"Seeya, Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash said as she flew away. Fluttershy lay on a cloud. She was exhausted as she had just helped to sweep up the water out of an entire reservoir all the way to Cloudsdale. She was about to leave when a hoof tapped her shoulder. She looked around to see Spitfire there.
"Hi Fluttershy." She said calmly. "You were great in helping Rainbow Dash out today."
Fluttershy remained silent.
"In fact, you were so great, I'm going to make you part of my team."
Fluttershy gasped.
"Oh, no, I couldn't do that." she whispered. Unbeknownst to Spitfire, she had no intention of trying for the Wonderbolts at all, never mind joining them.
The birds could be heard throughout Fluttershy's cottage the next morning. Fluttershy's pet bunny, Angel, noticed some letters by the door. He picked them up and whacked Fluttershy on the head with them.
"Oww!" she yelped. "Angel Bunny, what have you got there?"
She took the letters off the bunny and read the first. Iron Will again. she thought. She opened the second letter, which had the Wonderbolts seal on it.
"Dear Fluttershy," she read out loud.
"We are going to have our next Wonderbolts Derby in Cloudsdale soon. Sadly, one of our flyers has broken their wing, so we would like to ask for you to be her substitute. Here are some tickets for two of your friends to see us - and you - perform. We hope to see you soon,
From Spitfire."
Fluttershy frowned.
"I can't go out there in front of everypony!!" she shouted. The clock nearby her house struck 10 O' clock. She remembered that she had to go to Sugarcube Corner today for the Summer Cupcakes before they ran out. She flew as fast as she could to the Cakes' house. She was first there and so she saw Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie behind the counter.
"Hi Fluttershy!" Pinkie Pie said. "What'll it be today?"
"Oh, hello Pinkie." Fluttershy said. "Can I have one of those Summer Cupcakes please?"
"Oh hey Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash said. "You've got some cardboard in your mane." She pulled the two pieces of card out of Fluttershy's mane and saw that it said 'Wonderbolts Derby' on it.
"TICKETS TO THE WONDERBOLTS DERBY?!!" she shouted. "Where'd you get these, Fluttershy?!"
"Um, Spitfire gave me them yesterday." Fluttershy said. "You can have one if you want, Rainbow."
The rainbow maned pegasus held the tickets close to her chest.
"Thanks Fluttershy!! This is awesome!!" she said. "Oh, and here's your Summer Cupcake. I wish I could do something in return to thank you."
"I'm alright, thank you." Fluttershy whispered. She gave her friend the bits for the Cupcake, took it and walked out. She overheard Rainbow and Pinkie talking about something behind her.
"Hey Pinkie," Rainbow said. "Why don't you come with me to watch? Twilight can make you walk on the clouds again with her magic."
Pinkie shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, Dashie. I'll think about it. Oh look, another customer!"
Fluttershy trotted back home, holding her cupcake between her wings. She was thinking about the Derby and it was coming up in a few days. All she could think about all day after that was the Wonderbolts Derby and what she was going to do about it.
Knocking could be heard on Fluttershy's door. Fluttershy got off her puff and opened it. Spitfire was standing in front of her with the Wonderbolts flying goggles and the uniform on her back.
"Good morning, Fluttershy! Here's your stuff for tomorrow. Better get practicing!" she said as she handed over the things. "See you tomorrow, Wondershy!"
Fluttershy stared at the things in her hooves, then spotted Rainbow Dash approaching her cottage. She quickly hid the things under the puff she was laying on before. Just as she finished hiding them, Rainbow Dash landed in front of her. As the creamy-yellow pegasus turned around, she saw Rainbow standing there.
"Hi Fluttershy!" she said. "I wanted to thank you for those tickets. Here, have this." She handed Fluttershy another Summer Cupcake, this time with icing shaped like Fluttershy herself on it.
"Oh, thank you Rainbow Dash." the timid pegasus whispered.
"Hey, I saw Spitfire flying away from your cottage," Rainbow said. Fluttershy's heart started pounding. Uh oh! she thought. I need to think of something, fast!
"She was... Um... Looking for you... Yes, she was looking for you." She lied. She had to keep this a secret from anypony.
"Really?" asked Rainbow Dash, falling for the lie. "Well, I better get home then!" With that she flew away.
Fluttershy sighed in relief.
"Thank goodness for that," she whispered as she closed her front door. She turned around to see Angel there. He looked quite angry at the pegasus. Luckily he had drawn on a note pad, giving off the impression of Charades.
"You want to fly?" Fluttershy asked. The bunny shook his head.
"You want to see your friend fly?" Angel shook his head furiously.
"You want to see me fly?" Angel threw the pad in Fluttershy's face.
"Okay, okay, I know that I need to practice."
She opened the door and flew into the sky. She saw cloud rings and decided to fly through the middle of them. She was not used to the speed of the wind blowing into her face and eventually she gave up and rested on a nearby cloud. Next to her was Cotton Cloudy and Tornado Bolt, both young Pegasus fillies.
"Hey Boltie," Cotton Cloudy said. "I've got tickets to see the Wonderbolts tomorrow, wanna come?"
Tornado Bolt stayed silent as she stared at Fluttershy.
"It's--it's---it's--" she stuttered. Fluttershy had put on her Wonderbolts costume to see how well it fits and forgot to take it off.
"It's a WONDERBOLT!!" Screamed Tornado. Cotton Cloudy gasped.
"It IS A WONDERBOLT!!" Cotton shouted as well. Fluttershy was so surprised that she shot off like a rocket into central Cloudsdale.
"I can't believe a real Wonderbolt was sitting next to us the whole time!"
