The sun had passed it's climax in the sky and is now descending very slowly, the sky is reddening as dusk approaches with night on it's tail. It is roughly five at the moment, Sunshine will be at your door at any moment. You are in the shower, trying to wake yourself up completely and get rid of this small amount of weariness left over from your many hours of sleep from today, but still thinking of all of these things. You turn the water flow off and wait for it to stop falling on you, when it does you give yourself a brisk shake and flap your wings a few times until you are almost completely dry. You reach up to your mane with a hoof and squeeze out a good amount of the water remaining. You quickly dry yourself off with the softest towel that you have, enjoying the feel of it.
You hang up the towel to dry and you hear four staccato knocks, you know instantly who it is. You walk through a different hallway, this one not nearly as long, with musical notes painted on the walls, Beethoofen's 9th. You reach the door and undo the chain lock while using your hoof on the handle of the door. The door swings open with Sunshine in the doorway. Your wall-eyed friend has her usual smile graced upon her face, one of her eyes are looking expectantly at you, the other looking at something in the distance. You think to yourself that she looks somewhat cute but think nothing more of it.
She is the first to speak of the two of you, "You ready to go?" is what she begins with. You nod in response, "Alrighty then! Let's go!" You aren't ready, however, for what she does next. She walks around you and grabs your tail in her teeth and starts to drag you.
You look back at her, not shocked, not angry, just slightly annoyed. "'Shine, what are you doing?" You ask her, but all she does is look back at you and giggle. After her giggle she continues to walk, which prompts you to ask again "'Shine, seriously, what are you doing?" this time no response came from the gray mare. You sigh and spread your wings, there is a slight breeze that you feel flowing through your feathers, it feels good. You make a movement that has come more naturally than blinking to you, you churn your wings up through the air, then back down, creating lift for you to take flight. You flap a few more times, not only making lift, but also thrust, moving you in the opposite direction of what Sunshine wants, but you turn yourself around, dragging her now.
You hear a very audible squeak when your friend is lifted into the air, you can feel her flailing below you. She is panicking, forgetting that she has wings altogether. You firmly plant your hoof onto your face at this, making no comment. It takes Sunshine a few moments before she remembers she has wings and you hear the flapping of her wings behind you, you also feel her let go of your tail. Within a few minutes she is next to you and clouts you playfully behind your ear, you chuckle when she does.
"Ha, ha, very funny." Despite her tone her face betrays her, as you can tell that she is very close to laughing herself.
You develop a very large smile and mock her sarcastically. "I love you too 'Shine." You chuckle after you say that.
After a few minutes of flying the two of you arrive at the Everfree Forest, you shudder at the sight of the unnatural place. Trees grew on their own and animals care for themselves without anypony's help, a horrible place it is. You scan the area, looking for blue jumpsuits. It doesn't take you very long to find them, they are at the very edge of the Celestia forsaken place, chatting among themselves. You and Sunshine land not too far off and walk the rest of the way. When you get closer you note that there are three of them there.
As soon as you are almost right next to them the very pale beige one with a yellow mane, which has brighter yellow streaks, greets you happily, "Hi, so you must be... um..." You introduce Sunshine and yourself to her, her blue eyes widen as she hears your friend's name. "So you're Sunshine?" She asks while looking over at her. "Soarin has been saying that you'll be chatting with us!" She seems to be a very... ecstatic pony. you think to yourself. You don't notice, but as you were thinking that Soarin walked up to you with the other of the Wonderbolts, a yellow Pegasus with an orange mane with lighter orange highlights and sienna eyes, she dipped her head in greeting, specifically targeted to you. You automatically understood that she already knew 'Shine, you reflect her action to her.
The yellow mare then spoke, "Shooting Star, no need to be so jumpy." she looks at the two of you, "New recruit." You and your wall-eyed friend nod in feigned understanding. "Anyway, I'm Spitfire," she gestures to the new recruit, "this is Shooting Star, and you already know Soarin." You barely notice that the pale azure Pegasus nods when she says this. You are paying attention to Spitfire, you had a brow raised. Before she can start asking questions you take your attention from her and change it to Shooting Star, you jump in surprise because she's watching you.
You shrink away slightly, you ask her if she can stop watching you. She narrows her eyes at you, them only being narrow blue slits, blue slits of suspicion. She walks up to you and whispers in your ear almost silently, not wanting anyone else to hear. "I'll speak to you after the show." There is a seriousness, an almost coldness, in her voice that sends a shiver down your spine. You look over in the direction of Spitfire, Soarin and Sunshine, none of them noticed what just happened. You turn to look at Shooting Star, but she's already walking away, shaking her head, her yellow mane bobbing to and fro. After all of this you are just standing there, obviously confused.