Chapter 1
Quicksilver
The dark blue Pegasus flew low over Ponyville. He was midnight blue with a mane that showed the colors of the rainbow in their darkest shades. Over his flank was a saddlebag and over his eyes a pair of worn leather goggles similar to the goggles worn by his favorite flight team The Wonder Bolts. His name was Quicksilver and he had come to Ponyville to get away from the mad rush of the city cloudsdale, he was fit and athletic and he looked it. One of the best flyers to come out of cloudsdale and the second pony ever to produce a sonic Rainboom he could have lived life as a big shot! But he had come here to get away from that. He hated the way big business ponies were always trying to get him to sign contracts that would earn them money. Quicksilver was shaken out of his thoughts as a sky blue Pegasus rocketed past him!
"Oh no you don't!" he grinned as his wings started to beat furiously. He picked up speed and shot forward soon drawing even with the Pegasus, she was sky blue with a rainbow-patterned mane her cutie mark was a lightning bolt and a rainbow coming out of a white cloud and (he had to admit) the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen.
"Your fast" she grinned "but can you match this?' she pulled away performed several summersaults and shot forwards again.
"Oh I can do much better then that" Quicksilver grinned broadly
Quicksilver picked up speed and then folded in his left wing, banking upwards to his left, he flew over the sky blue Pegasus and then opened his left wing while folding his right wing, which brought him under the Pegasus and back to her side. He repeated the process over and over, flying in a spiral around the Pegasus mare. She simply stared slacked jawed.
"And now for my grand finale" he grinned "you now this is only a warm up?" his grin broadened. He turned up and beat his wings harder then before he picked up speed and shot towards the thin wispy clouds, once he was high enough he turned and shot down in an almost vertical nose dive, a high pitched wine started in his ears and a cone of energy appeared in front of him, his speed increased and just meters from the ground he puled sharply out of the dive. As he did there was a massive boom and a wave of color exploded from the end of the dive and the rainbow followed him as he shot upwards in a perfect arch before speeding towards the cloud were the blue Pegasus was standing shell shocked
"Names Quicksilver" he smiled landing softly next to her "and what can I call you?"
"R- Rainbowdash" she gawped.
"Concentrate, concentrate" Twilight muttered through gritted teeth, as her horn started to glow; she started to flicker and disappear. The invisibility spell was working; she was blending into the library. She opened her eyes and raised a hoof to her face, grinning with joy as she saw she could see right through it!
BOOM!
Twilight jerked and fell forward
"Twilight are you ok?" cried spike running toward her Twilight sat up and groaned, the spell had stopped working
"Yes I'm fine Spike" she sighed "but what in the world was that"
"It sounded like a sonic Rainboom" Spike frowned "but I didn't now Rainbowdash was still doing them"
"Well trust Rainbow to do something like this and not tell anypony what she was doing first" Twilight grumbled, " I almost had the spell working properly to! "
" Hey there" Twilight nearly jumped out of her coat! She turned to see a grinning Rainbowdash standing in the doorway
" Ah, Rainbow, do come in!" Twilight muttered the sarcasm evident in her voice
"Don't mind if I do" Dash trotted into the library "you think it was me just because it was a sonic Rainboom?"
"Well you are the only pony in PonyVille who can actually perform that move. That narrows down the search to just one pony, you!"
" No not any more! There's this new Pegasus in town called Quicksilver who actually earned his cutie mark performing the sonic Rainboom! Its actually his special talent!" Dash sounded delighted. Twilight was confused, and then her face split into a huge grin. Dash hated people being better then her unless…
"So Dash" said Twilight struggling to keep the grin off her face "this new Pegasus, do you like him?"
"Yeah he's awesome" Dash grinned
"Awesome hu?" spike grinned, amused at rainbows misinterpretation of the question
"So…you really like him?" twilight asked again, trying to get her point across. Rainbow gave her a confused look, and the meaning of the question sunk in
"Oh, ha, ha Twilight, very funny" she said sarcastically "no I don't like him in that way! We're just friends!"
"You just keep telling you self that Rainbow" Twilight smiled "so do we get to meet this 'awesome' guy or do we have to find him our selves?"
"What? you want to meet Quicksilver?" Dash frowned "well if he isn't to busy I suppose I could introduce him to you guys"
"Good" Twilight smiled this should be interesting.
Quicksilver shut the door of his cloud house and took a deep breath, it had been a long day. After the sonic Rainboom he and Dash had talked for a while exchanging story's about cloudsdale and flight camp until they had said goodbye and parted ways, Dash had gone to a library and he to his new cloud home. The house itself was quite spacious with a large living room and kitchen and a smaller side room which was full of shelved books, a spiral staircase lead to the upstairs area with the master bedroom and two smaller guestrooms. Quicksilver flopped down on to the sofa.
"Well" he sighed "what to do?" he didn't feel like flying again, anyway he didn't start with the weather team until tomorrow, so he was at a complete loss at what he should do until the morning. He must have dozed of because the next thing he knew there was a knock at the door. He pulled himself of the sofa and trotted to the door looked through the peak hole smiled and pulled the door open. It had grown dark and standing at the door was Rainbowdash and a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane who he didn't know, standing on the grass lawn under the house where two earth mares, one pink and one orange. And two unicorns, one white and one purple
"Hey Silver" Dash grinned, "We were just going to the Cheery Orchard for some dinner and Pinkie said you probably hadn't eaten yet so we wondered if you'd like to come out and eat with us?" Fluttershy glanced at Dash, she almost never jabbered like that! Despite what Dash said Fluttershy found herself wondering if what Twilight said was true, that Rainbowdash liked Quicksilver as more then a friend.
"Sure" Silver said with a smile as he spread his strong wings and took of. He circled twice around the house before settling down on the soft lawn
"Darling" breathed the white unicorn "I love your cutie mark" Silver glanced at his flank and smiled. He had earned his cutie mark at flight camp. It was an explosion but instead of the dull orange of an explosion there where the colors of the rainbow.
"Thanks" he grinned and the seven ponies walked out of his yard and down the dirt road.