A Strange Adventure 3: Rainbow Dash Does Fanfiction

By NocturneD

Note: Yadda yadda yadda.
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Chapter 2

The next day Rainbow Dash easily slept in from her late night writing. She was so absorbed into her new project that she lost track of time. Her sheets wrinkled, crumpled along with being all over. She wanted this to last forever, she enjoyed sleeping in. One eye slowly popped open to find her alarm clock glowing large red numbers, "1:37..." She mumbled to herself. She slowly closed her eye and went back to sleep.

Then suddenly realization kicked in. She threw the covers away from herself and shouted, "1:37 PM?" She never slept that long. Her friends were probably looking for her let alone the weather team was probably trying to contact her for a sudden weather change. She looked at her calender that hung on the wall, and found out, "Oh... it's Saturday." She sighed in relief. "But still the girls might be wondering where I am."

She made her bed and threw the covers on in a half assed fashion. Her room, her rules. Again realization kicked in, "Wait... TIME TO CHECK MY EMAIL!" She squealed and ran to her computer. "Come on come on." She grunted at the machine wanting it to go faster. Rainbow Dash put her login, password and waited a few more minutes to boot to her main menu. Again she wanted to rip the computer apart for being so slow. It finished loading and she wasted no time logging into her email. "Oh boy oh boy oh boy!"

She bounced up and down in her chair waiting for her many reviews to congratulate on her story. Her wide smile then turned to a frown, then saddened by disappointment. "Only two?" She scrolled through her mailbox and played around with the settings to see if there were anymore review alerts. There wasn't. Just that a few random fellow writers marked the story as their favorite or on author alert. Rainbow Dash's bottom lip was trembling, "But I worked all night on the first chapter." This wasn't acceptable to her. "No, there has to be a reasonable explanation!" She logged onto and looked up her information. "Let's see... five hundred and twenty two hits. And only two reviews to show for it? Three favorites and an author alert?"

She stared blankly at the screen. What would seem like minutes were really seconds.

She reached for the nearest object to find it was her trash bin. She picked it up and fiercely threw it across the room and shouted, "SON OF A BITCH!"

Dash wanted to turn something else over in her room but couldn't find anything because there was barely anything in it. She picked up the trash can again and hurled it on the other side of the room. Papers fell out along with a soda can.

She stopped and looked back at the monitor. Sat back down and tried to run all the possibilities in her head. "Maybe every pony is out having fun today? It is Saturday." She clicked on the literature section and then Daring Do. She put on, "Yes I want stories of all ratings." She clicked the filter button to refresh the page. Twenty five stories popped up, "Okay." She scrolled down, "My story isn't there?" She clicked on the next page for twenty five more stories, "Not here again?" She scrolled further down, "WAIT!" She looked closer. "Oh well no reason. My story is number forty two." Her hoof slammed down onto the table. "DAMN IT! MY STORY NEEDS THE ATTENTION! IT'S ALMOST ON THE THIRD PAGE!"

Her head slumped down in disappointment. "Well.. might as well check the reviews I got. Better than nothing I suppose." She moved the mouse to read her reviews.

-Iron Maxamillion (anonymous)

An interesting read. Not too many ponies on this site like stories about self-insert ponies but I'm sure you can pull this off. My advice though, invest in a beta-reader. I found a lot of grammar errors and misspelled words. Look forward to reading more.

Rainbow Dash had to admit it wasn't what she was looking for but she'll take it. "Not bad, not bad. Though how dare he says my grammar sucks. Next one."

-RoseyPosey11

Twilight Sparkle smells like a Mare-e Sue to me. Plus she comes off as a know it all.

Rainbow Dash fell backwards laughing at the comment. She wiped the joyous tears from her eyes and logged off. "Well it's still pretty much early afternoon. Maybe more ponies will read it."

She left her house to enjoy the rest of her day. Still the idea of getting many reviews, hits and favorites clouded her judgment. She needed to get something to eat. She missed breakfast and barely scrapped past lunch. Three if you count brunch but really who eats that every time? Dash bought like eleven double cheese burgers and ate them all in ten seconds flat. She made a pig out of herself but who cares.

"Maybe I should ask Twilight to read my story?" Dash pondered as she swallowed her last burger. She left all the burger wrappers all over the table like an animal and left for some poor employee to clean up after her.

Dash flew to the library and kicked down the door again. Twilight wasn't happy. "Hey Twilight!"

"Well Dash that's the second time you broke my door." Twilight fumed, "This better be important."

"I wrote a story last night!" Dash smiled.

Within an instant Twilight's expression turned from pissed to curious. "A story you say?"

"Yeah. I flew home last night and started on it." Dash smiled proudly, "I worked so hard on that I lost track of time."

Twilight smiled, "Wow Rainbow. So what's it about?"

"Daring Do and her quest to find the Elements of Harmony." Dash smiled sheepishly.

This caught Twilight's attention easily, "So your own take on the Elements of Harmony? Sounds intriguing." She sat down, "So how much of it is done?"

"I already uploaded chapter one on Ponyfiction." Dash as expected acted like hot shit.

"So how many hits and reviews did you get?" Twilight felt happy for her friend.

This made Rainbow stop her self parade. Dash rubbed her hoof into the ground, "Five hundred hits... but only two reviews."

"Well that's not bad. It's a start." Twilight smiled. "Think I can read it sometime?"

Dash sneered, "Could you give it a review in the end?"

"Do you want constructive criticism?" Twilight laughed.

"If it counts as raising my review counter up then fuck yeah!" Dash cheered.

"Okay but don't say I didn't warn you." Twilight chuckled. Dash gave Twilight the name of the story and all that other hooey. Dash helped herself to finding a book in the library and started reading it while Twilight enjoyed the story Dash wrote.

Two hours must of passed by. Dash was halfway done with the book she started with. She wondered, "Wonder what's taking Twilight so long? My story is twenty pages sure but taking two hours to read it?" She turned her attention back to the book, "Oh well... she must be absorbed into my awesome story."

Twenty minutes later...

Twilight shut off her computer and smiled, "Well Dash. I read your story, added it to my favorites and left a review."

"Thanks Twilight." Dash put her book down. "So what do you think?"

"It's all in my review Rainbow. You'll learn once you read it." Twilight laughed playfully. "But in a nutshell, I'm honored to be part of it."

"ONTO CHAPTER TWO THEN!" Dash jumped and crashed through the ceiling then through the roof to fly to her own house.

"Damn it Rainbow!" Twilight shouted. "Now there's a big damn hole in my roof."

"There's also a big damn hole in your ass!" Dash shouted back, "ZING!"

Twilight looked at her own flank then realized, "Oh I see what you did there..."

Rainbow raced home and ran into her room. She logged back into her mail account to find a few more emails from Ponyfiction. "Wow let's see... eight more favorites? WOW!" Dash gasped, "Four author alerts, six story alerts..." Dash scrolled further down, "TWO MORE REVIEWS?" She squealed, "AWESOME!"

She opened the first review and no surprise it's from Twilight. At first she wondered about the pen name her unicorn friend has chosen but shrugged it off.

-Starswirl 3:16

To my good friend WonderBoltFan1. I took my time reading your story and loved the idea of what your story is trying to propose. I will offer my help for this story to shape itself better for future chapters if you want. But if not, I understand and see that there others that agree with the problems that this story has. Yes I know you don't like other ponies pecking at your weaknesses but please take the help into consideration. You said you didn't mind the criticism so here it goes... Grammar, run on sentences, past to present tense back to past tense. Comma places where they shouldn't be. Punctuation. I'm sure you know when to start a new paragraph as a new pony speaks as there are some paragraphs that go on and on and seem to get clumped together.

etc...

"Blah blah blah." Dash said to herself. Rainbow Dash read on and on, "Jeez Twilight your review is as long as my first chapter!" But she had to admit it. Twilight knew way more about writing books because she basically read them twenty four seven. Still, Dash wanted to press on. "Next review." The next reviewer went by as The Great Shinigami.

-The Great Shinigami

Your story sucks lol!

Dash was pissed, "FUCK YOU SHINIGAMI!"

Dash was going to prove Shinigami wrong. She was going to write chapter two right this instant. "Chapter two! The town in need."

ooo

Daring Do was a pony of mystery. Wherever she went she never really talked about herself. She kept to herself and kept to her career at being an archaeologist. That is what mattered to her. She already met with the mayor of Ponyville and as usual Daring Do never cared for politics. Always got in the way in her life.

Out of the three pony residents she met so far. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight Sparkle. She found Pinkie Pie to be in your face every chance she gets. Not in a rude way, more of a I Want To Be Your Friend SO LET US PARTY sort of way. It didn't take long to make Daring Do uncomfortable with Pinkie throwing streamers and blowing on party horns to announce a new pony has arrived to the small town of Ponyville. Every pony seemed friendly by just looking around.

But there was more to it. Twilight Sparkle was a purple unicorn and the star student of princess Celestia. "Strange." Daring Do thought. Why would a student of the princess be in Ponyville when Canterlot was the obvious place to be to learn her magic lessons. Out of all the ponies she met, Twilight Sparkle would be a valuable asset for the upcoming job. Her book smarts, her unique magic, her will, her pep. Daring Do found her a bit charming too. But she knew that this unicorn had sheltered life.

Rainbow Dash on the other hoof was a wild pegasus. She wanted fun and basically could could pull off being Daring Do's double despite the colors. Almost like looking into a mirror, or finding your long lost twin. It sure was awkward. Dash heard about Daring Do's work and wanted to be more like her. Almost like a kid idolizing their hero from afar but once up close end up making a fool of themselves. Not Dash, she kept it cool.

Unfortunately not all the ponies that were assigned to the team were there. Some were running late. Fashionably late. The mayor bought eight tickets to Canterlot to meet with Princess Celestia; the ruler of Equestria. Daring Do really hated waiting. Somehow she knew if she lit up a cigarette at this moment it would break the tension. Either lookie loos or get scolded by Pinkie Pie that smoking was bad for her lungs. She didn't care, the wait was killing her.

"So what does the princess want with me?" Daring Do nudged the pack of cigarettes from her breast pocket and tapped a single cig free. Her lips grasped the filter end while her free hoof searched for her lucky lighter.

"Well it concerns the three here along with their friends by request from the princess. She couldn't spare any carriages because of an emergency. As far as rumors are going." The mayor did her best to explain the situation. Daring Do saw that her eyes were of a terrible liar. Politicians. Figures.

"Mayor is there something you're not telling me?" Daring Do slipped her silver lighter from her other pocket and clicked it to reveal a flame.

"Like I said just rumors floating around. That's all I know." The mayor tried to brush off the conversation. She waved the cigarette smoke away from her proximity.

ooo

Rainbow Dash let the story flow their her hooves as she typed and typed and typed. Playing too many Metal Gear Solid games and reading Tom Clancy novels can do that to you. She stopped and saved her progress. Last thing she wanted to do was have a power failure and lose all her work. She counted. "Wow. seventeen pages right off the bat." Then she wondered, "Should I invest in a beta reader?" She looked at the clock and gasped, "11: 43 PM?" She did it again, she missed dinner entirely and most of the day for making a story. Then her eyes narrowed, "Wow... this is very time consuming."

Realization kicked in again.

She gasped, "Anymore reviews?"

She clicked on her mailbox. Nothing... She frowned.

"Son of a bitch..." She slammed her hoof onto the table slowly.

She puckered her lower lip. "Wait... did I type that Twilight was charming?"

to be continued...

Note: Apparently Rainbow Dash isn't getting the concept that reviews doesn't equal greatness. Some writers are like that on here as most writers deserve the recognition while others just want the attention and feel accepted. The way others... Just think getting more reviews will think that more people will come in to see what's so great about the story. So Rainbow, is pretty immature right now on the whole writing thing. Anyone else notice that the story she's writing is more serious than what I'm writing about what she's doing? Fic ception! Thanks for the reviews guys.