To Fight!

Luna was in the her room sleeping when she remembered that Twilight and her friends will be coming over to train with the royal guards she quickly got out of bed and into her bathroom where she went through her morning routine like every pony else she brushed her teeth and ate breakfast she walked into the main throne room where she met up with Spike and Princess Celestia "Hello Spike" she greeted.

"Hey princess Luna sorry but you just missed Twilight and the others they went into this cool portal and now I don't know where they are." Spike said.

"oh I know where they are but tis a shame I could not greet them personally" Luna said with a minor disappointment in her tone, princess Celestia moved closer to her ear.

"I will be taking Spike to court 100 he will need to learn as well and about his special ability" Celestia whispered as she moved away from her, Luna nodded in understanding.

"what did you say princess?" Spike asked but he already knew that she would not answer.

"Don't worry you'll find out soon enough" Celestia said to Spike giggling, Spike looked at Celestia suspiciously but soon brushed it off. Luna and Celestia both gathered to summon another portal it looked exactly like the other portals once the portal was stable Luna decided to leave and Celestia also left into the portal with Spike.

Luna was in the castle library as she walked past several bookcases of amazing and useful spells like the knockout spell or the summon spells she came across a scroll case she pushed a scroll deeper into its case and a secret door appeared "I always did miss the secret passage ways in the old castle, and it's way too cliché and boring to pull a book from a bookcase, it's all about that new pushing scrolls method." Luna thought to herself in nostalgia as she entered the entrance to the secret passage way smiling, shortly after it closed behind her.

Meanwhile back in court 97.

"Let's fight!" Rainbow Dash was asking Falling Star over and over again and every time he declined "But why?" Rainbow asked.

"Because you're going to lose, now let's focus I need you to go high in the air and move around this obstacle course." Falling said pointing to a series of obstacles made out of clouds.

"But I want to fight!" Rainbow complained "Plus that course is impossible to do at a fast time, there aren't enough space between clouds to move without losing speed and momentum." Rainbow explained and she was right it was a tight squeeze.

Falling raised an eyebrow and grinned "Really? well I'll bet you 5 bits I can do it in 18 seconds or less." he said boastfully.

"Bullshit! I'll bet you 10!" Rainbow shouted she prepared a timer and Falling got into a start-up position "3... 2... 1... GO!" Rainbow started the countdown and Falling was already gone "I can't wait to see him crash!" Rainbow thought but as Falling got to the first obstacle he passed through it easy, Rainbow wasn't surprised "The first one's easy but here's where he burns" Falling only smiled at the second ring he shifted his wings and body and let the wind carry him through the rings.

Rainbow's jaw dropped and Falling returned to pick it back up, he checked his time which read: 16.00 he then raised a hoof towards Rainbow Dash "Where's my 10 bits" he grinned, Rainbow grumbled and gave him 10 bits.

"How the heck did you do that?!" Rainbow asked expectantly.

"You saw it didn't you?" Falling said pointing to his wings "I have complete maneuverability over my wings and when the wind is favorable, I can move almost anywhere, instantly." Rainbow's jaw dropped for the second time "If your skills are good enough, you can do it in a week." Falling said.

Rainbow mumbled to herself "Shift my wings huh?" She shifted her wings and she crashed into an obstacle course right next to her, Falling's jaw dropped.

"Never mind, if you work hard you'll be able to do it today." Falling said.

"No way that hurt way too much just to shift my wings." Rainbow complained.

"Her wings are so flexible, if she masters this she might be able to fly perfectly while at the speed of the Sonic Rainboom. Falling thought to himself, Falling wanted Rainbow to learn how to do this but she refused so he added... motivation " okay um... Oh! if you finish this obstacle course within 20 seconds I'll fight you!" that did it, Rainbow instantly got up and began to stretch.

"Okay obstacle course you're going down!" Rainbow flew to the first cloud but got caught by Falling before she got through.

"Baby steps Rainbow, baby steps" Falling told rainbow to instead of shifting her wings instantly slowly do it and get a feel for how to fly this way "okay now keep doing that for a while, it's up to you to gradually get faster at it." Falling said as he floated down to Pinkie Pie.

"Wow you sure know how to fly Falling, I never thought that Dashie would have to learn how to fly again" Pinkie said with her usual excitement.

"Yeah well, she's already an amazing flyer but now let's focus on what you'll be doing." Falling said blushing at the compliment.

"yeah about that why am I with you? I mean shouldn't I be with Magnus since he is also an earth pony" Pinkie asked.

Falling cleared his throat "Good question, but unlike most earth ponies you have an amazing amount of stamina and agility, just like a Pegasus's, no scratch that even better since wings won't keep you down, so I will train you to take advantage of that." as Falling explained he led Pinkie to a wide flat part of the desert "Okay this place is great, what I want you to do is simple" Falling pointed to a cactus that was very far away "run from here, to there by that cactus as fast as you can." the distance was 2 km away, Pinkie only nodded, still smiling. Falling got ready, he flew fast to the other end "Okay! 1! 2! 3! Go!".

Pinkie Pie's smile stretched from one side of her face to the other, she got in a start-up position and repeatedly grinded her hoof against the ground like a bull and like a bull she puffed air out he noise, in one instant when Falling hit 1 she blasted towards the cactus with rings of sliced air behind her every step, Falling didn't even flinch at her speed but over a few short seconds he started sweating but Pinkie started to yell in joy "Waaaa hooooooooooo!!!!".

Falling started to get his wings ready to fly away "Uh... she's not stopping... OH SHIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!!!" he managed to dodge Pinkie's swift kick and flew back "Hey, what was that for?" he asked keeping his wings ready to fly away in an instant, with his hooves up in a battle stance.

Pinkie only ginned ominously but when she raised her head she had a big smile "Dashie isn't the only one who wants to fight you!" Pinkie said and right then; Falling had a face of surprise "If I beat you then I can take on any bad guy that tries to hurt my friends!" Pinkie Pie right then issued a challenge to Falling Star!

Falling started to laugh which started to make Pinkie feel belittled but he spoke his true feelings "If you want to beat me then you're going to have to prove that even if I beat you within an inch of your life, you will keep on fighting and never give up but most of all..." his voice became darker and very intimidating and a big shadow loomed over Pinkie as the sun began to set "DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE ROYAL GUARDS" before Pinkie even realized it Falling was already behind her and she was shaking like crazy "But for now we're buddies, come on Rainbow looks like she's done her training let's go." and he left as Pinkie slowly followed him towards Rainbow dash.

Pinkie was shaking and thought "oh boy! I can't wait to fight him I'm going to mess, him, up!" she was excited to do battle with somebody that could challenge her on a level beyond her, before Pinkie left to Canterlot she visited Zecora to ask if she knew about "Celestia's three Royal Guards", she entered her hut and was welcomed with a greeting that rhymed as usual "Hey wassup Zecora!" Pinkie greeted "Hey do you know anything of Celestia's three Royal Guards?" and Zecora slightly flinched enough for Pinkie to notice.

"Yes, why do you ask?" and Pinkie was in complete shock when Zecora asked what was wrong, Pinkie only shook her head and said nothing.

"That was the first time Zecora didn't rhyme!" She thought, "Are these Royal Guards that special?" throughout that evening Zecora told legends of these brave heroes that were found by Celestia and in their wake no evil can reach the hearts of the ponies in Equestria, Pinkie was amazed at these ponies and she now had one more thing to aspire to be... a hero.

"Ok! let's see what you can do!" Falling shouted at Rainbow, it reminded her of her wonder-bolts academy instructor as she got ready to finish the course previously done by him.

"Ready!" Rainbow wasn't in a normal start stance used to give extra acceleration at the start of her flight, it made Falling smirk.

"Ok, she's got the starting stance down, you don't want speed to start with you want control." Falling thought as he got ready to press the button on the stop watch "3!... 2!... 1!... GO!" Falling pressed the button and rainbow raced of to the first ring, she swayed her body to the left to avoid the first obstacle and then she shifted the position of her wings, it caught enough wind and moved her safely to the side, she repeated this process until she came up to the final ring and she passed it flawlessly just like Falling. Rainbow Dash returned to Falling to check her time and Falling showed her the stop watch it read: 19.26 SEC she had made it through the condition and won the right to fight Falling Star a royal guard of incredible power.

"Wow I haven't even broken a sweat, this is amazing!" Rainbow yelled to herself in victory.

"Yeah well why would you? The wind is doing all the work." Falling said.

Rainbow could hardly contain herself "Okay1 NOW LET'S FIGHT!" she shouted to Falling and he only sighed then said "A deal's a deal" they both got into fighting stances which surprised Falling "she's no stranger to fighting, with the new technique I showed her, she could actually beat me down a notch!" Falling thought but no pony moved, only silence as the dust brushed by and Rainbow cut the air and dust and was already an inch away from Falling but he managed to back off "So she made the first move, time to pay her back!" he seemed to float for a moment before slowly hovering to the side but each time he did a little afterimage stayed behind him until he surrounded Rainbow with his afterimages "This... this is unreal!" every where she looked there was Falling there watching her, she struck one of them but her hoof went inside of the afterimage and the afterimage just faded away.

Meanwhile in Luna's secret lair

Luna was sitting at a chair and in front of her was a monitor that showed Twilight talking with Stell and she had hoof up to her head "Boo-ring let's see how Rainbow and Falling is doing." she pressed a button and it changed what was on the monitor and Luna saw Rainbow Dash surrounded by lots of Fallings and she instantly knew what was happening, she left her chair and returned later with a bunch of popcorn and soda bottles "Hell yes! Rainbow is going to fight Falling, this should be great!" Luna mumbled as she filled her mouth with popcorn.

Back in the Desert

Rainbow was punched straight in the jaw and the blow was enough to send her flying "Ughghghg! this isn't good with him surrounding me like this, I'm a sitting duck like this, I need to blow him back and fight him... with that!" Rainbow just exploded and punched and swung her hooves everywhere, Falling didn't expect this from her and was blown back "Damn... I guess she's a bit rougher than I thought." Rainbow quickly took advantage of this and flew as high as fast as she could "Wait! is she going to use the Rainboom on me!... not good I have to stop her before she reaches a good enough height to start or else I'm going to get it!" Falling knew her plan and quickly rushed after her "Well I guess he caught on faster than I expected but!" Rainbow was reaching her destination faster than Falling could catch up.

"Shit! she has a good point I need to fall back and avoid her rainboom" Rainbow stopped in mid-air and began free fall then... when she got more speed she reached her hooves in front of her, she was cutting the air around her and she was going even faster... then soon after she was only a blur and a Rainbow trail was fading in and out then... Boom! there was a large explosion of colors and Falling covered his eyes to not get dust in them "Oh no... where is she? I only took my eyes of her for a second!" Falling rapidly looked around and could not see Rainbow Dash but still heard a loud sound that was as if there was a plane taking off in your eardrums, "Wait a minute..." as soon as Falling looked around him he noticed that the clouds were surrounding him like a tornado and he was in the center!, he sent away his afterimages away as they would be useless to him.

"I've seen this before, She's trapped me and she's going to strike from... above!" Falling looked above and saw Rainbow Dash approaching him as a rainbow blur and there was no place for him to go anymore! Rainbow dash hit the ground and the explosion was big enough to blast away the clouds into oblivion, all Falling could see was a white void and the ground being incinerated into nothing and the same thing was happening to him, he turned his head and saw Rainbow floating high above him with a look that said "You lost!" Falling was infuriated and jumped after her Rainbow was shocked "He still going after me?!" Rainbow thought "Do not underestimate me! I will not be taken down with one hit!" He was pissed and flew as fast as he could to Rainbow Dash "Ahhhhhhhhh!" they both screamed, neither backed down and both hit full force with their hooves but only one was still standing...

Falling Star was high above Rainbow dash, she was lying on the floor staring at the stars, the rainboom that she hit the ground with moved the sky apart and revealed the space and star even though it was still daytime, it was only one patch of the sky that you could see the stars with and above Falling Star was above her, he was panting with cuts and bruises all over his body but even then his face showed no weakness it was as if he wasn't hurt at all and that face said "No! I Win!" Rainbow tried to get up but still couldn't even move her wings, she stared up high at him "Heh you win this one but I'll win next time! I guess this time... you're the star." and Falling nodded, he understood but while he was up there he really felt like a star like all around him.

Pinkie saw this and only grinned "I guess it won't be that easy, Dashie."

Later that day they left and Rainbow Dash healed enough to follow, they arrived to a frightened Fluttershy which was a common sight but something was different then they left through the Portal and was greeted by Celestia, Spike, and Luna with a bit of popcorn and then they left with the train but secretly without the others knowing as they were asleep on the train, Rainbow Dash came up to Twilight "Hey Twilight?" Twilight turned her head "Yes?" Twilight responded and noticed Rainbow Dash was a bit upset "Lets become strong okay?" Rainbow uttered, remembering her loss that day, Twilight smiled "Yeah we will" she said but then Rainbow Dash got closer to Twilight "then promise me, Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly, Stick a Cupcake in my Eye!" Twilight then noticed how much more serious Rainbow was and remembered her own shortcoming that day and did the Pinkie Promise "We will definitely become stronger, that's a Promise!" Twilight was serious then as well, Rainbow then relaxed "Good." she muttered then fell asleep.