A Dream Come True (A Wonderbolt Story)

Chapter 3 - Flight Training Continues & Eating With The Bolts
By: Sango-Blazer Skies

Cloudsdale Plaza

After a few minutes of flying, Thundershine, Soarin, Dash, and Spitfire finally arrive at Cloudsdale Plaza. Soarin and Spitfire jump off the female wonderbolt's back after they landed on the cloud. While Rainbow made a swift landing onto the cloud. The four ponies could hear their stomachs rumble, together the four just laughed.

"Welcome to Cloudsdale Plaza you three. Not only home to Pie in the Sky Cafe, but also home to one of my favorite shops. Come on, let's do a little exploring before we head to the cafe. My teammates will be here soon", Thunder said, as she started walking.

"Wait!" Soarin beckoned. "Where are we going to explore first?"

"Just follow me", she said.

Soarin, Spit, and Dash went to catch up with the wonderbolt. Since they had 15 minutes to explore, the first place they went to was Clouds Sportsware. As they entered the store, they saw that the store not only had sports equipment. But, also exercise machines, sports wear, and team uniforms. Even so much more.

Thunder looked at the three. "Well, what do you think of the store?"

"I love it! This is totally the store I would come to shop at", Rainbow Dash said eagerly.

"Take a look around rookies, but be sure to stay together", the Co-captain of the bolts said in approval. "Be sure to meet me at the exit in 10 minutes though."

"We will", Soarin, Dash, and Spit said at the same time.

They parted ways. Thunder went to the exit to wait for the three. While she was waiting, she took out a journal from the pocket of her uniform, and a quill in the other pocket. She started writing as she waited.

Meanwhile, the three friends were walking into a section filled with flight uniforms, mainly worn by flight aerial teams. Rainbow, who was too short to reach the hanger, flew right by the rack, then at the spot where a grey flight unform was hanging. She took it from its hanging spot on the rack, flew down, folded her wings, and looked at the uniform with admiration. 'Wow', Rainbow thought.

Soarin and Spitfire trotted next to their friend. "Dash, what are you holding in your hoof?" Dash's pale blue friend asked, questioning her.

Dash just snickered. "A flight uniform Soar."

Soarin and Spitfire take a closer look at the flight uniform. It had white royal swirls painted at he collar, small white spots just above the sleeve, and a small white stripes painted on the sleeves. The tag labeled Aerial Course Uniform.

Thunder is still waiting at the exit, writing in her journal. As she was writing the last sentence down in her journal, she feels a hoof tapping on her shoulder. She turns around to see her friend Stormy Flare.

Thundershine jumped. "Stormy!?! You scared me".

"You should go look for those three Thundershine", Stormy suggested, as she lifted her goggles from her eyes.

"Where are the others?"

"They're waiting at Pie in the Sky for us. I'll meet you there."

"Okay."

Thundershine waved to her friend, who left in the direction of her other teammates who were also headed to Pie in the Sky Cafe. She walked further into the store looking for Soarin, Spitfire, and Dash.

"Soarin? Spitfire? Rainbow Dash? Where are you three?" a voice called. The voice was three aisles away. "It's time to go eat. My teammates are already here."

The three hear Thundershine calling them. They put the flight uniform back in its hanger and left the aisle. After leaving the aisle, they see Thundershine walking towards them.

"There you three are", the wonderbolt said. "Ready to go eat at Pie in the Sky?"

"Yeah!" Together, they exited the Clouds Sportswear and into the direction of the cafe.

Easyglider, Stormy Flare, Rainbow Spectrum, Flash, Fire Blaze, Firefly, Purple Dart, Wind Rider, and Fairyweather were already at Pie in the Sky waiting for their teammate. While they waited, they chatted about their daily lives and many other things.

"Guys, it's been 5 minutes and our little sis hasn't even step through the restaurant door yet", Easyglider said, as he looked at the clock on the wall. "It's almost 11:20, where is she?"

"Can you be patient Glide?" Firefly said to him, as she gave him a dirty look.

Easyglider rolls his eyes."Ooh, of course I will Firefly", he says.

Firefly and Easy continue their conversation.

"I know your sister way better than you do", the pink mare said, challenging him.

"Oh really, well what's my sister's favorite color?"

"It's dark navy blue".

"What was her favorite thing to do in flight school?"

"Fly, duh".

"Okay..what made her the highest ranking Bolt?"

"Through intense military training of course".

Easy snickers. "Yeah right, obvious choice. Wrong".

"What!?! That's what she told me".

"She did?". Easy was quite surprised. "When did she tell you?"

"Before we became wonderbolts you idiot".

"I told you not to call me that".

Firefly snickers at him.

As Firefly and Easyglider continue bickering like fillies fighting over a piece of candy, Thunder finally arrives opening the door behind her, along with three other youngsters who entered the door in front of her.

Easyglider stops his bickering with Firefly, gets up from his seat, and walks over to his little sister. "Sis, what took you so long?"

"Hey big brother. Sorry I took so long, we kinda lost our way trying to find the cafe. We had to ask other ponies for directions, and I had to wait for those three.." She points to Soarin, Spitfire, and Dash. "..to be done using the bathroom".

Easyglider points his hoof at the three young ponies standing next to his sister. "Who are these three young ponies?"

"Easy, meet Soarin, Spitfire, and Rainbow Dash."

Soarin, Spitfire and Dash wave at Thundershine's older brother.

Easy called for his two teammates. "Hey Firefly, Spectrum. Your little Dashie's here".

Dash's parents get up from their seats to go and their greet their daughter.

"Hey Dashie, how's my little girl been?" Spectrum says, giving his daughter a noogie.

"I've been good dad", Rainbow Dash said, nuzzling her father.

Seeing that Dash's father is a wonderbolt, Soarin's mouth opens in shock.

'I can't believe it, Dash's parents are wonderbolts. I've heard so much about Spectrum and Firefly, my dad always talks about them everyday. This is a dream come true, I'm finally meeting the rest of the members'.

Spectrum notices Soarin's shocked expression, and immediately falls to the ground laughing hard. After about a minute, he gets up from the floor and walks over to Soarin.

"You seem to be fan of us. What's your name kid?" he says.

"N-n-n-names Soarin", Soarin said, stuttering.

"Mom!" Spitfire said, as she saw a pony she recognized immediately.

The bright yellow filly runs up to another yellow mare in a wonderbolt uniform. "Spitfire, hey. How have you been? Did you like training with Thundershine?"

"Whoa mom, slow down. I've been good. It was actually really fun to train with Thunder. Wait mom, did you grow up with her?"

Stormy nods. "I did grow up with her. How can you tell?"

"Well, you two seem really close."

"We are. Thundershine and I knew each other since we were in diapers."

Spitfire was shocked. "What?! Really?!"

Stormy laughs. "Yup".

As the group continued chatting and catching up with one another, the waiter came to take their order. "Ready to order?" he asks. "Yes", Spitfire's mother says. "We'll have our usual".

The waiter nodded. "Alright then, your food will arrive in about 20 minutes". After taking their order, the waiter walks off to the next table to write down another order.

Flash breaks the silence. "Okay, this is awkward. What do you guys want to talk about?"

"Dunno bro", Thundershine shrugs, as she looks at her brother.

"Little sis? I was also wondering where you've been, since you never told me", Flash said, as he made eye contact with his little sis.

Thunder facehoofed. "Flash, I already told the same thing to Easy. Alright, since you wanna know. Before I finally made my way to Pie in the Sky, I got lost. So, I had to ask for directions. Before I was able to finally open the door, I had to wait for Soarin, Spit, and Dash to finish using the bathroom. There, that's your answer".

Flash starts teasing her. "Ooo, it seems Blue Streak was right, you do have a soft side".

Thunder's face reddens. "Spot it big bro, your a tease".

Soarin was sitting next to Rainbow Dash's mother and father. While sitting at the table, he hears his father's name being mentioned by Flash himself. 'Blue Streak? That's my father's name. Could they be related to him? My father did tell me that he grew up with three siblings. But, he never told me whether they were boys or girls. Dad, what were you not telling me?' the young pale blue colt thought.

The folks were talking for the past 15 minutes. They took sips from their glasses of water every now and then. Five minutes ticked by and their food was eventually served. Their meal consisted of several hayburgers, sweet potato fries, assortments of soups, apple pie, and apple juice. Soarin chose to eat the apple pie, Spitfire chose to eat a hayburger and sweet potato fries, while Rainbow chose to drink an assorted veggie soup.

"Mmm, this soup is tasty", Rainbow Dash said, as she slurped while her holding her spoon with her hoof.

The other wonderbolts notice Soarin eating sloppily into his pie, they just laughed. Soarin looks up from eating his apple pie, he sees the other members of the team laughing at him. The colt immediately blushes, and slowly gobbles down his pie instead.

"Son, you're such a messy eater", a voice calls from outside. It was Soarin's father Blue Streak Skies, who was also Flash's, Easyglider's, and Thundershine's older brother was outside the restaurant window watching them eat.

"Dad? What are you doing here?" the pale blue colt asked, as he turned from the pie in front of him.

"Well son, before I give you an explanation. Can I at least eat with you and your friends? I'm starving", Blue Streak said.

"Sure dad, come on in". The colt gets up from his seat, and goes to the open the door for his father.

Blue Streak walks in, his siblings could tell his stomach was rumbling. His three younger siblings could hear their brother's stomach rumble so loudly, that the three just laughed.

"Really big brother, you come in for lunch at a time like this? It's almost noon", Flash said, laughing.

Streak rolls his eyes. "Flash, you knew I had to."

Soarin looks at his dad confused. "Dad, you know him?"

Blue Streak sighs. "Soarin, I think's it's time I told you a little story. You see, the three pegasai you just met today are my siblings." Soarin gawks his mouth open. Noticing his son's funny reaction, Blue Streak chuckles. "Anyway, where I was I? Oh right."

He continues his sentence. "I was born to two fast flying parents, Dawning Sunset and Orion Skies. They had four children: me, Flash, Easyglider, and Thundershine. All three of us were born and raised in Cloudsdale. When my siblings and I were younger, we loved telling jokes, eating the same foods, pranking our parents, read the same books, but most importantly...we loved flying fast together. I remembered that every morning when we woke up, we would go flying before breakfast. But, as time went by, we grew apart. We had different dreams for the future. My three younger siblings wanted to be really successful flyers, and they were able to achieve that dream by becoming the founding members of the Wonderbolts."

"Dad, when did they become wonderbolts?"

"I don't remember son, maybe you should ask them", Soarin's father said, pointing to his three younger siblings.

Soarin nodded. "Okay". And went back to finishing his apple pie.

Time flew by fast for the other members, they continued chatting until it was time for them to head back to practice. "Guys, we gotta go the stadium and practice for our 2:00PM show. Little sis, we'll meet you there after your teaching session is done at Summer Flight Camp", Flash said facing his sister, then to the others. "See ya guys at the stadium", Thundershine called. Flash waved to Thundershine, the other members waved as well. She waved back as they headed out the door.

After about a second, Soarin gobbled down the last remaining pieces of his pie. He looked around the table. "Dad, where did they go?"
"Son, they just left. Anyways, I gotta get back to work at the weather factory". He kissed his son's forehead. "I'll meet you at the stadium just in time for the wonderbolt's airshow, my shift is over then". Blue Streak waved to his son as he walked out the door. Soarin walks to the window and puts his hoof on the glass, he sees his father walking a few blocks, then taking off into the sky towards the weather factory.

Thundershine opens the door. "Soarin, Spitfire, Dash. It's time to head back to Flight Camp." The three follow the wonderbolt as she was the first one to head out the door, she closed the door behind them. Soarin and Spifire jumped onto her back, while Dash decided to fly on her own like before. Together, they took off back to Flight Camp.

To be continued.