It was a pleasant Sunday morning for Ponyville. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the trees were covered with leaves in the colors of shinning yellow, bright orange and deep red, for it was fall.

Rainbow Dash was up early, as usual, for an early morning exercise. The young pony probably extra spicy, for she was flying faster than a falcon who spotted his prey.

Up and down,

Right and left,

And finally...

"Erm, excuse me?"

"Ah!" Rainbow Dash lost her concentration as the stranger approached her by surprise, and crushed into the cloud she was planning to land smoothly on.

"Is this a bad time?" Asked the stranger, quite sarcastically.
Rainbow dizzily noticed it was a female voice.
She got up, rubbing her forehead, still quite unable to see well.

"Oh no, not at all. Do yourself a favor, and don't scare people like that. I could've died."

"Come off it, banging into a cloud barely gives you a scratch, trust me, I know. Any way, I'm new around, and I need a favor... Mind helping me?"

Rainbow Dash finally looked at her. The pegasai in front of her apparently (If she could see colors right again) had a smooth dusty orange coat and spikey manes in the shades of yellow and bits of pinkish orange here and there.
Her eyes were the color of the sun, and a burning fireball decorated her flank. She was carrying a bag full of notepads and books.

'Another egghead like Twilight then,' thought Rainbow Dash. 'I bet she's going to ask me where's the nearest library.' she snorted. 'Oh well, lets be nice.'

"Sure, what is it?" Asked Rainbow the pegasai.

"Well, It's actually two favors..."

"Shot it."

"The first one is, what does it feel like?"

"Err... What?"

"You know, to stand on solid ground? Is it sharp? Does it hurt?"

Rainbow Dash looked at her, 'This Mare had gone nuts!' She thought. The orange pony must have noticed this, for she hurried to explain herself.

"You see, I'm from Cloudsdale, and I never set a foot on earth before, so it just interests me how it is. Now that I come and think about it, in that stupid Advanced Flying Academy I barely lay a single hoof on a cloud."

"Oh. Well, dirty I'd say. watch out not to step in mud, if you even know what that means..."

"Shut up. I know what's mud... I think..."

"Hold on, did you say 'Advanced Flying Academy?' as in, the best flying academy?! You learn there? you?"

"Ha ha yea, don't I look like a AFA student?" Asked the pony, amused.

"No, it's just..." Stammered Rainbow Dash, "You know, you just didn't look... Well, cool enough, with all those notepads and books."

There was an awkward silence, and Rainbow started to think she might hurt the pegasai, when suddenly the pony began laughing.

"What's so funny?"

"We're so alike," She said, "I would've thought I was a egghead too, believe me. Jeez, I really hate walking around with those stuff, they're really heavy, you know. By the way, I don't think I had introduced myself. Never got the chance, I guess. I'm Firebeat." Firebeat pulled a hoof.

"Rainbow Dash." She said and shook the hoof.

"So," Rainbow started, "Why do you walk around with all this, then?"

"Oh," Said Firebeat happily, "you see, I got this school project, and we are supposed to check the influence of friction on 450 Mph racing flight, It's affect on the wings and so. Racing isn't all about strength and power, you know, its a lot and a lot of mathematics and physics. and when I say a lot I mean a lot. So now I'm here for two months in Ponyville."

"Wow,"Said Rainbow Dash,

"And there's me thinking you're going to ask me where's the library any minute."

"Actually, I do need the library," said Firebeat.
"But that's not my second favor."

"Than what is it?" Asked Rainbow Dash.
"Come on, don't leave me hanging!"

"Id like to have a fun race," Said Firebeat, finally landing on the road, after looking at the ground carefully for a while, and every time her hoofs were millimeters away from the ground, pulled them back up.

"What?" asked Rainbow Dash as she landed quickly next to Firebeat, who now picked a rock and examined it carefully.

"Me?"

"Yea. When I just got here I saw you flying, and I really felt like racing you. What's this?" she asked after putting down the rock and picking up a blade of grass.

"Grass. Racing me?"

"Hmm.. Pretty epic. Sure, you know. For fun. No prize or something. It'll be a help for my project."
she trotted forward happily, examining the fine Fall day.

"Nah, we have a lots of this everywhere. Well, okay then. where does it start and end?" Said Rainbow, catching up with her.

"How about from this tree to that one over there? You see it? Warming for me." She said.

"That's all? You got it. On the count of three." said Rainbow, as they both took position next to a tree in the shades of gold and red.

"One," Said Rainbow Dash.
Both ponies leaned forward.

"Two," Said Firebeat.
Both stretched their wings.

They looked at each other.

"Three!" They screamed together and took of a glint of orange and sky blue.

Rainbow Dash felt great. She was racing a AFA student, and she was wining. she looked back to check on her contestant, and VROOM! she past her so fast that it seemed that her tail was on fire.

'Focus Dash,' She told herself. 'After all, you are the pony who did the sonic rainboom, not her. You can do this!'
and fairly enough, she took speed and caught up with Firebeat.
The race was very tight. Rainbow Dash is leading no,

Firebeat,

no,

Rainbow,

no,

Firebeat,

Rainbow Dash,

Firebeat,

Rainbow,

Fire,

Dash'

Fire ----

"It's a tie." breathed Firebeat.

"Yea, I felt it." panted Rainbow Dash.

Both pegasais were sitting under the finishing-line tree, struggling for air. Race ended up in a tie, which even Rainbow Dash had to admit in.

And they sat there quietly for a while, looking at the view of the beautiful Ponyville Fall. The leaves of the trees were about to fall any minute, but they needed Ponyville's help. 'The running of the leaves should be happening any minute now,' thought Firebeat, 'It would be fun to attend. Running instead of flying could be interesting.'

Firebeat got up.

"I got to go to work, but thanks for all your help!"

"Where are you going?" Asked Rainbow, feeling sorry to lose her new twenty percent cooler friend.

"I still need to go to the library. You know, A quiet place to work in. If you'll want to talk or something, I'm staying in the Ponyvile inn."

"Sure, Have, erm," Rainbow choked a giggle, "fun at the library. Send a hi from me two Twilight. Purple alicorn, you can't miss her."

"Ha ha Sure. See you around." Laughed Firebeat as she turned away and started walking.

"Err Firebeat?"

"Yea?"

"Ponyville's That way."

"Oh. Right"

Rainbow Dash watched the carrot orange mare walk away.

'Boy,'
She thought to herself,
'this pony is surely a good laugh with.'

Author's Note

I wanted this chapter to have all mane six in it, but I decided to give every one or two ponies a chapter. hope you enjoyed!:)
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