The Dawn of a Future

Chapters

Chapter 1: News Like Wildfire
Chapter 2: Love, no Like
Chapter 3: A case of the Wonderbolt Blues
Chapter 4: Up and Running
Chapter 5: No Comment (Part 1)
Chapter 6: No Comment (Part 2)
Chapter 7: The Seven Deadly Sins
Chapter 8: A Long Way Down Part 1
Chapter 9: A Long Way Down Part 2

Chapter 1: News Like Wildfire

Rainbow dash rolled out of bed and groggily hit her alarm clock snooze button. Of all the days in the world that it could be it had to be today, THE FIRST DAY OF A NEW SCHOOL. Sure it would be great and dandy if you could take the risk and say that it would be better if it were her old school, but nope, I would not go that far.

Rainbow Dash is a spunky, young 17 year old. She has a love of sports and rough housing and is thought of to some, by some I mean almost all, as a tomboy. Some people may even agree to disagree that she is a lesbian. She is currently going through the transition between high school and college alongside her five best friends; Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity. She had practically survived middle school with Applejack and high school with Twilight and Applejack, but the others were there pretty much every step of the way.

She has friends outside of her little tight best friend group, one being a diehard named Thunderlane. She mostly only made friends with the people on her sports teams, but associates herself with people of all kinds. Dash is obsessed with the Wonderbolts and has personally met with the lead squad on several occasions. Soarin was the strongest, Spitfire is the smartest and can jump to death defying heights, and Fleetfoot is the fastest and most agile. Squads usually consist of four people, but the lead squad had a few… issues with their fourth member, whom we shall not refer to by name in the presence of the lead squad.

Rainbow went to the bathroom to get all cleaned up and stared wide eyed at the mirror. She had one of the worst cases of bed head in the history of bed head. Rarity would kill her if she saw how ‘terrifying’ she looked. Rainbow rolled her eyes at the thought of her fashionista friend.

Rarity was prissier than anybody Rainbow had ever know. She was known to the girls as the adult of the group, but that doesn't mean that she's the most mature. Rarity is a flirt, she likes to have fun with guys in the most refined way possible. The one misconception with that portion of the description, RARITY IS NOT A SLUT! Sure you’d think that, but she only likes to use her beauty and ‘perfection’ as a way to draw men's attention to her and uses her ladylike charm to get boys to do what she wants.

Applejack was by far Rainbow's best friend. She had known her since like 5th grade and the rest is history. She was a tall and leaner type of girl, but she has muscle. Applejack is the most mature and motherly of the whole entire group. She always has a plan and the beauty of Applejack is that she always just knows. Since losing her parents at the young age of 10 she had to grow up pretty quickly unlike her brother and sister.

Pinkie Pie is so, out there. She a party girl who enjoys people, fun things, and, you guessed it, parties. She is super crazy and unpredictable and you just have to love being around her. Pinkie has a strange ability that compels her to have a tendency to make people smile. She is extremely dedicated to her friend and would even give up everything for them. Dash has know Pinkie for a few years now and spends a lot of time with her.

Twilight is a nerd and that is all that needs to be said. She is a bookworm and loves math and science, may as well be Albert Einstein. She is a love able, dorky sweetheart with a big heart. She is one of Dash’s longest known friends and she, Twilight, and Applejack may as well be sisters ‘cause, damn, they know everything about each other. Twilight is the smartest problem solver in history and can have straight A+’s on a report card, she definitely has the highest I.Q. out of everyone.

Fluttershy is the sweetest and shyest friend ever. She is a great person and always finds that small corner in your heart. She loves animal, has a caring personality, and will take care of any creature from a gnat to a human. She hates watching people get hurt and is surprisingly the oldest of the group. Unfortunately, she shy has its downsides and Fluttershy is often the bullies victim. Fortunately for her, and unfortunately for the bullies, she has Dash on her side.

Rainbow jumped out of the shower, dried off her hair, and wrapped a towel around herself. At her vanity she brushed her teeth and hair putting it up in her signature ponytail. She stepped into her closet and picked out her outfit. She wore a blue sports jacket, over a white shirt with a rainbow on it, fitted blue jeans that went down to her ankle, blue high tops with white laces, and a black choker.

She ran down the stairs and grabbed her bag which she packed the night before, just to be prepared, grabbed a muffin and gulped that and some orange juice down quickly. She ran out the door hopped on her scooter and drove away.

As she drove, she thought about her new school. Would their be a lot of bullies? Are the people friendly? Are there any monotone teachers? (Oddly specific, I am aware.) Stupid boys chasing girls? Probably. Hard ass Principle? Probably not.

The ride to school took shorter than she expected and it was easy access. There was at least one good part about the school, but I bet they won't be getting many more. She took a look at the school and nodded, it was pretty decent not your everyday pris- I mean school. Dammit, that's 2. Anyway as she walked up to the entrance a pair of pink arms found their way around her torso.

“Dashie!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, quite obviously excited to see her rainbow haired friend.

“Hey Pinkie,” Rainbow said, coolly. “Air… Please!”

“Oopsie!” Pinkie list her go and Rainbow began wheezing “It just feels like I haven't seen you in like, a million years!”

“Pinks,” Rainbow said, raising an eyebrow at her party obsessive friend “I saw you last week.”

“I know,” Pinkie pouted “but a week is a long time to be away from a bestie!”

“No,” Rainbow shook her head “I literally say you on Saturday.”

“A couple of days is still a long time in the bestie world!” Her pout remained, but her eyes were beady like they were trying to drill a deep hole into Dash’s heart.

“Yeah, sure let's go find the others,” Rainbow offered.

“Ok!” Pinkie’s expression disappeared and was replaced by a more welcoming smile. “Let's get moving on the Pinkie express!” Pinkie sat down and pulled a fake string, “Choo, Choo!” Pinkie started moving.

Rainbow chuckled as she pulled Pinke across the floor all the was to the main hallway. The walls were an off-white color and the floors had a blue stained hue to it, but the real eye catchers were the lockers. They were completely personalized and had you name on it.

On the opposite side of were Rainbow and Pinkie were standing, there was a group of girls talking and laughing together. The two girls walked over…

“Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash!” Rarity squealed in excitement “I haven't seen either of you in a month.”

“You either Rares,” Rainbow blinked twice before shaking her head.

“Did you have fun on your cruise?” Pinkie Pie began jumping up and down.

“Oh yeah, that's where you went!” Rainbow nodded, understanding where she went on her vacation spot.

“It was simply divine,” Rarity looked at the other 3 girls. “It would have even better if my sister would've left me so I could have some time to myself, but I did find a handsome boy to spend time with.”

“Yer sendin’ me mixed signals here, Rare,” Applejack finally spoke up “You wanted to be left alone, but you spent her time with a ‘handsome’ boy?” She raised an eyebrow and had a look of pure confusion on her face.

“Who was it, your dad?” Rainbow bursts do out laughing at her own joke and Pinkie soon joined in both of them clutching their sides and wheezing from the lack out air.

“Rainbow, Pinkie!” Twilight’s voice of authority brought them back to the painful sense of reality “We should not be laughing at our dear friends expense! Now, Rarity you may continue.”

“Thank you Twilight,” Rarity cleared her throat “As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…” She shot a glare over she shoulder as she turned back around to dramatically face the group “His name was somewhere along the lines of Moonlight, something that I can not think of right now, but my point is that overall he was a nice boy and I had a nice vacation. Next!”

“How about you Applejack?” Fluttershy asked her blonde haired friend.

“Oh, me?” Applejack asked an innocent looking Fluttershy “I had plenty of fun doing chores on farm work the whole entire summer, alone.” She said sarcastically as she raised an eyebrow.

“Oh, sorry,” Fluttershy apologized.

“There's no point, I should’ve probably done a lot of work anyway. Movin’ out here in the new apartment and Hollow Shade.” She shrugged her shoulders and smiled “Twi?”

“I went to a cabin in the woods with my parents for a few weeks,” Twilight shook her head and giggled “I thought I’d hate it, but it was actually a lot of fun!!” Twilight looked at Pinkie “How about you Pinkie?”

“I went home to see my parents, planned a few parties along the way…” She stopped and grabbed onto her face, her eyes literally bulging out of their sockets “And by a few I, mean a lot of parties! Hung out with my friends and even had time to come home and make a few new recipes!”

“Speaking of baking,” Twilight started, “How's the new bakery?”

“It's holding on and soaring high above the clouds,” Pinkie started to drool while sticking her tongue out “We sell pastries that no shop has ever thought of before!”

“I had a good summer,” Fluttershy chimed in, with her tiny voice “I mostly spent time with the animals at the sanctuary and things like that.”

“That sounds nice, but I went to see a few Wonderbolt shows in Cloudsdale and got to see the lead squad again only for something else to go wrong,” She slapped her forehead and groaned “I think I’m a decoy for trouble!” She screamed, throwing her arms out to express her anger “Nothing like this has ever happened to them until they met me! Well at least that's what Fleetfoot said before Spitfire slapped her over the head, that is.”

“I don't think you're a decoy for trouble,” everyone turned to stare at Fluttershy “If it helps.”

“I don't think it does,” Twilight whispered into Applejack's ear, who rolled her eyes.

“I’m gonna go see if I can find Thunderlane,” Rainbow said before walking off “See ya later!”

“Bye!”

“Something's not right in the girl's head,” Applejack tapped her chin.

“Tell me about it, darling,” Rarity sighed.

“Says you, drama queen,” Applejack crossed her arms.

“Says the girl who over reacted about farm work,” Rarity shot back.

“Here we go again,” Twilight sighed as she watched as her friends continued to bicker, her voice of reason doing nothing against the two.

Rainbow looked around, Thunderlane she thought Shouldn't be to hard to find. As she walked she saw a lot of different looking people, not to point out the obvious. There was this one very tall and muscular guy and this one shorter girl. She wasn’t really looking where she was going and bumped into someone.

“Oh, sorry I wasn’t really looking where I was going,” Dash said slightly embarrassed.

“No, I should have been watching where I was going,” The stranger said, offering his hand. She accepted it and got up.

Rainbow looked him in his eyes and gasped. He had emerald green eyes, wonderbolt style navy blue hair, and a light skin hue. She gave him a long hard stare in disbelief and excitement.

“Soarin?!”

“Dash?”

Chapter 2: Love, no Like

Author's Note

I worked very late last night to get this chapter out, so please enjoy! :pinkiehappy:

Chapter 2: Love, no Like

“What are you doing here?” Rainbow asked him excitedly, she felt so close that she wanted to give him a hug, but she held onto her restraint.

“It’s a bit of a surprise,” Soarin chuckled “But I have to tell you something, don’t I?”

“That would help your case,” She playfully jabbed him in the ribs “Yeah.”

“You’ll be seeing a lot more of me,” He smiled and winked at her.

“You’re an idiot,” She said plainly, crossing her arms and huffing.

“So you go here?” Soarin asked.

“Isn’t that obvious?” She rolled her eyes, keeping her arms crossed.

“Yes, but I was trying to come up with a normal conversation, Ms. Sassy Pants,” He mocked her stance, rolling his eyes and crossing his arms.

“When have your conversations ever been normal?” She raised an eyebrow.

“How did you go from excited to see me," He did jazz hands “To sassing me into a corner?” He mock crossed his arms.

“Because you’re an idiot,” Rainbow shot back.

“Who’s running out of comebacks?” Soarin smirked.

“Shut it!” Rainbow snapped at him, “and for your information, dork, I have a lot more comeback.”

“I bet you do,” He started, “but I’ll save you the trouble and just agree.”

“Wait,” Soarin stopped and looked at Dash as she spoke, “if you’re here then that means…”

“Hey, Soarin?” A voice asked from behind the young man “Fleet and I have been looking for you. Are you coming to the gym or wha-” She turned and looked at Dash “Is that Rainbow Dash.”

“Interrupting Spitty says what?” Another voice asked sarcastically.

“Fleet?” Soarin raised an eyebrow at her, “You’re kind of interrupting too.”

“Well at least I didn’t interrupt ‘sexy time with Dashie,’” Fleetfoot shot back in a playfully cute voice “Dickward!”

“Fleetfoot, shut up,” Spitfire muttered. “Anyway back to you Rainbow Dash,” She looked the young athlete's way “I didn’t know you went here.”

“Look at you,” Fleetfoot sniffled, dramatically “my little Dashie, growing up before my eyes.”

“Fleet, you’re not that much older than her,” Soarin rolled his eyes.

“Well, she’s growing up and right in front of me,” Fleetfoot stuck her tongue out “This is sisterly love right here, Soar, thank you very much.”

“Sometimes I wonder about you, Fleet,” Spitfire shook her head and sighed, “well, we’re heading to the gym, Soarin, catch up with your friend and then meet us there.”

“Ok, Spitfire,” Soarin turned back to Dash, “well my squad needs me. I’ll catch you later.”

“See ya, Soarin.” Rainbow waved at him.

“See you later, Dash.” He turned and walked the other way.

Rainbow walked around to see if she could find Thunderlane. She thought about the lead squad Wonderbolts.

Spitfire is the captain and by far the most well known. She is often very stressed, because she is the captain of one of the most well known aerial flight teams in the world. She has a can do attitude and has maximum faith in her team. She is often the voice of reason, but has a problem with keeping things bottled up inside. While she thinks it is helpful, since her team doesn’t know about her problems, but honestly it just makes her friends worry about her. She is also the youngest Wonderbolt captain in history.

Soarin is a very easy person to talk to and a good friend. He is kind of a goof and when it comes to lightening up the mood he is the first to turn. He is the best friend of Spitfire and is often the one to talk some sense into her. He and Fleetfoot connect in a different way. He likes to have fun, but also takes his job very seriously. Since, his job is practically his life he is very dedicated to his friends as well. He gets a lot of public attention, but unlike Fleetfoot he isn’t that much of a public icon so he usually shrugs of his attention.

Fleetfoot is the exact contrast to Spitfire. She loves to chill and relax and doesn’t take her job as seriously as Soarin and Spitfire do, but she is still dedicated. She loves to have fun and tease people. She is in love with romance and is the most social Wonderbolt ever. She loves children and is a Wonderbolt icon, she is on many magazine covers and is pretty much always on the front cover page of sports magazines. She has a lovable personality, but can also be creepy as hell, so that’s one of her flaws.

Rainbow turned and finally spotted Thunderlane. She walked over to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He flinched so hard Dash was surprised that he didn’t knock over the building. He turned around and his widened eyes went back to normal.

“Rainbow,” He said carefully, “you almost gave me a heart attack, what do you have to say for yourself?”

“It’s nice to see you too. Thunderlane.” Rainbow rolled her eyes.

“Not quite the answer I was looking for, but we’ll work on that,” Thunderlane smirked.

“What did you even do this summer?” Rainbow asked.

Thunderlane raised an eyebrow, “My parents went on a cruise, so my brother and I went to Cloudsdale.” Thunderlane looked back at Rainbow, “how were the Wonderbolts?”

“They were fun and I had a pretty good time!” Rainbow said as cheerfully as possible, she decided not to tell him about the whole ‘I think I’m a decoy for trouble’ thing.

“Hey, Rainbow you’re gonna be late to class on your first day if you don’t hurry up.” Applejack’s voiced snapped at her from behind. “Oh, hi, Thunderlane.” Applejack waved at him and he waved back, blushing slightly. As Applejack began pulling Rainbow Dash along with her.

“Ok, ok, I’m coming!” Rainbow struggled in Applejack grip, but she finally let her go and Rainbow looked at Thunderlane one more time. How he looked at Applejack? She shook of the thoughts and regained her position by Applejack's side.

“Are ya nervous?” Applejack asked Rainbow, nudging her in the ribs.

“Me, nervous? Let me think about it.” She tapped her chin in thought “Nah, you?”

“Not really, ah left the girls ta go socialize and the people seemed pretty nice,” Applejack answered, but asked Rainbow curiously, “Did Thunderlane seem a bit off to you?”

“Yeah, he did.” Rainbow thought, “I wonder, could he…” She gasped.

(At Lunch)

Rainbow Dash finally found the lunchroom after wandering aimlessly for about five minutes, she had sucked up her pride and asked a random teacher where it was. She walked in and looked around to see if she could find any of her friends and out of the corner of her eye she spotted Pinkie Pie. She stepped into line and since the line was pretty long she decided talk to someone. She tapped the boy in front of her on the shoulder. He turned around and faced Dash. He had ombré sky blue and white hair, he wore jeans, blue shirt and white jacket, and had an unusual eye color it was an icy, silver color.

“Oh, hello,” He greeted in a friendly manner “my name is Last Legacy and yours is?”

“Rainbow Dash,” Rainbow reached out her hand and he shook it, “you seem like a nice guy. Where are you from.”

“I just moved here from Cloudsdale,” He said looking at Dash, “How about you?”

“Moved here from Ponyville, with my friends,” She smiled, “Although, I am originally from Cloudsdale.”

“Seriously?” He asked in awe.

“Yep!” Rainbow replied and thought for a moment, “Though I wasn’t there for a very long time.”

“Wow,” he blinked, “So you and your friends have been connected this whole time?”

“Yeah, we’re a really close close group.” She smiled at him.

Neither of them had realized that they were now at the front of the line and had been talking for a long time.

“Well, it was nice meeting you Rainbow Dash.” He said politely, “I will see you soon and I think you would like to know that you are my first friend here.”

“Seriously?” He only nodded in response, “Shit, with your personality I thought you’d have a lot of friends.”

“Well, I have spoken to many people today, but you’re the first one that I have really connected with.” He bowed playfully “It has been my pleasure to be of service to you Madomazell Rainbow Dash, I hope to meet you again soon.”

Rainbow rolled her eyes, but played along, “The pleasure is mine good sir, I hope we meet again.” Rainbow went back to her normal state, “Jerk!”

“Bye, Rainbow Dash.” He walked away to his table and Rainbow walked over to hers.

By now all of her friends were sitting there, eating and waiting for her.

“Hello, darling!” Rarity greeted and scooted over so that she could sit beside her, “Who were you talking to up there?”

“That was my new friend,” She said sitting down in between Rarity and Twilight, “his name is Last Legacy and he moved here from Cloudsdale.”

“Is he single?” Rarity asked as she gazed at him with a dreamy look in her eyes.

“Um, maybe.” Rainbow answered, shrugging her shoulders.

“He is kind of cute,” Twilight blushed.

“Um, ok,” Rainbow looked at him and shrugged her shoulders.

“So, how's everybody’s day been so far?” Pinkie Pie asked, breaking the ice.

“My day has been going well,” Fluttershy smiled, “I made a new friend in my history class, she’s so sweet and caring, it’s hard not to like her!” She ended with a delightful little clap.

“In my literature class I sit by a boy named,” Applejack tapped her chin in thought, “I think it was something like Spectrum and he is… strange.”

“Strange, how?” Rarity asked snapping out of her daze.

“He kept glancing at me, as if he was trying to make sure I was still there and then whenever I looked at him he would look away. When I asked him a question he sat there and groaned.” Applejack explained and you could kind of tell that this was bothering her.

“That doesn't sound like he was a very friendly person,” Pinkie contemplated.

“Maybe he was just shy,” Fluttershy added.

“It doesn't really matter much now,” Applejack stifled a groan, “How about you Rainbow?”

The girls spent the rest of the lunch periods talking about their day so far and eventually the bell rang and the girls all went their separate ways. All except Applejack and Rainbow Dash who both looked at each other and muttered one simple word…

“Gym.”

“Ready to make your big debut, Soarin?” Fleetfoot asked, giggling to herself.

The lead squad was in the coach’s room getting ready to talk to the next gym class.

“Fleet,” Soarin began, “it isn't like it’s gonna be a huge scene kind of thing.”

“I know,” Fleetfoot jumped on Spitfire’s desk, “but this is gonna change somebody's life, Soarin, be happy.”

“I never said that I wasn't happy,” Soarin smiled, “I am, but I’m nowhere near as excited as you are.”

“You’ve got that right, wise guy.”

About five minutes after their conversation everybody arrived and was awaiting the coach’s arrival. Spitfire stepped up to the door, but she was cut off when Fleetfoot stopped her.

“Let me handle this,” Fleetfoot opened the door and everybody gasped, “Hi everyone, my name is Fleetfoot and in case you don’t know me I am the third-in-command on the lead squad of the Wonderbolts, that’s Spitfire and she’s the captain, and that’s Soarin and he’s the second-in-command. You are all probably wondering,” she paused and looked at their anxious face “why I don’t have have the Wonderbolt hairstyle!” Spitfire stifled a groan and Soarin chuckled. “I’ll tell you why, BECAUSE IT’S MY OWN DAMN DECISION. I don’t care what these guys say, I like my hair.” She finished with a cute hair flip.

Spitfire walked over, with Soarin close behind her, and pushed Fleetfoot out of the way. Fleetfoot giggled and stood beside Soarin.

“You are all probably wondering where you coach is, right?” She saw a few nods. “Well what would you say if I told you that you’re looking at them right now?”

“Holy crap!” Rainbow whispered to herself.

Chapter 3: A case of the Wonderbolt Blues

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Chapter 4: Up and Running

It was the end of the first day of school and Rainbow was relieved that it was finally the end. While she was thrilled about the new Wonderbolt tryouts she was still glad the actual school portion of the day was done. Rainbow got her bag and hopped on her scooter.

Rainbow Dash was the only one of her friends to live in a house instead of an apartment and that is simply because her parents bought it for her. While her friends worked to get there apartments her parents got her one. She finally made it home, hopped off her scooter, and unlocked the door. The first thing she did was take off her shoes and jump onto the couch, she pulled out her phone and dialed a familiar phone number.

“Hey, Dash, what’s up?” A voice said from the other end.

“Hey, Thunder,” Rainbow smiled as she spoke, “excited for the tryouts?”

“Yes, but I’m also kinda nervous.” Rainbow could almost feel her nerves creeping up on her as he spoke. “At least I have a good reason to be.”

“And, what’s that suppose to mean?” Rainbow asked, curious to how his brain worked.

“You, Last Legacy, and that other one scored so high on the course,” He sighed, “but I got decent between terrible and zero.”

“C’mon Thunder,” Rainbow rolled her eyes at him, “you have lots of talent where it counts, in your own little Thundery way.”

“Gee, thanks Dash, now I feel so much more confident in myself.” Rainbow could hear the sarcasm dripping from his voice.

“Dude, I’m serious,” Rainbow snapped, suddenly, “you try hard and do your best in every situation. You’ll do fine.”

“If you say so,” Thunderlane said, “Well I have to go, see you at tryouts.”

“See ya!” Rainbow ended her call and looked at the time, 3:15, Rainbow thought, not bad.

(5:00 pm)

Rainbow Dash had already arrived to the compound around 4:30 pm. Fleetfoot had walked over already and told her that being one of the first ones here made her look desperate, but quite obviously, Rainbow didn’t care enough to acknowledge her complaint. By now everybody was there, Rainbow was standing near the front with Last Legacy and Thunderlane. They were near where squad 2 was standing and Rainbow could even make out what they were saying, but honestly it sounded more like they didn’t really give a fuck.

“So, tell me Silver, how does it feel going to all of your old friends funerals knowing you’ll be next?” Blaze, the third commander of squad 2, said to Silver Lining the captain of her squad.

“Say something like that again and you’ll find me in black for yours,” He snapped back, “You know what, I have an even better idea.” Silver looked at Wave Chill, the first commander, and glared, “Wave Chill get down on your hands and knees like Spitfire does in your midnight fantasies or something sexual like that ,” Wave Chill looked absolutely mortified since he had absolutely no idea that he had midnight fantasies with Captain Spitfire. While, from the side, squad 3 consisting of Captain Fire Streak, who was keeping his composure, first commander Misty Fly, who was standing there confused, second commander Lightning Streak, who unlike his twin brother was laughing his head off, and third commander Surprise, who was also busy laughing.

“I’m kidding,” Silver smirked at Wave Chill as he halted getting himself on the ground, “about the late night Spitfire thing, not getting on your hands and knees, dammit!” Wave quickly got onto the ground as he assumed the correct position, “Blaze sit down on his back,” Blaze didn't comply at first, but Silver pushed her down onto his back anyway, “And High Winds sit on Blaze.” He raised an eyebrow at a sleeping High Winds and flicked her on the head lightly as she woke up and crankily walked over and sat on Blaze’s lap.

Fleetfoot was on the ground laughing and Soarin was lightly chuckling above her, and Silver raised an eyebrow at them both and said

“What the hell are you looking at?”

“A class A, squad 2, circus act.” Fleetfoot giggled at Blaze’s face as she stuck her tongue out at her.

“Silver what are you doing?” Spitfire questioned him as she watched Wave Chill struggle, Blaze shift uncomfortably, High Winds sleep, and squad 3 watch.

“My own damn job, Captain.” Silver glared at her and walked back over to where his squad was.

Rainbow shifted and fidgeted nervously, slightly disturbed by the scene she had just witnessed and as she looked around at the rest of the cadets were also slightly disturbed. Spitfire walked over to the front of the compound and held up a megaphone.

“Hello cadets,” Spitfire announced adjusting the dial the be a bit louder, “it is very nice to see so many individuals here, dedicated to the Wonderbolts work. Please ignore the exchange that you just saw and move on. As I was saying, welcome to your first day of tryouts and on the schedule for today you will get to free roam for an hour, nowhere is off limits, and a strength test for the remainder of the time. As far as training goes tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday will be normal training days, but on Friday night you get to spend the night here and on Saturday and Sunday you’ll be here all day and night. Unless you get sent home and aren't one of the lucky fifteen to make it or the lucky one who’s able to skip the ranks. Now we usually do not do the elite spot, but I am sure, as you are aware that the lead squad needs a new member, so we are going to pull someone from squad four or five to fill in our space. The lucky cadet will skip to either squad four or five. So come on in and go explore, but please be respectful, the rest of the Wonderbolts are either eating dinner or training.”

Spitfire let them in and Rainbow Dash was glad that she was closer in the front with 3 of her friends because they had all decided that they would ‘explore’ together. If this compound was in about the same format as the Canterlot one then Rainbow would mostly be able to navigate.

“Wait, so the squad 1 gym should be that way,” Rainbow pointed right “then this way is the staircase.” She began walking left direction and the other two were following close behind.

“How do you know your way around the compound?” Legacy asked Dash before she opened the door revealing a staircase.

“I’ve had more than one encounter with them,” she carefully stepped onto the first stair, “well these stairs sure are steep.” She looked at it up and down a she continued walking.

“Don’t worry Dash,” Thunderlane started, winking at her, “I’m right behind you, if you fall… I will quickly move out of the way.”

“Thank’s a lot Thunder nice to know I have something to fall back on,” she raised an eyebrow before continuing up the staircase, “solid ground.”

Just then a blur ran directly into Rainbow Dash knocking her off balance. Without any warning Rainbow was swept up and began her downcast to the floor down the steps, Thunderlane moved out of the the, not out of spite, but out of fear. Good thing Last Legacy wasn’t fazed by the incident and quickly jumped, up span around, bent his legs, and tapped the surface of the wall. Conjuring up his wings just in time and steadying himself as he shot after her, catching her before she could hit the floor. She had a few bruises from the figure knocking her into the sky, but the best part was the only impact that she felt was landing softly into Legacy’s arms. He looked her over and carefully let her back to the ground, so that he could go find the figure. He ran down the stairs and left Thunderlane to look after Rainbow. He finally made it to the door which the three had entered and found the person just walking out.

“Hey, wait up!” Legacy called out still running after the figure who had stopped upon hearing his voice.

“What is it kid?” The guy said, smiling slightly.

“Back there, sir.” He pointed towards the staircase, “You were going so fast you hurt one of my friends and knocked her into the air.”

“And what are you expecting for me to do about it?” His eyes narrowed at Legacy.

“I expect you to apologize to her, sir.” Legacy said in his calm voice of reason.

“Like I would ever apologize to a young cadet for something I did wrong.” He snarled.

“Very well, sir.” Legacy said in an understanding voice walking away and then stopping and turning around, “Then it’s too bad that’s what I’m asking from you, sir.”

“How dare you, little shit!” He swung his fist and angled it to hit right in the center of his face. Legacy say this coming and his eyes widened, but before his quick reflexes kicked in, a hand caught his fist before it connected with Legacy’s head.

“That is enough, Ace.” A strong female voice of authority said, glaring at him, as two more people stepped out behind her, “I apologize for my commanders behavior.”

“No, that’s ok, ma’am.” Legacy said, quickly.

“How rude of me,” She said, “My name is Radiant Shield, captain of squad 4 and these are my comrades. Mythic Harmony, my second commander, the wonderful meeting you just had with Ace, my first commander, and last, but not least Fivestar, my third commander. So, what did you need?”

“You comrade injured my friend Rainbow Dash on the staircase and I asked him to apologize, ma’am.” Legacy said dutifully.

“Let’s go see her, shall we?” Radiant Shield nodded respectfully at Legacy and glared at Ace.

Legacy lead squad 4 up the staircase to where Thunderlane and Rainbow Dash were sitting. Thunderlane walked over to Legacy and told him that Rainbow was fine.

“Thank’s Legacy.” Rainbow winked at him, nudged him, and then looked behind him, “What’s squad 4 doing with you?”

“It’s a long story,” Legacy began.

Soarin was in the lead squad gym lifting weights, while Fleetfoot has standing at the other end running on a treadmill. Soarin was a well built man and he loved to work out and lift weights as a pastime when he didn't have to deal with Fleetfoot and Spitfire. Fleetfoot on the other hand was a 5 ft female athlete and weighed about 100 pounds, which was unusual for an adult, but then Fleetfoot wasn't exactly a normal female athlete. She loved to run fast, win races, and fly.

“Soarin?” A new voice called out from behind him.

“Hey Spitfire,” He smiled and put the weight back on the rack, “What do you need?”

“We have a meeting with Celestia this evening at 9:00 pm and she said it was important, but nothing to worry about, and I’m freaking out!” She explained.

Fleetfoot turned off the treadmill and got off, drinking some water and looking at Spitfire as she rolled her eyes.

“Spitty are we doing this whole worrying thing again?” Fleetfoot asked walking over to the seat by Soarin and sitting down.

“If by ‘worrying thing’, you mean being nervous about an important meeting authorized by Princess Celestia about something potentially dangerous,” Spitfire took a deep breath, “then, yes. Have fun laughing at my misery!” She snapped at Fleetfoot.

“What are you, on your period?” Fleetfoot asked and actually looked kind of confused, “Because that would mean that urban myth about girls periods being on the same day is false.” Spitfire cheeks were red and puffed out in embarrassment.

“No,” She crossed her arms.

“Ok Fleet,” Soarin chuckled, standing up and patting Spitfire on the back, “Let’s not bug Spitty about her period.”

“It could be something really important and you two are just sitting around making jokes!” Spitfire shouted in anger.

“Hey, calm down, Spitfire,” Soarin said in a calm voice, “I agree that it could be something to worry about, but the princess SPECIFICALLY told you not to worry, so I’m sure everything will be fine.”

“You’re right, but she also invited squad 2 and 3,” She sat down, “and the last thing I need is Silver breathing down my neck and saying that ‘you’re not doing it right,’ just because I’m freaking out!”

“It doesn't matter what Silver says, Spitfire.” Soarin sent her a sincere smile, “He’s done this before and you haven't. Besides I bet this is normal, I mean you haven’t been captain for a long time and he’s probably still salty about the fact that we beat him in out for the ‘Gold Squad’ spot.”

“I don’t know if you noticed Soar, but it’s called the Lead Squad now.” Fleetfoot said matter-of-factly.

“I’m aware, but my point is, the princess is wise if there is a problem she’ll have a solution.” Soarin said, looking at Spitfire.

“Wait,” Fleetfoot stopped them both, “so you are on your period or not?”

“That wasn’t a very long story.” Rainbow Dash said before pumping her strength into lifting the weight.

Last Legacy smiled slightly before lifting his weight up once and then turning his head in Rainbow’s direction.

“Well, you see,” Legacy began, “Sometimes people in this world say ‘It’s a long story,’ because they either don’t feel like explaining something or they don’t care enough. For me it was the first one, but the actual bad part of that story was that I now have an enemy in the Wonderbolts, Ace.”

“I’ve heard that he’s a bit, different,” Rainbow hesitated at the last part, “but he’s a team player when he needs to be, a great flyer, and a natural at the elements.”

“Wow,” Legacy smirked, “stalk them much?”

“Only once a week,” Rainbow answered winking at him as they both began laughing, “nah, like I said this isn’t my first time seeing the Wonderbolts.”

“Ah, right,” Legacy was lifting his weight again, “almost forgot about your past experiences.”

“How about you, ever gotten to spend quality time with the Wonderbolts or, let’s be a little bit more realistic, gone to a Wonderbolt show.”

“First question, nope,” He turned to Rainbow and his face fell as he started to lift his weight several time and looked like he was a mixture of angry and upset, “second question, never really had that experience.”

Rainbow decided not to press him on, but in her train of thought she had not noticed that Silver Lining was making his way towards them.

“You two,” He glared at them and spoke in a hard tone, “Wonderbolt rule, if you can lift the weight more ten times, dammit. Then go up one.”

Rainbow and Legacy shared a look and Legacy quickly put his bar up one and started lifting, but Rainbow Dash on the other hand was studying how Silver carried himself, it was much different but her train of thought was interrupted when Silver Lining spoke.

“Any fucking day now, sweetheart,” His glare remained, but he was also raising an eyebrow at her, “Stop looking at me like you want to bang or something, dammit,” Rainbow’s eye’s widened and she began lifting her weight, struggling a bit at first, but eventually getting it down.

She noticed Silver’s focus had shifted from her and Legacy, to Thunderlane. She noticed him bring his hand to his face as he walked over and smacked him hard on the cheek, thank Celestia that Spitfire and the rest were distracted by something over there.

“Don’t put down more than you can lift, motherfucking Celestia must’ve put this down. Believing that you can lift as much as you set your mind to, but, whoopdeefunkingdoo I ain’t no Celestia. I don’t believe in you and sure as hell don’t believe that you can lift 175 pounds.” And at that moment Silver reached down and lifted the weight up and put it on the rack, “I can lift more then a fucking 175 pound weight.”

Rainbow winced at the punishment that Silver gave Thunderlane, but she decided to glance in the direction that everyone was looking in. She spotted a lot of people surrounding, Helmer? That made no sense, but then she looked over at him and saw that he was lifting a… 300 pound weight!? With both Blaze and High Winds sitting on it, but when she actually looked at him she noticed that he bore the same expression as earlier. He fascinated her and she hopped that she would get to learn a bit more about him.

Rainbow Dash opened her front door and collapsed on her couch. The strength test went fairly well, she was now known as, ‘freakishly strong for a girl’. She could lift around 190 pounds and she even heard Fleetfoot ‘whisper’ girl power to Soarin as he chuckled.

Two hours passed and Rainbow finally finished her homework and she was about to turn in, but her doorbell rang and she got up to go answer it.

“Hey Soarin,” She opened the door a bit wider to let him in, “come on in.”

“Hey Dash,” Soarin walked in and sat down on the couch beside where Dash sat. “You did great on the strength test.”

“Thank’s,” She yawned and used Soarin’s lap as a pillow as he blushed slightly. “It’s a great honor to hear such a compliment coming from the great master, Soarin Skies.”

“I’m not that great,” Soarin was still blushing, but then Rainbow slapped him on the thigh, “Hey! What the HELL was that for?”

“Don’t you ever talk down on yourself, ever.” Rainbow closed her eyes, “You’re one of the best Wonderbolts in history, Mister Second-in-command, or does rank mean nothing now?”

“You are a master at my game,” Soarin smiled, “By the way we had a meeting an hour ago about something that I think you might know abou-” he was cut of by the soft sound of snoring.

Soarin picked up Rainbow Dash in his arms and carried her up the stairs to the second room on the left, Rainbow's bedroom. He carefully pulled back the covers and placed her softly on the bed, before tucking her in.

“Goodnight Dashie,” He smiled and kissed her on the forehead, “I love you,” He whispered, “Even if you never know.” He walked up to the light switch turned it off and settled himself on her chaise covering himself in a blanket and drifting off into a peaceful sleep.

Chapter 5: No Comment (Part 1)

Rainbow Dash woke up, with her heart thumping in her chest, she took a few very deep breath and put a hand over her chest. She had a terrible dream and her heart was racing. She yawned and reached over to her nightstand to grab her phone. She jumped out of bed and ran for the bathroom, she quickly looked into the mirror and shook her head. She was a pretty deep sleeper so she probably didn’t hear her alarm clock, but that didn't explain why she hadn’t slept until like, noon. She jumped into the shower for two minutes and brushed her teeth. She dried her hair and body and put on a towel. She smiled and began to brush her hair very quickly and then ran over to her bed and packed her bag. She threw the covers over the bed and put her pillows on. Dash was about to go downstairs, but then she remembered something very important, clothes. She couldn’t be late or she’d never hear the end of it from Twilight, but she ran into her closet and threw on some shorts and a blue top. She grabbed her bag and ran downstairs and out the door.

She finally arrived at school with three minutes to spare.

“Rainbow!” Twilight called out to her as she and Applejack, “For a while we thought you weren’t coming!”

“Typical Dash,” AJ shook her head and chuckled, “Always late to somethin’, huh?”

“Where are the others?” Rainbow asked ignoring Applejack's comment.

“They went ahead,” Twilight started, “We decided to stay on the campus and wait for you.”

“Ah’m surprised that you didn't go ahead, Twi,” Applejack said.

“Yeah, no chatting it up with the teachers,” Rainbow smirked, “Ms. Teacher’s Pet.”

“Haha,” Twilight laughed sarcastically, “very funny, Rainbow.”

“I know,” Rainbow commented as the girls laughed and walked.

Once they got inside they said goodbye to one another and went their separate ways, but Rainbow had to and drop off her stuff in her locker, instead of going straight to class. She opened her locker and threw her bag inside, but when it wouldn’t go right in so she had to push it and take like half of her stuff out of it and then when she finally got it in she threw everything into her locker and shut the door. She yawned, due to her dream she didn’t have a very good night sleep. She only had a few minutes before class started, but a little nap wouldn’t hurt. She fell into a deep sleep in front of her locker.

“Soarin where were you last night?” Spitfire yelled into Soarin’s face as he walked into the Wonderbolt compound.

“I went to Dash’s house last night after the meeting,” Soarin looked at her facial expression and sighed, “Calm down Spitfire, I didn’t say anything.”

Spitfire glared at him and thought for a moment, “I know of your relationship and trust of Rainbow Dash’s character,” Spitfire shook her head and put a hand out on Soarin’s shoulder, “I trust her too, but as the princess said we shouldn’t tell anyone. I also have another rule for you about Dash, don’t let your friendship determined your final decision with the tryouts. Is that clear? No special treatment for anyone, got it?”

“Yes ma’am,” Soarin replied and began to walk to his room, he had a little surprise when he walked into his room.

“Hello humper of Rainbow’s,” The cheerful voice of Fleetfoot popped up out of nowhere and smiled, “Skittles got your tongue?”

“Ah!” Soarin jumped up so high, but then calmed down a bit once he realized who it was, “Oh my sweet Celestia, what the hell are you doing in my room?”

“You must have gotten a sour one,” Fleetfoot said in a seductive tone, “Heard the yellow one’s are the worst.”

“What the hell are you doing in my room and how the hell did you get in?” Soarin was angry now, but still a little freaked out as he tried to steady his heartbeat.

“It’s not like you lock your door,” Fleetfoot shrugged, “but I also have a question for you, where the hell were you last night?”

“I was at Rainbow Dash’s house,” Soarin answered.

“Oh, I see how it is,” Fleetfoot walked right in front of Soarin and stood on her toes, “While you were over at Dash’s house, tasting the Rainbow, I was in Spitfire's office taming the lion with a chair.”

“Seriously you actually used a chair this time?” Soarin asked Fleetfoot with a look of surprise, “How many times do I have to tell you with this lion Spitfire thing? Seriously though what the hell did you do to her?”

“First of all,” Fleetfoot started matter of factly before jumping onto Soarin’s bed, “I did the chair thing for the irony of the situation,” She rolled her eyes as if it was a well known fact, “So Spitty started getting pissed after I told her that I had no idea where you went and she started getting all mad and shit, but anyway, then purely out of self defense I picked up a chair held in front of me and started poking her with it. Of course she was ordering me to put it down and stop, but I yelled ‘If you don't cooperate I’ll have to get the whip!’ Then Fire Streak and Lightning Streak walked in at the wrong time and Fire was like ‘Captain Spitfire, my brother and I have the repo…’ and of course Lightning was standing there like an idiot and Fire said ‘Um, brother we should leave, they look… busy’ then Lightning winked at us and said ‘Bro, I love the women on women action, but maybe we could go for a threesome’ Fire looked so uncomfortable, but like always kept his composure and said ‘Brother’ accompanied by a harsh glare and then this is where the story gets weird. Lightning was like ‘Come on bro, I’m sure they would allow a foursome’. Fire dragged Lightning out of the room and Spitfire and I called it a night.”

Fleetfoot could barely get through her story since Soarin was laughing so hard, but to Fleetfoot laughter was pretty much contagious so she was laughing through the whole thing as well. Fleetfoot stood up and opened her wings before lifting up and touching Soarin's ceiling and flying in wide circles around his fan.

“What are you doing now?” Soarin questioned her with his eyebrow raised.

“It’s something called fun, Soarin,” Fleetfoot slowed down and landed right behind him. “You should try it more often and stop acting so much like Spitfire instead of the old Soarin. We don’t need six stiff ass’s in the top ranks.”

“Six?” Soarin asked her, confused.

“Yeah,” Fleetfoot smiled and began counting people, “Let's see we have, Silver, Spitty, Fire, Wave, Ace, and now you.”

“Spitfire is not always, stern,” Soarin defended her.

“But she’s part of the serious squad,” Fleetfoot gave Soarin puppy dog eyes and frowned. “At least I got the rest of them right, huh?”

“Nope,” Soarin started, “Fleet, we're gonna play a game called, everything wrong with whatever the hell you just said!”

“Oh, come on, you stole that from Fivestar.”

“Let's start with Ace,” Soarin cleared his throat and ignored Fleetfoot, “He can be a nice guy once you get to know him and he follows rules, but makes his own. Now with Silver, he is a hardass, stubborn captain, but if you want to call whatever the hell he does stiff ass then we need to have a talk. Besides don’t stif ass people follow orders, polar opposites if you ask me. I have to give you some credit though you got Wave and Fire right.”

“True,” Fleetfoot sighed in defeat.

“I wonder who Spitfire sent for teaching the school’s gym class today,” Soarin thought out loud.

“Oh, trust me,” Fleetfoot smirked, “She sent the worst squad for the job.”

“Oh, shit,” Soarin’s eyes widened, “She really sent…”

“Yep,” Fleetfoot flew up and sat on Soarin's shoulders steadying herself with her wings, “She sent, squad five.”

Rainbow Dash woke up and groggily opened her eyes, then she yawned and took out her phone. Nobody was in the hallway so Dash was slightly confused with what time it was. She looked at her phone, grabbed her books, and took off running to her classroom. It turns out the she was at least fifteen minutes late to her first class. She reached the door, but didn't think the professor would be very happy so she decided to go through the back door. She opened the door very slowly and quietly began to walk in. So far she hadn't drawn any attention, but when Rainbow was about to sit down in a vacant seat in the corner she noticed a pair of eyes watching her. She was still standing up, but she crouched down a little bit so that the professor couldn’t see her and then turned to the stranger.

“I know I’m late, but it would be so great if you didn't tell the professor,” Rainbow pleaded in an unusual way for her, because instead of demanding she asked, since she didn't want to have too much of a bad first impression. “Please, I am begging you not to tell him. I already know he's going to be so fur-”

“Sweetie, sit down,” Said the surprising kind, female voice beside her.

“Thank’s,” Rainbow sat down and took out some paper, “I owe ya one. The names Rainbow Dash, yours?”

“My name is Miracle,” She smiled at Rainbow Dash and Dash looked at her.

She was a girl of a bit of a smaller than average size, her hair was magenta and mint green and was in a braid. Her eyes were soft and calm, the color was light pink, and she had a trusting facial expression.

“It’s my first year here,” Rainbow started, “and I just moved to Hollow Shade with my friends from Ponyville.”

“Wow,” Miracle started, “It’s my first year at the school, but I was born and raised here.”

“It’s a pretty decent place, but to me the best part about it is the Wonderbolt tryouts!” Rainbow was beaming, “I’ve been a fan since I was little, but now I’m actually gonna get to fly alongside them. It’s a dream come true!” Rainbow was trying very hard not to fangirl too much, but that was kind of difficult.

“You might get to fly beside them,” Miracle corrected her.

“No,” Rainbow narrowed her eyes at no one in particular, “I will fly alongside them, because I, Rainbow Dash, am awesome and the best flyer there ever lived.”

“Good luck with that,” Miracle said sincerely, “But I think you would like to know that I am trying out as well.”

“No way,” Rainbow chuckled, “Well I’ll send your good luck back to you, because I don’t need it.”

“Cocky much?” Miracle raised an eyebrow.

“Only on the second day of school,” Rainbow winked at her, “So what's the professor talking about?”

“I have no clue,” Miracle deadpanned.

“Before I came in here were you even listening?” Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow.

“I kind of was,” Miracle smiled like what she said helped anything in this situation whatsoever.

“But of course you didn't hear enough to know anything about what he’s saying,” Rainbow gave her a look the screamed, ‘well this is just fucking clichéd.’

“Hey don't look at me like that, I didn't know you until a few minutes ago after you were, like, fifteen minutes late. It's not really my fault for not hearing what he said.” Miracle explained.

“Yeah,” Rainbow started, “But you had fifteen minutes before I came in, what the hell were you doing that was so fucking important that you had to miss out on what the professor was saying?”

“You're extremely naïve,” Miracle said in a serious yet sarcastic tone.

“You sound like my grandmother,” Rainbow rolled her eyes.

“What were you doing with the fifteen minutes that you had before class,” Miracle was now looking at the person beside her and flipping to the correct page.

Rainbow didn't want to straight up say, ‘sleeping’ so she decided to go with s more scenic route.

“Well, who gets to class on time on the second day of school anyway?” Rainbow asked, again looking completely naïve.

“Normal people,” Miracle said kind of slowly like she was trying to teach a two year old a new word.

“I thought I had already said I’m not normal,” Rainbow rolled her eyes and looked into Miracle pink eyes, “I’m awesome.”

“Ok, Ms. I’m So Awesome This is Somehow an Excuse,” Miracle looked at the clock, “Looks like it’s almost time to go.”

Rainbow began to think, she had already began thinking about whatever happened last night after she finished her homework. She remembered being exhausted, but then going up and letting Soarin in. She went to sleep on his lap, but before she actually went to sleep she remembered him saying something like ‘we had a meeting about an hour ago and I think you might know something’ or something like that.

When it was finally time to leave all of the students started shuffling and getting their notes, while Miracle and Dash walked out, still confused on what they were talking about anyway. Dash would just have ask Twilight or something later, but Miracle would probably find a way to get off on her own.

“So, Dash,” Miracle started as they were walking towards their lockers, “Do you like music?”

“Hah,” Rainbow smiled, “that's a no brainier, sure I do. I loved it so much that I created a band called the Rainbooms with my friends back in high school.”

“Wow, I like it to, but obviously not as much as you,” Miracle giggled to herself.

“Hey, thaaaat rhymes,” a creepy, stretched, male voice said from above them.

Both Miracle and Dash looked up, but by the time they did he was gone.

“Ok,” Rainbow looked back down, “That was random.”

“Hey! Rainbow watch out for the,” Miracle warned Dash, but she was too late as she turned the corner, Rainbow crashed into an open locker before she had the chance to, “lockers.” Miracle whispered to herself before wincing in pain.

“Ow,” Rainbow felt dizzy, then shook her head, and got up, “What the?” She turned to look at the person who opened the locker, “Thunderlane?” Rainbow asked before returning back from normal as he turned around, “Hey, what gives?”

“What the hell?” Thunderlane cursed to himself, “How is this my fault? You're the one who wasn't watching where you were going!”

“Whatever,” Rainbow muttered to herself.

“What’s up with you?” Thunderlane looked at her up and down, “You’re usually about one or two steps ahead of me, so what’s different about today.”

“Nothing’s wrong Thunderlane,” Rainbow lied, “What’s up with you and being in my business?”

“Nothing at all,” Thunderlane closed her locker and began to walk away when he finally noticed Miracle. “Oh, hey it’s nice to meet you. My name is Thunderlane, what’s your’s?’

“Miracle.”

“Well, any friend of Dash, is a friend of mine.” He smiled, “Except that Gilda girl, I could never click with her-” He was cut off by Dash as she reached up and grabbed his shirt.

“We do not speak, of Gilda,” Rainbow let him go and began to walk away, Miracle walked close behind her.

“Well, that was a nice meeting,” Miracle said sarcastically. “Must I point out the obvious though.”

“Yeah, yeah I failed, I get it,” Rainbow sounded annoyed, she muttered something else under her breath that Miracle couldn’t quite hear.

Suddenly there was a loud crash and a door was slammed open, all attention in the hallway was drawn to it. There was a girl who had two strong guys standing over her, but a teacher walked over and began to talk to the boys, one of them followed her, but the other one still standing there he looked at the girl as she stood up. He glared and drew back his fist, the girl looked as if she already knew what was going to happen, but she let it. He punched her right in the gut which was enough power to send her into the wall, but before she could someone from the crowd reacted. They ran over very quickly and literally threw himself at the wall just in time to catch the girl. Rainbow was finally able to make out the boy, it was none other than Last Legacy. He had carefully set down the girl on the floor, but with one hand he was clutching his stomach. The other hand was helping her pick her stuff up as she cried. Rainbow got a good look at the girl and gasped, the girl was…

“Fluttershy!” Rainbow began to run towards the girl, but a door opened and hit her in the face, “Why does everything backfire on me today?” Rainbow asked herself before getting up and looking at Fluttershy. Miracle had already made her way over and was helping Legacy pick up Fluttershy’s.

“I don’t think the author likkkkes you,” Rainbow heard the same creepy voice from earlier, but when she looked beside her she only saw a puff of smoke.

She set her sights upon Fluttershy and ran over to her. Sitting beside her and gently turning her around, Rainbow frowned at Fluttershy. It was a short lived moment because Fluttershy wrapped her arms around her and pushed her head into Rainbow’s chest and began crying harder. Rainbow was softly patting Fluttershy’s back.

“Shh,” Rainbow whispered so that only Fluttershy, Legacy, and Miracle could hear her, “It’s okay, it’s Dashie. He won't hurt you anymore it’s a Pinkie promise, okay?” Rainbow asked Fluttershy and she could feel her nodding against her chest, “Aww, c’mon don't cry, smile for Dashie, Flutters.” Fluttershy was still crying, but she was slowly calming down, slowly.

“Is she okay?” Legacy asked still holding his hand over the certain part of his stomach.

“She’ll be alright, might not look like it, but she’s a strong and capable girl.” Rainbow looked down at Fluttershy, but then back up at Legacy, “Thank’s Legacy, for saving Fluttershy. It’s nice to know you cared enough to help her.” She smiled sincerely, but then went into a serious mood, “Are you good though?”

“Yep,” He was looking at Fluttershy instead of Dash, obviously still worried, “why wouldn’t I be?”

“Well…” Rainbow was cut off when a new voice joined the conversation.

“What’s going on over here?”

Rainbow immediately recognized that voice.

“Soarin!” Rainbow perked up slightly, but then heard the crying increase. She looked down and saw Fluttershy curled up in a ball clutching her stomach even more as Dash moved slightly. “Sorry.” She whispered to Fluttershy before rest her head on her’s. “What are you doing here?”

“Um, Rainbow Dash,” Soarin raised an eyebrow before sitting down beside them and looking Fluttershy, “Did you already forget that I kind of work here?”

“Oh, right.” Rainbow looked down at Fluttershy as she cried more and more, “Oh, Flutters. Calm down, please for Dashie. I promise that I will help you, but you have to let me look at you first.” Fluttershy didn’t budge, “Please, Dashie will take care of you, but let her look first.”

“I feel like I’m missing something,” Miracle whispered to Legacy, pointing to Soarin.

“Me too, but I’d rather not ruin the moment.” Legacy whispered back, “By the way my name is Last Legacy, and you are?”

“Miracle, nice to meet you.”

Last Legacy smiled at her, “You too!”

“Would you like to fill me in?” Soarin asked Rainbow as she continued to talk to Fluttershy.

“Sure Soarin,” Rainbow said sarcastically, “My friend just got punched into a wall, but no, It’s all about what Soarin wants.”

“What?” Soarin glance up at Dash, “Calm down, Dash. I was asking you a simple question.”

“Give me a break,” Rainbow glared at him, “and a second to talk to my fri-” Rainbow felt a pull on her shirt and she glanced down at Fluttershy.

“I should have tried to be assertive, but I didn’t I let you down Dashie, I’m so so sorry,” Fluttershy began to cry, “I’m so weak and defenceless, I’m sorry.”

Rainbow eyes widened, “No, no no no no, Flutters you have nothing to apologize for and trust me you are far from weak and defenceless. Remember the time that you helped me make the right choice, if it weren't for you none of our friends, including you, would not be here.”

“I know, but…”

“No but’s Fluttershy,” Rainbow looked at Soarin, “yeah, sorry about my outburst, I cared more about Fluttershy in that moment than anything else in that moment and I’m sorry.”

“Thanks,” he looked at Dash, but then cleared his throat, “So you gonna tell me or what?”

“Maybe a bit later,” Rainbow whispered to him, “Um, Fluttershy, give me one moment, okay?” Fluttershy nodded and let Rainbow go as she walked over to Legacy. “Are you sure you’re alright?”

“Yes, Rainbow Dash,” Legacy was sitting in between Miracle and Fluttershy’s stuff.

“Because, you haven't moved your hand since you caught Fluttershy,” Rainbow raised an eyebrow.

“More like broke her fall,” Legacy said to Dash.

“I’m serious with this thank you,” Rainbow gave him a glare, but it was pretty small.

“And I'm serious in accepting it, honest,” He held free hand up, “I just didn't do much.”

“So then why do you look so bad?” Rainbow looked him deep in the eyes.

“I don’t it’s just that,” Legacy stopped, he didn't want to lie about it. “I just, um, I…” He sighed, but then smiled, “Just thinking about what would have happened if nobody had tried to stop him.”

“Oh, is that all?” Rainbow raised an eyebrow, “So he cares enough to help her and feels like if he hadn’t done anything something bad would happen and it probably would,” Rainbow thought to herself, “Seems like a genuinely nice guy, but is there more to it?”

Rainbow was drumming her pencil on her desk and staring at the clock and waiting. Lunch was in a few minutes and she wanted to talk to her friends about today, because let’s be honest it’s been weird so far. Dash was also still wondering about Legacy, he was a nice guy, he doesn't just walk up to people and start talking, he’s on the quieter side, but once you get to know him he shows you his funny, dorky, and extremely kind personality. He and Rainbow clicked pretty quickly, I mean it’s only the second day and she’s already talking like they’ve been friends for a decade. The only strange part about him is his kindness and how he takes compliments. He saved two people in two days, and when Dash was complimenting him, he seemed to deny and talk down on himself. Rainbow’s thoughts began to wander to yesterday, so much had happened, she met Legacy, she got to see the lead squad again, lead quad teaching their PE class, hearing about the tryouts, getting to the actual tryouts, Legacy saving her, that Helmer guy, her strength test, squad four, and Soarin coming to her house. That reminded her about Helmer, yesterday she said that she wanted to talk to him. The bell rung and Rainbow was the first one out of the room. She dropped her stuff off at her locker and headed for the lunchroom.

In the lunchroom, Rainbow could already see lots of people, but most of them were already sitting down. The line wasn’t as long and after the boring class Rainbow just had come from she wasn’t in the mood to randomly talk to people, so she decided to just wait patiently. Her turn came up in what seemed like an instant, but was actually five minutes. She found her friends table and saw that they were missing Rarity and Pinkie Pie.

“Hey guys, what’s up?” Rainbow sat her tray down beside Fluttershy and shot her a signature smile, Fluttershy smiled back as well, but it wasn’t a huge smile.

“Hello Rainbow,” Twilight was happily eating her lunch.

“Why are you so happy?” Rainbow asked, before taking a bite of her food and cringing slightly at the terrible taste.

“I can’t tell you~” Twilight said in a sing song voice.

Applejack whispered something into Rainbow’s ear.

“We're coming over for a study session after your Wonderbolt tryout,” Applejack chuckled slightly, “But you can’t tell the others. Twi didn’t want them to feel left out.”

“Heh, of course Twilight's excited to study,” Rainbow smiled at the rest of them. “So did you guys hear that Fluttershy got thrown into a wall?”

“Rainbow Dash!” Fluttershy exclaimed looking in Rainbow’s direction angrily.

“What, you did.” She shrugged her shoulders and looked at the lunchroom door as it opened quickly.

Pinkie Pie whizzed in pulling Rarity behind her.

“DID YOU GUYS HEAR FLUTTERSHY GOT THROW INTO THE WALL AND THE SUSPECT WAS FOUND LYING UNCONSCIOUS ON THE FLOOR!?” Pinkie shouted, drawing a few strange looks from nearby tables.

“The first part, but not the second,” Twilight looked at Rarity, “Found unconscious?”

“Yes darling, it was unlike anything I had ever seen,” Rarity started, “He was spread out in the strangest of ways. His limbs were all twisted and his face was scarred.”

“That’s a rather specific position,” Twilight rubbed her chin in thought, “But who would have done such a thing.”

“Um, Twi,” Applejack spoke up drawing all attention to her, “This ain't Ponyville. Well even back in Ponyville you had a fair share of evil, but this ain’t something you could walk up to a person and do is it?”

“Not really, but Rainbow Dash?” Twilight looked at Rainbow.

“Yeah?”

“Who else was with you?” Twilight was pretty much interrogating her and Dash didn’t like it.

“Soarin, Miracle, Last Legacy, Fluttershy, and I.” Rainbow answered, “By the way none of us did it, we were all together and walked to class together, but Soarin had to go find Fleetfoot. Before you say it there is no way Fleetfoot did it.”

“So we’re still in the dark,” Rarity sighed.

“But the future's so bright Rarity,” Pinkie inhaled some fresh air put her arm around Rarity’s neck, “Can’t you see it.”

“Yes darling, our future’s are very bright,” Rarity smiled and then looked at the stage, “Look’s your friends have an announcement.”

“Hello everybody,” Fleetfoot smiled and waved at people, “I’m Fleetfoot and this is Soarin. Today in gym you will have the great honor of training with squad five!”

Soarin took the microphone, “Spitfire says you must have a swimsuit for tryouts today, because if you don't, good luck swimming in your clothes.”

Fleetfoot took the microphone back, “Ok, the captain of squad five is Crimson Steel, second-in-command is Emerald, third-in-command is Secret Wish, and fourth-in-command Astral. Ok, Spitfire gave you a brief run through of what will happen with the top fifteen, correct?” Fleetfoot saw a few nods, “So, everybody in there training until Thursday. On Friday, we will have a list of everybody who tried out, the top fifteen are moving on, but It’s actually the top sixteen, because out of the sixteen of you we are going to choose one to move up the ranks, so the other fifteen are moving on through intense training to become a reserve or a recruit squad. The recruit squad has, uh.” Fleetfoot put her hand over the microphone and whispered something into Soarin's ear and he whispered back, “Five people, because it's easier for the captain to lead like that, because in formations that will be the leader. See it all makes sense now!” Fleetfoot smiled, “Ok, so we usually don’t do swimming until you are training in your little fifteen group, but since there are so many of you and one of you are skipping up Spitty decided that it would be a good idea to do it now. Seriously though, guys out of your whole school only like… forty to fifty of you didn't decide to tryout. Good thing we have a huge pool, because it's like a little bit larger than you Mess Ha- er, I mean cafeteria.” Fleetfoot looked at the time, “Well guys, Soarin and I have to run, but don't worry we'll be back by your gym time. Bye!” Soarin was pulling Fleetfoot off the stage as she was waving. He himself sent a small smile to Dash which she happily returned.

“We all know Dashie’s gonna make it,” Pinkie smiled and jumped over the table to where Dash was sitting, “She's gonna be the best they've ever seen!”

“Thank's Pinks,” Rainbow gave a pinkie a thumbs up as Pinkie hugged her energetically, “but there's actually some real competition in this game.”

“Is that modesty from Rainbow Dash I hear, I am surprised,” Rarity gasped dramatically, “Where's a fainting couch when you need it?”

“Where's a dildo when you need it,” it was that creepy voice again, “Sweetheart, we all have questions.”

“Did somebody say something?” Rarity looked around.

Rainbow looked up hoping to catch him this time, but by the time she looked up there was nothing there.

“Dammit,” Rainbow muttered under her breath, “No Rarity, it was your imagination.”

“I could have sworn I heard something though, darling.” Rarity was still looking around frantically.

“So did I Rarity, so did I.” Rainbow sighed.

“Nice speech,” Soarin said sarcastically rolling his eyes.

“Thanks!” Fleetfoot totally ignored the sarcasm and reacted to the positive, “But then why'd you pull me off?”

“You were taking too long and I'm your chauffeur, plus Spitfire would be pissed if I left you behind.” Soarin added.

“Eh, good point,” Fleetfoot nodded her head in approval as the two of them walked to Soarin's car.

“Excited to watch the cadets?” Soarin asked as he opened his car door before climbing in the front seat.

“Yep!” Fleetfoot smiled and set her bag down on the floor, “Guess what?”

“Do I really really want to?” Soarin asked as he backed out of the school parking lot and began to drive.

Fleetfoot rolled her eyes, but still showed her excitement, “Remember Spitfire's old friend, ya now, the derby racer guy?”

“The guy we’ve been sending tryout invitations to for the past four years that he never accepts, because he's too ‘busy’?” Soarin muttered sarcastically.

“That's the one!” Fleetfoot didn't even take note to Soarin's sarcasm, “This year he actually accepted and I get to meet a fellow derby rival!”

Soarin visibly flinched, but Fleetfoot was completely ignoring him.

“Can you believe it Soar?” Fleetfoot was practically bouncing in her seat, “I actually have a rival that isn't evil or a jealous wife, but hey it's not my fault they can't look this hot.” She did a hair flip and winked at at the passing car, “Isn't this exciting?”

“Sure Fleet,” Soarin said pretty unenthusiastically.

“Hey you knew Spitty back then, did you ever get to meet him?”

“No,” Soarin answered, “I never got the chance to, but I did watch him race once, seems like a pretty fast guy.”

“I know right, this is perfect!”

Fleetfoot was obviously excited about the fact that she had a rival, but Soarin has had a fair share of rivals in the past and for him, he had to hold back the urge to punch him in the face every time the guy stepped. Don't get Fleetfoot wrong though, because she despised the guy as well, hell, they might've hated each other more than he and Soarin did. Spitfire didn't like him either, but Soarin's case was different. Soarin and the other guy who used to be in their squad, often had to fight for the spotlight, though Soarin was much more popular and likeable, the other guy always tried hard to beat him out. Most of their fight’s often began verbally, but then ended physically. One time it got a little bit out of hand. Fleetfoot and Soarin didn't speak to each other for the rest of the car ride, mostly because Fleetfoot was too busy singing to every song that came on and Soarin was thinking. When they finally arrived Fleetfoot jumped out of the car and grabbed her bag, she closed the door and ran into the compound yelling, ‘Surprise I need your help!’ over and over again. Soarin chuckled to himself and locked the car before walking in the compound himself. As he walked in he nodded respectfully to everyone he passed until he reached Spitfire's office on the second floor. He was about to knock on the door before he heard voices on the inside.

“I see where you're coming from, Captain,” Soarin identified Fire Streak’s voice, “but are you sure this is something that we should keep from everyone, especially the more professional ones, like Misty or Captain Silver Lining. I’m sure they would have some ideas-”

“FIRE STREAK!” Spitfire voice boomed, “You are to tell nobody about any of this.”

“But…” Fire Streak wasn't one to disagree with authority, but…

“That's an order, Fire.” Spitfire stern voice made Soarin slightly uncomfortable, so he decided to step in before Spitfire went off on him.

Fire sighed, “Yes, ma’am.” As Soarin knocked before Spitfire could say anything back to him.

“Fire, you're dismissed, we will continue this discussion later,” Spitfire still held onto her stern voice, “Come in.”

Soarin entered just as Fire was getting up, as Fire reached him he gave Soarin a respectful nod.

“Sir.”

“Fire.”

They passed each other and Soarin sat down in Fire’s place as he left.

“Soarin, just the person I needed to see,” Spitfire shuffled her papers until she found about 5 letters, “Wait where’s Fleetfoot?”

"When we arrived she ran into the building yelling ‘Surprise I need your help’ over and over again,” Soarin heard footsteps and looked out of the door, which Fire forgot to close, he found Silver walking past. “Silver!”

Silver turned around and locked eyes on Soarin, “What is it?”

“Do you know where Fleetfoot is?” Spitfire asked for Soarin.

“To hell if I know,” Silver began to walk of, but Spitfire stopped him again.

“Wait!”

“WHAT?” Silver turned around in the door frame and glared at both Soarin and Spitfire.

“Could you close the door?” Spitfire raised an eyebrow at his outburst.

“Sure,” Silver said in a surprisingly calm voice, before slamming the door shut.

“Ok that was fine, but next time please close the door softly,” Soarin said as he flinched.

“Trust me son, a warrior won’t flinch in battle, it’s not my fault that you have jackass reflexes,” Silver stated, “besides it’s also not my fault that you kids are wearing this door thin.”

“Are you a flight instructor or a father?” Spitfire asked dryly.

“Both.”

Silver had a point that door was pretty thin and so were the wall, but you could clearly understand exactly what was being said on the other side.

“I guess I’ll fill her in later,” Spitfire picked up one letter and looked at the envelope studying it carefully before giving it to him. “This is a letter for you from your mom and dad,” She looked on her desk before opening a drawer rummaging through it before pulling out another letter. “This is a letter from the Griffin Kingdom. We have to send some representatives through the Princess, so I was thinking that maybe later we can send our fifteen training people over there.”

“Great idea, but why?” Soarin grabbed the letter from Spitfire and began to read it.

“You obviously know about the passing of their king?” Spitfire asked.

“More like the murder,” Soarin muttered under his breath, “But why would we go? They hate us!”

“Because they’re under a new rule and this king wanted the original king dead anyway so he thought of it like we were doing him a favor.” Spitfire smiled at Soarin, “So I have a feeling Fleetfoot told you about my friend.”

“Yes, she was extremely excited about the fact that she could finally have a rival that isn't evil or a jealous wife.” Soarin rolled his eyes at the last part.

“Yes, well it seems like the two of us both have friends with abilities in this race,” Spitfire smiled, “I think Rainbow Dash will benefit a lot from him.”

“Really?” Soarin asked Spitfire.

“Yes,” Spitfire began, “As you know he is a racer, but unlike most of the others he focuses on pure speed, technique, and intellect. While Rainbow Dash has her natural gifts, but those don't always come through when you're busy focusing on racing. He, on the other hand, can predict what his opponents are doing and uses them to his advantage without making physical contact. Rainbow is special and her abilities aren't always as caught up with her mind, while he is seasoned and above, Rainbow is new and relies on everybody else's moves instead of unpredictable and seasoned.”

“So she's going to learn, but what about him?” Soarin was reviewing what Spitfire said in his mind.

“He is, different,” Spitfire began to think, “He often has his head in the books, but I believe if he spent more time practicing and flying in general rather than read about physics and be a motivational speaker and giving advice to his opponents,” Spitfire rolled her eyes at that part, “Then he would definitely be a Wonderbolt by now, but for some reason he shut down all of my invitations until now. I wonder why.” Spitfire stopped and looked as if to be in deep thought, “Unless, he feels something different as well.”

“What do you mean?” Soarin raised an eyebrow at him.

“I mean the Princess told us top secret information about some ancient artifacts, The Elements of Harmony, but even if she was only giving us some basic information and not even telling us who the bearers are or where these relics came from.” Spitfire explained, “It doesn't make sense for her to tell us this kind of information unless something's …” Spitfire paused looking for the right word, “Different, off, changing. That sort of thing.”

“You have a point, but the Princess always knows what she’s doing. I’m sure there's a good reason to whatever she's doing.” Soarin reached forward and grabbed the letter from his parents. “I wonder why…” Soarin trailed off as he began to read the letter, scanning the words over and over again.

“Is something wrong?” Spitfire asked in a caring tone.

Spitfire and Soarin had grown up together, his parents were her parents and her parents were his. Spitfire would often come to his house and spend time with him on weekends or after a long school day. The two trusted each other and loved each other like parents could only hope their two children did. From a young age Spitfire was obsessed with the Wonderbolts. Her parents would help train them both and help them with their flight techniques, being a generation long Wonderbolt family themselves. Soarin and Spitfire had often gone to Soarin's parents for advice and Spitfire loved to lists to their stories even now.

“No nothing's wrong at all,” Soarin said cheerfully, with a goofy grin on his face, “It just so happens that is Wonderbolts are invited to my brothers wedding!”

Spitfire's jaw dropped, “Your brother's getting married.”

“No way, that big guy actually found a girl who chose to be with him,” A voice from Spitfire’s couch said. Both Soarin and Spitfire turned to see Fleetfoot on the sofa, “Oh, wait, we don't know if she chose yet. My bad!” Fleetfoot smiled and looked at their shocked faces. “How are you two still surprised?”

“She has a good point,” Soarin shrugged and smiled, “I thought we already established that she’s a cat.”

“Meow!” Fleetfoot said as she purred and then licked the back of her hand repeatedly.

Soarin one day made a joke about how Fleetfoot is like a cat; She jumps high, likes to cuddle, she’s fast, stealthy, (appears to) has nine lives (with all the stupid things she does), and is even quiet when she wants to be. The joke stuck and he sometimes calls her a cat to tease her.

Spitfire balled up a piece of blank paper and chucked it at Fleetfoot’s head.

Fleetfoot jumped, “Yeow!” She glared at Spitfire and purring dangerously low, “By the way that was the ‘What the hell was that for, Spitty?’ purr.”

“Well Soarin and I were having a conversation until you showed up,” Spitfire wore a flat expression on her face, but Fleetfoot only continued to smile.

“Well I came here to talk to both of you as well,” Fleetfoot walked over to Spitfire’s desk and sat down.

“Talk to Soarin,” Spitfire got up, “I have somewhere to be.”

“Bye Spitster!” Fleetfoot called out as Spitfire left her office.

“Don’t call me that!” Spitfire yelled back in annoyance, as she shut the door quietly.

“I have something to show you,” Fleetfoot grabbed Soarin's arm and began to pull him with her, ok that’s not entirely true, she had her hand around his arm and Soarin was walking willingly behind her.

“Where are we going?” Soarin questioned her as she pulled him into the halls and then into a blank dark room.

“You’ll see,” Fleetfoot giggled playfully, “By the way could you turn on the light, you probably can’t or shouldn’t go down the stairs in the dark.”

“Sure,” Soarin reached for the light switch, but tripped on something and fell backwards before sliding. He was about to get up, but when he reached up his hand to grab hold of emerging it broke and the force caused home to slid again, but this time he also tipped back and started falling down the stairs that Fleetfoot mentioned.

“I think I found them,” Soarin said, cringing at the pain that tried to overtake him.

He could hear Fleetfoot’s laughter echoing off of the walls as she tried to stifle it, well let's be honest, no she wasn’t.

Fleetfoot ran down the stairs with ease, even when it was blank dark Fleetfoot had a great amount of stealth, agility, and speed.

“Soar,” Fleetfoot giggled as she looked at Soarin lying in a heap on the floor, “Are you alive, give me a sign or something?”

“Where are we anyway?” Soarin looked around once the room stopped spinning and saw how much attention he drew to himself after falling. He quickly got up and finally realized we're he was.

“We’re in the tech part of the Wonderbolt Workshop, but what I want to show you is in the workshop part.” Fleetfoot started to pull Soarin behind her as she waved at everyone they passed.

The Wonderbolts had a very large compound and under that compound surface area they had an even bigger basement. The basement was called the Wonderbolt Workshop. The workshop consisted of three different departments, the tech department, the building department, and the equipment department.

As they walked Soarin thought about Rainbow Dash, he seemed to be doing that a lot lately. He did like spending time with her when he first met her, she was a spunky young girl with determination. She was one of the only fans he ever met that didn’t see him as Soarin the wonderbolt, but the real Soarin. They had gone through alot together, well Dash had gone through a lot with the with the wonderbolts anyway, but she and Soarin had a special relationship. While he would never have the confidence to tell her how he feels, he hoped that she could at least feel something for him too.

“We’re here!” Fleetfoot smiled and hugged Soarin and pointed at the huge object in front of them, “Isn’t it great?”

Soarin followed Fleetfoot’s finger and his eyes landed on the huge plane in front of him. It said Wonderbolts on the side of it and had two levels, Soarin could already tell because it had two sets of windows. Fleetfoot, for as long as Soarin had known her, had loved planes and three month ago when Spitfire announced the new compound she also said that she would like to offer a creative role to anybody who stepped forward for something that would greatly benefit the wonderbolts as a whole. Fleetfoot was the first to step forward and for months she worked with the engineering crew for something that even Spitfire didn’t know about. Now seeing the finished product, Soarin was nothing short of proud of his best friend.

“It’s amazing,” Soarin looked over the careful craftsmanship.

“You haven’t even seen the best part yet,” Fleetfoot ran over to the plane and signaled for Soarin up the steps, the door opened and the two entered the large plane.

The front was smaller, but there was a pilot and co-pilot station and then they turned right and Fleetfoot opened the slinking door.

“This is an example for every other room down here, until we get upstairs.” Fleetfoot looked and pulled back four curtains, “There’s a room for every squad and each member gets a bed with storage space either on the bottom if you're down there or the top if you you’re up there.” Fleetfoot winked at him and he could tell she was about to say something, “The guys may have more junk if they’re on the top though.”

“Fleet, that’s gross,” Soarin said bluntly.

“I watch you in your sleep, it’s not that disgusting,” Fleetfoot joked, I think.

“Ok, let's get upstairs,” Soarin avoided the topic like a pro and Fleetfoot somehow convinced him to pull down the stairs.

They walked up and Soarin was amazed by what he saw. Fleetfoot had obviously put a lot of thought into this, because it was extremely special.

“Up here is squad's 1-5,” Fleetfoot smiled, “Since the lesser amount,” She paused, “That is the right word, right?” Before Soarin could answer she shrugged her shoulder, “Eh, who cares? Anyway only two people will have to be in the same room, Spitty and I and then you and Fivestar!”

“So Spitfire went with Fivestar?” Soarin smiled.

“Yep,” Fleetfoot tilted her head and tapped her chin, “She said she was going to go for squad four over five, because they’re focused and have a good tactic. She said there was no way she was about to separate Mythic and Radiant so it was down to the boys and she had our best interests at heart. She decided that Fivestar would be a better addition to our squad, because of his behavior. Besides Ace would never want to be compared to Rap-” Fleetfoot caught herself before she said the name, “Number four, besides he loves Radiant too much.”

“Ah,” Soarin sighed, “You and your shipping.”

“Yep, don't tell him I said that.” Fleetfoot pulled out her phone, “I have to call-” Fleetfoot paused and looked at the time, “HOLY CRAP SOARIN I’M GOING TO BE LATER THAN USUAL!”

“What time is it anyway?” Soarin asked calmly taking Fleetfoot’s phone away from her, “Shit, we are late, c’mon!”

Soarin and Fleetfoot ran to his care and hoped they would get there in time.

“Rainbow Dash,” Thunderlane waved his hand directly in front of her face and she looked at him.

“What?” She snapped at him.

“Were you even listening to me?” Thunderlane raised an eyebrow at her.

“Don’t answer a question with a question and no.” Rainbow put her head on her desk.

“I- never mind.” Thunderlane looked at Rainbow slouching over her desk, “Are you ok?”

“Dude, I’m fine.” Rainbow stood up and pulled Thunderlane up as well. “C’mon let's get to PE!” Thunderlane shrugged at her attitude change, but she seemed to do that to him pretty often he just let it slide.

Rainbow and Thunderlane walked down the halls and saw a familiar face.

“Oh, hi guys,” Last Legacy smiled at them, “Can I walk with you?”

“Sure,” Rainbow reached back and grabbed Legacy’s hand pulling him up to walk in between her and Thunderlane, “You can walk right there.”

Legacy raised an eyebrow at her, but ignored it.

Thunderlane broke the ice, “So why are we so quiet?”

Rainbow just looked at him, “Great attempt to break the ice, but leave it to the experts,” Rainbow cleared her throat, “What’s your goal with the Wonderbolts?” Rainbow brought her hand up to her forehead, “That sounds like a Twilight question.”

“To make it to the top fifteen at least,” Legacy shrugged, “But it’s all about self confidence and even if I don’t make it I hope I at least learn something from the experience. Though if I do make it to the top fifteen I’m looking to make it to the top! I’m also looking forward to beating you in something.”

“That’s the spirit!” Rainbow patted him on the back, “What about you Thunderlane?”

“I’m looking forward to hopefully not dying or quitting!”

“That’s kind of the spirit!” Rainbow paused and thought about it, “Nevermind, that is not the spirit, fix yourself Thunderlane!”

“It’s good to have goals!” Legacy was giving Thunderlane a thumbs up as Thunderlane chuckled.

“Aww, that’s adorable. Can we keep him?” The same voice as earlier said.

Rainbow looked up only to see the outline of a man above her. She was starting to get annoyed with this person. If this was some kind of game she wanted out!

“If you don’t I will,” Thunderlane shrugged his shoulders not even noticing Rainbow was no the one who said that, “He’s a nice guy.”

“Thunderlane, take it from the experts, again,” She put a hand on his shoulder, “We’re talking about him and he is right fucking there!” She shook his shoulders before walking on.

Legacy seemed to be more or less respectfully ignoring them.

“Look there’s the gym,” Legacy pointed the double doors and the three of them opened the doors. Rainbow was heading to the girls bathroom to change when she noticed someone standing in front of the door blocking the entry. Naturally Rainbow went with her first instinct.

“Why are you blocking the door some people need to change!” Rainbow stood directly in front of the person, also skipping the line.

“You’ll live without changing,” The woman snapped at all of them.

“Excuse me, but you don’t have to make everyone else’s day hell just because you feel like shit!” Rainbow yelled back in her face.

“I recommend you all leave.”

Rainbow muttered something under her breath as the woman said that and walked away begrudgingly.

“Do you know why the changing rooms are off limits?” Legacy asked Dash as he sat down beside her.

“Nope, but I should’ve shoved something so far up her stuck up ass-” Rainbow started, but never finished.

“Rainbow Dash!” Legacy yelled at her, “You don’t know what that person is going through!”

“Well, I know she’s a sorry ass bitch,” Rainbow muttered just loud enough for him to hear.

“You know she could have just been the slightest bit different,” Legacy started, “But then you just put a whole new label on her. She could’ve just been doing her job that she didn’t want to do in the first place, besides how would you feel if a teenager started yelling in your face because you were doing your job.”

“Like that teenager is right,” Rainbow replied, sarcastically rolling her eyes.

“If you're not going to listen to it now at least keep it in mind for future references,” He closed his eyes for a second and then reopened them, smiling at her, “So you excited?”

Rainbow raised an eyebrow at him, to her it seemed like he was hiding a part of himself. She studied him before looking up into his icy eyes. She could see slight anger, but it was more happiness and the anger didn’t show on his face. Still she felt as if there was more.

“Yep, even if it is of to a bad start,” Rainbow forced a smile, “You can’t beat getting to train with Wonderbolts.”

“Apparently you can’t,” Legacy shook his head and smiled.

Rainbow was about to say something, but got interrupted by Crimson Steel, captain of squad five.

“As you may have been able to tell from the locker rooms is that not everyday runs smoothly,” Crimson Steel looked at all of their angry expressions, “All Wonderbolts have to go through sometimes when whatever happens happens and there’s nothing you can do. You all were lucky and got the minor, the major is waking up to high alert signals or…” He paused to think.

“Pete’s cooking,” They all heard Astral say, she tried to hide it, but Crimson raised an eyebrow at her.

“She’s not wrong ya know,” Emerald agreed, “Guys, the one thing not to look forward to, Mess Hall food.”

“We are getting a bit off topic here,” Crimson looked at all of the students, “Laps, let's see what you’ve got!”

At the end of the class everyone's was panting and gasping for air, as squad four looked at them in approval. It had been a tough period for everyone, but somehow in the weight of the world Rainbow Dash, Thunderlane, and Legacy still managed to impress. Well there were many more who impressed squad five, it was clear to Rainbow Dash that they were looking for consistency. They did their laps and everyone pretty much passed that part. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were obviously at each other's throats and Legacy seemed to be pacing himself, unfortunately Thunderlane was among the few who over exerted themselves during the beginning.

The next part was a little bit different, it was an obstacle course. The course didn't consist of a too high difficulty level, but again consistency was key. Applejack seemed to be able to maneuver through the course pretty easily. Rainbow Dash was using her smaller size and speed to her advantage, besides it wasn't like one of those obstacle courses where you are timed and one person at a time, no, it was covering the whole entire track and you had to keep pushing forward the whole time. Legacy was pretty good at maneuvering and making room for himself in tighter spaces, which is not something you see everyday, especially not with most men. Thunderlane was a die hard and his determination was strong, but he had the wrong approach to the course and that only slightly brought him back. Helmer's approaches were much different than everyone else's which made very much sense due to his size. He was a very fast runner and seemed to have plenty of strength, that much was obvious, but he would always take to outside of the track which is not something many others were attempting.

After that it was all cardio and that was when Soarin and Fleetfoot ran in, Fleetfoot screamed ‘are we late?’ and everything outside just stopped everybody just froze where they were, they all just looked at her. The cardio was brutal, there were several wing-ups, they had push-ups, planks, sit-ups, curl-ups, and even bench presses, but even with cardio consistency was still a necessity.

“How did you two hold up so well?” Thunderlane asked Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

“Do you even know me Thunderlane?” Rainbow asked, “I am awesome so don't you forget it!” Rainbow announced to all of the group, “Besides, racing is my thing on land or in the air.” She said that part a little bit quieter.

“Hello awesome it's nice to meet you,” Legacy joked, “Do you have any idea where my friend Rainbow Dash went?”

The small group laughed at Rainbow’s expense.

“Har, Har,” Rainbow rolled her eyes, “You are hilarious, I would love to meet your sense of humor.”

“Sorry he doesn't accept visitors,” Legacy said before falling into a coughing fit, “You see, this is why I don't lie, it always backfires.”

Rainbow looked at Applejack and saw her smile in appreciation, being the element of honesty must be difficult sometimes, considering so many people lie as a lifestyle choice. It must've felt good having somebody on her side.

“You Applejack?” Thunderlane wasn’t looking in Applejack's direction, but he was a scratching the back of his neck and facing the exact opposite way.

“Ah’ve been working on my fath- er, grandmother's farm since Ah was around six years old,” Applejack caught herself before she called it her father's farm, for he had passed away eight years ago. “You can say obstacles were included.”

Legacy seemed to catch the father part to and it seemed to sadden him slightly, and Rainbow suddenly noticed something about him. Legacy honestly did care about everyone else, but the negative emotions like anger and sadness didn’t reach his face like his positive emotions did. He always appears charismatic and perhaps it was just part of his lifestyle. He always looked happier and more friendly making him a person you would quickly gravitate to then if not that his caring demeanor. He truly hates it when someone gets hurt. Just like before though Rainbow felt as if there is more to it than what meets the eye.

Fleetfoot walked over to the group and smiled at them.

“Hey you guys, how are you doing?”

Thunderlane stood there unsure of what to say to a top ranking official, Legacy waved awkwardly, Applejack was mostly looking down, but she glanced at Fleetfoot out of the corner of her eye and smiled, since she knew that Fleetfoot was one of her best friends friends, and Rainbow winked at her before replying.

“Hello Commander Fleetfoot, we’re doing good. Right guys?” Rainbow turned to the rest of her group and signaled them to say something.

“Yes, I am doing fine ma’am,” Legacy said standing pretty stiffly and looking kind of uncomfortable. Fleetfoot giggled at him and booped his nose.

Then as she turned to the rest of them, Rainbow caught Fleetfoot saying something like ‘Wave Chill Jr’.

“Well I gotta get going, today's going to be a busy day with lots of running involved,” Fleetfoot smiled at all of them, “Wish me luck!” She turned and began to walk away.

“Good luck,” Thunderlane blurted out a little too loud.

Fleetfoot paused registering what he just said before shrugging and walking away, Rainbow Dash turned her head and facepalmed, Applejack groaned quietly and shook her head, and Legacy seemed to chuckle it off.

“Thunderlane,” Rainbow looked him right in the eyes before sighing, “Fix yourself.”

Rainbow Dash arrived at the Wonderbolt compound at 4:45. She was carrying a bag with her bathing suit, a towel, and even some goggles just in case. Rainbow was not at all worried about today's test. In high school she had been the swim team captain for two years in a row. High school was a strange time for Rainbow Dash and her friends, but that doesn’t need to be discussed quite yet.

On the stairs, of the compound, you could see Soarin and Spitfire standing in full Wonderbolt uniform wetsuits. Spitfire had a clipboard and she seemed to be writing something down pretty last minute. Soarin and Fleetfoot were both sitting down talking to each other. Fleetfoot was wearing a one piece bathing suit with the back cut out. Soarin had a clip board like Spitfire, but he seemed to be reading it instead of writing in it.

Rainbow looked around to see if she could find any of her friends, but before she could really look around someone caught her eye. He had light blue and black hair in a blown back style, he had light orange eyes, and had a familiar face that Rainbow couldn’t quite put her finger on. After a few seconds Rainbow figured he wasn’t much to look at and went back to looking for her friends.

She found Legacy and Miracle who were having a conversation. Then she started to look around for Thunderlane, but everyone was a bit taller than her so it was hard to see over them.

“Don’t move, Legacy!” Rainbow got a running head start and then jumped right onto Legacy’s back. He quickly grabbed her legs to keep her steady.

“Why did you do that?” Legacy turned his head to face her as best as he could, but in his angle he couldn't even see her.

“I needed to find Thunderlane, but everyone’s taller than me,” She was looking around and trying to see if she could find Thunderlane’s hair.

“Couldn't you have, I don’t know, flown?” Miracle joined the conversation raising an eyebrow at her.

“Flying would draw too much attention,” Rainbow answered pushing her body weight up by holding her hands right below Legacy’s neck and holding herself up.

“Right, because this is drawing way less attention,” Legacy commented sarcastically before taking a look around at everyone who was looking at them, even Soarin’s attention was drawn, “Dammit Dash, get off of me!”

Rainbow slid off of his back and looked around, “What the hell are you guys looking at?”

“A girl with an attitude that’s what.” One of them muttered quietly, but they would soon learn that Rainbow Dash had very good hearing.

“Hey, at least I have a personality.” Rainbow shoot back at her and all you could hear around them were “ooh’s.”

“You’re going to regret this girl,” She spat in Rainbow Dash’s face and glared at her.

“That is nasty,” Rainbow that voice from above her, but she didn’t care right now.

“Bitch,” Rainbow snarled at her.

Rainbow and the girl glared at each other for a few seconds, before they heard the voice of Spitfire.

“Ok, everybody,” Spitfire immediately had everyone’s attention, “I hope you’re all having a good day because we’re about to make it hell.”

“Wow, that was blunt,” Fleetfoot whispered to Soarin who kept his attention on Spitfire.

“Today there is a lot going on, but first I need to explain our point system,” Spitfire started, “We will be testing you on everything and I mean everything, not just your flying, but the way you act outside the tests as well. Basically, as long as you’re in that building, you’re been judged. We watch everything, see everything, hear everything, judge everything. Us Wonderbolts are a team and in a team you need to work together. How you treat each other will be very important, especially since we work in squads. If you have anything personal with somebody else keep it in your time not me time. We will be using this points system to evaluate you and it will bring you to your final score. Sure we will be scoring you on your flying technique, but read my lips cadets,” Spitfire looked around at all of them holding eyes on a certain man before continuing, “Your flight skills are not the only thing that matters and I’m not even to the best part yet. What is the best part, you may ask? We’re not going to tell you your current score, how to earn points, or how to lose points. By doing this, it means that you can’t play the system to try and earn more points. So basically, all you can do is try your best and not fuck up. Any questions on the system?”

Rainbow looked around at everyone as they silently nodded. She thought that what Spitfire said was pretty cut and dry so nobody really should have a question. Spitfire made it sound easy enough, but maybe it wasn't.

“Good, I thought I made that pretty clear,” Spitfire glanced at Soarin and Fleetfoot who both nodded. “If you don't go to the college then you were invited by the invitation that I sent to a select few. None of you live here so we decided that we would go ahead and give out room assignments. Right now the only people who need to stay here are the ones who were invited by my invitation, but everyone is welcome to stay if they choose to. There are several room numbers that go from one to twenty-five. There will only be up to eight people per room and they will be chosen randomly.” Spitfire moved over to where Soarin and Fleetfoot were standing. “I would like you to follow Soarin and Fleetfoot into the building and go to either of them to get your room assignments. Boys with Fleetfoot and girls with Soarin.”

Rainbow followed Soarin in and stood in line. After about two minutes it was her turn to get her room assignment. She stepped up to Soarin and he grabbed a number out of his basket and a sheet of paper, he gave it to her and whispered.

“This is a waiver because we just want you to know that if you are dead by the end of this we promise that it was not our fault.”

“Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind,” She winked at him and began to walk away. She kept walking down the hallway until she found room #10. She opened the door and walked in. To her surprise she found that she knew most of the people in the room already. There was Legacy, Miracle, she saw Helmer who had an individual bed (They had obviously planned for him to be in this room), the young man that she was inspecting earlier was also in that room, she saw another boy that couldn't have been to much older than hers offing on his bed reading, she saw one bed that was obviously occupied by somebody because it had a suitcase on it, but looked like it had been ripped up, also nobody except Miracle seemed to be bothered by it, and there were two beds that were not occupied. Rainbow chose the bunk bed above Miracle, who was hugging her after she learned that Rainbow was also in the room. Rainbow noticed that Miracle was already dressed in a bathing suit. It was light pink and complimented her light pink eyes.

Seeing Miracle dressed made Rainbow Dash feel like she should get dressed early as well. Rainbow Dash walked over to the other side of the room and opened the bathroom door. It was a unisex bathroom that had two different showers and two different toilets. Rainbow Dash went into the one marked women's and walked into the stall locking the door behind her. She got dressed into a Wonderbolt bathing suit with her name on the back of it. She got this Wonderbolt bathing suit about two years ago and she had never warn it until now. It was given to her by one of her favorite Wonderbolts of all time and it was a way that Rainbow Dash would never forget her. Rainbow couldn't wait to talk to her again and see her again.

Rainbow walked out of the stall and bathroom and went back into the bunk room. She noticed Legacy looking at her bathing suit a little bit confused, but Rainbow just mouthed, ‘I’ll tell you later.’

A few minutes later another man came in and set his things on the open bed and running to the bathroom to get dressed. He emerged with his swim trunks before sitting on his bed relaxing. He noticed Rainbow sitting on her bed and doing something on her phone. He whistled and she looked at him confused, he winked at her and blew her a kiss. Rainbow Dash looked the other way and gagged. The young man was about to say something, but he was interrupted by Spitfire's voice over the intercom.

“Everybody please report to Pool A!”

Rainbow jumped out of the bed and stuck the landing before walking out of the room with Miracle and Legacy.

‘This is going to be an interesting day,’ Rainbow thought to herself before walking out and seeing what today's test would hold.

Author's Note

Hello everybody! Sorry this chapter took so long, but so much has been going on lately it is hard to find time to write :ajsleepy: I was going to make this chapter the whole day, but I decided that you guys have been waiting so long and so paitently for this that you deserve a chapter right now. On this day (September 18th) it is my birthday :pinkiehappy: so I Decided to do a new chapter to celebrate.

Hope you enjoy the chapter and please look at my latest blog post. :rainbowdetermined2:

Chapter 6: No Comment (Part 2)

Rainbow Dash and her friends walked down the hallway into Pool A. Rainbow was very glad that she and her friends were all in the same room, but she couldn’t help but feel bad for Thunderlane. He was the only one of her friends she was not with and she wondered who he was bunked with. She and her friends arrived at the pool room and looked around for Spitfire. Legacy found Spitfire first and they swiftly walked over to where she was standing and found a place squished in the front row. Rainbow studied Spitfire and noticed something different about her, the way she was carrying herself was different than any other time Rainbow had seen her. Rainbow had no time to worry about Spitfire right now and what she saw wasn’t visible to anybody else for the time being so it probably wasn’t too important either.

Rainbow looked at the pool and it was pretty big on for sure. She wasn’t sure where Fleetfoot was, but Soarin was completely visible behind Spitfire and those two were having a discussion. That made Rainbow wonder, did Spitfire even know where Fleetfoot was? She looked slightly off and Rainbow had seen Spitfire too many times not to know when she was annoyed or angry.

Most of the cadets had already arrived and it seemed like everyone in her room had followed her in. It seemed like this challenge would be an easy win for Rainbow Dash, but at this point she has no idea what her opponents are capable of. More and more people filled the room until Spitfire decided to begin to talk about this challenge.

“Today’s challenge is a swimming competition,” She announced, “Wonderbolts face challenges on land, in water, and in air so you must all be prepared. Our best swimmer is of course Fleetfoot, who is also our fastest runner, but I’ll talk about that tomorrow. Today is about swimming.”

“But if you don’t know how to swim, stay after tryouts today to learn with Wave Chill of squad 2.” Soarin added quickly, almost as if he believed she would have forgotten.

“Right,” Spitfire quickly glanced at Soarin before looking back at the cadets, “If you don’t know how to swim right now you will be doing exercises by the pool, mostly so it isn’t my fault if one of you drops dead.”

“Jeez, she hasn’t changed a bit.” The young man beside Rainbow Dash chuckled to himself.

“Hmm,” Rainbow’s head shot up and she turned to face his direction, “What do you mean?”

“Well you see,” He paused for a minute, “My name is Swift Bolt and I’m sure we are bunking in the same room. Am I correct?”

Swift Bolt was a light skinned man, with flashy yellow eyes, his hair was purple and navy blue, and had a nice hairstyle.

“I’m pretty sure,” Rainbow paused for a moment and she looked him over and instantly it clicked in her mind, “You’re Swift Bolt, one of the top 15 leading males in parkour at the moment, right?”

He nodded and smiled, “You’re the first and only one to observe that,” He looked back in the crowd and his eyes landed on one boy in particular, “Or at least the only one to mention it.”

“But you’re a junior in college and you don’t live here, are you like quitting school or something?” Rainbow thought over out loud.

“Wow, do you stalk me much?” He joked, “And you can say I’m ‘quitting’ school, but I say it is a leisurely leave.”

“I don’t stalk you, I just have a certain interest in parkour, thank you very much.” Rainbow crossed her arms, defensively, before she turned her attention back to Spitfire, who had just began to speak again.

“Ok, so, the first thing you are going to do today is laps,” Spitfire looked over to see most of the cadets groaning, “Look, I understand that laps are not the most fun in the world, but this is to work up your endurance for what happens next. These are the strokes that you are going to be doing; The Breaststroke, the Butterfly Stroke, and the Backstroke. Not very difficult, right?” Spitfire didn’t wait for anyone to answer and instead continued to speak. “Then right after those, dry off and go to the treadmills if any are available and see how long you can last running your fastest speed, when you’re done, and these don’t need to be done in chronological order because some things might not be available, you will do eighty push-ups by the pool, the stationary bike, this has the same rules as the treadmill, do it quickly at the same pace, until you have to stop, then you will get back into the pool, choose a stroke, and one of the Wonderbolts will time you. Then you will go back to your rooms and take a shower and stay in your rooms until 8:00pm.”

Rainbow walked back into her room exhausted and gabbed her clothes before going into the bathroom to take a shower. She walked into a shower stall and locked the door behind her. She stepped out of her bathing suit and took out her pony-tail holder. She began to clean her hair and make sure that all of the chlorine out and moved on to washing her body. She took a towel to squeeze her hair out with and then wrapped that towel around her body. Finally dried off, she put lotion on her body and put on her clothes. She wore a blue cotton shirt under a navy blue jacket, she wore a pendant necklace with the Wonderbolt symbol on it, a big yellow lightning bolt, and blue shorts, of course with a rainbow belt that came off of her kind of like a tail. She sighed and carefully caressed the pendent before zipping up her jacket to hide it under.

“One day,” She smiled, but still looked to be a little bit upset, “He will remember.”

Rainbow walked back into the room and only spotted Swift Bolt sitting on his bed with glasses on, reading. Rainbow decided to start up a conversation with him, I mean if they are going to be living in the same room they may as well get to know each other.

She sat on Miracle’s bed since it was right beside his, “Hey, Swift Bolt?” Swift looked up at Rainbow and closed his book, taking off his glasses as he did so. “Sorry for interrupting your book, but I have a question.”

“It’s cool, what’s up?”

“Well, what do you do anyway?” Rainbow asked bluntly.

“Wow,” He stared off into space before answering, “In high school, I was the captain of the stride team…”

“Stride?” Rainbow asked, suddenly interested.

“Yep, stride,” He looked at Rainbow Dash’s confused state, “I have a feeling you don’t know what that is,” Rainbow nodded and he chuckled, “It is practically a parkour team sport. It starts off that you have five runners and a relationer, the relationer makes the calls for who begins to run next. You have a running order from one to five and each runner is up against one runner on the other team. What happens is kind of like a relay race. When the first runner on your team makes it to a certain zone, the relationer has to be on point and call for the runner to begin to run and when they meet in the middle and do a relation in the target zone, but if they miss each other’s hand or anything else, but the relation happens then it’s over for you. It is also a parkour challenge so you do whatever it takes to win by taking new paths and finding shortcuts, but also using skills and techniques with obstacles, sometimes even having to find a creative way out of some situations. Most runners are smart and think ahead and all of the runners are important, but the second most important is the 5th and final runner or ‘the anchor’ has too keep the lead and cross the finish line first. For me, this is debatable for some people, I think the most important person is the relationer, because they have to think quick, be on time and on point, and their teammates have to trust and listen to them. I was usually not the starter or the anchor, I was most likely the third runner though.”

“Wow, that sounds interesting.” Rainbow was still a bit confused.

“It’s confusing, trust me I understand,” He went on, “But I can tell you when I was a first year my team was undefeated, but it wasn’t until I was team captain as a third year that I felt our team was truly unbeatable.”

They saw the doorknob twist and Rainbow quickly jumped out of Miracle’s bed and into her own so that Miracle would not catch her, but instead Miracle was not the one who walked in, it was the young boy who was reading earlier. He walked in and right past Rainbow and Swift, drying his hair off with his towel before entering the bathroom. He had black hair that covered his left eye in front of his face, he had deep blue eyes like the ocean too. Rainbow had noticed Swift’s eyes following him.

“Do you know him?” Rainbow asked Swift after he disappeared behind the door.

“Yes,” He looked at Rainbow Dash sadly, “I do. His name is Rollo Spark and he is the best swimmer and stride runner the world's ever seen. In high school he was a first year and I was a third year and the team captain. Unfortunately, we would not have had enough stride runners and the swim club didn’t have enough members so we joined forces. If you were on the swim team you were on the stride team and vice versa. Rollo wanted to be part of the swim team with three of his friends that were already part of the team, all of which they had grown up swimming with, but one by one each of them quit because of an incident. One of them went off and started their own swim team becoming captain of the people who left our swim team, but Rollo was secretly working behind the scenes. He somehow got his friends to come back to join the swim club and the stride team. We officially had six people again which meant we could start doing tournaments. Every day I watched alongside everybody else, Rollo swim. He was the best freestyle swimmer I’ve ever seen he brought us to the finals during my last chance. With stride he was the probably one of the most skilled of us all and always found a way to use his abilities to our advantage. Rollo, he was our anchor. No matter how far behind we were he would always push forward and exceed his limits. After I left, I was known all around Equestria and he was only a legend at our high school and in our city. I didn’t think we would get along at first because he was quiet, smart, cool, carried pride for his team, never worried about what other people thought, and it seemed like there was nothing he couldn’t do, but the best part about him was that he always cared for his friends and teammates. Sure he was super serious and stoic almost 100% of the time, but he did it for us. He swam for himself, he ran for himself and nobody else. When he became a second year I heard he wasn’t swimming or running and everything went downhill for him then on, but once he became a third year the teams joined up once more and they kicked butt in the finals. He got lots of college scholarships, but he didn’t accept any of them. Something happened to him and he was no longer the Rollo who would dive into any water 20 feet away from him, but he became a Rollo who never got to achieve his full potential. What he’s doing here now is beyond me?”

“Does he not recognize you or something?” Rainbow asked wondering why Rollo didn’t even barely acknowledge Swift’s existence.

“Maybe he doesn’t want any reminders of the past,” Swift grabbed his bag and began to dig through it before grabbing a picture in a frame. “This is the last time I ever saw the guys on my team.”

The picture he was holding up was a photo of five boys and one girl in a picture at the finals. Swift was in the back middle with both of his elbows on the shoulders of the two guys beside him and he was smiling very wide and wearing a medal. The boy on the left side of him was smirking, he had fiery red hair and red eyes, he was holding onto one side of the trophy, which was positioned in front of Swift’s torso. The boy on the left had green hair that was lying on his head and he was smiling wide with his eyes closed, he was holding the other side of the trophy. In front of those three were three more. In the middle, on his knees, was Rollo. Rollo wasn’t smiling, but he wore a medal like Swift’s around his neck and held a smaller trophy in his lap. His eyes were a deep ocean blue that were sparkling in the light and his hair was black and was covering his left eye. To his left was the girl, she had her hand on Rollo’s shoulder and was beaming brightly, she had long pinkish reddish colored hair and her eyes were a yellowish greenish color. The boy the the left of Rollo was hugging his torso and smiling like crazy, he had blonde hair and orange eyes.

“It took our team faculty advisor like, three hours to take this picture,” Swift looked at the bathroom door, “I guess I never thought that I’d ever truly get to see them again and now seeing Rollo I know…” He stopped once he saw Rollo exit the bathroom and walk over to his bed on the other side of Rainbow Dash’s. “I know there’s still hope,” he whispered in her ear as quiet as possible.

Rainbow found herself looking at Rollo, confused. Why would somebody with that kind of ability ignore an opportunity like that? Rollo was lying back against the wall behind his bed reading some kind of magazine. He was wearing a short sleeve shirt and and sweat pants. She noticed when Rollo turned around there was something on the back of the track jacket he was wearing, it said ‘Rollo #1’. Rainbow remembered back to the pool earlier and realized something, no matter how much Swift was advertising Rollo she didn’t see any of it herself. She racked her brain, but found no answer to this question. Then she finally stumbled upon something that was totally unrelated to the subject.

“Hey! I just realized that you never told me how you know Spitfire!” Rainbow yelled in Swift’s face.

“Huh,” Rollo said quietly looking down at Rainbow Dash quickly and then at Swift. Rollo’s voice was calm, but strong and soft at the same time. It just so happened that Swift was looking Rollo’s way and both of them looked at each other. Swift smiled and whispered ‘please’ under his breath, but Rollo broke eye contact, turned around, and immediately went back to reading.

“I didn’t,” He scratched his head, “I thought I did, well it all-“

A voice over the intercom interrupted him, “Hello guys sorry I wasn’t here today for the tryout portion, I even missed one of my favorite sports,” It was a cheery voice of Fleetfoot, “But that’s ok because I will have my chance. Anyway, it is officially 8:00pm and that means if you aren’t staying here I’d recommend leaving now before we lock up. That’s all I wanted to say, so you guys tomorrow.”

“Well looks like a story for another time,” Swift chuckled, “Guess I’ll tell you tomorrow, nice meeting you Rainbow Dash.”

“Yeah, nice meeting you too,” Rainbow grabbed her bag and started to walk out of the building. Once she got outside she asked herself, “I wonder what Twilight wants?” Before she picked up a jog and then a run to go back to her house.

Rainbow arrived to her house faster than she expected and found the lights on. She wasn’t surprised or worried because she gave Fluttershy a key, so she probably let Twilight and Applejack in. She opened the door and was immediately greeted by the smell of lavender. Rainbow set her bag down by the door and closed and locked it. She walked into the living room and found Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Twilight sitting on the couch talking. There were six place settings on the coffee table and if Rainbow had to guess Rarity definitely had something to do with it.

“What are you guys doing here?” Rainbow Dash asked from the doorway.

“Oh,” Fluttershy squeaked, “I’m sorry.”

“No, it’s cool I just wanted to know why you’re here,” Rainbow took off her sports jacket and threw it onto the big chair in the corner of the room. She walked over to the couch and sat between Twilight and Fluttershy, before reclining.

“Well, darling, you see,” Rarity started, “We realized that we have not recently done anything fun together since were always so busy saving the world. So, Fluttershy had the brilliant idea that once a week we should all make time for each other.”

“We just wanted a time to hang out and have fun like normal people do!” Pinkie said while bouncing up and down, “Right Twilight?”

“You have not been and nor will you ever be normal,” Twilight deadpanned with a flat look on her face, “But yes, it was a good idea and a way to connect and make our friendship even stronger.”

“Do you guys think the bad guys know that we moved cities?” Pinkie asked before grabbing the TV remote, “Because as far as we know Ponyville could be under attack any minute now?”

“It’s ok, Pinkie,” Fluttershy assured her, “I’m sure they don’t want anything to do with Ponyville anyway and only have their sights set on us.”

“You say that like it’s a good thing,” Rainbow gently nudged Fluttershy, “Besides I’m sure if Luna knows where we are, her holding back is giving us more time to prepare anyway.”

“Good looking on the bright side, Rainbow Dash,” Twilight smiled at her friend and then looked up at the TV that Pinkie had just turned on. It was on a sports announcement channel.

“Sports aren’t very interesting these days,” Pinkie said.

“Eighteen year old swimmer and parkour champion Liam Bolt is turning this year's competition around. He is undefeated in parkour and skilled in swimmer. You never want to go up against this guy, because he will surely give you a run for your mo-“ The announcer was cut off when Rarity turned off the TV.

“Girls, we’re suppose to be bonding and spending time together, not watching television. Besides the only one who actually cares about what happens in sports is Rainbow.” Rarity complained.

“Okay Rarity, how’s this,” Rainbow paused, “let's bond over how much Rainbow Dash would rather watch television that listen to Rarity talk.”

“Hush up and be respectful,” Rarity corrected Rainbow Dash’s behavior immediately.

“Geez, ok grandma.” Rainbow said sarcastically, crossing her arms.

“You insolent child!” Rarity shouted getting up to confront the younger girl, luckily for Dash, Twilight grabbed her and held onto her shirt.

“Calm down Rarity,” Twilight soothed her calmly, but Rarity did not calm down.

“Twilight, you better not ruin my shirt!” Twilight quickly grabbed Rarity’s arm instead.

“Let’s not fight,” Fluttershy said nervously, her quiet voice of reason not reaching her friends ears.

“Let them have it,” Pinkie dismissed Fluttershy’s concern, “This is good and healthy for relationships.”

“Then why don’t Applejack and Rainbow have a better relationship?” Fluttershy asked her friend.

“Well you see,” Pinkie pointed at the scene in front of them, “This is a mutual disagreement between friends. Those two have straight up fights, but then again what would you expect from two girls who almost killed other the first true time they met. Well, at least in this life.”

“Too bad she couldn’t come.”

After the girls all joined together to defeat Discord and Luna, everything around them changed back to normal, but everyone around them was brainwashed and Discord, Luna, and the elements of sin are still out there somewhere. The order of the girls who joined the group was Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and finally after a lot of time, because she did not want to let true friendship BACK into her heart because of past experience, Applejack. When Applejack and Rainbow first truly met in the elemental story. Rainbow Dash was being controlled be a magic necklace given to her by one of the bearers of sin. She was strangling Twilight who had because she had ‘taken’ Fluttershy, her one true and only friend, away from her. Just as all seemed lost for Twilight a casual passer-bye decided to meddle. Applejack arrived and ripped Rainbow off of Twilight saying she was glad that she took the scenic route today. Applejack riled Dash up by insulting her after Rainbow told her not to meddle with this. Twilight hurriedly told Applejack that she needs to remove the necklace, saying that there was a spell making her behave that violently. AJ didn’t believe her and she and Dash began to fight. Rainbow is somehow started to beat her at the beginning using her attacks against her and Applejack decides she must do whatever it take to win. Rainbow had great reflexes and she landed several hits against her and didn’t get hit, AJ just looked like she was protecting herself. Dash mentioned to Applejack that she does parkour and Applejack took on all of Rainbow attacks and made her legs tense and tighten. Applejack explained, while Rainbow’s legs were temporarily paralyzed, that she had let herself get hit from the get go. She told her that she worked on her father's farm day in and day out and thanks to that her arms and legs were very strong. She also admitted that some of the attacks had her hurting and the other one who could fight her was her big brother. She crushed the necklace and Rainbow was knocked out. Twilight’s friends arrived and two Shadowbolts descended from the sky, the captain Nightingale and Descent. They grabbed Rainbow and began to fly away, as the other girls started to go and get Dash. Twilight told Applejack that she would be happy to explain everything, but Applejack refused and told her that she has no interest in getting to know her. She says that she just helped her because she was getting strangled in the streets, not because she wanted to meet her and her companions. After Twilight and her friends left a stranger, the third member of the Shadowbolts Haze or his real name a member of sin and the element of envy, Edward. He tells her that she was the element of honesty and she tries to fight him because he took a special black ribbon off of a tree, but he blocks her kick with a single finger. She kicked him because he asked her where to find her sister. He tells her that her attitude towards friendship and her attitude in general was much different than her pony form and that she rejected her destiny as a bearer of the elements of harmony.

(That day, 3 years ago)

“So you’re sayin’ that these girls and I were ponies with some kind of special power?” Applejack asked him sassily, “Heh… of all the fools lining up today, you take the cake. Not only do you have the wrong gal, honey, I’ve never seen these girls in all my life.”

He mused for a moment before comenting, “Quite the contrary, during the occurrences just a few minutes ago you demonstrated that you’re the very person I was sent to find. Applejack, the reincarnation of the bearer of honesty.” He paused, “Also, I never said you knew them in this life.”

Applejack stood facing the tall, muscular stranger, “And who the hell are you, anyway?” She snapped, “You’re just babbling stupid trash.”

“Presently you can just call me Haze.” He said, “But it’s the message that’s important, not the messenger.”

“In a very near future,” He started, “This world will be threatened by chaos and desolation, and the bearers have to reunite…”

“Best not talk to crazy people,” Applejack muttered, “I better go.” She turned around and began to walk away.

“Hmm… I didn’t expect that attitude. Your personality doesn’t resemble the one of your pony life at all.” He paused again, “It seems that you’re possessing zero sommitment to fulfill your obligations as a bearer.” He pulled out a black ribbon and watched for a second as she stopped and then kept walking. “Well, since you don’t have the desire to do something for the world, I don’t think it’ll be a problem that I’ll leave with this ribbon I found tied to an apple tree…”

Applejack stopped in her tracks, turned her head, and gnashed her teeth. She could she a picture in she mind of a big, beautiful apple tree with a black ribbon tied to it. She quickly turned around with tears forming in the corner of her eyes.

“Listen up, Blockhead,” Applejack shouted defensively, “If you don’t want to get a world pain you better hand over that ribbon, now!”

“Fascinating. If an ordinary ribbon can change such enthusiasm, I’m very much looking forward to see what attitude you’ll show whilst protecting the world.”

“Jackass!” She shouted, “Gimme that ribbon!”

“Before that I have to know if you’re really committed to save the world and join these girls.”

“I already told you, I got ne beef with them, I just want me and my family to live in peace,” Applejack responded defensively, “I don’t believe in friendship!”

“Hmmm…” He mused, “Now that’s a problem. There must be a way to make ou understand...” He pasused, “And I believe I know how. Perhaps showing you the pain of losing somebody because you didn’t help might get you to reconsider.

“What…” Applejack asked, “What you mean?”

“Tell me, how far away is the school of your sister, Applebloom…” He asked seriously.

Applejack’s eyes widened.

“I’d very much like to meet her.”

Applejack suddenly got very angry, “Don’t you dare get close to her, you crazy idiot.” She ran towards him jumped and aimed a kick, but he reached up a finger and effortlessly blocked her kick, holding her in mid air.

Applejack’s face immediately went from angry to shocked. “No!... I can’t believe this!” She thought. She bounced off of his finger and landed onto the ground on two feet.

“Who… Who are you?” She gasped, “That kick you stopped should’ve ripped your finger off!”

“You’re strong,” He complimented, “But did you really think a girl like you whose spiritual powers haven’t even awoken can defeat someone like me, who knows all hidden secrets this spirit holds?”

“Get away from me!” Applejack shouted, “If you take one more step, I… I swear I will hurt you…”

“You’re really stubborn,” He commented, “Even after I stopped your kick you still believe you can hurt me… But since you insist on threatening me…” He opened his palm and a green gem appeared hovering and glowing in his hand.

“What… is happening… my body… I can’t control it anymore.” She thought to herself while the green aura surrounded her.

“When you were fighting the girl called Rainbow the bearer of the element of magic was about to remove the necklace, but I was able to stop her with this spirit gem, the ‘Emerald of the Damned’. If it can block a young woman like Twilight that already controls and uses her spirit power, just imagine what I can do to somebody who never discovered hers.”

“What… What are you planing to do?” Applejack asked weakly.

There was a golden glow from the palm of his hand as he pointed it at her. “To blossom the memories that left the strongest marks, to find out why you hate friendship…”

“NOOOOOOOOO!” Her voice echoed in every direction.

(A few minutes later)

“...No… enough… I don’t want to remember anymore…” Applejack was on the ground curled in a ball on her sides with her hands of her head and tears pouring out of her eyes. “I just want to live with my family in peace…”

“It seems you’re really sincere about this… you really don’t want friendship in your life.” He said to her, “I didn’t expect this, she’s a lot like Luna, she was born to suffer for others.” He thought, “If this is true, I can’t change her mind, not even with all the power I possess, because her determination comes from the heart.”

“Haze… Haze…” He could hear Nightingale’s voice in his head, “Where the devil are you? We need your help.”

“Mmm… I have no choice, I best go help them.” He thought, “I believe I have to let the bearer of magic try to bring back her love of friendship. And for the sake of my lady, I hope she’ll succeed.

“I see now that my presence served no purpose.” He announced to her, “I understand that you don’t know them, and don’t wish them to be your friends. I’ll withdraw, they need me elsewhere. I hope we meet again someday, however it’s possible that you won’t recognize me anymore.” He opened his huge dark blue wings, “And the threat towards your sister… A mere lie, I’m not interested on her, much less know or want to hurt her.” He paused getting ready for flight, “But what I told about the world being in danger, those words were truthful.” He flew off to go help the Shadowbolt’s leaving a miserable Applejack in his wake.

“I don’t want to have friends…” Applejack cried, “I don’t want to suffer anymore…”

Though that may have been a terrible day for Applejack, it was a joyous day for all of the bearers, especially Fluttershy. Even if while all of this was happening with Applejack they were having a battle with the Shadowbolts and were about to win when a certain Shadowbolt (Haze, who is really Edward a bearer of the elements of sin more specifically the element of envy, you know the guy who mentally tortured poor Applejack? Yeah, that bastard) came and would have been able to easily break each bearer in half, but sat out for almost all of the fight except for when he fought Pinkie and Rarity, nearly coming close to killing both of them. It was still joyous afterward because Rainbow Dash embraced her element, turned back on Luna, and discovered her powers.

“I know, but I just wish they got along better.” Fluttershy shifted uncomfortably.

“Well, don’t get your hopes up, because I don’t see that happening any time soon,” Pinkie commented, “Those two are straight up rivals. But then on the plus side you should totally get your hopes up, because if they were friends in Equestria anything can happen.”

“I hope you’re right,” Fluttershy sighed and looked back up at Rainbow Dash who had her hands held out in front of her defensively, while shouting something. “I really hope.”

A few hours later, after Rainbow Dash’s friends left, she climbed into bed and pulled the covers over her head. She heard her phone ring.

“Hello?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Hi, my sweet little Dashie.” The other voice on the phone was the voice of her father.

“Hey Dad!” The excitement in her voice grew, “Did you make it back home safely?”

“I did, so sweetie how was your day?” Her after asked.

“Uhhh,” Rainbow groaned thinking back to what happened to Fluttershy, the weird voice that seemed to be following her around, the tryouts, Miracle, her strange roommates, Legacy, and all the other weird things in between, she giggled, “You know what dad? No comment.”

Author's Note

Hello you guys, sorry it took so long, but this chapter was by far the most difficult to type so far.

If you are wondering why I did the flash back of AJ was because she may not be in the story as much as the others, because I still don’t know how she is really going to act. Note: she comes from multimillionaires and her father is not dead, but her mom is. Her sister Applebloom is five years younger than her and Big Macintosh is four years older than her.

You will hear a lot about Luna, Discord, and the elements of sin, but in case you did not read my blog post these are the elements. Christopher is the leader and the element of lust (He is an obsession over Rarity and Spike) he also refuses to lie. Edward is somewhat of a second-in-command and the element of envy (He has a certain interest in Applejack, but even he does not know why) he was also in the form of Haze. The element of wrath has no bearer. Gilda is the element of gluttony she has a hunger for victory and she wants to go against Dash since she abondoned her. Trixie is the element of pride and she wants to go against Twilight who ruined everything (The element of pride was a part of the alicorn amulet in Equestria). The element of sloth is bearered by someone who has a certain interest in Pinkie and her other half Pinkamina. The element of greed was bearered by Spike.

The elements of sin are kind of the equivalent of the seven deadly sins and the elements of harmony to the seven virtues.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter! If you have any questions or suggestions please tell me! I’m desperate :facehoof:

Chapter 7: The Seven Deadly Sins

Rainbow Dash was not a light sleeper, not in the slightest, but this morning she was awoken by her phone. She yawned and stretched before reaching over to her nightstand and grabbing her phone. She notice that she got a text from Twilight on the group chat. She wasn’t too mad at Twilight for waking her up since she would’ve gotten up soon anyway, but she read the text anyway.

‘Girls! Meet me behind the school at lunch, but please come together. I need to speak with all of you about something very important!’

Rainbow was curious to what Twilight would want and got up to get ready. She went through her morning routine and went downstairs. She went down to the kitchen and grabbed some cereal. She walked over to the fridge and opened it. The contents of her fridge consisted of milk, powerade, some fruit, orange juice, apple juice, some vegetables, some bottled water, ground coffee (that be never drinks), eggs, gatorade, and some salad dressing. She grabbed the milk and closed the fridge. She put the cereal in a bowl and poured the milk in as well. She got up to grab a spoon, and out of the corner of her eye she saw a car pull into the driveway. She put the spoon into the cereal and walked over to the front door. As she opened the front door she saw Rarity in front of her.

“Hello darling,” Rarity smiled brightly at Rainbow.

“Rarity,” Rainbow had a flat expression on her face, “What are you doing here?”

“Well darling,” Rarity started, “Last night, I couldn’t help, but notice that you came home without your scooter.”

“Yeah, so?” Rainbow raised an eyebrow at her.

“So, I came here to give you a ride to school,” Rarity turned her head and crossed her arms, “And if you refuse it will be the last time I ever do anything nice for you!”

“Fine,” Rainbow fully opened the door to let Rarity in, “Come in.”

“Oh thank you darling,” Rarity walked over to the counter and sat down beside Rainbow. “I would also like to apologize for my behavior last night. That was very unladylike of me and I shouldn’t have shouted at you.”

“Yeah you should be,” Rainbow deadpanned.

“But that doesn’t excuse your behavior, Ms. Dash!” Rarity exclaimed, “I understand that Fluttershy was your only friend for a while, but you can’t say that Fluttershy allowed this kind of behavior.”

“Don’t you have better things to do instead of interrogating me?” Rainbow asked her.

“I haven’t even asked you any questions yet,” Rarity commented. “But if you want me to ask, why would you mother allow you to act like this? Didn’t she raise you better?”

“Well Fluttershy is quiet and sweet and she ACTUALLY LISTENS TO ME!” Rainbow halfway ignored Rarity’s comment and shouted at her, “She doesn’t have a problem with how I act, cause that’s part of who I am, and she respects that. So, now it’s time for me to interrogate you. Who the HELL do you think you are?”

“Language!” Rarity shouted.

“Geez, thanks ‘mom that I never had.’” Rainbow got up and grabbed her bag, “Get out and forget about driving me to school. I don’t freakin’ care if you never do anything nice for me. Just get the hell out!”

Rarity’s eyes filled with angry tears as she grabbed her purse and got up, “All I wanted was to do something generous for a friend!” Rarity walked over to the door where Rainbow Dash stood. Rarity felt her magic and even saw her magic headpiece and horn show up, but she didn’t care, they fizzed out in a purple light. Rarity ran to her car and drove away.

“I’ll run to school today,” Rainbow put her now empty bowl into the sink and grabbed her bag. She made sure it was on tightly enough so that it wouldn’t fall off and ran out of the house.

She made it to school earlier and faster than she intended to. She often ran to vent or get her anger out and the faster she runs the better she feels. Rainbow spotted Fluttershy and ran over to her.

“Hey, Flutters!” Rainbow stood behind Fluttershy in her toes and looked over her shoulder at the book she was reading, “What’s up?”

“Twilight let me borrow a book that she got from her sister Celeste,” Fluttershy smiled, “It’s about all of the animals in Equestria.”

“Is Celeste kinda the princess now?” Rainbow asked.

“Yes,” Fluttershy looked up from her book, “Well, actually it’s kinda complicated.”

“Ughh,” Rainbow groaned, “Spare me.”

“Oh, look there’s Pinkie,” Fluttershy put her pink and yellow butterfly bookmark back into her book and pointed to the other side of the campus.

“Fluttershy! Rainbow!” Pinkie waved her hand in the air, “Come here, it’s important!”

“Cool, let's go!” Rainbow quickly grabbed Fluttershy’s hand and began to run. Fluttershy yelped and was just barely able to get a hold of her book.

“Good morning Pinkie!” Fluttershy greeted with a warm smile.

“Morning Pinkie, what is so important that I needed to run over here?” Rainbow asked her bouncing friend.

“Um, you came willingly,” Fluttershy pointed out as Rainbow glared at her.

“I was just wondering if either of you had seen Applejack or Rarity yet,” Pinkie tapped her chin in thought.

“Have you tried seeing if you can spot them banging in a janitor closet?” Rainbow deadpanned with a flat expression.

“Lemme go check and if I don’t come back I joined in on the action,” Pinkie winked at them before running off and after she left both Fluttershy and Rainbow gagged.

“Rainbow!” Fluttershy scolded, before quieting down, “That was rude.”

“That was true,” Rainbow shot back, Fluttershy was silent and Rainbow Dash began to laugh, “And you believe it to!” Rainbow puffed out in fits of laughter.

“I do not!” Fluttershy defended herself.

Rainbow finally settled down, “Right…”

“Who are you accusing anyway?” Fluttershy raised an eyebrow.

Rainbow shrugged, “Both, either, neither. Who knows at this point?”

“Ok girls, didn’t find Applejack and Rarity in there, but I did find the janitor making out to a picture of his wife,” Pinkie held a smile as she spoke, “So I did get to see some action.” Rainbow and Fluttershy both shared a look of disgust and horror.

“Um, am I interrupting something?” The voice of Thunderlane asked from behind them.

“No time to interrupt like the present,” Rainbow pulled Thunderlane up in front of Pinkie. “Pinkie how about you tell Thunderlane about your cupcake fetish.” She deadpanned grabbing Fluttershy by the hand once more.

“Cupcake fetish?” Pinkie crooked her head to the side, confused.

“I mean bakery,” Rainbow corrected herself.

“Oh, well-“ Pinkie looked at the spot where Rainbow and Fluttershy once stood and looked in the distance where she saw two figures booking it into the school. “I see what they did, that sneaky sneaky mouse that Rainbow Dash is.” She looked back at Thunderlane beaming, “So do you want to hear about my cupcake fetish?”

“Uh,” Thunderlane’s eyes darted around, “Is that a goose?”

Pinkie turned around and Thunderlane just ran and hid. “Geese are not popular in this area. I know, you wanted me to go on a wild goose chase, right?” She turned back around to face him, but there was no ‘him’ to face. “Where’d he go?” Pinkie looked both way and spotted movement in a bush to her left, she opened it and yelled in his face, “You will never escape Pinkie!”

“Please don’t kill me,” Thunderlane squeaked.

“Um, thank you, but is Thunderlane going to be okay,” Fluttershy asked nervously as the two entered the main building on campus.

“Thunderlane may not act like it, but he’s braver than he looks,” Rainbow shrugged, “And Pinkie will just get over it. So nothing to worry about.”

“Hello Rainbow,” Rainbow turned around, but she honestly didn’t need to because she immediately recognized the happy voice of Last Legacy.

“You have a problem with just popping up behind me, have you noticed that?” Rainbow asked flatly.

“I apologize,” Legacy rolled his eyes slightly, “Next time I’ll announce it from a mile away.”

“Um, hello,” Fluttershy greeted him shyly. Legacy’s focus shifted from Rainbow Dash to Fluttershy and when he recognized her face he smiled very brightly.

“Hello, Fluttershy!” Legacy held out his hand and Fluttershy carefully shook it, “It’s good to formally meet you!”

“You too,” Fluttershy looked up and looked into his eyes and smiled.

“Jeez Legacy,” Rainbow crossed her arms, “I don’t know if you’d me better friends with me or Rarity.”

Fluttershy giggled lightly and Legacy started walking backwards, “Well I’ll see you in gym-“ He bumped into something pretty hard and it caused said thing to fall over. Legacy turned around and quickly bent over to help the boy up. “Here let me help-“ He was cut off when the boy slapped his hand away.

“I can get up on my own dammit,” The boy pulled himself up and Rainbow finally got a good look at him. He was a tall boy, but a little bit taller and more muscular that Legacy, he had blonde hair, and red eyes. He was of an athletic and model build and wore simple clothes.

“Well, then I’m sorry that I knocked you o-” Legacy was once again cut off by the boy as the boy walked away and as he walked by Legacy he moved a bit closer to him and with his arm relaxed by his side slammed into Legacy’s before walking off. As he walked away Legacy held strong, but after he was out of sight he winced. “Holly crap that hurt.”

“Oh, that was extremely rude,” Fluttershy commented softly, but forcefully, “Even if you did knock him down you still tried to help him.”

“It’s fine, he could be an okay and decent person,” Legacy smiled, “He could just be angry that I’d knocked him down.”

“Your right,” Fluttershy agreed, “And to think I got so angry.”

“Er, you did?” Legacy asked confused, ‘this girl has a very interesting view of the word angry.’ He thought.

“Sorry, Flutters I have to go,” She turned back to look at Legacy before grabbing his arm and pulling him with her. “C’mon Legacy.”

“Doesn’t seem like I have much of a choice,” Legacy walked up by Rainbow, “What’s up?”

“The sky,” Rainbow answered bluntly, “Nothing’s up Legacy, I just want to see if I could figure out what we're doing today in gym by who's here.”

“Then why’d you need me?” Legacy asked her.

“Fluttershy may not act like it, but unless it’s helping me train in parkour in the afternoon after school like we did in high school,” Rainbow recalled her last school year, “She doesn’t give a damn about sports.”

“So you do parkour?” Legacy asked Rainbow amazed.

“Yep, been doing it since I first met Fluttershy,” Rainbow have a very light blush on her face, “It was thanks to someone I met just before that really inspired me.”

“Aww, that’s cute,” Legacy gushed.

“No it isn’t, it’s just a story.” Rainbow crossed her arms.

“No, I mean you look so cute when you blush!” Legacy teased.

“What?!” Rainbows eyes widened. “No I don’t!”

“Yes you do!”

“No I don’t!”

“Yes you do!”

“No I don’t!”

“Yes you do!”

“No I don’t!”

“Yes you do!”

“No I don’t!”

“Yes you do, but…” He patted her lightly on the head, “We’ll just end our argument here.”

“Oh you think your a real man, huh” Rainbow’s expression immediately flattened as soon as she heard that voice, that irritating voice. “You trying to steal my lady.”

“Lightning Streak,” Rainbow muttered before turning around to face him. She glared daggers at him, “Commander with all due respect, I AM NOT ANYBODY’S FUCKING LADY SO SHUT THE HELL UP!” Legacy’s eyes widened as he backed up away from the enraged Rainbow Dash, “I AM NOT YOUR FUCKBUDDY!”

“I like them fiery,” He clicked his tongue and winked at her, Rainbow slapped him in the face… hard and he fell to the ground.

“Brother, what have you gotten yourself into this time?” Rainbow heard the refined voice of Fire Streak.

“She still wants me,” Lightning groaned.

“Ohhh,” Fire Streak shook his head, “Misty Fly will not be pleased when she finds out that you have been slacking off and hitting on young women.” Fire looked down and say that his precious brother had not moved from his spot and sighed reaching down and supporting him so he could walk, “Come on brother, she only slapped you.” He turned and looked at Dash before smiling brightly after he realized who his brother had hit on, “Ah, I apologize for my brothers behavior miss. I hope you can forgive him.”

“Yeah, sure,” Rainbow turned away from Fire.

Squad three was a unique squad and most likely the closest and most family like. They were also a dramatic bunch and the greatest actors, which made them very well suited for missions that involve going undercover. Fire Streak was the captain, he is proper and polite, but he and his squad believes that Misty Fly is most deserving of that title. He lets Misty take control of the squad and coordinate their show routines. Then there’s Surprise… Surprise is new on the squad, but immediately fits right in with them. She is crazy and out there and a lot like Pinkie Pie. Lightning Streak is a ladies man, well he thinks he is. He hits on girls wherever he goes and took a liking to Rainbow on her first visit to the compound,

“THAT SON OF A-“ Rainbow immediately paused as she felt Legacy’s arms around her torso as he picked her up, she immediately blushed, “What the hell Legacy? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!”

“Sorry, but you’re staying like this until you calm down,” Legacy said surprisingly very seriously, “And stop kicking me.”

“Fine,” Rainbow relaxed and slid down, “Thanks Legacy, now I can properly kill you.”

“I should’ve seen that coming,” Legacy chuckled nervously.

“Spitfire,” Soarin called out as he walked into her office. Spitfire was sitting at her desk and doing paperwork. “We need to talk.”

“What is it Soarin?” Spitfire asked dutifully.

“It’s about the compound,” Soarin walked over to the couch by Spitfire’s desk and sat down, “People have been reporting strange occurrences and I just wanted to know if you knew anything about them.”

“Actually I do,” Spitfire nodded and glared at Soarin, “Fire Streak was repotting it yesterday before you interrupted.” Soarin rolled his eyes as Spitfire continued, “I was going to call a captain meeting last night, but instead…” Spitfire reached over and pressed the button on the PA system, “All captains please report to the meeting room for an all captains meeting.”

“Come on Soarin,” Spitfire walked past the couch and turned back to face Soarin, “Go grab Fleetfoot and bring her along with you.”

“Yes ma’am,” Soarin ran out of the door to get Fleetfoot.

(A few minutes later- in the meeting room)

“Ok,” Spitfire sat at the head of the table, “You may be wondering why I called you all here.” She looked around at the collective nods of the group, minus Silver, “Well, I have been getting some reports about some strange occurrences around the compound and we have come here today to put our heads together and see if we could figure this out.” She unpaper clipped a stack of papers and passed them to the people on the opposite sides of the table, “Pass those down please,” Once everybody got a paper Spitfire cleared her throat, “Since Fire Streak is not here today I will be reading his report from yesterday. ‘This morning I was awoken by the sound of shattering glass. I immediately got up and flew through the compound to see if something was wrong, but to my surprise everything was in its place. I walked outside just to be safe and in the sky saw a huge blue orb floating in the sky. It shot down in the forest and when I turned back around to go inside and wake up my squadmates there was a shadow that was not my own following me. Then I heard a voice, “What a fool these Wonderbolts are, they were better 10 years ago.”

“I agree with that,” Silver commented.

‘But when I looked back it was gone.’” Spitfire read from the paper ignoring Silver before looking up. “Does anybody else have a report?”

Captain Radiant Shield of squad four stood up, “Two days ago I was walking along with my squad in tow headed for the track. I noticed someone flying in the air with dark blue glowing wings. My squad and I immediately gave chase, but the figure was too agile and was avoiding us like a pro. The most surprising part is that it showed no hostility. We unfortunately lost sight of them around the woods though.”

“Thank you Radiant Shield,” Radiant sat down and Spitfire looked around the room, “Does everybody have a similar story?” Everybody in the room nodded. “Ok then let me hear them.”

(Two hours later)

“Okay,” Spitfire announced, “I have a solution.” Everybody turned to Spitfire in shock.

“Well that was quick,” Fleetfoot rolled her eyes. “Only took two hours of my wasted time. Congrats Spitty congrats.”

“One night ago, squads 1-3 were invited to a meeting with Princess Celestia about some magical artifacts called the elements of harmony,” Spitfire explained, ignoring Fleetfoot’s comment, “She said that there are six of them: Magic, laughter, generosity, kindness, loyalty, and honesty. She said that these girls are constantly fight for there lives everyday. If we could find them maybe they could help us.”

“You do have the right idea, but,” Silver started to explain, “If the Princess didn’t tell us about who they are specifically. Wouldn't keeping their identities secret be the whole reason why she didn’t tell us?”

“Yes, but-“ Spitfire was cut off by Silver.

“Besides, we don’t even know if this is an actual problem yet.” Silver stated.

“Damnit Silver,” Spitfire glared at him, “You know as well as I do, if not better, that these are some kind of signs.”

“You’re paranoid Spitfire,” Silver argued, “Your fear is blocking your judgement.”

“Ok everyone, here are the rules for tonight,” Spitfire cleared her throat, “No mention of this to the cadets and make sure you act normal okay?” Spitfire looked around the table as everyone nodded their heads, “Ok then, everybody is dismissed.”

Everyone got up and shuffled out the door.

“I hope Silver is right,” Spitfire said to Soarin and Fleetfoot, “I will not go down in history as the captain who let her fear blind her judgment. Not as the captain who drove her family into a fatal battle.”

“It’s okay, Spitty!” Fleetfoot smiled brightly before wrapping her up in a hug, “I believe you.”

“So do I.” Soarin wrapped his arm around her neck.

“You all might…” Spitfire muttered quietly, “But they don’t.”

Fleetfoot and Soarin shared a look of worry for their strong captain and best friend.

Rainbow Dash stood in front of the cafeteria with Fluttershy, impatiently waiting for the others to show up.

“The others should be here by now!” Rainbow complained.

“We can’t rush them, Rainbow.” Fluttershy answered. She was obviously the more patient person in this situation.

“Maybe you can’t, but I sure can.” Rainbow pulled out her phone to text her friends when she saw a text pop up on her screen. Fluttershy’s phone dinged and they both looked at each other and began to run.

They ran out of the doors and frantically looked around for the gate. Rainbow found it and immediately dragged Fluttershy behind her, but Rainbow could care less about the awkward stares they were receiving one of her best friends were in trouble. It turns out that the text that Fluttershy and Rainbow received turned out to be from Twilight. They reached the space behind the school and began to run towards Twilight. Fluttershy kneeled down beside Twilight and looked over her wounds as Rainbow walked up to the creature that was staring down at her.

“Trust me buddy,” Rainbow glared at the three headed dog in front of her, Cerberus, “After this you will never lay a paw on my friends again.” Behind Rainbow there was a quick bright pink flash and she saw Fluttershy transform into her element.

Cerberus’ attention was also drawn to Fluttershy so, Rainbow took this time will it was distracted to launch her first attacks. There was a red glow emitting from Rainbow as she transformed into her suit.

She flew above the Cerberus, “LIGHTNING ROD!” A yellow rod of electricity struck it’s back and its back was scorched.

‘Wait, what?’ Rainbow thought, ‘If this thing has a Discord jewel then that would be were it was located, right? And even if it isn’t there it should have penetrated through that thing!’

Cerberus charged at Rainbow, but she wasn’t worried because she had something he didn’t have. She had wings. She quickly flew upwards and called out “LIGHT MACHINE GUN!” She held out her hand and pointed her palm at him. Her body crackled as the energy shot out of her hand.

“Woohoo!” Rainbow yelled out, “This never gets old!” A shield manifested around Cerberus as he growled. Rainbow sighed and rolled her eyes. “Never mind.”

“Don’t let that doggy ruin your rainbow, Dashie,” Pinkie came up behind Rainbow with her elemental suit on and her pony water clone by her side.

“When you put it like that it sounds like I can’t beat a dog,” Rainbow turned and looked at Pinkie, “And that’s depressing.”

“It’s fine Rainbow,” Rarity walked up behind Rainbow and put a hand on her shoulder.

They heard a loud growl from Cerberus.

“Lets finish this together my friend,” Rarity said to Rainbow who gave a sharp nod and then spoke.

“Ok Rarity,” Rainbow suddenly glared at where Cerberus was standing and all three heads glared back at her. “Keep it away from Fluttershy and Twilight.” She ordered them before flying upwards.

“GREAT WALL!” Rarity called out as the rocks below the ground shifted and grew straight upward in front of the girls, “Now Rainbow!”

Rainbow nodded, “THUN-“ Rainbow started, but was cut off by Fluttershy.

“Stop!” Rainbow turned to Fluttershy, “Don’t use thunder while Twilight’s still vulnerable.”

“The move her!” Rainbow yelled down at Fluttershy.

“Rainbow, lookout!” Fluttershy screamed.

“Huh?” Rainbow turned back around almost completely vulnerable to Cerberus’ next attack, “MAGNETOSPHERE!” Rainbow focused part of the earth’s magnetic field in the palms of her hands to create a shield. She began to sweat because of the energy it took.

“I will help you my friend,” Pinkie ran over to Cerberus,”WATER!” She wrapped Cerberus up in water, “ICE!” The water became ice and Cerberus was encased in a frozen prison… for about fifteen seconds.

“RARRR!” Cerberus came back out and the ice prison exploded. He leapt for Rainbow and she braced herself, but… an attack never came. She opened her eyes and saw Fluttershy lying in front of her… out cold.

“FLUTTERSHY!” Rainbow fell like a rock right beside her best friend. “No! No, no, no, no, no, this can’t be happening.” Tears ran down Rainbow’s face, “Fluttershy… sister, please get up. Please.” Rainbow begged the unconscious body on her lap. “I could’ve taken it, but I didn’t. Please Fluttershy, GET UP!”

Pinkie and Rarity stood helplessly watching Rainbow weeping over the body of their fallen friend. They turned back to the Cerberus, determined to attack with no mercy, but they only watched with their jaws dropped once they saw who was taking care of it… on her own!

Applejack delivered a hard blow to Cerberus’ chest and then bent down with her back turned when Cerberus tried to slap her off of her feet. She quickly got her hands and bucked him in one of his three heads. To get back on her feet she did a backflip and kicked him in the other head before landing. She started delivering heavy blows to the body and then slid under him and pick out the Discord jewel. The creature disappeared in a flash of bright white light and Applejack turned and glared at Dash before walking over and kneeling in front of her. She looked into Rainbow’s face angrily.

“I’ve said this once and I will say it again,” She said calmly, but sternly, “Crying ain’t good for nothin’. What’ll happen if one day the people you love need your help?” Applejack turned her head and pointed at Rarity and Pinkie, “Those two were still vulnerable,” She looked back down at Fluttershy, “Lose one or lose all? It’s your choice.” She picked herself up and looked around, “We need to find somewhere in the shade.”

“Back… back there…” Twilight said hoarsely as all eyes turned to her, “In the forest there’s a cave, take her there.”

“Hmm,” Applejack mused before turning to Twilight and looking down, reaching out her hand, “Can you walk?”

Twilight grabbed her hand and pulled herself up, before falling right into Applejack causing her to stumble to the side, but maintain a hold on her.

“With your help,” Twilight answered determined to help Fluttershy as much as the others.

Applejack turned around, but kept a hold of Twilight, “Rainbow, let Pinkie carry Fluttershy.” Rainbow glared up at her, but complied as Pinkie walked over and picked Fluttershy up, Rainbow remaining close beside her.

They walked to the forest edge and stumbled across the cave that Twilight mentioned. Applejack helped Twilight over to the entrance where she put her hand on the carving of a sun. There was a purple glow and the door opened.

They entered the cave and to their surprise it was clean and neat. It had shelves and shelves of ancient books. One very large screen on the entrance wall and a table with six seats around it. Each one of the seats were personalized to fit each bearer. Twilight magic (Sorceress of the stars), Rainbow electricity and magnetism (Valkyrie lightning), Fluttershy air and nature (heiress Gaia), Rarity earth manipulation (common rocks and gems) and the diamond golem (precious gem), Pinkie water and ice (liquid happiness), and Applejack strength and fire (Incandescent force). On the table in front of each seat, except Twilight’s, there was a thick book with the title that referenced whatever their powers were. In the back of the room sat a glowing orb.

“What a lovely little place,” Rarity commented.

Rainbow pushed past Rarity and led Pinkie to Fluttershy’s seat. Pinkie set Fluttershy down in her chair and a faint pink glow came from her heart. Her eyes opened slowly and the first thing she saw was Rainbow. Her injuries along her body were still very severe and Rarity walked over to Fluttershy, holding out her hands in front of her, “Emergency charity, Fluttershy!” Purple magic surrounded Fluttershy and the gashes and cuts disappeared, but Fluttershy still looked like she was in pain.

“We all have classes, but somebody needs to stay here and take care of Fluttershy,” Twilight spoke quickly.

Rainbow was about to volunteer, but Rarity cut her off, “I’ll do it, darling,” All eyes turned to her, “I have night classes today and I only came here because Twilight said she needed to speak with us. So, I would be more than happy to.”

“Fine,” Rainbow bent down by Fluttershy, “I’ll come and visit you right after classes before I go to Wonderbolt tryouts, okay?” Fluttershy couldn’t muster the strength to nod so instead she squeaked.

“Also before I forget,” Twilight walked over to the table and grabbed the books and held up five advanced magic watch type things. She zapped the of the books into each watch for the girls and gave the assigned one to each of them. “Make sure you wear these at all times. These are holograms if you were wondering. Your book will come up as a hologram when you need it.”

“Thanks Twilight,” Rainbow put on the watch and walked out of the door, “Squad three here I come.”

Author's Note

Hello everyone, sorry in advance for making this such a short chapter and I can assure you that the next chapter will be so much longer.

I know this is not how they do it in the show, but Rainbow Dash’s mom is dead.

All pictures by mauroz

Chapter 8: A Long Way Down Part 1

“Hey Dash,” Legacy called out to Rainbow Dash, “Ready to go?”

“Yep,” Rainbow answered, “Let’s go.”

Rainbow and Legacy walked into the gym and were surprised to find almost nobody there. Of course she saw Helmer, Applejack, and Thunderlane and of course squad two, but no one else.

“Jeez,” Lightning Streak complained, “I thought everyone would be here by now.”

“Brother, you have no room to complain,” Fire Streak stated, “It isn’t like you’re ever early.”

“Or on time,” Surprise added bouncing up and down.

“Right,” Lightning Streak rolled his eyes, “But seriously, these kids need to hurry the fuck up.”

“Oh, be quiet, brother,” Fire Streak ordered, “Your whining isn’t going to get us anywhere.”

At that moment Misty Fly walked out of the office with a piece of paper and an apple and immediately everyone in squad three shut up. Misty looked at all of them before handing the paper to Fire. Then she turned to Surprise and pointed her apple towards Lightning Streak. Surprise nodded and Misty walked over the Lightning and stared at him intensely before stuffing the apple in his mouth. Lightning started throwing sign language at Misty, but she only raised an eyebrow at him and turned to Fire Streak as he made a few signs. Misty Fly smiled at him and walked back into the office.

“Siblings,” Legacy smiled and shook his head.

“What do you mean?” Rainbow asked him.

“Lightning Streak was blaming Fire Streak, but Fire Streak told the truth,” Legacy turned back to Rainbow, “It’s like when siblings are fighting and one blames the other, but the other tells the truth. Then again it does kinda make sense since their twins.”

“Wait, you know sign language?” Rainbow wasn’t surprised, because so far it was almost like there was nothing he wasn’t good at.

“Mmhm,” Legacy nodded, “It’s one of my few skills. As my grandfather got older he went deaf so along with my studies I learned everything about sign language to communicate with him.”

“Aww, that’s so adorable,” Rainbow mocked him.

“Oh, be quiet,” Legacy playfully nudged her in the side.

“That’s the kid who's trying to steal my girl,” Lightning whispered to Fire and Surprise.

“She has no interest in you whatsoever, brother,” Fire raised an eyebrow at him.

“I think that they’d make a cute couple,” Surprise paused in thought, “Soarin would probably want to murder him though.”

“So, you’re letting Soarin do his little man thing, but can’t let me seduce a girl,” Lightning crossed his arms.

“Commander Soarin isn’t trying to seduce anybody, brother,” Fire stated, “True love is different than whatever you plan to do with the life you have left.”

“‘Cause if you try to do some of your ‘seducing’ to Dashie, I don’t know if you’d live to tell the tale of how she ‘still wants you.’” Surprise giggled.

“She does have a good point,” Fire Streak agreed.

“Let’s just get this day over with,” Lightning complained. “First Spitfire and her little crap ass mood and now you and your normal shitty captain mood. I don’t know how much more of the shit I can take.”

Misty Fly walked over to Fire Streak and said: ‘Let’s get started.’

Fire Streak nodded and turned towards everybody.

“Hello everyone,” Fire Streak addressed the class, “I am Fire Streak the captain of squad three and this is my squad,” Misty Fly stepped forward after Surprise ushered her on notifying her of what was going on, “Misty Fly the first commander,” Lightning Streak stepped forward, “Lightning Streak the second commander,” Surprise bounced forward and smiled widely at everyone especially Rainbow Dash, “And Surprise the third commander.” Rainbow could see that everyone on squad three was being professional towards her, well besides Surprise, but she was always like that, “Today we are going to be giving you a taste of what you will be doing today. We are going to be doing running and parkour.” Rainbow Dash smiled, those were two things that she was extremely good at. “For those of you who don’t know what parkour is…”

“It’s a bunch of professional people doing insane shit,” Lightning Streak deadpanned, still salty over the whole Rainbow thing.

“You do know that us Wonderbolts use to do parkour all the time, right?” Surprise asked, “I'm sure you could just ask Silver or something or even Misty.”

“I know,” Lightning argued, “We are professional and do insane shit, besi-“ Misty had inched closer to Lightning and put her arm around his neck and her hand over his mouth before signaling Fire to continue. Rainbow had to bite her tongue to stop herself from the brink of laughter.

“Thank you Misty Fly,” Fire Streak thanked Misty even knowing it would fall deaf upon ears, they had an image to keep up. “As I was saying, parkour is the activity or sport of moving rapidly through an area, typically in an urban environment, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing. I assure you that we will not make you do anything dangerous and that this evening you will be judged on your skills alone.” Fire explained, “Today you will be working in two different groups. Lightning Streak and Surprise for the race in parkour and Misty Fly and myself in the speed department.” Fire Streak tapped Misty and pointed towards the door. Misty Fly nodded and walked out in front of the recruits. “Names that start with A through M please line up in front of Surprise and names that start with N through Z please line up by Misty Fly.”

Rainbow Dash along with Thunderlane walked over to Misty Fly’s line while she watched Applejack, Legacy, and Helmer walk over to Surprise’s line. In the back of her mind she was wondering if Helmer was stronger than Applejack without her powers. Helmer kind of reminded her of Haze. A secret with knowledge, an enigma to those around him. She knew that maybe after she got to know him she would regret making that comparison, but at first glance he did. He was intimidating and kind of felt uncomfortable to be around, mostly because of his size and glare.

Rainbow followed Misty Fly outside, but not before she caught a snippet of Lightning Streak gawking over Helmer.

“Dude your like, even scarier up close.”

“I hope you speed can match up to your death glare,” Surprise agreed, “Quick and everlasting.”

“Okay,” Fire looked around at all of them before looking at the track, “We are going to do a 100 meter dash to judge your speed, so if you could line up about ten feet behind the solid white line that would be great.” Everyone lined up and Fire continued, “Misty Fly is going to be checking your time and I’m going to be watching your form.” He looked at the first person in line, “Are you ready?” The boy nodded, “Then…” He looked at Misty and she nodded, “GO!” Misty clicked the stopwatch as he took off. Fire watched him carefully and jotted down a few notes on his clipboard. As he crossed the other line Misty Fly stopped the stopwatch and Fire Streak wrote down his time. “Not bad… NEXT!”

This was the order for the next few people before Rainbow Dash’s turn. When Fire Streak called her name she confidently walked forward and got into her starting position.

“Are you ready?” He asked her, she nodded and focused on the track. It was a straight line so it wasn’t difficult she just had to quickly build up momentum. “GO!”

She shot of at the mark with perfect form and picked up speed quickly. She completed her run so quickly that Misty almost missed her mark for turning of the stopwatch.

“Impressive Miss Dash, way to go,” Fire nodded at her respectfully and Rainbow nodded back to him. Misty Fly winked at her before looking back at Fire with a serious expression.

There was nothing else that really happened in the next few minutes besides that one kid who fell on their face who Misty took to the nurse. Also those three times that Lightning Streak ran outside to whisper something to his brother that made Fire roll his eyes. Or when Surprise accidentally threw her clipboard at Fire Streak because she was showing her group how fast they should run in a race, even though nobody knew how the clipboard got outside in the first place, but it was Surprise so no one questioned it. Actually Rainbow Dash knew better than to question any of it because she knew about comedy squad three. Eventually it was time for her group to switch with Lightning’s group. As they all walked back inside Legacy gave her a thumbs up and a smile which she of course returned in full.

As she walked in she noticed that the gym had been transformed into a parkour course. She looked around along with everyone else to admire the track. They were being honest when they said that they were doing simple things right now. It was nothing like Rainbow was used to. Much simpler than the natural tracks she always took over buildings and such. The good thing about it begin simple is that she could be more focused on impressing them instead of finishing alive.

“Okay kiddies,” Surprise addressed them and Rainbow’s attention snapped away from the track and to Surprise. “You’re gonna be going through this track two at a time at whatever speed. Technically this is a race and later it will be a race even though as Fire said you will be getting judged on your skills alone.” She paused and looked at Lightning Streak who was just standing there looking like he was about to fall asleep. “Let's start with…”

After that class Rainbow had to admit that she was excited to go to the Wonderbolt tryouts and race. She could practically hear Swift whispering to her, ‘I told you so,’ in her ear while he watched Rollo run. There were some things that she still had on her tryout bucket list, such as: TALK TO HELMER. He was an enigma to her and she wanted to know more. Besides, she wanted to make sure that she never compared him to Haze ever again.

She was about to head home, but first she had a prior appointment that she intended to keep. She walked along the path she did earlier during lunch, sticking closer to wall as she did. She walked into the woods and looked around looking for the cave door. She hadn’t noticed earlier, but the door had all of the elements around it with Twilight’s in the middle. Rainbow reached up and put her hand on the Element of Loyalty like Twilight had done to her own element before to open the door. Sure enough her tactic worked the door shined with a brilliant blue light filled the cracks before opening.

“Rainbow darling,” Rarity smiled as she entered. “We’ve been expecting you.”

“Dashie…” Rainbow turned her attention to Fluttershy, “We need to talk…”

A few hours later Rainbow entered the compound in a blue tracksuit with black athletic leggings with blue strips on the side. She had been completely silent since her talk with Fluttershy. She entered room #10 and sat on her bed with a dejected look on her face.

“Is something wrong?” She turned and saw Legacy sitting on her bed beside her with a look of pure worry on his face.

“No, just worried is all,” She shrugged her shoulders.

“Is that all?” Legacy asked, she nodded, “Well I guess you’d like to know that you are not alone.

“Thanks Legacy,” She smiled at him and he walked back over to his bed and sat down.

“This is really happening, huh?” Legacy said softly.

“I guess it is,” Rainbow had a look of determination on her face, “We only have one more shot at this after tomorrow since Friday’s decision day.”

“You’re right,” Legacy smiled and chuckled, “Wow, time sure flies when you’re having fun doesn’t it?”

“If this is fun for you then yeah it sure does,” Rainbow jumped when she heard the door click.

Miracle poked her head in, “We’re not interrupting anything, are we?

“No,” Legacy chuckled, “This is your room too. You do know that, don’t you?”

“Well duh, but I’m not one to barge in on conversations,” Miracle huffed and walked over to her bunk with Rainbow Dash.

Swift followed her inside and sat on his own bed, “It’s almost the end of the journey, huh?”

Miracle giggled, “You’re making it sound so negative.” Miracle stopped laughing for a minute, “I didn’t want to bring it up, but what’s the deal with Soarin?”

“I-I well…” Rainbow stuttered.

“Are you in lurve?” Rainbow jumped and almost hit her head on Miracles bed as she saw a face in her face.

“What in the-“ Rainbow calmed down.

“Hello, nice to meet you I’m the genie in the lamp, been following you around recently you’re my new victim of kill. It something that rapid rabbits with rabies do. Names Cyclone, but you can name me idiot, sycho… trust me I’ve heard them all. I like whipped cheese!” He randomly exclaimed.

“Um, ok…” It seemed Rainbow couldn’t get away from awkwardness right now.

She suddenly felt two arms grab her around the waist. “Don’t worry, Babe, I’ll save you from this creep!”

All of a sudden, she was yanked backwards hard and into the air, the breath being forced from her lungs. Her natural reaction was to extend her wings, but whoever was grabbing her prevented her from doing that.

She landed on something surprisingly soft. It didn’t take her long to realise that she landed in the bed opposite to Legacy. She looked to her left to see an tan skinned boy, with brown hair that covered his eyes slightly. It looked like something you’d expect from a problematic rebellious high school teenager, but not from a fully grown man. Dash had to blink to confirm that she wasn’t imagining his size. He was huge, as Soarin and not nearly as big as Helmer, but huge!

“Welp, looks like Gale saves the day again!” He announced, then looked down at Dash, glancing back and forth down to the bed, then up at her. “Well, looks like you ended up in my bed. You’re one lucky girl…whaddya say we give our roomies here a show, huh?” He wiggled his eyebrows and his mouth slowly formed a grin.

“Yeah, how ‘bout no,” Rainbow Dash replied bluntly as she deliberately pushed off him to get herself out of his bed. ‘Great, my knight in shining armour…’ she thought sarcastically.

“You got it babe! It takes two to tango,” He said and winked at her, but she wasn’t looking anyway.

“Is it bad that I didn’t notice him before?” Legacy leaned over and asked Miracle.

“I think he just walked in and I didn’t notice him either.” Miracle whispered back.

“Oh, good,” Legacy pulled out his phone and shook his head. He looked at everyone before getting up and walking to the corner of the room. “Um, I need to step away for a moment if that’s ok.”

Rainbow walked over to Helmer and waved.

“Hey, you’ve got some pretty cool moves,” Rainbow complemented.

“Thank you Rainbow Dash,” He nodded to her respectfully. “Your ability to copy moves only by observing is unique. I have never seen anyone with such an ability.”

“Oh, thanks,” Rainbow smiled, “So you’re from the Griffon Kingdom, huh?”

“Yes I am,” He answered straight to the point.

“That’s cool,” Rainbow’s eyes darted around uncomfortably, “I was born in Cloudsdale, but then I moved to Siberia, then to Ponyville, and here I am know.” She smiled, “So, why the Wonderbolts? Don’t you griffons have some kind of team of your own?”

“Yes we do,” He nodded grimly, “And they just so happen to be rivals of the Wonderbolts.” He reached into his bag and pulled out a picture.

“Wow,” Rainbow stared at the picture.

“Unlike the Wonderbolts they are strictly a military force with no sideshow cover up,” He raised an eyebrow at Rainbow, “It is well known in the Griffon Kingdom of what the Wonderbolts are truly for.”

“Speaking of the griffons,” Rainbow said as Helmer put the picture down, “The murder of their king a few years back was really bad, wasn’t it?”

“It certainly was,” Helmer looked her right in the eyes, “It affected the whole kingdom especially his wife and son.”

“What about you?” She asked him.

“It affected me just as much as it affected his wife,” He looked down at the picture and then back up at Rainbow, “But that being said it does affect you when it was the murder of your own father.”

Rainbow blinked several times, “What?!”

“The king… was my father Rainbow Dash,” Helmer answered honestly.

Rainbow didn’t have time to respond because she heard a voice over the intercom.

‘Cadets, please report to the track in five minutes.’

Rainbow recognized Spitfire’s voice and complied with her orders.

“Uh, I’m gonna get the rest of those facts later if that’s okay with you,” Rainbow turned back to Helmer who just nodded in response.

Legacy had just hung up his phone and he and Rainbow made brief eye contact before he lowered his head in disappointment and walked out of the room. Everyone noticed his missing smile and the look in his eyes.

Rainbow walked out to the track and looked for Fleetfoot as did the rest of the people in the compound. She spotted Thunderlane and flagged him down.

“Where is Fleetfoot?” He asked her.

“Don’t look at me like I’m suppose to know the answer,” Rainbow complained.

“Well when it comes to the Wonderbolts you usually do.” He answered smartly.

It’s hard to look at him and not look at him. Rainbow glared at Thunderlane and as soon as she turned around there was Fleetfoot.

“Hello kiddies,” She beamed at the crowd and then cleared her throat, “And adults who are older than me. Today you’re with me and before you get super scared because you don’t trust me, Soarin and Spitfire will be there. Is that much cleared up?” She looked round and went back to her ‘professional’ state. “Ok, our activity today is a skills race around the track. As you can see this is no ordinary track, it is modeled after the city heights of Paris!” She looked over the track at the buildings, “Just not quite as tall. Our builders are great and all, but even they can’t put a whole city together in a day.” Fleetfoot turned to Spitfire who had just walked up behind her and playfully bowed as Spitfire took the lead and Fleetfoot ran over and joined Soarin at the starting line of the track.

“As you may know this is the third chance you will get to show us your skills and for us to see who stays and who goes,” She looked over the crowd, “And unfortunately for some of you it didn’t even take this long to decide if you leave. To start off Fleetfoot’s test she and Soarin are going to be giving a demonstration, but before that I am going to explain what you are going to be doing. This is a five hour endurance race. That means that each of the teams of 8 that are assigned by your room number. You will each run an average of about thirty-seven minutes each. This is parkour so that means use everything to your disposal.” She turned her back to them and met Soarin’s eye who then nodded and nudged Fleetfoot. “Now to the demonstration…”

Fleetfoot and Soarin took off running and Fleetfoot of course took the lead. She came up to the first turn and grabbed on a bar above her turned and propelled herself through the corner not to loose any time. Soarin on the other hand took the high route and followed the building line until it ended and jumped, landing in front of Fleetfoot. That didn’t last long though because she pulled up and took the next shortcut through an alley and came out first. After they finished their demonstration and Fleetfoot bragged about winning in Soarin’s face, who just brushed it off. Not like he thought he would win in the first place.

“So you guys, we have a new system now,” Fleetfoot turned to address the crowd once again, “We have all of the teams set up in a tent in ‘the pit’ and in each tent there is an iPad that tracks your runner because they will be wearing this,” She pulled out an earpiece, “This is a tracker and an earpiece. There will also be an headset so that you can communicate with your teammates while they’re running. Now to the rules; you can only have one runner out at a time so if you have a runner still in the pit while the other one begins their run then you will be penalized, rule #2 no physical contact and that includes pushing and shoving, final rule accidents happen in this sport more often than others so be careful.” Fleetfoot glanced at Spitfire who shook her head, “And that’s all I have so head to your tents and we’ll give about 15 minutes to plan.” The cadets still stood there standing and staring at her, “Well what are you doing?! CHOP CHOP! 14 minutes and 45 seconds.”

Rainbow found the tent labeled #10 and walked in to find Swift already sitting in front of the iPad and syncing the trackers.

“Wow, you’re just a professional at this stuff aren’t you?” Rainbow asked teasingly.

“Well,” He started and Rainbow immediately regretted asking him because now she knew he was going to go off on a tangent, “I guess this is just the stuff I’m used to, I mean I was typically the one running and not the one behind the computer, but I still know how to use it.”

“Whew, that wasn’t that long,” Rainbow whispered to herself.

“What did you say?” Swift raised an eyebrow at her.

“Um,” Rainbow stuttered and Legacy walked in, “Ah, saved by the bell, or Legacy, I guess.”

Legacy chuckled to himself, “I guess I interrupted something.”

“Lucky you did, because she was about to get pulverized,” Swift nodded his head to Dash making him laugh again.

“You do that often, huh?” Legacy teased.

“Yeah, Yeah, Mr. Perfect White Knight,” Rainbow pouted and crossed her arms.

White knight, huh? Legacy thought.

“We’ll see about that perfect thing if I beat you,” Legacy smiled.

“Mr. Almost Perfect doesn’t have a good ring to it, so you’ll just have to deal with it,” Rainbow stuck her tongue out at him and then she giggled.

“What?” Legacy tilted his head.

“You just reminded me of someone I know,” She caught her breath.

Miracle walked into the tent with Helmer, Rollo, and Gale trailing behind.

“It is a zoo out there,” She commented before sitting on the floor beside Dash, “Sorry we’re late, so what’s the game plan?”

“Well, I hope you didn’t expect me to do this all by myself,” Swift lifted up a pencil and smiled, “We still need to work out our running order.”

“Ok,” She got up and walked over, “I personally think instead of setting a time for one another, like captain Spitfire mentioned, it would be better to see how long we could keep up our speed before we get tired.”

“I think that’s a great idea!” Swift exclaimed. “Here let’s see who should go first…”

Rainbow chuckled to herself, They sure do make a good team, she though. Suddenly she noticed that someone was missing.

“Hey,” Everyone looked her way and Miracle and Swift stopped talking, “Does anyone know where Cyclone might be?”

They all looked at each other confused and shrugged at her. Rollo, who was leaning back on the post, was the only one who answered.

“I don't know about you all, but due to his display earlier, I don’t think he’ll be popping up at anytime when we need him.”

“You know me so well!” Cyclone popped up right in front of his face and Rollo immediately freaked out.

“I don’t even know you!” Rollo said before calming down and turning around to face a different direction, “Besides you’re probably one of those people who you think you’ve figured out, but then suddenly they change whoever they are. Honestly, my assumption was just realistic and obvious.”

Swift had a blank look on his face, “Please don’t egg him on.” He pleaded, but then Miracle pulled his arm and handed him the pencil.

“Oh relax,” She giggled, “They look to be having a great time.”

“You’re the one who’s assumptions are incorrect,” Rollo stated flatly, well, before Cyclone sat on his shoulders and whispered something in his ear which seemed to confuse him a great deal.

“Besides when the cat’s away the mice will play,” She shrugged shoulders and leaned closer and whispered to him, “Besides he seems to b doing us a favor by keeping him busy.” She stood back up straight, “And we still have that running order to work on.”

Rainbow laughed, this was her band of idiots and she would have to work with it. She walked over to Helmer and sat by him.

“So, you’re a prince then?” Rainbow asked sort of out of the blue, but he didn’t seem affected by it.

“Royal bloodline means nothing now,” He answered stoically, “Besides I was exiled anyway for being a possible candidate for the murderer of my father.”

“What?!” Rainbow exclaimed. “They assumed you would murder your own father?! That's just not right!”

“Maybe to you in your kingdom, but in my kingdom being the royal family almost meant nothing,” Helmer’s face did a pretty good job hiding it, but Rainbow could see the grief that was so well hidden, “They thought that they had a right to assume all I wanted was the thrown.”

“I’m so sorry,” Rainbow apologized.

“I don’t understand your sympathy,” He finally looked up at her.

“Huh, what do you mean, ‘you don’t understand’?” Rainbow asked becoming more and more confused herself.

“You could put it that in my culture we aren’t so good with words or feelings and it seems better to just leave your emotions alone,” He explained.

“Aw, I sympathize with you buddy. How about a hug to get those emotions out of you like a gale storm?” Gale opened his arms and came a bit closer.

Rainbow tried to imagine such an image and she had to admit it wasn’t a very family friendly one at that, Yeah, that would probably never happen, she thought.

“I would even want to touch you with a ten foot metal pole, what makes your think that I’d want to hug you?” Helmer deadpanned.

“That was a blow right to the manhood,” Gale crossed his arms and jerked his head away dramatically, “You were right, you griffons really don’t understand emotions.”

“But he’s right though, isn’t he?” Legacy’s voice joined the conversation. He wasn’t facing them, but he seemed to be in deep thought. “Even in our culture we seem to also have those people who don’t want to or ven don’t know how to communicate. Some people just don’t understand how powerful words can be. Those people either throw spiteful words around or keep it all inside, but no matter how good we are at using our words we’re still a bit of both.” He turned around to face them and wore a very large smile on his face. “Don’t you agree?”

‘This is your 5 minute warning’ Fleetfoot voice sounded throughout the pit through the intercom.

Legacy’s smile remained, “well that seems to be our time. Let’s go see if they've worked out our running order yet.”

They four of them walked over to the small table where Miracle and Swift sat with their heads on the table.

“Are you two ok?” Rainbow asked.

“We figured out that it’s impossible to figure out our running order before we’ve actually seen each other run,” Miracle explained.

“So it made us hypocrites when we decided that Miracle should go first.” Swift joined in.

“Since he has much more experience with this part than the rest of of us do, and seemed much more willing than Rollo, it has been decided that Swift will call the shots!” Miracle seemed proud of herself and it was hard for Rainbow to deny that she was proud of them to.

“Well it seems like you two have it all worked out to me,” Legacy gave them a thumbs up.

“Did better than I could’ve!” Gale chuckled.

“Considering you, the standards wouldn’t have been very high anyway,” Helmer exclaimed flatly.

Gale pointed a finger at him, “Denied!” Then smiled very wide, “That’s it, that’s my goal. By the end of my time here I’m going to make you love me!”

Rainbow and Legacy shared a flat look of disturbance.

“Woe is me,” Helmer said a bit sarcastically, but mostly using his flat tone. “I sure wish the scientists who sculpted human minds into the brains of robots had given me the ability to understand this human emotion-love.”

“Denied again!” Gale exclaimed.

Rollo walked over looking dejected and as it seems he had every right to. Cyclone was still on his shoulders with a face that looked like he was having a blast. “Of course only you would be dumb enough to believe that.”

Gale sighed, “Not you too! With two this will be an impossible task!”

Rainbow laughed, Yep this is my band of idiots.

Author's Note

Hello everyone, it sure has been a while. I have been working on a few new projects and soon I am going to start a prequel series about our favorite characters. Everyone in this story is the main charector of their own story and they cam into Rainbow’s life with their own history. Two of my story’s so far is The Chronicles of the Past: Last Legacy and The Chronicles of the Past: The Real story.

Hope you liked the chapter.

Chapter 9: A Long Way Down Part 2

“Soarin what are you doing still standing there the race starts in five minutes?” Spitfire lecture him.

“Sorry captain,” Soarin apologized, “Just watching the recruits.”

Spitfire walked over and sat beside him, “I know what this is about, but we’ll have to discuss it later. You and I both know how upset Fleetfoot will be if we're not there on time.”

“Sure, just give me a minute,” Soarin asked.

“You have five of them, take your time.” Spitfire got up and walked away.

Soarin pulled out his phone and looked at his emails. Why does she think she can just come back into our world. She betrayed all of us! Soarin got up, but the past is in the past so there’s no reason for me to dwell on that. Even so, that doesn’t mean I have to forgive her.

“I better go see Fleetfoot,” Soarin walked the path that Spitfire just walked and this path lead to a box that was elevated above the track. There were three seats up there, two of which were already occupied. Soarin sat in his chair.

“Aren’t you excited!” Fleetfoot exclaimed tugging on his arm, “This is the first time the Wonderbolts have done parkour in years.”

“Captain are you sure this is wise?” Silver asked Spitfire while looking at the course, “If the track fails or someone shows up uninvited.”

“Hey, I thought you were the one who said it probably wasn’t even an issue,” Spitfire replied, “Or are you going back on that now?”

“Just keep in mind, captain.” Silver turned and glared at her, “There is a reason us Wonderbolts stopped doing parkour. If someone gets hurt it is on you not me.”

“They signed waivers,” Fleetfoot pointed out, “So technically any damage is not our fault.”

“But you’d forever hold the guilt,” Silver turned and walked away.

“Sometimes I wonder about that guy,” Fleetfoot shook her head, then she noticed Soarin, “Hey, Soarin are you ok?”

“Yeah I’m fine,” Soarin replied before looking back down at the track.

“Just remember,” Fleetfoot started, “I’m your friend too, so you can talk to me about anything.”

“Thanks Fleet, that means a lot,” For the first time that night Soarin smiled and Fleetfoot ruffled his hair a bit.

“Now let's watch the cadets!” Fleetfoot proclaimed.

Spitfire stayed quiet, This isn’t like Fleetfoot, so there's obviously something going on with her too. Everything’s moving so fast I wish it’d just all slow down.

“Ok, is everyone ready?” Swift asked.

Miracle looked around, everyone was putting in their earpieces and Swift had just finished testing them all.

“To be honest I’m a little nervous,” Miracle admitted.

“That makes sense I mean you are the first runner,” Rainbow sympathized.

“Besides, first come first serve,” Rollo started, “Since you’re the first runner a lot will be riding on you. Whatever place you get us into will be the hole you dug for yourself and the rest of the team. Since we’ll all have to make up your time I mean.”

Suddenly Miracle felt really nervous and dizzy.

Swift turned around in his chair, “Hey, don’t listen to him.” He said, “You’ll do fine.”

“I agree,” Legacy smiled and his smile was calming, “you’re gonna do great so don’t worry about it and have fun.”

“And due to your system you’ll only be in your peak the entire time.” Gale promised.

“Thanks guys you’re the best,” Miracle hugged Rainbow.

“Anytime,” Swift said.

‘All first runners please wait at the starting line for the countdown.’

“Oops, that’s my call,” Miracle ran out waving at them and smiling, “See you soon guys!”

“Fupas are almost as sexy as your mom!” Cyclone exclaimed right into Rollo’s face.

“That doesn’t make any sense,” he stated obviously.

“I was born at a very young age.” Cyclone said solemnly.

“Still doesn’t make any sense.”

“When I’m hungry, I eat food,” Cyclone stared at him in a creepy manor.

“Now you’re just trying to annoy me.” Rollo stated flatly.

Cyclone’s face went completely serious for a second, “Is it working?”

Rollo was about to answer, but Swift cut him off.

“Miracle told me that they just made the call and thanks to you guys I missed my call so would you do me a favor and shush?”

“Sure, I don’t have a problem with not talking,” Rollo sat down on the floor and watched the screen

Rainbow walked up beside Swift and looked at the screen.

“Mind explaining how it works?” She asked him.

“Not at all,” Swift cleared his throat and Rainbow prepared herself, “I can track the course here and I can tell the areas that are elevated from the ones that aren’t and there’s the… one second.” Swift checked his screen, “Miracle, room #3 is pulling up again you’ll have to take the higher route…” Swift turned back to Rainbow, “Hey I’ll explain it to you a bit later.”

“Fine by me,” Rainbow walked to the back of the room where Legacy was sitting and by the looks of it he seemed to be watching something on his phone. “Hey buddy what’s up?”

Legacy flinched and paused his video before looking up at Dash and calming down, “Sorry Rainbow, you startled me.”

Rainbow bent down by him, “Whatcha watching?”

“Just a movie,” He replied calmly before giving her his phone, “see?”

Rainbow pressed a play and then paused it again in surprise.

“Wait you’re in a movie?” She asked.

“Yep!” Legacy’s smile grew, “Me and all of my classmates. You see last year we all decided that we wanted to do something fun and special, something to remember each other by. My friend Oscar had a great idea, to make a movie, but not just any movie a musical.” He did jazz hands to exaggerate his point, “Everyone agreed and voted on who should be the leads. You see, the movie was about a boy and a girl who went to school in a special academy. The girl had a huge crush on the boy, but he had had a troubled life and never understood what love actually meant so he could never return her feelings. I was cast as the leading male role and another friend of mine named Alice was the cast as the other lead. With the musical we put a lot of songs by different artists together that made sense with the story.”

“You sing in it?” Rainbow suddenly unpaused the video, “I wanna see!”

Legacy took his phone back from her and skipped to a photo montage.

“This one is the best one, it has photos of all of us during that year,” he gave Rainbow his earbuds and started the video, “I sing in the background. Please don’t watch until the end…”

Rainbow put the earbuds in and her ears were met with a soothing, soft and calm voice. His voice was a bit higher than she expected, but it was so angelic.

“Do you remember when I said I'd always be there?
Ever since we were ten, baby.
When we were out on the playground playing pretend.
I didn't know it back then.

Now I realize you are the only one
It's never too late to show it.
Grow old together,
Have feelings we had before
Back when we were so innocent

I pray for all your love
Girl, our love is so unreal
I just wanna reach and touch you, squeeze you, somebody pinch me
(I must be dreaming)
This is something like a movie
And I don't know how it ends, girl
But I fell in love with my best friend~”

Rainbow stopped the video and looked up at Legacy who was smiling, but also blushing in embarrassment.

“You have a very nice voice,” Rainbow handed him back his phone.

He accepted it, “Thanks, I got it from my mom.”

“I wanted to hear more,” Rainbow pouted.

“I would let you hear more, but you couldn’t watch the video,” Legacy blushed, “It gets… Meh?” His voice went very high until it squeaked and his blush deepened with embarrassment.
Rainbow laughed at his embarrassment and his adorable squeak.

“One day I’ll let you watch the whole thing.” Legacy tucked his phone away in his pocket. “Though the end ‘credits’ are about almost half the movie.” He exaggerated. “It consists of all the songs that didn’t make it into the movie, but at that point we were just having fun in the recording studio.”

They sat in silence for about 5 minutes before Rainbow noticed something off about Legacy.

“Hey, are you o-“ Rainbow tried to ask.

Legacy stood up abruptly and walked out, “I need to go to the restroom.”

What’s up with him, Rainbow thought.

“Just be back by the next turn,” Swift shouted after him.

“Ok!” Legacy turned and smiled at him before running off.

There was about a two minute silence before Rainbow got up and walked to the tent entrance.

“And where do you think you’re going?” Swift asked.

“To look for Legacy, something’s up I can just tell,” Rainbow walked out of the tent desperate to find her friend, but something or rather somebody stopped her.

“Psst,” Rainbow looked up to the tent and was surprised to find a boy not to much older than she was sitting on a tree nearby. He almost looked like a prince through Rainbows eyes. He wore something along the lines of this…

https://www.google.com/search?q=prince+zen&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS763US763&hl=en-US&prmd=insv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqqMD66-fYAhUMCKwKHUE1CBMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1112&bih=719&dpr=2#imgrc=u-2P3wfeIfoTFM:

(I have no rights to this photograph)

With a sword holder on the belt. The sword was decorated by beautiful moonstone and the blade looked somewhat lighter, almost glowing. He also had a light blue cape the tied onto him by a pendant of a beautiful moonstone. His hair was a bluish silver color and he wore a moonstone ring with a sterling silver band and a watching that was glowing. Everything about him screamed light so Rainbow figured he was dependable. “Have you noticed anything strange around here?”

“Not except for you,” Rainbow answered truthfully, “Who are you anyway?”

“I guess I see nothing wrong with introductions,” He bowed down to her, “My name is Last Legacy, protector of Paris and
knight and swordsman of the white star. A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Madam…”

“Rainbow Dash,” she answered, “You said your name is Last Legacy?”

“Yes,” He nodded respectfully, “Is there a problem?”

“No, it’s just,” She took a deep breath, “I have a friend named Last Legacy.”

“I see,” He scratched his head right behind his cat ear, “Well, my name sure is popular right now. Are you sure he doesn’t have any other name, because we ran a thorough test of this back at my school. Oh well, just ask him for me, ‘kay?”

“Yeah, sure,” Rainbow nodded.

“And just call me if you see anything suspicious,” and with that Last Legacy bounded away.

What a strange boy, Rainbow thought before continuing to look for Legacy.

Down on the track Miracle seemed to be running for her life. Currently, she was battling a girl from room #3 which seemed to be the only real competition. Miracle was close behind her, but the girl just kept speeding up. Swift has told her to take the high route the girl took the high route, when he asked her to use the bars the girl used the bars. She seemed unbeatable and didn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon.

Miracle decided that it was time to pull her wild card. Carefully, she approached the girl from the outside and attempted to pass her, but her efforts proved pointless.

‘Hey Miracle, you’ve been going for a good twenty minutes by now, keep up the good work and try to hold our spot instead of passing her.’ Swift said into the earpiece.

Miracle followed her directions and held her spot, running close behind the girl who still wasn’t showing any signs of slowing up.

Soarin watched out of the window and it seemed like room #3 and #10 were the most interesting to look out. To be completely honest, he could care less about the race, a lot of other things on his mind. He was taken out of his daze by tapping on the window. He got up, walked over and looked around, but couldn’t find anyone.

“What are you doing Soarin?” Spitfire asked.

“Thought I heard something, but I guess not,” He sat back down in his chair and his eyes suddenly shifted back to the race.

Fleetfoot and Spitfire shared worried eye contact before they did the same thing as Soarin. Just sitting and watching the race in complete silence made them aware to a knocking sound on the door. Fleetfoot glanced at Soarin in hopes that he would get it, but Spitfire did instead. She walked to the door, turned the knob, and opened it. Last Legacy (The knight one) was standing there with his perfect posture and serious expression. He bowed down to her, his expression when he was looking at the ground was nervous, for about two seconds before looking up at her.

“Um, can I help you?” Spitfire asked, raising an eyebrow at the young man.

“Hopefully you can,” He said before Spitfire let him in, “I was wondering if you’ve seen any suspicious behavior.”

“No, we haven’t,” She answered truthfully, “Why?”

“Well, it’s my job,” He provided a minimal explanation, “Could you alert me if you do?”

It was Fleetfoot’s turn to talk, “Sure, but how?” She agreed, but was glancing down searchingly at his sword, slightly intimidated.

Legacy noticed this and turned his belt so that the sword was out of her view before smiling for a second and continuing. This shocked Fleetfoot and she began to think.

“Just say ‘Connect Polaris of White’ and then explain what you see,” He turned back around to walk out of the room, but said one more thing, “Thank you,” He turned and bowed his head respectfully, “You have done a great service to the crown.”

Spitfire closed the door and turned to Fleetfoot and crossed her arms expectantly.

“Why did you help him?” She asked.

“He was being nice and to be honest it didn’t look like he meant any harm. If anything he’s trying to protect us,” Fleetfoot snapped back.

“Right,” Spitfire sat back in her chair and Fleetfoot did the same.

“So,” Soarin started, looking at Fleetfoot, “Is that really the reason, or was he really cute?”

“C’mon Soarin,” Fleetfoot groan, “He was pretty legit and that’s the real reason why I decided to help him. Besides, when I was frightened by his sword he turned his sword belt so that I wasn’t anymore. Then he smiled at me and he has the cutest little smile because he kind of blushes and and closes his eyes. Plus, it helped that he was really adorable.”

“But I wonder where he’s from,” Soarin pondered.

“He said something about service to the crown, so maybe he works for Celestia,” Fleetfoot suggested.

“Maybe,” Soarin said, Or maybe something else all together.

Last Legacy walked until he was far enough from the door and raised his watch up and spoke into it.

“So, Felix would you like to explain to me now why you’re making me ask everyone about suspicion?” He asked and raised an eyebrow.

The glow left the watch and the ball of silver light floated down until it was directly beside Legacy on the floor. The light manifested into a black cat with light blue eyes before dissolving back into the watch.

“The wielder of the Sword of Hell escaped his cell,” Felix responded solemnly.

Panic found its merry way onto Legacy’s face, “Seriously, he escaped, but how?”

“Well, they most certainly didn’t let him out,” Felix stated matter-of-factly.

“This is a problem,” Legacy’s expression changed into seriousness, “Should I call Eragon and Skyler?”

“They should already know,” Felix stopped walking and turned to him, “And Besides, they’ve already devoted their lives to you as your followers, your highness. So if you get in trouble with the devil boy then they’ll be there.”

“I’m starting to think I should go back tonight,” Legacy sighed, “It’s for the best.”

“I’m sure everyone misses their prince,” Felix began to walk again.

“I have an idea,” Legacy offered, “Let’s watch the race together, Felix.”

“Sure kid, but you still remember how to climb trees from Ian, right?”

“Of course,” Legacy laughed, “I’ve been doing these dangerous escape routes for much longer than I’ve known Ian. I can assure you I still have my luck.”

“You never did grow out of your rebellious stage from when you were thirteen,” Felix teased.

“Yeah, yeah,” Legacy began to climb, “And tonight everyone will finally get to see one of their princes of Sirius.”

“Ok Gale,” Swift started, “Go and meet Miracle in the pit and wait until she makes it to the tent before you start.”

“Aye, Aye, Captain!” Gale ran out of the tent.

“He’s going to burn all of his energy before he even starts,” Rollo said quietly, but Swift heard him.

“You’re acting more like your normal self now,” he paused to correct himself, “Or at least the person I remember you being.”

“I understand,” Rollo muttered to himself, “This isn’t like me, really not even to be here in the first place, but for some reason I felt compelled to do so.”

“I-“ Swift started, but was interrupted.

Last Legacy (Not the one watching the race) stood in the doorway panting and everyone’s attention was brought to him.

“Sorry… I’m late… Couldn’t find the bathrooms… came back…” He caught his breath, “I thought I was going to be late for the next racer, since Swift told me to be back before that time, so I panicked and ran.”

“Well I guess navigation is not your strong suit, huh Mr Perfect?” Rainbow asked teasingly.

“Well, the bathrooms weren’t exactly the main focus of the tour,” He deadpanned, “And using that name in that context is kind of contradictory, don’t you think?”

Everyone was so focused on Legacy that they failed to notice Miracle standing directly behind him. She noticed all eyes on her.

“I’m sorry I failed,” Miracle apologized.

“Don’t say that,” Legacy said in a calm, but strong voice. “You did a great job and got us into a great place.”

“B-but I-“ Miracle’s eyes widened as she realized that Legacy reached out his hand and place it on her shoulder. She looked into his bright silver eyes and soft smile. He cared and that’s what killed her inside.

“We’re lucky to have you on our team,” Legacy looked into her eyes sincerely, Her eyes!

On our team, Legacy’s words echoed in her ears. Miracle pulled away and hid her face, “I don’t deserve your kindness, Legacy. Please understand.” She turned and ran out of the tent.

“Miracle?” Legacy’s eyes wavered. He looked like he was about to follow her, but Rainbow grabbed onto the back of his shirt.

“Look mister, I’ll go,” She let go of his shirt and he turned in her direction. “The last thing we need is for you to take a detour to the bathroom.”

“I’ll go,” Swift stood up and walked over to Rainbow and Legacy, “I’m helping to.”

“What about your job?” Rainbow asked him.

Rollo stepped up, “I’ll do it,” He sat down on the chair and put on the headset, “You two go ahead, I’ll handle Gale and you handle Miracle.”

“Ok then,” Rainbow grabbed onto Swift’s sleeve and pulled him out of the tent, “Let’s go!”

“I can run by myself!” Swift snapped at her.

“Yeah, well then hurry up!”

Their voice faded into the distance and Legacy swore he saw Rollo smile slightly. On the other side of the tent Helmer sat watching the exchange with Cyclone. Well not really with Cyclone he was pretty much doing his own thing. He wore a fedora, a trench coat, and smoked a fake cigar like some detective.

“What a strange bunch we are, huh Helmer?” Cyclone asked his ‘companion.’

“Very strange indeed,” Helmer pondered deeply before Cyclone surprised him by sticking his cigar in his mouth.

“Miracle! Are you in there?” Rainbow called out as she and Swift searched the compound.

“She ran away from us,” Swift deadpanned, “She’s not gonna respond if you call for her, genius.”

“If you’re gonna criticize my tactics then search on your own,” Rainbow snapped.

“But you’re the only one who knows your way around this place,” He complained.

“That’s not my problem,” Rainbow stated.

There was a long pause between the two as they continued the search.

“Why do you think she was so weird with Legacy?” Swift asked trying to change the subject.

“I don’t know,” Rainbow shrugged and glanced around before turning back to him, “But I think if any of us went up in that moment then she would’ve done the same thing.”

“Yeah, I’m sure you’re right,” Swift sighed, “But it’s weird because she seemed so out of it.”

“Well, when you run a race and push your limits,” Rainbow opened another door, “Afterwards, you can seem like an airhead.”

“True,” Swift agreed.

Secretly two blue eyes watched their conversation.

“Besides, when you think about it the system sucks,” She walked into the bathroom, but Swift could still hear her voice echoing, “You run into the pit and then straight to the tent and if you take time to catch your breath you’ll lose your place.”

The eyes spotted a shadowy figure behind a poster and when it turned to look his way the figures eyes shone like fire.

“The wielder of the Sword of Hell,” The eyes kept back behind the wall and the whole body once again became visible. Felix, the black cat. “I have to warn the prince right away.” He bounded off.

Miracle sat in the stall sobbing quietly to herself before she heard the door open.

“Miracle, are you here?” A voice that she immediately recognized as Rainbow Dash called out.

She tried to quiet the sound of her sobbing, but she couldn’t.

“I’m sorry Rainbow Dash,” She whimpered, “I just don’t know what came over me.”

“Sometimes things happen that are out of our control,” Swift’s voice came from outside of the bathroom.

“And some problems that we have need to be faced head on,” Rainbow added.

“But we saw you try and for that you are stronger than you may think,” Swift complicated truthfully.

“One of my friends told this once…” Rainbow started, “Just remember, that your friends are always there for you and ready to listen, and I found it to be true first hand.”

“So please come back,” Swift pleaded.

Miracle opened the door and her eyes brimmed with tears, she walked out of the bathroom into the hallway with Swift. She hugged them both.

“You are the best friends a girl could ever ask for,” She whispered to them.

“Then we’re glad you asked.”

In the forest Legacy (the one who has a friend named Ian) stood on one of the high branches of a tree, leaning against the trunk and watching his watch as the glow became brighter and brighter as Felix grew nearer and nearer. The watch glowed with full intensity and Legacy looked down to see Felix standing there panting. Legacy jumped down, landing softly and sinking into the landing with his weight shifted back over his heels.

“What’s wrong?” Legacy asked and he stayed down at the cats level.

“The wielder is here,” He answered simply.

“What!?” Legacy exclaimed, “But why?”

“Don’t you assume that he would want to take on his fiercest opponents first?” Felix asked the prince.

“My brother,” Legacy thought aloud, “he is his fiercest opponent, but the wielder wants a fair fight. So in order to give my brother something to fight for he wants to eliminate me first.”

“And he knows you’re still weak,” Felix warned, “But that may not be the only reason he’s here and we’re here.”

“What do you mean?”

“I can sense the presence of loyalty,” Felix explained, “All of the Elements of Harmony live here in Hollow Shades. In fact,
one girl in particular is here at this moment.”

“Interesting,” Legacy smiled, “See, nothing to bad to worry about.”

“What exactly are you saying, my prince?”

“I won’t be fighting alone,” His cute smile helped Felix soften his expression.

“And your aide and your advocate, Eragon and Skyler, will quite possibly be here as well,” Felix pondered.

“More like my mother and my advocate,” Legacy mumbled humorously.

“Come now,” Felix warned teasingly, “Don’t make fun of Eragon when he isn’t here to defend himself.”

Legacy chuckled, “Yes sir,” He smiled with an intent of not showing his annoyance “I have a feeling Ian would be here alongside those two if he could,” Legacy chuckled again and shook his head, “Even though that isn’t his job, and now that I think about it his job has nothing to do with it, he still wants in on the action. You know how Mr. Popular is. He wouldn’t miss out on his fair share.”

“He was almost left as weak as you were in your final battle, yet he still remains the same brute that he was before the whole process began. I understand though, that he is one of the people that you trust and depend on and care about.”

Legacy bore a soft expression, “Just don’t say that to his face, or else he might start offering to sleep with me at night or something strange like that. I swear he trusts me too much.”

“I don’t feel that way to him, so these feelings are up to you, Your Highness. You might be better off talking to Skyler about this kind of thing next time, at least she shares your point of view.” Felix made sure to explain it clearly for no misunderstandings.

“Eragon, Skyler.” Legacy listed off the names, “It sure has been a while.”

Felix nodded respectfully before relaying the bad news. “Unfortunately, your brothers must remain in Sirius and probable the rest have to stay with Class 0.”

“It’s for the best anyway,” Legacy agreed, “Besides, we wouldn’t want the wielders battle to be over before mine even begins.”

“You Polaris, are a strange being.” The shadow figure with the eyes that burned like fire muttered to himself from a tree a bit farther away, “But don’t think you’ll win. I will do the same to you as I will do to your brother and don’t think I’ll go easy on you because you’re weak. So don’t underestimate the power of Hellfire.”

Gale really and truly ran like a gale wind. He had so much speed and power that he seemed to be shooting through the course. His one issue was the obstacles, but Rollo noticed something else.

‘What are you thinking about?’ He asked through the earpiece.

“Obstacles,” He answered through gritted teeth.

‘Stop thinking about that.’

“I can think about whatever I want to think about do you want to know why?” He didn’t wait for an answer, “Because I’m a Man!

‘Think about running straight ahead,’ Rollo ignored his comment.

“But, I’m not running straight, right?” Gale was confused.

‘You have to make yourself believe that you are, then the obstacles will become second nature,’ He offered his idea with no hesitation.

Gale tried this method and he found that his mind was clear and when the next obstacle came around he was able to get over it right away. He was so in awe that it worked that he kept doing it again and again not mentally aware of how much time had passed.

“Hey dude,” Gale called out.

‘Yes?’

“Thanks,” He answered.

‘It’s my job,’ Gale knew that Rollo was right, but what he didn’t know was that he was smiling.

After Rainbow Dash, Swift, and Miracle returned, Rainbow headed straight to where Legacy was sitting.

“Hey,” She sat down beside him.

“Oh, hello again,” Legacy smiled and waved at her. “I haven’t seen you since you forced me to stay here.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Rainbow dismissed, Ok, so how do I ask Legacy what his real name is without making it awkward. “Hey Legacy?”

“Yes?”

“Is Last Legacy really your name?” Rainbow mentally slapped herself, Way to not make it awkward.

“Well not exactly,” Legacy’s mood dropped, “And despite what you might think I wasn’t born in Cloudsdale either.”

“Wait, what?” Rainbow blinked several times, “You’ve been lying to me.”

“No, no,” Legacy dismissed the thought and held his hands up like he was about to be arrested, “It’s not like that at all!”

“Then how is it?” Rainbow asked. It came out a lot more spiteful than she meant for it to.

“I didn’t lie to you Rainbow Dash, I would never do that to anyone, because I know how it feels.” He took a deep breath before starting his explanation, “Do remember what I said when I first met you?”

“Yeah, ‘My name is Last Legacy,’ and ‘I just moved here from Cloudsdale,’” Rainbow answered.

“Exactly,” Legacy pointed out, “I just moved here from Cloudsdale and I am from Cloudsdale, are two different things. I was living in Cloudsdale during the summer and then moved here before the semester started.”

“So where are you really from?” Rainbow asked.

“Well you’re inquisitive,” Legacy muttered, “I moved here from Paris, France.”

“Paris, France?” Rainbow asked. Then she remembered what a certain stranger said to her earlier, ‘My name is Last Legacy protector of Paris.’

“My name was Nathan Bernard, son of Benjamin Bernard of B and B co.” Legacy/ Nathan listed off, “Front cover model and the most beloved faces of the company. A picture of flawless perfection, they said, perfection perfection perfection, they said.”

Rainbow heard Rarity mention something about some adorable teenage Persian model sometime in the past.

“Wait, was?” Rainbow tilted her head in confusion.

“Yeah, was,” Legacy muttered quietly.

“Was…” They sat in silence for a minute before Legacy spoke again.

“I wanted a change of pace and leave the locked up life with no opportunity to be free,” Legacy explained, “But of course that wasn’t the only reason.” Legacy fidgeted with his fingers, “In Paris we had two superheroes or ‘protectors of Paris.’ Well there was this battle and my father, well maybe he wasn’t the best father, but he didn't deserve what he got. Well, maybe he did and I didn’t know why.”

“What were these protectors names?” Rainbow asked inquisitively.

“Last Legacy and Ascendancy,” He answered quickly.

“Last Legacy, huh?” Rainbow glanced at him critically.

“Yeah, that wasn’t intended,” Legacy scratched the back of his head, “Back home, before I left, I asked a woman named Katherine who worked for my dad what a good name to fit in in to Equestria was. She gave me a list and said that there is only one Last Legacy so that became my name.”

“So what was he like, Last Legacy I mean?”

“He was the sidekick of unspoken words,” Legacy explained, “The people knew that Ascendancy was the true hero though. I guess he didn’t get all the attention he deserved, but all that he wanted. After that I’m not so sure.” Legacy thought aloud, “But he was heavily involved in the incident and right now, to most who don’t know the full story, he is anything, but a hero. I see, just like I did he’s trying his way at a new start in Equestria.”

“Oh right, he’s here now,” Rainbow thought aloud.

“Yeah,” He nodded, “Wait how do you know that?”

“He asked me if anything suspicious was going on.”

“Same, and I told him about Miracle’s eyes.” Legacy agreed.

“Her eyes?”

“Yep, they were red and fiery when I was talking to her,” Legacy answered.

“And you don’t hate him?”

“No, because I understand what my father did.”

Author's Note

Ok, so this chapter is more about everything happening during the race than the actual race itself. I cut this chapter short because of an issue that I was having, but the next one will be out soon.

About our favorite new character Last Legacy (Not Nathan, but the other guy) he is the second prince of Sirius. His watch is a source of the magic power directly from a magic star called, The White Star. I can’t tell you much more about him, but I can tell you more about Felix. Felix is a snarky, wise old cat who’s made some past mistakes. Legacy actually made some similar ‘mistakes’ as well, but that involves Nathan’s father. Felix wasn’t origanlly a cat, he was something more powerful. A virtue, he was a part of a group called the Knights of the Virtue. He is the virtue of hope and that will be explored more a bit later.

Now talking about Nathan. I love this guy and I think you will to, but it may take some time. Right now it might sound like he’s being secretive and maybe not a great friend, but he is only doing this because of his father. Legacy really did do something terrible to him, something even worse than death, but his father did something terrible to. I guess now you see why parents are a sensitive subject for him. For his mother, I don’t have much on her yet, but she was an amazing woman and who he strives to be everyday.

Hmm, two more things! That room #3 is a special little thing, huh? I wonder if anything strange is going on over there. :pinkiegasp:

And that little scene with Rollo when he’s back to his ‘normal’ self also hints something that happened with our favorite elements.

Remember your suggestions are always welcome! Until next time, Appledashery out!