When a wing of Wonderbolt-wannabes challenge the Wonderbolts to a race, they mention how the Wonderbolts are a lie. For a brief moment, Soarin, head of the Wonderbolt wing, flashes back to their life from foalhood to now, remembering how they became the best through controversial means under Princess Celestia's explicit permission.

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Disclaimer: I know there is at least one other Taking Flight inspired fanfic and the writer claims he knows the backstory of the song and all that. I don't care. Let them write their story and let me write mine. Mine is based entirely off of the images I got while listening to the song a few times in the mix of my other music after moving on from Fallout: Equestria (theme of the FO:E Wonderbolts). If there are similarities with other Taking Flight fanfics, that is either concidental or they read my story and took from it. Don't tell me of the others because I have no interest in them, just like some authors don't care to see the movie(s) based off of their book(s).