My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Hurricane Fluttershy
A/N: Hello, world and welcome back to MLP: Friendship is Magic! So, this is the final chapter of this story, and the start of the next story will be on Monday as I have another morning shift at the movie theater on Tuesday. Yeah, work is starting to pick up with the summer movies starting to come out, and if there is a delay between postings, it's because of work and real life. Onward!
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CHAPTER FOUR: TORNADO CHAOS!
Tornado Day arrived and so did Cloudsdale, which positioned itself above the highland reservoir, where the pegasi were gathered, and Twilight Sparkle set up a large anemometer with the help of Sunrise Blossom while Spike was keeping attendance of the arriving pegasi. The moment they saw the arrival of Spitfire, who landed next to the anemometer, they cheered.
"Are we ready to do this?" Rainbow Dash asked her team, who were pulling on goggles.
"Yeah!"
Spike ran up to the blue pegasus to show her the attendance list, revealing that they were missing a pegasus. "Look!"
"Lazy Thunderlane!" Rainbow Dash complained, looking around for the black pegasus. "Where is he?! He's been trying to get out of tornado duty the whole time with his fake coughing and all. Rumble, where's your lazy brother?" she asked a grey pegasus foal.
"He's got the feather flu," Rumble replied. "He's down at Ponyville Hospital."
"But he's not the only one," the baby dragon added, showing that there were other pegasi missing, too.
After going over the attendance list to see how many pegasi were missing, Twilight Sparkle did some math. "Let's see, with those eight sick Pegasi out with the feather flu…" she muttered and gasped at the results, alarmed. "Oh no!"
"Don't tell me we won't be able to break the windspeed record?" Rainbow Dash asked, worried.
The purple unicorn shook her head. "No…"
"Phew!" said the blue pegasus, relieved.
"…You might not have enough wing power to create a tornado powerful enough to lift the water to Cloudsdale!" Twilight Sparkle corrected her friend, who was looking ready to faint.
"Well, should we pack up?" Spike asked.
Rainbow Dash glanced at Spitfire and at the waiting pegasi before shaking her head. "No. Of course not," she decided. "Forget the record." She flew over so that she was hovering above her team. "Cloudsdale still needs water! Okay, everypony! Let's give it all we've got! On the sound of the horn, we take off!" she announced, pulling her goggles over her eyes.
Twilight Sparkle tapped the giant anemometer and nodded to the baby dragon, who took a deep breath, and blew on a large horn.
The pegasi took to the sky and began flying in a circle as fast as they could, and the wind began howling as the giant anemometer began keeping track by spinning its' blades.
"You think they're gonna make it to eight hundred wing power?" Spike wondered as he and the twins took shelter beside the anemometer.
"I sure hope so!" Twilight Sparkle answered while keeping track of the anemometer. "One hundred and fifty wing power. Two hundred and fifty wing power. Five hundred wing power!"
As the wind increased, the water began churning and rising toward the tornado.
"It's working!" Sunrise Blossom exclaimed, excited.
"Seven hundred and fifty wing power!" the purple pegasus called out.
Just then, Fluttershy arrived, struggling against the wind to join the twins and the baby dragon at the anemometer. "Twilight! Sunrise!"
"Fluttershy! You came!" Sunrise Blossom exclaimed, happy to see her friend.
The yellow pegasus nodded. "I figured… if I couldn't help Rainbow Dash with the tornado… the least I could do was offer moral support!" she informed the purple unicorn.
"She could sure use it, considering eight Pegasi are sick with the feather flu!" Twilight Sparkle agreed.
"Oh no!" Fluttershy gasped. "That's terrible news!"
Inside the tornado, the water was splashing as it flew upward, nearing the top of the tornado. Unfortunately, one of the pegasus lost control, was sent spinning around, and crashed into the other pegasi, creating a chain reaction. Soon the tornado collapsed and the pegasi were sent flying in every direction, and the water splashed back into the reservoir, along with several pegasi.
"Yaa– oof!" Rainbow Dash screamed, crashing into a tree, and her head was stuck in the trunk.
Twilight Sparkle ran up with her sister and the yellow pegasus. "Are you okay?" she asked, concerned.
`"I'm fine!"` the blue pegasus snapped, her voice was muffled, and she struggled to pried herself free and did so with help from the orange unicorn using her magic to help teleport her out of the trunk.
"Oh, you were so close to the eight hundred wing power minimum," the purple unicorn remarked sadly. "I'm sorry, Rainbow Dash."
"Rbbbb– We've got to try again!" Rainbow Dash declared, retrieving her goggles from the ground, and she began flying away.
Alarmed, Sunrise Blossom magically grabbed the blue pegasus' tail. "But you've pushed your crew to their limit already!" she protested, stopping her friend.
"If you break apart again, somepony could get hurt!" Twilight Sparkle added, nodding to the pegasi, who were picking themselves off the ground, and some were pulling themselves out of the water. "You should quit, it's not safe!"
Rainbow Dash yanked her tail free and fixed the twins with a hard look. "No! One more time!" she snapped. "I've gotta know we gave it our all! If I'm going down, I'm going down flying! C'mon, ponies, let's make this happen!" And she flew back into the sky.
Hearing this, the pegasi cheered and when Spike blew the horn, they once again flew into the sky, and they began creating a tornado over the reservoir for a second time. The giant anemometer began spinning and keeping track of their wing power.
"Okay, here we go… One hundred wing power!" Twilight Sparkle called out as it got very windy. "Two hundred! Five hundred!"
Inside the tornado, Rainbow Dash was working on keeping her team going, shouting out encouragement to the pegasi flying around her. "Stay in position! Flap those wings! Faster!"
Out on the ground, Twilight Sparkle was clinging to the device as the arrow crept toward the green as the wind grew stronger. "Seven hundred! Seven hundred and fifty wing power!"
"They fell apart right after this!" Spike yelped, hanging onto Sunrise Blossom to keep from being blown away.
"Oh, I'm too nervous to look!" Fluttershy moaned, covering her eyes with her hooves.
Inside the tornado, the pegasi were flying as fast as they could, and when Rainbow Dash looked downward, she could see that the water was starting to rise upward. "C'mon! Just a little harder!" she called out. "I can see the water trying to funnel through!"
Meanwhile, Twilight Sparkle was checking on the wing power and the arrow was hovering short of the 800 mark. "Seven ninety five! We are so close!" she exclaimed and looked to the yellow pegasus. "Fluttershy, they need you up there!"
Fluttershy shook her head fearfully. "I won't make a difference!"
"You can make a difference!" Sunrise Blossom insisted.
"My measly 2.3 wing power is still too little!" the yellow pegasus wailed.
"It's sticking at seven ninety five!" Spike pointed out. "I don't know if they've got any more in 'em!"
Twilight Sparkle magically presented her friend a pair of goggles. "Do it for Equestria!" she pleaded. "Do it for Rainbow Dash! Do it for yourself!"
Fluttershy stared at the tornado and then the goggles. 'My friends need my help,' she thought and gulped as she accepted the goggles. She then flew toward the tornado and she yelped when she was sucked inside.
Once inside, the yellow pegasus righted herself and flew up so that she was now flying next to Rainbow Dash, who smiled, and they both flew hard with the rest of the pegasi.
Back on the ground, Twilight Sparkle saw the arrow moving toward the 800 mark on the device. "It's moving!" she called out, excited. "She's doing it! Seven ninety eight! She surpassed her best wing power number!"
"Go, Fluttershy!" Sunrise Blossom cheered.
Meanwhile inside the tornado, Fluttershy was flapping her wings as hard as she could when the taunt started up in her mind again. `"Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly!"` She began slowing down, but then she chose not to let the past control her anymore. "No!" And she put on an extra burst of speed.
A pegasus named Serenity blinked when a yellow blur shot past her. "What was that?"
"I think it was Fluttershy!" Slipstream exclaimed, surprised.
Out on the ground, the anemometer was beeping madly as the water from the reservoir was sucked up into the tornado, where it was launched high into the sky, and it landed with a splash in the rain factory on Cloudsdale.
"She did it!" Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom both cheered. "She did it! They all did it!"
Hearing this, Spike ran to the horn and blew on it. Hearing this, the pegasi dissolved the tornado and landed on the ground, cheering.
When Rainbow Dash landed, she looked around and saw that Fluttershy was still flying in a fast circle above the empty reservoir. Flying back up, she grabbed a cloud and used it to stop the yellow pegasus. "Whoa, girl, take it easy!"
"Whuh, what?" Fluttershy asked, pulling off the goggles and looked around in confusion. "Did we do it?"
"Yeah, we did it!" the blue pegasus confirmed happily. "You did it!" And they did a high-wing together.
They landed on the ground, where the pegasi gathered around, cheering and congratulating the yellow pegasus.
"Great job, Fluttershy, that was awesome!"
"Yeah, we couldn't have done it without you."
Spitfire came over and she was very impressed. "Nice job, Rainbow Dash," she complimented. "You may not have set a new record, but you showed a lot of guts."
"Thanks," said Rainbow Dash, flushing a little, "but if you wanna talk guts, then you've gotta give it to my number one flyer, Fluttershy! Let's hear it for Fluttershy!"
The pegasi reacted by lifting Fluttershy up and carried her back toward Ponyville, chanting. "Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can really fly!" And the yellow pegasus beamed.
She had done it!
After celebrating, Fluttershy returned to her home, where her animals friends were also celebrating, and she wrote a letter to Princess Celestia.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Sometimes you can feel like what you have to offer is too little to make a difference, but today, I learned that everypony's contribution is important, no matter how small. If you just keep your head high, do your best, and believe in yourself, anything can happen.
Your faithful subject,
Fluttershy
Pausing, Fluttershy looked out the window at Cloudsdale, where the rain factory was chugging away, creating rain clouds to send out all over Equestria. 'Yes, anything can happen.'
A/N: Yay for Fluttershy! She did it! And this is a great way to end the story, too. I will see you all on Monday. Bye for now! R&R everyone!