Raining Fire

Chapters

Chapter 2: The Start of Something New
Chapter 3: Getting to Know Her
Chapter 4: A New Feeling
Chapter 5: A Brother's Intuition
Chapter 6: Club Reflex
Chapter 8: The Grand Galloping Gala - Part II
Chapter 9: Wake Up Call
Chapter 10: Manehatten, Here we Come!
Chapter 11: The Big Leagues
Chapter 12: Training Difficulties
Chapter 13: Another Night In
Chapter 14: Thinking...
Chapter 15: Another Night Out
Chapter 16: The Morning After
Chapter 17: Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
Chapter 18: A Date With a Rainbow
Chapter 19: Let The Rain Fall
Chapter 20: The Night Of Your Life
Chapter 21: Parental Control
Chapter 22: So Now What?
Chapter 24: Morning Training Shenanigans
Chapter 25: Afternoon Training
Chapter 26: Raining Fire
Chapter 27: The Aftermath
Chapter 28: Rainbow’s Promise
Chapter 29: The News
Chapter 30: A Waiting Game
Chapter 31: Time Bomb
Chapter 32: The Final Hurdle
Chapter 1: Offers and Secrets
Chapter 7: The Grand Galloping Gala - Part I
Chapter 23: Meet The Parents

Chapter 2: The Start of Something New

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 2: The Start of Something New

The dense autumn fog flooded its way through the Wonderbolts arena. Spitfire stood alone in the center of the arena and watched the skies for any signs of life. She looked over to the clock at the far side of the giant oval shaped building and watched as the minute hand worked its way up to a full hour.

After a few moments, a crack of sunlight broke out of the thick morning clouds, letting the world around it heat up as the fog began to clear. The yellow flier caught a flash of rainbow as a pegasus made its way towards the stadium.

Rainbow Dash landed hard onto the cloud surface of the arena. “I am so, so sorry I was late, Spitfire, I-”

The Wonderbolt captain cut her off with the wave of a dismissive hoof. “It's fine Dash, but first, come with me. There is somepony I need you to see,” she said, motioning with a hoof for the sky blue mare to follow. The pair made their way inside the arena where the Wonderbolt headquarters were located.

At the current time of morning, only a few ponies were actually present inside the building. The light yellow hue of the sun shone through the huge open windows that viewed the arena as the two fast flyers wandered through the giant hallways which occupied most of the vast building.

The smell of freshly cleaned floors and other items wafted throughout the building as Dash followed Spitfire until they came up to a cloud door with a golden plaque adorning it. The plate was engraved with the words ‘Silver Skies’.

Spitfire put a hoof up to the door and lightly tapped its surface before standing back and waiting anxiously. Soon, a voice, muffled by the cloud wall, spoke in a very formal yet groggy tone.

“Come in,” the voice spoke.

Spitfire pushed open the door to reveal a dark-blue stallion sitting behind a desk made out of some dark type of wood. It looked expensive, as did the tightly worn blazer that the stallion was proudly wearing. His curly silver locks hung below his nose, which he habitually blew away. Right now, the stallion looked like he was very focused on a certain task involving mountains of paperwork. Both Spitfire and Rainbow Dash headed into the room, taking the opportunity to take the two free seats in front of the desk.

The blue stallion took a moment to look up from his current work. Seeing the two mares currently sitting in his office, he dropped the quill he was holding and put his hooves together. “So, is this the mare you’ve been talking about, Spitfire?” he asked.

The yellow pony nodded. “Yes sir, this is Rainbow Dash. She’s the top flyer in the academy this year,” Spitfire spoke with a smile.

Silver Skies lowered his thinly cut reading glasses as he looked over the mare. He raised an eyebrow at her features. Rainbow blushed slightly from embarrassment; she wasn’t what you would call 'formal.' She was more just a rough runner and didn’t care for things like keeping her mane in check or anything like that. She much more prefered to go with the flow.

Silver Skies finished his quick inspection and went back to signing the papers on his desk. He spoke clearly, clearly no longer interested with the current topic. “She’ll do. Just get her in a suit and teach her your routine before the Gala, otherwise it's all your necks on the line. As well as mine,” he added in an undertone, motioning the two mares in the room to leave.

Spitfire got up, but just before she even had a chance to properly move her legs, the door to the office was opened to reveal a silver coated stallion with a slightly frizzled yellow mane. He was currently holding what seemed like a sore patch on his head with a hoof.

Spitfire turned a concerned look towards her sibling. “Are you alright, Blazing?” she asked, looking over the stallion.

Blazing Fire nodded. “Yeah… feel wonderful,” he said sarcastically before wincing slightly from the pain his head gave off.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “Where were you last night?” she asked, not remembering anything about her brother's whereabouts after he’d left to go help Soarin with something she could only vaguely remember. Suddenly, an equally wasted looking Soarin made his way into the office.

The sky blue stallion sighed. “After we helped Fleetfoot and Misty get home last night, we found this cool-looking bar down on Cloud Crescent Way and-”

“Okay, I think I get it. As long as the pair of you can fly, that's fine,” she said before trotting out of the room, motioning for Rainbow to follow. This just left Silver Skies and the two Wonderbolt stallions in the office.

Soarin spoke up from the awkward silence, “Sir, should we-”

“Just get out,” Silver Skies finished. The two stallions nodded and scrambled out of the room.

Dash liked the way her new uniform fitted. It didn’t feel any different from the way her trainee uniform hugged her hooves and face like a vacuum. Still, Dash loved the way it looked, and almost gave off a fangirl squeal when she saw herself in a mirror on her walk down towards the arena.

Rainbow trotted through the tunnel, heading out onto the vast cloud arena. She closed her eyes when the flash of the bright autumn sun caught her eye.

Once she regained her vision, Dash saw three ponies centered on the stage. One of them was pacing, trotting back and forth in front of two other ponies as they did a number of wing ups. The trotting pony counted in time to the other pegasi’s movements. Dash could see, once she got closer, that the two unfortunate souls on the ground just so happened to be Soarin and Blazing Fire, and it was Spitfire who shouted the numbers up to a limit that nopony currently knew.

Spitfire turned around and, seeing the cyan mare approaching, she looked back down to the two stallions. “Okay, I think that's enough for now,” she said.
The two stallions let all inhibitions go and fell flat onto the inviting surface below. Spitfire didn’t let them lay idle for long.

Soon, all three ponies stood at attention while Spitfire read out a list on her clipboard for the performance’s moves and other parts of the stunts. Dash was trying to hide her rising eagerness to just get up there and fly, but she knew better, and kept herself grounded for the time being.

After a few moments, Spitfire put down the clipboard and looked at the three ponies in front of her. “So, are we ready?” she asked with a slight grin.

Blazing Fire sighed. “Ready as I’ll ever be.”

Spitfire shook her head playfully before blowing on her whistle; a whistle that Dash had heard many times before at the academy.

The three pegasi flew up into the air to start the first part of the routine. Soarin and Blazing Fire flew in opposite directions, and Soarin headed upwards. Blazing Fire made his way to the other side of the arena, and Dash waited for Spitfire’s command.

The yellow mare on the ground smirked and nodded, giving Dash the signal. Rainbow nodded in return and shot off towards the other end of the stadium, starting off the first stage of the routine.

Rainbow Dash saw the frame of the silver coated stallion advancing towards her at great speed. She couldn’t see Soarin at the moment, and was too focused on impressing the mare watching on the ground below to care.

The last few seconds of time slowed down for Dash as she got within touching distance of the stallion. It looked as if they were heading for a mid air collision, but Dash started to roll, as did Blazing Fire. When they passed, they not only got clear of each other, but also created a small pocket of space just big enough for Soarin to pass through vertically from the air above the two ponies.

Dash breathed a sigh of relief when she felt time speed back up again. Spitfire’s whistle sounded from below her. Dash and the other two ponies turned around to see their captain adorning a proud smile across her face as they came down to her level.

Spitfire sighed happily. “Okay team, great job so far! Now get up there and give me twenty more!" she said, letting the ponies get up in the air before she blew her whistle. She watched them try the daring trick over and over.

After a while, the training began to slowly progress through the routine and, by the evening, Dash had learned nearly half the moves included in this year’s winter routine.

As the sun began to dip, Spitfire blew her whistle for the last time, letting everypony take a well deserved rest. Blazing Fire barely even managed to keep himself up as his lieutenant helped him towards the locker room.

Blazing Fire smirked. "Thanks for the help, lover boy."

Soarin smirked back. "No problem, honey bunch," he retorted in a humming voice, making the silver stallion look towards his lieutenant with disgust.

Blazing Fire shook his head. "That's a new low, even for you dude," he said as the pair went into the tunnel and out of earshot.

Dash smiled playfully at the two stallions before turning back to Spitfire, who was trotting up to her. Spitfire spoke up once she got close. "Hey, that was great work today, Dash," the Wonderbolt captain said happily.

Dash looked away, blushing slightly at the compliment from her idol. Spitfire found it hard to ask her next question in the awkward silence.
"So... I was wondering, you wanna go get a bite to eat later on? My treat," Spitfire said, trying her best to act casual about the offer.

Dash thought about the offer, and to Spitfire's immense relief, it didn't take long for the cyan mare to nod her head in approval. "Sure, why not? Where do you have in mind?" Rainbow asked curiously.

Spitfire gave a smirk in response. "You'll see," she hummed in a sing-song voice as she trotted off to the locker rooms with the cyan mare following closely behind her.

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Hello again, it's a me Alex...crap!

Anyway hope you all enjoyed the next chapter of the story! In this one I was kinda just setting up the routine of where and how Dash would train for the whole show thing so yeah and some more conflict between Soarin and Blaze but not as much today just sorta turning it Down a little.

Anyways here's a little update for ya

1: Dash is now a Wonderbolt and is Training for the shows in Canterlot.
2: Spitfire has gathered up enough courage to ask Rainbow if she'd like to hang out that evening. (More in the next chap)
3: Yes there shall be more in depth stuff about the flying routines probably more during the shows as I want to center the story on Dash and Spitfire.

~ Alex

I have to think of something to say... I got nothin'

~ Michael

Chapter 3: Getting to Know Her

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 3: Getting to Know Her

Spitfire felt a sense of warmth and excitement as she trotted down a pathway in the main city streets of Cloudsdale. Celestia’s sun had left sometime ago, bringing out Cloudsdale’s nightlife scene; the moon and neon lights from the bars and nightclubs being the only source of finding your way around the sky city.

Spitfire’s mind had been buzzing with thoughts since she had left the Wonderbolt stadium a few hours ago. Although she had developed some minor feelings for the cyan mare, she practically knew nothing about her in terms of personality. She hoped she would find all that out after tonight though and just hoped that nothing would go wrong.

Spitfire rounded a corner onto Cloudsdale’s ‘Gold Crescent lane’, a street that was built only for the highest paid ponies in Cloudsdale. Spitfire saw Rainbow Dash waiting outside a big restaurant in Cloudsdale’s upper class level of the city.

Spitfire smiled and spoke up when she got close to the sky blue mare. "Hey Dash! You're early," Spitfire said with a warm smile as she came up to the mare.

Dash blushed slightly from the praise. "Heh…I try my best!" she replied happily before raising an eyebrow at the golden mare. "So... Where we headed?" she asked curiously.

Spitfire motioned to the restaurant behind Rainbow which was a called 'Le Restaurant des Mondes', a name that Rainbow had seen printed on the back of many magazine covers and papers alike.

Dash stepped back a few paces, fumbling her hooves. “Spits, I’m not sure I have enough in my entire bank account to pay for this,” she said hesitantly.

Spitfire chuckled. “Don’t you remember that I said it was my treat,” she said with a wink.

Dash blushed slightly, but she still protested in a vain attempt to stop her newly found friend from blowing all her money in one night. “You don’t have to do this Spitfire, we can just go-”

Spitfire giggled slightly, cutting the rainbow mare off. “Oh come on Dash, what's the point of getting money if you're never going to spend it, right?” she replied as she pushed the huge glass door open, revealing the inside of the restaurant.

Dash followed the yellow mare into the eatery, the smell of freshly baked bread and confectioneries wafted through the air along with the smell of vanilla scented candles which lined the front desk of the bar.

A stallion graciously stood behind a lectern, he was wearing a black tailored blazer with a thin black tie and a monocle also hung down below his front pocket. The stallion smiled as the two mares approached.

“Bonjour madams, what can we do for you on this fine evening?” the stallion asked politely.

Spitfire smiled. “A table for two please,” she asked kindly.

The stallion nodded happily and took two menus from underneath the lectern and motioned for the two mares to follow him. “Any préférence where you would like to sit, madams?” he asked.

Spitfire looked around the empty tables in the restaurant, the place wasn’t packed, only some light chatter coming from the bar and some from the few occupied tables. Spitfire smiled and pointed over to a table nearest to the piano in the center of the restaurant.

The stallion smiled happily. “An excellent choice madam,” he said before making his way over to the table and seating the two mares.

Once Spitfire and Dash had sat down, the stallion handed them their menus and took out a small notebook from his pocket. “Would you like to order some drinks, madams?” he asked curiously.

Spitfire nodded. “Yes, I’ll have a Paradise cocktail please,” she asked. The stallion nodded and wrote down the item before turning to Dash.

The cyan mare put a hoof to the back of her neck hesitantly. “Um… could I just have a glass of water?” she asked.

The stallion nodded and bowed slightly before leaving the two mares on their own. Spitfire smiled and decided to start up a conversation, wanting to know more about the mare, “So Dash, what do you like doing... besides flying of course.”

Dash leaned back on her chair as she pondered. “I guess hanging out with my friends or going to Wonderbolt derbies.”

Spitfire smirked. “Who’s your favorite Wonderbolt?” she asked quizzically.

Rainbow was caught off guard with the captain's current question. She sat there as she pondered for a moment. “Um…”

Just then, and to Rainbow’s apparent relief, the waiter returned, holding both drinks on a tray. “Here are your drinks, madams,” the stallion said politely as he set both drinks down on the table before grabbing his notebook again.

Spitfire took that as the signal to order food and quickly looked down at the menu. “Um... I’ll take the house soup with extra vegetables,” she said happily. The stallion nodded and wrote down the item before again turning towards the multicoloured mare.

Dash looked down and tried to pick a certain dish from the list of words she had never even heard of before. Spitfire sensed Dash’s predicament and and motioned a hoof to one of the items on the menu.

Dash smiled. “I’ll have the hay fry and a tomato soup, please?” she said kindly.

The stallion trotted away as he wrote the rest of the items down on his notebook.

Spitfire looked back at Dash and took a sip of her drink before she spoke. “So tell me, why do you want to become a Wonderbolt?” she asked.

Dash smiled as the memories came back to her, “I was never really all that into it when I was small, but it was my dad that really got me into flying.”

Spitfire swirled the straw around her cocktail. “Really, what did your father do?” she asked.

Rainbow pondered for a moment. “He used to be a security guard for the Cloudsdale stadium, he always said he used to slack off and watch the shows from his post. He loved watching them, and when I was old enough, he took me to one and that’s when I got really hooked,” she said happily.

Spitfire smiled. “That’s a nice little story there Dash, what does your mother do?” she asked curiously.

Dash smirked. “My mother’s Firefly,” she said, expecting the Wonderbolt to know of her mother.

Spitfire had heard the name somewhere before, it rang some bells in her head, but she couldn’t seem to work out exactly where the name came from. “...and what does she do?” she asked hesitantly.

Dash muffled a giggle. “She’s the weather manager for Cloudsdale’s entire weather industry.”

Spitfire nearly choked on her cocktail. “W-what?!” she spluttered as Dash went into full blown laughter.

Spitfire then started to remember the deep pink mare. She could remember seeing her on her Wonderbolt graduation day with the mayor of Cloudsdale.

After Dash had calmed down, Spitfire spoke. “Yeah, I know Firefly, never knew she was your mother,” she said.

Dash rolled her eyes. “Really? Not the fact I have a lightning bolt for a cutie mark and my coat colour matches her mane?” she said before she giggled slightly as Spitfire joined in with her.

Dash was enjoying her time with the Wonderbolt captain. She seemed a lot more normal without the suit on and far better than she was at the academy. Dash decided to turn the conversation around as their food arrived and Spitfire started to dig in.

Rainbow smiled. “So, how did you become a Wonderbolt?” she asked casually as her excitement increased.

Spitfire grinned. “Took you long enough to ask that question,” she said, muffling a giggle as Dash’s face flushed.

Spitfire sighed. “Well you might not believe it, but I’m not from Cloudsdale,” the Wonderbolt said as Dash looked on in astonishment.

Spitfire grinned. “I’m actually from Canterlot originally, my mom and my brother are the only other pegasi in my family, my dad is a unicorn,” she said happily, taking another bite from her meal.

Dash stopped eating and pondered for a moment. “So if you were in Canterlot, did you ever go to flight school?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire nodded. “Yeah… eventually, me and Blazing Fire got into summer flight camp when we were still foals. I remember all the races we used to have. But when we passed the camp our races didn’t stop. We started racing across towns, then to cities...,” said with a smile, remembering all the vivid memories.

Spitfire continued. “Just out of luck, we happened to race past a cafe where Silver Wing, the Wonderbolt captain at the time, was having lunch. He asked us if we wanted to join up for the Wonderbolt academy, and that's when me and Blazing Fire met Soarin,” she explained, smiling at the now distant memories.

Dash smirked. “What was Soarin like when you first met him?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire looked both ways before leaning in and whispering, “You’ll never guess, but Soarin is actually Swedish.”

Dash’s eyes widened before she let out an eruption of giggles. Spitfire grinned as she leaned back on the chair and continued her tale, “Yeah, his mother was from a Swedish acrobatics team, but when they came over to Cloudsdale when Soarin was still a foal, his mother just didn’t want to leave. It was soon after that he saw his first Wonderbolt performance and just got hooked.”

Dash couldn’t stop laughing at this point. She had never expected there would be so many stories that she hadn’t been told before. She was enjoying her time with Spitfire so far and the two traded off between stories as their conversations went long into the night.

Dash giggled into her drink as Spitfire finished telling a story about how Blazing Fire had reacted to the movie ‘Zombie Pony’. Spitfire sighed happily. “Well I think it's time we headed home, shall we?” she asked.

Rainbow nodded. “Yeah, it was nice of you to do this Spitfire,” she said as the yellow mare retrieved the bill from the waiter she had just called over.

Spitfire smiled. “Thanks Dash, it was nice having someone to talk to,” she said happily as she looked at the bill before getting a checkbook out of her saddlebags.

Dash peared over the small piece of paper and her eyes nearly bugged out of her sockets at the total amount of bits for their night out.

Spitfire put the checkbook on the table and looked at Dash’s expression before raising an eyebrow. “You okay Dash?” she asked, concerned.

Dash shook her head. “Spitfire, this is too much! Look, I can pay for my half,” she pleaded.

Spitfire shook her head. “No Dash, it's fine, trust me,” she said, filling out a piece of paper on her checkbook as she made glances between it and the bill before she put it on her empty plate before getting up and out of the chair. Dash followed the mare out of the restaurant and onto the street outside.

Rainbow looked over at the yellow mare. “Thanks Spits, you didn’t have to do that,” she said kindly.

Spitfire turned around to face the cyan mare. “It’s cool Dash, I enjoyed spending time with you. It was… nice,” she said with a genuine smile.

Dash returned the smile as Spitfire hugged her tightly. “Thanks for coming out tonight, Dash,” she said, hugging the mare.

Dash felt her heart rate rise slightly at the contact with her hero. She kept smiling as she returned the hug, not caring about the tinge of pink growing on her cheeks.

Spitfire sighed happily as she released the hug, turning to walk back down the street. “Are you staying somewhere tonight ?, Silver Wing should have you in a hotel by tomorrow,” she said.

Dash looked up to the sky and then back at her idol. “I’m not sure,it’s a bit too long to fly back to Ponyville, I guess I’ll just drop in on my parents,” she said, pondering on the thought a little.

Spitfire waved a dismissive hoof. “You can stay with me, it's only a short walk,” she said as she began trotting towards the end of the street.

Dash was shocked at this. “Spitfire, I-I can’t! You've already helped me out too much today,” she protested.

Spitfire smiled. “It’s nothing at all Dash. Besides, I can’t have my protégé flyer sleeping on a foal size bed for the next month,” she said with a light giggle.

Dash rolled her eyes playfully as she sighed in defeat. “Okay, fine… just so long as it's not any trouble,” she said as she trotted up beside the Wonderbolt captain.

Spitfire giggled. “It’s no problem Dash, jeez stop worrying so much,” she said, giving the cyan mare's face a playful flick of her tail as they walked down the street towards the home.

Spitfire and Dash turned left around a corner onto a street named ‘Crossfire Lane’. They then walked down the street until they came up to a decently sized home in the middle of the street. Spitfire stopped at the steps to the home on the street and took a set of keys from her saddlebags. When the pair got to the door though, Spitfire noticed the house’s lights were on, shining dimly through the closed curtains.

Spitfire put the keys back in her saddlebags before pushing open the door to reveal the the hallway to her home. The sounds of laughter could be heard coming from the room to the left of the hallway. Spitfire trotted down the corridor and looked into the home’s living room to see Blazing Fire sitting on the couch next to a pale cyan mare who had a white bandage wrapped firmly around her left wing.

Spitfire narrowed her eyes towards her brother. “Blazing Fire, Fleetfoot, what the hay are you two doing in my house?” she asked, confused.

The stallion turned to his sister, his face clearly held the tired features from the day’s performance workout earlier. “I went over to Fleetfoot’s for the day, then we went out for something to eat. We were gonna go back to my place, but your house is so much closer to the bar,” he said, whining a bit towards the end like a two year old foal not getting his daily nap time.

Spitfire resisted the current urge to facehoof at this point. But instead she just gave out a long sigh before turning to Dash, who was still standing in the corridor, and motioned for her to come in.

Rainbow trotted up to the fiery mare and looked into the living area. Fleetfoot gasped when she saw the cyan mare and jumped up to greet her. “Hey, you're Rainbow Dash, right? Now where do I remember you from?” she said, putting a hoof to her chin as she tried to remember.

Blazing Fire chuckled and shook his head playfully. “You mean from the fact that she saved your flank at the Coliseum two years ago?” he asked sarcastically.

Fleetfoot smiled and nodded. “Yeah, that’s where I’ve seen you before, thanks for that by the way,” she said with a smile before trotting towards the entrance of the home. Blazing Fire soon followed as he made his way past his sister's glare before trotting out of the home with the mare.

Spitfire sighed. “Brothers,” she said, shaking her head in exasperation.

Spitfire trotted up the stairs to the room and showed Dash to her bedroom for the night. “Here we are Dash, a bed fit for a Wonderbolt,” she said whilst opening the door, revealing a double cloud bed in a decently sized room.

The walls and items around the room where plain, but then again, it was only a guest room and it was certainly a lot better than her own room at her parent's house.

Dash smiled warmly. “Thanks Spits… for everything today,” she said, her cheeks turning a shade of crimson as she thanked the golden mare.

Spitfire smiled happily. “No problem Dash. I’m glad you enjoyed it too, so maybe we can do it again sometime?” she said happily. Dash smiled back and gave a confident nod.

Spitfire smirked and left the room, trotting off down the hallway towards her own room, leaving Dash to her own thoughts. For the cyan mare, today was something out of her favorite dream, but today, she finally lived it. She also loved the time she was getting to spend with Spitfire, she liked her style, her funny attitude, and her love of the same thrills as herself.

It was then that Dash’s mind began to wander slightly, she thought of what would happen after the tour was done and if Spitfire would maybe even consider doing more things with her. She smiled at that thought and made a mental note to ask the mare at a later date.

Sighing happily, the cyan mare laid down onto the fluffy surface of the cloud bed, and felt her eyes begin to close as she let her mind drift into dreamland.

Meanwhile, Spitfire was also in deep thought about the day's current events. She had enjoyed finally being able to spend time around the mare she had been admiring for so long. She finally felt like she could just be herself for once, rather than being captain Spitfire or sister Spitfire. She felt like she could act the way she wanted to act around Dash without having to make any decisions or always having to be on guard.

Spitfire sighed happily as she got into her bed, she knew that she would have to reveal her secrets to Dash one day, but she passed it off for now, enjoying the feeling of being herself again and becoming friends with the one she loved.
Though, one day, she hoped she could be more than just a friend...

To be continued...

Author's Note

Okay so this is the start of the sort of Spitfire x Dash relationship I've got going on here right now, hope you all did enjoy it

And for those of you just tuning in cause you just wanted to head straight into the relationship yes I am under your bed right now.

Anyhow I really liked doing this chapter even though it did take me ages to do, but anyways onto the little summary thing I've got going here

1: Spitfire has become good friends with the one she loves, though she hopes she can reveal her true feelings soon enough
2: Dash is also happy she has become friends with her idol and hero and hopes that she can make the connection stronger as she spends more time with her.
3: Come on I had to add more characters and plus who doesn't love an annoying brother?

~ Alex

What the heck did I do now!

Alex: I wasn't talking about you...now get back to editing!

Okay! You could have just said please...

~ Michael

Chapter 4: A New Feeling

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 4: A New Feeling

The next few days in Cloudsdale rolled around quickly and over the course of the time Rainbow had been attending all the Wonderbolt sessions at the arena.

Dash now had the full routine learned but was still under heavy pressure to get it perfected within a few weeks.

The afternoon sun shone brightly through the Wonderbolt headquarters as Rainbow was currently relaxing in the lounge after an afternoon training session with the ‘Bolts. The smell of the lunch hall made it's way past the mare's muzzle making her lips water slightly, but she paid no attention to this. She had been in deep thought about a current problem when a voice aroused her.

“That was another great session today Dash, I’m impressed,” Spitfire said with a smirk as she sat down next to the cyan mare.

Dash smiled happily at her captain. “Thanks Spitfire, it means a lot,” she replied with a slight blush.

Spitfire grinned and brushed a hoof over Dash’s cheek, causing the mare to blush brighter, bringing her to a giggle. “No problem rookie, but I’m really glad we have you on the team,” she said genuinely.

Dash kept smiling as her reddened cheeks started to fade, but she was glad that Spitfire was happy with her effort so far and made a mental note to keep up the hard work.

Spitfire looked over at the clock on the nearby wall and got up. “Well, I need to go check on the others. I’ll see you later Dash,” she said with a wink before trotting off.

Dash sighed in relief as she watched the yellow mare leave; she was happy that Spitfire didn’t know the true reason why she’d been having serious blushing problems whenever she was around.

It was then that Dash started to go back into her deep thoughts. She’d never had any problems with receiving compliments before, in fact, she very much liked them. When it came to Spitfire though, she kept feeling this weird sensation which made her seem to blush, she hated doing it, but she couldn’t seem to make the feeling stop.

Dash sighed heavily, maybe she was coming down with something, but she took that as a bit of a long shot. Then Dash’s mind started to wander into another realm, another part of her mind that she never usually seem to enter… could she be developing feelings for Spitfire?

Dash shook her head, she couldn’t be crushing on Spitfire, could she?

Rainbow then started to feel the blush coming back as the thought went through her head. Her eyes started to widen as she came to terms with the new idea. Still her mind rejected the idea, she couldn’t… could she?

“Hey Dash,” Fleetfoot said as she sat down next to the mare.

Dash jumped at the sound of another pony’s voice and quickly snapped her head towards the light cyan mare who had a large grin on her face. “Fleetfoot, since when did you get here?” she asked, slightly shocked.

Fleetfoot shrugged. “I dunno, got bored and went for a walk, and then I see you here with a really glum look on your face,” she replied, turning a concerned look at the mare in front of her.

Dash looked away from the mare slightly. “It’s not that. I was just thinking…” Dash said, rubbing the back of her neck hesitantly.

Fleetfoot leaned closer to Dash slightly. “What were you thinking?” she asked curiously.

Dash sighed. “It’s nothing Fleet, I just kinda have a few… things, on my mind,” she said, putting a hoof to her head.

Fleetfoot put a wing around Dash comfortingly as she spoke. “Well, what things? I can't help if you don’t tell me.”

Dash looked back up at the mare and quirked an eyebrow. “Why do you want to know?” she asked.

Fleetfoot gave a warm smile in return before speaking. “We’re teammates, and as my duty, I’m obliged to look out for you,” she said, nudging the mare slightly.

Dash giggled slightly at that. “Okay, fine,” she said, grinning at the mare.

Dash sighed. “Well, I’ve been getting these weird feelings lately, and I can't seem to work out what's wrong. It’s just bugging me,” she said as Fleetfoot listened closely.

The veteran Wonderbolt nodded. “Okay… when do you get these feelings?” she asked curiously.

Dash felt her cheeks start to burn as she spoke. “It’s when I’m around a... certain pony,” she responded, trying her best to keep her deepest thoughts locked away from her friend.

Fleetfoot smirked slightly at this. “Okay… I think I have something,” she said.

Rainbow looked up at the mare in astonishment. “You do?” she replied.

Fleetfoot nodded. “Yep, you have a severe case of love…” she said, hanging on the last word of the sentence for a while.

Dash held a face like she’d just been hit by a flying object. “I’m what?” she asked again, hoping she’d misheard the mare.

Fleetfoot giggled as she punched the mare playfully on the shoulder. “I said you are in love Miss Dash,” she repeated, trying to act as sappy as possible towards she cyan mare.

Dash shook her head in disbelief as she got up from her current seating position. “Woah, I’m not...I-I can’t,” she said, trying to protest.

Fleetfoot smiled. “Well, you can keep denying it Dash, or you can go to whatever pony it is you love and give ‘em a big smooch,” she said, making kissing noises as she trotted away, making Dash cringe.

When Rainbow heard the sounds of hoofsteps die away, she let out a sigh as she thought long and hard about her new found information. She just couldn’t even comprehend what she was hearing, it was as if she was in a dream world. Sure, Dash had liked mares in the past, but she knew the chances of being in a relationship with somepony like Spitfire were next to none.

Then that feeling came back when she thought more about the golden mare, her fiery mane and those gorgeous eyes…

“No,” Rainbow said out loud as she stomped a hoof onto the cloud floor, only making her angrier because it didn’t give off the loud noise she was intending to hear. She sighed, shaking her head as she tried to deny the feelings her heart was pleading for her to accept.

Rainbow then realized something, she knew these feelings would soon go away and she also knew that even bringing up a conversation about it with the golden mare would probably get her off the team. She therefore decided to push everything out of the way for the time being. She had a job and a dream to fulfill, and nothing would get in the way of that. However, a part of her knew she wouldn’t be able to keep it in forever…

To be continued…

Author's Note

Well bronies this is the shortest Chapter in this entire fic so don't be alarmed the chaps will not get so low that it becoms 300 words a chap otherwise I'd be pretty bored most of the day.

So in this chapter it's pretty much all about our rainbow maned mare, we decided in this chapter to add Dash's feelings so you guys could have an idea on what she thought about this whole thing.

So a quick summary-

1: Dash is denying her feelings for Spitfire and is now more deturmined to prove her worth as a Wonderbolt
2: Yes surprisingly Dash has liked mares
3: Spitfire is happy that Dash is working well on the team

~ Alex

You are locked in a room, the walls are completely blank except for two doors; one is blue, and the other is red.

Behind one door is freedom, and behind the other is death.

You have to choose one door, which door do you chose?

~ Michael

Chapter 5: A Brother's Intuition

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 5: A Brother's Intuition

It had now been a full week since Rainbow Dash had been awarded the offer of a lifetime. Since then, Rainbow and the other active Wonderbolts had been improving their performances for the show in Canterlot now only two weeks away. Over the course of the past week, Dash had been training her hardest, outperforming most of the other Wonderbolts in the squadron.

Dash had still been in contact with her friends in Ponyville, she’d been sending letters back and forth between the small village. She did it mostly for Pinkie Pie though, as she didn't want a repeat of last year's academy troubles. Despite all this though, Dash had yet to spend more time with Spitfire. She had now been assigned a hotel in Cloudsdale and hadn’t spent any time out of training with the golden mare. She was quite disappointed she hadn't, but she was looking forward to tonight, for she had already scheduled to hang out with her idol again after today’s training session.

It was now mid afternoon in Cloudsdale. The sun’s beams cascaded through the open windows of the Wonderbolt lounge as the team members took a break from working out for the better part of the morning.

As the rest of the Wonderbolt members relaxed and did whatever they wanted to do, Soarin and Spitfire were currently in her office working on a few last minute changes for the Gala’s performance.

Spitfire checked over the papers again as she spoke up. “How about we do a low flying hammerhead stall?” she asked quizzically, looking up at her lieutenant.

Soarin eyed his captain with a look of amusement. “Do you want to take the Princess’s head off?” he said, muffling light chuckles.

Spitfire mumbled and shook her head before going back to scanning the papers again. Soarin, though, decided to break the silence. “So… heard you and Dash are going out again tonight,” he said with a smile, trying to keep a happy mood.

Spitfire looked up at Soarin with confusion. “How did you know abo-” She then groaned, rolling her eyes in annoyance. “Blazing Fire.”

Soarin tried to hold his friendly smile as he continued. “So... I was thinking, do youl want to come out tonight to that new club in town? I hear it's pretty good.” he offered with a hint of hope in his voice.

Spitfire pondered on the thought for a moment. “Seems good, where do you want to meet?” she asked.

Soarin thought for a moment before responding. “How about we meet in Cloudsdale’s central park?” he said.

Spitfire nodded. “Sounds good to me,” she said with a smile.

Soarin returned the smile. “Great, so have you told Dash yet?” he said with amusement growing in his features.

Spitfire looked up at her friend with a raised eyebrow. “What are you talking about Soarin?” she asked.

The stallion chuckled slightly. “Oh come on Spits, I know what you're up to,” he said happily.

Spitfire though was far from happy. “Soarin, I’m not up to anything with Rainbow Dash!” she said in slight anger.

“You're not up to anything with who now?” Blazing Fire said at the threshold of the door to Spitfire’s office.

Spitfire resisted the urge to to facehoof at this point as the stallion at the door erupted in laughter as he tried to find the words to express himself, “Wait... you and… Rainbow? Haha, you better hope dad doesn’t find out about this,” he said, trying his best to hold in the impending laughter.

Spitfire was now split between fury and blushing furiously with embarrassment as her sibling continued his rant. Blazing Fire smiled evilly and shouted down to the Wonderbolt lounge below, “Hey Rainbow Dash, Spitfire-”

Blazing Fire was cut off as a yellow hoof wrapped itself around his neck and pulled him away from the door before slamming it shut. He turned round to see Spitfire with one of her captain glares. Blazing Fire felt himself shrink under his sister’s stare as the golden mare towered over him.

Spitfire spoke with a quiet, angry tone. “You will not breath a word to anypony about this,” she said, her voice like venom as she poked her brother in the chest. Blazing Fire gave a desperate nod, feeling somewhat relieved when Spitfire trotted away from the stallion.

Just then, the door to the office opened, catching the attention of all the ponies currently in the room. They all turned to see the rainbow mare in question standing at the door with a questionable look on her face.

Rainbow smiled sheepishly at the ponies in the room, all looking at her with wide eyes. “Um… did somepony say my name?” she asked.

Spitfire looked cautiously between the two stallions in the room before speaking up. “Um… yeah, I wanted to ask you something in private," she said, looking between the two stallions in the room with a hard glare.

Soarin and Blazing Fire exchange looks between each other before quickly trotting out of the room, leaving the two mares in the small office. Rainbow smiled. “So whats up Spits?” Dash asked casually.

Spitfire grinned. “Well, there's gonna be some changes to tonight's plan,” she said happily.

Dash raised an eyebrow. “What kinds of changes?” she asked, her curiosity peaking.

Spitfire grinned. “There's a new club in town and Soarin asked if you and me wanted to come along with the rest of the team tonight, you in?” she asked with a hopeful tone.

Dash felt slightly disappointed that she wouldn’t be spending more one on one time with her idol, but she was happy with the opportunity to at least hang out with her and the rest of the team. Dash nodded. “Sure thing Spitfire, where should we meet?” she asked.

Spitfire smiled as she put the papers into the desk's drawer and stood up, collecting her whistle as she spoke, “It’ll be right after the last part of training today, just meet me outside the stadium, okay?”

Dash nodded happily as she followed the yellow pony out of the office. “Sure thing Spits, I can’t wait!” she said happily before leaving the captain in the hallway and trotting off towards the locker rooms.

Spitfire smiled warmly as she watched the cyan mare trot down the hallway, leaving her alone with her own thoughts.

Spitfire felt a slight tinge of panic; now that her brother knew about her feelings, it was only a matter of time until her clumsy sibling spilled the beans. Spitfire had a major choice on her hooves. On one hoof, she could hope and pray that nothing would come out, but on the other, that seemed very unlikely. All of this seemed to make Spitfire want to rush things, which was something she didn't want to do.

Spitfire groaned, rubbing a forehoof against her temple. She wasn’t going to rush anything. It wasn’t her style after all, but this had just thrown a wrench into the works and Spitfire hated when she was forced to do things, especially if it wasn't her area of expertise.

The Wonderbolt captain sighed as she pushed the thoughts out of her mind for now. She had more important things to deal with at the current time. Taking her whistle firmly in her hoof, she trotted out of the lounge and into the arena, keen to get the training over with so she could, once again, be with the cyan mare she secretly loved…

To be continued…

Author's Note

Sooo for this chapter I think I'll use the word kickstart considering its actually kickstarted this whole fic now with a lovely word I like to call intrest.

But anways from now the fic shall become more exciting and yes for those just wanting those two mares to kiss right now...just hold your patients for now I promise I'll make it worth your while.

So anyhoo lets do a little summary shall we?

1: Spitfire has now got to act fast if she wants to be the first to ask Dash out as a marefriend, but having never gone out with a pony (which I myself find shocking) she doens't want to take things too fast...will she do it in time?

2: yes as you probably got from the

dads going to kill you when he finds out

Spitfire's parents probably arn't going to approve of Spitfire's secret crush

3: I know there wasn't really much conflict in this chapter besides Spitfire nearly killing her sibling, but like all great sister and brother fights one just had to take it too far

~Alex

Everypony who choose the red door, is now dead.

Alex: SH#T!

~ Michael

Chapter 6: Club Reflex

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 6: Club Reflex

The sun over Cloudsdale was now beginning its usual descent into the horizon, bringing an orange hue to the famous sky city. Spitfire watched the sun descend until she heard hoofsteps from behind her. The golden mare turned around and smiled as she saw Rainbow Dash trotting towards her.

Spitfire spoke up when the cyan mare got close, "Hey Dash," she said happily.

The sky blue mare returned the smile. "Hey Spits, where are the others?" she asked quizzically, looking around the grounds of the building.

Spitfire sighed. "They'll be here soon," she said as the sound of voices came from behind the mares. Spitfire and Dash turned around to see three stallions emerge from the Wonderbolt headquarters.

Soarin smiled when he saw the two ponies waiting patiently at the front of the stadium. "Hey guys! Sorry we're a bit late, Blazing Fire here got his uniform stuck in the locker again and Rapid and I had to help him out," he said, rolling his eyes.

Blazing Fire glared over at the two stallions who simply smirked back at him mockingly. Spitfire spoke up amongst the awkward silence. “So guys, where do we go now?” she asked.

Blazing Fire looked up at his sister. “Well, the club is on that 'Starfall Street' in downtown,” he said, pointing a hoof in its general direction from the stadium.

Spitfire nodded and started trotting with Dash, wanting to get some distance from the three stallions so she could at least spend some time with the cyan mare.

As the ponies trotted past central park, the golden mare decided to start up a conversation. “So… have you enjoyed the week so far?” she asked, turning to look at the mare.

It didn’t take too long for Rainbow Dash to respond with a confident nod. “Yeah, it’s been awesome, I can’t even begin to describe it,” she said with utter joy.

Spitfire smiled. “Well, I’m glad Dash, it’s good to know your... settling in,” she said happily.

Rainbow returned the smile before speaking up, “So, you excited about this club?”

Spitfire pondered. “Well… in all seriousness, I haven’t been to a club since my first day of becoming a Wonderbolt,” the golden mare said, remembering the event clearly.

Dash grew excited by the thought of another tale from the Wonderbolt. “Really, what was your first day like?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire thought back on the moments as she spoke. “It was an amazing first day, I was feeling like I had just lived the biggest dream in my life and I didn’t want the day to end so quickly. So when the guys asked if I wanted to go to the club, I joined them. It was fun, but I haven’t been back to one till now, so I’m probably a bit rusty,” she said with a flick of her wing as her cheeks turned a slight shade of red.

Dash nodded. “Yeah, that’s kinda understandable.”

Spitfire smiled. “So do you go to clubs often then Dash?” she asked, interested more about the cyan mare’s lifestyle.

Dash nodded. “Heck yeah I do, down in Ponyville, we have the most awesome DJ in all of Equestria!” she replied.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “Really? Who's this DJ?” she asked curiously.

Dash smiled. “She calls herself DJ-PON-3, but her real names Vinyl Scratch, she’s a close friend of mine and the best DJ around,” she said knowingly.

Spitfire smirked. “I think I’ll go to this club some time.”

Dash smiled back. “You won't regret it,” she said as the pair rounded a corner onto Starfall Street, a place where all of Cloudsdale’s nightlife happened. Spitfire saw two ponies waiting outside the club where they were headed.

Spitfire smiled as she came up to the two mares. “Hey Fleetfoot, hey Misty, you guys ready for tonight?” she asked as the rest of the ponies came up behind her.

Fleetfoot nodded as Misty spoke, “Yeah, we can’t wait! Let's get this party started!” she said excitedly.

Spitfire let out a muffled laugh as all the ponies got in line at the club. The building was quite large and the sound of the heavy music could be heard from the walls surrounding the place. Spitfire looked up to the bright orange neon sign which read the words, ‘Club Reflex’.

Spitfire smirked to herself, she had heard worse names for a club. She was taken from her thoughts when a hoof lightly tapped her shoulder. The golden mare turned around to see Misty Skies with a confused look on her face.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “What’s wrong Misty?” she asked, slightly concerned.

Misty rubbed the back of her neck hesitantly. “Um… who’s the one with the rainbow mane?” she asked, a slight blush forming on her cheeks in embarrassment.

Spitfire rolled her eyes playfully. She motioned for Dash to come over to introduce her. “This, Misty, is Rainbow Dash, and Dash, I’m sure you know Misty Skies?” she asked, introducing the two flyers to each other.

Dash nodded. “Yeah, I know, you're the pony who got the record for the best agility a few years ago at the Wonderbolt Academy.”

Misty nodded confidently. “Yep, that's me, nice to meet you Rainbow, I’ve actually heard a lot about you,” she said, bumping hooves with the mare.

Dash smiled, “Heh... It’s nice to meet you too,” she said kindly. Just then a noise roused the mares, they turned to see Blazing Fire and Soarin locked in yet another argument while Rapid just stood by trying to hold in his current laughter.

The sky blue coated stallion grunted. “Look, just because I’m stubborn doesn’t mean I can’t get a mare,” he stated.

Blazing Fire smirked waving a dismissive hoof, “What ever, grampa.”

Soarin stopped grumbling and simply opted for a smile as he spoke. “Coming from the stallion who could have got the best girl in flight school, but instead got dumped because he got frightened at zombie pony, so the hottest mare just happened to have to settle with little old grampa here,” Soarin said as he watched Blazing Fire’s mouth drop and the slightest blush of embarrassment appear on his face.

Soarin smirked. “Guess that means I win?” he asked rhetorically.

Blazing Fire lowered his head in defeat as the rest of the ponies tried to hold back their own giggles. Soarin trotted away proudly as Spitfire came up to her brother with a sympathetic yet mocking look on her face. She lifted a hoof and patted his shoulder. “Better luck next time bro,” she said with a slight giggle before heading into the club with the rest of the other ponies.

Spitfire caught up to Dash as they entered the interior of the building, the sound of heavy bass music reverberated off the walls of the club as the DJ mixed songs on his deck in the middle of the stage. The other ponies danced on the colourful floor, which was also the only source of light in the place.

Spitfire followed Dash to one of the nearby tables in the corner of the club and the other ponies gathered around them. Fleetfoot and Misty both sat down and assessed their bandages. Dash raised an eyebrow at this. “So you both crashed?” she asked, remembering the talk she’d had with Soarin only a week ago.

Both mares nodded, slightly embarrassed. Fleetfoot was the first to speak. “Yes… well, we were practicing this new move that Misty had suggested we try, it was going well at first, but… I might have taken it a bit too far in terms of speed,” she said with a sheepish grin as Misty rolled her eyes, looking down towards her broken wing.

Spitfire shook her head playfully at the two mares. She had only met them a few years ago as both Misty and Fleetfoot had come from another Wonderbolt Academy. However, the two quickly became friends with their golden captain and had also become a vital part of the team's performances. Unfortunately though, on this tour, they wouldn’t be coming.

Moments later Rapid and Blazing Fire trotted over to the table and set down a tray of drinks. Rainbow raised an eyebrow as she realised something. “Hey, where’s Soarin?” she asked quizzically.

Both stallions motioned their heads towards the nightclub’s bar where a sky blue stallion sat next to two mares around the same age as Misty and Fleetfoot. Everypony at the table gave their own laughs of amusement before settling into their own conversations.

The heavy bass music soon turned into more subtle wubs as the night progressed. Spitfire sighed and looking towards the dancefloor where Fleetfoot had been dancing with Rapid for about the past hour or so. She quickly looked over to the bar where she had last seen Soarin and, to her surprise, the stallion was now face down at the bar playing with his last few bits.
Out of nowhere, Spitfire felt a wing wrap around her and pull her closer to Dash. She turned to see Blazing Fire with a playful smirk on his lips. Spitfire rolled her eyes as Dash blushed slightly.

After a few awkward moments of silence, Dash spoke up. “So… um, you wanna go for a dance?” she asked hesitantly as she fumbled with her hooves.

Spitfire was slightly shocked by the mare's request. “Um...sure, I guess, but I haven't danced for ages,” she said.

Dash smirked. “Well then, let me show you how,” she said, getting up from the table and walking towards the dance floor in the middle of the club. Spitfire got up hesitantly and followed Dash into the masses of ponies currently occupying the dance floor.

Dash found a good spot in the crowd and held out a hoof to Spitfire who cautiously took it. She was surprised things were moving as fast as they were, but she embraced the change.

Suddenly the song that was currently playing changed to a more subtle beat as a guitar played into the background music. Spitfire followed Dash’s movements to the beat of the music. She felt many emotions rise in her chest, she felt many things, but above all, she felt joy and she couldn’t get the smile off her face as she danced with the mare she secretly loved.

When that thought passed through her mind though, Spitfire started looking at Dash differently. She saw the sleek, toned body of the mare, those big, beautiful, magenta eyes that seemed to sparkle slightly from the dance floor along with that wild rainbow mane that made her stand out from the crowd.

Spitfire felt her heart flutter at that point, but she was quickly cut from her thoughts when the mare in question spoke up. “So are you enjoying it now?” Rainbow asked over the sound of the beating music.

Spitfire nodded happily. “Yeah, it’s great!” she said with a small smile.

Dash returned the smile as they kept dancing. The cyan mare started to feel that all too familiar vibe rise in her chest as she felt the burning on her forehead and cheeks, except this time she let the feeling take hold as she began to watch the golden mare more closely. Dash saw her gorgeous burned amber eyes and the fiery mane which sparkled off the nightclubs neon lights. It was then that Dash realised what Fleetfoot had meant... she liked Spitfire... a lot

Soon the music began to die down again as the DJ prepared another song. Spitfire and Dash where having a great time and both of them felt happy they were getting time to spend with one another without all the complications of life. They felt free of all inhabitations and could just let go for once as they danced till their heart's content.

After a few hours more of partying and worn out Spitfire and Rainbow made there way back to the table and sat down. Rapid Fire was still in conversation with Misty whilst Blazing Fire talked to Fleetfoot at the other end of the room. Spitfire again looked over to the bar, but was surprised when she saw no sign of her lieutenant. She quickly glanced around the rest of the club her eyes coming to rest on the cyan stallion waddling into the bathrooms.

Spitfire sighed and got up before trotting off down to the bathrooms to investigate.

Spitfire pushed open the door to be met with the sounds of somepony emptying their stomach. Spitfire leaned in on the door and spoke up with a concerned tone clear in her voice, “Hey Soar you okay in there?” she asked hesitantly.

Soarin blubbered out something inaudible. Spitfire pushed open the door to the cubical revealing the slightly wasted stallion.

Spitfire rolled her eyes playfully. “Come on Soar, lets get you home,” she said helping the stallion up off the bathroom floor before the two ponies made their way out of the bathroom and towards the table in the club.

After a few moments all the Wonderbolts found themselves outside the nightclub. Rapid Fire and Blazing Fire were now holding their drunken lieutenant up as they slowly walked back to their respective homes.

Spitfire turned to Dash. “Thanks for coming along Rainbow I had good fun tonight,” she happily embracing the cyan mare.

Dash smiled. “No problem Spits, it was fun,” she replied hugging the mare back just as tight.

Finally both mares parted and waved goodbye as they took off towards their homes happy to have spent the night together.

Spitfire flew through the dark night sky as she contemplated her past few days with the rainbow maned mare. Spitfire had now started to develop strong feelings for Dash. She loved nearly everything about her and she always felt a sinking feeling when she had to spend time away from her.

Spitfire stopped in mid flight as she thought about this, could she really now be more than just crushing on the cyan mare. She started to think more deeply as she realized just how much her mind had been occupied with the rainbow mare.

Spitfire’s breathing hitched slightly when she finally reached the conclusion… she wasn’t just crushing… she was in love with Rainbow Dash.

Now everything started to rush through the yellow mares mind, her heart raced. She now began to think how the media would react to this, how would her parents would react to this. She sighed, trying to calm down, it wouldn’t come to that... would it?

Spitfire shook her head trying to shake her thoughts, she couldn’t really work this out in her currently stressed condition. She thought best to sleep on the thought and work it out later for now she was just happy to have been closer to the mare she loved…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Hey Hey Hey people its me Alex and again I have wasted my life writing another chapter, hehe wasting my life so funny

Anyways I really enjoyed this chapter, it was a fun one to write too and yes those of you who are just here for the make out scene that is coming soon in the next chapter so don't kill meh I will upload it sometime in the near future I promise.

So anyway a quick summary shall we?

1: Spitfire now realises she's in Love with Rainbow Dash, now it is only a matter of time until she tells her love the truth
2: Dash is happy to have spent another night with the mare and is excited for her first performance as a Wonderbolt
3: more arguments...again hell yeah! I know you love em hehe

~Alex

I would like to thank Solidfire for help on editing. You saved me about three hours of staring at a computer screen.

~ Michael

Chapter 8: The Grand Galloping Gala - Part II

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 8: The Grand Galloping Gala - Part II

The Wonderbolts soared through the night sky over Canterlot castle, their manes flowing in the wind as the crackle of thunder could be heard behind them. They darted from place to place - performing their routine for the crowd below, who watched them with great interest.

Spitfire motioned for the team to dive into the main part of their routine. All the Wonderbolts began dive into a helix spin which sent crackles and sparks flying across the sky, which produced an even bigger cheer from the crowd below.

The next and final trick in their routine was the Magical Split: a stunt that Rainbow had perfected over weeks of hard training. She soared out and over the crowd, spotting various fans and friends cheering from below. Dash loved the feeling of complete stardom, and pushed herself further as she rounded the turn and powered straight back down towards Blaze - who was slowly advancing towards her.

As they had practiced many times before in training, Rainbow slipped passed Blaze by a whisker sending the pair into a barrel roll, giving just enough space for Spitfire to pass through from above. The three ponies then broke out as they flew directly up into the sky as many fireworks blew into into the night sky, lightning up the world around them.

Spitfire smiled as she heard the roar of cheers from the crowd below. She nodded to the other Wonderbolt’s, confirming the end of their performance. They darted off behind the castle once again, kicking off the start of the big evening as the crowds where let into the palace.

Spitfire and the rest of the Wonderbolts landed on the palace gardens - where they had started the performance. They immediately started to celebrate with each pony congratulating each other. Spitfire turned to Dash, who had a proud smile adorning her face as she watched the rest of the fireworks explode in the sky above.

Spitfire was about to go over to the mare when she felt a hoof tap her shoulder. She turned round to see Blaze with a comical smirk playing up on his features. Spitfire jabbed in the side making him jump slightly.

Blaze raised an eyebrow as he whispered, “Hey, what was that for?”

Spitfire gave him another jab before speaking, “That’s for Rapid… oh and while I’m at it, fifty demerits for that,” she said, putting on a fake smile as she trotted away from her now slackjawed brother.

Rainbow heard the sound of soft hoofsteps on the ground. She turned round to face Spitfire who wad looking down at her with a warm and content smile. She sat down next to sky blue mare.

Dash’s face lit up slightly at the sight of the golden mare. “Hey Spitfire, what’s up?” she asked in an usual spunky tone.

Spitfire grinned. “That was a great performance today, Dash… I’m proud of you,” she said, feeling the blood making it’s way into her cheeks.

Dash’s face glowed slightly red as she heard the praise. “T-thanks Spit, It means a lot.”

Spitfire shook her head. “You don’t need to thank me, Dash, I’m not some goddess,” she said giggling slightly.

Dash sighed. ‘If only you knew,’ she thought to herself.

Spitfire looked up into the now clear black sky “Come on Dash, let’s get inside,” she said getting up and trotting off with the mare towards the entrance of the castle.

Spitfire trotted cautiously as she made her way into the castle with the rainbow mare. She was still feeling the nerves rising in her chest, but she knew deep down that she could do it, she was just afraid of what would happen.

Both Spitfire and Rainbow had long since removed their head pieces from their uniforms as they trotted into the main hall, which tonight was the host for the famous Grand Galloping Gala. Spitfire looked up in wonder at the vast ceiling which was decorated with golden chandeliers and banners to symbolise the event. Meanwhile, the smell of perfume and confectionaries wafter their way through the hall as ponies mingled in the crowd that filled the giant room.

Spitfire lead Dash over to the V.I.P area in the hall. They walked down the red carpet which lead to a guard pony who was standing next to a red velvet rope defensively.

The guard pony looked down at the two mare’s approaching the rope and stood in front of them before speaking, “Are you on the guest list?” he asked in a strong Canterlot accent.

Spitfire nodded politely. "Yes we are."

The guard levitated a clipboard in front of him. "What are your names?" he asked with a serious tone.

Spitfire rolled her eyes before speaking, "I'm captain Spitfire and this is Rainbow Dash, she's the newest Wonderbolt," she said, gesturing to the mare standing next to her.

The guard flicked through a few names before stopping and reading over a few words. He then nodded and levitated the rope out of the way, allowing the mares to enter the section of the hall. The two Pegasi trotted there way into the V.I.P area. It wasn't long until the duo spotted the rest of the team chilling out next to one of the table's in the corner of the room.

Sitting at the table next to the team were Fleetfoot and Misty. They both had equally big smiles adorning their faces as Spitfire and Rainbow Dash came up to them.

Fleetfoot was the first to speak, "Congratulations on your first ever performance, Dash," she said with a gleeful tone.

Rainbow’s face filled with pride. “Thanks Fleet, it was so awesome!” she said as the bumped hooves.

Spitfire turned towards the rest of the team lounging at the table, out the corner of her eye she spotted Soarin silently motioning with a hoof for the mare to come over.

When Spitfire was close enough the pale blue stallion spoke, “Hey Spitfire, when are you going to make a move?” he asked knowingly, raising an eyebrow.

Spitfire's lips turned to a playful smirk, she leaned in before speaking, “Do you want fifty demerits as well?” she asked rhetorically.

Soarin’s eyes widened slightly. “Um… no thanks,” he said moving away from the mare slightly as Spitfire muffled a giggle.

After a few moments Spitfire spoke again, “I’m not sure when, but I’m not doing it in front of everypony,” she said.

Soarin motioned over to the sky blue mare, who was now sitting at the edge of the table. She had a bored expression on her face. Spitfire turned back to her friend who silently whispered, “Go on, now’s your chance.”

Spitfire smiled and nodded confidently, but as she turned a voice shattered her current thoughts.

“Well there you are, sweetheart, we’ve been looking everywhere for you,” a voice said. Spitfire turned around to see a white pegasus with a pink and white mane.

Spitfire shuddered slightly as her mind came to terms with what she was seeing. “M-Mom?”

The mare smiled softly and wrapped her forehoof around Spitfire’s neck before leaning in and kissing her softly on the forehead.

The mare’s face seemed to radiate with pride as she spoke, “Well done on your performance today, sweetie. Your father and I are very proud of you.”

Spitfire’s eyes began to widen as she looked up to see a golden unicorn with a black mane, he too had an equally warm smile adorning his features. He ruffled his daughter’s mane playfully. “You were really good out there today champ.”

Spitfire held a sheepish smile as she looked between her parents. “Thanks Dad… I didn’t know you guys would be here tonight,” she said nervously.

Spitfire’s father smiled. “Why wouldn’t we be here to see our daughter and our son accomplish another great show… speaking of which, where is Blazing?” he asked, looking around the hall.

Spitfire’s eyes turned to a nearby table. She saw her brother sat around a table currently playing poker with a few of Canterlot’s higher class businessmen. She quickly turned back and rubbed the back of her neck hesitantly. “Umm he’s…”

“Hey there Mr. Golden Fire and Mrs. Starfire, how nice to see you both,” Soarin said as he trotted up to the pair.

Spitfire silently sighed in relief.

The two ponies turned to see the pale blue stallion and immediately greeted him. Spitfire’s mother was first to start up a conversation with the blue stallion whilst Spitfire’s father came round to talk to Spitfire once again, “So then Spitty, you got any eyes on any stallions lately?,” he asked casually.

Spitfire resisted the urge to drop her jaw and simply looked at her father in shock. “W-what do you mean?” she asked cautiously.

Golden Fire chuckled slightly and wrapped a foreleg over his daughter before speaking, “You’re in your prime age now Spitty, it’s about time you started looking for somepony to have a relationship with,” he said gesturing towards the sky blue stallion still talking to Spitfire’s mother.

Spitfire couldn’t stop herself from going slack jawed as she came to terms with what her father was trying to say, “You want me to ask…” She gulped. “Soarin?”

Golden Fire smiled. “He’s a fine gentlecolt and a very hard worker, and just like any stallion he would be biting your hoof off to go on a date,” he said, nudging his filly.

Spitfire’s face started to brighten the slightest tinge of red from embarrassment, “Daaad! Stop it,” she whined, trying to squirm away from her father.

The golden unicorn smiled gently and nuzzled her daughter affectionately.“I know, sweetie, but just promise me you’ll find a good pony for yourself.”

Spitfire nodded softly as her father made his way over to Soarin and her mother.

Spitfire quickly looked back over to the table where she last had seen the sky blue mare and gasped slightly when she didn’t see her there any more. She quickly started searching round the V.I.P area and finally found the mare she was looking for at the entrance to the exclusive area talking to some ponies.

Spitfire quickly made her way over to her and smiled. “Hey Dash! are these some of your fans?” she asked.

Dash giggled and shook her head. “No Spitfire, these are my friends,” she said gesturing to the five ponies and dragon standing behind the rope.

Spitfire smiled sheepishly. “Oh, sorry about that. I’m Spitfire, and you all are?”

The lavender unicorn in the middle of the group was the first to speak, “Well, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and this is Pinkie Pie,” she said, gesturing to the pink mare currently bouncing up and down in a rhythmic motion.

The unicorn continued, “This is Fluttershy and Rarity” she said motioning to the yellow and white mare’s both wearing equally long dresses and standing gracefully next to the wild ponies next to them.

Before Twilight could speak again a mare with an orange coat and blond mane spoke, “My name’s Applejack, pleasure to be meetin’ your acquaintance,” she said holding out her hoof to which Spitfire shook firmly.

Suddenly the guard pony came over to the ponies. “Sorry ladies, but if you’re not on the list, I’m going to have to ask you to leave,” he said politely.

Rainbow however was far from pleased and was about to protest when Twilight cut her off. “It’s okay Rainbow, we’ll speak to you later on tonight If we can,” she said waving a hoof goodbye as they walked back into the hall.

Rainbow gave the guard stallion an annoyed look before turning to Spitfire. “So Spits, what do you wanna do now?” she asked her face brightening up slightly.

Spitfire’s next words caught in her throat as she quickly pondered over what she was about to do… after a few moments of awkward silence she spoke, “Could I um… talk to you Dash?” she asked blushing slightly.

Dash nodded happily. “Sure! what’s up?”

Spitfire’s bright red cheeks intensified as she whispered out the last few words, “Could we go somewhere less... crowded.”

Dash was slightly surprised at her idols words, but again nodded her head. Spitfire motioned for her to follow. Dash trotted after the yellow mare through the crowds of high class ponies until they came to an opening which lead out onto the castle's balcony.

Dash immediately felt the cold night air brush through her features as she traded the exclusive hall for the palaces outside walkway.

Spitfire leaned on the balcony as she looked into the quiet night sky. Dash cautiously leaned on the balcony close to her idol as Spitfire continued to stay silent.

Dash was about to speak up over the deathly silence when her hero stopped her, “Dash...there’s something that I’ve been needing to explain to you for a while now.”

Dash’s mind stopped dead in it’s tracks when she heard this. “Okay...what’s up?” she asked, though hesitantly.

Spitfire stopped looking at the sky, her amber eyes now coming to rest on the blue mare next to her. Dash knew through those eyes that what the mare was about to say was the utter truth.

The Wonderbolt sighed. “Dash… for a long time now, I’ve been having these feelings… and at first I wasn’t really sure what they meant,” she let out a light chuckle before continuing, “but then I had my friends tell me what was really happening to me… and I’ll be blunt… I was scared for my life,” she said smiling as she turned to fully face the mare in front of her.

Spitfire’s laid her hoof on the ledge of the balcony as she spoke, “As time went by though… I got less and less scared and more and more of these feelings came, they didn’t leave either, they just built till my mind was screaming at me to run and shout out to the world the one thing I thought I’d never say to any stallion… let alone a mare,” she said locking eyes with Dash for the first time since their conversation had started.

Dash started to feel a flurry of emotions well up inside her, rendering her whole body motionless as she stood there taking the information in word by word.

Spitfire continued her speech, “I…I’ve had a... crush on you for a long time, Rainbow Dash… and I don’t think theres much more to it than that,” she said falling silent again as she watched the light blue mare closely, hoping for any sign of what was to come.

Dash was now in complete and utter shock, it was as if she wanted to scream to the heavens that her dreams of being with her idol, hero and secret crush had come true. But at the same time she felt like she wanted to run and hide away from everypony fearing what they would say about her.

A tense silence fell over the two ponies, each one watching the other intensely for any kind of response. Spitfire opened her mouth to speak when Dash cut her off, “Look Spitfire I-I...um I really need some time, it’s just...I.”

Dash felt her throat swell up as her nerves started to overpower her body, she quickly reacted and bolted into the night sky as quickly as possible leaving a very stunned and surprised Spitfire behind…

Dash soared up into the sky as fast as her wings could take her, she stopped once she felt free of everything, and her mind could think clearly. She breathed in a few precious gulps of air as her muscles finally started to relax.

Breathing out heavily, she looked around for a suitable place to rest whilst she collected her thoughts of what she’d just been told.

She floated over to the top of the mountain that Canterlot resided in. She sat down and looked over the vast panoramic view of Equestria as she thought about recent events.

Dash was completely and utterly stunned, she couldn’t believe what her idol had just told her. A part of her was extremely happy that her idol and crush had just asked the question she’d thought she would never hear, this made her angry at what she’d just done and part of her wanted to go back to Spitfire… but something stopped that action.

Inside, Rainbow started to comprehend the effects of being in a relationship with a mare, and not just any mare, the one and only captain Spitfire of the Wonderbolt’s. Dash thought about her reputation - what her friends and family would think about it all?

Just then the peaceful silence of the night air was disrupted by the sound of hooves landing on the ground behind the blue mare. Dash turned to see Spitfire, she wore a face of slight regret and confusion.

Before the Wonderbolt could speak, Dash raised her voice, “Spitfire… I-I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have left you like I did it was just-”

“Too much,” Spitfire finished as she sat down next to the mare as they both continued to look out onto the view ahead of them.

Dash nodded. “Yeah, it’s just I never thought you would ever say-”

“I like you,” Spitfire finished again turning towards the mare.

Dash nodded again before speaking, “Yeah, it’s just part of me wants to, but on the other hoof, I’m just really scared,” she said, her head sinking a little as she admitted the truth.

Spitfire nodded her head understandably. “I know Dash… I’m scared of what might happen too,” she replied truthfully.

Dash’s head turned up to look at the mare of her deepest dreams as she continued, “I’m scared of what everypony will say about us… I’m scared about what might happen between us… but as long as there is an ‘us’... I’m willing to try, if you are,” she said moving a forehoof over to cover Dash’s.

Rainbow was surprised by the touch, but didn’t resist. After a few moments she spoke, “W-when did you start, you know… liking me?” she asked.

Spitfire smiled happily as she remembered the times. “Well, after you saved me from certain doom, I think that’s when I started to… like you,” she said as the sky blue mare listened intently.

Spitfire continued. “I thought my life was over that day at the coliseum in Cloudsdale… I was thinking what the papers where going to say about my death the next day… kinda ironic that I liked mares, but I was going to be killed by one,” she said with a slight chuckle as Dash joined in.

Spitfire sighed. “After you saved my life... thats when the feelings started to grow. I liked your attitude, I see a younger me in you... and I like the way you raise everypony's spirit, how you can strive anypony to do there best in the world… I think your awesome Dash and I would be proud to call you my marefriend.”

Another tense silence came over the two ponies on the mountain top, the only sound being the soft whistle of the night air. Spitfire saw no emotion in the sky blue mare as she continued to look out onto the horizon.

Spitfire felt her hopes fade away, she felt tears well up in her eyes as she felt her heart wrench inside. She sighed and turned to leave…

Suddenly, Spitfire felt a hoof clench her’s. Spitfire turned around to see the sky blue mare holding her outstretched hoof tightly, she looked towards her with a tear streaming it’s way down her left cheek.

Dash’s face glowed with happiness as she spoke, “That’s the nicest thing anypony's ever said to me… and… I’d be proud too,” she said, looking at the now stunned Wonderbolt.

Spitfire stared at the blue mare before she felt her emotions peak. And without warning, Spitfire launched over to Rainbow, locking their lips together in a kiss.

Dash watched her world haze slightly as she felt the complete bliss of her heart finally beating a steady rhythm. But she was now able to feel the faint beat of the heartbeat from the mare she was now kissing back.

Spitfire also felt the same way as her mind finally came to peace with itself once again. She felt happy… she felt free. With this new thought Spitfire decided to take the kiss one step further as she pushed her tongue past Dash’s lips.

Both mare’s felt like there were living an eternal bliss in one anothers company. But like all great things in life - and from lack of oxygen - the mares parted, but still stayed close to one another. Spitfire smiled warmly at the mare and wrapped her wings around her comfortingly.

Dash nuzzled into Spitfire’s neck as the pair fell back into silence once more.

After a few moments Spitfire spoke, but only in a quiet tone, “So...how was that?”

Dash smiled whilst still nestled in the mares soft fur, “Awesome…”

Spitfire held the mare closer as Dash continued, “...and if it’s still okay...I want to be your marefriend.”

Spitfire looked down at the mare. “Are you sure?” she asked hoping what she’d heard was correct.

Dash leaned up and kissed her softly on the cheek before nodding, “Yes, I am sure.”

Spitfire sighed as the she and Rainbow listened to the silence of the night sky wrapped in each others embrace… both happy that they had found their true soul mate... but little did they know what was to come.

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Hey guys it's me Alex and yeah BIGGEST CHAPTER YET, surprisingly since I wanted to write this chapter I managed to get this all done within just a few hours... only thing is it's gonna be another long night of editing for my brother.

So yeah I really like how this chap worked out and I think Spitfire asking Dash out after 17 thousand words isn't too bad for pacing but just to announce THEY HAVE NOT SAID THE WORDS I LOVE YOU TO EACH OTHER YET I'M HOLDING THAT BACK

anyways just a quick summary

1: NO THEY HAVEN'T CONFESED THEIR LOVE FOR EACHOTHER THEY'VE JUST AGREED TO BECOME MAREFRIENDS AND SEE HOW IT GOES.
2: Soarin is somehow a gentlecolt
3: Blaze is an amazing poker player

~Alex

Chapter 9: Wake Up Call

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 9: Wake Up Call

Rainbow’s eyes slowly started to open to reveal the hazy world around her. She groaned when the brightness from the sun hit her eyes, blinding her current view. She quickly brought up a forehoof and rubbed her eyes before she blinked a few times and let her blurry vision settle.

Dash quickly noticed the familiar surroundings of her hotel room in Cloudsdale, which had been assigned to her weeks ago by the Wonderbolts themselves. She sat herself up on her cloud bed and looked around the room.

She quickly spotted two chairs and a small table in the corner of the room. On the table a bottle of half drunken champagne lay in container of melted ice, and on one of the chairs a small golden-yellow feather sat motionless, glinting from the small rays of sun from the room's curtians.

Dash instantly began to remember the visions from last night, her face started to fill with excitement and glee, could last night have really happened she thought?

Dash leaped out of bed and quickly trotted over to the chairs and table, she started to think more about the night before and remembered her and Spitfire coming back for a celebratory drink for Dash’s first performance at the Gala.

Dash only managed to remember so much, she couldn’t seem to remember going back to the Gala after she and Spitfire had chatted together on the mountain top. She still wondered whether if what she remembered happened, really did happen.

Dash’s joy started to fade whilst her nerves started to rise… if this was real, then she’d have to tell ponies about her and Spitfire at some point… but that wasn’t the part she feared most, the part which did was how they would all react to it.

Dash stopped her actions as she came face to face with the chair, with her mind still buzzing around with thoughts. She picked the feather from the chair with a hoof and smiled as she felt the softness of the item on her grasp.

More thoughts started to fill the mares mind as she sat down on the chair. Even though she was happy, she was still worried about her reputation in Equestria. Not just as a harmony bearer, but as one of Equestria’s top flyers.

Just then, Dash heard a knock on the door. She snapped her head to face the hotel room’s entrance. She slowly got herself up off of the chair and made her way over to the door.

Dash opened the door and her eyes widened when she saw the yellow Wonderbolt captain standing behind the threshold of the room.

Dash’s mouth opened slightly, electing giggles from the golden mare. “Hehe, you know what? You’re really cute when you're surprised, Dash.”

Rainbow blinked a few times before responding with a slightly nervous tone, “Oh.. hey Spitfire… w-was um you know, last night...are we now-”

Spitfire smiled at the sky blue mare’s attempts to communicate. She silenced the mare with a hoof to her mouth, before gently kissing her on the cheek. When she stepped back Dash wore an equally big smile on her face, accompanied by a pair of bright red cheeks.

Spitfire sighed, disrupting the current atmosphere. “So… are you still sure about you know… all this?” she asked hesitantly, fumbling with her hooves slightly.

Dash didn’t waste any time and nodded confidently with a smile. “Of course...why wouldn’t I?” she asked slightly nervous about the pegasus's next question.

Spitfire looked up at the mare, her face showed some caution, which caused Dash to worry slightly.

Spitfire sighed. “Could I come in?” she asked.

Realizing she hadn't done this already Dash quickly motioned for her mare to come into the room, she closed the door behind her before turning round to face the golden mare of her dreams.

Spitfire rubbed the back of her neck hesitantly. “Well,” she started, “It’s about my parents,” she said as Dash came over to her now holding a concerned expression for her marefriend.

Spitfire continued, “My mother and father aren't going to be happy when they find out… you know… about us…because we're both mares... but I want you to know that I still want to be your marefriend, Dash, but I don’t want you to be tormented and ridiculed... because of me,” she said looking towards her marefriend with slightly glazed eyes.

Dash was slightly shocked that Spitfire was telling her this, she never thought that the golden pegasus would have gone out of her way like this to ask her out. With this thought in mind, Dash leaned forward and took Spitfire’s hoof as she spoke, “Look, Spits… I don’t care about what other ponies say about us, I’m just as scared about how much our lives are going to change… but that doesn’t matter to me, Spitfire… I like you a whole lot and I’m not going to leave you just because somepony says two mares can't be in a relationship, because I know they can... I know we can,” she said truthfully.

Spitfire’s smile widened as she leaned forward and plant a kiss on Dash’s muzzle. “Thanks, Dash, I’m happy you're so strong about this… if anything though, I’m a little curious as to why,” she said raising an eyebrow playfully.

Dash giggled slightly. “Well, not to mention the fact you are the captain Spitfire plus you’re really um… kinda… hot,” she said blushing.

Spitfire flicked her tail slightly as her playfulness increased. “Really? You think I’m... hot?” she asked quizzically.

“You're gorgeous!” Dash blurted out, before quickly putting her hooves to her mouth… but it was too late.

Spitfire’s smirk widened as she came muzzle to muzzle with the sky blue mare. “So then, why don’t I ask that question from that dinner we had a few weeks back… who is your favorite Wonderbolt?”

Dash smiled and darted forward catching the yellow mare of guard in a kiss. Spitfire stumbled slightly but kept her balance as she leaned into the kiss savouring every moment.

Soon though Dash parted leaving Spitfire with an answer, ”well... Fleetfoot is probably my favorite.

“What?!” Spitfire said in astonishment, playfully jabbing the mare. This elected giggles from both ponies.

Dash’s eyes widened as she realised the severity of her joke. “Hehe, no I meant to say, hehe stop that, “ she said as Spitfire tickled her marefriend, sending the pair tumbling onto the cloud bed in the center of the room.

Spitfire looked down at the mare below her with a grin, she raised her ear as she spoke, “What was that Dash?” she asked playfully.

Dash muffled a giggle. She shook her head playfully before leaning up and kissing her marefriend’s neck. “It’s you Spitfire… it’s always been you,” she said truthfully.

Spitfire grinned happily. “Now that’s what I wanted to hear,” she said, diving in for another kiss with her mare. After a few more moments Spitfire jumped off the bed and headed back over towards the exit of the room.

Dash too got off the bed as she followed the yellow mare. “So what is it we’re doing today, Spits?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire smiled. “We’re going to Manehatten,” she said gleefully.

Dash was slightly shocked by this sudden revelation. “W-what you mean now...w-what about my friends?” she asked in a frantic tone.

Spitfire giggled. “They already know, Dash. Besides, it’s our next stop for the winter tour,” she said knowingly.

Dash smiled at the mare. “Cool! How are we getting there, it’s a long flight from here,” she pointed out.

Spitfire’s face filled with excitement. “I know, that’s why we’re taking the Wonderbolt’s blimp,” she answered.

Dash was astonished. “A blimp?! That’s soo awesome!”

Spitfire smiled happily. “Well that's great! There’s a reserved seat with your name on it,” she said winking as Dash made her way over to the yellow mare.

Dash was now as eager as ever. “Cool where do I sit?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire grinned and softly kissed Dash on the cheek as she said. "It’s right next to me,” before trotting off down the hallway of the hotel.

Dash smiled as she trotted after her new marefriend, she loved the way she was feeling right now. But she knew there was going to be many hurdles to overcome when the team returned to Cloudsdale…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Okay my bronies here is Chapter 9, another short meaningless chapter to keep you all up to date, a little more on Dash's view and aww wasn't this chapter so cute and cuddely... well thats what Mike thinks anyway.

So the Wonderbolts are setting sail for Manehatten... GET READY FOR THE ROMANCE FOLKS hehe

anyways a quick summary for you guys.

1: No spitfire and Dash didn't have sex...not yet anyway.
2: Dash is still slightly concerned about what might happen but isn't going to let her new marefriend down.
3: I can't seem to decide in the fic would you guys like it if I were to go a hell of a lot more in detail with Spitfire's past maybe add a little something about her Parents always trying to get her out with other stallions ?

I leave that up to you guys in the comments ~Alex

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~ Michael

Chapter 10: Manehatten, Here we Come!

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 10: Manehatten, Here we Come!

Dash was slightly confused as she trotted alongside Spitfire as they came out of the Wonderbolt headquarters and onto the vast cloud stadium where a giant blue and yellow blimp was centered, on it’s side it proudly adorned the Wonderbolt’s symbol.

Dash leaned over to Spitfire, “why are we using a blimp again?” she asked.

Spitfire smiled. “We’re using it so we can avoid wing injuries and it stops us from using up all our energy… you're not scared of blimps, are you?” she asked.

Dash shook her head. “Not that I know of,” she replied putting a forehoof to her chin as she pondered. Spitfire just giggled as the pair came up to the vast piece of flying technology that nearly matched the arena itself in size.

The two Pegasi walked up the small steps and into the large cabin area of the blimp, only to see the rest of the team ready and waiting for them.

Spitfire smiled warmly at the other Pegasi. “Hey guys, glad to see you all made it,” she said happily.

Soarin turned around to see both mares entering the cabin. He held a knowing smile on his face towards his captain making Spitfire blush slightly in embarrassment.

Rapid Fire was the first to speak, “Yeah cool, but could you all stop speaking so loud, my hangover’s real bad,” he said putting a hoof to his ear massaging it slightly.

Everypony muffled their own giggles before Blaze spoke up, but kept a quiet tone as to not disturb his friend further. “Well, we better get going before Mr. Sweden over here starts telling everypony about his adventures when he was drunk.”

Soarin snapped his head round to face the stallion. “Hey I’ve only told a few of those stories,” he said trying to hide the inner truth.

Blaze tried to hold in his laughter as Soarin sighed. “Fine, I do it a lot okay, but I don’t do it on purpose!” he defended, raising his voice.

Rapid Fire turned towards his lieutenant with a clearly annoyed look on his face. Soarin smiled sheepishly as Blazing trotted away from the scene with a confident smirk on his face.

After a few moments of awkward silence everypony settled down as the Blimp started to move. Soarin went up to the top deck to read something whilst Blaze and Rapid held a small and quiet conversation.

Spitfire sat on one of the sofa’s in the lounge area whilst Dash on the same couch but a few feet away from her idol. She was currently staring off into the distance and had been for a while, thinking about something. Spitfire raised an eyebrow and looked over at her marefriend with a mixture of worry and confusion. “Hey Dash...what’s the matter?” she asked.

Dash didn’t respond, she had been in-depth thought about Spitfire’s brother and the argument he had just held a few moments ago with Soarin… If he was like this towards Soarin for something as small as telling a few stories once in a while... then how would he react to her and Spitfire.

This made the sky blue mare think more about what Spitfire had said earlier that day about her family… how her parents wouldn’t approve… she started to wonder about the fact of everypony not approving... the rising nerves in her chest began to increase with her heart rate as she began to wonder what Blaze would do when he found out…and then the whole of Equestria.

Suddenly Rainbow started to hear the faint sounds of laughter in her head as a very vivid memory came to the front of her mind…she knew exactly what it was like to be known as a fillyfooler.

...

Rainbow remembered the day clearly in her mind, it just started out like any other day in her high school. She’d just come out of her weather manipulation class and was heading down the corridor towards the locker rooms to meet with her friend Fluttershy.

Just as she rounded the corner into another long corridor three large figures trotted after her. Rainbow rolled her eyes in annoyance when she heard the all too familiar laughter from behind her and turned around to face three stallions all with smug grins attached to their faces.

Rainbow groaned. “What do you want now?!” she asked in an annoyed tone.

One of the stallions with a brown coat and mane spoke up, “Oh don’t mind us, Rainbow Crash, we’re just enjoying the school day,” he explained sarcastically whilst his two accomplices snickered in response.

Rainbow immediately began to feel her blood rise as she spoke, “Just leave me alone, okay? I don’t need you losers following me around,” she said the anger evident in her tone.

Hoops waved a hoof. “What ever, Rainbow Crash, you couldn’t take us on if you tried,” he said doing his best to rile up the sky blue mare.

Rainbow felt something snap, she felt her frustration peak. She threw off her saddlebag and flared her wings ready for a fight, but when the bags fell to the cloud floor, a certain item slid out from the bags and over to the three bullies.

Hoops smirked as he picked the item up in his hoof, it was a book that had the words 'diary' written on the front cover. Hoops raised an eyebrow at the mare who was still keeping her defensive stance, but with a look of fear in her eyes.

Hoops turned the book round so Dash could see what the front cover read. “Oh! what’s this?” he asked sarcastically.

Dash felt her heartbeat slow down as the nerves started to swell up inside her. “I-it’s just a, book why would I care?” she said trying to keep a casual tone.

Hoops smiled as he looked between the other stallions. “Okay then, you wont mind if we take a look then,” he said grinning.

Rainbow knew she was out of options. She felt like fainting when Hoops opened the book and started to flick through the pages, but rather than his grin growing, it faded slightly as an annoyed look appeared on his face. “What?! It’s just a bunch of notes about to-do lists!” he said clearly annoyed.

Rainbow felt the relief poor over her and she was about to speak up when the sound of the brown stallions hoof slamming on a page stopped her actions.

The grin that had faded now came back to the brown stallion as he read intently over the pages of the book. Then all three stallions reading the current pages burst out in laughter as Rainbow started to cower slightly.

Hoops turned to the corridor that was now slightly buzzing with ponies trotting to their next classes. “Hey guys! Check out who Rainbow Crash wants to rut!” he shouted.

All the ponies turned and made their way over to the book as Hoops pointed to the page in the diary. The ponies looked at the page then also started to laugh as Hoops turned the diary around to show Dash what everypony had been looking at.

On the page was something Dash remembered very well and her heart sank slightly as she looked at the cut out picture of the newest member of the Wonderbolts with a love heart drawn around the page with some words scribbled on the page.

Hoops laughed. “Ha, look everypony! Rainbow Crash is a fillyfooler!”

Everypony started to laugh and after a few moments they were all chanting the words, “Rainbow Crash is a fillyfooler!”

Rainbow was cowering in the corner in a fetal position against the lockers. She tried to counter their claims. ”I-I don't have a crush on her! I just think that she is really... cool.”

Hoops couldn’t stop laughing at this point. “Ha! Cool? I don’t think that is what the hearts mean?”

'No, this can't be happening. This is just a simple crush... everpony has one… I'm not a fillyfooler, Rainbow thought to herself as the laughter escalated.

Hoops spoke up from everypony’s frantic giggling, “You don’t even have a chance of getting her, Crash, she wouldn't even look in the direction of somepony like you!”

Rainbow was now on the verge of tears, this just couldn’t be happening. Making a quick escape Rainbow burst down the hallway and away from the chanting crowd as fast as her hooves could take her…

Then everything faded to black...

After a few moments of utter silence, another voice spoke through her mind “Rainbow Dash…”

Dash knew that voice, but she couldn’t tell who it was until it became a million times louder as she was brought back to reality.

“Dash!” Spitfire shouted making the mare jump slightly as she turned round to face the yellow pony.

Spitfire’s eyes were now full of concern. “Dash are you alright baby?” she asked in a soft, caring tone.

Dash nodded slightly still coming down from her dream. “Y-yeah I’m cool,” she lied, trying to shake off the current feeling in her chest.

Spitfire still kept a concerned look and reached a hoof over to Dash’s face and wiped away the lone tear which had started to etch it’s way down her cheek.

Dash sighed knowing the game was up. Spitfire could see Dash was tense and motioned for her to follow as she got up of the sofa and made her way down the cabin.

Spitfire opened a door and motioned with her head for Dash to go into the room with her. Once they were in, Spitfire closed the door and locked it before turning round to face Dash who had sat down on one of the beanbag chairs in what was another relaxation room.

Spitfire sat down on the same bag and wrapped a comforting wing around Dash as she spoke, “I thought this would be better to talk, something seemed to really be bothering you,” she said knowingly looking over to her marefriend.

Dash breathed out shakily, Spitfire tightened her grip around her wing as the sky blue mare spoke, “I-I was… bullied a lot in my highschool… these three jerks I never really paid much attention to them...but one day they found out, about me liking mares…and they just showed my diary to everypony... I-I couldn’t go back there for weeks,” she said letting a few more tears fall.

Spitfire immediately wrapped both her wings around the younger mare as she stroked her mane. “Hey, it’s okay, Dash… you don’t have to worry about ponies like that anymore,” she said comfortingly.

Dash nodded as Spitfire nuzzled her cheek, “I know but… you said that your family wouldn’t approve of us being together,” she replied.

Something seemed to click in Spitfire's mind, she instantly knew what Dash was getting at. She smirked, “Dash...I said my parents would, you think Blazing is dumb enough to even try to hurt you the way these jerks did?” she asked quizzically.

Dash opened her mouth to say something but Spitfire cut her off, “Dash... Blazing knew about you know... me liking you a few weeks before the Gala, so he’s known for a while now and besides he wouldn’t be insulting you, otherwise he’ll have me to deal with,” she said with a devilish grin.

Dash’s face brightened up at this and she let out a muffled giggle. “Yeah… I guess you’re right,” she said with a smile.

Spitfire returned the smile warmly and she leaned over and gave her marefriend a kiss on the cheek. “That’s good to hear, Dash,” she said happily.

Spitfire got up of the chair as she looked over towards the clock in the room. “Oh… I’ve got to go see Silver about the Manehatten performance schedule,” she said turning back to Rainbow. “Is there anything else you need?”

Dash shook her head softly and Spitfire leaned over to give her mare another hug as she spoke, “What does this Hoops look like?”

Rainbow was taken slightly off guard by the question. “Um...brown coat and brown mane… he also has basket balls for a cutie mark… why?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire smiled warmly and nuzzled a spot behind Dash’s ear as she whispered softly, “Because, if I ever see him hurting you like that again, or even coming anywhere near you, I’m going to break his face,” she said with a determined tone of voice.

Dash muffled a giggle. “You don’t need to do that, Spitfire, I think I can handle him now,” she said confidently.

Spitfire nodded in response. “I know you can, Dash. But your my marefriend and I’m not going to let anypony treat you like that,” she replied before releasing the hug and walking to the exit of the room.

Dash’s face was now full of pride and confidence. She turned to the yellow mare just about to leave the room and spoke up, “Thanks, Spitfire. That really means a lot.”

Spitfire rolled her eyes playfully. “You need to stop with the thank you’s Dash… just think of me doing my marefriend duties,” she said as they both let out a giggle before she continued, “I’ll come back and check on you later Dash… and I expect a reward for my help,” she said with a wink, making the sky blue mare blush slightly before she left the room heading back down the corridor.

As Spitfire trotted away Dash couldn’t help thinking about how much she really did thank Spitfire, how she couldn’t thank her enough for all the things she had done. She pondered more on the thought as a new feeling started to come over her body...she didn’t know what it was, but she did know that through thick or thin, through rain and shine she would always be by Spitfire and she knew that the Pegasus would do just the same for her… but little did Dash know as the blimp made it’s way towards the big city of Manehatten just how much of these new feelings and thoughts would be tested…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Hey guys works been slow lately, sorry for the long time to update... wow it's only 3 days but it feels like weeks.

basically our excuses are football, sleep and schoolwork... plus we did have a major rethink about the whole fic and assessed all the feedback so hopefully you guys like the less of fillyfooling more comforting and more feels as well as a few other things and we also planned out the ENTIRE fic, this includes like the next 30 chaps onwards.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I decided in this chap to go a little more in-depth with Rainbow's side of things and this is a little something that I will take throughout the Manehatten section of this fic

and yeah this is basically the end of ACT ONE if you like and there is 2 more acts to complete so I hope you did enjoy the first section of this fic and I promise it's gonna get better now Dash and Spits are together.

Summary time children...

1: Yes... Rainbow doesn't like daydreaming on blimps
2: Dash has just had a memory about these bullies... Spitfire says she'll break one of their faces... you guys can't wait for that to happen right ?
3: Rainbow Dash has another feeling....DAMN THESE FEELS !
4: And yeah Dash didn't know that blazing knew about the relationship, I checked the last few chaps to make sure

~ Alex

[I'll get to writing this eventually]

~ Michael

Chapter 11: The Big Leagues

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 11: The Big Leagues

It wasn’t until Luna’s moon rose up into the night sky that the huge Wonderbolt blimp made it’s way into the bustling city of Manehatten.

Dash had her face presses up against one of the port windows as she eagerly scanned the city below. Even though the city was basked in the darkened sea of the night, the city was a glowing beacon of light showing off its vast skyscrapers and monuments.

Soon the blimp started to descend into the giant city, within the many buildings a shining oval shaped buildings shone through the center of the city almost guiding the blimp into it’s center.

Meanwhile, Spitfire was still with Silver Skies as the pair discussed an important matter. Silver had been told by Blazing Fire and the others about Rainbow Dash and Spitfire. This posed a lot of worries for him.

Silver Skies looked towards a clearly aggravated Spitfire as he spoke, “Look, Spitfire, all I’m saying is you can’t be roaming around Manehatten without a care. If you get into trouble, or start fillyfooling around then we’ll all be held accountable,” he said, stating his point.

Spitfire though was having none of it. “With all do respect, Sir. You can’t just tell me when and where to do things with my marefriend, and I’m not going to stand back if she gets insulted... or even hurt,” she said folding her hooves.

Silver Skies sighed and nodded. “Okay, I understand that, Spitfire… but just remember for all our sakes that you keep this information on the down low, I don’t want you or any of the other team members gossiping about this in magazines or tabloids. But most importantly, I don’t want to see a picture of you and Dash causing trouble or anything of the sort,” he said, making his point clear.

Spitfire sighed, she knew Silver Skies was stating a good point… whether she liked it or not, her and Dash where famous mares in Equestria and they would for ever be made out to be like mentors. Plus, she knew this relationship would have a heavy sway on what ponies thought about the Wonderbolts and the mares themselves.

Reaching a decision Spitfire nodded. “I promise, Sir. I’ll make sure the team knows that too,” she said getting up and walking to the exit of the room.

Silver returned the nod. “Thank you, Spitfire, I know you're a good pony, but we just need to make sure none of this gets out in the open until we can be assured that it wouldn’t cause some sort of major problem.”

Spitfire held a small smile towards the stallion before she left the room and made her way down to the exit of the large blimp.

Spitfire walked out onto the large arena, which was even bigger than their home stadium. The large size would easily accommodate for the large number of fans that would be packing the stadium in the next few days, eager to see a performance.

Spitfire trotted into the main part of the stadium where all the team members were currently waiting with heavy saddlebags full of personal belongings. Spitfire motioned for the team to face her before speaking up, “Okay guys, I know this is a new city, but we need to keep our reputation up around here. Silver Skies is expecting nothing to be on the cover of Manehatten Daily. This includes anypony making out or face down in the gutter, are we clear?”

Everypony saluted to their captain. Spitfire nodded in approval before continuing, “Okay, our hotel is just a quick flight over Manehatten, we’ll be staying at the hotel Plaza,” she said.

Everypony nodded and Spitfire handed each pony a room key before the all made their way out of the stadium and into the large city.

Spitfire breathed in the thick air of the city streets and spread her wings reader to fly, but before she could a voice called for her, “Hey Spitfire wait up,” Dash said making her way out of the stadiums entrance and over to her marefriend.

Spitfire’s face glowed with happiness. “Hey Dash, is everything alright?” she asked happily.

Dash nodded. “Sure, it’s cool, soo are you heading to the hotel?” she asked rubbing her forehoof against the other hesitantly.

Spitfire nodded. “Sure am, by the way what room are you in?” she asked curiously.

Dash rummaged in her saddlebags before taking out a golden key with the number '100' engraved in the golden metal.

Spitfire grinned mischievously as she held out an identical key with the same number. Dash blushed slightly.

Spitfire giggled and shook her head playfully at the mare before flaring her wings again and took off. Dash quickly regained her lost composure before shooting off after the golden mare.

As the two mares soared over the night skies of Manehatten. Rainbow got to take more of a look at the bustling city itself, the large structures of the city dwarfed the earth and unicorn ponies below who were all currently on their routes home or to another big night in the city that was famous for never sleeping.

Dash looked back up to Spitfire who was currently flying slightly away from her to avoid the pair crashing in mid flight. Dash spoke up over the sound of the city below, “Hey Spitfire, you okay?” she asked seeing yellow mare’s face which seemed to be in deep thought.

Spitfire came back from her mind and looked over to her marefriend. “Oh, me? Yeah I’m...okay,” she said, turning back in front of her.

Dash nodded in understanding, but still pressed the issue further, “Is it what you and Silver were talking about?”

’How did she know it was to do with that?’ Spitfire thought to herself, astonished. She looked back to Dash. “It was just um… flight routines,” she said.

Dash deadpanned. “You were talking about us, weren’t you?” she said getting to the point.

Spitfire nodded sheepishly. “Yeah, you could say that. It’s just that Silver wants both you and me to keep this relationship to ourselves and the team…but I want to spend time with you. I don’t want to have to wait until the end of the day to hang out,” she said sadly.

Dash knew what Spitfire was meaning by this, she smiled comfortingly at the mare. “Hey, I’m sure we’ll find a way to have our own time together,” she said with a hopeful tone.

Spitfire smiled and leaned over, giving her marefriend a light kiss on the cheek. “You do always know how to cheer me up, Dash,” she said happily.

Dash nuzzled the mare back affectionately as they came up to the big hotel towering over the lower city of Manehatten. They landed just outside the steps to the building which was marked by a red carpet leading up to two large glass doors.

As the pair walked up to the hotel entrance they spotted a stallion stood next to the door. He smiled at the two ponies and opened the door gracefully letting the mares in.

Spitfire thanked the stallion as the walked into the vast hotel lobby which was lined with gold trimmings and lightings. In the center of the lobby was a large oak desk where a cream colored mare stood currently looking through a check list.

Spitfire lightly tapped the golden bell on the desk rousing the mare from her current distraction. She smiled happily. “What can I do for you fine ladies this evening?” she asked politely.

Spitfire returned the smile. “We’re here to pick up our reservation, it’s under Wonderbolt.”

The mare quickly put on her large glasses and looked behind her to find a book. She pulled out the book marked ‘reservations’ and opened it before scanning down the page with a hoof before finding the name. She looked back up at Spitfire, a happy smile on her face. “Yes, I expect you have the room keys already?”

Spitfire nodded and the mare smiled. “Great, well then I hope you have a pleasent stay madams the lift is right over there,” she said pointing to the golden doors at the far side of the lobby behind the desk.

Spitfire nodded and thanked the mare as she and Rainbow made there way over to the lift. Once they were in Spitfire looked at the numbers on the lifts hoofpad, Spitfire clicked the biggest number which matched the room key.

Rainbow looked at Spitfire with slight curiosity. “Wait...why is 100 the top number… I thought that was-”

“-The penthouse level,” Spitfire finished with a smirk as she turned to face her marefriend.

Rainbow was slightly taken back by this. “W-wait...the Wonderbolts didn’t pay for this room, did they?” she said.

Spitfire smiled mischievously. “Maybe...maybe not, but don’t try and thank me,” she said playfully.

Rainbow muffled a giggle and nodded in response, but she nodded approvingly to which Spitfire gave her a quick peck on the cheek before the elevator opened revealing the vast room in front of them.

Rainbow’s jaw nearly fell to the floor as Spitfire walked out of the lift and surveyed the room and it’s magnificent view of the city.

Dash cautiously made her way into the room as she too looked around at the luxurious apartment. She trotted over to the windows as she stared at amazement at the vast scenery, the stadium was just off in the distance where it seemed that some of the Wonderbolts were already practicing.

Spitfire sat down on the couch making Rainbow turn around at the noise, she looked over at Spitfire with a face full of happiness. Spitfire grinned as she held her wings and hooves out towards the mare whilst saying, “Come here you.”

Dash obliged and quickly trotted over into her marefriend’s embrace. Spitfire wrapped her wings round her as she spoke up, “Soo then, you want to do anything after training tomorrow?”

Rainbow pondered on the thought for a moment before shrugging her shoulders. “I don’t know… what is there to do in this city?” she asked.

Spitfire grinned. “Well… we can do just about anything, do you want to go to the club tomorrow?” she asked hesitantly.

Rainbow smirked. “Sure why not… you ain't scared to go alone?” she asked playfully.

Spitfire’s amber eyes glinted at Rainbow’s tone of words. She smirked and flipped the sky blue mare onto the sofa as she laid down on top of her. “I wouldn’t say scared... more, depressed,” she stated.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow confusingly. “Why depressed?" she asked, keeping her playful yet curious tone.

Spitfire pouted playfully. “Because I wouldn’t be able to be with you,” she said while nuzzling into Rainbow’s neck, making the mare giggle uncontrollably.

Spitfire stopped to let the mare catch her breath. “So then, nightclub it is?” she said confidently.

Dash nodded in approval, Spitfire smiled and got up off the couch as she made her way towards the bedroom.

Dash looked up from the couch and spoke up, “Um… where am I sleeping tonight?” she asked.

Spitfire turned around and grinned. “Well… I’m afraid there’s only one bedroom,” she said, trying to act like something really bad had happened.

Dash giggled before Spitfire continued, “I guess we’re just going to have to share, aren't we?” she said with a wink, making Dash blush slightly.

Spitfire walked into the room leaving Dash to her own thoughts once again.

Dash sprawled out on the couch and lead her head so it was facing towards the city as she thought about what Spitfire had mentioned on the flight over here.

She knew it wouldn’t be easy to keep something like this under the radar, she knew both herself and Spitfire where very protective of each other even if they’d only been going out for just over a day. She could already tell as time went on that they would only become more close... and all it would take would be just one slip up and it would be all over Equestria within a matter of days.

Dash wanted to make sure she kept true to her marefriend’s word and to her element, she sighed happily knowing that this wasn’t going to be one of those half life flings. She knew deep in the regions of her heart that Spitfire cared for her, and she cared for Spitfire all the same.

With this thought in mind Dash smiled and got up as she trotted over to the bedroom in the large hotel room.

As she peered inside of the room she could see Spitfire already in the large bed currently writing something down in what looked like an old journal. She looked up and smiled when she saw the sky blue mare entering the room.

Dash smiled hesitantly, she was about to ask where to sleep when Spitfire patted the spot right next to her, Dash trotted over and cautiously got under the covers. Spitfire smiled and extended a wing as she pulled Dash closer to her body.

Dash smiled and snuggled closer to the mare, Spitfire put the book she was holding on the table beside her and turned off the light as they both snuggled together under the covers.

Spitfire leaned over slightly and kissed Dash on the muzzle, “goodnight Dashie,” she said with a yawn.

Dash smiled. “Goodnight Spitfire,” she said nuzzling the mare softly as they both drifted off to sleep in the hooves of the pony they cared for.

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Yeah sooo theres not much more to say than this chapter is really much just setting the scene, I wanted to make Manehatten feel big like somewhere where only the big people preform and has a high reputation

In this act which will be boarderline 20k words, I wanted to really just have the definition of slice of life but still have other things in it which will keep you intrested, the main problems that the ponies will face in this scene will be things like the media and other ponies.

Well I hope you've enjoyed the chapter so far and for now here is a quick summary

1: I thought it was good to have Dash and Spitfire in the same room.... now I know everyones thinking what there going to get up too... I know Mike will
2: Silver Skies is simply stating that no pony besides the Wonderbolts is to know about the relationship right now
3: Dash is developing her new found feeling

~Alex

Chapter 12: Training Difficulties

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex

Chapter 12: Training Difficulties

As the sun rose over the city of Manehatten, the light shone through the large windows of the penthouse and into the bedroom of the hotel suite.

Spitfire groaned slightly as the bright light hit her eyes. She tried to put up a forehoof to shield herself, but it was no use.

Spitfire rubbed her eyes with her other free hoof before looking over at the clock on the bedside table. Upon seeing the time, her eyes widened and she quickly turned to Rainbow Dash, who was still using her marefriends Wing as a pillow. Spitfire nudged the sky blue mare. “Come on Dash, or Silver is gonna have our wings if we don’t show up for training."

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes slowly and smiled when she saw her marefriend. “Hey, Spits. Are we really that late?” she asked with a groggy tone as she awoke.

Spitfire confirmed Dash's question with a nod. She then pushed the covers off the bed before she made her way towards the far side of the bedroom where her saddlebags were. She opened the top of the bag before pulling out her Wonderbolt uniform.

Dash's mind started to wonder as Spitfire got into the suit. “...I can’t remember where I put my uniform,” Rainbow said silently to herself as she looked round the room.

Spitfire looked over at Dash. “Well… is it not in your saddlebags?” she asked quizzically.

Dash thought for a moment, she decided it was best to go and check. She nervously got out of bed and made her way into the living room of the apartment where she had last scene her saddlebags.

Dash found what she was looking for on the couch, she cautiously opened the top of the bag and was relieved when she saw the blue suit neatly tucked in the bag.

Dash happily took out the uniform and put it on, but it was far from an easy fit. Spitfire walked out of the bedroom and nearly burst into laughter at the sight of her marefriend, who was still trying to get the uniform past her waist. Spitfire shook her head playfully as she came over and helped the mare to get the rest of the tight jumpsuit on.

Rainbow smiled sheepishly when Spitfire finished helping her with the rest of the tight suit. Spitfire grinned. “It’s a struggle when you’ve got such a big flank,” she said, making her way to the elevator.

Dash's eyes widened and she resisted the urge to drop her jaw, but couldn’t stop from blushing. “I-I…don’t have a big flank...do I?”

Spitfire turned around. She smiled warmly and trotted back over and gave Dash a quick kiss on the cheek. “No, I was only kidding, your flanks are cute,” she said playfully, winking at the mare.

Dash shook her head in slight disbelief as Spitfire let out a muffled giggle. After a few moments the pair soon got into the elevator. Dash looked over at the golden mare as she spoke, “I’m gonna get you back for that,” she said with a smirk.

Spitfire nuzzled the mare. “You’ll have to keep that for later. Right now we’ve got to act like proper citizens of Equestria,” she said in a posh tone, posing in a royal stance. It was only a few moments before both mare’s burst out with laughter as the elevator opened up to reveal the lobby.

Spitfire and Rainbow quickly stopped their laughter and cautiously trotted out onto the lobby. Spitfire opened the door to the exit of the hotel, letting the sky blue mare out first before leaving quietly.

Rainbow sighed, she breathed in a fresh gulp of air and looked around the city as the sun began to rise higher into the sky.

Spitfire came out of the hotel and quickly spread her wings. “Come on, Dash. I’ll race ya,” she said, her competitiveness catching up with her.

Dash grinned at the mare. “Sure thing, just don’t be upset when you lose,” she said, flaring her wings ready for action.

Spitfire smiled. “We’ll see about that...okay 3...2...1..go!”

Soarin and the others we’re currently wandering around the large Manehatten arena. The stallion turned around to face Blazing and Rapid, who were both holding their own conversation. “Hey, you guys seen Rainbow and Spitfire?” he asked curiously.

Blazing and Rapid looked between each other before shrugging their shoulders.

Soarin sighed. “Well, I guess we’ll have to start without them,” he said, trotting back towards the center of the arena.

As the three stallions trotted across the stadium the faint sound of rushing wind could be heard above them. Soarin stopped and looked up, checking the sky above him. It was then that two streaks, one orange and yellow and the other a spectrum of colors. The two streaks rounded the corner of the stadium before descending down onto the ground below.

Soarin smiled as the two streaks landed at the far side of the stadium.

Spitfire turned to Dash. “Nice race, Dash. Maybe next time we’ll finally find a winner,” she said happily.

Dash waved a hoof. “Hey come on, I totally won there,” she retorted, sticking her tongue out at the Wonderbolt captain.

Spitfire muffled a giggle at her marefriend’s antics as Soarin and the rest of the bolts came up to them.

The pale blue stallion smiled. “Well I’m glad you both made it. Silver would have had your feathers if you didn’t show up.”

Rainbow looked at the team with confusion. “Why does he want us all to show up? He never did this in Canterlot.”

“That’s because this time we’re in Manehatten,” Silver Skies called out, causing all the Wonderbolts to turn around and face the stallion in surprise.

Everypony quickly got into a line as Silver continued, “This time we’ll be performing for a bigger audience, this time there cannot be any mistakes and this time we don’t have the whole team. Which means we’re going to have to try some new techniques if we’re to keep our reputation up in these parts,” he said.

All the ponies nodded in acceptance. Silver motioned for Spitfire to step forward, she did so. Silver leaned in. “We’re four members down for the tour, my suggestion is that you come up with a new move to compensate for it… you’ve got till the end of next week.”

Spitfire nodded in response. Silver gave all the Wonderbolts one last glance before trotting back off towards the inner parts of the arena.

Spitfire sighed and turned towards the team. “Well, that’s just busted us out of lazing around. Alright bolts, let’s get to it! I don’t want to see you all standing around!” she said as all the Wonderbolts scrambled into the air.

Rainbow struggled to hold a straight face when she heard Spitfire shout. The yellow mare looked over at her marefriend and saw her face as she tried to contain her laughter. Spitfire smiled and stuck her tongue out at her making Dash lose all her inhibitions as she let out a fit of giggles before getting into the air.

As time went on the team performed the whole routine from Canterlot, going through each phase whilst Spitfire watched intently from the ground below. The mare had to try and find a new move that would be easy enough to learn in the short time, but could also be incorporated into the routine.

As she watched the team dive into the final stages of the performance, Spitfire saw a chance for something new, she smiled and picked up her signature whistle and blew on it - signalling the Wonderbolts to line up.

Spitfire waited until the team was back on the ground before speaking, “Okay guys, I think I’ve got a way we can make this work, but I’m going to need a volunteer,” she said looking between the team members.

Rainbow stepped forward cautiously. Spitfire smiled warmly and motioned for the pegasus to come over. Blazing smiled amusingly making gestures to his younger sister. Spitfire looked over to the stallion and deadpanned him causing the stallion to fall silent again with the few muffled giggles from the rest of the team.

Spitfire looked at Dash and towards the team before she spoke, “Okay, now whilst the rest of you will go into a dive, I was thinking that me and Rainbow would burst into a double helix. Rainbow can use her natural sky streak to make it stand out more, we’ll then all go into a fast free fall when all of you guys are doing your corkscrew waves, the rest of you can then peel off into your solo performances.”

Spitfire looked at the rest of the team who all wore smiles of acceptance. Spitfire returned the smile, “Great, then lets get to it!”

All the Wonderbolt’s jumped into the air as Rainbow and Spitfire followed close behind them as the tried out the new routine.

All the ponies waited until Spitfire gave the signal to dive with a blow of her whistle. When they did Rainbow followed Spitfire in to a duel wield helix as the other ponies broke away.

Since they weren’t performing Rainbow didn’t need to worry about her streak and just kept focused on the job in hoof. She flew up into the air making sure to keep in time with her captain.

The pair spiraled around each other as they soared higher into the air. Once they got to a high altitude Dash took a moment to look down at her handiwork, she smiled when she saw her streak spiraled together with Spitfire’s blazing fire. The sky blue mare then looked back up to see Spitfire holding the same wide grin. The pair shared a knowing look before heading back down towards the stadium below.

Spitfire held a proud smile as the rest of the team collected themselves in front of her. “Great work today, guys! We’ll practice it a few more times before adding it to the routine, but a great first attempt!” she said happily.

The rest of the team nodded acceptingly. As most of the team members made their way back to the entrance of the arena, Soarin trotted over to Spitfire and Rainbow with a grin. “That was great work getting both of you in on that move,” he said knowingly.

Spitfire grinned. “She is a one of a kind, isn’t she?” she said, leaning over and giving the blue mare a quick kiss. Dash giggled in response.

Soarin smiled. “Well I was thinking about asking the team for going on a night out sometime this week if you two wanted to come along...provided that Silver even lets the pair of you walk on the same street in public,” he said, chuckling slightly.

Spitfire rolled her eyes playfully. “I think we can manage that,” she said looking towards Dash who gave an approving nod before continuing, “But first, I’m gonna need to plan out the new routine, you wanna help?” she asked kindly as the three began trotting towards the main part of the stadium.

Soarin nodded and saluted. “Nothing is too small for the trusty lieutenant,” he said happily.

Spitfire smiled and turned to Dash. “Are you coming too?” she asked.

Dash nodded. “Sure, I got nothin else to do,” she said with a smirk as all three Wonderbolt's happily trotted into the inner parts of the stadium.

Dash had felt a mix of emotions from the day so far, but she could say without a doubt that she couldn't wait for the show in Manehatten, she hoped that the next few weeks in the city would go by with out a problem, but part of her doubted that illusion...

To be Continued...

Author's Note

WOOOW well another slice of da life chapter for you all there folks, I hoped you liked the new chapter

Now my bro has been pretty much AFK for the past few days and well... I'm going to be AFK mostly tomorrow and sunday...most of saturday too so apologies, but I will try my best to get a chapter up sometime in those three days.

As for the new chapter, pretty much a linking chapter here to give you guys a show of what's gonna happen in the routine as well as a few other things.

Oh and just to say guys THANKS FOR THE 106 FAVES, AS WELL AS ALL THE FOLLOWS AND LIKES YOU GUYS ARE AMAMZING, THANK YOU !

So a small summary which you all love.

1: the inner parts of the stadium is just you know the hallyways where rooms and things are located.
2: A new move...I'm still deciding whether to have Dash do a sonic rainboom
3: not really fillyfooling as from a request a few chaps back I have toned it down in the past 2 chaps

~ Alex

I would like to dedicate this chapter to a very loyal fan: Artisin. Thank you for all of your supporting comments, it really means a lot to us.

~ Michael

Chapter 13: Another Night In

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 13: Another Night In

A tired Rainbow Dash wandered through the streets of Manehatten. Spitfire trotted next to her, she had a wing draped over the pegasus as they walked.

Rainbow had been drained to the bone after today’s training, they had spent hours practicing the new routine… and Dash knew that the training would only become more intense as the week progressed. She only had one thought on her mind: and that was rest.

Spitfire looked over at the slum pegasus who had taken libraty of leaning on her for support. She smiled. “You know that’s not even the worst training session we’ve ever had,” she said knowingly.

Dash slowly looked up at her marefriend with slight shock. “What do you mean? How could anything be more tiring than that?” she asked quizzically, her voice slightly dry from the afternoon’s session.

Spitfire pondered as she remembered back on all of her training sessions. “We once had to train for a full 16 hours one day,” she said pondering.

Dash was astonished. “H-how...why would you do something like that!” she asked.

Spitfire grinned. “Well...me and Soarin where making a new routine for the show in Cloudsdale a couple of years ago, it was when we’d just been promoted to our new ranks and our first job was to coordinate a performance. But when we gave it to Silver he didn’t approve and in the last few days before the performance we had to make an entirely new routine and then learn it...we never slept for days and we were like zombies at the performance,” she said with a small laugh.

Rainbow giggled and shook her head. “Wow… I hope I don’t have to do that, I need my naps,” she said with a smirk.

Spitfire sighed happily, she looked down at the pegasus who still looked a bit too tired. She was planning to go out with Dash on a night out, but she thought it best to have a night in with the sky blue mare.

Spitfire directed Dash towards the hotel. After a few more moments of trekking the pair reached the large structure just as Luna’s moon began to rise into the blackened sky once more. Spitfire opened the door letting Rainbow in before they made their way towards the elevator.

Rainbow looked over to the yellow mare as the elevator started it’s accent. “So...what do you want to do tonight?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire looked over at the mare and smiled warmly. “Well...I was thinking about going out, but since my marefriend looks like she’s just endured a weeks worth of starvation I think we’ll just order some food,” she said.

Dash gave an approving nod and the pair shared a quick nuzzle before the door’s of the elevator opened to reveal the penthouse once more. The pair walked out onto the tiled floor before making their way to the living area of the room.

Dash fell onto the couch in a dazed state as she finally let relaxation overcome her senses. Spitfire held in her laughter as she sat down next to the pegasus and planted a small kiss on her muzzle. “You worked hard today Dashie, I’ll go order us some pizza, do you want to watch a movie or something?” she asked.

Dash nodded softly. “Yeah, I guess so,” she said, trying her best to stay awake.

Spitfire smiled and got up off the sofa as she went to go order the food, whilst she did this, Dash laid on the sofa thinking about the events so far in her day. She knew that the next few day’s of training would take up the free time she had, her muscles gave a pain of disappointment when the thought passed through her mind. She wanted to do not only herself, but the entire team proud. She wanted to prove she was a Wonderbolt and she wanted to show all of Equestria she had what it took to become one.

Just then Spitfire returned and laid down next to the blue pegasus as she gave her a comforting nuzzle. “Well that’s the food ordered, you got anything you want to do?” she asked.

Rainbow looked up at the mare with a sincere smile. “Well, since we didn’t get to go out on a date, do you want to have one here, I mean if you wanna that is,” she said with a slight blush of embarrassment.

Spitfire placed a soft kiss on Dash’s muzzle before replying, “That’s a good Idea Dash, I’ll get the table ready,” she said with a wink before getting off to get the dinner ready whilst Dash recovered from the days workout.

Dash had perked up slightly after a very quick nap, she was now at the table as Spitfire trotted across the room and up to the table balancing two plates on her back, each had an identical pizza with a peppers and onions on top of a cheese coated mass. Spitfire leaned over and set the food down in front of the sky blue mare before doing the same for herself as she sat down next to her marefriend.

Dash smiled sheepishly. “So, this is...nice,” she said with a slight giggle. Spitfire smiled amusingly and nodded in approval.

The two dug into their meals in relative silence, the pair exchanged some glaces between each other but never really found a topic of conversation. Spitfire feeling the need to start a conversation spoke up, “So, are you excited about performing in Manehatten?” she asked with a hopeful tone.

Dash nodded as excitement lit up her features. “Yeah, it’s gonna be sweet, we’re gonna show everypony what we can do when we blow their minds with our tricks!” she said confidently.

Spitfire smiled happily. “Well I’m glad Dash, you seem to be enjoying the whole...experience,” she said giving Dash a knowing grin.

Dash was about to mark a response when she decided not to, instead she leaned across the table and caught the golden mare off guard in a kiss. Spitfire’s eyes widened but quickly fluttered closed as she leaned back into the mare as they held the kiss for as long as possible.

Soon though both mares finally parted leaving the other completely breathless, but in their minds it was totally worth it.

Spitfire was the first to try and conjure up a sentence, “wow...that was unexpected,” she said with a smirk.

Dash grinned knowingly at the mare. “Yeah, I thought you deserved it… after all who wouldn’t want to kiss somepony as beautiful as you are,” she replied going quiet at the end of her sentence.

Spitfire was taken slightly off guard by what the sky blue mare had just said. “Well… I’m not that beautiful, am I?” she said, trying to act casual about the subject.

In Dash’s mind something seemed to snap, something that held all those weld up emotions and thoughts, letting them poor out and take control of her senses. Dash got up off her chair as she moved over to sit next to her marefriend as the pair shared the seat Spitfire was currently sitting on.

Spitfire looked into Dash’s eyes she could see that the mare wasn’t joking around when she opened her mouth, “...Spitfire.” Dash sighed. “I think your beautiful, but not just in one way, but in every way, you're completely gorgeous and anypony would be so lucky to even be considered a friend, your amazing in what you do and what you say, every minute with you I feel like it’s the time of my life, I know you don’t like me saying thank you for everything Spits, but thank you...thank you for letting me be your marefriend,” she said leaning onto the mare’s shoulder.

Spitfire was utterly stunned by her marefriend's words, she never knew something like that would come from Rainbow Dash, and she knew that every word that she’s said was true, her heart and chest swelled with a new feeling of happiness as she contained the tears daring to drop from her eyes.

Dash felt a soft hoof curve it’s way round the underside of her jaw, she slowly looked up to see the smiling face of her marefriend. Spitfire leaned down and kissed Dash’s lips softly before speaking, “...that was the kindest thing anypony has ever said to me Dash… and I want to thank you...for being my marefriend too,” she said brushing a few strands of hair from Rainbow’s mane before continuing, “And I think you’re really, really beautiful,” she said as she leaned in for another deep kiss.

Dash felt her walls finally come down when her lips touched again, for the first time in a long time she could finally feel free to go beyond what she thought was cool and fun, for the first time she let herself go...and she never wanted it to stop…

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Hey there everypony, It's me Alex once again.

Now I have had a lot of very touching feedback from all of the fans reading this fic and I know I'm being Like Rainbow Dash in the story when I say thank you too many times, but I really want to say thank you again for your ever growing support and for the rising followers and likes across all our fics, it means a lot for all the hard work that we go through to make this fic happen, but in the end we do it for your enjoyment.

Anyways onto the fic in hand, in this chapter it was more cute bonding time after the training, the next chapter we'll be moving about 2 days in the future, just that I don't really want to bore you all with linking chapters.

Anyhoo hoped you like the new chapter and we will continue to work on the fic, we've both been busy as of late but we'll get some more chaps up this coming week.

soooooooo summary time!

1: They haven't said I love you or love in anyway of the sort as much as it pains me not to say it in the fic but the climax is coming
2: no Michael is not dead
3: It seems kinda odd that Dash would be tired out after something but I want to have the effect of training for the Wonderbolts to be tough for any type of pegasi

~ Alex

Chapter 14: Thinking...

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Thinking...

The next couple of days went pretty much the same as the last, it had been hard work followed by more pressure as the days ticked by. Rainbow had learned to grit her teeth and enjoy what she could, she was lucky to have Spitfire by her side though and it always made the nights so much better than it would be alone.

It was now coming to the weekend of the first week in Manehatten, the team had perfected their new move, but they still had to work on the routine itself.

As the sun made it’s way into the sky all the Wonderbolts had just finished their morning training session and were heading inside for a break. Rainbow had improved her endurance, but the lack of naps had been getting to her.

Spitfire smiled as she waited for her marefriend to get to the entrance to the arena, “hey sleepy head, didn’t you have a good sleep last night?” she asked concerned.

Dash nodded. “Yeah sleeping’s been good but, I’m not used to training all day everyday, but I can handle it,” she said putting a hoof to her mouth as she yawned.

Spitfire nodded and leaned over to kiss the mare on the cheek, “well at least you aren't going to pass out on us, but maybe we should start to slacken down on the training. I’ll have to see what Silver says, you're still going to the club tonight or do you want to just go back to the hotel?” she asked as she started trotting with the mare into the inner parts of the stadium.

Rainbow pondered for a moment before nodding, “yeah sure, why not, if it means I get to spend more time with you,” she said happily.

Spitfire gave an approving nod. “That’s the spirit cadet,” she said trying to hold in the laughter.

Dash smirked. “Well..I try,” she said with a knowing wink.

As the pair trotted along the hallways Spitfire stopped outside Silver’s temporary office in the stadium. Dash turned around to see what Spitfire was doing, “hey Spit, are you not getting something to eat?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire looked over at the sky blue mare, “I will, but I’ve gotta speak to Skies first, save me something,” she said happily.

Dash nodded and started trotting down the hallway towards the mess hall. Spitfire turned back to the door and gave it a few knocks before waiting for a voice.

“Come in,” Silver Skies said.

Spitfire opened the door and trotted into the room, it was less fancy than the office in Cloudsdale, but it was still something to be marveled at with it’s giant pictures and furniture. The stallion behind the large desk looked up at the mare, Spitfire sat down in front of the stallion before speaking up, “sir...I think we may be pushing the team to hard.”

Silver sighed. “What do you mean Spitfire, it’s only been three days since you started the training, is there some sort of major problem?” he asked.

Spitfire shook her head, “no sir, it’s just that the team-”

“It’s about Rainbow Dash isn’t it?” Silver said raising an eyebrow.

Spitfire was slightly shocked by the stallion's question, “well it’s um, not just her sir it’s the rest of the team as well,” she replied.

Silver Skies sighed and got up off his seat as he turned his back on the mare, there was a brief period of silence before he spoke, “I’m not stupid Spitfire, I can tell you're worried about your marefriend, but we cannot jeopardize the entire teams performance on her,” he stated.

Spitfire felt the anger rise slightly, “sir with all do respect, I wouldn’t ask you this unless the whole team was in some sort of problem,” she said trying to reason with the stallion.

Silver sighed, still not moving from his current position, “well...that maybe true Spitfire, but I still cannot allow the training to be put on hold, you have a lot of work to get through,” he said knowingly as he turned to face the mare.

Spitfire closed her eyes as she pondered on the thought, she wanted her team to be on top form for the show and not a pack of sleeping foals, but on the other hoof she needed to get this performance finished...but at what cost?

Finally Spitfire nodded. "Okay sir, I understand but I must protest about the training over the weekend, we can't work the team half to death," she said.

Silver nodded. "Okay Spitfire, I will allow you and the team to have the weekend off, but no more, are we clear?" he asked.

Spitfire nodded. "Yes sir," she said confidently. Silver skies returned the nod and motioned for the mare to leave the office. Spitfire did so as the stallion returned to his duties.

Meanwhile in the mess hall, Rainbow was digging into her first meal of the day, she was thinking over what her plans were if she managed to get through the rest of today’s training without falling asleep.

Just then the clattering sound of a tray hitting the table roused Dash from her thoughts. She looked up to see Spitfire’s brother Blazing sitting down next to her. She still felt slightly nervous around the stallion when she wasn’t with Spitfire, but she kept her composure and decided to keep eating.

A few moments of awkward silence then followed until Blazing spoke, “you know, it’s polite to say hello?” he said in his usual goofy tone.

Dash nearly choked on the pasta she was swallowing and she turned round to face the stallion again. She gulped down the rest of her current food before speaking, “oh, um...sorry about that...what’s up?” she asked hesitantly.

Blazing smiled happily, “nothing much," he replied, "soo how are you enjoying the Wonderbolts?” he asked curiously.

Rainbow sighed. “Well...it’s alright I guess just…-”

“Not what you were expecting?” Blazing finished with a knowing tone. Dash nodded.

Another silence fell over the pair before the silver stallion spoke, “so how’s Spitfire been doing?” he asked hesitantly.

Dash was a bit shocked by the question, “wouldn’t you know how your own sister was doing?” she asked.

Blazing sighed heavily. “Actually to tell you the truth...we haven’t had a proper conversation in months…,” he said sadly.

Dash raised an eyebrow, “why not?” she asked concerned.

Blazing rubbed the back of his neck hesitantly before replying, “I guess it’s my fault...we used to be so close when we we’re foals...but since I changed my tune a few years ago we’ve just...gone our separate ways,” he said with another hefty sigh before continuing, “I loved the days I spent as a colt with my sister...we used to have the best of times...but now thanks to my attitude and self indulgence in beer I’ve ruined it…but I want to make things right,” he said confidently.

Dash was slightly confused by this, “wait...so after all these years you all of a sudden want to be a good brother again...what gives?” she asked with a slight smirk.

Blazing looked over at the mare, “well...Spitfire’s going to be enduring a rough time when word gets out that you two are together…our parents aren't gonna take it well and I wanna...be there for her when the going gets tough...guess I should have figured it out a while ago,” he said the guilt evident in his tone as he took a sip of his water.

For the first time, Dash started to feel some sympathy for the stallion, in the mists of becoming famous he’d broken a strong bond...when he realized it...it was too late.

Dash stopped what she was doing and turned round to fully face the stallion, she held a sincere smile on her face as she spoke, “you know what Blazing...you're not actually half bad once you stop being such an annoying ass,” she said giving him a playful shove.

Blazing blushed slightly in embarrassment, “yeah I guess so,” he said with a light chuckle as a smile started to grow on his muzzle.

Dash kept smiling as she continued, “you know, if you wanna get on Spitfire’s good side… then just you know...stop with the acting cool stuff and just be nice, like my friend Applejack told me, it’s better to be yourself than hiding behind a mask,” she said truthfully.

Blazing nodded acceptingly, “thanks Dash...you know you aren't half bad either… I think we got off on the wrong start, my names Blazing Fire, nice to meet your acquaintance,” he said happily holding out his hoof to which Dash happily shook.

Suddenly both ponies were brought into a group hug, “well I'm glad to see you both getting along so well,” Spitfire said happily, looking between the pair as she held her wings around both ponies pulling them closer together.

Dash rolled her eyes playfully before speaking, “oh hey, how did your conversation with Silver go?” she asked curiously as Spitfire released the hug and sat down next to her marefriend.

Spitfire sighed. “fraid it didn’t go down well...he’s not lifting up on the training,” she said as Dash lowered her head, “but he has agreed that we can take the weekend off, so are you going to come to the club tonight?” she asked in a hopeful tone.

Dash nodded. “sure if it means we don’t have to train all weekend I’m down with it,” she said happily.

Spitfire smiled warmly and nuzzled Dash’s cheek. Blazing sighed happily and spoke up, “well...I’ll leave you two alone for now, it was nice getting to know you a bit more miss Dash,” he said with a smirk before getting up and trotting away.

Spitfire looked between her marefriend and brother curiously, “what’s he up too?” she asked raising an eyebrow.

Rainbow looked away slightly nervous, “nothing much, but he’s actually quite alright once he stops being a jerk and actually talks to you,” she said happily.

Spitfire nodded as she nuzzled her partners cheek once more, “yeah, see what I told you Dash… he’s a goofball, but in the end I love him,” she said knowingly.

Dash smirked playfully, “are you trying to say that your brothers more lovable than me?” she said.

Spitfire shook her head playfully, “you know what I meant silly filly,” she said as the pair let out a giggle.

Spitfire sighed as she got up, “well I guess we’ve gotta get back to training, come on let’s get this over with,” she said beginning to trot towards the exit off the hall.

Dash nodded and got up as she began to follow the golden mare out of the hall, happy that she could be spending the night with her once again…

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Hey guys it's me Alex, hope you liked the chapter as usual.

anyways yet more and more fans keep seeming to find this fic, for which I am very grateful.

So in this chapter I wanted to introduce more of Blazing Fire, you'll start to see him a lot more off him now in the last of Act II and III

And yeah it's club time next chapter, it should hopefully bring us into the 30k words which is good I guess

so as usual it's summary time !

1: it's a friday of the first week in Manehatten the second week will go slightly quicker to avoid bordem.
2: Blazing Fire's going to be a more caring brother....what is this!
3: Yeah Silvers turning into your typical drill sargent but I want him to be a more 'do this!' manager.

~Alex

Chapter 15: Another Night Out

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 15: Another Night Out

Spitfire watched as the team completed yet another full routine. She sighed and looked over at the giant clock that hung from the right side of the large arena. Upon noticing the time, she came to the decision that it was about time she gave the team a break, despite Silver’s orders to keep training till the end of the day.

Spitfire picked up her whistle and blew on it, signalling the Wonderbolts to finish up. One by one they began to drop out of the sky and land on the soft surface of the arena. Spitfire smiled in amusement at her worn out colleagues. “Great work today you guys. I think that’s enough training for one day, so who’s hitting the club tonight?” she asked happily.

Soarin was the first to respond to the captain’s question. “Well, since we’ve got the weekend off, I guess I’ll go. You coming too, Rapid?” he asked as the stallion got himself up off the ground.

Rapid Fire nodded. “Sure, why not, but I’m not going to be anypony’s wingpony for any mares if that’s what you’re wanting,” he said knowingly.

Soarin waved a hoof dismissively. “Since when have I ever needed one of those,” he said confidently. Rapid Fire just chuckled lightly in response as the pair made their way towards the exit of the stadium.

“Anypony else going to join us?” Spitfire asked curiously, looking down at the two remaining members of the team.

Blazing looked over at Dash before speaking, “Yeah sure, why not? If everypony else is going,” he said happily, his tone of voice sparking some confusion from his golden sibling.

Dash nodded approvingly. “Heck yeah, why wouldn’t I?” she asked rhetorically.

“Great!” Spitfire exclaimed as she trotted with the three towards the locker rooms of the stadium. “Let’s get these uniforms off first,” she said.

Dash nodded. “Sure, so what club are we going to?” she asked curiously.

Blazing looked over at Spitfire who shrugged. “I don’t know, we’ll meet up with Soarin once we get ready,” she said happily.

Soon all three ponies reached the locker rooms of the stadium; the lockers didn’t have anything on them to signify whose locker it was, but they used the numbers as a ranking system: Spitfire being at number one and Dash at number five. The three ponies each dumped their uniforms in their lockers, before making their way towards the exit of the stadium.

Soarin and Rapid Fire awaited eagerly outside the large stadium, they heard the noise of an opening door, and turned around to see all the other ponies in the team exiting the building.

Spitfire looked between both the stallions as she came up them. “Sooo... where are we going tonight?” she asked with a mix of excitement and curiosity.

Soarin smirked. “Only to the biggest night out in Manehatten; we’re going to Club Stratosphere!” he said excitedly.

Blazing’s eyes widened in shock. “No, way! They say you have to book months in advance to get into that place!” he said in astonishment.

Soarin rolled his eyes. “That’s exactly what I did,” he said knowingly.

Blazing’s attitude towards Soarin was now making not only Spitfire curious, but now Rapid and Soarin himself.

The pale blue stallion smiled nervously. “Well, we might as well get going,” he said happily as the team began to trot off into the center of the big city.

The big lights of Manehatten were a sight to behold as the five ponies trotted through the main city streets if the giant city. The bustling streets were as busy as ever and the Wonderbolts had to squeeze their way through the crowds to get to their destination.

As they broke through another wave of ponies, Soarin looked up in amazement at the large neon lights of the Club Stratosphere. The beats could be heard emanating from inside as the five ponies closed in on the location.

There was a large line outside of the club where many ponies stood, eagerly hoping they would be lucky enough to enter. Soarin motioned for the team to follow him as he trotted right up towards the entrance of the club, where two large guard ponies stood blocking the doors into the building.

One of the guards looked down to see the advancing ponies. “Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to move to the back of the line,” he said sternly.

Soarin felt a smirk forming on his lips. He slipped a hoof into his jumpsuit and pulled out a reservation form, he handed it over to the guard who snatched the piece of paper from the Wonderbolt before reading it. His eyes scanned over the page as he raised an eyebrow before looking back up at the ponies.

The guard nodded. “Sure, right this way, Mr Soarin,” he said, pushing open the door and letting the five ponies in after him.

The Wonderbolts trotted down the dark hallway towards the center of the nightclub. The excitement in the air was enough to hype up anypony, as they trotted down the dark tunnel a light started to engulf the darkness until all the ponies were revealed to the large club.

Rainbow Dash recognized the beats coming from the decks centered at the far side of the club. She looked up and her excitement nearly hit the roof when she saw her friend, Vinyl Scratch, on the decks of the clubs stereo system. The white unicorn was currently playing a very heavy bass which sent vibrations running through the clubs flooring like an electrical explosion, sending shock-waves to the ponies dancing in the club.

The five ponies were quickly bunched together into the masses of crowds currently dancing to the beats of the music playing through the huge speakers which hung from the clubs ceiling only seeming to amplify the sound of the clubs music.

Dash looked over to Spitfire, who was already enjoying the sounds of the music. She was currently bouncing up and down in rhythm with the other ponies enjoying the beats, she turned to Dash and held out her forehooves motioning for Dash to take hold. The sky blue mare complied and took hold of her marefriend’s hooves as she began to follow the rest of the crowd.

As the beat continued Dash felt her enjoyment rise, she had a smile a mile wide spread across her face, she could see the rest of the team all joining in. Dash couldn’t remember how long ago she had done something as enjoyable like this and in the comfort of her marefriend; she never wanted it to end.

After a few moments though, Vinyl started to slow down the tone of the music, going into a more subtle tone. All the ponies started to calm down and catch their breath. Spitfire hugged her marefriend happily, something that caught Dash off guard. The Pegasus stumbled slightly but didn’t resist to hug back.

Spitfire released the hug as she spoke, “That was so amazing! We’re totally doing this more often!” she said excitedly.

“I know, I told you Vinyl was awesome!” Dash replied knowingly.

Spitfire nodded in approval as Soarin and the others came up to the mares. “Well that certainly took all the energy out of me,” Soarin said as he breathed in a few needed gulps of precious oxygen.

Rapid rolled his eyes. “You need to get some more exercise, Grampa. Right Blazing?” he said, leaning his head back as he looked towards the stallion in question. Blazing didn’t even acknowledge the stallion, something which surprised everypony in the small group.

Before anypony could question this, a new beat started up. Soarin looked between all the ponies nervously. “How about I go fetch us some drinks?” he asked.

All the ponies held in their laughter and managed a nod, Soarin nodded and headed off towards the bar. Spitfire turned to look at the rest of the ponies in the group. “So, anypony else up for some more?” she asked.

…

After a few more minutes of dancing everypony got tired, mostly from the hard days training. All of them were now at the the side of the club where a few tables where situated next to the bar.

Spitfire sat next to Dash on one of the bar stools as the pair played a few drinking games. Spitfire thanked the bartender as he gave her two identical shots, Spitfire set the two drinks on the table and slid one over to the sky blue mare.

Dash held the drink in her hand and raised an eyebrow. “Soo… what do we do again?”

Spitfire muffled a giggle. “Okay, so first you take the shot, now it’s really spicy so... longest to hold out before they have to take a drink is the winner,” she explained, pointing to the bottle of the water in front of them.

Dash nodded, her old confidence coming back to her. “Let's do this,” she said confidently, gripping the small glass. Spitfire grinned competitively as she too took the glass and counted down.

3...2...1...go!

Both Pegasi quickly lifted their drinks and chugged down the small glasses of alcohol, they then proceeded to slam the drinks back down on the table as they waited for the effects to sink in.

Dash felt normal for the first few seconds before a tingling sensation began to form in the back of her throat. But before she could react, the burning sensation erupted across her tongue and anywhere else the drink had managed to get to, soon her mouth was burning at the seams.

The mare looked over at Spitfire, she could tell by her marefirend’s usually golden cheeks turning a shade of red that she too was under the same burning frenzy Dash was encountering. Rainbow's eyes then quickly darted over to the bottle of water, she felt her body scream for the cool refreshment as she studied the clear liquid.

Finally Dash’s body took over her control and she quickly grabbed the bottle of water. She ripped the bottle cap off with her teeth before gulping down the cold beverage, the freezing liquid reliving her burning insides. Dash sighed happily when she felt the last of the burning sensation ebb away, she turned over to Spitfire who held her forehooves out to the mare like a foal wanting their mother. Dash looked down at the bottle she was holding and realized what it was the golden pegasus was wanting, she quickly tossed the bottle over to the mare who drank the remaining liquid in the bottle before giving an equal sigh in satisfaction.

“Well...I guess you won that time,” Dash said in a rather annoyed tone.

Spitfire smiled and leaned over as she gave the mare a quick peck on the cheek. “It doesn't matter, Dash. Maybe you can win something else tonight instead,” she said with a wink. Dash blushed slightly at the comment. Suddenly, the faint sound of a voice calling over to the mares roused the Pegasi, they both looked over to one of the tables close to the bar. Spitfire saw Soarin motioning with a hoof for her to come over.

The golden mare turned back to Rainbow. “I’ll be back in a sec,” she said giving the mare another kiss before trotting over towards the rest of the team.

Dash sighed and motioned to the bartender for another drink, she propped her face up with a forehoof on the bar stand. Suddenly, a voice spoke up, one that shocked the mare to the core.

”Hey, Rainbow Crash… what brings you here?” Hoops snarled as Dash quickly turned around to confirm her deepest fears.

The blue mare felt her mind freeze instantly, then shattering into a thousand pieces. Standing before her was a large brown stallion, even larger than Dash remembered him as in high school. His presence still made Dash seem to shrink to the size of a filly though.

The stallion advanced on the mare as he spoke, “So, Crashie. Are you here for some fillyfooling, or are you still chasing after that hot mare… what’s her name?” he asked, taking Dash’s drink and gulping down the contents.

Dash, though, was nothing but a motionless object, she couldn’t find the words to speak as fear started to freeze not only her mind, but her body as well. She only hoped Hoops didn’t realize how vulnerable she was right now.

To Rainbow’s relief, however, the stallion did look on the slightly tipsy side, but this only made him more agitated. “Well?! Are you going to speak, Crash! Or are you going to sit there and hope some bitch is going to take you away to fairyland,” he said as the anger in his voice started to rise over the mares incapability to speak.

Meanwhile over at the table, Spitfire was still in conversation with Soarin. The golden mare glanced over at the bar, and spotted Rainbow sitting next to a stallion. She thought nothing of it at first, but then her eyes caught the stallion’s cutie mark.

Spitfire remembered what Dash had said about the stallion who adorned those marks, her eyes quickly shifted back up to the mare in question. Spitfire saw Dash’s eyes, and how her forehoof was shaking slightly on the bar stand.

Spitfire felt the initial shock be replaced by utter rage. She turned away from her conversation with Soarin and her wings flared out defensively as she trotted towards the bar. Her hooves slammed on the glossy floor of the club as she made her way over.

Dash was still sitting at the bar as the brown stallion continued to rant, his comments becoming more threatening, “Hello?! Crash! Speak up! Stop sitting there like the little coward you are and talk to me!” he shouted, making Dash seem to gasp silently as she felt the fear increase around her body.

Hoops snapped. He got up of the bar stool and raised his hoof to strike the mare, but before he could complete the action a golden hoof grabbed his shoulder as a voice whispered into his ear. The voice ran out through his brain like venom.

“Don’t you even dare try and hurt my marefriend! Or I swear to Celestia, I will make sure they’ll be cleaning your blood off the floor.”

The hoof on the stallions shoulder turned him around to face the enraged mare, her brow furrowed and wings outstretched. She look that of an ursa major who had been woken from winter hibernation.

The stallion, however, wasn’t fazed by the mare; still under the influence of his drink. “Oh really… what could you do? You're just a fillyfooler!” he shouted, stumbling slightly. “And besides, who would want to defend somepony like that!” he finished, pointing an accusing hoof at the rainbow mare.

“I do,” Spitfire said as she turned round and reared her hind legs. The stallion was too late to react as the strong athletic muscle collided with his face, destroying his jaw as a few teeth shot out from his mouth.

The stallion hit the ground, hard, rousing Vinyl from her current song. She looked over at the bar and saw her friend sitting at on a bar stool as a golden mare stood over a brown stallion. She lowered the volume of the music as the whole clubs attention focused on the two ponies at the bar.

Spitfire growled as she looked over the stallion, who was now slightly more conscious than he was before -- despite his broken face which was now bleeding heavily. Spitfire leaned down as she spoke, “You will never come near my marefriend again! Or next time I’ll break something more important than your face!” she shouted, the rage in her tone made very clear.

The stallion nodded timidly as he started to shake from the impending fear of another hit. Spitfire looked up at Rainbow, who was utterly shocked at what she saw. The sky blue mare locked eyes with her marefriend as a thankful smile spread across her muzzle.

Spitfire smiled lovingly back at the mare before looking back down at the stallion in a disgusted manner. She stepped off the brown pony and trotted over to Rainbow Dash. The mare wrapped a wing around the blue pony as they made their way out of the club.

Soarin and the rest of the team looked anxiously at each other, before quietly leaving the club with the mares as the crowd watched in shock. Some of the ponies went over to go and help the stallion, and others looked back over to Vinyl, who shrugged and turned the music back up as the club turned back into full swing.

In the crowd a lone pony sat with a camera. He patted the item comfortingly, before making his way out of the club...

...

Spitfire flung open the doors into the outside world once again. Dash breathed in the air shakily as Spitfire rubbed a hoof along the mare’s back comfortingly. Rainbow felt the tears well up in her eyes. She buried her head in Spitfire’s shoulder as she whispered, “Thank you, Spitfire.”

The golden mare laughed amusingly. “Now what have I said about thanking me?” she asked playfully.

Dash chuckled happily as she wiped her muzzle with a fore hoof. “I know, it’s just-”

Spitfire put a hoof on Dash’s chest, stopping her. “I know, and to my defense I did say if he ever came near you, I’d break his face, and that’s exactly what I did,” she said as she kissed the mare softly on the cheek.

Dash’s face lit up slightly at her marefriend’s words. Spitfire continued, “So, you want to go to the hotel?” she asked kindly.

The blue mare nodded.

Spitfire smiled, she turned to Soarin and the rest of the team as they quickly trotted over to the pair.

Soarin held a face of both confusion and horror as so did the others. “W-what was that!?” he asked, completely stunned.

Spitfire deadpanned. “Protecting my marefriend,” she stated, giving the mare in question another soft kiss on the neck as she kept massaging her back.

Soarin looked between Blazing and Rapid before turning back to Spitfire as they all said in unison, “What from?”

Spitfire turned back to the rest of the team. “It’s a long, painful story. But for now, though, me and Dash are going to head back to the hotel. We’ll see you guys tomorrow.”

With that both mare’s took off into the distance, leaving a very confused Soarin, Rapid and Blazing below.

Spitfire and Dash soon arrived back at the large hotel. The two ponies trotted into the bedroom as Spitfire crashed onto the bed along with Dash, the golden mare turned her head to face the mare. “You gonna be alright, baby?” she asked tenderly.

Dash nodded. “Yeah, I’ll be fine in the morning,” she replied in a dry tone.

Before Spitfire could mark a response the sky blue mare continued, “But, why did you save me?” she asked.

Spitfire was slightly shocked by the question. “What do you mean, silly filly? I’m your marefriend, wouldn’t be one if I wasn’t lookin' out for you, It's kinda in the job description,” she said.

Dash sighed. “Yeah, but still, I mean… he wasn’t that scary,” she said, going quiet at the end of her sentence.

Spitfire nodded. She knew why she had been as angry as she was… and now was the time to let Dash know. “Dashie,” she said, the nickname getting the mare’s attention.

Spitfire moved over on the bed so she was now lying on top of the mare. She cradled her marefriend’s head in her hooves as she looked intently in to her eyes. “Since we met, I knew you were something special, and not just in flying, but in everything you do. I wouldn’t have even dreamed of being able to get someone like you as my marefriend.” A smile started to spread across her face. “It’s been a month since I’ve had the privilege to call you that, Dash, and it’s been one of the greatest things in my life to do. I would have thought that we would have just had some fun nights out together, but it’s been nothing short of amazing.

"I’ve admired you before this whole thing even started, and I can’t believe I’m even in this position with you right now… and I think… over the course of that month… I’ve not just liked you more, Rainbow…I think I’ve… I think I've fallen in love with you,” she said, letting the word finally leave her mouth.

Dash was completely stunned, in the one day she had experienced not only her worst nightmare, but her biggest dream ever! She let the word ring out through her mind… Spitfire loved her… the mare she had admired all these years actually… loved her. The feelings of happiness and joy started to radiate throughout the mare as tears gushed out her eyes. She leaped forward, kissing the mare passionately, never wanting the moment to ever end.

As the kiss ended, Dash started to sob happily. “I love you too, Spitfire. I love you more than you know,” she said happily, hugging the mare as she nuzzled into her neck.

Spitfire sighed happily. “So do I, baby, and I will always protect those I love… I will always protect you,” she said truthfully.

Dash nodded in acceptance, she knew she would do the same, but she didn’t feel the need to tell the pegasus that at the specific time. Dash released the embrace as they both went back into more kissing, however, the kissing started to get more and more passionate, each mare wanted to express their true feelings. Spitfire looked into the eyes of the mare she loved and winked seductively, Dash grinned mischievously… both of them knew this was going to be the best night of their life…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Okay so first no there is no clopfic in this story, sorry to say, hehe though we may bring out a seprate fic maybe a few months after the fics been completed

anyways before we get started this is by far the best chap I've written in the fic, I loved writing it and I would like to dedicate this chapter to a reader who is really doing his best to contribuite to the fic so far, we had Vinyl in the club just for you buddy -Vinyl scratch_14-

Sooo yeah this chapter was a good one and I think a it's really the climax of act II still there is about...3 more chaps to go in this one so far act II has ranged 12000 words so we definatly used the slice of life tag in this fic

Soooo guys hoped you liked the chap and as always summary time!

1: Finally they admitted their love for each other FINALLY AFTER 32000 WORDS!
2: Yeah Hoops got owned...been a long time since anyones said that before.
3: Yeah Mike's slightly dead.
4: I wanted to keep Soarin and the rest confused till the next day.
5: Yes I think you all know what Spit and Dash are about to do...
6: whats the pony gonna do with that camera....OHHH cliffhanger half way through a chapter !
7: whats happening to Blazing :O

~Alex

And they f**ked!

Riddle: A murderer is sentenced to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

Answer in next chapter.

~ Michael

Chapter 16: The Morning After

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 16: The morning After

Rainbow Dash slowly opened her eyes, she saw the faint light of the morning sun cascading through the door of the bedroom filling the room with a faint orange hue. The next thing Rainbow noticed was a warm, snug feeling. She moved her eyes downwards to see many gold feathers that had curved themselves around her body. Dash then moved her eyes back up as she then noticed Spitfire’s muzzle only a few inches away from where she lay.

A small smile came to her face as she saw her lover curled up next to her sleeping soundly, the small breaths from her mouth washing across Dash’s muzzle. The sky blue mare snickered from the ticklish feeling it gave her which began to awake the yellow mare by her side.

Spitfire yawned cutely as she regained her lost senses, she rubbed one eye with a forehoof as she came to. Spitfire grinned happily when she saw her marefriend laying next to her. The golden mare leaned over and kissed the mare softly on the lips.

“Good Morning Dashie, how was your sleep?” she whispered lovingly.

Dash blushed slightly, “well, I’m not really sure we did get much sleep anyway,” she said hesitantly.

Spitfire smirked mischievously. “Yeah, but it was fun right?”

Dash nodded before responding, “yeah I guess you're right,” she said with a smirk.

Spitfire leaned over again this time planting a kiss on the mare’s soft cheek, Dash let out a small laugh as Spitfire began peppering kisses all over her upper body.

“Spitfire..hehe..s-stop it,” Dash said fighting the urge fall into a fit of laughter.

Just when the blue mare thought she could take no more, Spitfire retraced from her and nuzzled into her neck lovingly as she whispered, “so what is it you want to do today?”

Dash pondered over the thought for a few moments before responding, “how about we go see a show, you know I played as a main character for the Canterlot in the hearths warming eve pageant,” she said confidently.

Spitfire wore a look of surprise at this latest piece of news, “my marefriend likes plays does she?” she asked amusingly as she reached a hoof over to stroke Rainbow’s mane.

Dash nodded sheepishly. “Well...kinda, but I like performing in plays rather than watching them,” she said happily remembering the moments she spent on Canterlot’s big stage. Spitfire just giggled to herself before she slowly got out of the bed shaking her head playfully as she pulled the covers back before trotting towards the exit of the room.

Dash raised an eyebrow. “Hey where are you-”

“I’m just going to check if anything came out in the papers about last night’s fiasco,” Spitfire answered as she made her way out of the room, “you just stay their Dash, I’ll be back in a flash."

Spitfire put a forehoof to her mouth and she yawned again as she made her way towards the elevator. She sighed and pressed the button in the elevator as it started to descend towards the ground floor of the hotel. She looked in the large mirror which was plastered on one of the walls of the elevator. Spitfire turned to the mirror and started matting down her dishevelled hairstyle just opting to leave it to it’s more natural style where her hair simply just hung low over the right side of her head.

The doors to the elevator opened revealing the large lobby floor which spanned out in front of her, Spitfire trotted out into the large hall. She made her way over to the oval desk in the center of the lobby. Spitfire looked over to the desk in question and saw a familiar pale blue stallion waiting at the lobby anxiously with a letter held tightly in his hoof.

Spitfire got in earshot of the stallion before speaking up, “hey Soar, what’s up?” she asked happily coming up to the pony.

Soarin looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the golden mare making her way over to him, “hey Spit, hows it going?” he asked slightly hesitant.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow, “what’s with you Soar, your not usually this nervous,” she said with a hint of worry.

Soarin didn’t respond and just handed the mare a white envelope. Spitfire took it as he spoke, “Silver wants to see you as soon as possible, just know Spit I won’t let anypony get in the way of you and Dash if the worst is to come,” he said confidently.

Spitfire though had gone completely silent, she knew what the stallion was on about. She felt a pain in her chest rise as she thought about what she was going to find when she got to Silver’s office.

Taking a shaky breath Spitfire managed a nod, “thanks Soar, I knew I could count on you,” she said with a small smile.

Soarin nodded. “As always Spitfire, I’ll see you around,” he said returning to his normal attitude as he trotted out of the hotel.

Spitfire looked down at the letter she had been given, another chill ran down her spine. She sighed heavily knowing what she would have to go through today and for the next few months. She looked back over towards the elevator before trotting over to it and heading back up to the hotel suite.

Dash was currently looking through the fridge in the small kitchen of the hotel when she heard the sound of the elevator door’s opening, she turned round and her face lit up at the sight of her marefriend, “hey Spitfire, are you alright?” she asked.

Spitfire thought it best to keep what she thought a secret from her marefriend for the time being, she didn’t want to trouble her marefriend right after she’d confessed her love to her.

With this in mind the golden mare opted to simply smile as she trotted into the apartment, “I’m fine Dashie, I’ve got to go see Silver as soon as possible though,” she stated as she trotted over to the mare.

Dash raised an eyebrow. “Why, we haven’t got more training have we?” she asked hesitantly feeling her wings starting to ach.

Spitfire shook her head dismissively. “No no, I’m just heading over their for some…planning... for the show,” she said hoping her cover up would work.

Rainbow kept her eyebrow raised as she scanned the mare, Spitfire smiled sheepishly hoping Dash hadn’t discovered something was wrong.

To Spitfire’s relief however Rainbow’s face softened and she nodded, “Okay then just don’t be too long,” she said nuzzling the mare affectionately.

Spitfire nuzzled back before speaking, “okay, I promise I’ll still be back in time for us to do something together,” she said happily.

Spitfire leaned over and kissed the mare before saying, “I’ll see you later Dashie, I love you,” she whispering into her partners ear.

Dash smiled happily, “I love you too Spitfire,” she said giving her marefriend a quick hug.

After a few more moments the mares parted, Spitfire gave her marefriend one last kiss on the cheek before leaving the room and heading towards the exit of the apartment once again.

As Spitfire walked she took the letter she had left in the elevator and pressed the button to go back down, she thought about what was going to happen, was she going to lose her job… or worse. The thoughts buzzed through the mares mind and she felt the nerves start to build in her stomach.

She sighed... today wasn’t going to be the best of days.

To be Continued...

Author's Note

sooo sorry about this chap being so short, it was only going to be 'the morning after' so there wasn't much to do really just another linking chap here, I should have more up over the weekend but football really has got me down lately.

So onto the story in hand, we're coming to the closing stages but I kinda want the end of Act II left on a cliff hanger for you guys, hehe I'm evil when I wanna be

Anyways summary time.

1: Spitfire's gonna keep what she thinks Silver is going to say to her a secret from Dash for now.
2: Yeah you can Kinda already tell what happened the night before and what's gonna happen in the next chapter.
3: Spitfire loves that elevator.

~Alex

Chapter 17: Every Cloud has a Silver Lining

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 17: Every Cloud has a Silver Lining

Spitfire landed on the cold hard ground at the entrance to the stadium. She looked up to see her reflection in the door of the building. She sighed and pushed it open before trotting into the arena.

After a few moments Spitfire was trotting down one of the long hallways in the stadium, the only sound being the echo’s of her hooves hitting the tiled floor of the corridor. She found the sound slightly haunting, but she continued onwards towards Silver's office. The nerves in her chest still rising with every step.

It felt like forever to Spitfire when she finally stopped outside Silver’s door, she hesitantly lifted a hoof and knocked the wooden surface until she heard the voice of the stallion, but instead of hearing a voice, the door opened to reveal Silver Skies. His face was darkened slightly by the lack of light between the door and the sun.

“Come in,” he said flatly, leaving the door slightly ajar as he trotted back into the office. Spitfire quietly pushed the door open, she spotted a stack of newspapers on Silver’s desk, she gulped hard knowing what was about to happen.

Silver didn’t sit down, his posture was very stern, but his face was blank only making Spitfire more worried than she already was before. After a few moments of tense silence the dark blue stallion spoke, “Okay Spitfire, I think you already know why I’ve asked you to come here,” Silver said in a very dark tone.

Spitfire nodded nervously, the fear of losing her dream job setting in around her mind. The stallion kept a forehoof on the stack of papers, he then proceeded to pick up a quarter of the stack before throwing them on the floor in front of the Wonderbolt captain. The three newspapers held the same photo with different headlines. They were all big newspapers one of which was Manehatten Daily itself.

The three headlines included ‘Firey Wonderbolt saves Marefriend’,’Wonderbolt Fillyfooler?’ and the most horrifying ‘Spitfire ruins Wonderbolt reputation over fillyfooling.’

Spitfire couldn’t hold her jaw from dropping at the sight, she was utterly shocked by what she saw, before she could open her mouth to respond though Silver cut her off.

“Spitfire...what did I tell you on the first day we arrived here in Manehatten?” he asked plainly, raising an eyebrow.

Spitfire rubbed the back of her neck with a hoof, “you told us not to get on the front pages for something like this sir,” she replied trying to be as formal as possible in front of the manager.

Silver nodded. “That is correct captain and what did you do?” he asked his voice getting slightly more firm.

Spitfire lowered her head ever so slightly, “disobeyed the order sir,” she said solemnly. bracing herself for what was to come.

Silver sighed heavily. “Spitfire... I’m not going to fire you over this, but then again that all depends on how the public react to it, and judging by the headlines I wouldn’t hold out much hope,” he stated.

Spitfire nodded. “Okay sir, I understand,” she replied feeling the full impact of the punishment. If the public didn’t like how the image of the Wonderbolts was changing...she could be out of her dream job. Suddenly without warning, Spitfire was thrown from her mind back into reality.

“How do you intend to fix this captain?” Silver asked.

Spitfire blinked a few times before answering, “I-I...guess we’ll just have to put on a great performance for the rest of the tour, show ponies we haven't changed,” she said with a slight glimmer of hope.

Silver Skies nodded. “Well I hope for your sake it works, for now though I think you should go home...tell Rainbow too... she deserves to know about this,” Silver said in a surprisingly calm tone. Spitfire nodded before slowly trotting out of the office.

Spitfire closed the door to Silver’s office, she sighed heavily before turning to trot away down the hallway, but when she did a certain silver stallion was standing in front of her.

“Blazing, what are you doing here?” she asked curiously.

The stallion didn’t reply and simply wrapped her up in an embrace, Spitfire didn’t hold back as she hugged her sibling. After a few moments of peaceful silence Blazing spoke, “I heard about what happened...and I want you to know we can get through on this together, I’m willing to be the bigger brother if you want me too,” he said anxiously waiting to see what his younger sibling would say.

Spitfire felt her spirits rise at her brothers words, but there was still something bugging her mind, she looked up at Blazing and raised an eyebrow, “why do you want to help me now? you’ve been very weird lately Blazing, what's going on?” she asked getting very concerned with her brothers actions.

Blazing simply smiled as he held his sister close, “well...a couple of days ago I had a talk with Rainbow…I want to be the big brother I’m supposed to be now because you're going to be under a lot soon and I want to be there when it happens not be drunk in some bar.”

Spitfire smiled back, “that’s good to hear Blazing...I needed that,” she said happily.

Blazing released the hug and ruffled Spitfire’s mane, “Glad to hear it, so what's the plan then...more training,” he asked hesitantly.

Spitfire muffled her laughter as she shook her head playfully, “I’m afraid that's inevitable Blazing, but I think all we can do is give em a good show and see what happens,” she said shrugging her shoulders.

Blazing nodded. “Well sounds like a plan, if you need anything you know where I am at the hotel,” he said getting ready to take flight.

Spitfire chuckled. “What are you just going to go home and play some more poker with yourself?” she asked amusingly.

Blazing stopped in his tracks and turned back to face the golden mare, he smirked. “Of course not, unless you want to join me?” he asked.

Spitfire shook her head. “na I’m going out with Rainbow today,” she said coming up to her brothers side.

Blazing was a little puzzled by this, “but what about the city, they’ll all know about what happened last night,” he pointed out.

Spitfire smirked mischievously. “Well if they read the article then they’ll know that nopony touches my Rainbow,” she said proudly.

Blazing put a forehoof to his chin as he pondered, “hmm touche,” he said as the two let out another giggle.

Spitfire sighed. “Well I best get going...race ya?” she asked flaring her wings ready for a competition.

Blazing nodded confidently. “Sure thing sis...3...2...-”

“1 go!” Spitfire finished before darting off into the sky. Blazing rolled his eyes before shooting off after the mare…happy to be close to his sibling once again, but the real test was still to come...

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Right...okay....again I'm really sorry for the short chapter, it's just things are changing a lot in terms of Act II and I've kinda changed it slightly, to do this I've had to make this chapter which is quite small, now given another 2 days I probably could have put this chapter and the future chapter together...but I didn't want to hold you guys over the weekend without an update so here you go, hope you liked it.

Well on the chapter as a whole it turned out the way I wanted it too, Blazing is changing but the real test will come when they go back to Cloudsdale.

for Act II I have just 2 more chapters, the next will be 2 thousand or more I promise and then the show chapter will be something like 5k words since I'll be putting what was origanally 2 chaps into one so yeah.

Anyways onto summary time...

1: Spitfire has kept her job FOR NOW, if the public react badly to this then Spitfire will be out of the job
2: I intend for Blazing to keep changing, I kinda want him to say what he said to Spitfire to the whole team but I'm still working on it
3: Yeah sorry Mike is practically dead
4: Silver didn't go off the handle. I felt it was too out of character for him

sorry for the short chap...again ~Alex

Chapter 18: A Date With a Rainbow

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 18: A Date With a Rainbow

Spitfire had already said goodbye to her brother Blazing only a few moments ago. She was now currently on her way back to the hotel having stopped a few blocks away to stretch her hooves. The sun was now beginning its descent towards the horizon, but was still lighting up the world as usual. As Spitfire continued to trot down the vast streets she seemed to notice a lot more ponies looking at her than she was usually used to seeing.

Spitfire felt slightly creeped out by this, she was used to having ponies take the odd look as she passed by probably remembering her from a show or party, but this was a different level of popularity and the mare began to feel slightly claustrophobic as she weaved in and out of the ponies on the city’s streets.

Luckily for Spitfire she wasn’t far away from the hotel, not long after she’d started her trek the golden mare reached the tall structure and she briskly walked into the lobby and into the elevator. She pressed the button to the penthouse.

Spitfire giggled to herself, she’d been using this elevator a lot lately and it was only midday.

Soon though the doors to the elevator opened to reveal nothing but a lifeless apartment in front of the golden mare. Spitfire looked around curiously as she walked out of the elevator, she had a feeling something was watching her but she couldn’t see anything.

Suddenly out of the silence Spitfire heard something, but it was too inaudible to tell. A smirk started to form on her lips when she realized what a certain cyan mare was playing at. She swiftly moved round a few corners and into the suites bathroom. The yellow mare peeked out of the doorway as she spotted the cyan mare waiting cautiously behind a wall close to the living area of the home.

Spitfire grinned and launched out off the door startling the cyan mare, before Rainbow could react she was brought to the ground and being mercilessly tickled by her marefirend.

“Hahahacome onahaha stophehe I-Ihahah I’m ticklishhhhahahaha,” Rainbow said trying her best to get out of the troublesome spot she had gotten herself into.

Spitfire simply smiled at the sky blue mare below her and retracted her hooves, “well that all depends on what you have to offer me,” she said playfully, leaning down to nuzzle the mare.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “What is it that you require, captain?” she asked amusingly.

Spitfire laughed before leaning down and planting a kiss on the mare’s muzzle before whispering ,”I need you to come with me to the living room… there’s something I need to tell you,” she said her tone turning slightly more serious.

Dash was slightly concerned by her marefriend’s change in tone. “Why, what’s happened Spit?” she asked worryingly.

Spitfire sighed. “Follow me... I’ll tell you,” she said getting up off the mare and holding out a hoof to help her up before the pair made their way over to the sofa in the living quarters of the suite.

Rainbow sat down next to the golden mare on the sofa, she kept as close as possible to her as Spitfire told her the problem.

The mare sighed. “Dash, Silver thought you deserved to know about what's happening and...I agree so heres the skinny Rainbow, what happened last night at the club got out onto the papers somehow, I don’t know who did it but that doesn’t matter. What does is how our relationship is going to go, we’re going to get a lot of attention Dash...but that doesn’t mean we can’t be marefriends outside of the hotel, it just means we’re going to have to adjust to this...If you want to back out now...I understand,” Spitfire said feeling the nerves rise in her chest as she awaited a response from the Sky blue mare.

Dash was slightly shocked by what she heard, but in hindsight she had seen something like this coming, but then her mind shifted to Spitfire’s last words, she felt a determined emotion rise in her before she leaned over and kissed the mare deeply. When they finally parted Rainbow spoke, “Spitfire I wouldn’t leave you even If Equestria was going to fall into a black hole,” she said smiling, “and so what if ponies look at us differently… they're probably just jealous anyway,” she said as the pair let out a chuckle.

Spitfire nodded. “I’m glad to hear it Dash, I knew I could count on you,” she said happily, wrapping her wings around the mare.

Rainbow snuggled up to her marefriend, “you can always count on me Spit, unless I’m reading Daring Doo, in that case you’ll have to give me a few minutes,” she joked.

Spitfire smiled as she leaned down to kiss the mare on the forehead, “I love you Dash,” she said truthfully nuzzling the mare’s neck.

Rainbow returned the smile as she spoke, “I love you too Spitfire,” she said returning the nuzzle as silence came over the room for a few moments.

Soon though the sky blue mare spoke up, “Sooo, do you still wanna go see a show?” she asked in a hopeful tone.

Spitfire grinned and nodded. “Sure thing, where do you have in mind?” she asked curiously.

Dash pondered on the thought for a few moments before answering, “hmmm, well we could go see the Manehatten’s hearths warming pageant?,” she said.

Spitfire nodded. “Sounds like a great Idea Dashie, let’s get going,” she said with a hint of excitement, the two mare’s shared a final kiss before trotting towards the exit of the penthouse.

Spitfire opened the large glass door to the city and let Dash through before letting it close behind her. Celestia's sun was now starting to dip below the horizon. The winter air now starting to settle in around the city making Spitfire shiver a little.

Rainbow looked over at the freezing mare, she was used to being in the cold weather for the winter since she lived in Ponyville, but she could tell the her marefriend wasn’t the pony for cold weather. She wrapped a wing around the golden mare lovingly, “better?” she asked kindly.

Spitfire smiled and nodded. “Yeah much better,” she replied happily before the pair headed off in the direction of Manehattan's theater.

As they trotted down the streets Spitfire knew she was getting a lot more looks than she had previously, but this time in the protection of Rainbow she didn’t feel any care at all and she even leaned on her marefriend for comfort as they trotted towards their destination.

Dash looked down at her marefriend, “you okay there Spitfire?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire nodded. “Yeah I’m cool...just exhausted from the day,” she said dejectedly.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “There was more conversation with Silver than you told me wasn’t there?” she said knowingly.

Spitfire was slightly astonished at her marefriend, but she didn’t hold back from telling her the truth. “Yeah there was. Silver says If I can’t find a way to get the public on our side about all of this then I could be out of the job,” she said solemnly.

Rainbow was slightly shocked, “woah, he would really do that?” she said slightly astonished by what her marefriend had said. Spitfire only nodded in approval.

With this new information Rainbow pondered for a moment. She thought about ways of enhancing their performance now less than a week away, her mind quickly shifted to a signature trick of hers that would fix the job perfectly.

Spitfire looked up to see a smirk spreading across Rainbow’s lips as sky blue mare thought,

“What are you thinking about Dash?” Spitfire asked curiously.

The Rainbow maned mare in question kept her smirk as she looked down to meet with the golden pony, “oh it’s nothing Spitfire, you’ll see next week at training,” she said with a hint of excitement.

Spitfire just rolled her eyes playfully in response as the pair kept trotting happy to be spending the night with one another again…

A Few Hours Later…

Rainbow and Spitfire trotted out of the theater, both looked like they’d just endured hours of fun, but not from the play entirely.

Spitfire laughed along with her marefriend. “Haha That was soo funny when you kissed me in front of Fancy Pants,” she said trying to hold in the rest of the impending laughter.

Rainbow grinned mischievously. “Well I had to do something he was giving you those weird looks like he was coming onto you so I did what I thought was needed,” she stated happily as Spitfire let out another fit of laughter.

“What by making out with me in front of the most popular pony in Canterlot?” she replied giggling as Dash turned a shade of crimson.

“Maybe, but you seemed to like it anyway,” Dash said with a smirk. Spitfire nodded as she leaned over to give the mare a soft kiss on her muzzle.

As the pair continued to trot down the street the mention of the royal city had brought Spitfire back to thinking about her parents, she knew that they would have known by now and were probably waiting to kill her back at Cloudsdale. Rainbow noticed the change in mood and looked over to her marefriend whose head now hung low.

Rainbow wrapped a comforting wing around her partner, “hey Spitfire you okay?” she asked.

Spitfire nodded. “Yeah I’m cool, just thinking about my parents…” she said sighing heavily.

“Hey you know we’ll get through this together Spitfire...we’re not just gonna leave you,” she said wholeheartedly.

Spitfire smiled and nuzzled her marefriends light blue chest, “thanks Dash, I just have a lot on my mind right now...I’m letting it get to me,” she said truthfully.

Dash rolled her eyes. “Well duh Spitfire the next few weeks are gonna suck, but that doesn’t mean you have to do them alone,” she said happily, tightening the winged embrace. The golden mare gave a confident nod in response.

Spitfire felt a well of emotions erupt from within, she wanted to shout to the world at this point that she had the best mare in Equestria, but at the same time she didn’t want the world to know about it, she wanted Rainbow and her to be together without the humilities of life...but of course she knew this was just a fantasy.

As the pair trotted down the city street the large hotel came into view, Rainbow sighed. “Well todays been fun right?” she asked the now tired mare.

Spitfire sighed. “Well it was good and bad I guess,” she said with a yawn, “but at least I got to spend time with my Rainbow,” she finished giving the mare in question an affectionate kiss.

Dash’s face lit up with happiness. “Thats good to hear Spit, you wanna do the same tomorrow before we go back to the dreadful training?” she asked.

Spitfire muffled a giggle. “Yeah that sounds fun Dashie, at least tomorrow we’ll be able to spend all day together,” she said happily nuzzling the mare.

Dash nuzzled back happily. “Sure thing Spitfire, now why don’t we hit the hay, I’m beat,” she said letting out a yawn. Spitfire again nodded in approval.

The two pegasi made their way back into the hotel and not too long after they made their way into the suites bedroom, they curled up next to each other lovingly embracing one another in their wings before drifting off to sleep both happy to be with one another more than ever...they just hoped they would still feel the same after the coming weeks…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Soooo another chapter with 2000 words as promised.

now this chapter did originally come out as 1550 words but I managed to change that around with a few more bits I think it turned out rather well, let me know what you think in the comments.

Anyways onto the chapter, basically this is just Spitfire telling Dash what's happening and her reaction to it, I want Dash's loyalty to really start to show now in the next coming chapters, hopefully you all like that.

Now just as a quick note the story shall be moving forward again just a few days so we're back into training were Dash will show her secret trick but I think we all know what she's planning.

Oh and as a quick thing before the summary I had someone ask me how I write so good so fast, well I listen to music to write but not just any old dubstep music, stuff the inspires the fic- a fact for you guys to know every fic I've written is based of a song I've listened to which has given me an idea.

-lifes lessons was based off - square one by coldplay
-Raining Fire was based off - joyride by roosters
-Struggles of a bent relationship was based off - Fix you by coldplay
-Fleet of hearts was based off- For the First Time by the script

I just get insperation from the lyrics it helps me right a lot so yeah that and I'm a more think on the spot writer I don't really plan anything before writing I just jump in which I encourage all you new writers to do!

anyways summary time !

Dash is going to be more caring now towards Spitfire and help her in anyway she can
Spitfire is feeling a bit nervous about the preformance but she has faith that the team will do well
Spitfire trusts Dash now to tell her just about anything
Mike might say he's not dead, but give him a few days :P

~Alex

Chapter 19: Let The Rain Fall

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 19: Let The Rain Fall

The next few days passed and the tension started to settle in about the impending show now only some four days away from now. The team had spent a few nights training under the watch of Silver Skies with impressing results. However, Rainbow had yet to show anypony her idea for the routine.

Today though was a very bad day for weather, with the winter finally setting in the rain had started to come a lot more frequently than before. Still all the Wonderbolts were out bright and early to do the days back breaking training.

The Manehatten arena was not the best shelter for the incoming rain and the cold air that came along with it wasn’t exactly a pleasant feeling, still though Spitfire bared through the cold as she watched the team dive and perform the routine for the show, luckily the jump suits were made for this kind of weather, but the tightness of the material meant that at high speeds the rain felt like razor sharp knives hitting you like they had been fired from a cannon.

Rainbow scrunched her face and gritted her teeth together as she powered through the foul weather, she wanted to impress the team today with her new move, but in the bad weather it would seem as if she would have to hold off on that until later.

Spitfire shivered slightly from the cold wet feeling now soaking her uniform robbing it of it’s waterproof ability, she took that as a sign for a break, pulling her whistle up she blew hard. The Wonderbolts flew back down onto the arena before they followed the captain inside to the locker rooms of the stadium.

Spitfire made a headcount of every pony as they trotted into the building, happy that everypony was present the yellow mare sighed and began to try and remove her headpiece that was stuck to her furr by the water.

Rainbow looked over towards her marefriend and held back her laughter as the golden mare tried with all her might to get her uniform off, pulling it forcefully only seeming to tighten the uniform around her body. Spitfire stopped when she heard the muffled giggles from her marefriend.

Spitfire sighed silently pleading for the mare’s help. Dash smiled warmly and trotted over to her holding in her laughter as she helped the mare get her headpiece off. Spitfire breathed out a sigh of relief when they both managed to finally remove the headpiece from her.

Dash smiled and leaned in giving the mare a light peck on the cheek, “better?” she asked happily.

Spitfire nodded. “Yeah thanks Dash, these suits really do stick to you sometimes,” she replied with a groan now moving on to tackle the rest of the uniform.

Dash chuckled. “Yeah, I was going to try that new move I’ve been working on, but that weather is really bad out there.”

“Mhm it’s apparently meant to last for the rest of today and tomorrow, I’ll see If Silver Skies will let us train inside for the rest of the day, we can just do some basic jogging and wing-ups,” Spitfire said happily picking up her soaked uniform and hanging over a nearby heater.

Dash nodded approvingly. “Yeah thats probably the best idea anypony’s had all week,” Dash said with a smirk.

Spitfire shook her head playfully, she flicked her tail across Dash’s face as she walked passed her heading towards the lounge for a break as the rest of the team followed.

...A Few Moments Later

As all the team members settled down for their break, Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but notice Spitfire’s anxious mood, she seemed stressed and It was something that made the sky blue mare slightly concerned for her.

Spitfire looked up from her work when she felt the sofa dip slightly, she turned her head and saw Dash sitting down next to her on the couch, the coffee table next to them consisted of a very big sheet of parchment which showed the routine for the performance in just a few days time.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow at her marefriend, “hey Dash is there anything wrong?” she asked in a slightly worried tone as she saw her marefriend’s concerned look.

Dash sighed and draped a wing over the mare, “Spitty you’re working yourself too hard on this,” the light blue pegasus stated.

“I know I am, but I just need to-,” Spitfire said before Dash put a hoof over her mouth silencing her.

“I know you want this to be perfect Spitfire...so do I, but you can’t get worked up by this...you just gotta trust everypony to do there best,” she said knowingly.

Spitfire felt a small smile start to tug at her lips at the mare's words, “you know all those friendship lessons sure have taught you something Rainbow,” she said. The sky blue mare chuckled and nodded in response.

Spitfire leaned down and rolled up the large parchment, she then set it down on the floor just a few feet away from the sofa before turning back to Rainbow, “I’m sorry Dash, it’s just this show could determine my job...and just with everything else thats going on I’m just getting a bit stressed.”

Dash leaned over and hugged the mare. “Come on Spitfire theres no need to stress about it on your own, you’ve helped me out so much in the past few months...I think it’s only fair if I help you through this as well.”

Spitfire nodded. “Well if you want to help me so much there is something you could tell me,” she said.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow, “what do you wanna know?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire leaned into the hug and whispered, “what is this move of yours that you want to try?” she asked her voice clearly filled with excitement.

Dash smirked. “Well...come with me,” she said getting up off the sofa and making her way towards the arena again with Spitfire hot on her hooves.

The heavy rain had now started to fade but the drizzle was still enough to make Spitfire’s goggles mist up as she flew next to Dash along the large arena, the light blue pegasus turned to look at Spitfire with a confident grin, “you ready?” she asked.

Spitfire nodded. Rainbow took that as her cue and started to edge ahead of the mare as she blasted down the arena. Spitfire watched in wonder as she saw the airspeed start to form around Dash’s hooves in small white cones before it began to envelope the pegasus.

Spitfire stopped flying all together when she saw the mare turn upwards towards the sky. Dash could feel the wind resistance start to build rapidly around her trying to force her back down to the ground. Rainbow gritted her teeth as she pushed onwards, the cone starting to grow bigger as she pushed upwards on the invisible force.

Rainbow started to feel the end coming closer, her wings were now starting to strain and the lack of oxygen from the pressure was making her head feel slightly numb. Still though she continued to push that little bit father as she finally felt the gates open letting her power through like a knife cutting through melted butter, she felt the shockwave of the rainboom vibrating through her body.

Spitfire’s eyes widened as she watched the colorful scene unfold around her, a giant oval of rainbow unleashed itself along the grey foggy sky, the light seeming to brighten up the day as if Celestia’s sun was beaming down at them. She continued to stare in amazement as a dark blue stallion came out of the inner stadium to stand by her side as the scene unfolded.

Rainbow finally managed to slow herself down to a safe enough speed to turn, as she did she smiled seeing the fading colors of the giant rainboom which had spanned across the large Manehatten stadium. She looked down and spotted the outline of two ponies watching on the ground below.

Spitfire started to feel a well of emotions, the boom had seemed to lighten her spirits and relieved a huge amount of stress from her mind. The sudden joy made Spitfire tingle with excitement, she bolted into the air and powered towards her marefriend.

Dash was hovering over the stadium now, she spotted one of the ponies now becoming slightly bigger, before she could even think the spec crashed into her, when she opened her eyes she found Spitfire right in front of her with a large smile adorning her face.

Dash smirked. “Well...did that help you out?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire nodded as she nuzzled the sky blue mare’s neck, “yeah it helped a lot Dash…now I guess the only thing to worry about is a unicorn stallion that will probably have us killed when we get back to Cloudsdale,” Spitfire said to which they both let out a small giggle. Suddenly the pair heard the faint sound of applause from below, they both turned to see Silver Skies with a proud smile on his face. The two pegasi floated down towards him as he spoke.

“Very nice trick Rainbow, I will be expecting this in the show for Manehatten,” Silver said in a hopeful tone.

Spitfire looked over to Rainbow Dash who smiled. “You sure can sir!” she said proudly. Silver Skies nodded and started to trot back into the inner stadium. Spitfire turned to Dash with a relieved expression.

“Well that went a hell of a lot better than intended...I think we’re ready for the show now,” she said happily.

Dash nodded. “Yeah, so do I…so for helping the team out and stuff could I maybe-,” she started before Spitfire interrupted her with the kiss she had been wanting. Dash smiled as Spitfire pulled away and the pair trotted into the inner parts of the stadium both now confident and ready for the show in Manehatten…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Sooooo yay another chapter, this is the final chap before the last chapter for Act II, hope you've enjoyed all the slice of life that I've had for this act guys I would have made it longer but as I have explained boring you guys into skimming chaps is the last thing I want.

Anyways this chapter was mainly for Rainbow showing off her rainboom and you can guess that the shows going to include this, however I do have bigger plans for this type of move in the story so watch out for that.

So summary time my little ponies...

1:Spitfire was getting stressed about the preformance...Dash's move has shown her that the show will go well and it has relieved some of this pent up fustration.
2: The unicorn they were talking about Is Spitfire's father if you've forgotten
3: Silver Skies is now hopeful....this is sudden :O

~Alex....P.S mikes dead

Chapter 20: The Night Of Your Life

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 20: The Night Of Your Life

The next few day’s passed by in a blur, and the nerves didn’t seem to drop, but it was now or never. As Luna’s moon rose in the night sky it signalled that It was time for the Manehatten performance.

Spitfire was currently watching from the inner stadium, seeing the thousands of ponies flocking the stands of the large arena eagerly waiting in anticipation for the show to start. Spitfire could feel butterflies in her stomach and it was the first time she had been nervous for a show in a long time. But there was more on the line this time than just Spitfire’s reputation, it was her dream job that she had worked hard for and it was something she didn’t want to lose by any means.

Suddenly, Spitfire felt two very soft wings wrap themselves around her midsection. She turned to see Rainbow Dash nuzzling into her shoulder. “You ready?” Rainbow asked in a quiet tone, her voice as soft as the wings currently hugging her body.

Spitfire breathed in a large gulp of well needed air, before she pulled down her flight goggles and turned around to fully face her marefriend “Let’s give them a show they won’t forget.”

Dash nodded confidently and retracted her wings before giving Spitfire a mock salute. She grinned, before turning away and trotting out of the room. Spitfire following close behind.

As they approached the locker rooms, Spitfire could already hear the cheers and chants from the crowd outside. She felt more nerves in the pit of her stomach as she continued to trot behind her marefriend. Just as they were about to reach their destination, a hoof tapped Spitfire’s shoulder, making the golden mare jump slightly and quickly turn round. She saw Silver Skies looking down on her with a small smile tugging at his face.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “Sir, is there something wrong?” she asked hesitantly.

The stallion let out a small chuckle before replying, “No, Spitfire, just give a good show out there today,” he said happily.

Spitfire nodded nervously before turning back to the locker rooms and entering. She made her way over to her locker and opened the door, seeing her captains uniform hanging inside adorned with a gold and silver badge in the shape of the Wonderbolts logo with long flowing wings poking out of the sides of the badge showing the mare's rank. Spitfire felt her nerves die away slightly being replaced with determination and the thing she loved most of all… adrenaline.

Taking the uniform out of the locker she began preparing herself for the show, in only a few moments time she would be out in front of thousands of cheering fans. She just hoped they were still fans anyway.

After getting the better part of the uniform on Spitfire looked down in her locker to see the remaining headpiece. She lifted it up and secured it to the rest of her uniform before looking over to the inner door of her locker, where a small mirror was plastered onto it. She made sure her mane wasn’t in a mess before looking to the rest of the team in the room who were all ready and waiting. She decided to get their attention, she had something very important to say to them all.

“Guys," Spitfire said getting the teams attention, "over the past few years, this team which I’ve been a part of has been nothing short of excellent,” she started. “I only have your co-operation and kindness to thank for that. I may as well get on to the reason why I telling you this… this could be my last performance for the Bolts, and I just want you guys all to know it’s been the best time of my life...and I've been honored to be your captain."

All the Wonderbolts began to look at one another, some with knowing looks and some with confused faces. Before anypony could say anything the booming voice of the announcer spoke from outside the locker room.

“Please join me in welcoming the ponies you’ve all been waiting for… the Wonderbolts!”

Spitfire and the team had no time for speaking, they bolted out of the locker rooms and into their positions as the crowd began to wait in anticipation for the event to start the entire stadium going completely silent.

Spitfire turned to Blazing Fire and giving him the signal to start the show. He took off going round the outer side of the stadium making sure not to be seen as he began his part of the starting routine.

Inside the arena, the winds suddenly started to pick up. The soft sounds of the rising breeze was the only sound that could be heard through the large stadium. The audience watched in wonder at the center of the stadium as the clouds that had hung over them slowly started to spin and collect in one centralized clump. Suddenly, the stadium went quiet once again as Blazing made his full lap around the stadium and coming back to the team. Spitfire made the signal for them to start the next phase as they all soared up into the sky. In the middle of the arena the sound of thunder returned once more but only for a short time before a large lightning bolt shot out of the newly formed cloud mass and the whole stadium lit up in a white flash. The sound of roaring thunder filled the stadium, signaling the Wonderbolts in the sky to start their part of the routine. They launched up from behind the crowd from all corners of the stadium and shot for the center cumulous mass, dicing it in to pieces as they shot through it from all directions as the rumble of thunder faded.

The Wonderbolts then soared out over the rim of the stadium making a ring of dark, black thunder before heading back into the arena and as they soared upwards into a ringed spiral before coming together and then spiraling back down towards the crowd. The atmosphere inside the stadium was ablaze with cheering ponies all watching intently as the Wonderbolts split off from their positions and began their solo routines.

Spitfire turned and looked over to Dash giving her the hoof signal to start the final stages of the show, she nodded and pulled back up from the stadium as she made her way into the sky, Spitfire and Soarin moved to opposite sides of the stadium. The nerves in Spitfire’s chest had all but been replaced by new found energy, she drifted round the outer left side of the stadium trying to stay in time with the stallion opposite her on the other side of the arena, they both came out of their turns and powered down towards the center.

Blazing took position underneath Spitfire and Soarin as he awaited his cue, all the fans were now on the edges of their seats as they watched the two Wonderbolts head for each other. Spitfire looked up and saw a flash of rainbow colors as Dash switch her streak from the thunderclouds back to her more natural one. She sped towards the two Wonderbolts as time seemed to slow down.

Spitfire turned as did Soarin just in the final moments as they missed each other by a few feet, Blazing then took that as his cue to soar into the sky meeting Rainbow Dash half way. He lopped around as did Rainbow as their hind hooves met each other, Blazing then gave a forceful buck sling shotting Rainbow Dash back into the sky at lightning speed, the air shaped cone forming around the sky blue mare quickly enveloping her.

The stadium was now only filled with the rumble of thunder, all the fans watched as the rainbow streak soared higher into the sky. Fillies and colts watching on their parents back to get a good view of the spectacular trick that was about to come. Meanwhile in the air Spitfire felt anxious and she silently prayed for the trick to work.

Rainbow though was never going to back down, she knew what this trick was riding on and she wasn’t going to let her mare down any day, spreading up with all her reserve strength she felt the shockwave coming close as everypony below waited eagerly for the all important boom.

Spitfire couldn’t look, she put her forehooves over her goggles waiting to hear the inevitable boo from the crowd when the trick failed, but instead she heard the most relieving sound, a large boom could be heard across the stadium as all the ponies looked on in utter shock and wonder at the sight before them. Spitfire hesitantly removed her hooves from her face to see the utter wonder once again.

The large circle of colors spanned out across the stadium showering everypony in rays of multicolored light, the foals in the crowd trying to catch the colors that they saw close to them. Spitfire started to hear the cheers from the crowd before it erupted into a giant roar of stamping hooves and hollering. She felt a huge amount of joy fill her mind and heart and she began cheering too as the rest of the team came back to give each other a group hug.

Meanwhile Rainbow was high above the crowd, she had just managed to slow herself down and could already hear the cheers from below, she looked back down on the large stadium and smiled when she saw the rest of the team cheering after her, she felt happy that she had not only managed to help her marefriend secure her job, but she might have just secured her own permanent place at the Bolts as well. With this new thought in mind she powered back down towards the stadium to meet up with the rest of the team, but this had been by far one of the best nights of her life.

Spitfire and the rest of the team were currently making their way towards the center of the stage still waving at the cheering fans from above in the stands. Rainbow landed next to Spitfire and wrapped a wing around her. Spitfire smiled happily at the mare, “I can’t believe you actually did it!” she said excitedly.

Rainbow smiled back at the golden mare, “pshh I can do anything Spitfire you should know that by now,” she said confidently.

Spitfire rolled her eyes playfully before hugging the mare quickly as she whispered, “I love you Dashie...you’ll get my thank you later though,” she said pulling back and winking at the mare before they made their way to the small stage with the others.

Spitfire walked up the stage and tapped the microphone as the entire crowd went silent. Spitfire felt the nerves quickly return and her voice was slightly hesitant as she spoke, “Hey everpony...did you enjoy the show?” she asked.

Spitfire was met with a huge cheer and stomping of hooves, a smile came to her face as all the ponies started chanting 'Wonderbolts’ over and over. Spitfire took the microphone and trotted over to Rainbow, “you should really be thanking this mare…without her none of this would have been possible,” she said confidently raising Dash’s hoof into the air. All the fans were now cheering louder as the Wonderbolt's said their thanks before leaving the stage and back into the locker rooms as the show ended.

Rainbow and the rest of the team were currently celebrating with each other in the locker rooms as Silver Skies came in, a proud smile adorning his features. He turned to face Spitfire and Dash, “Well Spitfire, I happy that the crowd still adores the teams captain...you will keep your job as agreed.”

Spitfire smiled happily as Dash gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, it was then Silver turned his attention to the sky blue mare, “Rainbow Dash, I must say that move was one of the best I’ve ever seen and I think with a few strings pulled you could be our newest member once the tour is finished,” he said with a wink before trotting out of the locker rooms.

The team exchanged excitedly looks between them as Rainbow pumped her hoof in the air, Spitfire shook her head playfully as she wrapped a wing around her marefriend giving her a soft kiss, the kind Rainbow loved.

The rainbow maned mare gave a curious look at Spitfire, “was that your thank you,” she asked.

Spitfire shook her head. “Nope, that was only the beginning,” she said with a mischievous grin.

Dash couldn’t stop the slight blush forming on her cheeks as the Wonderbolts made their way out of the locker rooms and back into the inner parts of the stadium. Spitfire turned back to Dash, “come on Dash or we'll be late for catching the blimp,” she said.

Rainbow snapped out of her current trance and nodded before following her marefriend out of the room and towards the exit of the stadium.

A Few Moments Later

Rainbow and the rest of the team landed back at the large hotel to collect their things, Spitfire and Dash both made their way to the penthouse and grabbed their saddlebags which they had packed earlier in the morning before the show. Spitfire just finished neatly tucking her uniform into her bag and as she turned back around to see a nervous looking Rainbow Dash standing next to the bed in the room.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “Hey Dash," she said with a slight giggle, "you look like somepony’s just issued a death warrant for you?”

Rainbow fumbled with her forehooves as she spoke, “Spitfire...I know you hate it when I thank you for things,” she said looking up to see Spitfire’s smirk starting to spread across her lips, “but I really want to thank you for everything these past few weeks, you know with the room and Hoops... I love you Spitfire your really, really awesome.”

Spitfire muffled a giggle at her marefriend as Dash’s cheeks turned the smallest shade of crimson. Then the golden mare slowly trotted up to Rainbow before giving her a kiss, when they parted Dash opened her eyes to see a mischievous grin on Spitfire’s lips. The yellow mare kissed Dash more passionately as the pair fell onto the bed in a fit of laughter. Rainbow looked up at her marefriend with a questionable look, “what's this?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire leaned in and whispered. “We have some time to ourselves, so I think I’ll give you my gratitude now,” she said playfully before the pair went back to making out.

…

A few moments later Soarin and the others were waiting outside the hotel for Spitfire and Rainbow, finding the silence to be very boring Soarin turned to Blazing and Rapid with a smile, “so...I got a letter from Fleetfoot and Misty apparently they’ll be able to perform in Cloudsdale’s show,” he said happily.

Blazing nodded. “Sounds great...It’s been a while since I’ve seen Fleet,” he said his voice slightly dreamy.

Soarin smirked. “Somepony’s got a crush,” he said in a sing-song voice. Rapid looked over at Blazing with a shocked expression expecting the stallion to come back with some kind of remark, but instead Blazing shrugged and didn’t reply.

Rapid shook his head confused. “Blazing what’s happening to you lately?” he said, his curiousity peaking.

Blazing turned to his friend and sighed, “I just...don’t want to be the pony I was okay...having a laugh is good and all, but I took it too far all the time...so I’m changing my ways…for my sisters sake,” he said knowingly.

Soarin put a forehoof on Blazings shoulder, the stallion turned to his lieutenant to see he had a knowing grin on his face. He took the forehoof of his shoulder and held it in front of Blazing, “can we call a truce then?” he asked.

Blazing nodded happily and bumped hooves with Soarin, just then another voice spoke up, “well well I never thought I’d see the day,” Spitfire said as she came out of the hotel with Dash not far behind.

Blazing shrugged. “Well I guess times change don’t they,” he said giving the yellow mare a quick hug.

Soarin looked over towards the direction of the stadium before speaking, “well we better get going before Silver leaves with the blimp...that stallion never likes to wait around,” he said, earning a nod from Spitfire. All the Wonderbolts secured their saddlebags to themselves before taking off in the direction of the large stadium some more eager to get home than others.

…

The blimp was all set and ready once the Wonderbolts had landed back at the arena. Spitfire’s mind had now switched back to her parent’s and the inevitable argument that would shortly follow afterwards.

Rainbow looked over a Spitfire as the pair walked up the small steps into the large blimp, “you gonna be alright when we get back?” she asked hesitantly.

Spitfire sighed. “I’m not too sure Dash, I don’t have a clue what my parents are going to do when we get back, I’m pretty sure all of Equestria knows about us by now,” she replied. Rainbow nodded in approval.

The pair walked into the blimp and over to the nearby lounge while the rest of the Wonderbolts went to their separate rooms for the night. Rainbow turned to Spitfire and spoke, “did you ever go out with fillies in school,” she asked curiously.

Spitfire looked over at her partner, "no, my dad told me about fillyfoolers before dating even started at my school” she said.

Dash raised an in response, "what did he say?" she asked. The golden mare put a forehoof to her chin as she remembered a specific day in time…

Flashback

A young golden filly was sat on a chair in a luxury home in Canterlot, a large fireplace sat opposite her and was currently crackling away with flames that matched her mane and tail. Just then two ponies trotted into the room and sat close to her on the nearby sofa.

The filly fumbled with her forehooves as her parents mumbled something between each other before her father spoke up, “sweetheart...I think it’s time your mother and I talk to you about the birds and bee’s of life,” he said.

Spitfire was very nervous by this, “a-am I in trouble?” she asked hesitantly.

Spitfire’s mother got up and sat down next to the filly nuzzling her gently, “no sweetheart, your father and I just think it’s time you learned a bit more about well…”

“relationships,” Spitfire’s father finished. The little filly nodded as he continued, “you're getting to the age now were hearts and hooves day will become a bit more important, you're a very beautiful mare honey and a lot of colts will be asking you out on dates.”

Spitfire nodded, “b-but what about the fillies, Mrs Rosey says it’s okay for mares and colts to like the same gender.”

Spitfire’s father shook his head. “No I will not have you dating fillies is that clear,” he said his tone rising slightly.

Spitfire’s mother wrapped a wing around the filly, “honey there’s no need to raise your voice at her, Spitfire doesn’t know anything about this,” she said trying her best to defend her daughter.

Spitfire’s father though didn’t have time for sympathy, “I know, but Spitfire needs to know from here on out that nopony in this house will ever be a fillyfooler, you will date colts only do I make myself clear Spitfire,” he said eyeing the golden filly. Spitfire nodded trying to hide in her mothers fur.

The stallion got up and trotted out of the room leaving the two ponies there not knowing that what he said would actually scar the filly for life…

End of Flashback

Rainbow was quite shocked at what Spitfire had just told her, “you mean to say he told you when you were just a filly?” she asked.

Spitfire nodded. “Well it wasn’t the only time he had told me...but it’s the one I remember most, even if I looked at a mare the wrong way my dad would give me a harsh warning.”

Dash wrapped her wings around the mare, “I’m so sorry about that Spitfire, but even if your parents don’t approve I’ll still be with you,” she said confidently.

Spitfire smiled happily, “well that’s good to know I’ve got somepony to stay with when all this goes haywire.”

Both mares let out a small giggle at that. Spitfire laid down on the sofa and put her forehoof to her head as Rainbow laid next to her, Spitfire turned to the mare next to her before speaking, “so what about your parents...are they more normal?” she asked with a smirk.

Dash grinned happily and nodded. “Yeah they're pretty normal. my moms kinda busy all the time though, but she’s cool and my dad will probably thank you for letting me be your marefriend,” she said as both pegasi shared a laugh.

Spitfire sighed happily. “Well thats good to hear Dashie...I think it’s about time we get some sleep don’t you?” she said wrapping the sky blue mare in her wings.

Dash nodded and nuzzled into Spitfire’s chest. Spitfire smiled and kissed Dash’s ear as she whispered, “goodnight Dash...I love you.”

Dash smiled and kissed Spitfire’s cheek as she repeated the words she loved, “goodnight Spitfire, I love you too.”

…

The faint noise of a crowd outside of the blimp awoke The golden mare. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes with a forehoof and looked across the lounge to see Blazing looking out one of the small port windows, a blank expression plastered on his face. Spitfire looked down at her marefriend and nudged Rainbow awake, the mare yawned as she turned to face the mare, “good morning beautiful,” she said happily.

Spitfire smiled and kissed the mare on the forehead, “come on Dash, I think we’re here,” she said getting off the sofa and making her way over to her brother.

Blazing turned to see his sister, “hey Spitfire,” he said nervously, “I don’t think you're gonna like this.”

Spitfire made her way up to the window Blazing was looking out of and her eyes widened when she spotted two very familiar ponies in amongst the crowds of reporters and journalists. Blazing sighed as he put a forehoof on her shoulder, “I don’t think their gonna be happy.”

Spitfire nodded. “Yep they're gonna kill me,” she said, fear starting to find it’s way back into her body. Dash came up to the window and gasped slightly when she saw all the ponies outside the blimp.

Dash raised an eyebrow, “what’s with all the cameras ?” she asked. Just then another voice spoke up.

“Their here for you Dash, that Rainboom was something very spectacular,” Silver Skies said as he trotted passed the three ponies towards the entrance of the large aircraft, opening the door, “come on Rainbow Dash, your fans are waiting,” he said motioning with a hoof for the pegasus to follow.

Rainbow looked over at Spitfire with a worried expression. Blazing put a wing around his sister as he looked over at Dash, “I’ll keep her safe, promise.”

Dash nodded. “You better,” she said narrowing her eyes before trotting out of the blimp with Silver.

Spitfire sighed heavily. “Well come on bro, lets get this over with,” she said trotting towards the exit of the blimp as Blazing followed.

Spitfire put a forehoof up to her eyes when the light from Celestia's sun hit her face, soon though she regained her vision as many reporters rushed over to the mare asking tons of questions. Blazing spread his wings and walked in front of his sister acting like a bodyguard as the pair walked through the crowds until they came up to the two very familiar ponies in the crowd.

Spitfire could feel her heart in her mouth as she looked at the two ponies who stood before her, “h-hi mom...hi da-”

Spitfire was cut off from her sentence by her father the words he spoke felt like daggers to her chest.

“ Spitfire you're coming back to the house with us...we need to talk…”

To be Continued...

Author's Note

End of Act II ladies and Gentlemen

It was a fun ride doing this section of the fic I really enjoyed living in my aspect of slice of life, now we shall be moving onto Act III where everythings gonna go down so I hope you liked the fic and all the Acts so far !

sooo I'm gonna be studying soon and if you want to know how thats gonna affect the channel go to second newest blog post titled -- updates and such --

And yeah I really like how the fics all finally coming together and season 4 of Mlp was good...besides the Twiboom that just ruined it for me.

Soooo kids summary time !

1: yeah Blazing is getting more and more friendly now, hope that isn't too much of a problem for all of you guys but I want him really supportive for the new Act
2: I had the flashback in mainly just to show how long Spitfire's father has been trying to get her to go out with stallions
3: Rainbow might become a new Wonderbolt
4: Fleetfoot and Misty are gonna be back YAY....
5: Yeah sh*ts gonna get real intense soon
6: well for the first time...Alex might be dead :O

~Alex

Chapter 21: Parental Control

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 21: Parental Control

Inside a home in Cloudsdale, a very lifeless atmosphere drifted throughout the cloud layered walls in the home. That was until a loud voice could be heard reverberating off the structure of the cloud home.

“What is wrong with you!” Spitfire’s father, Golden Fire, shouted. “How can you besmirch your family name, by going out with that… that filth!”

Spitfire wanted to scream back, but she remained cowering behind her parents gaze.

“I am very disappointed in you… after all that we have told you, all that we have warned you about, you go out and do… this!” her father yelled out, continuing to verbally assault the mare.

Spitfire felt her anger well up inside her. She lifted her head up, finally getting the courage to speak up. “This is my life... I can do whatever I want! If I want to fall in love with a mare; then it is my bucking right to do so!” she screamed out, but it was more of a whimper. While this argument kept raging on, Blazing stood at the door frame to the home, watching in utter shock as his family tore each other apart.

Spitfire’s mother, Starshine, looked over at her husband with slight worry, “Dear, please stop this, it’s not going to work,” she said.

Golden Fire turned to face his wife, the anger in his eyes nearly setting them ablaze. “Do you not understand, Star?! Our daughter is a fillyfooler! Think about our family’s reputation!”

Spitfire snapped. “The family’s reputation! You mean your reputation, you can’t just tell me who I can love! If anything, you're the reason why I don’t like stallions!” she spat, leaving all the ponies in the room speechless.

Blazing sighed and trotted into the room standing next to his younger sister. “I agree, dad. You can’t define love, it just... happens. And it’s not you who makes the decision on who it is.”

Golden Fire exchanged heated looks between his children. “I will make sure, Spitfire, that you and Dash will split up! Otherwise I will make sure both of you are out of the Wonderbolts.”

Blazing and Spitfire’s eye’s widened. “What!” the pair shouted in unison.

Golden Fire grinned knowing he now had them trapped. “That’s right, kids. If Spitfire doesn’t stop dating mares, then Daddy will just have to take away your dream jobs.”

Spitfire’s jaw dropped as she tried to say something, anything! Meanwhile, Blazing was on the verge of losing it altogether. “You can’t just take away our jobs! What kind of manager do you think Silver is?!” he said, thinking he had the stallion blocked.

Golden Fire just grinned contently. “Well, I know him personally, and if theres one thing Silver loves more than his team: it’s money. Besides, I donate to the team all the time, If I stopped Silver would have to cut some ponies from the squad and I would put my expert advice forward on who to sack first.”

“You’d just sell out your own children from their own jobs…” Spitfire questioned, still trying to find a proper breathing pattern.

Blazing was shocked beyond all thoughts. “Y-you are insane!” he said.

Golden Fire raised an eyebrow questionably. “Am I really? Or is it just that you two are just so blinded by your own wants and needs; that you can’t think about what’s right for the family.”

Suddenly, Spitfire’s boiling anger reached it’s peak as she spoke up, “This isn’t about the family, it’s about your selfishness! You just want to carry on your own stupid legacy, well… that's not going to happen.”

Golden Fire glared at the two ponies at the far side of the the room. “You two will listen and do what I ask, I’m your father!”

Blazing shook his head as Spitfire made her way to the door. “Not anymore,” he said bitterly, before following his sister to the exit of the cloud home. Golden Fire huffed and trotted into the kitchen, knocking a vase over from a nearby stand on his way.

Just as Spitfire was about to leave, she heard her mother speak, “Sweetheart, can I please say something?” she asked.

Spitfire closed her eyes for a moment, she knew her mother wasn’t on her fathers side and she also knew that she was against the idea of a straight only family. Taking a deep breath, she turned around to face her mother, smiling slightly.

Starfire breathed a sigh of relief as she trotted up to her children, wrapping them both in her wings comfortingly. “Be safe, okay?” she said softly. Both ponies gave a nod in response. She retracted her wings and gave each of them a kiss before they left the home quietly, leaving their mother to deal with the angry stallion inside.

Blazing watched as his sister began trotting off in the direction of the city center. “Hey, Spitfire. Where are you going?” he asked, concerned as he saw his sister’s sad expression.

Spitfire stopped for a moment to face her brother still standing on the front step of their parent’s house. “I’m going to find my marefriend,” she said plainly before spreading her wings and taking off into the sky leaving a very worried stallion below.

Meanwhile back in the home, Golden Fire stormed into the cloud homes kitchen, mumbling aggressively. Starfire slowly came into the room, at first she was hesitant just peaking out from the corner of the room. She finally gathered the courage to come in and confront the stallion.

Golden Fire’s ears perked up when he heard the sounds of hooves and turned around to face his wife. Starfire stood in the center of the room facing the stallion. “Golden... Honey, I don’t think this is such a good idea what you're doing for our kids,” she stated firmly.

The stallion waved a dismissive hoof. “You just don’t understand the concept, our daughter is a fillyfooler, don’t you get it!” he said, his voice rising slightly.

Starfire jumped slightly at this, but didn’t back down. “No honey, this is wrong. You're trying to dictate your daughter’s life.”

Golden Fire sighed angrily. He trotted out of the room, not answering his wife, and made his way towards the privacy of his study. He slammed the door behind him before heading over towards the large chair, and gently sitting down on it. The soft surface brought a content smile to his face as he seated himself, but the smile quickly faded. The stallion turned to his large cloud desk which had some quills and a few slightly crinkled parchments. He put his forehooves together and retreated back to his thoughts, pondering his next move.

He knew that Silver wouldn’t just give up his best flyers on money alone, there had to be something else that would push him that little bit farther. To be honest, he felt bad for trying to get rid of her daughter, and even more so for his son. But then another option came to light. Instead of going after Spitfire through Sliver, he would simply confront the problem at the source. A small, yet cynical, smile started to grow upon his face as he began to think more about the mare, the one that had caused all this in the first place.

Rainbow Dash was nothing to Silver at this point, she still wasn’t even a true Wonderbolt yet! As Golden Fire thought more about the mare, he remembered seeing the rainbow maned filly at the young flyers competition. He could tell that joining the Wonderbolts was her dream… So he would have to crush that dream, slowly start to tear away Dash’s life until he saw fit... until she broke of the relationship off with Spitfire, leaving her with nothing. With a full faced grin, the stallions chuckled to himself as he leaned back on the chair, alone with his evil thoughts…

Meanwhile in the Wonderbolts HQ in Cloudsdale

Rainbow Dash was currently waiting outside the large Wonderbolt arena, she had just received a letter from some very important ponies and was now anxiously waiting for them.

Just then, out of the corner of her eyes, she spotted four familiar ponies trotting down the street. She smiled happily, and rushed over to greet them.

Twilight smiled when she saw Rainbow Dash trotting up to her and the rest of the group. “Hey, Rainbow. We heard about your performance in Manehatten, and thought we’d pay you a visit when you got back,” she said, giving the mare in question a big hug.

Suddenly, a blur of pink shot out from nowhere, hitting the sky blue pegasus in the chest and sending her toppling over onto the cloud surface below. When Dash opened her eyes, she was muzzle to muzzle with Pinkie Pie. She had a large toothy grin as she stared at Dash excitedly.

Before Rainbow could even open her mouth, the pink pony spoke up,” Dashie I’m sooo happy you're back!” she said, squeezing the mare tightly in her forehooves, nearly crushing the athletes lungs.

Dash managed a smile, and nodded. The pink mare released her death grip on her and stood back up, giving Rainbow some well needed oxygen. Applejack trotted over and lifted the blue mare back onto her hooves, “Well, it’s great tah see ya again, Dash. Yah got some mighty fine moves in those wings,” she said proudly.

Rainbow smiled warmly at her friend. “Thanks, Applejack. It’s been great fun too!” she said happily.

Rarity had a coy smile on her muzzle as she spoke, “I bet getting together with the Captain of the team was great fun too,” she said amusingly as Dash’s cheeks turned slightly red as an awkward silence fell over the six ponies. Just then a voice called out over them.

“Dash!” Spitfire said as she trotting up to the pegasus. Dash turned to see her marefriend, and gasped slightly when she saw the fiery pegasus. She watched as a lone tear slowly made it’s way down her cheek. Dash galloped over to her and wrapped her up tightly in her wings as Spitfire laid her head on the mare’s shoulder.

Dash leaned in as she whispered. “Hey, Spitfire. What's wrong?” she asked worriedly.

Spitfire shook her head shamefully as she spoke, “I-It’s my dad… he’s gonna take away my job if I don’t b-break up with you,” she said, choking slightly on her own tears.

Dash looked over at her friends all watching at the scene with concerned looks, “hey guys you don’t think I could see you sometime later...I’ve got something I need to do,” she said. All her friends smiled and nodded before going off towards the city center to continue their day.

Dash leaned back into the embrace and nuzzled Spitfire’s cheek. “Hows he going to take away your job?” she asked.

Spitfire wiped her cheek with a forehoof. “It’s Silver. Apparently he likes money more than his team members,” she said with slightly more anger in her tone.

Dash on, the other hoof, was slightly confused. “Members, what are you talking about, how many ponies is he trying to get rid off?” she asked shocked.

“Me, Blazing and he’ll probably try to get rid of your chance at becoming a bolt too,” Spitfire replied still being held tightly in Dash’s embrace, Rainbow started to feel her blood boil at this, Golden Fire had reduced her marefriend the one she loved most into a sobbing wreck. She sighed angrily before lifting Spitfire’s chin up to meet her eyes. She kissed her softly before speaking.

“Come on, we’re gonna go see Silver about all this money stuff, that stallions got a heck of a lot of explaining to do,” Dash said, trotting up towards the large stadium with Spitfire hot on her tail…both egar to find out what information they could get.

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Hey guys Alex here again studying has hit me square in the balls but I'm still going to try my best to bring you as many updates as possible and yeah Welcome to act III ma homies.

So this is basically where everything goes down there is a lot to come in this Fic so watch out !

soooo summary time

1: Golden Fire is angry and is going to make Dash's life as hard as possible until she breaks of with Spitfire
2: Dash is gonna have some words for Silver hehe ( you don't F#!k with my marefriend!)
3: Spitfire and Blazing are both anxious and ansure of what to do and how things will play out at this point but will stay together no matter what
4: Starfire I wanted to have slightly timid but she'll stand up for her children
5: as from a request the main six are back....yay !

~Alex

Chapter 22: So Now What?

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 22: So Now What?

Rainbow stormed down the large hallways of the Wonderbolt stadium as Spitfire trotted next to her, a slight concern was outlined on her face. “Dash are you sure you want to do this now...I mean Silver doesn’t even know about what my dad said."

Dash turned to face her marefriend, determination in her eyes, “I know, but I want to see what he thinks about the team once I’m through with him,” she said, not stopping to talk as the pair made their way up to the cloud door which marked Silver Skies office. Instead of knocking on the door Rainbow barged into the small room as she spoke.

“What the heck kind of a manager are you, willing to sell out your best team members just to make a few bits, what the hell is this!” Rainbow shouted as she trotted up to the stallion in question, slamming her hooves onto his desk. Silver was yet to look up, he stopped writing and put the quill he was using neatly on the table next to a few others, he then proceeded to line each one up accordingly. He then put his hooves together and looked at Dash with nothing but a blank face.

A tense silence fell over the office for a few minutes, the only sound being Dash’s heavy, angered breathing as she continued to stare at the stallion on the desk in front of her. Finally after a few moments Silver spoke, “what is it you require Rainbow Dash?” he said his tone slightly annoyed for the mare’s lack of formalness.

Rainbow rolled her eyes. “Don’t give me horse apples Silver, I want to know why you would sell out a member from this team especially the team's captain if somepony gave you the right money,” she said glaring at the stallion.

Silver’s face was still blank making both mares slightly confused about what he was going to say next, but before any of them could speak the stallion started up again. “What are you talking about Rainbow Dash, I wouldn’t sell any member from the current team as it stands, especially my captain,” he stated motioning a hoof to Spitfire who sighed in relief.

Dash raised an eyebrow confused. “So you wouldn’t do it for money then?” she said making sure her question was fully answered. The stallion just simply shook his head in reply.

Rainbow suddenly felt a wave of guilt as she rubbed the back of her neck hesitantly. “Oh...um,” she said trying to find the correct words for an apology of some nature. However Silver stopped her actions by speaking up.

“It’s fine Rainbow Dash, but I must ask was there a reason for these accusations?” he asked raising an eyebrow at the two mares in the office.

Spitfire stepped forward as she spoke up, “it’s my father sir, he um... found out about me and Dash...worst came to worst and now he’s threatening to take mine and Blazing's jobs,” she said slightly downcast as Rainbow draped a wing over the mare.

Silver grinned. “Ah yes Golden Fire, I forgot about that stallion even though he does donate a lot to the team, but he only helps to advise the teams next moves, he doesn’t have a final say in anything,” he said. Both mares smiled thankfully at the stallion.

“Thanks sir, sorry for accusing you we’re both just um…” Spitfire said trying to find the right word.

“Stressed out I guess,” Rainbow finished as Spitfire gave a nod in approval.

Silver nodded happily.”It isn’t a problem,” he started as the mares nodded and turned to leave before he spoke up again stopping their actions, “but since you didn’t come into my office properly and speaking in an informal tone I will expect you both here one hour earlier for training,” he said with a smirk.

Spitfire and Rainbow both gave a sigh of disapproval, but nodded in acceptance at the stallions order before leaving the room.

After hearing the door to Silver’s office close Spitfire turned quickly to look at her marefriend, “why did you do that?” she said in a hush whisper.

Dash cheeks turned slightly red in embarrassment. “Well...I guess I went a little too far, but I needed to see if he had any shred of loyalty in him,” she said.

Spitfire smirked. “So now that all that’s over, what does the loyalty expert have to say now?” she asked as the pair began trotting down the hallway.

Rainbow pondered for a moment before answering, “he seems okay, but I’m still not sure why your father would say something like that,” she said confused.

Spitfire sighed and shrugged her shoulders clearly not up for that type of conversation. Rainbow stopped what she was going to say and opted for a warm smile as she pulled the mare close to her with her wing.

Dash looked down at her marefriend and raised an eyebrow. “So do you want to go find Twilight and the others, I’m pretty sure they haven't gone that far since we left them,” she said cheerfully as she opened the door to the exit of the stadium as Spitfire followed.

The golden mare nodded happily at the thought. “Yeah sounds like a good idea,” she said flaring her wings, “first one to find them is the winner,” she said in a sing-song voice before shooting off into the sky. Dash giggled at the mare’s playfulness before realising she was still on the ground. She quickly spread her wings and took off after the mare…

Just as both mare’s left the stadium, a golden stallion trotted up the steps and into the arena closing the door behind him quietly.

Meanwhile in Cloudsdale’s central park Twilight and the others were enjoying a picnic, the atmosphere was slightly dimmed though at what they last saw of Rainbow and Spitfire.

Twilight looked around all the ponies as they ate silently, “I wonder what all the fuss was about?” she said taking a bite of her apple.

Rarity pondered for a moment before speaking, “maybe Spitfire cheated on Rainbow and that means she would feel guilty, oh that would be a good article to read,” she said.

Everypony looked over at the unicorn with confused faces, Rarity just shrugged. "Well it’d be an interesting twist anyway,” she said flicking a few strands of hair out of her face.

Just then a pair of hooves landed down on the cloud surface behind the five ponies which caused them to turn as they saw Rainbow Dash trotting up to them. Twilight smiled at her sky blue friend, “hey Rainbow, wheres Spitfire?” she asked slightly concerned.

Before anypony could speak another pair of hooves hit the ground, everypony looked over to see the mare in question with a slightly annoyed look on her face. Dash pulled her famous smirk at the mare in victory.

Applejack looked at the pair sensing it was time to intervene in case anything happened, “why don’t y’all take a seat, we got enough food for everypony,” she said happily.

Spitfire and Dash obliged as they laid down next to each other around the circle of ponies, the yellow mare turned to Dash as she whispered, “congratulations Dash maybe I was wrong about being the best flyer,” she said.

Dash looked over at Spitfire with a loving smile, “it doesn’t matter Spitfire you’ll always be the best in my books,” she said giving the mare a gentle kiss on the cheek.

Everypony in the group gasped before letting out an aww. Dash realised what she had just done and mumbled some words under her breath as Spitfire tried her best to hide her reddening cheeks. Everypony shared their laughter as the day went on.

Meanwhile back at the Wonderbolt stadium, Blazing was currently in the mess hall with Soarin, while this wasn’t an official training day the stallion needed to get his mind off current events, he also needed some advice.

“Thanks for coming to train with me today Soarin, I know we’ve never been the closest of buddies,” Blazing said as he finished the last of his water.

Soarin smiled happily. “It’s not a problem Blazing, so...I’m guessing things could have gone better at home then,” he said hesitantly.

Blazing nodded in response. “You could say that,” he said with a slight chuckle, “Spitfire left to go find Rainbow, that’s when I decided to go get you, really haven’t had much else to do,” he said shrugging his shoulders.

Soarin nodded. “Well at least you're being there for Spitfire.”

Blazing had an unsure look on his face, “I dunno Soar...I don’t feel like I’m doing all that I can,” he said with a heavy sigh.

Soarin rolled his eyes. “being there is what a brother is supposed to do Blazing, you’ve just got to be there for her that’s it,” he said putting a forehoof on the stallions shoulder, “If you're still worried about it though the streak brothers should be back for training tomorrow so you can ask them, there probably more knowledgable than I am,” he said reassuringly. Blazing nodded before Soarin spoke, “well okay, I’ve gotta head home now to see my parents, have a nice day Blazing and remember be there for her,” he said as he trotted off. Blazing waved goodbye before trotting down the opposite hallway.

As the stallion wandered towards the exit of the stadium he passed Silver’s office and heard a familiar noise come through the cloud wall of the room.

“Look all I’m saying is we just be cautious about letting Rainbow into the bolts”

Blazing stopped when he heard the voice and backed up to the door, he then proceeded to open the door ajar slightly to see the two ponies inside, one was Silver Skies and the other his father. Blazing eyes widened, “what are you up too now,” he said angry to himself as he listened into their conversation.

“Why would we need to be cautious about Rainbow Dash, she’s brilliant! I’m surprised why we haven’t got her on the team right now,” Silver shot back sitting on his chair with a slightly confused look towards the golden stallion.

Golden Fire sighed heavily as he put a forehoof to his head. He turned towards the door slightly causing Blazing to stumble back out of sight. As he came back to the door he saw Golden Fire had now returned back to his normal posture again.

“There is a need to be cautious Silver I mean... have you seen her in public,” Golden Fire asked raising an eyebrow.

Silver Skies shook his head bemused, “I can’t say I have,” he replied.

Golden Fire felt a smirk start to creep onto his muzzle, but he held a straight face. “Well then I can see why your not worried, she is nothing short of a commoner taking what ever she pleases, I say we shouldn’t put her on the team, her attitude is not up to standard.”

Blazing felt his anger rise at this, Golden Fire was lying and he knew it. Part of him wanted to launch in there and hit him, but he knew better than that. He just leaned back in and listened to the conversation as it continued.

“I don’t think we can just rule a pony out on attitude Mr Fire, but I will take note of it nonetheless,” Silver said grabbing his quill. Golden Fire nodded before turning round to leave the room. Blazing saw this and hid behind a nearby corner into another hallway as he watched Golden Fire exit and trot down towards the exit of the stadium. When Blazing heard the door to the stadium close he sighed in relief, but soon after panic started to fill his body he needed to tell Rainbow Dash. He groaned when he realised he didn’t know where she was, he decided to tell her first thing tomorrow as he briskly made his way out of the stadium not wanting to be caught.

...

Meanwhile at the park laughter could be heard as Seven ponies chatted about various events and stories. However the sunset was just starting signaling the end of the day. Twilight turned to her friends as she spoke, “well I guess it’s time we should be heading home now.”

Everypony nodded in response. Rainbow turned to Spitfire, “so where are you sleeping tonight?” she asked giving a quick nuzzle to the mare making sure no pony saw this time.

Spitfire giggled slightly at this before answering, “well...I don’t know I’ll probably go over to Blazing’s house,” she said knowingly.

Rainbow shook her head. “Na you're sleeping with me,” she said getting up off the grass.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow, “where?” she asked quizzically.

Rainbow smirked. “I’ll tell you when we get there,” she said trotting over to her friends as she said her goodbyes. Spitfire rolled her eyes amusingly.

After a few moments Spitfire and Rainbow were both soaring through the skies over cloudsdale. Spitfire was still unsure where her marefriend was taking her, but she would rather sleep in a ditch then go back to her parent’s home. She also didn’t want to go back to her own house because no doubt her parents were already over there, waiting for her to get home so they could shout at her some more.

Suddenly without warning, Dash darted down towards an estate of houses. Many of which looked similar in design, Rainbow landed softly on the estate’s street and began looking around. Spitfire landed close behind her with a confused look, “so what are we doing here again?” she asked. Rainbow turned around to face the mare.

“It’s a surprise just hold on and let me find the right number,” Rainbow replied as she began trotting down the street as she quietly called out numbers, “okay...33…45...56...60...ah 71!” Rainbow called as she changed her course and began trotting up to a cloud home on the street.

Spitfire cautiously followed behind the sky blue mare as she knocked on the door of the house. The sound of trotting came from inside the home, then the unlatching sound of a lock before a light pink mare with a blue mane revealed herself at the doorway, an all too familiar smirk came to her face as she leaned on the frame of the threshold, “and why haven’t you come to see mommy sooner?” she asked raising a suspicious eyebrow.

Rainbow rubbed the back of her neck hesitantly, “eh no reason, I just had to spend time with my friends,” she said hoping her mother wasn’t mad.

The pink mare nodded softly and leaned over to wrap the mare in her winged embrace, “Welcome home Dashie...and is this the marefriend your father and I have heard about,” she asked looking over at the mare whilst still embracing her daughter.

Rainbow released the hug and nodded hesitantly. “Yeah you don’t mind do you?” she asked biting her lip.

The pink mare pondered for a moment, “besides the fact I’ve just lost a twenty bit bet against your father for this I’m happy for you,” she said giving her an affectionate kiss on her muzzle before trotting back into the home. Rainbow turned to Spitfire who was trying to hold back her laughter.

Rainbow rolled her eyes as she trotted into the home, “Welcome to my family,” she said happily.

To be continued…

Author's Note

Soo hope you guys enjoyed the new chap and HAPPY THANKS GIVING!

In this chapter I wanted to keep the drama, but stick slightly to slice of life until the very end....the big stuff will come in just a few chaps time maybe about...4 chaps time not too sure

And yeah our buddy manes is doing a collab with us for an Appledash fic, if you like that stuff you can go check it out when it comes up I'll put a link somewhere

but yeah thats about it soooo summary time !

1: Golden Fire is now trying to get Rainbow Dash out of the bolts will he do it? or is Blazing going to snuff him out before he gets a chance
2: Spitfire's gonna meet Dash's parents !
3: More about the main 6 will come later on, now that we're back in cloudsdale I intend to put them back in.
4: Doing Silver Skies in this chapter was hard, but we eventually settled it on him having a bit of OCD and a very none emotional face....I wonder if I should give him a moustache...

~Alex

Chapter 24: Morning Training Shenanigans

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 24: Training Shenanigans

Another day dawned over Equestria. In Cloudsdale, ponies were just waking up for their early morning weather duties. Meanwhile, at Rainbow’s parents’ house, things weren’t so great.

Spitfire yawned heavily as she opened her eyes and scanned the room with what little vision she had in the morning. Finally, her eyes came to rest on the small Wonderbolt clock that hung just in front of the bed. Spitfire shrugged; she was only an hour late for training, but just as she put her head back down on the pillow, her eyes shot open as the realization hit her.

“Rainbow, wake up, we’re an hour late for training!” Spitfire shouted as she nudged the sleeping mare awake before scrambling out of the bed and looking around the room. Rainbow sat up on the small mattress and rubbed her eyes with a hoof.

She saw her marefriend looking at her with slight panic in her eyes.Rainbow raised an eyebrow, asking, “What’s wrong, Spitfire?”

The golden mare was slightly dumbstruck by this and pointed to the clock above the wall which read out the time. It took a few moments for the realization to hit the still sleepy pegasus before she realized what was going on.

“Silver's gonna kill us,” Rainbow announced as the pair stared at each other for a few more moments before they both bolted out of the room and down the stairs of the home.

Meanwhile, in another part of Cloudsdale, things weren’t exactly going well for a certain stallion either. Blazing groaned as he awoke on his makeshift cloud bed on the Streak brothers' living room sofa. He rubbed his head as he got up, feeling slightly nauseous from last night's events. He got up and made his way towards the kitchen, but as he started his trotting, he heard a knock at the front door. Changing his course, the stallion trotted up to the door and opened it to reveal a pale blue stallion and a silver stallion standing at the doorstep.

Soarin raised an eyebrow. “Blazing? What are you doing here?” he asked quizzically. While Rapid stared on in amazement.

Before the stallion could reply, a crashing sound came from down the hallway. Blazing and Soarin both hesitantly looked around to see one of the Streak brothers coming out of the kitchen. He looked down at the two stallions and smirked. “What’s this Blazing? Bringing more people to the party?” he asked.

Blazing was completely mind blown. “Wait, Lightning, you're drunk, again!? It's just past dawn!” he exclaimed as Soarin looked on in astonishment.

The stallion trotted towards the door with a confused look on his face. “What? No, I’m just a bit tipsy from last night... too much vodka,” he said while rubbing the sleep out of his eye with a forehoof.

Soarin smirked amusingly at the two stallions. “Well, I think I’ve got a great Idea to get you two back on the road of sanity again.”

Both stallions looked at each other, confused, before looking back to Soarin as he continued. The stallion leaned in as he spoke. “Be at the circuit in ten minutes sharp,” he said firmly. Both stallions nodded before they slowly trotted back into the hallway to get ready for the day's training.

While that was all going on, over the skies of Cloudsdale Spitfire and Dash raced over to the large stadium in Cloudsdale, they flew over the large oval building then dived down and landed onto the arena. Spitfire turned to Dash as she spoke, “let’s just hope Silver forgot,” she said as Dash gave a slightly exhausted nod.

Their hopes however were shattered by another voice, “didn’t I ask you two to be on site an hour earlier today?” Silver Skies asked as he trotted out into the arena where the mare’s were standing. Spitfire nodded as she lowered her head slightly.

Silver Skies sighed. “Well I guess it wasn’t that much of a big deal, but anyway I’ll just move that hour earlier to later on today once everypony's gone home,” he said trotting back into the inner stadium.

Spitfire looked over at Dash with a tired expression, “I think we’re in for a long day today Dash.”.

Just then a few more ponies came over the stadium and landed not to far away from the pair. Spitfire smiled when she saw who it was. “Hey Misty, Fleetfoot glad to see you got those casts off,” she said happily as she trotted over with Dash to meet the two ponies.

Both mare’s looked over and saw their captain before gasping, “hey Spitfire I haven’t seen you in forever time!” Fleetfoot said rushing up to hug the golden mare while Misty rolled her eyes at her friend’s antics.

Then Fleetfoot looked over and saw Rainbow Dash standing behind Spitfire, she gasped again before galloping over and tackling her into a big hug, “hey Dash haven’t seen you in ages too...and I hear your dating the captain,” she said in a sing~song voice trotting back over where Misty stood.

Dash smiled happily as she nodded. “Yeah, but it isn’t one of those sappy romantic things, we’re way too cool for that.”

Spitfire smirked amusingly as she shook her head, just then the faint sound of laughter could be heard from above, all the mare’s on the ground looked up to see two orange streaks shoot over the top of the stadium with another yellow streak catching up behind.

“Lightning Streak, Fire Streak get down here now!” Soarin shouted as he landed onto the arena with Rapid Fire.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow, “um Soar, theres three ponies up there,” she said with a cocky grin.

Soarin rolled his eyes, “I know that Spitfire, Blazing’s trying to catch them,” he said with an annoyed tone as he looked back up to the sky seeing the two orange streak turn around and dart back towards the stadium with the yellow streak holding off and moving away to a hover. Soarin’s eyes widened as he realised what was about to happen, “oh Celestia, everypony run!”

Just as everyone moved out of the way the two streaks collided down onto the soft arena with a thud, Soarin sighed angrily as he trotted onto the stadiums arena and looked down at the two stallions trying their best to pin each other to the ground in a fight. He leaned down before shouting, “Into line double time, I want to see you lined up as fast as you can fly!”

Both stallions quickly got themselves up and stood into a line just as Blazing came back down and landed onto the arena. Soarin sighed heavily as he turned to Spitfire and said, “I really don’t think I can survive these two.”

Spitfire rolled her eyes. “That’s because you don’t know how to play tactically,” she replied trotting over to the two stallions.

“Okay stallions, If you want to have legs and wings by the end of this session then I would suggest cutting the horeshit and start practicing!” Spitfire commanded using her academy sergeant voice making the two stallions salute quickly before blitzing off into the sky at great speed as Soarin, Misty, Rapid and Fleetfoot headed over to get training started. Spitfire turned round to face Blazing and Rainbow Dash with a smile, but before she could speak Blazing cut her off, “Spitfire I need you and Dash to come with me there’s something important I need to tell you,” he said motioning with a hoof for the two mare’s to follow.

Spitfire exchanged concerned looks with Rainbow as the pair trotted into the stadium and down the hallway into the lounge room which was deserted at this time in the morning. Blazing sighed as he sat down on one of the lounge’s chairs and looked up at the mares, “Spitfire, I overhead Silver talking to dad the other day,” he started watching as Spitfire’s eyes grew in shock as Dash held a confused look.

“He’s not trying to get you or me out of the job anymore Spitfire, he’s got a new target and I’m pretty sure it’s got blackmail involved,” Blazing explained as the two mares sat down on the sofa opposite him.

Spitfire raised an eyebrow. “Well don’t just leave us hanging Blaze, who is it dad’s after now?” she said, her voice was a mix of worry and concern. Blazing simply sighed solemnly and pointed a hoof over towards Dash.

Spitfire looked at Dash as she spoke, “w-wait, why Rainbow?” she asked slightly shocked at this.

Blazing shrugged. “I dunno sis, but knowing Golden Fire he’ll have some reason.”

Rainbow didn’t speak for a few moments as she let her anger settle slightly, when she calmed down enough she spoke up, “he’ll want me to get to Spitfire, that’s who he wants to blackmail,” she said knowingly.

Spitfire however was still slightly confused. “But why you, he’s only seen you on a news article.”

“Trust me Spitfire, I know how bullies work and he’s gonna get me out of the bolts and make it look like it’s your fault so you’ll stop going out with me,” Rainbow answered, feeling the tears well up in her eyes as she continued, “he want’s to ruin me Spitfire...just like Hoops did to me back at school.”

Spitfire wrapped a wing around her marefriend and held her close, “you know I’d never break up with you on account of my father Rainbow, besides we already went to Silver and he say’s that Golden Fire doesn’t make any last calls...and I’ll be damned to Celestia if I let him hurt anymore ponies again, especially you Rainbow,” Spitfire said as she kissed the mare softly on the cheek.

The sky blue mare nodded in response, “I know, but something needs to be done, I’ll be damned to the moon if that stallion thinks he can just take my dream away from me,” she said getting up and trotting out of the lounge.

Spitfire turned around as the mare trotted away, “Dash where are you going,” she asked.

“Training!” The mare called back in a slightly annoyed tone as she trotted out of sight.

Blazing sighed. “So now what are we gonna do?” he asked curiously.

Spitfire looked over at her brother, frowning. The stallion could already tell his sister was angry by the sudden change in events, and he was right. Spitfire felt her blood boil for her father and she wasn’t going to stand by any longer.

Spitfire launched from the sofa and started trotting down the hallway, with Blazing looking back in surprise, “hey Spit, aren't you doing training?”

Spitfire turned back to her brother, “cover for me, theres something I need to take care of first,” she replied before storming out of the room and down the corridor. Blazing thought about chasing after his sister, but he thought it best to follow her last instruction and just head back to training.

Meanwhile Spitfire had already taken off into the sky and was soaring across Cloudsdale at great speed, she gritted her teeth in anger as she made her way over to her parents towards the center of town, she landed hard onto the front door step and knocked the door heavily and waited impatiently for someone to answer, soon the door was opened by her mother, “hello darling what’s wrong?” she asked raising an eyebrow.

Spitfire shook her head. “Not now mom, where is he?”

Starfire rolled her eyes. “He’s been locked in his study since he came back yesterday, I think he just finished his daily cloud walking spell,” she said gesturing to the upper floor of the home. Spitfire didn’t reply and simply trotted into the home and up to her father's study.

Spitfire reached the door and reared up on her front legs and bucked the door breaking it in two and revealing the small room where a golden coated stallion sat with a slightly shocked impression as he saw his daughter angrily stomp into the room.

“You stay away from my marefriend!” Spitfire hollard as she stood her ground in the center of the study.

Golden Fire smirked. “Why should I? that mare destroyed my beautiful daughter and my family’s reputation, surely you can’t be serious about me letting her get away with this?”

“You’re insane dad! I won’t let you hurt anypony on my team especially Rainbow, and if you think you can just get rid of her you’re wrong, you don’t get a final say in anything we do and after the show Rainbow will be accepted into the bolts whether you like it or not!” Spitfire said firmly stamping her hoof on the ground.

Golden Fire fell silent at this. He was shocked at what he’d heard and it only made anger rise slightly. Spitfire turned away and trotted out of the room disgusted. Golden Fire still sat in his chair and waited for the sound of the door to his home slamming shut before he let his temper boil over.

“No!” Golden Fire shouted as he picked up his chair and smashed it into the cloud floor breaking it half, he then proceeded to pick up a lamp on his desk and throw it at a nearby wall, “I will not let anypony stop me!” he hollered as he smashed his hooves onto the desk making a it crack slightly. After that Golden Fire sighed heavily letting his anger settle some, he spoke while he breathed heavily, “I will not let anypony win, if I have to take Rainbow down myself I will,” he told himself looking out of the study window to see a fiery yellow streak making it’s way back towards the stadium. A small smile came to the stallions features as he spoke, “If I have to take Rainbow down, then that’s exactly what I’ll do…that show will be her last.”

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Yep so the main thing to take away from this chapter kids is that fathers who smash up rooms in a fit of rage need some psychiatric help.

Moving on to the chapter yeah the whole Wonderbolt team is back in action hope you like it and boom that was a tiwst at the end wasn't it a real kick in the mind there...now somepony's gonna get hurt, and of course I'm going to be the evil b#stard who won't tell you who it is.

So summary time.

1: Don't backchat with an angry Spitfire
2: The streak brothers are mental...just like us
3: Soarin is gonna die of stress with all these annoying ponies around.
4: Somethings gonna happen soon and it's not gonna be cute

~Alex

Chapter 25: Afternoon Training

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 25: Afternoon Training

The sun over Equestria was now starting to dip as they day started to wind down, the sunset giving off a red and orange hue which cascaded down the walls of the Wonderbolt stadium. Spitfire watched the sight unfold, she took that as the time to end the day's training for most of the team. She blew on her trusty silver whistle as the Wonderbolt team lined up in front of her. She smiled, seeing the entire team now back in action. “Okay team, great work today! I think you guys can all call it quits for tonight. But remember, keep practicing, we only have a day before the show,” she said knowingly as the ponies saluted her before taking off towards home, leaving just her and Rainbow Dash at the arena.

The golden mare turned to face her marefriend. “Well, I guess we may as well start our extra training,” she said, rolling her eyes playfully.

Rainbow grinned. “Cool! It’s kinda better just being you and me though.”

Spitfire chuckled. “Well that’s good, and besides, you can teach me some of your moves,” she replied.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “What kinda moves are we talking?” she asked with a hint of excitement.

Spitfire pondered for a moment, before responding, “Well… I know it’s a hard move, but how about…the rainboom?” she asked hesitantly.

Dash fumbled with her hooves slightly as she spoke, “Well…”

“It’s okay, Dash. It’s your move anyway, if you don’t want to teach me how to do it, that’s fine,” Spitfire said cutting her marefriend off before she had a chance to speak.

Dash rolled her eyes. “You didn’t let me finish, Spitfire, of course I’ll teach my awesome marefriend how to perform the most awesome move in Equestria,” she said as Spitfire beamed happily at her. “What I was gonna say is that it takes a lot of practice,” Rainbow finished.

Spitfire nodded confidently, spreading her wings. “Okay, Dash, let’s do this!”

Rainbow grinned and flared her wings before taking off into the sky with Spitfire following closely behind. Rainbow flew up to a high altitude above the circuit of the arena, and waited for Spitfire to catch up to her. Once the yellow mare was by her side, Rainbow spoke up, “Okay, Spits. This is the hard part of a rainboom, you have to get up to a speed where the force starts to pull you back and keep going, don’t let anything distract you either,” she said, looking over at her marefriend.

Spitfire gave an unsure nod before she started speeding up. Using all her strength, she jumped ahead of Rainbow and kept pushing forward into the air. She looked down and felt her heart start to race as she saw the little white cones start to form at the tips of her hooves; this spurred the pegasus onwards as she kept pushing her wings harder, gaining more speed. Soon, the cone shape started to get larger, but the force increased with it making more of a struggle for the Wonderbolt captain.

Rainbow Dash watched the scene unfold with a mix of doubt and excitement. But suddenly, the force became too great and the exhausted pegasus was blown back over the stadium. Dash smiled, launching up to catch her. Spitfire turned to look at her marefriend with a sheepish grin. “Well... I tried,” she said, shrugging her shoulders.

Dash waved a dismissive hoof. “Ha, don’t worry about it, as I said: it takes a lot of practice. And besides, I’ve only been able to do it when I feel the need to, like saving a pony… or their job,” she said, smirking at her marefriend.

Spitfire giggled playfully as she shook her head. “You’re one of a kind, Dash,” she said happily as the sky blue mare in question leaned down to gently nuzzle her marefriend. The pair set off to more training.

As the day rolled on Spitfire and Rainbow tried the move again and again...still with no success. Still a lot of fun was had and Rainbow inpicticular was happy that she could finally return the favour in teaching her marefriend some new moves. It was a nice warm feeling and something she didn't want to lose.

After a while Luna’s moon started to rise into the sky, both mare’s took that as their cue to finish up the day’s training. Spitfire flew alongside Rainbow Dash as they soared across the vast floating city towards Rainbow’s parent’s house. When they landed at the estate home Rainbow motioned for Spitfire to stay quiet. The yellow pegasus did so as Rainbow took out a key from under a small cloud statue at the doorstep of the home and opened the door into the quiet building. Rainbow again motioned for Spitfire to come into the the home, once she was in Rainbow closed the door behind her and quietly they made their way up to Rainbow’s room. Soon they made their way into the room and crashed onto the small bed exhausted. Spitfire turned to Rainbow as she spoke, “We really need to get a hotel,” she said to which the pair gave out a soft giggle.

Rainbow nodded before she yawned. “Yeah, we probably should.”

Spitfire sighed as she looked out of the window of the bedroom. “Welp, only one more day and then the tours over, then we can get back to you and me,” she said nuzzling the blue mare.

Dash smiled. “Yeah, it’s been the best tour ever Spitfire, my foal hood dream… thanks,” she said, leaning over as the pair shared a deep kiss with one another. Spitfire smiled happily as the sky blue pegasus pulled away.

“Well you know, if this show goes well… Silver will be making you into a Wonderbolt for next years team!” Spitfire stated. Dash smiled excitingly as she thought about the day when she’d wear a uniform with her name on it. Spitfire leaned over and kissed the mare on the cheek. “Goodnight, Dashie, I love you.”

Rainbow snuggled up to her marefriend as she sighed softly. “I love you too Spitfire,” she said before drifting off to sleep.

Spitfire watched her marefriend as she slept soundly next to her. The golden mare looked back out into the night sky as she thought about the coming events of the next few days. She smiled to herself as she thought about her and Rainbow after all this would be over. She looked back down at the mare of her dreams as she whispered, "you may not know it my love, but we have one of the strongest bonds anypony could fathom. I will always love you Rainbow Dash...and will always be their for you, your loyalty is worth more to me than anything and it's something I intend to return" The Wonderbolt captain said before she laid back down onto the bed and nuzzled Rainbow’s mane before she fell asleep.

Nopony, however, could have expected what was to come…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Yay another chapter....since this one was so short decided to post it with the 2,400 word chapter we already hauled out for you guys. So yeah hope you like the ending to the day and the ending to the happy part really of this fic....NOW WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOU CRY....well only a little, but we're bringing out the feels in the next coming chapters.

So yep summary time kids

1: (your loyalty is worth more to me than anything and it's something I intend to return) means Spitfire intends to give her loyalty back to Rainbow in return.
2: Will Spitfire ever be able to do her own Rainboom....well they came up with Twiboom for season 4 sooo how about Fireflash for Spitfire?
3: more cute scenes
4: next few chaps mike's grabbing a cactus and hitting you all in the feels

~Alex

Chapter 26: Raining Fire

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A.

Chapter 26: Raining Fire

The next few days rolled around quickly and since the first day of training nothing troublesome had occurred. The show in Cloudsdale would be the final performance of the winter tour for the Wonderbolts before the new year, it was expected to be a normal show just like the other prefromances for this year's tour. Most of the pegasi performing were happy that they could finally take a break after the day was through, but before any of that this performance would need to be executed perfectly if the Wonderbolts where to keep their reputation in their home city. This performance was where it mattered the most.

In one of the many hallways which tunneled throughout the stadium, two mares trotted side by side as they made their way to the locker rooms, one more nervous than the other. Rainbow Dash looked over at Spitfire, noticing the anxious look on her face.“Hey, Spits... you alright?”

The golden mare turned to look at Dash. “Y-Yeah…I’m fine.”

Rainbow didn’t buy it. “C’mon Spits, I know you better than that. Now tell me what’s bugging you?”

Spitfire sighed heavily. “I just feel a little nervous, I mean, both of us have… been, through a lot lately, I mean, what if somepony’s out there to kill us or-”

“Hey,” Rainbow interrupted, “don’t worry about what will happen out there. I know that you are nervous, I am too. But there is nothing to worry about… because you know if you fall, I will be there to catch you.”

Spitfire smiled and nodded happily as leaned over to kiss the mare, “Thanks, Dash… I really needed to hear that,” she said as the pair walked into the the locker rooms where the rest of the Wonderbolts were already getting suited up, Spitfire and Rainbow returned to their selected lockers to get ready.

The golden pony was slightly less nervous now about this performance, but she still had a slightly weird feeling about today’s show. Nonetheless, Spitfire put her uniform on and waited till the rest of the team was ready before she gathered them around for a talk. “Okay, team. Today we make a mark in our home town… now I don’t have to go over why this is such an important task, but let me tell you this: if you care about the Wonderbolts and you want to be respected then this is where you make that all happen. Now lets get out there and give them one hell of a show!” Spitfire said to which the rest of the team saluted before the announcer started the ceremony signaling the Wonderbolts to get ready.

Meanwhile a dark figure trotted through the inner parts of the stadium, his shadow painted the walls of the dimly lit hallway. As he went over his plan in the dim of the cheering crowds from outside, he had been studying a spell for the past day which he believed would work best, if he where to fire it directly at the pegasus he chose, it would paralyze them just for enough time for them to hit the ground. If fired at a Wonderbolt the speed they would be travelling at would mean the impact should be able to cause a broken wing or leg injury, this would give the golden stallion enough time in the ponies absence to act upon getting them out of the bolts. He only had one pony in his sites today: Rainbow Dash. The announcer started the ceremony signaling the time had come. The shadowed pony quickly galloped away to his position in the stadium.

The announcer finished his opening speech of welcoming all the selected guests who had come to watch the Wonderbolts. He now proceeded to introduce the main act.

“Please join me in welcoming the Wonderbolts!”

Just like before when the announcers voice died down the stadium was quiet, ponies waited eagerly for the show to start, and some nearly fell of their seats in anticipation. Suddenly the rumble of thunder could be heard as a thick black smoke filled the center of the arena. The smoke formed itself into a large dark cloud and as it stood in the center of the stadium, it began to crackle with the impending lightning.

Suddenly three streaks of thunder dived down in parallel with each other they leveled themselves out before soaring across the stadium, they barrel rolled as they lined up into a single file line and started to circle around the dark cloud as it started to shoot lightning out from all directions as the Wonderedbolt’s were enveloped into the growing cloud, everypony watching in anticipation as the three Wonderbolts emerged again and shot into the sky breaking up the giant cloud as their thunderous streaks painted the skies with bolts of lightning. The crowd below went wild with cheers of delight as more Wonderbolts began to join the scene.

Spitfire and Soarin dived down into a double helix before spiraling out into different parts of the arena. Rainbow was last in as she circled around the stadium in her natural streak showering the crowds below with multicolored light before heading down into the stadium below.

Golden Fire grinned as he saw the pony descend into the stadium, and her natural streak made it all the more easier to point her out from the rest of the Wonderbolts in the stadium, but he decided to hold off for the time being he needed to wait until Rainbow was closest to him so his spell would work effectively.

Meanwhile Spitfire was busy performing her solo routine, Misty and Fleetfoot where circling the stadium doing barrel rolls as they passed each other. Soarin and the streak brothers were doing reflex spins and dives whilst Rainbow did loops at the center of the stage making rainbow colored rings getting cheers from the crowd below.

Rainbow Dash did three loops in total before diving round the left side of the stadium, Golden Fire took this as the opportunity as everypony got up as they cheered the Wonderbolt around the corner, he started to light up his horn and cast his spell.

Spitfire had finished her solo routine and darted down to the left side of the stadium to complete a spin out with Soarin, she then soared up giving her just a few seconds to look around at the crowds below, she watched as Rainbow soared round the stadium, but then she spotted something horrifying. Standing amongst the crowd was her father his horn alight and she knew just who it was for. Spitfire wasting no time, spread her wings giving them a powerful flap as she dived down towards the impending disaster.

Spitfire felt her heart racing and fear now grabbing on to any part of her nervasystem that it could find, all she knew was she had seconds to spare as she kept beating her wings faster and faster not wanting to waste a moment of time that she had left.

Ponies at the far side of the stadium where all watching in wonder as a cone started forming around the captain of the team as she powered down towards the stadium at great speed, the cone started to engulf the pony's body as she continued to speed up.

Golden Fire saw Rainbow in the mists of the crowd and for a split second their eyes met, Rainbow’s eyes widened in fear as she saw the stallion as his horn shot out a magical burst of energy, Rainbow had no time to react.

Just then a mighty boom rocked the entire stadium, Rainbow watched as time started to slow down, then a pony came down from above and deflected the magical energy as it hit the pony before it could reach Rainbow Dash in time, and then time sped up again as the pony that had been shocked smashed into the stadium's stands ripping up parts of the cloud wall and sending debris flying across a large part of the stadium and black smoke filling the crash site. Everypony looked on in utter shock of what had just happened as a deathly silence fell over the stadium, the crumbling of cloud bricks and metal was all that could be heard. A large ring of fire hung in an oval shape as it faded over the stadium with the silence.

The black smoke of the crash started to clear sightly as a few golden feathers blew in the small breeze of the wind. One of the feathers landed on Rainbow’s muzzle. It was then she realised what pony had just flown in front of her.

Spitfire opened an eye slowly, she looked around the stadium of ponies shouting trying to get their voices heard. As her blurred vision came back to her, she lolled her head to the side, seeing bundles of destroyed safety clouds littering the storage room. She tried to move anything, but her mind went into shock as realized that nothing would respond . She slowly moved her eyes downwards to her flight suit, the nylon suit had been torn in the crash and most was now scattered beyond the thick black smoke which filled the area where she lay, only a few parts where now attached to her body by a few threads. She took a look around the rubbled area where she lay, her eyes widened when she saw a few blocks of cloud tainted with blood. Suddenly, she felt her eyes start to droop and was about to close her eyes again when a voice shrieked above the crowd.

“Spitfire!”

The golden mare smiled when she heard the sound of her marefriend’s voice come through her ears as more sounds came through her damaged hearing which had a ringing sound to it.

“We need paramedics over here!”

"We need medical teams stat!"

"Somepony arrest that stallion!"

"Somepony get the air medics team now!"

Suddenly Spitfire started to feel her grip on the world fading slightly with the sounds becoming more and more quiet, something in her brain just felt off...tired even...her eyes started to close against Spitfire's will as she tried her best to stay awake. The last thing Spitfire saw was the hooves of a light blue pegasus touching the ground and rushing over to her...

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Now Now, before you all go on about how you didn't know Golden Fire was a unicorn it was stated all the way back at chapter 3 and in chapter 24 it's also stated he's using a daily cloud walking spell....just to clear that all up for you who might have forgotten.

god damn that stallion! but yeah this was a turn of events wasn't it my friends hope you liked the chapter...will Spitfire get out alive will Rainbow have to deal with a loss of her first love? what will Golden Fire say about all of this? more will come in the next chapter, I assure you it will only take 3000 years for you to find out.

So anyways kids summary time!

1: Spitfire's been hit, she's closed her eyes ! oh lord pray for this mare!
2: Rainbow Dash is gonna be one unhappy bunny towards Golden Fire

~Alex

Chapter 27: The Aftermath

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 27: The Aftermath

Across Cloudsdale news quickly spread of the disastrous accident which had befallen the Wonderbolt Captain, as the city tried to recall what had happened. in Cloudsdale’s hospital however a very different emotion was running throughout the building…panic.

The doors to an emergency hallway where thrown open as doctors and nurses rushed down the hallway as a pegasus was carried by a stretcher, blood was visibly seen on the white sheets that covered the small makeshift bed as she was rushed towards an emergency room. Rainbow Dash was close behind as she tried to keep up with them. The doctors guided the nurses into a room in one of the many hallways and locked the doors. Rainbow slammed into them as she tried to get through...but it was no use.

Rainbow banged on the door with a frantic hoof, “let me in I need to see her!” she shouted as tears streamed down her face dripping onto the floor below. She slipped down the doors as she burst out in tears crying into her hooves.

Blazing Fire quickly caught up in the hallway and saw the pegasus crying her heart out next to a set of double doors. He made his way over to her and put a hoof on her shoulder making sure she was alright. Rainbow felt the contact and looked up for a moment to see Blazing crouching down next to her with the same dread ridden face as her own. Rainbow leaped forward slightly clinging onto Blazing as she buried her muzzle into his chest quickly matting it with her tears. Blazing did nothing but simply wrap his hooves around the mare and hold her tightly. He looked on through the doors with a blank expression as he let his own tears fall.

Soarin was next into the long plain white hallway, his suit slightly stained with crimson blood from helping carry his befallen friend into the stretcher. He simply stood and stared at the two pegasi next to the doors currently wrapped up in one anothers embrace, the atmosphere felt panicked, tragic...but above all else...lost.

Rainbow took short breaths as she tried her best to calm down, but was only causing her to hyperventilate as her mind raced, she grabbed Blazing by the shoulders startling the stallion slightly as she spoke, “d-d-do you think, s-she’ll b-be alr-right?” she asked as tears continued to pour out of her eyelids hoping for at least some kind of answer, her body now starting to shake slightly from the fear that was going througout her body.

Blazing felt even more sorry now for the mare in his hooves, his heart leaping out at him wanting to just give at least some reassurance to the mare that it would be okay, but he knew that it would be far from the truth. The stallion shook his head slowly as he replied, “I don’t know Dash…I don’t know.”

Upon hearing this Rainbow proceeded to bury her head back into the stallion as she continued to cry more than ever. The sounds echoing off the walls as sadness filled the entire building. Soarin shook his head in disbelief choosing to lean on a nearby wall as tried to figure out some sort of solution in his mind.

Meanwhile further down the hallway all the other members of the team waited anxiously for any kind of news, the feeling in the air was tense as the echo’s of a pony’s cries came from throughout the hallway.

Fleetfoot turned to Rapid Fire, fear in her usually joyful eyes that were now dark and sad, “d-do you think she’ll be alright?” she whispered in a panicked tone.

Rapid Fire lowered his head slightly, “I don’t know Fleet, she hit that wall pretty hard.”

“Shut up you're only making things worse,” Misty said firmly as she let some of her own tears fall. The silence returned once again as all the ponies waited for some kind of information about the pony they cared for.

A Few Hours Later

After a while all the Wonderbolt’s had been moved to a seating area in the hospital close to where Spitfire had been last seen. Rainbow sat on one of the chairs still being held by Blazing as the pegasus continued to cry but with all of her tears now gone, but still the odd whimper came from the mare as she breathed shakily.

Suddenly the opening of a door aroused all the ponies in the hallway. A dark brown stallion trotted up to all the ponies in the hallway as they turned around to look at the doctor. The pony in the white lab coat sighed as he looked upon each of the faces, he knew what he was about to say would upset each and every one of them only making his task even harder. Taking a deep breath he spoke.

“I’m sorry,” he started earning a gasp from half of the ponies, he put his hoof up to continue, “but you’re friend is in a very very bad way, the injuries she sustained from the crash are nothing short of horrific...she has seven broken ribs, five lacerations and a fractured skull. We’ve had to put her on life support for now...but she has a 30 percent chance of making it through the night...I’m deeply sorry, I can tell she is greatly loved.”

With that the stallion left wiping a few lone tears from his muzzle as he trotted away. Rainbow looked at the stallion before saying, “hey!” The doctor turned around as she continued in a quieter tone, “c-can we at least see her?” she asked her voice almost begging in nature.

The doctor was quiet for a few moments before nodding softly, “yes, but please not all of you at once.”

Rainbow looked back at the group of ponies who all tried their best smiles. Blazing nodded as he released his grip on the mare as she gently got up and started trotting with the stallion over to the room. The doctor opened the door letting Rainbow in, she took one last look at the group of ponies before the door shut behind her.

Rainbow slowly looked over the room, the plain white walls covered each and every inch of the room. next to a bed, a small monitor beeped in rhythm as wires and other items scattered the floor in the recent rush of emergency. There was a small desk next to the bed as well which was scattered with papers. Then The sky blue mare’s eyes then fell upon the love of her life, hooked up by machines and laying motionless on the hospital bed. Rainbow felt the tears rise just looking at the sight in front of her, slowly but surely made her way over to the mare. When she finally got to the side of the bed she smiled letting some fresh tears fall as she looked down at her marefriend. She crouched down so she was level with the mare as she spoke up.

“H-hey Spitfire...I don’t know if you can hear me, b-but I just wanted you to know that you're a strong pony and you and I will get through this t-together...I will always be here for you when you wake up my love, just p-please don’t die,” Rainbow said stroking Spitfire’s bright mane before collapsing next to her as she broke down again struggling to keep her cries to a minimum, she slowly moved her head up to face Spitfire’s and planted a small kiss on her muzzle as she spoke, “j-just please S-Spitfire...please come back to me soon...I love you.”

To be Continued...

Author's Note

so yeah another short chapter here my friends just kinda trying to link this all up to the main part of this act, now if you think that was the feels...theres way more to come.

Anyways guys hope you enjoyed the chapter

Summary time!

1: Rainbow is completely shocked by this entire thing...she can't even speak!
2: Blazing is also shocked, kinda had him there with Rainbow becuase he was the next closest pony to Spitfire besides Dash
3: Soarin yeah Kinda thought a stallion of his nature would help out in the accident first so he's got the blood...hehe
4: did we hit you with a feels cactus already ?

~Alex

Chapter 28: Rainbow’s Promise

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 28: Rainbow's Promise

Time seemed quickly fly by for Rainbow. She had only been able to stay by Spitfire’s side for a few more minutes, before she was forcefully escorted out of the room by the hospital security. She was taken back to the small set of chairs next to the room where she had just been, all the other Wonderbolts tried their best smiles as the mare trotted back over to them. She and the rest of the team were told that the doctors needed to perform some emergency surgeries and other important procedures on Spitfire that nopony besides the doctors themselves could be present during. The entire team sat anxiously in the hallway, each trying their very best to cope with the recent tragedy that had befallen their friend. They all lifted their heads and noticed Rainbow trotting up and down the hallway mumbling something to herself. After a while she stopped and sat on the bench they were all sitting on. Rainbow seated herself quietly, completely ignoring the team and curled herself into a tight ball as she began to shiver again lightly from another set of tears. The team watched as Rainbow began to shake and sob quietly to herself all with sad faces.

Suddenly, Rainbow jumped as she felt a wing curl around her. She looked up from her position to see Blazing sitting next to her, his wing placed upon her back. There were no words said as she stared into his eyes which were filled with worry and sadness. She could tell by this alone that the stallion was going through just as much pain as she was. Uncurling more herself more, Rainbow straightened herself back up and wrapped her hooves around Blazing’s midsection, pressing her face into his fur trying her best to get herself away from this nightmare. Blazing just simply held the mare like he had done before as silence once again fell over the ponies in the hallway.

Moments later, Rainbow felt another wing join in with the embrace, then another and another. As she pulled her head out of Blazing chest, she noticed that the whole team had joined in with a giant wing hug. She could feel her cheek muscles softening slightly trying to adjust her face to smile, but before she could her mind remembered why she was here in the first place... why they all were there. The great pain that emanated from her deepest regions only caused her to fall back into Blazing embrace as she sobbed quietly to herself.

Through the double doors in the hallway the same doctor that had broken the news to the team earlier, watched as the Wonderbolts gathered together in an embrace, comforting the broken mare that security had needed to remove from his patient's room. A single tear rolled down his cheek before he trotted off not wanting to take anymore than he had already endured that day.

Rainbow had stopped crying, now barely making any sounds besides her heavy breathing, she was locked away in her mind as she tried to figure out some reason why Spitfire had deflected the shot, her mind had taken away her logic and trying to find a reason in her current state of mind was to hard to complete, but she knew that Golden Fire was going to get more than just a good buck to the face when she got her hooves on him.

Just then the sky blue mare heard the sounds of hooves on the floor, she lifted her head again to see four ponies trotting down the hallway, she gulped her tears down as she spoke in a raspy voice, “hey where are you guys going?” she asked trying to hold back the rest of her tears.

Fleetfoot, Misty and the Lightning brothers looked uneasily at each other as they tried to find a suitable answer. Finally Fleetfoot was the one to speak up, “well we um...we thought we’d just leave you guys to it.”

Rainbow lowered her eyes slightly before she frowned. “You're leaving?” she said slightly angry.

Fleetfoot looked over at the other ponies with a pleading look for one of them to help her out, luckily Misty trotted over to Rainbow and laid a hoof on her shoulder, she sighed before speaking, “We’re just tired Rainbow, I know it’s hard but some of us have to stay on duty in case of another emergency...will let you guys stay and keep watch, as much as we want to stay Rainbow we need to make sure the rest of Equestria is safe.”

Rainbow closed her eyes as she tried to keep in all her emotions, she just gave a nod before putting her head back into Blazing’s chest and listening as the ponies trotted away slowly and then hearing a door opening before the short pause of silence and then the noise of it closing shut again. Rainbow just sighed as she continued to sob quietly.

Blazing looked over at Soarin who sat on the bench next to him and Rainbow, he had been completely silent the entire time. Blazing knew what was going through the stallion’s mind. He’d been best friends with his sister for longer than Blazing had managed to be. Blazing looked lower to see the stallion’s blood stained uniform. At this point Soarin had already noticed his friend staring at him and raised an eyebrow, “what is it?” he asked, his voice slightly more depressed than usual.

Blazing tried a smile, but nothing came, “It’s nothing Soar…just hope we can get out of this mess soon.”

Soarin nodded. “Yeah me too…”

“I just want her to be o-okay,” Rainbow Dash said her voice slightly muffled from being buried in Blazing’s fur.

Blazing and Soarin nodded in approval to the mare’s words as they both started to feel sleep overcoming them. Within a few minutes both stallions had fallen asleep leaning their heads against the top part of the bench. For Rainbow however she found it hard to get herself to sleep, the fear of her marefriend not making it through the night racked her mind, she sighed just choosing to nestle herself in Blazing wings and fur...she knew this would be the worst night of her life…

...

Rainbow Dash looked up lazily from where she was sat, her vision was slightly hazy and she couldn’t make out anything from the bright light that was emanating from the corridor, she rubbed her eye with a forehoof trying to make her eyes see better. Just then she heard a noise which echoed off the world around her. Just then out of the bright light came a mare dressed in white clothing and had a red cross on the front of her shirt. She trotted up to Dash smiling widely as she looked down on the mare.

Dash tried to say something, anything. But nothing came out, instead the mare looking down at her started to talk unaware of Rainbow’s incapability to talk, “Hello Miss Dash I’m very sorry to say that Spitfire has passed away.”

Dash’s eyes widened, she tried to scream but nothing happened. She felt disgusted at the nurse who kept looking down on her with a wide smile like everything was alright, she felt angry at the mare but again she couldn’t retaliate.

The nurse’s smile turned into a more of a grin as she leaned in, “You know Dash it’s not really that bad that she’s gone anyway,” she said leaning in closer.

Dash tried to move but nothing would, she couldn’t do anything more than sit and watch as the mare inched closer before she felt a flooding sensation fill her body, her eyes drifted downwards to see some sort of object being stabbed through her stomach by the nurse. She was shocked she couldn’t feel anything, but that didn’t help her fears that were rapidly increasing.

Suddenly The nurse spoke again making Dash look back up as she drove the object deeper, “You’ll be joining her soon,” she said before ripping the object out as Dash finally regained the power of speech as she screamed louder than she could have ever thought of.

Rainbow awoke with a jolt. She managed to keep her scream from leaving her throat, but her breathing was fast and heavy as her brain churned with some kind of naustic feeling. Then her eyes widened as her mind came to terms with the dream she had just encountered. She needed to see Spitfire.

Quietly Rainbow got out of her embrace with Blazing before she trotted over to the double doors into the room where she last saw Spitfire. She put a hoof on the door and pushed it, but there was no success. Dash sighed, but then she thought of an idea, she pressed her ear against the door and an immense relief poured over her when she heard the rhythmic beeping coming from inside the room. The sound was like a lullaby to Rainbow, she quietly slipped down the door leaning her head against it as she let the noise lul her back to sleep hoping that she would wake up to hear it again…

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Okay Guys another chapter that my brother Mike helped me out with, this is more or less some extra suspense, and as promised you'll find out what happens in 3000 years from now.

So yeah this is really the first time we've seen Rainbow cry a lot, of course she's just been told her love might die, but anyways thats a lot of tears.

So summary time

1: Blazing Fire and Soarin are staying with Rainbow whilst the rest leave to stay on duty in case something happens and the Wonderbolt's are needed
2: That Doctors gonna cry!
3: Nightmares of the wierdest proportions
4: Hows the feels cactus affecting you all?
~Alex

Chapter 29: The News

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 29: The News

Rainbow Dash awoke for a second time, but she wasn’t in the place she last remembered herself being. Instead, she found herself in a familiar room with the same beeping sound she had heard from the night before. Her vision was again slightly blurry, but this time there was no white light stopping her eyes from adjusting to their normal vision. Soon Rainbow Dash found her eyes focusing on Spitfire who was laying on a clean bed with a few less wires attached to her than what Rainbow remembered before. Then a voice spoke.

“Hello again Miss Dash, I expect your very confused aren't you?” Said the voice of the light brown stallion as he trotted into the mare’s view. Rainbow blinked a few times before nodding. The doctor smiled happily as he stood opposite the mare across the bed where Spitfire lay.

“Well I’m very pleased to inform you Miss Dash that your marefriend has survived the night despite the odds and her body seems to be healing to the injuries, besides the fact it’s still a touch and go I think you can be assured she will hopefully make a recovery.”

Rainbow’s lip started to wobble slightly as happiness and joy started to course through her veins once more lightning up her muscles and causing a joyful smile to come to her lips for the first time since before the performance in Cloudsdale, but before she could say anything a knock came from the door of the room causing both ponies to turn to the noise. Blazing stuck his head through the door with a cautious look, “the nurse told me to come over here,” he said quietly.

The doctor nodded happily as he trotted over to the stallion, “Yes... am I right in thinking your Spitfire’s brother?” he said ushering the stallion into the room.

Blazing nodded nervously as he trotted into the room and stood next to Rainbow, he looked between their happy faces which started to bring a small smile to his own, “W-What's happening then?” he asked.

The doctor smiled. “Well, as I was telling Miss Dash earlier, your sister has survived the first stage and things are starting to look up for her.”

Blazing felt slightly light headed from the relief that flooded his mind, Rainbow just put a forehoof to his back stopping him from stumbling over. Both ponies gave a slight giggle at this. The doctor made his way to the end of the room as he spoke, “Okay I’ll leave you all to it,” he said before leaving quietly letting Rainbow and Blazing trot over to Spitfire who still laid motionless on the bed.

Rainbow leaned down to cup Spitfire’s forehoof in her own, she then proceeded to kiss her gently on the forehead as Blazing stood quietly, but then Rainbow spoke, “Why would he do something like this?”

Blazing raised an eyebrow confused. “What are you talking about?” he asked.

Rainbow turned slightly to see the stallion more clearly, Blazing could see the slight anger in her eyes, “I’m saying why would Golden Fire do this?” she asked again.

Blazing rubbed the back of his neck as he pondered on the question, “I...don’t know, Dash… I guess he’s just not a good pony, I should have learned that a while back.”

Rainbow kept running a hoof through Spitfire’s mane as she spoke, “Why though just…why is a unicorn even in Cloudsdale,” she spat.

Blazing was quiet for a few moments before he replied, “well...to tell you the truth,” he said trotting over to the other side of the bed, “When me and Spitfire were born, we still lived in Canterlot, but Golden Fire got a promotion at his weather job, he’s a scientist on weather manipulation...he studies clouds and the sun etcetera, so one day he decided to move to Cloudsdale. We all laughed saying it was a stupid idea but...he did it and we followed him, he uses a daily cloudwalking spell and thats about it.”

Rainbow only nodded in reply as she sat down on a chair close to the bed, Blazing could see sadness in her eyes, “Hey, Dash, what’s up?”

Dash sighed. “I just don’t know whether she’ll come back to us,” she said motioning to the mare on the bed.

Blazing looked over at Spitfire and then to Dash. “No, she’ll come back, I know she wouldn’t leave us hanging,” he said knowingly.

Dash smiled a little at that, but it quickly faded as she continued to hold Spitfire’s hoof tightly in her own, she knew that she was in this for the long run, but nothing was going to stop her from leaving the mare she loved. Blazing knew this too, he also knew that there was a small doubt in everyone's mind that Spitfire still may never wake up.

Blazing shook his head slightly trying to get the thought out of his head, he knew that he’d have to stay strong if he was going to endure the next few days, but he had a job to do on top of that. He looked over at Dash still by his sisters side nuzzling her softly, he sighed trotting over to the exit of the room he turned as he spoke, “I’m going to get Soarin and the others.”

Dash nodded again as she turned back to Spitfire as she whispered, “come back soon.”

Blazing trotted through the large white hallways of the hospital, he came up to the bench where Soarin still sat asleep, he trotted over to the stallion and nudged him awake, “Come on Soar’ we’ve got work to do.”

The pale blue stallion groaned from the uncomfortable sleep and rubbed his eye with a forehoof as he spoke, “What’s happening is Spitfire alright?” he asked as Blazing started trotting down the hallway.

“She’s fine, but we need to go and take care of something,” he said, trotting towards the end of the hallway.

Soarin got up off the bench and started to trot after the stallion, “What is it we’re taking care of?” he asked.

Blazing turned around to face Soarin just before the entrance to the hospitals public waiting room, “Okay, this is what we’re gonna do, you need to create a distraction so I can get out of here and get Starfire.”

“What distraction can’t you just trot out of the hospital?” Soarin asked quizzically.

Blazing motioned to the window of the door, Soarin looked through and his eyes widened when he saw the mountains of reporters and journalists waiting for a chance to speak to anypony connected with Spitfire, Blazing turned to Soarin as he spoke, “So can you do it, I’ll be back as quick as I can.”

Soarin groaned, but eventually he gave a nod in acceptance and Blazing trotted through the doors causing all the reporters to go wild, Soarin then took that as his cue to create a distraction.

“Hey everypony!” he shouted getting the attention of everypony in the room while Blazing made a quick escape, “um, who wants to see the Wonderbolt’s new...stand up comedy act?”

All the reporters in the room gave each other knowing looks before diving in for a chance to speak to the stallion.

Meanwhile over the skies of Cloudsdale Blazing soared over various buildings and monuments in an attempt to dodge all the reporters in the sky, he worked his way through streets and various alleyways until he came up to a familiar house. The place looked abandoned with curtains closed and no activity seemed to run through the area. Blazing felt his heart rising at what he could find in the home.

With this new adrenaline, Blazing stormed into the home, he shouted, ”Mom where are you!”

A small rasy response came back and it made Blazing mind freeze he spoke again with a slightly panicked tone, “D-Don’t worry mom... I’m coming!” he said, quickly moving into the home and checking the rooms he galloped down the hallway looking around until he came into the kitchen of the home. There he found a mare, her eyes half closed as she laid next to the kitchens oven, a set of hoofcuffs bound her to the heavy item to stop her from moving.

Blazing was now more frightened than ever, “Mom! are you okay?” he asked, rushing over and undoing the ropes, the mare looked up at Blazing as she wrapped her weak hooves around him, Blazing sighed in relief when he felt his mothers contact and nuzzled into her.

Starfire smiled slightly, “Blazing, what are you doing here?” she asked, her voice quiet and dry.

Blazing looked up at his mother before speaking, “I came to get you to the hospital, Spitfire’s not in a good way mom,” he said helping the mare up onto her hooves as he wrapped her in a winged embrace, “what happened?” he asked already having a good idea who it was.

Starfire pointed to a glass of water that sat on the kitchen’s table, Blazing quickly took it and gave it to his mother who gulped it down quickly before speaking up, “I-It was your father, I-I overheard his plan for what he wanted to do to Rainbow...I-I tried to tell him not to do it... but he didn't listen! I tried to leave... I had to warn her, but... He caught my and... and he tied me up, saying that nothing could get in his way... not even me,” she said, burying her head into Blazing as she began to cry. The stallion held the mare tightly, he was getting good at being able to comfort ponies now.

“I know mom, it’s okay Golden Fire’s gone now, but we need to focus on what’s really important,” Blazing said as he released the hug to look at his mother.

Starfire looked up with slight worry in her eyes. "Did.. Did he do it? Did he h-hurt rainbow?"

Blazing lowered his head as he spoke, his voice downcast. "No...but he almost did. Spitfire blocked the shot before it hit her... now Spitfire's in the hospital, and though she's stable... She's in rough shape..."

Starfire started to feel a few tears roll down her cheeks as she spoke, "How...How could he have done that to our daughter?! That monster!" She cried, breaking down into more sobs, "How...?"

Blazing sighed and held his mother tightly, trying to give her some comfort. "I know mom... But he's gone now,” he said, looking down at the mare, “and we need to stay strong... for Spitfire.”

Starfire nodded in acceptance, “Yeah your right Blazing.”

Blazing smiled. “Well let’s go to the hospital so we can at least get you checked out, and I’m suggesting you’ll want to see Spitfire as well,” he said as Starfire gave a small nod. Blazing draped a wing over her to keep her steady as the pair carefully left the home and made their way to the hospital.

An hour or so later, Blazing and Starfire made it into the hospital, Soarin managed to keep the press occupied while Blazing ushered the mare into the private wing where Spitfire was. Starfire looked up at her son, “Thank you, sweetheart, I thought I’d never leave that place,” she said.

Blazing could feel the mare starting to shake slightly, he knew the fear that would be going through the mare’s mind right now and it only made his anger rise for Golden Fire, but before he could speak Starfire spoke, “If it’s okay, Blazing. I think I would like to see my daughter before I get seen too.”

Blazing nodded as he opened the door into Spitfire’s hospital room. Rainbow Dash was by her side and hadn't moved from her recent position. The sky blue mare looked up as the two walked in. But to Blazing’s surprise Rainbow turned an angry look.

“Why is she here?” Rainbow asked getting slightly defensive.

“It’s okay Rainbow it’s just my mother, and she’s Spitfire’s too, she deserves to see her,” Blazing replied calmly.

Rainbow frowned. “So how do we know if she hasn’t had anything to do with this, how do we know she hasn’t been controlling Golden Fire all along!” she shouted getting off her seat and flaring her wings.

Blazing stepped in front of Starfire as he spoke, “because Rainbow I know my mother and she wouldn’t have anything to do with any of this, all she want’s is to see her daughter is that too much to bucking ask?”

Rainbow growled. “Why should I believe her?”

Before Blazing could come up with a response, Starfire trotted out from behind the stallion and into the light of the room. Rainbow saw her darkened coat that was usually bright, her orange mane now all scruffy and her eyes...Rainbow could see the fear, regret, sorrow and all other things rolled into one set of honest eyes that would never tell a lie. Rainbow then felt her own head droop slightly in defeat.

Starfire trotted over to Dash and laid a hoof on the mare’s shoulder causing Dash too look up at the mare. “It’s okay, Miss Dash, I know you care a lot for my daughter and I know you're doing a better job at it than I ever could,” she said with a sigh, “I think you had every right to say what you did Rainbow Dash, it’s my fault this happened in the first place.”

“Mom it wasn’t your fault, you were just in a bad situation,” Blazing said comfortingly.

Starfire smiled at her son before she moved closer to the bed, Rainbow moved over to Blazing as the pair watched the mare glide her hoof across to Spitfire’s. A tear escaped the mare’s eye as she leaned down to plant a kiss on her daughter’s forehead as she whispered, “Mommy’s here now sweetheart, everything’s gonna be okay,” she said stroking her daughters mane, “I’m sorry I haven’t been here for you sweetie, but Mommy promises she’ll make sure when you wake up that she’ll be much better than she was before.”

Blazing wrapped a wing around Dash as the mare sighed, Starfire gave her daughter one last nuzzle before looked over at the other two ponies in the room, “I think I’ll go get checked out Blazing, you stay here with Dash, you both are doing a great job,” she said trotting out of the room.

Dash watched the mare leave before going back over to Spitfire’s side, Blazing watched from the foot of the bed as silence once again filled the room. The sense of patience was in everypony’s mind as the life or death waiting game came into play…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Sooooo yeah Chapter 29 and we're at 60,000 words now !

In this chapter it was mainly about getting Spitfire's mother over, I felt she was a main character for Spitfire and kinda felt like she needed to be there at least seeing her once. I wanted her to have no Idea about what happened hence why I had Golden Fire flip and keep her locked up in the home.

So yeah it's been a rough few days and it's just gonna get rougher for a few more chaps I'm afraid but we now only have a few more chaps left to go now.

So yeah had a little thing told to me today that I should really be more showy than telly If you guys feel this way then that's okay I do now intend to start writing a bit more in depth than other chapters basically just explaining a few more things than I usually do nothing to big.

Anyways guys Summary Time!

1: Starfire was handcuffed to a heavy object to stop her from getting out, I saw it in a movie except it was a murder and the guy left the gass on I can't remember
2: Soarin...I just think of stand up comedy with him just cause he seems like the guy that has all those knock knock jokes
3: Will Spitfire ever wake up?
4: Rainbows Loyalty damn that's a blessing and a curse....what do you guys think?

~Alex

Chapter 30: A Waiting Game

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 30: A Waiting Game

Beep...beep...beep...

The steady beep of the cardiograph was the only sound that filled the small hospital room. Rainbow Dash had originally found the sound to be annoying, but never wished for it to stop. After eight days of hearing it's steady rhythm, she had found that it had become almost hypnotic. More than once she had found herself falling to seep to its steady lullaby always by her marefriend's side. For eight days she had heard that steady sound.

It had now been just over a week... a week since the incident that had caused Spitfire to fall into a comma. The rage, sadness, fear and regret were the only things that floated through the atmosphere of the room. For the past week ponies had come from all over equestria to visit the fallen Wonderbolt. Little fillies and colts who were fans had send get well cards to the hospital to show their support, though it seemed it would be a while till Spitfire would get the chance to read them. The nurses had piled the cards and packages in the corner of the small hospital room, and the pile was now ready to overflow.

Each of the Wonderbolts had visited the lonely hospital room at least once in the past week, each happy to hear the news that Spitfire had survived the first night, but all still worried if she would ever wake up. Each had come and gone, left flowers, and silently prayed for her to wake. Soarin and Blazing had been the most rescuing of the team to visit.

The hospital room has had many changes over the past few days. The bed sheets had been changed. The flowers in the vase besides the bad had changed. The curtains had been changed. But throughout the week one thing hadn't changed, one thing had stayed by that bed, that one thing... was Rainbow Dash. She had refused to leave Spitfires side, no matter what and that was exactly what she had done.

Rainbow had stayed by that bedside for the eight days. Sure she left for few minutes at to go to the bathroom or take a shower, but she was always back soon afterwards. The nurses had gotten into the routine of bringing Rainbow some sort of food for her to eat since she wouldn't leave for anything. One of the days even Rainbow's friends came to make a visit and tried their best to get the sky blue mare out of the room if for just a moment, but even after their many attempts to get her to leave Spitfire's side, Rainbow had refused to comply. At this point, she was getting more visitors than Spitfire.
Rainbow continued to talk to spitfire, expecting her to one day talk back. She had remembered watching a movie where a pony woke up from a comma because she heard the voice of somepony who cared for them. So that's what she did; night after night, day after day, she talked.

Blazing Fire had just waved off Soarin who needed to run to his parent's for something, he made his way back into the hospital room again as he watched Rainbow talk to Spitfire like she had done for the past few days.

"Yeah that was awesome! That was the time you performed the double helix for the first time wasn't it... I heard that was soo cool...well coolish I guess...I know... It wasn't that impressive, but I'm running out of things to say here... Please, wake up soon...

Blazing sighed heavily, Rainbows loyalty was pure and unmatched. It was her greatest blessings...but her biggest curse. The stallion trotted into the room and placed a wing over the mare, "You okay?" he asked plainly.

Rainbow blinked a few times before she nodded. "Yeah I'm cool."

Blazing smiled. "Well If you want to come outside"

"It's fine Blazing I think I'll stay"

"Even if?"

"Forget it Blazing nothing is gonna get me to leave her," Rainbow said turning to face the stallion. Blazing sighed again but before he could speak there was a knock at the door. Both ponies looked over to see the light brown stallion trot into the room. The doctor trotted over to the bed as he looked over at Blazing and Rainbow, "Miss Dash, Blazing Fire I trust you are both well?" he asked, to which both nodded happily.

The doctor smiled, but it quickly faded causing Rainbow some concern. Before she could speak up though the doctor started, "I regret to inform you Miss Dash...I've been looking over Spitfire's brain activity and it only seems to be decreasing more and more each day...I don't know if Spitfire will pick up on her brain activity, but from my experience...she's only got days before her brain will stop showing activity all together and the chances of her coming back are nearest to none."

Rainbow stared at the doctor for a moment, all the fear that had slowly been ebbing away had now come back with a vengeance. This turned her world upside down and a flood of tears were already waiting to make the descent down her cheeks. The doctor sighed knowing there wasn't much more to say. He quietly trotted out of the room just leaving Blazing and Rainbow once again. The stallion looked over at the sky blue mare with slight worry in his eyes, "I...she's going to...she-"

"No she isn't going to die!" Rainbow shouted glaring daggers at the stallion in the room. Blazing tried to speak up but the mare once again cut him off, "She isn't going to die Blazing, I love her more than Celestia loves the sun and if you don't feel the same way then why are you even here?" Rainbow said trotting back over to the bed and taking Spitfire's hoof in her own.

Blazing sighed. He didn't want to except the fact his sister might not come out of it, but after all the turmoil and shock...he'd found a new stage in this tragedy....acceptance. He shook his head, he never wanted to accept this, he trotted out of the room not wanting to be there at the current moment. Meanwhile Rainbow kept her place as she had been doing for the past week. She gently stroked Spitfire's mane as she let a few odd tears fall from her eyes.

"Please Spitfire, don't leave me I-I love you so much please..."

Rainbow felt a huge sinking feeling when she never got the response, even though the other attempts had been fruitless too she still felt that sinking feeling every time. Rainbow put her head on her forehooves and began to cry...hoping that something, anything would come from the mare she loved and bring an end to this nightmare...

A nightmare which only had a few more days to last...

To be Continued...

Author's Note

More and More tails keep on coming, but! we only have 3 chapters left to go....I know we're finally getting to the end guys it's been a great ride but it's finally rounding the last few turns.

So anyways this is the first linking chapter we've had for a while, again big thanks to my brother for writing the start of this fic, we actually both got idea's and wrote this chapter about a month ago when I revealed my plan to my brother about where I wanted the fic to go and stuff and he wrote the first part of the fic you see here anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter and as I say there is only 3 more to go.

So summary time!

1: Will Spitfire ever wake up now this news has been brought out?
2: Is Blazing going to keep strong for everypony or is it starting to crack.
3: I think after all these feels we need to get Soarin's comedy act out here
4: What's going on in Spitfire's mind....find out soon.

~Alex

Chapter 31: Time Bomb

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 31: Time Bomb

Another few days passed like lightning, and so far it had only brought more frustration to everypony. The doctors had started monitoring Spitfire much more closely than before. Rainbow tried to ask what it was they were monitoring, but she never got an explanation.

It had now been nearly two weeks since Spitfire’s accident. Things had looked bad from the start, but now everypony was feeling the suffering pain of Spitfire’s life ebbing away from them. Rainbow, of course, wasn’t letting this faze her. She tried to keep a straight face, but it was sometimes too much to bear. Most of Spitfire’s injuries had all but healed, but Spitfire herself was another question entirely.

Today, everypony had managed to make an appearance due to it being a weekend. It was now coming to the afternoon and Rainbow was in her usual spot: besides the bed. Soarin and Blazing were talking at the other end of the room and the Lightning Brothers were currently asleep on one of the benches in the room.

Starfire was also in the room, and was currently sitting opposite Rainbow. She held Spitfire’s hoof in her own, watching over her daughter. Rainbow sighed as she spoke up, “Hey...can I ask a question?”

Starfire looked over at the mare and raised an eyebrow. “What kind of question?” she asked curiously.

Rainbow took a few moments before responding. “What did Spitfire do as a filly?” she asked.

Starfire was slightly confused for a few moments, before she responded, “Oh? She never told you?” she said.

Rainbow shook her head.

Starfire smiled. “Well, besides her racing, Spitfire used to watch so many derbies; sometimes you wouldn't even know what stadium she was at and when! If it was the weekend, Spitfire would get in her race suit and fly with blazing around the home... I miss those days,” she said with a grin, remembering the old memories.

Dash smiled a little at the little story. Looking over to Spitfire, she leaned down and softly kiss her on the forehead. Just then a soft, quiet noise came from outside the hospital room. Everypony in the room turned towards the double doors as they burst open, revealing three doctors as they came up to the bed, talking about things only that they -- or other doctors -- could understand. Soon, they stopped their conversation and the light brown stallion, who Rainbow was familiar with, turned to face her as he spoke up, "Miss Dash, I have some news for you and your friends," he started, waiting until he had the attention of everypony in the room. "As I have said to miss Dash earlier this week, I have been monitoring Spitfire's brain activity. It has been decreasing, and today I feared it would go below a level which would be unlikely to ever return. But somehow in the last few hours, Spitfire's brain levels have increased... but I cannot say for how long. We need her to wake get up now, or we risk losing her forever in this state."

Rainbow looked around the room at all the slightly terrified faces, she felt her breathing hitch slightly and her heart rate start to increase. She spoke up, but her voice slightly frantic. "So w-what are we gonna do," she asked.

The doctor looked back at the two stallions he was with, both gave a small nod, allowing him to continue, "We'll we have a small window of opportunity with her life support detached about twenty minutes at most where we can try and wake her up... It's a life or death risk Miss Dash. The other doctors wanted me to ask Mrs. Starfire for permission to proceed, but I think you have the best idea on what's right for your marefriend."

Rainbow breathed in shakily as she tried to think of an answer. This was all getting too realistic way too fast. Suddenly, Rainbow felt a hoof on her shoulder as she turned up to see Blazing. The stallion smiled and leaned down to whisper. "Dash...if you want to ask for more time, you can...but if you want my advice, I'd say do what you feel is right; don't let anypony force you."

Rainbow was motionless for a few moments as she struggled to find the right answer. Though she wanted to have more knowledge on Spitfire's condition, she also wanted her to wake up normally… not like this! Sighing, she closed her eyes for a few moments as she pondered on the idea. All the ponies in the room waited respectively for the response.

After a few tense moments, Rainbow spoke, "Okay I-I think it's a good Idea," she said, as the doctor nodded. "But...I want to be right here with her."

The doctor smiled. "Well of course, Miss Dash! We will be needing your assistance in this more than ever," he said, watching as Rainbow raised an eyebrow in confusion, before he continued, "Spitfire knows your sound best, if she'll respond to anypony… it's you."

Rainbow Dash nodded confidently. The doctor turned to the other two stallions and nodded, pointing a forehoof towards a few items around the yellow mare on the bed. The doctors came up to the bed and began removing the wires and tubes from some of the machines before taking them away. Dash was about to ask what was going on, but was interrupted when as voice spoke. “Miss Dash, I know you’re scared, but you need to be strong and listen to what I say alright?” the doctor asked calmly.

Dash gave a nod in reply.

Once everything was set, the doctor turned back to the sky blue mare. "Okay, Rainbow Dash, now I need you to just speak to her like you have been doing," he said, slightly anxious about his plan.

Rainbow nodded, before looking over at her fallen marefriend. She gulped hard before speaking softly, "H-Hey Spitfire, it's me, Dashie… Could you help me out with this new trick… I know you’re the best at teaching ponies new tricks, right? J-Just squeeze my hoof, Spitfire… let me know you’re here," she pleaded. Spitfire gave no response, not even a twitch. Rainbow looked up at the doctor who smiled, nodding confidently, urging the mare to continue. As Rainbow looked back over, the doctor looked at the other two stallions who were monitoring something at the other side of the room. They both gave the stallion worried looks.

Rainbow thought for a moment, this wasn't just about reputation or anything… this was about a ponies life! Taking all credibility away from her mind, she spoke again, "Spitfire, I love you more than anything! I love you more than life itself! I love you more than flying! And if i could… I’d give up my wings again just to see you wake up… and I don't care if this sounds cliché or sappy! I love you more than anything, Spitfire, and it's not your time to leave. Please try and do anything to tell me you're still here… Spitfire, think about all the things we've done, and we've been through… I would go through all of it again, take the press or even get kicked out of the Bolts just to be with you every night… I just want to feel you hold me again; tell me that I'm being too stressed or too stupid… Please, Spitfire, just come back to us, we all miss you, Spitfire. Just… please?"

At the far end of the room, the rest of the team waited anxiously. Misty looked over at Soarn, who looked as if he was about to run out of the room in fear. She wrapped a wing around the stallion. Soarin looked over at Misty, giving her a small smile for comfort. Misty smiled back as the pair looked back towards the bed.

The doctor again looked over at his accomplices, the raised their eyebrows and nodded over at him. The doctor smiled as he turned back to Dash. "Come on, Miss Dash, she's responding better to that."

At the sound of this Rainbow let loose and just poured her heart out to the mare. "Spitfire, I know you can hear me a-and I'm telling you right now that I can't lose you! You mean more to me than anything in this world and you mean a lot not just to me but to everypony else in this room… you can't leave me, Spitfire. Y-You saved my life and I can't go on knowing that I can't pay you back for it…Spitfire please…just please let me know your here!"

The room fell quiet again as everypony looked at each other in a worried expressions. The doctor looked back up at his accomplices a final time, the two ponies gave each other solom looks, before shaking their heads at the doctor. Rainbow looked up as she watched the doctors exchange sad looks between each other; it was then she realised what had happened.

“NO-NO-NO, SHE CAN’T DIE! SHE CAN’T!” Rainbow Dash screamed. Blazing trotted over as he extended a wing out to hug the mare. Dash turned and wrapped one of her forehooves around the stallion. She felt as if her every being, everything she’d lived for… her purpose had been painfully ripped out from her…she felt hollow and dark… She just cried, hoping she could just leave this horrible place…

But then...something touched Rainbow’s hoof. She gasped alerting all the mourning ponies in the hospital room. Rainbow immediately let go of Blazing as her eyes traveled downwards to see a golden hoof resting on top of her own on the bed.

All the doctors rushed over as Spitfire began to murmur quietly, her face began to twitch slightly as she moved her head slowly from side to side like a filly being woken up before she wanted too. Rainbow kept a firm grip on Spitfire’s hoof and her tears were starting to turn hopeful as she felt the weak squeezes in return from her love.

Suddenly, Spitfire’s movements stopped. But then something else began to happen…

Spitfire felt her eyes slowly open as a dark feeling from her eyes seemed to fade, she felt slightly sick and disoriented, but slightly relieved that she didn’t feel any pain from before. Her eyes were hazy and very blurry, they also felt heavy which meant she had a hard time opening them. Suddenly, a white light flashed down, blinding her entirely she tried to move a forehoof. She groaned slightly from the stinging sensation it brought to her eye. But then, the light was suddenly cut out. Spitfire’s vision started to come back again and she realised a giant blue wing was now covering her face blocking out the light. As Spitfire’s vision finally readjusted, she saw her marefriend looking down on her, joyful tears falling from her muzzle and cheeks as a large smile adorned her face.

Rainbow leaned in as she spoke in a soft tone, “Hey Spitfire, how are you feeling?” she asked quietly.

Spitfire grinned as she looked up at the sky blue mare. “Well...I feel like horeshit...but it’s good to see you're okay baby,” she said, caressing Rainbow’s cheek lightly with her weak forehoof. Rainbow couldn’t contain her happiness anymore and leaned in as the pair shared a deep kiss. Rainbow began to cry even more tears of joy as their tongues dances together passionately…she never wanted it to stop. When they finally parted Rainbow grinned retracting her wing as Spitfire was opened to a whole knew scenery of white walls and many ponies filling the small room.

Spitfire’s eyes widened when her brain managed to catch up to her whereabouts, “Guys?” she asked getting everypony’s attention. “H-How long exactly was I out?” she asked curiously.

Starfire grinned. “Well young filly in your antics you have caused a lot of trouble, you’ve been in a coma for weeks sweetheart...and a few moments ago we thought you were gone,” she explained, coming round to the end of the bed as she held Spitfire’s hoof.

The golden mare smiled happily as she nuzzled her mother lovingly before turning to Dash and doing the same, she then spied Blazing smiling from the corner of the room. She raised an eyebrow, “What are you looking at?” she asked playfully towards her brother.

Blazing smiled as he trotted over to hug his sister lightly, “welcome back sis, you had me worried I’m not gonna lie.”

Spitfire smiled. “Well I like keeping ponies on the edge,” she said looking round the room of happy and relieved faces. Everypony gave out a small chuckle in response.

The doctor watched as his accomplices leave, he then turned back to the group of ponies, smiling widely. “Well I’m glad everything worked out...but we still need to monitor Spitfire for the rest of the night just incase.

Spitfire rolled her eyes. “Whatever you say, doc,” she said. The stallion nodded happily before trotting out of the room.

As time moved on ponies left one by one, saying their goodbyes and best wishes for Spitfire’s speedy recovery. Rainbow, however, still stayed happily next to Spitfire, a warm glow now seemed to radiate from her body. She was relieved that it was all finally over.

Spitfire yawned, stretching out her hooves as she started to feel sleep coming over her. She heard a mare chuckle, and looked over to see Rainbow Dash. “What’s so funny?” she asked quizzically.

Rainbow smiled. “Well, don’t you think you’ve had enough sleep already?” she asked as she began to giggle again. It wasn’t long before Spitfire found herself joining Rainbow in a fit of hysteria.

Spitfire sighed happily, her chest still hurting from their little giggle fit. She smiled as she layed down on the bed, and began to close her eyes. Rainbow smiled and leaned back on the cloud chair, about to close her own eyes as well… when she heard a soft whisper.

“Hey, Rainbow?”

Dash opened one eye as she looked over in the darkened room. She saw the faint outline of her marefriend with a wing extended and a pocket of space now existing on the bed. Rainbow smiled as Spitfire continued, “Come on theres room for one more.”

The sky blue mare grinned happily as she trotted over and snuggled into the bed with her marefriend. Spitfire wrapped her wing over her comfortingly, giving her a soft kiss on her muzzle. Rainbow smiled as she cuddled up to Spitfire, overjoyed she could be sharing this experience with her marefriend again… but there was still one last hurdle they had to overcome…

To be continued…

Author's Note

YES SHE'S ALIVE !!!!! I LOVE SPITFIRE!

anyways hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and there are only 2 or 3 more to go so now we've reached the climax...how have you all liked the fic so far?

And yes Spitfire is gonna be staying alive so don't worry.

summary time
1: Yay there back together
2: A lot of you have been asking me about golden Fire, don't worry more about him in the next chapter
3: Spitfire's just alive it's soo amazing!

~Alex

Chapter 32: The Final Hurdle

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 32: The Final Hurdle

Rainbow Dash awoke, she quickly found herself in the same hospital room where she had spent the last few weeks...she then remembered why she was here, but her fear was instantly taken away when her eyes fell on a sleeping Spitfire only a few inches away from her. Rainbow smiled and leaned into nuzzle the mare. Spitfire murmured in response before slowly opening her eyes to see the rainbow maned mare by her side. Spitfire grinned. “Hello Rainbow Dash, such a pleasant surprise,” she said leaning over to give the pegasus a quick kiss on the cheek.

Rainbow smiled. “Anything for my marefriend…speaking of which do you want something to eat?” she asked curiously.

Spitfire was about to respond when her stomach answered for her in a low growl. The golden mare put a forehoof on her belly as she looked up at her marefriend. “Um yeah that’d be nice Dash.”

Rainbow smirked as she trotted towards the exit of the room, but before she opened the door a stallion came through looking between Rainbow and Spitfire hesitantly.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow. “Blazing what are you doing here, I thought you were with Fleetfoot today?” she asked quizzically remembering what the stallion had said to her the day before.

Blazing sighed heavily before he spoke, “T-Theres something that’s come up.”

Rainbow kept her eyebrow raised. “What do you mean?” she asked getting slightly concerned. Before Blazing could respond a large alicorn trotted into the room, her main nearly matching Rainbow’s in colors and her flank marked a giant sun much like the one rising from the window in the room.

Rainbow’s eyes widened. “C-Celestia...what are you doing here, I mean um...your majesty.”

Celestia chuckled to herself before speaking, “Celestia is just fine by me Rainbow Dash, I trust you and Spitfire have made a full recovery.”

Rainbow nodded. “Yeah...wait what do you mean I wasn’t hurt,” she said knowingly.

Celestia smiled and leaned down to tap Rainbow’s forehead with a hoof, “I was talking about in here my little pony.”

Rainbow realised what the princess was saying and nodded happily. “Yeah I’m cool now Spitfire’s back,” she said turning to the mare in question who gave her a playful wink. Celestia smiled at the act before she spoke again.

“It brings me great relief that both of you are okay and on the road of recovery...but there is one thing that I will need your assistance in completing,” Celestia explained as Rainbow Dash and Spitfire gave equal looks of curiosity.

The goddess's smile lost it’s happiness as it faded from her muzzle and a more serious tone came over, “I need you both to be present with me for Golden Fire’s court trial...he’s guilty on all accounts but he pleaded not guilty...I will be needing one of you to speak for the prosecution...I have just been informed that Spitfire can be discharged from the hospital for the day to appear in the trail.”

Rainbow’s eyes widened. “He what! That stallion nearly killed my marefriend!” she almost screamed her anger from the past few days resurfacing once again.

Celestia nodded. “I agree Rainbow, but in Equestria every pony is entitled to a fair trial...no matter how much the hoof points to them,” she said angrily.

Rainbow sighed as she blew off some excess anger. She was about to speak again when she felt somepony nuzzle her neck. She turned her head to see Spitfire with a comforting smile on her face, “It’s okay Rainbow...it’s just one last hurdle right,” she said putting a forehoof on her shoulder.

Rainbow looked between her marefriend and the princess, “I know, but I just don’t want you getting hurt or anything,” she said nuzzling the mare lovingly.

Before Spitfire could come up with a reply Celestia spoke, “Don’t worry about that Rainbow Dash, I will make sure nothing happens to you or Spitfire. Your friends will all be at the court with you,” she explained as Blazing smiled happily.

Spitfire nodded. “Well it’s settled, lets put this guy where he’s supposed to be,” she said confidently.

Rainbow was slightly, “Golden Fire’s your father Spitfire...aren't you even a little scared?”

Spitfire stopped her actions towards the door as she turned around to face all the ponies in the room, “He stopped being my father when he tried to hurt the ponies I loved,” she said trotting out of the room with all the others soon following after her.

The sun was now rising into the sky as the ponies all made their way into the Canterlot Castle. Celestia guided the ponies through the many vast hallways of the building until she came up to a large door where two guards stood to attention. Celestia ushered the ponies into the large hall where many seats where located in a ring around a chair and a few other things in the middle, they were set slightly lower from the seats that circled them.

Celestia let Rainbow Dash and Spitfire sit next to their friends who were already currently seated in the hall, the regal princess trotted over next to her sister who took the high chairs in the hall. After a few moments a few more ponies in suits and other uniforms came in settling down in the middle of the hall.

Celestia levitated a mallet and hit it on a wooden circle which was molded into the wooden chair she sat on bringing all the hustled conversations to a stop, all the ponies in the room turned to face the goddess as she spoke.

“Bring in the accused pony,” she said looking at the guards who opened the door.

Rainbow scowled as the golden stallion that had nearly taken her love away from her, he was taken in being flanked by six guards on either side as they brought him to the chair in the middle of the hall. Celestia hit the mallet again signalling the start of the case.

The Court case was taking longer than Rainbow Dash had expected, all the while her anger kept rising and rising at the stallion who kept trying to deny his involvement in the crime he had committed. Spitfire had just gone up to give a speech for the prosecution and was just trotting back over to the crowd of ponies that Rainbow sat with, Spitfire sat down next to her marefriend giving her a soft kiss on the cheek, “See it wasn’t that hard Rainbow,” she said plainly. Rainbow didn’t give a reply as she stared at the stallion in an annoyed expression. Spitfire was about to speak up when Celestia hit the mallet signalling everypony’s attention once again.

“Okay ladies and gentlecolts the court case has come to a close, have the jury made a decision?” she asked looking down at the ponies in the middle of the hall, the ponies looked at each other and nodded before one of the mares stood up nervously in front of the princess as she spoke, “yes your majesty, we have fined the pony...guilty of all charges brought forward today.”

The princess nodded as the mare sat down, Golden Fire immediately stood up pointing to the mare that had just spoken, “That is horseshit!, she’s a mare why do you believe whatever she says!” the stallion shouted as a few guards held him back down onto the seat. Celestia scowled at the stallion while the mare who had just been accused ducked her head low while a stallion sitting next to her wrapped a wing around comfortingly.

Before anypony could speak though a voice got the attention of everyone in the hall, “You know what Golden Fire let me tell you something!” Rainbow shouted as she flew down to where the stallion was seated now chained to the chair from his last lashing out. Rainbow let all her anger come out as she spoke, “You are a heartless, worthless piece of useless shit! I don’t care if you think your the most powerful pony in Equestria because if anything all you’ve done in the past month is destroy everything you had, and let me tell you something else,” she said closing in on the stallion. “You don’t know what it’s like to sit and have the pony you love only inches away from you dying! not knowing if they're ever going to wake up. Sitting there having your heart torn from you and your world crashing down around you.” she said now breathing heavily as she felt tears start to form at the corner of her eyes, “Just one last thing though…you think filly foolers are bad...well that doesn’t mean they can’t love, it doesn’t mean they can’t do great and amazing things and it definitely doesn’t mean they should be killed!...I don’t think you’ll take any of this in, but I just wanted to know that you didn’t hurt me or any other pony in this room...you only made us stronger than you.”

With that Rainbow slowly hovered back over to the seats beside her friends and Spitfire. Celestia was happy that Golden Fire had been shut up, but she didn’t let it show on her straight face and instead she hit the mallet and spoke, “Ladies and Gentlecolts, by the power invested in me as ruler of Equestria I hereby sentence Golden Fire to life in the Canterlot dungeons where he may live the rest of his days.”

As Celestia hit her mallet for the final time the guards took hold of the now livid Golden Fire as he shouted all the way out of the room and down the hallway. Once his sounds went silent everypony in the room gave a sigh in relief. Rainbow hugged Spitfire tightly, nuzzling the mare lovingly in her arms. Spitfire gladly returned the gesture, “Come on you need to get back to the Hospital,” Rainbow said as she released the embrace on her marefriend.

“Come on Rainbow you and Spitfire can have a little fun outside with us for a while can’t you?” Starfire asked as Rainbow looked over to the older mare and her five friends who all gave encouraging smiles. Rainbow smiled with them as an Idea came to mind…

Over the Canterlot’s royal garden two pegasi flipped and rolled together in harmony while ponies from the ground below watched in amazement. Rainbow and Spitfire kept the tricks safe and easy for Spitfire’s sake as they performed but the show was good nonetheless. Rainbow Dash had a smile a mile wide as she soared in the sky with the mare she loved. She was over the moon that her beloved was back from the edge of life itself, it was as if she had been blessed with the ultimate gift for her loyalty. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with Spitfire no matter what...and it was something she intended on doing.

When both pegasi finished the pair soared over the Castle leaving their friends to wonder where they were.

As they flew Rainbow saw a nearby cloud and motioned for Spitfire to come with her. The golden mare happily obliged as the pair rested on the cloud as they lovingly nuzzled each other over the sunset sky. Rainbow sighed happily as leaned on her mare as the pair watched the sun start it’s low descent into another part of the world. Rainbow thought about everything the pair had been through together. "You know something Spit...I don't think I'll ever forget this I mean...thinking all this started way back at a sweet shop to where we've come now is just...amazing, I couldn't believe it when you asked me out and all the time we've spent together...I've cherished every single moment with you. I've finally lived my foal hood dream...but it wasn't just becoming a Wonderbolt. I love you Spitfire for now and forever," Rainbow said blushing slightly.

Spitfire smiled at the mare that meant the world to her, she loved Rainbow more than anypony in the world, she wanted to be with Rainbow for the rest of her life knowing she would always be in a strong bond with a mare she loved. It was with these words that Spitfire made her final decision that would change her life...she looked down at her marefriend as she spoke, "Rainbow," she said getting the mare's attention in a heartbeat, "I love you too, more than you'll ever know...when you saved my life all those years back I always wanted to return the favour...now I have I just feel more love for you than I ever could in my life, you make me the mare I am today Dash, you bring out the joyful side in me. I love you for that and more...you are my world Dashie and I can't live it without you in it...so I want to ask you something important Dash," she said as she draped a wing over the mare and held their muzzles close.

Rainbow looked up at the mare she loved, "What's the question?" she asked curiously. Spitfire grinned as she spoke, she took out a feather from her wing, it was smaller than her other feathers and shone a golden yellow in it's texture, Rainbow's eyes widened when she realised what the mare was going to ask and her heart soared for the skies.

...Rainbow Dash...will you marry me?...

~The End~

Author's Note

It's finished, guys it's been one heck of a ride, this is if not the biggest fiction I think I'll ever write, it's taken me a month and a half to get this fic completed and it finally happened, I want to thank all those who participated in reading, liking, faving the fic and the people that help shape and mold the fic into what it is today so for that I thank you from the pit of my heart.

So yeah they finally got out of it and bright skies ahead, I might do some one-shot side stories if anyone's intrested but for now I'm beat phew I can finally relax tonight....but the question is what now, well I have another Spitfire x Dash fic coming and a Spitfire one-shot and a LunaFire too later on so watch out for that!

so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this fic, it broke my back to write it and I truely have enjoyed every moment so again guys thanks for reading this has been your author ~ Alex A

Chapter 1: Offers and Secrets

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 1: Offers and Secrets

It was a normal afternoon in the autumn season for the small earth pony town in Equestria. The sun shone brightly through the light blue sky and cascaded down onto the many ponies in the village, happily trotting through the town enjoying their daily lives as the cafes and shops were bustling with business.

In the many crowds of ponies flocking around town, a certain sky blue mare stood out from the organized chaos. The mare had decided to follow her way around town after finishing her weather duties for the day, which was something she took great pride in for finishing the job so quickly. She had thought about napping or maybe dropping in on her friends, but today she felt like stretching her hooves was something she wanted to do. She made her way through the mass of crowds as she trotted past the iconic sweets store in the center of the village known as Sugarcube Corner.

Rainbow Dash turned to look at the shop when something familiar caught her eye, stopping her present actions, she focused in on the store and spotted some very familiar looking ponies sitting casually on one of the few tables situated outside of the famous store. As Rainbow got closer, she could instantly recognize one of the mares who had a bright yellow coat with a famous, fiery mane. She was wearing a yellow and blue striped scarf -- which was appropriate for the time of season -- and was laughing with the other two ponies sitting around the table.

Rainbow Dash closed in on the group of ponies as she spoke up above the noise of the busy town. “S-Spitfire!?”

The yellow mare turned from the conversation at the sound of her name, she saw the cyan mare quickly approaching the table and grinned. “Hello Dash, surprised I haven’t seen you around today, take a seat,” she said as she patted the seat next to her.

Rainbow was hesitant at first, but quickly obliged, taking the free seat around the small table. Spitfire leaned over and pointed to the other two ponies currently seated at the table with them. “I’m guessing you know Soarin and and my brother Blazing Fire?”

Rainbow looked over to the two previously unseen ponies and recognized them immediately. “Yeah, I know them, how ya guys doin'?” she asked curiously.

Before any of the two stallions could conjure up a reply, Spitfire spoke up. “Well, we’re all off work today, so I thought it would be nice to take a break and explore a little. Since Ponyville has become so famous recently, being the home of you and your friends with the elements of harmony, I thought why not,” she answered, smirking slightly as she continued. “These two were only too happy to come along.”

Blazing Fire was first to retaliate a response. “Hey, I’m just here for the party,” he said, his voice like that of a drunken Manehatten pony on a night out. Soarin rolled his eyes at the silver coated stallion, only seeming to elect more giggles out of the already hyped up Blazing Fire.

Dash smiled and turned back to the fiery mare sitting opposite her, who was now holding a drink in her hoof. “So why are you guys off work?” she asked. As a major fan of the famous aerobatic team, Rainbow Dash has become quite acute at following the Wonderbolt timetable. Now being part of the academy, she also had a pretty clean idea that the members of the team were very rarely ‘on break’ without good reason.

Spitfire exchanged casual glances with the other members of the team currently seated at the table before answering the cyan mare’s question. “Well…to tell you the truth, we were just about to come and find you… seems though you found us first,” she said with a smirk before taking another sip from her drink.

Dash looked at the three ponies in astonishment. “You’re here looking... for me!?”

All the other ponies nodded in sync with each other. Dash could feel her jaw beginning to drop, parting her lips slightly as she breathed out a few inaudible words. She quickly managed to jumble her words into something understandable. “W-what for?”

Spitfire turned to Soarin, motioning quietly for the lieutenant to take charge of the current conversation. The stallion smiled and ran a hoof through his slightly mused mane. “Yes, well, a big complication has arisen,” he started.

Blazing Fire looked over at the stallion and scoffed. “A big complication? You mean more like a huge pile of horse-”

Soarin groaned, cutting his fellow Wonderbolt off. “Could you be quiet for just a few seconds!?” he asked, slightly annoyed.

Blazing Fire raised his hooves. “Woah, sorry there pickle head, I’m just sayin’,” he said with a mocking grin.

Soarin sighed and continued, “Well okay, then a big problem has come up recently. Just a few days ago, Fleetfoot and Misty Skies were practicing for the Wonderbolts next tour in the winter, but they crashed whilst doing a double helix spin and now both of them have broken wings. We could just go on the tour without them, but yesterday we got a call from the Streak brothers saying they both had caught the feather flu and wouldn't be able to make it either. Now our boss Proud Skies asked for us to round up the best flyer in this year’s academy trainees and Spitfire told us you where the top performer in her squadron."

Rainbow sat in silence for a few moments as she let the information sink in before speaking up. “So wait, are you guys asking me to become a Wonderbolt?” she asked, her excitement rising immensely.

Spitfire nodded approvingly. “Well, only for the tour, you still have a few other things left to do in the academy, but we all thought you were good enough to take on the challenge, or more I thought you were,” she said, her yellow cheeks turning the slightest shade of crimson.

Dash was now mouthing the words of ‘oh my gosh’ again and again, just audible enough for three ponies to hear. Blazing Fire turned toward his lieutenant again with a smirk. “Well done short stack, I think you broke her,” he said, muffling his chuckles.

Soarin sighed. “Can you never just use my real name?” he asked quizzically.

Blazing Fire was about to mark a response when the multicoloured mare finally spoke up, “Uh…how long is it till the next Wonderbolt tour?”

Spitfire pondered for a few moments as she put a hoof to her chin. “...It's gonna be in about 4 weeks, first one will be happening in Canterlot for the Grand Galloping Gala, we would have liked to tell you this earlier, but of course this all happened quite fast,” she pointed out, downing the last part of her drink.

Soarin looked over to Dash. “We’ll need you over in Cloudsdale tomorrow though, we’ve got to start training you for the performance.”

Dash nodded confidently and gave a salute in approval. Spitfire smirked before getting up off her current seating position as the two stallions copied her actions.

Spitfire sighed. “Well, I think it’s about time we headed out. I’ll be seeing you tomorrow, bright and early Dash,” she said with a wink, almost making Dash’s heart flutter as she felt her cheeks burn from the sudden affection.

Dash watched as the mare walked out into the bustling crowds before she flared her wings and took off into the air in a streak of fiery orange, which was soon followed by another pair of streaks as Soarin and Blazing Fire followed. Dash watched in awe at the scene before she went back to her previous thoughts.

“...I’m gonna be a Wonderbolt,” she said to herself before giving a fangirl squee as she let her mind spin.

“I’ve gotta tell my friends,” Dash thought to herself as she dashed off towards the center of town to the Golden Oaks Library.

Meanwhile, in the skies over Equestria, Spitfire and the other two Wonderbolts soared across the air towards Cloudsdale.

Spitfire had been in deep thought since she had left the small earth pony town. She had wanted the cyan mare on the team for a while now, she knew that nopony could match the austruck speed of the pegasus or even copy her signature moves. But, in her deep state of thought, a small blush grew on her face as she thought more about her secret desire for the mare.

Spitfire had always had a thing for mares, but she hadn’t ever gone out with anypony before. Despite this, she knew what a crush was when she felt it, and ever since the cyan mare had saved her life at the Cloudsdale’s best young flyer competition, Spitfire had always felt a special connection with Dash, even if she hadn’t told anypony about it before. Just then a voice spoke, cutting the Wonderbolt captain from her current thoughts.

“So do you really think she’s good enough to be on the team,” Soarin asked as he soared overhead, just a few feet above Spitfire.

Spitfire nodded. “Of course, she’s the best flyer I know,” she said with a knowing grin.

Soarin had been friends with Spitfire since they were foals and he knew when there was something else going on in Spitfire’s mind. He raised an eyebrow. “There’s something else, isn’t there...”

Spitfire’s blush seemed to intensify, which didn’t help. Soarin rolled his eyes. “I just hope you know what you're doing Spits,” Soarin cautioned.

Blazing Fire laughed mockingly. “Aww, is Soarin getting jealous of a new arrival?” he asked, raising an eyebrow as he flew just in front of the two pegasi.

Soarin rolled his eyes. “Oh not this routine again,” he grumbled.

Spitfire let a giggle as her brother continued his assault, “Haha, I remember at that nightclub when you tried to ask Fleetfoot out, and then me and Spitty found you face down in the bar singing a song about-”

“Ai yai yai!” Soarin yelled whilst the other two Wonderbolts burst out in laughter as they made their way to Cloudsdale at great speed.

Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, the sun was now setting below the horizon, giving off an orange glow which made its way through the small portholes of the library. Dash was sitting in amongst her friends around the room, where she had just told them all the good news, which had earned a lot of praise.

“Oh my gosh Dashie, I’m just soooo… HAPPY FOR YOU!” Pinkie Pie hollered, catching her cyan friend in another death hug.

Dash smiled slightly, trying not to choke from the immediate lack of air. “Yeah, thanks Pinks, but if you keep doing that I’m not gonna be alive for my training tomorrow,” she said.

Twilight giggled, her horn lightning up as she used her magic to levitate the hyperactive mare away from Dash before offering her own congratulations for the new Wonderbolt. “Well done, Dash. I’m super happy for you, not to mention it will make a great report to the princess,” she said happily, levitating a quill and paper. Dash just rolled her eyes playfully at the unicorn’s antics.

Applejack nodded in approval of the unicorn’s compliment. “Well, I’m proud of ya to Dash,” she said, patting the pegasus on the shoulder.

Dash smiled towards the farm pony. “Thanks Applejack,” Dash said before trotting to the front door of the library and pushing it open, revealing the now blackened sky, the only source of light being Luna’s moon and its accompanying stars.

Before she left, the cyan mare stopped and turned around to face the rest of the ponies in the room. “Thanks for the support guys, now I’ve got to go get me some rest, I’ll see ya all later,” she said before shooting off into the sky towards her home.

Rainbow soared through the cold night sky, the feeling of the brisk air rushing through her wings, giving her a luxurious sensation of bliss as she flew up towards her signature cloud home in the sky. She opened the door and walked in, letting out a happy sigh as she lightly kicked the door shut again before trotting upstairs to her room.

Dash crashed onto her fluffy cloud bed, her mind buzzed with energy from the current day's events. Dash had never expected for something like this to happen, but was thrilled that it had. Now she could finally prove her worth as a Wonderbolt. However, a few questions still remained unanswered in the back of Dash’s mind. She knew that the Wonderbolts would have had reserve flyers in case anything like this happened, but even so, she did understand why they might have chosen someone like her. Still, she couldn’t help thinking another reason was behind it all.

Dash put the thoughts aside for now as she curled up, excited about spending her first day with her idol and hero: Spitfire…

To be Continued…

Author's Note

Hello Pony fandom as some of you might know I'm Alex and this is a little project I've been working on recently, I've always liked this pairing and when I ran out of other things to do I just thought why the hell not?

So anyhow this is the first chapter of many, I plan to make this story quite large something between 35 and 45 thousand words if I can manage it so yeah hope you all like it enough to keep watching

So just a few things to clear out in this chapter for those of you who might not have got this 1: Dash is being asked to become a Wonderbolt because she's the best flyer at the academy but Spitfire also chose her for something else

2: The conflict between Soarin and Blaze will continue however Soarin will win arguments so please all you Soarin fans don't find me and beat me with an iron bar.

3: Yes if you haven't already noticed this is going to be a Dash x Spitfire cause SPITFIRE IS BEST PONY

~ Alex

Chrysalis is best pony!

That is all

~ Michael

Chapter 7: The Grand Galloping Gala - Part I

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 6: The Grand Galloping Gala

On the streets of Cloudsdale next to the sky city's central park, Spitfire and Soarin trotted alongside each other as they reached a café in the center of the cloud city.

Soarin pushed open the wooden door revealing the inside of the simple café restaurant, many ponies turned and looked to see the two famous ponies trotting into the restaurant and stopping in front of the counter.

The owner of the store turned around and her eyes widened when she saw the two Wonderbolts in her cafe. Before she could say anything Soarin spoke up, “Can we just get one americano and a latté please,” he asked plainly.

The owner nodded and quickly made two cups of hot beverages. Soarin took the items and thanked the mare before he trotted over with Spitfire to a nearby table.

Soarin and Spitfire sat down opposite each other. Soarin let out a sigh before speaking, “Spit, you need to tell me whats been up with you lately,” the stallion asked concerned.

Spitfire held her cup of favorite coffee sheepishly and tried not to make eye contact with her friend. Soarin let out another sigh before trying again, “Come on Spits, it’s only a few more hours till the Gala, and for the past two weeks you’ve been in this jumpy… almost scared state. Please, just tell me what's been bugging you so much,” he asked with concern.

Spitfire sighed heavily before speaking in a quiet tone, “Well it’s about…” She looked around; making sure nopony was close enough to hear her. “Rainbow Dash.”

Soarin's complexion brightened, he was relieved that there wasn’t a major problem with Spitfire, but Soarin could still tell that something more was bugging her.

Pushing his latté to one side, Soarin leaned over on the table with a grin. “So why don’t you just ask her out already?”

Spitfire blushed. “That’s easier said than done, because unlike you I’m not just looking for a one night stand.”

Soarin raised his hooves in acceptance. “Well you got me there, but if I know anything about you, Spits, it’s that you’ll do anything to get what you want… so why haven’t you done it?”

Spitfire fumbled with her hooves as she leaned back on her chair slightly. “I’m just not sure she likes me back, plus… it’s the first time I’ve ever had a crush on anypony,” she said, letting part of the truth come out.

Soarin, however, shook his head playfully as he muffled his own laughter, which surprised the yellow mare. Soarin collected himself before he spoke, “Spits, come on, that has got to be the worst excuse I’ve ever heard. You have to try or you’ll never know,” he said, hoping his new resolution would have an effect on the her.

Spitfire pondered on this thought, the light blue stallion did have a point, and his words of support sure helped raise her spirits. But one big problem still remained in the back of Spitfire’s mind.

Spitfire looked away again as she spoke. “My parents wouldn’t approve of me being in love with another mare,” she said, a hint of sadness in her tone.

Soarin was shocked by this. “What do you mean they wouldn’t approve?” he asked confused as he raised an eyebrow.

Spitfire rubbed the back of her neck hesitantly. “I guess they're just one of those couples. Both you and I know they wouldn’t approve of their own daughter being a...a fillyfooler,” she said dejectedly.

Soarin again leaned over the table slightly and lifted the golden mares head to his level. Soarin put on his trademark grin. “I know that the real Spitfire wouldn’t care about anything to get that goal, even if it meant enduring anything.”

Spitfire thought over this new idea. “Well… you do have a point,” she said, grinning slightly.

Soarin smiled widely. “There you go,” he said sitting back on his chair and drinking the now slightly warm latte.

Spitfire was happy that her friend had convinced her and given her that last bit of courage that she needed to ask Dash out on a date. However, she was still slightly concerned about what Dash would say to that idea.

Spitfire thought hard on this. It was like she was waging a war in the deep recesses of her mind. But she knew one way or another even if she did keep the truth in, it was bound to come out at some point and then what would the Wonderbolt have to say then.

Soarin finished off his drink and looked over at the clock tower which stood centered in the middle of Cloudsdales Central park - which was situated besides the cafe. He then quickly turned back to Spitfire before speaking, “We need to start heading off, Spits, or will be late to the castle in Canterlot."

Spitfire came back from her current mind war. She shook her head before nodding. “Oh! Of course, let’s get this show on the road,” she said as they both started trotting away from the cafe.

Spitfire knew that tonight would be one of the biggest nights in her life, she just hoped that it all went well…

As Luna’s moon rose into the dark night sky, many ponies flocked to one place in particular in Canterlot and that was the Grand Galloping Gala.

Spitfire and Soarin landed on the grounds of the castle where they had arranged to meet with the rest of the team. Spitfire could already hear the sounds of ponies waiting eagerly outside of the castle for the big night to begin.

Personally, Spitfire had never liked the Gala, she thought it was way too classy for her style. Still, she did like the part about performing, and that’s what she was looking forward to tonight.

Spitfire and Soarin trotted round the the back of the castle to where they would start the performance. As the rounded the corner they saw some of the team already waiting for them.

Blazing Fire turned around to see his sister. “Well there you are, Mrs. Captain.”

Spitfire rolled her eyes playfully. “Sorry, but we took our time flying over here because we didn’t want to sprain anything,” she said knowingly.

Blazing Fire’s face brightened as a smirk appeared on his face. “Oh really?” he said with a sarcastic voice.

Spitfire mumbled something under her breath when a small "thud" could be heard from behind her. She turned around to see Dash wearing her uniform in proud stance.

Spitfire’s face filled with happiness. “Hey Dash, glad to see you're here,” she said gleefully.

Dash returned the smile. “Yep, I’m ready to do this thing,” she said, flaring her wings.

Soarin turned to the three ponies with a confused look on his face. “Wait... where’s Rapid?” he asked.

All the Wonderbolts looked at each other. Spitfire caught her brother backing away slightly, her eyes narrowed on him as she spoke up, “Blaze… where is he?” she asked, punctuating every word.

Blazing Fire held a very sheepish smile as he spoke, “Well… to tell you the truth...he might just be slightly tired,” he explained backing up even more.

Spitfire closed her eyes trying to keep the rising anger within herself. “Where is he?” she asked as her tone turning more dark.

Blazing sighed heavily. “He’s passed out in his bed, we um… drank too much.”

Spitfire let out a heavy sigh, she opened her eyes again and looked over towards the rest of the team with fearful eyes. “We’re one pony down… I don’t think we-”

Spitfire was cut off by the sky blue mare. “No, we can do it, we just have to work harder,” she said stomping her hoof on the ground.

Spitfire watched Rainbow as she continued to speak, “We just need to work with the routine a bit, we don’t need any other pony to do this.”

Spitfire thought hard about this, she knew Dash wasn’t going to be put out of her first ever performance as a Wonderbolt that easily. She smiled at the mare’s enthusiasm though, and it seemed to help her own self moral. Finally, Spitfire reached a decision. “Okay, Wonderbolt’s into your positions double time… we’ve got a show to bring.”

Dash’s face lit up with excitement when she heard Spitfire say those words and quickly got into the formation with the rest of the team.

Spitfire smiled as she flared her wings… the last thing she heard before taking off was the roar of the crowd…

To be continued...

Author's Note

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Okay, so can I be the first to say sorry for the long awaited update, both me and my brother have been really busy over the weekend and we weren't certain we'd even get a chapter done, but we have and well there you go.

Just as a note as well, the next chapter will be 5 to 6k words long and hopefully should be out in the next 2 to 3 days and I'm happy that most people are enjoying the story so far. We are getting ever closer to the romance part so just bear with me guys only one chapter left now.

So as you all seem to enjoy, a quick summary.

1: Spitfire has finally made her life changing decision will this bring good or will Canterlot be destroyed?
2: Blaze is being 'that guy' we all know again
3: Soarin is one heck of a friend !

~ Alex

I have gotten 5 hours total of sleep in the matter of 4 days... I'm probably going to pass out on my keyboa oidflakbjsfakjsdbfawueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedks

~ Michael

Chapter 23: Meet The Parents

Raining Fire

Written by: Alex A

Chapter 23: Meet the Parents

The walls of the estate cloud home were long and plain, but the atmosphere was cozy and felt loved. However, Spitfire didn’t exactly have that feeling as she trotted into the home of her marefriends parents.

Firefly trotted down to the end of the hallway and opened a door with Dash following close behind. As Spitfire trotted up, she saw a purple stallion sitting on a sofa in what looked like the living area of the home.

Firefly spoke up as she trotted into the room. “Come on, honey. Stop being lazy and say 'hi' to your daughter,” she said to the stallion with an amused look. The purple stallion rubbed an eye with a forehoof and took the newspaper off his chest before getting up.

He turned around to face Rainbow Dash just as Spitfire hesitantly trotted into the room just beyond the threshold of the door. He raised an eyebrow. ”So, is this your marefriend?” he said gesturing to Spitfire.

Dash nodded nervously. “Yeah...is that um...okay?” she asked.

The purple stallion smirked and turned his head to face Firefly, who was now sitting on a chair in the living room. “So I guess that means I win,” he said, holding out a forehoof, expecting something from the mare.

Firefly rolled her eyes before getting up, making her way out of the room and up the stairs to the bedroom to get the stallions winnings. Rainbow Dash was shocked by this. “What exactly have you two been betting on...that I was a fillyfooler?”

Rainbow’s father chuckled. “Well actually, I’ll tell you how it happened. It was a nice calm breezy morning. I got out of bed and made my way downstairs to get some breakfast. I had oatmeal with raspberry jam. I wish you still got toys from those packets like we used to get for you when you were little... Anyways, I poured myself a cup of coffee and-”

“Getting to the point sweetheart,” Firefly said as she came back down into the living room. ”Your father and I saw you in the Cloudsdale courier and it said the captain of the Wonderbolts had a marefriend; to our surprise, it was you. I said it must have been a mistake, but your father persisted that it was you and we made a bet... and I appear to have lost,” she said, handing the stallion some bits.

Rainbow was astonished. “W-What?! You thought I couldn’t be with Spitfire?” she asked, a slight smirk coming onto her face.

Firefly’s eyes constricted slightly. “Oh Celestia no, sweetheart. I just thought that maybe…”

Spitfire trotted up to Rainbow Dash as Firefly continued to search for something that would help her out of this whole. “I just thought that maybe it was just a misprint... because I thought you were still in Ponyville,” she exclaimed, jabbing her daughter in her ribs.

Rainbow yelped slightly moving back. “What was that for?” she asked, rubbing the slightly sore spot under her fur.

Firefly grinned as she trotted back over to the chair in the living room. “For not telling your mother where you’ve been all this time... I could have needed some assistance from my daughter over the past few weeks and I wouldn’t know where to send a letter too.”

Dash rolled her eyes playfully as she trotted over to the living room sofa and sat down. She patted next to her, motioning for Spitfire to come and sit down as well. The golden mare trotted over and sat down as Rainbow’s father leaned over and held out his hoof. “It is a pleasure to meet you, Miss Fire. I am Rainbow’s father: Thunder Dash. Pleasure to meet you,” he said politely, making Rainbow gag slightly. Spitfire shook his hoof before turning to Firefly.

The pink mare had a smirk plastered on her muzzle. She leaned forward as she spoke, “So, Spitfire, if I may, how come a mare like you is dating a mare like my daughter?” she asked quizzically.

Spitfire froze for a few moments as she tried to think of a suitable answer. “Well... I... um,” she started, exchanging looks with Dash before continuing, “I’ve... adored your daughter for quite a while. She has amazing talent and personality,” she said, hoping the answer would be enough for the pink mare.

Firefly raised an eyebrow. “That doesn’t sound like Dashie; if I know her, she just likes eating pasta and cuddling her Spitfire plushie at night.”

“MOM!” Rainbow Dash yelled, interrupting the conversation as her cheeks turned a heavy shade of red. Spitfire turned to face her marefriend with a playful smirk as Firefly tried to hold in her own laughter. Rainbow managed to shoot a glare at her mother, who just stuck her tongue out in reply.

Thunder decided it was time to intervene. “Okay mare’s, let's turn down the heat. It’s getting late and I wouldn’t be all to surprised if you guys didn’t have a busy day tomorrow,” he said, turning to his daughter and her marefriend on the couch.

Spitfire nodded approvingly. “Your not wrong there, it’s only three days until the show; I don’t want to disappoint them,” she said, getting up and looking back down at Rainbow. “So... where am I sleeping?” she asked.

Firefly smiled. “Well, unless you want to sleep on the couch, I’m afraid you’ll have to sleep with Rainbow and your twin plushie,” she said amusingly.

Rainbow groaned. “Mom, please?! You're embarrassing me!” she said, trotting out of the room with Spitfire.

Firefly smirked. “I’m just being me, sweetie. Now go to your room,” she said playfully, glaring at her daughter.

As the two mare’s left the room and headed up the stairs of the cloud home. Spitfire turned to her marefriend, who had a slightly annoyed look on her face. She giggled slightly, causing the sky blue mare to raise an eyebrow and look over at her. “What?” she asked quizzically.

Spitfire shook her head, muffling the rest of her laughter with a forehoof. “It’s nothing, Dashie,” she said, yawning. Dash just rolled her eyes again as she got to the top of the stairs and trotted down another small corridor until she came up to a door which adorned a Wonderbolt poster. She put a hoof on the door and opened it to reveal the bedroom inside.

The room was a decent size, although the bed was slightly small. A few of shelves filled the left side of the room which adorned items from Rainbow’s foalhood. Spitfire looked around the room with a smile. Rainbow went over to the bed and looked at it with slight astonishment. “I don’t remember it being this small,” she said, turning back to Spitfire.

The golden mare then spotted the plushie of herself that stood proudly on one of the cloud pillows at the top of the small bed. She giggled, causing Rainbow to blush slightly in embarrassment. “Well, at least you don’t have to use that anymore,” Spitfire said with a playful smirk.

Before Rainbow could come up with a sufficient answer to the question, she was tackled onto the small bed in a fit of laughter. But before either mare could say anything, a voice spoke up over them, “Hey, if you're gonna ‘do it’, then can you at least be a little more quiet?” Thunder asked.

Dash was about to shout back when Spitfire just silenced her with forehoof. “So, how long is it that you’ve been admiring me for?” she asked, leaning down so she was just a few strands of hair away from Dash’s muzzle.

Dash pushed the plushie off the bed, causing both mares to burst out in laughter. Spitfire was struggling speak up. “Wow… I didn’t know I was such an influence. I’m only a three years older than you,” she pointed out.

Dash nodded. “I know, but it was when I saw you at that all access flight show in Cloudsdale that I kinda liked you,” she said.

Spitfire’s eyes widened. “Wait?! That was when I’d just become a Wonderbolt,” she said, slightly surprised.

Dash shrugged. “It doesn’t matter anyways, I’ve got you now,” she said, wrapping her marefriend up in a tight hug. Spitfire laughed in response as she settled down on the bed, there muzzles were close together due to the small mattress.

Spitfire sighed happily. “Well, that was long day,” she said, feeling her eyes start to droop.

Dash nodded approvingly. “Yeah, I’m beat!”

Spitfire smiled and leaned in as both mare’s kissed each other goodnight, before drifting off to sleep in each-others embrace.

Meanwhile in a street not far from the outskirts of Cloudsdale, Blazing trotted passed many houses, he smiled when he finally found the house he was looking for. Trotting up to the door he knocked and waited for anypony to answer.

Suddenly, the door opened to reveal a white pegasus stallion with a fiery mane (much like Spitfire’s, except it had white streaks instead of yellow). The stallion smiled when he saw Blazing, “Oh! Hey, man!” he said happily.

Suddenly, laughter could be heard from further down the hallway in the home. “Haha dude, that sounded like so much horse shit!”

The stallion turned around to look down the empty hallway and shouted, “Well how the heck do you answer the door, featherbrain?!”

It took a few moments before the voice replied. “At least I don't sound like I'm colt cuddlin'!”

The stallion turned back to Blazing and motioned for him to come into the home. As Blazing shut the door behind him he watched as the stallion bucked open a door in the hallway and the sounds of the voice returned, “Oh no, no! I’m sorry, bro. Come on, don’t hit me!” it said before the sound of a smashing plate could be heard. Blazing nervously trotted further into the house as the sounds continued to reverberate of the walls. “Please, bro! Not the ear, not the ear!”

Blazing rounded the corner and into what looked like a kitchen to see one stallion about to break a chair over his brother's head. As Blazing heard the crash, he facehoofed.

“This is gonna be a long night...”

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Hey it's me....and we're sooo close to 50k words

Anyways hope you like Dashie's parents, I like how I did Firefly....and yeah the Streak brothers are back and it's another pair we're gonna base of each others actions (Blazing and Spitfire) being our caring side and the (streak brothers) being our fighting and annoying side so hope you enjoy.

So summary time!

1: Blazing and Spitfire are trying to stay as far away from parental contact as possible, this includes their own homes
2: Spitfire plushie...yes I own one...you got a problem with that?
3: Mike is a zombie (The most bad a** zombie evah!)
4: Firefly is based of our mother....loves annoying folk
5: Thunder Dash was the best I could think of

~Alex

Blug...narf...morck....blaaamph....

~ Michael