CYOA: A Day in Ponyville

With a panicked cry, you and the other pegasus scatter to assemble the others. The only way to get the water out of that lake requires way more than either of you can provide alone. You might need the whole weather team for this. You gather them all in front of the lake. "Guys, we've got a problem. Rainbow Dash is in trouble!"

Surprised gasps spread through the gathered ponies. "Is she hurt?" asked a concerned mare.

"Is she—" began a male pony, only to be interrupted by another.

"What happened?" demanded a deep male voice.

You shake your head and stomp one hoof. "We have to act fast or she will be hurt." You point the way. "We last saw her getting pulled into the lake. We need to make that lake stop existing. Fast! Go, go!"

The weather team splits into smaller teams, each assigned with different aspects of this problem. With luck, it will be just enough to save Rainbow Dash from drowning, or worse. They all gather around the lake as another pony shouts out orders. The trick with moving that much water is the amount of teamwork and precision needed to get that much water going at the same time.

A cloud forms above you, tinted purple by the setting sun. A gentle rain begins to fall over the lake. You yourself swoop in to use your wing power to help keep the water flowing out of the lake and into that increasing shower that spilled out all around it. The mud begins to churn and rise with the displaced water, but you press on.

"Keep at it!" cries a pegasus. "We're making progress."

You shake out your wet mane, wings flapping powerfully. You can see the water line receding beneath you, revealing the bedrock that was hidden below. "C'mon everypony, we have to save Rainbow Dash! Every second counts!"

One pegasus pushes too hard, losing control of himself and dropping into the wet muck at the bottom of the lake. He groans as he pulls himself up. "Is that... Are those Rainbow's goggles?"

You hover in place, shocked. It becomes pandemonium as pegasi drop their flight and swoop in, desperately searching for any other clues of Rainbow Dash's whereabouts. A rainbow-maned tail comes out of the ground. Another finds a few flaps of her wings. All of her is there, but with more than a little mud to go along with it.

It's a wild panic as they scoop her out of the thick mud and roll her onto her back. You can't see her chest moving. Not thinking it through, you come in straight, crashing into her stomach and giving her a firm kick. Her body jolts with the force, eyes going wide as she coughs up mud.

You let out an almost delirious laugh. That actually worked! "Dash! You okay?"

She gurgles more mud, her eyes on yours. "Gah...What happened?" She didn't seem to realize just how covered she was in filth.

The other pegasi haul her out and you all carry her towards town. The crowd cheers wildly with joyful relief, their weather captain safe and whole. The one who had found her goggles takes them off and brings them back to her. "Your goggles."

She looked at them oddly, too confused to understand why they would be there. Despite that, she slaps them on, muddy or not. "Thanks, all of you. I thought, never mind. We made it, together." The crowd roars with booming joy.

You would keep it a secret who gave her that bruise on her chest. But you'd know who saved Rainbow that day.

The End.