Rainbow Dash zoomed through the air, the millions of pegasi watching. She took no humility, performing her double-super cloud swirl twister stunt with relative ease. While looping around in the air, she managed to muster a wink under the intense speed, causing several foals on the sidelines nearby to scream with joy. She then flew up as high as she could comfortably go, then pushed herself down like a bullet with extreme speed. Sure, it was a lot of g-force, but this was Rainbow Dash. She could handle anything. Then, moments from the ground, she managed to reach mach 1, causing an explosion of color as the sound barrier broke. The crowd went absolutely eccentric. Even the Wonderbolts stood there, speechless. Then, a cheer began to rise from the crowd. "Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash! RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOW DASH!"
"RAINBOW DASH!" Rainbow Dash was suddenly snapped back to reality by a yell from Twilight Sparkle.
"Aww, Twilight, why'd you have to wake me up? I was just about to be initiated into the Wonderbolts." Rainbow mumbled to Twilight from the tree branch, still half-asleep.
"You are about to get initiated into the Wonderbolt. Now, come down here!" Twilight bucked the tree, shaking Rainbow Dash and fully making her alert. She flew down from the tree and hovered above the ground.
"Twilight, what gives? It's everypony's vacation time! I'm gonna use mine for sleep, if you can leave me alone to."
"If you wanted to sleep today, then why did you promise Scootaloo you would teach her how to fly today?"
"Huh?" Rainbow noticed the little orange filly with a scooter and a wagon next to the purple mare. "Oh, yeah. Well, c'mon, squirt. Day's a-wastin'." Rainbow's hooves hit the ground as she began to trot towards Scootaloo, who dismounted her scooter and put her helmet in the wagon.
"Hey, Ms. Twilight, can you take the scooter back for me?" The Cutie Mark Crusaders were staying with Twilight, as most of her friends were on vacation during the pleasant mid-summer days. Fluttershy had taken her animal friends and camped out in a meadow near Trottingham. AppleJack, Big Macintosh, and Granny Smith were with family in Appleloosa (Applebloom had wanted to stay in Ponyville). The Cakes, Sweetie Belle's parents, and Scootaloo's parents were on private romantic vacations, so Pinkie had to babysit the Cake twins, and Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle (Rarity was busy, of course) needed somewhere to stay, and Applebloom wanted to stay with them. So, seeing as 2/3 of them couldn't even stand in Rainbow Dash's house, it fell to Twilight. Long story short, she was roped into one HUGE mess.
"Sure, but don't you want your helmet?"
"Uh, why would she need a helmet?" Rainbow Dash inquired.
"Well, she will be flying through the air on probably unsteady wings, so she could hit a tree or a house or-"
"I'll be fine!" Scootaloo was becoming impatient. "Don't be such a worry-horse!"
"Whatever you say..." The purple unicorn began hauling the vehicle up the dirt-road, back to the library, while Scootaloo walked off with her hero, excited as she could be.
After a long walk, Twilight finally arrived at her house. She was glad, being exhausted from walking and pulling Scootaloo's wagon and scooter, but was also filled with silent dread. Inside, she knew that her house would be nothing like how it was when she left it. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were cute, but she knew how troublesome they could be. Twilight was afraid to even open the door, but her fur made the hot sun even worse. She swallowed her fears and opened the door...
Only to have them come true. Books were scattered everywhere. Plants were knocked over, dotting the ground with roots and leaves. All she could do was stand there and sigh.
"HEY TWILIGHT!" The two fillies erupted simultaneously from behind her. The startled Twilight whinnied and reared back.
"Hey, did we frighten ya?" Applebloom excited looked at her flank. "No, no scarin' cutie mark. What about you, Sweetie Belle?"
"No, me neither." Sweetie looked up at an exasperated Twilight. "While you were gone, we've been trying to get are cutie marks."
Twilight sighed. "What else is new?" Twilight looked around the library. "Let me guess: you tried acrobatics?"
"Uh huh. How'd ya guess?" Applebloom looked proud. "We also tried high-diving, jumping, running, trampoline, studying, writing, reading, mathematics, science, astronomy, organization, amputation, time-travel, murder, and wrestling."
"We even tried..." Sweetie Belle crouched down, haunches up, flank in the air, "POUNCING!"
The air-borne Sweetie Belle hit Twilight with enough force to knock her onto her back. She stood on Twilight's stomach and began bouncing up and down.
"No, stop!" Twilight flailed about trying to get the small white unicorn off of her but to no avail. "Quit! Your. Making. Me. Nauseous." Twilight paused between each word, being unable to talk as four little hooves not the wind out of her. As the nausea increased, a belch escaped Twilight, causing a beam of magic to shoot out of her horn, knocking a framed picture of Spike off of the wall. This scared Sweetie enough to cause her to fall of of Twilight's underside. Twilight immediately flipped back over onto her hooves.
"What in tarnation was that? Some kind of magic burp?"
Twilight blushed. "No, that happens to every unicorn when they burp. Also sneeze, hiccup, or, um... other things."
"Wow!" Sweetie Belle was in awe. "I'm gonna try that!"
"Ew, don't do that Sweetie, it's gross! What would Rarity say?" Twilight raised an eye-brow at Sweetie Belle.
"It's not like she doesn't do it! She just tells everybody else it's uncouth!"
"Now, Sweetie Belle, what people do when they're alone or with people who are close to them is sometimes less, well, filtered."
"Well, I'm with my friends now, and I'm gonna try burp magic!" Sweetie Belle had her mind made up. She started gulping down air.
"Do what you're gonna do." I'm going to Sugarcube Corner to pick up some lunch and made sure that Pinkie hasn't killed anyone."
"Oh! Can ah come too?" Appleboom looked excitedly at Twilight. "It smells all dusty in here and ah want to see the Cake twins! Big Macintosh told me they were really cute!"
"Sure, but- wait, Big Mac told you?"
"Yup. Last month, when Pinkie was sick, he baby-sat 'em. He really loves baby ponies. Heck, he loves all sorts of cute things. He has a little doll collection and sometimes ah see him around Rarity's shop looking at dresses and sometimes he even-"
"Okay, Applebloom. I think I understand." The whole situation was very awkward. "Sweetie Belle?" Sweetie seemed preoccupied.
"We should probably leave without her. When Sweetie get's into something, by golly ya can't get her out of it."
Twilight's stomach growled. "Well, I guess it's time we went down to get some lunch."
Applebloom and Twilight started up the dirt road of Ponyville towards the sweet shop.
