~~A normal day in Ponyville~~ No, that’s too cliché. Hmmm… You know what? Let’s throw them into Episode 1 and see where it goes. Sorry if it’s too similar to the actual episode at the start, I wasn’t sure how to differentiate, since Yellow is rather similar to the original Rainbow anyway.

I guess it was kind of a normal day in Ponyville then. Twilight had just finished talking to Applejack, and was wondering why the sky wasn’t clear, when a yellow blur crashed into her. And, because of Murphy’s Law, crashed directly into a puddle of mud, even though she was pretty sure it hadn’t been there five seconds before. Needless to say, she and the odd yellow pony got completely covered in the stuff. Said yellow pony sat up, looked at Twilight, chuckled, and asked “Hey, are you… are you okay? Here, lemme help!” And she flew off, only to return with a dark, ominous cloud, which she positioned over Twilight’s head. She flew up, bounced on the cloud, and drenched Twilight in rain, leaving the lavender unicorn soaking wet. At least she got the mud off, right? In her final attempt to help Twilight, she flew around, and around, and around, and you get the idea, using air force to dry Twilight off. Unfortunately (Or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), it had the side effect of floofing Bookhorse’s mane up to look even more like cotton candy than Pinkie’s. Therefore, the yellow pegasus, as well as Twilight’s assistant, Spike, fell over themselves laughing. Trying to retain some of her dignity, Twilight ignored Spike, asking the new pony “And, who are you?”

“Oh, I’m Yellow! Nice to meet you!” The pegasus replied, bouncing up off the ground. “Who are you?”

“Wait, you’re named after a color? With nothing else?” Twilight asked herself, before shaking her head and continuing. “I’m Twilight Sparkle. The Princess-“ She was cut short, as ‘Yellow’ suddenly looked over Twilight’s shoulder, calling out excitedly “Oh, hey girls!” Twilight turned around herself, to see six other pegasi flying towards them, who… all looked like Yellow? Except these pegasi were different colors… The colors of the rainbow, she realised. As they got closer, she could see that they had differences apart from color as well. The orange one had fairly obvious muscles, for example. And Yellow, now that she looked back at her, was thinner and fitter than the others. They were obviously some kind of family, though how, Twilight wasn’t sure. “Hello?”

“Hey.” ‘Red’ replied, landing in front of her. She seemed to be the leader of the group, with the way she held herself. Indigo walked over to Twilight, before saying, in a smooth voice, “Hey there. You’re new, right? I’m Indigo. Could I have the-“ She was cut off by an orange hoof whacking her over the head, causing her to fall limp to the ground. Twilight stared at the pegasus, before looking up at Orange. “What did you do that for?!”

“Rule one of being anywhere near the Rainbow Corps: If Indigo starts talking to you, don’t let her finish. You really don’t want to hear what she has to say.” The bulky pony replied.

“Okay then… Wait, the Rainbow Corps? What kind of name is that?”

“Well, there was this one pony a while ago. He kind of liked us, and asked if we could call ourselves the Rainbow Corps. We didn’t really have a name at the time, we sort of just called ourselves the Family, so we thought, why not? And the name’s stuck.” Violet spoke up. “Oh, and I’m Purple. I don’t mind if you call me Violet, a lot of ponies do, but I prefer Purple. Anyway, if I know this town, and I do, Pinkie Pie will be planning you a Welcome To Ponyville party. We should probably get going and help her set up.”

“Yeah, we should. See ya, Poindexter.” Red called out as they lifted off again, Orange slinging Indigo over her back.

“Poindexter?! How do you even know what I do in my spare time?!”

“I get around! See ya!” And they flew off.

Author's Note

Kind of rushed this, but I hope you like it! This is going to mostly follow the events of canon, but with the twist of seven RDs.