Starting Over 2: Returning Home

Spectra Speed was packing his bags inside his cloud house which resided up high in the floating city of Cloudsdale. He had stored all the bits he had saved up inside a giant chest which he will tow along inside a sky trailer. A sky trailer is like a sky chariot, like the one the princesses ride in, except it was a trailer. Anyway, when Spectra was done loading all of his belongings, he hooked himself up to his trailer, and started walking down the main street of Cloudsdale, which was the direction Ponyville was in.

Today was the day. The day Spectra had been aching to come. The day he will be reunited with Rainbow Dash. As he walked down the street, Spectra had a huge smile on his face, and was singing the lyrics to a song he loved for years. As he was walking down the street, he noticed a party shop. At first, he instantly thought of Pinkie Pie. His eyes widened, as he suddenly had a great idea.

'I should get them all presents! Yeah! That's a great idea!'

Spectra kept walking down the street, looking for the right shops for the right ponies.

-----Rainbow Dash's Perspective, Ponyville, Sugarcube Corner-----

Rainbow Dash was sitting down at a table in the bakery, enjoying a cupcake and having a chat with her 5 friends;

Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity.

They were chatting about work and how their jobs were going, when Rarity decided to add to the conversation.

"Speaking of jobs, hasn't it been 2 years since Spectra left for Cloudsdale, and became a CEO of a weather factory?"

Rainbow froze instantly, and slowly placed the cupcake down and stared at the ground, all eyes on her.

"Y-y....yeah. He did...."

Rainbow remembered the day he left like the back of her hoof.

Rarity placed her cupcake down as well.

"Now, darling, I know you won't like what I'm about to say, but....maybe it's time to.....move on?"

Rainbow shot up out of her seat and flew right up to Rarity, giving her the darkest glare she could muster.

"What are you trying to say?"

Rarity backed up a bit, fear evident in her expression.

"D-darling. W-what I'm s-saying is, maybe h-he forgot about u-us in all h-his work. Maybe h-he won't come back. Maybe y-you should g-go find yourself another s-stallion?"

Rainbow flew down to the ground and walked over to the front door. She stopped and turned, looking directly at Rarity.

"He promised me he would return. I promised I would wait for him. And that's exactly what I'm doing. I will wait as long as it takes."

And with that, Rainbow walks out of the door and flies to her home. As she flies home, she notices how little Ponyville has changed in the past years. Everything looked the same. Huh. Weird. When she got home, she flew into her bedroom and flopped down. She knew that it has been a while, but she promised.

'Nopony is a replacement for Spectra.'

She flew out of her house and found a nice soft cloud. She rested on the cloud and fell asleep. That bed held too many memories of her and Spectra.

-----Spectra's Perspective, Cloudsdale-----

Spectra left the final shop he had to visit and loaded the presents he got Rainbow and her friends. He walked to the edge of Cloudsdale and look over the landscape. Beautiful mountains and plains graced the land with meadows full of animals. Spectra liked Cloudsdale. It was a nice place. But Ponyville was his home. He spread his wings and took another glance at the landscape.

'To be brutally honest, a thing I don't normally do, I like Cloudsdale much more then I like Ponyville. Can't we stay here?"

Spectra rolled his eyes. 'Ever since my marefriend and her friends defeated you with the power of The Elements Of Harmony a few months ago, you've become so negative lately. Just cheer up.'

'Oh, whatever. I don't even care any more. Fine. Let's go. By the way, if I were you, I would make a back story on how you know that information. Just say that word travels fast from  Canterlot or something.'

Spectra nods in agreement. He jumps off the edge of the floating city and soars through the skies. He was wearing a massive smile as he flew. He was heading home, and he couldn't be any happier.

-----3rd Pony Perspective, Hill Below Rainbow Dash's Cloud House, 2 Days Later-----

Rainbow's 5 friends were all on the hill below her house, looking up expectantly at the floating home of the cyan pegasus. Twilight looked to her friends.

"How long will she stay locked up in her house for?"

Applejack shakes her head. "Ah dunno, Twi. Ah think if somepony kept somethin' to themselves, she would be alright."

As Applejack says 'somepony' she glares at Rarity.

Rarity looks back at Applejack and holds her hooves up defensively.

"Well, I was just saying what I thought!"

Applejack sighs. "Ah gotta get home. Big Mac will be wonderin' where ah am."

As Applejack walks to Sweet Apple Acres, Pinkie Pie gasps.

"Oh no! I said I would take care of the twins! Bye everypony!"

And with that, Pinkie was gone in a cloud of smoke.

Twilight rubs her forehead with her hoof.

"I guess we all need to go home. Bye, everypony."

The group disbanded, all heading home. Up in the cloud house, Rainbow Dash was lying in her bed, holding a picture of Spectra and her in her hooves. She was crying heavily, the tears soaking her coat.

"I m-m-miss y-you s-s-so m-much."

-----Spectra's Perspective, Few Minutes Away From Ponyville-----

Spectra was flying high above the skies, thinking about how his friends might react to him showing up without a warning. Angry? Sad? Happy? All he hoped was that Rainbow Dash was okay. He decided that when he got to Ponyville, he would visit her last and give her the presents he got her last, so her friends could be there. He had presents for her. And he couldn't wait to give them to her.

Spectra flew above the next mountain, to be graced with the sight of Ponyville. He grins and flies down towards the library. He stops at the front door and turns to look around the town.

'Not much has changed. Wow.'

Spectra knocks on the front door to the library. "Just a second! I'll be there in a bit!"

Spectra stands and waits at the door nonchalantly, as if he visited the library everyday. Moments later, the door opens to reveal Twilight Sparkle.

"Welcome to Ponyville Libra-"

She stares at Spectra for a few seconds, then grips him in a tight hug.

"SPECTRA! It's sooooo good to see you!"

"CAN'T. BREATHE. NEED. AIR!"

Twilight releases her grip. "Sorry. But it's just really good to see you! Have you been to Rainbow yet?"

Spectra shakes his head. "No, I wanna give her presents to her last, so all of you can see it."

Twilight's eyes grow wider. "You got her presents?"

Spectra chuckles. "I got all of you presents. I'll get yours."

Spectra turns around and looks through the pile of bags in the trailer. He pulls out a bag filled with boxes. He pulls a box out that has Twilight's cutie mark decorating it.

Spectra turns back and faces Twilight, who was standing in the library. Spectra hoofs her the box.

"Here. I think you might like it."

Twilight unwraps the present. Her eyes stare at the contents. Inside the box was a book. The book was titled "The Studies Of Ancient Magic". She lifts the book up and checks it over. She gasps very loudly.

"This is real! But, this book is meant to be very rare! How could you afford this?!"

Spectra laughs heartily. "Twilight, I haven't been staying in Cloudsdale for 2 years doing nothing!"

Twilight blushes. "Oh, right."

Spectra turns around and hooks himself back up to the trailer. He looks to Twilight. "Meet me under Rainbow's house at 7pm!"

He spreads his wings and flies up into the air, and heads straight for Sweet Apple Acres. When he arrives at the farm house, he parks the trailer behind him, and knocks on the door.

"Who is it?"

Spectra recognizes the voice as Applejack's.

"I heard the best apples in Equestria can be found here!"

Spectra hears a lot of noise come from inside the house. The door snaps open to reveal Applejack.

"Ah thought ah recognize that voice. Welcome back ter Ponyville, Spectra! How ya been?"

Spectra shrugs. "I'm alright. I can't stay long. I got ya a present."

Spectra turns and rummages through his trailer.

"Aww, shucks, Spectra. Ya'll didn't have ta go and do that."

Spectra turns back to Applejack with a box in his hoof which bore her cutie mark.

"I know I didn't have to. I wanted to. Here."

He hoofs her the box. Applejack opens the box and reaches inside. She pulls out a cowpony hat, much like her own. Except it was encrusted with amber, emerald and rubies.

Spectra points to the gems. "I got this custom made. The amber represents your coat, the emerald is your eye's and the rubies are the colour of your apples on your cutie mark."

Applejack stared in shock at what she was seeing. "Ah....ah can't accept this."

She tries to hoof the hat towards him, but he pushes back. "AJ, don't worry. I'm rich, so it's not like I needed the bits, and even so, I want you to have it."

AJ pulls the hat back into her grip. She stares down at it and looks back up to Spectra. "Ya don't understand, this hat of mine was mah fathers. He wanted me ta have it."

Spectra nods. "Ok, I understand. But I know how you can still keep the hat. Give it to Applebloom. I'm sure she would love it. Anyway, I have more friends to meet. Come to Rainbow's house at 7pm. See ya, AJ!"

He hooks himself back up to the trailer and flies off. He turns his head to see Applebloom running around AJ with the hat on her head, with a giant smile. Spectra grins and continues down to Fluttershy's cottage.

He lands in front of the cottage and unhooks the trailer. He walks up to the door and knocks.

"Coming."

The door opens and Fluttershy is standing in her door way with Angel on her back.

"Yes? What can I d- Oh! Hello Spectra!"

Fluttershy grabs Spectra and hugs him gently.

"Hey, Fluttershy. Listen, I can't stay for long. I've got places to be and ponies to meet. I'm here to give you a present."

This time, Spectra already had the box in his hand. The box had air holes and was decorated with Fluttershy's cutie mark. He hoofs her the box. She opens it and gasps.

"It's a Lightning Wing! Oh my! These are incredibly rare!"

She reaches inside and pulls out a bird that looks like a phoenix, except it was surrounded in electricity instead of fire. Fluttershy looked at the bird in amazement.

"I-I-I don't know what to say! Thank you Spectra!"

Spectra nods his head. "Your welcome, Fluttershy. Come by Rainbow's house at 7pm, okay? Later!"

Spectra re-hooks himself again and flies back to Ponyville and arrives at the Carousel Boutique. He parks his trailer and knocks on the front doors.

"Just a moment, darling!"

The doors swing open with Rarity inside the building.

"Welcome to the Carousel Bou- Spectra! Why, darling! It has been years! How are you?"

Spectra waves a hoof. "I'm alright, but I'm needed in other places so I have to be quick. I got you a present from Cloudsdale."

Spectra hoofs Rarity a box adorned with her cutie mark. Rarity opens the box and pulls out a huge rock, it had all the colours of the rainbow and was the size of her head!

"Is....is this what I think it is?"

Spectra nods. "It is. It's a Galaxy Diamond. Incredibly rare and beautiful at the same time."

Rarity was speechless. "I....I.....Thank you, Spectra!"

Spectra was hooking himself back up to the trailer.

"No problem, Rarity! Come by Rainbow's house at 7pm, would ya? Bye!"

Spectra flies off towards Sugarcube Corner. It was almost 7pm, so he needed to be quick.

He stops outside of the bakery and unhooks himself for the millionth time today. He walks inside and stands next to the counter. He had a box with Pinkies cutie mark on it, He rings the bell and gets slammed into the floor by a pink blur.

"OmygoshSpectrayou'rebackIcan'tbelieveitIhavetothrowaWelcomeHomepartynow-"

Spectra shoves his hoof into Pinkie's mouth.

"Pinkie, I have a present for you."

Pinkie's eyes grew wide. She hopped off Spectra and let him stand up. When Spectra regained his footing, he hoofed her the box. She rips it open and inside was a recipe book named "Pegasi Sweets".

Pinkie looked to Spectra was a giant smile. "Thanks, Spectra! I've always wondered what pegasus like to eat!"

Spectra walks towards the door. "You're welcome, Pinkie. Come by Rainbow's house at 7pm. Bye!"

And with that, he walks out of the bakery. He hooks himself up and flies around Ponyville, talking to ponies he remembers. He even chats with Vinyl! After a while, he heads for his marefriend's house. When he got there, all 5 mares were there waiting for him. When he lands, he puts his hoof to his mouth and shush's them. He grabs his guitar case out of the trailer, walks over to the group of mares and sits down. He pulls out Melody, his enchanted guitar. He takes a deep breath and looks to the group.

"Here goes nothin'."

-----Rainbow Dash's Perspective, Cloud House-----

Rainbow was lying down on her bed with tears streaming down her eyes as she remembered all the great times she had with Spectra. She remembers how she loved his singing. It was beautiful. She swears she could hear music....

She sits up. She can hear music. It was a guitar, and it was coming from outside, it was a song she never heard, but when the lyrics kicked in, she knew exactly who's voice that was. She bolted out of bed and out the window. She looks down to see none other then Spectra Speed himself playing his guitar and singing his heart out with her friends around him. She stays up in the air and listen's for a while. When the song finishes, she couldn't control herself any more, she bolts down and knocks Spectra to the ground passionately kissing him while resting on his chest. When she pulls away, she hugs him tightly and leans into his ear.

"Welcome home."