Story of the Punk Pony

“Punk! Where the buck are you?!”

Hard Rock was looking around for his brother, soaring through Cloudsdale to in hope of finding his younger brother. He reached the limits of the cloud the flying city stood on, and there was his brother. Punk Rock was sitting at the ledge of the cloud, his large wings folded as he stared at the ground below. Hard Rock flew next to his brother, walking up to him only to be snapped at.

“What are you doing here.”

“Looking for you! Today is our flight test and you weren’t at school at all! Do you REALLY want to fail?!”

“What’s the point!?” Punk spun around, his wings extended in his rage, spread out wide as part of his mane covered half his face. “You’ve always been the strong flyer! I can barely stay off the ground and YOU expect me to fly like you can? Get away.”

The tone was cold. Hard Rock just looked at his brother, letting the words sink in.

“So what do you plan on doing? Just keep looking down at the ground? Your sister s are looking for you also. Could you at least come to watch…?”

Punk snorted and folded his wings again, spitting into the cloud beneath him.

“Why? So I can just feel worse about myself? I always came to you three when I need to learn how to fly, but I had to learn all on my own. I was ALWAYS neglected by you all… But even then I stayed at your sides… Being loyal to you all and still being there when YOU needed me. Whenever I needed one of you, you all just flew off knowing I couldn’t catch up.”

Hard Rock grew silent, taking a few steps back, tears starting to appear in his eyes from his brother’s words.

“I’m going to Ponyville.”

Before Hard Rock could say a thing, Punk jumped off the ledge of the cloud, taking a free fall for the ground. Hard Rock was in shock for a second before jumping off also and flying straight for his brother. Punk unfolded his wings and took flight, more so gliding then actual flying. The air stream let Punk go much faster than ever before, going straight for Ponyville. Hard Rock narrowed in, hoping to catch up with his brother before a rainbow bolt struck him from the sky to the ground. Punk Rock still flew, heading straight for Ponyville.

“AHH!! Who the BUCK hi-!! …”

Hovering above the grounded Hard Rock was the rainbow mane anypony could recognize.

“I did. Fly back to Cloudsdale and let Punk go. You were never there for him anyway.”

Rainbow Dash bolted off back towards Ponyville, Hard Rock stumbling up and rubbing his head, the impact shaking him up a bit. He looked around, being in the middle of the Everfree Forrest. He quickly flew up and looked at the direction of Ponyville, closing his eyes and flying back sorrowfully to Cloudsdale.

***

“Hey sport… How you holding up?”

Rainbow Dash went up to Punk Rock who was curled up on top of Twilight Sparkle’s house. The brown Pegasus turned to Rainbow Dash and closed his eyes, curling up again.

“I feel so betrayed… Like I lost the only friends I ever had…”

Rainbow sat next to Punk and put a wing around him. “Not all your friends. You still have me, Twilight, and Black Veil. You’ll be fine here in Ponyville, I know it.”

“Just leave me be for right now Rainbow…? I need sometime alone…”

“Of course sport. See you later,” she said as she flew up and flew off into the sky. Punk stayed curled up hidden in the tree, having no intentions of leaving for a while.