Nothing can destroy friendship, but war will damn well try

Rainbow Dash was down below her cloud home washing her pride and joy. When personal aircraft had been offered to the pony population, Rainbow had went out and emptied her savings of every last bit and bought the fastest and coolest plane they had. That had happened three years ago, and she had never been happier. She ended up nicknaming the plane "Metal Dash" because what the plane could do reminded her a lot of what she did. only for the life of her no mater how hard she tried, she couldn't get the plane to brack the sound barrier. Which had ended up causing the plane to get a little worse for wear often. Because of it, she had learned a lot from a few of hear friends in Cloudsdale about how to make sure the plane didn't fall apart.

She had just started to give the engine it's monthly tune-up when she heard a loud rumbling above her. Dash knew the sound, she had become used to it from the time she spent at home pushing herself or her plane. It was the sound of a plane coming in for a landing at the Ponyvillie airport that was close to her home. In fact, the end of the runway was about 200 feet away from the space under her house something that she did regret from time to time because of waking up in to night to plane engines, but she didn't mind too much. especially scince half the traffic that used the runway was her. But because of the area betweent her house and the airport, dash had taken a second job as a volunteer rescuer for the airport if a plane crashed. This team had barely been needed except for the occasional runway runoff. Dash looked into the distance to watch the plane land. The second her eyes caught sight of the plane, she knew there was a problem.

The two engines on it's right wind were smoking and turning extremely slow. The wing they were attached to was leaking fuel and badly damaged. Rainbow's heart and mind didn't skip a beat as she flew up to her house, grabbed her gear, and flew off for the airport. Her training and and the plane where the only things on her mind. Not the fact it was her day off, not that she could get hurt, just her training and the fact that others were in danger.she had just gotten to the end of the runway when she noticed a big problem. The plane was much larger than the ones that normally landed there which posed 3 new problems, more fuel, ore ponies, and more stopping space needed. she could tell the plane would go off the edge of the runway, so she prepped her gear and got ready for what was going to happen next. then she heard the contact of the rubber on the runway and the engines cut.

She watched in as the plane came barreling at her. then it happened, she watched the plane's wheels skid off the runway hit the grass, and dig grooves into the ground. then, BOOM! The right landing gear folded under itself and tore away from the right wing, dropping the wing into the ground and causing the plane to go into a firer cart-wheel. Rainbow Dash just watched in horror as the plane broke apart into a fireball. Her heart stopped but her brain kept going as if her body was in neutral. But finally her body kicked into gear as the plane came to a grinding stop. She ran for the wreck as the first ponies stumbled out of what was left of the plane. She quickly checked them all over before she ran head first into the fiery wreckage.

Many ponies were trapped or out cold so she helped as many as she could, always keeping an eye on the still full of fuel left wing as it hung in the air She was working as quick as she could, sometimes carrying more than three ponies out of the fire at a time. Her legs hurt from all the work and she was quite pissed that the rest of her team hadn't showed up yet, but she couldn't stop, ponies lives hung in the balance. As she walked back into the flames for at least the 23 time, the flames started to make their presence through her suit as it started to melt from the constant heat. Then she heard a sound from the cockpit and ran for it. She found the lead pilot trying to crawl from the wreckage. she helped him up and as the walked out she asked, "What happened?"  He weekly replied, "Flying level, normal as ever, shot at by something about ten miles back. This was the closest airport." Rainbow sat him outside with the others as she saw Fluttershy and the other medics come running to help, followed by the rest of her team.

She gave Fluttershy a quick nod and then motioned for her team, with a glare in her eyes, as she headed for the plain again, closely followed by Sorin of the wonderbolts and some of the others from the team. Her and Sorin had just entered the plane when Rainbow spotted another pony trapped under a seat. She ran for the pony as Sorin looked for others, just then he heard a violent cracking as the left wing was being heated to the point of near explosion. Sorin yelled to her but Rainbow couldn't hear him. Sorin had cleared the plane by about a foot to go worn his team that was around the plane helping some of the ponies now starting to climb out of places when BOOM,  the left wing exploded behind him. He was launched into his team as he turned to see the rest explode into another ball of fire. Sorin yelled out for Rainbow Dash but she couldn't hear him.

She had just gotten the other pony out from under the seat when she heard the sound of the wing's fuel expanding and then black. The only thing she could hear through the explosion in her mind was the sound of her friends yelling for her. she continued to slip in and out of consciousness as she was dragged from what metal still remained of the plane. she could just faintly hear Fluttershy worriedly yelling at Sorin and him and two other members of the team carried Rainbow to one of the multiple waiting ambulances to be taken to the hospital. The last thing she could remember was the yelling of the two ponies in the ambulance as they worked to save her life.