Chapter 1: Friends and stories
Sunshine was coming in to the room filled with snores through a window, slowly but surely it reached the owner of the sounds. A rainbow maned Pegasus pony began wiggle around in the bed with sheets that has the recognizable Wonderbolt logo printed on. The sheets were dragged over the pony named Rainbow Dashes head, and complaining sounds began coming from under them. “Stupid sun... So sleepy…” After a few minutes the snores came back, and the mare showed no signs of being awake.
Her extra minutes of sleep would not last long, an alarm began beeping in the most annoying way. ‘Beep, beep, beep,’ the sheets where thrown out of the bed and on to the cloud floor, and making a ‘poof’ sound. A grumpy mare sat up in the comfortable cloud bed and reached for the alarm, despite of that the little table with the alarm on was right beside her, she missed it when she tried to turn it off, and her hoof landed on the table. With a sigh she tried to look over to the alarm, but the only thing she saw with her almost closed eyes where only three out of focus alarm clocks and three hooves. After some blinking to get her eyes to function properly she finally could see clearly and successfully turned off the alarm.
Rainbow Dash finally decided to go out of bed, she would normally fly to get to places, even when inside her own house (but not other ponies houses, that would be rude for some), but she was way too sleepy to even try, as always. To try not to trip she walked slowly towards the door opening. Her room was filled with posters and mementos from Rainbow’s idols and experiences. The most of the posters and the decorative items was of the Wonderbolts, as she was one of their, no, their biggest fan. There was also Daring Doo stuff, but it consisted mostly of the books.
Rainbow’s destination was the kitchen, since she felt pretty hungry. On the way there she passed her guest room, which was the room next to her bed room and the toilet in the second floor, the hallway was nothing special, just cloud and a window to the outside. The stairs in the end of the hallway led to the living room, it had couch that was surprisingly not cloud, so it was black, and there was some pictures on the walls, notably one with her father, mother and herself. The other photo on the other side was of a certain orange filly who Rainbow had just recently taken under her wing, making the filly her honorary little sister. And of course a picture with her five best friends.
On the parallel side of the couch was a TV, Rainbow bought it not so long ago, and that kind of technology was new to Equestria so it was kind of awesome that she had that, the only other pony she knew who had a TV was Twilight. There was also a grey rug on the floor, cloud floors tend to become very cold, especially when it gets chilly outside, so it was for the best to have.
Rainbow Dash finally reached her destination, the kitchen. It had a little refrigerator with the color of silver, she lived alone so she did not need a bigger one, and there were also some cabinets of tree to have kitchenware in, and finally an oven, but she rarely used it, she wasn’t really a pony who baked a lot and most of Pony food wasn’t fried or cooked in the oven.
She opened the refrigerator, a frown formed on Rainbows mouth, there were only a pack of milk and some vegetables and berries in there, she had forgotten to buy more food it seemed. She then tied to look in one of the cabinets, thankfully there where a pack of oats, now she didn’t have to go shopping in the morning.
Rainbow Dash tuned on one of the plates to the oven, and found a casserole, poured some milk in to it and then mixed in the oats. A hot plate with oatmeal was placed on the table and steam was floating up in the air. The mare began eating her breakfast in an unmannered way, she wasn’t really known for her table manners, her friend Rarity always scolded her when she ate like she did now. She was home alone now, so nopony could comment on the way she ate. Who needs to be proper anyway, she was awesome and that was all that counted.
The rainbow maned pony decided to go out to fly after breakfast, it was always good to fly in the morning. Despite the fact that she hated mornings, going out to fly when the sun is low and feel the morning breeze was always a nice thing to do. The grass was green on the outside, and the summer sun was shining brighter than ever. Maybe it would be a good idea to take her sunglasses with her? She had flown some meters away from her house now, so she did not bother going back to get them.
Some houses come to sight, the nearer she flew the more houses there where and it was recognized as the little town called Ponyville. Many ponies where already out of their houses and doing their own business. Since it was summer break the fillies and colts had no school, and therefore they were around town doing stuff. A nice and refreshing smell caught Rainbow Dashes attention, it was the smell of freshly baked goods. That only meant the Cakes and Pinkie Pie had begun baking for the shop today. Rainbow decided to visit Sugar Cube Corner she flew down and landed in front of the bakery that looked like a gingerbread house.
At the exact moment Rainbow Dash came in to the shop, something suddenly hit her. ‘Ouch’ was the sound that came out from the cyan mare. She opened her eyes and saw big blue eyes staring right in to her magenta ones. The thing that attacked her was a pony, and no uncommon pony, it was none other than Pinkie Pie. The pink pony hopped off her and smiled so it made a ‘squee’ sound, Rainbow smiled back and when she was about to say something the other mare began tossing words at her.
“Hello, Dashie! What are you doing here? Eh, except for that this is a shop, so you could be here to buy something, but that’s logical. And logical is boring! Or are you here to see me, really? I’m so happy that you would visit me while I am working, working is fun of course, everything is fun, but it is even more fun when I have a friend too keep my company. The Cakes always say that I have to keep quiet, what’s up with that?”
Rainbow Dash just rolled her eyes. “Well I actually don’t know what I’m doing here, I was just out flying when the aroma from the shop dragged me down here. I guess I can say for a while, it is not like I have something else to do. “
The pink mare began bursting with joy, jumping up and down like she normally does. She grabbed Rainbow and pushed her in to the kitchen.
The cakes was baking the rest of the goods for the day, it must be tiresome to have a bakery store Rainbow thought. Pinkie Pie took a bowl from one of the cabinets and began adding some ingredients. She took two eggs, one cup of sugar, one forth cup of butter and a half teaspoon of salt, she combined them all and it became a creamy butter mix. Then she got a smaller bowl and combined two cups of flour with two teaspoons of baking powder. Then she stirred the flour mix in to the butter mix and began mixing the two and adding a half cup milk in the process. Rainbow Dash just stood beside Pinkie, watching the pink pony baking from what she guessed was muffins. One teaspoon of vanilla was added as well as two cups fresh and delicious looking blueberries.
The batter was done, the pink mare began making faces, like she was thinking really hard. ‘Hmmm... .’ She looked over at Rainbow Dash and gasped. Then she pushed the cyan mare over to the oven, then pointing at the pan that had holes in it, the holes were perfectly fit for a nice little treat called muffins. Rainbow took the muffin pan with her mouth and placed it next to the batter Pinkie just made. While waiting for something to happen, the pink pony just stood there smiling.
Rainbow let out a “What?”.
“Pour the batter in to the muffin pan silly, you’re here to help me, aren’t you?” Pinkie pushed the bowl with batter in it towards Rainbow.
“Come on, do it! I don’t ever think I have seen you do anything related to baking before Dashie!” An unsure smile crept up onto the cyan pony’s mouth, Pinkie was right she had not baked with any of her friends before.
“Well you see I’m not really the kind of pony to do this kind of stuff. It will just be a mess, trust me. Just do it yourself.” Responded Rainbow, while fixing her mane with her hoof.
The pink pony frowned, she wanted to see Rainbow Dashes baking skills, however maybe it was for the best, the cakes would be mad if they made a mess, if Rainbow really is a messy mess pony baker, it would not end well.
“Okay then, but one day I’ll get you to make something with me, hmm?” Pinkie stretched out her hoof to Rainbow, the other mare accepted and hoof bumped the pink one.
“Yeah sure whatever” mumbled Rainbow.
After some fun catting and watching Pinkie Pie bake, the muffins where ready, the big blueberry muffins looked delicious. Rainbow noticed a sound coming from her stomach, seemed like she was hungry again. She looked over to the clock, it was three hours since she ate last. Well why not grab a snack then?
“Pinkie, could I get one of those muffins?” The pink mare nodded, handing over a muffin to Rainbow. The muffin tasted as good as it smelled, and the blueberries just made the flavor even better. “Mmm, Pinkie you just make the best treats.” Was the words she could spit out while she ate, it nearly impossible to hear what she said because of all the food in her mouth. But Pinkie hugged and thanked Rainbow Dash, making it clear that she understood what Rainbow said.
“So why don’t we go and get all of our friends and then we can sit here and talk like crazy?” Pinkie jumped while she said that and stood just on her back hooves and then placing her fore hooves on to Rainbow’s shoulders.
“Yeah, that would-” Rainbow was cut off when the pink mare began talking again.
“That would be fun, there hasn’t been so many of those since Twilight became a super duper princess. Of course I’m happy for her, but she has been so much busier than before, it isn’t easy getting all of us together. And I know that all our other friends aren’t doing anything special and now you’re free.” Pinkie’s hooves where now on Rainbow’s face. It was formed a duck face because of the hooves squishing her cheeks. Rainbow then escaped from the pink pony’s grip and began patting on her back.
“Like I said, it sounds like a great idea. Come on Pinkie let’s go get our friends.” With a confident smile Rainbow grabbed Pinkie and rushed down town to pick up their friends.
After half an hour the group was reunited. Everypony was there, Twilight Sparkle and Spike, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, and the ones who gathered them, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie pie. All six were sitting around a table inside Sugar Cube Corner. Pinkie was giving out muffins for her friends, everyone gladly accepted, except Rarity, she meant that too much sugary treats was bad for her fur or something.
The get together was going great so far, Twilight talked about how she had gotten better at flying and Rainbow Dash replied with that is was all because of her. The other ponies just agreed and laughed. The paparazzi that stalked Twilight had died down a bit too, but it was still there. As much as Rainbow loved being taken pictures of, they were only after Twilight so she threw a muffin at them. Fluttershy meant that she should apologize, but Rainbow did not care. They knew what they were getting in to, stalking ponies and such.
Rarity had been working on this new dress that she could not wait to show them, and she stated that she was inspired by Rainbow Dash herself. That made Rainbow happy, she had no problem with dresses and fashion, though she rarely admitted that. Rainbow just did just not care most of the time, but she hoped that the dress Rarity made wasn’t too preppy, especially if she would be the one to wear that dress.
Applejack hadn’t done something new, just been working on the farm. She said though that Fluttershy had been there a couple of times helping with animals, more than usual. That sentence made the butterscotch mare hide her face under the table. Rainbow knew the shy pony well, there was something going on. While Rainbow was in her own world thinking of reasons her best friend would do that, a sound became louder and louder.
“Dashie, Dashie” a pink mare waved her hoof up and down in front of Rainbow’s face. “Raaaaainbow Daaash!” was the words that broke in to her mind.
“Huh? Oh, sorry guys, I didn’t catch what you said.” Rainbow smiled awkwardly trying not to seem like she was not listening, but the looks on their faces told that they knew exactly what was going on.
“I just asked what you have been doing lately, soooooo, what’s up?” Pinkie then waited eagerly at her answer.
“Well I have been sleeping, practicing, working, and all the other usual stuff I do.” The pink pony jumped up in shock.
“What!? Haven’t you done anything super special awesome lately? Like nothing at all?” Pinkie pouted and looked in to Rainbow’s eyes. She clearly wanted to hear what Rainbow Dash had been doing the past few days.
“Okay, I also went on trip with Pinkie here four days ago I think we were looking for some kind of stone. If I remember correct it was a stone type called Pinky, and Pinkie wanted that kind of stone since it shared name with her, though Pinkie is just a nickname for Pinkamena, so I don’t understand why she really wanted that stone...” Pinkie bounced up.
“Hey! It’s not my fault my other siblings are called after rocks and I’m not. I want to be a rock too!” The pink party pony was now pouting and had the biggest saddest eyes she could make.
Everypony just gave the pink pony weird looks and shrugged it off, she was Pinkie Pie after all.
“Oookay, anyway, we found the stone apparently, and Pinkie took pictures with it. She wanted to take it with her but I refused since it was too big and then she gave it a whole ~~fucking~~ cake by smashing it at the rock, that was our only food by the way, and we had to go all the way home on empty stomachs. I could have flown us home, but it isn’t easy flying while starving with a pony who is just as big as me.” Rainbow Dash now felt annoyed at her pink friend, frowning at the clueless pony.
Pinkie Pie just smiled and looked in to space. Then she came back to reality, putting he hoof over Rainbow Dashes neck. “But it was fun right?”
Rainbow thought before answering, knowing Pinkie would feel down if she said she didn’t enjoy it, in fact she did enjoy it. A little bit.
“Yeah, it was, I guess”
Pinkie accepted Rainbow Dashes answer and continued asking her friends’ questions.
Then Twilight spoke up.
“So Rainbow Dash, have you had any contact with the Wonderbolts since the Equestria games tryouts two weeks ago?” With her question Twilight smirked while looking at Rainbow.
Rainbow began thinking about it, over the past years with her friends she has really been seeing the Wonderbolts a lot more, even getting in to the academy and being recognized as an awesome flyer and competitor to them. So it was more of a normal thing for her to meet and talk with them, two years ago she would be fangirling so hard if they just glanced over at her.
“Yeah, I was at the academy some days ago, Spitfire wanted me to study the other Wonderbolts training. I may be out of the academy, but it seems like I’m still in training. He he, it is so clear that I’m a future Wonderbolt. “Rainbow had a proud smile and began to settle in to a more comfortable position.
Then Rarity gasped, like if she got an idea, and began smiling to herself. “Oh? Were there any good looking stallions?”
Rainbow popped up, just realizing what Rarity had suggested.
“Rarity what are you-“then she was cut off again.
“Or mares?” Rarity winked at Rainbow, giggling sounds also came from that mare.
“Seriously, I’m not after any Wonderbolts, sure they are good looking and athletic, I am too, but I’m not a fan of them because of that.” Rainbow paused, and tried to defense her orientation. “And I’m not a fillyfooler, just because I have a rainbow colored mane and am a tomboy doesn’t mean that I like mares. Stop putting me in to stereotypes, it isn’t funny.”
The other mares had some weird faces on now, like they were trying to hold something back. Pinkie was the first to burst out to laughter, and falling of the chair.
“Ahaha, sorry Rainbow Dash, it was a joke. You don’t have to take it so seriously, but if you want to defend yourself please do.” The honest southern voice claimed Rainbow down.
But she couldn’t help it, it annoyed her that some ponies assumed that she liked mares.
“But, if ah remember correct, there was a time were you were a tad bit too friendly with that mar-“Rainbow’s hooves covered Applejacks mouth now, giving a message that she did not want that to be said. She felt something wet running down her back and forehead, and she was a bit hot now.
“That was one time, and never again, I just wanted to try it out, okay?” The other five ponies nodded to Rainbow. Twilight looked up at the clock and suggested that maybe they should go home for the night, she had to wake up early tomorrow so at least she had to go now. The five other ponies agreed, they all said their goodbyes and went home.
Rainbow flew out of Ponyville and back to her cloud home, or cloud mansion like Pinkie liked to call it. She unlocked the door and threw her keys at the little table beside the door. Rainbows let out a big yawn, instead of going to the bathroom to brush her teeth she went straight for her bedroom. She threw herself into her bed and when she hit the bed, it made a ‘poof’ sound.
While snuggling her face into her pillow something sneaked its way into her mind. ‘Oh? Were there any good looking stallions?’ She sighted and continued to lay with her face down. ‘He sure has a nice plot…’ She remembered when she observed the Wonderbolts while they trained, they were flying, doing wingups, falling on to their plots… What was she remembering? A stallion accidently fell on his flank during training while she watched, it was nothing special, not something really embarrassing, but Rainbow Dash could not hold herself back from grinning. He apparently got a huge bruise after that. The other Wonderbolt teased him then, it was mostly Fleetfoot though.
‘You’re the best Rainbow Dash’ Rainbows eyes popped up, she felt her blood rush, and a sound going ‘lub-dub, lub-dub’ very fast. And she hadn’t done anything to make her pulse go so high. What is going on with her heart? It is not like she hadn’t felt like this before, but why now? Rainbow Dash sat up and removed sweat from her forehead. “Why am I thinking about pie?”
Author's Note
So here is the first chapter, what do you think? Honestly I have never written that much on one story before, the small submissions that I write at school is only like two pages, that is about 1000 words.
I'll just say that english is not my mother tongue, but I know enough to write stories and understand it. And that is why there are some simple words here and there, well, atleast by writing this is a good way to expand my vocabulary. :P
A little filly stood under a huge house, it wasn’t a normal house, It was a cloud mansion. She looked up at the amazing sight, buzzing her wings. Grinning like an idiot, with two pieces of some sort of paper in her mouth. Up and down, up and down, her hair following the rhythm, the legs bent to store power and then straighten and launched her up in to the air. Her wings flapped at amazing speed like a hummingbird, tying to lift the pony, but after some seconds the wings began to move slower and then she was back on the ground again. The pieces of paper were placed on to her off, and the filly began to inhale.
“Raaaaainbow Daaash! Are you home?” The filly waited patiently for an answer.
The words that were cried out reached Rainbow Dashes mind. She recognized that voice, the voice that filled her heart with joy. “Yeah, I’m here. What is it Scootaloo?” Rainbow got up from her couch and flew over to the door, wondering what her honorary little sister wanted.
“Just come down here, I have something amazing to show you!” Scootaloo began to jump up and down again, trying to imagine what Rainbow Dashes reaction would be. Would she freak out? No, probably not.. Maybe she would attack her hugs?
Rainbow opened the front door, and saw an orange filly standing right under her house beside her mailbox. A smile formed on the cyan pegasuses mouth, what made Scootaloo so exited? Well she was about to find out now. Rainbow Dash closed the door and flew down to the little pegasus, landing right beside her. “So what got you so excited, huh?”
“You won’t believe it Rainbow Dash! Remember when I participated in that competition there you could win a day with the Wonderbolts?” Scootaloo made a ‘squee’ smile and her wings started to get excited, flapping so hard that they could almost lift her.
Rainbow Dash froze, her mouth opened board and a gasp was let out. Then her lips bent up towards her eyes, forming a smile. “You won didn’t you?” Rainbow was now grinning felling confident that she was right.
“Yes! How did you know?” Scootaloo tilted her head to the right, moving her hoof to her chin and tried to figure out how her sister found out. Was Rainbow Dash psychic?
A hoof was placed on Rainbow’s mouth, stopping whatever that was going on at her mouth. Her eyes was almost pinched together, then her head shaked to the left and right. Small sounds that would be recognized as laughing came from the cyan pegasus. “Well kid, maybe you should ask your body language.”
Scootaloo just stood there staring blank at the bigger pony, the words did not get properly though to her brain, at least what Rainbow meant by that. “You know, if you hadn’t won you would not be this exited, I would have expected a sadder face then the one you’re using now.”
Scootaloo’s eyes widened and her smile vanished slowly from her face.. “Oh… Right..” A red color sneaked its way on to the filly’s face. She had embarrassed herself in front of her idol, now what would Rainbow Dash think of her? Some slow chicken?
The redness on the filly’s face caught Rainbow’s attention, the little pegasus was now staring at the ground, not willing to face Rainbow. Rainbow didn’t quite understand why Scootaloo suddenly turned away from her, but something was telling her that the filly felt uncomfortable. “Um, Scootaloo?”
Scootaloo waited some seconds and then lifted her head up to its normal height. The eyes were still looking another direction than Rainbow Dash. She could feel the breeze from the wind touching her body, the grass made sounds, that’s how quiet it was. One could hear a swallowing sound, its home was most likely Scootaloo. “Sorry…” Was the only words that came from the filly, and those words were so soft that almost nopony could hear.
And eyebrow was raised on Rainbow’s face, her mouth was also open now. The kid said that she was sorry, sorry for what? Rainbow Dash then bent down to the height of the filly. A smile was crocked upon her mouth. Maybe that would make Scootaloo feel better? Scootaloo was now facing Rainbow, but still refusing to look into her eyes. Rainbow Dash lifted her hoof and placed it under the filly’s chin, the filly’s head lifted. Even so, the purple eyes were nowhere to be seen. Eyelids covered them now. Rainbow felt that her hoof was given some competition, Scootaloo’s head tried to turn away, but to no use. Rainbow Dash immediately put some strength in to the hoof who held back her head. “Scootaloo, why are you turning away?” Rainbow said that in hope the filly would answer, but that would not be the case.
The filly was gone in just a second, Rainbow apparently had lowered her guard when she asked the question. But Rainbow was not the mare to give up that easily, if there was one thing Scootaloo could not do that Rainbow could, it was flying. The cyan pegasus then took off in amazing speed, the filly ran forwards but came nearer and nearer Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo could now feel something touching her, on both sides of her body. Her hoofs moved as fast as they could, but now instead of running on the ground, she was running in the air. It was like a dream come true, though it wasn’t her who actually flew.
Rainbow Dash tried to gently placed Scootaloo on a cloud, making sure the filly could not run away anymore, but from the sound of it the landing wasn’t as good as Rainbow meant it to be. She could not help it, the kid ran away from her, refusing to answer her, it got on her nerves. Some anger was boiling up, she should feel concerned, but the feeling of frustration was blocking the other felling’s right now. With a deep breath Rainbow faced the filly, nose to nose. “Seriously Scootaloo, why the hay are you running away? Can’t you just spit it out, I mean, come ’on, running away from me?” The tone in Rainbow’s voice was not gentle, it was angry and it did not make anything better for the filly.
Scootaloo’s ears went straight to the back of her head, her body shaked and eyes just watered up. She never thought this would happen, she made Rainbow Dash angry. And it was all just because of her stupid concerns. Her idol hated her for sure now. The water in her eyes began flowing over, running down her cheeks.
Something wet hit Rainbow’s hoof, it felt warm as more and more landed there. The source of the liquid was the filly. Rainbow Dash had now realized what she had done, her anger got the best of her. With a deep breath the cyan mare tried to cam herself down, what could she do to make Scootaloo to say what was wrong? Why did this feel so much the night the filly confessed her true feelings for her, the camping trip at Winsome Falls? Why was Scootaloo always like this in front of her? She had never seen the filly like that with her friends.
“Listen Scootaloo, maybe it wasn’t that clear when I said that I would take you under my wing. But what I meant by that is that I will be like a sister to you, not your idol or trainer, but sister.” The orange filly had now raised her head, but her eye was still not looking into Rainbow’s. “I may not be the most suitable pony to do so, however I know that I want to be the one called your sister. You see, I have grown to love you as a parent would love his or her daughter.. Uh, that sounded a little cheesy.“ Rainbow Dash let out a sight. “Anyway, what I mean to say is that you should not be afraid to come to me. I am no longer to pony you just idolize, no, we are way past that stage.”
Scootaloo felt something touching her back, reeling her in towards the cyan mare. And now her chest was feeling Rainbow Dashes chest, as well as her hooves. The thing on her back was hugging tight on to her, pressing the two bodies against each other.
“I am your big sister now and nothing can change that.” Rainbow Dash closed her eyes, hugging her little sister tightly. She had never had any siblings, but now she has one. And it felt great.
“So..” Rainbows ears popped up, did Scootaloo just say something? “You’re not embarrassed by me?” Rainbow Dash eyebrow fell down upon her right eye and her head went a bit backwards, making a confused face. She was just staring at the orange filly now.
“Why would I be?” Were the words that slipped out the cyan mare’s mouth.
“Be-Because I cry all the time, I can’t even fly, I’m just weak..” New tears fell down the orange cheek, Scootaloo’s, and her body began to shake.
Rainbow Dash just stared bank at her, as the teardrops real down the fur and hit the cloud that they were sitting on. She felt just awful, almost as she wanted to cry herself.
“But Scootaloo, crying isn’t a weakness. It is only ponynature to do so when you are sad. And I would never be embarrassed because of you, crybaby or not. And um, not that you are a crybaby…” Scootaloo’s lips bent upwards, and quickly wrapped her hoofs around Rainbow’s stomach. There was something tickling back and forth. She looked down and the filly’s head were moving from the left to the right. Then the head bend upwards, and the purple eyes that were sore from the sobbing looked up at Rainbow Dash.
“Thanks..” Said the filly, as she smiled at the mare, and then closing her eyes and leaning her head against the cyan body.
“No problem kid.” Rainbow rubbed her hoofs on Scootaloo’s back, and leaning in to snuggle her. Hopefully the kid does not have anything more to hide anymore from her, and they get to be the sisters they want to be. “Hey, would you like stay at my place when your parents are away? I know you sleep at the Apple farm when they are gone, but I would like you to be with me…”
Scootaloo gazed in amazement up at the mare. “Really?”
“Of course! So are you in or not?” Rainbow grinned, this was of course an offer the filly could not say no to.
“Yes!” Scootaloo shouted and jumped up with excitement.
“So were you only here to say that you won or?” Rainbow Dash asked while they walked down the road to Ponyville, the little town were bathing in the sun that were going to go down soon. It was only a few meters until they were officially inside it.
“No, I wanted to ask if you could go with me, since you know, I need a guardian.” Scootaloo answered and made a little smile.
“Oh yeah, your parents can’t take you up there. Sure, I can go.” Rainbow lifted her hoof and patted the filly on the head.
Scootaloo’s eyes moved up and on to Rainbow Dashes head, her mouth opened up a little. “I thought you would be more excited to see them.”
“Well I’m practically a part of them now, well I should be, so it is not like I’m a fan whom sees them for the first time. But I am excited, I haven’t meet all of them in person yet.” Rainbow flipped her hair and her gaze returned to the filly.
“Great! I can’t wait to meet them!” Scootaloo bent her legs and jumped in to the air, bursting with energy. The little hooves reached put as she started to gallop towards the town. “Let’s race! The loser is a rotten banana!” Rainbow could hear the laugher from the filly as she ran.
“Yeah me too Scoots, I can’t wait either.” Rainbow mumbled to herself. She placed her hoof on her chin and felt a heath coming from her face. “What is it with me? Stupid Wonderbolts..”
Scootaloo was only a few feet away from the town, how could it be? Rainbow Dash wasn’t here yet… She tried to look back from where she came from and ‘whoosh’, something passed her. It sopped and landed at the town welcome sign.
“You cheated!” Yelled the filly. Frowning as she ran up to the sign, when she arrived at her destination she let out a deep breath. “Cheater!”
“Nope, I’m just too awesome for you to beat” Rainbow said and winked. Something pressed down on Scootaloo’s head, pushing her down.
“RAINBOW DAAASH!” The filly moved her body up and down, left and right, but no use. Her sister was just too strong. “Move your hoof!”
The cyan mare shaked her head, and covered her left eye with her eyelid. “Now, what fun would that be?” The mare took her other hoof and began messing around with the filly’s mane.
Scootaloo formed a pout and tried to wiggle out again, she tried to use her front hooves to get Rainbow away, her hooves were grabbing for one of the bigger pony’s bodyparts, but she could not reach anything. Scootaloo made an ‘Arrrrgh!’ sound, Rainbow just grinned and could not hold in any longer.
‘Bwahahahaah!’ Rainbow Dash threw her arms away from the filly and the mare feel to the ground with a thud. The filly just stared at her, the mare's tongue slid out of its home and was sticking up at Scootaloo. A frown was on the little pony’s face now, her eyes went in a circle from looking at Rainbow to the opposite direction, upwards and down to her sister again. “Very funny..”
Author's Note
Sorry for the wait, I'm really lazy so I take a long time to actually get to the part were I start writing, but when I do I can write so much. This just is a small filler chapter though, I can't rush the story you know. It is easier and faster to write something I have already planned out, ahaha.
(Is it me or does it seem short? I can't find things to make the Scootaloo cry scene longer, was it kinda sad, or did I not succeed? First time writing something that is supposed to be sad. XD )
Anyway I'll have a picture of one of the scenes in the story on some chapters, like I had at the end here. Do you like it?
A day with The Wonderbolts
Scootaloo was as excited as ever, creepily grinning to herself. Her eyes moved up, down, left and right, scanning the area. The eyes widened when they noticed a bluish blur in the distance, the blur was fifty meters nearer each time the eyelids covered the purple pupils of hers. In less than a second the moving objet had stopped right in front of her, making sand fly up and land everywhere.
“Are you ready or are you ready?” Said the cyan mare with a brash and exited tone as she lifted her hoof to shove away parts of her rainbow mane that had fallen over her eyes when she landed, then looked down at the filly.
“Yes! I can’t wait to spend the day with the Wonderbolts, I never seen them in person before.” Scootaloo bent her knees and launched in the air, flapping her wings to make herself hover. “It is going to be awesome!”
“Don’t you know it?” Rainbow began wiggling her hoof in the filly’s ruff purple mane, making it even more tangled than before. “I’ll just go talk to your parents first, you know, about your safety and all that stuff” Rainbow Dash trotted towards the house behind Scootaloo.
Scootaloo’s house had the same feel to it as all the other houses in Ponyville, but it was quite bigger. Instead of a cottage like house, it looked more like a normal house. It had the same grass ceiling as everypony else had, but the rest were different for your normal house, maybe because it wasn’t just one of those standard houses? It had a veil of grass spun around it, it looked quite fancy, also there were white pillars holding a part of the second floor up. Those where not so common in a town like hers, it belonged more in a place like Cloudsdale. The home had a pretty big back yard too.
Rainbow Dash opened the door and looked around the room. She slowly walked through the hallway to see two middle aged ponies sitting by a dinner table. There was a white earth pony that had a blight blue curly mane and cerulean eyes, her mouth bore soft a smile when Rainbow Dash entered the room. Sitting beside her was a stallion, his coat was a light blue-grayish color and he had pretty golden eyes, and a spiked, almost black mane.
“Hello Rainbow Dash, you wanted to talk?” Asked the mare with her soft and light voice, she got up from her chair and walked up to Rainbow.
Rainbow just bent her head downwards in a nod. “As you know, Scootaloo and I are going to spend the day at the Wonderbolts today. And I was wondering, is there anything you want me to be aware of? I just want to be sure that it will be safe for her to go up to the headquarters and stuff."
The white mare inhaled some air and blew it out quite harshly. Her eyes had formed a serious, yet sad look. “Well we recently got the results from some tests Scootaloo took a while ago, and well, it doesn’t look so good.”
“W-what do you mean?” Rainbow Dash tripped some steps backwards, grabbed some air and blunted out. “Is there something seriously wrong with her? Or” Something interrupted the words from coming out of Rainbow’s mouth, it was warm and gentle, she looked down and saw a white hoof.
“No, no.” The mare shaked her head, and moved her hoof slowly away from Rainbow’s mouth. “We now know why she can’t fly.”
“Oh, why can’t she fly then?”
“She has wing dwarfism, that means her wings won’t grow as big as they would on any other pegasus pony.” The mare sighted again. “Scootaloo might never be able fly.”
Rainbow Dash’s irises widened, and let out a gasp in surprise. Of course this wasn’t really something surprising, the filly had never been able to fly before. But it was a shocking fact, a pegasus who cannot fly? It’s just not fair!
“You may have noticed that she have been acting a little strange lately, this is probably why.” The earth pony sank her head, and began staring at the ground, poking a little around with her front right hoof.
“Yeah, I noticed.” Rainbow made her lips curve upwards, her eyes softened a bit. “And don’t feel so upset about it, it’s not your fault. You guys adopted the most awesome filly in spite of her disability, and I’m really grateful for that. Honestly, I began believing that nopony wanted her, most ponies would rather adopt an earth pony instead a pegasus who can’t fly. I’m just glad she got the parents that she always has wanted.”
The mare had the sweetest of smiles upon her face right now, her eyes was being filled up with tears. She lifted her hoof and reached out for Rainbow, when she got a good grip, she reeled Rainbow in towards her. Rainbow Dash gladly accepted the hug. “Thank you. And I want you to know, we were a little skeptical when Scootaloo mentioned that you where her idol and that she looked up to you that much. And then suddenly you became her sister.”
“Yeah, ponies do give me the stink eye sometimes…” Rainbow let out a nervous laugh.
“But now we know that you are the best pony Scootaloo could ever have as a sister. You are the closest thing she has to her own race, you can give her something we could never give her, that is the feeling of being with her own kind.” Rainbow felt like her body was being squished, Scootaloo’s mother was holding her very tight.
Rainbow Dash thought for a little while, she was right about one thing. “You’re right I guess, but that doesn’t matter. You’re her family now, I don’t think she needs pegasus ponies to feel like she is home, we’re all ponies after all.”
The older mare broke off the hug and gave Rainbow another little smile. “Maybe we should adopt you too.” Her eyes pressed together and she giggled a little.
“Sure, good luck stealing me from my father though.” Dash rolled her eyes and patted Scootaloo’s mother on the back. “But seriously, thanks for letting me know. See you later, Winter Withers.”
“No problem whatsoever, goodbye Rainbow Dash!” Winter Withers waved her right hoof in the air, as the cyan mare disappeared in the hallway. She around turned towards her husband and gave him an annoyed look. “Now, why didn’t you participate in our conversation? I know you had something to say.”
He got up from his chair and leaned towards her smirking. “Your little talk would never end. Mares and their mouths they never shut, especially when there is more than one of them.”
“What is that supposed to mean?” She glared at him, trying to look mad.
“I’ll let you figure that out for yourself.” He grinned yet again and left the room.
“What? You know I hate not knowing things!” Winter Withers shouted, her normally soft voice was now high pitched and mad, her words made a little echo in the hallway.
“I know~” a deep male voice sang back at her.
Her teeth moved back and forth, she placed her hoof on her cheeks and dragged her cheeks down so the red inside her eye curve showed. “Felix! I hate you!”
“I love you too~” Laughter filled the house, it could surely be heard from the outside.
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Rainbow Dash trotted up to the orange filly, and looked down and met a frowning face. “You took forever!” Scootaloo threw her fore hoofs up and her body fell backwards and she landed on her back.
“Eh, sorry, we had something to discuss.” Rainbow dash scratched her back head, and tossed her mane.
“Discuss what?” The filly looked up at Rainbow with a curious look.
“Nothing special, about our little trip and stuff…”
“Okay.”
Weird, Scootaloo didn’t seem to be that interested in what we talked about, maybe she already guessed it? A sound than caught their attention, it sounded like somepony was arguing and then a male voice burst out laughter “hahahaha”, it sounded like it came from Scootaloo’s house.
“Are they flirting?” Rainbow Dash raised an elbow and formed a little smirk.
Scootaloo had the most ‘Yeah, that’s totally it’ look on her face and nodded. “They never stop.”
Rainbow Dash let out a little chuckle and rolled her eyes. “I can imagine what it is like living there, hehe.” Rainbows eyes began wander around, and she placed her hoof on her chin. “Hmm, is there anything you need to do before we go, squirt?”
The filly thought for a moment and then shaked her head. Rainbow kneeled down so Scootaloo could get onto her back. Scootaloo placed her fore hoofs on the cyan mare’s withers, then tried to lift herself up with her front hooves while her right back hoof was lifted up onto Rainbow’s croup, then she dragged herself up with the three hooves and successfully managed to get her whole body up on the mare’s back. Scootaloo then sat down gently and placed her back hooves right in front of the wing joints so that her pegasus transport did not have any trouble moving her wings when they flew.
“Are you sitting comfortably?” Asked Rainbow, the cyan blue wings stretched out and was getting ready to take off.
The filly wiggled her body, Rainbow Dash felt some soft movement in her withers, small gentle touches was going up and down, and then they were placed on a comfortable place. “I’m ready! Let’s go!” The little pegasus said with a high volume that made Rainbow cringe, the filly were so near her ears, ouch.
The mare shaked her body a little making Scootaloo grab her neck to not fall down. Rainbow bent her fore hooves and was ready to launch to the sky. “Hold on tight.” Was the only word she said before they dashed upwards and soared trough the sky. Scootaloo’s mane twisted and turned as the cold breeze met her body, Rainbow’s mane where also almost covering the filly’s sight. It was ticklish and a little annoying, even so, Scootaloo had always dreamed of cuddling her face in that spectacular rainbow mane. The filly leaned down and placed her head on the mare’s neck, snuggling the green, blue and purple hair. So soft and so nice, slowly the eyes on the orange head where nowhere to be seen. Slow relaxed breaths hit the cyan fur, Rainbow felt the warm small breaths and her muzzle formed a soft smile.
The flight to the Wonderbolts academy took some time, not only because it was some miles from Ponyville, Rainbow Dash also had some extra weight. Of course, flying with a passenger took longer time, however it wasn’t because it was heavy. She would just not dare to fly fast with a little filly on her back. If Scootaloo fell, it would be devastating.
Finally it came in to sight, the academy looked just like Rainbow remembered it. It had only been a few months since she was a cadet there after all. Ponies in the cadet uniforms where flying around in circles, probably some kind of exercises Spitfire put them up to.
As she came closer to the so called “road” on top of the hill, Rainbow slowed down, flapping her wings gently before landing on the black ground. Some cadets noticed Rainbow Dash and walked up to her.
“Aren’t you Rainbow Dash? The pony that did the legendary sonic rainboom, and who also was a former cadet here?” Said a spunky female pegasus, she had a white coat and a blue and purple mane, her eyes where a cool shade of dark purple.
“Yep, that’s me!” Rainbow grinned as more ponies walked up to her. It felt awesome being recognized by other ponies.
“Can I get your autograph?” The white mare asked and made a big grin.
Rainbow rolled her eyes, and signed the white paper the mare took out from behind her body, with a pencil that also came out of nowhere. It was weird how ponies just could store items everywhere without having saddle bags with them.
“Thanks” The mare grabbed the pencil and paper and returned to her training.
“Hey! Who said you could take a break? Back to your training! Everypony who took a break must fly an extra one hundred laps.” The voice hissed and shouted at the cadets, everypony responded at the same time. “Yes Ma’am!”
Rainbow Dash turned to see none other than Captain Spitfire herself. In an instant Rainbow raised her hoof and quickly placed it on her forehead.
“Rainbow Dash, you’re not a cadet anymore, whatever are you doing here? And why are you disturbing the trainees?” The yellow coated mare tilted her head to the side, her orange eyes dashed every way possible while glancing the cyan pony before her.
“It’s not my fault that I am so awesome that ponies can’t resist stopping with whatever they are doing and stare. Oh, wait, it is my fault, hehe. Rainbow giggled and waited for a response from the Captain. Spitfire just gave back an unamused expression. “Anyway, my little mentee here won that competition of yours, I’m just basically her transport back and forth.”
“Oh? Since when did Rainbow Dash teach kids? I though you weren’t kid friendly.” Spitfire said.
“Well” Rainbow took a few steps closer to Spitfire and her muzzle formed a little smile “this little one is an exception.”
The orange pony raised an eyebrow as her mouth formed an o shape. “Hmm, what do you know, you really have changed since I first met you Dash.”
Rainbow just stared at Spitfire and her cyan coat covering her cheeks became a light pink. “Sheesh, that’s good I guess?” Then something hit her mind. “Oh, I should probably wake Scootaloo up, she can’t miss her day with you guys.” Rainbow turned her head 90 degrees and tried to wake the filly up. After some failed attempts the little pony finally began to open her eyes.
“Where am I…?” The sleepy filly’s words where soft and quiet, Scootaloo’s eyes poppet up when her brain had worked out where they were. The filly’s purple eyes widened at the sight of the academy. “Oh wow! So this is how it looks like, nothing like I imagined it.”
“How did you imagine it little one?” Asked Spitfire in a rather sweet voice, she really had a different tone in her voice depending on who she was talking to, some of her voices doesn’t really sound like her at all.
“Uh, I imagined only clouds like I have heard it is like in Cloudsdale.” Scootaloo placed a hoof on her chin, she lifted her shoulders and then made them fall down again. “Wait, aren’t you the Captain of the Wonderbolts?”
“Yes I am, come on kid, I shall show you around the academy.” Spitfire began walking towards the entrance to the mess hall.
Rainbow Dash kneeled down, instead of slowly getting off as Scootaloo usually did, she jumped form Rainbow’s back and landed right behind Spitfire. Rainbow felt the little jump, as the little back hooves kicked against her loin, it did not hurt but she definitely felt the power in those hooves.
“Rainbow Dash I know you also want to come along, move your flank over here.” Spitfire’s words where hard to hear since she said it while walking in the opposite direction than her, but Rainbow understood what Spitfire said regardless.
Rainbow Dash trotted fast and caught up to the two ponies. She got to be on a tour around the Wonderbolts HQ! Even though she has been there before, she hadn’t met all the members yet or explored the place that much. What a great opportunity, she realty needed to thank Scootaloo when they get home.
Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash squeed every time there was some cool Wonerbolt artefacts. And on some parts of the tour there were some history, unlike Rainbow, Scootaloo did actually enjoy listening to Spitfire and seemed to enjoy the Wonderbolts History. After an hour or so, they came to their last stop, the main room in the building. It was there most of the members where now, since this wasn’t a normal day, they didn’t train like they normally did. That training was scheduled for later so the little winner could see how the real athletes worked out.
Spitfire opened the door and inside the room where lots of ponies. Rainbow Dash spotted in an instant the Wonderbolts she knew personally. The first one she saw was a stallion with a light blue coat and a dark blue mane, not to mention his beautiful green eyes, her eyes locked upon his face. The light blue stallion’s head turned towards her as he noticed that somepony had entered the room. His eyes met Rainbow’s, Rainbow immediately threw her head in another direction while feeling the temperature in the room increase. What are you doing Rainbow Dash? You can do this, just talk to him like you would to any other pony. Urgh, why must I feel this way...
Rainbow turned her head towards the crowd again, she spotted a blue-green mare with white hair that was certainly Fleetfoot. She is the fastest Wonderbolt there is, and there where a white mare talking to her, that mare had a yellow blown back mane and purple eyes. Rainbow was sure she had seen that Wonderbolt before. She could not put a hoof on it though. There were a light yellow mare with two shades of light blue her mane, she was most likely Misty Fly, and she was talking to Wave Chill, who looked like Soarin, only with a darker coat and different eye color. She wasn’t sure, but those two stallions might be in family. Other Wonderbolts Rainbow Dash recognized where Rapidfire, Blaze, Fire Streak, Lightning Streak, Silver Lining and High Winds.
After what felt like several minutes to Dash, that really just where some seconds, some Wonderbolts began walking up the three ponies that just entered the room, but in an instant, some of the ponies kind of just stopped moving for an unknown reason.
“Surprise!!!” A white mare jumped up in front of all three of them. “Poof” was the sound that appeared when the former blown back hair popped up as curls replaced the straightened hair strands on that white head of hers. Streamers went flying everywhere.
“Gah!” Rainbow backed some feet, and had horrifying look on her face. Spitfire just stood there with a brief smile, like she was expecting this to happen. Scootaloo had fallen on her rump, and she was just as speechless as Rainbow Dash.
“You’re Rainbow Dash right? I have heard sooooo many things about you! I’m Surprise, have you heard many things about me? Huh, huh, huh?” Surprise’s voice was high pitched and bubbly, but a little deeper than another pony that came to mind. Surprise stared Rainbow right in her eyes, she felt like her personal space was being shattered. Rainbow should be used to situations like this though.
“Uh, yeah, I know who you are…” Said Rainbow Dash in an unsure tone, not knowing what to what to say, if she knew the Wonderbolts had a Pinkie Pie, she would have prepared for this.¨
The loud pegasus jumped up and down in happiness. “Yay! What do you know about me?”
“I, uh, erm… H-have you met Scootaloo yet? She’s a big fan of yours!” Rainbow exclaimed wile forcing a smile.
“What? I’m not-“ Scootaloo was stopped by a push in her back, the push pushed her into Surprise’s breast, the filly lifted her head and met two purple eyes.
“Oh, really? You are a fan of me? Wohoo! This is the best day ever!” The white pegasus grabbed Scootaloo and presses the filly into her soft fur. “Ohhh! A fan! I have always dreamed of this day. Well, I have many fans already, however they are mostly stallions. Like, what’s up with that?” Surprise placed her front hoof under Scootaloo’s elbows and lifter the little pegasus up into the air. “Anyway, a real little filly fan! Weeee!” Soon the room they were in began to become blurry, Scootaloo saw Surprise, yet the room spun around, or rather they did.
Rainbow Dash you’re going to pay for this! The little pony’s head could not think anymore, everything where fuzzy, nothing made sense.
Rainbow Dash slowly moved herself towards Spitfire. “Phew, safe.” Rainbow removed the sweat in her forehead. She looked over at the two spinning ponies. Hang in there kid. Some other Wonderbolts had walked up to them, Rapidfire and Fire Streak was already talking to their captain.
“Hey, Rainbow Dash! Haven’t seen you since the Equestria Games tryouts.” That voice… Rainbow turned her head and her eyes met a familiar face. Two magenta eyes stared right into her own.
“Oh hey, Fleetfoot.” Rainbow said and smiled at Fleetfoot. Right now, it kind of felt good talking to somepony she knew, on the other hoof, why did it have to be Fleetfoot?
Fleetfoot grinned and placed her hoof around Rainbow Dash. “So, what do you think about the headquarters now that you have seen it all? The place is pretty sweet, huh?”
“Yeah, the place is great. It would be cool to actually live and work here one day.” Rainbow said while trying to get the other mare to take her hoof of her. “Hehe...” A nervous laugh left the cyan mare’s mouth. Two certain Wonderbolts do not know what personal space is it seems. Fleetfoot just held Rainbow tighter each time she tried to get away. Rainbow looked over at some of the other Wonderbolts, they were all quite busy talking to each other, out off all the ponies here, the two most annoying had to approach her. There she spotted him again, Soarin stood there talking to Wave Chill. Maybe there was a chance for her to go a talk to them instead.
“Oh, yeah. Just you wait Dash, that dream will come true in no time.” The Wonderbolt turned her head rapidly in the direction Rainbow Dash looked for a second, and then a sly little smile formed on her muzzle. Fleetfoot let go of Rainbow, she chuckled, and made a face like she had an evil plan going on. “Hey Soarin! Get your lazy ass over here!”
Rainbow Dash shook her head back to Fleetfoot in shock. She knows?! Rainbow’s eyes shirked, was she that easy to read?
Soarin walked towards them, the nearer he got the more anxious Rainbow got. Her breath became heavy as her heart was thumping like a horses hoofs on a dirt road, it was continuous. Damn, why!
“What do you want Fleetfoot?” Asked Soarin in an annoyed tone, he seemed to not like all the shit Fleetfoot did either.
“Do you remember Rainbow Dash here?” Fleetfoot placed her hoofs on Rainbow Dash’s back. Rainbow noticed she was moving. The other mare was pushing her towards the stallion. Her eyes looked up at the green eyes that now only where a feet away from her. Some sweat began running down from the cyan blue face, and Rainbow Dash’s mouth was being filled with saliva. The gulping sound Rainbow made could be heard to both Soarin and Fleetfoot.
Soarin stared right in to the magenta eyes of Rainbow, his muzzle curved upwards. “O-of course! She’s my life saver… Twice! And she’s also saved my pie from its doom, how can I forget?” He made a goofy grin, somehow, he stuttered a bit. The bigger pony looked down with kind eyes at the cyan mare whom where quite shorter than him. “How are you Rainbow Dash?”
Rainbow’s eyes jumped around the room trying not to get eyes contact with the stallion, she had to answer. “Uh, I’m good, yeah, great.” She forced the most unconvincing smile, still trying to avoid looking at any parts of his face.
“Well that’s good, I-“ Another voice had cut Soarin off, this was a female voice with a harsh and bossy tone.
“Okay everypony enough chit-chat! It’s time to show our guest how real athletes work out. We’ll start with endurance training and then do some strength workouts later, everypony go get your Wonderbolt suits.” Everypony left the room except Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo and Spitfire. Spitfire turned to Rainbow and stared at the mare of a bit. ”Rainbow Dash you can go and get your cadet uniform.” The yellow pegasus bent down to the little filly. “Do you want to go with Rainbow Dash or with me?”
Scootaloo thought for a bit, if she did go with Rainbow Dash she would see her hero put on her cadet uniform, and has the chance to tell her off about Surprise. On the other hoof, Spitfire is the captain of the Wonderbolts and it would be totally awesome to see her office or room.
What should she do? Well she sees Rainbow pretty often and this is once in a lifetime chance with the captain of the Wonderbolts.
Scootaloo looked back up at Spitfire. "I'll go with you."
The yellow mare gave a little smile and began walking towards the hallway. "Oh and Dash, you should be ready in then minutes so get those hooves moving!"
The orange filly sprinted to Spitfire and waved her hoof in the air, saying goodbye to her big sister. "Bye Rainbow Dash!" The filly grinned as she followed the Captain. This was so awesome, what cool things would be in the office of the highest rank in the Wonderbolts? Well she would see it soon.
Rainbow Dash rushed down the hallway to get to the nearest changing room. Since still is kind of a part of the cadets there, her Wonderbolt uniform still hang on a knuckle. She began putting the suit on, those where pretty challenging to put on actually, since they were so form fitting, it was especially hard when one where sweaty. A sound make Rainbow ears jump up.
"Rainbow Dash you're late! Put on your uniform and get here pronto!" That was Spitfire. Ack! It wasn't her fault these things took some time to put on, the Wonderbolts are used to it, and they knew a few techniques to do it faster. She rushed then uniform on and flew as fast as she without making a Rainboom of course, there it was the exit, it became lighter and lighter, and then she where finally out. Everypony were already there. Rainbow Dash looked around, her eyes wandering all over the other ponies. How embarrassing, she was never late when she was a fulltime cadet here.
Scootaloo trotted up to the cyan mare. "Haha, you are late!" The orange filly pressed out her tongue, mocking her idol. Normally she would not get on Rainbow's bad side, but this was such a golden opportunity.
Although annoyed, the mare brushed it off. She did not want a room full of ponies experience her short temper. It would also make her look bad in front of her future job.
"Attention! First, we have to warm up." Spitfire rapidly turned to Blaze, a Wonderbolt who had the same appearance as the captain, except the flaming hair, this pony only had the color orange. She stood up as starlight as she could when the harsh mare met her gaze, her chest was pushed forwards and her belly tightened. “Blaze is going to demonstrate how we are going to do this, so pay attention. You don’t get paid for slacking off!”
After the warm up session the muscles in all the ponies’ bodies were ready to do the real thing, flight. “Okay! We’re ready to take to the sky. We’ll do eight hundred laps around the academy. That should be uncomplicated for those so called wings you have!” In less than two seconds, every Wonderbolt had taken to the sky, except the captain.
Spitfire tuned to Scootaloo whose face was pale, it was almost like the filly had seen a ghost. “Uh, this should not be too hard for you right?”
The purple eyes on the filly stared at the ground for a second, and then moved up and met the yellow mare’s face. She opened her mouth, like she was about to say something, but then it closed. Scootaloo lowered her head a little bit, one could see sweat running down the filly’s forehead, and that sweat wasn’t from her being warm from the previous activity. “Um, well…” The purple eyes once again moved, this time from side to side. They were trying to find something, a way to escape perhaps? “I.. uh…”
Then something blocked the sun, a shadow was dragged upon the filly. It resembled a pony, and it had wings, and the spiky mane also flew in the breeze. “Spitfire, you see… Scootaloo-“
“Can’t fly?” The cyan mare opened her mouth a bit in surprise. So, Spitfire knew?
“Yeah… It was pretty obvious, wasn’t it?” Asked Rainbow Dash, still a little bit uneasy, but when she thought about it, it was not hard to get to that conclusion. As she said herself, it was pretty obvious.
“Yes.” The yellow mare turned her gaze towards the filly and met the concerned eyes of hers. “Scootaloo, don’t worry. You cannot fly, and that’s alright. If you want to you can sit here and watch.”
Scootaloo stared into Spitfire’s hazel eyes, did this pony honestly think this filly would sit and watch just because of her disability? The filly shocked her head. There was no way she would sit here and watch when she had the chance to fly with them, no, not this time. “No, I want to fly with you guys.”
“Heh.” The yellow pony cracked a smile, looked down at Scootaloo again. The determination in those eyes, this little pony knew what she wanted. “Rainbow Dash you’ll be her flying partner. I think it’s for the best.”
Rainbow Dash raised her hoof and saluted. “Yes, I think so too Ma’am!”
“Good, then stop wasting time and get your asses into the sky, now!” Both Scootaloo and Rainbow dash where ready, ready to fly and really feel the breeze crash into their faces.
“So you want to fly, right? Then I’ll carry you with my hooves like we did at Windsome Falls.” The filly stood before Rainbow. The mare placed her hooves on each side of Scootaloo’s barrels. The time had finally come, Scootaloo would now experience flight training, even though she had some assistance, it was still pretty awesome to get to do this. “Ready squirt?”
“I’m ready!” Shouted the filly as she spread her tiny wings. Rainbow did the same, and then the sound of the powerful flaps the pegasus made when flying could be heard, the orange hooves had left the ground.
Scootaloo’s smile widened as the ground became smaller and smaller. She really loved to see the world from above, it was beautiful. The hooves at her barrels had tightened their grip. For the first time ever, this filly would experience the full joy of flight. What is it like to fly really fast? She would now find out.
Scootaloo felt her blood rush, she heard every heartbeat. The strong rhythm became louder and louder as the filly prepared for the moment Dash would release her wingpower. Any time soon.
The wind that was colliding with their faces became stronger and harsher. Scootaloo’s face was screaming, it did not feel good, though at the same time it kind of did. The wind in her mane made it twist and turn backwards, the adrenalin in her body was running wild. She liked this, very, very much. The little wings one Scootaloo’s body flapped hard, it was tiring, however this was worth it. Not once before this had she felt this kind of pain in her wings, she where using them on something she had never done before after all. In spite of how much her little body wanted to stop flapping those wings, she did not stop. If she where to fly like this, she would damn right use her wings, not just go along with the ride.
Rainbow Dash slowed down after a while, it was the end of this workout. When the final lap was over, Rainbow flew down to the other ponies. She and Scootaloo where the last ones to finish, which was no surprise, after all, they did start several minutes after all the other ponies did.
“Congratulations!” A white mare jumped up in front of them.
Not her again… Rainbow Dash tried to sneak away, she had the chance to go to Soarin, and he wasn’t talking to anypony now. Great opportunity!
“Oh no you don’t!” Scootaloo had wrapped her fore hooves around Rainbow’s back hooves, holding the pegasus back. Rainbow tried to walk but it was no use, the filly would not let go. She could always fly, but since she knew Scootaloo would not let her go, the consequences of flight and a filly hanging on to you were too great.
“Fine…” Rainbow sighted. Why Scootaloo why? Well she did have to pay her back for earlier today, buy couldn’t the filly pick another time? Why now!
Surprise grinned, her head moved closer to Rainbow’s. Rainbow leaned backwards. Why do ponies always feel the need go into other ponies’ faces? Geez. “Hey Rainbow Dash! Where did you go earlier? You were there a minute and then poof, gone! Oh! Are you a magician? Or was it just me who did not pay attention again… Anyway, which place did you get in our ‘race’.” Surprise bent her hooves up and down two times. “Spitfire says that it is not a race, but Fleetfoot says otherwise. I got third place!” The hyper mare jumped up and down, almost exactly like Pinkie Pie does. They were creepily similar.
“Aha, I got last place I guess…” Rainbow said, she better just answer her questions. It’s not wise getting on ponies like Surprise’s bad side, she knows that very well.
In the meantime, Scootaloo had escaped the talkative pony. Free once again! How do you like that Rainbow dash? The filly chuckled. She could now go and do the thing she could not do earlier, like talk to more famous Wonderbolts, or exploring more of the headquarters, and so on. Then something caught her eye, on the edge of the cliff, fluffy and white. Weird, the all the other clouds are higher up, why is that one just lying there?
Scootaloo trotted over to the edge, the cloud seemed to be good. Clouds are very plush, this filly have had many dreams about those fluff balls. Steering her eyes away from the cloud, she saw green landscape. At the edge of the cliff she stood, this was not as frightening as she expected. It was probably 150 meter high, and the trees at the ground looked like small bushes. It was truly beautiful looking. It won’t hurt to walk on the cloud, I’m a pegasus after all. With one hoof in front of the other, her body gently touched the surface. As she expected, the cloud was soft and it felt good touching it.
Rainbow dash’s eyes just twitched, if this pony did not shut up soon, this would just… Argh!
“And then suddenly Highwinds blasted up in front of me, at that moment I knew I had to do my special move or else! Piwosh! I flew up and flipped over him, my long tail slapped down on this nose and his mouth opened wide as he began to lose speed, I send lots of confetti flying into his mouth. And without even knowing it, I had passed the goal.” Surprised said and gasped big when she grabbed for more air. “And that Rainbow Dash is how you win a race.”
Rainbow stared blank at the white mare, what did she just say? The goal to win a race is distracting your competitor… What?
The white mare tilted her head to the left. Her eyes half closed and her mouth half open. The purple eyes of hers widened as the muzzle made a little sound. “No! Erm… Filly! Those clouds over there are extremely delicate! D-don’t go on them!” Surprise screamed on top of her lunges.
The cyan mare stood still. Filly? She could not mean?
The orange filly almost had all of her hooves on the cloud. She just smiled, pegasus ponies can walk on clouds, any cloud, what is Surprise screaming about?
Rainbow Dash’s head swung from looking at the white pony to the direction the pony screamed, her magenta eyes grew at the sight. She pressed her teeth together, and her eyes pinched together. No, no, no, no, no! This can’t be happening! NO!
There were nopony there, in the direction Surprise screamed. Just a cloud at the edge, which have been torn apart, and the one who made the hole must have been heavier than a bird.
“SCOOTALOO!”
Author's Note
I'm so sorry that I haven't published a new chapter in ages! I have been very busy, but I have written on this chapter little by little. Finally it is done, well, at least the first part. Since it is summer vacation soon, I promise you the next chapter will come out in much less time than this one.
I'm my own editor and I tend to not to see my own mistakes, so please tell me if anything is grammatically wrong or if the sentences is not set up im a proper way.
