The Universal Race

"WOAH!", Twilight Sparkle had shot up from her slumber. She felt an immense amount of energy nearby. She looked around off her bed and saw a bright light coming from the downstairs door of her library. She shoved the books off her bed that she had read the night before, and slowly trotted downstairs to see where the light was coming from. She rubbed her eyes upon arriving downstairs before opening the door. Not one of her best decisions. Immediately after opening the door, the bright light flooded the house, awakening a grouchy Spike.

"Hey! What gives?? Why is it so bright in here." He said turning on the couch. A few toss and turns he finally got up and covered his eyes. "Close the door! What's going on out there?", Spike asked in an annoyed tone. Twilight stopped shielding her eyes and turned to spike.

"I'll be back! I'm going to figure out what's going on.", She said before running out the door.

"Close the door at least!", Spike yelled as Twilight ran off. She didn't hear what he said, and didn't care. She wanted to get to the bottom of what was going.

She could barely see what was in front of her and only made out that the bright light was coming in the middle of Ponyville. She galloped as fast as she could, and made it to the entrance of Ponyville. Her eyes were starting to hurt from squinting, trying to make out where she was. She stopped in front of Ponyville to catch her breath, when suddenly the light disappeared.

It was dark again. The white, blinding light had suddenly disappeared. Twilight looked up and around in the dark night. The ponies started to open their windows and doors to look outside as to where the light had come from. Twilight trotted with concern, not knowing as to what could possibly be in the center of Ponyville that could have caused this. She walked to the center of Ponyville, and saw a large crowded circle with more trying to enter and see what they were all looking at. She pushed her way through the large huddled ponies and eventually came out of the crowd and saw it.

She stared at the object with her mouth agape, with the nearly the same expression of everypony around her. There was a small black portal, the size of a marble. It was floating in the air, surrounded by all the ponies of Ponyville. They all looked at it, expressions of shock, confusion, and concern on the faces of the ponies as they watched the object gently float up and down in place.

"We need to get word to the princess!", A voice chirped from the crowd. All the ponies started turning to look at each other, asking questions as to what is going on.

"What is this thing? How did it get here?"

"Were you all asleep when the bright light came?"

"Is it dangerous?? Are we gonna die??"

"How can such a small object emit so much light..?"

"Is it edible?"

Many of the ponies had started asking themselves this question, only to be more confused without answers. Suddenly, the ponies gasped as they all started to turn and look up at the sky. The chariot carrying Princess Celestia was arriving onto the scene at hoof with the sun starting to slowly creep up from the horizon behind her. The chariot landed into the village, Celestia walked out and into the bowing crowd. Twilight shoved through the crowd. to greet the princess.

"Celestia! What's going-", Twilight started to ask before being cut off by Celestia putting her hoof in the air to silence her.

Celestia looked across the ponies to see the object they were all looking at. "Honestly, Twilight...", She started to say. "Through all of my years on Equestria, I have never experienced anything like this.. I've never seen or heard of anything like this happening before..", She said.

Twilight looked up at her with a shocked expression. "Then.. What's going to-" She said before getting cut off again. This time from the floating object. It made a loud hissing sound, the sound of static coming from the portal getting louder and louder, as it started to grow and expand. The ponies started backing up in fear, even Celestia looked at it with a shocked expression. It grew bigger and bigger until it finally stopped. It was about a few feet taller than Celestia. The ponies turned back to look at it, a few of them getting up from covering their faces on the ground. They starred at it for a few seconds until a figure walked out of the portal.

"Good morning, Ponyville!!" The voice from the portal said before walking out. The ponies looked at the creature that stood before them. It was unlike anything they had ever seen before. It stood on its hind legs, it was holding a piece of paper with it's hoofs with 5 extra limbs hanging out of each one wrapping them around each side of the paper. Its skin was red and black with white eyes and two objects behind his back.

"My name is..", He stopped, putting a hand on his chin and looking up with a thinking face.

Say, Lady Destroya 69! Do it! It'll be hilarious!

What? nah that's lame. How about something cool.. like.. dragonborn

You need to lay off the Skyrim, buddy.

The ponies just stood there and starred in confusion at the figure that had just appeared and stopped mid sentence.

"Uh.. You said you were..?" A voice from the crowd asked. The figure turned at the direction the voice asked at.

"Deadpool.", He answered. A few seconds after he answered, he face palmed. "Damn it!"

HAHA, lame. You should've came up with something better than that.

Well, I wasn't going to say Lady Destroya 69, we've said that at five other universes and not a single chuckle.

Who gives a shit, we'll get a laugh eventually.

"Why are you here?", A voice demanded. Deadpool looked up to see Princess Celestia with an aggressive look to her face. He jumped back a little.

"Ohohoho, that's right. Ahem!", He said as he looked back at the paper he was holding. "Dear Ponyville, You are all invited to the biggest race the universe has ever known! The Universal Race, or U.R. for short, is a race that will take place in the center of the universe and will host the biggest race of all time!', He continued. The ponies listened with quietly, the only sound coming Deadpools mouth.

"There will be hundreds of thousands competing in this competition! But only one will come on top, and be crowned as the fastest being in the universe..", He went on. "And... the rest... blabbidy blah.. useless shit you don't need to know... and.. Any quesions?" He finished. Voices started erupting from the crowd, dozens of questions flying at once. Deadpool glanced right to left trying to take in all the questions at once, until..

"Silence!", Princess Celestia yelled. Almost immediately, the entire crowd went silent. "I know we have a lot of questions, but let's try to ask them one at a time..", She said in a much more calming voice. "If you have a question for our guest, let's ask them one at a time. Please raise your hoof if you have a question."

The second she finished, dozens of hoofs shot up, eager for answers.

One by one each question was answered.

The event would last for 3 months. They had a week to pack and attend if they wished to. They would be given a room and free food if they decide to either participate or watch the event. If anyone of them wished to attend the event they had to partake a physical test to see if they are even worthy of competing. There will be hundreds of thousands competing. it is a race for both runners and flyers alike.

Eventually Deadpool started to get tired of answering so many questions.

"*yawn*... This is like feeling wide awake.. Except backwards.. What is that called again..?" He quietly asked himself. Celestia took notice of this.

"Alright, one more question. Who wants to ask the last question?", She asked. There were still dozens of hoofs up waving in the air, a few jumping to get her attention. She pointed to the back.

"Rainbow Dash.", Celestia called out, as moans followed from not being picked.

Rainbow Dash had been flapping her wings to see from the crowd in front of her, she gave a grin. "So, what's the grand prize for winning?", She asked. The crowd started to whisper at each other, asking the same thing as to what could possibly be the prize for such a huge event. Deadpool covered his mouth, trying to hide his laughter. He couldn't hold it.

"Bahahaha!! Oh! Oh man, that's hilarious! As if any of you will actually win!", He laughed, wiping a tear from his eye. "Ohhh, but I'll humor you anyways..." Deadpool said, finally halting his laughter. He wiped away another tear of laughter from his face and answered in a more suddenly serious tone. "But seriously... The grand prize will be one wish for anything you want. That's right.. AN-EE-THANG. We ain't dealing with some Fairly Odd Parents limitation shit here... You can wish for whatever you want. Money, love, power, money, sex, a pet giraffe...", He went on. Eventually he stopped, and looked around at the crowd. "You get the picture..", He said.

The crowd was shocked. Such a prize was unheard of, a wish for ANYTHING they wanted. Celestia had a worried look on her face after hearing this, knowing the kind of dangerous atrocities that could come if that kind of power came into the wrong hoofs. Celestia turned to see that deadpool was no longer next to her. He was about to exit through the portal.

"Remember! you got a week to decide and prepare before the portal will not accept anymore beings to enter. Imma go home now and cry for 5 minutes before I have to visit 73 other FUCKING universes!", He said with a scream at the end of his sentence. He stepped into the portal and disappeared...

A week had finally passed, and the portal was about to not enter anything else into it. Rainbow Dash had packed up her belongings in Cloudsdale. She knew she was the fastest in all of Equestria.. But the whole universe? She questioned herself as to if she'll even qualify to participate. Questions started forming in her head.

"Uhm.. Hello? Rainbow Dash?", A soft voice squeeked behind her. Rainbow Dash turned to see the yellow pony with a pink mane outside her door. "Can I come in?. If that's.. alright with you.", She asked. Rainbow Dash smiled, seeing one of her best friends.

"Yeah, of course!", Rainbow Dash said, turning back to packing her stuff. Fluttershy entered Dash's home. She walked up behind her.

"I, uhm.. Just wanted to wish you good luck.." Fluttershy said in almost a whisper. She felt a hoof around her, Dash pulled her in for a hug.

"Awww come on! I don't need luck! I got this! I'm the fastest flyer in all of Equestria! Remember?" She said with a grin. Fluttershy backed up, rubbing one of the back of her hoofs.

"I know.. but... It's a huge race, so many others will be racing. Just be careful. Okay?", Fluttershy asked. Rainbow Dash looked at her with confusion.

"Aren't you coming along?", Rainbow Dash asked.

Fluttershy looked away, "Oh no, I can't. I have to tend to the animals at home..", She said.

Rainbow Dash looked at her with confusion, "You do remember him saying that just because we're gone for 3 months into the portal, over here it will actually be far less. Only but a few minutes he said.", She said, trying to convince Fluttershy to come along. Fluttershy was quiet for a few seconds before she finally replied.

"I'll.. I'll think about it.", she said quietly.

Rainbow Dash nudged her. "Come oonnnnn. We've never been there before! It'll be a new experience for all of us!", She said playfully. Fluttershy looked away and closed her eyes.

"Fine.. Since.. I'll only be gone for only a few minutes..", Fluttershy finally answered. Rainbow Dash cheered.

"Aww yeah! This is gonna be awesome! Race ya to Ponyville!", Rainbow Dash said, closing her suitcase and clenching the handle in her mouth. "Rery, et, go!" She said with the suitcase still in her mouth. Dash shot past Fluttershy and sped down to Ponyville. Fluttershy slowly followed behind, not even attempting to race her.

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy both arrived to Ponyville and saw the rest of their friends in front of the portal.

"Oh gee!! I just can't wait! I hope they have cake on the other side! Lots and lots of cake! And -GASP!- Wait what if they don't have cake!? What am I-" Pinkie said with excitement before a hoof covered her mouth.

"I think they'll be plenty of food and cake over there, sugarcube.", Applejack said with a chuckle.

"Well, I just hope it's clean over there, I'm bringing my best dresses for this occasion.", Rarity said. She was carrying a fairly large bag with clothes on her back.

"Well, It's going to host millions of spectators, so I'm assuming it's gotta be clean, rarity.", Twilight said with a cheerful smile.

"Hey! Glad to see you guys waited for us!", A voice chirped from above. The four ponies looked up to see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy in the background who was still catching up.

"Well of course darling! Wouldn't leave without everyone here, that would be a disaster!", Rarity said. They all laughed, except for Fluttershy who now just arrived with the group.

"Hey girls.", She said in a quiet voice. "Are you.. all ready?", She asked shyly.

"Yeppidy yep yep!" Pinkie said, and without warning, immediately hopped into the portal cannonball style.

The rest of the ponies just stood there.

"Typical Pinkie..", Twilight said. "Come on girls, let's go." She said. All of them turned to each other and nodded and one by one entered the portal...

-END OF CHAPTER 1-