Gods of death, darkness and picking up chicks

Win a title, lose a friend?

Jaden was sitting in the crowd, in Cloudsdale, with five of his friends.

Rainbow Dash was preparing for her great performance.

Jaden was amazed by the pegasuses that was performing, he heard from Rainbow that they were called the wonderbolts.

He had recived the tickets from Rainbow when he was in the hospital, she had blushed a bit when she gave them to him but he gladly accepted it.

He was also visited by Twilight, who had a set of Daring do with her, and Pinkie Pie.

They had an interesting conversation about the upcoming festivals, Jaden was amazed of how alike their festivals were to the earth traditions, but the mares got a little unsocial when it came to a tradition, called" hearts and hooves day".

Suddenly the crowd cheered, as Rainbow entered the stage and Jaden went back to reality and started to cheer with everypony.

"This is it kid, the stage is yours" Spitfire said as she landed right next to Rainbow.

Rainbow couldn't belive it, she was going to perform at a' Wonderbolts ' show.

She had recived a letter from them, it said that they wanted the 'best young flier in Equestria' to join them in their show atCloudsdale.

She had gladly accepted it but now she was acctualy very nervous.

She took of in the air, it was pretty dark clouds but it was good enough for the show, she made a loop and dived towards the crowd.

She rose up, just above everyponys heads, and spinned back up in the air.

The crowd was cheering and she was all fired up.

She started to rise up to the clouds, she had a special move in mind.

She was preparing for 'the sonic rainboom', she thought that now she would acctualy be able to join' The wonderbolts'.

She was 70 feet above the air and she was ready to dive.

Then, from out of nowhere, a lightning struck her and she fell into unconsciousness.

Everypony gasped as Rainbow Dash fell towards the ground, she was picking up speed to a certain death.

The wonderbolts was chasing after her but even when she was out, she was still the fastest flier in Equestria.

"THEY'RE NOT GOING TO CATCH UP" Twilight screamed as she covered her eyes.

"Oh horseapples, this isn't good" Jaden said in panic and dived after Rainbow.

He took up speed, he was all focused on catching her.

Rainbow wasn't picking up speed anymore, but she was still falling fast.

"Damn, I might not...NO I HAVE TO!!!" Jaden thought as he picked up more speed, a barrier appeared in front of him.

He took up speed and then...

The impossible happened.

He had broken the sound-barrier and a large boom shook the area.

He was traveling in incredible speed and a trail of darkness followed him.

"He...he performed a sonic rainboom" Twilight said schocked.

"But ah' don't think it's enough" Applejack said as she pointed to the chase, Rainbow was to close to the ground.

But then Jaden picked up speed once again and a large flash shook the area.

Everything seemed to go so slow, but it didn't matter.

Jaden was flying in, what felt like, his normal speed but Rainbow was now falling very slow.

Jaden let his hooves up and catched her but he couldn't stop flying.

He rose up and made a loop into the arena, where he forced his body to stop.

"Rainbow, you with me?" Jaden asked scared, the ponies around the arena was holding their breath.

He let his ear, lay down on her chest.

The sound of her heartbeat wasn't calming.

"Oh, horseapples damn buck, I NEED MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HER" Jaden said in fear and waved a hoof for help.

A couple of pegasuses flew in with a stretcher, they put her on it and flew out as quickly as they could.

Jaden just looked after them, but then he noticed how everypony was staring at him.

He gazed up and saw a road of fire, laying exactly were he were flying.

He understood that he had done something, but whatever it was, it had to wait.

His friend was in great danger, whatever he had done was pointless to him.

Rainbow woke up in a hospital bed, Jaden and Fluttershy was sitting on each chair with their heads down.

As she let out a mumble in confusion, Jaden and Fluttershy looked up towards her and a shocked smile entered their faces.

Fluttershy flew up to her friend and embraced her, meanwhile Jaden walked over to her side with a smile of relife.

"Glad to see you awake" Jaden said as he pulled his hoof through her hair" I was afraid that we would have lost you"

"Wh...what happened?" Rainbow mumbled as she felt Fluttershy ease up the grip.

"You got hit by the lightning" Jaden explained" You passed out and almost got yourself killed"

"Wh...what?" She asked dumbfounded.

"Um... Jaden i-I think It's best if I describe" Fluttershy said quietly" C-could you please go out?"

"Sure thing" he said and went out of the room.

After that he left, Rainbow recalled that she was hit by a lightning but then she was clueless.

"H-how am I still alive?" She asked her friend.

"Jaden dived after you and caught you just before you hit the ground" Fluttershy said" How he caught up, nopony knows b-b-but...."

"What?" Rainbow asked, now really curious" Tell me Fluttershy"

"H-he pr-preformed thesonicrainboom" Fluttershy said quickly but Rainbow heard those words like they was screamed in her ear.

"B-but he also broke the lightbarrier" Fluttershy continued to Rainbows insalted injury.

Rainbow Dash couldn't belive it, but deep down in her heart she knew it was true, she wasn't the fastest flier in Equestria anymore. She just rolled over to her side and didn't say a thing.

"A-are you okay D-Dash?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine" she said, waving a hoof in the air" I just need to be alone"

Fluttershy looked at her friend, Rainbow was completly destroyed.

She wanted to say something, to make her feel better, but she couldn't find anything good to say and left her friend in the hospital room.

3 weeks later:

Jaden was walking the streets of Ponyville, he had just finished his job with Vinyl and was looking for a place to eat.

He saw his 6 friends, sitting just outside a resturant and he decided to join them.

"Hi girls" Jaden said as he took a place at their table.

"Hi Jaden" everypony said, except Rainbow who had her head hanging.

"Hi" Rainbow said quietly.

Jaden knew what it was, Fluttershy had told him all about it.

He had beaten Rainbow in her element and she was completely crushed.

She had been like that since they got back from Cloudsdale.

It had hurt him so much to see her like that, they hadn't been talking so much because she had avoided him.

Now, Jaden was pissed on it and decided to do something about it.

"You know what?" Jaden said in a high tone and went up to Rainbow" I'm tired at seeing you like this. All quiet and shy, WHAT HAPPENED TO RAINBOW DASH?!!"

He was now standing right in front of her, his face was really close to her and she was blushing.

"That's why I'm challenging you to a race around Ponyville" Jaden continued" The winner is called the fastest flier in Equestria, you in or are you a chicken?"

That was more than Rainbow could take.

"It's on" She said angrily and pushed him away" Nopony calls me a chicken"

"See you at'Sugarcube corners'" he said and walked away.

Jaden and Rainbow Dash was standing at the starting line, they were going to race up to Sweet Apple Acress, to the entrance of Everfree forest and back to Sugarcube Corners.

Jaden could see that Rainbow was very unsure if she would be able to it pull of.

He wasn't going to give her an easy opponement, he knew who was going to win.

"On your mark..." Pinkie Pie said and the two ponies took their places.

"Set...GOOOOO!!!" She screamed as she quickly ducked under the competitors, who took of in an incredible speed.

Rainbow took the lead but Jaden was only a small bit after.

Unfortunately, she took out a big turn around a store and Jaden took the lead.

At the main street, Jaden was in a lead and Rainbow Dash had slipped after.

When they were entering the road towards Sweet Apple Acrees, Rainbow had caught up and they were flying side to side.

As they flew over to the barn, it was Jadens turn to take a big turn and he accidently flew right into a tree.

Rainbow saw her opertunity and took off in great speed.

Jaden got to his hooves and began to chase her but she had a great space between them.

However, when Jaden reached the entrance of Everfree forest, Rainbow was leaving it.

He quickly went through the entrance and began to chase her, once again.

Jaden had caught up to her as they began the great final.

Jaden took up speed but so did Rainbow.

After a small time, Jaden was slowing down and Rainbow flew across the finish-line first.

Rainbow couldn't belive it, she acctualy beat him.

"I-I did it" She said.

"You sure did" Jaden said through his breaths and held out a hoof" Congratulatioms, fastest flier of Equestria"

Rainbow accepted it as she put a confident smile on her face.

When Rainbow went back to her friends, Spike went up to Jaden.

"I saw how you slowed down, you let her win didn't you?" He asked him.

"I couldn't see Rainbow like that, I had to do it" Jaden replied" Besides, I don't care about titles.

Why should you have one if it ruins your friend?"

Spike smiled and gave him a punch on his leg.

"You did the right thing" He said.

"Just don't tell them about it" Jaden said.

"I promise" Spike said and walked back to his friends.