Saving Jade

"Ah. What a day. I'm glad I can finally  just fly." Rainbow Dash said to herself contently. What a beautiful  morning dark.  She couldn't help but to let loose a smile as she felt the cool atmospheric winds gliding across her fur and feathers.

As she was flying she thought she might as well have some fun while up here. In a split second she was spinning through the sky like a drill through soft rock. Not a single thought in her mind. She began flying faster and faster still before shooting into the sky. After going as high into the sky as she possibly could she stopped dead in the air. Eyes closed, she floated there mind still clear breathing in the chilled air and blowing out a plume of perspiration from her warm breath.

Rainbow dove straight at the Equestrian soil. Gaining speed she had only gained a few times before. Her rainbow tail streaming a real rainbow behind her. She could feel the sound barrier bending under her outstretched hoof. She found herself breaking the barrier and producing an explosive wave of rainbow colors streaming across the sky. Seeing that she was still far from the ground she thought, "I'll make it a double!"

Just before she could even speed up however, Rainbow saw a glint of light off in the distance to her right moving at such a speed that rivaled even her own. She stared intently at the object and all she could seem to make out was a trail of glittering gold following it. "Oh No!" she yelled aloud to herself as she realized the object was on a collision course with her. Rainbow Dash didn't even have time to react before herself and it smacked straight into eachother. She found her vision blurred and she could see herself and the object plummeting toward the ground. She tried to flap her wings but was too dazed to fly. After what seemed like an hour all she could see was darkness.

Rainbow Dash looked all around her but all she could see was a vast, white, never-ending space. She began to walk before realizing that the usually quiet "Clip Clop" of her hooves was echoing loudly as if she was in a large closed cave. "Hello?" she called out to the emptiness. All she heard was the repeated sound of her voice ringing over and over in her ears.

She looked all around herself to see all of her friends Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy to her left. She tried to spread her wings to speedily fly over to them just to find she couldn't feel her wings. "Hey guys!" she yelled as loud as she could. Her friends didn't even so much as look her way so she began running toward them only to see that they were getting further and further away "Wait!" she called after them. They eventually disappeared into the vast distance of nothingness.

It was at that moment she felt her heartbeat slow and an overwhelming sense of loneliness grew in her chest. "Am I all doomed to remain alone all of my life?" All she could think of was how all of her friends had met their special someponies at some point after "Princess" Twilight's Castle grew a little while back. She also remember that despite all her attempts all the crowds of ponies crowded around everyone but her, even Fluttershy met herself a colt to call her own.

Out of seemingly nowhere she heard a low voice she had never heard before. "Hello!" Rainbow yelled. "Who's there?" The voice spoke again only louder this time.

                "Please! Wake Up!" Oh good Celestia what have I done!?!" The vast emptiness disappeared to reveal sunlight as she opened her eyes.

                 "Wha...?" Rainbow managed to mutter.

                 "Oh thank Celestia your alright." a voice behind her said.

                   Rainbow looked down to find she had landed in a pile of leaves and thanks to her lightweight bones she came out alright.

                    "You are alright, aren't you?" the voice repeated.

                     Rainbow managed to get to her hooves. Remembering the voice she quickly spun around to come face to face with a young pegasus with pure shining gold fur, a light red mane that was almost pink, and the outline of a silver shooting star on her flank. Rainbow quickly identified that her collision partner was a mare. The pony was standing over the spot where she was laying. "Well say something" the young mare said somewhat impatiently. Realizing she was staring at her Rainbow quickly averted her gaze with a slight blush.

                     "Yeah I'm ok." Rainbow said a little dazed. "Wait, what does it matter to you, you're the one who ground me in the first place! she said with surprisingly less anger than she herself expected.

                      The mare looked insulted at the idea of it being all her fault. "Excuse Me!" the mare said with surprise.

                      "You heard me!" Rainbow replied slowly.

                      "How could this be my fault you were the one who came crashing down on top of me!" the mare said with a bit more anger.

                      "I wa...!" before rainbow could reply a sudden familiar foreign accent came from behind her.

                      "The answer you seek may come from the point of view of a witness not yourself."

                      Rainbow spun around to see the familiar face of "Zecora? Yes!" Rainbow said excitedly.

                      "This could work. Tell her how she was the one who crashed into me." the mare said.

                      Rainbow had no doubt of it in her mind, "This mare crashed into her." she thought surely of herself.

                      "It was the fault of both of you." Zecora said intently.

                      "But she blinded me with that rainbow explosion thing!" the mare said huffily.

                       Rainbow looked at the ground. She knew Zecora was right, Zecora was always right in cases such as this. She knew she could trust her. "Oh. Ok. Sorry.... Wait I never did get your name." Rainbow said regretting what she said before to this mare who she realized was only trying to help her.

                       "Oh, well I guess I might have maybe been at just as at fault as you so I'm guess i'm sorry too." the mare said with her head also hanging and staring at the ground.

                       "But what's your name? I've never seen anyone with such an awesome coat of fur before. It's almost as if it is made of real gold." Rainbow said as she looked up a bit more excitedly.

                         Without looking up the mare said "My name is Jade, Jade Star"

                          Rainbow didn't know what to think about her odd behavior. Remembering how awesome and fast Jade's flying was  she couldn't hold in her excitement anymore. "C'mon I have to introduce you to my friends." Rainbow said with ever growing excitement at  hopefully making such an awesome friend. Before Jade could reply rainbow grabbed her hoof and pulled her straight into the sky toward Ponyville. Before she was out of earshot Rainbow yelled "Seeya Zecora!" and Zecora just waved her hoof.

                         In less than a minute they were at Twilight's Castle. Jade's Eyes brightened up. "You know Princess Twilight?" Jade said enthusiastically.

                         "Yeah were like the best of of friends. That's how we can wield err... wielded the elements of harmony." This was the first time Rainbow could actually see Jade's eyes and she saw what seemed to be the most beautiful colors she had ever seen. "Wow she's got rainbow eyes just like my mane." rainbow thought as she felt her chest warm up and her stomach tie itself in knots. Suddenly she realized she was staring again and quickly turned to the castle doors to hide her blush. She tried to push them open to find them locked. Jade pointed to something on the door. It was a note from Twilight.

Dear Rainbow Dash,

The girls and I are away on a royal business trip for the day. Please don't worry yourself were only here to help Rarity design some dresses and she knew you would want the day off. There's enough of us to get it done in time for whatever the event is. Celestia hasn't told us yet. We also figured this would be a good chance for you to meet a stallion at the couples moonlight dance tonight at nightfall. The five of us have come together and got you two tickets to take whomever you like. Have fun and well see you tomorrow afternoon.

Sincerely,

Princess Twilight

"Oh." Rainbow thought to herself as she grabbed the tickets off the note."Maybe i'll just leave these her for now." she thought as she returned the tickests to the note.

                 "Well, what does it say." Jade asked curiously.

                 "Oh, yeah sorry it says she and my friends are out for the day. I guess that means we can hang out if you wan't." Rainbow said hopefully.

                  "Uhh... ok?" Jade replied a bit confused.