The Life and Times of Triple Threat (so far)

by thebosscamacho

Rating: everyone
Tags: Romance, Comedy, Slice of Life
Length: 8532

Introducing Triple Threat, a pegasus pony from Cloudsdale. Read about how she met the mane 6 and her struggle with new-found knowledge.

Before moving to Ponyville, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy grew up with a pegasus named Triple Threat. Triple Threat helped them once when they were fillies, and the three have been close since. Unlike the 2 former pony, Triple remained in Cloudsdale, but came by invitation to Ponyville to be reunited with her foalhood friends, and meet their new friends. But the visit has more in store for her than she expected, a shocking truth that could change her life forever!

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-04-03 21:15:03 UTC

Foalhood

Old Friends, New Friends

It has been 3 months since the defeat of Nightmare Moon. This takes place after "Suited for Sucess, but before "Sonic rainboom"

The day was coming to an end. And thank Celestia too, after the last whistle; a week of vacation would begin, for the ponies on first shift anyway. At last, it sounded.

“See ya guys later.” A red pegasus  called as she left the weather factory.

Once Triple  got home, she saw she got mail. She went inside to open it. One was address to from Ponyville. “That’s strange; I only know two ponies in Ponyville, and I haven’t heard from them since they left.” Triple thought to herself. She opened the letter.

Dear Triple Threat,

It has been years since we last saw each other. I was reminded of you when my mom sent me a picture of you, me and Fluttershy that day before we left Cloudsdale. I know you’ve got the week off, as do I. That said, I would like for you to visit Fluttershy and me in Ponyville for the week. Meet us at my house tomorrow; you’ll know which one it is.

Rainbow Dash

" A chance to see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy again." Triple Threat thought to herself. It would be nice to see her old foalhood friends again. She packed her saddlebag and set an alarm for 7 am, then went to sleep. The next morning Triple woke up at 7 on the dot, gather her saddlebag and left for Ponyville.  As she trotted out of her house and made her way to the out of town station, she saw Bifröst, Rainbow Dash's father. “Hey Bifröst.” the red pegasus called.

“Triple Threat?, how are you?” the rainbow maned stallion asked.

“I’m fine, just going to visit your daughter.” TT said.

“Okay, tell her I said hi once you see her.” Bifröst told her.

“I will” Triple promised. At the station, She asked the guide pony how to get to Ponyville.

“Easy, 1000 miles southwest here.” He said.

That was all the athlete needed to hear, she took off full speed ahead. It took 30 minutes for Triple get to Ponyville. Interesting enough, RD could do the same trip in 15 minutes. Still it would take the average pegasus an hour to reach the Ponyville from Cloudsdale. Rainbow was right; Triple could tell which house she lived in. To make it easier, she and Fluttershy were standing outside a white cloud house. The red pony landed in front of the other pegasi.

“Nice to see you again Triple Threat.” Dash said.

“Nice to see you again too. Oh and your father says hi,” TT replied.

“C’mon, We want to show you around, and then introduce you to our friends.” Fluttershy said.

“Wait, You're going to introduce me to the other elementals?”Triple asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, why wouldn't we?" RD asked her old friend.

After the defeat of Nightmare Moon, the six brave mares that went into the dreaded Everfree forest were dubbed "the elemental six" since they discovered they are the wielders of the elements of harmony. To know even one of them personally is a privilege that ponies all across Equestria dream of having. Triple Threat wondered  as to how the big wigs of Canterlot could look down on them as common pony. The trio of primary colored pegasi flew around town, Dash and Fluttershy  pointing out landmarks as they went. They ended at town hall.

“Well, that’s the town for you.” Dash said.

“Hey Dashie! Fluttershy!” a voice called.

The trio both turned to see a pink earth pony hopping towards them. She stopped in front of the group of pegasi. A confused look came across her face. She looked at the red pegasus that she had never seen, gasped and then sped off. After all, the new pony deserved a Pinkie style welcome if she knew Dashie and Fluttershy.

“OMC, was that Pinkie Pie?" TT asked excitedly.

"Yup, and she’s planning you a welcome as we speak.” Rainbow said with a smile.

No sooner had she finished, Pinkie returned with a cart. With the press of a button, trumpets blared, confetti was shot out of a canon, and a cake came out of the oven, all while she sang a song really fast. When she finished, she smiled really big at the newcomer. All the red pegasus gave her was blank stare of disbelief. She had heard Pinkie Pie  was the friendliest pony in all of Equestria, but Triple had no idea she would do a welcome for a complete stranger. Still, the element of laughter had done something just for her. Pinkie on the other hoof, was worried. Nopony ever went blank when she welcomed them, in fact ,they all smiled, even laughed. The pink pony looked worriedly at the blue and yellow pegasi.

“Dashie, Fluttershy, did I upset your friend I didn't know you had?" the pink asked worriedly.

Before either the yellow or blue pegasus could say anything, the red pegasus grapped Pinkie’s head jammed her tongue into the pink pony's mouth. Triple was surprised Pinkie kissed back immediately, and she wasn't shy to French kissing either. After a minute, TT pulled away.

“Looks like you made a good impression on our foalhood friend Triple Threat Pinkie.” Dash managed to say after an awkward moment.

“Wow, I’ve done my fair share of welcome to ponies new to town, but none of them ever led to us kissing.” Pinkie Pie said calmly.

“Just my way of saying thank you, nopony has ever done anything like it for me, and I bet they never thank you in the same manner.” Triple winked. Pinkie smiled and blushed.

“No, thank you for that, welcome to Ponyville. Guys, bring her to Sugarcube Corner later for her welcome party, we're to busy filling orders to do it now” Pinkie Pie giggled as she packed up the cart and went on her way in the same calm manner.

“Wow, I've never known anypony to calm Pinkie Pie down before.” Dash said.

Triple couldn't wait for the party, she'd heard  Pinkie's parties are legendary. It's said you don't know a good party until you've been to Pinkie party.

Dash led her friends to a colorful building.

“This is the Carousel Boutique.” Fluttershy said as she knocked on the door.

“Coming darling.” A voice called from within. The door open to the most beautiful pony Triple Threat had ever seen. She had actually seen Rarity's picture on a magazine cover before her trip to Ponyville, but that didn't stop the red pony from getting a wingboner.

“Hello darlings, how are you today, and who is this?” She asked,  surprised at the sight in front of her.

“Rarity, I’d like you to meet our old friend Triple Threat.” Rainbow said.

“Nice to meet you Triple Threat.” Rarity said politely.

“Likewise. Wow, your more beautiful in pony.” Triple Threat said amazed. She could feel her heart begin to pick up speed at the sight of the element of generosity.

“Thank you darling. Is it true you kissed Pinkie Pie at town hall?” The white unicorn asked, afraid the stranger would suddenly violate her personal space.

“Yes, don’t worry, it was a onetime stunt.” the red pegasus said.

“Oh thank goodness, anyway I’m actually quite busy now, I have an order to fill and must get to it, but please feel free to come by anytime during the week, I can design as dress for you easy, and get it at half price.” Rarity said with a wink.

“Thank you, I think I use it during my stay.” Triple said. She though how nice it would be to go home in a Rarity made dress, especially after the white unicorn was discovered by Hoity Toity .

“C’mon, I want you to meet the others.” Rainbow said.

The pegasi left Rarity to her work and the trio went to the library in a tree Dash had pointed out during the tour.

“Here’s Golden Oaks Library.” Dash said.

Rainbow had to knock on the door several times before it opened. A purple unicorn with her eyes on a book stood in the door way. Triple Threat couldn't help but feel giddy in the presence of Twilight Sparkle.

“Twilight Sparkle, we’d like you to meet  Triple Threat.” Rainbow said. Triple stuck out a hoof.

“It's an honor to meet you, Twilight Sparkle.” she said.

"Mmm hmm."  was all the reply she got. Twilight continued to look at her book until a red hoof smacked it away. Twilight looked up to see an annoyed red pegasus offering her said hoof. With a blush, she shook it.

“Yes, nice to meet you too, Triple Threat. Sorry about that.” She said awkwardly.

“It's okay.” Triple said understandably.

"Hey Twilight, who are you talking too? Who's the red pony?" Spike called as he came to the door.

"Spike, I'd like you meet Triple Threat." Twilight told her number one assistant.

“Nice to meet you too Spike.” The visitor said to the dragon.

“Likewise.” He said coolly.

In Equestria, you don't need a library card to check out a book, instead the librarian writes down your name and the books your checking out, that way, a pony isn't limited to one library.

“Do you have a book of advanced flying?” TT asked.

“Yes, why?”  Twilight asked.

“I need to add some trick to my collection.” the red speedster answered.

Since RD rarely read anything, there was a good chance that Triple could learn some tricks that her blue friend didn't know.

“Sure, wait here.” Twilight said. She ran to the shelves and scanned then for the book. She found it about five minutes later. “Here you are, bring it back in a week.” Twilight said.

“Thanks, I will.” Triple promised as she stuff it in the saddlebag that she hadn't had time to take off yet.

“Let’s get going, we still have to introduce you to Applejack.” Dash said.

“Okay, see you later Twilight. Bye Spike” Triple said.

“Goodbye.” Twilight and Spike called together as they left.

This time, the three took to the air. They flew to the farm Dash pointed out earlier. They landed in the orchard. Just as they did, an orange earth pony run up to a tree and kicked it with her hind legs. Apples fell from the tree.

“Hey Applejack.” Rainbow called to her. She looked to RD.

“Howdy Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and…” Applejack stared at the newcomer in confusion. "What the hay, who's this?" AJ thought to herself.

“This is our foalhood friend Triple Threat.” Rainbow told Triple.

“Hello Applejack, nice to meet you.” Triple said excitedly.

“Nice to meet ya too, Triple Threat.” Applejack said as took an apple from the ground and cleaned it. “Have a Sweet Apple Acres apple, best in Ponyville.” Applejack offered the red pony.

“Thank you.” TT said as she took the apple and bit it. It was the best apple the red pegasus ever had. “This is the best apple I ever had!” Triple exclaimed. She had to make it known.

“Makes great cider too.” Applejack winked. “Anyway, Ah gotta get back to work, nice meeting ya Triple, see ya later Rainbow, Fluttershy.” Applejack said as she and raced off to another tree.

"Why is she kicking the trees?" Triple asked Dash.

"It's called applebucking, it's how the apple family harvest the apples from the trees." Rainbow explained.

She went on to tell Triple of the time Applejack tried to harvest all the apples by herself and wouldn't except any help until it got the better of her. Triple couldn't help but laugh at the story.

"Let's get going before Applejack finds out I told you." RD said.

The trio took off again, this time, Fluttershy wanted to show Triple her cottage at the edge of town. Fluttershy knocked on the door. TT was upset to see a bunny answer it.

"Hello Angel." TT said grudgingly.

Angel Bunny stomped his foot in reply. "Oh, it's her." Angel thought to himself.

He, Nor Triple and Rainbow forgot the lioness incident.

Said bunny couldn't be bothered to tease the red and blue pegasi, he was hungry and wanted his dinner . This was always the easiest message to get across with Fluttershy.

"Okay Angel, I'll feed you. Guys, I'll have to catch up with you later." Fluttershy said.

“Alright, we’ll see you tonight then.” Dash said. They could see the sun beginning to set.

“We’d better get back to town.” TT said.

As they flew back to Sugarcube Corner, it hit Triple.

“ Wouldn't of it been easier if you just gathered you friends in one place and met them all there?” the red pegasus asked.

“Yeah, but they were all too busy today, but they’ll all be available to hang with at the party, so you can get to know them better then.” Rainbow said.

Needless to say, Triple Threat was looking forward to it.

Knowing the Truth

Triple Threat stared at the ceiling.

“Of all the ponies it could happen to, why me?” She asked herself as she looked out a nearby window.

It was still dark out, a glance at the clock showed it was a little after ten.

Triple Threat looked down at her chest.  A curly pink mane obscured her view.

“I admit I prefer stallions, but who wouldn't want to go to bed with an elemental.” Triple thought to herself.

She thought about how she ended up in bed with Pinkie Pie.

***

The day was coming to an end, but that didn't  spoil the good Triple Threat was in. She had reunited with her old friends, met the rest of the elemental six, and was on her way to a Pinkie Pie party. There was nothing that could make the day any better (well, maybe if she could go to bed with on of them). As she flew with Rainbow Dash, her vision began to get blurry. Triple shook her head, which corrected her sight.

"You okay?" Dash asked.

"Yeah, been a long day is all, I'm sure I can make it through this party though." Triple replied.

"Okay, if you sure." Rainbow said.

The two pegasi arrived at Sugarcube corner. As they landed, Triple turned to tell Dash something, but only gasped.

"What's wrong?" Dash asked.

"You, You, You look like you mother!" Triple exclaimed.

"Er, Triple, of course I look like my mom." Rainbow said.

"No, your fur is pink like hers, your hair is blue, your eyes are purple and you have her cutie mark!" Triple said with a panic.

Dash looked at herself, nothing about her seemed off. She slapped the red pegasus across the face.

"Hey, what..." Triple asked, only to nothing wrong with Dash. She shook her head again. "Thanks, I needed that."

"Are you sure you're okay?" Dash asked.

"Yeah, I'm okay." Triple said.

"Come in!" a voice called within the building.

RD and TT enter the bakery. To Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie was standing by tables of food smiling at them. To Triple Threat, a white pegasus pony with blonde hair was standing where Pinkie should have been. Triple could help but notice how much she looked Surprise, one of the Wonderbolts. She decided just to ignore it since only she could see it.

"Hey Pinkie, who else is coming." Triple asked.

"Just everypony in Ponyville!" Pinkie answered.

"Great, I can't wait to meet everypony in town." Triple said sarcastically.

"Good, I'm glad." Pinkie replied.

Triple wondered if Pinkie took everything anypony ever said seriously. If she did, you can have some real fun with her.

"We're here!" Twilight Sparkle called as she, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy entered the room.

Triple's eyes widened as they did. Twilight was now pink with white hair, except for a purple streak that ran down it, and her cutie mark was changed to a bunch of five point stars.. Rarity was now a light bluish white. Her mane was still purple, but it had a dark pink highlight, and her cutie mark were three undetailed diamonds. Fluttershy had lost her wings and had a three flower cutie mark. Triple was relieved Applejack looked the same, except she didn't have her Stetson hat.

"Hey guys." Triple said weakly.

"Ya alright sugarcube?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine Applejack." Triple said shakily.

Applejack could tell by her tone said otherwise, but shrugged it off. Soon, the other ponies in town began to show up. Pinkie stood at the door at direct the guest to meet Triple Threat. She enjoyed meeting them, especial since her sight didn't seem to change their coloring. Once Triple had been acquainted to every pony living in Ponyville, her strange sight took over. Now everything was black and white, like an uncolored comic book, and everyone was crudely drawn.  The pegasus turn to look at her reflection in a napkin holder and gasped. Her coat was white with blue lines in it. He eyes reflected no light, and her mane, tail and cutie mark where all a dark grey. Triple shook her head, it was too much for her. She spotted Berry Punch with her mouth under the tab of large barrel of apple cider. She walked over to her.

Note: Contrary to popular belief, apple cider isn't alcoholic, it's a juice, but in Equestria, a popular practice is to mix some Vodka in.That is not to say everypony does it.

"That stuff spiked?" Triple asked the drunk.

"*Hup*, Yeah." Berry Punch answered.

Triple pushed her away, got under the faucet and drank the barrel dry.

***

"Where's the guest of honor?" Pinkie asked.

"Here, *Hup*, I am." a shaky voice answered.

Everypony turned to see the red pegasus hobble over to the six elementals.

"Okay, somethings wrong with her." Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah, she done got herself drunk." Applejack said, regretting the fact that she made the curse concoction in the first place.

"Exactly, Triple makes it a habit to keep sober, she wouldn't slam the bottle unless something is really bother her." Fluttershy said.

"Hey, *hup* I'd like to say *hup* a few words." the red pony said when she reached them.

"Um, go ahead." Twilight said.

Triple cleared her throat, getting everypony's attention. "Everypony, I'm truly *hup* honored to be in Ponyville, and to *hup* have met all of you.

The town's ponies "awed" at this.

"I just hope you know *hup* how lucky you are *hup* to have the mane six to live in your humble *hup* town. You know *hup* I had the pleasure of *hup* growing up with two of them, Firefly and Posey." Triple said drunkenly, much to the confusion of the other ponies.

"And through *hup* them, I met the rest, Twilight, Applejack, *hup* Sparkler, and Surprise."

"You met a Wonderbolt?" Time Turner asked.

"Be quiet while I talk!" Triple snapped, "So let me say *hup* I'm proud to be among the ponies to *hup* know you all on a personal *hup* level," she continued, looking at  the six bearer of the Elements of Harmony.

"That said, I'd like to tell you all of a conspiracy *HUP* that has been going *hup* on for to long, and eveypony in this town deserves *hup* the truth." the drunk said.

The ponies looked at the visitor with interest.

" OUR EXISTENCE IS A LIE!" the  drunk pegasus pony screamed. Every last pony in the room gasped.

  " We were created *hup* by these creatures called human beings to entertain their own kind. A thousand years ago, ponies like us didn't even exists. Our kind was created in 1983 as line of toys for little girls *hup* that eventually inspired some TV shows,*hup* but they sucked!, giving us a bad name, and believe me, G1 ponies weren't pleasant to look at. *hup* This carried on for two more generation, until a woman with sense named  Lauren Faust was hired to revamp the show, she created everything we know and love, from Equestria to the all mighty Princess Celestia and Luna. She wrote our history, designed us *hup* to be "easier on eyes" as the humans would say it, and just made the show so awesome that 21 year old guys watch it. But, that's just it. EVERYTHING HERE IS PART OF A TV SHOW, NONE OF IT REALLY EXISTS." Triple said angrily, with the other ponies looking at her with mouths hanging open.

"And it doesn't stop there! You have ponies like me who where created by fans of the show running around Equestria doing Celestia knows what in fanfiction stories, and those stories are rarely *hup* even that good half the time..."

Clonk!

A cyan hoof was slammed on top of Triple Threat's head, knocking her out and sending her to the floor. Everypony stared at Dash.

"She needed it, believe me." Rainbow Dash said.

"Oh, my head." Triple complained as she can around.

"Daring, do you remember what you just said?" Rarity asked.

Triple wished she didn't. "Yeah. I do." she said, and looked around at the ponies staring at her. "I'm sorry everypony, I got drunk and..."

A pink hoof closed her mouth. Triple looked up at the element of laughter. She had an uncharacteristically serious look on her face.

"Come with me." Pinkie Pie said shortly. Triple Threat got up and followed the pink earth pony upstairs.

"Wait, Pinkie Pie being serious?" the pegasus asked herself.

She wanted to believe she was going to get what could make the day better, but it was more likely Pinkie was going to tell her off for ruining the party. Pinkie lead Triple to her bedroom and closed the door behind her.

"Do you have idea what you said can do?" Pinkie asked in a serious tone. "Your only lucky your where drunk."

"Wait, are you saying everything I said down there is true?" the red pegasus asked.

Pinkie shook her head. "I wish it weren't, but as it stands, yes you're correct, our existence is a lie. I've seen humans for myself." she said.

"Then, why couldn't they know?" Triple asked. She was going to ask how Pinkie knew, but had the sense to just leave that be, especially with somepony as unpredictable as Pinkie Pie.

"Because they can't handle it!  I don't know how, but you learned the truth and what did you do? You resorted to drinking to cope with it." Pinkie declared.

Triple Threat shook her head and sighed. "I don't know what to think, it feels like I don't know anything anymore, like life sin't worth living anymore." That statement was punctuated with a pink hoof slap across the face.

"Then tell me who you are! You should at least know that." Pinkie said seriously.

TT sighed at how stupid that was. "I'm Triple Threat."

"Who is Triple Threat?" Pinkie asked.

That caught the pegasus mare of guard. "What do you mean?"

"I mean, what's Triple Threat's talents, interest, flaws, what kind of personally does Triple Threat have?" the pink party pony declared.

Triple thought for a moment. Nopony could really answer that question right away. She decided to start simple. "I can beat any challenge present to me three times."

"Okay, so that explains your cutie mark, but not your personality." Pinkie said.

Triple continued, " I'm more of a tomcolt, I like guys stuff. I like flying fast and doing tricks, and fiery explosions, among other destructive things."

"I guess your a pretty good flyer?" Pinkie asked.

"Second best to Rainbow Dash." Triple Threat said proudly.

"Now, I know no ponies perfect, especially Dashie." Pinkie said.

"Well, I have be known to jump into things without really thinking about them." Triple said, slightly embarrassed.

Pinkie urged her to continue.

"Jealousy can get me good sometimes. I can't stand losing to anyone other than Rainbow Dash. Also, I have a bit of a temper."

"Not unlike Dashie herself." Pinkie commented.

Suddenly, various vision came to Triple Threat, and they each showed her something about her development.

"I get it now!" she exclaimed.

"What?" Pinkie asked.

"My origin. I was created by by this kid after his mid term test. There he is with nothing to do, so he starts drawing cutie marks. His favorite is a three lightning bolt cutie mark. He's drawn it many times before. He decides that this cutie mark needs a pony. Naturally, he bases me off his favorite pony, Rainbow Dash, he even made me her cousin,until he told that that wasn't really a good thing to do. But, he still wanted RD to be the best pony ever, so makes it so I can't win anything against her." Triple told Pinkie.

" And then?" Pinkie inquired.

"He's with his best friend, who shows him his OC, and my creator suggest they write a fan fiction about us." Triple answered

"Whose the other OC pony?" Pinkie asked.

"IDK, I haven't met him yet. Anyway, this inspires my creator to write more stories about me. He submitted one to fimfiction about how Dash introduced me to the rest of you guys." TT continued.

"How did that go?"

"It could of been better, it got a few likes, but alot of dislikes. But you have it better Pinkie."

"How come?"

"Because you've a canon TV character. Everyone knows you, hay, everyone who's a fan LIKES you. Me, my creator wronged me from the very beginning. You only get one chance when you make your debut, and if it goes sour..." Triple ended sadly looking down at the ground.

Pinkie looked at the pegasus sympathetically. "You weren't the first OC dealt a bad hand, and you wouldn't be the last."

The pegasus pony look up at her.

"You know, now that you know the truth, I think you'll find it has it perks."

"Like what?" the pegasus asked the earth pony.

"Well, you can manipulate our reality to you liking." the party pony said.

Triple looked at her funny. "How?"

"Just imagine what you want, want it to happen, and then, It'll happen." Pinkie said excitedly, her old perky persona coming back out of the hole from which it hid from her serious side.

The red pony imagined Pinkie Pie with wings and whimmed it. In a puff of smoke, two wings appeared on the earth pony.

"Ooooohhhh!" the new pegasus was surprised, put started to fly around the room.

Triple giggled. Trying her newfound power further, she recolored Pinkie's coat, hair, eyes, and cutie mark to match that of "G4" Surprise.

The other pony laughed when she saw herself in the mirror. "I wouldn't mind keeping this look." Pinkie said aloud. The pony who'd done all returned Pinkie to her normal state. She liked new abilities, but decided not to use them on a regular basis, it would after all, creep everypony out if she did.

"I can't thank you enough for what you did for me Pinkie Pie." Triple said gratefully.

"Hey, no problem, I had to go through with it too." Pinkie replied.

"Really, how..."

"It's best if you don't ask." Pinkie cut the pegasus off.

Triple looked at her with some confusion.

"You know what you can do to thank me?" Pinkie Pie asked.

Triple Threat shook her head, and watched in surprise as Pinkie crawled into her bed, eye ballooning up as she did. Pinkie half closed her eye and motioned for the red pony to join her. A wingboner later, you could hear the  two ponies going at it from the downstairs floor. By this point, everypony else decided it was best to leave.

"Wow,  Ah didn't think Triple liked it...rough." AJ told Dash.

"I didn't either and I knew her for 10 years." Dash replied as they walked out.

***

Reflecting on this, Triple smiled. It was worth it. She knew now that her creator only wanted the best for her, to make her stand out from the other OCs to come along, even if she had to go through a rough time to get it. What other OC pony was going to know what she does, can do what she can?

"No other one can." Triple said to herself.

She pulled Pinkie Pie in closer and fell alseep. Triple knew she'd have some explaining to do for the others next morning, but she'd cross that bridge when she got their. Right now, Triple only wanted to enjoy what made this the perfect day.

Old Friends, New Friends

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.