20% Cooler Date {Time Turner, Rainbow Dash}

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Rainbow Dash was going on a blind date.

Rainbow Dash was a lot of things. Awesome. Radical. Unbelievably cool! But, she wasn't extremely into going on a date with a complete stranger. Especially after traveling and meeting so many... But, she had signed up nevertheless, so she had to deal with what she got.

Dash had decided she wasn't going to wear some frilly frufru dress. So, she wore a suit and a hat. It was nice enough.

Rainbow sat on a bench, waiting. Who was she even waiting for? She hadn't even looked at the name of the pony she was going on a date with. So... Who was it? Some lonely loser who was a hopeless romantic? Probably. She'd leave it if it was bad enough. This pony better not be-

Rainbow blinked, watching a familiar brown pony walk up. He was her date? Huh. Could be worse. "Time Turner? You're my date?"

She definitely hadn't expected that.

[Time Turner]

Oooooh he had made quite the mistake. He really hadn’t meant to be one of the participants in this whole blind date thing. But, well, things happened, and now that he was a part of the thing he might as well enjoyed himself. Even went out and bought a brand new bowtie for the occasion; a nice, velvety red one for the occasion suited well enough. Hopefully it wouldn’t be considered underdressed. He had seen some of the other couples around town, and many of them had much fancier outfits on. Then again, his date for this day was supposed to be Rainbow Dash, Ponyville’s resident weather manager and speed flyer. There was much doubt in his mind that she wouldn’t be really dressed…up.

And there she was standing in a suit with a hat. Odd choice for a mare, but it suited her well enough. Looked a lot like something he might have worn at some point though. But hey, at least their ties matched! That was something to be cheerful about.

”Yep, seems like it Rainbow Dash. Lovely suit by the way, love the tie,” he said as he walked up to her.

”I am going to admit, however, I didn’t exactly mean to get signed up for this. Long story, but to make it short I had sort of thought the sign up sheet was for running the event, not being in the event. Would have made a lot of overtime hours too if I helped to organize it…” he said, mumbling that last bit before cheerfully looking back at Rainbow Dash,”But nothing I can do about it now so might as well enjoy myself right? So, did you have any plans or did you just want to wing it?” he said, still smiling but breaking out in a small giggle as he just realized he had told a pegasus to ‘wing it’.

Time Turner; dork extraordinare.

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He... what?

"You didn't mean to... I mean... Oh, whatever." Rainbow Dash hopped off of the bench, looking around. "Well, they had set up for us to go see a romantic movie, though everypony who sees it says it's one of the worst they've ever seen. So, got any ideas?"

Rainbow Dash was glad she had gotten somepony like Time Turner. He wasn't terribly lame, and his traveling stories were actually kinda cool. So she wouldn't be bored to death, or wishing she was somewhere else tonight.

She'd probably have fun tonight.

[Time Turner]

Well, she didn’t seem to mind his little faux pas regarding the whole event. That was good; he had been worried about telling that to anypony he would have gotten. There were many a ponies who seemed to be upset if a completely random stranger they randomly got paired with hadn’t one-hundred percent fully intended the meeting to happen. Luckily for him, Rainbow Dash seemed to be relatively non-chalant about the whole thing. She did always strike him as the kind of aloof, ‘roll of your back’ sort of pony.’ Anyway, no need to dwell on that issue anymore; it was in the past, and now was time to focus on the present-future part of time.

”Hmm, a terrible romantic movie or my own personal ideas…” Time Turner said with a sense of musing.

”To be honest, neither choice seems all that great,” he said, giving a slight laugh,”But I’m honestly up for just about anything. Movie, lunch, a walk in the park. There are very few things I’d outright reject to be honest.”

That was his way of basically saying ‘I have no idea; do you got something?’. Once he found out he was a part of this whole thing, he was hoping to get the chance for some new experiences. But everything he could think of was either something he had done before or, if something he would do again, was in a completely town. Barrel riding over Neighagra Falls; not good first date material.

”If you really are up to it though, I do know a nice little café off the markets that has a wonderful fruit salad,” he added, thinking he should at least provide some sort of option. And that had been a rather nice café and fruit salad he had that day with Derpy…

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Hm... Fruit salad, huh? Yeah, I could go for a fruit salad. Rainbow Dash smiled, holding out a hoof towards the road. "Well, the cafe sounds nice. Lead the way, Turner!" She knew which cafe he was talking about. But, she'd rather him show the way.

She couldn't help but stray from her date in her thoughts. Who was she going to tell she was back next? Rarity? AJ? Twilight? Definitely not Pinkie. She'd throw a Welcome Back Party. And then a Welcome Back Party after party. Rainbow Dash definitely didn't need her friends finding out like that.

[Time Turner]

”Okie dokie then!” Time Turner said, trotting off in the direction. He was a little better at directions than Derpy was, so he was confident that as long as his interest didn’t wander they would get their just fine. Since there was still some time between this leaving and actually getting there, however, he figured that he might as well try and engage in some conversation.

”So, uhm, I don’t think I’ve seen you around Ponyville recently. Go on vacation?” he said, going off of the only thing he could think off. It had been some time since he had seen her zipping around the sky, or napping on a cloud, or the other things that she had done. Considering her mane being, well, a rainbow, it was hard to really forget seeing her. And he hadn’t been on any vacations recently due to having gotten in trouble for being on his last one a little too long so that couldn’t explain the absence either.