A/N: I don't have much to say about this chapter, so I'm just going to jump into answering the review:

Lord Rage Quit - I did not intend for it to be a sad ending, that's just how the story flowed from my mind to the keyboard. Now, I'm not sure if you mean too many cloppers, or too many clop fics (H.R. needs clarification, because he doesn't want to include anything that may offend any of his readers. Also, H.R. clops occasionally.).

NOTE: I do not own MLP or most of the characters used herein. MLP is the property of Lauren Faust and Hasbro (Who also made G.I. Joe. Suck it haters. Ponies gonna Pwn.)

And so we go

After sending the message to Pinkie, Twilight allowed herself to relax, finally able to seriously think since her daughter had stopped crying. Within seconds, she had remembered a spell that would get rid of her headache. After casting it, Twilight was able to think easier.

But, inevitably, her thoughts strayed to why she had woken up with a headache at all: finding Pinkie Pie drinking in a bar because she was upset. And that led to the cause of Pinkie's sadness, Rainbow Dash, who Twilight hadn't heard from in a few weeks.

Deciding to find out what had happened to one of her best friends, Twilight cast her cloud walking spell on herself, then face hoofed when she remembered she was an Alicorn, and that she didn't need the cloud walking spell anymore.

As she prepared to teleport up to Cloudsdale, Twilight addressed her golem, "Rumble, please stay here and protect Crimson Dawn."

"As my mistress commands," the rumbling voice replied.

In a flash of light, Twilight was gone from the room, only to reappear instantly in the Cloud Factory several miles above where she had been. Before her was a monstrous storm cloud, but it didn't appear to be throwing off lightning or holding any more rain than a normal cloud. This perplexed her, because there was no plausible explanation for the large black mass in front of her.

But before she could take a single step, a chromatic streak knocked her to the ground and pinned her there.

"State your name, rank, I.D. number, and hourly clearance…" the cyan pegasus trailed off when she realized just who she had trapped underneath her, and quickly jumped off, "Sorry Twilight, but there have been recent attempts by Gryphon Sympathizers to sabotage the cloud carrier, so we've been screening everypony who comes in here."

"What do you mean, Gryphon Sympathizers?"

"Don't worry about them, Twilight. We clipped their wings and threw them out of Cloudsdale. I don't think there were any gryphons waiting to catch them with open arms," Rainbow Dash chuckled.

"Very well then. Now would you please explain what this giant storm cloud is?" Twilight said, still utterly confused by the large storm system in front of her.

Rainbow Dash tilted her head, giving Twilight a 'Did you really just ask that?' look before responding, "That's the Cloud Carrier."

"What happened to it? I expected it to be white."

"Remember that process you found that could make clouds solid enough for anypony to walk on without your spell? Well, there was an unintended side effect: it turned them into high voltage storm clouds."

Now Twilight was really confused, "But if they're high voltage, where is all the lightning?"

"That's the beauty of it. Because of their electric nature, they can serve as the power source for the entire carrier. All we had to do was make about 2000 miles worth of ¼ hoof (equivalent to ¼ inch) Crystal Wiring so we could wire the entire ship together, as well as contain the lightning so it wouldn't shock anypony inside," Rainbow Dash looked pleased with this unexpected turn of events.

"But there must be extra power. Where does all that spare lightning go?"

"Follow me and I'll show you," Dash said as she walked away.

Twilight could do nothing but follow, listening to Dash as they approached the core of the carrier.

"And so, when we had discovered that there was still extra power, even after we had everything wired up to run on the lightning, we started making these," Dash opened a set of double doors, exposing a room that held several very large Crystal tanks (Not those armored land assault vehicles, I'm talking aquarium-style tanks, but cylinders instead of rectangular prisms). Inside three of the tanks was enough lightning to destroy Canterlot several times over.

Dash walked up to one (which was at least 5 times her height on its side, and ten times her length), and patted her hoof against it, "This one was the first we had filled. Well, overfilled really. We didn't know the full capacity yet, so we accidentally overflowed the tank. But after that, we pretty much had the process down, so we started filling up the rest.

"Looks like Double Jeopardy finally finished filling up," Dash said as she walked up to the third tank with lightning in it.

"Double Jeopardy?" Twilight asked, wondering why the tank was named.

"Yeah. Once a tank starts filling, the tank crew names the tank. That first one by the door is called Last Resort and the second one is Paradise Lost," Dash explained.

Twilight noticed release mechanisms on the arms holding the tanks above the floor, "Are these tanks just to hold the extra lightning?"

"No. Why do you ask?"

"These release mechanisms on the sides here. So what else are they for?"

"It'd be easier just to show you. If you'd come over here please," Rainbow Dash said.

"What's going to happen?" Twilight asked as she stood beside Dash.

Ignoring her, Dash pressed a switch on the wall and said, "Please open Circuit 15."

Before her eyes, the floor of the room started to recede into the walls until the only spot left was where her and Dash were standing, which allowed her a straight view to the floor of the cloud factory. Slowly, Twilight's mind began to fit the pieces together, and the conclusion scared her more than anything she had ever faced before.

"Rainbow Dash, are these Lightning bombs? They've been illegal since the last Continental War, over 5000 years ago!"

"Twilight, there hasn't been an international war since then either. And hardly anypony besides yourself even remembers that old law anyways."

"That's besides the point, Rainbow Dash, and you know it! Just having these is a violation of the Everfree Accord, or where you not paying attention during history class when you were attending Canterlot University?! Not to mention that these are at least 20 times bigger than the one that was dropped on Everfree Castle 5000 years ago!"

Rainbow Dash's face darkened in anger from its usual Cyan color to a deep navy blue, "You swore to never bring that up again," her voice was cold and full of malice.

"Bring what up? The fact that you have a college degree, or that you were forced to go to college as part of your probation?"

"Shut up," there was a chilling lack of emotion in Dash's voice now.

"Why? It's the truth! Can the fastest pegasus in Equestria not handle it?"

"SHUT UP!"

YOU WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IF YOU HADNT BROKEN INTO CELESTIA'S ROOM FOR A PANTY RAID!"

"Get out," this time, there was emotion, but it wasn't anger or anything that could be dangerous to others. It was apathy (Does that make sense? Considering apathy is not caring about anything, would that be considered an emotion?), which could be more dangerous to the pony feeling it than anything else.

"Fine, but don't think we aren't done talking about this," Twilight teleported back to her room, leaving Dash to sort out her thoughts.

"Why did she have to bring that up? I had almost forgotten about it," Dash muttered to herself, "Why did we have to end up in the same Advanced Chemistry and Equestrian history classes?"

After a few seconds, she started giggling, "I guess, now that I think about it, getting a master's degree in Ecochemistry (Like Geochemistry, but dealing with the weather instead of the ground) was worth seeing Celestia's unmentionables. I just hadn't expected Celestia to be changing at the time."

Back in Twilight's room

After taking a few minutes to calm down, Twilight was able to think clearly again. And as soon as she started thinking again, she realized that she had forgotten the entire reason she had gone up to Cloudsdale: to ask Dash how she had made Pinkie cry.

Before she forgot, Twilight levitated a quill and paper to write 6 simple words: How did you make Pinkie cry? She then teleported it to Rainbow Dash's room in the Cloud Carrier, where it landed neatly on her desk.

End Note: Finally finished this chapter, after sitting on it for three days. Sorry about the long wait, but I had a hard time coming up with the idea for this chapter.

That being said, I'm thinking about moving all of these chapters over to the Hour of Twilight, simply to make reading the story easier to read. What say you?