The One Where Everybody Finds Out
Moondancer Finds Out
Previous ChapterNext ChapterOn a sunny day in Ponyville, in the Castle of Friendship, Rainbow Dash and Cozy Glow came back from an important friendship outing, teaching some of the Abyssinians about friendship. When they got back, they were shocked to find their friends, Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy making out on one of the chairs in the throne room.
“Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!!” Rainbow Dash shouted, as she saw the scene unfold before her and her friend. “None of that! Not while you're living under our roof!”
The two lovers stopped their session as they heard the wonderbolt’s voice. “What?!” Twilight snapped to her attention quickly.
“Golly, just because we know about you two, doesn't mean we like looking at it.” Cozy Glow said in agreement, as Rainbow Dash nodded.
“Aren't you supposed to be at a Wonderbolts show for another hour?” Fluttershy asked in curiosity.
“Well, I'm sorry if I'm not an egghead like Twilight!” Rainbow said, dodging an angry glare from the normal/possessed princess of Friendship. They both started for the book room in the castle. “And we’re also sorry if sometimes we go to the wrong air show!”
“Okay, look, if we have to pretend we don't know about you two, then you two are gonna have to pretend there's nothing to know about.” Cozy said in a serious voice.
“Okay. Sorry.” They both said apologetically, as they waited until the two flyers were gone. They started to make out again.
“We can hear that!” Rainbow called out from the library.
“Wanna relocate?” Fluttershy asked her lover. She nodded, and they moved to Twilight’s bedroom and started making out again.
“We can still hear you!” Cozy called out from the library, making the two lovers blush awkwardly.
On that same day, in Canterlot, Lemon Hearts was trying to teach Lyra Heartstrings how to play a different instrument than the lyre, while Twinkleshine was watching them, smiling. Lyra was struggling to get each movement right, as she was trying to play the guitar.
“Tiger!” Lemon hearts said as Lyra moved her hoof in various attempts to do the chord. She was trying to do it with each name that was said to her. “Dragon! Iceberg!!” Despite trying to get the chords right, she kept failing at it. She got frustrated at Lyra, as she wasn’t getting any of the chords right at all. “Lyra, did you even study at all last night?”
“Yes!” Lyra said to her, as she was trying to memorize the chord that went with it. “Yes, I did.”
“Then do Iceberg!” Lemon Hearts said.
Lyra thought quietly for a while, and then said the note of the chord she thought it was. “G-sharp.”
“G-sharp?” Lemon Hearts asked in disgust. “Have you been studying the real names of the chords?” Lyra gave no answer to her friend, who got stressed. “Have you?” Lyra just looked away in shame. “Oh my God!”
“What?!” Lyra said apologetically. “I never touched a guitar before, Lemon Hearts! This is my first time!”
“No, but you're questioning my method!” her friend said in stress and shock.
“No, I'm not questioning it!” Lyra started to object to her. “I'm saying it's stupid!” She noticed Twinkleshine standing right between them and smiling. “What?!” her friend took a picture of her shocked with her camera.
“Thank you.” Twinkleshine said to them before she left the room, smiling.
Lemon Hearts was shocked for a second, and turned back to face Lyra. “Y'know none of my other students thought I was stupid.” She said to her, flustered.
“Your other student, was you!“ Lyra pointed out in shock.
“Yeah, well, y'know maybe you just need to try a little harder!” Her friend said to her, a little on edge and starting to get to rage mode.
Lyra was looking through a book that had pictures of all the best music teachers. She was looking through them and found one she liked. “Look, maybe I need to try a real teacher!” Lyra said. She pointed to a Cello player in a picture that was taken from the Canterlot Gardens. “Right here! Here! Octavia Melody! She teaches guitar and look ooh, there's a nice picture of her with a little colt and THE COLT’S GOT A GUITAR!!!!!! She gave up, and stormed out of the room in anger.
“Fine!” Lemon Hearts said, giving up as well in pure frustration. “You go learn from your qualified instructor! But don't come crying to me when everyone's sick and tired of hearing you play Bad, Bad Leroy Brown!!”
Just then, Moondancer came in and was singing a verse of the song Lemon Hearts mentioned to Lyra. “Baddest man in the whole damn town." She sang.
“Oh, fine! Take her side!” she spat at her, before storming out furiously!
Moondancer was shocked at what Lemon Hearts just said to her about taking Lyra’s side, but quickly got over it in a matter of seconds. She then noticed that she was alone in the room, and picked up the phone, which turns out to be something she shouldn’t have done because, the phone was already in use by Fluttershy earlier. And now, she could hear everything from Fluttershy and Twilight’s conversation on the phone.
“I can't wait to be with you!” Fluttershy said over the phone to her lover. “I'll sneak over as soon as Shining Armor picks up Flurry Heart. I'll just tell Moondancer I'm gonna be doing laundry for a couple of hours.”
“Laundry, huh?” Twilight asked over the phone. “Is that my new nickname?” Moondancer was stunned that she was hearing about this, and now she was hearing her former best friend, now living in Ponyville. She opens her mouth in absolute amazement, but did not say a word.
“Awww!” Fluttershy said passionately over the phone. “Y’know what your nickname is, Miss—“
“WHAT?!” Moondancer asked in complete shock, as she hung up the phone and started pacing around, wondering what to do.
Later on, the next day, the Mane 5 & Starlight were visiting Moondancer and her friends in Canterlot. Rarity was already on a date that same night. So, that was no problem. The friends were talking and having a good time when the door opened, showing Rarity in a horrible mess. So, her date didn’t go well, after all. The look on her face and how her dressed looked said it all!
“Oh my God!” Lyra said in complete shock at the sight of Rarity and what she had been through.
“We heard about how your non-date went.” Applejack said to her friend. “I'm so sorry.”
“This night was supposed to be great!” Rarity complained. “But, it's only the one night and I'm a scoundrel with a stupid satin dress that doesn’t even fit!”
“No. No, you're not a scoundrel.” Everyone said, strongly disagreeing with Rarity on how she felt and how her dress was.
“Look at me!” Rarity said to her friends, angrily. Rainbow squeaked as if not to make fun of her.
“Hey, hey, look. Look Rarity, Pound and Pumpkin drew a picture of you!” Pinkie said, as she showed her the picture that the cake Twins drew. “Huh?” She said in excitement. “You're-you're a cowmare!”
“Oh, be-because The dress looks like pants.” Rarity said, looking at the picture. She smiled sweetly at that.
“See?” Lyra said to Rarity, staying positive. “The cake Twins don’t think you're a scoundrel. They think you're a cowmare! Now that's something.” The other nodded in agreement.
“Yeah!” Minuette said in agreement.
“That really is something.” Applejack said, blushing. “That’s really cool.”
“Howdy partner!” Starlight said, trying to make the fashionista feel better. Sure enough, their attempts were working.
“Maybe I should get another pair!” Rarity said, smiling. “Ooh, y'know, they-they had some with fringe all down the sides. I'm gonna go kiss Sweetie Belle goodnight.” She left the room, and started to head back to Ponyville, where her sister and her friends had found out about two specific mare friends being together. “I can't believe she thinks I'm a cowmare. I would make a good cowmare. The rest of the friends waited until she was finally out of sight, and heading back to Ponyville.
“Okay, now that everything's wrapped up here, I think I'm, I'm gonna go do my laundry.” Minuette said. Rainbow thought that sounded familiar, but dismissed the thought.
“Oh yeah, me too. Y'know if this shirt is dirty.” Applejack said. She caught a whiff of it. Sure enough, it was stinky. “Yep.” She left to go do her laundry.
“Okay, I'm gonna go too.” Lyra said as well. “I'm gonna go to the airport. I figure if I hang around there long enough, somepony’s bound to leave one of those planes unattended.” She started to head out for the airport, with the rest of the friends following her as well.
“Good luck, Lyra!” Moondancer called out as her friend was leaving.
“Bye!” Lyra called out from outside. Now, Moondancer and Rainbow Dash were the only ones left in the room, and Twilight’s former friend was about to spill a secret that would shock the wonderbolt.
“Hey, uh, Rainbow Dash?” Moondancer asked her. Rainbow looked up at her. “Remember that big thing I was gonna tell you about?”
“Oh, no!” Rainbow shouted, as she was on full panic-attack and covered her ears screaming. However, Moondancer stopped her wings out of her ears.
“I'm not gonna tell you...” Moondancer said calmly. “...but if you found out on your own, that would be okay and then we could talk about it. Right?”
“Well, then it wouldn't be a secret.” The wonderbolt admitted. “So yeah, that would be okay. Yeah. Yeah!”
“Yeah. Well.” Moondancer said quietly. There was a short pause where no one said anything. Finally, she broke the silence. “Hey uh Rainbow? Would you mind going over to Twilight’s room and get that book back that she borrowed from me?”
“Now?” Rainbow asked in sudden shock, not sure where this was going. “You want me to go over there now?”
“Yeah.” The bookworm said.
“Do you know something?” Rainbow asked.
“Do you know something?” Moondancer repeated what Rainbow had said.
“I might know something.” Rainbow told her.
“I might know something too.” the bookworm echoed back.
“What's the thing you know?” the Pegasus asked her.
“Oh no, I can't tell you until you tell me what you know.” Moondancer answered defensive.
“I can't tell you what I know.” Rainbow said.
“Well then, I can't tell you what I know.” Moondancer echoed.
“Okay, fine.” the Pegasus said. There was a sudden silence. For a few minutes, no one would say anything. Neither pony would speak, because they were nervous and that one of them might spill the beans first. The silence went on for a few minutes. Then, Rainbow Dash broke the silence this time. “You don't know!”
Moondancer got up from her chair. “All right, how about I go over there and I will walk into Twilight’s room and I will see that thing that I think that I know is actually the thing that I think that I know!” She was about to leave and walk to Twilight’s home in Canterlot.
Rainbow Dash jumped up and gasped in horror. “YOU KNOW!!!!” she shouted in alarm.
“AND YOU KNOW!!!” Moondancer shouted back in shock as well.
“Yeah, I know!!!!” Rainbow shouted at the Twilight-identical, different-coloured bookworm.
“Twilight and Fluttershy?!!” Moondancer asked in utter shock. “Oh, this is unbelievable!! How long have you known?”
“Too long!” The Pegasus said with relief that her friend now knew about their friends’ secret. “Oh my God, Moondancer, I've been dying to talk to someone about this for so long! Listen, listen, we can't say anything about this to anybody, they're so weird about that! Listen…” she started to tell her what she needed to know.
At that moment, Lyra came in, back from her trip early, interrupting the both of them. “Hey! It's raining.” Lyra started to tell the two ponies. “I don't want to fly in the rain. So…”
“Oh, I am going to go for a walk in the rain.” Rainbow Dash said, as she got ready to fly outside.
“Ohhh, yeah, me too.” Moondancer said in agreement, as they both left the room to head outside, which...it was actually rainy out.
“That's weird.” Lyra thought, after seeing her friends go out and run in the rain. She pondered about this for a few seconds, before finally saying something. “I bet they're doing it.”
Author's Note
And that’s the fourth chapter! Twilight’s former Canterlot friend, Moondancer had found out about her and Fluttershy’s relationship! Who else will find out! Find out next!
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