The Rainbow Dash Challenge

"You are sooo going to lose Star," Shadow said in a devious tone as if he could foretell the future. He knew that star was so going to lose. She had her Twilight EGG HEAD sparkle, but she could never be as awesome as Rainbow Dash.

"So what's the first challenge you have that I can prove my AWSOMENESS!" Shadow says as he puts on some really cool looking sunglasses.

*Ten minutes later*

Shadow chuckled to himself saying, "are you serious? This is the first challenge?" He pointed his hoof to the checklist she was holding. It had a list of various activities. The first one was Cloud busting.

"You could at least come up with some better challenges than this. Even a young Pegasus colt could do this,"he chuckled

"Oh you will find it more difficult than you think it is Shadow. Not only do you have to bust clouds, but you have to do it in 10...seconds....flat. Just like RD can. When you finish you have to clear that apple tree." She pointed to a large apple tree across the clearing.

"Okay. Now that is more like it!"he said,  grinning evilly as if he knew he was going to win.

Looking up, he saw the sky was mostly clear, save for a section about a mile long. It looked as if Star had some clouds just thrown out there in the open for him to bust. They were white and about the size of two apple carts. The ones he usually busted were about the size of one cart, but he was sure they would still be sinch. Flying up, he landed on a long, thin cloud. Two specially made poles with a banner that said "START" were placed in the cloud.

In a burst of bright light, Star teleported herself there using the familiar cloud spell. She held the checkard flag that would be used along with a sports watch. Shadow preformed a few warm up stretches before bending his knees in the position he needed for a good take off.

"Ready....."

"Set....."

"Gooooo.....!"

Her blue and purple stripped mane were blown across her face as he sped by on wings of lighnting speed.

"Pomf."

"Pomf."

"Pomf."

"Pomf.""Pomf.""Pomf.""Pomf."

"Pomf."

Each cloud was destroyed as fast as his hooves could fly. He thought he wouldn't break a sweat doing it, but the clouds proved tougher than they looked. He was almost exhausted by the tenth cloud. 5 Seconds had passed and only have of the clouds had dissapppeared. He was not only sweating from exhaustion, but...though he would never admit it....he was nervous he couldn't do it. That didn't stop him from trying to go faster. He kicked as fast as his hooves would go, he even flew through the clouds at times. Though that techunique was faster, it also blurried his vision, causing a minor setback in direction.

6......7.......8.....

He didn't have time to take it carefully. Putting in full throtel, he made a bee line for the clouds. He couldn't see, but it didn't matter. He need to bust before time was up. As the second 9 approached he flew with all his might. If he had been a bit higher and were flying straight down, he could of possibly caused a Sonic Rainboom!

"Pomf."....8.8 secs....."Pomf."....8.9......"Pomf.".....9.0....."Pomf."....9.1....."Pomf.""Pomf.""Pomf.""Pomf.""Pomf."!

One by one he went through until...he saw it. Clear blue sky! He had done it. All the clouds were gone. He was about to stop and spend his few fleets seconds on the apple tree, but it wasn't neccasry. He was already heading straight for it! He tried to stop, but was unable. As he got closer, he braced himself for the impact.

Crash!

The tree shook at the wait of the unwelcome intuder. After some tumbling, he manged to fall out of the tree....along with all the apples!

"And....Time!" Star yelled. Using her maigic, she teleported to her ingured friends side. He had a few brusis and his sweat poured down his panting face.

"He....pant*....how.....pant*...did.....I....pant*...do?" he gasped.

Giving an irritated sigh, she should him the watch.

9.9

"Yes!" he yelled victouresly as he tried to stand.

"I did it!"

"Yeah, well that was round one. Now you only have to complete 19 more rounds." she said.

"nine....nineteen more rounds?" He said before dropping to the ground in a faint.