Kissing Booth 2: Electric Scootaloo (is not in this story)

>You are Twilight Sparkle
>And, let's face it, you've seen some shit
>You've faced down Cerberus, the god of chaos, a vengeful moon-princess, even a flamboyantly homosexual river serpent
>But what you just saw might have taken the cake
>Anon.  The human.  The enigmatic, alien creature, who liked to spend more time in a bottle than anywhere else.  Just gave the pony who disliked him the most the most passionate, erotic, tender kiss you have ever witnessed.
>You'd...well...you'd be lying if you weren't at least a little bit turned on by the romantic display you just witnessed
>You were no stranger to inter species relationships.  Why, you had 16 books on the subject, 7 of which contained...erotic novels (hence the whole "being turned on" thing), but still, the characters in those novels hadn't been able to muster the amount of...animalistic passion that Anon had displayed when he kissed Rainbow Dash
>Sure, you all were running a kissing booth for charity, but...wow...a sufficient kiss was far less than the tongue battle that those two had been locked in for the better part of a minute
>Maybe you needed to, oh what was that phrase Dash always used?  "Step your game up?"
>The stallions kissing you did seem a little miffed with your peck-on-the-lips strategy
>Competing with Anon's kiss though?  You'd have to give a stallion a hoof-job to do that
>Ah, college memories...

>Your internal monologue is broken by Anon's triumphant, and more than rude, statement of "victory" over Rainbow Dash
>When he had finished his spiel and had turned back toward Ponyville proper, you turned to look at Dash
"Goodness Rainbow, you'll have a hard time being mean to Anon...now?"
>Despite receiving, what had appeared to you, a very well executed display of intimacy, Rainbow Dash just stared blankly into the scenery
>"Ummm, Rainbow Dash?"  Fluttershy spoke up now, approaching her friend
>"Are you...are you okay?"
>Dash just continued to stare forward, mouth agape, eyes wide open
>Suddenly...oh no, oh no this isn't good
>Tears were beginning to form in her eyes, her mouth was beginning to quiver
>You weren't always proficient at reading other ponies emotions, but even you knew that this was not happy crying, this was heart-broken-bury-your-muzzle-in-a-bucket-of-ice-cream-while-listening-to-John-Neigher crying
>Dash finally speaks
>"W-why...why did he...?"
>She's visibly shaking as the tears begin to run out of her eyes and down her cheeks
>"Aw, sugercube"
>It was Applejack's turn to speak up
>"Anon was just tryin' to get inside yer head.  C'mon now, let's go get you a cider.  Would you like that?"
>She approaches Rainbow and lays a front leg across her friend's withers
>AJ's touch, however, elicits quite a reaction
>"DON'T TOUCH ME!"
>Rainbow almost explodes on contact, jumping back from her booth and her friends a few feet

>"Ah'm...ah'm sorry, ah just..."
>"No!"
>Dash lashes out, still shaking, tears now flowing freely from her rose colored eyes
>"Just...just nop0ny touch me!  I...I..."
>Her glance darts from shocked face to shocked face
>"I..."
>Now, you weren't exactly a betting p0ny.  Betting was reserved for those who didn't understand basic mathematics and probability as far as you were concerned
>But you never, in a million years, would have considered the possibility of what you witnessed
>Rainbow Dash, element of loyalty, the bravest p0ny you had ever, and likely will ever, meet in your life, fell on her face and began to weep
>Loud, long cries of anguish bellowed forth from the blue pegasus
>Even amongst your shocked sadness, you can't help but notice that Rainbow cries about as cutely as a dragon, which is to say not at all
>Wait, why are you thinking this?  Shouldn't you be comforting her?
>Dammit, Twilight, do something!  You're Dash's friend!  Bucking say something!  Anything!
>But nothing comes...not from you, or any other p0ny
>Seeing Dash like this, it's simultaneously shocking and heart wrenching all at the same time
>Before you can pull yourself together, Dash's crying subsides, she slowly turns to look up at your stunned faces
>She's an absolute mess.  Mane frazzled, eyes red, even some snot is beginning to drip out of her nose
"Rainbow..."
>She bolts upright, her expression turning from inexpressible sadness to incomprehensible rage
>Thank you, Mareiem Webster

>She flies forward with all her might, attacking the stall in front of her, her stall to be exact
>In a whirl wind of hooves and teeth, she bucks and bites the flimsy wooden structure, tearing it to shreds in a matter of seconds
>"BUCK YOU, ANON! BUCK YOU, SKY LANCE!"
>Sky Lance?  Who in the world...?
>"AND BUCK YOU, DAD!"
>After some more cursing and flailing, Rainbow Dash finds herself atop a pile of wooden rubble, panting heavily, bestial rage coursing through her body
>Before any of you can muster up the courage to say anything to the feral pegasus, she takes to the sky in a flash, a low rumble of a sonic boom following a moment later
>The familiar, stunned silence overtakes everyp0ny in the vicinity
>Okay, seriously...enough with the silence, Twilight.  Somep0ny has to say something, it might as well be you
"Girls" you start with trepidation
"What...what just happened?"
>Sigh, brilliant line there, genius
>Well, you're certainly doing better than Fluttershy, who is just sitting off to the side, crying into her mane
>"Ohmygoodnessgirls!  IthinkIknowwhatcausedthis!"
>Pinkie...oh, goddess, not now...
>"Maybe Anon's kisses are poisonous!"
>"Poisonous?  Really?"  Applejack asks doubtfully
>"Yeah!  Maybe instead of spreading happiness like kisses are supposed to..."
>The pink mare is rubbing her chin thoughtfully
>"Anon's kisses make p0nies really really really SAD!!!"

>Before you can interject to tell the girls that your extensive tests of human physiology would have turned up some kind of lip excreted poison, Rarity butts in
>"Pinkie, I think that may be a bit far-fetched.  If anything, Anonymous' lips are covered in alcohol"
"Rarity..."  you begin
>"Well have you smelled his breath?  It positively REEKS of, uggh, WHISKEY, at all hours of the day.  Most ungentlecoltly"
>She turns her snout up into the air in an abject display of haughty disapproval
>Alright, that's it.  Time to wrap up the conjecture
"Look girls, we can't assume anything until we gather more data.  What we DO know is that our friend is hurting and we need to help her."
>Buck yeah, Twilight Sparkle is back in action
"Fluttershy, Applejack, you both are the closest to Rainbow Dash.  I need you two to go look for her and try to see if you can help her through this"
>Applejack nods at you
>"We're on it, Twi"
>The two of them dart off in the direction Rainbow Dash flew away in
"Pinkie Pie, Rarity, you stay here and keep the kissing booth operation running"
>"Yes Ma'am!"  Pinkie states enthusiastically and is back at her booth in a flash
>"What about you, darling?"  Rarity asks
>You turn on your hoof and begin to trek back toward Ponyville
"I'm going to have a word with the human who caused all of this"

End of Chapter 2