"At an abandoned factory, members of the street crew, Shadow Bolts, were each showing off their skateboard skills. The team could be recognized by their purple and gold trimmed jackets and the skull and crossbones ring on their left index fingers.

At the makeshift half-pipe, one skater by the name Rainbowdash was bragging and gloating to the leader and founder, Decent. Decent taunted in return, "There is no way you can pull off that trick."

Rainbowdash smirked. "Sure I can, and I can do it blindfolded."

Decent thought for a moment. "If not you have to wear only pink for a year, and, yes, you have to dye your hair."

"Agreed!" Decent and Rainbow shook hands on it.

Two other crew members named Gilda and Firefly walked up. "You seriously betting against the boss again," Firefly wondered.

"Yes, and like the other 36 times, I will win! Besides, I will get the respect I deserve."

"Can you just get on with it! This talking is annoying me to death," Gilda said in a bored tone. Rainbow got into position and prepared to perform an impossible move.

FLASHBACK
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Two female Shadow Bolt members, Gilda, who had a short eye hairstyle along with Blackhawk Native American accessories and Firefly, who had blue hair with pink trim, were walking to the old water filter plant. It was their own personal skate park where they could have fun and experiment with new tricks. When they got there, they saw a rainbow colored hair girl already skating. "Hey what is that rainbow haired loser doing here?" Gilda growled.

Firefly just hushed her and watched the rainbow girl.

She held a nose grip for thirty seconds then went down the ramp jumping up for a 180 only to grind, going down the ramp halfway to return doing a nosegrind, doing a 360 flip ending back to the nose grip. It was flawless!

Both Firefly and Gilda were shocked at what should have been impossible. "I know I am awesome. There is no need to sound so surprised." The rainbow girl came up to them "Name's Rainbowdash." She shook hands with first one then the other.

"Firefly and this is Gilda."

Gilda shrugged, "Eh I've seen better."

Firefly just elbowed her and then said, "What you did was awesome! In fact, our crew could use a skater like you". Rainbow agreed.

TODAY
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Performing the same trick that she did back then she caused the whole crew to go speechless. Decent cleared his throat and gathered his thoughts. "Not bad, for a dyke."

Rainbowdash just rolled her eyes.

After a few hours, the crew started to disperse. Before leaving, Rainbow caught Firefly's attention. "I believe you owe me something, for being 100% awesome."

Firefly rolled her eyes, "Okay, okay, I'll honor the bet." Firefly kissed Rainbow Dash on the lips. It was no secret Rainbow Dash was a lesbian and would proudly say so.

After the kiss, Rainbow checked her watch and then freaked. "Oh shit, sorry I have to go."

"Wait! Where?" Wondering what the hurry was, Firefly tried to stop her, but she was gone in a flash.

Rainbow Dash arrived at a local corner store. "Hey, Matilda, can I use the restroom? I need to change quickly."

The old woman smiled. "Of course, you don't need to ask." She gave Rainbow Dash the key to the bathroom.

Rainbow went into the restroom changing into a Canterlot Academy uniform, white collared shirt sleeves rolled up to her elbow with a grey sweater vest that had the school logo on it. She tucked it into grey, khaki pants held up by a red leather belt. The belt buckle had a logo that Rainbow felt represented her, a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt. Rainbow looked into the mirror hating the fact that she had to hide it. Thanks to a sports scholarship from the head coach Soren, she went to the top private school in the nation. The Shadow Bolts don't accept 'eggheads' from the academy.

Decent apparently had gone there but dropped out. "Bunch of eggheads that prefer to please rich elitist snobs," he said, but Rainbow didn't have that point of view. To her, Soren was someone who saw something special in her, a gay street kid just wanting to prove herself and to show that she was the best.