Stupid cloud! Stupid ship! Stupid laws of physics!

[elementofloyalty]

Three attempts in and this had not been going well.

Outside the transport tubes in the city hovered one pegasus pony, staring in irritation at said tubes. One hoof rested on what was unmistakably a cloud -- a puffy, friendly-looking white cloud, just the right size to make a comfy napping spot for a pegasus who, well, really liked napping.

"You stupid tube tentacle... things!" she said, expecting that the ship would somehow respond. "Let me take the cloud up to that Hydro-whatsit place!"

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tags come faster when I don't get distracted by homework whoops

[nunpunching]

"What's up, homegirl? You got a cloud up in your bean?" Punchy laughs at his own joke, which is, sadly, a wordplay on slang no one on Earth has ever used, and therefore only hilarious to him. But oh, it is quite hilarious, and since he now consider Rainbow Dash a bro of sorts, he expects she'll laugh too.

[elementofloyalty]

Not quite a laugh, but she smiled in amusement. "Turns out this ship can't move a cloud the way it moves a pony. I gotta get this thing somewhere I can actually sleep. Which ISN'T this place," Rainbow said, pointing at the City irritatedly.

[nunpunching]

"You tried standing on it?" Since Punchy's assuming he'd probably sink through it, given that it's a cloud and all. "Maybe if you stand on top of it and I try to come up from under it, it'll get squeezed between us and pop up top."

[elementofloyalty]

"You can move clouds too?" But he wasn't a pegasus, or even a pony! And ALL the humans here had been totally freaked out by the idea that ponies could move clouds around and control the weather and stuff!

[nunpunching]

"Won't it just move I like...blow on it or some shit?" Punchy hasn't been thinking this through, Dash. Obviously.

[elementofloyalty]

She stared at him for a moment, then grabbed the cloud and pulled it down to his level.

"Let's see it," she said, crossing her forelegs as she hovered next to him.

[nunpunching]

And Punchy leans forward as if he's about to blow out birthday candles or knock over a little piggy's house and...blows.

He expects wonderful results!

[elementofloyalty]

He got exactly the results he ought to expect.

"I'm convinced," she said, facehoofing.

[nunpunching]

"Well, how do you do it?" Punchy can totally learn pony magic, Rainbow Dash. Come on.

[elementofloyalty]

Especially innate magic like flying and moving clouds.

"I'm a pegasus, that's what we do. All pegasi can move clouds. Back in Ponyville my job was to clear the sky when we weren't supposed to have a cloudy day or bad weather."

[nunpunching]

"I thought you were a pony." Duh, Rainbow Dash. "But that's a pretty boss day slot, homegirl. Making shit ready for everyone's parties."

[elementofloyalty]

"I'm a pegasus pony! Haven't you seen Pinkie Pie or Applejack around? They're earth ponies. And Rarity is a unicorn." Duh, Punchy.

"Yeah, I was the best at it," she said casually, buffing a hoof on her chest. "Nopony could clear the sky as fast as I could."

[nunpunching]

"Aw, yeah, I met Applejack. She's good peoples. Real tight, you know?" Punchy has totally missed the point of your explanation. "So the difference is that you're..."

Punchy pauses.

"Blue?"

[elementofloyalty]

Punchy, you are rapidly losing cool points, and you are also being introduced to the facehoof.

"Pegasus ponies have wings. Unicorns have horns. Earth ponies don't have either."

[nunpunching]

"Oh. That's boss. I follow." No, not the precious cool points!

"So are you like Pokemon or some shit where you evolve into each other?"

[elementofloyalty]

Rainbow Dash just stared at him, trying to figure out how those words made sense in any configuration.

She couldn't.

[nunpunching]

"You know, like a pony turns into a unicorn turns into a pegasus? Does that happen?"

[elementofloyalty]

Explaining did... not stop her staring. Not at all.

"Nooooooo, that doesn't happen. That would be pretty horrible, actually. I couldn't stand being a unicorn! I was born to FLY!"

[nunpunching]

Punchy shrugs. At least she's staring at him for his equine knowledge and not just the way he talks!

"What if we got like, a big piece of canvas or whatever and tried to trap the cloud in that?"

[elementofloyalty]

"Do we even have one?" She kept hearing that supplies were really low and all that. "And we'd have to seal it up so well the cloud couldn't escape, because the tentacles will still push and pull on it. It might still pop like a balloon, but I hope not."

[nunpunching]

"We gotta have something somewhere. We could use my tent, probably." Granted, taking it down would probably expose the rest of programming to the whiffs of teenage boy smell that the tent's been keeping enclosed, but oh well.

[elementofloyalty]

Ewww. This could be bad.

"Okay, that'd be worth a shot. Should I bring the cloud or should we leave it here?"

[nunpunching]

"Will it still be here when we get back?" Although he does kind of want to see it follow Rainbow Dash around.

[elementofloyalty]

"Who'd take it when I'm the only pony on the ship who can move it?"

She grabbed it, pushed it a little closer to the ceiling, then shot back down to join Punchy on the ground. "Well, lead the way!"

[nunpunching]

"Wouldn't it, like..." Punchy makes a gesture of something falling apart with his hands. "Whatevs. Let's bounce."

Follow him to Programming, Rainbow Dash! It smells like unshowered workaholic! Which is actually more Tim's fault than Punchy's in Punchy's humble opinion.