Fluttershy twitched as she looked around the room of weather control ponies, she knew the names of a few since Dash had began to quiz her through her day schedules. Blossomforth, the resident pony that hit on anything with a pulse; Cloudchaser and Flitter, the twins- Cloudchaser having a more out there mane and personality, Flitter being more soft spoken and focused; Thunderlane, the big one with a heart of gold; and Cloud Kicker, Dash's second in command.

Oh and Dash's main job? Make sure this team didn't fall apart or mess up too bad so that the Cloudsdale Weather Team didn't have to come in and audit their usefulness. Fluttershy felt a tremble in her legs start moving towards her brain as she realized she might have to lead ponies for the foreseeable future.

She quietly counted to ten and stepped up to the podium that was at the front of the room and quickly put on her best impression of confidence. Which was a tempered Dash bluster, work with what you know Fluttershy always said. "Today we have a thunderstorm planned so we need everypony on deck for this one. Flitter and Cloudchaser, I want you to go gather the required air currents from the Everfree zone, Thunderlane and Blossomforth, you need to form the clouds, and Cloud Kicker and I will be keeping the temperature at least high enough in the storm zone so we won't have a repeat of the storm of '64. Okay, everyone suit up cause we have a lot of work to do today."

Fluttershy relaxed as she saw the others salute back and quickly gather up their things.

Cloud Kicker sauntered up and congratulated Dash, "Well that went better than expected, captain. Though I have to ask one little question. Why are you a part of the teams anyway?"

Fluttershy tipped her blue head at that. "I beg your pardon?"

"I mean you do complete your day of tasks twice as fast. And then you lounge around and sleep all day and I have to pick up all the slack. What happened over the weekend to switch your work ethic so much? What are you, a different pony or something? Or did you get laid so you have some actual vigor and want to do your job?" Cloud Kicker laughed to herself.

Fluttershy felt sweat form on her brow. "Uh well, I almost hurt my wing over the weekend so I think taking it slow for a while might be a good idea."

Cloud Kicker shrugged and looked closely at Dash, something didn't feel right and yet it was Rainbow staring her in the face. Usually her intuition was right and Dash had been walking unnaturally all day. Usually Dash led with her right side and had little amount of hip sway, her training that she explained to Cloud Kicker over tequila shots making her highly focused. This gait led with the left and their was so much sway that it was in comparison a sex show. Cloud Kicker wondered if Dash got laid, that'd account for some weird tics being off. She'd keep an eye on her. "Eh, whatever. Glad to have you on the team for once. Nice to see you try and turn a few years of slacking around." Cloud Kicker hit Fluttershy on the back and hugged her close.

Fluttershy nodded. She waited for Cloud Kicker to leave before she sat down on a nearby chair and relaxed. Note to self, ask Dash about how well she got along with her team. Looking at the clock, she figured she had to start her day. Running the locker combo through her head, she trudged off to get Dash's uniform. She wondered how Dash was doing.

Dash was having a terrible day. And it was because of one awful rabbit.

"Angel, eat the food." Angel stared down at his caretaker and shook his head. He was a principled bunny of the highest wild pedigree, he wasn't going to eat some weird gruel for breakfast. Only the finest salad sated his hunger, and that was not a salad.

Dash facehoofed, it was only ten am and already she had tried to give every animal their food. Most begrudgingly took it after a quick negotiation- the bear wanted honey in the next week, the birds wanted to fly more, et cetera. Pretty easy all things considered. Dash wondered what was so hard with caring for animals- it wasn't like they were smarter than her.

"Angel, just come down and eat this. I promise that I'll get you something later, but this is all I have right now."

Fluttershy hadn't told Dash how to make a salad. Well she couldn't blame her for everything, the late night training session ran later than even Dash expected. And possibly turned into something a bit more, but that wasn't planned.

Angel glared at this strange new, lazier Fluttershy her body language telling him that there was something wrong. Deciding that a raid on nearby fields of carrots were far more preferable to that inedible slop, he decided to hop away. He was going to gather the bunny horde that he had created during one of his master's vacations with her friends. He had an army and standards- there was no farm that would keep him from a carrot.

"Okay, well, if you want the food it'll be here." Dash shrugged and moved on. If Shy's demon bunny left, it was no big deal to her. At least he was the last animal she had to feed. Glancing at the clock, she noticed it was only 8 am. Flexing her muscles, she sighed and slid up the stairs. Each step shot a dull ache as she walked up the stairs. She was ready for a nap or two, but as she walked towards the bedroom, she noticed a door was left slightly ajar.

Shrugging to herself, she gently opened it and slid on in. If she was done for a few hours, at least she could see what was up with Fluttershy's house. A desk sat by the corner of this new room, stacked heavily with manuscript pages and the far wall was covered in pins and twine connecting a strange mess of pages that Dash quickly glanced at. The words 'Cast' and 'General Plot' stared back at her. She quickly read the list of names and chapter plots and noticed a weird pattern.

Speed Dazzler, Quiet Breeze, Fuschia Cake, Precious Shine, Buckwheat, Shadow Star. Going to parties, learning lessons about relationships- primarily about BDSM, and fighting world ending threats with the power of love. And sending a letter to a prince of the land while they did it.

Her head turned and turned realizing what this room was. She chided herself thinking back to the spa visit, connecting the dots as to why Fluttershy was so truly nervous about the book.

She was writing about the magical adventures of her very own friends. Sure, not like super noticeable to the most part, Fluttershy made sure of that with changing the order of events and where the action happened, but Dash wondered if Rarity caught the similar happenings. If not, Rainbow wondered if Rarity was all that smart, or maybe the main focus for her white unicorn friend was the sex. Rainbow rubbed her temple and sat down to read. It wasn't like she had anything better to do. Flipping through the first few pages quickly, she began to read.

Quiet Breeze felt the restraints tighten as Speed slid himself over her, bringing his porn star sized member into her virgin self as he set a rhythm of quick in and out thrusting, her insides turning to instant mush as her body felt both pain and pleasure. Her inner princess was rolling around on the mental couch that was her own mind as each orgasm slowly rocked her body.

A deep chuckle came from the large earth pony stallion, he was the richest bachelor in all of Equestria and his athletic prowess made Quiet wonder what he saw in her. She was just his secretary, a small thing, barely out of school and her grades in Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns was nothing special.

Rainbow Dash sat there, realization slowly dawning on her face, flipping through the rest of the book quickly seeing page upon page of recognizable locations and events and seeing sex scene upon sex scene where Quiet Breeze and Speed Dazzler had crazy sex all the time. It was a story held together by sex- a plot barely forming in five days. Business meetings, parties, sex dungeons, et cetera, all focused on her feelings and almost humiliation as their relationship formed at a breakneck pace that defied explanation.

Rainbow scratched her long, pink mane and began reading again.

Fluttershy remembered the quick lessons Dash gave her yesterday on how to shape clouds. Drawing on her innate pegasi magic, she shifted a nearby cold spot into a localized temperature sink- bringing the temperature into okay levels, she brought out her thoughts into the world and felt the hints of raindrops start bunching on her fur. She noticed light start bending around her as droplets pulled the light around her into mini rainbows. She put out her legs as the water pooled around her and felt electricity dance on her fur, tickling her insides.

"Dash, if you can stop having your orgasm, please help me over here." Fluttershy opened her eyes and saw Cloud Kicker trying to push a thundercloud into position.

"Oh sorry." Fluttershy blushed, her face turning maroon as she flew towards a cloud and pushed it into Kicker's medium cloud.

"Come on, we need to keep moving, captain. We got a schedule and Ponyville airspace is huge as shit." Cloud Kicker smiled and turned, her wings grasping onto a updraft and raising into the sky like a kite, banking towards Sweet Apple Acres. "Last one there buys drinks after work." Fluttershy flexed her blue wings and felt a connection to the air, shaping her draft around her like an armor as she tried to catch up with her second in command.

She glanced down and saw the town of Ponyville move around this bird's eye view- Pinkie was bouncing along and ponies were being generally okay with the new way he looked. She noticed Rarity carrying reams of cloth in her magic as she waved Pinkie goodbye, her magic cradling reams of cloth as she shut her door and moved the sign from open to closed.

Fluttershy pulled up in the draft and sped further away towards the Acres, the wind starting to bite as she began to gain altitude, noticing Cloud Kicker slowing down, confident in her victory, Fluttershy pulled a Dash move, pulling her wings in close and bringing her body as straight as possible to bring herself into a smaller target, beginning to feel the waves of speed gather around her in bunches, she began her dive and as she fell she noticed a light shimmer around her just out of her reach and she felt her body skirt around Mach One, missing the speed necessary to Rainboom, but still feeling a rainbow trail form around her flanks.

She smiled as she zoomed past Cloud Kicker, her second in command's face a mix of surprise and worry as Fluttershy tried to slow down. She tried to bank into an updraft, hopefully the drag on her wings would slow her down, but after she flew through one unfazed she tried the next best thing, Dash's warnings ringing through her ears. "Don't overdo the showing off stuff, that's totally my job, but if you can't pull out of a speed boost, do what I do. Aim for the softest thing you can find and hit that. Do not aim for a lake cause hitting those things at the speed I can go can break your wings, aim for like a hay bale or something. Just breathe and flap your wings in reverse, the drag might hurt but the landing won't crack your skull open.

Fluttershy aimed for the softest place she could- a haystack that was in the east field and hoped for the best.

Dash twitched, her large yellow wings needing to stretch and move as they had become locked in the sitting position, the chair in Fluttershy's den being barely large enough to be comfortable. She heard a doorbell ring and she trudged on down to get it, slightly marking her spot with a bent page. Opening the door to go downstairs she wondered why it was so quiet in the house, each step showing another board that creaked and the light barely being good enough for her borrowed blue eyes. Glancing at a nearby clock, she figured out quick why she felt a slight pain in her back, it was almost 2 pm.

Hurrying on down, she noticed a batch of mail that was on the table looking important and all addressed to Shy. Shaking her head to focus, Dash walked to the door and opened it, the light equalizing her eyesight and greeting the day with blindness. "Hello?"

She heard a voice that seemed so foreign now. Cloud Kicker's gruff and low voice reaching her ears. "Yeah, Fluttershy, Dash here took a tumble like a right bitch and then she started ranting about how she didn't really want to go to the hospital, like the idiot she is, and then she dragged me here."

Dash felt her eyes adjusting and saw Kicker carrying her own body- with Fluttershy inside of course, and she quickly welcomed both inside, putting on her best Flutterrshy concern and worry.

"Oh my, well, uh, it wouldn't be too much of a problem if you bring her in. I just got done tending my animals so it doesn't make me have to change my schedule."

"Well that's swell, hey Dash, I'm totally going to put you on this couch. If you can hear me, nod your gay ass head."

"I'm fine. I'm good, see?" Fluttershy flapped her blue wings and tried to smile a cool smile.

Dash glanced quickly at each muscle she could poke and prod, going from the wingtips to the shoulders and from the top of the head to the hooves, a quick diagnostic of her own body was simple, she knew exactly what to look for, what past mistakes threw off her own clean bill of health, and if Fluttershy got any actual lasting damage. Remembering what she learned during Wonderbolt Training, she rain through the general basic ideas for what could go wrong. She knew her own face better than she cared to admit, but she knew it in its normal, pain free state. Glancing at Fluttershy's eyes told a different story, the pupils in her eye were taking time to react to light, each taking in different amounts at different times. Possible sign of a concussion? Dash looked at the way Fluttershy was standing, usually ponies were able to stand unaided just fine but a slanted awkward gait showed possible signs of a balance issue. She didn't want to chance it.

"I don't have the needed medicine here for what she has, sorry" Dash shushed Cloud Kicker's angry protest with a look. "But I know somepony who does. Though I don't like going their uninvited."

"What do I have to do here? Babysit the idiot? Like we have a thunderstorm we need to get done." Cloud Kicker frowned.

Dash rubbed her temple and pushed a pink lock of hair out of her eyes and looked straight at her, not pulling out the actually useful Stare since Fluttershy just said it was more of a tickle kind of feeling instead of a real easy skill to pull off, if other ponies even could do a true Stare. So Dash pulled out her best impression of Spitfire instead. "What was that? I am telling you something to do that isn't all that hard and you are here wasting my time. I have the hard job cause I need to go into the Everfree, so if you want to go in there and walk to Zecora and say 'yes well, I'm awfully sorry, but I don't know which herbal remedies might fix the best pegasus on the weather team. I should have asked and listened to the one pony who knows what to do.' Everypony else has the rain on lockdown, just stay in h- my house and take care of Dash, okay?"

Cloud Kicker crossed her arms and grinned. "I imagined you as this huge mare that was just a chicken who liked being out here cause its such a scary place outside these walls. But I guess you might had a bit of fire in you. I'll have to take you off my list of ponies I wished I trained in the Solar Guards so I could give you a backbone and put you into the ranks of the ponies I'd attempt to respect after a campaign or two. Fine I'll stay here with the idiot while you go out into the bramble patch of Equestria." Dash though she could a faint smile on Cloud Kicker's face as she walked out the door.

Turning towards the road that led into the forest, Dash felt rain start forming on her fur. She started on her way to the weirdest place in Equestria- the Everfree Forest. Dash hated the place because it didn't work like the rest of the world, unnaturally the weather did what it liked and the plant life was unlike anything she could reference in the glimmers of insight that Fluttershy's memories provided. Using those as a guide, she stepped over certain patches of grass that hid large underground dens of giant spiders in the undergrowth. She shivered at the thought and moved on.

Moving towards the east, she began the trek to Zecora's. Scanning Fluttershy's memory, she knew that barring any strange occurrences, she could get the round trip done in an hour. Though she had to go into the Castle of the Pony Sisters since that was right next to Zecora's hut. She sighed as she started the trek.

Twilight rolled out of bed, her clock telling her it was nearly five pm. She stretched her wings as she moved, feeling each muscle react with joy as they began to move again. She blinked, the lights flickering her mind with pain as the world felt louder and more horrible than she remembered. Pulling herself out of bed, she noticed that Luna lay nearby eyes closed and asleep. Twilight stumbled, her legs feeling like wet noodles as she walked over to prod Luna awake. Twilight reached out a hoof and poked Luna's horn.

"Wha- oh hello there, Twilight. you seem to be fine. Though, verily, you did have a terrible night though Pinkie did show some gentlestallion honor by helping you get well. He even held your hair back as you voided your stomach contents."

Twilight blinked. Her mind slowly processing that and deciding that that didn't really matter enough to get angry at. Her head hurt too much. "That's cool, you have any hangover cures that you learned over the centuries cause I can't focus."

Luna laughed. "Now that is truly funny. A hangover cure? Princesses learn hold to hold their liquor and mead, not be weak and puny in their ways. Though it brought me some true merriment when you started sending letters about your fantastic magical accomplishments to every major printing press that gives modern ponies their news."

Twilight nervously laughed. "Oh that'd be a good joke. Good thing that could never happen."

Luna stared at Twilight. "I do not understand. That did happen. I keep getting mail from the Canterlot and Manehattan presses about your gender spells. Canterlot loves the idea. Manehattan thinks its a terrible affront to nature. I have kept up with this new medium of entertainment and its almost as fun as watching war games. There's as many opinions as ways to wage war."

Twilight felt her letter spell activate as her world went purple. The mail spell usually never had too many uses- between princess mail, of course, and letters to the press and usually that never happened too much because the princesses didn't do anything that ponies thought was too risque or weird. And then there was today.

It felt like a hot poker was being driven into her eye and tossed around in her brain as her magic continuously fired up as letter upon letter flashed into existence and quickly scattered across her floor. Scanning the letters became a bit worrying as each letter got weirder and weirder from the normal 'Princess Twilight, please answer about this gender spell rumor' from the more respectable news organizations to 'Princess, you are against Celestia's wisdom in giving ponies their assigned gender' from the Church of Celestial Wisdom, then there was an outpouring of letters from ponies that wanted to use that spell to feel right about themselves, and Twilight's least favorite reply was from Playcolt and Playmare about wanting to use the spell to get two models for the price of one and them begging for an interview written up by a Trenderhoof, whoever that was. And that involved a in depth description of how she'd be a centerfold feature in the next issue with them begging to see a prince version of her. Wearing armor and socks and all the weird fetishes that ponies had with clothing.

She sighed and rubbed her head. "Luna, I'm going out. Just don't burn down the castle. I just need to eat something and not want to crawl in a hole and die from my life turning into a mess."

Luna smiled. "Well at least you haven't been sent into exile. That's always Celestia's final solution to her problems."

Twilight cringed. "Yeah, I'll not go that far, Luna."

"That's truly unfortunate. While I hated being on the moon, I had a few decent moments of sleep in between the existential dread, self loathing, and multiple voices in my head. It was a decent vacation."

Twilight just stared at Luna.

Fluttershy twitched as she looked around her house, Cloud Kicker sat there unmoving and stoic. Fluttershy wondered if she was seething in anger or just bored. She felt a crushing pain in her head as she moved, her head pulsing with localized pain as she was brought into focus.

She shivered as her borrowed body ached and a memory skirted across her mind.

Rainbow shivered as she felt the blistering winds of winter wrap around her body. She brought her wings around her as she crawled out of her bed. She breathed in and out, short wracking breaths bringing pain into her mind. She pushed past her pain and began working on her strength training exercises. She tried a wing pushup for a second, pushing down and up quickly as her body tried to correct for bad technique.

"Again."

Rainbow groaned as she felt a slight pressure of magic on her limbs. A nearby unicorn, a Ponyacci helper had their horn arc with magic. The Grandmaster was not a unicorn, but that did not mean she didn't have some magic in her. Ponies flocked to her voice and demeanor. Ponies whispered something about a persuasive look. Rainbow thought it was the stupidest thing she'd ever heard. Grandmaster Posey, an earth pony with magic? What was this one of Ponyacci's jokes? At least those made her laugh. It had to be a lie and just some ponies blowing up her persuasive anger.

"But I have been working on this for hours, can I take a break?"

The Grandmaster of the Circus stared back at her, her piercing green eyes staring back at her. "Have you broken your wings while you touched the sky, Speedy? You come back to me when you can pull off your little trick again, and again, and again.
On command. Every time. I see you, you have a skill just outside of your reach and I want to bring it out of you, but here you are failing every time you get nervous. You need to get past your failings and believe in yourself. At least you haven't broken a wing- that'd lay you out for a long while."

"But I don't really want to be here. I thought if I did that one show I'd get to go back home."

Posey stared at Dash and Dash shivered. "You need to pull your weight around here kid. It's not my fault your parents weren't in the last town. I don't like cheating somepony out of a deal- you asked and I mailed a few letters. They didn't come, okay. That's on them. Just one more wing up and we can get out of the cold. I'll give you a treat after you get done."

"Fine."

Posey stared down at the hills of Canterlot as the snow fell harder. Light twinkled as the town worked through the snow and a faint hint of cinnamon ran through the air. She sighed as she saw the little one roll over. "You did good kid. You want to got get a donut? Heard there's a new place around here that's decent."

Fluttershy shook her head unsure about what that memory even meant. Though she thought that not every memory could be useful at that moment or time and she just had a hard crash into the ground recently. Maybe it was just a weird coincidence that she felt she knew that pony from somewhere. The wide world of Equestria was large and recolored ponies were known of with similar looks. She wondered if any pony had ever studied that weird coincidence of nature or if Discord knew anything about that. Sliding back, she began to groan.

"Well look at who's up." Cloud Kicker lazily stirred a spoon through tea. This Fluttershy had a ridiculous amount of tea in this cottage. No alcohol though.

"Yeah." Fluttershy pushed a few locks of polychromatic hair out of her eyes. "What about the job. Don't we have to get out there and finish it."

Cloud Kicker sighed and looked out the window. Raindrops pooled around the window as the pitter patter of rain hit the windows. "Well looks like the rest of the team did okay. I guess. But your friend's been out there a while in this weather."

Fluttershy sweated nervously. "Yeah, she'll probably be fine."

Dash glanced into Zecora's hut. She didn't want to come here but Zecora knew how to make medicine that made her heal faster and also at least limit the effects of a concussion. She didn't know if that was real medicine or some shaman mumbo jumbo that Twilight would love studying. Glancing into the room, she smelled some horrible stench coming from a pot and she turned away quickly to get normal air into her lungs.

She coughed out a question to the empty air. "Hey, Zecora? Are you here? Cause, uh, I need some medicine for Rainbow Dash."

She heard a rhythmic hoofstep behind her and slight accented Equestrian. "How odd, I see that you are in a different bod."

Dash rubbed her head awkwardly, moving strands of pink hair out of her face and shrugged. Of course Zecora randomly knew. "Uh, yeah. Well I'm just blaming Twilight for that mix up."

Zecora chuckled. "Well that may be true, you don't seem too worried about not being blue. Though about your problem I do not know much, I feel there will be something you will need to touch."

Rainbow Dash just looked at Zecora confused. This was why Dash hated going out here for any time longer than necessary- Zecora began to get cryptic and weird.

"Cool. I'll remember that totally."

Zecora shook her head and walked over to her shelf of remedies. "Yes, you should. Now what is her malady so I can fix her up something good."

"Concussion most likely."

Zecora grabbed a few herbs and passed it to Dash. "Mix dragonwort and thistleseed, that is the cure that you need. Use this every four to six hours and she will be at full power."

Rainbow translated that rhyme in her head and figured that was the thing she needed.

"Thanks Zecora. Nice doing business with you."

Zecora smiled and turned away, the silence saying all that needed to be said. Zecora never was one for words. Dash wondered if that was just to make her job easier, rhyming had to be difficult.

Dash looked as the sun started to set, the shadows beginning to lengthen as she remembered that the Everfree was definitely not a place for most ponies after dark. That was when the manticores, timberwolves, and owlbears came out to play. She tried to walk as fast as she could, her borrowed muscles starting to burn from the strange feeling of speed. She started pushing her wings as fast as she could, cause at least outside of the forest, the world made some sense. She could hear a low howl begin to echo through the forest as she tried to zoom away. She may be in Fluttershy's body, but she wasn't the yellow pegasus.

Fluttershy looked out at the storm, the wind lashing her cottage with gusts that brushed dust through her yard. She wondered if her animals were okay. Sure most of them were wild, but it was still a worry. She had raised a few of them since they were little so they were almost her family in a strange way. She glanced at Cloud Kicker, fast asleep on a nearby chair, her head lulled back and snoring. She groaned as she pulled herself out of her chair, her muscles feeling all woozy and strange and her head still dull and achy.

She heard the door slightly shut as she walked over. She put her head out slightly, she knew enough horror movies thanks to Dash's weird obsession that she didn't want to move closer. She felt a light touch on her shoulder and she jumped.

"Shy, I got you some medicine." Fluttershy looked up to see herself- Dash's pink mane matted with water and mud and hanging limply on her face, her wings sticking straight out but twitching, her legs wobbling. Dash pulled out Zecora's remedy and handed it to Fluttershy. "You know what to do, right? Cause I know sort of how to do it. But you probably know Zecora's remedies a bit better."

Fluttershy tip toed over, her muscles tense from being scared as her heart raced back down to normal. "Dash, are you okay. You don't look so hot."

Dash wobbled, an attempt of Fluttershy's smile not locking into place, water dripping slowly on the floor creating a small puddle around her feet. "Yeah, just had some problems getting back. If I don't ever see another Timberwolf, it'll be too soon."

Fluttershy quickly moved, dragging a chair that she brought over from the kitchen and beckoned her friend over. "Dash, those are things even I don't like dealing with. They barely fall into my expertise, probably more Luna or Twilight territory since those things are trapped, wandering souls that are nearly impossible to take out. Why in the world did you ever hope to stop one or a pack of those things?"

Dash laughed, a tinkling bell kind of laugh coming out of her lips. "Fluttershy, come on. It's not too bad. See all that happened was that I got wet. And fought a pack of timberwolves by running away mostly. Anyway they really wanted your medicine so I decided to take them on for a little bit. Cloud Kicker still here?"

"Yeah. She's asleep, but she hasn't left. Surprising since I think she hates me- or you- I don't know."

Rainbow shrugged. "That's just who she is. She just appeared one day talking about the royal guards and all that. I don't know if she made it up or not- never had time to check out if she was ever part of them. She just knows how to lead a team and let's me sleep when I'm done with my work."

"But Dash she seemed mad when I said I'd be part of the team today."

Dash put a hoof of yellow on Fluttershy's back, its size dwarfing her. "Well that's just how she is. Probably was more mad that you ruined her day leading her team. She usually is the one leading anyway- the second in command and captain thing just being a thing we have to do cause protocol demands it. Doesn't really matter in my eyes. Like sure she's tough and almost always angry, cold and hard. . .but she is a good drinking buddy and she's pretty cool. Like I'm more worried that you tried pulling off a trick so soon after me teaching you to get off the ground and basic foal techniques than anything Cloud Kicker does or says to you."

"I mean I just liked flying. It felt nice." Fluttershy blushed maroon as she tried to look away. "I mean it has been a while since I really learned how to fly, so I've just been working with the basics. Yet with me in here," Fluttershy flexed her blue wings a bit, "its like I can do anything."

Dash blushed. "Well okay then, just work up to races and like don't do too many crazy stunts. I mean it is my body and all that, if we get out of this just for me to end up in a cast cause you fell onto the ground at full speed I'd be so peeved about it. So, you know, angry. I mean I'll blame Twilight first for putting us in this situation, but still."

Fluttershy lay her head on her friend's shoulder. "Well okay. I will try, Dash."

Dash felt her tail get wrapped up by Fluttershy's polychromatic tail. She nudged herself closer. "Yeah. But first, can we get you your medicine and then a bath cause I don't want to keep tracking in mud in your house."

Fluttershy giggled and then groaned, forgetting that her head was still on fire. "Yeah let's do that."

The two ponies walked off and Cloud Kicker slowly opened her eyes. "Knew Dash was acting weird." Shrugging she pushed herself into a better position. "Eh, whatever. I'll chalk it up to some stupid magic shit. Probably Twilight, its like that mare causes all the problems here in this tiny place. At least this didn't cause an international incident like some of the other princesses. And at least my reassignment is less boring this way." Cloud Kicker picked herself up and walked quietly out the door. She wouldn't get in the way of two ponies being idiots and needing to get laid so hard. Maybe she could give 'Rainbow' some pointers. Better her than her roommate, Blossomforth. That'd be a bad, bad idea.

Rainbow lay down in the tub, her body staining the water brown with mud. As she moved, the water rippled and swam around her aching form. She glanced over at Fluttershy drinking a glass of water to make Zecora's remedy go down to help her concussion. She felt nice, like if Dash had spent her days in her own house it would be quiet at night. Just being the only friend that flew as high as she did made some issues apparent. Sure Twilight had wings now but she seemed to have a fear of heights outside of her magical balloon trips. Fluttershy, well, she never flew until now. Like she didn't feel lonely at night, but having somepony there to talk to besides your handy turtle could be nice. And less borderline crazy. She felt a soft hoof on her chest and looked down, Fluttershy's blue body holding a sponge in her hooves.

"I don't want to go too far, Dash, I mean this mud is all over the place and then that'd be bad if I did cause then I'd feel awful and then you'd be mad at me and then I don't know."

"I wouldn't be mad at you, Shy. Don't worry, though do be careful, we don't want a repeat of what happens on page 132 of Six Shades of Hay. You know the shower head scene." Dash wiggled her lower half at Fluttershy to prove that little point.

Fluttershy stayed quiet, furiously blushing at the thought of her friend knowing enough of her book to reference it as a little joke. Fluttershy took the bait, she didn't know exactly how others did in social situations like this so she did the first thing she could.

She tried to kiss Dash on the cheek, but her wings splayed out and betrayed her making her trajectory fall into a quick kiss on the cheek followed by a slip into the tub.

"Oh my, Fluttershy, you do seem to have a concussion." Fluttershy could hear a quiet laugh as Dash helped her up. "Now let's make these wings act better. We can't have you lose your target just because a little accident threw you off- that wouldn't be the patented Rainbow Dash way of doing things." Fluttershy knew that Dash was teasing her once she felt her borrowed tongue lazily lick up and down each part of Fluttershy's now small blue wings.

"O-oh."

"What was that part in the book again? 'Speed Dazzler used his tongue to lick every inch of Quiet Breeze?' That sure would take some time for one of them. I mean even if one wasn't the specimen of awesomeness he tends to be. And Quiet Breeze was the smaller pony. Just think if there was a reverse there." Fluttershy could hear the laugh in the up down rhythm of her own voice. Rainbow was making use of the situation well. Fluttershy cursed herself for leaving out her manuscripts. She could feel the humming pleasure shoot up and down her spine at the idea that Rainbow was so close to her and that it wasn't a dream.

Fluttershy stammered out responses as quick as she could, her voice a mix between her normal mannerisms and Rainbow's tomboyish voice. "I-I mean o-of course, I just wanted to make it good enough for my readers. And stallions tend to be large and in charge in the romance novels I read."

Rainbow laughed, her sounds echoing through Fluttershy's blue body shaking her to her core. "I may not like reading stuff outside of Daring Do, but I've tried writing a fanfic or two, and I know when I see one. Did you send your fantasies to a publisher by accident?"

Fluttershy squirmed as Rainbow reached the base of her wing- Rainbow knew the spots that felt nice on her own body and that had to be cheating. "Maybe." She left that word hang in the air, as Rainbow continued her work on her friend, going towards her neck now, brushing her friend with her tongue just near her neck, pausing just above her shoulder and quickly moving on, the touch being enough to get Fluttershy ever closer to something more.

Rainbow sighed and stopped for a moment, laying back her head, pink locks wet and mostly free of mud. "I get it, Shy. That's what you see on the outside. You see me as this awesome looking pony that's the greatest pony ever in your eyes and there's you. Just you. And its hard to see how anypony could ever love you because trying to find some comfort in your safe spaces and working on your own things to see if you could be special. I get it. Maybe you wrote this whole story as a fantasy that somehow gained a life of its own once it got published." Rainbow turned, blue orbs glancing at the magenta orbs of Fluttershy- each seeing a slight reflection of them in each other.

Fluttershy wanted to say what was on her mind, but she decided a slight hug worked better, her borrowed hooves wrapping around Dash, not reaching around her friend now but just laying there in an embrace. She rested her head on her friend and sighed, smelling a mix between sweat and need on her friend's fur.

"I shouldn't have teased you right now like maybe that wasn't a great idea." Rainbow blushed heavily, her voice sounding remorseful and awkward, the bath not covering up the excitement.

Fluttershy lay on her friend, the water rippling as she moved. "Dash, I-" Fluttershy thought of her words carefully. "I didn't mind it. And I think you are pretty awesome. We don't have to work on whatever this is this quickly, let's just focus on the now. And thanks for going into the Everfree for me." Fluttershy turned up and kissed her friend lightly on the cheek, pushing the boundaries of how close they were just a bit. The walls between them felt closer as they sat there, the only sounds being the water as each moved around to get the space they felt comfortable with, coming closer than before, each feeling hot and awkward as they looked at their own face staring back telling each what they might feel on the inside. Dash felt her cheeks burn like the sun as her brain recognized the sense of romance.

They felt something stir within them as they noticed the time and dragged themselves out of the bath, each worried that they would present each other their inner walls and that it would move past that into something more. They awkwardly stared at the ceiling while they each shared a towel, pastel green wrapping around them as the water soaked into it. They awkwardly passed the towel back and forth between them, breaking the contact as each had to clean their parts unknown to each other- the idea of the towel sharing that contact making both blush furiously at the thought.

They both quickly got into bed, the bed itself feeling smaller than before and silence reigned until Fluttershy broke the silence. "Goodnight, Dash."

"Yeah."

Dash didn't say anything else, just sitting there in bed hearing each creak in the old house now unbearably loud in her ears. The movement of her friend, her own body just there in stillness and quick breaths telling Dash that Fluttershy must be dreaming something. She awkwardly brushed a polychromatic lock of hair out of her friend's face and inched closer. She hoped it was something nice, seeing that there was a smile on her lips.

She lay a large yellow leg over her friend and sat there. She held her close until Dash felt Fluttershy inch closer, their closeness measured in inches instead of the more comfortable and normal foot or two. And yet this somehow felt nice, as she drifted off into dreamland, Dash swore she could hear Luna giggling outside Fluttershy's window. Eh, probably just her imagination.

She heard a word from Fluttershy that made her heart skip a beat as she went back into comfort.

"Dash-"

Flutter leaned into Dash with that and it was like Dash could feel every curve and she felt uncomfortably warm as she drifted off to sleep.