Love Conquers All

"Come, come. come. We have much to do today!" The fashionista practically sung with glee as she led Rainbow to the central podium. "We have to update your measurements, find some proper colors to go with your mane." Rarity's horn glowed blue as she levitated several tape measures over. "It really is hard to find a color except black that goes with every color of the rainbow..." She added as a side note.

Dash instinctively flared her wings, which got in Rarity's way. "Keep those down, Rainbow Dash!" The pearl white pony spat out blue feathers. "Ugh, for Celestia's sake, control yourself!" Dash folded her wings against her body, but they still twitched, wanting to get free again.

"Sorry Rarity, I'm nervous. I hate standing still, it's not who I am.." The energetic pegasus started to trot in place. "I need to move!" She felt a tape measure tighten around her midsection, causing her to grunt, Rarity glared at her, which effectively stopped the pegasus from moving. "Sorry..."

"I just need to get your measurements. One more minute." She tightened the tape a little more, making sure the pegasus dare not move."Aaaand done!" She telepathically moved all of the measuring devices away, while also bringing up a clipboard. "It seems you've lost an inch around your barrel, you lucky mare. I swear, If I could lose the inches like you, I would never stop eating."

Rainbow Dash blushed, she knew she had a high metabolism and an athletic build, but it was necessary for what she wanted to be. Rainbow also knew it made her the envy of every mare in Ponyville, having two stores that sold sweets in town made a high metabolism extremely valuable. "Hehe, well...maybe you could come jogging with me one day. It's a good way to stay fit."

The unicorn was marking down more numbers and scribbling out others. "Me? Exercise? Oh no, I do not wish to get all sweaty and grimy.." She shivered at the thought.  "I'll stick with my weight loss spells and diets, thank you very much."

Dash just shrugged. "To each their own, I guess." Rainbow Dash always preferred old fashioned exercise over any fancy shmancy magic spells or diet. A good run or better yet a nice long flying session was the way to go in Dash's mind.

"Now, let us see if we can find just the right color for you, dear."

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Back at Soarin's and Spitfire's apartment, the former was pacing around nervously in his room while the latter sat on the couch in the living room, trying to read the latest Cosmarepolitan Magazine. "Spitfire, what am I going to wear? I can't wear my dress blues, she's seen those, and that's about the only fancy clothes I own."

"I would lend you one of my dresses, but I'm afraid you don't have the figure to pull it off." Spitfire deadpanned. She closed her magazine and looked at her roommate.

"Oh, haha. This isn't a laughing matter Spitfire, I need something to wear." The colt looked between his Wonderbolt uniform and his military uniform. "I could always go buy something, it's not like I don't have the money.."

Spitfire raised herself off of the couch and rolled her eyes. "Quit obsessing over this, Soarin! Just wear your dang Wonderbolt uniform. The mares love it and you know it." The yellow mare strode into the colt's room and over to where her partner was looking between his two outfits and picked up the button up shirt with her teeth and put it back in his dresser.

"I'll feel under-dressed! Especially if she's wearing that gown from the wedding, did you see that thing? She looked amazing in it." His last few words trailed off into a dreamy tone. Spitfire, for her part, just sighed and trotted out of the room.

"Yeah...amazing-" She waited until she knew she was out of earshot. "-ly ridiculous. I mean c'mon, who wears all rainbows? Only filly foolers and colt cuddlers, that's who. Since I didn't see a pair swingin' between her legs, I'm gonna guess she's not that into colts" The mare grabbed a glass from the counter and the bottle of Sweet Apple Ale from the fridge. "I bet she's only into him for the fame, or to worm her way into the wonderbolts.." She picked up the bottle of alcohol with her mouth and poured it in the glass, she put the bottle back in the fridge and took a swig of her fresh drink. "I hate her already..."

"AHA!" A cry echoed from the bedroom. "I got it!" She looked up to see Soarin holding his Wonderbolt uniform. "Wait..."

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Rarity and Rainbow Dash, mostly Rarity though, had decided on the color. A nice shimmering green color. The pastels didn't work out to well the way Rarity had hoped, but they still got it. The dress itself was still bits and pieces of fabric on a mannequin.

"Can I go yet, Rarity? You don't really need me here anymore. Plus, I'm sooo bored." The pegasus fell onto Rarity's  red velvet couch to make her point.

The unicorn sighed. "Very well, Rainbow Dash. I suppose I've gotten all I can out of you about this colt." It was true, Rarity had been grilling her for the past hour on all of the things she knew about Soarin, which was quite a bit considering she was one of the top members of the Wonderbolt Fan Club. She had divulged everything from his favorite color to the place of his birth...which, in retrospect, was a tad creepy that she knew that.

"Thaank you!" Rainbow Dash jumped off the couch and sped out the door to anypony else but Rarity. But, as luck would have it, she ran into the one other pony that could annoy her more than Rarity.

"Hey there Dashie!" Pinkie Pie was standing right in her way. "I was just coming to see you at Rarity's. I was baking some cupcakes and I thought 'Boy, I bet Dashie would like some of these!' Because, c'mon, who doesn't like my cupcakes? Nopony that I know, that's for sure!"

"Pinkie Pie, I-"

"So, I have some cupcakes here for you." She lifted her rear in the air, were a paper bag rested. "Rainbow icing, it tastes really good! I really like rainbows, they're all pretty and sparkly and make me go 'ooh! Ahh!'"

"Pinkie Pie, seriou-"

"But they don't taste good, not like my icing. Remember when I actually drank some of that rainbow in Cloudsdale? I was like 'AHHH!' and my face turned all different colors, it was super funny!"

"PINKIE PIE!" Rainbow Dash screamed at the top of her lungs, it was the only way to get the pink party pony to shut up.

"Yes, Dashie?" The earth pony smiled and bounced in place.

"Do you...wanna.." She cursed herself silently for doing this. "Hang out or something?" The party pony gasped loudly in response.

"YES! of course I wanna hang out with you! I mean, I always wanna hang out with you! Your cool and fast and go 'zoom! zoom!' everywhere! It's the coolest thing ever!"

Rainbow Dash immediately regretted this decision.