It was a clear blue sky day in Ponyville. Birds were singing as a gentle breeze glided over Sweet Apple Acers. Big Macintosh was busy bucking golden delicious apples, filling up a wagon that his sister, Apple Jack, was hitched up to. When the cart was full, Apple Jack hauled it away.

"I think we're good on these golden delicious, Big Macintosh," she said as she trotted up the lane with her big brother riding up to meet her pace, "Granny Smith's apple cider is going to be a big seller tomorrow at the market."

"Eeyup," he said with a small smile on his face.

"Oh I just know that this is going to be the best apple buckin' season ever!" she exclaimed, "Seeing as how well all our trees have been doing and on the account that 'Ponyville's Summer Celebration' is coming up pretty soon. Oh just think on how much sells we're going to make?"

"Eeyup," he said, "Sales will sure be up this year." Suddenly a big breezed picked up, followed be a quick strike of many colors, and finally the toppling over most of the apples they had buck.

"Grr…. Really Rainbow Dash? What in tarnation has gotten into you?" shouted Apple Jack as she and her brother started to pick the apples that were dropped.

"Sorry. No time to explain. Gotta hide. Bye," the blue Pegasus said in a rush and flew off.

"What has gotten her tail in a knot?" Apple Jack said in a huff, "She acted like there was a wild bear chasing after her."

"Excuse me," said a tender voice. The two looked up to find an older male Pegasus of a deep gray with a white mane with a cutie mark of a dark storm cloud and a golden lighten bolt. "I was wondering if either of you have seen my daughter, Rainbow Dash? She has seemed to have disappeared on her mother and me."

"Howdy Mr. Strom Cloud. What ya'll need Rainbow Dash for?" Apple Jack asked as she walked closer to the older Pegasus.

"Her sister, my eldest daughter, Sunshine will be coming to Ponyville for the celebration that will take place. She'll be here any minute and it's most important that we all be there for when her arrival," Strom Cloud said in a regal manner, "You know, my Sunshine works for Princess Celestia as one of her fine weather Pegasus." He puffed out his chest with pride, "It is such an honor to be one of the top Weather Pegasus and my Sunshine is the best. Now please be a dear, Miss Apple Jack, and do find Rainbow Dash before the sunsets. I don't want her to be late for Sunshine's arrival."

And with a loud crack of his wings, Strom Cloud was gone, knocking over the apples again after making his "grand" exit.

"Man! You see why I have to hide now!" Rainbow Dash said with a loud snort after she jumped down from the cloud she was hiding in.

"What's wrong?" Apple Jack asked as she joined her brother to pick the apples up.

"Oh weren't you listening? My oh-so-perfect sister is coming to Ponyville. Bleh!" Rainbow Dash said as she acted like she was gagging on something awful.

"What's so bad about that? Your dad is just happy to be seeing your sister again. Ain't nothing wrong with that," Apple Jack said with "as a matter of fact" tone, "Ain't that right, Big Macintosh?"

"Eeyup," said the red stallion as he piled the last of the apples back in cart.

"Besides she can't be that bad. I'm sure she misses you as much as you miss her," Apple Jack said as she hitched the cart to her back again.

"Ha! Highly doubt that! She's so uppity with her noble career. It's been almost a year since we've seen her," Rainbow Dash said as she hovered the two Apple siblings.

"Well, shoot, I'm sure she's written to ya'll about it all?" the orange pony said with a smile as they approached the barn.

"Well yeah, but they're so boring. I mean, come on! She works close with the Wonder Bolts! You would think she would talk about that rather than how she learned how to make it rain," Rainbow Dash said with a scowl.

"Well maybe she'll tell you all about the Wonder Bolts when she comes in," Apple Jack replied as her brother unhitched her from the cart and started emptying out the apples.

"I still don't see why I have to be there when all she is going to do is take the attention from Mom and Dad… Especially Dad. He's going to want to show her off all over Ponyville and be like, 'Look, here my daughter who works for the Royal Weather Patrol.' Or something like that," Rainbow Dash said as she pouted near the door of the barn.

"Did you say the Royal Weather Patrol?" ask Twilight Sparkle from the door as she was passing by, "She must be important. What's her name?"

"Sunshine," Rainbow Dash grumbled as she crossed her front legs and pouted even more.

"Sunshine? Well she's one of the top weather Pegasus of her age and has been honored at least once. You never told me she was your sister. It must be fascinating to have a sister like her!" the magical unicorn exclaimed with glee.

"More like a pain in my behind if you ask me," groaned the young Pegasus.

"And there will be more pain on it once I'm through with you, young lady," said a stern voice. From one of the hay loft bounded the anger older male Pegasus as he looked on his youngest daughter with much displease, "How dare you run off like that when you know your sister will be here at any minute and look at the time? I'm sure she's at the cloud house by now. Now not a word from you. You will behave, understood, Rainbow Dash, or you're grounded the week of the celebration?"

"But Dad, that's not fair!" exclaimed the young Pegasus.

"Is that understood?" Storm Cloud said as he stomped one of his power hoof make the ground slightly shake.

"Yeah yeah," Rainbow Dash said with a shrug.

"Yes Father," Storm Cloud corrected her.

"Yes Dad," she said with her head hanging low.

"Humph close enough. Come now, Rainbow Dash. Must not keep your mother and sister waiting," Strom Cloud said, "Say good-bye to your friends and we'll be off."

With a sigh Rainbow Dash said her good-byes and followed her father back to their home in the sky.

"Hmmm… I would think it would be nice to have a sibling like Sunshine," Twilight Sparkle said as she entered the barn.

"Well, you know how Rainbow Dash can be," Apple Jack said, "She doesn't like to be upstaged and when you think from the type of family she comes from, it's a lot to live up to. Her dad was on the Royal Flight Force and her mama was head of the local Weather Patrol."

"Eeyup," Big Macintosh said as he parked the cart in its corner of the barn, "Lots of history in that family."

"Not to mention how pretty Sunshine is," Apple Jack said with a smirk as she watch her brother's ears perk at what she said. With a giggle, she decided to invite Twilight inside for some of Granny Smith's famous apple cider, leaving Big Macintosh in a blushing mess.

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Raindrop was making sure that her daughter's room was ready for her stay when she heard a loud groan from her youngest who was stomping her way to her own room.

"Oh dear, not again," she said as she heard the door slam shut. She made her way down the stairs to find her husband puffing away at his pipe like a freight train as he sat in his cloud chair reading the news paper.

"Why are you always so hard on her, Storm?" Raindrop said as she adjusted the family portrait hanging over the mantle, "You know how different she and Sunshine are. They're practically like night and day."

"That pony needs to know how to respect others and what they do," Strom Cloud said as he wrestled with the paper to turn the page, "There's more to life than just flying fast."

"But she's so good at it. She's so athletic," Raindrop said as she strolled up next to her husband, moving the paper so her pink eyes could meet his gray ones, "You know, when you were her age, you were the exact same way."

He snorted as he tried to look away for the beautiful blue female Pegasus that was his wife, but she pulled him back to look at her.

"She's so much like you that you two are constantly budding heads now a-days and you can't stand it," she said with a small smile, "But dear, if you keep pushing her like this, it will only be time when she ends up hating you for this. You believed in Sunshine's dream, why not help Rainbow with hers?"

"The Wonder Bolts are nothing more than a bunch of showboating clowns who only think of how much they'll get paid or what crazy things they can get their fans to do," he said with a snort.

"Now Daddy, that's not very nice to say," said a white Pegasus with a golden mane and gray eyes, "You know I have to work with them too."

"Sunshine!" exclaimed Raindrop as she leapt to nuzzle her eldest daughter, "I'm so glad you're here. How was your flight? Hopefully nice with no bumps in the wind?"

"Fine, Mom," she said as she nuzzled her mother back, "Nothing but clear skies and smooth sailing."

Storm Cloud got off from his chair to look at his beautiful daughter.

"My stars, you are so lovely," he said with such pride, "I'll have to lock you in the basement to keep all those brut Pegasus away so they don't steal you away."

"Oh Daddy," Sunshine giggle as she nuzzled him too, "So where is the little beast anyways? I have a present for her."

"Humph," Storm Cloud snorted, "Up in her room and not allowed out until dinner."

"Oh Daddy, don't you think that's a bit harsh?" she said as she started to head up stairs to see her younger sister.

"She was going to hide to avoid seeing you," he groaned.

"Oh Daddy," she giggled and turned the corner to reach the door with a large "Keep Out" sign, "Rainbow Dash? It's Sunshine. Can I come in?"

Rainbow Dash stepped out of her room and leaned against her door frame with a scowl on her face as she looked at Sunshine.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"I have a present for you, you little beast," Sunshine said as she started to reach in her pack that was on her back, "I know how much you want to be in the Wonder Bolts, so I got you this."

She held in her mouth an autographed poster of her favorite of the Wonder Bolts, Spitfire.

"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" squealed the young Pegasus as she snatched the poster from her older sister, "This is the best present ever! How did you do it?"

"You know I work close with the Wonder Bolts whenever they do big tours and stuff like that. I talked to Spitfire and told her all about you. She said you might add something more to the Wonder Bolts when you're a little older," replied her elder sibling.

"What do you mean older?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she gently placed the poster on her bed, "I could totally join them right now. I am still the fastest flier in all of Cloudsdale and not to forget that I can fly so fast that I can create a Sonic Rainboom."

"Which you've only been able to do twice in your entire flying career," Sunshine teased as she entered her sister's messy "threshold".

"HEY! To most ponies that's just an old mare's tale, but I have been able to do it with eyewitnesses!" she shouted.

"Cool your steam, Dash," Sunshine said as she ruffled her sister's mane, "I'm not trying to start anything with you. I just want to enjoy my vacation with you and catch up on some things. You know like friends and life and how many other tricks you've learned. Letters can only say so much and not to mention how vague Dad's letters can be when it comes those sorts of things. Mom's are better, but you know how detailed she can be."

"Yeah, she's been trying to make me brush my mane more, but can't help that it gets all knotted from all the flying I do," Rainbow Dash said as she and her sister got comfortable on her bed.

"Now I want to know everything. Tell me of your friends and who they, but don't go too much into detail or I might be bored to death," Sunshine said so dramatically.

"Haha… Sis, you know there is never a dull moment with me," Rainbow Dash said as she swatted her sister with her pillow.

"Of course Dash," she giggled and the two continued to laugh and bonded until supper time.

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The next morning Sunshine was greeted with the sun streaming through her window. She yawned and stretched her body wings as she slowly rose out from her bed. She knew her family would still be asleep, so why not just go for a little flight around Ponyville before her mother smothered her to death and her father tried took her to work to show her off to all his coworkers. After she stretched all her tensed muscles, she made her way down the stairs as quietly as possible. Once she had made it through the front door, she spread her wings and took off. Unlike her younger sister who was all about speed, Sunshine preferred to glide with grace and style. She soared through the air as her gold mane glitter in the morning sun. She loved to feel the wind on face and the warmth of the sun on her back and wings. She smiled with glee as she flew over an apple orchard, not even noticing the red stallion watch her glide in the distance.

After her flight, Sunshine landed in front of her family home and trotted up to the door. She could smell the fresh apple pancakes that her mother was making as a small smile formed on her face.

"Ah, there you are, lovely," Raindrop said as Sunshine walked into the kitchen, "Hungry?"

"Yeah kinda," she replied as she sat at the table next to her father.

"How was your morning flight?" he asked as he shuffled through his newspaper.

"It was nice. Just what I needed to start the morning," she said as her mother served her pancakes, "Where is Rainbow Dash?"

"Humph," Strom Cloud snuffed, "Probably still asleep. You know she's not an early riser like you."

"Oh Strom please," Raindrop snapped, "You weren't an early riser when you were her age either. She's still young and needs her sleep."

Then there was a muffled yawn as a sleepy Rainbow Dash sluggishly made her way to the table. She yawned again and slammed her face into the table as she drifted back to sleep. Sunshine giggled as her father rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to his paper.

"So Sunshine, how about we make our way to my work and have you meet some of my coworkers?" he asked with a smile.

"Oh Daddy," she said, "Umm… that sounds like fun, but I already made plans with Dash."

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash said as she jerked awake at the sound of her name.

"Yeah. Rainbow Dash said she would take me around Ponyville and to meet her friends, " Sunshine said as she looked to her younger sister for help.

"I did?... Oh, I mean yeah, I did," Rainbow Dash said with a nervous giggle, "You know Ponyville and friends and stuff…. Heh heh."

"Humph," Strom Cloud snored.

"Don't worry Daddy. I'm sure I can meet them when the celebration," Sunshine said as she winked at her sister.

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Rainbow Dash and Sunshine raced through the sky as they made their way into town.

"Race ya to Sugar Cube Corner!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she sped off. She flew through ever cloud that came in her way making the day even cleared. She bounded through trees and came to a screeching halt in front of the fancy café where a pink pony waited outside with a smile on her face.

"Hey Dashie!" shouted the pink pony as she trotted to meet her friend, "What took you so long?"

"What do you mean what took me so long?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "I got here before my sister, right?"

"Nope," came her sister's voice from the doorway of the cute café. Rainbow Dash dropped her jaw as she tried to make sense of this situation.

"While you "dashed" through all those clouds and trees that were slowing you down, I landed and trotted on over here," she said with a sly smile.

"But but… But! That's not fair!" whined the young blue Pegasus as she pouted.

"Don't worry, Dash. One day you'll be smart," giggled Sunshine, "Come on. I'll buy you a cookie and you can introduce me to all your friends.