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- Above the Clouds - My Potential Return to Glorious Mediocrity - Rainbro Oneshot
- >This fucking place.
- >You had a roof over your head, and often enough had food in your stomach.
- >All the p0nies were friendly and nice to you, and everything you could see was some lovely shade of bright pastel.
- >With all the amiable company and pleasant scenery, you would think that any negativity would be a thing of the past from your old life.
- >It wasn't.
- >There was simply too much to be happy about and no escape.
- >No video games, hard liquor, weed, cigarettes, movies, cars, none of the interesting things or technological conveniences that you used to enjoy.
- >No steak or meat of any kind either.
- >You sighed, looked out the window, and sighed again.
- >The frosting on top of this sickly sweet cake.
- >The pegasi had decided that two straight weeks of rain would be just the thing the plant life needed to recover from the winter.
- >You were now looking at the second week of this constant bad weather.
- >It's not like you actually went outside much anyway.
- >Hell, during the winter you had stayed in the your little room in the library and read so many books that even Twilight was concerned about your sanity.
- >For months now you had as little contact with the p0nies as you could.
- >You returned greetings and gave the occasional smile but that was all.
- >Though you weren't completely socially retarded, all of their daily activities became boring quickly and most of the ponies were just too nice.
- >After awhile they stopped inviting you places and you saw little of any other being.
- >Except for Rainbow Dash.
- >When you woke up early each morning and went for your daily jog she was always up in the air training.
- >Occasionally you and her would talk but for the most part you both went about your routines silently, albeit together, and then watched the sun come up.
- >That quickly became your favorite part of you repetitive days.
- >You honestly did love the sun here.
- >It looked about the same as the one back home, and restored just a bit of normalcy back to your daily life.
- >That was why this fucking rain sucked as much as it did.
- >As you turned away from the window, you heard a knock at the door.
- >You walked to it and opened it to find a soaked and somewhat bashful looking Rainbow Dash.
- >You opened the door wider and gestured for her to come in.
- >"Hey Anon. I didn't see you again this morning. It's eight o'clock, have you done anything productive all day?"
- "Nope, it's been pretty dull." You said as you returned to your seat on the couch.
- >"Oh. Um, well do you want to hang out or something? I have the rest of the night free."
- "Nah I was just going to stay here and kill time until work tomorrow. Sorry Dash."
- >Disappointment washed across her face but it quickly turned to a playful smile.
- >"C'mon Anon. It's been a week with no exercise at all. Do you want to lose your endurance?"
- "No but it's..."
- >She gestured at you shirtless chest and picked up your arm.
- >"You're getting pale too. Bucking white even." She dropped you arm with a thump.
- "I don't ever tan well..."
- >"You know Applejack told me that when her saplings don't get enough sun, they lose their color, turn white, then shrivel up and die."
- "Alright, alright. What do you have in mind? If you hadn't noticed, o great master of the clouds, it has been and is still raining." You gestured towards the window, beyond which only rain and dismal, gray clouds could be seen.
- >She shook herself, showering water on you, your floor, and your couch.
- >"Yeah I noticed. But now you're already wet. So what will a little more hurt?" She said as she turned and walked towards the door.
- >You stood and followed her, slightly irritated and being dragged away from being warm and comfortable.
- "That's logical even if it was a dirty trick." You said and shut the door behind you and put your jacket on. "So what now?"
- >The disappointed frown returned to her face.
- >"Huh. I didn't really think about that."
- >You turned to go back inside, jacket already soaked.
- "Alright then. Come grab me when you think of something or the sun makes it's triumphant return. Whichever comes first."
- >"Wait Anon!" Something in her voice stopped you.
- >When you turned back around you found that she was now wearing a smile.
- >"Do you really miss the sun that much?"
- >You nodded.
- >She bent her knees and lowered the front half of her body.
- >"Get on."
- >You gave her a skeptical look, raising an eyebrow.
- "Uh I doubt that you can..."
- >"What are you, a chicken?" She turned her head away, muttered something about doubts, and gave you a snort.
- >She then gestured impatiently at you with a wing.
- >You walked over and swung you right leg over her back, taking care not to bump her wing.
- "It's not that I doubt your strength or anything like that it's just that..." Before you could finish, the two of you shot into the air.
- >As your vertical angle of ascent became steeper, the two of you seemed to fly faster.
- >You couldn't help but to grin, and as soon as you did the g-force pulled your face into an even wider grin.
- >This was like your Ninja back home, except with an anti-gravity option and a rocket engine.
- >The faster you flew, the harder the raindrops pounded your face.
- >You didn't care.
- >You tightened your legs' grip around her abdomen and leaned forward to become at least a little more aerodynamic.
- >You yelled "Faster!" in her ear and wondered whether she heard you above the roaring wind.
- >Her quick nod answered you, and you knew that her grin was most likely as wide as your own.
- >Upwards you raced straight into the cloud level, a cyan and white lumpy rocket.
- >The raindrops that had been battering your face let up considerably, and you could finally see again.
- >Well sort of.
- >As you were admiring the shape of the gray clouds billowing away from your trajectory, a bright bolt of white lightning cracked past your side.
- >Dash veered quickly to the left, corkscrewing straight into a thick and dark gray cloud.
- >With the sudden change of direction, your legs almost lost their grip on Dash.
- >The sound of the thunder assaulted your ears, the volume rivaling that of the wind.
- >Hazy darkness surrounded the two of you as you shot through this particularly dark cloud.
- >And then there was light.
- >Bright, white, and blinding.
- >You covered your eyes with a hand and almost lost your grip again.
- >After a week of gloom it took a few seconds for your eyes to adjust to being above the cloud line, but when they did, it was worth it.
- >The oppressing grays and blues from below had been replaced by brilliant yellows right up the spectrum to deep reds.
- >The Equestrian sunset.
- >The storm clouds looked like the floor to this magnificent room.
- >By now Dash had landed on the nearest cloud.
- >"I'd recommend that you stay where you are Anon." She turned her head towards you.
- >You nodded, speechless for the moment.
- >"The sunsets are a colored a little deeper and feel a little more sad than the sunrises, but I think that makes them more beautiful." She said quietly.
- >You laughed.
- "That's poetic bordering on straight up romantic. Not what I'd expect to hear from you."
- >It might've just been the lighting, but you could swear her face gained a bit of a redness to it before she turned her head away.
- >"You tell nop0ny about this, do ya hear me?"
- >You ruffled her mane.
- "Of course not. I agree with you though. And thanks."
- >She nodded.
- >"Before we head back down, will I see you tomorrow morning or are you going to stay inside and be lazy?"
- "I don't see why not. Upon us all a little rain must fall. It's just a little rain."
- >She turned her head back towards you with a grin.
- >"Who's sappy now?"
- >You smiled and turned back towards the sun.
- >Today was a good day.
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