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How Pinkie Pie met Rainbow Dash Chapter 1

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"Recall it as often as you want, a happy memory never wears out."



Chapter 1


Beginning with a Bang!


It was a bright and all around wonderifical day in the busy and bustling city of Manehattan. The clouds above hovered over the city like a super cozy blanket, protecting the inhabitants from the hot and often scorching raze of that rather bothersome sun overhead. Everypony was going about their business happily; everypony except for a certain lazy and very bored rainbow-maned Pegasus pony that is.


Rainbow Dash wandered down the streets of Manehattan aimlessly; her multi-colored mane swaying back and forth. She felt it rather odd when her hair was relaxed against her head; she was more accustomed to having it flowing behind her and out of her eyes, but the city was so packed with buildings and annoying obstacles that she had no choice but to walk – something Dash hated to do.  She barely looked up from the ground to see who was coming and going in front of her, almost hitting a colt walking the other way in the process. Boredom was setting upon her as she saw the ponies of the city either walking everywhere dully or pulling carriages with other ponies inside them, looking even dullier still.

"Progress, huh?" She mumbled to herself. Rainbow Dash had come here looking for an exciting vacation away from all the tedious cloud clearing she had been doing in Cloudsdale, but now she regretted that decision. She would take her cloud clearing job over mind-numbing boredom any day.

She watched a group of ponies roll past in a carriage, being pulled along by two stallions. So boring, Dash thought to herself. What's the point in sitting around in carriages all day when you could be having some actual fun around here?   The sight of the pony's uptight noses in the air made her sick. Why is everypony so boring?!


The ponies of this city are aristocratic fancy pants types: no time for play, workaholic, big boredy bored pants ponies to be exact. Manehattan was a city with so many dumb and complicated rules that all you are allowed to be was sad and un-fun all the time. And the only way you could throw a party was if you promised that it was for business and not at all fun in any possible way.


It was noon by now and Dash kept walking along with her head in the clouds, thinking of what she could be doing back in the cloud city right now. Doesn't anypony here pull pranks? I wonder what they would say to a sudden overcast downpour. She chuckled at the thought of wet, stuck up ponies running for cover. Well it'd sure be funny to watch, but it would remind me too much of the work in Cloudsdale. She heaved a giganterific sigh as she wandered past a collection of stores and in front of a lavender coloured hair care salon. I thought at least somepony would have a bounce in their step in a town like–

"Ooph!" Rainbow Dash fell backwards, landing on her rump. She shook her head and stood up angrily. "Hey, watch where you're going… you– huh?"

Dash looked down at the pony that had run into her. Her coat was a dull pink and her mane was a faded Magenta hew. It hung straight and limp in her face, blocking Rainbow from actually seeing her expression, but she could hear sniffs and whimpers coming from the pink pony. She looked up at Dash with her watery blue eyes; her heart sank. Is she… crying?

The pink pony rubbed a hoof over her face to wipe off the tears. "S-Sorry." She managed in between sniffs.

The anger Dash felt towards the pony had disappeared and was replaced with confusion and concern. "Hey, are you okay?" She walked closer to the crying pony to hear her answer more clearly.

The pink pony only sniffed and looked down at the floor with more wet tears staining her cheeks.

Hmm, too sad to talk huh? The Pegasus pony smirked as an idea struck her. We'll see about that. "My name's Dash. Rainbow Dash! What's yours?" She asked striking her signature pose, trying to get the sad pony to forget whatever it was that upset her.

The pony seated on the ground looked up warily and saw the seemingly comical pose Dash made. Quiet and still somewhat troubled giggles escaped through the sobs and she wiped the final tears away with a hoof. "P-Pinkie Pie." The pony answered shakily.

Dash stood back up normally and tilted her head at the pony's strange name. Hmm, I guess the name was kinda obvious. She thought to herself. She was happy that Pinkie Pie wasn't crying anymore; if she could wrap it up now she could get to flying outside of town for a few hours. Yeah, maybe that'll cheer me up.

"Well, Pinkie Pie I like your hair. It seems so manageable… not like mine." Rainbow Dash blew a piece of hair that had fallen down into her eyes away, but it just fell back into the same place. Dash groaned.

Pinkie Pie looked up and saw the rainbow-maned Pegasus' struggles. She giggled a little. "Really? You do?" The pink pony asked. Pinkie's hair bounced up into a few curls and her mane brightened a bit.

Dash, you're a genius. Smiling proudly, she sat down and nodded. "Mm hmm, I wish I had your hair. It wouldn't get in my eyes while I was flying." Rainbow Dash answered while brushing more of her mane out of the way; the more she talked about flying the more she wanted to finish up and get to it, but the pink pony's pleading eyes kept pulling her away from her reverie of a quick flight.

Pinkie jumped up as her mane and tail exploded with super bright pink curls, she started bouncing up and down around Dash happily. The rainbow-maned Pegasus' eyes followed the bouncing pony as she hopped around in a circle, her eyes widening at the sudden explosion of colour on top of the pink pony's head. Where– How did– Her mane… it's… puffy. How–

"Well, I like your hair." The thoughts soaring through Dash's mind were quickly grounded by Pinkie's unpredicted response. She stared more intently at the pony as if to say, Huh?! "There's sooo many colors. There's blue and green and red and orange and yellow and purple-" She stopped bouncing and put a hoof to her chin in thought. "Or is it violet? Hmm…" She looked to be in thought and then looked back at Dash with a smile. "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie!"

"I know. You already said that." Rainbow Dash replied with some minor confusion.

Pinkie's head tilted to the right, quizzically. Her pink curly mane did the same. "I did? Oh."

"Do… do you really like my hair?" Dash asked with a confused expression spread across her face. Nopony had ever complimented her mane before. "I always thought it made me look weird. I mean, what kinda pony would want a mane like this?" She questioned, grabbing a hoof full of rainbow-coloured hair and gesturing to it.

Pinkie sat down in front of Dash with her head tilted slightly to the side, her curly mane and tail following soon after. "I would. You look super pretty with all those colours in one hair style," Pinkie Pie replied with closed blue eyes and a bright smile on her face.

Rainbow Dash looked embarrassed and tilted her head to the side. Pretty? Me? No way. She forced the growing heat off her cheeks and turned back to face the pink pony.

Pinkie continued rambling with a hoof to her chin. "Although, I'm not sure what kind of shampoo you would use for that hair; especially with all those different colours… It would be a total mess."

A silence came over the two and Pinkie and Dash just stared at each other. The rainbow-maned Pegasus decided that it was time to get to the bottom of this. Why was she sad? Why was she crying? And how did her mane suddenly get so bouncy? All of these thoughts zoomed and rainboomed through her head as she came to focus on figuring out what made this bouncy ball of fluff of a pony so un-bouncy.

"Pinkie? Why were you crying before?"

Pinkie Pie's gaze slipped to her hooves as her smile dropped, being replaced by a look of sadness. She moved some dirt along the ground in a circle as she looked down to the floor. "Oh, well… I was trying to get some shampoo *sniff* for curly hair… from this hair salon." She answered slowly as she pointed to the store she had just come from.

The pink pony suddenly looked apprehensive to continue with her story, so Dash became a tad impatient. "… And?" Rainbow asked, looking a little confused and annoyed at the pony's hesitation to explain why going to a hair salon could possibly make a pony sad at all… not that she'd ever bothered going to one. For all I know they could be torturing ponies with overly expensive and extremely unnecessary hair care products in there. She chuckled to herself at the unintentional humour in that thought.

The Earth pony gulped trying to hold back her tears, but they kept coming. "Well *sniff*… as soon as they saw me *sniff* they said my hair looked horrible *sniff* and I was hurting pony's eyes… by coming out in public with these *sniff* pink curls and… and-" Tears ran freely from her pink face and she couldn't bring herself to look at Dash. Pinkie rubbed her reddened, teary eyes again.

As she stared at the deflating pony again, Rainbow's expression changed from concern to anger; she had heard enough. "Wait here." Dash interrupted her and walked slowly into the salon. Suddenly, Pinkie heard crashing noises and girls screaming from inside. She could make out Dash's voice amongst the noises. "THIS is for making fun of PINKIE Pie! You should be HAPPY that she CAME here... and you should be GRATEFUL that she allowed you to even SEE her pink hair!" It was silent inside the store for a while except for the shuffling of hooves. After a minute Rainbow Dash walked back out with the same style she walked in with, but she sat down and started rubbing her hooves angrily.

A tear ran down Pinkie's left cheek and dropped to the floor. "What *sniff* was that about?"

"I just had some… business to take care of." She looked back into the store as she rubbed her knuckles. Then she looked at Pinkie, smirking. "Hey, what kind of shampoo do you usually get? Wave Behave or Crazy Curls?" She asked holding up two different shampoo products.

"Did you take those from the salon Dash?" She asked quizzically, wiping away the rest of her tears. Rainbow Dash started to whistle and looked to the side guiltily. "Dash." Pinkie Pie looked at her and chuckled with a smirk of her own, lightly hopping onto her face.

Dash started to giggle and turned her head back to face Pinkie with her rose-coloured eyes shut, but she was swiftly bounced to the ground by a pink blur. "Ooph!"

Pinkie hugged her tightly as Dash struggled to breathe through her surprisingly strong hold. "Oh, thank you, Rainbow Dash! Thank you!" After a few seconds of hugging she let go and hopped off, allowing the rainbow-maned Pegasus to regain her composure.

When she was up again, she took one more glance at the Earth pony and started walking away. She had had an idea. "Come on, Pinkie." She called back for her to follow.

"Where are we going?" Pinkie asked as she caught up and bounced joyfully around Dash.

"We're gonna have some fun!" Rainbow Dash replied as her eyes followed the pink filly, who continued to hop around.

"Ooh, I love to have fun; it's my favourite thing to do and when other ponies are having fun that makes me happier than I could be when I'm having fun all by my pony self. And I love to be happy and I love to make other ponies happy even more, 'cause it's fun to make ponies happy, which makes me happy and being happy and fun and funny is what I'm all about." Rainbow Dash's mind was mush. It took her a few seconds before she realised Pinkie Pie had stopped talking and was smiling at her. She shook her head to focus on the pony in front of her. "So, what are we gonna do? Are we gonna pull some pranks or have a party? Ooh, I love parties 'cause that's where most of the fun and happiness comes from and I love to have fun and mm mmm! Mm mmm!" Rainbow Dash had placed a hoof over the pink pony's mouth.

"I know. You said that." Dash replied with another smirk. She removed her hoof and stepped closer to Pinkie.

"I did?" Asked Pinkie with the same look of confusion she had on the first time Rainbow Dash said that.

"Yep. Hop on!" Dash yelled as she took a dramatic pose.

"Hop what?" Pinkie asked, looking even more confused.

"Hop on." Dash repeated more quietly, pointing to her back. Pinkie gave her a questioning look and tilted her head to the side. "Something wrong-? Ooph!"

Pinkie jumped onto Rainbow Dash's back. "Nopey dopey! I just wanted to make sure you meant your back and not your head." Pinkie placed both hooves over her mouth and tried to hold back giggles. "Could you believe it if I thought you meant your head instead? That would have been embarrassing! Then you wouldn't be able to see anything ha ha ha!"

Embarrassing is right. She thought to herself.

"Pinkie Pie, you're with the Dash now. And when you're with the Dash, you'd better hang ON!!" Rainbow Dash kicked off quickly and zoomed into the air with a burst of speed that took most of Pinkie's breath away, but just enough of it remained for her to say:

"Wooohooooo!!"

For the rest of the super-duper beautifully sunny day, Rainbow Dash flew around doing tricks – either with the pink pony on her back or following down below – and together they pulled a whole buncha pranks on those silly residents of Manehattan. Replacing its residents' ink supply with invisible ink; causing the shady clouds hanging over the city to rain down on the unsuspecting ponies; brightening up the dull houses with pink and green and blue and violet and yellow and orange and red, and many other hilarious pranks. At the end of the day Rainbow Dash and her pink friend walked along the empty streets, still laughing their heads off on another terrifically successful prank.

"Did you see that guys face? Priceless. Priceless!" Dash snickered, but then she lowered her head.

Pinkie didn't seem to notice; she answered the pony's question with some giggles and chuckles of her own. "I sure did. He was a real fast runner; even when we started to fly away from him, he still ran after us. What do you think he would have done with that broom if he caught up to us?" The pink pony turned her head to face Dash when she didn't reply. "Dash?"

Dash slowed down and Pinkie Pie followed soon after to look back at the Pegasus pony. "Phew. I'm tired after all that pranking and flying." She spoke with her head low to the ground.

Pinkie started bouncing higher when she saw Dash struggling to keep pace with her. "Maybe you should eat some candy. That's how I get my bounciness and Pinkie energy." She offered with a wide smile.

"Hmm, you don't say." Dash said, smirking across at Pinkie Pie. She picked her head up and quickened her stride, bouncing the troubled thoughts out of Pinkie's joyful mind.
Pinkie's smile then faded and her expression became serious; she stopped leaping about and matched the Pegasus' pace. She looked thoughtfully at Rainbow Dash and managed a tender smile. "Thanks for cheering me up Dash."

"No sweat. It was a lot of fun… pranking all of those uptight ponies." She responded, still chuckling to herself.

"Not just for pulling pranks with me… for cheering me up after those ponies at the salon. I've never, ever, ever been more sad in my entire life than when they made fun of me. But you, a pony I didn't even know, came from outta nowhere and helped me to laugh again. Thank you, Rainbow Dash." Her eyes were filled with happy tears as she stared at the rainbow-maned pony.

"It-" Rainbow Dash noticed the pink ponies' eyes welling up and looked away nervously. "Really, it was my pleasure. Those ponies deserved it and more." Dash replied with a slightly angry tone of voice at remembering. She turned her head back to the Earth pony to meet her teary eyes. "Anyway, today was a lot of fun Pinkie. I can't wait to hang out some more."

"Hang out?" The pink pony suddenly seemed out of breath and just stared into Dash's beautiful rose-coloured eyes, eagerly waiting for a response.

Dash lifted off, her wings flapping to keep her aloft while she looked down at Pinkie's concerned face. "Yeah, how 'bout tomorrow? We could pull some more pranks on these totally unfun ponies-"

"T-tomorrow? What do you- what do you mean?" She leaned in closer to Rainbow, her huge blue eyes still glistening and pleading, as if hearing her answer was the most importantly portant thing in all of Equestria.

Dash smiled kindly, unfazed by the pink pony. She landed beside the Earth pony and smiled slyly, keeping pace with Pinkie. "Well, I had so much fun with my new best friend I thought I'd like to keep having fun with her." She sighed and looked around at the other ponies on the streets. Then she turned her head back to the abso-tively befuddled pony before her. "Nopony around here seems to have a funny bone in their boring-as-hay bodies and you seem to be the only pony with the slightest bit of fun in her. And let me tell you, you're bursting with tons of fun Pinkie."

"So, I… I'm your friend?" She asked with hope in her voice and her attention set firmly on the Pegasus pony.

As if just noticing her new friend's beautifully blue eyes pleading for an answer, she looked seriously at her. "Of course you are, Pinks. Why wouldn't I be?"

She pushed around some stray dirt on the floor; she seemed to be having trouble coming up with any words, something very bizarre for the pink pony. "Because I'm too energetic… b-b-because I'm weird and I bounce around everywhere like a crazy pony… and I smile all the time and I'm just too h-happy and cheerful to be around and-"

"Pinkie?" That was not the kind of response Dash had been expecting at all; which made her think of something awful. "Pinkie… don't you have other friends?" The Pegasus pony stopped and looked at the pink pony walking ahead; regret of asking such a question flew into Dash's heart, causing it to beat more quickly at the fear of actually getting a reply.

Pinkie came to a stop a few hooves ahead of Dash and said nothing. The two ponies stood in silence; the Pegasus pony's heart raced in concern for her friend until the pink pony quietly broke the uncomfortable silence between them. "… No." Pinkie's head tilted to the side to glance back at her friend with those sad blue eyes again.

The Earth pony's smoothly spoken answer brought Dash's feathery fear quickly down to reality. Her mouth felt dry; no words managed to escape her lips. The rainbow-maned pony thought of the impossibility of her friend's answer. No. Pinkie… how can you not have any friends? Just the thought of Pinkie being without laughter and fun for one second makes me want to–

"And all those things I just said were excuses made by all the ponies I've ever hung out with." Pinkie continued, regaining her composure; she turned around sadly, interrupting Dash's obviously violent thoughts. Her voice was calm, but the words she spoke held more emotion to the young pony's heart than any kind of voice could tell.

Rainbow walked up and put a comforting hoof on the pony's shoulder as she spoke confidently to Pinkie. "Well that's over. 'Cause you're my best friend and we're gonna hang out tomorrow."

"Really?" Her face lit up and she stared into Rainbow Dash's eyes again.

The Pegasus pony managed a small smile. "Of course, Pinks."

Pinkie's lip trembled slightly and suddenly broke down and started crying again, covering her head with her hooves.

Oh no. Rainbow Dash thought to herself as she cringed and looked down at Pinkie. What did I do? Doesn't she like the nickname I gave her? What about me being her friend? Doesn't she even know who I–

Rainbow stopped and listened with one eye opened. Is she laughing?

Pinkie erupted off the floor, laughing and giggling and began hopping around Dash. "I have a friend, I have a friend, I have a friend! Do you mean it? You're really my bestest best friend?" She bounced in front of Dash and stared deeply into her eyes, as if her eyes were posi-lutely bouncing with the answer she needed. Then Pinkie gasped with realization. "You do! You're my bestest best friend too, Dashie!"

"Dashie?" The Pegasus pony asked with a raised eyebrow directed at the pink pony.

Pinkie Pie smiled back kindly at her new bestest best friend as she replied. "Yeah, well your name's Rainbow Dash and my name's Pinkie Pie and Dashie rhymes with Pinkie so I thought it would be a good name for you to be called by me instead of Rainbow Dash a whole bunch. You must get pretty bored of being called by your full name all the time so I thought you'd like a cool nickname. In fact my name is short for Pinkamena Diane Pie, but then I thought 'that's an awful lot for ponies to say all the time', so I decided on just Pinkie Pie instead to save more time for having fun. So what d'ya say, Dashie?" Her smile had become a rather large grin by the end of her very long explanation of what the name Dashie was for.

"Well y-yes… sure, but haven't you ever had other friends?" Rainbow Dash asked, quite confused now. Dashie? It sounds kinda cool.

Pinkie spoke thoughtfully as if remembering all of the times she tried to unsuccessfully make friends. "No. Ponies don't really like me. They think I'm too excitable, so they avoid me. The last pony I tried to befriend must have heard of my hyper-actively fun pranks from the other ponies. I was really well and truly just asking him for the time, honest." She shrugged.

"What happened after that?" Dash enquired with a curious tilt of her head.

"He ran behind that barrel over there. Hi Paul!" She waved joyfully at the barrel with the pony hiding and shaking behind it.

The two ponies were silent for a few moments, staring at the pony behind the barrel; Pinkie seemed quite content to smile and wave at the other residents of Manehattan, while the Pegasus pony looked from the Earth pony to the pony behind the barrel and back to Pinkie Pie.

A smile graced Dash's face. She dropped her useless attempts at comprehending the impossibly bizarre relationship Pinkie must have had with the residents of the city to make them seek shelter behind a small barrel and sighed. "Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore 'cause you're hangin' with me now." She saw Pinkie's smile brighten and her mane burst forth with maximum puffage. Dash lowered her head and groaned warily. "But I can barely walk after all the pranks we pulled and all the flying I had to do to get us both outta trouble."

Pinkie bounced in place in front of Rainbow Dash. "Do what I said before; eating some sweets always cheers me up after a long day of pranking." Pinkie gasped. "You should definitely do that!" She leaned in close to Rainbow Dash with her wide, beautiful blue eyes. "Ooh, we need to find a sweets shop around here!"

The sudden closeness of Pinkie's bright face and pleading eyes gazing profoundly into Dash's rose-coloured ones made her feel uncomfortable; she smiled back nervously. Staring into her eyes the Pegasus pony fell into a kind of trance; her wings spread wide without her permission. The two held this position for a while until Dash shook her head to  escape the little pony's stare. "You know that's not a bad idea, Pinkie." She sat down and put a hoof to her chin. She smirked and stood up nose to nose with her new friend. "In fact, I challenge you to a candy eating contest tomorrow. We'll just see who the best candy eater is."

Pinkie smiled joyfully back at the Pegasus. "Okie dokey lokie!" She dropped her intense gaze and started to look around happily.

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and looked down with a soft sigh. What was that? I couldn't look away. She opened her eyes and noticed her outspread wings. When did my wings unfurl? She asked herself confusedly.

The pink pony continued talking as she glanced back at Dash. "But first I need to figure out where we are."

She folded up her wings carefully and raised an eyebrow again. "What? Why we're right–" She stopped and looked around, quickly realizing that she had no idea where they were. "–here."

"Oh Rainbow Dash! I know we're right here, but the question is: where is here?" She sat down on her rump in thought. A sudden realisation hit her Pinkie Pie brain; she had figured it out. "We must've gone through a wormhole or something. Oh, I knew I should've brought my towel."

"Don't worry Pinks; I'll just fly up and– huh?" Rainbow Dash suddenly became 20% more confused at Pinkie Pie's statement and turned her head to look at her suspiciously.

The pink pony looked at her Pegasus friend with an expression that seemed to scream 'everypony should know about that'. "A wormhole. You know, sort of like time travel."

Dash sat down and waved her hoof back and forth. "No not that, but I don't quite understand that either." She scratched the back of her neck and tried to make sense of what Pinkie said, but all that she managed was:

"Pinkie Pie, you are so random."

She kept staring at her friend with the same confused look on her face, but this time she had a wide grin on her face.

Pinkie giggled at the newly created catch phrase. "Oh, you mean about the towel?" Dash nodded, speechless. "It's the most valuable thing you can have when travelling through space. I thought everypony knew that."

"… Okay. Well that 'answer' just brought up more questions, so I'm just gonna see where we are. Wait here." She pushed off the ground and flew up to look out over the towering buildings of Manehattan and attempted to figure out where they had found themselves.

On the ground, Pinkie smiled broadly and bounced up and down as she watched the Pegasus reach the tops of the skyscrapers and look around to find any sense of direction. However, Pinkie noticed that something was off about her friends flying this time. She stopped bouncing and tilted her head to the side in thought. Hmm. When I flew with Dashie before she seemed perfectly fine; she had no trouble soaring through the air, but now she looks like she's eaten a million cupcakes all at once. And that's a whole lot to eat in one sitting. I hope she's okay. A sudden, terrible thought tumbled into her Pinkie-mind; she gasped with both hooves covering her muzzle to muffle the sound. She shook the thought from her Pinkie-mind and her pink, curly mane shook with it. No, she's fine… please be okay.

After a few quick glances at the darkness that surrounded her, Dash soared back down and landed next to Pinkie. The Earth pony, of course, immediately started bouncing up and down excitedly again.

"Ooh, ooh! What did you see? What did you see?" Pinkie's excitement at seeing her friend again only seemed to grow as she watched Dash for an answer.

Rainbow bowed her head. "I… I don't know where we are. I've never really explored Manehattan; I always flew outta town to practice my flying for the Wonderbolt's, so I only know the place I'm staying at. I don't have a clue."

Pinkie placed a front hoof to her chin in thought while she still bounced in place with the other three. This took Rainbow's attention away from not knowing where they were and put it all on trying to figure out how she actually managed to do that. After giving up on ever coming up with an answer that would satisfy her, she couldn't help but smile at her pink friend's ever strange and happy go-lucky demeanour.

Pinkie gasped suddenly as she came up with something. "I've got an idea, Rainbow Dash. Wait here!" With that she crouched down, wiggled her rump, and bounced all the way up to the top of a rather tall building.

Dash's jaw dropped and yet again her thoughts shifted to another one of Pinkie's strange abilities. She blinked a few times to confirm that she just saw a pink Earth pony jump over 10 stories high. "How did she… do that?"

It was pitch black when she looked out across the city, but with her super sensitive eyes she could see as clear as day. As Pinkie twisted her head around in all directions to pick up exactly where they were, she soon spotted something familiar to her. Her smile brightened even more than it already had been – if that was even possible – and she quickly bounced back down to Dash to deliver the good news.

Before she could say anything, Rainbow Dash rushed over to her; confusion and worry spread across her cyan face. "How did you do that, Pinkie?"

"Do what?" Pinkie asked, tilting her head to the side quizzically.

"'Do what?' You just jumped 10 stories into the air and landed on a building! You coulda been hurt… or worse!" She stared angrily at the pink pony with her rose-coloured eyes for her response.

"Aww, Dashie. Were you worried about me?" A warm smile crossed her face.

Dash immediately dropped her angry gaze and replaced it with a look of embarrassment. "N-No. I was just… concerned. And why can't I be worried about a friend?" Rainbow looked to the side, covering her blush. "After all, if you get hurt there would be nopony here that could keep up with… the Dash." She finished, striking a pose.

Pinkie giggled. "Oh Rainbow Dash, you're so silly." She gasped and jumped up in place, landing with her legs spread out in a play bow and a huge smile on her face. "Dashie, I know where we are."

"Really? Awesome. So where do we have to go?" She asked while looking about the darkened area.

"Follow me!" She sang, hopping off into the dimly lit streets.

"Right behind you–" Rainbow went to follow her, but a sudden intense pain in her body prevented her from walking; instead she dropped to the ground and let out a heated scream. "Augh!"

"Dashie?" Pinkie looked back at her friend and found her on her stomach. Zipping over, she crouched down next to her and stared worriedly into Rainbow's eyes. "Dashie! What happened?! Are you hurt?!"

"No… I'm f–" Rainbow Dash tried to sit up, but collapsed to the ground from yet another surge of pain. "Urgh!" The pink pony stood up in realisation of the Pegasus pony's agony. "Y-Yeah, I… I think it was from all of the flying and pranking with…" She trailed off when she looked into Pinkie's widened eyes.

"With me." Pinkie glumly finished the rainbow-maned Pegasus' sentence and sat down, hunched over. "This is why I'm not supposed to have friends."

Dash raised her head with some difficulty to stare at the pony for an explanation. "What?"

Pinkie didn't seem to hear her question and kept scolding herself. "Oh, I knew I should have listened to my Pinkie-sense and stayed inside today. None of this would've happened. None of it." She said, staring down at the floor angrily.

Trying to sit up to look into the pink ponies eyes again, Rainbow caught sight of her dulled blue eyes. "What are you talking about, Pinkie?"

As if she just noticed her bestest best friend's questions Pinkie looked back at Dash and gulped. "My Pinkie-sense told me that if I went outside of my house today… somepony close to me would get hurt. But I didn't have any friends… so I thought it would be okay. I only wanted to get something for this messy mane of mine and now I've hurt the only friend I've ever ever had." She looked down as if to start crying. At the image of Pinkie in tears again, Dash felt some of her own coming on.

"Pinkie… it's okay. I'm not hurt bad, it's just a sprain." She put a hoof under Pinkie's chin and lifted it up to look into her big round eyes. "I don't blame you Pinkie. Or your Pinkie-sense – whatever that is. This happens to me a lot."

"R-Really?"

"Of course, don't think a little sprain will do me in..." She tried to sit up again and managed it, but the rest of her ached; she wisely decided:

'To not do that anymore'.

Rainbow Dash had arrived at the conclusion that she wouldn't be able to walk or fly home and attempted to relax her muscles. "For long anyway." She replied with another cringe as she glanced at her shoulder.

Wiping her eyes with a hoof, Pinkie sniffed. "So you don't hate me, Dash?"

Rainbow turned sharply to stare into the pony's eyes. "Why would I ever hate you? Spending time with you today has been the most fun I've had in a long time. You know Pinkie, you're not as annoying as everypony else thinks you are. Not to me."

Rainbow suddenly felt a third surge of pain as Pinkie jumped on her, wrapping her front hooves around the blue Pegasus, and knocking her to the ground in a huge hug for the second time that day. "Oh, I'm sooo happy you still like me Dashie!"

All that was audibly heard from Rainbow Dash as an answer was a reasonably loud:

"Oww!"

Upon hearing this Pinkie let go and Dash was allowed to relax her muscles again. "Oops! Heh heh… sorry." A nervous smile leapt onto her pink face.

Laying her back-legs down carefully so she could face the pink pony beside her, Rainbow groaned in discomfort. "It's okay Pinkie… but– How are we gonna get out of this place now?"

"Oh, that's easy peasy." Pinkie sat down next to her and answered, putting a hoof to her chest. "I can carry you."

"Are you sure?" Rainbow Dash asked uneasily. The pink pony was also a little pony.

"It's only fair. You flew me all over Manehattan today; which must have been real hard, even with your muscles. The least Pinkie can do for you is get you back home." Immediately after she said that, her eyes lit up. "Wait! I've got it! I could see my house from up there; it's just around the corner. I can bring you to my house instead for the night so you can get better faster."

"But–" Dash started, but Pinkie interrupted her.

"No buts Dashie!" She paused to giggle at the word, but then she quickly regained her seriousness and sustained her argument. "I've made up my mind. I'm the one who got you into this mess, so I'm gonna be the pony to make you all better again." A stern look appeared on the pink ponies face. Dash hadn't seen this side of Pinkie yet; it was a side of pure, unwavering determination.

Rainbow Dash didn't have any time to reply as Pinkie slid her head underneath the Pegasus pony's belly, slipping her onto her back to be carried. She started to walk along easily as she finished her serious speech. "I'm also not leaving my bestest best friend Rainbow Dash lying here."

Blushing, she looked at the pink Earth pony from the side. Whoa, she's stronger than I thought. "Uhh… thank you, Pinkie."

Pinkie smiled back cheerfully. "No problem, Rainbow Dash." She quickly turned her head to look at the ground, so her bestest best friend couldn't see her own reddened cheeks.

As they walked, Rainbow was having trouble with what she should do. Where do I put my tail? Where do I put my legs? Where do I put my head? The Pegasus inwardly gasped as a more important and embarrassing problem struck her:

Where do I put my rump?!

While she asked herself these questions she was involuntarily squirming on Pinkie's back.
Pinkie's blush grew and she giggled nervously to herself. "Hey, Rainbow Dash?" She asked with some strain in her voice.

"Yeah Pinks?" Dash answered, half listening and half still struggling to get comfortable.

Holding in more giggles, the Earth pony concentrated on her question. "So, why do you go outta the city to fly around? Isn't Manehattan a good place to just glide in?"

She stopped for a minute to recall her last flight. "Oh, well it's easier to fly out in the open. There's no tall buildings in the way; it's freedom out there Pinkie." Her eyes glazed over at the memory of a good cruise.

Pinkie Pie allowed herself to relax as Dash ceased moving around. "It sounds like a ton of fun."

She smiled kindly. "It is." Rainbow Dash drifted into her seemingly endless reverie; her mind lifted her up into the sky for her to begin soaring effortlessly through the wide blue yonder which she missed sooo much. She was sooo immersed in her dream in fact that she almost forgot she was an injured pony currently seated on a pink pony's back.

Pinkie turned her head down to the ground and whispered to herself. "Maybe I can do that someday."

Breaking out of her daze, Dash started fumbling her hooves around trying to find a comfy position again. "I'm sure you'll get the chance to fly someday, Pinkie." Her head, hooves, and tail tossed and turned every which way except Pinkie's rump and neck, fearing how the pink pony would react to that.

After a few minutes of almost abso-tive silence – excluding the frustrated noises of the rainbow-maned pony failing once again to relax – the pink pony spoke… rather awkwardly to the ground. "Uhm, Rainbow Dash? You can rest your head on my neck if you want."

Dash was silent; her muzzle hung somewhat open. Her wings had again unfurled without her taking notice and heat spread across her face with a ripe red apple tint appearing on her cheeks; she really didn't know what to do now.

Pinkie regretted saying that straightaway and was concerned with how the Pegasus might have taken that offer. "Dashie? Are you okay?" She asked, looking over her shoulder at the injured pony.

"Y-Yeah, thanks Pinkie." She answered and slowly lowered her head to rest on the pony's mane. She had been right from before:

It really is soft.

Dash saw her opened wings as she leaned carefully on the pink pony's neck, but she didn't care this time. She was too comfy to worry about anything.

The sudden weight on Pinkie's shoulders told her that Dash's head now rested on her neck, but now she couldn't bring herself to say anything. She just stared at the floor with a small smile on her face as she kept walking through the darkened streets.

The rest of the trip was taken in complete silence. As they walked, Dash became more and more comfortable and Pinkie became more and more nervous. By the time the Earth pony reached her home, Rainbow Dash was completely relaxed in the curly pink mane while Pinkie Pie's whole body was abso-posilutely tense. She hesitated, looking back at the rainbow-maned pony's beautiful face snoozing away on her shoulder, but soon she managed to speak. "Dashie, we're here."

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes blissfully and looked up at the house.

It was a strange home, with a bright shade of pink covering the outside of it. It was a happily cake-like house with swirling pink frosting spiralling up to the roof and all along the sides in colourfully colourful layers. The cake house had a far brighter outside then the other skyscrapers around it; most were a very dull shade of dull grey, yuck!

As her vision began to clear, Rainbow Dash also remembered she had nearly fallen asleep on Pinkie's mane and rapidly became just as nervous as her Earth pony friend had been the entire trip.

"Umm, thank you Pinkie… for the lift I mean." She spoke quickly, with anxiousness noticeably present in her voice.

Pinkie was silent for a while and stood at the door before answering calmly; quite unusual for the pink pony. "Yeah, but let me get you inside and comfy womfy. You can sleep in my bed and I'll find someplace else."

"But Pinkie–" Dash started.

"Dashie." Pinkie looked sternly over her shoulder at the Pegasus pony, interrupting her.

Rainbow Dash stared back at her, anxiously. "But… but where are you gonna sleep?"

"Oh, I have a couch. I can use that for tonight." She answered, suddenly confident in herself; she turned back and stepped into the pink house with a smile of a job well done and a good nap well deserved.

"Pinks… you don't have to do that." Dash protested, still apprehensive towards Pinkie's offerings.

The pink pony nudged the door closed with her muzzle and turned around, headed for the stairs and the second floor. "You're my friend Rainbow Dash. I… I want to do it."

As Pinkie walked up the steps to her room, neither she nor Dash said a word. When she reached the entrance, she nudged the door open with her muzzle and wandered up next to the huge, pink, and rather fluffy bed. The Earth pony stared confidently at the four poster bed; she was sure Dash would find it more comfortable that sleeping on her. She smiled briefly before speaking. "Okie dokey lokie! Here you go."

Rainbow Dash didn't answer.

Pinkie began to worry. Did I do something wrong again? Is she too nervous to speak anymore? Oh, I wish I could make Dashie feel better. She seemed so sad on the way back here and she hardly said a thing after I said I'd give her a lift. Suddenly, Pinkie heard a low rumbling sound. She looked over her shoulder at the Pegasus pony that had again leaned her head against the pink pony's neck. She was sound asleep and snoring with a smile on her face; her head rested quite comfortably on Pinkie Pie's magenta-coloured mane. She slipped the sleeping pony off her back and carefully into the bed. Walking quietly to the door, the little pony turned her head to look at her bestest best friend once more. "Goodnight, Dashie."

She smiled kindly and walked out, closing the door behind her.
A story of how the Elements of Laughter and Loyalty met and what journeys the two took with each other.

This tale occurs before Twilight arrived in Ponyville and after the tales of the Cutie Mark Chronicles.

An overview is also available for a better description. Be sure to read it before this ^^
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Omg I love this story so much I read it over and over again !!! I can't get over how good this story is!!!