Comfortably Numb

Rainbow Dash couldn’t stop thinking about Pinkie. Whenever Pinkie was around, Rainbow just had this feeling she couldn’t ignore. Rainbow just wanted to kiss her, to show her how she truly felt. She had this voice in her head that kept becoming louder and louder, telling Rainbow Dash to give in and just tell Pinkie, but her usual life usually kept it at bay. But now, her proximity to Pinkie Pie, the quiet of the orchard and nothing to distract her, that little voice in her head was getting louder and louder. She wasn’t sure how much longer she could take it before that voice took control.

It wasn’t long before they were back at the cart. Pinkie Pie sat down on the grass to rest, and Rainbow Dash poured all the apples from the baskets into the apple cart. She set the baskets down on the ground and turned to Pinkie.

“Okay, you ready?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Yep!” Pinkie said enthusiastically.

“Alright, I’ll meet you down where all the apples dropped” Rainbow said, and she flew off, leaving a trail of colours in her wake. Pinkie Pie bounced off after her.

Rainbow Dash flew down to the orchard floor, grabbed as many apples as she could take in her basket and sped off again. Pinkie did the same, taking as much as she could off the ground before bounding back to the cart again like a bunny rabbit. They continued like this for a while, the two mares going back and forth, ferrying the red and green fruit to the cart, until almost all the apples were gone.

‘We’ve almost done this little section of the orchard, and the storm is coming, you should tell her now. You might not get another chance’ Rainbow Dash’s heart told her as she dropped a load of apples in the cart and flew off again.

‘I can’t!’ Rainbow Dash’s brain replied, as she flew on through the orchard.

‘You always think about her, just do it! Why not?’ her heart said.

“I….JUST….CAN’T!” Rainbow Dash shouted out loud in frustration.

“Huh? What did you say Dashie?” Pinkie called from the ground below, bouncing along to get some more apples to load the cart.

Dashie.

“I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” Rainbow Dash yelled, dropping her empty basket.

She suddenly went into a nose dive, heading straight for Pinkie.

“Uh, Rainbow Dash, what are you doing?” Pinkie said nervously as the cyan pegasus flew towards her.

Rainbow Dash rugby tackled the pink mare and pinned her to the ground, landing on top of her.

“OW! WHAT ARE YOU DOI-“ Pinkie started, but she was cut off by Rainbow Dash pressing her lips against hers, pulling her into a passionate kiss. Pinkie Pie didn’t try to resist or try to pull away. She just went with it. The two mares lay there, in the grass and the sun, for what seemed like an age, exchanging the kiss and making it last as long as they could.

Finally. Rainbow Dash had wanted to do this for a very long time. She had always wanted to kiss Pinkie, to taste her tender lips. She always wanted to tell Pinkie how she felt, and it was all said in but one kiss. The voice in her head had won, and had faded away into nothing; its mission was complete.

The two ponies finally parted lips.

“Pinkie Pie…I love you” Rainbow Dash said as she gazed deep into Pinkie’s blue eyes. “You don’t know how long I waited to do that…”

“Too long…” Pinkie Pie said. “I love you too, Dashie”

“Y-you do?” Rainbow Dash asked, surprised.

Pinkie pulled her in for another kiss. Pinkie started to stroke Rainbow’s mane, gently moving down her neck and to her wings, softly caressing them and causing her to purr with delight. Rainbow Dash closed her eyes, enjoying the new sensation Pinkie was giving her.

“I know how sensitive a pegasus’ wings are” Pinkie Pie whispered into Rainbow Dash’s ear. “I know how I can make you feel so good” she whispered as she rubbed around the edges of Rainbow’s wings. Rainbow Dash moaned into Pinkie’s mouth as she continued to stroke them, carefully grooming the feathers with her hooves.

Rainbow Dash wished she could lay here forever, in the hooves of the pink mare she loved. But the storm was coming, the sky began to darken, and if they didn’t leave to go back soon, they wouldn’t be leaving at all.

Pinkie Pie eventually stopped stroking Rainbow’s wings, and looked at her with a grin. “Does that answer your question, Dashie?” Pinkie said playfully.

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes and looked at Pinkie.

“I…yes…that felt…so good Pinkie…” Rainbow said, still in ecstasy. “Thank you…”

Pinkie Pie giggled.

“Pinkie…” Rainbow started.

“Ssh, do you hear that?” Pinkie asked, raising her hoof to Rainbow’s lips.

Rainbow Dash listened carefully, but heard nothing. “What did you hear?” she replied.

“Like, something moving” Pinkie replied, lowering her voice to a whisper and looking around from their place on the grass.

“It’s nothing, silly!” Rainbow said chuckling, pulling Pinkie back towards her and pecking her on the cheek.

“What’re you two doing?” called a voice.

Rainbow Dash jumped at the sound and stood up. She turned around to see Big Mac standing a few feet away, with his usual “default” look, as she liked to call it, on his face.

“Uh, nothing!” Pinkie Pie said, jumping up.

“Yeah, we were just, uh, wrestling” Rainbow Dash said.

“Yeah! Pinkie said enthusiastically. “Surely somepony like you with your big posture must love his wrestling!”

Big Mac rolled his eyes.

“Well ah dun care what you’re up to, just Applejack said to come on back, the storm’s just about to hit” he said.

“Okay we’ll come back in a minute, we’re just gonna clear the rest of these apples away” Rainbow Dash said pointing to the few apples that were left on the ground.

Big Mac raised his eyebrows.

“Alright then” he said, and started walking back towards the farm.

Rainbow Dash waited until he was well out of sight, before turning back to Pinkie and stealing another kiss.

“Do you reckon he saw us?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Who cares!” Pinkie said, giggling. Pinkie Pie jumped on top of Rainbow Dash and pushed her to the ground. “Now it’s more me plus you time!” she grinned.

Rainbow Dash laughed. “Pinkie, as much as I love you, we should get going; we don’t want to get caught in a lightning storm” she said, looking up at the pink pony.

“Aww, okay…” Pinkie said as she climbed off Rainbow and stood back up.

“Let’s grab the rest of these apples and head on back to Applejack’s” Rainbow said. “Now I’m gonna go look for my basket I dropped, I’ll be right back.” Rainbow Dash walked off slowly towards the cart, looking around for the apple basket she let go of while she was flying.

That happened so fast, but seemed so slow. She had finally done it. She had finally managed to tell Pinkie how she felt about her. And even better, Pinkie returned those feelings too. It was a dream come true.

Pinkie Pie picked her basket up off the floor, which had landed a few feet away after Rainbow decided to dive onto her. She scooped up a few of the apples that were left and put them in the basket, before bouncing off in Rainbow Dash’s direction.

Pinkie caught up with the cyan pegasus, who had found her basket, and was walking back to the space where the apples had fallen.

“I got the basket, just gonna go back and grab the rest of the apples.” Rainbow Dash said to Pinkie as she bounced past. “Meet me by the cart in a minute”

“Okie dokie lokie!” Pinkie smiled.

Pinkie Pie bunny-hopped down through the orchard and back to the cart, which was pretty much full. She tipped all the apples out of the basket and onto the pile, setting the basket down on top afterwards. She sat down beside the cart, leant her back against it and closed her eyes. She sat there for a moment, just thinking. Enjoying the peace.

Suddenly, a loud crack of thunder echoed around the valley, which brought Pinkie out of her trance. She stood up and looked around, to see a large black cloud slowly coming in from the north. That storm was getting close.

“Pinkie Pie!” called Rainbow Dash.

Pinkie turned to see Rainbow Dash flying above her, holding the apple basket in her hooves as she flapped her wings to stay in the air. “Heads up!” she said as she poured the remaining apples out of the basket and into the cart.

“You ready to go?” Rainbow asked, dropping the basket onto the cart and landed on the grass beside Pinkie.

“Yep!” Pinkie beamed.

Rainbow Dash walked around to the front of the cart, and pulled one of the horseshoe-shaped pieces over her head and onto her back. Pinkie did the same, so that the two mares were both side by side, Rainbow Dash on the right, Pinkie on the left. They slowly started pulling, bringing the cart to a slow but steady speed.

“Dashie…” Pinkie started as the walked through the orchard. “How long…? I wanna know…”

Rainbow Dash blushed. “About 3 months…” she said nervously.

“That long?” Pinkie said in surprise. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I…I was afraid…” Rainbow Dash said, looking down at the ground.

Pinkie Pie reached over and pulled Rainbow Dash into a tight hug.

“D’aww, its okay Dashie, I was afraid too...” Pinkie admitted.

Rainbow Dash looked up and stifled a nervous laugh.

“We were so afraid of how each other would react, so we ended up not saying anything at all…” Rainbow said, gazing at Pinkie.

“He he, well you managed to do it in the end!” Pinkie said, kissing Rainbow Dash behind the ear.

Rainbow Dash smiled.

“But how are we gonna tell everypony?” she asked, frowning.

“We don’t have to if you don’t want to, Dashie” Pinkie said assuringly.

“But we’re gonna have to sometime, it can’t be a secret forever…” Rainbow replied.

“We’ll take it slow, telling ponies that you only really feel comfortable telling” Pinkie explained. “Have you got anypony in mind?”

“Well…I was thinking Fluttershy…I trust her a lot, and we grew up together” Rainbow said. “She would never tell anypony unless we asked her to.”

“Okay, so we’ll do that? We’ll tell Fluttershy?” Pinkie asked.

“Yeah.” Rainbow replied nodding her head. “We’ll tell her.”

Suddenly a loud crash of thunder rolled around, making the pair jump and look up to the skies. The sky had become dark, and it had begun to rain. Not just a light shower. It was heavy rain, coming down by the bucketload.

“We need to hurry up, Pinkie! Pick up the pace!” Rainbow called, trying to keep her voice above the sound of the pouring rain. “Pull faster!”

Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash started to pull harder and faster, determined to get the cart back to the farm, despite being drenched by the constant downpour.

“Keep going!” Rainbow shouted.

The two mares kept going, battling against the powerful wind and the pounding rain. Every step became harder, the rain turning the grassy ground into a muddy slide.

“Come on Pinkie, we can do this!” Rainbow shouted again.

She looked over at Pinkie, who was breathing heavily and struggling to keep herself moving.

“I can’t…keep going…” Pinkie Pie said in between gasps. She suddenly slipped on the muddy ground and fell, pulling the cart down with her. Rainbow Dash felt the sudden pull to the left and pushed against it, straining herself to keep the cart upright. But it was to no avail. The cart was just too heavy. Rainbow couldn’t keep the cart up all by herself, and tripped up and fell, meeting the same demise as Pinkie. The cart rolled over and all the apples fell out, rolling in every direction. Pinkie sharply cried out in pain.

“Pinkie!” Rainbow cried as she pulled herself up off the ground, and ran over to where Pinkie had fallen. Pinkie was lying on the ground, wincing as she clutched her back leg in pain. “Are you alright!?” Rainbow said worriedly, crouching down beside her.

Pinkie shook her head, trying not to cry out.

“Can you stand up!?” Rainbow asked.

“I...I don’t know…” Pinkie said shakily.

Pinkie slowly pulled herself up using the overturned cart to steady herself. She tried to take a step forward, but cried out and collapsed back to the ground.

Suddenly a bright flash flew down from the sky, striking an apple tree not far from the two mares, setting it ablaze.

“That was way too close!” Rainbow shouted, panicking. “We have to go NOW!”

“Just…go without me…” Pinkie said weakly. “I’ll be fine…”

“I’m not leaving you!” Rainbow Dash cried, pulling Pinkie into her hooves. “I won’t…”

“Just go! I’ll be fine I promise! Pinkie said, pushing Rainbow Dash away.

“There has to be another way!” Rainbow cried again, fighting back the tears that were welling in her eyes. Rainbow Dash wrapped her hooves around Pinkie, and with all her strength, she flapped her wings as hard as she could, lifting herself and Pinkie off the ground.

“Dashie! What are you doing?!” Pinkie gasped as she was lifted into the air.

“Getting us out of here!” Rainbow shouted as she struggled to keep flying straight as the wind and the rain battered her. She fought as hard as she could against the wind, using all her energy to keep herself and Pinkie Pie airborne. She flew on through the storm, becoming more and more tired as she went. But she was not going to stop now; she had come too far to just give up. Whenever she felt she was going to drop, the thought of Pinkie Pie in her hooves motivated her, and she just kept on going. She was soaking wet, freezing cold and incredibly tired, but that wasn’t going to stop her. She did it for Pinkie.

“Rainbow Dash! Look!” Pinkie called, cutting through the howling of the wind.

Rainbow Dash looked up. The rain had blurred her vision, but in the distance she could just make out a faint outline of some sort of large building.

“It’s Sweet Apple Acres!” Pinkie shouted in joy. “We made it!”

“Yes!” Rainbow shouted in glee.

But the two lover’s victory was short lived. A huge crash of thunder, a blinding flash of light, and Rainbow Dash went limp, released her grip and fell out of the air. She to regain control, but she couldn’t move. The lightning strike had completely immobilized her. She fell through the air, helplessly, hurtling towards the ground.