Author's Notes:

Hey guys, I was too tired to proof-read it at all, so possible mistakes ahead.

Best wishes

Riter12pl4

Rainbow Dash and Thomas were sitting at the bunch in front of ice cream shop eating some ice creams, Thomas took 2 chocolate balls while Dash took three balls of “Rainbow Special”.

“So Ashleigh, I take it that you never been in an Arcade before right?”

“In what?”

“I guessed so, trust me you will like it.”

They sat there finishing their ice cream after they were done Thomas motioned her to follow him and she did, after few minutes of walking through crowded streets, they finally stood before it, Mecca of his childhood, Arcade saloon with mostly old school and some new games.

Thomas looked at Rainbow, she seemed to be quite impressed by the size of this thing but since she still didn’t know what will they be doing there she wasn’t showing any other emotion. Thomas however noticed a small blur of ice cream on her muzzle, he kneeled to her eye level startling her a little.

“What?”

He didn’t response, instead lifted his hand and used his forefinger to clean ice cream from her muzzle and eat it, it tasted like blueberries

“W-W-What?!” Rainbow flinched and blushed hard which only made Thomas smirk.

“You had some ice cream on your face.”

She wanted to yell at him but she couldn’t, she tried to hide her blush behind her mane which only made her look cuter which in turn made Thomas blush a little.

“Come on, you might have won at Mortal Kombat, but I’m an unbeatable champion of Air Hockey.”

Rainbow Dash nodded, wondering what that air hockey thing is.

After spending 20 Dollars and surviving 30 minutes of humiliation by Rainbow’s hoof, Thomas sat on the bench inside the Arcade with his face hidden in his hands, Rainbow sitting next to him holding her head up proudly.

“I don’t freakin believe it, you never played that before?”

“Nope, just pure awesome talent.” She said while waving her hoof in the air, Thomas loved her, but he needed to find something, anything that he will be better at, luckily this place had tons of different games, and they had full day.

With his hopes up and his wallet full of coins, he stood up.

“Ok, let’s play something else, hmmm how about” Thomas looked around searching for anything that he might win at, and then he saw it, a game that he used to play when he was in middle school, he would always beat Alex but neither of them were very good at it. However he thought that his bipedal posture will give him an upper hand.

“Let’s play this.”

Thomas motioned towards the machine and Rainbow looked at it.

“Dance Dance Revolution?”

“Yeah, do I have to explain what have you do to win?”

Rainbow looked at the screen and then at the arrows on platforms and shook her head.

“All right, come on I will beat your ass again.” She said teasingly, Thomas smiled and put a coin inside the machine.

“WELCOME TO DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION, CHOOSE YOUR SONG.” Machine proclaimed.

Thomas chose the song and they both tensed waiting for arrows to show up.

Another 20 minutes later.

“That game was stupid.” Rainbow Dash said with a big frown on her face.

“Yeah sure, just cause you finally lost at something doesn’t mean it’s stupid.”

“Shut up.”

Thomas chuckled.

“What’s so funny?”

“You look cute when you’re getting angry.”

Rainbow started to slightly blush.

“S-Shut up.” She said again this time much softer.

Thomas smiled.

“Hey Ashleigh, I don’t know about you but I got a little bit of hungry from all that dancing.”

“Yeah me too.”

“So how about some snack?”

“Sure why not.”

They left arcade for now and went to buy some hot-dogs, of course Rainbow ordered a hot-dog without the meat much to everyone’s surprise while earning few chuckles from Thomas in the process, they sat down on a free bench and started to eat, after they finished they sat in silence for some time and finally Rainbow broke it.

“Hey Thomas?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you think that we will never see each other again?”

Her words hurt him, he couldn’t stop thinking about their departure ever since Princess Celestia proclaimed it and now she added a fuel to the already burning fire of his internal agony.

“I don’t know Ashleigh, Celestia didn’t tell us if you will be able to visit us.”

Rainbow leaned closer to him resting her head on his shoulder, he then heard something he didn’t want to hear.

Soft sobbing.

“I-I don’t want to leave, I want to stay here with you.”

‘Please stop.’ Thomas thought, it was already hard for him to accept the reality, he even had some suicide thoughts, although he very quickly got rid of them fearing his own mind luckily they never came back, but now that she said those words, his heart started to break in half as he felt his eyes watering, he tried his best to stop tears from flowing, he had to be strong, at least for now.

“Don’t worry RD, even if we will be in different dimensions, I will always love you, and I will never cheat on you.” He meant that, he didn’t know why he loved her so much, they met personally a week ago, was it his sense of loyalty? Or something stronger? He didn’t know, but he also didn’t care.

“R-Really?”

“Really.”

“You promise?”

“Of course.”

“Pinkie Promise?”

Thomas chuckled.

“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” He said while doing all the needed gestures.

Rainbow smiled, the person who stole her heart promised her loyalty by the most unbreakable promise that exists, it somehow made her calm, she stopped crying and laid her head peacefully on his shoulder.

They sat in silence for few minutes when they heard someone calling his name.

“THOMAS! Hey Thomas!.”

They turned around to see who it was, although Thomas knew already.

Sarah ran towards them waving friendly, she stopped near the bunch breathing heavily.

“H-hey, what’s up?” She said.

“Hey Sarah, we are having some fun out on the town with Ashleigh here.”

Sarah looked at RD, Thomas was now worried that she might get angry on either Rainbow or him but to his surprise she just smiled and lifted her hand towards Dash.

“Hey, I’m Sarah, I’m Thomas’s friend.”

“I’m Ashleigh, nice to meet you” Rainbow said while shaking her hoof with her hand, Thomas sighed in relief.

“So what are you doing here Sarah?”

“Oh nothing really, I got bored at home so I wanted to go out with someone, but all my friends were already doing something, or they didn’t answer the call, so I went alone hoping to meet some friendly face, and here you are.” She smiled at them warmly.

Thomas was glad to see her like this, after what happened he feared that she might hold some grudge against him, or even want a revenge.

He saw too many thriller movies.

“Hey Sarah, how about hanging out with us? We were just about to go back into Arcade.”

Thomas looked in surprise at Rainbow Dash not expecting her to give such proposition, Sarah was equally shocked and for few moments her jaw even went slightly down.

“S-Sure I would love to.” They smiled to each other, this turn didn’t make Thomas too happy, he wanted to spend this day with Rainbow alone.

“All right, let’s go!” Rainbow stated standing up from the bench and trotting towards the arcade Sarah following her.

‘This won’t end well’ Thomas thought.

“Hey slowpoke you coming or what?” RD shouted towards him.

“I shall think about it give me a minute.”

“Oh come on Tom.”

“All right all right, wait for me”

Thomas stood up and walked up to them, they went in and started their journey through unlimited old-school games, they played few rounds of tekken, Thomas refusing to play for obvious reasons, then they went on to shooting games where Tom finally showed some skill and slightly impressed them.

“Pheew, that was tiring.”

“Yeah, but I have to say that you beat his ass with a style, High hoof Sarah!.” Rainbow raised her hoof towards her, Sarah returning a gesture with her hand.

“Yeah sure, stomp on my man pride more.” Thomas said with his head hang low, both girls laughed a little and then Rainbow walked up to him and jumped into the air, she hovered before him meeting his eye level.

He lifted his head to look at her and was immediately met by her lips on his own, he closed his eyes enjoying the kiss, unfortunately he didn’t manage to do it for long, RD backed her muzzle and smiled at him with a half closed eyes.

“Here, better?”

Thomas only nodded wearing a small smile on his face, Rainbow landed in front of him and he saw Sarah blushing.

“All right girls, I don’t have any more coins, wait here I’ll go get some change.”

He left them alone and they stood there in rather awkward silence.

“Hey Ashleigh I wanted to ask something if you don’t mind.”

“Sure go ahead.”

Sarah cleared her throat.

“Did you and Thomas, you know did that already?”

“Did what?” Rainbow asked looking at her with quizzical expression.

“Oh you know, the adult stuff.”

It took Rainbow few seconds before realizing what Sarah meant, she immediately started to change color of her muzzle to red and looked on the floor.

“N-No we didn’t, you know we’ve been a couple for few days.”

“Yeah I understand.” Sarah nodded and silence took over them again, this time it was Rainbow who broke it.

“Hey Sarah, is it true that you had crush on him?”

Sarah frowned and looked at Rainbow.

“Yeah I did.”

Rainbow felt guilty for some reason, she couldn’t help it but think that she stole Thomas from her, however it seemed that Sarah realized that and quickly added.

“But it was just a crush and nothing more, while in your case it seems to be something much stronger than that, don’t worry, it seems that he just wasn’t the one for me, he was yours from the beginning.” Sarah smiled at her, Rainbow was happy of her approval.

Thomas came back after few minutes having to wait in line to get some change, when he got back he saw girls in the situation he least expected, laughing and talking together like old friends.

He walked up to them and they greeted him happily, he didn’t know what happened but they both were happy, especially Rainbow so that also made him happy.

They wanted to play another game but then Rainbow saw something that caught her eye, it was a rather young boy, he could be 19-20 years old from his looks, he was Thomas height and had short black hair with a longer bang in front which covered his left eye, he was standing alone at the air hockey machine with a thinking expression on his face.

Rainbow then had an idea, she put a mischievous smile on her muzzle and motioned other two to follow her, they looked at each other with surprise but shrugged it off and went after her.

“Hey buddy wassup.” She said to the boy, he turned around noticing small group approaching him and smiled.

“Hey, nothing much, I was supposed to play with my friend a little, but he just called me that he won’t be coming, and I prepared quite a lot of coins for today.”

Rainbow smiled again and looked at Sarah, Thomas added 2+2 and now he understood her plan, he also smiled mischievously.

“It’s your lucky day then.” Rainbow and Thomas pushed Sarah towards him much to her surprise.

“Hey what are you..” She was interrupted by Thomas

“Would you like to play with our friend here?” Rainbow and Thomas smiled wildly creeping the boy a little, but he still smiled back.

“Yeah sure, I mean if that’s fine with you.” He said to Sarah.

She examined him carefully blushing a little, he was quite handsome and he was her type.

“Y-Yeah sure.”

Before she realized both RD and Thomas were gone, smiling in victory from the other side of the arcade. They both leave and Thomas makes a proposition to have some coffee to which Rainbow agreeds.

They sat down in the near café and make their orders, Thomas ordering only coffee while Rainbow also had some ice creams with it.

During their “meal” they talked about their favorite things, Rainbow couldn’t stop talking about flying maneuvers and wonderbolts, Thomas occasionally chuckling at her enthusiasm. He on the other hand talked about Karate and explained to her what was anime, he of course mentioned how big much he adored their show but she knew that already, before they realized it was already 4 p.m.

“Hey RD, I know we were supposed to spend whole day on the town, but I kinda feel like going home and maybe play few rounds of Mortal Kombat, I want my revenge.” He smiled mischievously.

“Ha no way in hell that you will beat me, sure let’s head back.”

And so they did, it would take them about 15 minutes on foot, erm hoofs, well both, but they occasionally stopped to look in some shops, and they even sat down on the bench in park for few moments enjoying some peace.

In the end it took them over and hour to get back, after going inside Thomas went to the kitchen to make himself something to eat, to his surprise Rainbow was also hungry so he made some vegetarian sandwiches for her while making some with meat for himself.

RD was already in the guest room waiting for him with controller in her hoofs, he passed her a plate with sandwiches and they both dug in.

As they were eating in silence something struck Thomas like a bolt from the heavens.

They were alone in his house and they will stay that way as nobody will come back for the night.

He immediately blushed remembering his dream about her, luckily she managed to get him out of his thoughts by slightly nudging him showing that she ate and is ready to kick his ass.

He finished his sandwich and prepared himself, he turned on the TV then Playstation and the game began.

After two hours of playing they sat down on the couch watching news on TV Thomas was smiling wildly.

“Ok, you are starting to creep me out why are you so happy, I kicked your flank.”

“Yeah but I won few times.”

“Three.”

“Hey it’s an improvement.”

Rainbow shook her head earning few chuckles from him, they just sat there for a good hour talking about what was currently on TV or Rainbow praising wonderbolts.

It was 8:17 p.m. when they both yawned simultaneously making each other laugh.

“I guess I’m tired already.”

“Yeah I think we didn’t get much sleep tonight.” Rainbow said.

They agreed and went upstairs, Thomas walked into the bathroom to wash himself up, after he finished Rainbow also went to wash herself and they both then split up RD going into guest Room and Thomas to his.

He laid on the bed with lights turned off, after good 30 minutes he realized something, he couldn’t sleep thoughts of his friends departure invading his defenseless mind.

He heard his doors open.

“Hey Tom, you sleeping yet?”

“No come in.” She nodded and walked inside

“What’s wrong?”

“Well I went to bed and fall asleep almost instantly, but then I had a nightmare.”

“What kind of nightmare?”

Rainbow sobbed a little.

“I went back to E-Equestria with other girls but Princess made some kind of magical mirror so I could watch you and communicate with you, it was like that Skype thing you told me about.”

She stopped and looked at Thomas curious if he’s listening, after confirming that she continued

“A-And one day I wanted to talk with you so I somehow turned it on, and it showed me your room, with you and some, some girl in your bed.”

Tears slowly flowed from her eyes, it hurt him to see her like this, he could understand her fears, she was an element of loyalty after all, something like betrayal must have been horrible for her, and to be betrayed by the person she loved the most? Even such thought must be painful for her.

He tapped a spot on his bed, she wiped her tears and jumped on the bed sitting on her haunches near him.

“Rainbow, I love you, I told you that already I will never cheat on you, even if we will never see each other again.”

“I-I know I trust you, it’s just those thoughts they won’t stop coming.”

“I-Is there any way I can help you with?” Thomas asked also being surprised by his eyes watering, it seems that seeing her so sad was enough to make his tears pile up.

“I guess but..”

“I’ll do anything to help Dashie.”

She looked at him with a sad expression.

“C-Could I perhaps sleep with you here tonight?”

“Sure.”

She smiled and they both laid down in his small bed, it was second time they were sleeping together however this time they weren’t looking away from each other, they laid as close as possible, their foreheads touching gently, they cuddled up until they were both comfortable and they ventured into the land of sweet dreams, not even a slightest nightmare being able to invade them.