Jamie and Lyra went inside. It was chilly out, and they were hungry. Naturally, Jamie didn't turn down the offer of free food.

“Don't tell Bon Bon that you are normally not a pony. In fact, don't mention humans at all. Okay?” Lyra said.

“Alright, my lips are sealed.” Jamie replied.

They entered the house and saw an earth pony rushing around, carrying baking sheets full of cookies and other sweets and candies.

Jamie assumed that it was Bon Bon. Lyra's next statement confirmed his theory.

“Hiya, Bon Bon!” She said, nearly causing the pony to drop the baking sheet she was holding in her teeth. “This is my new friend I was telling you about. The one I picked up from the hospital.”

“Oh, you mean the new princess? I believe your name is Blue Sky?” Bon Bon said.

“Yep. That's me…” Jamie muttered. He was starting to hate these introductions. What's worse is that he genuinely wanted to tell the truth to this pony, but he promised Lyra that he wouldn't.

“He… I mean… she had come by with Twilight the other day. We talked and talked.” Lyra continued. “Whatcha baking?”

“I just finished some caramels, and I'm currently working on some chocolate chip cookies. Just got done my first batch.”

“Great! Can we try some?”

“Sure! Aside from the Cakes at Sugarcube Corner, I am probably the best baker in all of Equestria. And I'm not bragging. I actually had a customer tell me that.”

They tried all of what Bon Bon baked for that day. They had tarts, cakes cookies, pies, caramel apples, gumdrops, and cupcakes. That was the first time Jamie had ever felt full.

Jamie said his goodbyes and left for Twilight's castle. This time he made sure to look around every bend in the path. He didn't want a repeat of last time. He got to the front door and opened it with his newly discovered magic powers.

Twilight was right there waiting for him. With her was Rainbow Dash.

“Hey, Twilight! What are you guys talking about?” Jamie asked.

“Rainbow and I decided that you should learn to fly.” Twilight said.

“Fly!?” Jamie said. “YES YES YES! I really want to learn! When do we start?” If he could do magic, he probably could fly, right?

“Tomorrow, when you're ready. I already told Spitfire you would want to. You are on for trials week.” Rainbow said.

Jamie ran to his room and immediately fell asleep. His sudden departure started the two mares, but he just couldn't wait until tomorrow.

By the morning, he was the first one up. Second was Twi, and third was Rainbow.

“So, where are we going, Rainbow Dash? I can't wait to try my hand… I mean… hoof… at flying!” Jamie said, starting to trot away.

“Woah woah woah, hang on just a sec.” Rainbow said, biting his tail to stop him. “I need to teach you the basics. But then you'll be able to see the Wonderbolts for extra stuff.”

“Oh, okay!” He said as he turned around back towards them. Rainbow and Twilight glanced at each other as if saying ‘he's getting used to this quickly,’ but no words were spoken of.

Rainbow Dash and Jamie said their farewells to Twilight and walked over into a nice natural clearing in the Whitetail Woods.

“Okay, first, extend your wings and brace yourself to take off.” Rainbow instructed. As she said the sentence, she did it herself.

Jamie did as he was told and shown. He really just wanted to leap into the air, and flap his wings. He told Rainbow this and she said:

“If you think that it's a good idea, go ahead.”

This caused a worm of doubt to grow in the back of his mind, yet excitement won over uncertainty. He leapt into the sky, flapped his wings, and fell on his muzzle. Rainbow Dash lost it.

“Bwaa-ha-ha ah-ah-ha!” She laughed. “You really don't know how to fly, do you.”

All Jamie could reply with was a low groan of pain, making her laugh even harder and louder.

After numerous attempts (and face plants) Rainbow Dash deemed Jamie a steady enough flyer for the Wonderbolts. He was giddy with excitement once again.

This time, what fixed his mood was not another face plant, but a yellowish pony with gold and orange hair who has a weird obsession with always wearing sunglasses. Her name is Spitfire.

It was the first day in trials week. Jamie was getting crushed by the pressure of Spitfire’s gaze down the row of cadets.

“Alright, ponies. Think you’ve got what it takes to be an elite flyer?” She said.

“YES MA'AM!” The assembled pegasi said.

“Well then, let me be the first to tell you. YOU DON'T! If you had what it takes to be an elite flyer, you'd already BE a Wonderbolt! Still feel like you're hot stuff?” She asked of an unfortunate pegasus next to Jamie.

“No, ma'am.” The stallion said.

“Now that that's settled, Listen here, newbies!” Spitfire continued. “We've got the honor of having a princess here today. Now, that doesn't mean that I will be giving her special privileges. She will train just as hard as the rest of you. Do I make myself CLEAR?”

“YES MA'AM!” The recruits all said.

“Good. Now GET UP THERE and GIVE ME TWENTY!” She said, blowing her whistle to enforce the command. Talking to Rainbow, she said, “You think she's got what it takes?”

“Are you kidding? Of course he… ah… she… does.” Rainbow replied coolly. “She's like me, but about twenty percent less cool.”

After they finished their laps, the Wonderbolts watching them handed formal cadet uniforms to them and they were told they'd get ten minutes to put them on and come back out of the locker rooms.

As they were flying in, Jamie saw a weird spinning wheel of some sort. All Rainbow Dash would say when he asked was that he'd find out. And in ten minutes, he did.

“Wonderbolts are the fastest, best precision flyers in the world.” Spitfire said. “But spin-outs can still happen. And when they do, the Wonderbolt needs to be able to recover quickly.” She gestured to the wheel. “This… is the Dizzitron. It's gonna make you very, I repeat, VERY dizzy. Your task is to try and recover then fly straight. Once you've recovered, you must come In for a smooth landing. Now, who's first?”

Author's Note

I wanted a chance to incorporate Spitfire into the story. So this chapter was born. Let me know what you think. I'm always open to criticism as well as flattery. Also next chapter might have some animals in it.