Rainbow Dash's Journal

"I bet you won't even get out of the gates, Rainbow CRASH!"

"Heh heh. Yeah, Rainbow CRASH!"

The little cyan filly growled as she stared forward through the gates at the cloud-based race track. While she was confident in her totally awesome flying skills, the two colts taunting her really got under her skin.

She tried to glare at them but she gasped in surprise. The two colts that she could swear were JUST THERE were gone. They were replaced with copies of herself. Rainbow mane and everything. They both smirked at her.

"What's wrong, Rainbow Crash?" asked the Less-Awesome Rainbow Clone, "Getting cold hooves?"

"Yeah! Ready to give up before you embarrass yourself?" taunted the Totally-Uncool Rainbow Clone.

Rainbow Dash stared at them with complete confusion. She shook her head, trying to clear it, and focused forward. After all, she had a race to win. No amount of...weird stuff was gonna stand in her way. Not while both her and Fluttershy's honor were on the line. No, this was not the day to lose.

The yellow pegasus stood on a cloud just outside the gate, holding the starting flag in her teeth. She seemed very uncomfortable. As if standing on that small cloud floating hundreds of meters above the ground was terrifying. She was kinda cute in a way.

Rainbow Dash shook her head again. This was not the time to think about that. Those feelings were distracting and icky. She focused really hard on the track, planning every maneuver down to the feather. Fly up, dive slightly, bank left, bank right, fly up, bank-

The waving flag snapped Rainbow Dash out of her thoughts. With a powerful flap, she and her clones shot past Fluttershy at amazing speeds.

Fluttershy leaned dramatically back and fell over the edge of her cloud. She screamed as the wind flew past her face. She tried to yell for help but the wind drowned out her words. Tears rapidly fell up from her eyes as she cried. In a moment of realization she opened her wings out from her side. They were immediately pushed back by the strong wind. She pushed as hard as she could with her wings but they didn't as much as twitch. Another stream of tears as the ground swiftly approached, fear flooding the filly. She flipped herself over in an attempt to call to somepony on the ground.

There was no pony in sight as she seemed to be falling towards a forest clearing. Animals darted about and turned their heads up to watch. Squirrels, bunnies, birds, and even the bees watched the falling filly in horror.

Fluttershy tried one last time to call out for help. This time calling for her mother and father as pure fear coursed through her. To her surprise a cloud began to form under her made out of butterflies.

She fell through the clouds, screaming as the butterflies were squished under her. Then there was a thump and the forest was silent.

Meanwhile Rainbow Dash built speed on top of speed as she flew. She felt like she was approaching a weird limit as she continued speeding up. Suddenly her vision was filled with rainbows as she broke the invisible sound barrier, achieving the legendary Sonic Rainboom.

Rainbow glided as she bled off speed rapidly. Once she had reached manageable speeds, she banked right and did a U-turn. She was so ready to rub it in those bullies' faces. Her eyes drifted to the rainbow ring that was traveling outwards from the Rainboom. She watched as the bottom half began colliding with the ground and disappearing.

That's when she saw it. A jarring yellow shape on a red background.

Rainbow Dash squinted hard at the shape to get more detail. Yellow with some pink and red. That shape it seemed very pony-like...very familiar. Then it hit her.

"FLUTTERSHY!"