The end of the day draws near as Celestia lowers her sun in the sky across Equestria. The suns rays start to dim across the small town of Ponyville near the center of Equestria and in the shadow of Canterlot. Gliding on these last rays is none other than the weather team captain and resident speedster, the pegasus named Rainbow Dash. She floats down to earth in front of the library, she folds her cyan wings onto her back as she opens the door with her mouth and trots inside.

“I’m home” She smiles and calls out, her voice booming across the bookshelves.

“Rainbow Dash!” Came a chipper voice from upstairs. “I’m up here!” the purple unicorn peers over the railing from the upper balcony of the library. “Glad you’re home in time for dinner. Spike has the evening off so I decided we could go out to eat.” Twilight Sparkle, unicorn extraordinaire canters down the stairs to meet her marefriend of 2 months.

“That sounds great! I’m starving! You saw that rainstorm blow through here earlier today that we had to clear up!” Rainbow Dash smiles eagerly recalling her work. “And I got that baby out of here in no time!” She banters, smiling in her usual cocky way. Twilight nuzzles her softly.

“And what a great job you did.” Twilight wraps her neck around Rainbow Dash’s breathing in the latter’s multi-colored mane. Rainbow Dash blushes a little bit. She talks herself up all the time, but to hear it from a pony who means it more that is something that makes her happy. Rainbow can feel her heart flutter but she pulls away from the embrace.

“Where do you want to eat? I’m dying over here!” Rainbow Dash breaks the intimate moment with her bodily needs.

“Well there’s Palomino’s Pasta that opened up around the corner there.” Twilight Sparkle suggests, rolling her eyes. If there was one thing that Rainbow Dash was bad at, it was intimacy. The cyan mare was never good at expressing her emotions very well.

“Sounds great!” Rainbow readily agrees, her voice cracking in her signature way. She is eager to get food in her stomach.

“Good! Let me just finish up a few things and we’ll go!” Twilight smiles and bounds back up the stairs. Rainbow Dash sighs, her stomach growling with need. With a smile, Rainbow Dash takes to the air, floating her way up to the purple pony. She gets a wicked grin and silently sneaks up behind her marefriend and then snaps her wings to her side and tackles Twilight to the ground.

“Dashie!” Twilight yells out in surprise as the weight of the cyan pony falls on her. Twilight giggles a bit but hears nothing from Rainbow Dash. The weight is lifted and Twilight Sparkle gets up to look at Rainbow Dash in the face. Rainbow just stares back, a hollow stare. “Rainbow, I…” Twilight knows what she did wrong.

“I told you to never call me that…” Rainbow Dash’s voice is flat. There is one rule that Rainbow Dash told Twilight Sparkle. That rule is to never, ever, under any circumstances, call her "Dashie".

“I know I’m sorry it just slipped out and I….” Twilight Sparkle starts to defend herself with her many words but they are lost on the young pegasus. Rainbow Dash diverts her eyes away from her marefriend.

“I need to go.” Rainbow Dash takes to the air again and flies out the window that Twilight always leaves open for her. Twilight watches the cyan pony fly up to the clouds above.

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“Now Dashie, what did I say about fighting at school!” the mare that looks like the setting sun sighs at her youngest daughter. Sitting in the living room of their cloud home in Cloudsdale is the mother and youngest filly of the Dash family.

“No fighting…” the small cyan pegasus with the rainbow mane sighs, not looking at her mother.

“That’s right, and what did you do?” The mare nuzzles the youngsters chin up to look at her in the eyes.

“I punched a kid. But it’s not my fault! He called me Rainbow Crash again!” The small filly looked up at her mother.

“Oh Dashie…” the mare wraps a large wing around her daughter. “Don’t listen to them. You may not be strong now but one day you’ll be the fastest flyer in all of Equestria!”

“Really?” The young pegasus blinks her wide magenta eyes and a smile breaks out on her face.

“I’m sure of it! My little Dashie, the fastest flyer in all of Equestria!” Her mother smiles.

"You promise?" A look of curiosity flashes across the filly's face.

"Would I lie to you Dashie?"

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But she did lie. She told Rainbow Dash that she would be there forever. That she would never leave her. But she lied. She did leave her. That is the only memory Rainbow Dash has left of her mother. For it wasn’t too long after that when her mother took ill. A single tear fell down the mare’s face and was absorbed into the cloud she lay on. Rainbow Dash sighs. If anypony saw that tear she would rip them a new one that's for sure.

Rainbow Dash stands on the cloud that looks over the darkening Ponyville. She should get back to Twilight and apologize. As well as remind her one time that even though she is her marefriend no one calls her Dashie.