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The Great Rainbow Dash Intervention

Who: Rainbow Dash, anyone in the library, then all of Ponyville, and maybe even eventually Rainbow Dash
What: AU!Dash has been avoiding OU!Dash. Almost everypony thinks this is a bad idea.
Where: Starting in the Ponyville Library. Possibly coming to engulf all off Equestria.
When: Noon.
Warnings: Comedic violence. No posting order!
Prose or Commentspam: Prose. Let's keep it to one giant Benny Hill-style thread too!

Rainbow Dash came through the library window. That in and of itself wasn't unusual. Her particular method was, though -- while normally Rainbow would fly on through cheerfully, today she downright oozed in, keeping herself pressed flat against the wall and maintaining as low a profile as possible, shrouded by her black coat and every inch of her attuned to the possibility of being spotted.

Once she was inside, she reached up, swung the library window carefully shut, then stood up with a gasp of relief. "Made it," she said to herself with a satisfied nod, then turned to the shelves to hunt down that copy of Daring Do and the Perilous Pegasus she knew Twilight had stashed away.

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Well that was a little strange. A pony in a black coat? This must be her well-traveled friend. And still hiding from her other self.

Perfect. It was probably not healthy for that to be happening.

While she's not looking at them, Twilight will seal the windows closed. Probably better to stay quiet herself, though.

Edited 2014-02-07 20:22 (UTC)

It was too bad for Rainbow that this Rainbow Dash had the same idea in mind: she heard about the story, but hadn't come inside the library just yet.

She needed a breather after that whole Lyra/Inves debacle, and what better breather than Daring Do! However, having read her own books quite a number of times, including her brought-from-home-copy of Daring Do and the Ring of Destiny, she needed to mix it up.

But first...before mixing it up, she had her usual rounds to take care of! That's why the Pegasus was currently on a cloud just a few meters or so above the library, sleeping peacefully and never once heard her other self sneak in.

Quietly, Rainbow crept back over to the window, then tried to open it. 'Tried' being the operative word -- she tugged, then hauled, then indelicately banged on it a couple of times before remembering she was trying to avoid her other self and ducking back out of sight.

Well, drat. Rainbow considered her options, then began sneaking towards the front door.

While she's sure one can't hear her, Twilight messages the other.

Rainbow,

Your other-dimensional counterpart is in the library. She will probably leave by the front door.

Don't try to use the window to get in.

-Twilight

There's a quick alert on this message, which shouldn't be audible to most ponies at distance.

And with said quick alert, Rainbow lets out a quiet snort and whinny as she wakes up only to see the message Twilight was sending her: where her other-dimensional self was at, and her attempted means of escape.

She grins lightly and grabs hold of the cloud with her hooves before speeding through the sky and toward Twilight's front door just as requested. The moment her other self tried to escape, she would see a not-so-happy Pegasus atop a cloud waiting for her.

Rainbow eased open the door quietly, smirking to herself at how clever she was -- a smirk that immediately vanished as she spotted the other Rainbow outside.

She slammed the door shut with a yelp, back and shoulders pressed to it as she looked frantically around for some other means of escape.

"Rainbow." A voice called out to her as the unicorn walked in from the other room.

"You know what this is about, don't you?"

Poor, poor naive Rainbow Dash, who was correct when she believed her friends would always be there for her, but completely wrong as to the nature of that help. The pegasus leaped forward to grab the unicorn by her shoulders.

"Twilight, you gotta hide me! The other me is out there and she won't take 'no' for an answer! If I meet her, she's DOOMED!"

Because obviously, Twilight would help her, right?

She certainly would! Perhaps not exactly how the pegasus had hoped, but help was help.

"I know...I know." The unicorn places a hoof on Rainbow's shoulder. "I just need you to stay calm, okay? Deep breaths."

"I just gotta get outta here. Can you get the window? Or cast, I dunno, an invisibility spell on me?"

Rainbow trotted in place briefly, fidgety and worried.

"I can help you, but I need you to stay calm, okay?" Twilight pulled Rainbow into a hug. "Please, Rainbow..."

Okay, this is starting to get weird.... "I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm just worried, okay? Come on, Twilight, just let me get out of here and it'll be okay."

"Alright, alright." As Twilight lets go of Rainbow, her horn flickers with magic and the front door is opened.

"Rainbow, meet Rainbow."

Treachery! Betrayal! Rainbow spared just one second for a horrified, stricken look at Twilight before she shoved the unicorn aside and galloped for the stairs.

As Twilight topples over, her scroll ready for an audio announcement. She knew it wasn't going to be this easy.

"Everyone listen! The black coated Rainbow Dash is fleeing from a much-needed meeting with her counterpart. Do not let her escape! I repeat: do not let her escape! Restrain her and notify everyone over the scrolls once you do!"

"TRAAAAAITOOOOOOOOOR!"

Maybe if Rainbow Dash were more subtle, she might have gotten out the balcony doors with a moment or two of stealth. Nope. The pegasus vaults the railing outside and hits the air flapping, heading for the main streets of Ponyville. Surely someone will help her!

And watching everything is a certain blue-scared baby dragon. In special sneakers.

"Heh, sounds like you got yourself a mess. Keep going, maybe I can try to throw them off!" Sonic said, getting in a good distance away from Rainbow and pointing towards an alleyway. "In there, everyone!"

Fooling people? Nah, but it doesn't hurt to try!

"Thanks!" Rainbow said, never stopping to consider it might be a trick. "I owe you one!" Without even pausing to check the status of pursuit behind her, she veered sharply into the alleyway, hitting the ground in the middle of it so she could gallop out the far side.

"I DON'T THINK SO!"

Rainbow should've looked behind her, because this Rainbow Dash had seen her less-than-subtle escape from the balcony, leaving her cloud in front of Twiiight's door and zooming right after her other self.

She sped past Sonic on the way, silently vowing to meet him someday while heading down the alleyway. The race was on!

"AAAH! SONIC! HELP! GRAB HER OR SOMETHING!"

Forget galloping! Rainbow took to the air again to zoom down another alley, blasting through a stack of trash cans as she did.

...Seriously? Like trash cans would stop either one of these Dashes! This Rainbow effortlessly dodges each and every trash can while speeding right down that same alley, determined to catch up to her other self and not let her get away again!

Trash cans are child's play to a Rainbow Dash. If you wanna stop one, you use something much more effective: walls. But since there wasn't enough time to make a regular wall, this one's a genuine Reaper Wall, mostly invisible and unbreakable without a key pin. Careful about flying too fast, Dash; wouldn't want to fly right into this thing.

Well, to be fair, the trash cans were more of an 'in the way' obstacle than any serious effort to stop her counterpart. The Reaper Wall was much the same, except with the caveat that she never saw it coming, in traditional Rainbow Crash fashion. The only thing that saved her from severe injury was her effort to bank into a turn right out of the alley, which meant she slammed into the wall and bounced off at an angle, ricocheted off the building to her right, then skipped off the ground.

In a panic, she flailed her way right-side up and took off in the opposite direction, counting on the sudden 180 to confound her counterpart and buy her the precious moments she needed to get clear once again.

Most of that probably would've worked like a charm on any normal day in Ponyville.

This wasn't a normal day, and this Rainbow Dash was too focused: much like she was when Applejack tried to skip out on admitting the truth back in Dodge Junction. Once she saw her other self abruptly vanish, she quickly made that same turn but was able to avoid slamming into the wall and took only a moment to spot her fleeing self before resuming the chase.

"You can't get away from me THAT EASILY!!!" she shouted loudly, pouring on the speed as she was getting quite impatient with her other self by this point.

Twilight had begun teleporting erratically after Rainbow had fled from the library in the hopes of finding the two pegasi and getting them to talk. She was going to find out what was going on with the multiverse traveler if it was the last thing she did...

And she got lucky.

Seeing them barreling straight towards her, she took half a second to begin erecting an oval barrier which would leave no escape for either of them.

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