Rainboom in the snow

Chapters

I´m gonna make it
A new life
A race for a race
Face the fear
Rainbows in the snow
Aftermath

I´m gonna make it

I'm gonna make it!

“I´m gonna make it!” Rainbow Dash was ready. She was going to go twice the speed of sound. She started from up high from Canterlot. Everypony gathered there to see it. First, she would do the sonic rainboom horizontal. After that, she would go straight down to the ground to do the second one, and after that she would fly low over the calm water. It would be a blast for her and the crowd. There wasn’t very much time left for these perfect conditions, so she started. The first sonic rainboom was easy; She did it over a hundred times before. But the second one... that was new. Going straight for the Ground at full speed. Rainbows were already behind her. She could feel it. The second rainboom. A bright white light appeared, a huge explosion followed.

“I’m gonna make it!” I screamed in my car. Two more laps to go. I was at two hundred MPH; Nothing could stop me from this win. Close to the wall, and then low, and again close to the wall. A perfect racing line. Now there was only one more lap to go. Other drivers started to come closer. Closer to the wall, closer to the inside, and then again closer to the wall. Last turn the same concept, only a little bit sharper. But a driver put his car to my inside. I was faster out of the corner and saw the finish line right in front of me. Nothing could stop me. As the finish line came closer, my cockpit started to brighten up. A flash of light was followed with a deep thud. Suddenly my steering wheel was pulling my hands. Something must have broken. My rear end started to slide. I did all I could to keep my car straight, But it didn't pay off. My car turned around making me face over thirty cars coming straight at me at two hundred MPH. Lucky for me, the track was banked. My car slid down off the track, still making a nasty hit with the inside wall. My back hurt badly, but I had to cross the line. My car didn´t drive in a straight line anymore. With my back pain going away because of the adrenaline I got, I drove my car into the pits, causing me to cross the finish line, but making me able to directly drive into the garage.

“NO! It can’t! Why!? What happened!?” I screamed in the empty garage. No one was around. Everybody already packed and were at the pit wall. With tears in my eyes I looked in my mirror. In front of the sad looking smoke coming from my overheated tires, there was color. A bright cyan color. It looked lifeless. As I cleared my eyes I looked around. I looked behind me. That’s when I saw something. As a Brony, I identified it as Rainbow Dash. That couldn’t be true, so I cleared my eyes again and looked again. Again, I saw Rainbow Dash laying down breathing slowly. My mouth fell open. What should I do? My car was standing behind the garage. Over the radio, my team boss called. “We’re coming. Are you OK?” I had to act quickly. What would they do with Rainbow if they found out she was here? I didn’t hesitate a moment and quickly untied my seat belts. I turned around and found a way passed my bucket seat, I picked up Rainbow and took her to my car. As fast as possible, I put her down in the passenger seat and put a seat belt around her. I started my car and drove off. To my house.

At my house, I didn’t know how fast I had to react. With Rainbow in my arms I ran to my house. It was a little bit busy outside, so I hoped that nobody saw it. In my house it was warm and cozy. I put her down on the soft couch, with a blanket over her, so she would feel the warmth. She was cold. She felt weak. Would she be ok?

Author's Note

improved the writing and made the sections smoother.

A new life

A new life

A new life started here. My team boss send me the message, that I was fired. “Why aren’t you on the track? Are you that frustrated about the race loss? You even missed all the press conferences!” He screamed to me with anger over the phone. I just simply couldn’t tell about Rainbow Dash being in the real world here. “I can’t tell” I answered. “What I definitely can tell, is that you are fired!” Those words were still resounding in my head while I looked at Rainbow. She slowly started to move around. With her eyes closed, she stretched her legs against the couch, causing her to fall of the couch. She slowly opened her eyes. With some blinks she looked up to me. “Where am I?” She asked without clearly knowing what happened. She wanted to stand up, but directly fell back on the floor with much pain. “Ouch! everything hurts.” I picked her up and put her back on the couch. Now she looked weird at me. “What are you?” She said with a big laugh on her face. That was the Rainbow Dash I knew. “I’m human” I answered. “A what?” She broke out in a small laugh, but got too much pain to do so. “You should rest” I said. “Why are you even here?” I asked. She looked up. “Where?” She said with a confused expression.

We looked at each other for some minutes. It was weird. Why would she be here, in the human world. “This doesn’t look like Canterlot.” She finally noticed when she was look around. “Where is the crowd, the crowd who was cheering for me? Where are the Wonderbolts? They would finally accept me as their member!” She started to panic. She was forced to calm down by the pain. She sighed when she laid down on the couch again. “You’re in my house.” I said, still looking confused about what was happening. Talking to a blue pony with wings doesn’t happen every day. She looked at me. “Your house? What happened after my second sonic rainboom? Did you see that?” She knew she was in trouble, as you could hear from her voice. “Sorry, but I didn’t see any of it. I was racing with my car when I suddenly heard a deep thud in the rear, in the garage I saw you.” I explained to her. She now really was confused. She looked weak as well. “You should take some rest.” I advised her. “Lets go upstairs, there I have a soft bed for you.” I carried her upstairs and put her on my bed. She was already fallen asleep in my arms. I put her down softly. I didn’t want to wake her up. She looked cute in my bed, the blue blanket fit perfectly with her colorful mane. I also became tired and went to sleep, on the couch. Never had unexpected guests and also never thought I would have them, so I slept on the couch without any blanket.

Even if I slept like that, I had the best dreams. When I woke up I asked myself, if Rainbow poking me to ask something was also a dream, but I really felt her. I blinked my eyes a few times. “Rainbow?” I asked. “What is it.” I nodded half asleep. “Well...” She started, when I heard her stomach grumbling. She squee’d a little. “Shall I make some food for you?” I asked with a smile. I stood up. I made some sandwiches. My hair was all messy from sleeping, I noticed as I walked past a mirror. “What do you ponies actually eat?” I asked her while making sandwiches. “Sandwiches are alright.” She sat on the couch, trying to turn on the tv. I sat down and put some sandwiches on the table. “You said something about a second sonic rainboom yesterday?” I asked out of curiosity. “Yes.” She started. “I was going to go twice the speed of the sound barrier! Only, at the moment I was pulling up, I saw a bright light. The next thing I knew, was that I was laying in your arms.” She looked down. “I don’t know what happened there, but I’m not in Equestria anymore, right?” She noticed. I looked at her. “Rainbow, I will help you getting back to Equestria.” I started. “Even though I just lost my job, you can stay here, I will search for a new job.” She looked at me with a big question mark on her face. “You lost your job?” I told her the story. “Yes, I didn’t let anyone hear from me when I brought you home.” I knew that that was my own choice, but I would never regret it. “Then why wouldn’t you just tell your boss?” She asked. I laughed a little. “Well, he probably wouldn’t believe a story, about a blue flying pony crashing into my car and that I had to take care of her.” I said laughing a little. “Also, you’re pretty famous in this world, because of a tv show.” I turned on the TV for her. She saw herself now, on a TV screen.

She acted pretty normal about that, so I tried to go to a different subject. “You want to go to the park with me?” I knew she was still weak and all, but going outside shouldn’t be bad. “The park is sort of abandoned, so we don’t have to worry about other people.” I said, she agreed.

The park was pretty far, so we took the car. The car maybe was old, but I would always love my car. I upgraded my engine a little, but for the rest it was a little rusty. Either if it was rusty or if it was half broken, I would always make high speeds on this particular road. It was a winding road, but still at high speeds. I Again went at full speed, maybe to show a little off to Rainbow. Rainbow sat in the passenger seat, looking her eyes out.

I could just feel the car on the road. I knew this road very good, since I drove every day on it. Every bump, every bit. It felt wonderful, Rainbow felt wonderful as well. You could see the fun in her eyes. “What’s that?” she asked while looking at the mirrors. In the mirrors was a sharp light, it was blinking. It was from a car, I noticed later. “That’s a car” I told her. I was still confused why he was flashing his lights. I put the pedal a little bit more down. He stopped flashing and started to speed up as well. Before one turn he put his car on my right side, it was on the outside, but then I noticed, it was a four wheel drive GTR with a complete aero packet on it. “Are you racing him?” she asked with a bright smile on her face. “No.” I said while slowing down. “I have no chance of beating him. He has a complete aero packet on his car, also he has a rear wing and a front splitter. I have nothing, except an engine which is pretty good.” I told her, not like she would understand it. “You love racing?” She asked, with an even greater smile. “Eeyup.” I said back, still didn’t get that out of my head. “So awesome!” Rainbow was happy again, even though the GTR was way faster than I was. He disappeared.

The trip to the park was fun, we talked about racing a lot. About the differences between pony races and human races. I explained the down force to her, how engines worked and all that stuff. Rainbow talked about her wing power, and how it felt to break the sound barrier. “Did you know there is a human, who broke the sound barrier, by falling down from the edge of space?” She could only react attracted to that. And so we arrived at the park. I hit right to the parking spots. I was surprised, as I saw some cars standing there. All 3 were tuned up, and had big spoilers. It didn’t take long before I managed to identify the GTR who passed me. “Rainbow, get in the back.” I said at the moment I noticed, that there was a 4th blue car blocked between the 3 GTR’s. Rainbow jumped in the back seats, still without knowing what was going on. “What is happening?” she asked. I didn’t react back, I saw a stocky man running out of the park. He was beaten up a little, some blood dropped from his head. Without thinking about Rainbow I opened my passenger door, so he would be able to jump in. After he noticed that his car was stuck, I made a u-turn and stopped right beside him. He jumped in when I went off at high speeds. The 3 men who were after him also jumped in their cars, and drove off. I went back over the road where the GTR ‘d beat me. I totally forgot about it, they were faster here. Their aero packet would give them more downforce, and the grip I didn’t had. I pushed as hard as I could, but it didn’t pay off. The 3 GTR’s came on my bumper in no time. One of them came beside me in a turn. On that moment I heard my rear window crack. I looked in my mirror, but still I kept an eye on the road. Switching from looking at my mirror and the road, I saw Rainbow, jumping out of the window. The second GTR noticed, and out of shock he lost control of his car. He sled up the road, against the other GTR. That caused them to crash off the road. They were lucky that outside the road only was sand, with only a lot of small boulders and brushes. They span off in a lot of smoke. They would be safe, but their cars would be damaged. I looked at my right. I saw Rainbow Dash moving forward on the roof of the last GTR. She stayed low, so she wouldn’t catch too much wind. Then when she was in reach of the windshield, she hit it with her hooves, as hard as possible. That caused the windshield to crack and hit the face of the GTR driver. The driver started to lose control. The car spun out of control and as if Rainbow predicted it, she jumped of the car, right through the cracked window. The GTR spun of further of the road and hit the only rock there was on this road. The rear splat into that rock, causing it to be totally destroyed and in pieces. It was a nasty hit, I knew from my racing day’s.

I stopped my car and ran to the GTR driver. He looked OK, he only was shocked. He looked in my eyes. He looked mad, but still defeated. “Come to the park in 2 weeks. Then we can have a fair battle, without stupid tricks.” He looked OK, and I didn’t want to have anything to do with that guy anymore, so I ran back to my car. I looked at my passenger. He looked surprised. As I drove off he stared at my mirror. I looked as well, then looked straight forward, totally startled about him seeing Rainbow Dash. How would he react? What would happen next? More and more things went through my head.

There was nothing but a silence, till we got to my home. I stopped the car and looked back. Rainbow was holding her hoof on a cut. “Come on in.” I said to the guy, as I carried Rainbow in my arms to the front door. Inside I put Rainbow down on the couch. I picked up the first aid kit and sutured the wound. “Do you need any help?” I asked the guy. “No it is just a small cut.” I picked up Rainbow and put her on the couch. “How do you feel Rainbow?” She looked OK. “Not very bad.” She said, as she felt her wound. “I hope those guy’s learned their lessons. What were they after actually?” She asked to the guy. The guy still looked confused to see a blue pony with wings, asking him things. “What are you?” He asked. “Hey! I asked you something first!” “I’ll tell if you tell what you are!” They started a discussion, I interfered. “Stop it! You both need to explain!” Silence. Both looked at me. “Rainbow dash is a pony from Equestria. She came here by accident. We are trying to get her back to Equestria. She probably came here by flying at a certain speed. First she needs her power back, and then we can try it again. Now you tell us, what those guy’s wanted. They raced me, before I met you!” “OK” he said. “Those guy’s are street racers, just like I am. I was the fastest one, with the fastest car. It was a blue M3, it had everything. I bet they took it by now.” He said. “Who are ‘they’?” I asked. “They are the B4 clan. They all have 4 wheel drive GTR´s in black livery. They are street racers, just like me. They were after my car, which was the number 1 for 2 years in the biggest event of all. It´s called ´The World Race`. It’s a 1000 mile street race across the country where the best racers of the world compete." That explained a lot. It is of course illegal to street race, I’m now involved with that. “Did that guy tell you something, when you were there by his car?” He asked. I knew he did, but I knew that if I told him, that my life would change forever. I also thought about money. I couldn’t take care of myself for that long, without a job. And now that Rainbow is here as well, it’s even harder. “Yes.” I said. “He challenged me for a race next week.” This is the point where I changed my life. “I’m gonna accept it, for Rainbow. I can’t live without getting money, Rainbow can’t either. Also, we need your car back.”

The guy, who’s name was Jack, was still shocked by the fact Rainbow was here. “How are we going to do that?” He asked...

A race for a race

A race for a race

“We only have one week.” I started. “We need to upgrade the car a lot. We need to put in a turbo, so we have more power coming out of the turn. Also we need down force. I would lose far too much time in the part with turns, a big rear wing and a medium aero packet would be enough.” “How are you gonna get the money?” Jack asked. It´s true that I didn't have very much money. “I’ll see it as an investment.” I blinked to him and Rainbow, Rainbow was asleep. Her seven colored mane was a little fuzzy . “Looks like she still hasn’t very much power, she needs some more sleep.” I said while I carried her to my bed.

Jack and I were fixing the car as much as possible, when I heard a thud. “Rainbow!” I screamed. I ran upstairs, as fast as I could. As I opened the door, I saw Rainbow crying. “Rainbow! Are you alright!?” I asked while I took her in my arms. Her warm tears dropped on my chest. “Yes..” She said while crying. I knew there was something was wrong. “Rainbow...” I started. “You don’t have to hide fears or anything in this world. This world is scary and maybe a little dark, but that’s exactly why you shouldn’t hide anything from people you need to trust.” Her crying got a little heavier. “Please tell me what happened.” I asked her, so she wouldn’t have the feeling I wouldn’t wanna listen to her. “I...” her tail was curled along her flank, covering her cutie mark. “I had a nightmare.” She put her head down. She looked relieved that she told me. “It was a nightmare. I woke up. There was nobody there. Nobody who wanted to take care for me. Nobody I could trust. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t do anything but lay down.” Her tears got heavier. “Rainbow!” I said loud. “You know you can trust us. If you ever see something like that again, you must trust yourself to know that that will never happen.” I started crying as well. “I think we need to get a better friendship, before you maybe can trust us. We are going to win that race next week. Together!”

We went down to the garage, where Jack was still working. “We are gonna make it.” I said. “We’re gonna make it!” I just knew we were gonna make it. We had to make it.

It was the best week I had in my entire life. Rainbow, Jack and I working day and night and non stop on that car. We were like a team. Jack attached the engine while Rainbow and I held up the engine. She got more power in the week. She started to trust me and Jack. The same applied for me. I trusted Jack more and more and became closer friends to both rainbow and Jack. Still we were a little short on time. We couldn’t clean every small screw in this car. It wouldn’t be a perfect car, but it worked and had the upgrades we needed. It had more downforce, turbo and most of the rusty components replaced. I painted the car blue, the exact same colour as Rainbow. I managed to get a rainbow livery on my car, the exact same colours as Rainbow her hair.

We got to sleep. Rainbow in my bed, like always. Jack was sleeping in the living room right next to the couch where I slept. Why he wasn’t upstairs? He couldn’t sleep with Rainbow snoring right next to him. We all went to sleep. Sleep and dream about tomorrow. How would the race go.

The next morning I went up checking the car. rainbow was still snoring and Jack was fast asleep. I wanted to take a small ride round town, just to check the car. I started the car. I went of 2 meters after I heard some weird noises. Something scraped against the bodywork. I drove back to the garage. I quickly ran to Jack to wake him up. He was still tired, but he was awake. “The car!” I screamed as I quickly ran off upstairs again to Rainbow. Still snoring she lied on her back. I had to shake her around to wake her up. “Rainbow!” She looked at me half sleeping. “Why aren’t you asleep for the race?” She asked. “The race already started.” she looked at me open-eyed. “We first need to fix the car before the race.” She was surprised. “Didn’t we already finish it?” She asked. “Yes, but there is something wrong.”

The race for the race has started. The right front was opened up. Jack was already working on the car for some minutes. “I got the problem.” He said when we came downstairs. “It’s the suspension. It’s decalibrated.” Questions ran through my head. “How could it decalibrate on its own?” I asked. “Well... It is probably because one of the rusty screws didn’t hold the weight of the new engine. It wasn’t able to hold that kind of powers for such a long time. I looked, but I can’t find a spare one.”

Time ran out as I ran to the shop. I picked up the right screws and ran back home. Home I came as I still saw the car half detached. Jack was sitting in his chair. “Ey, welcome back. I calibrated the suspension as much as possible without any screws.” We had just 10 minutes left for leave. 5 minutes over time we were ready again. We jumped in the car. “I have to put down a personal best here on this part to the park if we want to be on time.” I said as I drove off. “Lets spin this!”

Author's Note

busy improving this chapter

Face the fear

Face the fear

Speed. My turbo worked great. Grip. My aero kit worked awesome. All felt great. This would beat the GTR for sure. Only my right front was to stiff. It gave me understeer in left turns. Rainbow saw my doubt about the left turns. “Are you alright.” She asked with a worrisome face. It took a while before I responded. “Yeah...” I said with a small doubt.

I saw it. The clock hit 10:00. On that exact moment I could see the meet up place. The GTR already was on the road waiting for the start. I stopped the car next to the GTR. “You like coming late, do ya?” The guy in the GTR said with a nasty look. “Get that blue pony out of your car. That fat friend of yours as well. No jokes this time.” He pulled his window up as Rainbow and Jack got out. I saw rainbow look worried in the mirror. She turned around. I sighed. This would be my first race on the streets. A girl walked up to our windows. We both opened it. “This race is from here through the canyon up north. The finish will be after the forest west from the canyon. Whoever is first will win.” The instructions were clear as we both closed our window again. The girl walked up in front of the cars. She stood in the middle holding a scarf. The black scarf was blowing in the gentle cool breeze. We both waited. Then the girl threw her hand down. Our engines both revved up high. Almost at the same time we pulled our feet of the clutch. The tyres screamed for grip. Our engines rev came down till we hit our grip.

So the race had started. The GTR had a big advantage on the start. His 4 wheel drive had more grip. I was behind. The GTR went out of sight as I saw something in my mirror. I was astonished. Rainbow gained a lot of power back this week, but I never thought she would be able to fly this fast already. I could see her worried face behind me. Her mouth moved. Stop. That was what I read from it. i looked in front of me. I looked back in the mirror. I saw Rainbow slowing down. She was tyred. “No!” I screamed to myself. “I’m not giving up!” I looked at my speed. It was high. Higher than I could ever do before. I felt the excitement. I felt the danger. I felt the adrenaline running through my blood. I would win. No doubt.

My engine was getting higher and higher in the revs. High speeds through the turns. It felt good. It didn’t take long to see the rear of the GTR in front of me. Pushed the clutch, I threw the gear lever to the other side. I could see, I could feel the turbo coming back. My rear tyres were on their limits as I tried to go faster and faster. My car was on its limit. I closed the gap as we left the canyon to the west. Trees got higher and thicker as we both sped up through the faster part of the road. I was on his tail. I needed one single turn. He had to make one slight mistake. He had to leave only an inch to much space. I would put my car in that gap.

A sharp left hander came up. Not a hairpin, but a sharp left hander. I saw it. The gap I needed. I had to brake only half a meter later than he would. I could see the air flowing. The draft gave me more speed. Less grip, but speed. That was all I needed here on this straight. Just before the brake in point, I pulled the steering wheel to the left. Out of his draft. The cold breeze hit the car like a storm. The car got pushed to the ground. Braking. I had to trust the car one hundred percent. While braking, I could hear a loud bang in the rear. In a split second I could feel the rear sliding away. In my mirror there were parts flying through the air. Time stopped...

“Stop!” I could hear the words through my head. “Stop!” Rainbow screamed. “Stop!” Thats where I didn’t listen to. That was a mistake. Fear hit me within one tenth of a second as my mind went black. The sound of Rainbow screaming faded away.

It looked like forever. The black colour. The same color as the GTR. Black. A siren faded in. I opened my eyes a little. I saw Jack in his M3 screaming for Rainbow. Rainbows tear hit my face. It hit me hard. “I can trust him.” I heard as Rainbow ran away to the M3. The BMW took of. Police and an ambulance came as I could see far away. I looked around. My car was dead. Split in half. Small fires had erupted because of the fuel that was leaked. All that Rainbow, Jack and I worked on. All that was left were memories. My mind went black. I felt one thing. Fear.

It took long. The black picture flashed white. I woke up. The only thing I could see was white. My fear got worse as I thought about Rainbow. She was alone now. Where was she. Was she safe. That was the only thing I thought of as my eyes got used to the light. The white picture slowly got shape. It got some color. Blue. As my eyes got used some more. I saw the shape of Rainbow. Jack also was standing there. “Am I alive?” I asked. Both their eyes got bigger as they noticed I spoke. “Are you okay?” Rainbow asked as she jumped on my hospital bed. She pushed her head with her seven coloured mane against my body. “It looks like it.” I said as I felt better and better every minute I talked to Rainbow. “You were lucky to live. Even more lucky to not even brake a single bone.” Jack said. “Some parts fell of your car as you Started. Rainbow went after you, but couldn’t catch up. The B4 clan had the M3 with them and weren’t looking at it when the parts hit the ground. So I took the M3 and raced off. I couldn’t catch you two at all with you having such a large lead. I saw a huge plow of smoke further up ahead as I picked up Rainbow.” He let a tear leave his eye. “We were scared. You weren’t the only one who faced the fear. Rainbow was shocked.” “No I wasn’t!” Rainbow defended as she let some tears hit my chest. The only thing I could do was smile. I was OK. “I’m sorry.” I said as some tears left my eyes over my cheek.

Rainbows in the snow

Rainbows in the snow

It took day's for me to recover. A lot of my muscles kept hurting. It was a nasty hit I made. I heard from Jack and Rainbow that I went head on into a tree and sideways into others after. It´s scary to think of.

“What now?” Jack asked to me as I was sitting in my chair. “Are you going to drive again?” I laughed. “With what?” He looked at me. “Well?” I asked, knowing he didn't had an answer back. I was hopeless. “Look, I was only racing so I could get money to drive Nascar again.” I looked down. “Now I don't even have money to repair my car.” Jack thought a little. “You know...” He started. I looked up with a desperate face. “There is a lot of money that you can win in the yearly World Race. I trust you, you know. You can use my M3.” He suggested. I laughed. “So I can wreck it?” Jack laughed. “Haha, no. Your crash in the woods wasn't your fault. The suspension broke. Nobody could ever hold that car straight.” I understood that, but actually it wasn't that that was bothering me. I just saw death right in front of me. “Do it for Rainbow.” That caught me. “When is it?” I asked Jack.

I looked outside. Bright white snow flakes fell down on the cold ground. Christmas. The day of the World Race. Millions of dollars. That was what I could win. I could go back racing again and take care of Rainbow better. “By the way Jack. Aren't you going to drive in this event?” I asked while I plopped down on the couch. “Dude, I won the World Race 3 times. I've got enough money for the rest of my life.” He said laughing. “I'm just happy that I can help other people.” He laughed harder. “And flying ponies!” We both laughed as Rainbow joined laughing. With a scarf around her neck and a white layer of melting snow on her cap she sat down. “And where do you come from?” I asked. “Nowhere, just some training.” She turned her face away. What was she up to this time.

Half the day passed as I talked to Jack and Rainbow. “We need to get going by now. We don't want to miss the christmas party.” I said as I picked up the car keys and a jacket. “What?” Rainbow asked with a question mark on her face. “Hearth's warming eve.” Jack laughed. It's actually true. I looked in to the brony stuff.” In the car We talked about the brony fandom a lot. Even Rainbow was impressed. Time passed as we finally got to the party. Rainbow stayed in hotel room. “We won't be away for long.” I said. Jack and I went of to the party.

It was one hour or so that we were away. Rainbow was just chilling on the bed. “Rainbow!” I called. She came out of the bed room. “Yes?” She asked with a fluffy mane because of her nap she took. She opened her eyes as she saw Jack and I with a lot of food and some christmas hats. “We are going to celebrate christmas over here. That would be fair to you as well.” Rainbows smile became greater. “Thanks!” And so we partied till midnight. Then we slept in for the race next day. I was excited. Rainbow was even more excited. I didn’t know why.

I could feel the tension. At least a hundred were at the starting line. A lot of different clans. The B4 clan was there as well. The engines started up. An infernal racket burst out. I knew if the firework exploded, that the race would start. It was a very large race. A wide trail of snow made the race track. The high sound of the firework flying into the air caught the attention of all driver. Everyone looked at the sky waiting for the explosion. Then after some seconds, there was a loud bang in the sky. Shortly after the sound of the engines coming up to speed overwhelmed all other sounds. The race has begun. I still was questioning myself. How could this not go wrong. Hundreds of cars racing for one spot. One price. As I thought. There were some crashes going on in the huge pack of cars. Some cars went over and over. Some cars just span. I didn’t look back to those cars. If I did, the fear would beat me. I just kept going full power ahead.

I didn't know where I was. I didn't know what position I was in. Then I looked in my mirror. I saw Rainbow flying closer and closer to me. “You're tenth!” She screamed as she flew further forward. Some minutes later she came back. “Some guy’s cut off the course! You're way behind!” The track became narrower. Slower. This was where I felt the M3’s power. I would close in for sure. But would it be enough. Rainbow flew to the cars in front and back to me again. From the time it took, I didn't had very much hopes. “You're at least 10 minutes behind!” I was shocked. Where did they actually cut that part off? I knew it was a race without rules, but this was bad.

After a hour of driving I closed the gap by 1 minute. Still 9 to go. There wasn't that much track left though to really go faster. I was on the limit. My car as well. The track became wider again. It took some seconds to notice that this was the last straight before the finish line. I was thinking. Rainbow just came back and shook her head. I wasn't closing in. “Rainbow!” I screamed. I would just suggest the most dangerous thing I ever did. “Rainbow! Can you push me?!” I would just hold my clutch and my car straight. I didn't expect it but rainbow slowed down. She put her hooves up the back of my car. She started pushing.

My fear became worse as my speed kept running up. My speedometer was in the red. I couldn't see how fast I was going. But I felt it. I kept going faster. It took a minute before I heard a loud bang. I looked in my mirror. A trail of seven colors came from my car. Was this a sonic rainboom like? Still I felt my car speeding up. She is not. No! Don't! I wanted to brake, but I couldn't do anything at these speeds. If I broke, the car would spin out of control. The same counted for if I let go off the clutch. From my rear window came a white flash. My car slowed down while I still flew past the other contenders. I was still slowing down as I went over the finish. I was going far too fast to know if I was first. I was stiff of fear. It took the whole straight for me to slow down far enough to let go of the clutch. Still in my highest gear I broke as hard as I could. I stopped.

I drove back to the finish as I got cheered on by the crowd who were astonished. I looked for Jack. I found Jack who was looking with open mouth. “What the hell happened there?” I didn't answer his question. “Is Rainbow here?” I asked. I broke out in tears as Jack shook his head. “What is it then?” Jack asked without knowing why I was going this fast. “Rainbow is back.” I cried harder.

Aftermath

Aftermath

It was dark. I was sitting in my brand new Nascar. Some years have passed and I was back in the legal world. Also Jack came into Nascar because of me. He was the most thankfull men I ever helped. This race it was between us. I was first in the championship and he was second. We started. We both didn’t care about the outcome. We both have a family, a racing life. We were happy that Rainbow got back where she belongs. All the memories were still with us. There was a caution. I took this chance to talk to Jack over radio. “Thanks for all the memories with Rainbow.” I said. “Thanks for giving me this life feel worth living.” He said back. The green flag went down as we raced to the finish...

The end