Pegasi: Fire and Rescue Chapter 2

Fire!

Dusty calmed down a bit after talking with Skipper, Chug and Sparky over Cider at The Stable.

“We’ve sent messages all around Equestria asking if anypony knows about fixing gearboxes, we got your name out there Dusty.” Sparky explained.

“We’ll find somepony, just gotta sit tight.” Chug added.

Dusty nodded. “Thanks guys.”

Skipper grazed Dusty’s back with his wing. “It’ll be okay.”

“Right…”

“Hey, hot shot!”

Dusty’s ears perked up at the sound of a familiar voice. He grinned as he looked over to the doorway to see a blue pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail, grinning at him.

“Rainbow Dash!” he got up and hurried over to her.

The two threw their front hooves around each other, giving a tight hug.

“So good to see you!” he said, nuzzling her.

She giggled. “It’s good to see you too. Sorry I came so late in the day, it was a long flight from Ponyville to here.”

“Don’t be sorry, just glad you’re here, come have a seat, I’ll order you some cider.”

Rainbow Dash licked her lips. “Oh… that sounds fantastic.”

Dusty grinned leading her over to the table, pulling up a pillow for her to sit on.

Rainbow Dash nodded her thanks, sitting next to him. “Good to see everypony, hope you’ve all been well.” She smiled. “Feels like it’s been forever since I’ve been here.”

“Well… It’s been a long day.” Skipper replied glancing at Dusty.

“Yeah… it has.” Should I tell her…? I really don’t want to kill the mood…

Rainbow Dash looked at him, cocking an eyebrow. “What’s up? You look sad.”

Dusty sighed. “Dash… something has come up… I can’t-”

“The answer is yes!”

Dusty jumped a little at the interjection he heard. He looked to the side to see Leadbottom trotting towards him, still freshly coated with Vitaminamulch.

“Yes…?” Dusty asked.

“What?” Rainbow Dash asked, confused.

“Of course you can have your old job back!” Leadbottom cheered.

“W-What…?” Dusty stammered. “I never-”

“Of course you’ll have to start at minimum wage again and go through orientation but either way you’re welcome back to crop dusting with me!”

Dusty looked as if somepony had just slapped him. He silently shook his head quickly.

Skipper stood up glaring a bit. “Now I’m sure Dusty appreciates your offer Leadbottom, but now is not the best time-”

“Ah come on, he’s one of the best crop dusters I ever had and since he can’t race no more I just thought it would be good to get him back in the saddle, even get his harness adjusted so it has his old feathers and carry a sprayer again.”

Don’t know what’s going on but I’m not liking this. Rainbow Dash thought as she got up and stood beside Skipper, snorting at Leadbottom. “What the hay are you talking about?! Dusty is never going back to that life!”

Sparky and Chug joined her. “Yeah! He’s not crop dusting ever again!”

“Never!”

“And on that matter… Ya bug him again and you’ll have to deal with all of us! Right Dust-” Dash looked to where Dusty was sitting to find him gone. “Oh no…”

“Dusty?!”

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I can still do this… It’s just a gearbox…

Dusty had snuck out during the fight back to his hangar and got his harness hooked back on. He was now flying over the fields, the moon being his only source of light. He looked at his right front hoof at the bracelet that was now attached to it. It was given to him after he had come back from the field by Dottie.

“You can still fly, but I’m giving this for a safety precaution. If it goes off, pull back on power.” was what she told him.

He shook his head.

Let’s see how far I can go.

He flapped his wings harder, racing over the fields. He was starting to get up the speeds he usually got up to in his races. He went up, deciding to do a dive before the alarm on the bracelet start going off, its red light flashing. The pain returned as well, this time it wasn’t as bad but it still hurt.

He pulled back on the power, cringing a little at the pain.

Ugh…. He shook his head quickly, but didn’t expect to see powerlines coming up. “WAH!” Dusty ducked under them, almost clipping them with his wings.

Phew… He looked back and grinned a little. “Nailed it.”

He looked back to see the Fill N Fly coming into view, he decided to try doing a turn over it.

C’mon wings don’t fail me now… Maybe I can get past the speeds without setting the alarm off… It’s a machine not a mind reader…

As he started his turn over his wings stopped momentarily, sending him into a dive. He panicked a little, trying to flap his wings again. They started too right before he hit the ground, saving him from a hard fall… but went flying right into a bunch of cans of corn oil and crashed into a pole.

“Ow…” he groaned, rubbing his head.

He looked around, glad to see no pony had seen him crash and that the most of the damage done was just knocked over corn oil cans.

“Phew…”

ZZRRT!

Huh?

He looked around again, trying to figure out where the noise came from. He scanned the area till he saw something. It was a loose wire near one of the poles that was letting off some sparks… one of them landing on the pool of corn oil he had just created.

His eyes shrunk. “Oh no…”

KABOOM!!!

He got blown back into a pole, some smoke getting in his face. He coughed a bit, rubbing his eyes a bit before opening them. They went wide as he saw a huge fire that was now before him.

“Oh… Horse feathers…” He jumped back, looking around panicking a little.

“FIRE!!!!!!!!!”

At The Stable, the others heard the commotion looking outside, seeing the smoke and light from the flames.

“The Fill N’ Fly!”

“I’ll get the shut off valve!” Chug said breaking into a gallop. Sparky went the other way.

“I’ll get Mayday!”

Rainbow Dash hurried over to Dusty. “What the hay happened?!”

Dusty lowered his head a little. “I don’t want to talk about it right now.”

“COMING THROUGH!”

A siren wailed as a red Unicorn with a black and grey mane came galloping over to the fire. Propwash Junction’s local fire stallion, Mayday.

“We need to put this out before this spreads.” he instructed.

Sparky hurried over with the fire hose he had hooked up, levitating it over to Mayday. Mayday took it and started to work on putting out the fire… only to run into a small problem.

Holes started to pop up in the hose as leaks sprung up. Sparky looked at it confused before trying to cover them with his hooves… The pressure built before flinging him right into Chug.

“OOF!”

“Got ya!”

“Thanks.”

The water stream died down. Mayday dropped the hose looking around before spotting the water tower, as an idea came to him.

“Hey! Listen up, I got a plan but I need all the help I can get!” He quickly explained before they hurried over. Dottie and Sparky got the others hooked up with ropes to pull the water tower over as they started undoing screws in hopes to loosen it a bit.

They all pulled as hard as they could, struggling a bit before it fell finally, bursting open like a dam as water gushed out putting out the flames… But also flooding the workshop.

They were silent catching their breaths.

Dusty swallowed hard feeling guilty, looking down as an old flyer of him when he had first won the Wings Around Equestria floated over singed.

This is all my fault…