Chapters Cloudy With a Chance Of Larceny
In which Dash fails to crash
This story is based on the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which belongs to Hasbro, not me.
Chapter One – In which Dash fails to crash
The story began when Rainbow Dash failed to crash-land on the main street of Ponyville early one morning. This did not mean that she landed successfully, just that her crash-landing was wholly pathetic. She came in with a slow, wobbling flight, landed on only three of her legs, stumbled forward, her wings flapping aimlessly, until she fell down with her muzzle in the dusty street and plowed a furrow for a few yards before she came to a complete stop and just lay there with a scrape on her chin and her hind legs in the air.
Applejack has just set up her market stall, and while she saw her friend crash, she at first didn't pay it much attention to it. Rainbow Dash crashed regularly as she trained, usually in much more violent fashion than this, no worse for wear. However, when she noticed the azure pegasus didn't rise, she got worried and trotted over.
Inside the shop Rainbow Dash sauntered up to the counter where Mr Cake was making the last things ready. Behind the counter was a newly installed enormous coffee machine, and the baker looked suspiciously at it.
Meanwhile, on the street, Applejack spotted another familiar face as she gave a matronly mare two jars of apple jam. "Hiya, Twi'!" she said as the purple unicorn trotted up to her, her bigger saddlebags on her back together with Spike, who blinked and yawned. "Grocery shopping?"
"Oh no! I can't take them now!" Twilight looked aghast.
Just as Twilight went into the shop, Rainbow Dash was leaving it, still just walking, trying to munch muffins at the same time as she kept the coffee mug in her mouth. Twilight turned to her.
Cloudy With a Chance Of Larceny
In which Dash eats ensilage pudding
This fanfic is built upon the My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic cartoon. I don't own it, that would be Hasbro.
Chapter Two - In Which Rainbow Dash Eats Ensilage Pudding
Rainbow Dash woke up with a jerk and a gasp. She was in darkness, neither on a cloud nor in her own bed. Instead, she was in a smaller bed painted pink, in a room hung with posters of fairy tale characters and androgynous-looking colt singers. A collection of butterfly-winged fairy ponies made of paper hung just over her head. Rainbow Dash rose groggily from the bed in stunned silence as the door to the room slowly opened and a thin ray of light speared her blinking eyes.
"Are you awake, darling?" said Rarity as she peeked through the door. Rainbow Dash realized she was in the room Sweetie Belle used when she stayed with her sister.
Rainbow Dash looked away from Rarity. "You wouldn't have needed to do that." she mumbled. "I can take care of myself..."
The Elements of Harmony were gathered in Rarity's dining room, which made it pretty crowded, but it wasn't the first time. Aside from the fact that Rainbow Dash didn't say much, and that the others constantly kept pushing her to eat more ensilage pudding and flower salad, and to drink more water and juice, it was a fairly normal dinner between friends. But when they reached the dessert - a huge apple pie brought by, of course, Applejack, and a jar of strawberry-blueberry-raspberry-gooseberry-cloudberry ice cream brought by Pinkie Pie ("I invented the flavor! Twilight should like it because it is scientiriffically tastulous!"), Applejack turned to Rainbow Dash and looked at her seriously.
"It's just a work thing" said Rainbow Dash. "Thanks so much for helping me, but I'll be more careful now and you needn't worry about it."
After the mares had cleared the table ("Oh don't worry about the dishes, I'll do them later!" said Rarity) they removed to the tea room, as Rarity insisted on calling her living room when she had tea there. (Sometimes she would insist it was "the library" though not within earshot of Twilight Sparkle, who questioned the libraryness of a room with just one bookshelf.) After Pinkie Pie had finished putting some drops of tea in her sugar, Rainbow Dash started to explain.
"Ya can't be everywhere at once, so they steal where yer not right now." Applejack looked sympathetic. "Ah admire yer hard work here, Dash, but nopony can do what yer trying to do." Rainbow Dash looked flustered.
"Aren't we forgetting the easiest one, Twilight darling?" said Rarity and sipped her tea daintily. "Shouldn't the police do something about large scale thievery of important public property? Why haven't Mr Scale reported it?"
"Uhm..." Fluttershy started to speak. "Maybe... maybe I can..." She looked down in her tea.
For the first time in a long while Rainbow Dash looked both happy and energetic. "That sounds really smart, Twilight! If we just know who did it is the rest is easy."
"I'm going to start tonight!" said Pinkie Pie. "There are night-open places and I know them all since that's when you have parties. I'll ask their customers!"
As the other ponies started to drop off, Rarity turned to Twilight Sparkle, who as usual had ended up in the leader role. "This isn't over yet" she said sternly.
Cloudy With a Chance Of Larceny
In which Dash connects the dots
This is based on the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Which I totally own. Yeah. Own so much I am gonna charge people muffins for using it. This is not at all a lame joke to cover that I don't want to write it is the intellectual property of Hasbro. No sir!
Chapter Three: In which Dash connects the dots.
“And then” said the donkey carter, “the wind just stopped.” He brought his left front hoof down with a stomp. “Just like that.”
“Well first I thought the weather reports were wrong again – they have been off a little – but by more now. I mean, unscheduled thunderstorm?” The mailmare chewed on her break muffin.
Spike dumped the heap of newspapers on the table.
“TIKKA-NIKKA-NIKK-TIKK-TAKK!”
“It's scandalous, is what it is!” The little old unicorn mare waved her umbrella telekinetically, keeping her mouth free to be loud.
“Thanks chief for the help” said Rainbow Dash, not really used to feeling grateful, especially not to Beaufort Scale. “And thanks for the time off.”
Having gathered in Twilight's library that evening, the Elements of Harmony compared notes and memories and dictaphones (the statements were duly disregarded) and Twilight used a marker to draw little arrows all over the map Rainbow Dash had gotten from mr Scale. What direction (if possible, otherwise she made the little arrow go in two directions), what time, and what day. When everyone else had done their thing, Twilight gave the marker to Rarity and picked up her binder with clippings.
“You know, that doesn't mean someone from Ponyville did it, just that it is only happening here. Ahem. And then we have the final thing I found, which is a dozy.” She turned to the last page of the binder and read from the luridly-colored clipping glued there:
“So, Rainbow Dash, what do you make of this?” Twilight said.