In The Beginning Part 1

After the meeting with Madam Krystal, White Knight and the girls head out to meet with another of White Knight's friends. This time they are about to meet the soon to be keeper of the element of Honesty: Solara otherwise known as the Mare of the Flame. Before they could meet Solara, White Knight warns Celestia to be honest when she's around Solara. Solara is a very unique Earth pony, she can tell whether anypony is telling the truth or not and this is how; Whenever a pony tells the truth, she can feel the warmness in them and whenever a pony lies she can feel the cold, chilling sensation in them. She can also feel the warmness and coolness in her whenever she tells the truth or whenever she lies, so when they do arrive, they have to be completely honest. And even if they were to tell a little white lie, Solara can still feel a slight chill from the pony who lies. Now, before they could even go meet the Mare of the Flame, White Knight starts talking about Solara from when she was young and from the first day she and White Knight met.

Way before Solara was young, she was always adventurous and outgoing almost all of the time, she would never stay put in one spot for more than one measly minute. She enjoys traveling to different places, doing all sorts of daring things and meet new ponies along the way. However, there was always one little flaw with Solara, she would stand out on the crowd, there were always these other ponies teasing her for being different and one day these three ponies were treating her awfully because she was so different. Then only then she had started to get angry, the flames were starting to ignite because she can feel the heat within them.

Ignited with jealousy, causing her to ignite with anger and then as she was about to fight them, White Knight stepped in to stop her from doing so and tell the other ponies to back off and leave her be. Solara was still upset at them and at White Knight for having to interfere with the fight and telling the other three to leave, she even told him; "Why would you interrupt me like that, I was about to take on those jerks for teasing me like that! This doesn't even involve you in anyway, so why would you intervene?"

"I only intervened, to protect those boys... and to protect you. You have a special gift, however it can be seen as a threat to others and you shouldn't let anypony like them treat you like that, it's not nice really. And you should know that they only tease you like that because they're jealous of you, some ponies often are to others." Replied the White Knight.

After hearing that, Solara felt the warmness inside White Knight's heart, she knew that he was telling the truth and for that, she believed him. After that, the White Knight asked her if she wanted to join him and climbing up the mountains and of course she took him up on that offer, so the two went climbing on the mountains, she even challenged him to see which pony would get up first. They were climbing real quickly, Solana was so determined to get their first before White Knight would, and then as she finally got to the top, she was sure that she had won the challenge, she had given it her all and then she jumped to the top. She was excited, but then she heard a voice from behind her and then as she turned around and saw the White Knight on the highest platform of the mountain. She couldn't believe her eyes, she wanted to know how he got to the top so quickly, she was sure that she made it first before White Knight did. Then White Knight jumps down to the platform that Solana was on and tells her;

"Oh, come now. It's not about winning, it's about fun when it comes to competitions. How I got up here is of no matter."

After that, Solara and White Knight went down to the ground and had themselves a little picnic and were discussing things back and forth, they were having a good time and what not and then White Knight starts to teach her about self-control, especially whenever she starts to get angry, because that anger of hers is a real problem. So he tries almost everything to make sure that her anger stays in check and of course he tells her that if she's ever going to use her anger, she can only use it whenever White Knight or her friends are in trouble. Then she tells White Knight that she doesn't have any friends, and the White Knight replies; "Not yet, anyway." and then he gave her a quick smile. And then, right after he left, she was also happy, she was sure that she'll make friends one day and that she had already made one. And right out of nowhere... her cutie mark had appeared and it appears to be a yin-yang like cutie mark. The red part meaning the fire that she can feel, and the blue part meaning the ice that she tends to avoid feeling. Believe it or not, Ice is her only weakness and of course the more cold she feels, she freeze up and never be thawed unless somepony was there to comfort her in warmth with friendship and love.

After White Knight had finished his story with how he met Solara and how special she can be, Celestia was really impressed about her, including Twilight Sparkle most of all. After hearing her special talent, she had to meet this mare of the flame. As they finally arrive into the open fields, all they have to do was wait for Solara to show up, Celestia is still a little nervous about rather Solara can actually tell whenever a pony is lying or not, then the White Knight tells her that she has nothing to worry about at all and that they just need to be honest is all. Then finally, Solara shows up from out of nowhere, she was really happy to see the White Knight after so long, they gave each other hugs and White Knight started to introduce Solara to young Celestia and baby Luna.

Solara starts her introduction with; "Nice to meet you two, I'm Solara, also known as the Mare of the Flame. Feel free to ask me anything, I promise I won't lie. As long as you promise not to lie to me."

Then after the introductions, the White Knight starts to ask Solara if she can join him on a little something that involves her and the other four, he wants her to play a role and she's wondering what kind of a role is White Knight trying to get her to play. White Knight wanted to give her the full story, but he wants her meet up with in the next three days in an old hut located in the neck of the woods so that she'll be able to get a full story later. She wasn't sure if she wanted to join or not, but the White Knight insist on getting her to join and that what he's doing will change the world for the better. As she was hearing him out, she knows that he speaks the truth, so she tells him; "Three days. Give me three days to think this through okay?" After that White Knight decided to take her answer as a maybe. Afterwards, she decides to take off because she's late for another session with a few other friends of hers and as for White Knight and the gang, they proceeded to find their fourth soon to be keeper of the elements.

If they plan to meet with the fourth soon to be keeper, they would have to fly up to the skies and into the cloud kingdom to find the soon to be keeper of the element of Loyalty. Celestia asks White Knight that she's not ready to fly up to the skies just yet, but the White Knight trusts that she'll be fine and plus he'll be right on by her side no matter what, so if she started to fall, then White Knight will be there to catch her before she falls. And so as baby Luna is on White Knight's back, both White Knight and Celestia start to fly up in midair, she was still a little afraid and getting used to her wings, but as she was focusing on White Knight, she had nothing to be afraid of anymore. So they both were starting to fly up to the Cloud Kingdom, but before they could even get any higher, White Knight notices that the pony he's looking for is already on the ground. Afterwards they both gently landed on the ground and walked towards the Pegasus pony.

"Hey hey hey. If it isn't the Blue Flash, how's life in the Pegasus royal army and uh, what brings ya down here... and what happened to your wings?" Said the White Knight.

The Blue Flash replied; "Oh, hey. It's you, White Knight. What brings you here?" Thinking that he can quickly change the subject like that, but of course the White Knight is still stuck on the subject on why Blue Flash has fake wings. So Blue Flash has no choice but to come clean with the White Knight about what's going on from where it all began.

As it turns out, the Blue Flash was exiled from the Cloud Kingdom due to disobedience, apparently he was told to stay put in case anything were to happen then they'll call for him, but his good friend was already out there in battle and losing. All he could care about was his good friend, even though he was loyal to the royal Pegasus army, he would rather go out there to save his friend and the other fallen troops than having to stay put and wait to be called into battle. So he just rushed out there to save them and take out the opposition, what he did was heroic however... to his commanding officers it was an act of rebellion. But to the Blue Flash, it was an act of true loyalty, he would never leave his friends out there hanging, so he did what he had to do because it was the right thing to do. Unfortunately for Blue Flash, there were consequences for his actions; with the help of the Unicorns and their magic, they used a spell to extract Blue Flash's wings so that he will have no need to fly anymore and then, the Pegasi council has decided to banish Blue Flash from the Cloud Kingdom and onto the ground. where he can live the life of a Earth Pony.

After his banishment, Blue Flash had to face the facts that he doesn't have his wings anymore so he can't go back to the skies, he was upset that he was kicked out and now that he has no home to go back to, he has to find new home else where. During his time on the ground, Blue Flash had been walking nonstop for at least three days, he was really sad that the council had to clip his wings and what's worse for him, is that he can't go see his family, his friends and the one he loves waiting for him to come home. Then, three weeks after going through such tragedy because of what he had done, he finally decides to clear his mind of his past and fight back. So he starts to draw different wing designs on the dirt, Blue Flash plans to make himself a new set of wings, just so he can go back to Cloud Kingdom only to see his wife one last time.

So, he spends his day and night, just finding the materials he needs to make himself some prosthetic wings just for him, and hopes that they'll be able to work for him, that's why he tends to make as much of them in order to find out which one works better. And while he's creating his new wings, he was going through his flashbacks of when he was young.

The flashback starts off with Blue Flash when he was young, looking up to his father; the commander of the Royal Pegasus army; the Blue Storm. Then it moves up when little Blue Flash and White Knight having their odd meeting, then Blue Flash when he was a teen, ready to leave home to serve the army, telling his mother goodbye and promises her that he'll return. After that it moved up when he met his first friend in the army; Hurricane, and then when he met the mare that he fell in love with. Afterwards, his first prosthetic wings were finally finished and has decided to give them out for a test drive, the first test didn't work out so well, but he did go back to the drawing board. After explaining his situation to the White Knight, White Knight helps him out.

"You know, I could help you get back your wings." Says the White Knight.

"How can you help, exactly?" Replied Blue Flash.

White Knight then tells Blue Flash that he is going to go see another friend of theirs and the last soon to be keeper of the elements of Harmony. Blue Flash starts to wonder which of his friends that White Knight is about to go see; Well, I'm about to go see our good ol' friend; Merlon. says the White Knight.

"Merlon... Merlon Magic? That insane Unicorn Sorcerer? No way, White Knight. That pony is trouble."

And of course, the White Knight decides to take his chances anyway and head over to the caverns to find Merlon Magic, however he wants Celestia and Luna to stay put and wait for his return. But Celestia doesn't want to stay put, she wanted to go to the Caverns with White Knight, although White Knight would argue with Celestia about this, he then decides to let her to come with her, but she has to stay close with White Knight and not get separated. Blue Flash didn't want to go with them so he decides to take off, then White Knight informs Blue Flash that he'll be back to tell him about his offer and Blue Flash will be waiting. So for right now, White Knight, Celestia, Luna and Twilight Sparkle head out to the caverns the find the "insane unicorn sorcerer;" Merlon Magic.