[Sweet Apple Acres, 11:00 a.m.]

Whew, this worrying thing can finally be over. I thought as I finished brushing my mane. This audition thing will be over today. I'm kind of happy and sad for it to be over. I've been training for months and practicing for my entire life for this day. I am not going to screw this up. Spitfire said that even though I am one of her friends she can't go easy on me. Like she needs to, I've got this in the bag.

I walked out of my room, and down the stairs to the kitchen. I was greeted by Applebloom, AJ, Big mac, and Granny Smith. I gave back the appropriate greetings for the morning. I had my mind on one thing, and one thing only. That position for the WonderBolts. I was determined to win this, I wasn't going to give it up...

"Dash...Dash!...RAINBOW DASH!" I heard someone yell to me, I snapped my head over to where Applejack was "Ya'll need to quit spacing out, yer food is going to get cold."

"Sorry Apples. I've just got my mind set on getting that position." I told her, before digging into the pancakes and eggs she made me.

"I understand that, but you're gonna need to get some grub in ya. I don't want you to get sick before you perform." She told me. I nodded thankfully to her.

"Hey big sis! I can I go watch Rainbow Dash's performance?" Applebloom asked.

"You've got school Applebloom." She told her.

"Hey Apples, why don't we let her come along? I mean, I bet her and the Cutie Mark Crusaders are dieing to see exactly how I got my Cutie Mark." I told her.

"Yeah, we are!" Applebloom told her older sister.

"Well, I guess...if Dash wants you to come then you should." Applejack said reluctantly.

"That's the spirit Apples." I said with a smile "Applebloom, I need you to go round up the rest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders in that case." I turned towards her and said.

"Uhuh." She replied, and left as quickly as she could.

"Well now I'm going to be babysitting 4 babies." Big mac said smugly. I started to laugh, Applejack didn't get it at first.

Finally understanding what he had said, she replied "I am not a baby!" Big Mac and I couldn't handle it anymore. We started to laugh. Applejack must have been turning it over in her mind, because she started to laugh afterwords. Everyone was in a good mood that morning.

After I finished breakfast, the Cutie Mark Crusaders had just shown up. Scootaloo was freaking out like usual when she got see me fly, and Sweetie Belle was pretty excited just to get out of school. I looked over at the time, it had just turned 11:30. I didn't have to be there until 12:30, but if any day was going to make me be early to an event it was this day.

"Well Apples, I've got to the stadium. I want to practice a little before I get have to perform. Bring everyone around 12:30, I'll see if I can get the team to say 'Hi' to the fillies." I told AJ.

"Alright, see you in a bit Dash." Applejack replied.

"Bye Dash! See you in a little while." Scootaloo said before I walked out the door. Which was followed by even more goodbyes, most of which were drowned out by each other.

[Canterlot Stadium, 12:10 p.m.]

When I arrived at the Stadium, I was greeted by the entire team. I greeted them back and asked where Spitfire was at. I was told by each she was still in the locker room with Lighting Bolt. I walked into the hallway, and then finally arrived tat the door to the team's room. I knocked first, and her quite a lot of shuffling first. Then Spitfire opened the door "Hey, uh...what's up?" she said a little rushed.

"Nothing too terribly much, I just wanted to ask if it was fine if I brought a group here. They're called the Cutie Mark Crusaders, they want to find their Cutie Marks badly. So I thought of bringing them here to meet the rest of the team. That is if you're not 'busy'" I told her with a slight grin. She knew that I had figured out what she was up to at that moment. She started to blush really hard, her face was like a cheery compared to her usual yellow coat.

"I...well we're...not..." She started to stammer out.

"Don't worry about it, finish whatever you started. They won't be here for a little while, I'll just tell the rest of the team that you're yelling at Lighting Bolt for something stupid." I said and giggled a little.

I could tell that she was embarrassed from having me find out what she and Lighting Bolt were up to. After I told her that I'd cover for them that she seemed to calm down. She nodded and walked back into the room. Closing the door behind her, I heard her and Lighting Bolt laugh to each other. I heard a muffled Thank you! From Lighting Bolt, which was distorted by the sound of shuffling from inside the room.

I walked back down the hallway, and out to the field. Flash looked over at me and asked what they were doing in the room, I laughed to my self for a second and responded with "Oh she's chewing him out for something stupid. I wouldn't go in there I feel like she'd give anyone a licking if they interrupted them."

"Is it that bad?" She asked.

I couldn't hold it, I couldn't contain my laughter. Once I stopped I responded with "Yeah, it is that bad." She looked at me puzzled with why I had started laughing.

"What was so funny?" She asked.

"Oh nothing, I just remembered a joke between me and Soarin'." I answered. She shrugged and went back to doing her stretches. The silence that filled the room was interrupted by just little grunts from the exercising team and participants of the auditions.

Then the interruption became even louder by the sounds of a fight. Not the physical kind, more of just a dispute of between two people. I walked over to where the dispute was, and sure enough it was Applejack fighting with one of the team members who thought that they were just photographers who had hired a few fillies to act like little one who wanted to meet the team. When I got there I settled to dispute.

"Don't work Clash, they're here with me." I told him.

"Oh okay. Sorry about that miss, you have to be on your hooves about these photographers now-a-days they'll try anything." He apologized to Applejack.

We walked out onto the field and had the little ones talk to all the ponies who had shown up for the auditions. The girls were having a really good time, they were having fun talking to all the fliers about how they got their Cutie Marks.

No one noticed that Spitfire had came out with Lighting Bolt, stands me. I walked over to where she was and asked her "So, you two have fun?" with the intentions of that specific reason.

"I think you of all people would know." Spitfire answered. We laughed for a little bit, she then looked over at the fillies and asked "So this the group that you were telling me about?"

"Yep, you see that little orange Pegasus over there?" I asked her.

"Yeah, what about her?" She asked.

"Her name is Scootaloo, she is like my biggest fan. I bet she'd really love to meet her idol's idol. The other two are Sweetie Bell and Applebloom. Applebloom is Applejack's sister, and Sweetie Belle is Rarity's. Their group is called the Cutie Mark Crusaders, I bet they'd love to talk to you both." I said to her and Bolt.

"Well I don't see why not." Spitfire said. I nodded and walked with them back to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. We all were having a great time. About twenty minutes before the performances were supposed to take place we had to have the fillies go take their seats for the show. This is going to be it, that's to being close to Spitfire I can be the last performer...

[Canterlot Stadium, 4:00 p.m.]

"Next up, Mrs. ThunderClap!" I heard Spitfire announce. ThunderClap was the pony right before me. I was the last act. Was I nervous? Hell yes, my whole life lead up to this event. I will not back down, or give up. Go big or go home. Today is the day, nothing matters but winning your position to be in the team.

I heard her music continue to play, it was a stylish hard-rock song. She had great taste. I felt like I was in a trance, like it was all a dream. I had heard her practice with her music to know when she was going to finish. I started to hear the final cords to the song, I wouldn't mind losing to her. Like I would though, I chuckled to myself.

"Lets hear it for Mrs. ThunderClap!" Spitfire announced as ThunderClap finished her routine "Now, our finally performance. She had requested to be the last performer for the day, let me welcome good friend of mine. She won the best young flier competition a while back, and has been a big fan of this team ever since she was a filly. Lets give it up for Rainbow Dash!" I heard Spitfire say out to the crowd.

My music started to play, and to everyone's surprise it wasn't rock music. I had talked to DJ PON3 and got a song made for my performance. I walked out into the spotlight of the field, and the slow bassline started. I gradually got louder, and you could hear the suspense. The mid-range and treble line came in. Then it stopped, silence filled the stadium. The kind of silence to which you-could-drop-a-pin-and-hear-it-bounce-kind-of-silence.

I readied my hind-legs, the drop was about to happen. I jumped into the air with such strength that it was perfectly in tune with the song. I was flying with the grace that I need for the song now. I could see the wide eyes of everypony, they must have thought that was the best beginning to a performance as you could get, boy were they in for a surprise.

When I said that the music was made for me by DJ PON3, I didn't lie. We worked together on it for a month to perfect it, I knew it inside and out. The tempo matched with the beats of my wings as I began my upward dive. I got to the point of which I let myself stall, I feel back toward the planet. Hearing the bass and treble start building up for my intro.

Mere seconds before any normal Pegasus would have opened to come out of the dive, I held fast. Just before impact, I opened my tucked wings and leveled out. The song exploded into its main course at that moment, adding the most needed cool effect. Flying super close to the ground, I tilted my wings up and ascended towards the sky. Executing the first loop-de-loop, I then ascended and dove back to the ground whilst corkscrewing.

The audience was in awe, just the way I liked it. I leveled out close to the ground again, I was going to do one of my new moves that I made specially for this performance. I got as close to ground with as much speed as I could, I opened my legs towards the ground. Catching it with my front hooves, I turned 180º and bucked at the air. I converted all the speed I had into this kick, I instantly broke the sound barrier. A semi-Rainboom had happened, when I bucked the air a Rainbow shot out from where my feet stayed in the air. If that didn't cause the shock and awe that the crowd needed, the finally move would knock them dead.

I lunged forwards with my front hooves and took off again, that whole maneuver only took about a minute to actually complete. But I seemed like forever for the pony who was producing such a wonderful effect. Ascending upwards I began a outside loop-de-loop, I was mere inches from the ground when I finished the move. I went up higher, the song was building up for a grand finale. Higher and higher, the song was becoming more and more muffled by the sound of rushing air. I was high enough to perform the finale. I turned around and jetted back towards the ground. Faster and faster.

Want it, want it with all of your heart. Don't let anyone tear this from you now. I thought as I felt the air resistance start in front of me. I pushed harder and harder to get passed it. I was at the breaking point of the air. It was a beautiful sight for myself. The third and finally drop of the song was about to happen.

BOOM.

The air gave way, at the same time as the song did. The beats were amazing, and were complemented by the shockwave-rainbow. I proceeded to finish the performance, I wrote out the names of all the team members. When I had finished, I slowed and landed in the field.

The stadium was silent, awe struck. They didn't know what to be so happy about. They erupted into applause. The crowd went wild, the sounds of applause could be heard out in the streets, but no pony was out there. They were here watching the performance. It took several minutes for all the ponies to finish applauding. I saw Spitfire fly out to the center, next to where I was standing.

"Lets hear it for Rainbow Dash again!" She yelled out. The crowd erupted louder than before, I didn't even think it was possible for them to get any louder than they had before. I just went on and on. I was smiling harder than anytime I had before. Even if I hadn't made the cut, which by the looks of things seemed impossible, I had gone out with the biggest bang any of these ponies had seen.

When the applauding had died down, Spitfire was about to speak but was interrupted by the sound of opening doors and dashing of hooves. Everypony's gaze turned towards the noise. It was Princess Celestia, Twilight, and a lot of guardsponies. "What's happened Princess?" Spitfire asked.

"Everypony get out now!" Was all she was able to say.

BOOM!

It was too loud to understand what the princess had said. It was also too bright to see anything. The whole stadium was filled with blinding white light. When it cleared, there floating above the center of the field was a Dark Red coated unicorn. He began to chuckle. It grew into laughter, then into a maniacal kind of laughter.

"Haha, All of you. Remember this day." He laughed out.

"Attack!" One of the guardsponies yelled out, and the whole lot rushed to unicorn.

He turned to the, a shine went off of his horn and the front pony evaporated, while the next two where turned to nothing but skeletons. And the ones following those were burned to death by a magnificent blue flame. "Fools, you cannot stop me." He laughed out.

"Everypony run!" The Princess yelled out. This time the advice was taken. The stadium cleared out, even the team left. Stands myself and Spitfire. "Dark-Horn, I should have known it was you from the second I felt such evil energy." She yelled out to him.

"Ha, how nice to see you too Princess. How are you? Sister still on the moon? Listen, I haven't come to destroy you today. This is merely a warning, my army is only a year from here. The reason I'm telling you this is because it is so much more fun to go against an army instead of annihilating a whole continent with too much ease. So be a darling and make something that will 'try' to stop my army. Chao!" He said like a jerk, then flashed out.

"Damn it, Spitfire..." The Princess called out waiting for the answer.

"Aye, ma'am." She answered.

"Get all the ponies on high alert, rally the troops tell them to meet at the old battlement hill. Take Rainbow Dash with you. You are the General of the Army now, its a shame that he was the first pony to go in this war. When the army gets there, start drilling. Ready DI's for a batch of new recruits, we're going to need all the help we can get for this war." She said.

"Aye, Dash lets go." Spitfire answered in a military tone.

"Sure thing." I said without thinking. We took off and flew towards the barracks that was stationed in Canterlot, the troops were already filed outside ready for briefing. We landed and explained the situation. We had a messenger sent out to rally all of the forces to the hill.

I sighed deeply on the way to the hill, Today was the best day of my life. Now its shit, great. It was a decently good day, but this tore it into a horrible day. Why does this happen on days that should make my life the best life in the world?...

FIN

[Author's Notes]

Well good evening everyone, hope you like this plot twist. This is the end for this story, but fret not my kind comrades. I will make another containing the sequel. Also if you'd like an alternate ending to this story, leave a review to tell me you want it. Along with suggestion or comments towards the story. I love you all, thanks for taking a liking to my story.

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