the group of ponies.

As quick as a spark, Rainbow pushed her way toward the back, Soarin trailing after her.

After the game of marco, polo ended, rainbow spied the small filly jumping up and down calling her name.

Tears were falling from her eyes as she ran up and hugged her little sister.

"R-Rainbow!" Scootaloo cried, burying her muzzle into Dash's chest. "I-I thought that...that for a minute I wasn't going to see you a-again."

"Shhhh! It's ok, squirt. I'm here now." Rainbow rested her head on the filly's head and pulling her in closer. Though she was trying to stop Scootaloo from crying, she too had tears cascading down her face.

Looking up at Soarin who was just watching the two with a grin on his muzzle. She wiped the tears from her eyes. "Thank you!"

"My pleasure." He exclaimed bowing comically causing the two fillies to laugh. "H-Hey um... you know, after this thing is over, do you want to meet up maybe."

Seeing the unreadable expression on her face he quickly continued going bright red.

"It's just I was at Town Hall earlier, on the balcony part, looking up at the sky and I thought 'hey it's actually quite pretty up here' and I thought of you because well, your pretty and...um...what?...I mean...uhh..."

Looking up, Soarin saw that Rainbow had gotten up from her previous position and was now close to him. Very close in fact.

His heart fluttered in his chest as their lips connected for the first time. Slowly, he let the warmth of her lips embrace him, closing his eyes and gradually leaning into the kiss. After a while, she broke apart, their eyes still locked with each other.

"I'd like that." She said smiling.

"Really? I mean... great!" He said stumbling over his words "So yeah... I need to get going now... but I'll see you there when this is over right?"

Rainbow looked over at Scootaloo who was smiling at the two adult ponies as if Christmas came early.

"Right!" Rainbow replied.

As the rest of the crowd, including Soarin, dispersed in the underground bomb shelter, Rainbow and Scootaloo made their way to Twilights shelter. Looking back over her shoulder one last time to where she had just had her first kiss, for the first time in the past 4 days, she smiled.

Author's Note

Hope you liked it!

It's getting closer to the end now.
I am really proud of how fast I got this chapter up too... I finished the previous chapter yesterday and after trying to elongate it and pace it for about an hour I gave up

Anyway thanks for reading!