A/N: here is my next story, I also thought up this one, during my little 'vacation', so I hope you all enjoy.
The Price of Victory: prologue
(Canterlot, financial district)
The sun shined down brightly over the capital city, as everypony did their daily jobs, vendors were in the market, trying to sell their goods, fillies and colts were at school, everything seemed normal.
A group of ponies walked calmly down the street, dressed in business attire, they turned and walked inside a large building, and they entered the main lobby and walked up to the pony, behind the desk, when she saw them walk up, she turned to them and smiled.
"Yes, what can I do for you?" she asked with a smile, the one in the middle smiled and spoke up, "yes, we have a meeting with Mr. Silverton, I believe he's expecting us" he said, she turned to her clipboard on the desk and flipped a couple of pages, and the smiled up at him, "ah yes, come with me" she said as she lead them down the hall, and up a few flights of stairs, and finally they came to a large double door, she pushed it open, and they walked in, they looked around the room, and eventually they saw an older unicorn stallion looking out the window, levitating a glass of wine to his lips.
The assistant cleared her throat and he turned around, "thank you, that will be all" he said to his assistant, she smiled and left the room, he turned to the three stallions, and smiled, "I'm glad you made it, have brought the information I requested, about our 'special' contestant" he asked as he walked over to his desk.
The stallion smiled and placed his bag on the table, opened it, and levitated out a folder filled with papers, and placed them on the desk, the stallion behind the desk leaned forward and opened the folder and spread some of the papers out, and levitated up one of the pictures, a picture of a rainbow maned female Pegasus, he examined her picture and then placed it on the desk and then picked up a paper, that had all her information, as he continued reading, he smiled and placed it down, and looked up at the other stallion.
"impressive, I think she is just what this race needs, what else do we know about her, this Rainbow Dash" he said with a smile, taking another drink, the other stallion cleared his throat, "well, that's not all the complete information, some things were left out, for starters, it so happens that she represents an element of harmony, loyalty" he said, a shocked look appeared on the Silverton's face, "really, well that is interesting, proceed" he said, the stallion cleared his throat, "well, it so happens that she is a very close friend of Princess Twilight, as well as the other Princess's" he said, his smile widened, "hmm, so she has friends in high places, that never bad, and what else?" he asked, that stallion became more nervous, "finally, we did some research, turns out she was the winner of the best young flyer's competition, by…by performing a sonic rainboom" he hesitated the last part and said it slowly, Silverton turned to him slowly.
"Really, now that is truly interesting" he said as he walked to the window again, and looked at the city below, he took a deep breath and another drink, obviously deep in thought, "sir…"
The stallion said, Silverton turned to him, "do you still, want to bring her in, this could be a good thing, you still want to extend an invitation to enter the race?" he asked, Silverton stood there and then smiled, "yes, I'll send one of my assistants, I think she will find our proposition to be most exciting, this could be one exciting adventure" he said as he turned back to the window, and looked out at the stadium, where the race would take place, a wide smile on his face.
A/N: well, there you have it, I hope you liked this chapter; let me know what you think, and see you all later.