Foalhood

This is story of the life of a pegasus pony named Triple Threat. Naturally, we start off with her foalhood, please note this chapter only notes the highlights of her foalhood, her entire foalhood would be too long for one chapter, even too long for a story. We begin with how her parents met.

"Firefly, are you sure about this?" Storm Cloud asked her best friend. The silver pegasus with black curly mane and tail and a storm cloud cracking a lightning bolt cutie mark wasn't as confident as her pink companion.

"Of course I'm sure, cute stallions come to this joint all the time." Firefly said. The pink pegasus with blue hair and a two lightning bolt cutie mark was determine to fine a mate, as well as showing her friend how to score one of her own.

The two pegasi were in a fast food place waiting for stallions to show up. At last a light purple pony with rainbow mane and tail walked in.

"OMC, that's Bifröst, the best flyer in Cloudsdale, maybe even in all of Equestria. You've had your eye on him for since high school!" Storm Cloud said excitedly.

"Now, he's mine, watch and learn." Firefly said. She walked over to Bifröst. She didn't really know what she was doing, her plan was to talk to the pony of her dreams and hope the rest worked itself out. "Hey there, I'm Firefly." the pink pegasus said.

The stallion leapt back a bit surprised. "Oh, hi, your Firefly aren't you." Bifröst said in a shaky voice.

"Yes, I am, I just said that." the pink pony said with a blush.

"Cool, I've heard about you, I never had the nerves to talk to you though." the stallion said, slightly embarrassed.

"Really? Me too, I never worked up the being able to talk to you too!" Firefly exclaimed.

Really?, Wow, you wanna get something to eat then, so we can talk?" Bifröst asked.

"It's a date." Firefly said.

As they went in line to order, Firefly winked to her friend. Storm Cloud was confident enough to try it for herself. She looked to the door, A red stallion with blue hair and a blue 2x on his flank walked in. Storm Cloud's heart began to beat faster, for that was Double Time, and she had a crush on him the moment she saw him freshman year. Like Firefly, she'd never been able to talk to him, but she had now, and was going to get him. Storm Cloud walked bravely over to him.

"Hi, I'm Storm Cloud." the silver pegasus said nervously.

"Oh, um hi, I'm Double Time." the red stallion stammered just as nervously.

Storm Cloud's blue eyes meet Double Time's red eyes, but neither spoke. After an awkward silence, the two laughed.

"You want to grab a bite?" Double Time asked.

"Hay ya!" Storm Cloud replied.

A year later, Storm Cloud and Double Time were wed and had a filly, whom they named Triple Threat.

***

A red pegasus filly  was practicing her flying in the streets. As she speed through the air with her blue mane blowing in the wind, she was followed by her mother. Storm Cloud was  happy to see her daughter take to air, even if it was only five feet off the ground. Ahead  at the park was sight that mare and filly didn't like. Two colts where bullying two fillies.

"Keep away!" Dumb-bell said as he and Hoops kept a stuffed bunny from Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, whom Triple recognized from  the race at flight camp last summer.

The blue filly, flew back and forth between the two trying the catch the toy. The yellow filly was crouched in a ball on the side. Triple Threat had to intervene, she hated to see something like this go uncorrected. Without thinking, she raced into the park. Storm Cloud chased after her filly worried.

"Hey meanies, cut it out," Triple called as she and her mother flew into the park.

The colts looked over to the source of the voice.

"Hoops, did that blank flank Triple Threat tell us what to do?" Dumb-Bell asked his tan companion.

"No. She's asking us for trouble" Hoops replied.

Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Dumb-Bell and Hoops all had their cutie marks, so Triple was embarrassed about being the only blank flank there. In fact, she was one of the last few foals yet to earn their cutie marks.

"You dummies want to pick on someone, pick on me." Triple said bravely.

The colts laughed. "You want us to pick on you? No, I have a better idea. We challenge you to a race. Three time around park racetrack." Dumb-Bell said.

Hoops threw the bunny away. Fluttershy recollected the toy. They lined up. Rainbow Dash flew in front of them to start the race.

"3,2,1 GO!" Rainbow Dash yelled. Triple Threat took off full speed ahead. The colts gave chase but couldn't take the lead, they even tried to cheat it, but Triple didn't let them. By the third lap, it was obvious who would win.The filly crossed the line first.

"Hey, no fair, you cheated." Dumb-Bell said.

"No she didn't, she raced clean, I wish I can say the same for you." Fluttershy said firmly, even though it was more of a whisper.

"We want rematch." Hoops demanded. They raced again with the red filly as the winner. They even raced a third time with the same results.

"You boys want to try again?"  Triple Threat asked.

"No!" the two colts panted. They had their egos damaged enough for the day, and flew away before anypony else found out.

"Triple, look your flank!" RD cheered. Triple looked at her flank to see her cutie mark, three blue lightning bolts arranged in a triangle formation.

"Mommy look!, I earned my cutie mark!" Triple said excitedly as she showed her flank to her mother. Storm Cloud smiled.

"What is your talent?" the mother asked her daughter.

"I can beat any challenge three times." Triple said proudly. The red filly then looked at the blue and yellow. "And I made some new friends too." she added. Storm cloud took out with a camera.

"Come on girls, get in for the shot, a day like this has to be remembered." the silver pegasus said. The trio of primary colored fillies smiled as their picture was taken. It would be a day none of them would forget.

Since then, the three fillies often hung out. One of their favorite thing to do was to follow the yellow filly down to the ground. After Fluttershy fell from Cloudsdale and discovered she can talk to animals, she would often go back down to see them. RD and TT came along whenever they could. On one of these trips, the trio came across a lioness looking for a meal. Knowing the lioness couldn't catch them in the air, the red and blue fillies flew away as fast  as they could, but the yellow was too scared to even unfold her wings, all she could do was cover her eyes. Just as the big cat leaped, a white bunny hopped out of nowhere and punched the lioness across the jaw.  The lioness fell to ground. When she had recovered moments later, she ran away. Fluttershy looked to see the lion gone and a bunny smiling at her. She couldn't help but picked up the bunny.

"Thank you so much!" she cried. "It's a good thing you came along and saved me.If you hadn't, that lion would have eaten me. You're like my guardian angel." Fluttershy continued.

The bunny nodded, as if to say you're welcome.

"How about that for a name, Angel. Angel Bunny. would you like that?"

The bunny nodded. "Angel it is then." the bunny thought to himself.

Just then, the other fillies returned.

"Fluttershy, what happened? We thought you where behind us." Rainbow Dash said.

"I was too scared to fly, but Angel saved me." Fluttershy replied as she introduced the bunny.

"That little bunny save you from a lion?" Triple asked.

" I know it seem unlikely Triple, but he did." Fluttershy said.

Triple and Dash looked at each other, two then looked at the bunny. He looked back at them angrily. His message was clear.

"Some friends you two turned out to be. I bet you'd abandon her again in the face of danger."

Since then, Dash and Triple have never been able to see eye to eye with Angel. But for Fluttershy's sake, they all tolerated each other.

As time went on, and the fillies grew up, they would see each other after school and during summer flight camp. They were even called "The Primaries" since each member was colored a primary color. Unfortunately, the bond wasn't inseparable, as they found out one summer at Junior Speedsters flight camp .

Foals stared the the creature standing by herself at the entrance. If you asked the them what she looked like, they'd tell you she had the front of an eagle, and the back of a lion. One of the camp councilors walked over to her.

"This is Gilda, she's a griffin who is visiting Cloudsdale while her father is on a business trip this summer, please make her feel welcome." he said, and left the campers to their business.

For a moment, nopony approached the little griffin.

"Let's introduce ourselves." Rainbow Dash told Fluttershy and Triple Threat.

The trio walked over to Gilda.

"Hi, I'm Rainbow Dash."

"I'm Triple Threat."

"And I'm Fluttershy."

Gilda stared for a moment at the trio of primary colored ponies. The blue one looked at her  excitedly. The red one smiled nervously at her. The yellow one was hiding behind her pink mane.

"Nice to meet you." Gilda said finally.

"Hey, you like flying fast?" Dash asked.

"Yeah." Gilda answered.

"Follow us then." Rainbow said. She lead the group to the race track.

"We'll do one lap, just to keep thing simple, Fluttershy will start us off." Dash said.

Dash ,Triple, and Gilda lined up at the start line. Fluttershy, now with the starter flag in her mouth, waved it. Three streaks shot past her. This time, however, she was prepared for it and didn't fall off the cloud. Fluttershy turned  around to see the standings. Rainbow Dash was in the lead, with Triple Threat on her tail and Gilda dead last. As they raced through  the air Dash pulled ahead. Triple and Gilda were now neck and neck.

"Fun isn't it?" Triple asked casually.

"You know what's fun, WINNING!" Gilda said as she grapped one of Triple's hoofs and tossed her backward.

Triple Threat spun through  the air until she got herself under control, then shot off after Gilda. Fifteen seconds later, she was neck and neck with Gilda again.

"Hey, there's no need to race dirty, this is only for fun." Triple told the griffin.

"Fun, huh, listen dweeb, only Rainbow Dash is cool enough for me, so you and that other one stay out of my way." Gilda huffed as "traded fur" with Triple, sending the red pegasus falling towards the ground.

Triple didn't fall for long. After a few seconds, she recovered and raced back on the track. She arrived at the finish line to see Dash and Gilda already there.

"Hey Triple, what took so long?" Dash asked when she saw the red filly.

"Well..." Triple started angrily, but then she saw Gilda give her a death glare, she even pick up some cloud in one of her talons and crushed it.

"Gilda was faster than I expected." Triple said simply.

"Okay, but next time, try to keep up. C'mon Gilda, I'll show you around." Dash said as she left with Gilda. Fluttershy and Triple Threat where left alone.

"That griffin is bad news." Fluttershy said.

"Tell me about it, mark my words Flutters, that griffin is going to rip us from Dash." Triple said.

And she did. As summer went on, Triple and Fluttershy saw less Dash, she spent more and more time with Gilda, she even moved into Gilda's cabin with her. When ever they tried to even talk to Rainbow, Gilda would pull her away. It all became too much for Triple when had to comfort Fluttershy while she was crying her eyes out.

"Oh Triple, it was horrible, I said hello to Rainbow and she looked at me like she didn't know me." the yellow filly managed to say between loud long sobs.

At last, the red pony lost patience with her yellow companion. She walked out of the cabin with a loud groan.

"Triple..." Fluttershy started.

"DON'T TALK TO ME!" Triple Threat snapped and flew away to find a secluded spot in the camp, leaving the poor yellow pony crying even more.

Triple couldn't see anypony at the racetrack, so she sat at the start line thinking to herself. What had she and Fluttershy done wrong to make Dash forget about them. No, what did Gilda do to make her forget about them. She was uninterrupted by a voice.

"Hey Triple..."

"I'm not in the mood Dummie." Triple uninterrupted Dumb-Bell.

"Oh, what's wrong." the brown colt asked.

"Gilda." the filly said shortly.

"GILDA, why didn't you say so, that griffin gave me a black eye last week." Dumb-Bell said worriedly.

"And took Rainbow Dash from me and Fluttershy, and I have no idea what to do." Triple added.

"Well, why not do what you do best." Dumb-Bell asked.

"Beat a challenge three times, what good would that do?" Triple asked.

"Really?, is that what those lightning bolts on your flank stand for? I thought you got it for standing up to me and Hoops." Dumb-Bell said.

Then it struck the red filly. "I know what to do, thanks Dumb-Bell, your my kind of guy when your not a jerk." Triple said as she flew away, leaving the colt confused.

Triple Threat race back to hr cabin and burst through the door. "Flutters, I'm sorry I snapped at you earlier, but we have to tell Dash how we feel and give Gilda what for." Triple said.

Fluttershy could only stare at her red companion.

"Just follow me." Triple said shortly.

She lead  Fluttershy to Rainbow's and Gilda's cabin and kick the door open forcefully with her rare hooves, only to see Dash sitting on her bed by herself. She looked up to them.

"Hey Fluttershy, Triple." Dash said sadly.

"Well look at that, she remembered us Fluttershy." Triple said sarcastically.

"Of course I remember you, why wouldn't I?" Rainbow asked.

"Because after we met Gilda you spent all your time her." Fluttershy said quietly.

"No I didn't" Dash stated.

"Oh really, when was the last time we hung out?" Triple asked.

Dash thought,only to realize it was true, "I'm sorry guys, it's just that..."

"Well, to be fair, it was nice for you to have somepony you can connect with, I may not be half the athlete you are, but I was glad for you." Triple Threat interrupted.

"Me too Dash." Fluttershy added quietly.

"Come here you two." Dash said as she pulled the other two in for a group hug. "I couldn't ask for better friends than you two."

"By the way, where is Gilda?" Fluttershy asked.

"She had to go back to the Griffin kingdom, her father's business trip ended early, so we have a month to catch up." Rainbow answered.

As you can well imagine, they started immediately. We now fast forward to the trio's high school years.

"Alright ladies, time to measure wingpower." the track coach shouted.

Female pegasi lined up at the start line. At the end of a straight stretch, a table with an  anemometer was waiting to read each mare's wingpower. Their wingpower will determine what place on the race team each pegasi would be on.

"Alright, first one." the coach shouted.

Triple Threat flapped her wings as fast as she could, waiting until the jet engine whine her wings were making was loudest and took off down the track, leaving behind her trademark streak of red with three blue lightning bolts. Spectators watched in awe, they had never seen such speed before. Triple shot down the track and speed past the anemometer with near blinding speed.

"Fifteen!" the anemometer reader shouted.

"Wow, that's the highest wingpower we've ever seen," the coach said amazed, "Alright, next!"

Triple shot Dash a look that said "top that". Dash shot back a "oh I will" look as she prepared for her start. Her wings made the same jet engine whine as they flapped. She took off full speed ahead, making the ponies watching oh and awe. The crowd was even more impressed when she  shot passed the anemometer.

"Sixteen point five!" the reader shouted.

"Wow, twice in one day. You two must be the most powerful flyer in Equestria, we've never seen such high wingpowers before." the coach said.

The two smiled and nodded at each other. But Triple Threat was hiding a feeling of disappointment.

"That  extra one point five must be why I can never win anything against her." she though to herself.

After that, training began. As time went on, it was easy to see who were the best flyers on the team, and was the better of the two. Rainbow Dash. Triple started feeling jealous of Rainbow, whenever she beat a record Dash was able to top it that day. Anger and hatred grew in the red pegasus as the comparison continued. for the team's sake, however, Triple held her peace and worked with Rainbow Dash to bring the team many victories. But as everyone knows, it isn't healthy to bottle up your feelings, especially jealousy. At last it all came to a head one day.

"Alright, line for the relay race." the coach ordered.

The female pegasi line up at different start lines along the track. This race was to see who would fly the 400 meter dash. After the coach started them, the pegasi each flew 100 meter before handing a baton to the next racer. Triple and Dash stood at the last 100 meter line with another pegasus.

"Hey TT." Dash said.

Triple looked over to the rainbow maned mare.

"Good luck." Dash said with a smile.

"Yeah, you too." Triple replied bitterly, not even looking to her old friend. "Like you'd need it! You know your  not going to need it. She already won anchor." Triple thought to herself.

She noticed a turn along the track ahead. Triple smiled wickedly to herself as an plan to even the score formulated in her head.

The co-anchors came rushing with the batons. The anchors got ready. As soon as Dash and Triple felt the batons in their hooves, they took off, leaving their respective  streaks behind. They shot down the straight away, Rainbow with a slight lead, but that changed when they came to the turn. As the two pegasi entered it, Triple leaned in closer than she needed too, bumping RD off-balance and sent her plummeting toward the ground below.

"Sorry Dash" Triple called, then snickered to herself as she raced along the track.

Rainbow meanwhile, had recovered and raced back to the track. She knew Triple had done on purpose, so she had a surprise for the for the red pegasus. Rainbow accelerated to full speed and shot past TT with blinding speed. The air current sent Triple spinning out of control. She recovered and speed back on to the track after RD, soon catching up to her.

"I'm not coming in after you again Rainbow Crash." Triple Threat said, and traded fur with Dash, who returned the favor. They continued until they reached the finish line, by which they had broken out into a brawl. The coach had to break them up.

"Okay, that's enough, both of you are done for today." she shouted.

"What the hay Triple, what did you do that for?" Rainbow asked, only to have a red hoof punch her across the face as her answered.

All eyes turned to the red pegasus. She turned at flew away as quickly as she could. Triple raced to the park where she had stood up for Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy when Dumb-Bell and Hoops where giving them a hard time. She stood there thinking about what just happened.

"What happened to us RD?" she asked, but she the answer. "Why did I get so jealous!? Even when we were fillies, you'd always win ever race and I was cool with it." Triple said out loud.

"Triple Threat!" said a voice sternly.

That made the red ponies blood go cold, she knew who it belonged too, and she knew better than to cross the speaker.

"TT, I heard what you did at race practice, and I'm disappointed in you." Fluttershy said in a serious tone.

Triple turned and looked the yellow pony in her teal eyes.

"Why?" Fluttershy continued.

"Because, I always stood in RD's shadow, always second to her. I could never beat RD at anything, even when SHE challenged me, and I can beat any challenge anypony can throw at me three times, anypony but her. I let jealousy get the better of me." Triple said shamefully.

Fluttershy shook her head. "You should of told Rainbow Dash how felt instead of holding in your feelings."

"What good would that have done?" the red pony asked.

Fluttershy smiled. "More than you think, come on, it's time for you two to make up."

The two friends made their way back to the school. Fluttershy lead Triple to the nurses office. Inside, Rainbow was getting her eye treated. She scowled when she saw Triple.

"Now what do you want?" Dash asked angrily.

"Hear her out, she's got something she want to tell you." Fluttershy said, then step back to allow Triple forward.

"What I did was inexcusable, but I can explain myself." Triple started.

"I'm listening." Dash said.

"I did it because I grew tired of always losing to you, and I wanted to win for once. I let jealousy take control of me, and well..." Triple said sadly.

Rainbow Dash look sadly at Triple.

"I don't know what to tell you TT, I mean, I can't help if I'm awesome, and I can't help if I'm more talented, but I'd never want to loose your friendship to that. Why not use the fact to push yourself to do better? It's no fun when you have nopony to compete against." RD said at last.

"Nopony to compete against?" Triple asked.

"Where's the fun in being the best when there isn't a pony hot on your heals trying to take your title." Dash asked.

Triple could only laugh. When she finished, she stuck out a hoof ,which Dash shook. They didn't need words to know they were friends again.