Mach I

The feeling of the wind in my mane was amazing. There was nothing like flying with your own wings. Rainbow Dash was flying way ahead of me, obviously holding back to let me catch up. She showed me how to control my wings earlier in the day. It wasn't difficult, it just took some practice and a lot of willpower. I was pretty good at using my wings, although nowhere near as good as Rainbow.  Ahead of me, Rainbow Dash shot into the air and did an almost 90 degree turn. I struggled to an almost stop, then shot up after her. How does she expect me to keep up? The speed I could achieve without being trapped in a the frame of  jet was exhilarating. Wait, where did she go?

"Hey there, slow-poke!" a voice said to my side, making my almost lose my concentration to fly. "Pick up the pace, I'm getting bored waiting for you."

"Heh, sorry Rainbow. I guess I'd better..." I shot off into the distance faster than I had flown so far. "...pick up the pace!" I yelled, hoping she could hear me at my current speed.

Rainbow came up behind me with no struggle. "This is my kind of speed!" She yelled, then accelerated past me. Wha- How am I supposed to do that? I concentrated and strained my wings even more, causing me to gain a small amount of speed. Almost a kilometer ahead of me, Rainbow soared up again, and swooped down by me. "Watch this!" She shouted, barely audible with the sound of the wind ripping through my ears.

She rolled to the right of me, going down, then began to do a complete loop far above me. Rainbow found a cloud near us in the almost empty sky and flipped it around, sending it crashing in my direction.

"Hey!" I yelled, too late. The cloud smacked straight into me, sending me spiraling downwards. I caught myself and zoomed up back to Rainbow, who was laughing hysterically on the cloud that nearly killed me.

"Do you have any idea how dangerous that was?" I shouted.

"That wasn't dangerous, I knew you would pick back up." She shot back. "Anyways, let's head over to those mountains ahead. They are a lot of fun to fly around, but I haven't really been near there since I was a filly."

I nodded my head with a determined expression on my face. We shot off to the snow capped peaks of the large purple mountains north of Ponyville. The landscape was huge, the mountains were bigger than the empire state building stacked a few times. I stared in awe at the massive range before me. I turned to the left, and Rainbow followed. There wasn't much to see around the peaks except the city of Canterlot, which hung from a large mountain almost directly under me. An idea began to form in my mind, and it was a good one. Time to get back at Rainbow. I thought, deviously. I shot down towards Canterlot and zoomed underneath the cliff side city. Behind me, Rainbow Dash followed looking a bit questionably at me. I quickly turned up and then back around, now going in the opposite direction, upside down, almost able to touch the bottom of Canterlot. Rainbow however, did not see this coming, and smacked her head straight into the bottom of the city. She sat there for a second, then fell.

I was laughing too hard to notice her begin to fall. When I finally opened my eyes I noticed Rainbow wasn't next to me. I looked around and searched for her. I noticed a blue speck falling into the depths of the mountains. Oh my god! I shot down toward her at an alarming speed. The speck got bigger and bigger. She is too close to the ground, I'll never make it in time! No, I have got to catch her! My wings began to burn as I forced them harder than I had ever thought possible. The air around me seemed to heat up. I kept flying faster, and faster until I couldn't hear anything but the deafening whistle of the wind. I struggled to keep my speed. I kept feeling like I would lose my balance and fall along with her. No! Keep flying! I shouted at myself. There was a a definite change in temperature around me as I felt my mane begin to burn on my back. Literally. My mane burst into flames with a deafening Boom! as I began to fly at twice my speed straight down. I had entered Mach I. Rainbow was almost within reach now. I extended my hooves ahead of me and grabbed onto Rainbow Dash. I did a perfect 180 degree turn back up and just in time to see behind me. A fireball was still ripping across the landscape where I had broken the sound barrier. With a trail of fire behind me, I sailed at supersonic speeds towards Ponyville.

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Nobody strolling outside Twilight Sparkle's house expected anything out of the ordinary to happen on such a sunny and peaceful day. That is- until a massive fireball struck the ground, sending dirt and gravel flying in all directions. I stepped out of the massive crater I created and looked around with Rainbow still over my shoulders. Some ponies were still covering their faces, while other stared at me in shock. I shrugged them off and ran into the Library behind me. The door swung open and slammed into the wall. Twilight shrieked in surprise as I entered the room.

"I'm sorry, Twilight. I was flying with Rainbow and we were messing around, and-"

"Woah, whoa!" Neon interrupted as he walked in. "What's going on?"

Twilight looked at the unconscious Rainbow dash, and said "It looks like Rainbow bumped her head, hard."

"Yeah, well, I might have tricked her and caused that..." I said, as quiet as Fluttershy.

"Why would you do that?" Twilight asked, almost yelling.

I spoke up, "Well, we were just messing around and she threw a cloud and-"

"It's fine." Neon interrupted, again. "It looks like she just bumped her head. At least now you are even on hurting each other."

I smiled a little, and put Rainbow Dash down on the bed where I had recovered. Twilight asked "What was that loud crash outside, anyway?" She walked to the door. I tried to say something before she got to the open door. She took one look outside, then looked back at me with her jaw on the floor.

"How did you manage to put a giant flaming crater in the road?!" She screamed.

"I don't exactly know... I think I may have broken the sound barrier on my way here..."

Neon walked up from behind me and spoke up. "So, you did a Sonic Rainboom?" he asked, jumping a little excitedly.

"It wasn't exactly a Sonic Rainboom. It was more of a Sonic 'Flame'boom." I said shrugging casually even though I felt proud about what I had done.

A voice from behind us said "How can you put it off like that? That was awesome!"

Rainbow Dash was looking at me, very woozy. She flopped over onto the cot and managed to mutter something like 'thanks' before going unconscious.

Neon looked back to me, changing the subject "You've got to see what Twilight has been able to show me about magic since you were gone. I think your going to be amazed."