My Little Pony: Flipped A Little And Shaken Up

"Ugh, I ate too much pie," Twilight Sparkle groaned.

"Maybe you found it too difficult to say no to Applejack," Spike said, disdain dripping from the stallion's name

She was not enjoying her assignment to Ponyville, and she'd more or less only just arrived. True, the Apples were nice, and the food had been tasty, but there had been too much nice and too much food. Fortunately, despite Spike's obvious concerns, the boisterous apple farmer was just being polite rather than trying anything... she thought.

Besides, his elder sister Marecina had looked way more sympathetic than worried, and if her own sister was any benchmark, elder siblings were supposed to be overprotective. Wait, did that apply to colt siblings? Maybe that warranted some research...

"What's next?" She said.

"Uh, A pegasus pony called Rainbow Dash is meant to be in charge of clearing the clouds," The baby dragon replied.

Twilight looked up. All but one cloud was gone.

"Well, she's done most of her job... But why just one left behind?"

"There's somepony on it," Spike noted.

A rainbow-streaked tail hung off the edge of the only cloud.

"Hello up there?" 

The tail shot inside the cloud, and a rainbow streak landed in front of her. Unfortunately, the mud landed on her.

"I'm up! Not that I was asleep at all... Uh, wait, you're not Dash..." The blue stallion looked puzzled.

"...No, I'm not, and I presume you aren't either?" Twilight sighed as she tried to remove the mud.

"Nope, she's my twin, and waaay less awesome than me! Even if she's kinda my boss and all, but yeah, less awesome!" The pegasus practically preened.

"Well, do you know where she might be? I'm trying to speak to her about the Summer Sun Celebration."

"Oh, she'll be in the park with her ki... waaait, who are you?"

"I'm Twilight Sparkle. I was sent from Canterlot..."

"Oh, wow, you're a mare? Sorry, that mud kind of made you look anroganov."

"...Androgynous, and wait what...."

The blue stallion had flown back up to his cloud, putting it over her and stamping.

"There we go... Hey, you're pretty cute!"

Spike's eyes narrowed. Twilight sighed.

"Okay, yeah, this one is definitely hitting on me."

The stallion did not seem to notice this thinking-out-loud on her part.

"Sorry about the whole mud thing there, miss, uh..."

"Twilight Sparkle."

"...Miss Sparkle, just an accident! Though the wet mane look suits you. Anyway, I can take you to my sister, buuut, I'm gonna have to ask you out on a date to the Summer Sun Celebration!"

"...No."

"Dang, came on way too strong. Be honest, was it the wet look compliment? I was kinda thinking it was overkill myself."

"No, it's the fact that I'm not really interested in a date, especially since I'm working, and I don't even know your name."

"Oh. Right, but if you weren't working and you knew my name... It's Rainbow Blitz, by the way... would you be interested?"

"No."

"Worth a shot. Oh well, the park is that way, you can't miss my sister, looks like me but lighter blue and more mare-y, orange filly and colt flying near her! Anyway, bye!" The stallion shot off.

"...I don't like him," Spike said.

"You're probably going to say that about every stallion I talk to today, aren't you?" Twilight sighed.

"W-well, no, it's just that guy was a real jerk."

Twilight examined her dripping mane.

"...Okay yeah, he kind of was a jerk. Uh, let's give Rainbow Dash a miss for now, I need to find a mane dryer..."

"Well, decorations is meant to be handled by a tailor, maybe they've got something?"

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Elusive indeed did have a mane dryer. Unfortunately, the tailor had been utterly flabbergasted at Twilight's appearance, and triggered what she was already calling Spike's Angry Overprotective Little Brother/Number One Assistant Mode. Elusive had been polite, if a little dramatic, so she really didn't see the problem. 

"What's left?"

"Music and meeting Rainbow Dash," Spike said.

"...If music is handled by a stallion are you gonna go nuts again?"

"I'm just looking out for you! And this one's a mare I think, that or the poor guy probably has enough on his plate being called Fluttershy..."

"Okay, yeah, that does sound like a mare's name."

It was - though they fortunately also found Rainbow Dash there, allowing Twilight a distraction as Fluttershy listened to Spike's (literal) life story.

"...So, yeah, weather's well under control. My brother isn't, apparently," Dash noted.

"Er, well, I suppose..."

"Oh jeez, please don't tell me you like him."

"Oh, no, not really. To be honest he's kind of a jerk."

"Phew."

"...Wait, are you happy at that because you're overprotective of your brother?"

"What? No, I'm happy because you're right! I've known the little brat all his life, he's definitely a jerk!"