Author's Note

This chapter took me a while but I love it hopefully you guys like it too also yo my boy thaabit you motivated me to finish this chapter as fast as I could so thanks

Dangerous encounters

“You okay mate, remember it's me and you on the radio today. “, Tumble said while chewing on a piece of bubblegum.

“Yeah yeah. “, Bolt said as he put on his helmet and said,

“1,2,3 you can hear this also please don't chew in the mic it's loud as fuck. “

“Got it I can hear you. “, Tumble said as he swallowed his bubblegum.

They both started walking to the field. It was peacefully quiet and that was bad for Bolt as his voice in his head was louder than normal.

Sunny's pretty, You're going to win this race. I wonder if we will see Diamond Tiara. you might die on this track.

Bolt stopped at the thought of that and Tumble looked at him in confusion.

“You okay I'm starting to get suspicious of you lately first zoning out and now just stopping dead in your tracks. “

“I'm fine mate, I'll be okay. “

They walked onto the field when they saw Starmist with a helmet and Bolt instantly dashed to her and hugged her.

“Oh Celestia you're okay. “

“A bit less on the hug it still hurts. “

Bolt broke the hug and looked at her. Her wings were in casts and so was a part of her head being deep in bandages. Her leg had a cast and she said then said with a stern voice,

“Stop admiring me, you're making me blush. “

Bolt immediately flapped his wings and snapped out of his zone of looking at Starmist.

“So you're your Misty steps radio. “

“Sure, now go your qualifying is about to begin. “

As she said this Bolt heard his favourite teacher's voice.

“OKAY EVERYPONY GET READY THERE'S ONLY 10 LEFT THIS IS THE FINAL ELIMINATIONS BEFORE FINAL PRACTICE THEN FINALLY THE TRIALS WILL BE HERE. “

Mr.W.Ares shouted and the crowd erupted. Besides Bolt he just smirked and got up for his lap as he got to go first.

You got this

He immediately started his lap, dodging the fake buildings and going extremely fast. He crossed the line with a 1.36.1

“Good lap Bolt, that's 1.36.1 your fastest mate. “

“Yesssss FUCKING YESSS COME ON. “

Bolt immediately ran to Tumble and hit his arm and they both laughed in joy. Most of the other ponies did their laps and the board for the top 3 looked like this.

1.Bolt 1.36.1
2.Misty Step 1.38.9
3.Storm keeper 1.39.1

Horizons lap was the same as the last time but with a big improvement but still 4th position with a 1.40.1.

“ALRIGHT NOW GO WARM UP FOR YOUR RACE AND BOLT PLEASE COME HERE. “, Mr.W.Ares said with a smirk and gestured to Bolt to come over. Bolt flew over to Ares and asked,

“What is it? “

“Don't think about messing up you got this chum like how I got my beautiful wife. “

Ares said as he pulled a picture of his wife out his pocket and kissed it.

“You know if you got a girlfriend you could use her pictures as a lucky charm. “

“Shut up sir I'm not getting one yet. And don't tell me that's a nude photo of PeaceBreaker. “

“OH Boy you bet it is but also. “

Ares pulled out more pictures from his mini bag around his neck and he then said,

“Oh wanna see my actual lucky charm. “

“Don't tell me it's a nude. “

Ares took off his cap and a photo was of his wife in a wedding dress.

“Trust me love is a great thing but you keep on fighting it because I can see when my team is fighting their own struggles so go stretch and remember to get yourself a lucky charm. “

Get yourself a lucky charm

Ares words stuck in his like glue. Bolt then said,

“Sure whatever you say. “

Bolt then got his hair ruffled by Ares and he then went to warm up for the race. The time was now 2:30pm. 30 minutes to the big race that Bolt was preparing for. He had a lot of time to warm up but he went to Tumble.

“You wanna win this. “, Bolt said while fistbumping Tumble

“What do you mean “me” it's all you dumbass. “

“But you are coaching. “

“And you're the one who could die doing this remember that dumbass, because you still need your Sunny Walker to walk down the isle and-”

“Okay shuttt uppp. “, Bolt groaned while looking in the crowd.

Tumble looked at what he was looking at to see it was Sunny, in a blue jacket and a pink cap.

“Look, it's your wife. “, Tumble said while nudging Bolt aggressively.

“Yeah I know.”, Bolt said while stretching out his wings before realising what he just said “WAIT SHIT I DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY THAT. “, Bolt then blushed and flapped his wings aggressively.

“Bro you don't have to be shy, it's feelings dude and you should appreciate that.”Tumble said calmly before picking up a piece of bubblegum and starting to chew on it.

“Fine I like her alot but I have to ignore my feelings for now as I need to get into the equestria games. “

“That's going to come around and bite you in the ass. “, Tumble said while chewing on a piece of bubblegum.

“Better keep that chewing off radio mate. “

“Fine but still you need to warm up. “

Tumble started Bolt's warm up session and it lasted pretty long.

“HEY Dudes. “, A familiar dragon said while carrying a light green pegasus.

“Sup and I'm guessing you gave her some serious game last night if you are carrying Hefty. “

“Oh she's fine and yes I did that. Well she is very tired, she looks like a alicorns perfection in a pegasus “

“This is disturbing to talk about in public, you guys know that right. Also that's cute adorable even“, Tumble said.

“I say it's corny, very corny. “

“Should've said to me when I told Daisy I like her. “, Messy said while he had Daisy under his arm.

“Messy you're making me blush. “, Daisy said while covering her face.

“You told me about like a few seconds ago it was cute. “

“Stilllll. “, Daisy groaned while blushing red.

The group started to laugh. Then Scribble said,

“How's the Sunny helmet you like it don't you. “

“very fucking funny Scribble I'm soooo enjoying it. “, Bolt replied to Scribble sarcastically.

“Bro i didn't even notice that, Ohhhh the dare that's how it was made. “, Messy said while laughing.

“OKAY RACERS TO YOUR POSITIONS. “, the mare announcer said.

“Okay I'll go now. “, Bolt said before putting on his helmet.

“Good luck mate. “, Scribble said while kissing Hefty on the cheek who was still asleep but the love in his eyes were like flashing lights.

“Yeah good luck with the race you got this. “, Messy said before getting kissed by Daisy on the lips, he was then blushing and she was giggling.

I want what they have.

“The fuck am I thinking about. “

“Dude what are you thinking about, remember the radio guy here. “, Tumble said to Bolt on the radio while chewing on the same piece of bubblegum.

“Can you stop with the bubblegum?! And it's nothing “, Bolt replied aggressively before going to his position on the grid.

“Yeah good luck and also yeah that journal you told me to get from Sunny I have it. “

“Thanks mate, I don't want her to get hints. “

Ares showed the first flag 3,the second flag 2, the last flag 1.

And they were off with this being a 13 lap race it was important to keep stamina but Bolt built a good gap to Misty.

“Okay keep the pace normal got it Bolt? “, asked Tumble.

“Got it. “

Bolt kept that second gap between laps 1 to 7.With nothing changing in the top 3 order Bolt didn't have to care what was happening behind him and then heard Tumble say on radio,

“Okay you are in the lead by two seconds now. “

“Nice. “

Bolt kept the lead before he felt some gusts of wind behind him.

“Horizon behind. “

“He can go fuck himself. “

Bolt increased his speed and lost Horizon.

“Good stuff Bolt he is back in P4. “

“Yeah tell whoever is being radio of him, that he is just a show pony. “

Bolt easily kept the lead from laps 8 to 11.

“Okay that's two more laps to go hammer it. “

“Yes sir”

Bolt started to use the last amount of energy in his body to finish this fast. He dodged, weaved and nearly hit a lot of corners. He then saw Horizon coming on his inside and squeezing him closer and closer to a dangerous corner.

Lap 12

“Fuck this guy honestly I would've died bro”

“Yeah, increase pace. “

Bolt increased his speed and lost Horizon again but this time he was pissed. He went fast but not enough for him to pass out from lack of energy in him left but he went onto the last lap

Lap 13

It should be simple from here.

“P1 BOLT LET'S GOO. “

“FUCKING YES LET'S GOOO HAHAH. “

“P2 IS STORM KEEPER AND P3 IS HORIZON. “

“Fuck that guy”

Bolt then flew down to the podium to claim his fake gold medal. With Storm keeper coming behind him.

“Nice job Bolt. “,

Storm(23yrs) said to Bolt. He is a full black pegasus with blinding teal eyes and his hair very grey curly and it was nearly looking like a bush.

“Bro I should say that to you, talk about an underdog story. You were basically a nobody on track. “,

Bolt said to Storm while hitting him on the shoulder. Storm took his 2nd place medal and stood on the podium. Horizon came and it was silent between the 3 of them before they were handed champagne and they knew just what to do. They immediately shook the bottles and popped the bottles spraying it on each other and we're laughing. After a short bit, they said cheers and drank some. Before getting off the podium. Bolt looked to see his friends in the distance clapping and cheering but the only thing he could think about was.

Where's Sunny

He looked in the crowd to realise that Sunny was practising shot kick before he saw her start into his eyes. Bolt instantly looked away before feeling a tap on his shoulder.

“Nice race.”, a familiar voice said.

Bolt looked behind her to see Starmist(22yrs) looking at Bolt with a bit of seductive look in Bolt's terms

“Eh yeah sure. “,

Bolt replied as he flapped his wings gently. He looked at more and snapped out of it.

“You alright. “

“You still like Horizon, right. “

“Nope, are you trying to ask me out, Bolt?“

“NO! , I'm just asking after you know the crash. “

“Oh yeah but no I don't like him. Also good luck with your trials race but other than that don't die Bolt. “

Don't die Bolt

The words stuck in his head then he felt his hair being ruffled.

“Nice job kid now go home and rest. “, Mr.W.Ares said proudly.

Bolt hugged him and went to his friends to say goodbye and separated ways from his friends but he stopped himself in the air to look at Sunny training.

“Stop staring mate, also wanna come to Diamonds pool party. It's happening tonight. “, Bumble said to Bolt.

Bolt was caught off guard by this and made a eep noise.

“Oh sure I'll be there but what time is it? “

“9pm.”

Bolt nodded and first bumped Bumble.

Bolt flew to his apartment building and since he was alone the voices came back but he couldn't listen to any of them it sounded all like a lot of stuff that happened to him in the past few days.The voices got louder and louder until he heard a voice in his said

Your going to die on this track

It was the same thing thing Bolt thought about earlier and then he heard the stallion at the front desk say,

“Oh Bolt Jackson I have a letter for you. “

“Oh okay then. “

Bolt took the letter with confusion and said,

“Thank you I guess. “

Bolt took the elevator up with this strange black letter in his hoof.

Must be for the party or something

Bolt walked up to his apartment and fell on his bed, not because he was trying to relax, it's because he was tired. He just started to lay down on his pillow and looked at the letter and looked down at the floor and put the letter down again. He was very confused and tired, his mind was spinning all around.

You love Sunny and what if this is from her… ThThat would be nice WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE NO NO NO

His wings were relaxed before he shot up and out his bed flapped his wings and blushed aggressively. He took a few breaths before he thought to himself

Why are you like this so fucking stupid ahhh but she is so….DONT YOU DARE you know she'll reject you.

Bolt sat down and decided to lie on the floor with his face now looking at the ceiling.

But I do want her to date me but will I be the right stallion for her or will I be bad for her or will I hurt her…. YoYOU won't hurt her if you don't tell your feelings. MAN FUCK YOU SHE'LL REJECT US.

Bolt smacked his face hard and decided to rip open the letter but still while lying on the floor.

It read as follows

To Bolt
Yo brother

*Bolt's thoughts
SHIT IT'S MY BROTHER

Continued to read

I wanted to say that yes I'll be coming to your trials and so see you on Tuesday. Well I do want to see you get a Mare there just kidding with you but I will have a crush on a Mare but enough of me this is about me and if you do win I'll show you something and tell you something. But see you my bro and good luck. Also if you're wondering why I know you got to the trials your races were actually streamed and there is a wonderbolt scout watching you guys and I have to say Horizon was underwhelming. So bye bro

From: Stargazer Jackson ;) good luck with the mares

Bolt looked at the letter and smiled with a bit of tears in his eyes. He looked at the clock at the time. It was 6 pm. Bolt said in his head that it was now a perfect time to bathe. Bolt made the water warm and put little mint leaves in the water to make it smell nice and fresh

Well it works to make you smell nice I think well my mom did it when I was young and I did smell nice back then so should work

Bolt got in the bath and started to relax. His mind was still filled with constant thoughts and ideas but it was more relaxed now. He just sat there and washed his hair before hearing a knock on his door. He shouted in a pissed tone.

“WHO IS AT THE DOOR. “

There was no response from his door so he took a towel and covered his chest, his hair was very flat because it was wet and he opened the door to see a familiar light blue and light purple mare wearing a black dress with her shoulders exposed and it did show a lot of skin and it has gold strings and the back and she wore black lipstick.

Fuck it's tiara

Bolt just stared at her with his wings flapping aggressively.

“Oh, someone's happy to see me~“,Diamond said to Bolt with a seductive tone.

“Oh fuck”, Bolt replied and controlled his wings and said something to Diamond while she was leaning close to his face.

“Can I go finish my bath and I'll talk to you and no I'm not happy to see you.”

“You are very spicy love but I know you crack when you're nervous~”

Diamond said this while putting her hoof on his chest. Bolt's mind was warm and all over the place. Bolt leaned in closer to Diamond's face before backing off.

“You see Bolt you crack but you deserve a mare like me and trust me you'll regret it even if you reject me tonight and you know that~”

Bolt blushed but his wings were relaxed and said,

“Fine, just let me finish my bath. “

Bolt closed the door and went to go finish his bath, his head was still fussy but he at least washed his body.

Nice decision Bolt, Diamond she's pretty hot and beautiful and cute. SHUT UP WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TOLD BUMBLE WE WERE GOING TO THIS PARTY.

Bolt put on a black suit with a gold tie because if he was literally going to be walking in with the Diamond Tiara then he could match her. Bolt walked to the door and opened it to see Diamond just sitting on the floor staring at the wall blushing.

“You okay Tiara? “

“Oh shit, yeah I am fine let's go and you look handsome Bolt and we are wearing matching nice outfit choice Bolt . “

“Thank you Tiara, now let's go. “

They started to walk to the elevator and it was silent, Bolt then took Tiara's hoof while his wings relaxed. He glanced at Tiara who was blushing a bit.

“Look who's nervous now hmm”

“Shut up Bolt I didn't think I would make it so far with you. “

Bolt laughed and Tiara just shouted back at him

“Hey you know it's not a stallion like thing to laugh at a mare. “

“You're just cute when you blush alright.”

Tiara blushed more but this time stayed quiet and Bolt just smirked at her. They went down the elevator and had to walk some more streets before making it to her house.

“Wait what is the time, Tiara?“

“We are late, it's like half past nine or something like that.”

They both walked in and the party already started.

“Wait a minute, isn't this a pool party? “

Bolt didn't feel Tiara's hoof and looked at her dressing next to him into a black bikini with gold strings.

Damn she looks pretty

Bolt then decided to take off his suit and he just wore a black swimming pants and no shirt.

“Tiara, you're starting too hard at me. “
Tiara blushed and wiped a bit of drool from her mouth.

“No I wasn't! “

Bolt just looked at her with a “You serious” face while she pouted. Bolt then took her hoof and walked her to the pool. Bolt looked around to see if any of his friends were there. He then saw Spike, Button mash, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle .

Bolt looked at Diamond like a puppy.

“Yes we will go there.”

Diamond replied before getting flung away by Bolt.

“Yoooo Bolt, you're dating Tiara?”Button mash asked while holding Sweetie Belle's hoof.

“She's my date for the night but I know she wants to date me. And you two started dating when? “

Tiara blushed and then realised what he said,

“HEY NO THAT'S NOT TRUE. “

Sweetie Belle then giggled and said,

“Darling you are surely in love with Bolt, trust me being with a sister who fell in love with every stallion that looked her no offence Spike.”

“None taken and besides I have my beautiful pegasus here with me and oh yeah Button has been dating her from when they were 16 they were just so good at hiding it no one found. “, Spike replied before kissing Scootaloo.

Bolt loved this, just being chill and with his thoughts being a bit more calmer.

“I'm going to get a drink. “, Bolt said to the group.

“Oh before you go darling. “, Diamond replied before kissing Bolt on the lips, leaving a lipstick mark on his lips.

Button mash laughed and said,

“You're basically wearing lipstick now. “

Sweetie Belle then replied seductively while holding Buttons face,

“Button mash you don't want me to say the time I put makeup on you and the one thing we tried in bed right honey. “

Button just blushed and let Bolt go.

Bolt was on his way to getting a little drink just to spoil himself a bit. He got him the drink before looking around the party, he saw by the pool that Sunny was here and she was talking to Horizon.

FUCK FUCK FUCK NO I CAN'T LET THIS HAPPEN wait why am I thinking like this I don't like her but I still want her, Diamond is just a date.

Bolt then saw Sunny and Horizon kiss in front of him. There just then his mind finally was blank and was calm. He just stood there looking at their kiss. Bolt didn't know what to say, think, do, react and how to feel.

Well she doesn't like you so just move on but why does it feel so fucking bad. You should let her do what she wants but I want to stop her.

Bolt stood very still before trying to take a step towards her, he wiped the lipstick off his face by drinking some of the beer and then with his wet lips he whipped it off. Before he saw that they both weren't in the pool they just disappeared.

Bolt walked back to the group and his face just being blank before making himself smile so no one asked him about what just happened. His group talked but all he could hear was loud sirens in his ears. He couldn't say anything, he just drank some beer while listening to them.

“Bolt you alright love? “, Tiara asked Bolt.

“Huh? Oh yeah totally. “

“Bolt what happened you were pretty silent for a hot 30 to 40 minutes. “, Spike asked while holding hooves with Scootaloo.

Bolts brain instantly thought

You want what they have, don't you? Yes I do but what's the point she's gone

Bolt looked at the floor zoning out.

“Bolt mate, you alright? “, Button asked while putting his arm over Sweetie Belle's shoulders

“I think I just need to swim, yeah like who comes to a pool party not to swim. “, Bolt said before running and jumping in the pool.

Bolt could feel the cold water against his fur, it was nice and calming. Bolt could still feel himself hating himself and all the stupid things he did, not admitting in his head that he liked Sunny, his stupid grade 8,9 and 10 decisions that made him get bullied and look like an idiot and his ability to not to stand up for himself and ask any mare out. He was an idiot and he knew it, he kept running away from problems and not fixing any of them. He just kept on focusing on himself and no one else, he wanted to be popular, cool, best at everything but was that really him.

He lifted his head above the water, gasping a bit for air. He looked around to see that there were a lot of ponies,dragons, griffins and even flipping changelings in the pool. Bolt realised that if he asked any of them, do you know who Bolt is they may recognize or not recognize him.

Bolt swam in the pool a bit before getting out of the pool and he saw Tiara handing him a towel.

“Dry up and you spent a lot of time in the pool. “

“Yeah and you spent no time in your own pool. “

“Well, makeup costs a lot of money, Bolt.”

Bolt then picked up Tiara and said,

“Well you have a lot of money now, get in. “

Bolt then threw Diamond in the pool.

“BOLT I'M SO GOING TO GET YOU FOR THIS”

“Diamond, we aren't kids anymore. “

“Yeah I know that but still you act like one. “

“And so do you. “

They both stared into each other's eyes. Bolt standing on the edge of the pool and Diamond swimming in the pool.

“Get in here. “

“What. “

Bolt then got pulled in the pool with Tiara. Bolt opened his eyes in the water and surprisingly it didn't sting, He looked at Diamond and she looked back at him. Bolt thought she was going to kiss him but she then lipped the words,

“I know what happened and I'm sorry but life doesn't always go your way. ‘

Bolt then went out of the water.

“Where are they Diamond? “

“ I know what happened but not where they went. “

“Can I leave? I'm tired of this bullshit. “

“You can leave and yes I know your pain but if you need anything you can come to me okay. “

“Yeah I got it. “

Bolt then told his friends good bye and then he heard Button said,

“Remember to tell Sunny you like her okay. “

Bolts face pulled before he turned around and said,

“Got it dude. “

Bolt put his clothes back on before walking out the front door to see Horizon smiling. Which Bolt ignored and just flew over his head making sure some leaves got in his hair.

Bolt got to his apartment fast but he didn't say anything about it, he just took the elevator up to his apartment level. Bolt got in his apartment room and fell on his bed. He thought about all his memories about him and Sunny, from the stupid ones, to the embarrassing ones, to the cute ones, to the funny ones and that one graduation picture of them together.

Bolt then felt himself crying but he didn't stop himself from crying. Bolt then just sat on his bed crying and he then said to himself.

“I love Sunny. “