Pinkie Pie's hooves clacked against the ground as she jumped down the crystal hallways of the Friendship Castle. Today was Saint Patrick's Day which meant those delicious chocolate gold coins.
Creatures loved those things, orders for them were stacked to the ceiling. This included Pinkie who always snuck a few while she was baking. Some for the client, and some for her.
She would be making more now, but the clients said they were not getting orders. Rainbow needed to be tracked down, her gold was probably there. That's why she had to talk to Twilight. Twilight was crazy enough to schedule Rainbow. No other creature would, always laying around in clouds and never staying for long.
Pinkie Pie pushed open the large double doors down the hallway. "Twi?!?" She yelled.
"Pinkie, no yelling, this is a library!" Twilight whispered-yelled, an oxymoron that she perfected over the years of living in libraries. “What can I help you with?”
“I need to find Rainbow have-”
"Why do you need to find a rainbow?" Twilight asked.
“No, Rainbow’s got my chocolate coins” She frowned, she worked so hard on them then that rascal stole them. "They were supposed to be delivered. but when complaints started ringing in saying they weren't I knew. I also I know what you would know where to find-”
“Aren’t you a little old to be finding gold at the end of rainbows?” Twilight asked as she turned around in her chair to face Pinkie. She remembered when she was a foal and chased pots of gold. Something she stopped doing when she moved to Canterlot for magic training.
“TWILIGHT, you’re never too old for-”
“Ok ok- I get it,” Twilight said, raising her hoof to pet Pinkie’s curly mane. He rubbed it through her friend's mane. It was best to play along or it would be the Santa Claus incident all over again. She still had scars from stepping into those traps! “I can take you to one right now." It wasn't best to get this over with so she could go back to her studies. She levitated, ‘The Physics of Rainbows,” off a pile of books.
“You can use that to find Rainbow?” Pinkie tilted her head, her brows wrinkling with her muzzle. Who knew someone would have a whole book, just on Rainbow? 5 bits that it was self-published.
Twilight shook her head. "Pinkie You can use that to find ‘a rainbow’ or ‘rainbows,’ Pinkie.” Twilight smiled, a pleasurable warmth filling her after she helped correct her friend's grammar error. "Maybe you would like some grammar lessons? You know I'd love to help you."
“Twilight doesn't that sound more weird? Are you sure that's right?” Pinkie questioned wasn't the correct grammar Rainbow, there was only one. Her ears twitched and she felt as if something was off, her Pinkie senses no doubt.
“Weirder and no, I promise it is not,” Twilight said as she dropped the book onto her desk. A huge dust cloud wafted up from its pages.
“ACHOOOOO,” Twilight’s body spasmed and her wings puffed up. “Excuse me," she smiled awkwardly, her muzzle blushed a deep red.
“Gesundheit!” Pinkie squeaked as she peaked over at Twilight's book. Her brows creased again as she saw something unexpected, “uh Twilight these are pictures of rainbows.”
"I know Pinkie, that's how we're going to find a rainbow." She flipped through the pages reviewing information she already knew. "Using wind speed, light refraction, calculating for the curve of Equestria, and taking in the weather. There’s a rainbow about a three-mile walk.”
"Twilight I don't think-"
“Don’t worry we can teleport,” Twilight said as she focused on the beat of her heart. With a deep breath and a futz, they were no longer in the stuffy library.
The two of them sat in a grassy field, hooves damp from the morning dew. The soft gusts of wind were scented with lilacs and roses. Before them stood a rainbow three stories high and wider than the sky itself.
"Wow…" Pinkie marveled at the beauty in the sky. A wave of calm took over her as the breeze whisked her mane away from her muzzle. It was almost enough to make her forget, almost. "Twilight it's beautiful but this is a rainbow. A wonderful one but a rainbow."
“Yes, just like you asked.”
“Nooooo, Rainbow. The gold is with Rainbow DASH.” Pinkie explained, she knew something weird was up. "You made her schedule. I figured you know where she was." Pinkie's mane deflated as she sat on the grass.
"Oh, Pinkie I'm so sorry. I should have heard you out. I'll make it up to you and take you right now...but why?" Twilight frowned, trotting over to her friend and snapping her hooves around her chest in a tight hug. She should have paid more attention, and next time she would.
“I asked her to deliver them but some haven't gotten their orders. I bet she's eating them. Those were for sharing.” Pinkie yelled, slamming her hoof into the ground, her mane flattened down and her hide turned pale. “It took me all day to make those!"
"Then let's go right now," with another zap of magic they were in front of Rainbow's home.
Pinkie threw open the rainbow-colored door to find a rainbow-colored pony. She sat, her muzzle covered in chocolate streeks, sitting on a wooden box marked 'gold'. “Just what do you think you’re doing?!” Pinkie Pie screeched as she pointed at her friend. “You were supposed to deliver those!”
Rainbow looked down, her blue hooves now covered in chocolate. There was no hiding this. “buff iff waff sooo gooof,” she whined her muzzle stuffed with evidence. The smell was intoxicating, "imf soffy i cooved," she tried to explain. The chocolate beckoned, teased her to be eaten she just followed through.
“I can't even-” Pinkie yelled as she trotted right to Rainbow.
Twilight eyes twitched, her friend's bickering faded to background noise. Pinkie was looking for the end of the rainbow; it just was the rainbow she expected.
