The story of the sentinel part one

Lightning strike awoke to the sound of his alarm going off. Normally he'd just punch it and sleep in. But today was different, today he was very happy to get up. Today was the day that he got to see his cousins again.

It had been so long since the three had a get together. Lightning decided to get out of bed and headed towards the kitchen for a nice breakfast. He made himself a bowl of cornflakes, sat down and started eating. After he was done he went to the bathroom and took a shower. After the shower was down he dried off, brushed his teeth, and combed his hair. After some time he was ready to leave. As he walked out the door he looked back to his tent.

It was a two story tent, and was very big for a tent. Lightning smiled and then trotted off. In the distance he could see the Crystal Empire. It shimmered in the sunlight making it look very beautiful. But lightning knew that this was no time for sight-seeing he made a promise to his cousin to help him out and he was gonna keep it.

'Wait, I never made such a promise!' Lightning thought. 'Well I make that promise now. I will help my cousins with this difficult task."

Once lightning got to the field he saw the wonderbolts (who were still in disguise wearing golden armor) training for the move. He watched as they circled around a pool of water. He could see what was happening very clearly, he watched as the water started to rise up. Once the water got to the necessary height it splashed up into the air.  Once in the air Lightning saw six clouds, on those clouds were six unicorns in gold armor like the wonderbolts. When the water had splashed up, the unicorns activated their horns. When they did flames came out and struck the splashed water. Doing so the water turned into clouds. On cue the wonderbolts flew up and started molding the cloud into the shape of a dove. Once the shape was made the wonderbolts entered the cloud-shaped dove. Then the unicorns used their magic to change the cloud's colors from white, to red, blue, pink, orange, yellow, and purple. Then the cloud started to move like it was an actual living thing. It soared in the sky's for a bit doing some tricks here and there. For the finale the dove shot strait up into the sky and exploded causing colored rain to drip from the now disintegrated dove.

Lightning just stood there speechless. Never before did he witness something that...that...extraordinary. It was truly amazing.

"That...was...thee...greatest...thing...I...have ever...seen in my life!" Lightning yelled. As he trotted towards the group. He saw some of the guards help down the unicorns on the clouds. He looked around to see were Flash was. But he was nowhere to be seen.

"Hey where's Flash Sentry?" Lightning asked.

One of the wonderbolts walked up to him and spoke,

"Don't know." She shrugged, she was hard to identify cause of the gold armor. "He didn't show up for practice today."

Lightning was worried that Flash had slept in and would get in trouble for not helping. He wouldn't let his cousin get in trouble. If anyone was gonna destroy his life it was gonna be Lightning.

That was a Lightning need to tell him to get Flash. He ran off to get the fool up. When he got to the entrance of the castle two guards blocked the entrance.

"Halt! Name and purpose." One said sternly.

"Name, Lightning Strike. Purpose, need to see my cousin Flash Sentry. Lightning replied.

The guards looked over him carefully. After a while they let him pass. Lightning ran through the halls trying to find Flash's quarter.

"27-A, 28-A, 29-A, 30-A, 31-A, 32-A, 33-A, 34-A, 35-A, 36-A, hello good morning." Lightning stopped say good morning to a guard that was patrolling the hallways. 37-A, 38-A, 39-A, 40-A, 41-A, 42-A, 43-A, 44-A, 45-. Wait." Lightning skidded to halt, while smacking himself in the head for missing the door.

"43-A, Flash's room." Lightning said walking into the room. There he saw Flash lying in his bed, still asleep. He looked at Flash and walked up to him.

"Aww, he looks so peaceful." Lightning cooed.

"ON YOUR HOOVES SENTRY!" Lightning yelled at the top of his lungs. The loud voice made Flash jump up nearly hitting the ceiling. He quickly got up and saluted

"Flash Sentry ready for duty sir! Flash yelled expecting to be lectured by whoever woke him. But instead heard the sound of his cousin Lightning bursting into laughter. He fell on the ground clutching sides from laughing so hard. Flash was but confused at first but then realized what happened. He glared at Lighting.

"Care to explain?" He said a combination of anger and annoyance in his voice.

The still laughing Lightning started to calm down and looked at Flash trying to put on a serious face.

"Well you see (*chuckle*), you slept in and, (*snort*) you were gonna get in trouble if I didn't wake you up." Lightning said between laughs.

Flash calmed down a bit but was still irritated by his cousins prank. But still he did blame himself, after all he was the one that slept in. Once he got to the mess hall he was about to grab a bowl of cornflakes when Lightning stopped him.

"No time for that cuz, we need to get to training those 'new recruits'. He said looking around.

"But what about breakfast?" Flash pleaded.

Lightning the stuffed a breakfast bar into Flash's mouth,

"There, breakfast on the road. Now let's move!" Lightning said pushing Flash towards the stadium. Flash could have easily push lightning back but he knew that his cousin was right, so he grabbed the bar, unwrapped it, and took a bite out of it.

Once they got to the stadium the wonderbolts preformed the trick and waited for Flash's opinion. After some time Flash finally spoke,

"The dove could use some more detail, the wing flight pattern was a bit loose, and the colors were a nice touch. Other than that, it was excellent!" He said delighted.

With the new information, they began to work on the move all day until they got it right. By the end of the day it was time for everypony to head off to bed.

When lightning arrived to his tent he went inside, sat down at the kitchen and made himself a bowl of salad. He was just about to eat his salad when he suddenly sensed that something was...off. He looked around to see what could have caused his sense's to react. When he saw nothing he shrugged and ate his salad.

When Flash had just sat down already eating his salad but stopped when something triggered his sense's. He looked around to see what could have caused his sense's to react. When he found nothing he thought to himself,

'Strange I could have sworn I sensed something. It could be nothing but I shouldn't keep my guard down.'

Soarin was just about to get to bed when just like Flash's and Lightning's sense's were triggered by something unknown. He looked around and found nothing.

'Must just be my imangination.' He thought. And with that he headed off to bed.

Bloodwing had been flying through a blizzard for some time now, it was small fault but it didn't stop him. Just like the other three he too sensed something, only he knew what was.

'Excellent I'm getting closer, now I just need to get through this darn blizzard. I'm pretty sure it'll hold me back a day at least. Get ready sentinel, I'm coming for you.

Soarin awoke to the sound of hooves shaking him.

"Hey sleepy head, time to get up." Said a voice.

"Hmm...no thanks, I think I'll sleep in today." He replied groggy

This made the pony of the voice, to put a smug on her face.

"Okay then, you asked for it."

"Asked for wha-aaaaaah!" Soarin yelled before being kicked on off the bed. The pony that kicked Soarin jumped up on the bed and stared down at him. Soarin stared back at the mare that just kicked him.

"Very funny Spitfire." Soarin said to the mare.

The mare known as "Spitfire" was the captain of the wonderbolts and Soarin's best friend. The two met at the Wonderbolts training academy and graduated there as well.

"come on sleepy head we gotta eat now before the show starts." Spitfire said.

"Alright, alright I'll get going." Soarin replied as the two headed for the kitchen. There they sat down and had themselves, each, a bowl of oats. once Soarin finished he looked at the clock.

'8:36.' He thought. 'Four more hours until the show.'

Once Soarin and spitfire were done eating they put on their armor and headed off. Once they got outside they saw that everypony was doing their daily routine.

'Everypony is acting casual, good they all got the plan.' He thought.

WHAM!

Soarin accidentally bumped into a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane.

"Hey carful were you step...you...uh..." The cyan Pegasus couldn't keep herself from mumbling. And Soarin knew why, this certain Pegasus was the one that saved his pie at the gala, save him and his friends countless times, and is the one and only to pull off the sonic Rainboom!

"Rainbow dash!" Soarin exclaimed. "Just the pony I wanted to see."

"You wanted to see...me?" The mare asked.

"But of course, I needed to give you this letter." Soarin said as he pulled out a letter and gave it to Rainbow dash.

"Well I got to go. See ya!" Soarin said as he began to fly away. Looking back though he could have sworn he saw her faint.

'Did she just-?" Soarin thought but quickly shook the thought away. 'Nah Dash is to cool for that.'

Flash paced himself back and forth awaiting the arrival of Soarin and Spitfire.

"There you are!" Flash shouted as both Spitfire and Soarin walked into the locker room. "What took you so long!?"

"I went to catch up with a friend." Soarin said

"Whatever, we don't have time to argue, let's move.

"Places everypony, places."yelled lightning.

With that Soarin took off and waited for the big suprise to happen.

"Shining can I look yet?" Cadence asked full of excitement.

"No dear you can't. I'll tell you when we get there." Shining armor replied.

"Okay now look." Shining armor said removing his hooves from his wife's eyes. Cadenced opened her eyes to see something pink.

"SURPRISE!!!" Yelled a pink mare with a pink poofy mane. She was pinkie pie.

You know I think I'll stop announcing all the known characters it's getting kinda tiring. Anyways back to the story!

Cadence was stunned at first, not because of pinkie, but because she was the only one there. She looked over pinkies shoulder to see if anyone else was behind her. There wasn't anyone there.

"Dear, where is everypony?" She asked quite puzzled.

"Why their all right behind you."

"Huh?" Cadence said a she spun around.

"SUPRISE!!!!!!!!" Yelled the main six, Luna, Celestia, Discord, and the cutie mark crusaders. It was such a suprise that cadence fell down. Or maybe it was because Luna accidentally used the royal canterolt voice.

Cadence stood up, a bit dazed, and looked at her family and friends. Then looked at the party decorations. The table to the left had sweets, such as ten bowls of candy, four cakes (one vanilla, one chocolate, one mint, and one strawberry), one chocolate fountain, on vanilla fountain, some ice cream, pies, and cookies. On the table to the left was the food. Which was filled with sandwiches, salads, fruits, vegetables, and 5 crates of Apple cider. The entire room had pink, yellow, and purple streamers everywhere, balloons almost everywhere, and confetti all over the floor.

"Wow. I can't believe it. This party is just...wow." She said.

"Well, Discord did helped out with most of it." Fluttershy said looking at Discord.

"Well...yes...I did help." Discord said proudly.

"By help do you mean 'spending an hour picking a theme'. Twilight said.

"Hey my themes were good, you just didn't like them."

"One of them was everypony dressed as sheep!"

"What's wrong with sheep?"

"Alright you two knock it off. We're all here to celebrate cadences birthday." Applejack said.

"I agree so cut the chit chat and let's PARTY!" Yelled pinkie. And with that the games began, after a while it soon became noon and shining armor signaled everypony to head towards the stadium. When everypony was gone shining walked his wife towards the stadium.

"So predict any of this. Dear?" He said grinning.

"I'll admit this was all unexpected. But I doubt that you have any other surprise's left." She said.

"Well prepare to be surprised." Shining said as they walked to the thrones at the stadium. When they stepped outside the entire stadium was full of ponies that all at once yell,

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCESS CADENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The crowd boomed. The noise was so loud it made the canterolt voice sound like a wisper.

"Wow! This is a surprise!" Cadence proclaimed. She looked at her husband and kissed him on the lips. "Thank you so much for these gift shining." She said.

Shinings grin just grew more and more at that statement.

"It's not over yet." He said pointing to the stadium. Cadence, who was now sitting on her thrown next to all her friends, looked down to see twenty-five guard ponies in gold armor. Behind them was a medium sized swimming pool full of water. She looked real closely at them and then realized who they were,

"The new recruits. What surprise do they have me?" Cadence asked.

"Oh you'll see, also there not exactly new recruits." Shining Armor replied.

Cadence looked at him confused when a pony with jet style red hair and orangish body flew above the crowd and held a microphone in his hoof for everypony to hear.

"LAIDES AND GENTAL-COLTS!!!! PUT YOUR HOOVES TOGETHER FOR THE ONE! THE ONLY! THE WONDERBOLTS!!!!! Yelled the orange pony.

"Wonderbolts?" Cadence questioned. Just then the guards ponies took off their armor and threw it into the air, revealing their wonderbolts uniforms. The entire crowd gasped in astonishment, even the four princess gasped in surprise, along with their friends. On cue the wonderbolts began their act.

They started off by creating a tornado around the water causing it to rise and rise. Soon it burst into the sky, then fire came out of six clouds that were above the pool. When the fire hit the water it turned into a bundle of clouds, the wonderbolts stopped creating the tornado  and flew at the cloud. Once they reached it they started to mold it. After a while the wonderbolts molded it into the shape of a dove. And out of nowhere the cloud took on colors. Then the wonderbolts disappeared into the the cloud-shaped dove. Then suddenly as if brought to life the cloud started to flap its wings. It took off and flew around the crowd a couple of times. Then was the time of the finale, the dove shot up into the air and then exploded. But when it did it started to rain. But not just any rain, the rain was colored pink, red, blue, yellow, orange, and purple.

Shining looked to his wife to see her expression. It was priceless, her jaw hit the floor, her eyes were the size of dinner plates, and she was at a lose for words. So was everypony else, they all mimicked her expression. Once the rain had stopped the wonderbolts flew down and took a bow. The whole crowd went berserk! Everything was perfect. Almost perfect.

Flash, Lightning, and Soarin in unison felt something trigger their senses.

'There it is again, no doubt about it, something is off I can feel it.' Thought Lightning.

'Something's triggering my sense, but what? It can't be a coincidence this happened twice something is wrong here.' Flash thought.

'Why is it happening again, what is that, whatever it is it's certainly got my attention.' Soarin thought.

But before the three could act a green lightning bolt struck a wonderbolt clean out of the sky. The entire crowd gasped once again as the wonderbolt plummeted to the ground.