The Melancholic Life Of Soarin'

Soarin' woke up sprawled out on his bed. He noticed that he was slightly sweating, he looked down and saw that he was still wearing his Wonderbolt uniform.

Soarin' got up and took off his suit and carried on with his normal morning routine. He threw his suit in the wash, made breakfast, and ate while watching the news.

He finished breakfast a little early so he decided to actually give a listen to the news. The mare on the screen was talking about the Wonderbolts, Soarin' was not surprised by this so he stopped listening and just thought to himself. 'Why do someponies get more attention then others?' The question the rattled around every famous pony head in Equestria.

Soarin' heard a ding, his suit was done washing, he slung it on and he was out of the door and off to the HQ.

Soarin' got to HQ and trotted in like he normally did. He was a lot happier than normal because he had something to look forward to after he was done training today. Or was he scared? He had no clue about how he was feeling but defiantly felt something about it.

He walked down the hallway and head voices in the locker room. They sound quite familiar to him, but it was still a little fuzzy as to who was talking to who. He poked his head around the corner and saw Rainbow getting changed while Spitfire talked to her about something that escaped his hearing.

"Oh! Look who it is Rainbow it's Soarin'."

Rainbow had just finished putting on her uniform. She trotted up to Soarin' and poked him a little bit "So are you ready for later?"

"I am. But the real question is, are you going to be ready?"

"What are you guys planning tonight?" Spitfire chimed in.

"Oh, me and Soarin' were just planing to get something to eat later on." Rainbow replied

"I didn't know you did that kind of stuff Soarin'."

"Welp, now you know." Soarin' said sheepishly

The two mares giggled a little at Soarin'. They continued on with there conversation and all was fine. But Spitfire noticed something out of the corner of her eye, it was the light bulb, it was flickering a bit. She continued with her conversation but she kept her eye on the light. Then as if she had predicted the future the light bulb went out. The conversation stopped as the three ponies stared at the light.

"Well shit.....Not it!" Spitfire shouted

"Not it!" Shouted both Soarin' and Rainbow at the same time.

Spitfire got a look on her face, it was like she was holding back a grin of some sort. "Welp it looks like both you are going to have to replace the bulb. Go on you two I need to train any way." With that Spitfire walked out of the locker room.

Rainbow and Soarin' just stared at each other, then Rainbow said "Might as well get this over with. Hey...um...where do keep your light bulbs in this joint?"

"Come on I will show you, follow me."

Soarin' lead Rainbow to where they kept the light bulbs. Now if any Wonderbolt turned right instead of left to go training they would come to the wrong hallway to go down, at the very end of this hall way was this supply closet where they kept things that might come in handy,and light bulbs were in this closet so it looks like they were going to go in it.

Rainbow and Soarin' were having a little conversation when they walked up to the door. "Welp this is where we keep our light bulbs." Soarin' opened the door with his wing. Rainbow Dash noticed this but didn't really say anything about it. The door swung inwards as it opened.

"This is the most dustiest room I have ever seen. This place has more dust in it than my attic." Rainbow Dash said with a little bit of a surprise.

"Well, we barley ever go in here so it's bound to get a little dusty. Now where are those light bulbs?"

They looked around the room for about 30 seconds. "Maybe turning on the light would help a little, you think?" Soarin' teased as he turned on the light. Rainbow chuckled as their vision went from pitch black to color filled.

"Oh there they are! They are up there on that shelf." Rainbow tried to open her wings so she could hover up there and just get them, but the closet was so small that she had barley had enough room to open her wings.

"Here let me try." Soarin' then reached out his wing and tried to get the bulbs but they were out of reach.

"Here give me a boost up there." Rainbow said

"Ok." Soarin' hesitated as she went to stand on his back. Rainbow got up on his back and tried to reach the bulbs. These lights bulbs were on the second shelf so Rainbow used the first shelf to support her weight with her right front hoof. Meanwhile Soarin' was holding her up, his spine almost giving away. Not only was his spine about to give but Rainbows tail in his face did not help at all.

Rainbow was still trying to reach the light bulbs, her tail still in Soarin's face. Rainbows tail was be breathed in and out of Soarin's nostrils. She was up there for what felt a eon and a half trying to get the bulbs. But then Soarin' felt a something in the back of his throat, he could not take it anymore, he sneezed causing dust to fly every where. When Soarin' sneezed that caused Rainbow to ejected into the air a little bit and on the way down she hit the first shelf and with her weight coming down on it caused it to break.

Rainbow and Soarin' got caught in a avalanche of boxes and dust. They heard glass break and wood snap in half. They were buried with boxes from head to tail.

"Rainbow! Are you alright?!"

"Yeah i'm fine. You?"

"I'm fine to."

When they finally came to their senses they looked around the room to see what was the damage. At least 60% of the boxes were knocked over and the shelf Rainbow had been leaning on was completely broken.

"Oh no." Soarin' said with shock in his voice

"What?!" Rainbow said worried that Soarin' hurt or something had broke but she looked at Soarin' and she found him looking at the door, it had been shut by the falling boxes.

"So what, just open the door."

"We can't."

"Why the hell not?!"

"Cause that door has always been locked from the inside."

"How do you know?!" Rainbow asked worried

"Because Fleetfoot did it one time and it took us all day to find her. It wasn't pretty."

"So you are telling me we are trapped in a room that is the size of a cardboard box, filled with even more boxes!" Rainbow finished her sentence by kicking the nearest box.

"Hey, hey, hey, there is no need to get mad. We can just chill for a while, you know just chat. Maybe we will learn a thing or two about each other." Soarin' was very clam for some reason, it was like he was use to being in a small room all day. Rainbow finally took time to compute that sentence and come to terms with it.

"So,tell me about yourself Rainbow." Soarin started the conversation trying to sound positive.

"Well, if you didn't already know i'm in the Wonderbolts."

Soarin' chuckled "No really, tell me about yourself."

"I don't know where to start really. I'm just a mare with a Rainbow mane that's addicted to speed. I don't know what more I should tell you. What about you Soarin'? What are you like."

Soarin' sat down and looked at the floor. "That's a good question. I'm just a average stallion who is fed up with the world that we live in. I have a love hate relation ship with my job and I live in a dump. I don't know what to call my life but it apparently it's one of the more important things to the media. Do you think that sums it up Rainbow?"

Rainbow was shocked to say the least, she moved a box and sat next to Soarin'. "Soarin'....I didn't know it was that personal to you."

"It's okay, you would have found out anyway, I mean we were going to go out of something to eat and the very same question would have came up. So I heard you were a Element of Harmony, hows that working for you?"

"It's hard sometimes, saving Equestria. It's different and I like saving ponies but at times at really do hate risking my life. But hey i'm the Element of Loyalty so i'm going to stick to my friends when it comes to that."

"I see." Silence came upon them like the first ripple in still water, just so suddenly.

As if they were reading each others thoughts they both asked at the same time "So do you have any family?" Both of their facial expressions said it all. Both of there faces had a look on that said 'Don't make think about it' More silence came upon them. It was not dead, nothing but still noise.

"Not it." Rainbow said with fake strength in her voice.

Soarin' smirked a little bit but he swallowed his tongue and spat out the truth. "Well to start off I have no brothers or sisters. I never knew my dad. My mom was possibly the nicest, loving, and caring pony I have ever met. One night she said she had to work late and she never came home. This all happened before I was in school. I had to go live with my aunt and I don't know how her and my mom were related, she was like a devil. I lived the rest of my school day there and as soon a I was able to I moved the hell out of there. What's your story?"

Rainbow did not really have a shocked face on but it more than a understanding face if anything. "My story...I don't know if I want to share mine. But I guess that it's only fair if I go. Well where do I start....now that I think about it my story is not that long, it's very simple, my parents went out to diner by themselves and the never came back.....I suppose that our stories are a little bit similar."

"Yeah. I suppose." Then Soarin' started putting pieces together in his head. His eyes shot open.

"Rainbow you mind if I ask you some questions?"

"Sure, I guess? Why?"

"If i'm right, you will see why. How old are you now?"

"Twenty four?" Rainbow answered with confusion

"How old were you when your parents died?"

"Four."

"How did they die?"

"I don't see what you are getting at here....they died in a train crash."

"On there way to or from they place they were going to?"

"From."

"What was the date and time they died?"

"They died September.....4th I think. I don't really know what the exact time but they were on the 9:30 train from Canterlot to Ponyville. Soarin' these questions are really strange."

Soarin' hung his head low, he let his mane hang over his eyes, he turned to Rainbow Dash "Did your parents go to Canterlot for that fancy dinner of theirs?"

".....Yes."

"Did your parents always fly from Cloudsdale to Ponyville because they knew they could not fly there?"

"Yes....h-how did you know that?"

"Because my mom did the same thing everyday when she went to work."

"Okay so why did you ask me all those other questions?"

"Here's why. I'm twenty four now, I was four when my mom died, she died on September 4th, my mom was on the 9:30 train from Canterlot to Ponyville so she would be on her way home...she died in a train crash. Witch can only mean one thing, my mom and your parents were on the same train when they died" His voice became weak as he finished.

Soain' looked up from his mane with tears in his to see that Rainbow was in tears her self. They just looked at each other this watery eyes. Rainbow leaned in forward and gave Soarin' a hug, Soarin' returned it with all he could. They remained like that for minutes.

After they broke the hug they sat next to each other, they just stared into each others eyes. Soarin' noticed that he was sitting on something, he turned around to see what it was. He picked it up with his wing, it was a box of light bulbs. He held it in the light so Rainbow could see, they both chuckled and they moved in closer to each other. Rainbow sniffed and sighed and she laid her head on Soarins shoulder.