Prismatic Wish

"Ow oh come on," Rainbow complained as she got up from the bush she landed in. All day she had been practicing a new trick that she had made herself but so far each attempt ended up with her landing in a bush or a tree. The next audition for the Wonderbolts was only two weeks from today and she needed to make sure that she was at her best if she wanted to finally join them. She had been trying to join them her whole life and was still confused about why they hadn't accepted her in yet. She was the fastest flier in all of Equestria and the only one to do a Sonic Rainboom, why wasn't that enough?

She soared right back in the air only to land in a tree a few seconds later. "How am I having so much trouble performing a trick that I made?" Rainbow yelled out  in frustration. "What else can go wrong?"

"Hey Rainbow Dash," Three voices said in unison causing Rainbow to facehoof.

"I just had to say it didn't I?" She mumbled while landing on the ground. She looked at the three crusaders who were beaming at her with their usual smiles that meant they wanted something from somepony to get their cutie marks. "What do you three want? I'm kinda busy right now."

"Could you help us with something? We need someone really fast to help us test how good we are at aiming at moving targets," Applebloom explained.

"Yeah, we're gonna get our cutie marks in archery," Scootaloo said.

"With arrows that aren't sharp on the end," Sweetie Belle added.

"Archery? Don't you need a way to carry bows to do that?"

"We thought of that so we went to talk to Wheeljack and he fixed us some archery equipment that we can use," Sweetie explained.

Wheeljack, I'm going to strangle you for this. "Ask Pinkie Pie, I'm busy."

"She's helping the Cakes with some projects they're working on while foalsitting Pound and Pumpkin," Sweetie explained.

"What about Applejack or Big Mac?"

"They're busy working on the farm," Applebloom explained.

"What about... um..." Rainbow was running out of ideas to get out of this so she could practice her trick but she knew they wouldn't leave her alone unless she gave them a good reason.

"Please Rainbow Dash, we really want to get our cutie marks and you're the only pony we haven't asked yet. Please?" Scootaloo asked.

"Well I would but I... have to... feed Tank. I just remembered that I haven't fed him yet so maybe some other time."

"But isn't he at Fluttershy's cottage like he usually is?" Sweetie asked confused.

Horseapples, how am I gonna get out of this? I can't use Tank as an excuse and they know that no one else is helping me with anything. Think Dash think.

"If you don't want to, you can just say so," Scootaloo said with her ears down as she started walking away with her two friends following.

Something about the way Scootaloo had said that made her heart ache a bit. Rainbow let out an aggravated sigh. "Okay fine I'll help you."

Scootaloo immediately stopped and looked back at Rainbow Dash with twinkling eyes. "Really? You will?!"

"Yeah I'll help but not until I finish practicing my new trick for the Wonderbolts audition which I would like to have peace and quiet while I'm doing it."

"No problem Rainbow Dash. I won't make a single noise," Scootaloo promised as she sat down ready to watch her idol practice until Applebloom bit her tail and started dragging her away.

"I think she means that she wants to practice with no one around," Sweetie explained to the now pouting filly.

As soon as they were out of sight, Rainbow Dash sighed in relief. "Now I can practice once again in peace." She instantly went back into the sky, zooming left to right, doing barrel rolls and flips all over. I do feel kind of bad for having to blow them off like that but I need to practice for the auditions, not help three fillies with something that won't even help them get their cutie marks. Scootaloo is pretty cool I guess even though she can be a little creepy sometimes with the whole idolizing me and stuff. And why did my heart hurt when she was sad? It's probably nothing. But she, Sweetie, and Applebloom do get a lot more time to do fun stuff like that archery thing they were talking about. I wish that I could be a kid again so that I could relax more and do awesome stuff all day.

After she thought this, she saw in the corner of her eye a purple light flying towards her. Just as she turned to look at what it was, it had hit her and sent her crashing onto the ground in pain. She simply laid there for a few seconds screaming in pain until the world around her turned black.

"Where is Lady Rarity?" A muscular grown up Spike questioned a menacing dragon quaking in terror of Spike's greatness.

"She is in the highest room in the tallest tower. Please have mercy on me," The dragon begged as Spike flew to the tower finding his beloved waiting for him.

"Oh my dear Prince Spike. I knew you would come."

"Nothing could ever keep me away from you my beautiful," He said as he leaned in for a kiss. Just before their lips met...

"For buck's sake!"

Spike jumped right out of his bed in fear from the loud outburst from Twilight outside of the treehouse. "Note to self, get earplugs to drown out Twilight during nap time." He went outside to see Twilight using her magic on a wilting flower for what reason he could only guess. "Twilight what are you doing?"

"I'm trying to learn a new spell that reverses age so that I can make the flowers around the treehouse look perfect for when Celestia comes for her annual visit to Ponyville but it won't work," She explained glaring at the flower with her horn still lit.

"You could just switch them for better flowers or something," Spike offered still a bit angry from Twilight waking him up from his nap.

"Spike I cant have any distractions so let me concentrate," She demanded never once looking away from the offending flower. She lit her horn as much as she could lighting up the plant as it slowly started to revert to a healthy flower.

"Hi Twilight," Pinkie greeted the unicorn out of nowhere causing Twilight to jump up and fire a blast from her horn into the sky away from the town. "Oooh pretty, what was that? Was it a firework? Are we celebrating the 4th of July seventy six days early?"

"Pinkie why did you scare me like that? Didn't you see I was trying to concentrate on a spell?"

"I didn't try to scare you, I just said hi Twilight. I just wanted to come over and ask if you had a how to book on making baby food."

"Yes I do but-"

"Got it," Pinkie said putting a book inside of a saddlebag that she didn't have before. Normally Twilight would question something like this but dropped it since it was Pinkie Pie who's tail started twitching. "Oh something's gonna fall at... the meadow outside of Ponyville where Dashie usually practices at."

"Should we check on her? She might have been what fell. What if she crashed and broke her wings?" Spike said worried.

"Don't worry your little head over it Spiko. I'll go check it out while you keep scolding your flower Twilight," Pinkie said cheerfully as she sped off to the meadow.

"That pony is so random," Twilight noted as she put her attention back on the flower.

"Twilight!"

"Pinkie?" Twilight to see Pinkie already back looking frantic and extremely worried with her other saddlebag looking quite bulgy. "What's wrong? Is Rainbow alright?"

"I don't know. I went to the meadow to check on her but all I found was..." Pinkie opened up the bag to let Twilight look inside to which she became dumbfounded and terrified.

"Oh this is not good."