Double Rainbow, All the WAY!

I jump to the roof of my house to enjoy the rain, at least I'm not poofy anymore. I put on my sunglasses to avoid the rain getting into my eyes. If you ever have a moment to enjoy the rain, do so now, it's nice. I look at the clouds, animated as always, swirly at the edges, like how you would draw clouds in kindergarten. I chuckle at the irony of me actually being in a universe based on a cartoon, I really should take a picture of myself sometime as a momento. Right as I reach for the camera, Rainbow Dash of all ponies float up onto the roof.

"About this morning..." Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head, "can I talk about it?"

"Sure, Wanna do it inside or are you tough enough to talk in the rain." I smile.

General rule about the Cartoon Universe: Everytime someone makes a nonchalant smile, there's always some kind of sound effect. For this world, it's a squeakie doll noise.

"Inside." WHOA, surprise... never actually saw that one coming...

"Sure..." I jump off the roof and open the door. We sit down at the kitchen table as I grab the jug of milk from the fridge. She seems lost in thought.

"Should you start or should I?"

"Well, It's kind of a long story..."

"Like I've got better things to do, I still don't really have a job yet..." she looked at me funnily before continuing.

"It's like this. I had this friend at flight camp, she was a griffin, the only one at flight camp. one day I found her... well... crying..." She paused expecting me to laugh at the notion, i remained dead serious, "I talked to her and told her to buck up and don't think that just cause your different that people get to stand in your way. We became best friends after that. When she came to visit, she started to take my advice too literally and changed, for the worst. She yelled at Fluttershy and acted like a jerk at her party, then called everyone lame ponies and that I was queen lamoid or something like that. Ever since then I started thinking why she changed. How could my buddy from flight camp just snub me like that, how come Gilda go from crying in her room to stuck up. I wondered all these things, but never once tried to go after her to talk about it. Maybe it was my fault." I raise my finger to stop her right there.

"What were the last words to her before she left." Best thing to do was backtrack.

"'When you want to stop being lame, look me up'..." her eyes widened and pulled out a telephone number. She looked at me with teary eyes, I slightly grinned and got my phone, she dialed the number quickly. When Gilda picked up the phone she put her hoof over her mouth. I decided to switch it on loudspeaker.

"Gilda?" I asked softly.

"Who is this?"

"Promise not to hang up if I tell you?"

"... ... depends..."

"My names Aoi, I'm a friend of Rainbow Dash."

"... what does she want and why are you calling for her?"

"I wanted to settle some bad blood between you two."

"... .... ... has she left those dweebs yet?"

"... no" Rainbow Dash answered this time.

"... do you still call each other friends?"

"...yes..." both Gilda and RD answered.

"... so why'd you let a little thing like a party get in your way, Gilda you first, Rainbow Dash no interrupting..." My glare silenced any form of objection that came out of her mouth.

"...it wasn't just the party, it was everything... the way everyone was staring at me, the way everything was all cheery... the way everyone laughed at me...the way Dashie snubbed my at the party... it all made me sick..." I mouthed the words, 'Apologize' to RD, she opened her mouth but I glared at her that made her sigh.

"I'm sorry for pranking you at the party," What?, "I never should have done that, i guess I just felt mad that you yelled at Fluttershy," This got a whole lot more interesting.

"...I...are you... is this...?"

"It's not a joke, straight from the horses mouth," took me forever to use that one. LOL.  started to here sobbing on the other end of the line...

"... *sniff* I'm sorry too... you were right... I did somethings I'm not proud of, and neither are you... I just... I thought I could actually get to hang with my friend again, but with 'Stinkie Pie' those chances were shot down... that party... I need to ask you something... I want to here the Griffon's Honest truth... Why did you set those pranks up...?"

"I thought a good laugh was what everyone needed..."

"I DIDN'T NEED A LAUGH! I NEEDED A FRIEND!" Right then I felt the same thing Gilda was feeling right now. Now to take a shot in the psychological dark...

"Gilda... what happened before and after flight camp..." Right then the tension cut immediately. It was actually Rainbow Dash who answered.

"Nothing... at all... no letters... no calls... just silence..." RD was given a push in the right direction...

"It wasn't what exactly happened, but moreover, a lack of something... contact... Rainbow Dash, you never wondered what exactly happened that made Gilda drop out of contact, and never even try to make contact... why?" She finally realized what I was going for.

"After we left, I met Flutter..." tears started to well up in her eyes again...

"You finally got it Dash? Long before Gilda even visited Ponyville, you had already replaced her... who could blame you... Gilda was the only other friend you had at the time, and she was gone now." another blind shot, "what was you're promise to Gilda before you two parted ways." headshot...

"I would right to her everyday..." Rainbow Dash finally cried...

"Gilda forgave you for not writing to her, but the lack of contact strained your friendship to the breaking point, the fact that you finally said 'get lost' to her at that party was the straw that broke the mule's back. She had been replaced, you replaced her, and she now had nowhere to turn to, if anything, it's just as much your fault as it is hers. Piece together what I just told you."

"You couldn't find any other cool friends could you... I was the only one... I was the one who changed..." Gilda spoke up.

"You finally got it... thank you... we cool?" She actually cried silently when I was talking to RD, but would never admit it. I'm a wolf now, I hear more than my fair share.

"Cool..." she wiped away her tears

"One last thing, come back sometime to Ponyville sometime, no tricks, no pranks, no secrets, and no pride. You can finally patch things up and, hey, maybe even stay here a while."

"... Listen... whoever you are... thanks... I don't know who you are... but your no dweeb in my book." Compliment from a griffon, rare thing to come by. I Mouth to RD If she'd like some alone time with her, she nodded. I get up and walk outside. It finally stopped raining...

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Conversation between Gilda and RD

"So where do you live now Gilda?"

"A small stratus cloud near Cloudsdale. Had a lot of time for thinking. Who was the guy."

"He's a wolf that got here 6 days ago."

"A wolf? Haven't actually met one... ever"

"Well get this, I don't want to admit it, but, he ALMOST beat me in a race, he actually flew!"

"Did you hit your head or something, last time I checked dogs didn't have wings."

"Apparently you don't need wings to fly, He ACTUALLY made me try. I had to do a Sonic Rainboom just to keep up with him."

"So he really isn't a Dweeb. Huh..."

"Don't get me wrong, he can get pretty random at times, actually manage to shut Pinkie Pie up."

"Wait, so this guy's fast, and can shut 'Stinkie Pie' up? What else can he do?"

"Well he was actually the guest of honor at the Canterlot Annual Ball for actually killing a dragon! He actually dropped a Ginormous waterballoon on everyone, even the Princess."

"C'mon, your joshin' me, no one's that awesome."

"I don't know what to tell you..."

"I might just stop by and actually see this guy for my own eyes."

"There's just one thing though, he spends most of the time alone... he tried to run away from us when Twilight started to ask questions... I wonder what he does..."

"Dashie, word of advice... don't..."

"Oh... well, it was nice to actually fix this between us, I didn't know you actually felt that way."

"It's in the past now, we can leave it in the dust."

"Alright then... thanks..."

"...you too..."

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Ponyville Park

I sat down under a tree watching as the birds shook off the water from the rain. Rainbow Dash found me and sat down to talk.

"Alright, you're turn... what's your story?" She pointed at me. I raised my paws in Surrender,

"You got me, I'll fess. But I have to ask you something, do you absolutely, positively want to hear it? I don't want to give you nightmares..." She blew a rasberry and waved. I sighed...

"When I was a little pup, both my parents were..." I felt the pain in my head again. "... killed..." she winced at my blunt use of the word, "... for no apparent reason at all... our family was poor, no fame or fortune, just our own little haven, life was good. In one night, torn from me... I tried to take it back by killing the one who left me an orphan, but it didn't help, i just laid there..." I looked at my paws, "my paws red, blood everywhere... I tried to forget it, tried to seal that memory away... but It came back when I came here... that's when I met my first friend I ever had..." I looked at the sky... "He helped me, told me to move on, but keep those memories, because they made me... me..."

"So that's why you gave the dragon a funeral, even though she tried to eat you, you still cared for any life you took..." I nodded.

"I actually ran away first to try and lose it, but it followed me into Canterlot." RD snickered.

"Wow... so why did you help me and Gilda patch up." I looked back at her with a straight answer

"Friendships are too precious to leave waiting unmended, dontcha think...?" She nodded.

"So who is your friend?" She asked wondering...

"Now, that's a truth left for another day, I think I've told enough for now." I wasn't going to tell her yet, eventually, but not yet. I needed to get a reply from Celestia. I stood up. From my view, every single pony was shorter by 4 feet while on all fours. As I was walking away she called of one last time,

"Thanks..." I just held my paw up and waved without turning back. I had some things to take care of, but first, a well needed rest...

After a day of Playing Dr. Phil, Aoi starts confiding in Rainbow Dash, but not enough to tell her about Discord... Meanwhile, Gilda might just visit Ponyville once more...