My name is Rainbow Dash. Yeah, that Rainbow Dash. The hero of the Shadowbolt Wars, Captain of the Wonderbolts, etc. Not only that, but I'm married to the stallion of my dreams, Thunderlane, and I am about to give birth to our first foal. Yeah, me, a mother who would've thought... especially after all the terrible things I've done... but, I think that might be a story for another time and place.

I suppose you've come to hear about my part in the Shadowbolt Wars. Well, in that case, how about we track this from the beginning?

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“Get a move on recruits! I wanted those thirty laps done ten seconds ago!” A yellow pegasus mare barked at the ponies above her who circled in a race lane made out of clouds. The mare, Spitfire, was dressed in military clothing and had on a pair of sunglasses which she fixed every now and then.

Up above, a rainbow-maned pegasus mare wearing a blue and yellow jumpsuit with a pair of racing goggles over her eyes raced past the others. The only pony who came close was a black pegasus stallion with a mohawk manestyle. But even he couldn't keep up with that lightning bolt of a mare, Rainbow Dash. Either that, or Thunderlane was being a gentlecolt, since almost everypony knew he had a thing for Rainbow. In fact, only Rainbow was oblivious to Thunderlane's affection.

“If that mare doesn’t pick up what Thunderlane is two seconds away from telling I swear to Faust I’m making him mine.” Spitfire said to herself as a pale blue stallion walked up behind her.

“Come on Spits lighten up. You know Thunderlane is too shy to even talk to RD.” the stallion said as he patted Spitfire on the back.

“Yeah I know Soarin’. You know this group is actually a lot better than the last ones we had to deal with.”

“Yeah. I almost thought that one stallion was gonna have a heart attack on his third lap.” joked Soarin who took a bite out of some pie.

“Soarin’ you and I both know that pies are going to be the death of you.” Spitfire said with a small smile. Soarin just shrugged.

“It’s not my fault they make these things taste so good.”

"Captain Spitfire, the thirty laps you wanted are done!" said Rainbow Dash as she and Thunderlane slid onto the cloud that the Wonderbolt leaders were on.

"Outstanding performance on the course, you two... so good that there's actually wanted something I wanted to tell you guys," said Spitfire.

"What?" asked Rainbow, raisng an eyebrow.

"Well, nothing important, just that I'm looking at the newest additions to the Wonderbolt family," said Spitfire.

Rainbow and Thunderlane's jaws dropped as they found their throats constricted.

"Just as I was when I made the cut: speechless," said Soarin'.

"Actually, the words 'humina humina humina' come to mind," said Thunderlane.

“Trust me it’s only going to get better from here on out,” said Spitfire as she and Soarin’ walked away. Rainbow just remained where she was with a stunned expression.

“Um…. Rainbow? Are you okay?” asked Thunderlane as he waved a hoof in front of her face.

“I-I’m finally a Wonderbolt….. I’M FINALLY A WONDERBOLT! THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE!”shouted Rainbow as she hugged Thunderlane tightly. In his thoughts Thunderlane agreed that it was a great moment… but yet it was also sad as he still couldn’t get the nerve to tell her how he truly felt about her.

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While Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane took the train back home to their friends to celebrate their good news at a big bash that Pinkie Pie was putting together, something terrible was about to happen.

Inside the Equestrian TV Center in Manehattan, everything seemed fine and dandy. The Control Room operators were working full tilt, completely oblivious to the fact that four oddly dressed pegasi had entered the room. These pegasi were dressed in purple and black Wonderbolt uniforms with goggles with purple rims and yellow lenses that had a sort of angry design to them.

No one noticed them until the first body hit the ground. Then somepony screamed.

“What the-” One pony started before one of the pegasi threw a dart that hit his throat. The dart was filled with poison and soon closed up his throat before he was silenced. The next one had a cord wrapped around his throat before his neck snapped like a twig, the third one was just straight up stabbed in the heart and the final one was left alive for some reason known only to the assassins.

“W-what do you want?” asked the frightened pony asked.

"Oh, nothing much, really. We need somepony to work the TV Channels so we can get our little message across," said the leader of the group who seemed to be a mare with a golden mane and tail.

"Th-that's it? Then you'll let me go?" whimpered the pony.

"Oh, we'll tell you what we will do. You help us out, then you have our go-ahead to die," said a fidgety stallion with a blue mane and tail.

"Blueball, let's not give the poor pony heart failure. At least, not yet," said the mare. "Well, what are you waiting for? Get to work!" she barked at the frightened pony.

"Y-yes, ma'am," whimpered the TV operator.

As the stallion fiddled about the controls, the lead mare smirked. "All of Equestria will be watching the evening news. Let's give them the headliner. Then we take out the trash," said the lead mare, as before her and her troops, the TV channels all went into standby mode.

"We are live in five... four... three... two... one."

Author's Note

So, yeah this is a rewrite of my old Harmony and Chaos story. Drop a comment!