A Fresh Start and a New Love

It was still the middle of the night, and Thunder soared up into the clouds above Dash’s house, he looked around and noticed Cloudsdale above him, he thought to himself, “I hope they’re still doing their late night practices.”

Thunder reached the edge of Cloudsdale, he flew up high above Cloudsdale and looked around, hoping he would find them, the Wonderbolts, the group that Rainbow Dash admired oh so much and aspired to join. Thunder aimed to get Rainbow and him a day with them, he was fan himself, but Rainbow was total fanfilly over them. As Thunder looked around he saw exactly what he was looking for, three streams of smoke at the ends of three blue and yellow clad pegasus soaring out of some clouds at the other end of Cloudsdale.

“Now’s my chance, Soarin, Spitfire and Fleetfoot are still awake.” Thunder could easily tell them apart due to Fleetfoot and Soarin’s size as well as Spitfire’s bright flaming red mane. With a great flap of his wings, he was off, speeding towards the Wonderbolts, turning slowly to match their direction but still moving fast enough to catch up with them. One more powerful flap of his large black wings and *BOOM!*, Thunder flew at double the speed towards the Wonderbolts with a trail of lighting behind him. Catching up to them in mere seconds he slowed down, and was now flying backwards in front of them.

The Wonderbolts halted in surprise, “Holy shit!” Spitfire yelled. “Don’t jump out in front of us like that, almost scared the feathers off me.”

“Sorry Spitfire, I just had a question for you guys” Thunder said smiling awkwardly and scratching his head in embarrassment.

“Wait a minute, I know that voice, black fur and huge wings…” Spitfire got close to Thunder, very close, circling him. Thunder could feel her hoof brush over his mane. “Why if it isn’t the Lighting Bolt of Cloudsdale, Thunder Flash, I haven’t seen you since back at flight school.” Thunder had gone to flight school with Soarin and Spitfire and was good friends, but they haven’t seen much of each other since they became famous and he joined the elite weather team. “Soarin, look! It’s our old buddy Thunder!”

“Hehehey Thunder! I haven’t seen you in forever! Holy crap your wings got big, you were always teased for being so big, but Spitfire and I thought it was cool.” Soarin laughed, “Hey Fleetfoot, this is the colt I was telling you that you should go out with, he’s huge and you’re small, it will be adorable in comparison” Soarin stifled a giggle.

“Shut up Soarin!” Fleetfoot said, smacking him in the rib cage. “I don’t want to date anypony right now, even if they are cute.” She said blushing.

“Enough yammering, what brings you by here? I thought you’d be out working with the weather team, there’s supposed to be a big storm brewing in about two hours.” Spitfire questioned.

“Naw, I quit there a couple days ago, I live in Ponyville, the Princess arranged for me to stay with a pegasus named Rainbow Dash and well, now I’ve kinda fallen for her.” Thunder said, cheeks turning crimson.

“That raises further questions, what happened to Flitter whatshername? Last I checked you were head over heels in love with her.” Soarin said confused.

“She broke up with me, kind of tore my heart out, I was depressed for quite a while. That’s why I left Cloudsdale to start a new life and that’s when I met Rainbow Dash.”

“Wait Rainbow Dash? Isn’t she that Rainbow mane filly that won the best young fliers competition?” Spitfire asked.

“And she saved my pie, I owed her a dance at the royal wedding for doing that for me heheh” Soarin laughed.

“Yeah, she’s asleep back at home and I wanted to surprise her with a day of flying with you guys, she is your biggest fan after all.” Thunder said, “it would mean a lot to her.”

“For you Thunder? Anything, as long as you promise to come visit us more, we’ve got some catching up to do.” Spitfire winked.

“For sure, could you three come down to Ponyville in the morning, say around 6? Dash has to get up and clear the Clouds at 7, so I want to get it done early and have some time to hang out with you guys, like the good ol’ days before she wakes up to her big surprise.

“Sure thing, we’ll be there at 6:00am sharp.” Spitfire said.

“Actually I can’t make it, I promised a friend I’d go out with her tomorrow, and I don’t want to ditch her.” Fleetfoot said.

“Aww that’s fine Fleetfoot, Soarin and Spitfire are enough I guess.” Thunder said, “nice getting to meet you though, and by the way, your pretty cute yourself.”

Fleetfoot turned beet red in surprise, luckily her suit hid the fact that her face was turning an embarrassing shade of red.

“Aww don’t tease her like that, she’s shy around stallions she likes” Spitfire joked.

Fleetfoot jumped when she heard Spitfire say that, like she had been shocked. “I gotta go. Sorry, Nice meeting you Thunder, good practice guys.” With that, Fleetfoot Dashed off with her legendary speed.

“Wow, she’s fast…” Thunder said still giggling. “But she really can’t take a joke can she?”

“I don’t think so! Ahah!” Soarin laughed. “Alright we’ll be there in the morning Thunder, see’ya buddy.” And with that, Soarin and Spitfire flew off towards Cloudsdale.

Thunder smiled and thought to himself it’s nice to talk to friends, I almost forgot how much fun it was around those two.

Thunder flew back to Ponyville and began the process of clearing the clouds out of Ponyville. He was done in about twenty minutes then headed back to his home with Dash. His home, it still felt weird saying that his home is with Dash, but he was happy and sure that it would become the norm.

Thunder fell asleep on the couch and woke up, around 5:30am; he had been sleeping a lot the past 2 days and was very well rested. He went outside and went for an early morning jog, after 20 minutes or so, he looked to the sky and saw Spitfire and Soarin, flying down from Cloudsdale, not in uniform.

The two out of uniform Wonderbolts landed in Ponyville next to Thunder. Spitfire leaned over and hugged Thunder tightly, Thunder returned the hug.

Soarin hoof bumped Thunder and the three trotted off towards Dash’s house.

“Shh, she’s still asleep, I’ll go wake her up, you guys wait here, and she’s going to love this for sure.” Thunder said, trying not to laugh in excitement. As he approached the door to Dash’s and now his room, he pushed the cloud door open, peering into the Dark room. He walked slowly into the room, the light from the halls painted the room with colour, he could see all of Dash’s knick knacks, like her crown from the best young fliers competition and a mannequin horse with her gala dress on it. Then there was Dash in her bed under the covers, nights were starting to get cool, he trotted over, he could barely see the covers move up and down from her soft breaths and sleeping face. Thunder trotted over to her sleeping body and leant over her and gave her a kiss on the cheek, and whispered, “Hey Dash, wake up.”

Dash opened her eyes and looked sleepily at Thunder, blinking a couple times before smiling then kissing him gently on the lips, whispering quietly, “Morning lover-colt.” She gently nuzzled against her lovers face and asked him softly, “what time is it? Remember, I have to clear the clouds at 7:00.” Rainbow was acting very lovey dovey and out of character, it couldn’t have been a more perfect time for this to happen.

“Come with me ok Dash? I have something to show you.” Thunder said, lifting Dash out of bed and helping her to her hoofs.

“What is it? I’m too tired!” Dash complained.

“Just come with me okay?” Thunder lead Dash into the hall and into the kitchen where Soarin and Spitfire stood, with big grins on their faces.

“Hey there Rainbow, been awhile hasn’t it?” Spitfire said with happy expression.

“Yeah, been a while” Dash said, not fully aware of who was in her house. Dash finally looked up, he mouth dropped open, “Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh, th-th-the W-W-Wonderbolts, are in m-m-my house! How? Why?”

“You can thank your coltfriend here, he came and found us last night during one of our late night practices and asked us if we wanted to come spend the day with him and you.” Soarin said with a laugh.

“But, why would you guys just say yes to come hang out with Thunder? I mean he’s great and everything, but isn’t that just a little strange? Not that I’m questioning a good thing, I’m just a little curious is all.” Dash was so flustered.

“How could we turn down an offer from our oldest friend from flight school, we went to flight school a year before you did, so you never really met any of us” Spitfire chimed in cheerfully.

“You guys were friends? Why didn’t you tell me Thunder?” Dash said confused and happy at the same time.

“Well, y’know I’ve been going through so much lately it hasn’t crossed my mind that I would have needed to tell you, plus I haven’t seen them in years.” Thunder said, “Well anyway, they came to spend the day with us.”

“The whole day? Oh my gosh!” Rainbow said, her eyes gleaming, “Oh but I have to clear the clouds soon.” She added solemnly.

“Don’t worry Dash, I already took care of that, I went and visited them and arranged everything late last night then went home and cleared the clouds early before I went to bed.” Thunder said, hoping Dash would appreciate it.

“Owhh, I can’t believe you did this.” Dash said, her eyes welling up with tears as she stared intently at Thunder.

“Oh Dash, I’m sorry, I thought you’d be happy, please don’t cry.” Thunder said, taking a step towards Dash hesitantly.

“Thank you so much! It means more to me than anything!” Dash ran towards Thunder and tackled him to the ground and pushed her lips firmly against his.

Thunder was confused as to what just happened but wouldn’t question a good thing. “You’re welcome Dash, I’d do anything for you.”

“Aww, that’s so sweet.” Spitfire said tilting her head to the side. “So what do you guys want to do, well not to interrupt your moment though.” She was stifling a laugh

Thunder and Dash managed to get themselves up and Dash spoke up “how about we go do some flying now?”

“Woah there Dash, you just woke up, don’t you think it’d be better if we all went out and grabbed some food?” Thunder said, feeling like a buzz kill.

“Hehe, oh yeah, I am pretty hungry, I guess we should go get some grub, you guys hungry too?” Dash asked?

“I’m always hungry!” Soarin spoke up, obviously excited at the mention of food.

“Oh god Soarin, we know.” Spitfire said with a giggle. “Yeah I could go for a bite though, I haven’t eaten this morning either.”

The four pegasus flew down the ground beneath Dash’s cloud house and started their walk towards Ponyville. Soarin and Thunder walked in front and chatted about old time back in flight school while Spitfire and Dash walked behind, holding a rather girly conversation for such athletic mares.

“Y’know Dash, you’re one lucky mare.” Spitfire said, looking at Dash secretively.

“I guess I am, I have a wonderful coltfriend who managed to get me a full day with 2 of the Wonderbolts.” Dash said brashly.

“No not just that, I mean look at him, he’s big strong, has nice big wings and is very good looking, and yet all the years I knew him I never saw him with anypony except the one pony who broke his heart, and because of that he told me that he thought he was never going to love again.”

“I never knew that! I wonder why he never told me.” Dash thought out loud.

“It was probably something he didn’t want to dwell on, or that he thought it might hurt his chances with you.” Spitfire said consolingly. “But in all honesty, he’s a good looking stallion, you’re lucky that he decided to be with you, I mean even I had a crush on him for a bit back when we were little, but now I have Soarin, well kinda, I just gotta try and let him know that I have feelings for him, too bad his top priority is food.”

“Even you liked him? Oh no, what do I do? I really don’t want to lose him to somepony else.” Dash said worriedly.

“Don’t worry Dash, I just liked him, what you and Thunder have is mutual love for each other, much more different, you can really tell with each other, you two are really concerned with the others emotion and well-being.” Spitfire said, with envy in her voice.

“I really am happy to be with Thunder, I honestly never thought I would be with anypony let along Thunder Flash, the Lighting Bolt of Cloudsdale. I’ve kind of always had a crush on him, but I was afraid to say anything, then when Twilight asked if he could live with me, I kind of got all shy and afraid of him, that is until he asked me out” Dash was now a bright shade of red.

The four pegasus made their way toward the local café and all sat down to order, after a hardy breakfast Dash shot out of her chair and yelled “Can we go do something now? I’m bored!”

“Wow, she really is energetic isn’t she?” Spitfire asked

“Yeah, I guess, but I think it’s more excitement about getting to spend the day with you guys, her idols.” Thunder said with a smile. “and I’m happy to be hanging out with you guys again, it’s been far too long.”

“Yeah it has!” Soarin yelled putting his foreleg around Thunder’s shoulder. “Let’s go hit the lake! I haven’t gotten to go swimming in forever!”

“Dash, do you want to go for a swim?” Thunder asked.

“Actually I was kind of hoping that we could go flying and maybe a race or something.”

“How about a race to the lake?” Spitfire suggested.

“Done, that sounds great!” Dash said with a big grin, she was feeling almost giddy, hopefully she’d be able to show the Wonderbolts her stuff and maybe they’d let her join.

“Alright, on my mark, you ready everypony? Get set!” The four were all crouched down, ready to blast off into the sky at a moment’s notice, “GO!”

With that, the four pegasus simultaneously shot off the ground with Spitfire in front and Soarin right behind, Thunder and Rainbow were both tied with Soarin. The lake was a good ways away and gave everypony equal chances of winning. Dash pushed as hard as she could, then *BOOM* of course, a sonic rainboom, Dash took off past the group of pegasus and soared towards the lake.

“Well time for us all to step it up a notch eh?” Thunder said to Spitfire who he seemed to keep up with effortlessly. Though she also looked as though she wasn’t trying, and same with Soarin.

“Yep, let’s kick it up a notch for sure!” Spirtfire said with a grin. Her speed almost tripled, leaving a smoky trail behind her, she looked as though she was a ball of fire, soaring through the skies. Soarin was right behind, he looked back and said, “see you later Thunder!”

“Not so fast! I aim to win!” Thunder said, flapping his large and powerful wings as hard and as fast as he could. *BOOM* a thunderous boom crackled across the sky, louder than any crash he had ever made, bright lighting emanated from Thunder as he shot forward, his body jumping around in zig zag patterns almost instantly catching up with Soarin and Spitfire who were gaining on Dash, Thunder decided he was going to do his own signature move, one that only he can pull off, and no pony had seen it before, they all thought it was a natural anomaly.

Thunder pulled himself up as hard as he could and he soared towards the bright blue sky of Equestria, in no time as all he must have been a good thirty thousand feet into the air, turning forward on a downward angle towards the lake, he shot down at almost five times the speed, coming in so fast the sky began to light up a bright yellow, it sounded as if there was an enormous lightning storm. Thunder’s zig zag pattern stopped and he was careening towards the lake at full speed, until he went silent, to other ponies around Ponyville, all they saw was a giant lightning bolt hit the lake, the large streak was surrounded in rings of electricity, it was a sight to behold, even if it was there for only three seconds or so. To Thunder, everything was moving at normal speed, the adrenaline in his blood made his reaction time good enough to be able to perceive and react to his surroundings.

He could see Dash at the end of her giant rainbow streak almost at the lake, with Spitfire and Soarin right behind. Thunder came smashing down towards the ground splitting the air molecules of the sky, his body was heating up immensely, until.

Dash looked at the lake up ahead, then what looked like a lightning bolt hit it, the splash it created must have been at least 200 feet high. Dash Soarin and Spitfire all came to a stop and watched in shock, they all looked behind to see that Thunder was no longer behind them.

“Where, is, Thunder?” Dash said between hard breaths. “Wasn’t he, behind you guys?”

“Yeah he was, he yelled something about aiming to win before I lost sight of him, all I heard was a thunderous explosion behind me and then I don’t know I was focused on winning.” Soarin said, with concern in his voice, “I hope he’s ok.”

“Let’s go look down by the lake, I have a feeling that big splash was his big ass crashing into the lake.” Spitfire said, with a grin.

“How? That couldn’t have been him, that was lightning.” Rainbow said confused. “There’s no way he could have passed us, he was so far behind!”

“Well, I can almost guarantee that it was him, I’m sure you’re aware that he makes a streak of lightning when he gets to top speed, well when he dives down from the clouds, he moves at the speed of light, using the charge from the air in the clouds, he gets blasted towards the ground, and well, that energy needs to go somewhere, so it went into the lake.”

“How do you know that?” Dash said baffled as to what she was just told.

“Well, I went out to watch him practice while we were at flight school. It was almost like a nightly routine, though he didn’t know that I did that hehehe.” Spitfire’s face was started to turn pink.

“Well then what are we waiting for I need to see if he’s ok!” Dash said as she sped off towards the lake with Soarin and Spitfire right behind her.

They arrived at the lake to see Thunder floating two feet above the water, right in the middle of the lake. He had small bolts of lightning shooting off of his body and the water beneath him was spinning slowly and evaporating, forming a mist around him.

“Holy shit Thunder! You scared the hell outta me!” Dash said flying towards Thunder, tackling him into the water. “Please don’t scare me like that again Dash said while the two floated together in the lakes center.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you, but if you must know, I’m fine, I can do that move easily I’ve already perfected it.”
“Just please don’t scare me like that! I was worried something had happened.” Dash said “And don’t y-“ She was cut off by Thunder’s lips pressed against hers. Dash melted into the warm kiss and when it broke, she could only say “You suck” before pushing herself against him and stealing another kiss.

“You guys ok!” Spitfire yelled from the shore.

Dash and Thunder broke their kiss and simultaneously waved to Spitfire, “Ya we’re ok!” Thunder yelled.

Heading towards the shore, Dash and Thunder were met half way by Spitfire and Soarin jumping into the water. “Wow, the water is so beautiful and refreshing!” Spitfire said, absolutely mesmerized by the fresh water, though it was getting close to fall the weather would start to get cold at night but still remain rather hot during the day.

“Yeah, Thunder and I come here quite often because the water is just so perfect.” Dash said smiling at Spitfire.

Soarin flew out of the water up around a hundred feet or so then dove back into the water making a pretty big splash. “Ahah! This is great to have some time off practicing and going to events, I missed being able to relax and just do nothing all day!” Soarin said as he swam in circles around the group.

Thunder couldn’t help but notice that Spitfire looked quite sexy with her mane all wet, but still nothing compared to his lovers amazing looks and body to compliment her brash and bold athletic personality. Thunder flew out of the water and scooped up Dash under her forelegs, “hey what are you doing!” Dash yelled through a laugh. Thunder threw Dash into the air, causing her to do multiple back flips until he caught her, holding her, cradled in his forelegs like a little foal. “What are you doing Thunder” Dash said, still giggling, very out of character. Thunder dove back into the water with Dash in his forelegs, she screamed a very girly scream as the crashed into the water.

When they both emerged she looked at him with a smile and started laughing, “Well that was a pretty cute scream.” Spitfire said with a mischievous grin.

“Ahah, oops, I just got a little scared.” Rainbow said.

“I thought you were fearless” Soarin said with a mocking tone.

“I am! Just today is an off day, I’m just having some fun!” Dash was now embarrassed.

The group of four continued to play in the lake for another couple hours then headed back for a late dinner at Sugarcube Corner. After dinner they said their good byes and Spitfire gave Rainbow and Thunder a hug then they both flew off.

“Thank you so much Thunder, this has been the best day of my entire life, I got to hang out with the Wonderbolts together with the love of my life.” Dash hugged Thunder tightly in front of her house before they went inside.

“I’m freakin’ exhausted, let’s hit the hay, I need some sleep after all that’s happened today on top of getting little sleep last night.” Thunder sighed with a smile on his face. He entered Dash’s room and got to the edge of the bed before he was tackled into the bed, feeling hooves run along his sides and up his wings that were up in surprise. Thunder let out a moan of pleasure, with a shudder.

“Tonight, before you go to bed, I’m going to give you a thank you gift for all of your work in setting this up.” Dash said, with a hungry look in her eyes. She began kissing down Thunder’s back, licking the base of his wings slowly. Dash flipped thunder over onto his back and began kissing down his chest onto his stomach and finally to his colthood which was now standing fully erect, she placed her mouth around the tip, licking it slowly and playfully. “How does this feel? Hmm?” Dash asked with such lust in her voice.

“That feels amazing Dash” Thunder said, breathing heavily. Unable to contain himself Thunder flipped Dash over and pinned her down and she let out a little squeal. “I can’t help it anymore Dash, no matter how tired I am, I’ll probably have enough energy for this.” Thunder plunged his member into Dash’s marehood. Dash let out a yelp of pleasure and then sighed.

“Dear Celestia, I love you Thunder” Dash said through her breaths as her tongue hung out of her mouth and she began to moan louder and louder.

Thunder kept thrusting harder and harder coming closer to climaxing, he could feel Dash getting closer and closer. “I’m going cum Thunder!” Dash felt the electrical pulses up her spine and tightened down on Thunder’s member causing him to climax as well.

The two lay there, in bed, on top of each other breathing heavily as they drifted to sleep after what was the best day ever.