The Assistant

RainbowDash trotted through a puddle. The storm yesterday had left all of ponyville soaking wet. Two months ago, she would have been clearing the skies so that the sun could be seen. Of course two months ago, her life had been normal. Two months ago, she had been in a great relationship. Two months ago, she hadn't been caught in between a giant feud between the princess. Two months ago she had had an amazing life that no pony could ruin. That was two months ago.

Now she was caught in the middle of the princesses secret war, her love life couldn't be worse, and to top it all off she was bored out of her mind. For the past to weeks she had been talking with Red Mist, trying to convince him that his father was just a douche bag who wasn't worth killing himself. It didn't seem to be going to well. While she hadn't had to push him out of the way of any more lasers, every time she had seen him he had seemed more depressed. She hoped, unlike Twilight, that he wouldn't go through with it, but that seemed to be where it was headed.

Meanwhile, he had been instructing her on the NLR. It seemed like a pretty cool organization to her. He told her stories about how Luna had led the attack against  the changelings when they had invaded, and about how Cadence and some of the crystal ponies (who were all sworn members of the NLR) fended off a huge invasion of saddle arabian ultra-nationalists. He also found time each day to tell her that she should fix things between her and Thunderlane. This was usually saved until after he had finished telling her about everything else, as it usually resulted in her leaving the area.

Thunderlane.

She hadn't talked to him for two months. She had seen him plenty though. She started to notice that he would patrol the skies, mostly at night. She had seen him talking with the mayor, who Red Mist said was a member of the NLR as well. She had also realized that without each other, they were both miserable. She just couldn't forgive him yet. It had been to big of a secret. She wasn't mad that he was in the NLR, she had considered joining the group more than once. She was just furious that he hadn't trusted her with the secret that he had been keeping for three years.

But she couldn't think about that today. No, today she was on her way to Fluttershy's house to see if there was anything to do there. She had already been to sugar cube corner, sweet apple acres, the library, even carousel boutique. All of her other friends seemed to busy to hang out with her, though she assumed that Twilight was just mad at her because she was leaning toward joining the NLR where as Twilight was on Celestia's side 100%. Hopefully Fluttershy wasn't doing anything.

She crossed the bridge to Fluttershy's cottage and saw the yellow pegasus standing outside her home, watching the sky. Dash looked up, but saw nothing of particular interest, and continued towards her friend.

"Hi Fluttershy,"Dash said as she approached her.

"Hi Rainbow,"Fluttershy replied, not taking her eyes off the sky,"He's an amazing flyer, isn't he?"

"Who?"

"Albert."

"You mean Red?"RainbowDash said, looking up again and seeing Red Mist clearing the skies over head,"Yeah he's pretty good."

"And he's such gentlecolt,"Fluttershy said with admiration.

"Uh-huh..."Dash replied. She looked at her friend. Her head spun around ever so slightly in an attempt to follow the pegasus clearing the skies. Her eyes said one thing; want.

"I'll be right back,"Dash said as an ingenious idea popped into her head. She shot into the sky, catching up with Red Mist as he was just finishing about to finish a clearing the sky.

"Hey Red!"She shouted over the wind that blew past as they flew at super sonic speeds.

"Hi Dash,"He replied sternly.

"You know Fluttershy, right?"

Red mist stopped mid-flight, leaving a small puff of cloud alone in the sky."Yes, I do, why? Did she ask about me? What did she say? I mean, I, um..."He was talking a mile a minute.

Perfect RainbowDash thought to herself."Come with me,"She said, pushing him from behind. They reached the ground very quickly. When they touched down both Fluttershy and Red Mist looked, well, terrified would be an understatement.

"You two already know each other,"Dash started,"I was going to hang out, but I just remembered I have somewhere to be. So, I thought it might be a good idea for you to show Albert here all of your awesome animals!"

"Oh, well, if you want to I can..."Fluttershy's voice was almost inaudible.

"I'd love to, I mean, um..."Red Mist replied to the ground.

"Great!"RainbowDash said, clapping her hooves together,"Now I really, got to get going, so you two have fun!"

She flew off, glad that she had just solved all of Red's problems. Then she got incredibly depressed. She thought about it for a second, and then she realized what she had to do.

Back on the ground, Red Mist and Fluttershy stood, awkwardly, poking the dirt. Fluttershy broke the silence.

"Do you really want to see my animals?"She said, barely breathing.

"Yes, I would love to,"Red answered, even quieter,"I mean, if, um, you don't mind..."

"Oh,"Fluttershy said,"I don't mind at all! Follow me, if, um, that's ok with you."

While Fluttershy and Red Mist explored the woods RainbowDash soared across the skies, searching for Thunderlane. She saw him outside of sugar cube corner. She dashed down and landed next to him with a small thud.

"Oh,"He said sadly,"Hi Dash, did you want to talk about something?"

"Yes,"She said,"But, not here. Come back to my place?"

"Ok,"He said hopefully. They flew back toward her mansion. the sun beamed warmly upon them. She looked over at Thunderlane. He looked incredibly handsome, more handsome than she had remembered him. The saying "you don't know what you've got until its gone" must be true. His feathers were damp, probably due to the humidity. With the sun shining on his damp wings they glistened like crystals.

They reached her house very suddenly. She opened the door and offered him some coffee. He accepted, and they both sat down in her living room. They were silent for a minute as they sipped there coffee.

"Dash,"Thunderlane broke the silence.

"No,"She replied sternly. She had thought this conversation through many times in her head."Listen. I was wrong to act like that,"

"No you weren't..."

"I said listen. I was wrong. I overreacted. But that was a big secret to keep from me for such a long time. We were both wrong."

"No, I was the wrong one, you had every reason to act the way you did..."

"I'm not done. We were both wrong. But it's clear were both miserable and lonely without each other. So I've been talking with Red Mist, and after everything he's taught me about the NLR and about what you've been through over the years, I think we should just put this whole situation behind us."

Thunderlane was silent for a minute."Really?"

"Yes."RainbowDash said calmly, barely holding back the want to jump on him and just fuck him right there,"Is that a problem?"

Thunderlane jumped on top of her and started kissing her, saying "no, it's not" in between each kiss. Once he moved to her neck she had to push him off slightly.

"What?"He said, confused,"Do you not want to..."

"Oh, I want to, trust me. But there's one more thing I wanted to tell you,"She replied, swallowing a groan as he slid his hoof down to her unmentionables.

"Yes?"Thunderlane replied, slightly worried.

"I,"RainbowDash was nervous. This was a decision that she had been avoiding for weeks,"I...I want to join the NLR."

Thunderlane almost exploded in happiness,"Oh Dash!"He started kissing her  neck again,"That is, the second most, amazing news, I've heard in a long long time."

"What,"Dash started to ask, a low moan escaping her before she could finish,"What, was the first?"

Thunderlane looked at her seductively,"When you said you wanted to get back together."

RainbowDash couldn't contain herself.The couch is comfortable enough.She thought while she kissed him.

The next day was incredibly perfect. Her and Thunderlane were walking throughout town, loving every step they took. They were finally back together. The sun was shining down on them, they were back together, everypony was happy, and they were back together. she didn't know how this day could go wrong. Then she walked past the library.

She heard shouts from inside the building,"Hold on,"She told Thunderlane. She held her ear up to the door. As soon as she did the door burst open. Fluttershy came stomping out. She looked furious. She was certainly madder than Dash had ever seen her. Her mood turned around quite drastically when she saw them.

"Oh hi Dash,"Fluttershy said in her normal kind voice.She sounded happy,"Thank you ever so much for leaving Albert at my house yesterday. He's an amazing colt."

"No problem,"Dash replied with a confused look from Thunderlane,"Did you guys hit it off that well?"

"Oh yes,"She replied with a huge smile,"In fact, he asked to meet me at sugar cube corner tomorrow!"

"Great!"Dash replied, glad that her plan had worked,"Good for you guys. You two make a cute couple."

"I think so to."She replied,"Although there are some ponies, Twilight, that are a little less supportive. I mean, she acted as if I was dating a terrorist!"She walked back towards her house, her back to the library.

Dash walked into the library, Thunderlane right behind her. Twilight was on the top floor, staring at her with loathing.

"You,"Twilight said hatefully.

"What'd I do?"Dash asked defensively.

"You set Fluttershy up with a terrorist!"Twilight screamed as she stomped down the stairs.

"Oh, not this again,"Dash said with a roll of her eyes,"Twilight there not terrorists, if you would just take the time to learn more about them..."

"I already know everything about them!"Twilight interrupted.

"No, you just know what Celestia told you, which is jack shit!"Thunderlane yelled at her.

Twilight reached the bottom of the stairs with a stomp. She stared at Thunderlane for a moment, her entire being full of hatred. Then her horn glew and she threw him against a wall telepathically. RainbowDash shot like a bullet for the alicorn, slamming her against a bookshelf. Dozens of books fell, most of them hitting her and Twilight. Twilight winced with pain, but RainbowDash felt nothing but anger.

"Now listen you close-minded bitch,"Dash began with hatred in her voice,"Your not going to hurt my boyfriend ever again, or I will kill you. Do you understand?"

"Dash,"

RainbowDash hit her squarely in the face with a hoof. Blood splattered out of her nose and her lip started to bleed."I said, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

Twilight was silent. Dash hit her one more time, harder."ANSWER ME YOU BITCH!"

"I-I understand,"Twilight said quietly. Her face was bruised and bloodied. It looked like her nose might have been broken.

"Good."Dash said with a humph. She walked over to where Thunderlane was on the ground. It looked like one of his wings were broken. It was all Dash could do to stop her self from doing the same to Twilight."Are you okay?"

"Mostly,"Thunderlane replied with a grunt as he stood up,"We should probably go see nurse Red heart though, just in case."

"How will we explain this to her?"Dash thought aloud.

"Don't worry, she's with us."Thunderlane replied.

They walked out of the library and towards the nurses office, leaving Twilight by herself. She couldn't believe this. Two of her friends were dating terrorists, one of which new that she was and still protected him. She couldn't make since of it. She guessed that RainbowDash was probably under some sort of mind control spell, but she couldn't be sure. She decided to hold off from doing anything rash. If she was lucky Fluttershy and Albert wouldn't work out as a couple. She also decided to do some research on mind control spells, hopefully she could find something to help with the whole RainbowDash-Thunderlane situation.

She cast a healing spell on herself and looked into a mirror. She looked like her old self again, but deep inside she was still hurt. Was Dash serious? Would she actually go as far as to kill her to protect Thunderlane? She stopped think about it, as the idea of it coming down to a life or death fight between her and Dash made her sad. She stepped on a book as she walked. First, I have to clean this up. she thought to herself.