"Now, I hope Rainbow Dash is around here someplace…" muttered a dark blue pegasus stallion with a golden, windswept mane as he flew into Ponyville. He landed and was immediately greeted by a pink earth pony. He walked up to her and said, "Oh, hi there!" She erupted in a gigantic gasp and zoomed off. "Well that was weird," he said. Then he was walking and almost walked into another pony. "Oh, hello there!" said the pink pony, "You… don't look very familiar, are you new here?" "As a matter of fact, yes," he said, "I've come to find Rainbow Dash. Have you seen her around?" "No," said the pony, her curly green mane shifting on her forehead as the strong wind blew, "Mister…" "I don't exactly have a name," said the pony sheepishly, "But I'd imagine you do…" "Daisy," said the pony, demonstrating her cutie mark which was of a daisy, "I grow them in my garden." "Makes sense," said the stallion, "Well, I'll be going now, thanks for your help, Daisy!" "Don't mention it!" exclaimed Daisy as she pranced off.
Then he flew up into the air again, having had a fleeting thought that, since she was an expert flier, Rainbow would be in the air. And in the air she was, sleeping on a cloud. He didn't exactly want to wake her; she looked so cute while she slept. However, he did come to ask for flying lessons. Yes, he could fly, but not all that well. He landed on the cloud and gently nudged her. Rainbow woke instantly, sort of half-falling off the cloud and then catching herself to hover shortly above his head. "Whatcha want, kid?" asked Rainbow Dash. "That. Was. AWESOME!" was all he could say. "Yeah, tons of ponies come up to fanspazz over me, anything new?" said Rainbow, mock-yawning. "Oh, yeah," he said, remembering the reason he'd come and fiddling with his mane nervously, "I… I was wondering…" "Yeah, spit it out!" said Rainbow, tapping her hoof impatiently. "If you'd give me flying lessons!" he said (finally). "Yeah, sure, kid," said Rainbow with a slight gesture of her hoof, "We start tomorrow. Be here at 6:00 a.m. sharp. See ya."
The next morning at 6:00, he went to the same exact place where there was the same cloud with Rainbow standing on it, waiting for him. "First things first," said Rainbow when he arrived, "What's your name? Of course you know mine, it's…" "Rainbow Dash," he said, filling in her sentence for her. "Exactly," she said proudly, "So… what's yours?" "I… don't have one…" he said. "Then I'll give you one!" exclaimed Rainbow. "Hmm," she said, looking at his cutie mark-less flank, "We're also gonna have to get you a cutie mark…" "It's on my to-do list," he said, covering his blank flank with his rather long, golden tail. "Trust me," said Rainbow, pulling his tail away and wrapping it around her hoof, "That stuff doesn't matter to me. But I'll give you a name." She looked him over and said, "How about…
Thunderbolt?"