My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Hurricane Fluttershy

A/N: Hello, world and welcome back to the next installment! (yawns) Sorry, I was up late with my shift at the movie theater last night, and so as soon as I am able to, I'll be going back to bed since I'm a bit groggy. Anyway, time to see how our favorite ponies are doing. Onward!

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

CHAPTER TWO: TRAINING TIME

While the other pegasi continued training, Rainbow Dash went to see a certain yellow pegasus, and she knocked on the door. "Fluttershy? I know you're in there!" she called out, knocking again. "You're avoiding tornado duty and I want to know why! Fluttershy, open-"

Just then, the door opened and Fluttershy came out in her robe, and she was covered with orange spots. "Achoo. Hi, Rainbow Dash," she said, coughing weakly.

"Fluttershy, what happened to you?" the blue pegasus asked, taken aback since the last time she saw her friend, she'd been looking healthy.

"Oh, I" the yellow pegasus said, sniffing a little "I think I have" she coughed weakly "the pony pox. I'm sorry. I really, really wanted to come to training day today" she coughed weakly again, "but this pony pox has really knocked me for a loop. Achoo." She sneezed and she coughed weakly.

Rainbow Dash shook her head, tsking. "Oh, you poor thing," she remarked. "You know, there's only one cure for pony pox."

"I know, plenty of bed-" Fluttershy began when she got splashed by cold water that made her yelp, and the spots were washed away.

"Cold water!" the blue pegasus announced, holding a bucket that the water had been in. "Those pony pox are clearing right up."

"Oh, y'know, all of a sudden, I'm, I'm starting to feel better," the yellow pegasus remarked, laughing nervously as she backed away. "I'll just get out of these robes and-" She tripped on the rug and fell on her back. "Ow!" she cried, sitting up and looking at one of her wings. "Oh, my wing, oh, ow, it's hurt. I guess I can't fly after all-"

Rainbow Dash snuck up behind her friend and blew her whistle, making her yelp and shoot into the air while leaving her robe behind. "Messed up wing, huh? Stop horsing around, Fluttershy," she scolded. "We've got a lot of training to do. Come on now, what's going on?"

Fluttershy sighed and landed in front of her friend. "Well, y'see, uh, well… Oh, Rainbow Dash, I just can't do it! I can't fly!" she wailed.

"What are you talking about?" the blue pegasus asked, confused. "Just last week you went into that wicked nose dive to save that falling baby bird right before it hit the ground!"

"But that was different, that was an emergency!" the yellow pegasus countered. "This whole tornado thing, it's more like a performance, and you know how I hate performing in front of others. Don't you remember flight camp? I couldn't gallop hard or fly fast, not with everypony looking at me!"

Rainbow Dash frowned. "It wasn't that bad."

"You're right, Rainbow Dash, it wasn't bad. It was horrible!" Fluttershy wailed, recalling.

At Flight Camp, Filly Fluttershy nervously stepped up to the edge of a cloud and looked down at the crowd far below. She was convincing herself to fly when her coach pushed her. She struggled to fly, gasping fearfully and she yelped when her wings became frozen, and she fell into the cloud far below.

`"The other foals used to tease me, a lot!"`

As young Fluttershy pulled herself out of the cloud, the foals began chanting. "Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly!"

"I just can't risk that sort of humiliation again," Fluttershy wept as the memory faded.

Rainbow Dash sighed, recalling that they both had had issues at the Flight Camp, even after getting their cutie marks. "Suck it up, Fluttershy!" she snapped. "This is no time for– I mean, confidence or no confidence, I'm gonna need every Pegasus to break the record, including you. I need every ounce of wing power I can get."

The yellow pegasus shook her head. "Oh, I-I don't think so, Rainbow Dash…"

The blue pegasus sighed again and walked away. "Thanks anyway."

Fluttershy watched her friend go and sighed, defeated. "Wait. I'll do it."

"You will?" Rainbow Dash asked eagerly, returning to her friend.

The yellow pegasus nodded. "I will."

"You're game?"

"I'm game."

"Alright!"

Back at the training camp, Twilight Sparkle was making some minor adjustments to her anemometer, Sunrise Blossom was passing around protein drinks she'd mixed up to the pegasi, and Spike was taking notes when two pegasi walked up.

"What exactly does this machine do?" Cloudchaser asked.

"This is an anemometer," the purple unicorn explained. "It measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential. Any other questions?"

Flitter frowned. "Yeah," she said and turned to Spike. "What exactly does this machine do?" she asked.

"It tells you how fast you're flying and how strong your wings are," the baby dragon translated, sighing.

Both pegasi nodded while Twilight Sparkle scowled. "Ohhhh… Okay… I see…"

Just then, one of the pegasi coughed and Twilight Sparkle stalked through the crowd with a can of disinfectant, and confronted Thunderlane. "Is that you again, Thunderlane?" she demanded, spraying him. "Please, we need to have a germ-free environment."

"It wasn't me, it was Blossomforth," Thunderlane protested, scowling at a nearby female pegasus.

Rainbow Dash joined them, not believing the black pegasus. "Don't worry, Twilight," she said, frowning. "Thunderlane's just cooking up an excuse to spend tornado day in bed. Why don't you get over here and be our first test flyer, Thunderlane?" And while everypony was focused on him, nopony paid attention to Blossomforth, who quietly coughed.

Flying over to the track, Thunderlane flexed his wings and shot down the track. He zipped past the anemometer, which spun fast.

Twilight Sparkle checked the results and called them out so that Spike could write it down. "We have 9.3 wing power."

"Impressive," Sunrise Blossom commented, giving the black pegasus a protein drink.

"Wow! That's fast!" the pegasi exclaimed.

"YEAH!" shouted Bulk Biceps.

Rainbow Dash nodded. "Not bad, not bad." She flew over to the track, cracked her joints, and then she shot down the track so fast, that she nearly blew away the other pegasi and Spike, and left the twins with messy manes as the anemometer spun very fast.

"16.5 wing power!" Twilight Sparkle announced and the pegasi were cheering.

"Now listen up!" said the blue pegasus, looking around at the pegasi. "If each of you can get your numbers up to at least 10.0 wing power by the end of the week, we'll no doubt set a new tornado speed record. We'll be number one!"

The pegasi flew into the sky, cheering while Fluttershy smiled weakly and remained on the ground.

Over the next few hours, each pegasus took a turn in flying past the anemometer to measure their wing power, and there was a lot of impressive numbers being written down by Spike.

"Impressive," Rainbow Dash complimented when one pegasus revealed 11 wind power. "Fluttershy, your turn," she called out to the yellow pegasus, who was last on the list, and she blew the whistle.

Nervous, Fluttershy stepped on the track and flew forward, beating her wings as hard as she could, picking up speed, and she was starting to feel confident when she overheard Flitter and Cloudchaser laughing. Suddenly she recalled the foals who laughed at her, their words echoing in her mind `"Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly…"` She slowed down as she passed the anemometer, which did a little squeaking and clicking.

Reading the results, Twilight Sparkle whispered frantically to the blue pegasus and her sister. "Tell her!"

"I can't!"

"No, you tell her!"

"No, you!"

Swallowing, Rainbow Dash flew over to the yellow pegasus with a nervous smile. "Um… great job, Fluttershy!" she complimented. "You measured, uh, uh, 0.5."

".5?" Spike repeated. "Isn't that like… less than one?" he asked when he was bonked on the head by the purple unicorn. "Ow!"

`"Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly!"` echoed through Fluttershy's mind, along with demonic laughter. Crying, she ran away.

Rainbow Dash flew after her. "Fluttershy, wait!" she called out, not wanting her friend to leave. "So some punks poked a little fun at you and you got stage fright, big deal. You aren't gonna go quit just because of that, are you?" she asked.

Upset, Fluttershy stopped running and faced the blue pegasus. "Yes!" she cried.

"But I need you!" Rainbow Dash pleaded.

"I'm sorry, Rainbow Dash, I just" the yellow pegasus apologized between sobs "don't have the courage right now…" And she ran off.

Rainbow Dash watched her run away, and she sighed, disappointed.

A/N: Sometimes even I flashback to when I was bullied as a kid. So, I can relate to poor Fluttershy. Anyway, I will see you all again on Monday since I have a morning shift at the movie theater on Tuesday. Bye for now! R&R everyone!