Twilight was lying in the upper bunk of her bunkbed, groggily reading a book about lightning spells, as she planned to turn into an insane murderer who no one could lock up in case the world needed fairly quick saving again. Rainbow Dash was on the lower bunk, wide awake reading nothing.

“Twilight?”

“If you’re so bored, then go away.”

“Hey, what’s your problem?”

“I want to read. If you’re lonely, go somewhere else.”

“You could’ve told me that before.”

“You’ve been here about a minute.”

“That’s plenty of time for a single sentence.”

“You know why we’re friends? Because I was ordered to make friends with somepony. I’m really not that big on small talk.”

“Just a couple days ago—”

“Yeah. I feel like reading right now. How would you like to have a good chat with a friend for a hour or so instead of flying?”

Rainbow flew up a bit so that they could look at each other, but Twilight preferred to look at the book. “Hey.”

“I’m listening.”

“Well, since you clearly want me to leave, I’ll leave.”

“You can stay, I don’t care.”

“Exactly, you don’t care. Goodbye.”

“Bye.”

The next day, they were together in the same room for the cribbage game.

“You’re going all the way down to Gehenna,” Rainbow said.

“You’re going all the way up and hitting your head on the firmament.”

“The what?”

Twilight rolled her eyes and set the shuffled cards down. “Who’s dealing first?”

“We’ll decide with a game of rock-paper.”

“All right.”

“Rock, paper, shoot!” they both said. They both picked paper.

“Rock-paper is a stupid game,” Rainbow said.

“We’ll need to use some other method.”

“Well, yeah.”

“A race into the sky. We’ll go outside, pick something, and whoever gets to it first wins.”

“Okay... I accept.”

They went outside.

“How’s that cloud look?” Rainbow said.

“White, puffy... it doesn’t look like a bunny or—”

“You know what I mean.”

“Yeah, that sounds good. How’ll we start?”

“On go. One, go.”

Rainbow flew to the cloud about three kilometres up, where she found Twilight.

“Did you forget that unicorns could teleport?” Twilight said.

“No, but that’s a long way, isn’t it?”

“When it’s up.”

“It is up.”

“I know. My point is that I can do anything because I’m Twilight.”

“Fine. I’m going back down.”

“I can just—”

“No. I’m doing it myself.”

And so Twilight teleported back down and waited for the pegasus.

“Hi, Fluttershy,” Twilight said. “You have the tomatoes, right?”

Fluttershy took a bag of tomatoes out of a bag she was wearing and gave it to Twilight.

“Cool.”

Fluttershy tried to walk off into the sunset, but the horizon seemed to move as quickly as she did. Right after she left, Rainbow Dash arrived.

“What’s wrong?” Twilight said. “You look... embarrassed, I guess.”

“Shut up.”

They then played a cribbage game, but who would show something like that? Next Chapter: Chapter 20: Party 2 Estimated time remaining: 17 Hours, 24 Minutes