Daring Rainbow
A Novel by Rainbow Dash
Once upon a time there was an awesome Pegasus named Daring Rainbow. She had a rainbow colored mane, and tail, and a bright red coat. She was a Pegasus. She lived in Cloudsdale, which is the greatest city in the sky! She had this awesome house that was made out of the clouds and it was like twenty stories high because she had spent her entire life building it, well, that and training for the Wonderbolts, the greatest airial team ever! They can do flips and barrel rolls and loops and fly really really fast, but not as fast as Daring Rainbow, because she is the fastest flyer ever.
So anyways, Daring Rainbow was just relaxing in her house, taking a nap, when all of a sudden, she heard a cry for help! She immedeately swooshed out of bed, and sped towards the call for help. It was a little filly, who had fallen off a cloud, but her wings weren't strong enough to fly yet, so thats why she was falling. When it seemed like all hope was lost, Daring Rainbow made a dangerous dive and caught the filly in the nick of time! Daring Rainbow had saved the day! She flew back onto solid cloud, and gave the filly back to his mom.
"Oh Daring Rainbow, how can I ever thank you for such a wonderful deed?"
"No need to thank me, I'm just doing my job." Said Daring Rainbow heroicly. Then, Daring Rainbow heard a voice behind her.
"Nice moves, Daring Rainbow. You saved that poor filly's life." Said Spitfire, the captain of the Wonderbolts! Daring Rainbow was super duper suprised to see her, but she kept her cool and said "It was nothing."
Spitfire said "you should come be in Wonderbolt Academy! I was going to send you a letter of acceptance, but that was so awesome that I have to give you the invitation in the flesh! You are hereby accepted into Wonderbolt Academy!" Daring Rainbow couldnt believe her ears! "Sweet." She said.
One month later Daring Rainbow glided towards the entrance of Wonderbolt Academy. It was a random road in the sky, don't ask me how they built it. As she flew through the academy to the spot where the new recrutes were supposed to stand, she at once knew that she was home. She had never seen such an awesome place before. There were pegasi flying through rings, pegasi doing wing push-ups, random Wonderbolts here and there, even this weird looking machine thingy that spun in circles. It was Daring Rainbow's dream come true!
As she floated down and landed in line with the other recrutes, Spitfire walked in with a couple other ponies holding clipboards. Spitfire was a whole lot different then when she saw Daring Rainbow perform her great feet of heroism that saved the filly. Instead of her normal cool attitude, she was all business. And not business as in funny business, but business as in serious business. She yelled out orders in a voice that sounded kind of like Winona barking. All the other recrutes were shaking and swallowing and sweating like crazy, but Daring Rainbow stood firm and said stuff like "ma'am yes ma'am!" When Spitfire told everypony to do 500 laps, Daring Rainbow didn't even flinch when all the other ponies groaned. Daring Rainbow flew around and around 500 times without even breaking a sweat. Everypony else was flying slowly and spinning out and getting tired, but not Daring Rainbow. When she finished, Spitfire took off her glasses and stared at Daring Rainbow in shock. Daring Rainbow just smiled, winked at her, and headed over to the mess hall.
After lunch Spitfire took Daring Rainbow and her group to the weird spinny machine. "This machine is desinged to make you really really dizzy. You have to see how quickly you can recover, because you need to be prepared for a spin-out. Now who's first?" Said Spitfire. Daring Rainbow immedeately raised her hoof first, but Spitfire ignored her and made some other pony go instead. The machine spun and spun, and finally let go, as the pony was flung into the air, spinning out in big sumersalts. She crashed into a cloud, bounced off it, and swerved dizzily back and forth to the runway, finally landing and scraping her butt along the pavement, which would probably leave a bad burn. "Daring Rainbow, you're up!" Barked Spitfire.
"Ma'am yes ma'am!" Daring Rainbow replied and slid into the belt.
"We're going to put it on the highest setting, because you went so fast around the laps this morning."
"Sounds good to me," said Daring Rainbow. "I hope it's fast enough."
As the dude with the clipboard pulled the lever, the machine began to spin. It spun faster and faster until Spitfire yelled "release!" Suddenly, Daring Rainbow was flying through the air doing sumersalts, and she gained control right away and flew back down to the runway, zooming past the judges, blowing off Spitfire's glasses. "Six seconds! Wow, that's an academy record!" Said Spitfire. As the rest of the pegasi took their turns on the machine, no one even came close to six seconds. The next best time was ten. Daring Rainbow proudly began making her way back to the dorm, knowing that she had impressed the captain of the Wonderbolts.
The next morning at breakfast, Spitfire announced that the new recrutes had been assigned to their partners, including who is lead pony and who is wing pony. Daring Rainbow made her way through the crowd to see who would be lucky enough to be her wing pony. But when she got to the list, she didn't see her name on there. It went from C to F, completely skipping over D. She look in the R's to see if the list was organized by last name, but she wasn't there either. Daring Rainbow wasn't on the list at all. "What?!" She said. Then she went to go find Spitfire and ask her what was wrong. Spitfire said "follow me to my office." Daring Rainbow said "okay." And followed her.
When they got in there, Soarin was in their too, and so was Tornado and Rapidfire and Fleetfoot. "Have a seat, Daring Rainbow." Said Spitfire and Daring Rainbow sat in a chair across from everypony. "We've been watching you fly, and it seems like this school is too easy for you. Are we correct?"
"Yes ma'am," said Daring Rainbow.
"Then we have a question for you."
"What's your question?"
Spitfire stood up and said "~~Rainbow Dash~~ Daring Rainbow, how would you like to be a Wonderbolt?"
Daring Rainbow couldn't believe her ears! This was the question that she had been waiting to hear her entire life! She flew up out of her chair, did a backflip in mid-air, and hovered above them. "That would be awesome!" She said.
"Then it is settled. Welcome to the Wonderbolts, new-bie!" Daring Rainbow was finally a Wonderbolt!
One week later was Daring Rainbow's first practice with the Wonderbolts. Daring Rainbow flew into the locker room and flew up to her locker, right next to Spitfire's. "Hey there, you excited for your first practice?" Spitfie asked her as they each slipped into their blue and yellow uniforms. "Am I ever!" Replied Daring Rainbow.
So then they all took off in a burst of speed. They started out by clearing clouds, so they could have a clear practice space. Then, Spitfire declared that they were going to have a race to get there blood flowing.
Soarin said "Ready...setGO!!!" And they were off! Fleetfoot started out in the lead, followed by Cloudchaser, Soarin, Spitfire, Tornado, and finally Daring Rainbow in last. Daring Rainbow hates losing, so she did an old trick for picking up speed that she had learned. She streched her body as straight as it would go, and twisted her body sideways so her wings wouldn't catch the wind and slow her down, then flap three times really fast and heavily, then flap slowly but firmly. The trick worked, and she shot forward at lightning speed! Narrowly avoiding Wonderbolts and birds as she went, she flew ahead faster, faster, until their was a rainbow trailing behind her. At last she caught up with Soarin, who was now in the lead, but he saw her coming and blocked her way. Daring Rainbow tried to juke around him, but he was to hard to get past. But Daring Rainbow was the fastest flyer in all of Equestria, so she knew what to do. She folded her wings tight around her body, and started spinning over and over in barrel rolls, and nimbly passed right through Soarin's legs. Now with nopony in front of her, she surged forward with super speed. She saw the finish line up ahead, and broke right though it, streching her wings to slow herself down as she screeched to a halt. Moments later, the rest of the Wonderbolts joined her. "Wow...that...was...truly...awesome," Spitfire panted, out of breath. Then they all set out to continue practice.
After practice was over, they all went to the locker room, discussing some of their cool tricks as they went. When Spitfire opened her locker, a piece of paper fell out.
"Maybe it's a love note!" Said Rapidfire, laughing.
"Probably just fan mail," said Spitfire. Then she read it out loud. "Dear Wonderbolts. We would like you to perform at our event. Meet us at the edge of the everfree forest tomorrow at midnight. Sincerely, an important pony."
"So anypony thinks they can just ask us and we'll perform, now?" Asked Soarin, annoyed.
Spitfire continued "PS we'll pay you five hundred bits each, with free pie."
"Clear your calenders, we've got a date tomorrow night!" Said Soarin.
"Wait just a second, why should we do this if we don't even know who it is? Sounds suspicious to me," said Spitfire.
"Duh. Pie, and money. What more could a pegasus need?" Said Soarin. "Besides, what could possibly go wrong?"
The next night at midnight, Daring Rainbow and the rest of the Wonderbolts were waiting at the edge of the everfree forest, waiting for whoever gave them the letter.
"Ugh, this is taking forever!" said Fleetfoot.
"Where's the pie?" Asked Soarin.
"We'll only stay here for twenty more minutes, then we're leaving." said Spitfire.
Suddenly, there was a purple smoke and five ponies dressed in black costumes stepped out of the shadows. "We are the Shadowbolts! The fastest flyers in the everfree forest! Soon to be the fastest in all Equestria, but you are the fastest in Equestria."
"You got that right," said Tornado.
"Exactly," the Shadowbolt continued. "So that's why we need to get rid of you!" Then they all flew in and tackled the wonderbolts. Daring Rainbow used her speed to dodge the attack, but the rest of the Wonderbolts were'nt so lucky. Soon they had all the wonderbolts unconchis in a pile, and stood over it, laughing evilly. Daring Rainbow knew she had to save them, so she dug at the ground with her hoof, and blew out her nose. The Shadowbolts turned to her and smiled. "What are you gonna do, there's five of us and only one of you!" Daring Rainbow took off in a burst of speed, and started flying circles around the Shadowbolts. Faster and faster she flew, until the vacuum of air lifted the Shadowbolts off the ground. She flew faster and faster, and finally stopped suddenly, sending the Shadowbolts flying back into the everfree forest. Then she grabbed the Wonderbolts and flew them to the hospital.
When they finally woke up, Spitfire looked up at Rainbow Dash and said, "Wow, Daring Rainbow, you saved our lives! We owe you big time!"
Daring Rainbow said "Aw, it was nothing."
But Spitfire said "Yeah it totally was! I think you deserve to be our new Captain!" Daring Rainbow's mouth fell open, but she kept her cool, and said "I accept."
Soarin said "I'm still bummed I didn't get any pie."
Daring Rainbow laughed and said "Don't worry, as Captain of the Wonderbolts, I'll make sure you get as much pie as you want!" All the Wonderbolts cheered and said "I'm so glad you're our captain now, Daring Rainbow!"
THE END
EPILOG
So here is my novel! I hope you like it! I'm thinking about getting Twilight to proofread this and edit any mistakes I made, but then again, she'll probably change everything and make it not as awesome.
Author's Note
Disclaimer: The spelling/grammar mistakes are all intentional; I am emulating Rainbow Dash's non-egghead dialect. She's always been more of an athlete than a novelist, but hopefully we all still love her after her...attempt...at writing. This is the novel she mentions in Spike At Your Service. You know, the one with the "ingeniously-woven, intricate plotline".
