My Little Pony: Justice is Served

Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Rainbow Dash's Point of View

It's just another great day at the Wonderbolt Academy. I'm with all my Pegasus friends practicing cool new tricks. I agreed to help Lightningdust get her Leader Badge back after the whole tornado incident. I soar off a cloud and three backwards loopty loops around a cloud making a pretzel shaped rainbow.

" Cool moves, Rainbow Dash. Check this out!" She says flying through the sky and writing her name in the dust.

"That's awesome! Spitfire would think that's so cool!" I say.

"Great! I have to show you something really cool. Follow me, If you can keep up." She says flying past me.

" What do you mean, if you could keep up?" I ask catching up a bit. She enters one of the cloud towers in Cloudsdale. She stares into the rainbow fountain.

" What's so cool about this?" I ask. She pushes a salt lick rock forward and pushes it into the colorful goop. A puff of rainbow smoke fills up the room. She takes a deep breath through her nostrils.

" I was at a race and some of the athletes were doing it. All you need to do is breathe it in and it makes you stronger." Lightningdust says.

" It smells bad. I should get going now." I say putting a hoof over my nose.

" Don't be such an Egghead. Don't you want to be the best flyer in all of Equestria?" Lightingdust asks.

" Yeah! But I can fly just fine without it." I say between coughs.

" My friend Snowflake does it and his wing power went up four whole points." Lightningdust says breathing in the cloud of colorful smoke. Four whole points? My wing power would go up to twenty. I'd be almost twice as fast as Spit Fire.

" Are you scared? I thought Daring Do was your idol. A little try won't kill you Rainbow Dash." Lightning Dust says

I take a deep breath through my mouth. The horrible stench makes my nose sting. My stomach heaves and my eyes water. I feel slightly lightheaded and nearly fall over. I'm never going to do this again. I hear somepony coming up from behind us.

" You might get a little sick on your first try." Lightning Dust says.

A lavender hot air balloon emerges from the clouds with Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy inside.

"Pinkie? What are you doing here?" I ask.

" Fluttershy found a sick bunny lost in the Everfree Forest last night. I was going to go visit it. Do you want to come?" She asks hardly containing her excitement.

" I named him Brownie. He's such a little sweet heart. I found the poor little thing stuck in a thorn bush and I just had to get him out." Fluttershy says. I look down at the tiny cuts on her legs.

" Maybe some other time, Pinkie." I say. Pinkie Pie's ears droop down and her smiling face turns into a pout.

" That's what you said yesterday." Pinkie Pie says.

" Yesterday I had Weather Duty." I say.

" We haven't had any fun together in five days." Pinkie Pie protests. It's been that long?

"Pinkie, you're cool and all, but sometimes I need a little Pegasus time. You know, time to fly around do cool tricks and race in the sky." I say hiding the guilt in my cracking voice. I never meant to ignore my friends in Ponyville. I'm just so happy now that I got to join the Wonderbolts. It makes me get my mind off of Gilda. I need to find a way to make it up to them.

" Are you okay, Dashie? You're sounding kind of hoarse. HAhahahaha! Get it? Hoarse... Horse!" Pinkie giggles. Fluttershy climbs out of the balloon's basket.

" What's that?" Fluttershy asks softly as she walks towards the colorful gas.

" Nothing?" I say spreading my wings out to try to cover the enterance.

"It looks like the steroids the coach in flight camp used to try and make me use. That stuff is awful for you. You should stay away from it." Fluttershy says. Pinkie Pie gasps.

" I'll never do it again, I swear." I say.

" First steroids, now swearing. You are a bad influence." Pinkie Pie scolds.

" It was all my fault. I made her try it." Lightning Dust says. Pinkie Pie glares at her. Fluttershy takes a few steps back and lowers her head.

" I should have known it was you who caused the peer pressure." Pinkie Pie shouts making Lightning Dust's orange mane fly backwards.

Pinkie Pie narrows her eyes. I haven't seen her so angry since Applejack broke her Pinkie Promise. The hot air balloon slowly drifts towards the ground.

" We're going to be late for Spit Fire's flight lesson." Lightning Dust says.

" We should have been there seven minutes ago." I say.

" Come on, let's go!" She says.

We soar back to the Wonderbolt Acadamy as fast as our wings could carry us. Spit Fire stomps her hoof.

" You're late!" Spit Fire yells.

" I'm sorry. It was my fault." Lightning Dust says.

" I should have never given you a second chance after what you've done. Do you know how much it ruined our reputation when you caused that big tornado? Give me thirty laps! Now!" She hollers.

" Thanks for covering for me." I say.

" No problem, Rainbow Dash. That's what friends are for." Lightning Dust says winking at me. Friends? She almost got me into so much trouble. Atleast she's not as mean as Gilda was before she died. I guess I could still call her a friend. After all, she did take responsibility for her actions and took the blame for me.

"Last one to do thirty laps is an Egg Head." I say quickening my pace.

"You're on!" She says picking up speed. Her flying was no match to mine. She stays closely behind. At the last lap Lightning Dust crashes into the wall. She winces and starts lowering towards the ground. "Ow! My wing."

"Are you okay?" I ask flying back to her. She pushes me against the wall. I feel a lot of pain in my back leg. Lightning Dust zooms past me at full speed leaving behind a trail of dust. I can't even see my own hoof in front of my face. Everypony in the arena couldn't stop coughing.

"Sucker! That's what I call the sonic dust boom." Lightning dust says.

"Hey! That's not fair!" I choke as she flies over the finish line.

"That was a dirty trick!" Pinkie Pie yells.

"You aughta be ashamed of yourself." Fluttershy mutters.

"I guess this means you're the Egg Head this time, Dashie." Lightning Dust laughs.

"That's not funny. You really hurt me! What if I can't compete in the big race tomorrow?" I ask trying to keep my injured wing still.

"Sorry, Rainbow Dash! I guess I got a little too competitive." Lightning Dust says. Spit Fire rips off her badge.

"This is the last straw! I can't have any more athletes hurt due to you recklessness!" Spit Fire yells. Lightning Dust lowers her head. "Pack your things and get out!" She shouts.

"But I trained so hard for this..." Lightning Dust sighs taking off her uniform.

"Maybe we can go to Ponyville tomorrow after the big race. That'll make you feel better." I say. I'm still pretty ticked off about what happened. But her hopes and dreams did get crushed. I would hate to be kicked out of the wonderbolts. At least I'll get to see my old friends tomorrow.