On The Wings of Love

Daytime faded to night in Equestria as the citizens of Ponyville gathered in the town square for one of Pinkie Pie's infamous parties. Everypony knew it was time to head to town square when they heard and felt two large booms from the pink earth pony's party canons. They signaled the start of a wild night.

Rainbow Dash had come early to help with the setup. Oddly though, she didn't find Pinkie pie at sugarcube corner. Dropping by the library, she found the door locked with a sign on it "Closed until tomorrow. -Twilight Sparkle and decided to look elsewhere. In walking past Twilight's window though, she had heard the panting and moaning of a mare on the brink of ecstasy. She opted to go back to sugarcube corner after that and wait. No need to spoil Pinkie's "private party."

Whenever she did appear, she was bouncier than usual. Dash made nothing of it and offered to help set up. Pinkie had been ecstatic.

"Oooh!! I have two new party canons and it would be super-amazing if we set them both off AT THE SAME TIME!!" Pinkie had said, her smile threatening to break her cheeks.

five minutes later in town square

"3...2...1... GO!!!"

Fluttershy had made her way into Ponyville shortly after the percussive party canons had gone off, Applejack right behind her as she walked into town.

"Whooee!! I tell y'all what, Pinkie Pie really outdone herself this time 'round" Applejack had said upon seeing the scene. Ponies already starting to gather.

Twilight and Rarity joined the group from Rarity's boutique and all of the friends met on stage. Pinkie had slipped them a note inside each of their invitations telling them where to meet and what the plan was.

"Hey Pinkie, what's the plan?" Rainbow Dash asked through the microphone on stage.

"Plan? Don't you know?" Pinkie said through her own microphone as all of her friends gathered around her for the magic words to start everything.

"WE'RE GONNA PARTY!!!

With that, Vinyl Scratch, also known as "DJ-Pon3", Canterlot's best DJ (and personal friend of the elements of harmony) walked up to her turntables and, after pumping everypony up, dropped the bass so hard on her first jam that the whole stage shook.

Unbeknownst to anypony though, it also cracked several of the supports, many of which had been weakened with age and a recent storm, on the porch of town hall. The porch was serving as the main stage of the party.

Fluttershy left the main stage and went to a quieter part of the party, sitting under a tree at the edge of the square and talking with Rarity and Applejack.

Dash was up on stage with Pinkie and Vinyl raving.

The night started perfectly.

About half an hour in, Pinkie leaned over to Dash and elbowed her in the ribs. A devious smile painted on her features as she had Dash lean in so she could explain to her what her plans were. After hearing Pinkie's plans, Dash hoof-bumped her and they both took off from the stage. When they returned, both were giggling hysterically and carrying glasses of the newly "partyfied" punch. Things only got wilder from there.

By the time Vinyl packed everything up, most everypony was at the very least tipsy. Mayor Mare actually wound up losing her professional demeanor and kissed Cherilee! Nopony would hold it against her though, there had been rumors floating around about the two of them for months!

Even Fluttershy could feel the effects of the party punch. While not as potent as Pinkie's last attempt at a spiked party punch, it still had Berry Punch passed out within the first hour. That mare seriously needed to learn when to quit.

Rainbow Dash was nursing her fifth glass of the night. She hadn't gotten smashed like she normally would have at one of these parties. Somehow, even slightly intoxicated, her own mind had been making her check out Fluttershy.

... Fluttershy looks beautiful tonight.

"She always looks that way."

So you're agreeing that she's beautiful? I knew it!

"No! Well, yes... but..."

Face it Dash, you love Fluttershy.

"... Yea...I know..."

So you admit it?

She took a big drink of her punch.

"It's not something I can deny."

Fluttershy looked up from her seat under the tree to the stage. Rainbow Dash was sitting there, a troubled look on her face.

Even if I can't out and say it, I'll at least be there for her if she's sad because she's my friend.

Standing up, albeit a bit wobbly, she started walking towards the stage. Passing a few stragglers who were still out and about despite the late hour. She was fairly sure half of Ponyville was going to have a hangover tomorrow. They would all argue it was worth it though. She chuckled to herself as she walked past a VERY inebriated Berry Punch. Her friends were trying to get her back to her house. That would be fun.

Looking back up at Dash to see her take a big drink of her punch, Fluttershy caught a blur out of the corner of her eye. Looking over to see what it was, she saw Derpy Hooves, even more walleyed than usual, crash into town hall. Then, to her horror, she saw all of the cracks in the supports start to give and Rainbow Dash was...

"RAINBOW!!!" Fluttershy shouted at the top of her lungs as her wings launched her towards the buzzed pegasus. Even Dash wouldn't have had the time to get out of the way.

Dash had just taken another big swig of punch to try and make her mind shut up when she heard and felt a large crash behind her. She didn't even have to look. No question in her mind, that was Derpy. If ever a pegasus needed to be permanently grounded, it was Derpy. Just as she was going to take another drink she heard somepony shout out her name.

"RAINBOW!!"

Looking towards where the voice had come from, she saw a yellow blur and out of the corner of her eye, saw one of the snapped supports just as it splintered and let the porch start to crash down.

There was no way she could get airborne in time.

Fluttershy's wings were pumping furiously, time seemed to slow to a crawl. She had to reach Dash. She just HAD to!

Pushing herself even harder to fly faster, she managed to get to her. She couldn't pull her back. She couldn't throw her. Her only option was to let her momentum bust them through the wall.

It would have to work.

Fluttershy closed her eyes as they made contact with the wall, the wood splintering and giving way with a deafening CRACK as the porch collapsed. She blacked out on contact.

When she awoke, Rainbow Dash was underneath her. She wasn't moving! Putting her ear to Rainbow's chest, she heard Dash's heartbeat and felt the slow rising and falling of her chest. The knowledge that her friend was ok pushed her over the edge. She hugged Dash and broke down, sobbing quietly at the near miss.

Rainbow Dash awoke with a start. She remembered that the porch had been coming towards her and that a yellow blur had knocked her through the wall. Bucking hell that had hurt! Opening her eyes, she was greeted by a surprising sight. Fluttershy was hugging her... and... crying?

"Hey Fluttershy, you ok?" Dash said softly.

Upon hearing Dash's voice, Fluttershy breathed a relieved sigh and gave Dash a squeeze before standing up and looking straight into Dash's eyes.

"No. No I'm not ok. I nearly lost you tonight Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy pinned her shoulders to the floor and closed her eyes, trying to blink away the tears.

"Wha-?"

"Dammit Rainbow!!"

Dash was shocked. Nopony had EVER heard Fluttershy curse. What had gotten into her?

Maybe the same thing that's gotten into you.

"Don't ever do that to me again!!!" Fluttershy continued. There were still tears coming out of her eyes, but she wouldn't look up.

For some reason she couldn't quite fathom, she reached up and caressed Fluttershy's cheek with her hoof. She was rather surprised when Fluttershy leaned into the caress and put her own hoof on Dash's.

"Dash..." Fluttershy said quietly through her sobs.

"Y-yea?" Dash replied shakily. Dash felt a knot build in her chest. Did she know what was coming?

"I... I love you." Fluttershy looked up, her eyes meeting with Rainbow's. Dash had seen that look in Fluttershy's eyes before... In her last dream! Suddenly everything made sense to Dash. The way Fluttershy had acted at the Best Young Flier competition and afterwards. The way everything she had dreamed about up until the other day was all true. Dash was at a loss for words, all she could do was look back into Fluttershy's eyes.

The pained expression her friend wore was still loving. She could feel a warmth spread in her chest that was definitely NOT from the alcohol. Fluttershy ..loved her?

Do you love her back?

"Yea, and what if I do?"

THEN KISS HER YOU SCATTER-BRAINED FLY-GIRL!! DON'T WAIT FOR THE BUCKIN' MOVIE TO COME OUT ABOUT IT!!

Dash leaned in as some unknown part of her mind compelling her towards the lips of the shell-shocked mare before her.

Fluttershy saw Dash move. She froze, not knowing what was going on until Rainbow's lips made contact with hers. Rainbow Dash was kissing her! The realization broke her from her reverie and she started kissing Dash back with gusto. First their lips, then their tongues wrestling for dominance. It wasn't until a worried Twilight Sparkle poked her head through the hole that the two pegasi had created in the wall to ask "Is everypony ok?" that they broke their kiss. Awkwardly jumping up and away from each other, the two pegasi answered Twilight, each wearing a blush redder than Big Macintosh's coat.

"Y-yea... we're cool Twi." Rainbow said, rubbing the back of her neck.

"Um... yes. We're ok." Fluttershy had replied, hiding behind her mane.

The lavender mare looked back and forth between them questioningly before just smiling at them knowingly as Pinkie bounced up to her and looked in at Fluttershy and Dash.

"Caught 'em smoochin' didn't ya?" Pinkie said, stopping her bouncing to nuzzle Twilight and look suggestively at Dash and Fluttershy.

"Eeyup." Twilight said, imitating Big Macintosh.

"Wha- hey now Twi..."

Twilight held up a hoof and silenced Rainbow.

"It's ok Dash." Twilight leaned in and kissed Pinkie before looking back at Dash and Fluttershy. "But you two might want to talk about this somewhere a bit more... private." Twilight said, gesturing with her head to the sound the ponies who were still sober enough to realized what had just happened were making. They were coming to see what happened.

"Hehe, yea... you're probably right." Dash said before looking to Fluttershy.

"Sooo..." Dash started.

"We'll talk at my cottage." Fluttershy said, walking up to Dash and kissing her before she flew out of the hole Twilight and Pinkie were standing in front of.

"Yea. We'll do that." Dash said, taking wing and following her.

Well, that was easy.

"Oh shut it."

Just what was going to happen at Fluttershy's cottage? Dash didn't know... but she was going to find out.

Twilight and Pinkie watch as Fluttershy and Dash flew off towards Fluttershy's house, grins plastered on each of their faces.

"How did you know that they would wind up confessing?"

"The Pinkie Senses never lie Twilight." Pinkie said with a smirk.

"Soo, wanna head back to the library?" Twilight asked sheepishly.

"Ohoho, somepony wants to go another few rounds huh?"

"Uh, YEA!!" Twilight said, about to lean in and kiss Pinkie when a voice startled them both.

"HAY YOU GUYS, WHAT HAPPENED?!"

They both looked to see Derpy's head sticking out of another hole in the wall and burst out laughing.

This would be fun to fix... tomorrow.