Soarin' On A Rainbow (SOAR)
Chapter 3: Before The Awesomness
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe next morning, Dash woke up to the sound of knocking at her door. She groaned.
"No one's home..." She shouted and turned over in her bed hugging her pillow to her chest, while her covers, kicked off the bed in the middle of the night, laid on the floor.
"Daaashie~! Come ONNNN, sleepyhead! It's already mid afternoon, and if you don't get up now, you'll miss your date with- I mean the check up with the Wonderbolt!" A giggly voice replied from outside the door. It was Pinkie Pie but Dash wondered how she got up here in the first place.
"Pinkie, please try not to be so loud! I'm sure Dash just woke up." This was a different voice but she'd been friends with the alicorn long enough to know that it was Twilight Sparkle. Well...there's the answer to how Pinkie got up here. Twilight had been practicing really hard lately and seemed to be getting the hang of flying.
"Y-Yeah...She does sleep a lot..." The shy voice of Fluttershy made her immediately get up and fly to the door. She opened the door quickly taking in the sight of her three friend's faces.
"HEY! I ONLY SLEEP A LOT BECAUSE I PUT IN A LOT OF PRACTICE AND IT MAKES ME REALLY TIRED!" She stated loudly with a huff and walked out of her house, closing the door behind her. She rubbed her eyes. "How long until sunset Twilight?" She asked with a yawn.
"It's only mid afternoon...so we could probably go to Applejack's farm and eat before you head to the back fields. Sound good?" Twilight asked, looking straight at Rainbow Dash. Dash's stomach growled right after Twilight finished.
"Sounds awesome actually..." RD grinned and looked down at Sweet Apple Acres when it hit her. "Wait...how did you know about the meeting with the Wonderbolt?" She asked looking over at Fluttershy.
"Sorry Dashie...but I felt like everyone should know about the meeting..." Fluttershy said gently, looking down at the cloud under her hooves causing her mane to slide over one of her eyes.
"That's okay Fluttershy...I was probably gonna tell them later anyway." Dash says with a shrug and smiles. "Now how about we all go get something to eat? I'm starving!"
Without waiting for an answer Rainbow Dash zoomed off towards Sweet Apple Acres. After about a minute or so she arrived at Sweet Apple Acres and gracefully landed next to Applejack, who was standing next to a table watching Dash with a smirk on her face.
"Figures you'd rush over here at the sound of free lunch..." Applejack chuckles and nods to a small group of blurs off in the distance. "...they aren't even close, sugarcube!"
Rainbow Dash laughed and sat down at the food laden table. It was covered with a few of the apple family's most popular goods which were apple pies and apple fritters. There were six apple juice boxes all set around the table too.
"Tables already set...so don't act like you didn't expect me to race down here!" Dash sat down next to Applejack and waited. A few minutes later the rest of the mane 6 was seated and eating.
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In the back fields...
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Soarin' facehoofed and sighed in front of Surprise.
"So you guys picked up all the pies...and I have to check on Rainbow Dash all of a sudden? I'm starting to feel like I was set up..." Soarin' groaned and sat down on ground.
"Well...that's the only thing I have left to do, plus I didn't expect for the other wonderbolts to help me today and this is really important because of her hurt wing and yeah, plus I think you'll get along!" Surprise said quickly causing Soarin' to regret staying up late last night to watch that flier.
"Surprise...I'll do it now just please leave for now..." He says defeated. He didn't even eat breakfast this morning and he was starving.
"YAY! Thank you Soarin'! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Oh and here, you probably didn't eat this morning did you?" Surprise smiled and set a pie in front of him. Where she got it he didn't know but he didn't care.
"No I didn't. Thanks Surprise!" He smiles and digs in. Surprise sticks around for a second more before flying away.
It didn't take Soarin' long to finish the pie, in fact he still had a good amount of time before Dash would be here.
"Well...a nap couldn't hurt..." He mutters before climbing into an apple tree and laying himself down in a patch of comfortable leafy goodness. After a couple of minutes he was out like a light.
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2 or 3 hours later...
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Rainbow Dash was flying towards the back fields at a casual pace due to her nervousness. Who would the wonderbolt be? Would it be Spitfire? Fleetfoot? Soarin? All these questions gave birth to new questions like why they suggested to meet up. Was this really about her injury? She shook her head and looked up at the sky towards the hawk flying overhead. She smiled and remembered that she didn't have to worry. She had eyes in the sky and her friends waiting for her to return. Rainbow Dash dropped her gaze back towards the trees in front of her. There were plenty of apple trees around her so all she could see was the green of the leaves, brown reddish color of the tree trunks, the almost white-blue of a sleeping figure in the branches and the blue sk- Wait...what? White blue? Sleeping pony? In the branches?
Dash blinked a couple of times before she noticed that Soarin' was the pony who was sleeping in the tree. She smirked and instantly thought of a wicked way to wake him up...but figured that probably wouldn't make Soarin' happy...and if Soarin' wasn't happy, then she guessed Spitfire wasn't happy and so on and so forth, not letting Rainbow Dash on the team and such. She shook her head and prodded the colt in the face.
"Hey uh...Soarin'? Wakey wakey...?" She tried saying quietly but he stayed fast asleep. She'd need to be loud if she wanted to wake this pegasus up.
"HEY! SOARIN'! GET UP!" Rainbow Dash yelled pushing Soarin' out of the branch easily. Soarin' jolted awake but still fell on his stomach.
"Owwww!" Soarin groaned and stood up, rubbing his stomach. The moment he saw Rainbow Dash, he instantly became alert. Even though he was alert all the colt could utter, with a stupid grin on his face, was...
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