Rushed

It was a bright and sunny day in Ponyville and Rush Fairs was getting off the small train that’d taken him from Fillydelphia to Ponyville. He had come down from Cloudsdale and then took the train to Ponyville. “Thank you sir!” Rush said as he stepped off the platform and he walked over to the information desk where a very bored mare sat. “Um, hello I’m Rush Fairs a visitor her-”

“All visitors must be given a pass!” The mare sighed and handed him a small pass, using her horn she magically wrote his name and gender on it.

“Yes, well, anyways umm so I’m looking for a Earth Pony named Pinkamena Pie an-“

“Your business must be added to the visitor pass!” the mare once again used her horn to write Search Mission.

“Okay, your very dedicated to that pass, as I was saying, I’m looking for a mare named Pinkamena Pie, she’s an earth pony, and I was wondering if there is anyone here with the last name of-“

“There is only one pony with Pie as their last name and that is Pinkie Pie, she is currently living in the Cake’s upstairs apartment at Sugarcube Corner two blocks down from town square on the South side, if you take the regular path down then you should reach the town square coming in from the east side.”

“Thank you!” Rush forced a smile and walked away his visitors badge digging into his chest. The mare had been helpful but in a very unhelpful way! Anyways there had been more ponies he had wanted to ask about but he was afraid to go back to the information desk. He walked out of the train station and looked out at the beautiful valley that was home to Ponyville, he could see why many types of ponies came here, from Pegasi to Unicorns alike. The valley was deep and the sky above was beautifully clear. The small buildings snuggled together and the stone paths were cleanly washed and the plants flourished. The only thing missing were the ponies! The streets were completely empty! He very carefully walked down the small path to the village. As he got nearer he could hear some sort of commotion coming from town square. Panic raced through him as he galloped down the streets, had there been an accident!? Missing ponies?! Please let there be missing ponies!!

Reaching town square he skidded to a stop, greeted by a large crowd of ponies. The ponies where chanting something that sounded like “Dash! Dash! Dash!” But other ponies where chanting “Pink-ie Pink-ie!!” Pinkie as is Pinkie Pie?! It was certainly worth a shot. He extended his wings and soared above the crowd and landed lightly towards the front. Quickly pushing through the last of the ponies he found a sight to behold. In the middle of town square there were six ponies. Two of the ponies sat behind a table which was over-burdened with treats. The two mares that sat behind the table were eating as fast as possible, one was a blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane, and the other was light pink earth pony with a bright pink mane. On the other side of the table stood the last four ponies, two of them stood by the blue pony, an orange one with a blonde mane and a yellow one with a light pink mane, the orange one was screaming at the top of her lungs while the other one was quietly encouraging the blue one. By the pink one stood two more ponies a lavender one with a dark blue mane with pink streaks and a gorgeous white one with a royal purple mane, she had beautiful blue eyes and a perfect smile, Rush couldn’t look away. “Who is that?” Rush breathed.

“You’ve got the right idea bro’” said a blue earth pony to his left “all those girls are attractive but Rarity’s by far the hottest.”

Surprised but happy to know the white one’s name Rush happily engaged conversation with the blue pony “Her names Rarity? That’s a gorgeous name! What are the other’s names? I’m Rush Fairs by the way.” Rush smiled

“Nice to meet you Rush I’m Blue Waters,” The pony returned Rush’s friendly smile and continued “ The lavender one is Twilight Sparkle, she’s really smart and friendly but probably one of the less attractive of the group, especially after the smarty pants incident. The yellow one is Fluttershy, she’s graceful and kind but a bit of a scaredy pony and very shy. The orange one is Applejack, she’s loyal, honest and hot, no pony turns down a natural blonde, and she works on a farm so she’s a hard worker. The light blue one is Rainbow Dash she fast, loyal and awesome, her and Applejack are super tight, but she can be a bit air headed sometimes, she lives in the clouds literally. Finally, the pink one is Pinkie Pie, she energetic and throws awesome parties. They are the most popular ponies in Ponyville; they stopped Discord and Nightmare Moon.”

“Really?! Wow so they’re the elements of harmony!” Rush smiled, for some reason he had a feeling that he would be interacting with them a lot. “So what’s going on here?!”

“A food eating competition between Dash and Pinkie.” Blue said “It’s only happened once before and no pony’s quite sure what happened last time.”

“Ah, so who’s winning?”

“I think Pinkie but Dash seems to be pacing herself a bit more, so she’s probably saving up for a big gulp. It should be over in a few minutes.” Blue turned his attention back to the 6 ponies. Blue had been right, the competition was over about 2 minutes later. Pinkie Pie won but it was a close race. Rush hadn’t entirely decided if Pinkie was Pinkamena, the pink pony he knew was small, quiet and had severely short hair as to better the production on her family’s rock farm. Rush breathed in a sigh and walked toward the 6 ponies.

Rare

Rush slowly but surely walked over to the white unicorn that was cleaning up the mess that had been made in town square.

“Are you the famous Rarity?” Rush asked keeping his calm, trying to act natural.

“Why yes, I am.” The unicorn spun around and her big, beautiful eyes hit him full in the face, unleashing their beautiful wrath.

Attempting to keep his cool Rush smiled “I’m Rush Fairs and I have to say I have never met a pony prettier than you.” Rush had learned to be outright with complements when first meeting a mare, that was the best way to entrance a woman.

“You’re not so bad yourself… Rush.” Rarity gave him a dazzling smile and batted her gorgeous eyes.

“Since I would find it hard to find anything with a just a regular pony who certainly doesn’t know a thing about beauty,” Rarity started nodding, her face filling with glee “Then would you do me the honor of accompanying me around Ponyville?” Rush finished smiling.

“I would love to!” The unicorn said, unable to wipe the smile off her face “I’ll give you the grand tour, just as soon as I finish cleaning up!” She closed her eyes allowing her magic to flow freely, in no time she had cleaned up the mess, leaving the town square sparkling.

“Where should we start?” Rush asked

“I was thinking, the Ponyville statue garden! It’s delightful!”

“Sounds good.” Rush smiled to himself as he followed Rarity to the statue garden. For once in his life he didn’t feel stressed about work, he forgot about his mission to Ponyville, right now all Rush cared about was spending an afternoon with a beautiful unicorn.

“And then the big tree went, whoosh! Right into the window, which broke of course, and Applejack’s like ‘golly Rarity ahm so sorry, let’s call a truce and fix this up’ and I was like ‘I am also deeply sorry for being irrational I’m willing to do this together’ and so with the power of friendship we got the tree out of Twilight’s library and cleaned up the mess!” Rarity beamed and Rush “but enough about me tell me about you.” She leaned forward on the table and stared at him with those big eyes.

The two ponies were currently have lunch together at the small sidewalk café. They were taking a break from their tour of Ponyville, Rarity had shown him the statue garden and several other historic Ponyville monuments, she had given him a small tour of her shop and when Rush mentioned that he felt hungry, she allowed a meal break which lead them to the small café.

“Well there’s not much….” Rush said quietly

“Oh please! Anything about you is interesting to me.” Rarity batted those huge eyes, turning their full force on him.

“Okay then, I grew up in Cloudsdale with my parents and younger brother.”

“Ohhh that’s fascinating!” Rarity commented her face full of interest

“I then attended Cloudsdale Flight Academy along with a couple of good friends.”

“Oh I know someone who went to CFA too! Her names Rainbow Dash maybe you’ve heard of her?” Rarity asked, she seemed to be yearning to make a special connection with Rush.

“Well that name sounds a little familiar…”

“Great! I’ll take you to meet her!” And with those words Rarity hopped up and grabbed Rush’s hoof leading him off to another adventure.

Rainbow was having a peace of humble pie, as Pinkie jumped around her shouting with joy.

“Aww Rainbow it’s one thing to lose, but it’s another to act glum about it.” Applejack said “I mean I would think you’d used to losing by now, with me as a best friend.” Applejack laughed at the glare the blue pony gave her “Loosen up Rainbow! You can try again in a couple weeks.”

“That’s true!” Rainbow said, suddenly popping out of her miserable state. “I’ll just have to work on getting better at eating larger portions! You’ll hel-” Rainbow struggled

“I’m sorry what?” Applejack asked a smile pulling at her mouth.

“Will you he- hel- help me?” Rainbow asked her best friend, tasting the word; she had never asked “help” before as she preferred to do things on her own.

“Well, all you have to do is ask!” Applejack smiled as she ruffled Rainbow’s hair.
“Hey! I spent hours getting it perfectly messy!” Rainbow sighed and suddenly tackled Applejack and the two best friends went into a wrestling match on the park lawn.

"SO MUCH FOR PERFECTLY MESSY!" Applejack yelled.

Fluttershy was sitting next to Twilight on a small blanket watching the two friends play. Pinkie skipped over to them.
“WOW! I never expected to win against Dashie! I mean Dash is in her name so she would definitely be fast!” Pinkie continued to ramble on, speaking in the rapid fire way she normally did.
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Hey, Fluttershy have you seen Rarity?” Twilight asked as she realized Rarity was late for the celebration picnic that they’d planned after the competition.

“OH, ohh!! Are we playing I spy? I love that game! Hmm I spy with my light blue eye something… Purple and WHITE!” Pinkie giggled, quivering where she stood. “Okay I can’t stand it! It’s Rarity!” Pinkie pointed to a white unicorn that had the signature royal purple curls that signified Rarity as Rarity.

“Who’s she with?!” Rainbow asked, her and Applejack had come over to hear what the girls were talking about.

“It looks like a stallion.” Twilight breathed the last word, staring at the dark maned pony accompanying Rarity, they seeming to be looking at the sky calling someone’s name. They looked down and Rarity spotted them, a flash of realization crossed on her face and she said something to the unknown stallion, and the pair started to make their way over to the other ponies.

“Let’s go meet Rarity’s booyfrieend!” Pinkie sang happily as the pair drew nearer.

Rarity tried to even out her breathing, it was one thing to introduce a guy to one friend it was another to introduce him to all of them well, all her best friends at least.

As they walked toward the multicolored group, Rarity saw the naked surprise on her friends faces. Each of them were practically quivering with excitement especially Pinkie who was literally jumping up and down with excitement.
Rarity measured Rush’s reaction, so far he seemed to be taking it well. Rarity could help but showing admiration for the stallion with his longish mane, light brown coat and playful eyes he also seemed to take everything so coolly, allowing Rarity enough time to talk about herself and waiting politely for his turn.

All of the sudden Rush gasped, his eyes bulged “P-p-p-i-i-i-n-n-k-k-k-a- -“ he spluttered unable to make a full sentence.

“Rush! Dear are you all right?” They had almost reached the group and he was having a nervous break-down.

“Help! Applejack, Twilight!” Rarity screamed as Rush started shaking violently and them fell over. Twilight quickly ran over.

“Rarity what’s going on?” Twilight’s eyes were full of concern.

“I’m not sure he just started…he started… ” Rarity started sobbing, mascara running down her cheeks.

“Rarity calm down, just calm down and tell me what happened.” Twilight said soothingly while Fluttershy and Applejack started performing emergency medical treatment.

“He just stopped and I think he started to-sob-say Pinkie bu-“

“Did someone say Pinkie?!” Pinkie said, she raced over to Rush “Hmm, yes, yes I see, He’s having a memory issue!” Pinkie declared

“Pinkie how could you possibly know that?” asked Twilight, confusion crossing her face.

“Because, silly! He fell over all twitchy-stuff! He’ll be fine a couple minutes! The ear-flap never lies.”

“Okay… Whatever you say Pinkie…” Twilight said, she sounded a bit nervous but decided to trust her friend.

“3….2….1!” Pinkie sang and all of the sudden Rush opened his eyes and popped up.

“Whoa! Wha-what happened?” Rush looked extremely confused.

“You had a memory prob Rush! Like the old days!”

“The old days?” Rarity asked

“Yeah! Me and Rush knew each other back when I lived on the rock farm!” Pinkie said it with certainty.

Rarity looked flabbergasted “Why didn’t you say anything earlier!” Rarity shrieked.

“ ‘Cause I didn’t recognized him!” Pinkie started jumping again

Rush finally got a word in “Pinkamena?” Rush looked fairly confused

“Yup! Wow you look so grown-up now Rush but you still have a magifyer-thingie as a cutie mark!” and indeed Rush had magnifying glass as a cutie mark.

“You look so happy and loud…” Rush said quietly, his face showing a mixture of confusion and horror.

“Pinkamena?” Twilight asked confused.

“Yup! That’s my full name but Pinkie sounds so much more exciting! Don’t yah think?” Pinkie giggled and spun around.

Rush was still in somewhat shock “Rush dear?” Rarity said softly “Why don’t we get you to the boutique and get you some tea?” It seemed Rarity was the only one not in complete shock or acting somewhat crazier than usual.

Rush nodded silently and the two headed over to the shop with Pinkie insistent on joining them. As Rarity went to make him some tea she sighed, it looked like her plan to spend the day with Rush had been ruined.

Fluttershy watched as Pinkie, Rarity and the new stallion walk over to the boutique. Her long light pink hair spilled over her eye as she watched them.

Fluttershy looked over at Rainbow Dash. “ Do you really think Rarity has a new boyfriend?” Fluttershy asked in her soft, shy voice.

“I dunno Fluttershy but they’ll figure it out. Strange with Rush know Pinkie huh?” Rainbow asked her shy friend.

“Yeah… I think I’m going to go home and check on Angel…” Fluttershy trialed off as she walked up the road that would take her home.

Rainbow Dash looked around, Applejack and Twilight had gone to the library to research about Memory “Problems” as Pinkie Pie called it, and about Rush’s past.

Crap. Now Rainbow had nothing to do. She sighed, and took off angling her wings to head up her cloud home when she noticed a for sale sign in front of Golden Harvest’s house. Confused and interested she flew down to check it out.

“Hey Goldie!” Rainbow shouted as she landed on the lawn of Golden’s home.

“Oh hey Rainbow Dash!” The orange maned mare said as she pushed a few boxed items onto a moving cart.

“Why’re you moving?” Rainbow asked, she had a habit of getting straight to the point.

Goldie smiled “Because I got a new job in Fillydelphia, I was assigned to work at a produce shop by Princess Celestia herself!”

“So we’re gonna have another new face around here?” Rainbow said

“Yup, basically… I think that’s everything that can fit in here…”

“Well you seem busy, bye Goldie!”

“Bye Rainbow Dash! I’ll see you at my moving party right? And she’s gone…” Golden Harvest sighed and turned around to pack some more boxes.

Fluttershy watched as Rainbow took off into the air and out of sight. Quickly she turned around and headed for the boutique, for the first time ever in Fluttershy’s existence she was about to do something sneaky.

Fluttershy tried to quiet her pounding heart, she was nervous because she’d never done anything like this before.

As she continued down the walk she tried to resist the urge to dive behind the bushes, but now was to the time to be a scaredy-pony. Fluttershy looked around making sure no one was following her.

As she approached the boutique she felt herself starting to quiver. She'd never done this before! She spread her light yellow wings and flew to the top of the boutique, from there she quietly hopped from roof to roof, using her wings to lighten her landings, she mustn’t be caught.

As quiet as a mouse Fluttershy landed above the nearest window and softly slid it open.

Applejack was getting frustrated. “Twilight! Have ya found anything yet?”

“No, but we need to keep looking!” Twilight’s response came from a large pile of books that created a sort of fort.

At the moment Applejack was doing a background research on Rush Fairs, or whoever he was. She was currently checking through population of Clousdale book that Princess Celestia had lent Twilight. It was HUGE and according to the book there were 250 ponies with the last name of Fairs.

Twilight was looking for the diagnosis of memory problems, as Pinkie had dubbed it. Applejack really wished she had someone like Spike to help her look through the books. Sighing, Applejack turned to the next page.