Becoming Rainbow Dash

Becoming Rainbow Dash

Everything is quiet for a few seconds. Then, I start to chuckle. Soon, the chuckle turns into full-blown laughter. “Did you really,” I wheeze in between laughs, “think I would… fall for that?” I mean, seriously, this is probably all a prank. “Such a stupid… prank?” I then see the look on Celestia’s face. It’s not a laughing look. I immediately stop laughing. “It’s… not a prank?” Celestia shakes her head.

“No, this is not a prank. It is far more serious than that.” Woah, I’ve only ever seen Celestia so serious once before, and that was when she told me about Discord. Wait… if I’m an Alicorn, where is my horn? “You may be wondering where your horn is. Actually, it has been there all along, just invisible to the eye, as it is extremely tiny due to a spell I cast on there when you were born, and cannot be touched due to a phasing spell. Just let me remove the spells…” she says. Her horn glows… and I don’t feel any different. “Feel your forehead,” instructs Celestia. I reach my hoof up to my forehead. It stops, and I feel something that wasn’t there before. A horn.

My eyes light up with joy. “SO AWESOME!” I say, making the famous /^3^\ face. Since I’m an Alicorn, I should be awesomely powerful! And I’m probably the god of something… maybe weather. All the Alicorns I’ve seen are gods, Celestia of the sun, Luna of the moon, and Cadance(or Cadence, I can never get the right one) of love. Also, I’ll be… immortal… Oh Tartarus. Being immortal means I outlive my own family, and sisters… and Scoots. Oh Alicorn… Alicorn darn… Wait, someone’s shaking me. I shake my head, and notice it’s Twilight who’s shaking me.

“What’s wrong, Rainbow?” she asks. I shake my head. She probably wouldn’t understand, but I’ll tell her what’s wrong anyway

“I’m immortal, Twilight. That means I’ll outlive almost everypony I know. That means while you grow old, I’ll still stay like this for years.” Actually, she’ll grow old except if the Elements of Harmony make her immortal, which is a possibility. That way, we can all live to the same age. Hmmm… should I ask about Alicornal biology? Yeah, I probably should. That way, I’d know what things would be like. “Hey, Celestia? Could you give me a crash course on Alicornal biology?

“Of course, Rainbow Dash,” says Celestia. “Well, first you need to understand that Alicorns are completely different from the pegasi, so forget everything about pegasi biology, except for,” and at this she blushes, “the wing pomfing.” I chuckle. She continues, however. “Now, Alicorns are a lot more endurant than all other races of ponykind, other than the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, who can endure the same amount of punishment as Alicorns. Also, all Alicorns have a special gene in their biology which depicts the Alicornal relationship between them and other Alicorns. You see, Luna, my sister who became Nightmare Moon, and I are not biological sisters, but we are Alicornal sisters. That means that the special gene indicated the two of us as sisters. When you were a baby, I checked your Alicornal gene, and it turns out your gene marks you as our Alicornal sister.” I groan. This sounds really corny. Like something from a cheap fanfic. Actually, somewhere in the multiverse this is probably being written as a fanfic. Anyway, she continues droning on about Alicornal biology, with her words being “Alicorns also have extremely high-level immune systems, so they cannot get sick, and photographic memory, which helps them remember everything they’ve seen, except for some specific times, such as birth.” Huh. That explains why I can remember everything so clearly, and the reason I remember my birth must be ‘cause I’m a reincarnation. “Only reincarnations can do that, and I know that there are two in this very room.” Two? As far as I know, I’m the only reincarnation in this room, but I also know that this Celestia shouldn’t know about me being reincarnated. Twilight is confused, while I try to act confused while panicking, but fail, and panic, looking around the room in frenzy. While I’m panicking, I notice Shining also panics… does this mean he’s the other reincarnation?

This has gone on long enough, though. I sigh, and for some reason Shining also sighs. At the same time. Yeah, like there were enough clues that he was the other reincarnation already! “How did you find out?” we both say, at exactly the same time to Celestia.

“I found out about you,” she gestures to Shining, “when you told me about something that you probably would have known, if you had been there at the time. It was telling me about how you think Twilight’s exam went and the things she did the day after she joined, when in actuality, you could have never known that, as her parents did not send a letter to you until the day after that, and you only saw Twilight the day you got the letter. As for you,” she points at me, “my future self informed me about you. So please explain how you knew that information, Shining?”

“Well…” Shining says, obviously a bit shocked by being found out, “in my past life, I was a fan of a show which showed this world’s happenings, and-“

“Brony or Pegasister?” I ask, interrupting him. He looks at me, then shrugs and responds.

“Brony,” he says. “I’m guessing you were from the same world?” I nod. “So were you a Brony or a Pegasister?” he asks.

I grumble. “Guess,” I say, with a look on my face saying how I feel (which is annoyed). He thinks for a minute, then starts chuckling. Soon it turns to full-blown laughter.

“You-” he says, in between laughter, “You were a- a brony? That is just…” He laughs even harder.

“Like you know what it’s like to be a female after being years of a male… not to mention having WINGS,” I grumble, my face in a look of exasperation

Celestia is confused to say the least. “‘Brony’? ‘Pegasister’? What do those terms mean?” I look at Shining. He looks at me. He pouts. DARNIT, WHY THE HAY DO PONIES HAVE TO HAVE SUCH CUTE FACES?! I sigh, my eyes half-lidded.

“‘Brony’ is a colloquial term describing older males with an interest in... uhh... watching this world through magic," I lie, out of my teeth, "in our previous world. ‘Pegasister’ is the colloquial term for a female.” I sigh, hoping that that explained it to them. Twilight, however, is starting to giggle. “Anything wrong, Twilight?” I snark, looking at her.

“This explains why you were always looking at the mares in the garden!” she says, bursting into laughter. WHY is everypony so insensitive to my plight?

“Imagine that you suddenly, unknowingly, transformed into a stallion after years of your life!” She suddenly goes quiet, and emits a squeak. I scowl. “Would you still act the same if that happened?!” After a bit of thinking, she nods her head, retreating into her mane. Oh, darn it! I scared her. I forgot that when Twilight is scared, she acts like the Fluttershy from the show. She taps her hoof on the ground, squeaking, and looks away. I smile awkwardly. “Hey, Twilight? I’m sorry about scaring you.” She looks at me for a second, and then goes out of her mane a little bit.

Then, she says “I f…ve…u,” very quietly. I know that means I forgive you. I could pick out the basic syllables.

“Anyway, I have not told you everything about Alicorns yet, SISTER,” interrupts Celestia, with her trademark trollface and everything. “As an Alicorn, you have many responsibilities, especially since you have become a princess due to a particularly obscure law, right in the back of the book of laws next to the law saying ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism is illegal in Equestria,’ saying that ‘All Alicorns are immediately made princesses or princes depending on their gender.’ This law may be slightly weird, but imagine that you had all sorts of laws like that. Also, Alicorns have alternate names to their original names. This is so they can tell ponies their real, or birth name, while still being a princess.” After a minute of thinking, I have an idea. I whisper something into Celestia’s ear, and she nods, almost imperceptibly, and says “Alright, so you shall take the name of ‘Spectra’?”

“Yup!” I nod, excitedly. I mean, it sounds awesome! However, I dunno what Celestia thinks about this anyway… “So when am I introduced to the public?”

“Tomorrow, at noon. Now, I just have one last thing to say to the three of you, this time concerning Twilight.” At this, the other two stop talking to each other, and start listening to Celestia. “Twilight, you have much potential in magic, but if you do not keep it under control, it could backfire, in a potentially deadly manner. Many mares may meet me and ask any way how they can stop this. The only way is through control of your magic, and not overexert yourself.” So, if Twilight ever overdoes magic, she might die? There’s only one thing I can think to that. Well, shit.

“We are done here. You may go and gallop off to whatever you’re doing,” says Celestia. I pump my fist… hoof… WHATEVER! The point is, I’m excited.

We’re out of the building, and Shining comes up to me. “Hey, dude,” he says. I nod.

“Hey, Shines.” He stares at me. “Hey, what? I couldn’t just come up with an awesome name for you.” Mostly because I’m reserving those for other ponies… “I’ll call you that if you don’t tell me your past name,” I snicker. He scowls at how I’m trying to… ‘Persuade’ him (Blackmail is a stupid word, anyway. Who would wanna mail something black to someone? What’s the etymology for that stupid word, anyway?).

He looks conflicted for a few seconds, then answers. “It was Rick.” When he says that name, I struggle to not laugh. Oh, Celestia, please don’t crack up, please don’t… I crack up. Rick! I mean, such a stupid name! It makes me remember the rick roll!

“I think I like Shining Armour better than,” I struggle to stop myself from laughing, “Rick.” He glares at me. “Sorry, dude, I just can’t help it!” I say, still stopping myself from cracking up. Wait a second… “Why is your name Shining Armour when your parent’s last names are Sparkle? Unless… Armour is your middle name?” He looks away, embarrassed. I burst out into laughter again. “Oh, Shining Sparkle! I can’t believe that your name is Shining Sparkle! Haha, this is priceless!”

He glares at me. “You can stop making fun of my name now. Oh, and I wonder what your past name was, Dashie,” he says. I grin.

“Sure! I’ll tell you! It’s more awesome than ‘Rick’ at least!” I snicker. He scowls, then waits expectantly. “It was *****.”

“Wait, what? But that means-” I nod. “Really? I would’ve expected somebody else to have that name… Anyway, what’s it like being female?”

I reply with “Yes, I know, I know, to the first, and it’s not really too different from being male, except that, you know, your ‘Bishop’ isn’t there… Anyway, friends?” I ask, putting my hoof out.

“Friends,” he smiles, putting his hoof out. Rather than just shaking it like he expects me to, I bump his hoof twice with one of mine while hitting my chest, or abdomen, or whatever the official pony definition is, with the other. You know, like in that live-action show Community? He smiles, and goes along with it.

“RAINBOW!” I hear Celestia calling. “It is time!” I groan.

“Well, see ya, I gotta go introduce myself to the ‘Sophisticated poshlings of Canterlot,’” I snark, getting a laugh out of him. You know, he’s a pretty cool guy, now that I’ve got to know him a little. I fly off, to Celestia. I wave to the gardener, who’s a unicorn pony (That donkey who looked like the gardener in the ‘Best Night Ever’ episode can also be seen in the background at the start of ‘The Ticket Master’ episode). I see all the awesome plants and trees and animals. Finally I get there, and sigh. “I’m ready,” I groan. Celestia nods almost imperceptibly, but not TOO imperceptibly, otherwise I would have caught it.

“Go on,” she beckons to the curtains there, which are in front of a stage. I start moving towards there, but before I go through, she says quietly “And good luck.” I take a deep breath, and step through the curtains.

AN: Finally, I’ve finished this chapter. I’m sorry, I get distracted kinda easily, but now it’s all done, but not necessarily dusted. Hopefully it went a little slower than my other, previous chapters of fics went, so I’d like you to be brutally honest about it. The reason I write these fanfics isn’t because I wanna be well known, by the way (although I kinda do), but rather for fun. Even though I do want to be well known. Also, any nitpickers who think that ponies say only “Everypony” and the like, they also say “Someone”, as AJ does in Winter Wrap-up song, and “Somebody”, like Rainbow in ‘A Bird in the Hoof’. Oh, and three things: one, I’d like some volunteers to write portions of this story about themselves as the reincarnated mane six then submit them to me (except for twilight, of course, since she already has an established personality), and have me judge the best which I like and they can work on this story with me, and have other people write other fics about Celestia doing this to them, causing this be a mini-verse or something like Chess Game of the Gods. And two, Rick is my OC, not anyone I know or anything, so you can be forgiven if you think otherwise. Finally, three: Could someone please post a better name for this in the comments? I’ll choose the one I like the most. Anyway, see you next time on this fic!