The Amazing Race Equestria!

by River Dashe

Rating: teen
Tags: Spike, Random, Adventure, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Romance
Length: 10387

With spike as their host, the amazing race comes to Equestria!

nine teams are now racing across the country for a quarter of a million bits, and to be the winners, of the amazing race equestria
Note:spike is the host

Published 2013-10-09 16:10:01 UTC
Last updated 2014-02-12 17:24:46 UTC

Introducing the teams.

Under the clouds and through the roads of ponyville, stands town hall, inside it stands a small purple dragon.
"Hi, I'm spike, and this, is town hall, where ponyville began, and home of mayor mare, the mayor of this small town, it is also the starting line, for the amazing race. And her stands nine teams, shall we meet them?"

An orange colt smiled at the camera along with a blue mare.

Mr. And Ms. Cake
Relationship: married
Hometown:Ponyville

"It's been a great twenty years, and this is our annerversary, I think it'll be much better than one of Pinkie's crazy parties"
Said Mr. Cake, smiling at the camera.

"We're gonna win, me and my husband have been together for a long time now, we know each other's strengths and weaknesses, it's going to be a challenge, but I'm sure we'll pass"
Mrs. Cake said, hugging her husband.

The camera shifted to two younger mares, one a Pegasus, and one an Earth pony.
Rainbow Dash and Applejack
Relationship:rivals/friends and athletes
Hometowns: cloudsdale and ponyville

"Heh, normally I'd do this with Pinkie Pie, but she's so random, I just don't know if she was the best partner, so I decided to have the most athelet- aside from me, the most atheletic pony, Applejack."
Rainbow Dash said with a smirk.

"Rainbow can be overconfident at times, but ah gotta admit, she's fast on both her feet, and her wings, it's an ahdvantage for sure."
Admitted Applejack, spitting on her hoof, and hoof bumping Rainbow Dash.

The camera moved on to a view of a unicorn and an earth pony kissing....wait...KISSING?
"Ahem!" The camera man shouted.
"GAH! Oh...right, the race, I forgot all about the race!"
"Oh vinyl."

vinyl scratch and octavia
Relationship:dating and fellow artists
Hometown:ponyville

"I can't wait to do this with tavi!" Said vinyl, "it's gonna be SUH WEET! WUBWUBWUB"

"Vinyl is a bit forgetful," Octavia explained to the camera, "but she's sweet, and I'm very very happy to do this with her."

The camera moved on to another team, one a small alicorn, and a bigger white unicorn.

shining armour and Twilight sparkle
Relationship:best friends and siblings
Hometown:canterlot

"I can't wait to do this with my BBBFF," said twilight, "he's fast, I'm smart, its the ultamite team!
"We're fast, we're strong, we're smart, I don't see why we can't win this one!" Shining armour said.

The camera moved on to the fifth team, where a pink pony was hopping up and down
"Ugh! When are we gonna get our turn?!"
"Hush pinks, soon." A blue colt said to her marefriend.

Pinkie Pie and Sky Skipper
Relationship:just started dating
Hometowns:cloudsdale and a rock farm

"WEE! Me and my coltfriend are gonna kick flank! Not literally, but, you know what I mean! I mean, come on! I wouldn't really kick somepony's flank, that would would just be plain mean! Especially to fluttershy! Who would be so mean to hurt flutters? She's so cute and harmless! Unless she uses the stare, I mean, that's SCARY, I'm glad she's never done it to me, has she? Maybe, I don't remember, but I once had a dream that we were trapped in fluttershy's shed, I mean, she wouldn't really turn derpy into a toaster right? OF COURSE NOT! Hm, I think I should give skippy a turn!" Pinkie giggled

"Me and pinkie met a few weeks ago, I gathered the courage to ask her out about a week ago though, I think we can definentley win this, for sure!" Sky shouted with a smirk.

The camera shifted to two pegasi

Spitfire and Soarin
Realtion ship:captains of the wonder bolts and coworkers
Hometown:cloudsdale

"Me and Soarin have known each other for a while now," said Spitfire, "we can definently challenge ourselves win.

"Heh, I really don't see why we shouldn't win, we totally deserve it!" Soarin shouted, "with me and Spitfire, its gonna be great!"

The camera moved on To a very small unicorn, and a really tall one.

Snips and Snails
Relationship:I don't really know, I think they're friends or something
Hometown:ponyville

"I may be slow, but I'm smart!" Snails said, "i'll be doing the brain challanges."

"I'm not as smart as snails, but I'm fast, I'll be doing the physical challanges."

The camera moved on to the second last team, two more pegasi.
River Dash and Vortex
Relationship: exes
Hometown: unknown

"Heh, there's absolutely no doubt we're gonna win" vortex said with a smirk "just because we broke up doesn't mean we don't get along, I'm sure we can do this!"

River looked at the camera
The camera man cleared his throat "AHEM"
"Yeah...I don't know what to say..."
"WELL THINK OF SOMETHING BECAUSE YOURE DISQUALIFIED IF YOU DONT!"
"FIIINE"
"My name is river dash and km gonna win"

The camera man rolled his eyes, "moving on"

The camera viewed the last team, the smallest team

Apple Bloom and Babs Seed
Relationship: cousins
Hometowns:ponyville and manehattan

"Ah know," Apple Bloom began, "many of y'all would say we're too young fer this, but me and may cuzin' are gonna win!"

"Seeing ahs we didn' get to see each other during the reunion," explained babs, "we thought, hey, amazing race! So we entered it!"

"And that's our teams!"

The next scene was spike standing in front of all nine teams, "now, in this race you're racing for 25.000 bits," the tea.s screamed in joy, "a mentoring session with princess celestial herself," they screamed again, "and the amazing race equestria!" They all screamed again.
"But before we start, may I call up all pegasi and unicorns?"
They all walked up to spike. Spike put bands on their hooves, "these are for so we make sure you don't fly or use magic during the race. "Aaaaaaw"
"Anyway, back in your lines"
"Now, on your marks," the teams got their hooves ready to gallop,
"Get set," they all leaned down.
"GO!"

First leg in Ponyville pt 1:brain freezes

Spike stood in front of the nine teams,
"On your marks," they shuffled their hooves,
"Get set," they got into a running position,
"GO!"

All teams galloped towards their saddle bags, where their next clue was.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack made it to their bags first, ripped open the clue, and Applejack read...
"Make you're way to tha office in here out of all these halls, there is one of 'em with tha door to it, in there, y'all receive your next clue by mayor mare..."
"What are we waiting for?! Let's go!" Rainbow Dash said anxiously.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack are currently in first place

Soon after Spitfire and Soarin got to their bags.
"Alright," said Spitfire, "let's run"

Spitfire and Soarin are currently in 2nd place

Snips had made it there, but had to wait for the slow snails.
River dash and Vortex were able to grab their clue third, right before Sky and Pinkie pie got there.
"Mayor Mare will give you your next clue," river read, "C'mon! Let's go!"

River Dash and Vortex are currently in 3rd place

Sky Skipper and Pinkie Pie are currently in 4th place

Vinyl was about to grab the clue, when Octavia tripped over her, causing both of them to fall, letting the Cakes grab their clue first.
"Will give you your next clue..." Mrs. Cake read as Mr. Cake put the saddle bags on both of them, "let's go!"
Just as they ran off Vinyl and Octavia had gotten up and read the clue, they then ran off.

Mr. And Mrs. Cake are currently in 5th place

Vinyl Scratch are currently in 6th place

The crusaders were racing twilight sparkle, while Shining Armour and snips waited for their teammates.
Twilight was able to make it there first, followed by the crusaders.

Twilight Sparkle are currently in 7th place

Apple bloom and Babs Seed are currently in 8th place

"I know where the office is!" Twilight said while galloping to keep up with Shining Armour.
"You sure?"
"Yes, I've visited this place many times before, let's go!"

But the crusaders spotted them, "they know where they're going!" Babs seed shouted.
"Well what're we waiting for?! Let's follow them!" Apple bloom replied.

Snails had finally made it to the clue, they read, and then took off.

Snips and Snails are currently in last place

Twilight arrived at the office with Shining.

"Hello" mayor mare said, "I believe you want your clue?"
"Yes please" twilight replied.
"Here you go" the mayor handed them their clue, and they ripped it open as twilight read:"make your way to sugar cube corner, were spiced sugar will give you your next clue.
"Let's go!" Shining armour said, dashing out of the office, while the crusaders slipped in, "YAY! We get ta go to Sugar Cube Corner!" Shouted apple bloom, running out of the office with Babs.

Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armour are currently in first place

Apple Bloom and Babs seed are currently in 2nd place

Vinyl scratch had finally found the office, but then realized: "octi? Crap!" She turned around and started looking for her.

Rainbow Dash was constantly punching open doors, but none of them had the office. "UGH!"

Pinkie dashed along with Sky, they opened a door, and to their luck, they found the office.
"Yay! Let's go!"

Pinkie Pie and Sky Skipper are currently in 3rd place

Around that time, twilight and Shining had arrived at Sugar Cube Corner, followed by Apple Bloom and Babs.

"Hey!" Said a brown pony, "I'm spiced sugar, here's your next clue" he gave it to both teams.

Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armour and Apple Bloom and Babs Seed are currently tied for 1st place

"Roadblock..." Twilight read, "who doesn't get brain freezes?"

The next scene was spike sitting at a table in S.C.C, "a Roadblock is a task that only one team member may peform, in this one, one team member must order a milkshake, and drink it without stopping, if they stop and there's still some left they must get it refilled.
"Shining, I think that's you."
"Babs, I wanna do this one."
"Be my guest." Babs replied

Shining Armour and Apple bloom's first attempt

They both grabbed the straw and the showdown was on!

Meanwhile Octavia and vinyl scratch, Rainbow Dash and Applejack, and Sptfire and Soarin had all found the office together, and they all dashed off.

Octavia and Vinyl Scratch, Soarin and Spitfire, and Rainbow dash and Applejack are all currently tied for 4th place

At that time, apple bloom and shining armour were on their third attempt, and pinkie and Sky had arrived.
"Who doesn't get brain freeze-"
"MEEEE" pinkie shouted, Sky chuckled.
Unlike the other teams, it only took Pinkie one attempt, they got their next clue, and Sky read: "make your way to button mash' house to receive your next clue.
"WEE! Let's go!"

Pinkie Pie and Sky Skipper are currently in 1st place

Apple Bloom and Shining Armour's 5th attempt

Apple bloom had finally finished, while Shining armour got his head together.

River dash had finally found the office and called his partner.

River dash and Vortex are currently in 7th place

"Let's go," vortex said, "I don't wanna fall back any further."
"Yeah."

Snips and snails, along with the Cakes, found the office, they both ran off

Mr. And Mrs. Cake and Snips and Snails are tied for last place

Rainbow dash and Applejack burst in, followed by spitfire, soarin, Octavia, and Vinyl;Twilight facehoofed.

"I'll do this one" said Rainbow dash
"Vinyl, you better do this one" said octavia
"Soarin, you like candy, you take this one" Spitfire said.

While they were sipping their drinks, Apple Bloom and Babs (surprise) arrived at button mash's house.
"Hey!" Said button mash, "you're the first ones here!"
"I believe this clue is yours" said Button's mom.
"Thank ya kindly" apple bloom replied.
Babs seed read:"Detour, Modern, or Ancient?

The next scene had spike standing in between a hoof pong machine, and a Pony Entertainment System.
"A detour is a choice between two tasks, each with it's pros and cons, In this one, teams must choose between, modern, or ancient."

"In ancient, teams must play take turns playing hoof pong, one team member at a time, they must win, once the team member's wins add up to five, Button's mom will give them their next clue, they must take turns, and if a lot of teams are doing this, you'll have to wait longer, but it is really easy"

"In modern, teams must play fighting is magic on the P.E.S, they must win five times as a team,
It's a bit harder, but both team members are able to do it at the same time, once they have five wins, Button will give them their next clue"

"Ah say we do Ancient, we're way ahead anyway." Apple bloom said.
"Gotcha"
They went upstairs and played on the P.E.S.

Meanwhile, Rainbow dash had done it on her second attempt.

Rainbow dash and Applejack are currently in 3rd place

"Alright, let's go!" Shouted Rainbow Dash.

Just after, Shining Armour finally finished.

"Whew, sorry sis, that was close"
"It's okay, BBBFF!"
"Anyway, let's go!"

Twilight Sparkle and Shining armour are currently in 4th place

Finally, Snips and Snails and the Cakes made it to the sugar bowl,
"Snails, I got this one" snips said.
"Leave it to me honey!" Mrs. Cake said confidentially.

Meanwhile, at Button's,
Apple bloom wins: 1
Babs seed wins: 2

Pinkie and sky arrived, right behind them were both teams Rainbow dash and applejack, and Twilight and Shining.
"Let's do Modern" Sky said to Pinkie
"I think ancient is good for us" said twilight to shining
"Heh, modern for sure!" Rainbow said to no pony, no pony was gonna argue with this decision in her perspective.
"An who made you leader?!" Apple jack replied.
"Me, it's perfectly reasonable, I'm awesome, the awesomest is the leader."
Applejack growled but let it go, she didn't have time for this.

ancient detour:
Apple Bloom:2

Babs seed:2

Twilight:2

Shining:1

Modern detour:

Rainbow dash and apple jack:3

Sky and Pinkie:4

Meanwhile, on snip's 5th attempt, he completed it, allowing them to move on, as they moved out, vortex and river moved in
"DAMN IT LAST PLACE!" River shouted
"It's okay, I can do this roadblock easily"
"Okay then."

Meanwhile, Snips and snails had chose ancient as well.

"C'mon babs! Ah know ya can do it!"
Babs tried, but lost.

"Twi, you have three, I have one, if you do this one, we move on." Shining said encouraging her.
"Gotcha" twilight said starting the game, while that happened, Rainbow dash had defeated her opponent, and Button handed her the clue.

Rainbow Dash and Apple jack are currently in first place

"Make your way to the pit stop," Applejack read, "at twilight's library."

"I know where that is! Let's go!"
Applejack sighed, "don't we all?"

Meanwhile, Mrs. Cake had completed the milkshake race on the eleventh attempt.

Mr. And Mrs. Cake are currently in sixth place

"Let's go honey"

They ran off.

On the eighteenth attempt for Vinyl, and the seventh attempt for vortex, they both finished, and grabbed the next clue.

Vinyl Scratch and Octavia and Vortex and River Dash are currently tied for seventh place

Meanwhile, at the library, Applejack and Rainbow dash stepped on the mat.

"Rainbow Dash and Apple jack,"
"Yes?"
"You are team number one!"
"Yes!"
"And a have a surprise, by winning this leg, you win an express pass, which will let you skip any task, and you get another one, that you can give to another team.

"Yes!" They both shouted

Come back next time on the Amazing race equestria and see who gets eliminated!

first leg in ponyville pt 2: "game 'till you drop!"

Rainbow Dash and Applejack: 1st place

Soarin was having a bit of trouble at Sugar cube corner, he got to the very end, but ended up stopping.

Meanwhile:

ancient:

Apple bloom:2

Twilight:3

Babs:2

Shining:1

Snips:1

Snails:0

Modern:

Sky and pinkie:4

meanwhile, two very smart exes on their way to button Mash's house-lost

"River, wouldn't it be the other way?"

"Nah, I'm sure.this is right!"

"No, look at the map, button mash's house is here!"

"Oooh, let's go then,"

"We are so screwed."

But the Cakes had luck, they found the house, and chose ancient, but the musicians followed, and chose modern.

Vinyl scratch and Octavia and Mr. And Mrs. Cake are currently tied for sixth place.

Finally, Soarin finished the milkshake challenge, and had made it to the exact time the exes made it there,

"We're doing modern." Vortex said to the camera

"We decided modern" Soarin said.

Just then, a scream of delight came from the hoof-pong machine, Twilight had won for the fourth time, addi.g that up with shining with one, they had one and were heading to the pit stop.

Just then, sky and pinkie defeated their opponent, and they were off!

One of the teams arrived at the pit stop.

"Twilight and Shining, you are team number two!"
"Whew!"

Another team stepped on the mat just after.

"Pinkie and Sky, you.are team number three!"
"YAAAY" pinkie shouted while she kissing Sky on the cheek;sky blushed.

Apple bloom had finally won another one, which tallied up to five
"Yay! Let's go cuz!" Babs said to her cousin."

Babs and Apple bloom are currently in 4th place

As that happened, Vortex was getting worried.

"We're so screwed" she said.

"Oh c'mon, we just gotta game till we drop!" River assured her (kinda)

"Okay..."

Spitfire and soarin were able to deafeat their oppenent, and moved on.

Spitfire and Soarin are currently in 5th place

Meanwhile, the teams at the pit stop clopped their hooves, as the crusaders checked in,
"Apple bloom and Babs, you are team number four!"
"Yeah!" Apple Bloom shouted hugging her cousin.

Meanwhile Soarin had been reading the map wrong.
"Crap, we went a complete different way!"
"Itiot"

River dash had finished his opponent and they ran off followed by Vinyl and Octavia

River Dash and vortex are currently in 6th place

Vinyl and Octavia are currently in 7th

Meanwhile the last two teams in button's house:

ancient detour:
Snips:1

Mr. Cake:2

Snails:3

Mrs. Cake:2

Snips turn:lost

Mr. Cake's turn: lost

Snails' turn: win

They ran off.

Snips and Snails are Currently in 8th place

The next scene had four pegasi racing to the pit stop

Vortex got there, spit fire got there, and...river got there just before Soarin,

"Vortex and River you are team number five!"
They smiled at eachother,
"Hey, good job," said river.
"Thanks, you too."

"Soarin and Spitfire you're team number six"
"Heh, I knew we wouldn't get elimanated" said Soarin.

"Octavia brushed dirt off her mane as she and her partner made it to the pit stop."

"Octavia and Vinyl..."

"Yes?" Octavia asked.

"You are team number seven!"

"YES" Vinyl shouted kissing her marefriend.

The Cakes finally finished their task and was running, catching up to snails.

One team made it to the pit stop,

"Carrot and Cupcake, you are team Number eight."

"Okay, good" Mr. Cake stated
"We'll take it" said Mrs. Cake

Sad music played as Snips and snails stepped on the mat.

"Snips and snails...you are the last team to arrive, and that means you've been elimanated from the race.

"Aw, that's to bad." Said snails.

"Yeah, it would have been better if we got farther" said snips

"Oh well"

They walked out of the library.

Next time on the amazing race equestria,
Teams travel to Canterlot,
Where Selling is harder than vortex expected.
"UGH! Its too much stress river, I can't do it!"
And Rainbow has a fight with applejack,
"You were so afraid to show your face, that you had ME get the tickets! Maybe if you'd face your fears for once, you could have done it and we could have won!"
"Excuse me? Firs' of all, Ah'm not afraid ta show mah face! Second of all, unlike you, I'm always facing mah fears!"

Stay tuned next time, on the Amazing race equestria.

Author's Note

Sorry for the grammar, I'm doing this on my phone with a tiny keyboard.

Second Leg in canterlot part 1: "a stupid face!"

As we move into the scene, spike is standing inside a library,

This is golden oak library, where almost any book you want you can find here, it is also.the first pit stop of The Amazing Race Equestria!

Teams checked in here for a twelve hour rest period where they can eat, sleep, and mingle with the other teams.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack who arrived here at 3:12 pm, will depart at 3:12 am.

Applejack opened the clue and read: "book a train to Canterlot, once there, go to fancy pant's boutique to recieve your next clue, you will have 30 bits for this leg of the race"
"29...30" rainbow counted.
"It all there Rainbow?"
"Yeah! Let's go!" Rainbow dash shouted as they galloped towards the train station, but once they got there, they noticed it was closed until 5:00
"UGH! We lost our lead!" Rainbow dash groaned.
"Don' worry, we can still avoid elimination by getting on the firs' train."
Rainbow dash growled.
"Besides, we have plen'y of time ta discuss who to give the the express pass."
"Ugh, didn't we already do that?"
"No, because YOU napped the whole time!"
"Ugh, because I was tired."
"I' doesn't matter, let's just decide."
"Fine."

While they were discussing, the next team departed.

Twilight sparkle and Shining Armour are 2nd to depart at 3:24

"YAY! WE'RE GOING TO CANTERLOT!" Twilight shouted, "WE'RE GOING TO CATERLOT WE'RE GOING TO-"
"Twilight!" Shining whispered, "Shh, you'll wake everypony up."
"Right, sorry, let's go." Just as they left another team departed.

Sky and Pinkie are 3rd to depart at 3:25

Sky and Pinkie were chasing after the siblings, trying to pass them.
But the siblings noticed and cut them off.
However, when they both arrived, the station was closed.
"Dang" Sky said to himself.

Apple Bloom and Babs Seed are 4th to depart at 3:36

"Alright, let's go!" Babs said to her cousin, as they dashed off.

River and vortex and Soarin and Spitfire both depart at 3:57

The teams eyed each other, and dashed off, both stooping to see the station is closed.
"Shoot."

Vinyl and Octavia are seventh to depart at 4:23

"Alright! Canterlot!"
They dashed off but were surprised to see all the teams, waiting.
"Hey, what's up?" Vinyl asked the teams.
"Waiting for this stupid station to open!" Rainbow said, she was still upset that all the teams had caught up, all but one.

The Cakes are last to depart at 4:48
"Come on honey! We need to get there now!" Mrs. Cake said to her husband.

"Only five minutes 'till they open up!" Rainbow Dash announced;they all cheered.

The cakes were now lost, in their own hometown!

The other seven teams were counting down like New Years.

"10!"
"9!"
"8!"
"7!"
"6!"
"5!"
"4!"
"3!"
"2!"
"1!"

They had opened up and they all rushed to buy their tickets.

Just then, the cakes had arrived.

"hey, I'm river, I need two tickets to the earliest train to canterlot, now!"
The train attendant handed two tickets, "fourteen bits please."
River paid the amount and ran, up to his ex, "I got em."
"Great."

River and Vortex are 1st on train 1

"Octi! I got the tickets! To the six thirty one!" Vinyl shouted.
"Really?!" That's great!"

Vinyl and Octavia are 2nd on train 1

"Look!" Rainbow dash shouted at the attendant, "I don't care about your computer! Just gimme tickets!"
"Okay okay, here you go!"

"Ya got tickets?" Applejack asked.
"Yep, the first ones, at 7:00"
"Gotcha"

Rainbow dash and applejack are 1st on train 2

Meanwhile, Twilight had got tickets for the first one

Twilight and Shining are 3rd on train 1

And so did Spitfire.

Soarin and Spifire are last on train 1

The crusaders had some trouble talking to the attendants due to shortness, so they came up,with an idea, apple bloom got on top of babs seed, it worked, but the first train tickets were all gone, so they got the 7:00 instead.

Apple Bloom and Babs are 2nd on train 2

The other teams got on that one too.

Sky and Pinkie & Mr. And Mrs. Cake are both on train 2

6:30 the first train departs

Rainbow Dash looked at the train leaving in confusion.
"But that doesn't make any sense..." She said, going to the attendant who gave her the tickets, "hey! You said these were the best tickets!"
"I did, but I wanted to check on the computer, but you didn't let me." The train attendant replied.
Rainbow Dash was steamed, almost turning into Rainbow Rapidash, but was interrupted by her teammate,
"Ya got the wrong tickets?!" Applejack shouted at her partner.
"Well it was his fault!" Rainbow dash replied pointing at the attendant.
"If ya had been a bit more patient, maybe we could've been on the firs' train!"
"Yeah well!..." Rainbow then couldn't win the argument, but her pride wasn't just going to leave like that. "You're a stupid face!"
"Ah'm sorry? What does mah face have ta do with this?" Applejack asked.
"You were so afraid to show your face, that you had ME get the tickets! Maybe if you'd face your fears for once, you could have done it and we could have won!"
"Excuse me? Firs' of all, Ah'm not afraid ta show mah face! Second of all, unlike you, I'm always facing mah fears!"
"Unlike me? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Ya always say you're fearless, but you're afraid of the truth! The truth ya think that will hurt ya reputation!"
"Well..." Rainbow dash was almost hurt, until it changed to anger, and soon enough, Rainbow punched Applejack in the face.
"A-ah!" Applejack stumbled, "ya wanna play that way eh?"
Applejack had retaliated with a kick, and then they dived onto eachother in a full rage.
Suddenly, the 7:00 train had arrived at the train station, just as the 6:30 train arrived at Canterlot, and they ran out...

See the team that gets eliminated in the next leg!

Second leg at Canterlot pt 2: alliances and apologies

"Aw crap!" Rainbow said, getting off of applejack, there had been a little bit of blood, but not so much, they ran to the train and got the best seats, the second best seats were taken by sky and pinkie, third best seats were given to the Cakes, and the worst seats to the crusaders, meanwhile the first train arrived in Canterlot, with teams jumping out one by one.
Luckily for the siblings, Twilight and Shining had lived in Canterlot, and knew exactly where to go, Vortex and river on the other hoof...well, let's just say they weren't having the best of luck, but the musicians were having the opposite, they had performed here before, and luckily knew where the boutique was, soarin and spitfire on the other hoof, had no idea, and soarin had the stupidity to follow the exes, thinking they knew where they were going.

The first team to get there were Twilight and Shining.
"Alright," twilight said, "first place."

Twilight and Shining are currently in 1st place

"Hey bold text, I just said that!" Twilight shouted

oh, sorry, this is my first time being bold text

"You're forgiven."

Fancy Pants walked up to them, "welcome to my boutique, here's your next clue."
"Thanks," twilight said opening the clue and read: "detour, buy or sell?"

The next scene had spike standing in front of the boutique,
"A Detour is choice between two tasks, in this detour, teams must choose between Buy and Sell,
In sell, teams must be cashiers and earn 750 bits in this extremely busy boutique, but one problem, there will be no calculators, there's no tax, and the clothes have tags that tell you the price, but when the customers buy multiple items, it's hard to add it up. Once teams complete this, Fancy Pants will hand them their next clue. this task is stressful and harder, but the smarter ponies will be able to complete this quickly, and for smarter ponies, it can be faster.

"In buy, teams must buy clothes with a budget of 150, and wear it for the rest of this leg, they may keep the clothes if they wish. They will show it to Fleur de Lis, if she approves of this, she will hand them their next clue, if she doesn't, they must try again, with 10 bits less each attempt. this is easy, and needs no work, but waiting in line could take a very long time."

"Hm, I say we do sell, it's the smarter choice." Twilight said.
"Yeah."

As they were adding up the price for their first customer, the exes noticed the musicians and figured they knew where they were going, otherwise meaning they followed them, the wonder bolts were close behind though, and as soon as they saw a rainbow flag (the Amazing Race Equestria route marker) in front of a building, they all dashed for it, all four pegasi were able to pass the musicians, it was a race between the pegasi again.

The wonderbolts had made it one second before the exes, but both ended up getting the clue at the same time anyway.

Vortex and River & Spitfire and Soarin are currently tied for 2nd place.

"Let's do sell" Vortex said.

"We should choose sell." Soarin said

As they started on their first customer, the musicians arrived, and chose buy.

Twilight and her brother had already served five customers, and were on their sixth.
"That would be....fourty two bits and sixty nine cents! Twilight said, One of the workers nodded, letting them know it was correct. They had earned exactly 654 bits so far.
Vortex and River on the other hand....
"UGH! It's too much stress River! I can't take it!"
"Do you wanna switch? We've already started."
"Uh, you know what? No. I've been through worse."
"You talking about-"
"Yeah"
"Hey I'm sorry okay?"
"Shut up, let's just do this."

The the next five minutes for them was pretty depressing, that was until they both heard the wonder bolts saying this:
"So soarin, we gonna beat river and that asshole?"
"Hell yeah."

Vortex looked at them, it turned into a glare, "That. Bitch."
They had themselves working two times faster, making them finish amazingly fast, right behind them finished twilight and Shining.
"Congratulations," Fancy said, "here's your next clue."
Vortex ripped open and read it, "
"Make your way to"
And twilight read,
"The Peformance Theatre to receive your next clue."

"Teams must now make their way on hoof to The Canterlot performance Theatre where the most amazing plays have ever been," spike said in a voice over, "for instance, last years hearts and hooves day play, which I was proud to be in, once they make it there, the stage manager will give them their next clue."

"Okay let's go."
As they dashed off, Octavia was helping Vinyl with buying clothes.
"Hmmm... How about this?" She asked holding up a dress with a mix of red and blue, it had a jazzy lightning strike pattern, but whatever it looked like, she loved it.
"OH CELESTIA YES!" She screamed.
Octavia giggled, she was pretty good at fashion choice and pleasing who she was choosing for.
"How much is it? I don't wanna ditch these boots and the hat."
"It's forty five bits and fifty cents, that totals your clothes to go to seventy bits and twenty eight cents, which leaves me with...$80.72!"
"Alright, let's pick you out some clothes"
"Nono, it's okay, I can hold out on my own."
"Oh no, I insist."
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN.

A little while later Vinyl had picked clothes that were ~~smashing~~ wait! Not smashing I mean ~~they were a hit~~ No! I mean they were well very good looking and would probably look good on octavia, they were about to find out.
She had bought a lovely brown dress with white squiggly lines, and they had a little red heart on the top of it, none the less it was good, she had also bought a top hat with a special silver lining at the top which Octavia loved to the bone, and last but not least, were these tights that were black, but had a perfectly straight line of blue on each leg, which Vinyl described as "mildly sexy",
Overall, she had done great picking out clothes.

When they finally got through the line and were at the till, surprisingly, they saw spitfire and soarin,
"Hey guys," said vinyl.
"Sup?" Soarin replied.
"Not much, buyin."
"I see, so guys, would you guys mind forming an alliance?"
"Uh no, what's the occasion?" Octavia asked.
"Two words...Vortex and River."
That's three words." Spitfire pointed out.
"Oh, I mean three words, vortex and river" Soarin corrected himself.
"That's understandable." Said octavia.
"They're just too crazy for my taste" Vinyl said.
SILENCE
"Vinyl," Octavia started, "how can I put this in a way you understand...you're crazy."
"Oh...well...Heh...anyway, we're game for an alliance against vortex and river"
"Alright! Let's do this!" Soarin shouted;Spitfire rolled her eyes.
"That's 150 bits on the dot please." Spitfire said, calculating the clothes that vinyl and octavia were buying.
"Just on our budget" said Octavia.
"Actually just on ours too, with this money, we exactly have seventy hundered and fifty bits, we did it! Good luck!" Said soarin.
"You too!" Replied Vinyl while they ran towards the changing room.

At that moment the train had finally arrived five minutes late, they all jumped out and started looking around.
"We lost so much time!" Rainbow dash said running. "We have to find the boutique first." So they ran, but found themselves lost immediately. "What?! How the hell did we get ourselves to Central plaza?!"
Applejack facehooved.

Octavia had finished changing, and was waiting on vinyl, when she got out she was wearing that jazzy red and blue dress, along with a yellow football cap (no not that crappy sport where the whole point of it Is to tackle the s**t out of ponies, the real, good, ball that you kick with a foot bitsopean football), with a green lightning strike on it, and green shoes, with a yellow lightning strike on it. she looked at Octavia and smiled, it was was everything she imagined it would be, awesome, beautiful, and pretty damn sexy, but she kept that to herself and said "you look great!"
Octavia blushed "thanks, you do too, let's go."
They walked up to Fleur, she seemed very impressed, she didn't say a word, she just nodded, and handed them their next clue, and made their way to the theatre.
Speaking of the theatre Twilight and shining and Vortex and River had arrived (Vortex and River were following them)
They got the next clue from the manager like the past clue had said, and they read:
"Intersected Roadblock?" Vortex read
"Who is a romantic performer?" Twilight finished.
Each team looked at their partner, then at the other team as Vortex stated
"Ooooh s**t"

The next scene had Spike standing on the stage
"A roadblock is a team that one team member may peform, each team member can only do five, and this being an intersected roadblock doesn't change anything, an intersected roadblock is a roadblock that two team members from two different teams must work together, there are three intersections in the race, two of them are not roadblocks, but anyway, to the point, in this one, both team members from different teams must peform a romantic duet in front of 1000 ponies, they may choose which one to do, there are four different plays (I ripped some off of some stuff, but I invented most of them), two lesbian, and two straight, but anyway, when they finish, the audience will vote on each actor saying if they did good, or bad, if both actors get over five hundered good votes, they both may move on, if only one gets over five hundered good votes, then only that one moves on, and the other one has to wait for a new partner, if there is only one pony is left, then they will automatically be set with an actual actor. if neither team members get over the required votes, they both have to retry, but if any actor finishes with over that, they must search through the audience to find one holding a rainbow flag, who will hand them their next clue."

Neither team said anything, they just stood there...in total shock.

See who gets elimated next part! For real this time.

Author's Note

I know, I know, hate on me all you want, but I was too excited, I had to post this, but anyway, I have a few questions, because I want to see your guys opinions on this, but you can choose if you want to answer them or not.
Q1.if you have a favourite team, what is it?
Q2.if you have a least favourite team, which one?
Q3.how did you feel when applejack and rainbow dash fought?
Q4.how do you feel about the roadblock?
Q5.how did you feel when the musicians and the wonderbolts formed an alliance?
Q6.would you like to see more dialogue? Or would you like me to focus all on the race?
Q7.who do you think should be elimanated? (Not who you want to be eliminated, who you think for like a reason) I know who I'm eliminating thus round, but for further, I might just take in a few comments for this, you can also tell me who you want to get eliminated, but that's basically Q2.
FQ.how do you like this chapter? Rate it on out of five moustaches!

Second leg in canterlot pt 3. "Not you again!"

Apple Bloom and Babs seed were by far the slowest team, and especially since they got out last, they weren't getting very far, on the other hoof they were lucky, they were the only team who didn't get lost, even though they had no idea where they were going they were just lucky.
"Bah, or sell?" Apple Bloom asked her cousin.
"Ah say we do buy, it's less work."
"Gotcha"

Apple Bloom and Babs Seed are currently in 5th place

As they started to pick clothes, Sky was having some problems with Pinkie.
"Pinkie...I think that map is up side down."
"Oh silly-willy-filly Sky!"
I'm not a-"
"The earth is ROUND there is no up and down!"
"Okay but it's just... There's also two holes in the map."
"Well DUH, if there wasn't I wouldn't be able to seeeee!"
"Pinkie, how bout you take some relief and I'll do the map reading."
"Really? You'd do that for me?"
"Of course, I guess I'm your coltfriend, it's what they do!"
Pinkie wiped a tear from her eye as she handed him the map, she then said this in A voice over:
"He really..." *sniff* "taught me what" *sniff sniff* "love could do that day...and I took some relief," she bawled out crying. "AND IT FELT GOO-OO-OD."
While sky was reading the map correctly, the Cakes had arrived there, and chose sell.

Mr. And Mrs. Cake are currently in 6th place.

"Great, this is just great!" Rainbow growled, they were still lost, "just to think we could be safe YOU lost the map!"
"It was an accident! You never let things go!"
"What? YOURE the one that never let's things go!" She started doing really bad impression of Applejack "Rainbow daawsh! You were napping Whigle iahr dihd ahall tha work BLABLABLA."
They did nothing at first, but instantly dived on to eachother and started fighting again.
Meanwhile Sky with his awesome navigating skills, found the boutique next
"Let's do buy, i think you needa nice pink and black dress, maybe pink and white."
"Okey dokey lokey!"

Sky and Pinkie are currently in 7th place

Meanwhile at the theatre, the four teams snapped back to reality,
"Uhhh I'll do this River...I guess"
"You sure? You just went through a painful and horrible breakup, you really want to get together with someone?" River said jokily
"Oh shut up" Vortex said half laughing "I'm gonna do this and you're gonna let me!"
"Okay, good luck, you can do this."
Suddenly Vortex kissed River on the lips.
"Thanks" she then walked away.
River smiled.
Vortex had walked up to the siblings, and decided to tease them a bit. "So who gets to be my colt/marefriend?"
Shining Armour and Twilight looked at eachother. "Uuuh a moment please" they ran to a privet place and started talking
"Crap!" Twilight shouted, "why did we choose me?! I'm not gay!"
"Twilight, it's a show, trust me, you're gonna do great."
"Well I dunno, from what I know of Vortex...she's a bit of a psycho."
"Then you're gonna have to deal with a psycho, you'll do just fine."
"Oh....Kay"

Meanwhile pinkie and sky had picked out clothes, so did the crusaders.
"Ugh! Skippy why does this take so loooong? This line is like forever! Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrp!"
"Don't worry pinks, we'll get there eventually."
"Ugh! But i don't want to get there eventually! I want it nooooooooooooooowww!"
"It's okay pinks it's okay."

Meanwhile on stage, Twilight and Vortex's play had started.
"Butterscotch??" What are you doing here?!" Twilight had said, dressed as a pony named cookie cream.
The scene was at a sidewalk, and butterscotch (vortex) was found by cookie, drinking,
"I...I don't know...it's just...I was hurt, claimed that everypony hated me...I can't seem to remember much but I'm depressed...and...I hurt all over..." Butterscotch said depressingly
Twilight hated to admit it, but for a psycho, vortex was really good at this, it was like she knew how to act...uh oh...she was so focused on vortex she forgot about the lines!
'GAH! What were they?! Uhh...shoot, I should try improvising...'
"Why?" Cookie said, a bit pressured.
Vortex looked at twilight confused, but realized it wouldn't intercept with her lines anyway
"BECAUSE EVERYPONY THINKS IM CRAZY! THEY ALL THINK IM JUST A PSYCHO THATS STUPID AND ITIOTIC! NO PONY LOVES ME! AND THATS THE TRUTH."
Twilight then then just realized why Vortex was so good at it, it was because she felt butterscotches pain, everyone thought they were both psychopaths...just then, the lines came back to her
"But I-"
Vortex's cue
"BUT YOU WHAT?! BUT YOU HATE ME TOO?! I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED, ITS EVERPONY ELSES FEELINGS AS WELL"
butterscotch then buried her face into her hooves and cried
"I was going to say I lo" she mumbled the rest
"Huh?"
"I said I was going to say I...I...I love you"
Butterscotch turned around and looked at Cookie Cream, surprised.
"What? Are you serious?"
"Yes, you bet I am serious! I love you and I want you to love me too!"
"I...don't know what to say"
"You don't need to say anything, all you need to know is that"
"Th-thank you" and with that Butterscotch kissed cookie cream, that was it, the play was over, as they bowed the likes were shown at the back of the crowd on a big board, and it was:
How many of the audience liked vortex:894
How many of the audience liked twilight:498
Twilight looked shocked at the scores, she was shocked that she had to repeat a play again.
But Vortex celebrated, River joined Vortex and they ran looking for the pony with the flag.
While they were doing that, Soarin and Octavia were doing the roadblock and doing a play called Poneo and Juliet as they finished the play, the scores looked like this:
Soarin:511
Octavia:987
The teams split up to look for the clue, but Soarin and Spitfire found it and shouted to Octavia and Vinyl where it was however the ex exes over heard it and made it before the musicians and followed the wonder bolts.
And when the wonder bolts got out of the crowd, they opened and read the clue:
"Make your way to the next pit stop..."

Teams must now make their way on foot to the next pit stop somewhere in Canterlot castle, one Catch, they don't know where.
The last team to check in here, may be eliminated

"Alright, let's go" Spitfire said to her partner.
As they ran off, Vortex and River got out of the crowd, read the clue, and ran off, followed by Vinyl and Octavia

Spitfire and Soarin are currently in 1st place

Vortex and River are currently in 2nd place

Vinyl and Octavia are currently in 3rd place

meanwhile the cakes finished and made their way to the theatre.
The cousins bought their clothes and started changing while sky just bought his followed by pinkie, after the changing, the first team to get to fleur was sky and Pinkie, fleur approved of it and handed them the clue, fleur also approved the crusaders who were right behind them.
Meanwhile Apple Jack and Rainbow's fighting literally brought them to the boutique, once they realized they were there, they ran in, and decided to do buy, knowing they wouldnt be able add very well. They really just grabbed a mish mash of everything but the kitchen sink, but they were too much in a rush.

Meanwhile the cakes, sky and pinkie, and the crusaders all made it there, the Cakes decided (hesitantly) that Mr. Cake do it and thand they work with Twilight, while sky and apple bloom worked together,
Mr. Cake And twilight went first and did poneo and Juliet and the scores were:
Twilight:511
Mr.Cake:357
Shining armour ran to her partner and they started looking And instantly found the made with the flag, they read the clue, they didn't even need to say anything, both knew very well where the Castle was.
Speaking of the castle the three teams arrived And all split up.

As that was happening, both sky and apple bloom had gotten just enough goood votes to move on, as they reunited with their partners, they found the pony with the flag, and ran off.

meanwhile applejack and rainbow dash had changed, and they looked awful, when they showed their clothes to fleur she said.."that's uh...that's ho-"
She was interrupted by a mystery pony "absolutely splendid!" The mystery pony said, apple jack and rainbow dash couldn't reconise her because she was in the shadows, but fleur obviously knew who it was because she said this "really? If you say so" she handed them the next clue, they couldn't say thank you they were too far behind so they read the clue and ran off.

Meanwhile it had happened, spitfire had arrived at the castle, followed by river and vortex, then soarin
"Not you again!" Vortex shouted
"Shut up, we're just as displeased to see you guys, and yet we don't go screaming it in others faces" spitfire replied.
"Why you...." Vortex was about to burst..
"Tex, calm down" river tried to stop her...to late
"YOU ARE THE MOST DISGRACEFUL PONY I HAVE EVER SEEN! YOU KNOW SOMETIMES YOU STUPID CANTERLOT PONIES REALLY GET ON MY NERVES!"
"Tex you ARE from-"
"SHUT UP RIVER!"
"Tex, did you realize that they left?"
"What?" Vortex looked around, only to see that no pony was there but guards staring at her and river. "OHHH....HA-HA run."
As they ran off the musicians arrived, they took a right, hoping it was the correct turn, and dashed off.

The crusaders were the only ones who really didn't know where the castle was, luckily, they followed twilight, shining, sky and pinkie, as they arrived, they split up, the first one to find the pit stop would come first.
The first two teams were racing... And they stepped on the mat at exactly the same time!
"Welcome to Canterlot Castle" princess celestia said.
"Spitfire and soarin, and vortex and river, you are tied for team number one!" Spike said to the two rivals.
"Yes!"
"Woohoo!"
"Good job soarin"
"Nothing we can't do river!"

"And all four of you have won a trip to Manehattan!"

"YEAAAAAAH"

As they checked in, five minutes later, another team stepped on the mat.

"Octavia and Vinyl, you are team number three!"

"Oh good" said octavia

Meanwhile twilight was looking for clues as to where it was, so she and her partner could get a lead
"Hmm...AHA! I GOT IT! I know where we go!"
"Really? How?!"
"See that guard? Vendor greyskull!"
"Oh I get it!"
"Yep!"
They then ran towards the door closest to greyskull, as they opened it, indeed, there, down the hall was the pit stop.
They stepped on the mat
"Twilight and shining, you are team number four!"
"Dang, we moved down." Said shining armour,
"It's okay, we weren't eliminated so..."

Meanwhile the athletes finally made it to the theatre, the cakes were waiting so they could do it with them,
Rainbow dash read the clue, and said "well screw that, I'm not doing it"
"Ah can't do it either, ah would fail righ' away."
"Well then what are we gonna d-" rainbow dash realized something "I got it."
"What is it?"
"This" Rainbow pulled the express pass out of her bag
"Ooooh okay, let's use it"
They gave the express to the manager, the manager told them that the clue was waiting in the audience.

The Cakes weren't too happy about this, but they had to roll with the punches, as they were assigned to an actress, Rainbow dash and Applejack pushed their way trying to find the mare with the flag.

Meanwhile the lucky crusaders had stepped on the pit stop, followed by sky and pinkie

"Apple Bloom and Babs seed, you are team number 5! And sky and pinkie, lucky for you that means you're team number 6! I want to talk to the cousins for a second, so girls, did you know that you were voted to be the first out?"

"Really? Who knew!" Babs said

"Yes, so I'm very surprised you have made it this far, how do you guys do it?"

"Well..." Apple bloom started, "ah guess seeing as we're small we gotta rely on the older ponies sometimes, but normally we're just lucky"

"I see...now sky and pinkie, a lot of people thought seeing as you have only been dating for a week that you guys would fight a lot, is that true?"

"Oh nononono nononononono! Me and skippy are getting along great! He even gave me some relief!" Pinkie said

"Okay, thank you, now go get some rest, and be ready to race in twelve hours, both of you good luck!"

Rainbow dash and applejack had found the mare with the flag and had just made it to the castle, they immediately started searching, meanwhile, the play had ended...and...mr. Cake got...567! He had done it!, they budged their way to the mare who had the flag, carrot cake had already seen her from stage, and ran off....

One pair stepped on the mat

"Rainbow dash and Applejack you are team number 7!"

"YES" rainbow dash shouted "WE DIDIT WE DIDI-"

"Hold on, I'm not finished yet," spike said,

"What? Aw..."

"Because you both fought twice, that goes against my pg rules, and it's a five minute penalty each fight, that adds up to ten minutes, when ten minutes is up, I can check you guys in"

"WHAT?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

Five minutes were left when the cakes arrived at the castle, they immediately searched for it

two minutes left...

one minute left..
The cakes were busting open doors trying to find one that had the hall way...

10 seconds left

They ran down the hall way

...............

One team stepped on the mat

"You two are team number seven....RAINBOW DASH AND APPLEJACK!"

"YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH" rainbow shouted then hoof-bumped applejack

"And unfortunently, that means Mr. And Mrs. Cake, you're the last team to arrive, and that means you've been eliminated..."

"That's too bad..." Said Mrs. Cake, but while it lasted it was fun.

"Yeah, we did our best, and if this is it, then I guess that's that...."

Next time on the Amazing race Equestria...
Teams travel to the crystal empire where the first yield is...and jousting, puzzle solving, and making and baking...
On the next episode!

Author's Note

Sorry for the huge wait, I worked pretty hard on this one

Third leg in Crystal Empire "Aaaaaand damn it we're done"

Previously on The Amazing Race Equestria...
Teams travelled to canterlot, where they faced an uncomfortable roadblock
"Uhh"
"Aaaww s**t"
Applejack had a slight struggle with with rainbow that almost cost them the race
Vortex and River had some trouble at the detour, but were able to over come it, they re-united if you know what I me- -ahem- I mean vortex and river got back together, and tied first with their rivals spitfire and soarin
Applejack and Rainbow Dash were both hanging by a thread the whole leg, but thanks to an express pass, they were able to just squeeze in 7th place, despite getting a penalty.
The cakes were getting along great, however, luck just didn't swing in their favour after the athletes used the express pass
They, were eliminated.

River & Vortex and Spitfire & Soarin are first to depart at 9:00 am

The two teams opened their clue

Vortex read
"Make Your way by Train"

Spitfire read
"To the Crystal"

River read
"Empire,"

Soarin read
"And don't forget to find the train station with the Rainbow route marker"

They all read
"Warning, YIELD AHEAD"

"No way we're getting that yield!" River shouted as they ran out of the Castle and headed south

Spifire and Soaring however, went north

Octavia and Vinyl are 3rd to depart at 9:05 am
As they read the clue, all they did was nod, and run off

twilight and Shining are 4th to depart at 9:12 am

Twilight knew exactly which train station to go to and ran that direction.

Meanwhile the first team to arrive at a train station was Vortex and River, but wait! No route marker...

"okay what the hell?!" Vortex shouted while looking for the flag

"DAMN IT WE WENT TO THE WRONG SATION!"

Babs Seed and Apple Bloom are 5th to depart at 9:23, Sky and Pinkie are 6th to depart at 9:24

they each read the clue and dashed off

the first team that arrived at the right train station was spitfire and soarin, they checked the trains, there were three trains each 15 minutes apart. with their alliance team vinyl and Octavia and got the first train

Spitfire and Soarin & Vinyl and Octavia are both on the first train

rainbow dash and applejack are last to depart at 9:31

"Huff....huff.....we....made.....it....." Twilight said in exhaustion, she had been beside her brother the whole t,ime, and she was now completely out of breath

"I'm impressed twily" her B.B.B.F.F said.
Twilight was about to thank him, until she was cut off by....

"Well well well!" Rainbow dash said to her friend and her friend's brother

"Oh hi dashie!"

"Don't call me dashie twi!"

"I didn't say that"

Behind them was a pink pony running up to them along with her coltfriend

"Hi pinkie" rainbow dash said

"HELLO!"

the three teams stood in silence until they realized that a reunion would come later, and racing was now and they ran to choose their train

"yep, that one, thanks!" twilight said happily!

"anything for a pretty mare like yourself..." the train attendant said

"bebebe ef ef! I got the ticket's!"
"awesome! how good?"
"well the first train was already full, so i got the best seats for the second train! he seemed very happy to give them to me"
"i see..."

meanwhile rainbow dash went to get the tickets, but was cut off by applejack
"maybe ah should get them this time"
"hmph"
apple jack got the second train, pinkie got the third
Rainbow Dash and Apple Jack are second on second train
pinkie pie and sky skipper are 1st on 3rd train
apple bloom again had the same trouble, so they got the tickets late
Babs Seed And Apple Bloom are 2nd on 3rd train

later, the exes (or whatever they are now) arrived
"let's check it out" vortex said, "please don't let us be last....."
five minutes later....
"we're in last"
"Aaaaaaaaand damn it, we're done"

Author's Note

it's done!
sorry this was so short, my first few weeks back y'know

Third Leg in The Crystal Empire PT. 2: "I told you!"

the first Train arrives at 9:45
the four ponies rushed out one by one, Spitfire found the clue
"Make your way to the crystal empire jousting station to receive your next clue'
the two teams ran, and because of the wonderbolt's speed, they arrived first, and read the clue (Spitfire and soarin are currently in 1st place)
"Roadblock: who is the best jouster?"

the next scene has spike riding a pony and holding a lance.
"a Roadblock is a task that only one team member can perform. in this roadblock, that team member must joust and beat three ponies without losing, if they lose, they must go all the way back to the first jouster! and if there are multiple ponies, they have to take turns every fight"

spitfire looked at the camera and said:
"soarin actually has experience jousting, so he's gonna take this one"

as soarin got the costume on the musicians arrived
Vinyl and Octavia are currently in 2nd place

"I'll do this one ta-" Vinyl was about to finish when she was cut off by her partner
"sorry Vinyl, but I'd like to do this one" she said with confidence.
"whatever you say, just don't get us in las-"
she was cut off with what she saw, and what the wonderbolts had missed: The Yield sign.
"you go ahead tavi, Imma yield a team" a devilish grin creeping upon her face.
"okay then"

while that was happening, soarin' was on his third opponent, he dashed toward him on the apposing side, his lance smashing into his foe, knocking him to the ground. that pony gave soarin the next clue, he read it out loud to his partner:
"make your way to the library, where the librarian will give you the next clue."
as they started to dash, soarin noticed the yield. wanting to kill himself for not noticing it, soarin realized who was on it and smirked.....

Vortex and River
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Octavia stood at her end, she was nervous, it was her first time jousting, after all. her lance attached to her armor, she dashed, her opponent did the same, as she reached the middle where she was supposed to hit her foe, but she missed, luckily, she dodged. As she reached her Opponent's end, she turned around, she was less nervous now, she dashed even faster, knocking her opponent to the ground with her lance.
"WHOOHOOOOO! THAT WAS AWESOME TAVI!!!!!!" she heard her partner shout, this gave her even more confidence for her next opponent.
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The second train arrives at 10:00
the siblings and athletes both hopped out, and even though twilight found the clue first, the athletes were too fast and dashed past them. "HA take that egghead!" rainbow dash shouted at her nerdy friend.
"why that little..." twilight began, but was interrupted by her brother
"C'mon twi, she's your friend, she was just joking"
"yeah you're right, sorry I got so Angry all of the sudden"
"It's okay, now let's run, wanna piggy back ride?"
"REALLY?!"
"yeah"
he didn't have to ask twice, she hopped right on his back. as he dashed, he went past the athletes; twilight stuck out her tongue at them.
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Octavia was doing great, she was on her last opponent. she shuffled her hoof, waiting for the right time and............RUN!
she ran as fast as she could, so fast she sent her foe flying. a few minutes late he trotted back to giver her the clue,
as she read it, she immediately returned to her fellow musician, and dashed off.
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Rainbow dash, apple jack, twilight sparkle on the back of her brother Shining Armour, all neck and neck and neck, they all arrived at the same time each grabbing the clue.
Twilight Sparkle and Shining armour & Applejack and Rainbow Dash are currently tied for 3rd place
The Siblings agreed on Shining, seeing as he has experience doing it, and the Athletes decided.......well....they decided to fight over it.
"I TOLD YOU! I BEAT FLUTTERSHY AT IT" Rainbow Dash shouted at the Cowmare
"No offence to fluttershy, but, that ain't a big achievement, she's not athletic at all!" Applejack said, in no way to say that fluttershy was bad.
"uh....guys?
"I BEAT OTHERS AS WELL!"
um.....guys?
"Yeah, that hadn' plays for thousands of years!"
"Guys...."
"YEAH WELL..."
"Guys?"
"GAH!"
"Oh....was I too loud?"
"That voice....." Rainbow Dash said, it was strangely familiar............
There was only a silhouette of a Pegasus...
"Please stop fighting, you'll lose the race, I don't want that to happen...."
All they could do was nod, as the silhouette disappeared...
"Okay, ah think you can go Rainbow Dash, ya have done it before anyway..."
"Y-yeah......" Rainbow couldn't stop thinking about what had just happened, mainly because it happened to them before, back in canterlot, just when they were about have to try the fitting again, a mysterious pony convinced fluer de lis that the outfit was good, even if wasn't...
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Shining Armour had already taken off to the library when Rainbow Dash got ready, she dashed toward her foe instantly knocking him down, Applejack knew she made the right choice....

After two more opponents, the Athletes made a run for it, while the other three teams all arrived there...
Sky & Pinkie, Vortex and River, and Babs and Apple bloom are tied for 5th place
"Ah'll do it" said apple bloom
"I'm up!" Sky said.
"I think I'll..." River was about to say he'll do it, but then Noticed the Yield sign....
"DAMN IT VORTEX I TOLD YOU!"

Author's Note

Another short one just to get back on track sorry again