Rainbow who?

"Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean you haven't even proven you're my brother yet." Rainbow explained.

Dash and Flare had flown to their parent's house in relative silence; Most of the small conversations they did have, only came about through nervousness from the silence itself.

Flare nodded. Dash knocked on the door and they both awaited an answer. After a few moments they got the response they desired. Slowly the door opened to reveal a slightly disgruntled Spectrum Dash. "Hey sweetheart, what a nice surprise to see you again and look you even brought a stallion home!" Spectrum said not recognising Flare.

"Hi Dad, yeah this isn't my coltfriend. He's already engaged." Dash stated.

"Well, nevermind. I'm sure you'll find a very nice ccoltfriend one day. Why don't you both come in?" Spectrum suggested while gesturing for the pair to come in.

"That would be great, thanks Dad." Dash said entering the house. 'I wonder if he's noticed who Flare is yet?' Dash thought to herself. "Where's Mum?" Dash asked.

"She's in the kitchen. You two take a seat and I'll go get her" Spectrum showed them to the living room then quickly left down the hall for the kitchen.

"This place hasn't changed a bit." Flare murmured to himself. 'What a douche! How can you not even remember your own son?' Flare pondered to himself.

"So, when are you going to tell him?" Dash questioned the motives as to why Flare hadn't said anything yet.

"I'm surprised I actually have to say anything! I mean: how can you forget your own son?" Flare replied with a slight frown starting to form upon his face.

"I know Flare but it has been 22 years!" Dash defended their parents.

"I don't care how long it's been. They sent me off the Appleloosa without even telling me why and then when I come back they don't even remember me!" Flare stood by his side of the argument and he knew that somehow he would convince his family to think the same why even if it killed him.

"I'm sure they had a good reason for it and stop saying they didn't remember we haven't even seen Mum yet, we don't know how she'll respond." Dash understood where Flare was coming from but being their daughter she had a responsibility to defend her parents even if it was from their own son.

Before Flare could say anything else Spectrum came back into the room with their mother Firefly following suit. "Hello again, darling. It's great to see you and who would your friend be?" Firefly asked giving Dash a small but affectionate hug.

"Why don't you introduce yourself, buddy?" Dash suggested to Flare.

"Why that's not a bad idea, Rainbow. Spectrum, Firefly. I'm Rainbow Flare pleasure to meet you." Flare lifted a hoof to shake.

Spectrum pulled Firefly away stepping in front of her in a defensive manner. "What're you doing here and what do you what from us?" Spectrum questioned.

"Well, that's no way to greet your own son. Is it now? But, anyways. I want to know why you abandoned me all those years ago and you don't have to be so defensive, I'm not here to hurt you I just wanted to know." Flare replied in very calm manner considering the situation.

Spectrum sighed and relaxed stepping to the side giving Flare full view of his mother. "It's probably best you take a seat. This could take awhile." Spectrum pointed to the sofa.

Spectrum and Firefly were sitting on one sofa while Dash and Flare were sitting on the sofa opposite with mugs of tea in their hoofs. They were all silent for a few moments before Flare broke the silence with a cough. "So, why did you abandon me?" Flare asked with anger in his voice.

Spectrum sighed, he wondered how much sighing he would be doing tonight. "Do you remember the incident with Booming Mic?" Spectrum asked.

"Yeah, why?" Flare replied. He could of put more into his reply but thought it'd be best not to as Spectrum was probably about to elaborate now anyways.

"That's why left sent you to Appleloosa. You were constantly getting into fights at school and when Rainbow Dash was born we to protect her. But we also wanted to protect you, we thought that maybe if you were sent away then you'd think about your behaviour and it'd improve. Part off me doubted it but by the looks of things I was wrong. You're engaged, befriend your sister and from what your wearing it would seem that your in the Wonderbolt Academy. Am I right?" Spectrum was impressed of how well Flare was doing considering he was  constantly getting into fights and his grades were terrible in school. Maybe sending him to Appleloosa was really the best thing for him.

"I am in the Academy thanks for noticing. By the way, if I remember correctly I wasn't the one who started those fights, I just defended myself when the 'bullies' attacked me and after I became friends with most of them including Booming Mic. Who'm I actually stayed great friends with to date and I'm taking Mac to one of his concerts later this week." Flare said.

"Who's Mac?" Firefly asked taking a sip of her tea.

"He's Flare's fiancée." Dash jumped in before Flare could reply. "And could somepony, please, tell me who Booming Mic is and what the incident is?" Rainbow Dash hadn't really been paying much attention to the conversation but picked up o some of the more imporant details, Booming Mic being one of them.

"Right. yeah You were so quiet I forgot you was even here."" Flare giggled. "QUEUE FLASHBACK!"

Rainbow Flare was at his locker picking up and dropping off the usual things for the day: work books, pens, pencils, rubber, sharpener, etc. He wasn't really paying attention to what he was doing and just daydreaming until the locker door suddenly slammed shut in front of him pulling him back into reality. "Hey, look. It's the flightless bird!" Booming Mic snarled. Mic had always been the so called 'big colt' in the school but he never really picked on Flare because Flare had always been known as one of the wimpier ponies in the school, so picking on him all the time would lead other's to believe that Mic's too weak to pick on anypony other than Flare.

"What do you want Mic?" Flare asked in a depressed tone.

"Ahh, come on Flare. I thought we were friends? Are we not friends, Flare? Because you know what I do to ponies who don't want to my friend, Flare." Mic advanced on Flare.

"Yes, Mic I know what you do to ponies smaller than you that don't what to be your friend. You beat them and make them beg for forgiveness, then you beat them some more. Did I miss anything?" Flare replied. Flare really had had enough of this guy, Mic had never actually attacked Flare but he has threatened to before and Flare's certain it'll happen again.

"No, you haven't missed anything but you have added something: I don't only hurt ponies smaller than me. In fact most of the ponies I fight are bigger than me." Mic was starting to lose his temper and when he lost his temper he turned to his go to thing for annoying little ponies, violence.

"Your telling me that over half of the ponies you've bullied are bigger than you?" Flare asked. Mic nodded."Like who?'

"Ugh..." Mic couldn't think of a single pony he'd thought that was taller than him.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm going to class now." Flare turned away but before he could start walking a rather large light brown hoof grabbed the side off his head slamming him into the locker. Slowly, Flare got up turning around to face Mic. Mic was fairly tall for his age so the chocolate maned stallion thought that made him stronger than the other ponies in the school. It did for the most part but there was a few exceptions, Flare included.

"No pony mocks me and especially not a flightless blank-flank!" Mic shouted throwing a punch at Flare but Flare avoided the hoof and gave Mic a well deserved upper cut knocking him out instantly.

"I love it when ponies that deserve a good arse kicking get a good arse kicking."

"I visited him in the hospital, he apologised and we became best friends."  Flare finished. I hadn't taken him long to explain what the incident was but then again that really depends on how fast a reader you are.

"Wait, you said he called you a flightless blank-flank. How old were you for that to be a problem?" Dash asked.

"I was four. Which obviously Pegasi normally start flying around six months and I was four years old. Therefore, making me the perfect target for a bully. Plus being a blank-flank never helped even though I was only four most of the ponies in my school already had their cutie-marks and those who didn't instantly became targets of the bullies." Flare replied. The memories of the taunting played back in his head 'Blank-flank, Blank-flank, Blank-flank!'

"So, how come you became like best friends straight after everything had happened?" Dash was slightly confused with the two contradicting facts.

"Well he was pretty much my first friend. You know, with me being a rainbow maned, sky blue coated(Sky blue not cyan. I know what you're thinking), flightless, bisexual, blank-flank. It wasn't exactly easy for me to find friends." Flare answered putting Dahs's confusion at easy.

"I can imagine." Firefly was quiet throughout most of the night, still slightly shocked that her son had returned and was now doing so well considering he'd been thrown out of his house and dumped with some random family in Appleloosa which can be quite traumatising.

"Anyways, now we've got all of that cleared I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave you. I've got to go see Mic about front row seats to the Maroon 5 concert." Flare walked to the front door giving his father a hoof shake, his mother a hug and Rainbow Dash a brohoof before he opened the door to leave.

"Wait a second, you said Maroon 5. Are you seriously telling me that your foalhood bully and present best friend is the Booming Mic?" Dash questioned.

"Yeah, why?" Flare answered.

"Oh, nothing. Just that, that's awesome. You're best friends with the most famous singer in Equestria, your sister is the Element of Loyalty, your sisiter-in-law is the Element of Honesty and you're in the Wonderbolts Academy! You're really not doing that bad for yourself are you?" Dash was with the amount of accomplishments her brother had and the fact that she had only just realised all of this.

Flare knew the one word that would quite easily some up his reply. "Nope."