Star Wars: The Friendship Unleashed

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away...

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STAR WARS

THE FRIENDSHIP UNLEASHED

The galaxy is on the brink of total darkness. The Jedi Council has failed in killing Chancellor Palpatine after finding out that he is the leader of the Sith.

Anakin Skywalker has turned to the dark side, becoming Palpatine’s new apprentice and has gained his new name and title, Darth Vader.

Palpatine has formed the first Galactic Empire, overthrowing the Old Republic and now controls countless star systems across the galaxy. With the Jedi still unaware of these changes, Palpatine orders the immediate execution of every single Jedi in the galaxy in the form of ‘Order 66’, an order which the Clone troopers under the supervision of the Jedi are to carry out…

The space surrounding the Vergesso Asteroids was calm as it usually was. A small base just on the outer ring of the field had been taken over by the Separatists. Even though the Separatists had taken over this sector, this base was left almost undefended due to it being far out of the reach of the Republic and that it was difficult to detect because of it being located in an asteroid field. It served as a safe haven where the Separatist leaders could escape to in the case that the Republic had somehow decimated their gigantic droid army and forced them into hiding.

The somewhat still space around the station was disturbed by several Acclamator Class-II cruisers and one Venator Class Star Destroyer dubbed the ‘Liberator’ exiting hyperspace just a few clicks away from the Separatist’s haven, opening fire on the base. Orders were being shouted over the PAs of the starships for all pilots to man their craft and all forward batteries to increase fire on the enemy base. A hefty number of droid starfighters appeared on the cruiser’s targeting system as they exited the asteroid base.

In a small room aboard the Liberator sat two Jedi Masters. The two had been friends since they were both brought to the Jedi temple on Coruscant many years ago to learn the ways of the force. They were Kurt Cloudrunner and Jason Moon. Jason was the younger of the two only by a few days. Both of them were around six feet tall and were around the same weight with Jason being slightly lighter. Kurt had short blonde hair and green eyes while Jason’s hair was a long and dark brown and his eyes were dark blue.

Both Jedi had become knights and then masters on the same days as each other and had also faced the Trials of the Jedi at the same time. Both were equally strong in the force. If it weren’t for their disagreements and arguments with the Jedi Council, both Jedi would surely be elected. Kurt’s connection to the living force was a powerful one that was often compared to Master Qui-Gon Jinn’s own, whereas Jason’s connection was not as powerful. The two were near-inseparable. Throughout the war the two had hardly been apart from each other and had always operated within the same fleet. The two were so close that they could easily be passed off as blood brothers and they easily sensed each other’s thoughts. As things were presently with the assault starting, they sat patiently awaiting the news of the attack on the Separatist base.

“General Cloudrunner, General Moon, the fleet has moved out of light speed and we’ve opened fire on the enemy base. All fighter squadrons are being mobilized as we speak to combat the droid fighters closing on our position.” Said the friendly voice of the Clone Commander Terry.

“Thank you, Terry. Tell everyone to be quick about this battle, will you? I don’t think we want a run in with reinforcements like last time.” Kurt chuckled.

“Yes sir, it will be done.” Terry said as the hologram disappeared.

“Welp,” Said Jason getting up “Let’s go watch some droids get blown up from the bridge, eh?”

“Sure, why not?” Replied Kurt standing up “Better than staring at the walls hoping the ship doesn’t suddenly get overwhelmed by the droids, I suppose.” The two exited the room and started making their way to the bridge.

On the bridge of the Liberator, Commander Terry was busy ordering all fighter squadrons to attack the incoming droids. He told the pilots to use attack pattern Epsilon which sent several V-Wing squadrons to speed straight through the oncoming droids, scattering their formation. This left the ARC-170s, BTL-B Y-Wing fighters and the reserve V-Wings to decimate what still remained of the now broken formation.

“The attack pattern was successful, sir. Not a single casualty has been taken for us yet.” Said one of the clones who was monitoring the conditions of all the fighters in battle.

“Excellent.” Terry replied “This mission will be over shortly, General Moon and General Cloudrunner will be happy to hear that.” As Terry finished his sentence, a long-range message came through from Lord Sidious. The message was displayed through the hologram projector.

“Commander Terry, the time has come. Execute Order sixty-six. Eliminate both Master Kurt Cloudrunner and Master Jason Moon immediately.” The Dark Lord of the Sith ordered.

“It will be done, my lord.” Replied Terry as the hologram faded. Terry touched a button which gave him complete control over the PA system of the ship.

“All troops, execute order sixty-six immediately.” The voice of Commander Terry spoke through the PA system. The two Jedi Masters stopped in their tracks.

“Order sixty-six?” Asked Jason “What is that? Is it an evacuation code?”

“No… It’s not…” Replied Kurt.

“Then what is it?” Jason asked looking a bit worried. At both ends of the hallway, several clone troopers blocking the hallways and readying their weapons. There were about ten troops behind them and seven in front of them.

“Jason! Now!” Kurt yelled levitating his lightsaber from his belt and switching it on, a green aura surrounded the white of the ‘blade’ getting in a defensive position facing the clones in front of them while Jason took his own lightsaber in his hand and turned it on showing a yellow blade surrounding the center. He turned around to face the clones behind him and his friend.

The clones opened fire, the pair block every laser that comes into range of their bodies, sending a right back at the clones killing them upon contact despite their armour.

“This way!” Jason said as he deflected another laser back at a clone troop, sending the number of troops behind them down from the original ten to three. In front of them there were still five troops. Jason was always the better swordsman when it came to deflecting lasers back at his opponents. The two moved steadily backwards with Jason finishing off two more of the clones with his deflection skills. Kurt had only managed to kill one more clone in this time. The clones from Kurt’s side moved down the hallway as the Jedi did the same. Jason finally got close enough to the final clone to end him. He swung his lightsaber from the right, slicing the clone’s rifle in two. Jason then swiftly impaled the clone who had stumbled back slightly after his gun was destroyed. Four clones still followed the pair down the hall. Luckily, the Jedi had reached a corner.

“Come on! Quickly!” Jason yelled at Kurt as he ran around the corner. Kurt deflected one last laser away from himself and used the force to push the remaining clones backwards, down the hallway and into the wall at the other end as well as an unfortunate clone who had just rounded that corner. If it didn’t kill them, it at least gave the Jedi time to run from them.

“We have to get to the hangar!” Jason said as they ran down the hallway.

“That’s a good plan, but don’t you think they would have taken measures to stop our ship from leaving by now?” Kurt asked.

“Well, I hope they haven’t!” Replied Jason “Those bastards better not lay a finger on my Baby Girl! I’ll kill them if they do!”

“We’ll have to kill them either way, you know.” Kurt replied in a matter-of-fact tone, Jason paused before responding.

“Still though, I’ll be mad!” He replied trying to justify his earlier statement. Kurt rolled his eyes as they kept running.

They finally reached the elevators and pressed the button to call it, the door to one of the elevators opened almost immediately to the Jedi’s luck and they stepped inside. They pressed the button for the hangar. It would only be a few seconds before they reach it, so they didn’t bother turning off their lightsabers and got into defensive positions again while facing the door. The door opened. In the hangar were several fuel carts, two ARC-170 fighters and their ship which was a YT-2000 Corellian transport dubbed ‘Baby Girl’.

The ship had been passed on to Kurt after his father died. It was unusual for Jedi to use their own transports, but the two preferred this ship over the specially modified star fighters given to the Jedi. They had gone on many missions in this ship and weren’t about to retire it or sell it. Jason and Kurt had made several modifications before the Clone Wars which involved giving the ship more firepower by adding two sets of quad-laser cannons to the top and bottom of the ship as well as better shield capabilities. The engine was also modified giving the ship more speed than others of its kind. The original hyper-drive generator had been replaced with a class 0.4 generator, making this the fastest light freighter in the galaxy.

“Stop them! Don’t let them reach their ship!” Yelled one of the clones, a volley of laser fire headed towards them as they stepped out of the elevator. They ran to their ship deflecting any lasers that came their way. Once they reached the ship, Jason took cover behind one of the landing gear. He let down the entry ramp as Kurt covered him.

“Kurt! Get onboard now! Give me covering fire!” He yelled as he turned back on his lightsaber and started deflecting laser fire. Kurt followed his request and got inside. He ran to the cockpit starting up the engines, angling the deflector shields and waiting for the lasers to become operational so he could give Jason covering fire. Jason lifted one of the fuel carts using the force and propelled it towards an ARC-170 fighter which was behind several clone troopers who had taken cover behind some supply crates. The fuel cart and fighter exploded in a bit more of a spectacular explosion than Jason thought it would create. The blast was quite bright, dulling his vision for a moment. Onboard the ship, the lasers were online at last. Kurt took control of a modified E-WEB turret stored in the ship’s hull that lowered itself and started to open fire on some of the clones. A screen showed what was in the turret’s line of fire, Kurt focused on some clones positioned behind some storage containers and fired on them.

Another group of clones entered the hangar. Jason took notice after reflecting a laser back at a lone clone trooper behind him. He ran towards the group of clones who had just arrived in the hangar and leaped into the air, ready to slice the clone at the front of the group in two. As he leaped however, the clones opened fire. Kurt looked up from the screen which he had fixated his eyes on while he shot down the last of the clones behind the supply crates in the hangar to see his friend jump into the air and then blasted with laser fire.

“NOOO!!” Kurt yelled as his friend fell to the ground in front of the troops. The troops continued firing on Jason’s corpse as Kurt watched in horror. His life-long friend, taken from him in an instant, he couldn’t believe it. Kurt snapped out of his daze and closed the entrance to the ship, powered up the engines and flew out of the hangar as fast as he could. A couple of lasers were shot at the departing ship barely missing it as it flew away.

As he exited the hangar, lasers from all sides opened fire on him. All the laser batteries on the Liberator were concentrated on Kurt’s ship. To his right was an approaching squad of V-Wing fighters that were ready to tear him apart. One part of Kurt almost didn’t care if he died or not, he didn’t want to live anymore, not without his friend by his side. This was not the more dominant side however; Kurt diverted all the power from the lasers to the engines and shields as he flew the ship away from the cruisers. Several more squadrons of the different kinds of clone star fighters pursued his ship. It seemed as though all the star fighters in the fleet were after him. Kurt started preparing the ship for the jump to hyperspace. Suddenly, he heard his friend’s voice.

“They’re getting close! Give them the ‘hard goodbye’!” Jason’s voice said. Kurt didn’t bother questioning where the voice came from as he flicked a few switches and fired a seismic charge into the midst of the following squadrons of fighters. The charge exploded right in the center, destroying nearly all of the clone star fighters in pursuit. The jump to hyper-space was ready. Kurt threw the switch and watched as the space around him meshed together and turned into a blue vortex which surrounded the ship.

Kurt lay back in his chair with tears in his eyes. The death of his friend was hitting him harder than the moment it happened.

“WHY?!” He yelled banging his fist on the arm of his chair “WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE?!” Kurt buried his face in his hands, still sobbing heavily. A beeping sound came from the control panel. Kurt delayed his curiosity only for a moment as he looked up to see a message being transmitted from the Jedi temple. Kurt opened the message and decoded it. The message said for all Jedi to return to the Jedi temple immediately. Kurt’s hand immediately reached for the hyper-drive lever to shut it off so he could re-plot his course. But he stopped and thought for a moment. Something was out of place here.

“This must be happening all across the galaxy.” Kurt said to himself “Jedi… Everywhere, being slaughtered by the clones! I can’t go back to Coruscant, that’s where all clones are sent before they are assigned to a fleet to be deployed! There’s no way I’m go-” Kurt stopped talking as he saw the message in front of him change before his eyes. The message now said for all surviving Jedi to stay away from the temple and that Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith lord the Jedi have been searching for all along and he now controls all the systems in the Galactic Senate and has overthrown the Republic to form the first Galactic Empire.

Kurt’s heart sank again. The Sith controlled the galaxy now. Kurt’s path was clear. He would have to go into hiding. It would have to be on a remote planet where he wouldn’t be found.

“I can’t believe this.” He said burying his face in his hands again. Everything the Republic had done was just washed away in an instant. His closest friend was just killed before him. It was too much for him to handle all at once. Kurt broke down in tears again. This couldn’t be real. This had to be a nightmare. There’s no way this was all possible. But no matter how much Kurt told himself those things, the more Kurt realised that this was real. This was a nightmare, but he wasn’t sleeping. That everything he had just experienced was possible.

He got over his sobbing for a moment and checked the co-ordinates he had put in so frantically during his escape from the clones. The co-ordinates read ‘193.524.832’. Kurt chuckled slightly and wondered what planet he had tried to enter originally that made him put in such odd co-ordinates. He pulled up more information on these co-ordinates. It was indeed a planet he was headed towards at least. Kurt sighed in relief at the fact it wasn’t a sun or a supernova or an asteroid field. The planet’s name was simply ‘EQD33’. There was little to no information on the planet other than that it had one small moon and was far outside the reach of the newly formed Galactic Empire.

“I suppose it’s worth a shot.” Kurt said out loud as he left the cockpit. It would be at least six hours before he reached the planet, he decided to try and get some sleep. That is, if he could manage to cry himself to sleep. He walked into the modified storage room of the ship that was his bedroom and lay down on the bed. He began to cry again as memories of Jason came back to him. There was hardly a time when they weren’t together, which made it incredibly difficult for Kurt to try and focus his mind on another time altogether. Eventually, Kurt had managed to cry himself to sleep. Hoping that he’d wake up back on the Liberator with Jason still alive and all of what he had just experienced to be a dream.

Kurt awoke to an erratic beeping sound. He buried his face in his pillow for a moment and then decided he didn’t want to crash into a star because he didn’t come out of hyperspace at the right time, so he should get to the controls. He got up and exited his ‘bedroom’ and headed to the cockpit. A timer on the dashboard counted down from twenty seconds as he sat down at the controls. As the timer hit zero, he shut off the hyper-drive and the blue space surrounding the ship disappeared to reveal the darkness of space around it. Directly in front of him was a blue and green planet. It reminded him of a giant blueberry. He shook away the childish comparison from his mind and flew towards the planet.

“Home sweet home… I guess.” He said to himself as he got closer to the planet. After a slightly bumpy entry into the atmosphere, Kurt decided to fly around the landscape for a little while before landing to scan around and see if there is civilisation here. As he exited the cloud bank, an orange pony with wings appeared outside his cockpit for only a moment. He passed it off as his imagination and flew closer to the ground. He saw a large castle and city on the side of a mountain.

“So there is civilisation here.” He said to himself out loud. He flew past the city and into the countryside, heading South West of the castle town. After a few minutes he saw a medium sized village with some oddly shaped and rather colourful structures. He could’ve sworn he saw another pony with wings, this time a light blue one with a rainbow coloured tail, but shook it off again. Why was he seeing ponies with wings?

Kurt flew to the outskirts of the village, landing his ship in a clearing just a couple hundred meters away from it. As he landed, he felt tremors in the force. He felt several life forms nearby that were strong in the force. They gave off stronger auras than that of Master Yoda or even Skywalker who was supposedly the strongest Jedi in existence. As the ship set down, Kurt let out a sigh.

“So, this is home now, is it?” He asked, half-expecting someone to answer him as he looked at the landscape outside the cockpit’s window. The sky was a beautiful light blue. There were hardly any clouds in the sky. The field in front of him was lush and green with many flowers growing in it “Well, at least it’s not Dagobah.” He said to himself getting up from his chair.

As he exited the cockpit he heard something hit the top of the ship. It was something considerably heavy to make the sound it did. Whatever it was, it was living, and it was incredibly strong in the force. There were several taps on the heard from where the creature landed.

“This thing better not damage my ship!” He said running to the exit and lowering the entry ramp. The ramp lowered and he ran into the open air and leaped onto the ship’s hull to see a cyan pony with wings and a rainbow mane.

“What are you?!” They asked each other in unison. It can talk!? Kurt thought to himself. I must be hallucinating now, this is insane!

“Hey! I asked you a question!” Shouted the blue pony, its voice made it difficult for Kurt to tell whether it was male or female, its accent was similar to that of a Corellian’s “What are you and what are you doing here?!” Kurt was still speechless and shocked at the creature before him.

“Won’t answer me, huh? Well I’ll just have to make you answer!” The pony said as it flew into the air leaving a rainbow trail behind it. After gaining some altitude, the pony flew straight towards Kurt at a blinding speed. Kurt snapped out of his daze and extended his hand in front of him, using the force to grab the cyan pony stopping it from crashing into him hardly a couple feet away from him.

“What the… HEY! LET ME GO!!” The pony demanded “I don’t know how you’re using magic, but I don’t care, I’ll-”

“Rainbow! That’s enough!” Yelled another voice, this voice was a bit more feminine than the one that belonged to the cyan pony, this time the accent was more like that of the humans of Naboo. Kurt turned to face the direction the voice came from still holding this pony in place with the force to keep her from escaping and/or attacking him again.

On the ground next to the ship stood five more ponies looking up at him and the blue pony. There was a purple pony with a horn and a darker purple mane with a streak of pink in it. There was a bright pink pony with a very puffy mane and tail. One was white with a horn and purple hair that was styled in a fashion similar to that of the women on Coruscant. There was an orange one wearing a hat with a long blonde mane and tail. Behind the orange one was a light yellow one with wings and a pink mane. These ponies all were equally strong in the force. These must be the life forms he had sensed earlier.

“Excuse me, umm, could you please release our friend?” The purple one asked Kurt “I’m sorry about her behaviour so far, she’s a bit of a hot-head.”

“Hey! I’m not a hot-head!” Replied the cyan pony.

“Heh, sure Rainbow, and Fluttershy ain’t afraid a’ the dark.” Chuckled the orange pony, this one had an odd accent, one Kurt had not heard before, it was like a lower-class Corellian’s own, but still different “No offense there, Fluttershy.” She said turning around to face the cowering yellow pony behind her. All the yellow pony replied with was an almost unheard squeal.

Kurt could sense that these ponies meant no harm. He also had no intention of harming the blue pony he held in his grip. He was simply stopping it from causing him harm. He released the cyan pony from his grip and she flew to the ground next to the other ponies.

“Thank you.” Said the purple pony “My name is Twilight Sparkle, I’m a resident here in Ponyville and a student under Princess Celestia, one of our leaders.” Kurt jumped down from the top of his ship.

“My name is Kurt Cloudrunner.” He replied introducing himself “I hail from the planet Coruscant. I have come here seeking refuge on this planet, EQD33-”

“EQD… What?” Asked the pink one, her accent was that of a Naboo as well.

“Coruscant?” Asked the white one “Where in Equestria is that?” She spoke with the accent of a high-Coruscanti, making her question somewhat ironic to Kurt.

“What’s… Equestria?” Asked Kurt.

“Well duh, it’s where you are silly!” Replied the pink one.

“Umm, Rarity…? I think he said Coruscant was a planet.” The yellow pony said quietly, too quietly for Kurt to determine an accent, but it sounded like it was from Naboo. Kurt remembered her name was Fluttershy.

“Yes, I did Fluttershy.” He said giving the pony a smile “You seemed somewhat shocked at this fact. Don’t you all have… Ambassadors to other planets?”

“No, the only pony who’s ever been outside our atmosphere is our Princess Luna.” Twilight replied “And that was only to the moon.”

“I see… No wonder there is hardly any data on your planet or its inhabitants.” Kurt said answering his questions about the lack of data his ship provided on the planet “Am I the first one to come here from another world?”

“I’m… Not sure, I wouldn’t know.” Twilight replied “The princesses might know however…”

“So, let’s go ask the princess then!” Said Rainbow.

“Err, Rainbow?” The orange pony spoke up “That there trip may be an easy one fer you, but to th’ rest of us, Canterlot’s a whole day’s trip away from Ponyville.”

“Applejack’s right Rainbow, we’ll at least have to wait until tomorrow to go to Canterlot. There isn’t even another train going there until tomorrow morning.” Twilight said supporting Applejack’s claim.

“Excuse me, Twilight? Where is, ‘Canterlot’, exactly?” Kurt asked.

“Oh, it’s the capital of Equestria.” Twilight replied “That castle there in the distance is where it is.”

“Well, in that case, who wants to go for a ride on my ship?” Kurt asked.

“OOH!! OOH!! I DO!!! ME!! PICK ME!!!” Shouted the pink one jumping up and down.

“Hold on, Pinkie.” Rainbow said putting a hoof over Pinkie’s mouth, Pinkie still attempted to speak regardless “How do we know this isn’t some kind of trick? How do we know you’re not some kind of spy?!”

“Well, for starters, don’t you think I wouldn’t have tried to make myself less known to you all?” Kurt started “I did fly directly over your village at a low altitude. Also, if I was a spy, I wouldn’t be standing here talking to you, would I?”

“I… Well… I still don’t trust you! I’ll stick to my flying, thanks.” Rainbow replied “You better not try any tricks on my friends!”

“Oh Rainbow Dash, stop being so paranoid, he’s not going to hurt us.” Twilight said trying to calm her friend “How long will it take to get there?” She asked turning to Kurt.

“About five or ten minutes I think.” He replied trying to remember the amount of time it took him to get from over the castle town to Ponyville, as this village was called.

“WOOHOO!! COME ON EVERYPONY, LET’S GO!!” Pinkie yelled suddenly appearing behind Kurt at the top of the entrance ramp. He glanced back to where she was standing before and back to where she was now, how did she move so quickly without him noticing? All the ponies except Rainbow Dash got on board the ship. She hovered in the air with her hooves folded and her nose turned up.

“You know, you can come on board if you want.” Kurt said to her.

“No thanks, buddy.” She replied sharply.

“Okay, well, I hope you can keep up with me.” Kurt said heading up the ramp. Rainbow flew over to Kurt.

“Hey! I can outrun this hunk-of-junk any day of the week!” Rainbow said poking Kurt in the chest with her forehoof.

“Well, you’ll just have to prove it then, won’t you?” Kurt replied, he enjoyed racing, he seriously doubted this pony could outrun Baby Girl. There wasn’t a chance this pony was faster than this ship.

“Bring it on! You get this hunk of metal in the air and the first one to Canterlot wins!” Rainbow said flying away from Kurt and quickly ascending into the sky above the ship. Kurt chuckled to himself, that competitive spirit reminded him of Jason. He entered the cockpit where all five of his passengers were waiting for him to fly the ship.

“WOO! THIS IS GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN!! CAN YOU GO FAST? WE SHOULD GO REALLY SUPER DUPER FAST!” Pinkie yelled excitedly bouncing off the walls of the cockpit. Kurt moved past the ponies crowding the cockpit and got to the controls. In the seat behind him sat Pinkie and Rarity. Pinkie leaned forward.

“Hey Kurt, want some popcorn?” Pinkie asked holding a bag of popcorn in her hooves.

“No th- Wait, where’d you get that?” Kurt asked; he didn’t have any popcorn aboard the ship.

“It’s a secret~!” Pinkie said giggling and offering Rarity some. She shook her head declining Pinkie’s mystery popcorn and Pinkie happily shoved her face into the bag munching away. Kurt turned back to face the controls and started up the ship. The ship whirred loudly as the engines started. Fluttershy let out a small squeal and grabbed onto Applejack who was standing next to her once the engines started. Twilight was carefully observing what switches Kurt was pressing in the start-up sequence in an attempt to memorise the steps on how to start up the ship.

“Kurt?” Twilight asked.

“Yes Twilight?” He replied.

“What does this ship run on exactly?” She asked.

“It runs on solar energy. I’ve modified the ship so it does that. It works a lot better than fossil fuels and saves a lot of money too.”

“Interesting…” Twilight replied looking out the window of the cockpit. The ship was lifting off the ground.

“WOOHOO!! THIS IS GONNA BE SO COOL!!!” Pinkie yelled as the ship gained altitude. After they gained enough altitude, a patiently waiting Rainbow Dash could be seen outside the cockpit window. Pinkie jumped to the window pressing her face against the glass and waved to Rainbow Dash.

“HEY RAINBOW DASH!!! LOOK!!! WE’RE FLYING!!!” Pinkie yelled.

“Pinkie, she can’t hear you.” Twilight said.

“Get down from there please.” Kurt asked politely.

“Whoops, sorry.” Pinkie said sheepishly jumping back into her seat. Kurt looked out the window to see Rainbow Dash wave at him and zoom off towards Canterlot.

“Hey Rainbow Dash! Come back!” Shouted Pinkie who suddenly appeared atop the ship.

“PINKIE?!!” Shouted Twilight moving closer to the window “GET BACK INSIDE!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT THERE?!”

“Oh fine.” Pinkie said with a hint of upset in her voice. She walked out of view and suddenly appeared back inside the cockpit “Baaack~!” Pinkie said happily bouncing back into her seat next to Rarity who rolled her eyes at the energetic pony. Kurt looked out at the rainbow trail left by Rainbow Dash when she flew off.

“Pinkie, you wanted to go fast?” Kurt asked, Pinkie gasped loudly.

“CAN WE?!” Pinkie asked hardly being able to contain her excitement.

“Umm… Could we go slowly please? If you don’t mind, that is, I mean…” Fluttershy asked quietly.

“Hold on everybody, we’re gonna go FAST.” Kurt said throwing the throttle to 100%. Everypony was thrown backwards slightly while Pinkie was leaning forward cheering. Rainbow Dash was in for a surprise for sure “A hunk-of-junk eh? I’ll show her what this hunk-of-junk can do!!” Kurt said to himself out loud as he flew after Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow flew along slowly. She was already considerably far ahead and decided she didn’t have to worry about Kurt catching up to her.

“Ha! There’s no way he could ever beat my speed!” Rainbow said to herself. She whistled happily as she flew along. Suddenly, a ship flew past her, making her lose concentration for a moment and dropping altitude a few feet “Oh no you don’t!” Rainbow yelled flying after the ship as fast as she could. The
race to Canterlot was on…