The morning sun continued to shine brightly over Ponyville as it's citizens went about their day. One rainbow maned pegasus in particular was ecspecially eager as she hid up in the tree near her oldest friends cottage.

"He's alluded me time & time again, but not anymore." The Cyan mare snickered. "But not this time! Today is the day I finally prank Discord!" She chuckled as she continued her stakeout knowing any moment now the door would open and her dear friend Fluttershy would come out to feed her chickens and Discord would be right beside her to help.

"Hehehe, any minute now" she anticipated licking her lips.

"HEY RAINBOW DASH WHAT YEA DOIN!?" A loud voice inquired as a startled Rainbow Dash fell out of her tree and saw the source of the disruption.

"What the hay Pinkie Pie!?" Rainbow angrilly huffed. "Are you trying to give away my posistion!?" The Pegasus pouted.

"Oh no i'm just....wait...position? What position?" Pinkie asked now distracted from her origional goal of sharing her good news by her curiosity as to what her dear friend Dashie was up to.

"Today is the day i'm finally going to prank Discord!" Rainbow Dash proudly responded puffing out her chest and giving a confident grin. Pinkie just staring at Rainbow before breaking out laughing.

"W-what's so funny!?" Rainbow Dash growled.

"Oh Dashie you silly filly.." Pinkie Pie began. "Even I know you can't prank Discord" the cotton-candy maned Earth Pony continued as she steadily calmed down her laughter. "Besides haven't you already tried to prank him like 37 times before!?" She asked as she finished up.

"Yea, well....you know what they say, the 38th time's a charm." She stubbornly replied her face blush red thinking of the emberassment of her past failures as time and time again the pesky Draconiques had gotten the better of her, and in front of Fluttershy no less.

"I'm afraid you'll have to make it 39 my dear." A teasing voice sang from behind causing Dash to jump and turn around seeing Discord and Fluttershy right behind her.

"W-wha-b-but how!?" Rainbow Dash asked dumbfounded.

"Come now Rainbow, what kind of lord of chaos would I be if I wasn't able to sneak-up on ponies without them noticing." Discord chuckled looking down at the disgruntled cyan prankster, Fluttershy doing her best not to chuckle at Discord's teasing of her dear friend.

"Ugg, Pinkie you ruined my chance!" Rainbow Dash huffed looking angrily back at the peppy pink pony.

"Now Now Rainbow, you can't go blaming Ms. Pie for your failures." Discord continued to taunt. "Fluttershy and I were well aware of your little stake-out well before Pinkie suprised you out of that tree" The Draconiques devilishly smiled.

"Yea, well...Just you wait, i'll get you eventually Discord!" Rainbow growled as she zoomed off. The others just watching as she headed back into town.

"Oh Dizzy, I wish you wouldn't tease Rainbow like that, you know how prideful she can be, she hates losing at anything, even a prank." Fluttershy chuckled looking-up at her chaotic companion.

"Apologies Dear Fluttershy, but come now, you know you love it when I tease" Discord cooed giving Fluttershy a wink, the yellow pegasus just blushing in return.

"And you Ms. Pie I do believe you had something important you wanted to tell our dear friend Rainbow Dash!?" Discord chuckled looking down at Pinkie Pie.

"Oh my gosh your right! Dashie wait I have something I need to tell you!!" Pinkie shouted as she too ran back towards the center of Ponyville.

"What was that all about?' Fluttershy asked looking rather confused.

"Worry not dear Fluttershy, it won't matter to us for a couple more chapters." Discord reassured her with a smile.

"Rainbow Dash!?" Pinkie shouted as she ran through the town looking for her friend, nearbye ponies just staring as they watched the towns party planner running in a mad dash. "Rainbow Da-" she started again before feeling a hoof block her mouth. "What!?" The still disgruntled pegasus mare asked looking quite seriously at her peppy pink friend.

"I have amazing news and I wanted to tell you first!" Pinkie Pie smiled as she jumped up and down in her usual happy manner.

"You figured out a way to prank Discord?" Rainbow Dash sarcastically asked the hyper active horsette.

"No, though that would be pretty amazing news too I guess." Pinkie agreed. "This is even better! Like super duper extra awesome rainboom better!" Pinkie Pie happilly exclaimed.

Rainbow Dash just rolled her eyes. "OK Pinks, what is it" Dash asked only partially caring what the answer was.

"Princess SkyStar is coming to Ponyville to spend the rest of the summer with me!!" Pinkie Pie excitedly emoted.

"Wha-really, but I thought her mom grounded her for like a year!?" Rainbow Dash asked in surprise.

"Yea, Queen Nuevo was pretty peeved Sky put herself in harms way like that I guess, but c'mon she helped us save Equestria, no way her mom was gonna keep her under house arrest forever." Pinkie chuckled in reply.

"Yea, I guess." Dash agreed. "So when is she gonna be here?" the mare asked, now genuinly curious as the prospect of a hippogryph in Ponyville was an intriuging one as it would potentially give her a new flight training buddy.

"She's gonna be here tonight!" Pinkie responded with a smile. "Oh wait, I have an amazing Idea! What if you come over to Sugarcube Corner and help me get things set-up for her arrival and then we can all celebrate with a "Welcome To Ponyville Princess SkyStar Party!!" Pinkie sang as she happily jumped around her friend.

"OK, yea, I can work with that" Rainbow Dash agreed. "I'll see who we else we can get to help and see you back at the SCC in two shakes of a Lamb-Bear's tail! " Dash chuckled with a wink as she flew off, Pinkie smiling and waving before hoping back to sugarcube corner.

Later that night Pinkie, Dash and a handful of their friends gathered around the large table Pinkie had put out as the eager Earthmare put on the finishing touches.

"There, it's perfect!" Pinkie cheered as she looked at their work.

"Yea, it looks pretty sweet" Rainbow Dash agreed. "But sorry I couldn't get more ponies to help out, seems everyone was busy today." Rainbow nervously chuckled looking at the rest of the group which only consisted of Spike, The Crusaders, The Cakes and Cranky Doodle who had gotten roped into the festivities by mistakingly thinking today would be a good day to leave his house.

"Aww, it's OK Dashie, I know all our friends can't be free all the time, i'm just glad you and the others that were here were well...here!" The pink pony chuckled giving Dash one of her super-tight best friend hugs.

"Haha, think nothing of it." Dash huffed recovering from her friends vicelike grip. "Always happy to help a friend" Rainbow boasted. But before Pinkie could reply the group heard the door to Sugarcube corner open and a rather tall tan Hippogryph barged in.

"I'M HEERREE!!!" Princess SkyStar joyfully sang as she made her enterence, Pinkie turning her attention away from Rainbow and towards her new friend.

"Sky!" Pinkie happily shouted as she quickly ran towards the Elegant Eagle-Pony.

"Pinkie!" Skystar joyfully exclaimed as she stood up on her back-two legs and held her arms open for the tiny pink pony to jump into. The two finally meeting and joyfully embracing one another.

As the two friends reunited the small group cheered, all accept Dash who noticed the particular kind of hug the two were sharing seemed a bit diffetent then Pinkie's usual hugs, this seemed softer, deeper. Rainbow couldn't place it, but something about seeing the display made her feel a bit....off.

Author's Note

Finally got another chapter out, yay!

And oh no, Dashie starting to get jealous already!? Of course she won't be aware of it yet. Anyway thanks for reading and enjoy. I'll try to fix errors later on. And next chapter should be longer and less of a wait. Sorry for the delays!