Becoming Rainbow Dash

Becoming Rainbow Dash

Actually, that was a lie. I don’t step through the curtains immediately. “What about my magic?” I ask Celestia. She stiffens, her eyes widening slightly, but after a few seconds of waiting she sighs and beckons for me to come to her. I trot over to her.

“The introduction can wait for a few minutes,” says Celestia. She then tells a lone guard to tell the announcement guards to stall for a few minutes. Once the guard is gone, she turns back to me. “When I told you that you were an Alicorn, I knew you would ask me that. I had suppressed your magic at birth significantly; enough so that you could only do basic unicorn spells. The reason is because your magic is extremely powerful, equal to only one other creature in history. That creature is Discord.” BEEEEEP! All aboard the Mary Sue train! Seriously, I’m probably gonna be overpowered by the time the actual show starts. I won’t be perfect, though. “The reason that is dangerous, however, is that creatures that powerful only have to think about something for it to happen. Have you ever thought about killing somepony?” I pause for a moment, then hesitantly nod. “Well, were your magic at full strength, it would have killed them.” What? I can kill people with a thought? I can kill people… with a thought… with my magic at full? This is not good. I’m lucky that that she suppressed it at birth… “However,” says Celestia. I perk up, excited at a chance of this not happening. “I can cast a filter on your magic that makes it happen only when you do a certain action; in your case, click your tongue.” That sounds pretty cool! “However, you can’t do that all day, so you have to not do it so much, or else you’ll become obsessed with that power.” Ahh, that rings true.

“I Pinkie promise.” At Celestia’s confused look, I quickly add “Pinkie is a pony from the future who we’ve seen who has a special promise which can never be broken. Cross my heart,” I make cross motions over my heart, “Hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my- OW SON OF A-!” when at the end I stick my hoof into my eye. At this last bit, Celestia chuckles a little.

“Language, Spectra,” she chides. Oh, forgot I needed to be referred to as my ‘Princess Name’ (On second thought, it should be ‘royal name’. Princess name sounds a bit too… girly for my tastes). “And remember, you are going to be introduced to the public soon, so at least try to be a LITTLE polite. And remember, you are not eligible for ruling until you reach 12,” she says, and I’ve gotta say, she’s kinda got a point there with the politeness thing. Because the public wouldn’t take it well if their newest ruler was ‘uncouth’… Actually, I’ll be impolite to them. It makes sense. I wonder if Blueblood is there. This may seem like quite the non-sequiter (Ahh, the wonders of fake sophistication), but it’s actually because I wonder how he would treat a princess who is ‘uncouth’ (Yay for thought air quotes!) the majority of the time. “Spectra? It is time,” says the princess – actually, she’s technically my sister now, and sometime in the future my trico-ruler or whatever.

I nod. I move up to the stage and exit the curtains. At this the lights go off, and a spotlight focuses on me (Yes, there is modern day technology in Equestria. Like TVs, and all that stuff). “Heh,” I smirk. It’s time to introduce myself. “HEY THERE EVERYPONY!” I Yell. Yes, Yell with a capital Y. At this, the crowd jaw-drops. “Yeah, that’s right. I’m a filly. Who the hay cares about that anyway? I feathering hate that ponies just think I can’t do anything just because I’m a little foal. Well, I’m the new princess, Princess Spectra. And that’s all I have to say about that.” I leave, smirking at the reference at the end. I enter backstage, and see Celestia. “Hey Celestia!” I yell at her. She looks over at me. “I’m done.”

“Good. Now you may go.” I cheer.

Now I wonder, where would Blueblood be?

I grin. Today was a pretty good day, after that thing. You know, the princess introduction thing. Anyway, I played some video games (Yes, they exist in Equestria. Don’t question it), including Super Marihoof (Lame puns abound!) Sunshine. It was pretty good, to be honest. FLUDD, however? Let’s just say he’s the same as ever. I also did some racing, and right now, I’m going to see Shines. I like to call him that, mostly ‘cause it’s t- NO! BAD RAINBOW! OVERUSED JOKE! Hehehe… Sorry ‘bout that. I nearly had to make the Suited for Success joke. Anyway, it’s a cooler name than his real names.  You know, I’ve always wondered why ponies – or I guess I should say ‘we’ now, considering I’m a pony – name their children exactly what they’re gonna be when they grow up. Maybe it’s some sorta latent prophetic powers? I dunno. Anyway, I think I can see Blueblo- “Hey, you!” Yup, definitely Blueblood. I look at his cutie mark just in case… and it’s Blueblood’s star thingy anyway. I walk up to him, considering he’s looking right at me. He glares at me. “How an uncouth felon like you is an Alicorn is a mystery, but you are one, which makes you a princess. Do not expect me to follow your beck and call, even if you don’t already, because your lineage is flawed. And don’t think I’ll forget what happened last year.” What a bastard! Even if what I did last year was a tiny bit over the line… Maybe…

“Hey, you.” Blueblood glares at me slightly more. “Feather you.” He recoils, then glares at me with an even harder look.

“Any rude and uncouth filly like you is certainly of no royal blood.” He sticks his nose up into the air and walks away. Hopefully he’ll stop being a jerk to me. Eventually. Anyway, I continue walking. What was I thinking about before that? Oh yeah. Latent talent prophecies. I don’t see why that would be – WHOA WHOA WHOA! Lucky me. That I stopped, that is. I was gonna crash into Discord. I sigh.

I wonder if Discord is able to read thoughts and communicate through them. “‘Actually I can,’” comes a voice outta freaking nowhere! “‘So, I see there’s a new princess! Ahh, the wonders that the chaotic world of genetics can produce. And this voice isn’t coming outta freaking nowhere. This voice has a name, you know.”’ Shut up, Disco Dude. “‘Ooh! Nice one, Rainbow-bow! Anyway, I’ll shut up if you don’t want to go insane because Alicorns cannot be tainted by chaos. But personally, I don’t see anything wrong with being insane. You probably do though.’” Good. Anyway, I run away from there as fast as I can. Discord is kinda… weird. I mean, he just took my insult to his face and complimented it. But that’s the kinda guy he is. And yes, Discord is a male. It was obvious from his voice, just in case any of you had any doubts about that. Anyway, I’ve gotta get to Shines. Well, hopefully if this is being written as a fanfic by an alternate me, there won’t be a huge time skip right now which will cut me off like if I say Candle Jack w-

----5 Years Later----

I wake up. Ahh, these past 5 years have been so eventful. /sarcasm mode disengaged/ Seriously, it’s been boring. I mean, as a princess, it’s all ‘Paperwork’ this, and ‘Pass a legislation’ that. Even though I’m mature for my age (due to the whole reincarnation thing), they don’t need me to do that! Anyway, it seems more like a demonarchracy (yay for portmanteaus!) than a monarchy. There’s a democracy, except there are also monarchs. Actually, it’s technically a triarchy, or will be when Luna comes back! Anyway, I’m on my way to visit Twilight.

Tomorrow is the Summer Sun Celebration. I look and sound exactly like the show’s Rainbow Dash. Furthermore, it’s the 1000th year since Nightmare Moon escaped. That’s why I’m visiting her. You know, I never thought that ponies became officially adults at 12 (That’s my age, don’t wear it out). It’s almost as if Celestia expects nothing to happen.  Oh, that’s right! Nothing does happen in most of Equestria! In fact, so much nothing happens that things actually happen! Becau- “Hey, Spectra! What’re you doing here?”  I shake my head and look at the being (hey, you never know in Equestria) who talked.

“Oh, hey there Spike,” I say. “Wait, am I at Twilight’s already? And I thought I told you that you can call me Rainbow Dash!”

“Okay, okay. And yes, you’re here. I was just gonna get my present for Moon Dancer wrapped up. Wanna help?” I smile, and nod. After all, who could refuse such an awesome dragon? Oh, and since I helped raise Spike, he’s… well, let’s just say slightly more manly. And by that, I mean he’s the same Spike from the show, just slightly more like his older counterpart from ‘A Dog and Pony Show,’ except his size is about up to a pony’s head. That’s pretty big, though.

“So, where does this thing go?”

----3 minutes later----

Everything was wrapped up around a minute ago. Geddit? Wrapped up? “Hey, Dash? I’ll go now,” says Spike. He goes to the door. 3… 2… 1…

The doors burst open, and Twilight rushes in. “Spike? Spectra? Anyone?!” she yells out.

“I told you to not call me Spectra! Oh, and you ran into Spike,” I point out. Twilight looks down. She sighs.

“Okay, Dash. But I need to find something on the Elements of Harmony!” Twi yells. I sigh. I use my telekinesis to grab ‘Legends of Ponykind’. That, by the way, is the book that Twilight uses in the first two episodes to discover about the MacGuffins.

Spike shakes Twilight’s charge off, and sighs with a depressed face. “I was gonna give that to Moon Dancer…” I give him a pat on the back.

“Sorry buddy, but there’s a lesson of life you need to learn: Sh-” At my statement Twilight glares at me. Not the kind of glare which says ‘I hate you. Die,’ but the kind which says ‘Don’t say that stuff around the kid.’ “I mean, stuff happens,” I chuckle nervously.

Twilight goes back to her book, and opens it. “Elements, Elements, Elements… Aha! Elements of Harmony, see Mare in the Moon?”

“Mare in the Moon? But that’s just an old Flutterpony tale. Even if I do wanna fight her…” says Spike. Oh yeah! Did I mention Spike likes to fight now? “But anyway, I don’t think this is a danger…” he finishes.

“Mare in the Moon. Imprisoned by the princess using the Elements of Harmony on the longest day of the year, Summer Sun celebration invented to celebrate her victory over the evil Nightmare Moon, on the longest day of the 1000th year of her imprisonment the stars will aid in her escape? Dash, do you know what this means?!” says Twilight. I sigh.

“Yeah; you’re gonna send a letter to Celestia,” (or as I like to call her, CelCels) “she’ll send one back and tell you to oversee the Summer Sun Celebration,” I snark, deadpannily. As a deadpan snarker.

“That makes sense! You see, that’s where the old legends say that Nightmare Moon will show up! Spike, take a note!” yells Twilight. I do a tiny smirk. Good that Twilight figured that out. Spike takes out a scroll, and starts scribing for Twilight.

“Dear Princess Celestia, I have discovered something important, and we are now on the precibus of disaster!” Spike looks confused at the last word of Twilight.

“Preci…? Pre…?” asks Spike. Same old spike from the show.

“P R E C I B U S, buddy,” I tell Spike. He perks up and writes it down.

“Nightmare Moon is going to invade Equestria tomorrow, and plunge it into eternal darkness! It is imperative that we solve this at once!” Spike looks confused again. “Just write ‘really important!’ Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.” Spike finishes up with a dot, and breathes fire out to send it to the CelCels (she really hates that name, and that’s why I call her that).

Spike burps up the answer. "Good! I knew Celestia wouldn't doubt me!" At this, Spike starts reading the letter.

“My faithful student Twilight, you are a very smart pony,” reads Spike. At this Twilight nods, satisfied. “But you simply must reading those dusty old books!” At this, her head twitches. “Speccy,” Damn it! Celestia knows I hate that nickname! “You also need some time off of work. You need to accompany Twilight. However, you must be accompanied by a guard at all times. Lieutenant Shining Armour has offered to accompany you to this event.” Ah! So Shines is a Lieutenant right now!

The door bangs open. “Twiley! Dash! I’m here! I’ll accompany you to Ponyville.”

“What do you mean, ‘Ponyville’?” asks Twilight. Me and Shines smirk at each other. “Hey! Why am you smirking at each other?”

“My dear Twilight, I’m sending you to the Summer Sun Celebration to oversee the preparations. However, I have an even more important job for you: Make some more friends!” At this, Spike smiles. Twilight is suddenly all shy. Oh, did I mention that she’s still shy around new ponies? Well, she is.

“But I d-don’t need a-any more f-f-friends! That is, I don’t think so… I can if you want me to…” She squeaks. Oh, she’s so like Canon!Shy. Even though this may or may not be Equestria Prime… Making canon obsolete if it is.

“Actually, it’s gonna be good making new friends! I hope I meet some nice ponies here.” That was me, by the way.

The guards suddenly touch down. Twilight’s in a catatonic state, so I thank them. They fly off. Shining smirks. “Looks like today’s gonna be a pretty good day! Hey, Twiley, you should get to know some of the local ponies. Like the pink one!” Twilight approaches Pinkie Pie hesitantly, like Fluttershy would approach a sleeping dragon…

AN: Sorry to cut this off here, ponies. I just need some writers to collab on this story with me if they don’t mind. That’s why I stopped it off. Because the Pinkie from this universe is a reincarnation, like me/Dash and Rick/Shines. AND, that pony will be a self-insert of another writer from this site and will act possibly different. You can also post your pre-story lives in your own stories. That’s why I stopped it, because I need someone to take over Pinkie’s writing. Last call! Or I write it without any collabs.

See you,

Dashing Rainbow.