Becoming Rainbow Dash

Becoming Rainbow Dash

Today is a pretty good day. It’s my first day of flight school in my new life as Rainbow Dash. I can’t wait for the series to start! On the other hand, I feel kind of weird, my gender identity still being male but gender being female. My new mum isn’t helping either, with her expecting me to be the very picture of femininity (but not showing it to anyone, even me. It’s just so obvious though). “Rainbow, dear! Breakfast’s ready!” I grumble, leaving the room.

“GOOOOD MORNIIIIIIIING RAIIIINBOOOOOOOW!” Annnd there’s the 8:00 old man express, flying at me with his wings out and legs back. I dodge, then smirk, and kick him right back in the face. “OWWWW!” he yelps, then starts crying, and says “Dear Celestia, what did I do in my past life to get a daughter so terrible?”

“In your face! I’m still 20% cooler than you, dad!” I yell out, standing bipedally triumphantly, with my wings balancing me on 2 legs. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised that Celestia put me with 2 of the most insane parents, one of them all towards me being feminine, and the other towards training me. I now know how Ichigo Kurosaki feels, with the ambushing dad. “Oh, and coming, mum!” I walk down to the kitchen. Mum's there, and she looks up at me.

"Oh, hello, dearie. I've got breakfast," she says. I sit down near the table on my flank, and get the food. It’s toast (I learnt ponies have no problem eating toast in my first few years), so I take the toast in my hoof and put it in my mouth. You see, there’s some kind of magic which allows non-unicorns to hold things properly. That’s why you see the pegasi in the show holding things normally and such. While I’m eating, mum says “I got you an invitation to a fabulous school! The Canterlot Academy for gifted ponies!” Once she says that, I do a spit take.

“Wha-bu-how?” I say, stuttering. Okay, for those of you not in the know (which is pretty much everypony), the Canterlot Academy for the gifted is a place where the top gifted ponies from all over Equestria go to learn and study. That’s where Twilight went, her being a year older than me due to her school starting at the Sonic Rainboom day and all, before she became Celestia’s apprentice, as the school has three branches, one of them being Princess Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns. “I mean, the qualifications for that are to either be extremely intelligent, or to have performed some sort of feat to do with magic or flying, and I’m pretty sure I’m neither of those things,” I say, regaining my composure.

Mum scoffs. “Dear, you did a Sonic Rainboom last year. And you’re six years old, yet have a… what’s that word again…” she starts muttering, saying stuff like ‘tip of my tongue,’ and the like. “Ah, yes! Yet you have a vocabulary which is more extensive than some stallions or mares. I think that, dear, would qualify you for both of those categories. OH! I forgot! You look horrible! We must go out and get a dress!”

“NO!” I yell. “NO! DRESSES! AND! THAT! IS! FINAL!” I can almost feel a black alicorn on the moon sneeze, and chuckle in my head.

“Nonsense, darling! You simply must wear a dress, I say!” She then drags me to her dressmaking area (I don’t know how she makes dresses with her hooves, although I have some ideas. Don’t question it.) and starts measuring me. I groan. Did I remember to mention that, aside from the mane, lack of a horn, inclusion of wings, and cutie mark, she’s almost completely like Rarity? Well, she is.

“Nope! Nothing is small enough or is your colour! Wait… maybe… my final dress…” she brings out the dress, which I won’t bore you with descriptions and instead just say it was rainbow coloured. Nice taste in colours, as in my opinion, as a fan of the previous G4 dash (you know, the one before her soul was redirected, I found out I’m an alternate universe version of her, and I got sent to her body? I still don’t know how the alternate universe version of her works, though) even if it’s a dress. She fits it onto me and it fits perfectly. I grumble. If mum wouldn’t whine at me if I didn’t wear this (and trust me, her whine is even worse than Rarity’s), I wouldn’t. “Oh, and did you know that we’ve been officially proclaimed Second-tier Royalty by the Princess?” My head whips around at mum.

“…You’re kidding, right?” I say. When she shakes her head, I groan. “So WHY exactly did C- the Princess make us royalty?” She sighs dreamily, and starts explaining.

“Well, the first reason is because you were the first non-alicorn to do a Sonic Rainboom! I’m still proud of you for that!” She goes to smother me with kisses, but I pull away. Ugh… I wish I didn’t have to be a girl in this life… But being Rainbow Dash makes up for that, so what am I saying? “The second is because you turned in that dreadful criminal, and saved that wonderful little girl after that!” Ah, she must mean when I first met Scootaloo! I remember the first day I saw her kind and innocent little face, even if she was traumatized… Oh yeah, FLASHBACK TIME!

----Flashback----

“YES! I’ve done it! The Sonic Rainboom!” I dance, remembering what happened yesterday. I’m in a walk in the streets of Cloudsdale Shades, the place where I live, and where the most evil pegasi in the land live, aside from my family, who are angelic. I hear a little muffled whimper. I look in where it’s coming from, and see that in there, there’s a stallion holding a knife in his mouth and a filly who looks awfully familiar, with those tiny wings, and that lavender mane, and the tan coat- wait… That looks like Scootalo! Oh, no. I’ve never met her before now, and I like her. It seems like this man… Memories of ‘A Fun Day’ are coming back to me extremely fast. I read the MSTed fic, and I couldn’t bear it even then. THAT is why I would never want Scootaloo hurt or abused. I hope the evil man who wrote that story will burn in hell AND Tartarus, even if he was drunk. Anyway, Scootaloo’s hogtied, with a handkerchief tied around her mouth. I never knew how Rainbow and Scootaloo met… I dash into the room, hiding in the corner. I look around, and that guy is laughing evilly.

“Soon, you will die, Scootaloo, filly, for what your parents once did to me!” If there was ever any doubt about it, then it was quashed by this sentence (What does quashed mean anyway? It just seems like it’s a rich pony’s squashed). I zoom out of the corner, and hope dawns on Scootaloo’s face. She looks like she’s about to yell out, but I put a hoof in front of my mouth, and get back to untying her.

“Run,” I whisper to her. She smiles, and runs. At the sound of the clops of her feet, the stallion turns around, and anger starts to appear on his face.

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! I’VE WANTED TO GET REVENGE ON HER PARENTS ALL THESE YEARS, AND FINALLY KILLED THEM AND WAS ABOUT TO KILL HER!” After this he laughs insanely. “I would never have had to kill them if they didn’t refuse to buy my watch! That drove me to kill many ponies, and finally get to them! But YOU decide to come in and foil my plans! I’ll kill you now!” He says, still laughing insanely. I dash around him, and bonk him in the back of the head. He spins a few times, and then faints. The physics of worlds like these tend to happen in the most disturbing of circumstances…

“Thank gosh I got that bastard,” I breathe under my breath (Repetition, much?). I pick him up, and decide there’s only one place for him to go.

----Flashback Canterlot----

I burst in through the doors of the castle. “Princess Celestia!” Sure enough, she’s on her throne, with Twilight Sparkle doing her work at a place near her. “Thank gosh you’re here! I saved a pony from this insane pony, and then knocked him out to bring him to you! And apparently, he’s… murdered… somepony…” I say, just recently noticing my tiredness.

I’m hearing some voices, now. “…She alright? …better…was.” Everything becomes clear, then I wake up properly. There’s some doctors above me, one of them being tall, thin and having a cutie mark of a red cross, that one standing out the most. They’re looking at me. I then remember what happened. That criminal! I get up, and try to bolt to the throne room, but I’m stopped by Celestia, who is already there. Huh. Didn’t see her there…

“What is your name?” asks Celestia patiently.

“The name’s Rainbow Dash, the fastest pony in all of Equestria!” I boast. Of course, it’s not really boasting, since it’s true that I’m the fastest pony as far as I know… oookay, maybe I should stop this now, because I’m kind of starting to sound like the ‘GREEEEAAAT and POWWWEEERRRFUUUL Trrrixie!’ with these conceited thoughts. I then say hastily to the princess, trying not to offend her, “Uhh, aside from your majesty, of course.” Because it would save face to not be arrogant, you know. Celestia has an amused look on her face. “Oh, and remember that Sonic Rainboom yesterday? I was the one who did it,” I say, with a smug look on my face. “Oh, and what happened to the guy I brought in?” I ask, curious.

“He was a wanted criminal in all of Equestria. Your family, and you, will be rewarded for this,” says Celestia, a mysterious smile on her face. Ookayy, so I’ll be rewarded for it? That’s not completely vague at all. “But for now, I think you should get back to your family. They are worried about you,” she continues. I blink. Oh darn it! I run for the door, go through the corridors, bumping into some people on the way-hey is that Twilight Sparkle-and reach the outside, after which I fly up high, start flying down at an incredible speed, do the Rainboom, and speed back home.

----Flashback Over----

And that’s how I met Scootaloo, did my second Sonic Rainboom early, saw Twilight Sparkle, and saved Equestria from a criminal. By the way, summer flight camp is a pre-school thingy for pegasi to teach them the basics of flying and weather manipulation.

“ Anyway, dear, I just got word from Canterlot that the term starts soon!” mum says, excited. I grumble. Hopefully it’ll be over just as fast.

A/N: Hey there peeps! Thanks for the reviews, and I edited the first chapter a little. If it wasn’t obvious, though, Celestia didn’t know me/Dash. My explanation is that that Celestia was from the future, and went back in time, not causing a time paradox, to get the new Rainbow Dash recruited. Me/Dash already suspected this, however, and that’s why he/she wasn’t surprised about Celestia not knowing him/her. Also, you don’t really think Celestia would just have an academy for unicorns only, would you? That’d be almost downright racism, and anyone who said she was racist who liked bananas would become a beeyotch who likes bananas on the moon who said Celestia was racist. Also, the life cycle of the ponies in this story, who are a species of horse named Equus Sapiens Sapiens, is that they live up to the same age as humans, except for alicorns, of course, who are immortal, but start school at 6, and finish at 12, where they are then considered legally adults. Also, the mane characters are these ages: Applejack is 13 and 9 months old, Rainbow Dash/me is 12, Twilight is 13, Pinkie is 11 and 6 months under the Cakes’ apprenticeship, Fluttershy is 12, and Rarity is 16, considerably older than the rest to account for her more mature behaviour than most of them and older voice. The CMCs are 9 years old each. I believe I have been rambling, but I’ll be able to stop in 10. Seconds. Flat. Seeya next time!