Chapters The rainbow-maned blue pegasus, Rainbow Dash, had just got a whole week break from the Wonderbolt session today so that he could possibly spend time with her friends. She got back to her cloud house to pack away her saddlebags. She has a Daring Do book in her hooves so that she could conceivably read in peace when Derpy suddenly crashed into her house.
“Derpy, how many times do I have to tell you to just use the door?” Rainbow said in disappointment
“Sorry, Rainbow Dash. You got mail!” Derpy apologized as she hoofed out a brochure.
Rainbow reads the brochure in curiosity. “Isle Delfilly? Hmm... it looks like a nice place for a vacation.” She ponders over the last word she said. “Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I’ll have a vacation with my friends and this looks like a good area. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen in there?”
***
Rainbow Dash gathers all her friends to the Manehattan airport to take flight on the plane that takes them to Isle Delfilly.
“That was nice of you to have a vacation with us, Rainbow.” Twilight appreciates to Rainbow Dash about bringing her, Pinkie, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity to her vacation.
“No problem.” Rainbow replied as the screen in front of the ponies changed from map to commercial.
Welcome to Isle Delfilly, we’re here to welcome you to our island and home. You have a lot of wonders to visit here. We have an amusement park, the shops/boutiques and a beautiful garden, if you’re into nature. Oh, we also have souvenirs, especially Wonderbolt ones. We will await you on your way to Isle Delfilly.
Everypony daydreamed in awe about the commercial except for Twilight and Applejack which saw a shadow flying in the background, it looks like...
“Wait, is that Rainbow Dash?”
“But it couldn’t be, Rainbow’s right here, Applejack.”
“Did anypony else see that?”
Twilight and Applejack looked around to see everypony daydreaming.
“I guess not, guess we’ll have to get it out of our mind for now.”
***
The island is clearly seen at the distance and it looks like a dolphin with a volcano eye. The plane’s wheels are set to land at the docks and stopped against a big puddle of paint. The bumpy landing made the daydreamers wake up.
“Um, what happened?” Fluttershy asked in confusion
“Y’all were daydreamin’.” Applejack answered as the Main 6 exited the plane and sees the paint.
“Who would dare to splatter graffiti on the ground? I wouldn’t touch that stuff!” Rarity complained
“Maybe we can help clean it up...” Pinkie suggested as she touched the paint and got delivered pain on her hoof. “Owowowow! My hoof is burning!” Everypony was shocked by Pinkie’s yelps.
“You alright, Pinkie?” Rainbow tries to comfort Pinkie when she nods.
“Sir, do you know what happened here?” Twilight asked one of the Delfilly citizens nearby
“Oh, it’s just dreadful, an unsure figure just came in and graffitied all over this spot.” The citizen said.
“Hey, what’s that gadget over there?” Rainbow said as she points to some gadget behind the paint puddle.
Rainbow approached it and it spoke. “Thank you for purchasing this item from Whooves Science Inc. Preparing to register customer information. Scanning and classifying subject data... subject identified as Rainbow Dash from Ponyville. Data storage complete. I am FLUDD, a Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device. ”
“So you can shoot water? Why, that’s awesome!” Rainbow complimented as she tries it on. She then aimed the FLUDD at the paint puddle to try to clean up the paint. “Hey, this is kinda fun.” Normally, she hates cleaning up big messes by herself, but she actually finds using FLUDD fun.
When she got to the middle, a weird paint creature appears. “Wh-what is that thing?” Fluttershy mumbled in fright.
Rainbow tried to aim at the creature and spray water at it when her the water tank in the FLUDD was empty. “Go to a nearby water source to refill the tank ” Rainbow looked around to find a small fountain. When she filled the tank, she accidentally found out that she can hover with the FLUDD. “Well, I have wings anyway.”
She approached the creature and tried to spray it. At first, it didn’t take damage until it opened his mouth. Rainbow giggled a little. “Heh heh, you need to stay hydrated, paint beast!”
Rainbow sprayed the water three times into the creature’s mouth when it opens, which in result, it died and the paint puddle got cleared up and a golden sun figure appeared.
“Ooh, it looks... magnificent.” Rarity awed by the glance and the glow of the object.
“That is called a Shine Sprite. ”
“Well, looks like you’ve earned it, Rainbow Dash.” Twilight said claiming it’s some kind of prize.
With a smile, Rainbow took the Shine Sprite and put it in her saddlebag. “But who would make a drawing on the plane’s landing pad?” Rainbow questioned.
“Maybe they just like art?” Pinkie suggested.
“There’s a monster, Pinkie. Besides, don’t ponies violate when they write graffiti anywhere?”
“What?! They do?! That’s what I’ve been doing in Sugarcube Corner the whole time!”
“It’s fine, Pinkie. Ponyville is a free graffiti place, we just have to clean it up every time.”
While Pinkie and Rainbow had a conversation about the laws of graffiti, some security ponies approached them cutting the chitchat.
“Hey, rainbow pony, come with us and bring your friends too.”
The puzzled ponies look at each other in confusion, especially Rainbow Dash who didn’t know or like what’s happening. But they figured they have no choice but to do as they say.
The ponies have been transported to a trial court room, where Twilight, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity are the jurors and Rainbow Dash is the defendant.
“Blue pegasus,...”
“My name is Rainbow Dash.” Rainbow corrected the security.
“...Rainbow Dash, please step into the gate, we don’t want you thinking of trying to escape.” The security pony instructed.
Rainbow sighed nervously but stepped through the magic gate which removes her wings and made her into an earth pony. She’s gasped when it happened but she figured it’s fair. Rainbow entered her bench to begin trial. Her friends looking at her nervously hoping she would get out of this.
“What’s your name, defendant?”
“Rainbow Dash”
“Rainbow Dash if you’re not aware, someone has been splashing some paint-like substance into our Isle Delfilly with no explanation known. It’s been polluting our home and endangering our environment and nopony knows what’s going on.”
“That paint I cleaned up this morning? Are they accusing me to do graffiti? ” subvocalized Rainbow Dash
The plaintiff starts explaining, “Here’s a weird phenomenon: it’s day in Delfilly Plaza, but it’s dark in the other areas. This is because our guardians, Shine Sprites have vanished from the Shine Gate. How? Well, it’s been covered in paint! Behold, the sketch of the perpetrator!”
Everypony gasped in shock as a picture of a sketch of what looks like Rainbow Dash.
“But she couldn’t have, could she?” Rarity said, she didn’t want to believe her friend is capable of making darkness in an island she’s never been.
“But the proof is already in favor.” The judge pony explained.
“Wait, I have one of these Shine Sprites.” Rainbow tries to convince to the judge that she’s not guilty.
“Well, thank you, the guard pony can keep it safe. But still, I hereby judge the defendant guilty.” That made everypony shocked. “Until it’s free of paint, Rainbow can begin tomorrow, for now, you have to stay your cell.”
***
Rainbow Dash is currently in his jail cell being accused of inappropriate painting and the rest of her friends are being taken to their resting place.
“Twilight, do you think she really made a crime?” Fluttershy asked Twilight.
“What? No, of course not. I think someone else made the crime into accusing her.”
“But the sketch we saw looked similar to Rainbow Dash.” Rarity pointed out.
“And the punishment of can’t leave this island, that’s just rough.” Applejack said
Rainbow Dash is in his cell with FLUDD resting her head on her pillow thinking about what just happened. “Am I the criminal? ...No, why would I think that, of course I’m not really the tagger right, FLUDD?”
“No, you are not the criminal, Rainbow Dash. But let me tell you something. ”
That made Rainbow turn her head to FLUDD to pay attention.
“The Shine Sprite you found is the power source of Isle Delfilly. They’re used to shine brightly together at the Shine Gate. But because of this incident, they’ve fled, leaving the island with no power. In order to restore power, we must keep the town from becoming dirtier. The perpetrator is still on the loose. Tomorrow, we shall try to resolve this situation. Do you understand? ”
“Yes, I understand.” Rainbow replied with confidence.
Author's Note
Mares and gentlecolts, thanks for reading this fanfic, I’m gonna write more chapters soon. If there’s something wrong with this fanfic, like there are submission rules that I was not aware of, please comment below, I will fix them if there are.
The guard ponies took The Main 6 to Delfilly Plaza. “Okay, Rainbow Dash, this is where you’ll clean up the mess. And don’t you try slacking off, we got our eyes on you.”
“Okay, I get it!” Rainbow said to the guard pony.
“Are you going to be okay, Rainbow?” Twilight asked trying to not worry too much.
“Are you comfortable for being an earth pony?” Applejack asked wonderingly.
“I’ll be fine, it feels awkward without wings though.” Rainbow answered.
“Well, you do your job, we want to explore this island.” Twilight explained.
Fluttershy is trying to find the garden, Rarity is looking at the shops and boutiques, Pinkie and Applejack are looking at the vendor stalls, Twilight is looking around the place and Rainbow is busy finding paint spots.
Rainbow found a vast puddle of paint around the second exit.
“What has the culprit been doing?” Rainbow complained.
Rainbow began squirting water at the puddle, but when she got to the middle, the paint creature she fought before sprouted out of the middle. “Heh, let’s see you getting a drink.” Rainbow said as she already knew what to do. She quickly defeated the creature before the ground rumbles and shakes. Everypony stopped what they’re doing and glared at Rainbow Dash.
“Wh-what’s h-happening?” Fluttershy mumbles as she’s shaking.
A statue of an Isle Delfilly citizen appears out of the ground with something or someone on it.
“Isn’t that the black figure of Rainbow Dash ah saw at the plane?” Applejack questioned.
“Wait, who are you? Why do you look like me?” Rainbow questioned about the black green-eyed Rainbow Dash.
The figure turned to look at Twilight and began trotting towards her. “Wait, what do you want from me?” Twilight asked the black Rainbow Dash and then start running away from it. “Rainbow, help!”
“Come here, my shadow!” Rainbow shouted as she started chasing her black reflection with Applejack who tries to throw nearby apples to slow it down.
Rainbow successfully sprayed water at the shadow as it grunts and stops mid-run. “No fair! You can’ use weapons during a chase!” The black Rainbow Dash explained as it got up, leaped onto a porch and got over the building.
“Come back here!” Rainbow said as she goes around the corner to find Pinkie.
“I got you-Hey!” Pinkie said as the shadow easily avoids Pinkie’s embracing arms.
The shadow goes to the front of the statue that it stood on before and drew a lightning bolt with its paintbrush and jumped into it like a portal.
“Woah.” Rainbow said as she sees the portal and her friends gathered around her.
“I’ve never seen anything like that.” Twilight said amazed by a paintbrush that makes portals.
“Where do you think it goes?” Fluttershy asked.
“Ah don’t know, what if it’s dangerous to go into?” Applejack said concerned.
“I guess I’m the one who should go after my black self.” Rainbow thought she’s the one to be able to do this.
“Are you sure, Rainbow Dash?” Twilight said worryingly. Rainbow answered with a small nod.
“Hold on, you’re not going alone, Rainbow. I’m going with you!” Pinkie insisted
“Really?” Rainbow gushed in amazement.
“Of course. I’m not just gonna stay here and let you do all the work. Like you said, I’d never leave my friends hanging.”
“Well, thank you for insisting.”
Pinkie and Rainbow Dash stepped in front of the lightning bolt portal and then suddenly, they both got sucked inside.
***
Road to the Big Windmill
Rainbow and Pinkie appeared at Bianco Hills when Rainbow rough landed on their flanks while Pinkie was able to land on her hooves.
“That was kind of fun! Don’t you think, Rainbow?”
Rainbow groans in response as she’s rubbing her flank. The two ponies began following the road until they reach a slope with water watering.
“Ooh, a water slide! Weeeeee!” Exclaimed Pinkie as she slides down with head first. Rainbow shrugged but decided to have fun even with her shadow roaming around. She also picked up a couple of bits on the way down. At the bottom of the slope, Rainbow got off the watery slide to see river and a tightrope to go across it.
“I’ll go first, watch and learn.” Pinkie said confidently to Rainbow Dash. And Pinkie, believe it or not, simply walked across the tightrope without wobbling. Leaving a stunned Rainbow Dash with her mouth opened.
“I guess I’m next then.” Rainbow said as she got on the rope and tried to balance. She actually thinks it’s harder for a pegasus to balance without any wings, but despite, Rainbow got across. Pinkie celebrated for her bravery and success and began to follow the road now that Rainbow’s done with balancing.
While Pinkie was admiring the yellow decorations under the arches they went under, Rainbow spotted some paint on the other side of the wall. “It’s cleaning time!” Rainbow said as she starts cleaning the paint and picking up bits while doing so. Suddenly, when Rainbow went to clear the last bit of paint near a bridge that’s too high, the paint monster is back.
“Come on, you can do harder than that!” Rainbow said just wanting to fight more danger.
“Stand back, Pinkie!” Pinkie told herself as she stayed away from the battle. But, just like Rainbow said, the fight was easy and she defeated it in 10 seconds flat. Pinkie celebrated Rainbow’s victory when the ground started rising levels. When it stops at the bridge’s level, a Shine Sprite appeared from the disappearance of the beast.
“Hey, it’s another Shine Sprite, you earned it!” Pinkie explained as Rainbow smiled at her, walked up to the Shine Sprite, collected it and jumped for joy as she did earn it. Afterwards, Rainbow and Pinkie was immediately send back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
At Delfilly Plaza, Applejack and Fluttershy sat next to the statue just to make sure Rainbow and Pinkie were alright while Twilight and Rarity continued admiring the plaza. Then, Rainbow and Pinkie is seen coming out of the portal landing on their hooves.
“What did ya see in there?” Applejack asked.
“Did you find the black Rainbow Dash?” Fluttershy then asked.
“Well, we didn’t find the shadow, but...” Pinkie began.
“We found another Shine Sprite!” Rainbow finished Pinkie’s sentence.
“Well, that’s great. But... umm... your shadow’s still roaming around in there, ya know.” Applejack pointed out.
“Yeah, we should probably get going, Dashie.” Pinkie said as she and Rainbow turned their backs towards the portal and hopped to it.
***
Down with Petey Piranha
Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie landed on the same area as last time and, just like last time, Pinkie landed on her hooves and RD landed on her flank. They followed the road like last time, slide the water slope and collect bits like last time and balance across the tightrope across the river like last time. But unlike last time, the gate in front of them is opened.
“Who opened the gates?” Pinkie rhetorically questioned but the ponies walk through anyway. And as they’re following the road, Rainbow saw paint that needs to be cleaned up. So she quickly cleaned the roads and on the way walking onto a gapped bridge that, due to Pinkie Sense, Pinkie stopped Rainbow from falling. “Watch where you’re going!”
“Woah! Okay, that’s a gap.” Rainbow claimed that it’s a big gap and would not want to fall all the way down.
“You have your hover ability, you can fly over the gap. ” FLUDD informed Rainbow Dash
“Right.” Rainbow agreed as she used the Hover Nozzle to float over the gap. Once she got to the other side, she’s watching Pinkie wondering how’s she’s gonna get across. “How are you gonna get across?”
“A hop, skip and jump.” Pinkie said as she simply leaped over the giant gap leaving Rainbow’s mouth agape. “Come on, we’re climbing this windmill, aren’t we?”
Rainbow shrugged off what just happened to begin climbing up the windmill and cleaning up paint along the way. Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense senses giant falling paintballs though, so she’s acting like a protective shield to Rainbow She then noticed that the FLUDD tank is close to empty, but lucky for her there’s a nearby sprinkler that Pinkie wants to have fun with. Moving on, Rainbow saw a stone slope that leads to the top, but it first leads Rainbow and Pinkie to jump over and hover around thorny plant infested gaps. After that, they find themselves behind the windmill blades. They also see a graffiti of the same lightning bolt that was a portal, only without a portal.
“I should probably clean up that graffiti.” Rainbow insisted as she cleared the graffiti off the wall and a blue bit appeared from the wall. “Woah, never seen a blue bit before.” Rainbow thought.
“It’s probably useful later. For now, let’s get on the blades.” Pinkie said as she got on one of the blades followed by Rainbow Dash. And as the turbine’s rotating clockwise, they’re seeing what they’re going to face on the roof. “Uh... Rainbow, you’re seeing this, right?” Pinkie asked nervously as they jumped onto the roof ready to fight the... giant plant creature thing.
“Yep, I’ve been waiting for this.” Rainbow said confidently as it roared so loud that it caused her and Pinkie to cover their ears and also caused the roof to start to crack.
“Uh oh. The roof is falling on us.” Pinkie worryingly said before the roof truly has a hole to fall through.
Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and the plant creature fell far down and roughly onto solid ground.
“Ow, that was a big drop.” Rainbow sorely said although Pinkie looks totally fine. The ponies grabbed their senses and are ready to boss fight.
***
Boss Fight
Rainbow and Pinkie were waiting for something to happen, and that something is to hit the boss tried to hit them by spinning its head. The ponies moved out of the way until the boss eventually got dizzy. Rainbow Dash tried to spray it with water, but it doesn’t take damage. That is until she saw it open its mouth and Dash immediately started fill its stomach with water and fell onto its back.
“Now what? That’s what I’m asking you.” Rainbow and Pinkie jinxed each other thinking fast what to do next before it gets up.
“Try stomping on its stomach ” FLUDD recommends
“Sounds demented. But I can do that.” Pinkie said as she starts running towards the boss, did a somersault in the air and successfully stomped on its stomach. “Take that!”
“I guess three’s the magic number.” Rainbow confirmed as it always takes three attacks to defeat the boss. They had to use the same strategy two more times before its really defeated and was disintegrated into paint. The ponies brohoofed each other as Rainbow cleans it up and a Shine Sprite appeared.
“You did it again, Rainbow.” Pinkie said to Rainbow
“I guess I have.” Rainbow confirmed as she collects it with joy and she and Pinkie immediately got send back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Back at Delfilly Plaza, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie was seen popping out of the portal. The rest of the Main 6 gathered around the two to see what happened through the portal.
“What happened back there, Rainbow?” Twilight asked.
“Dashie here was just fighting a giant plant monster.” Pinkie explained.
“H-how big was it? Was it s-scary? Were you hurt?” Fluttershy stuttered.
“Well, not by the boss fight. I kind of fell down a great height. My flank is a little bit sore.” Rainbow admitted.
“Do you want to have a rest then, darling?” Rarity suggested with a new scarf on her neck.
“I guess... Rarity, where’d you get that scarf?” Rainbow asked.
“Oh, this, I explored the boutiques of course.” Rarity answered.
“Oh, classic fashion pony.” Rainbow said under her breath.
Author's Note
Greetings, mares and gentlecolts. Do you like how I make Pinkie and Rainbow Dash go to the first stage together? This is the first chapter where blue coins start to take place. I don’t know if doing a 100% completion rate - we’ll see what happens next.
Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie got up after their relaxing rest to be in front of the portal on the statue.
“Are you ready to go in again, Pinkie?” Rainbow asked Pinkie with determination.
“I’m always ready.” Pinkie answered.
“Are ya sure ya don’t want us to go with y’all?” Applejack asked.
“We’ll be fine, stay safe though.” Rainbow told Applejack as she and Pinkie jumps in for more adventures.
***
The Hillside Cave Secret
The ponies has set foot, or flank, onto the same area in Bridle Hills as before. It seems like every portal hop is déjà vu. And because they landed on the same spot, they slide down the water slope and balance on the tightrope like last time. Then they wondered what to do next.
“I think the next thing to do is to go to the windmill again, right?” Rainbow thought as they went through the opened gate and went on the bridge, that is when they saw tightropes under the bridge that leads to some cave.
“Hey, looks like we can jump on that platform.” Pinkie said as she leapt onto the platform below the bridge. Rainbow was unconfident but decided to try. She landed on the platform with two hooves before she lost balance and almost fell into the water when Pinkie grabbed her fore hooves. “Woah! Okay, I got you.”
“Thank Celestia you’re here to catch my fall.” Rainbow thanked Pinkie
“No problem.” Pinkie replied
Ahead of them is a tightrope with electricity to electrocute them when it can.
“You can do it, Rainbow. You just gotta jump over it and land on the rope again.” Pinkie told Rainbow.
“Hold on. Jump and land on the rope? I don’t know ‘bout that, Pinkie.” Rainbow was unsure about doing that stunt. Doing flying stunts, it was easy. Circus stunts though, doesn’t look easy.
“Tell you what, if you’re unsure you’re gonna make it, you can use FLUDD’s hover nozzle.” Pinkie suggested to Rainbow who felt better. Pinkie Pie is first to cross the rope and bounced over the electric sparks to demonstrate real stunting. Rainbow set her hoof on the rope and tries to balance 2 hooves on a thin obstacle. Then, she sees the electricity coming towards her. She knew she had to jump, as it’s coming close, she sprung her knees to jump over the electricity and tries to land on the rope. But instead, she hovered across because she doesn’t want to fall.
“I couldn’t do it, Pinkie.” Rainbow said looking shameful, she felt like she’s behaving like Fluttershy.
“It’s okay, Rainbow Dash. At least you tried.” Pinkie reassured Rainbow as she leaped onto the next platform which doesn’t have a tightrope. So Rainbow definitely needs to use the hover nozzle to get across the gap. Just one more gap to get on grass and saw the cave on a little higher ground, with the hover ability, it’s no big deal.
“Time to see what’s in this cave.” Rainbow said before the ponies entered the cave.
The cave seems to be taking the ponies to another dimension. But as they are, the black Rainbow Dash came to take the FLUDD away from real Rainbow Dash. “Hey, that’s mine.” Rainbow shouted as it vanished from being seen.
***
Rainbow and Pinkie have appeared in some kind of dimension without the FLUDD.
“Great, I have to reach that Shine Sprite without using FLUDD.” Rainbow complained seeing the Shine Sprite over some obstacles.
First, they have to climb up 5 moving platforms, which wasn’t so bad. Then, they have to cross some more moving blocks. So far, it isn’t as bad as Rainbow thought and the next obstacle isn’t too difficult either as she’s supposed to run across a beam while dodging some easy-to-avoid cubes. They jumped onto some spinning star platforms and collected the Shine Sprite in the end with no problems.
“Wow, that was easy, even without FLUDD.” Rainbow admitted as she and Pinkie was sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
The two ponies were seen to be out of the portal again with FLUDD back on Rainbow’s back this time
“FLUDD? How did you escape from my shadow’s hands?” Rainbow asked
“I didn’t. My only guess is that the Sprite made me escape. ” FLUDD explained.
“Huh, weird.” Pinkie said.
“Oh, you’re back again. Did you complete your current endeavor?” Fluttershy asked Rainbow and Pinkie.
“Yep. Hey, she had to do tightroping.” Pinkie explained.
“I admit, I was scared.” Rainbow admitted.
“Well, you had to go in again, right?” Fluttershy questioned them.
“Right.” Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie said as they face and jump through the portal again.
***
Red Bits of Windmill Village
Again, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie appeared on the same brick platform like before, had to waterslide like before and had to tightrope like before. Although, Rainbow Dash decided to use FLUDD this time to cross the river. The ponies look around to see what to do next, until Pinkie notices red bits everywhere.
“Rainbow, look, red bits everywhere.” Pinkie told Rainbow.
“Those weren’t there last time we’re here, were there?” Rainbow questioned.
“I think that you’re supposed to collect all of them.” Pinkie thought as Rainbow tries to do that. Rainbow found the first red bit on some rope. She had to hover onto the rope to get it.
1/8
“I’ll get the next one.” Pinkie said as she jumped onto the rope while Rainbow is still on it causing her to fall to the ground.
“Ow. Pinkie!” Rainbow annoyingly shouted.
“Oh no. I’m so sorry! Am I a bad friend?” Pinkie asked Rainbow if she’s still friends after this happened.
“Of course not, Pinkie. But you just have to be more careful next time, ‘kay?” Rainbow explained followed by Pinkie’s nod followed by her getting on top of the roof to get the second red bit followed by Rainbow hovering onto the roof.
2/8
“You… uh… deserve this bit, it’s yours!” Pinkie, being mad at herself, aggressively gave the red bit to Rainbow Dash and turned away from her. That’s when Rainbow Dash thought she shouldn’t’ve shouted Pinkie’s name.
“Pinkie Pie, I’m sorry for shouting.” Rainbow apologized to Pinkie who turned her head to her eyes. “You’re still my friend, I don’t ever want to let that go.” Rainbow then fell into an embrace with the pink pony.
“Okay, I’m better, time to get that red bit on top on the archway.” Pinkie said as they jumped onto the next platform and walked onto the tightrope to get on top of the archway and therefore, grab the next red bit.
3/8
Rainbow decided to run along the wall to find more red bits and lo & behold, indeed the fourth red bit but also a red X on the wall which indicates Rainbow needs to spray water on it.
4/8
“Stay here in case anything happens up here.” Rainbow informed Pinkie.
“Okey dokey lokey!” Pinkie said as Rainbow got down from the wall and spray water on the red X making Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense sensed a blue bit on the other side of the red X wall.
“I got it.” Pinkie said as she goes through the arch and down the wall to get the blue bit.
Then the ponies continue to follow the wall to get to a higher wall with a lightning bolt drawing that Rainbow cleans up to get another blue coin.
“I wonder what these blue coins are for.” Rainbow wondered as she and Pinkie continued to run along the wall to get the fifth red bit.
5/8
That’s when Rainbow and Pinkie saw the next red bit across a long tightrope with electricity running along it.
“Uh oh. Uh... I’ll go first.” Pinkie insisted worryingly because she knew Dash is scared of falling, especially at such high heights. She’s been in such circuses in Ponyville, so it wasn’t a problem for Pinkie. But for Rainbow Dash…
“Here goes nothing.” Rainbow said nervously and slowly stepped onto the rope carefully.
“Slow and steady, no pressure, jump when it’s coming, land or hang on the rope.” Pinkie advised Rainbow Dash while she crosses. And… somehow, Rainbow got across unharmed. Unknowing what happened, they collected the red bit without asking any questions.
6/8
“Look out!” Pinkie warned Rainbow Dash as she pushed her away from a small blue tornado with eyes.
“Where’s the next red bit?” Pinkie quickly asked
“There! We have to get on that ledge.” Rainbow answered as she pointed at the next red bit. It was a risky jump, but they jump far and made it anyway.
“Okay, now what? How do we get the bit from here?” Pinkie questioned. Then, Rainbow noticed the blades in front of them connect to the platform their on. Looks like the platform can turn towards the red bit when water is sprayed at it.
7/8
Rainbow continued spraying until the platform faced the nearest building because she sees a blue bit and the next red bit on it. She and Pinkie jumps off the platform and climbed up the roof to get both bits.
8/8
That’s when their red bits start to float to combine into a Shine Sprite on the other side of a tightrope that’s longer than the last rope they’re just on with electricity
“I’ll get that Shine Sprite, you stay here.” Pinkie suggested causing Rainbow to widen her eyes and look at her.
“R-really?” Rainbow asked as Pinkie Pie is walking across the rope and jumping over the electrical sparks.
With a smile, Pinkie Pie collected the Sprite and celebrates the victory with Rainbow Dash on the other side. Then afterwards, the ponies are immediately send back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Back at Delfilly Plaza, Rainbow and Pinkie came out of the portal with Rainbow collapsing on her flank.
“Welcome back, RD.” Applejack welcomed Rainbow Dash.
“Did you have a great time, darling?” Rarity asked.
“Well, actually, no.” Rainbow admittedly said as AJ and Rarity tilted their heads and also as she looks at Pinkie which caused Pinkie to laugh nervously.
“Um… I kind of make her fall off a tightrope.” Pinkie explained.
“Yeah, it kinda hurt.” Rainbow said.
“Do you want to rest then, darling?” Rarity asked and Rainbow answered with a small smile and nod and as the sky becomes dark.
The sun is up to shine the Delfilly Hotel where the Main 6 were resting. Rainbow woke up in bed realizing she’s the only one who’s not woken up yet and left the room. Rainbow entered the living room in her suite and saw her friends having breakfast with Pinkie eating cupcakes
“Oh, you want breakfast?” Pinkie replied and asked as she hoofed out a cupcake.
“Well... okay, I guess I’ll have a short breakfast.” Rainbow said as she consumed two cupcakes, then realizing she hasn’t eaten anything since yesterday.
“Are you fine now, darling?” Rarity asked about Dash’s fallen flank being healed.
“Yes, I’m fine and ready to put FLUDD on my back to save this island and my freedom off this island.” Rainbow answered as Pinkie jumps on her hooves as ready.
“Let’s get this party started, Dashie!” Pinkie said as she and Rainbow jump out the door for adventure.
***
Petey Piranha Strikes Back
The ponies jumped through the portal on the statue and got teleported to where they start at Bridle Hills as always. And as always, the ponies did the always routine at the start; Follow the road, waterslide and tightrope. But then they noticed something weird: The whole place is covered with paint.
“When and where did all this paint get here?” Rainbow wondered as she tries cleaning up the paint with her FLUDD.
“I think you have to find who’s causing this. It seems like clean up time will take longer here.” Pinkie suggested as Rainbow nodded, understanding she doesn’t need to clean every spot of paint. Rainbow and Pinkie decided to split up to find where they’ll go next until Dash noticed the lightning bolt symbol on the wall knowing to spray the drawing to get a blue coin knowing it could be usable. Meanwhile, Pinkie noticed that the house that had a red coin has a different tightrope.
“Rainbow! We need to get to that tightrope.” Pinkie informed when Rainbow nods at her.
“At least it doesn’t have under pressure electric sparks.” Relieved Rainbow, thankful for not being under pressure as the ponies put their hooves on the rope. With no pressure, the ponies got their hooves off the rope as they made it ‘cross. Rainbow had to clean the paint in front of them to avoid burning in paint like what Pinkie did back at the plane. And on the other side of the platform, they can see the same plant creature that they fought before as a boss fight sleeping far from the ponies’ platform
“Wait, he’s alive?” Rainbow unbelievably said.
“No, I think he’s just another plant monster.” Pinkie believably answered while seeing some small pink creatures that look like balloons. She puts her chin on her hoof as she thinks she knows what to do.
“Rainbow, can I borrow your FLUDD?” Pinkie asked.
“I hope you know what you’re doing.” Rainbow said making sure her friend has an idea as she hoofed her FLUDD out. Her idea was to let the balloon creatures suck the FLUDD nozzle and to aim & fire at the plant creature.
“What did you do that for?” Rainbow asked not knowing what Pinkie’s doing.
“We have to defeat that creature, so get ready, RD.” Pinkie instructed Rainbow as she gave FLUDD back to her as the boss flew over them causing the ponies to duck to avoid it.
“Come on then, let’s defeat this guy, we know how to deal with him, right?” Rainbow said thinking it’s the same fight.
“But it’s flying in an open area, that’s different than what we encountered before.” Pinkie pointed out.
“Then we’ll just make its wings soaked.” Rainbow said as she jumped off the cliff with using FLUDD to hover to stop her falling velocity followed by Pinkie jumping off the cliff to join her. Rainbow just needs to go near the boss enough to spray it with water while being careful of the paint on the ground and the paint that the creature spits out. But Rainbow managed to do just that anyway and so the beast is on the ground just to get up on its feet and prepare to unleash a tornado.
“Woah, I thought I can only do that.” Rainbow said as she dodged the tornado, which then the plant creature opens its mouth opening the opportunity to fill it with water with FLUDD.
“Pinkie, we need the stomach stomper!” Rainbow informed.
“I’m on it!” Pinkie replied as she jumped and stomped on the plant’s stomach which caused the beast to take damage. They need to do this process three times. During the battle, the ponies nearly got hit by the paint spit. But nonetheless, they defeated the boss, it dissolves as paint and a Shine Sprite appeared after.
“Wow! That was intense and fun!” Pinkie exclaimed
“It was, wasn’t it?” Rainbow admitted as she celebrated as she collected the Sprite with Pinkie and then was immediately send back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Back at Delfilly Plaza, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie came back from the portal looking unharmed.
“Welcome back, what happened back there? Did something happened?” Twilight asked.
“We had a boss fight. A couple of close calls but we crushed that creature.” Pinkie answered.
“Yeah, um… we have to go back now. We can’t keep talking since we’ve gone through that portal 5 times already.” Rainbow pointed out.
“I understand, just go back in there and stay safe.”
***
The Secret of the Dirty Lake
Rainbow and Pinkie was sent back to Bridle Hills to waterslide and tightrope again to get o the other side of the water.
“What do we do now?” Rainbow questioned
“We haven’t looked around the windmill yet, maybe we should check there now.” Pinkie guessed as the ponies go through the gate and across the bridge to get to the windmill.
“Pinkie, start spotting for anything suspicious.” Dash informed. After a while, Pinkie saw a cave across the cliff at the mill’s moat along with 4 logs surrounding it.
“Ah ha! SUSPICIOUS!” Pinkie shouted pointing at the cave
“Oh. How do we get down there?” Rainbow asked.
“That lily pad.” Pinkie answered as she jumps off the cliff and on the pad near the cliff with Rainbow following.
“Spray water to apply force to move ” FLUDD recommends as Rainbow starts to spray water in the direction opposite to the cave to move towards the cave, she also grabbed 6 bits along the way. Once they entered the cave, it seems like they’re going to another dimension. But during that, the black Rainbow Dash came up to steal the FLUDD away from Rainbow.
“I’ll get you, shadow. You heard it!”
***
Rainbow and Pinkie appeared in another dimension with lots of platforms. This area reminds them of the third journey in Bridle Hills. The platforming starts with moving blue and orange platforms that are flipping alternately slowly.
“Easy as pie.” Pinkie said as she began parkouring without threat followed by Rainbow Dash. The next obstacle is a spinning star platform on top of no gap, easy enough. But then the next obstacle is a cube across a far gap and a tall wall.
“Okay, that’s too far to jump across without FLUDD. How’re we supposed to make this jump?” Rainbow questioned.
“We have to do a wall jump or tic-tac.” Pinkie suggests.
“A what?” Rainbow said confusingly.
“Like this.” Pinkie said as she demonstrates the ‘wall jump’ technique; she starts running towards the wall, jumps, puts her hooves on the wall and spring her hooves so that she jumps upwards and lands on the cube. Once Pinkie made it to the cube, she looks at Rainbow Dash that’s looking at the bottomless dimension depths.
“You can do it, Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie encouraged Rainbow Dash. That in turn makes Rainbow Dash look into Pinkie’s blue eyes and confidently nodded. So she started to take a breath and start doing a wall jump on to the cube platform.
“Nicely done.” Pinkie complimented as the cube starts to rotate and move.
“Uh oh, we need to avoid getting pushed off.” Rainbow informed as she and Pinkie stayed on top of the cube until it reaches the next platform which consists of two red triangles trying to push the ponies off at one direction, easy to avoid. They’re now standing on a different cube and it goes up instead of forward but it still rotates like the last cube. So they have to stay on top of the cube and hopefully not fall off. After that, is more blue and orange platforms that behaves like the first obstacle leading to the Shine Sprite.
“Look, we’re almost done.” Pinkie early celebrated. They have to be aware of which platforms will flip next before they reach the end. They collected the Shine Sprite and victory danced with Pinkie before getting sent back to Delfilly Plaza and get FLUDD returned too.
***
“Welcome back!” Rarity welcomed with vibrato
“Yep, we’re back.” Pinkie said.
“Oh, Rainbow Dash, look how many Delfillian animal friends I got.” Fluttershy excitedly explained.
“Well, congratulations on finding new friends.” Rainbow congratulated.
“We still have to catch the shadow pony, Rainbow.” Pinkie suggested to Rainbow
“Right, gotta go.” Rainbow said as she goes through the portal.
***
Shadow Pony on the Loose
By the time Rainbow and Pinkie got to Bridle Hills, they both saw the shadow pony at the top of the hill.
“Oh, I got you now!” Rainbow said as she and Pinkie starts chasing him. She knows she had to go near him to spray him to damage him. She starts chasing him down the waterslide so Pinkie slid down the slide to stop him in his tracks, giving Rainbow room to strike water. Then, Rainbow thought of constantly spraying him, so that’s what she did which made the shadow pony take more damage. Then, he starts wall jumping over the roof of a house, which then Pinkie follows which caused him to fall down which gives opportunity to spray him till he’s down.
“Argh! I’ll not forget this!” The shadow pony spoke, although it sounds so familiar to the ponies, as he vanished and as a Shine Sprite appeared.
“Take that, shadow pony!” Rainbow said as she collected the Shine Sprite and was immediately sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Rainbow and Pinkie appeared out of the portal to see Applejack running towards them.
“Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie! Thank Celestia you made it back!” Applejack said with breaths between each word.
“Applejack? What happened?” Rainbow asked curiously.
“Quick, follow me!” Applejack informed Rainbow and Pinkie to follow her to see with her friends a boat with the shadow pony and a caged up Twilight.
“Wait, I thought we defeated you!” Pinkie thought.
“Ha! You can never defeat me!” The shadow pony said as he starts dissolving into black smoke and resolving into revealing that the shadow pony is none other than King Sombra.
“King Sombra?!” Everypony questioned in shock.
“You’re behind all this?” Rainbow asked.
“That is correct. Now stay away from her student!” Sombra ordered the ponies in front of him.
“Her student? Who is ‘her’?” Twilight asked.
“Not gonna answer. Now begone! We’re going to Mount Crupperona to keep her away from you all.” Sombra illustrated as he began taking off in his hot air balloon.
Author's Note
Hey, you got to the end of this chapter!
In case you’re wondering, Rainbow collected 8 Shine Sprites, 8 yellow coins and 5 blue coins. Yes, I am including the blue coin stars, but I decided that I’m not going for 100% progress.
In the next chapter, will Rainbow save Twilight and defeat Sombra and this ‘her’?
Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy were seeing the hot air balloon with Twilight and King Sombra taking off heading towards the island with the volcano. Seeing them off like this calls for desperate measures.
“How are we supposed to get to that island from here?” Rarity asked sounding hopeless.
“We need to collect a lot more Shine Sprites to reach Mount Crupperona. ” FLUDD illustrated.
“How many more exactly?” Rainbow asked.
“50. You only have 8.” FLUDD answered.
“Looks like we have to wait long to rescue Twilight.” Applejack concluded as the ponies walked away from the block they’re standing on to think about what to do next. That’s when Rainbow noticed a big puddle of paint across a bridge and decides to clean it up with FLUDD. But just like with the other paint puddles, the paint creature rose from the middle, so Rainbow has to defeat it, easily. Which then reveals a house with a lightning-shaped portal on it.
“Hey, guys! I found another portal! Rainbow called.
“Oooh! It looks like something suspicious! It must lead to more Shine Sprites.” Pinkie called out.
“Yeah. Are you coming with me, Pinkie?” Rainbow asked.
“Hmm… now that I think about it, I should let somepony else have a turn.” Pinkie suggests as she turns to Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack.
“Oh, I wish I could, but I heard there’s a new shop I haven’t been in.” Rarity explained that she couldn’t go with Dash.
“I’m sorry I can’t go with you, I still want to hang out in the garden.” Neither could Fluttershy.
“Guess that means ah’m goin’.” Applejack concluded, which made Rainbow smile. Sometimes she gets along with Applejack and Applejack gets along with Rainbow.
“What are you gonna do, Pinkie?” Rainbow asked wondering what Pinkie will do once she’s gone.
“There’s a bakery in that alley.” Pinkie answered.
“You ready, Rainbow?” Applejack asked as she and Rainbow face the portal.
“I was born ready!” Rainbow replied with confidence as both ponies jump into the portal to go to Rocko Harbor.
***
Gooper Blooper Breaks Out
Rainbow Dash and Applejack appeared at a stone platform at Rocko Harbor. This place is packed with boats and scaffolding.
“So how can we find a Shine Sprite, Rainbow?” Applejack asked Rainbow Dash how she finds Shine Sprites.
“Unfortunately, there’s no pattern in finding a Shine Sprite. In this case, we’ll just follow the path and see where the path takes us.” Rainbow answered as she starts going up the metal ramp in front of them which leads to a boat that loads fences. Inside the fences is a paint puddle and a couple of coins.
“We need to climb over the fence.” Rainbow suggested as she and Applejack start climbing.
“Hit the fence to flip it. ” FLUDD informed.
“Like this?” Rainbow said as she punched the fence that made it flip over and took Rainbow Dash to go inside the fence.
“Woah.” Applejack said looking amazed as Rainbow climbed down to clean the puddle, collect the two bits and start climbing back out and on top of the fence with Applejack following. Once she’s out, she collects 4 more bits along the way while she and Applejack were moving on to reach a crane with a platform.
“We have to jump it.” Rainbow said as the crane moves to a position where the ponies can jump onto the platform to jump to the next platform. Rainbow sees they have to climb up fences again and began ascending.
“And now we have to climb the ceiling.” Applejack thought as they climb the ceiling towards the orange platform and collect 2 more bits and reach the end to jump on the next moving platform on crane. The crane began to move towards the next platform where Rainbow saw that she needs to spin a pinwheel by spraying water at it, so that’s what she did which made a platform rise and a blue coin appear to be in front of them.
“Ah’ve never seen that before.” Applejack said.
“I’ve never. Something tells me this is important later.” Rainbow explained as the platform starts lowering down.
“Rainbow! Quick!” Applejack warned as they quickly platformed until they reach a big gap. Luckily, Rainbow knows about her hover ability and Applejack is such an competitive pony, so they made it to the next platform with 3 bits without problems.
“Now what? That wall is way too high to jump to.” Rainbow pointed out.
“That platform, come on.” Applejack replied when she and Rainbow jumped on the platform when it’s rising and saw they have to climb the ceiling again to get to the main town and collect 6 more bits along the way. In town, Rainbow sees a blue coin above a fountain to collect and a lightning graffiti on the wall to clean to make a blue coin appear to collect.
“This way.” Rainbow said as she gallops to the cargo boxes with something dangling on it.
“What in tarnation? What’s in there?” Applejack asked.
“I think we’re supposed to pull this.” Rainbow thought.
“Be careful, Rainbow. Ah don’t like the look of this.” Applejack warned as Rainbow starts pulling and yanking the thing off. That caused a big squid to come out of the cargo pile.
“What is that?” Rainbow questioned as it’s in the sky and beginning to descend to the ground threatening to crush the ponies.
“Rainbow! Move!” Applejack pushed Rainbow out of the way while looking out for her safety too. It’s time for a boss fight.
***
Boss Fight
Rainbow noticed its face is covered in paint, so her first instinct is to clean its face. But that made the squid’s nerve to slam the ponies flat.
“Look out.” Applejack warned as Rainbow jumped to dodge the tentacle and made it flat by stomping on it
“Did that work?” Rainbow asked.
“Ah think you have to pull the flat tentacle.” Applejack suggested. So Rainbow got her hooves on the tentacle and pulled until it comes off the squid.
“Gross!” Rainbow abhorred as she threw the tentacle away at Applejack.
“Hey!”
“Heh heh! Oops. Sorry.” Rainbow turned to Applejack to withdraw.
“Observe, Rainbow!” Applejack warned as she pushed Rainbow away before she got crushed by the tentacle.
“We have to flatten a tentacle again!” Rainbow informed as the squid retracted its arms and try to slam them again. Rainbow avoided the slam while Applejack jumps on one of the three tentacles.
“Nicely done!” Rainbow complimented as she starts yanking the tentacle off the squid. Rainbow Dash and Applejack has to take all the tentacles off the squid, which is what they did.
“All the big tentacles are gone. Now what?” Rainbow Dash questioned.
“Ah know, give me the FLUDD.” Applejack ordered which made Rainbow widen her eyes. She’s given the FLUDD to Pinkie before and now Applejack wants the FLUDD? She gave it to her anyway.
“Watch and learn, Rainbow.” Applejack began squirting water at the squid, then she puts her hooves on the cork on the squids mouth and began pulling until the cork comes off and the squid’s mouth springs back to damage the boss.
“Did we beat it?” Applejack asked as she hoofed FLUDD back to Rainbow Dash. Unfortunately, no. They didn’t defeat the squid as it recovered itself, regenerated its tentacles and surrounded
“Looks like we have to strike again!” Rainbow said as she sprayed the squid with FLUDD which caused the squid to slam the ground, which gives the chance to stomp, somehow, two tentacles.
“You pull the other one.” Rainbow instructed as she and Applejack got hold of a tentacle and yanked them both off.
“Smart.” Applejack complimented as the squid tries to slam them both again when they dodge, stomp, grab and pull each other’s tentacle. Now that the squid lost its tentacles, Rainbow figures she has to stretch its mouth like what Applejack did.
“Let go, Rainbow!” Applejack said as Rainbow let go of the squid’s mouth to spring it back to launch it into the air and into the water in defeat. In turn, a Shine Sprite appeared.
“Yeehaw! Fighting that thing kinda felt good.” Applejack said as Rainbow collected the Shine Sprite and both ponies celebrate as they got immediately sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Applejack and Rainbow Dash just came back from the portal on the house.
“Hey, AJ, RD.” Pinkie welcomed them both from inside the house
“Howdy there, Pinkie. What are you doing in there?” Applejack asked
“Oh, Rainbow, I found something in there, come in.” Pinkie answered as she’s leading them both into the house where they see its a shop with a zebra working here.
“Welcome, please feel comfortable with your wits. I sell Shine Sprites for 10 blue bits.”
“Well, that’s cool, but I’m 2 short.” Rainbow replied
“Oh, that’s rough, Come back when you have enough.” The zebra said as the customers accepted the unfortunate and left the store.
“Oh well, we still have the Shine Sprites through the portal, right?” Rainbow said.
“It’s okay, Dashie. I just want to show you that shop.” Pinkie replied.
“Okay, Rainbow, you ready to go again?” Applejack asked.
“Yeah, I’m ready!” Rainbow answered as she and Applejack go back in to Rocko Hills
***
Blooper Surfing Safari
Back in Rocko Harbor where Applejack and Rainbow appeared in the same spot as before, they first noticed the ramp to the first ship is gone.
“Looks like we’re not gettin’ on that boat.” Applejack concluded. Rainbow began looking around the stone platform the ponies are standing on and she found a lightning-shaped graffiti that she sprayed water at to make a blue bit appear. She looked around some more and saw some logs bridging across a gap to a wooden platform with orange and blue squids with a pony next to it.
“Sir, what’s this supposed to be?” Rainbow asked the instructor.
“Oh. Have you ever heard of ‘Squid Surfing’?” The pony said and was received a head shake from Rainbow.
“Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like; Get on a squid and you can surf like a pro.” The pony instructed.
“Woah, that sounds awesome.” Rainbow complimented as she walks towards the blue squid and Applejack takes the orange squid.
“Now before you get on, these squids are pretty fast, so make sure to hold on tight.” The instructor warned as the ponies got on their squids and started boosting.
“Woah!” Rainbow interjected as she’s kind of enjoyably surfing on squids as she and Applejack sees, follows and collects a bit trail with 20 yellow and 1 blue bit into a tunnel.
The tunnel consists of more squids and another instructor pony.
“You wanna go for a ride? Try to make your best, reach the end as fast as possible. Show me some squid surfing and you’ll win a prize.” The instructor instructed as Applejack and Rainbow Dash confidently stood behind the next blue and orange squids to begin surfing, or rather racing.
“You want a race, AJ?” Rainbow asked which made Applejack turn to her.
“Oh, it’s on!” Applejack answered as Rainbow starts the countdown.
“3… 2… 1… SURF!”
The race has begun. Around the first corner turn, the first obstacle is to dodge some cubes and then dodge some cones to making a U-turn. Next obstacle is a moving cube, and then a motionless rectangular prism. The next obstacle is rotating walls, and up next is rising cubes in a U-turn followed by multiple U-turns until they reach the goal with Rainbow going first.
“Oh well, you won that one, Rainbow.” Applejack admitted loss to turn to the instructor pony.
“I timed your race. You reached the finish line in 45 seconds.”
“Not bad.” Rainbow took it as compliment.
“As promised, here’s your prize.” The instructor pony hoofed out a Shine Sprite as the prize. Rainbow quickly collects it and celebrated with Applejack before going back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Back at Delfilly Plaza, Applejack and Rainbow came back from the portal.
“Oh, um… Welcome back.” Fluttershy welcomed them both.
“Eeyup, we’re back!” Applejack replied.
“Hmm… are you girls tired after that journey?” Fluttershy asked. Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked at sun as it’s setting.
“Yeah, we must be tired.” Rainbow admitted until she remembered something.
“Oh, but before I rest…” Rainbow asked as she rushed into the house.
“Oh, I see that you’re back. Do you have 10 blue bits to fill my sack?” The zebra asked. Rainbow nodded as yes and hoofed out the 10 blue bits and got sold a Shine Sprite.
“Say, are you related to a zebra named Zecora?” Rainbow asked wondering if she knows Zecora
“Ah, I see that you’ve met one of my kins. Quite a long time after I see her skins. But I always live inside my shack. Tell Zecora I say hi when you came back.” The zebra said.
“What’s your name?” Rainbow asked.
“Call me Zella if you want to call my name. Now leave my store to rest your mane.” Zella said as Rainbow leaves the Shine Sprite store. She then looks at Mount Crupperona talking to out of range Twilight.
“Don’t worry, Twilight. Someday, we’ll find you.”
Will she? Will she someday find Twilight Sparkle once she found at least 50 Shine Sprites? What will happen?
Author's Note
Told ya I’d put in the blue coin Shine Sprites. And I’ve even put in a new zebra into this story.
Rainbow’s collection:
The sun is rising for a new day, Rainbow and Applejack were walking towards the house with the portal to continue their adventure.
“I haven’t eaten a proper meal since yesterday, Applejack.” Rainbow told Applejack about how she hadn’t eaten anything apart from one cupcake yesterday.
“You need to know when to take breaks, Rainbow. I remember when I… um…” Applejack stammered as Rainbow knew what she’s gonna say.
“It’s okay, AJ. It’s all been in the past.” Rainbow tried to calm Applejack.
“But that memory still haunts me, it was horrible. Me? No help? No breaks? No care?”
“It’s gonna be okay. You’re still my friend, you know?” Rainbow comforted Applejack who smiles at her as the ponies are standing in front of the portal to go into Rocko Harbor.
***
The Caged Shine Sprite
At Rocko Harbor, Rainbow and Applejack sees the Shine Sprite inside a yellow cage.
“Looks like we have to access it from the top of the cage.” Rainbow concluded.
“So where do we start?” Applejack questioned when Rainbow pointed at a boat with a ramp. The boat contains a moving hook on a pole that goes to the other side of the ship. Applejack managed to jump and grab the pole and made it to the other side of the boat. Followed by Rainbow, who was nervous, but made it. Next obstacle is a platform on a moving crane that they have to wait long to prepare for the next move which is to jump and grab the fence.
“Oh, nelly. Here goes nothin’.” Applejack said as she manage to jump and grab the fence. Rainbow Dash though, doesn’t seem to be very confident about the jump, but she managed anyway.
“Well done.” Applejack complimented as she and Rainbow climbed to a flipping fence, which then, Rainbow punched the fence to flip it and climb down on the other side. The next move is to jump off the fence and grab the moving pole.
“You gotta be kidding me! I mean, I like danger and all, but not ones that are too hard like this.” Rainbow complained
“Don’t forget you can hover to be in place. ” FLUDD reminded Rainbow
“Oh yeah.”
“Just follow me, Sugarcube.” Applejack said as the pole gets close to them so that they can jump or hover at it to grab it. And then, they have to move to another fence to jump onto it to grab it, and then, they have to flip another fence and jump another pole to make it to the next platform.
“That was kinda stressful.” Rainbow described the stunts they did earlier. Up next is an up-down moving crane holding a platform that leads to a higher platform. They have to walk along some beams to get to a pole that leads them to a fence they have to flip over to get to the other side which then, they have to jump fence to fence to then flip the fence to jump onto the next platform. Then, there was a break of jumping small gaps onto small platforms and one of the gaps have bits in it.
“Applejack, stay here.” Rainbow told Applejack as she jumped down to wall jump back up while collecting all 7 bits in the gap.
“Rainbow, look, we’re almost there.” Applejack called out as they’re indeed almost there as the last obstacle is some more beams leading to some small trampolines to reach higher platforms leading to the mouth of the cage.
“There it is, we did it!” Rainbow excitedly and exhaustingly said as she collected the sprite and did a little victory dance with her country friend before getting sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
“Hoowee! That sure tired out mah nerves.” Applejack said back at Delfilly Plaza.
“I’m exhausted after jumping all over the place.” Rainbow excused.
“Perhaps, you need a little rest? Perhaps, you want to go to the spa for a moment?” Rarity suggested.
“The spa? There’s a spa here?” Rainbow Dash asked Rarity.
“Yes, it’s just around that corner.”
“What do you think, Sugarcube?” Applejack asked.
“We could use some relaxation. How about 5 minutes at the spa?” Rainbow insisted.
“That’s fine, Rainbow. Follow me.” Rarity instructed as she leads Rainbow and Applejack to the spa for an appointment for 5 minutes.
5 minutes later…
“What do you think of the appointment?” Rarity asked.
“I was relaxing.” Rainbow confirmed.
“Glad you like it. Now, go back to your duties.” Rarity said as she left the group.
“Thanks for the appointment.” Applejack thanked the away Rarity.
“No problem. Adios!” Rarity said as Applejack and Rainbow went back to Rocko Hills.
***
The Secret of Rocko Tower
Rainbow and Applejack appeared in Rocko Harbor in the same area as before. The first thing they see is the ramp towards the boat in front of them, so they figured they have to go to the other side of that boat. That’s when they see a tower beside the boat.
“I think we’re supposed to get up there.” Rainbow thought pointing at the tower’s opening.
“How’re we supposed to get up there?” Applejack asked. Rainbow began by climbing on the chimney of the boat to use FLUDD to get on one of the metal platforms. From there, Rainbow climbs the scaffolding to use FLUDD again to get on the next higher platform which has 2 yellow bits and 1 blue bit to then get on top of the tower to then wait for Applejack to come up, if she can make it up. Thankfully, she can as she simply used a lasso to lasso the top of the tower and tie the lasso on the chimney. Rainbow knows what she’s about to do.
“Wait, you’re going to tightrope over here?” Rainbow exclaimed.
“I’m gonna hang under the rope to get across. I’m gonna be fine, just stay there.” Applejack said as she hanged under the rope to eventually get across the gap to the tower. With Rainbow being shocked of Applejack’s strategy, she shook it off and began entering the tower. As they entered the tower, they appear to be teleporting somewhere, but then as always, the shadow pony, or black Sombra stole the FLUDD from Rainbow Dash during it.
“What the hay!” Applejack exclaimed to Sombra before going into the dimension.
***
The ponies appeared on a starting wooden block platform without FLUDD.
“Does that always happen when you go through these teleports?” Applejack asked Rainbow Dash.
“Yes, yes it does.” Rainbow answered. In front of them are 4 long wooden spinning blocks with a part sticking out, supposing they’re supposed to slow them down or push them off. Luckily the blocks are spinning slow enough to survive the obstacle, so it’s trivial and hardly challenged to make it to the next motionless platform. The next obstacle is 3 slow rotating and slow moving 4-point cogs before the next resting platform. And the last obstacle is more long slow rotating blocks that are positioned in slanted and steep angle.
“Honestly, this was barely any challenge.” Applejack disapproved the obstacle course.
“Oh well, at least we got the Shine Sprite.” Rainbow said as she collects the Shine Sprite as the ponies were sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
“Did you have fun back there?” Pinkie asked.
“Not much. That Shine Sprite mission is too easy.” Rainbow answered.
“Aw. That’s a shame. Oh well, you came back with the Shine Sprite, right?” Pinkie asked
“Right.” Rainbow replied.
“You know, I’m kinda starving. Why don’t we have a lunch break?” Rainbow suggested.
“Good call, Rainbow. Ah’m starvin’ too.” Applejack agreed.
“Let me lead you to the restaurants then.” Pinkie insisted as she leads Rainbow Dash and Applejack to where the restaurants are.
They’ll return for more adventures. We’ll return for more adventures. Will they face easy journeys? Or will they face difficult and dangerous journeys? Stay tuned for more adventures.
Author's Note
First, like how I put ‘Applebuck Season’ episode reference?
Rainbow’s collection:
Rainbow and Applejack were just getting back to the Rocko Harbor portal from eating vegetarian stew for proper lunch. Rainbow Dash is still awing about not having proper meals in the last 2 days.
“Are ya feelin’ energized after that stew?” Applejack asked Rainbow.
“I’m totally energized. How ‘bout you?” Rainbow asked Applejack.
“Oh. Ah’m feelin’ like ah could buck those boxes into the ocean!” Applejack exclaimed.
“Uh, please don’t do that.” Rainbow informed to not knock the boxes into the ocean as both ponies got up to the portal set to jump in.
“Ahem. Right.” Applejack confirmed as the two jumped to go inside for the next visit to Rocko Harbor.
***
Gooper Blooper Returns
Rainbow and Applejack appeared at Rocko Harbor and their first movement is to climb the boat in front of them since they didn’t have a clue where to go to find the next Shine Sprite. When they got to the chimney of the boat, they saw a big creature in a distanced platform. They’re unable to tell what they’re seeing since it’s so far from them.
“Guess that’s where the next Shine Sprite is.” Rainbow concluded.
“And how are you going to get there?” Applejack asked. How will she get to the platform? Rainbow noticed a hook is moving above them and that there’s a platform that the hook can take them to.
“Applejack, do you still have the rope?” Rainbow asked.
“What would I be without it?” Applejack answered as she pulled it out of her hat and tossed it onto the hook to then she and Rainbow Dash climb it up to the platform. After that, they ran along the metal beam to clearly see what’s on the platform. Lo & behold, it’s the giant boss squid they fought earlier that came for a rematch.
“Wait, how’s it back?” Applejack questioned.
“I think it’s just another squid, not the same squid that we fought.” Rainbow explained.
“Still, it’s the same squid.” Applejack truthfully pointed out as she used her rope to attach to the platform she’s standing on and to lasso the closest house chimney. Rainbow and Applejack began hanging under the rope to then go across the big gap between the beam and the house. And then, Rainbow used FLUDD to get to the stone platform just ahead, while Applejack just jumped across. The two ponies managed to reach the squid to begin the boss fight.
“We know how to deal with him, right, Rainbow?” Applejack asked.
“Yeah. Unless, he has a different attack pattern.” Rainbow thought. Until they fight to see that it’s literally the same attack pattern, but they think it’s a fun fight anyway. They defeated the squid and the Shine Sprite is rewarded.
“It was the same fight. I’m kinda offended, but I also enjoyed the fight.” Rainbow said when she collects the Sprite and did a little hooray before coming back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Rainbow and Applejack came back from the portal where Pinkie came near to welcome them both.
“Welcome back! What happened back there?” Pinkie asked wondering about what she missed in the portal.
“We rematched a giant squid with the same attack pattern.” Rainbow illustrated.
“Was it fun? It doesn’t sound fun.” Pinkie said.
“It was fun.” Rainbow told Pinkie.
“We have to get back, ah don’t think we have anythin’ to talk about.” Applejack recommends as the competitive ponies jump back into the portal.
***
Red Bits on the Water
At Rocko Harbor, Rainbow Dash and Applejack saw that the access to both ships are unavailable.
“Huh, I guess the only access we can get is the squid surfing.” Rainbow concluded. So she and Applejack went to the docks with the blue and orange squid, only, there’s now a big red button on the dock.
“What do you think it does?” Rainbow asked
“Ah don’t know.” Applejack honestly answered when Rainbow steps on it. A timer that says 2:00 and a sign appears in front of them after that.
Collect 8 red bits before the timer runs out
The timer started counting down.
“Quick, let’s find those 8 red bits.” Rainbow warned Applejack as they started getting on their squids to find those red bits. Rainbow follows a bit trail to collected 4 red and 25 yellow bits while Applejack cuts off the bit trail to find the other 4 red bits and 5 more yellow bits in less than 2 minutes which made a Shine Sprite appear on the dock.
“Yeehaw! That was fun!” Applejack exclaimed in enjoyment.
“That was easy and fun.” Rainbow confirmed as she surfed to the Shine Sprite and collected it. After that, she and Applejack were sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Rainbow Dash and Applejack were back in Delfilly Plaza to greet Rarity who was sitting in front of the portal.
“Oh, you’re back, how’s it going in there?” Rarity asked.
“It was fun in there, we had to surf intensely.” Rainbow answered.
“You went surfing? No way! Fluttershy and Pinkie were currently playing volleyball.” Rarity explained.
“Woah. I think we have time to have a break and watch it.” Rainbow said.
“Follow me then.” Rarity instructed.
3 minutes later...
While the Main 5 are walking back to the portal, Applejack is explaining to Fluttershy some more volleyball techniques while Rainbow is asking Pinkie how she manage to win 8 times in a row against the other team.
“We gotta get back, who knows how much Twilight is waiting for us.” Applejack pointed out as she and Rainbow Dash returned to Rocko Harbor
***
Shadow Pony Revisited
As soon as Rainbow and Applejack landed in Rocko Harbor, they immediately saw the shadow pony, or King Sombra, in front of them.
“Hey!” Rainbow called out as she began chasing and spraying him on the boat in front of them to then chase him on the chimney, to lasso onto the hook to get on the higher metal platforms. The ponies ran around the scaffolding until Rainbow and Applejack actually managed to trap him to give an opportunity to spray him until he’s down in defeat.
“Argh! I’ll not forget this.” Sombra said as he disappeared for a Shine Sprite to appear.
“Did we defeat him?” Applejack asked if Sombra’s actually gone.
“I don’t think so. He’s probably going to pop up somewhere else.” Rainbow answered as she collected the Shine Sprite and did a small celebration before getting sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Rainbow and Applejack was sent back to Delfilly Plaza just in time to hear an announcement.
“Attention! The lighthouse on the eastern coast has disappeared! I repeat, the lighthouse on the eastern coast has disappeared! ”
“Come on, maybe we can fix that!” Applejack suggested to Rainbow Dash to go to the lighthouse on the eastern coast of Delfilly Plaza.
At the vanished lighthouse, Rainbow and Applejack saw Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy gathering around the paint puddle.
“You can clean this, right?” Pinkie asked. Rainbow started her FLUDD to start cleaning up the mess of paint. Just like the last paint puddles, she has to defeat a paint creature. And lo & behold, a lighthouse with a lightning portal emerged from the ground leaving ponies with agaping mouths.
But what will be through this portal? Will there be dangers waiting to be triggered? Or will there be something much more worse? Only the future holds the truth.
Author's Note
I didn’t have time to write Rainbow’s score,so this is a late author’s note.
Rainbow’s collection:
Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie were standing in front of the lighthouse with the new portal wondering where it leads to.
“It must lead to a different part of Isle Delfilly and probably more Shine Sprites.” Pinkie thought.
“Rainbow, you gotta go in there to find those Shine Sprites.” Fluttershy informed Rainbow Dash.
“Wait, but I can’t go alone. Anypony want to join me?” Rainbow asked.
“Rainbow, darling, I’ll come with you. I can’t just stay here shopping for clothes all the time.” Rarity insisted.
“It’s okay, Rarity. You don’t have to panic about it.” Rainbow said to Rarity before the pegasus without wings and the unicorn jump through the portal to go to Trojanto Beach.
***
Dune Bud Sand Castle Secret
Rainbow and Rarity appeared on a small piece of land of sand on the edge of the beach shore.
“This is actually a nice beach.” Rainbow complimented as they walked of their sand platform to walk over the big deal. They noticed the seedlings on the ground are glowing.
“What can this mean?” Rarity questioned.
“I think it’s important.” Rainbow thought. “Maybe I have to water it.” So Rainbow activates the FLUDD to then give the seedling a little sprinkle. And then suddenly, a big sand dune popped out of the sand where the seedling and Rainbow Dash settled which made her go flying in the air. Rarity thought fast to use her magic to cushion Rainbow Dash’s fall.
“Oh my gosh! Are you alright?” Rarity asked Rainbow as she puts her back onto the sand
“Yeah, I’m alright. Thanks, Rarity.” Rainbow thanked Rarity. “Okay, what was that all about?”
“Maybe you sprayed the wrong one. There are more seedlings in this beach to water.” Rarity explained. So Rainbow carefully sprayed each and every seedling with trial and error until they find what they’re looking for without getting launched to the sky again. One of the seedlings produced a sandcastle at the starting sand platform.
“A sandcastle? What’s it doing here?” Rarity asked.
“The door is big enough for us to go into. Come on.” Rainbow before they entered the sandcastle to find that they are teleporting to another dimension. Like the last dimension-teleportations, Rainbow’s FLUDD gets stolen by black pony Sombra.
“You did not! I’ll get my hooves on you someday!” Rarity called out to the shadow pony before ending the teleportation journey.
***
On the other side of the sandcastle is an obstacle course with lots of floating sand blocks. Rainbow and Rarity began looking around admiring the dimension before stepping on the first sand block. First hoof on the block and the ponies can hear sand falling, specifically, the sand block began to fall into the bottomless abyss.
“Run!” Rainbow shouted when they began running as the sand blocks are falling behind to jump gaps to make it to a solid platform. The next obstacle is more smaller sand blocks with jumps to higher sand blocks until they reach solid orange cubes before running back onto sand cubes that goes left and right before making it to the next solid platform. Now right in front of them is a structure of Twilight’s crown that’s mostly made out of sand blocks and a few solid blocks with a Shine Sprite on top of it. They have to quickly climb up the crown to get to the Shine Sprite at the top without falling into the abyss below. Luckily, there are solid platforms for little breaks to take and eventually succeed in climbing the crown to collect the Shine Sprite.
“There it is. It’s absolutely gorgeous by the look of it.” Rarity said as Rainbow collects the Shine Sprite in victory before getting sent back to Delfilly Plaza.
***
Rainbow and Rarity were back in Delfilly Plaza to recall what they saw back at Trojanto Beach.
“I still have sand in my hooves.” Rarity complained.
“Howdy, y’all!” Applejack greeted the two.
“What did you do when we were gone?” Rainbow asked.
“Ah looked at the stalls for the products they had.” Applejack answered.
“We’re they good produce?” Rainbow asked.
“Eeyup.” Applejack answered.
“Okay, we’re gotta go, Rainbow. We haven’t got all day.” Rarity pointed out.
***
Mirror Madness! Tilt, Slam, Bam!
Rarity and Rainbow appeared in the same dune of sand in Trojanto Beach. A citizen pony just nearby turned to communicate to them.
“Do you see that creature on that tower?” The pony asked to look at the giant caterpillar on the tower.
“The giant caterpillar? Yes, I do.” Rarity replied.
“Can you help getting rid of it? It could endanger the legendary sand bird egg.” The pony explained.
“A sand bird?” Rainbow said before getting into the mission. She collected 5 bits along the way while wondering about how to get rid of the giant sleeping caterpillar. She looks at the mechanical ducks on the solar panel above the house in front of them and has a plan.
“So I think we have to somehow get on the solar panels and pound on it so that the ducks get launched off it.”
“And how do we get up there?” Rarity asked.
“There has to be something to get up there.” Rainbow guessed. They wandered around every sand and grass to look for a way up the solar panel, or at least three of the solar panels while finding three blue bits. Rainbow and Rarity eventually found a platform a little higher than the solar panels.
“We have to jump this.” Rainbow said as she and Rarity leaped over the gap between the cliff and the cloth platform, which apparently is a trampoline. So they bounced over to the solar panel with three mechanical ducks when they start attacking.
“Push the ducks by spraying water at them. ” FLUDD suggested.
“Like this?” Rainbow questioned as she started spraying water at the ducks to make them push over to one side of the solar panel to tip the mirror, then Rarity and Rainbow stands on the other side of the mirror to jump and pound together to send the ducks flying off the mirror. After that, the mirror turned to face the giant caterpillar to reflect the sunlight to the sand bird egg to glow brighter. After that, Rarity and Rainbow jumped onto the trampoline again to bounce onto the next solar panel with two ducks.
“Rarity, watch out!” Rainbow warned Rarity as she’s near one of the ducks as she got catapulted into the air. With this, Rainbow hurriedly tried to spray water at her flank to cushion her fall.
“How rude!” Rarity exclaimed as she angrily decides to buck the ducks off the mirror. This caused Rainbow to stare at the heavy breathing Rarity in shock as she notices the mad mare in the mirror
“Ahem. They had to be taught a lesson.” Rarity explained as the solar panel turned to reflect the sunlight to the egg to shine more brightly. One mirror left.
“That house. Come on.” Rainbow said as the ponies runs on top of the trees to get to the house with 6 bits and the solar panel with one duck.
“Come at me!” Rainbow tested as she pushed the duck with water, tilted and pounded the mirror. The sunlight reflects the mirror so that it shines the egg until it glows so bright that the brightness knocked the caterpillar off the tower and a Shine Sprite appeared afterwards.
“I think that means the sand bird egg is saved.” Rainbow thought.
“Oh, Fluttershy is going to miss out.” Rarity pointed out.
“Maybe if we saved Isle Delfilly and Twilight Sparkle, we can do those things after.” Rainbow suggested.
“Maybe we can.” Rarity agreed as Rainbow collects the Shine Sprite in victory before getting back the Delfilly Plaza.
***
Fluttershy was sitting in the front of the lighthouse waiting for Rarity and Rainbow to come back through the portal.
“Welcome back. What did I miss in there?” Fluttershy asked.
“You’re gonna miss a sand bird that’s gonna hatch!” Rainbow honestly coerced trying not to disappoint her too much.
“Oh my. I don’t think I’m allowed to see it, am I?” Fluttershy honestly asked.
“I’m sorry, darling, maybe after we saved Isle Delfilly.” Rarity suggested.
“That’s alright. Anyway, it’s kinda getting late, we should get some rest like Applejack and Pinkie.” Fluttershy suggested as Rarity and Rainbow nodded in agreement before going to their bedrooms to rest up.
Will they be able save Delfilly? Will they be able to rescue Twilight? The questions that haven’t been answered, but will they be answered sooner or later?
Author's Note
So Rarity is now following Rainbow Dash on this mission. Oh, and if you’re reading this, I noticed that I haven’t got any comments yet.
Rainbow’s collection: