// Story: Tickling Rainbow.

// Chapter: 1; Now it's Payback Time!

// Author: Alue14

Cloudsdale, June 17th, 1762 BCR.

'Come on, Gilda, we're almost late!' said a cyan-colored pegasus pony with a rainbow colored mane.

'Yeah, yeah, hold on to your hooves Dash! I'm coming!' said a griffin.

They were flying to the city in the clouds, Cloudsdale. Both were there at the Junior Speedsters summer flight camp, and they were almost late for the morning training. The two of them were best friends. The cyan pegasus was known for being a brasher, and was known to get in a fight. She was Rainbow Dash, and called herself the 'fastest flyer of Equestria'.

The griffin was known as Gilda, and she didn't know how or why she was here in the first place. A city full of ponies wasn’t easy for a griffin to grow up in. But as far as she could remember, she knew Rainbow Dash. She was the only friend she had, and she couldn't help to abuse that fact.

'Gilda, if we aren't any faster, coach Storm will be mad at us, again!' said Rainbow Dash.

Coach Thunder was known to punish late comers, and they both overslept... again.

'Dash, you better fly faster yourself, instead of worrying about me!” screamed the griffin.

Dash didn't say anything back, she was more occupied on making it on time.

At the stadium stood Coach Storm, looking over the young pegasi fillies that had come on time. Storm, or as his real name was Clopping Hooves, was a pegasus that stood over the young fillies. He had a full white coat, and a blond mane. Some of the parents of the fillies had issued a complaint because they said he couldn't keep his hooves to himself, but this wasn't a mystery.

He was having a role-call with all the ponies that arrived already.

'Hooves, Derpy?'

'Present!' The gray, wall-eyed filly said.

'Billy?'

'Present.' Said the brown, salt-colored maned pegasus.

'Dash, Rainbow?' he said.

No response.

'Where the hell is Rainbow Dash?' he shouted.

Everypony knew what time it was now. Coach Storm was having his breakdown again.

Clopping Hooves was known in Cloudsdale as a pegasus who was torn with PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

He developed PTSD with the battles he had during that war. Back in the day, the dragons of the Hooffington Mountains were warmongering. The king of the dragon state had enough of the peaceful nation of Equestria, so they attacked the city of Hooffington to show Helvetica the might of the dragons  

Helvetica sent her army to contain the uprising, unfortunately resulting in a full scale war. Coach Storm  had seen his friends befall to the searing red tides known as dragon fire. Some ponies tried to talk about his war efforts, but it mostly ended with harsh bruises and lacerations for the unfortunate ponies.

'If that Featherbrain of a pegasus isn't here within the minute, I'm going to-' he was cut short when he saw the Rainbow-maned filly landing on the clouds.

But it wasn't enough to stop the anger seething through Storm's veins, it only intensified it! Next, Rainbow couldn't prepare herself for what happened. Coach Storm unleashed a barrage of harsh words and the poor filly was struck.

'Where were you, Rainbow Dash?!' he screamed at the top of his lungs.

Dashie couldn't say a thing, she was being blinded by the tears strolling down her face, by the fright, by the shame and by an overflow of other emotions.

‘Enough! Please, enough!’ and began to cry. Unfortunately, Coach Storm answered with a further assault of words on her face. Dash began to cry hysterically.

The other fillies and Gilda were laughing at Rainbow Dash the whole time......

***

Ponyville, September 9th, 2012 BCR.

Twilight's Tree House.

'And that... is the reason why I hate Gilda.' the cyan colored pegasus spoke. Rainbow Dash, now older and more mature, had been invited by the purple unicorn for a cup of coffee.

The library of Ponyville was one of the most famous libraries in Equestria. Princess Celestia came over to Ponyville to open the library for her loyal subjects. Normally around this time of the day, only Twilight and her dragon assistant Spike would be here. Spike keeping the library clean and Twilight reading the stuff she liked.

Twilight had seen that Dashie was troubled by the griffin for the last couple of months.

It wasn't a mystery. The harsh and foul griffin had graced the little town a new visit, but this time, she wasn't out for her revenge against the local Baker, the pink earth pony Pinkie Pie. No, she was out to make amends again with the speedster one, Rainbow Dash. Unfortunately, Gilda had chosen the date wrongly. She had come to Ponyville, right on the 17th of June.

Of course, Rainbow Dash was happy to see her old friend again, but still, there was something lingering in the back of her mind... She didn’t know what it was, but she didn't let that trouble her and again she flew around with the griffin in no time. Pinkie Pie was afraid when she saw Gilda again, but Gilda didn't let that trouble her, and gave her apologies towards the energetic earth pony.

But like they say, nice songs don't last long. As the months of Summer regressed, the memory in Rainbow Dash's mind fought for it to come back. It fought so hard, that it almost hurt her. It stabbed like a thorn through her mind. Eventually, it all came back to her. How Coach Storm had tried to turn the face of Rainbow Dash into a bloody pulp, and that everypony, including Gilda laughed their flanks off. On the first of September, she couldn't stand it any longer and again, the pegasus and the griffin were locked into a dogfight once again.

The police of Ponyville had to break the fight between them because it wasn't a pleasant sight. They were afraid that they could kill each other, so much hate came from them.

Twilight could detect various distress signals from other ponies around Ponyville when she saw them. She recognized the same troubled look on Rainbow Dash’s face, probably having something to do with Gilda, so she invited Rainbow to come over for a cup of coffee.

But now, she was stunned! She didn't know that Rainbow Dash had such a traumatic, horrific experience. 'And that wasn't the only time! Sometimes, Gilda punched me, humiliated me by..... Well, I don’t wanna talk about it... and so much more!'

With that, she erupted into tears, all of the memories started flooding back into her mind. She buried her head into Twilight's chest, and began to sob.

'Dash, Dash, it's okay. It's okay. There's nothing to worry about.' Twilight did her best, but she was the element of magic, not loyalty, so she didn't quite know how to comfort somepony.

But Dashie wasn't a mare that cried a lot, and this occasion wasn't one that changed the habit. She had an idea, an idea where she, once again, would have the upper hoof. One that would put that griffin back in her place!

She left the tree house that was the library, and flew to the nearest rain cloud. She jumped on the cloud to check it. The cloud made a very loud squishing sound, which meant it was fuller than full.

Perfect! she thought with a devilish smile across her face.

She let out a crackle and had a mischievous grin across her face when she pushed the cloud towards the unsuspecting griffin. The griffin didn't have a clue of what happened next. Before she knew it, Rainbow Dash was jumping on the cloud. She released every drop in the cloud all over the griffin, making her soaking wet. Dash flew away with the cloud, laughing harder than she ever laughed in her life.

But for Gilda, while she was being ridiculed by the townponies, let out the most ear-piercing screech that she had ever let out in her life, and shrieked,

'You'll pay for this, Rainbow Dash! You just wait, and I’ll come for you!’ She landed, with an anger that lit fire in her eyes and flames through her nose, when a thought came into her mind.

Her angry face was replaced by a mischievous smirk when she thought what the most terrifying thing was in Dash's life. 'Hmmm......' she said when placing her claw on her face.

'That's it! Oh, Rainbow Dash, I’m going to go laugh so hard when I'm done with you!' she said, and began to laugh to herself... Next Chapter: 2; A Tickling Sensation. Estimated time remaining: 45 Minutes