Pushing Too Hard

It was a nice sunny day, a good morning for flying and the entire Wonderbolt team was assembled and ready for training day.

"Okay everypony," Spitfire started. "I don't want any slacking off today, yesterday felt pretty slow to me and I don't want another day like that! I want working ponies! Hard working ponies who want to be the best of the best, the fastest of the fastest and the strongest of them all!" Spitfire trotted slowly back and forth eyeing everypony with her strong glare.

"So, to start of today, I want everypony to do 100 laps around with no stopping, alright!?" Spitfire said loudly.

"Yes Ma'am!" they all said in unison. Each of them looked at each other as if they were challenging each other, with smirks on their face and looks of determination in their smiles.

"Go!" she blew her whistle and they were off, treading around every corner and avoiding each other while avoiding the clouds. The wind was pretty strong and Rainbow Dash was aware of this. She fought against the wind and flapped her wings as hard as she could. She passed all of the Wonderbolts and smirked when she realized it. After the 100 laps, everypony landed, without looking tired or irritated, even though inside they were.

Spitfire nodded in approval. "Mmkay, start your training now, like I said, I want hard working ponies and if I find you slacking off there will be consequences. Got it?"

"Yes Ma'am!"

It was a long hard day of training for Rainbow Dash and the crew. It was the same as any other day it just, Rainbow Dash wasn't feeling herself that day. She didn't feel bad but she didn't feel good. She woke up that morning not wanting to eat anything and just wanting her bath time to be longer. But she still managed to get to practice.

As she trained she found times that she would talk to Soarin. It was evening and time to go rest and today was a day that she had a long, interesting conversation with him.

"Hey Soarin." said Rainbow with an awkward smile on her face.

Soarin looked at her with a slight smile. Rainbow Dash knew he was a hard worker, especially since he was a really really fast flyer, but not as fast as Rainbow. "Hey Dash, how ya doing?"

"Eh, I'm okay. It's getting pretty late and I think I'm gonna head on in. Are you going in early?"

Soarin though for a moment.She might be going in early, so maybe I should! "Yeah, I'm going in early. I'm *yawn* a little plum tuckered out as your friend Applejack would say." Soarin said with a smirk.

Rainbow chuckled. "Well, come on. Let's go before Spitfire yells at us for 'flirting' Ha!" Rainbow said as she laughed. Soarin laughed along with her. Rainbow Dash thought of Soarin as a really good friend. She could trust him with many many secrets and he was just as fast as she was. But Soarin thought of her a different way, somepony much closer.

They both parted ways and walked into their locker rooms, hung up their suits and wiped themselves down with towels. Just when Rainbow Dash least expected it, she felt a wave of heat overcome her and a slight nauseous feeling but she didn't puke, she just felt a terrible pain in her stomach, at least she thought it was her stomach. Soarin on the other hand, thought about Rainbow and felt a wave of heat overcome him and it made him feel good, very good. But then he snapped out of it. Quick.

"Ugh, what is this?" Rainbow Dash asked herself. "No matter, it's probably nothing. I gotta stay strong, we have a performance tomorrow!" She continued to repeat to herself: Stay Strong, Stay Strong. and it seemed to work.

Later, Rainbow and Soarin met in the hallways and told each other goodnight before hitting the hay. But when morning came, things took a turn for the worse.

Soarin woke up with a large yawn and then a big hop out of this bed. He went to go to the bathroom to comb his mane when he heard the most peculiar noise come from the mare bathroom.

It sounded weird to him but it did sound familiar to him. It sounded like:

"Blalalalarbrbrbrbaahahah!" Or something like that.

"Hm?" Who could be making a weird noise like that? He asked himself. He took a few steps closer and pressed his ear on the door. Then there was a sound of the toilet flushing and the sink running. Soarin removed his ear from the door and sat outside of the bathroom doors and saw that Rainbow Dash was the one that came out of the bathroom. Rainbow Dash jumped backward when she saw Soarin. She looked like she had just drained herself of energy. Either that, or mornings weren't perfect for her.

"Um, Hey! Good morning!" said Rainbow nervously.

"What just happened in there?"

"Oh nothing. I was just brushing my teeth, heh. Don't wanna, you know, be talking to ponies and... you know."

"You brush your teeth like that? You were making an awful lot of noise in there... are you sure you're okay or is something wrong or..."

"There's nothing wrong Soarin! I'm fine!" then Rainbow Dash trotted by and didn't say another word.

Ponies don't brush their teeth like that. At least not sounding like that. I don't think Rainbow was just brushing her teeth, I think more things happened in there. Soarin thought. When it came to Rainbow Dash, Soarin wanted to make sure she was okay. There was no way Rainbow Dash was getting by Soarin without him noticing something about her. So Soarin decided to watch her behavior that day, no matter if it was weird or not.