"Thank you so much for helping me clean up all these books guys," thanked Twilight. Pinkie, Rarity and I had just finished helping Twilight clean up the library. "It was a crazy week of studying."

"Why do you always make such a big mess when you study?" I asked, "it's really not that hard to read a book, y'know." Twilight huffed.

"I was testing spells! I had to-" The wall behind her cut her off by exploding, causing a book-avalanche. I looked up to see why the wall had exploded to see Rainbitch lying face down on the floor.

"Oh for buck's sake... Thanks a lot, Rainbitch! Now we've gotta start again!" Rainbitch stood up and shook herself off.

"Sorry about that, ladies," she said, completely ignoring me. "That was a truly feeble performance."

"Hello, everypony," Fluttershy greeted from the hole Rainbitch created, "it wasn't all bad, Rainbow Dash. I particularly liked it when you made the clouds spin."

"Ugh. I'm not talking about my performance, I'm talking about yours. That feeble cheering!" I stopped listening and started putting books away again. I need to make a spell to put all of these books back into their proper place. It'd take a while but if this is gonna keep happening it's something I need. Wh- OW! Rarity jabbed me in the side with her horn.

"Go on, go on!" She exclaimed.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, "you mean fixing the wall or what?"

"No! Find a spell that will get us wingless ponies into Cloudsdale! Didn't you see how nervous she was?"

"No. I wasn't listening."

"We've got to find a way to be there for her. Now go on!" She jabbed me again.

"Would you stop poking me with your horn? Anyway, I don't know any spells that induce Pegasus magic."

"A flight spell?" Asked Pinkie, "one sec." She disappeared for a moment before returning with a book in hoof. "Page twenty-seven." I took it and flipped to the page.

"Thanks, Pinkie." I quickly skimmed through the text. "It's a little complicated, but nothing I can't handle."

"Cloud?" Twilight asked, "do you mind if I cast it instead?"

"Sure, knock yourself out." I hoofed the book to her. She started reading.

"The spell will allow Earth ponies to fly for three days. Oh, it looks really difficult... I'm not sure I can do it."

"Do you wanna try anyway or do you want me to cast it?"

"I'll give it a go. Who's gonna volunteer to be the test subject?"

"Me. Cast away." Twilight began casting the spell. A strange blue ribbon of energy wrapped itself around me, getting tighter each second and lifting me into the air. There was a small explosion and everything dissipated. Twilight, who had fallen over at some point, stood up bearing an exhausted grin.

"I think it worked!" All three of them were looking past me at something on my back. I turned my head to see and-

"OH REALTA, KILL IT WITH FIRE!"

After every speck of insect was removed from me and I had calmed down, we went searching for a different spell. One that didn't include anything insectoid. Ugh...

It didn't take long to find a simpler spell. The new spell allowed a non-Pegasus Pony to walk on clouds for about twenty four hours. After some debate with Twilight, I decided to go with them to Cloudsdale to watch Rainbitch try to perform a sonic rainboom (which Pinkie had explained to me was a magical sonic boom). I'd summoned a big Support Circle and flew us all to Cloudsdale.

It took about three hours of traveling at my top speed (about two hundred and fifty meters per second) but we finally made it. After lowering us down onto the cloud surface and deactivated the Circle, I fell to the ground (Or would that be "I fell to the cloud"?) and let out an exhausted sigh.

"Cloud?" Asked Twilight. "Are you okay?"

"Next... Huh... Time... Huh... Get a... Huh... Bucking hot air balloon... Huh..." I slurred.

"Ah don't git why you're so tired," stated Applejack, "ye weren't doin' anythin' 'cept standin' there."

"It's mentally exhausting... It's like getting punched in the brain..."

"But why are ye so outa' breath?"

"I had to use up a lot of energy... Why'd you think I ate those two pies before we left?"

"You really like mah pahs?"

"I had to exert more energy to my brain so I could keep up the Support Circle's speed. That included increasing oxygen intake."

"Wha' do 'exert' and 'intake' mean?"

"Are you- Forget it, it doesn't matter." I stretched out before standing back up and turning to Twilight. "How long are we staying before we go back?"

"The plan was to leave tomorrow, will that be enough time for you to get rested enough?"

"Yeah, that'll be enough. Where's the first stop, then?"

"First we need to find Rainbow Dash."

"Okay. Pinkie, where's Rainbitch?"

"Over there!" Pinkie exclaimed in a sing-song voice as she pointed somewhere behind me. I turned to see where she pointed and saw Rainbitch a few hundred meters away, freaking out about something next to Fluttershy.

"Thanks, Pinkie. When does the competition start, Twilight?"

"A couple of hours, it should give us time to have a look around."

"Good. I'm gonna go get a room in a hotel or inn or whatever they have here and lie down for a while; I'll need to start some healing spells at the right moment to counteract any migraines coming my way. I'll meet you at the Cloudeseum."

"Don't you want to go and say hello to Rainbow first?"

"No, I hate her." I started walking towards some buildings in the distance.

After a little healing magic and a can of Manticore (unleash the monster!), I was well enough to have a look around the city. I bumped into Twilight and the others as they were heading to towards the weather factory. Rainbitch was going to give them a small tour and I decided to tag along since I was bored anyway. Thirty minutes later I was still bored.

Rainbitch led us into a room filled with Ponies looking at looked like snowflakes through magnifying glasses.

"This is where they make the snowflakes," whispered Rainbitch. "Each one is hoof-made. As you can see, it's a delicate operation."

"Why don't they just get Unicorns to do it?" I whispered questioningly, "it'd be so much faster and accurate." Rainbitch gave me a slightly pissed off look.

"Because it takes high ranking Pegasus weather experts to deposition the clouds into crystal."

"Or you you could just hire a single Unicorn semi-skilled in magic. It'd certainly help the economy."

"A stupid stick-head couldn't do nearly as well as a Pegasus!"

"Rainbow!" Whisper-shouted Twilight, "language!"

"Sorry, Twi."

"But you've got a point."

"I fail to see the point," I whisper-stated.

"It would take a high level Unicorn to induce deposition onto a cloud."

"Sure, but you wouldn't need a spell that complicated."

"What do you mean?"

"Transmutation is a lot easier. Look-" I pulled a tuft of cloud out of the ground and transmutated it into a hoofful of snowflakes. "See? Easy."

"Cloud, that's still a really high level spell."

"Seriously?"

"Yes."

"Well, it's still easier than a deposition spell. Just get a few good Unicorns and you're set."

"I don't think you understand how difficult that spell is. I was taught by Princess Celestia herself and even I have problems with it. Even twenty skilled Unicorns wouldn't be nearly enough to match the Pegasi."

"What? Really?" Twilight nodded. "Well shit. I'm much stronger than I thought I was. Anyway-" I turned the snowflakes I was holding back into a cloud chunk and shoved it back into the ground. "Continue with the tour." Rainbitch huffed before leading us outside. Huge bowls with liquid rainbows flowing through them were suspended in the air. The rainbows all ended up in large vats of liquid-rainbow-stuff.

"This is where the make the rainbows," explained Rainbitch. Pinkie walked up to the vat and stuck a hoof in, coating it in the strange multicoloured liquid. She took a lick and her face whizzed through different colour emotions before leaving her breathing heavily.

"Ah! Spicy!" Pinkie gasped out before running to get water.

"Well that happened," I said to myself. I turned to Rainbitch. "I thought rainbows were made of light, why do these vats have physical property?" And why is there so much science and magic talk today?

"It'd be hard to store them if we left them as light so we make them in physical form first," explained Rainbitch.

"How are rainbows made, anyway?"

"It's a secret."

"What, do you grind up children in a big machine?" Rainbitch looked shocked.

"What?! No! That's horrible!" I laughed at how shocked she was.

"I was only joking! You shouldn't take everything so seriously!"

"Screw you!"

"Jeez, calm down!"

"This is why I hate you, you're always such a dick!"

"I've been everything but dickish today!"

"Oh, sure, that's why you were implying that Unicorns are better than Pegasi back there, right?"

"I wasn't implying that, they were legitimate questions! I just didn't know how strong I was!"

"Guys," Twilight interjected, "you shouldn't fight-"

"Shut up, Twilight," Rainbitch and I said in usion.

"Why are you always such a plot hole?!" Shouted Rainbitch, "what have I ever done to you?!"

"You mean other than letting me fall to my almost certain death twice, attacking me in the street for helping Fluttershy with a bully, breaking my collar bone, causing me to waste so many bits on hospital bills and repair costs and ruining my entire day on twelve different occasions?"

"When did I ever let you fall to your 'almost certain death'?!"

"Really?! You just suddenly forgot?!" I cast a thought-projection spell next to me, accurately showing (from a third-Pony perspective) me falling off of the cliff in the Everfree Forrest and casting the makeshift Force Barrier. "Oh look, Cloud's falling to his death," I said in a mocking voice, "maybe I should help... Nah, I'm sure he'll be fine. It's probably his dream to be a bloodstain on the ground!"

"You cast the spell before I could get to you so I went to Twilight instead!"

"Oh sure, that's totally what happened!"

"When was the second time then!?" I deactivated the thought-projection spell.

"After I beat Nightmare and I fell, remember? When I shattered my skull and went blind?" I'm so glad medical magic is what it is. I would have been dead for certain without it.

"I-"

"Just decided not to catch me?"

"No! I just wasn't expecting you to fall and I didn't have time to-"

"Don't you bucking dare use that excuse! You declared earlier that day that you were fast enough to clear the sky in ten seconds flat! Catching a Pony a few meters away would have been nothing compared to that!"

"You've been worse to me than I have to you!"

"Oh really?! Let's do a quick recap of the things I've done! I saved all of Magi from a raging goddess, I stopped a dick from bullying Fluttershy, I weakened a dragon until it could be negotiated with, I ripped a hole in the universe to protect everypony from myself, I saved Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie and Fluttershy from a hydra, I let Twilight experiment on me to try and find a spell to get her and the others here to support you and when we found the right spell I flew all of us here by risking my mental health! Oh yeah, I so deserved it!"

"Wait, you-"

"Buck you! This is why I call you Rainbitch, no matter what I do you're always an annoying bitch!" I teleported back to the hotel before I could have another mental breakdown.

Author's Notes:

Every time I write AJ speaking I add more and more accent.
The thought-projection spell is based off of the presentation thing Trixie casts in 'Magic Duel'.
This chapter was a lot longer than planned.