Brutal Rainbow

      When Rainbow woke up, she noticed that she was perfectly fine, despite the damage she took from the tree. She was still wearing the belt buckle around her neck, but it had changed from a simple string tied to it, to a couple chains that wrapped themselves comfortably around her neck.

"Awesome!" she then looked around at her surroundings. She was in some sort of temple, but the walls looked as though they collapsed about three months prior. She used this as an advantage and flew out, noticing that the temple was on some sort of skeleton pile. Any normal pony would have been horrified by this sight, but not Rainbow Dash. She thought it was pretty cool. she then flew off to explore this new world.

As she was flying, she noticed something moving on the ground. It was too fast to be a pony, and certainly to large. It appeared to be black and have some sort of flame design on it. Looking at it more, she then saw a strange creature sitting inside it. She flew a bit closer to investigate. It had two arms with hands on the end of them, both of which were grasping the wheel that was attached to the object of question. She also noticed two legs with feet on the ends of each one. His figure was quite muscular as well. He had no fur, but he did have a long black 'mane' and a shaved look on his face. He wore a black t-shirt with a white strange, yet cool-looking, design. The entire shirt was not, however, visible due to the unzipped black leather vest he had over it. On his right wrist, he had a simple black leather strap, while on the other, he had a larger black leather strap with metal spikes poking out in a pattern on the entire strap. He also wore black jeans and a pair of black tennis shoes. On his back, he was carrying an axe with a fiery design on it as well as a strange v-shaped instrument with the same design as the object he was in.

She didn't quite know what to do at that point. Can she just fly next to it and say hi or will this creature prove to be hostile. It's already clear that he was indeed hostile due to the weapon on his back, but she was still unsure of what kind of approach to take on it. Then she noticed something. The creature looked up. When he did, his eyes widened at the sight before him.

"HOLY SHIT!" he slowed the object he was in to a stop and he got out and got his axe in his hand in case this creature, unfamiliar to him, was dangerous, which had been the case for most unknown creatures in this world that he has encountered. Rainbow figured it was now or never to try and talk to him, not even knowing whether or not the two-legged creature she saw could speak. She flew down and gently landed in front of him, then folding her wings at her side when she landed.

"Um...hi there?"

The furless creature's eyes widened even more. "Um...hey..." He slowly put his axe back onto his back, clearly acknowledging her intentions were not as hostile as he had thought.

"My name's Rainbow Dash...what's yours?"

"Eddie...Eddie Riggs..." he didn't know why he felt the need to tell Rainbow Dash his name, but something compelled him to. He then noticed the belt buckle on her neck, then looking back at his own. His eyes widened even more, if even possible, "Where'd you get that belt?"

"I saw it fall through the sky. I thought it was pretty awesome-looking so I tied some string to it and put it on. Pretty cool, huh?" She then stood in her usual boasting pose, when she noticed the same exact belt buckle around Eddie's waist. "Where'd YOU get THAT one?"

"My Dad gave it to me...a while ago...Let me guess, you got some blood in its mouth and the next thing you know you wind up here?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

"The same thing happened to me. Here, let me take you back to Bladehenge. I'm sure the rest of the crew will want to meet ya," he got back inside the vehicle he was in earlier and motioned for Rainbow to get in as well.

"Thanks, but I'm more comfortable flying. And I can probably go faster than that thing, whatever it is"

"I call it the Druid Plow. It's a car," he then realized that Rainbow probably haven't seen a car before, "it's something we humans use to get from place to place."

"A human?" she thought, "so THAT'S what he is...Lyra's gonna kill me once she finds out she was right about them being real."

"Yeah, I still think I can go faster flying."

"That so? Well, perhaps you'd like to put your wings to the test, then."

"Is that a challenge, Riggs?"

"Yeah, I guess you could say that, Dash."

"Then you're on."

"Alright, race you to the giant sword down the road from here."

"Deal." And with that, the racers were set, and Eddie revved up his engine and Rainbow squatted in a starting position.

"Considering how fast she was flying earlier, this should be a bit more of a challenge than Fletus and his 'Squealer'," Eddie thought to himself.

Rainbow did the countdown, "3...2...1...GO!" As soon as she said that, she flew off fast as a bullet, while Eddie's car drove pretty fast, but still couldn't seem to keep up. Even with all the nitro that he upgraded it with thanks to the Gaurdian of Metal, he just barely managed to keep at least a little bit behind her. Once he saw the sword statue he mentioned earlier, he knew it was over. Rainbow landed right in front of it only a little bit before Eddie slowed his car to a stop. "Ha! Told ya I was faster than that car thing."

"Yeah, you got nice moves. Nobody's ever beaten me in a race before."

"Well, nopony's ever gotten that close to catching up to me before either."

"Alright. What do ya say you give the wings a rest and take a seat in the car. We're not that far from Bladehenge so it should be a short ride."

"No thanks, I'm still more comfortable flying. I'll just follow you since I don't know how to get to this 'Bladehenge' place."

"Deal."