Author's Note
I deeply apologise if this story isn't as good compared to my other ones. I didn't really have many ideas with a picture like this, and this was the most passable one that came to my mind. If this isn't the story for you, then I'm sorry once again, but I do hope you'll continue to support me in all of the stuff that I do.
Anyway, with that said, I hope that you enjoy it for what it is, and I'll see you all soon.
Hair Raising
Rarity casually hummed a tune to herself as she sewed the fabrics on her machine. The needle pounded down rhythmically on the clothing, giving her the beat that she needed. She was busy filling out an important order for a very special client, who had agreed to spread the word about her boutiques if she was successful with her work.
“Ah. Nothing better than the fine sounds of a sewing machine to make you feel right at home, right, Opal?” Rarity turned to her cat, who was busy licking away at its legs and not paying her any attention. “I suppose I’ll take that as a yes, then.”
The silence was broken up with a whistling sound gradually getting closer and closer to her house. It soon evolved into the noise of a jet engine and before she had time to get out of the way, Rainbow Dash barrelled through the window and straight into her, throwing her against the door and causing the fabric she was stitching to rip.
“Rainbow Dash! That was entirely not called for!” Rarity scolded and brushed herself clean of the dust that she had collected with the impact. She galloped back over to the dress and let out a ghastly scream. “That was the last of my scarlet satin! Now they’ll just have to do with a garish topaz!”
“Sorry, Rarity.” Rainbow Dash climbed back onto her hooves and shook off the dizziness of the impact. “I was just trying out this new trick that the Wonderbolts assigned me. Turns out it’s much harder than it looks.
“Well, I must say that it’s not really polite or dignified for you to come crashing into my house like that.” Rarity scoffed and threw the ripped fabrics into the trash can. “If nothing, could you at least try your new trick somewhere else?”
“Everfree Forest’s too infested with clouds, Ponyville’s got a scheduled rainstorm later on today, and Cloudsdale’s airspace is quite strict when it comes to performing tricks.” Rainbow Dash pointed out in the directions of each locations to emphasize her point. “Any more questions, Rares?”
“I don’t know why in the world the ponies of Ponyville would restrict your access to perform tricks.” Rarity looked out of the window towards the town. “I mean, you’ve saved Equestria with us multiple times and you’re an official Wonderbolt now. I would imagine that they would give you special privileges or something…”
“C’mon, Rarity. We’re not in it for special perks or anything,” Rainbow Dash said. “We’ve already got what we wanted, haven’t we? Twilight’s a princess, I’m a Wonderbolt, and you’re a famous designer.”
“What about Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Applejack?” Rarity cocked a brow.
“They’re happy just as they are.” Rainbow nodded. “Especially Pinkie. I don’t really think she wants anything to be honest.”
“Still, we’re getting off track here. There was no need to come crashing through my window like that, Rainbow Dash.” Rarity put a new piece of fabric onto the sewing machine. “There’s an important client that I need to please and your little barnstorming nonsense just delayed me by a good amount of time!”
“Hey! It’s not my fault that this trick’s hard to master! The inverse turn immediately following a regular roll isn’t really the easiest thing in the book, y’know!” Rainbow shot back. “Despite me being awesome, this move’s really starting to grind my gears!”
“You know, sometimes, I wonder how you ever made it into the Wonderbolts with that rather horrid attitude of yours!” Rarity gnashed her teeth and got up in Rainbow’s face.
“Hey! Don’t you say that to me!” Rainbow butted heads with Rarity, letting out a little growl as her teeth gritted.
The two ponies glared at each other for a while before Rainbow Dash swatted Rarity in the face with her tail. As all of the colours slid across Rarity’s face, she felt something entirely different. She felt that Rainbow’s tail was far softer than that of any other fabric that she had ever laid hooves upon, and as she fell onto her knees, she looked up at Rainbow.
“Oh my…” she said, looking up at Rainbow. “How in Equestria is that possible?”
“What?” Rainbow Dash’s teeth were still grinding against each other.
“Your tail. It’s so soft and huggable.” Rarity got back onto her hooves. “I’ve dealt with many a fabric alike in my time, but I’ve never felt something like that before.”
"What do you mean? My tail's always been like that." Rainbow Dash had calmed down, but her face was still a little bit red from her little outburst. "And for the record, it's not soft and huggable. It's hairy."
"I know, but in a sense, it's actually quite bizarre." Rarity looked at Rainbow's tail, watching it swish from left to right. "I've felt some incredibly soft and comfortable fabrics before, but I've never felt something quite like your tail before, Rainbow." Her hoof slowly drifted forward towards the rainbow-coloured tail.
"Hey! Hooves off the merchandise, Rarity!" Rainbow slapped Rarity's hoof away. "I don't like to be touched, remember?"
"I know, I know." Rarity withdrew her hoof. "But just imagine what kind of wonders your hair could do for my business. I could sell the most comfortable clothes ever, and you could take all the credit. You'd be twice as famous!"
"Thanks, but no thanks, Rarity. I'm far too busy as it is being a Wonderbolt." Rainbow Dash shook her head. "I've worked really, REALLY hard to get in, and I don't want to jeopardise my position for anything. I can still help you out, but in my own time. I hope you understand."
"Well, do you have any time to spare today?" Rarity gave her a small smile. "Please? Just for me?"
Rainbow let out a small sigh. "I'm afraid not, Rarity. The Wonderbolts want me back at HQ as soon as possible to review some new tricks. And by review, they want me to try them out, then decide whether or not they're awesome enough to put into performances."
"Well, I hope you don't mind if I just get a tiny little clip, do you?" Rarity had already pulled out her scissors and snipped off a small part of Rainbow's tail as she turned towards the window.
"Hey!" Rainbow jumped as the scissors cut her tail. She used her hooves to defend what remained. "I needed that!"
"Oh, stop moaning. It'll grow back." Rarity blew a small raspberry and tipped her hoof forward before returning to her work. "And besides, didn't you say that you needed to go to an airshow? I'm sure that a shorter tail will help you fly better."
"Not funny, Rarity." Rainbow Dash saw the hair that Rarity had snipped off. "I need that hair, y'know. To show off that I am the one and only Rainbow Dash. Without my hair, I'm just going to be called Dash."
"Calm down, darling." Rarity began putting Rainbow's hair on the inside of her new dress. "You don't need to have a long tail all the time. Sometimes, it's nice to trim it a little. Keep it neat and tidy. That sort of thing."
"Rainbow Dash doesn't do tidy, Rarity." Rainbow could not only watch as she saw her hair being used for a yellow satin dress.
"I'm sure that you can spare some time from Wonderbolt training with the others to model some new dresses for me, right?" Rarity precisely and accurately laid down each strand of hair so that it didn't feel clumped up. She already covered a small chunk of the dress's insides with Rainbow's hair. "You do like your hair, right?"
"Yeah...?" Rainbow raised an eyebrow.
"And if you like your hair, then don't you like to see it being used in something other than keeping your hair and flanks warm?" Rarity asked, continuing with her work on the dress. "I deduce by that logic, that you're really quite interested in modelling these new rainbow-hair dresses, right?"
"Ugh. Fine." Rainbow groaned and walked a few steps forward. "Looks like you've roped me in, Rarity. But only because you put my hair on the line."
"Now, first things first when applying something to the inside of a dress, you want to make one-hundred percent sure that your additions stay on, without applying damage to the clothes themselves." Rarity pointed out how she stitched Rainbow's hair onto the dress. "Carefully thread the hair into the dress like so, making sure that you impale the hair as you go through." She leaned in and squinted her eyes, making sure to strike the thin needle through the prismatic hair. "Now, I'm using a small needle here, since the strands of hair are usually quite small. Larger ones might just push the hair through with them."
"Less lectures, more dresses." Rainbow Dash placed her hoof onto her head and began to droop her eyelids. "I didn't agree to this to then get a lecture on how to make your new Rainbow Dash hair dresses. Just get me into one and we should be good to go.
"Rainbow Dash! It takes time and precision to make a dress like this! You can't just magically want a dress and have one appear on your body." Rarity tossed her hair and went back to her dressmaking. "Honestly. The second I rope you in to try these new dresses, you throw it right back in my face. I'm beginning to have second thoughts about doing this now."
Rainbow Dash sat down on the bed, listening to Rarity give a long and informative lecture on how to apply her rainbow hair to the dress's insides. As she listened to Rarity babbling on and on, Rainbow Dash's eyes began to get heavy and eventually dropped down over her head. She tried fighting to keep them up, but she eventually caved in and ended up falling asleep on Rarity's bed, snoring loudly.
Rarity jumped when she heard the sound of snoring and turned around to see Rainbow Dash fast asleep on her bed. She let out a tiny groan and walked up to the sleeping pegasus. As she raised her hooves to push Rainbow off of the bed, she then got an even closer look at the multi-coloured tail once again.
"Hmm... Can it just be used for dresses, or is there something more to her hair?" Rarity leaned down and began to brush her hooves with the many different hairs on Rainbow's tail. "It is rather stylish. Multi-coloured is in season at the moment. I suppose there's no harm if I make a few adjustments..."
Rarity gently plucked a piece of the hair and wrapped it around the rest of her tail, giving it an entirely different look.
"Ooh!" Rarity squealed quietly at Rainbow's new tail design. "How fascinating... I simply must see what other looks Rainbow's tail has to offer."
And with that, Rarity arched herself over Rainbow Dash and gently began rearranging Rainbow's tail into multiple different colours. She fiddled with each individual strand so that each new tail looked different from the last one. She let out little giggles at how unique each pattern was. She felt like a little filly playing with construction paper as she continued to mess around with Rainbow's tail.
Rainbow Dash slept peacefully as Rarity played around with her tail. She was dreaming about flying with the Wonderbolts and the rest of her friends while simultaneously defeating evils that plagued Equestria. She did stir when Rarity pulled at her hair in an attempt to find a new pattern, but she cooed and went right back to her sleep.
"Phew. That was a close call." Rarity wiped some sweat off of her brow as she watched Rainbow shake around but fall right back asleep. "I must be more careful. I don't want to give Rainbow a rude awakening."
Eventually, Rarity made Rainbow's tail into a diamond checkerboard pattern with her many different colours spread out widely. There were a few more bits of the tail sticking out and dangling over the edge of the bed, but Rarity already got a pink ribbon and began to tie the ends together and make Rainbow's tail straight.
"C'est magnifique." Rarity kissed into her hoof and looked down at her finished work. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the hair on Rainbow's head. "Although... I do wonder if her mane could do with some sprucing up as well."
Rarity tiptoed up to Rainbow's hair and began gently combing it with a nearby brush. Now, she was in more trouble of waking Rainbow from her dreams. As quietly and as delicately as she could, Rarity brushed Rainbow's mane down gently with the brush, making sure not to go too fast and agitate her.
When she had cleaned up Rainbow's mane, she found a few more pink ribbons. She gently picked up a chunk of Rainbow's mane and twirled the ribbon around it, giving her a ponytail. She did the same thing with two more ribbons, picking up the sides of Rainbow's mane and tying them up into a pair of multi-coloured pigtails.
"There we go." Rarity gave an insensitive chuckle and muted it by covering her mouth with her other hoof. "The true definition of youth. Old enough to handle herself, but still with that rather playful attitude of hers."
Rainbow Dash heard Rarity's words and began to open her eyes, smacking her lips together as she looked around the bedroom. The dreams that she had been having were beginning to melt back into reality as she looked up at Rarity, who had been looking down on her.
"Wakey-wakey, sleepyhead." Rarity waved. "It's time to get up, Dashie."
"Ugh... How long was I out?" She asked, rubbing the back of her head as she looked at Rarity. "And why does my mane feel weird?"
"Long enough." Rarity looked over at the dress. She had barely started on it since she had been working on Rainbow's mane and tail. "It turns out that your hair doesn't really stick well to fabrics like this. I'm sorry."
"You mean this whole thing was a bust?" Rainbow threw herself out of the bed and flew towards the window. "Thanks for nothing, Rarity." She groaned and took off.
Rarity walked back over to the dress and began to take out the clump of hair and toss it in the bin with the ripped dress from earlier. She resumed the tune that she had been humming to herself before Rainbow Dash had burst into her house and disrupted her work.
"I wonder how long she'll take to notice it..." She took a slight peep out of the window to see Rainbow flying in the distance. She watched Rainbow stop in midair and feel her mane and tail.
"RARITY!" Rainbow called out at the top of her voice when she realised what had happened to her.
One Good Hair Raise Deserves Another (Commissioned by superfun)
Author's Note
So. This is gonna be a tad... interesting. I've never had a commission to make an epilogue to one of my stories before; let alone one that I've not touched in over three years. But still, they did want it and me, being the nice guy that I am, even offered them a discount since they themselves didn't want it to be super long. Which I can appreciate.
Superfun, I hope you like it, because this little number's for you. Not as big as one of my stories, but you asked for it, and I delivered!
One Good Hair Raise Deserves Another (Commissioned by superfun)
It was late at night on the evening that Rarity had made a little experiment out of Rainbow Dash's hair. She tucked herself into bed, pulled her face mask over her eyes and drifted off into the world of dreams, accompanied by her plush cocoon of bed fabrics.
As a tranquil silence befell Rarity's bedroom, the lights turned out with a single click from the lightswitch. Rarity's magic had a hoof in that. Once the darkness coated the room, some small snores could be heard from the dressmaker, muttering as she let herself become entranced and enraptured by her already forming dreams of fabrics and how they would work in conjunction with each other.
Truly, it seemed like nothing would ever shake Rarity from her slumbers.
And that was just what Rainbow Dash needed to strike.
Like a ninja, she opened up the door quietly, letting a tiny sliver of light crack into the room. She darted over to the bedside, making sure not to make a single noise as she carried a small container full of something towards the sleeping Rarity. Once she hunched herself over Rarity's body, she unscrewed the cap and cracked a small grin as she leaned over her unmoving, slumber-consumed body.
"What you did to me today was not cool, Rares. I got tons of ponies laughing at me." Rainbow Dash muttered to herself as she slowly tipped the container over Rarity's head; the gooey mass inside squirming towards the edges on command. "Whether it was a fashion venture or some kind of thing to make me feel humble, it backfired. Quite massively."
Rainbow watched the liquid fall into Rarity's hair, then did her best to lather it in; her cyan hooves quickly drilling into the splendor of Rarity's indigo mane. As the mush bubbled up and formed a cloud of suds, Rainbow's work intensified. Some snorts came from Rarity, causing Rainbow to stop intermittently, but she still make sure to cover every single inch of Rarity's mane. "This is totally on your head, Rares. Not mine. And hey, it's like they say. One makeover deserves another."
With Rarity's hair properly covered in the mess that Rainbow Dash had made, and her victim still sleeping soundly, she took the time to leave the room, making sure to take the container with her so as not to leave behind any evidence of her little scheme.
"When you wake up, Rares. You're gonna see just what it means to have an unauthorised and uncool hairdo. Trust me." She closed the door at last, leaving Rarity once more to her wonderland of dreams, completely unaware of the small change that had been made to her.
The next day, when Rarity finally awoke from her little venture, she took off the mask, climbed out of bed, and hummed to herself as she went towards the bathroom. Her first order of business was to get her teeth done, as every good mare in her mind needed a fine set of pearly whites, otherwise leave a rather... twisted impression on the ponies they were trying to greet.
When she made it to the bathroom, took her toothbrush and squirted some of the paste onto the bristles, she took a look in the mirror. And when she did, she dropped the brush. Her hair, that had once been her iconic look, was now a spiky explosion that jutted out in all directions, with each and every strand a different colour. It was like a kaleidoscope for the eyes; one that she didn't feel taken in by at all. Instead, after her jaw dropped, she let out a scream so loud that it wrested every single bird from the nests in their trees, never to return.
"RAINBOW DASH!" She bellowed, as the sight of her ravaged hair jumped out at her, but not in the way that she wanted.
