Chapter 5 - Enter Rainbow Dash...
"The apples seem like perfectly nice pony. I don't see why you couldn't at least try and make friends." Spike finished as he hot her a worried glance.
"Spike, what do friends do?" Twilight asked her assistant.
'Um… they have fun? They… talk to each other, they spend time together, they…"
"Get in the way of studies by wasting your time with meaningless activities," Twilight said, finishing the sentence that Spike wasn't about to say. Spike groaned.
'Twilight, you are way too dedicated to studying,' He said. 'Taking some time off every now and then isn't a bad thing.'
Twilight shot a glance at Naruto who was further up ahead before turning her head back to Spike and continued. "Spike the time we wasted having lunch should have been spent doing more productive procedures. That time could have been used to get through this business a lot quicker. If we finish the job faster, we can spend more time gaining knowledge and Knowledge is power, Spike. And when the Princess ends up needing help with Nightmare Moon, I am going to need power," Twilight said with finality.
They found themselves on the edge of town. "Hey Rain!" Naruto shouted out as he peered up at the sky. "Come on lazy wings did you forget what today is already?"
A force shot by knocking Twilight off her feet and Naruto on his back. Naruto found himself pinned to the ground as a pair of supple breasts constrained by a black bra with a three color lightning bolt pattern designed on it presented itself to his face.
Of course those breasts belong to one Rainbow Dash. The Tomcolt's body was slim, fit, and rather athletic. Her mane consisted of a tomcolt style cut short with an assortment of colors of the rainbow of Light red, vermilion, gold with moderate sap green, cornflower blue, and moderate violet colors.
The tall and slim form was atypical of Pegasi often being the slimmest of the three pony tribes who were born with slender figures and the most resistant to temperature out of the three tribes. On her back held large and majestic cyan wings with the same coloration of her fur. For her dream and her job Rainbow's body was perfect with a thin layer of muscle along her limbs. Though Naruto wasn't concerned about that, what was concerning him was the sport shot clad butt that was grinding against his crotch while her tail playfully brushed against his knees.
"R-Rain!" Naruto yelped as her face pressed dangerously close to the blond.
"What's wrong champ?" she teased in a husky tone. "Caught you completely off guard today." She continued grinding her tight asset against him.
Twilight could only look on scandalized at the situation before her. Upon mentioning shaking off the shock she hastily covered the eyes of her gaping assistant so he wouldn't be furthered corrupted by what he was seeing.
"We got company!" he said as he pointed to behind the Pegasus.
Rainbow craned her head as her eyes widened and her mouth dropped upon seeing Twilight and Spike. Rainbow jumped up, fluttering from her wings causing her to slowly descend to her feet. "Whoops." She bashfully chuckled as her cheeks burned a bit red. "Kind of awkward." She said as she let out another sheepish laugh. "Uh, 'scuse me? Lemme help you." The Pegasus said as he helped her up.
She then floated up to a cloud and jumped on it, causing a ray of showers to wash over the Unicorn. "Didn't mean to get you caught up in that. Sorry about that." Then using her powerful wings she caused the Unicorn to puff up, but dried out. "My very own patented Rain-Blow Dry! No no. Don't thank me. You're quite welcome." She replied with a burst of laughter acting as if the situation that happened just didn't happen.
Seeing the ridiculous state Twilight was in, who let go of Spike from the sudden burst of wind resulted in the dragon burst out laughing.
"Can't go a day without causing mayhem I see?" Naruto teased as Rainbow just let out a shrug.
"Yeah, yeah." She spiffily remarked. "And who's this?" Rainbow Dash flew down from the cloud and gave Twilight the once over. "Another one of your marefriends?" she teased the blond with a saucy smile.
"Cute," Naruto remarked. "She's here to monitor how things are going for the Summer Sun Festival and I'm playing the role of her tour guide.
Twilight Sparkle, having finally collected herself she cleared her throat and began speaking to Rainbow. "Excuse me, Rainbow Dash."
"The one and only." The Pegasus proudly boasted with a flap of her wings and a thump to her chest.
"I heard you were supposed to be keeping the sky clear." She let out a sigh. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and the Princess sent me to check on the weather."
"I'll get it done in a jiffy just as soon as I'm done practicing my newest trick." She said as she began to gently fly back into the air.
"Practicing for what may I pray tell?"
"The Wonderbolts! They're gonna perform at the Celebration tomorrow, and I'm gonna show 'em my stuff!" The boasting was complemented with a mid-flight somersault while landing on the cloud behind her. Twilight would admit she had a little skill in the flight department.
"The Wonderbolts? The most talented fliers in Equestria," Twilight reaffirmed. She didn't have an interest in such sport events, but she at least knew of them by reputation. It was nearly impossible not to at least know about them.
"And they're gonna perform at the Festival tomorrow, and I'm gonna show 'em my stuff!" Rainbow gushed as her eyes glazed over as she began to daydream about the event.
In response to Rainbow's verbalized declaration Twilight let out a condescending snort. "Please, the Wonderbolts would never never accept a Pegasus who can't even keep the sky clear for one measly day." She challenged the Pegasus.
"Hey, I could clear this sky in ten seconds flat." Rainbow proudly boasted as her eyes scrunched up.
With a smirk on her face Twilight decided to challenge her. "Prove it."
With a burst of speed that nearly left Twilight face up Rainbow took off. She zipped through the sky, her hooves obliterating cloud by cloud with ease. Her movements were near untraceable as she quickly sent the little white puffs to nonexistence. With little sounds of exertions and loops Rainbow Dash left the sky empty. "What'd I say? Ten. Seconds. Flat." With a triumph grin and a flap of her wings Rainbow landed on the ground. "I'd never leave Ponyville hanging."
"As I've told you Miss Sparkle, she may be lazy but Rainbow Dash is good at her job." Naruto proudly stated.
"Yeah…" Rainbow added before catching onto Naruto's jab. "Hey!"
Despite it all Twilight couldn't help but let out a sheep like cry at the impressive speed. "You should see the look on your face. Ha! You're a laugh, Twilight Sparkle. I can't wait to hang out some more." Rainbow took to the sky again. "And if you're ready for me to whip your tail in a race again Naruto I'll take you on anytime."
"Hey, try me again without flying and we'll see who excels with speed." Naruto challenged with a determined grin.
"Wow, she's amazing!" Spike remarked. "How'd you meet her?" Spike wondered, turning to the blond. Naruto let out a sigh as he waved them over to another direction.
"I'll explain as we continued on to our next location. Where do we have to go next?" he asked as Spike checked the list and announced decorations. "Right, well I actually met Rainbow Dash before Applejack. It was around when I first arrived to Ponyville. My happening upon Ponyville was essentially an accident." He said as he began recalling the events while doing his best to recall what Rainbow had told him.
[i]Rainbow Dash often took to the skies. The air was her domain, her element, embodying all the freedom one could ever wish. The air felt great in her mane as she continued doing a series of tricks and turns. She could feel it, her greatest desire coming true soon. She was sure if she kept it up she would one day be invited to join the Wonderbolts. Her focus on this one track goal was interrupted by a commotion down below in Everfree Forest.
One often to jump into action before planning out her steps Rainbow Dash shot down towards the area with near unparalleled speed. She disappeared from the sky's view under the thick foliage of the old forest. Her wings flapped in rhythm as she glided towards the location of the commotion and she gasped at what she saw.
An orange stallion was surrounded by creatures she did not recognize. They had long, willowy bodies reminiscent of withered willows and bony like features. Their mouths were like gaping black pits without a hint of a throat or end in sight. Their eyes were a hollow violet, a sort of dead pale imitation that could only be achieved by dolls.
The stallion looked to be rather cut up, patches of his body caked in blood and that he was about to collapse in exhaustion. Rainbow Dash couldn't stand by as these strange creatures attacked another member of her kind. "Hey freaks! Pick on someone your own size!" she declared with headstrong bravado. Landing for a brief moment she began picking up speed and charged towards the creatures that spared her a glance. She landed a solid spin kick into one of the unidentified creatures sending it flying into the air and slam into a tree, exploding into a smoky black wisp.
The creatures let out a high-pitched, hollow hiss as they meld into the ground and slithered towards Rainbow Dash. Startled, she immediately took to the air and gained some distance as they sprung from the ground and swiped at her. Floating back, she quickly picked up speed and ram into the creatures with her shoulder, sending them to meet their end as they exploded from whatever they impacted. Though for each one she managed to defeat two more would take its place. "Crud, there's no end to these guys."
Suddenly the creatures were evaporated by a stream of light. Rainbow found herself dumbstruck as orange Stallion uttered the word 'run' before collapsing. Normally Rainbow would have let out an exclamation of outrage; the insinuation that she was a coward would have been an insult to her pride, but whoever this Stallion he seemed to be heavily injured. Swallowing her Pride Rainbow picked him up in her arms and took to the air just before the creatures would retaliate. She quickly made her way to Ponyville to get the blond medical treatment.
Naruto began to stir, a groan escaping his lips as his vision slowly focused. He slowly sat up; he was in some kind of hospital room. "Where am I?" he wondered.
"You're at the hospital!" A sweet yet brash voice spoke to him.
He turned to the voice and sure enough it was the colorful bipedal female pony from the forest. "You…you saved me." He started to recollect what happened.
"Yep, the name is Rainbow Dash, feel free to thank me however much you think is necessary then throw a little bit more in for good measure." The speedster vainglorious remarked.
"Considering you were about to be overrun I'd consider us even." He teased with a light grin.
"What!" she exclaimed in outrage. "Hey buddy I totally saved your butt!" Rainbow argued, growing annoyed that the Stallion wasn't more grateful. "If I haven't been there you would have been creature food."
The stallion grew silent for a few seconds. "Thanks, I haven't been having the best past few days and you really helped me out of a tough situation."
"I…you're welcome." Rainbow remarked.
Suddenly another Pony woman had entered the room. She was shorter than the rainbow woman with a light pink made reminiscent of cotton candy wearing an open candy striper nurse outfit with a black top underneath as they were called he believe. A stark contrast to the scrubs he was used to seeing. Her fur was white or maybe closer to light gray shade with beautiful sapphire blue. She was wearing a Nurse hat and had Red Cross mark on her side with a heart at the four corners. All and all she was rather pleasant to look at."Well this is a first Rainbow. Normally whenever you come to the hospital you bring injuries, but this is the first time you've brought a Stallion. I wonder if that thing about those monsters is entirely true, hhm?" the nurse lightly teased the tomcolt with the insinuation that there was another reason behind the stallion's injuries. Considering how reckless Rainbow Dash could be it wasn't unusual to see her back in the hospital every other month or so.
"Nurse Redheart!" Rainbow Dash's cheek burned a furious red. She couldn't believe the insinuation she was hearing. "I don't even know him. Besides, I don't have time for romance; you know I'm trying to join the Wonderbolts."
"Sure, sure." Redheart replied. "Does the young Stallion have a name?" she asked, turning to Naruto.
"Naruto…Naruto Uzumaki." He explained as the two Mares shared a look.
"That's…a nice name." Redheart carefully chose her words. He had such a strange sounding name. Was he from one of the outer settlements? "Well than Mr. Naruto there is some paperwork you have to sign. Once it's done you'll be free to go after one last check-up."
Naruto merely murmured an okay. "Well I have to go since you're okay and all." Rainbow told him.
"Thanks again."
"Don't worry about it." Rainbow Dash casually remarked as she left the room. Naruto found himself released several hours later. Apparently he was now in a place known as Ponyville. 'No ID, no currency, and no allies.' He morosely thought. His best bet on gaining information and gathering his bearings would be heading to the library and learning as much as he could about this new world.[/i]
Naruto ended the story with him having healed up enough to leave the hospital.
"Wow, the two of you must have gotten close to go from hardly knowing each other to being together." Twilight noted.
"Oh? Oh no we're not together," Naruto corrected her with a light laugh. "She's like my bro. It's complicated."
"Last time I checked ponies do not engage in the sort of intimate behavior you two did so casually." She remarked with a deadpan look.
[i]"Well Twi if you ever took time to ever make friends you could probably say that with utter clarity." [/i]Spike mentally thought with a role of her eyes.
"Well we have an odd sort of friendship. We like to prank and tease each other and Rainbow seems to get joy out of teasing me that way. The reason why I said she's like my bro because it'd be weird to think of her like my sister." He tried to reason as he realized it didn't really help his case. Thankfully since they were at the next location the conversation can be steered elsewhere.
Before them was a large, two story lavish building. It was a building of lavish colors of cerulean, pink, golden, diamond shades, silver, and other stylish colors. "This is the Carousel Boutique, home of Rarity." Sure enough the building has indeed emphasized its name. With horse shaped objects on the second floor like a carousel, crystal like clear glasses and an orange flag on top. A red shaped heart was one of the emblems above the golden horse shaped emblem above the home adorn with pink and violet hearts.
With a confident stride Naruto announced himself and his companions as they entered the Boutique.