To say that I was pissed when I jumped down the cloud would have been an understatement. I was blind with rage at Rainbow’s behaviour, at her decision to just destroy everything. Then, my mind stopped for a second. Who was it that ended the conversation?

Me.

As I landed, the other Wonderbolts looked questioningly at me. Before I could answer that Rainbow would join us soon again for sure, I heard a familiar crack through the air, followed by a giant explosion. Looking up, I saw the effects of a Sonic Rainboom developing through the air, and a rainbow trail quickly escaping.

Rainbow, no!

“You going to fly after her?” Wave Chill asked.

“It’s no use. Once she reaches that speed, nopony alive can catch her,” I said, ears folding back.

“Hah, I figured that they’d split sooner or later,” Soarin’ chuckled.

I snapped. Flapping my wings, I hit him out of his chair with my hoof before standing over him. “What did you just say?”

“That it was doomed from the beginning,” he spit the words at me.

“You miserable, little,” I started and raised my hoof, but Surprise held me back.

“Spitfire, you won’t make things better by doing that. Explain what happened, please,” she said. I tried to calm down, to hold back my rage.

“We argued about Soarin’, then somehow the conversation turned to why I’m harder on her than everypony else. We went into a discussion, and I think nopony understood the other’s reasons. At last I snapped and just jumped off the cloud,” my voice trailed away as I imagined our relationship over.

I bucked up big this time.

Sure, I had some discussions before, and we argued from time to time, but it always ended in sweet nothings or sex, usually the latter. This time, I simply snapped and everything broke down. My shattered heart clenched at the thought that it was me, that I was the one that shattered us.

Surprise facehoofed at that, "Spitfire, sometimes your temper leads you to make the worst decisions."

“I never wanted her to leave! I… I had plans for us, for us to be together, in the eyes of the world. She just… just doesn’t understand… I’m a big idiot,” I said back, feeling tears starting to form in my eyes.

“Well, Captain, what are your orders?” Misty asked, speaking up from behind Surprise.

“What… What do you mean?” I asked, unsure what she was getting at.

“What do you want us to do? This is no different than any other problem we’ve ever had. We’re a team, us, dumb flank over there, you, and Rainbow. We fight for each other. So tell us, how will you fight for her? How can we help?”

I stopped to think about it. Directly flying after her was no use, I knew that for sure. After her Sonic Rainboom, she would be way faster than any of us, “We split up and search the area. Don’t stop at the border of the town. Based on her top speed, I know she can be around fifty miles.”

Misty, Surprise, and Wave Chill looked at each other and nodded. As one, they spread their wings and took off, heading in the direction of Rainbow’s Sonic Rainboom. Misty headed off to the left, Wave Chill to the right. They were conserving their strength, knowing full well that actively trying to chase after Rainbow was a fruitless endeavor. I smiled at that, my team didn’t need me, not really. They were a well oiled machine that could operate on their own with barely any direction.

Most of them anyway. One was still here.

“I hope you don’t think that I’m going to search for her!” Soarin’ said coldly.

I had no idea why, but I didn’t care about my rank, about anything anymore. All that counted was Rainbow, and Soarin’ pulled at my last nerve, “Lieutenant!” I yelled, approaching him, “You can be glad that I’m not kicking your worthless flank right now. You’d better start moving, or I’m going to start calling you my ex-Lieutenant once we’re back at the academy.”

“You can’t force me!” he yelled back.

“Get your ass moving before I burn it!” I hollered, causing him to jump back, eyes wide in fear.

I felt my anger raising even more as he froze, but before I could raise my hoof and simply beat him into the dirt, he quickly saluted with a deadpanned expression and took off.

I doubt that he will search for Rainbow.

That just left me, I knew Rainbow was a hot head on the best of days, and this was definitely not one of those days. That meant she was going to do something really, really stupid.

But… but she’d come back, I just knew it. I knew it like my own feathers, like each and every primary on my wings. However, she’d need someone here when she did, she’d overtax herself, push herself beyond any rational mare, and she’d probably need help when it was all said and done.

“I’ll watch the edge of the city,” I said to myself.

I’d heard it said that the unknown is the worst, that your mind has a way of filling in the gaps of your knowledge with the worst-case scenarios. After two hours of waiting, of watching, of not knowing, I found that that’s never been more true.

Was I wrong? Is she not coming back? Did she leave me forever?

I shivered at that thought, unable to contain my tears anymore. If it was really true, it was all just because of me. I had pushed her away. Assumed that I could simply follow my plan without even asking her if she wanted it.

Flying from building to building, my wings felt heavy, my strength was leaving me. I knew I wasn’t tired, that I had more than enough physical energy to fly for hours, days even. But it wasn’t physical energy that I was lacking, it was mental energy.

Why… why was I so stupid to think she’d just go along with it?

These questions and a million more were playing through my head, weighing down my wings, sapping my strength. I made my way to the edge of the building and looked out to the next. One eye on my objective, one eye in the direction Rainbow took off to. I lept, spread my wings, and plummeted.

My eyes shut and my heart slowed down as I felt the wind blow by me. I was tired, too mentally exhausted to even flap my wings, and yet I was too dumb to simply sit back and wait. I simply fell to the ground, no longer caring.

“What the hay do you think you’re doing?” a voice snapped, and suddenly hooves gripped me and stopped my fall.

Opening my eyes, I looked straight into the angry face of Misty.

“You know, Captain Spitfire and dead weight are two things I’d never normally associate with each other,” Misty said as she lifted us both easily in the air.

I said nothing, simply trying to hold back the tears, trying to hide that for me the world was already broken.

“You know that she will come back? Ending your own life now won’t help you. What would I tell her then?” Misty looked at me while heading for a roof and placing me down, “I never thought I would ever say it, but you’re damn stupid!”

When she dropped me on the roof, my eyes were glued to my hooves, tears falling in a steady stream, “I wasn't… I couldn’t… My wings, they wouldn’t,” each word came out as a sob, an incomplete garble of noise that failed to convey what I felt.

A set of hooves wrapped around me, pulling me into a soft coat of fur. I cried, I cried as hard as I could into that coat, simply letting it out.

“Well… that’s a relief. Here I thought my Captain might be suicidal,” Misty said in a chuckling tone, “Turns out she’s just that much in love.”

“She’s my life, Misty. Without her, I’m nothing anymore. I love her more than anything else in this world and beyond,” I said with a sad smile.

She looked confused at me, “You, sappy? Who the hay are you, and what did you do to the Captain?”

“You want five hundred extra laps for that?”

“There she is,” Misty said with a chuckle as she pulled back, raising my head with a hoof, “Let me ask, what would Rainbow say to you if she saw you like this?”

“She’d assume I was a changeling and beat my flank,” I said back.

“That’s about right,” Misty smiled, “You know she’s coming back, right?”

“No,” I admitted, surprised by my honesty.

“That settled it. You really are stupid,” Misty said with a frown, “Spitfire, if she loves you as much as you love her, she’ll come back for sure!”

“What if I bucked up everything with my behaviour?” I asked her.

“Then you’d be normal,” Misty replied in an all-too serious voice, “Everypony bucks up at some point of time. What? Do you really think you’re the first pony to do something stupid? To say or do something that offended the pony they love? I got news for you, you’re not. Everypony does something stupid from time to time, what matters is the way you feel.”

“You sound like you got some great knowledge in that,” I chuckled.

“Indeed. Four relationships and two of them ended with me bucking up,” Misty said back.

“Ended?” I asked.

“Sometimes the hurt is too deep to get past.”

My ears immediately dropped at that.

“Hey, don’t be like that again! I know that it won’t be with you and Rainbow, trust me!” Misty scolded.

“But… but you don’t know…”

“Yeah, I do. All of those times had one thing in common; I didn’t really love them. I thought I did, but not really. If I did, I would have fought harder, I wouldn’t have given up like I did. That’s the difference, Spitfire. When you really love someone, you don’t stop fighting for them, even during the worst of times.”

“Just keep fighting?” I asked.

“It really is that simple, and it’s not something you can do without using your head.”

“Sounds hard,” I replied, earning myself a smack with one of Misty’s wings.

“If it’s too hard for you, go the buck home. Leave here, and never think about her again,” Misty scowled at me, “If she means that little to you, don’t waste our time anymore.”

“That’s not what I meant!” I shot back, “It’s just a fact that Rainbow has the same thick skull as I do, so as long she’s pissed, or likely any other similar mood, she won’t talk at all.”

She chuckled at me, “So she’s Rainbow then. Is that not the mare you fell in love with? Is that not the mare that you love this much, so much that you’d risk your life to try and win her back?”

“Of course she is.”

“Then quit your bellyaching, pull up your big mare panties, and fight for her. Fight, keep on fighting, and win. No excuses, no moaning about it being hard, just do it.”

“Just do it?” I asked myself.

“Just like that.”

“Where do I start? I don’t even know when she’ll come back,” I said, my ears dropping again.

Misty looked up, saw something in the distance, and smiled, “I’d start in the southeast, but that’s just me.”

“Why do you--,” I started, just to stop as I caught gaze of the blur of colours heading straight for the city.

My heart jumped in joy, because I knew who exactly it was heading here with full speed.

Rainbow.

I spread my wings and took off, not even waiting for Misty to catch up. I raced towards the sight of my marefriend. My muscles burned as I sped up, ignoring every limitation for her. My eyes never left her, and my joy slowly faltered as I saw the cone filled with rainbow colours behind her.

She’s going way too fast.

Her control was starting to angle down, her path losing weight, losing forward momentum. My mind instantly put the pieces together; she had used a sonic rainboom to get back, to come back to me. That made her second one today in less then three hours.

You dummy.

She came closer and closer, I could practically feel her pain upon the speed, but that wasn’t enough. As she pulled off another Rainboom, just before losing height, I cursed and sped up again.

You dumb, dumb mare!

I forced my wings to flap harder than ever before, my body to go with the air, reaching a much higher speed than ever before. My forehooves stretched, I headed for the love of my life, my life that was falling down to the ground at enormous speed.

No, I can’t let that happen!

The only sign in my mind screamed to save her, to be fast enough. I knew that I couldn’t compare with her speed, agility, and that it would be close; maybe too close. Ignoring this and the pain, I forced myself forwards, towards her falling body.

Just seconds before reaching her, my mind realized that I was too low and she was too fast. I knew that I just had a second to react, then she would simply hit the ground. I knew that I couldn’t catch her, it just wasn’t physically possible.

Buck physics.

“Rainbow!” I shouted out with the last of my breath, refusing to accept the inevitable.

Beep….

Beep….

Beep….

“What,” I mumbled, not sure what was going on. My eyes felt heavy, my body felt like it weighed a tonne.

“Well, well, look who is up,” a voice spoke from my left, one I recognised as Surprise.

Heaving up my lids, I looked to my side to see Surprise sitting to my left with Cloudchaser in her arms. Another look around the room told me that I was in the hospital.

“What happened?” I asked weakly, not quite sure if it was my voice.

“You fought, and you won,” Misty said from my right.

“But… but I’m here, so I lost?” I asked confused.

She moved to the side, letting me see the other bed in the room, or more correctly, the other occupant in the room, “RAINBOW!” I shouted and tried to stand.

Rainbow simply laid still and Cloudchaser quickly stood up to force me back into the bed, “She is asleep, but you should stay in bed.”

I turned back to Misty, “What happened?” I asked again.

“I saw it all. You were amazing, almost as fast as she was. Right when I thought you were about to give up, you didn’t. You caught her, Captain. You caught her and wrapped her in your wings, taking the fall for her.”

“My wings!” I yelped and tried to unfold them and inspect them.

They didn’t move, in fact I didn’t even felt them.

“Slow down!” Surprise said, “The doctors gave you some painkillers and bandaged your wings tight to your body.”

“My wings?” I asked weakly.

“You saved Rainbow, but you paid the price. Your wings…”

“What?” I asked aloud.

“Most of your wing bones are shattered,” Cloudchaser whispered.

It surprised me. I didn’t care. I saved Rainbow and she was back at my side.

That’s a small price to pay for her.

“What’s… what’s wrong with Rainbow?” I asked, my voice deadpan.

“You saved her, but she got some serious fractures in a few bones and her wing muscles were under too much pressure that they snapped. Besides that, she is pretty well, but exhausted,” Surprise smiled at me, “As Misty reached you, Rainbow was out cold and woke up here in the hospital. She was so worried about you that she started freaking out, so the doctors gave her some pills so she could rest and get some sleep.”

“She loves you more than anything else, Spitfire,” Misty said with a smile, one that I could only give back.

“Thank you… thank you so much,” I cried, only to find myself once more in Misty’s hooves.

“Told you it was that easy,” Misty whispered in my ear.

“Thank you, thank you all,” It was all I could say, all that seemed to matter.

“Yes, thank us. Thank us for being two members down, for losing our Captain and our fastest flier to your puppy love crush. One that goes against the rules. So much for the team, huh?” Sorian’ said from the door.

“You better be glad that I can’t beat you into the floor right now,” I said through clenched teeth.

“That doesn’t mean that we can’t do it for you!” Surprise scowled.

“Sadly, he is right,” Wave Chill said and stepped beside Soarin’, “Your actions got around, Captain, and now we got headquarters up our flanks. I don’t think I have to say that they’re not really happy. And they already threatened to inform the Princesses.”

“Sons of--,” I started, just to be stopped by him holding up his hoof.

“However, that doesn't mean that we’re giving you two up,” he continued before smacking Soarin’ up on his head so the stallion fell forwards, “Soarin’, you shamed the Wonderbolts and your team. We should work together, yet you simply did your own thing, like you always do.”

“We’re not a team, we’re a joke,” Soarin’ said with a grunt.

“Soarin’,” I scowled, “You’re dismissed from your rank and the team. Get the buck out of here before I find something to break your skull with.”

“You can’t do that,” Soarin’ shot back.

“And why’s that?” I asked him back.

“Both Rainbow and you are suspended for the foreseeable future,” he replied with a happy smirk, “I’m now the acting Commander.”

I laughed at that, simply laughed, earning confused glares from everypony.

“You know what’s funny about it? I don’t even care! You were my family, but Rainbow is my life! If that’s the price I have to pay for being together with Rainbow, I gladly pay it!” I laughed, and his expression froze.

“You’re really willing to give it all up, to give up your command, the Wonderbolts, all for her?” Soarin’ asked.

“Hell yes, I am!” I said with all confidence I could bring up.

“You’re a laugh!” Soarin’ growled, “And to think a pony like you was the best flier we had! Somepony like you was the Captain! You’re a laugh and a shame!” he said, but came no further as he got tackled by Misty.

“You fucking piece of ungrateful shit! You owe her everything you achieved in the Wonderbolts!” she screamed and started to hit him.

“Get off me!” Soarin’ said between blows.

“Misty, stop,” I said.

She pulled back, at my command, not his. When Soarin’ got back to his hooves, I could see a black eye forming and some blood on a cut from his cheek.

“You… You struck your commander!” He yelled.

“You’re not my commander, and you won’t ever be!” Misty growled.

“I agree with Misty,” Surprise said, and even Wave Chill nodded.

I raised a hoof, silencing anypony else from continuing, “You want to know the real joke, Soarin’? It’s you, the fact that you think rank makes you a leader. Well guess bucking what, you have rank now, but nopony sees you as a leader. You’re a commander of nopony. Because you’ve never realized the obvious truth, to be a leader you have to know how to follow, and that’s one lesson I’ve never been able to teach you.”

Soarin’ said nothing, he simply left the room. I knew he would do something stupid, but I didn’t care. I was here. Maybe not as a Captain anymore, maybe not even as a Wonderbolt. But my love and my family were here, and that was more than enough for me.

“Do you think he’ll dismiss us all?” Surprise asked.

“He couldn’t if he wanted to,” I replied back, “Dismissal cannot be accomplished by an acting commander, it’s against the rules. Even now he didn’t get my rank. He’s just a commander.”

“Would you all keep it down? I’m trying to sleep,” Rainbow mumbled from the other bed, half asleep.

“Rainbow!” I shouted and stood up, this time they were all too slow to stop me.

Without thinking, I leapt onto Rainbow’s bed, snuggling her, “You’re alright! You’re alright!” I mumbled happily.

My presence on her bed caused her to shift around. She opened her eyes, having to fight against the weight of her eyelids. I met her gaze for gaze, staring into her magenta pupils with my own.

“Hey, beautiful,” she whispered, and my heart made a sudden leap.

“Oh, Rainbow!” I sobbed, snuggling my muzzle into her coat, “I’m sorry! I was such an idiot!”

“Me too,” Rainbow whispered before I felt her muzzle upon my head, then a short peck.

She lifted her hooves, a task that seemed to be harder for her than lifting a mountain on her wings. But her persistence was not to be denied, soon she placed one on my shoulder, as if to hug me closer to her.

“Can I have another chance?” she asked.

“What are you talking about?”

“I want another chance with us. I’m sorry that I yelled at you. I don’t want to lose you,” her voice barely a whisper.

“You never lost me,” I said into her coat.

“That’s good to hear,” she mumbled before sighing, “I’m so tired. Will you stay here and hold me while I sleep?”

“Of course,” I said, moving a hoof through her mane, “I love you,” I spoke to her.

She whispered something, too quiet for me to hear, but I was sure that she said it back. With a smile, I simply held her and snuggled into her coat while she drifted off into sleep again.

When her eyes were finally closed, I let one more tear fall before looking back at the team, my team. What I saw surprised me; they were all gone, only Misty remained, “We’ll leave you two alone,” she said with a smile.

I nodded, giving her a smile back before snuggling back into the soft, cyan fur at my side. I had my Rainbow back, my life back. That my career was basically destroyed, I didn’t care.

I don’t know how she became my everything, but somehow, that mare sleeping in my hooves did it. We had a lot to talk about, a lot that went really back, but as long as we did it together, I could face the future with my head held high.

I laid my head down next to hers and just held her, fighting against my own sleep for as long as I could, just so I could see her for that much longer. However, even I couldn’t hold it off forever. Soon I joined her in blissful sleep.

We were both awoken to the feeling of magic pushing against us. I blinked three times, realizing that I had fallen asleep on Rainbow’s bed. With a loud yawn, I rolled to my side to look at who came in to wake us up. There was one brown stallion unicorn doctor with a labcoat and three white earth pony nurses.

“Captain Spitfire, I must insist that you sleep in your own bed from now on,” the stallion said.

“You can take her from my bed when you drag her from my cold dead hooves,” Rainbow replied with a growl.

To his credit, the doctor just ignored the brash mare. I had no doubt that Rainbow wasn’t threatening him, she was making him a promise. When I chuckled about it, the movement caused my own body to betray me, or more precisely, my wings to betray me.

They hurt, a lot.

“I’m not saying this to separate you out of pure fun, I’m saying this because you both have some serious injuries, and they can’t heal if you don’t rest properly,” the doctor said with a huff before taking a gaze upon his notes, “Captain Spitfire, most of the bones in your wings are shattered, but with some magic treatment, we can fix that easily. However, you will still be grounded for around three weeks.”

I cursed before he went to Rainbow, “Miss Dash, your injuries aren’t that bad, but your wing muscles snapped. We have two choices; let it heal by itself and you are grounded, not able to move your wings at all for two months, or we fix them magically and you are out for two weeks.”

Rainbow immediately shouted, “Magic!”

The doctor gave her an unamused glare, “However, magic healing means that they will be far weaker than if they healed through the natural process. You’ll be set back quite a bit in your performance, requiring weeks, if not months of additional rehab until you’re back to normal.”

Rainbow looked at me and smiled, “What do I care? I’ve got my Captain to push me back to the top!”

I was seriously surprised, “Rainbow, you told me you were once grounded for a few days and it drove you crazy. Why are you so cool with that now?”

“Because I got you at my side,” she whispered back before sighing, “You made my biggest fears come true, we turned into an old, mushy couple,” she laughed.

I turned to the doctor, “Doctor, if she takes the other option, how soon could she have basic use of her wings again?”

“As I said, two months,” he paused and showed the first real smile, “But I guess she can make some basic flying in three weeks if she takes care and attends a special therapy daily.”

“We’ll need to talk about our options,” I said.

“What’s there to talk about? I’ve made my decision!” Rainbow insisted.

“No, you didn’t, and I say we talk,” I said back, “Captain's orders!”

I could actually see her retort coming, so I added, “And your marefriend’s wish.”

Rainbow huffed before smiling at me, “You’re not playing fair, but fine!”

“All’s fair in love and war,” I said before laughing. It proved infectious as Rainbow soon chimed in.

Of course, the problem of laughing with two busted wings soon became obvious to me again.

“Oh, sweet Celestia, that hurts!” I said, doing my best to try and not laugh, which only caused me to want to laugh some more.

Rainbow sat up, moaning through a small amount of pain herself, “What’s wrong?”

“Painkillers are wearing off,” the doctor said as he turned to the nurse, “Another problem of sleeping in the wrong bed, the Captain pulled out her IV drip.”

“Heh, as long it’s not killing me, I will sleep in this bed, and there is nothing you can do to stop me,” I said with a chuckle.

“High ranking ponies always make the most unruly patients,” the doctor said with a sigh as he signaled for the nurse to move a few of the devices from the empty bed to Rainbow’s, “Well, if you insist against sleeping in your own bed, I’m not going to try and force you. We will have to get you hooked back up though. If you think it feels bad now, it’s nothing compared to what you would be feeling in two hours time.”

“I bet I can make it better!” Rainbow suddenly said with a smirk, and I gave her a glare.

“Can’t you keep your tail down for one single day? We’re at the hospital!”

“Sorry, I’m still the same,” she replied chuckling.

I leaned back and offered one of the nurses my hoof. She took it and started inserting several needles into me. Some of which hurt, but one of which felt phenomenal, “Morphine,” I said with a sigh.

“That good, huh?” Rainbow asked.

“Unplug yours and find out.”

“No, thanks. I’ll keep it,” she laughed.

She is unbearable sometimes, but she is still my Rainbow and I love her.

I had to smile at her antics, like always as she watched the fluid run through the whole tube and then into my hoof.

“Something else?” I asked the doctor.

“Your friends would like to come in again if you feel fit enough,” he answered.

“Sure, send them in,” I smiled and he nodded before leaving with the nurses.

Wave Chill, Misty, Surprise, and Cloudchaser all walked in with smiles on their faces. They were faux smiles though, I could tell they were hiding something, something they did not want me to know. I returned a real one, not caring what was coming. It really didn’t matter that much to me at this moment.

I had a suspicion I knew what the cause was though. Or should I say, who was the cause.

“Let me guess,” I started, looking at them still with the smile, “Soarin’ went to Wild Fire, told her everything, and now she’s pissed and wants to see Rainbow and me as soon as possible?”

That one statement killed four smiles, “I told you she’d guess,” Misty said as she lightly hit Surprise with a wing.

“I’m not dumb, and Wild Fire is not exactly my best friend. Do you know about the others?”

“Well,” Wave Chill gulped, “Wild Fire is the first official from headquarters. Cloud Break says he doesn’t care as long as you two do the job, but Downdraft is with Wild Fire on this one. You got two of three against you.”

“What can they really do? I mean you’re the Captain after all,” Rainbow asked.

“Listen, Rainbow. While I might have the highest rank in the academy, I don’t have it on the whole team. Years ago they settled some officials that are making sure that we keep to the rules and everything runs smoothly in the academy,” I explained.

Rainbow buried her muzzle into my coat and growled, “Why can’t everything just be easy for once?”

“It’s politics, Rainbow. Wild Fire, Cloud Break, and Downdraft pretty much make up a review board for high ranking members of the Wonderbolts. While Spitfire is technically the highest ranking member, they have oversight approval,” Surprise added, “Sadly, politics are never easy.”

“Let me ask again; what can they do?” Rainbow looked up at me.

“Worst case? We’re done with the Wonderbolts forever, and they manage some punishment from the Princesses,” I replied dryly.

“As Captain, they can find her in dereliction of duty and, while they can’t fire her, they can reassign her. You’d just be expelled, forever,” Wave Chill said, dryly.

“We’d still be together?” Rainbow asked.

Surprise shook her head, “They’d send her to the other side of the world, put her in command of a military base that doesn’t allow non-military personnel.”

“And you all think I would let that happen? I already told Soarin’ that I would give everything up for Rainbow,” I said with a growl, loud and threatening enough to stop everypony.

“Captain, you know the punishment for denying a lawful order. You’d be looking at jail, not reassignment if you didn’t go,” Misty added.

“They can’t jail me without having a real scandal running over Cloudsdale. They’ll let me go because I won’t continue a single second without Rainbow,” I shot back.

Misty raised a hoof to try and calm down the tension in the room, “We’re talking worst case scenario here, I doubt it would come to that. Such an action would have to be ordered by the Princesses anyway.”

“I need to write a letter!” Rainbow chimed in.

I gave her a questioning gaze and she smirked, “You forget that I’m the Element of Loyalty, and that the personal student of Celestia is a good friend. Let’s see how they face a raging unicorn with more power than all the nobles in Canterlot!”

I placed a hoof on her shoulder, “Rainbow, no. You can’t call in favors to try and sweep this under the rug.”

“Who said anything about favors?” Rainbow added with a smile, “I just want to make sure they know our side of the story.”

The wink she gave me wasn’t very reassuring.

“Oh, c’mon! Just trust me once, Firefly!” she pouted, her eyes growing wide like a filly’s begging for sweets.

No, not that stare again.

I tried to fight it, but I knew I would lose anyways, “Fine!” I said and gave her a quick kiss, “It’s worth a try.”

“Awesome!” Rainbow said with a grin as Misty walked over and fetched a quill and scroll from the table. I had to resist the urge to look over her shoulder as she wrote it. The last thing I needed was accusations of nepotism added to the list of charges against me.

No, I’ll place my trust in her. She’s earned that much.

Whatever she scribbled on the parchment, it didn’t take her long to get the letter written. Rainbow folded it up and passed it over to Misty who took it with an uncertain glance to me.

I simply nodded at her that it was okay before changing the subject, “So, how goes things otherwise?”

“While you two were asleep, Soarin’ tried to bring the academy under his control. Tried to augment the training, and guess what happened?” Misty chuckled.

“He failed everything?” I guessed.

“All the flight instructors denied to work under him, some cadets went on a rant, and the dizzytron broke because that idiot tried to set it up on his own,” Surprise laughed out loudly.

“What in the wide-wide world of Equestria did you ever see in him?” Rainbow asked.

“Guys, I know he seems bad now, but he wasn’t always this way. This is just him lashing out at me. He really is a good flyer, and would have been a great leader.”

“Would have,” Misty said with a snicker, one of which I shut down with a death glare.

“If he wouldn’t be blind in his rage for his revenge upon you denying him and simply choosing Rainbow, it would be way better,” Wave Chill added.

“It’s no matter what he was like. He is a threat to us now, and we have to hold together, trying everything so our team stays together,” Surprise said.

“Agreed. We will listen around at the academy. Maybe not all’s lost,” Misty said with a nod.

“Our team?” Rainbow asked.

“You belong to our team just as Spitfire does,” Wave Chill said with a smile, and the three mares nodded.

Cloudchaser was silent the entire time, and I looked at her, “Since you are with Surprise, you’re in the team, too. If this all gets settled, I’ll look for a position for you in the academy.”

“Thank you,” she replied with a smile and lowered her head.

“So, we’re a big family now, huh?” Rainbow grinned.

Surprise walked up and cuffed her across the ear with a wing, “You’re still the greeny, so don’t get any ideas,” she said with a laugh.

“Let’s see if you’re still saying that when you’re stuck looking at my flank,” Rainbow replied back with pride in her voice.

“That reminds me,” I started saying.

“You want to go with them watching?” Rainbow asked with a smile, earning another cuff across her head, this time by me.

“No! Seriously, Rainbow, I think you should let your wings heal naturally.”

“What? No! I can be back flying in two weeks if I go the magical route!”

“Yes, and then be grounded for half a year after,” I added.

“Please, it wouldn't take me that long!”

“You're right. Tell me, how long do you think it would take for you to be back flying with the squad?” I asked.

“Month, month and a half, tops.”

“So that’s six to ten weeks to get back in shape, assuming you had the surgery today.”

“Your point?” she asked.

“Or four to six weeks if you let yourself heal naturally.”

“Wait, but… no,“ I could see my words sinking in.

“Rainbow, I know why you're tempted, you want to get back in the air asap. But think for once, please. You’d be on the ground for only one extra week if you don’t do it. And if you do it, you’ll be forced to work your tail off day in and day out just to catch back up to where you left off. It’s not worth it, please, believe me on this. You're more likely to injure yourself again trying to play catch up then you are to actually succeed.”

“But… but!”

She’s so damn stubborn!

I felt tears starting to form in my eyes, “Please, for me,” I whispered.

She paused, staring into my eyes. After a few moments, she spoke again, “You know that’s totally unfair, right?”

“All’s fair in love and war,” I said again, smiling as I saw that I won the argument, “Besides, it’s not like you’ll be the only one stuck on the ground,” I smiled as I gestured to my own bandaged wings before leaning in to her ear, “And who knows what ideas we can come up with during that time,” I whispered huskily.

That got her attention in a split second, and she blushed before yelping. Too late I recognized my mistake as I caused her wings to try to go stiff, restrained by the bandages and still snapped muscles.

“Sorry, sorry!” I cried out, trying my best to bring her back into a comfortable state.

There was a mumbled laughter throughout the room as they laughed at my unintentional slip up. I blushed, embarrassed by what I did and that everypony saw. After that, the mood was slightly different. We all started talking about our next performance, our next maneuver that Rainbow actually had a few ideas about.

Some of them were bat-shit crazy that I was forced to shut down before anypony else got any ideas like that. But for every one like that, there was another that might actually work. The six of us laughed and talked for what felt like only minutes with each other, but in reality it took over two hours. Something my doctor decided to remind us about.

“Sorry everypony, visiting hours are over,” the same doc from earlier said as he walked in the room. This time he was only accompanied by one nurse.

“Same time tomorrow?” Misty asked.

“You bet your flank, I want your ideas about the buccaneer blaze,” I replied with a grin.

Rainbow looked at me in surprise, “What?” I asked, “It was a good idea, I think we should try it.”

“I knew that move would impress you,” Rainbow said with a smile.

“Ehh, hmmh,” the doctor cleared his throat to remind us that he was still here, “Have you decided what you want to do, Miss Dash?”

“You mean besides kick you in the flank if you call me Miss again?” Rainbow asked.

“Dash!” I playfully scolded.

She looked at me before nuzzling me softly, then turning to the doctor, “The natural way, I guess.”

“That’s a wise choice,” he replied with a gentle smile, “Captain Spitfire, we scheduled your surgery for tonight, if that’s okay with you.”

“It’s okay,” I started, just to be interrupted by Rainbow.

“Can there be any complications?” she asked the doc.

“Not at all. The magic will rearrange her bones so they can heal better. While it speeds up the process, the main part of the healing will still be in a natural way.”

Rainbow seemed to relax at that. I placed a hoof on her chest before leaning up to whisper into her ear, “See, you won’t be the only one recovering all-natural.”

“Say that again,” she whispered.

“Once we’re out of here, promise,” I said back.

“Pinkie promise?” Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Pinkie promise,” I replied back, smiling.

“Of course, now I gotta wait here until you get back from surgery,” Rainbow said with a pout.

“Don’t worry, when you wake up she’ll already be back,” the doctor replied as he used his magic on one of the machines by the side of her bed.

“What does tha-”

Just like that, she was out like a light. Almost as if somepony had simply flipped her switch from on to off. I looked worried at her and then to the doctor, who showed me a genuine smile.

“That’s just to keep her from ranting too much, you have no idea how much trouble she created when you two arrived here,” the doctor said.

“Oh, I think I can imagine,” I said. I could, too, knowing just how much trouble she’d caused me. Still, as the old saying goes, some things are simply worth it.

“Even a blind, old stallion could see that you love that mare,” the doctor commented with a smile.

I held her closer, my Rainbow in my hooves, “I do.”

He smiled at me before leaving the room, “Your surgery is in thirty minutes, a nurse will be in soon to prep you,” was left in his wake.

I kissed Rainbow once more on the top of her head. I wasn’t worried about the surgery, I knew everything would turn out alright, I just did. After all, I had her back in my hooves, something I thought may not happen again after the last afternoon.

True to his word, within ten minutes, two nurses did come in to fetch me. I was left with no choice but to leave the bed and transfer to a wheelchair so they could take me into the operating room. With one last hug and kiss, I left her and transferred over.

We wheeled by several onlookers on our way to the O.R., I could see that security was already rather extreme, no doubt the result of having a disgraced Wonderbolt Captain in their hospital. There were tons of ponies trying anything and everything to get a picture of me as I went by, but I didn’t care, not really. Such things were trivial at best.

The room they took me to was magically sterilized, so much so that I felt dirty just looking at it. The main feature was a table covered with an operating sheet for me to lay on.

“Alright, lay down on your stomach,” the nurse said.

I did as she asked, unsure if they wanted me to stretch my wings or what. To be honest, I wasn’t looking forward to it if they did ask that, what little movement I’d done on them hurt, the thought of extending them myself seemed impossible.

Thankfully, no such request came. Rather they just informed me that there would be a slight pinch as they injected something in my hoof.

My eyes felt tired after that, heavy even, “Doc, how lo-”

“ng unt-,” I stopped talking. I felt groggy, weak, and tired.

“Look who’s up,” Rainbow said. I could hear the teasing in her voice even from here.

“Rainbow?” I asked, my head rolled over, seeing her in her bed, looking at me with a shit-eating grin on her face.

I didn’t have much energy to hold a long conversation, but even I wondered why she wasn’t in bed with me. That answer became self evident as I saw her right forehoof hoofcuffed to the railing of her bed.

She must have noticed where my eyes were drifting to, “Yeah, they said I had to leave you alone, something about your wings needed to heal for a day. When I said they could buck off, they hoofcuffed me to the bed.”

I chuckled at that, my voice sounded weak and feeble even to me.

“Go back to sleep, we’ll be back together soon.”

“That… that sounds nice,” I said as I drifted back off to dreamland.

It was a short, but nice sleep and a soft feeling on my side made me wake up again. Looking to my side, I saw Rainbow cuddling softly into my side. The other look was to her bed, to see that the rail she was hoofcuffed to was missing.

Its location became apparent when she tossed a little in her sleep, the clank-clank of it hitting the side of my bed made me smile. I raised a weak hoof and put it around her. I had no doubt they’d be in to check up on us soon enough, but I didn’t care either. I couldn’t really feel anything, but I knew she wasn’t hurting me.

That’s the thing about Rainbow, she comes off as a hot-head, somepony that doesn’t think, but she does. It’s just different.

Gently snuggled into each other, the time basically flew by, and soon a nurse came in to watch over us and announce visitors, and to be shocked about the missing rail, “What in the name of,” she started, just to be stopped by me pointing at her to stay silent.

Rainbow was still asleep at my side, snuggling into my coat, but at the same time being gentle enough to not hurt my wings. It was a position I loved, and one I wanted to keep.

The nurse huffed angrily before sighing, “You have three visitors.”

“Three? Send them in,” I replied, just to regret it as a cream pegasus mare walked in, tossing her dark brown mane around as she shook her head in anger at me.

“Captain Spitfire, what the hay do you think you are doing? It’s serious enough to stand against everything that’s in the room, and now you cuddle openly with a rookie? Are you out of your mind?”

Cloud Break shot me an apologetic smile as he walked in behind her, “Wild Fire, keep it easy for Celestia’s sake! Can’t you see now is not the time?”

“No, she’s quite right, Cloud, don’t be so weak,” Downdraft scolded him as she moved in as the last one.

“Captain Spitfire, I was really hoping that Soarin’ was joking about all this, but seeing this now, it’s more than evidence enough that he is right!” Wild Fire growled, pointing a shaking hoof at me, “You are putting shame on the whole academy!”

“I’m putting shame on the academy?” I asked her with pure ice in my voice, “I sacrificed years to this academy, and now you thank me by not even standing at my side through this? I know we’re not the best friends, Wild Fire, but you are making a big mistake.”

“My only mistake was to let Celestia assign you as Captain to the academy!” Wild Fire shot back.

I giggled at that, “Your only mistake? Should I remind you about--”

“Spitfire!”

“You seem to think I’m the only one with skeletons in my closet.”

Wild Fire shot me a glare, “You’re right, Spitfire, we’ve all done things at times. There’s just one thing you seemed to forget; we’ve kept them quiet.”

“And we certainly won’t keep everything around you quiet,” Downdraft added, “We will make sure that everypony knows about your mistake, and how a shame it is for a Wonderbolt to abduct her rookie.”

“Would you stop insulting my marefriend? Or do I have to buck this rail into your muzzles?” Rainbow asked sleepily from my side, raising the rail so everypony could see it.

Everypony stared at her, “Rainbow, stay out of this,” Downdraft stated.

“You bet the buck that I won’t. This is as much my matter as it is hers, so if you want to talk, you keep me in or get the buck out before I do something I’ll regret later,” Rainbow growled.

“I’ve never!” Downdraft said.

“Shut up,” I simply stated.

“We should go,” Cloud Break said, “This is a bad time to have this sort of conversation.”

“The smartest thing one of you could say,” Rainbow chuckled and gently snuggled back into my side.

“You are simply disgusting,” Wild Fire said.

“Says Wild Fire to me, the mare that seduced more mares in flight school then I can count, how nice!” I laughed.

Wild Fire’s cheeks burned in a blush, “Shut up!” she screamed before turning to the others, “Let’s go, she’s a hopeless mess!”

Downdraft nodded in agreement and headed out, Wild Fire hot behind her. Notably, Cloud Break didn’t make to leave, not yet anyway, “You know that you two just made things worse?” he asked.

“Cloud Break, you know me,” I sighed, “I love Rainbow with all my heart, and if I have to give up everything I’ve ever achieved to be happy with her, I will gladly do it.”

“Have you considered that option? I don’t want you to go, but it would get you out of this.”

“I considered it. But I will also fight for it. Rainbow’s dream is to fly and perform with us, and I will fight for the dream of my marefriend. Only if there is no other hope, I will give up and let it be,” I replied before nuzzling Rainbow softly, “I would simply do everything for her.”

“And if you left, you know she’d be out soon after,” he finished.

“I don’t bucking care,” Rainbow muttered at my side, surprising me as I hadn’t thought she would listen, “As long as I’m with Spitfire, I’m fine.”

“Listen, Wild Fire is burning to do everything in her might to hurt you both. I’ll help you as much as I can, but she has wealthy and powerful friends around all Cloudsdale. I still hope it will end well for you,” Cloud Break said before nodding a goodbye and leaving.

“She’s not the only one with high ranking friends,” Rainbow muttered.

“You mean that purple unicorn?” I asked.

“Heh, you’ll see,” Rainbow added.

I placed a hoof on hers, “I’m sorry, Rainbow.”

“For what?”

“For dragging you through this. It’s only going to get worse from here.”

“Spits, you think my life was easy or something before this? I faced down Nightmare bucking-Moon for Celestia's sake. Trust me, some pissant ponies I can deal with.”

“War is easy, diplomacy is not.”

“For that, I have my own high ranking friends, trust me,” she only chuckled and buried her muzzle deeper into my coat.

I could feel her falling back asleep. Times like this I envied her that, somehow the mare just had the ability to sleep at the drop of a bit. Me, not so much.

My salvation came from an unexpected source, “How are you feeling?” a nurse asked as she walked into the room.

“Can you keep those three out for a few days?” I asked, still agitated.

“Of course.”

“And can you give me something to help sleep?”

She smiled once more, walked over, and adjusted something on the machines near my bed. Soon, my wish was fulfilled and I was asleep, too.

The next three days found us both going through the motions. They removed the hoofcuff from Rainbow and let her join me in bed again, figuring it was better to simply not fight the inevitable.

Each day they’d come in and check on my wings. The first the doctor seemed rather irate at our new arrangement, but when he saw that Rainbow had indeed taken great care not to touch them, he got over it.

Our guests were limited to teammates only, Misty being the most prevalent of our visitors. She’d make sure to keep us informed about what was going on in general, and of course of Soarin’ trying to keep the academy in control, utterly failing. It was always amusing to hear how bad he was handling everything, even if it hurt a bit.

Once my friend, now my enemy.

My biggest worry was Rainbow. The mare seemed to have ants under her fur. She’d do okay, not rustle around too much due to trying not to annoy me, but the longer we were in the room, the more I could simply see her instincts were to run, to go do something, anything other than simply lay here.

On the second day Misty even brought her a ball to throw against the side of the room.

On the third day I was worried I might beat her to death with it.

On the fourth day she nearly killed me by causing my wings going stiff in their yet unhealed state.

On the fifth day I decided that it was useless to simply count the days, and that I should simply enjoy them. We laid on my bed, softly snuggled into each other, some sweet nuzzles from time to time exchanged.

The nurses had figured out the perfect dose of meds to keep Rainbow on, she was drugged just enough to keep her docile, but not enough to knock her out. Which was good, because I was sure some of them were about to take her the rest of the way, just not with drugs.

“How… how much longer do we need to be in here?” Rainbow asked, yawning into my coat.

“One more day,” I replied, “Although you could have left two days ago.”

“Not without you,” she replied back.

I chuckled at that, “I know, just saying.”

“Where are we going to go?”

“I’ve made arrangements to stay with Octavia and Vinyl while we’re grounded.”

“Back with them?” her ears perked up at that, her hoof started to run along my stomach in an all-too playful manner.

“Don’t get any fancy ideas, Rainbow. We’re grounded and supposed to take it easy for a while,” I replied, causing her ears to lay back against her head, “But I never said we couldn’t invite one or the other to therapy,” I whispered huskily, causing her to yelp and blush as her wings strained against the bandages.

“I can’t wait,” she said, a small moan of pleasure escaping as she looked forward to the future.

“Me neither,” I added, then paused. It was then I realized I was looking forward to it, too. That was the first time in almost five days I didn’t cringe at thinking about it. The present had been too nice, the future only promised pain and heartache. But now it actually sounded like a lot of fun.

Plus, I really need to get off soon.

I smiled, I was under no illusions that Rainbow was the same way, although she wasn’t as patient as I was, at least not by what I heard at night anyway.

“Alright, rookie, I got a deal for you. You keep your moans and hoofing under control for some time, and I’ll make sure to ask Vinyl for that ‘special dildo’ again,” I said with a sultry smile.

She really perked up at that, “Only if you give me a helping hoof until then,” she replied with a glint in her eyes.

“How could I say no to that, rookie?” I playfully asked.

“Now?” she asked, hopefully.

“Tonight.”

“But…”

“No buts,” I said sternly.

She looked dejected at that, but still, I could see the hint of excitement in her, something that only grew over time. I smiled at that, waiting patiently for the next nurse to come in and check on us. After so many days in this room I had their schedule down pat.

Poor Rainbow seemed to grow more on edge the entire time. This might as well have been her graduation ceremony for how much she was looking forward to it. The nurses saw this and adjusted her meds twice now, not that they did any good.

When the eight in the evening rotation came and went, she looked at me excitedly, “Now?”

“Nope,” I said back with a smile.

“But… you… I…”

“Not yet,” I said and turned over, facing away from her.

She huffed and rolled over, facing away from me as well. In exactly the position I wanted her in.

Like a fine wine, I wanted, letting her stew in her dejection. When I felt the time was right, I rolled over, spooning her.

“Spits?”

“Now,” I whispered, my left hoof moving between her hind legs.

If she were a cat, she would have jumped to the ceiling at that contact.

It was with some dismay when I realized how dry she was down there. Rainbow was always in the mood, always ready to go at the slightest contact, this meant that she was that mad about my little stunt. So I’d have to go out of my way to make it up to her.

“Spits?” Rainbow asked again.

“Yep, now,” I repeated, my muzzle lightly tickling the back of her ear.

It was like it opened her fountain, because I felt how slowly her arousal raised as her mind processed my words. She tried to turn around, to face me, something I put a stop to. I wanted her just like this, at my mercy. Rainbow might have been younger than me, but I had experience on her.

My tongue licked the side of her ear, lightly starting at the base and working it’s way to her tip. She cooed slightly at that, causing me to smile. With my hoof, I started to lightly rub it along her stomach, doing small circles around the small pot-belly that was growing there, no doubt a consequence of being stuck in the hospital eating crappy food for a week.

“Someone’s got a little belly on her,” I joked.

“Hardy har,” she replied, smiling.

“Just that much more of you to love, not that I won’t make you work it off when you’re better,” I whispered the next part into her ear, “Of course, no reason we can’t get a headstart on that now, is there?”

“You know I always love personal lessons, Firefly,” she cooed softly.

It was all I needed to know to add a little bit more pressure and make her breath harder upon my touch between her hind legs. I also knew that tongue-work would do better, but right now, it was just for foreplay after all.

Something that wasn’t my intention to tell Rainbow before it was time. As my hoof started to gather a little moisture on it, I could see her stretch her neck out, enjoying the contact. With a smile, I started to lightly nibble on her ear, planing little nips and kisses as my muzzle made it’s way down to her neck. She tasted like sweat, sex, and Rainbow. Three things that simply came together to form a nectar that was so much more than the sum of its parts.

My hoof continued moving between her legs, rubbing up and down, up and down in rhythmic succession. Each time I’d move up, I’d feel the smallest little bump growing and growing as Rainbow’s clit started to make an appearance. That both pleased and vexed me. It meant I had a lot to do before she was well and truly ready.

Rainbow’s endurance, both in the sky and the bedroom has always impressed me.

I slid my right hoof under her, careful as to not disturb her wings too much. When it was in position, I moved it up, lightly caressing her nipples, running circles over her stomach as my left hoof kept up the fun between her legs.

She moaned, enjoying the feel of my mouth, and both hooves. At times like that I truly lamented the fact that I couldn’t use my wings. I almost chuckled at that thought. If they told me tomorrow they’d have to cut them off, the thing I’d miss most is not flying, but being able to use my feathers on my marefriend.

She twisted her head and smiled at me, I saw that look in her eyes, those magenta eyes that simply called out to me, making me smile upon seeing them. I pulled up from her neck and returned her smile with one of my own. With slow, deliberate motion, I closed the gap between us. Our muzzles met in the middle, kissing.

It always surprised me how each of our kisses always felt like the first. How we never lost that thrill, those fireworks when we kiss. Or at least, I never did. How Rainbow felt is only truly known by her.

Based on the smile she gave me, I’d say she felt the same.

My hoof pressed deeper, parting her labia with force. I grinned as I saw her eyes go wide, her mouth almost releasing a yelp at the sudden entrance, “Oh, I’ll make you scream,” I said with a smile.

“You almost did,” she replied, “But if you want this to be a contest, you’ll lose.”

“We’ll see,” I replied, grinning.

She looked at me, her expression unchanged. It’s like she was waiting for something, and I didn’t know for what. I cocked my head and stopped with my movements, giving her the moment she waited for.

In a quick push back, she rolled onto me, pinning me to the bed with no real chance to move. The smirk on her face told me that she had planned it just like that.

“Rainbow, this was supposed to be about you,” I said.

“And it still is. What can I say? You’re the thing I really want,” she replied and attacked.

I felt her hooves run up and down my barrel. She was careful to avoid my wings, not wanting to touch them even in their bandaged state, but that didn’t stop her from touching me, and touch me she did. Her mouth quickly found my own, her hooves played over my stomach, brushed my nipples and even traveled between my legs.

“Emm, someone’s horny,” she replied, smiling.

“I think you forget, I wasn’t the one in the bathroom each day taking care of myself.”

“And who’s fault is that?” she asked before making her way down my stomach. I felt her kissing, suckling, and licking down my belly. Her mouth paying each and every inch of my fur with undue care. I knew I stunk, the joy of trying to bathe with bandages over your wings made the whole process something to simply avoid save when it was absolutely necessary.

If she noticed, or cared, she didn’t give any external sign of it.

If anything, she seemed even more eager in the process. Her mouth soon found my left nipple. With subtle pulls with her teeth, the mare lightly suckled, bit, and licked in equal measure.

“Ahh,” I moaned.

She smiled at that before going back to work. Three more moans escaped my muzzle before she switched teats, “This is what I’ve been missing the most,” she said.

“Suckling on me like a foal?” I asked, giggling.

“Well, yes, but no. I’ve missed you, Firefly. Your taste, your smell, and the way you moan, all of it.”

“My smell that’s right now probably worse than ever before,” I joked.

“I’d like to think of it as… pungent,” she replied back, grinning before moving down between my legs.

Pretext was gone, I had wanted this to look like we were simply cuddling as I slowly brought Rainbow to a much needed orgasm. This looked like one thing and one thing only. After all, when a mare has her muzzle buried between your hind legs, it’s only for one reason.

And if my internal watch is right, we have exactly ten minutes.

As Rainbow served up the first licks, I didn’t even care anymore.

Buck it.

Her tongue was amazing, then again, it was always amazing. She stared off with one long lick all the way up the length of my slit. Her coarse tongue stimulated every nerve, every sensory point on my vertical smile. I almost cried out right then and there. It had been a week since I’d last felt that tongue on me, doing what it did best. With one hoof, I practically slammed it into my mouth to prevent myself from crying out, with the other I placed it on the back of Rainbow’s head.

She kept her eyes on me, watched as my mouth fell open when she went back for a second, and a third lick. I felt her dart her tongue out, playing with my clit, trying to coax it out of hiding. When she saw it, her lips latched around, suckling on it like it was the tastiest lollipop in the world. Then, just as suddenly, she stopped.

My hoof started pushing down on her head, trying to force her back onto the good part, but I was too weak to force her.

“Rainbow, what the hay?” I asked with a low growl, slightly disappointed by the sudden break.

“Mhh, no patience, Firefly?” she asked back.

“Rainbow, my intention was to finish this before one of the nurses look after us and you ruin it now!” I whispered.

“Oh trust me, you’ll finish,” she replied, seductively as her tongue started to lick at the edges of my labia again.

“Not…. quick… enough,” I said between breaths of air. She simply smiled at me as she kept playing with my pussy.

“That’s the fun part, isn’t it?”

“Wait, you,” My eyes went wide as that realization dawned on me. Not only was Rainbow keeping track of the same thing I was, she wanted them to walk in on us, most likely she wanted me to finish up as soon as they walked in.

“Rainbow, no!” I tried to shout, but it only came off as a whisper, a beg.

She payed it no mind. Her tongue kept licking me, pleasuring me, torturing me. I fought back the cries of pleasure, the moans of joy and simply glared at her.

“You can fight against it as much as you want, Firefly, it’s going to happen,” she grinned again, her hoof joining her tongue, lightly rubbing against my entrance. Before long, I felt her mouth starting to move up, slowly approaching my clit.

As she worked me over in the best, cruelest ways imaginable. The seconds became minutes, hours even. I couldn’t keep it up, my eyes darted to the clock on the wall. We had less than a minute until the next nurse came in.

How long did she keep me on the edge?

For the first time since entering the hospital, I hated the drugs I was under. They kept me from the edge, making it take far longer than it should have. Rainbow, as observant as ever, factored this into her actions. I flat out laugh at ponies that call her stupid; she’s the smartest mare I’d ever met in my life.

I could feel her ministrations pushing me ever closer to the edge, closer and closer as every tick of the clock counted down. Forty seconds, thirty seconds, twenty seconds, I’m close, too damn close. With ten seconds left, she attacked my clit with twice the intensity. I felt her tongue do laps over it, almost as if it were the Wonderbolts entrance flight test and her tongue was seeking to set a new record.

My reserves were broken, my pleasure too much, I cried out. I cried out as softly as I could manage. Which I’m sure was heard at the other end of the hospital.

“Rainbow!!!!”

My eyes slammed shut, my heart beating at the speed of sound. I thrash in the bed, my limbs flexing all on their own as the first orgasm I’d had in almost a week overtook me.

Just a second later the door slammed open.

“What is going on here?!” the nurse asked as she stormed in, just to freeze in her place as she noticed Rainbow between my hind legs, “How disgusting!” she screamed before breathing and fixing us with a glare, “I expected some more manners from you two,” she added before turning and slamming the door shut behind her.

I glared at Rainbow, who seemed pretty proud with herself, “You are going to pay for that!” I growled.

“Oh, really, Firefly?” she asked huskily.

“How quiet can you moan?” I simply asked back.

“W-What?”

I didn’t even give her a second before I pulled her up and planted my muzzle straight on hers, binding her in a long and passionate kiss.

Rainbow Dash, the mare of action, the mare that would respond to anything by attacking it head on. But take her by surprise and she’s putty in your hooves.

I pushed back against her, forcing her on her back, me laying on top of her. My hoof wasted no time and found her nethers. I pushed against her, causing Rainbow to release the cutest little ‘eep’ I’d ever heard in my life.

“Time to show you why I’m still the Captain,” I said with a grin after our kiss broke.

“You going to teach me something new?” Rainbow asked with a smile.

“Show you how it’s done right.”

At those words I made my way down, not pausing at any of the fun spots and heading straight to the main prize. Unsurprisingly her pussy was dripping in anticipation. I grinned, and lightly blew across it, causing the mare to shiver in delight.

I held off with my tongue for right now, rather, I simply used my nose as it were.

“That’s cold!” she shouted, causing me to laugh.

My nose rubbed across her skin, up her slit, and nuzzled her little protruding clit.

She growled a the action, “I’m going to get you back for that.”

“Mhh, I don’t think so,” I happily hummed before diving back in. My lips formed a barrier around hers, and I suckled. The small popping noise when I let go made me laugh, but it served my purpose. Her marehood was starting to open up all on its own.

“I swear, Firefly. If I get that special dildo from Vinyl and Octavia into my hooves, you will regret this!” Rainbow tried to growl, but it sounded more like the soft purr of a happy kitten thanks to my actions.

“Oh, how you going to use it without magic?”

“Oh, right,” she legitimately looked dejected at that.

I stuck out my tongue and licked her labia, from the bottom to the top, all in one go. My tongue played over her clit for just a second or two before I quickly made my way to her head, “We’ll just have to make our own magic,” I said directly to her face.

Her frown quickly became a smile and she kissed me, our lips connecting, our tongues meeting in the middle. Her expression quickly changed from lust to surprise when she felt my right leg press against her slit.

“What are you…”

“Shh, no talking anymore.” I said as we went for another kiss. I decided right then and there I was going to show her how to make a mare cum, while not using your muzzle or wings.

Sure, the easiest way for a pegasus was to use their wings, but that was no option at the moment. Something, I welcomed a bit. It was a chance to show Rainbow new variants of it and I knew she would love it soon enough.

My lips peaked at hers, whenever she’d try and move, try and see what I was doing, or even draw breath, I’d stop her with a kiss. My right leg kept grinding away at her marehood. I could feel the fur there getting wetter and wetter. My own two front hooves found the back of her head and forced our kisses to be closer together.

The entire time I was staring into her eyes, the magenta eyes that simply devoured me.

After a few moments, she quit fighting me and simply lay back, letting me do whatever I wanted with her. That made me smile, she was growing to trust me on a deeper level now.

I repaid that trust as best I could. My left front hoof quit running through her mane and made it’s way down her fur, rubbing against her belly like a sensual massage.

Her cooes became a moan when I found her clit.

“There’s what I’ve been looking for,” I said, grinning.

“Keep that up,” Rainbow replied through my ministrations.

Like I had any intention of stopping.

I doubled my efforts, pushing with my leg, rubbing with a hoof. My reward was her reactions to it, her moans of pleasure as they grew louder and louder.

“Now Rainbow, you have to keep it down, remember?”

“Buck… you…” she replied. I could tell she was almost at the end.

“Nope, bucking you right now,” I said back and pushed as hard as I could with my leg.

“That’s not… argh fair! You… moaned half of… nggh… the hospital awake,” Rainbow seemingly started to develop problems speaking properly.

“Sorry, cadet, I wasn’t able to understand you. Maybe you want to repeat it for me, louder?” I asked with a grin.

She glared at me with a look that threatened revenge among other things, but that was exactly to my liking. I wanted her that way, longing for it after days of no sex or any sensual act at all. With a vicious smile, I increased my ministrations a bit and she threw her head back, only barely managing to stifle a moan with the cushion.

“You’ll regret this, Firefly.”

“I do hope so,” I chuckled.

Her hoof reached out and grasped ahold of the sheets, pulling them to cover her face as she cried out. I laughed when I saw it, the great and mighty Rainbow Dash was doing her absolute best to stifle her screams, all because of me.

I wasn’t ready to stop yet though. It didn’t matter to me that she was screaming my name out in orgasmic bliss, what mattered now was keeping her there. Sure, I had brought her to orgasm without using my muzzle, but with my muzzle I could keep her there, for a while at least.

It was risky, but so worth it. Amongst her trashing, her back legs flexing and bending all on their own, I forced them apart, my muzzle latched onto what could only be described as a puddle of her juices.

I just dove right in, too much of the tasty liquid had already been wasted on my fur, I wanted to get as much of the taste as I could. My tongue penetrated as deep into her as I could get it. Much like a fat foal at an ice-cream parlor, I sloped, licked, and teased as much as I was physically able, seeking to get a taste of as much as I could.

Rainbow started to buck against me, seeking to either get me further into her or push me away. At that time it could have easily been both. I wasn’t having the latter option though. Using as much strength as I could muster, I forced us to stay together, almost like I was riding her in a rodeo.

I was the older, more experienced mare and, after all, her Captain, and I would just show her that. She was putty in my hooves, without any hope to break free before I decided to let go. And that time wasn’t right now.

“Firefly, Firefly, Firefly!” the yells came quicker and louder as each one went by. I stole a quick glance up, at some point the sheets she was using to muffle her screams got away from her and she couldn’t stop yelling.

I knew all the nurses outside our room could hear her, but I didn't really care, not at that moment anyway. Much like the rest of our relationship, it might cause problems later, but the now more than made up for it.

I could handle the screams, in fact I welcomed them, but when they stopped, I grew worried. It was then I stopped licking her, stopped rubbing her clit. My head pulled back and stared down at her body. She was breathing heavily, her muzzle wide open, her tongue hanging out, and her eyes glazed over.

“Rainbow?” I asked.

“...”

“Rainbow?” I asked again.

I could see her try to raise a hoof. That alone brought me some relief, I thought I might have to call the nurse back in, which would not have been a fun conversation. I made my way to her side, laying down next to her, “Are you okay?” I asked.

“You… gotta… teach… me… that,” she managed between deep breaths.

“Sure, cadet. But I think we have to get up early tomorrow,” I replied.

“Why’s that?”

I turned my head to see the doctor standing in the frame.

“I think we have to leave the hospital, they can’t handle us two,” I laughed.

She chuckled a bit as she closed her eyes, I could already tell sleep was coming for her.

The doctor sighed and shook his head, but a small smile showed up on his muzzle, “You can go tomorrow. Don’t forget to ask for painkillers before you leave though.”

As he turned around to leave, I couldn’t help myself, “Hey doc?”

He looked back, “Yes?”

“Did you enjoy the show?”

His coat grew beet read at that. He didn’t reply, just turned around and left.

“I bet he did, the pervert,” Rainbow said right before drifting off to sleep.

“We’re in no position to talk, Rainbow,” I said back, laughing as I made myself comfortable right next to her, snuggled up against her fur.

It was surprisingly easy to fall asleep that night.

Author's Notes:

Yay, after a long time, a new Dashing is done.
The next chapter will follow quicker than ya'll can imagine