Hey everypony how are you. Well here is the next chapter and boy is it long. This an episode based chapter with a little improvements, I hope that I did a good job in making this for you all to read and hope that you enjoy it. The next one will be...interesting. Hint: chapter 24. don't forget to comment.
Chapter 33: wonderbolt academy
EQUESTIRA JUNE 1st- RAINBOW DASH'S HOUSE
It was a bright and sunny day as the main eleven were all sitting on the ground staring at rainbow dash's mailbox, today was the day that she would get a letter from the wonderbolts. Pinky pie was jumping up and down around her friends over and over again trying her best to calm herself.
"oooo. I wish the mailpony would just come already. I can't wait another minute to find out if rainbow dash got in or not" she said as she then hid her face with her hoofs as she looked at the mailbox.
"pinky pie. Your more nervous than rainbow dash" twilight said.
"I'm not nervous at all" rainbow dash said brightly "when I get into the wonderbolt academy", pinky pie then zoomed up to her friend and held her by her shoulders and shook her a bit "if you get in! If you get in! Don't jinx it".
Rainbow dash then moved pinky pie's hoofs to her side "I'm telling you it's in the bag".
"don't jinx it!".
Applejack was sitting next sam as she laid her head on his leg "well she is the best flyer in ponyville" she said, rainbow dash then zoomed past applejack, sam, fluttershy, and dillon as she hovered in the air with her front hoofs at her waist, "in ponyville" she then flew at a cloud and started flying all over it at the speed of light.
She then finished as she made a cloud slide and slid down it "I'm probably the best flyer in equestria" she said as she flew down to her friends with her hoofs behind her head and her eyes closed "I wouldn't be surprised if they went ahead and made me a wonderbolt on the first day", as she kept gloating she didn't look to see were she was going as she ran into the mailpony's leg as she fell on the ground as she looked up at him.
The mailpony smiled at her as he then pulled out a letter out of his carrying bag "got a letter here for rainbow dash" he said as he held it out for her, rainbow dash then grabbed the letter and opened it as fast as she could and looked at the letter to see what it said. As she looked at the letter she then had a sad look on her face as she looked up at her friends "I didn't get in" she said in a sad tone.
All of her friends gasped at what she said as they all felt sorry for her not getting in, she then holds her sad face for a few more seconds before she turns the letter around and shows it to them "gotcha!" she said making her friends look at her with smiles "hehe. You guys are so easy. Like I wasn't gonna get in", pinky pie and jack then jumped at her and hugged her to death "were just soooooooooooooo happy for you!" they said in unison as they hugged her tightly.
"uhhh. Thanks".
Pinky and jack still kept hugging her as rainbow dash then move one of her hoofs out of there grip "uhh pinky pie. Jack. I kinda need to get going", they both then hugged her as hard as they could making rainbow dash's eyes almost come out of her sockets as they both let go of her "ok were done" they said as they backed up from her. She then flew up into the air hovering a bit "the sooner I get there. The sooner I get to show them my stuff".
She then flew past her friends as dillon held up a saddle bag for her as she grabbed it with her teeth, as she landed back on the ground. Her friends then gathered to her as she looked inside her bag to see what they had packed for her, "ok let's see. Apples. Apples. Carrots. A scarf. A book on the new episode of daring do, and...huh?" she then pulled out a black present with a white bow on it "what's this for?" she asked as she shook it gently trying to figure out what it was.
Dillon then leaned down to her "it's a little something that we made for you" he said as he held out his right hand in front of her as use then gave him a high five, fluttershy then walked over to her and hugged her friend "oh. I really wish that Clayton was here to see this. He would be so happy for you" she said.
Hearing this made rainbow dash start to have a upset look on her face a bit fluttershy then Pluto het hoof over her mouth "oh dear I'm sorry. I-I didn't mean t-to bring him up" she said, rainbow dash then turned her worried look into a smile "hehehe. It's ok fluttershy. It's no big deal" she said, fluttershy smiled seeing that she didn't hurt her friends feelings, she then flew up into the air and looked at her friends "see ya in a week".
"good luck" applejack said.
"don't need it!".
She then flew up into the air on her way to the academy, pinky pie then pulled out a hug mega phone and yelled into it "DON'T FORGET TO WRITE!" she shouted as a huge shockwave of her voice vibrated everything around her as she then turned to her friends "you think she heard me?" she asked them as they were on the ground dazed by her loud voice that she did in the mega phone. Jack then gave her an ok signal as pinky pie started bouncing and smiling.
rainbow dash was high in the sky on her way to the wonderbolts academy smiling as she flew past the clouds and the birds "this is gonna be so awesome! Me finally becoming a member of the wonderbolts! Oh man when I get back to tell Clayton he'll-", she stopped talking as she then remembered what fluttershy had said:
"I really wish that Clayton was here to see this. He would be so happy for you".
She then remembered the day that he was killed and could only member what he said as his last words were:
"Farewell...comrades".
rainbow dash then started shedding tears as she flew thinking about him, she then whipped her face and shock her head "Come on rainbow dash. Your stronger than this. Your doing this to live your dream. To be strong for Clayton" she thought. But as she tried to think about other things she kept hearing fluttershy's words coming back to the front of her mind, rainbow dash then ignored the words as she saw the wonderbolt academy up ahead.
WONDERBOLT ACADEMY
rainbow dash flew into the academy as she saw the other members and would be members train and do stunts in the cloud rings, flying acrobats, wing push ups, speed runs and more. She then started to smile and grin "oh yea! This is gonna be sweet!" she said, as rainbow dash landed in a row of other Pegasus ponies as she placed her saddle bag on the ground her bag had some wonderbolt stickers on it but the biggest sticker was of clayton's symbol of a Mexican spanish skull on her bag.
"well well look what we got here" a female voice said.
Rainbow dash and the row of pegasus ponies then turned there attention to see a bright yellow Pegasus and two other Pegasus with her as she walked to them.
The yellow pony was none other than spitfire as she walked looking straight and not eyeing her new members "bet you all think that your wonderbolt material don't ya?" she asked them, "yes mam!" they all shouted in unison.
She then turned around and walked past them again "think you got what it takes to be an elite flyer?" she asked them "yes mam!" they all shouted again, she then walked up to one of the ponies "well then let me be the first to tell you" she then pokes her hoof at the ponies chest "YOU DON'T! If you had what it took to be an elite flyer then you would already be a wonderbolt!" she then goes to another pony in the line "still think your something special!?" she asked another Pegasus as she wobbles her legs "n-no mam" she said in a nervous voice.
Spitfire then looks over at the muscular pony as she looks at him with a glare making him sweat in fear and nervousness, she then looks at his wings to see that they are extremely small. She then hovers over him as she has her hoofs at her sides "you think your hot stuff?" the muscular pony then leans down in fear as spitfire then turns her attention to rainbow dash.
"you look like the worst flyer in the whole academy" spitfire said as she eyed rainbow dash up and down "you'd probably quit after the first day". "no mam! I never quit mam!" rainbow dash shouted, spitfire smiled at her as she then looked over to see the symbol from clayton's jacket on her saddle bag. Spitfire then smiled more "she has his insignia" she thought as she then walked over to the next pony.
"ah! What about you. Bet you couldn't fly past the first flag pole without getting winded" spitfire said, the green pony then smirked at her "try me mam" she said in smart tone.
Spitfire then moved her sunglasses down from her face a bit "what's that?" she said as rainbow dash then looked over to them "let me show you what I've got mam" the green pony said "fine. You want a chance to prove yourself huh?".
"yes mam".
Spitfire then moved her sunglasses back on her face "well then. Now's you chance. GIVE ME 500 LAPS! ALL OF YOU!" she shouted making the other ponies except rainbow dash grown "NOW!" spitfire shouted as she then blew her whistle for them to start. Rainbow dash and the green pony both flew high into the air first as the the others followed them.
A few hours had passed as they were still doing there laps one of the ponies tried to speed up but a huge deck of speed pasted by her making dust kick up causing her to stop and catch her breath along with spitfire and her officer ponies. As they caught there breath spitfire then looked at her stopwatch "499" she said.
Rainbow dash smiled "one more lap to go!" she said as she looked over at the green pony "you're on!" she said as they both zoomed at lighting speed trying to out beat the other, they both passed right through spitfire as she looked at her watch again "500!" she shouted as the two ponies stopped.
The two smiled at each other as they then saw spitfire walk past them "not bad. For a couple of newbies" she said as she smiled at them and walked away, rainbow dash then turned to the green pony "names lighting dust" she said "rainbow dash". The two then did a wing high five "wanna grab some grub in the mess hall?" lightning dust asked her, rainbow dash smirked at her "defiantly" she said as they both walked to the mess hall "oh hang on. Let me go grab my bag" lightning dust said as she ran over to get her yellow and blue saddle bag, she then looked over to see the sticker from clayton's jacket.
"whoa! Is that clayton's insignia?" she said to herself "yup it sure is" rainbow dash said with pride as she walked up behind lighting dust "oh man. I wonder what pony owns this?" said. Rainbow dash then stood next to the bag and pointed at the name "take a look", lighting dust then looked on the side of the bags strap to see her new friends name on it "aww no way! This is yours!?" she asked her.
"yup".
"wow. Those are extremely rare to get in any sports store. Those were in stock for a limited time at the Yamato store. But they stopped selling them" she said, rainbow dash and lightning dust then start to walk to the mess hall as they keep talking "yea I know. But I got one when they first opened", lightning dust smirked "lucky. I still have to wait for mine to come in the mail for another week. I really wanna wear it to the grand galloping Galla that comes up".
Rainbow dash looked at her "your going to the Galla?" she asked her.
"yea I'm going. I always go every year. Thank celestia you don't have to bring a date" she said, rainbow dash nodded at her "so what's the reason you joined up with the wonderbolts?". Lightning dust started to grin "to be just like Clayton" she said proudly as she placed her hoof on her chest, this made rainbow dash look at her with confusion "you wanna be like Clayton?" she said.
Lightning dust shook her head at her friend "yup. I wanna be just like him. A hero. That is why I look up to Clayton every step of the way" she finished, rainbow dash smiled at her dream she was happy that she wanted to join the wonderbolts so she could be just like her boyfriend: a hero. "I just wish that he was here so I could see him in person. He is so awesome. Not to mention fearless. Extremely reckless, and super cute". Rainbow dash blushed as she called him cute knowing that it was true as they both entered the mess hall.
PONYVILLE
pinky pie was looking in her mailbox over and over and over again hoping to get a letter from her friend. Applejack then walked up to her "pinky pie. Rainbow dash hasn't been gone 24 hours yet. Give her a chance to settle in first", pinky pie then had an upset look on her face as applejack then placed her hoof on her back "why don't we go see what twilight is up to" she suggested "I hear that celestia's got her workin on some new spells".
Pinky pie then placed her hoof on her chin "new spells huh..ok" they then started to walk over to twilight's house until pinky pie stops "wait! If I'm not here until rainbow dash's letter arrives. I won't be able to read it right away. And if I don't read it right away. Then I won't be able to write her back right away. And if I don't write her back right away. Then she might worry if-" applejack then placed her hoof on her mouth as she then pulled away from her "in other words. Your sticking by the mail box".
"yup".
"suit yerself" applejack said as she walked away as pinky pie kept looking over and over at her mailbox to see if a letter had come from rainbow dash, applejack saw and jack leaning back as they both watched pinky pie open and close the mailbox.
"she's staying by the mailbox?" sam asked her.
"yea. She ain't going nowhere for a while".
"crap" jack said as sam nodded at him, "you said it bro".
WONDERBOLT ACADEMY
Everypony was gathered as spitfire and her officers were standing behind a giant sheet, " the wonderbolts are the fastest, best persuasion flyers in the world!" spitfire said "a spinout can still happen. And when they do. A wounderbolt must be able to recover quickly., she then nodded at one of the officers as he then pulled down the sheet showing a huge spinning wheel with a harness on a single gear "this...is the dizzatron. It's gonna make you very I repeat very dizzy. Your task is to try to recover and fly straight again as soon as possablie. Once you have recovered you must come in for a smooth landing" she finished.
She then walked over to the group "now who's first?" she asked, rainbow dash and lightning dust then quickly raised there hoofs. "you" she said as she walked over to a pink pony "your up", "m-me?" she said as she looked over spitfire's side to see the huge machine and started to get nervous as she gulped.
"NOW!" spitfire shouted as the pink Pegasus then dashed past her and flew up into the seat. Spitfire then looked at her "ready?" she asked her, the pinky Pegasus then looked over to her right and to her left and she looked back at spitfire "yes mam" she said as she placed her goggles over her eyes, spitfire then looked over at her other officer "GO!" she yelled as he pulled the leaver starting the dizzatron.
The wheel started to spin as it spun the pegasus over and over again "release!" spitfire shouted as the officer pony stopped the dizzatron as it then flung her into the air. She spun and spun until she was able to get control of herself as she then flew down to the runway and landed at spitfire's feet as she fainted "heh 15 seconds. Decent but I wouldn't go riding home about it. Who's next?".
Rainbow dash then raised her hoof up "alright rainbow dash. Let's what ya got".
"yes mam!" she shouted as she flew into the the harness and pulled her goggles over her eyes, spitfire then hit her stopwatch "ok go!" she said as the officer pony started up the machine again. Spitfire watched as she then looked over at the officer "release!".
The dizzatron then flung rainbow dash as she spun in the air until she quickly gained her control and flew back down to the runway passing spitfire "6 seconds. That's an academy recoded" she said, rainbow dash then land back into her spot as the pink Pegasus pony smiled at her "you made it look so easy" she said to her. Rainbow dash smirked "heh. I make everything look easy".
"ok lightning dust yer up".
Lightning dust then flew over to the dizzatron "mam. Can you put the dizzatron at maximum speed?" she said as she sat in the harness "I wanna push my limits" she finished with a grin that almost resembled clayton's, spitfire then looked at her officer as they both looked at lightning "you sure about that?" she asked her.
"yes mam. Clayton wouldn't let something like this slow him down!" she said with pride in her voice.
Spitfire then then sighed "ok. You asked for it" she then looked over at the officer as he then pulled the leaver at maximum speed, the machine then started to go ten times as fast. Spitfire watched as she then shouted at the officer "release!", he stopped the machine as it threw her out and made her spin like a spiral as she quickly gained control and flew back down to the runway. Spitfire then clicked her stopwatch "6.5 seconds. Not bad" she said.
Lightning dust and rainbow dash then gave each other hoof fives as they both smiled at each other.
"NEXT!" spitfire shouted, the dizzatron training went on for three hours as every other pony was either dizzy, knocked out, or lost control at the landing. Lightning dust and rainbow dash watched as the there other comrades messed up.
"nopony even came close to six seconds" rainbow dash said.
"they should make us wounderbolts right now" lightning dust said with pride.
"yea they should hehe".
"bet cha that if Clayton did this he would finish this in three seconds flat with no problem" lightning dust added.
They both looked at spitfire.
"listen up. For the rest of the camp you'll be working in pairs. Tomorrow morning ll'l post the teams including who will be lead pony and wing pony. Good luck" she said as she walked away.
The two girls then looked at each other and smiled "like were gonna need it" lighting dust said, "yea. I'm with ya on that" rainbow dash said as they both did a hoof five.
Lightning dust then yawns as she stretches a bit "besides luck is for whimps. Clayton wouldn't need luck for this kind of stuff anyway. He's to awesome for that" she said "all he needs is only power and recklessness. And he has those", she then looked over to see rainbow dash sniffing a bit.
"uhhh...rainbow dash...are you...crying?" she asked her.
Rainbow dash then shot her head up and shook her head "what! Nah. Me crying. Don't make me laugh" she said as she had a fake smile showing hoping that her friend would buy it, lightning dust smiled at her as she placed her hoof on her shoulder "hehe. You almost had me there. Man if Clayton could see us now. I Bet he would ask us to hang out with him or show us his killer fighting styles. It's times like this I wish that he was here. I really miss that guy".
"yea...me too".
"well I'm gonna go and get some shut eye. It's starting to be that time. Latter dash" lightning dust said, "see ya lighting. And cool job on the dizzatron".
Lightning dust turned to her and waved "thanks. And that thing was nothing. Just who the hay do you think I am" she said as she went to the mess hall to hang out for a bit.
Hearing that made rainbow dash's heart almost break, as soon as lightning dust was out of her line of sight she then zoomed quickly to her bunker. As rainbow dash opened the door she quickly closed it and shut the blinds so nopony could see what she was doing, she then took off her wonderbolt training suit off and laid it on a chair as she then sat on her bed.
She then held held onto her pillow and started to sob in it, she was upset, She was still hurting inside and out, and she felt that nothing could make it go away.
Rainbow dash then lifted her head out of her pillow and looked at herself in the mirror as she saw that her eyes were already red. "it's been over six weeks and I still can't let it go" she said in a upset tone, she then started to hear the voices that she tried to put away inside her mind start to manifest:
"look just face the fact! He's not coming back!".
"look at what we lost! We lost a family member! And now we can never see him again!".
"will never see him again! Means that we have to face the cold truth that he's dead! And he is never ever gonna come back into this world!".
"he's...he's dead".
"Farewell...comrades".
"I really wish that Clayton was here to see this. He would be so happy for you".
"don't worry I'm fine. I'm not going anywhere".
"you promise?".
"I promise".
"I love you dashie".
"I love you too Clayton".
Rainbow dash held onto her pillow tightly "Clayton...why...just why...did you have to die. Even in death I always think about you over and over again", she then looks at her saddle bag and opens it up letting everything fall out. She then sees the gift that dillon had told her about as she pulled it close to her and starts to open it up, as she opens it up she sees what looks like an rubik's cube.
She then pulls it up to her face as she examines it "what is this thing?" she said as she look at her gift, she then saw a white button on one square as she then pressed it. The cube then started to emit a hologram over her head "whoa! This is so cool" she said as she touched the hologram and saw that she could move some of the images on the hologram.
"cool" she said as she whipped her face and started playing with her gift she then moved the screen with her hoof to see that there was a file on it. She then titled her head as she then pressed it as the holograms screen got bigger and started to show a bunch of photos of her and her friends.
She looked through them as she saw some of her friends acting silly in some of the pictures, she saw some of her human friends as well in some pics. As she was skimming through the files she then saw a file that said the word "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY" in bold letters. Rainbow dash then tap at it with her hoof as the file opened up, he eyes then widened as she saw a bunch of photos of Clayton and her.
Rainbow dash then started looking at all of the photos of Clayton and started to smile a bit as she remembered each and every memory that they had with each other, as she was looking at the photos she stopped at one that showed her and Clayton holding hoof and hand as they both laid there heads on each other smiling. She then placed her hoof on the photo as she had tears flowing down her face "Clayton" she said in a low tone.
She then leaned up to the photo and kissed the image of Clayton as she laid her head on the hologram and kept crying silently all night.
THE NEXT DAY
Everypony was in the mess hall looking at the partner sheet to see who they would be paired with and who would be leader pony and wing pony. Rainbow dash walked into the mess hall to go over to the partner sheet, she then saw her two other comrades in her group "so. Which on one of you lucky gals gets to be my wing pony? She asked them.
They both looked at each other and giggled at each other.
"what?".
" uhh you might wanna check the wall" one Pegasus pony said as her and her partner walked away from her, she then pondered at what they said as she walked over to the sheet. As she moved her way to the front she looked up her name and saw hers and lightning dust "a..wing pony" she said in a upset tone as she then held her head down and walked away until lightning dust caught up with her and placed her hoof over her neck "they made us a team. Isn't that awesome?" lightning dust said with a smile.
Rainbow dash smiled at her as she then held her head down.
Spitfire was in her office stamping wonderbolt flyers until rainbow dash opened the door "permission to enter mam" she said, spitfire didn't look up at her as she was still stamping flyers.
"what is it rainbow dash?" she asked her.
"I had the best time on the dizzatron. Only six seconds!".
"and?".
"and you made me a wing pony!".
Spitfire then stopped stamping flyers as she then took off her sunglasses and placed them on her desk, "Because I believe you and lightning dust will be an unstoppable team. Do you not think you'll be an unstoppable team?" she asked her.
"yes mam! I mean no mam. I mean...ugh w-will be an unstoppable team mam" rainbow dash finished. Spitfire then raised her eyebrow at her "then what's the problem?".
Rainbow dash then gathered up all of her thoughts together as she then looked at spitfire with a serious look "I think that I should be lead pony mam" she said.
"and I think that lightning dust likes to push herself a little harder than you do. That's why I made her lead pony. Got it!?" she finished as she leaned over her desk, rainbow dash had a look of sadness on her face as she then looked at her "yes mam".
"good" she then went back to stamping the flyers, rainbow dash then walks out of her office as she closes the door behind her with her head held low. As soon as she left spitfire then stopped stamping flyers and crossed her hoofs as she then ponders about the conversation she just had with rainbow dash.
She then looks to her right and eyes her photo of a portrait of Clayton on her wall as she sighs "you think I made the right choice on making lightning dust lead pony?" she said to the portrait. She then sighed as she she pondered and pondered about her decision.
Everypony was out on the runway as they waited for there instructor to show up rainbow dash walking next to lightning dust who was putting on her lead pony badge as she showed it off to her friend with a smile.
Spitfire then walked up to the group.
"today you will all be participating in a flag hunt" spitfire said "will divided you into two teams. Red and blue. Who ever finds the most flags of the opposing teams color. Wins".
Everypony then cheered "oh. This is gonna be so much fun" one pegasus pony said until spitfire then dashed up to her face "if you this gonna be fun you are sadly mistaken. This is for training purposes. This is not recess. Ponies and wing ponies must fly together. If any part splits apart they will be imminently disqualified. Do you understand?" she finished
"yes mam!".
"then let's go!" she then blew her whistle starting the event, everypony then flew into the air with there partner as they then looked for here other teams flags, lightning dust looked over at rainbow dash "ready to rock and roll?" she asked.
"you bet!".
The two the flew off a super speed as they looked for flags. Lightning dust started to speed up as she went high and low searching for any flags as rainbow dash tried to catch up to her, they then flew up into the air as she caught up with lightning.
"you spotted anything?" she asked.
Rainbow dash shook her head "not yet".
Rainbow dash then looked down to see a red flag in a hole that was covered by two large logs "oh there's one!".
"good eyes".
Lightning dust then speeded down to the flag as rainbow dash followed her, they were flying at the hole with enormous speed "we should slow down. It doesn't look like both of us can make it at this speed" she said in a worried tone. Lightning dust only huffed at her warning as she then speeded up after the flag as rainbow dash tried to see past her but couldn't until lightning dust then dived into the hole with her back hoofs as rainbow dash did the same but managed to hit her right wing on the log "ouch!" she yelled as lightning dust grabbed the flag as rainbow dash struggled to get her balance up with her other wing.
Lightning dust then landed back at the runway laying the flag next to spitfire "lightning dust and rainbow dash found the first flag" she said, rainbow dash landed as she then stretched her injured wing a bit to see if it was ok. Lightning dust then ran to her "come on! Let's find some more" she said.
"ugh...sure just...give me a second" she said as she looked at her wing.
"oh your fine. You think that Clayton would quit after getting a little hurt. No way. Now hurry up" she said as she flew off, rainbow dash saw her fly off as she then turned to spitfire who then gave her a raised eyebrow at her. rainbow dash then got to her feet "yea. Totally" she said as she flapped her left wing and tried to pick herself up into the air "Clayton. What am I to do?" rainbow dash thought.
PONYVILLE
pinky pie was sleeping next to her mailbox as she then woke up and opened it and saw that there was nothing in it as she had a look of defeat in her eyes as she held her head down, the group then looked at pinky pie with sad looks on there faces.
"she's still at it" rarity said in upset voice while Corey was holding her.
"I just wish we could help her" fluttershy said as she stood next to dillon.
"we wish we could help her fluttershy. We all do" jack said as he looked at his beloved with sadness, pinky pie was so concerned about getting a letter from rainbow dash that she didn't spend time with him but he always worried about her.
"I wonder what we could do to help her?" max said.
Pinky pie then zoomed over to her friends "help me. The only thing that could possibly help me is a letter from rainbow dash. It's been three days already. By now she probably doesn't know our names anymore. She probably can't remember our faces" she finished as she then zoomed into the street "pinky pie. I've never heard of a pinky pie. Who is pinky pie" she enacted as she walked over to her mailbox and opened it.
Twilight then and max walked over to her "well if your so worried. Then why don't you send her a letter first" she insisted, pinky pie then placed her hoof on her chin "of course. That's a great idea" she said as she bounced making twilight and max smile.
Everyone then sighed in relief "but wait! I have a better idea" she said as she then poked her head out of the mailbox "how about we send rainbow dash a care package? You know before she forgets all about us. Although come on let's face it. It's probably too late for that. But uh maybe it will jog her memory somehow" she finished as she felt max's hand on her back, "don't worry pinky. Everything is gonna be ok" he said "pinky pie. I'm sure rainbow dash still remembers out faces and who we are. But I think sending her a care package is a great idea" she said.
Pinky pie then smiled brightly "a care package it is. Will send it to the mail" she said a she hopped over to the door until she stopped "WAIT!" she shouted as she turned around "ugh that won't work at all" she said, "why not?" sam and applejack said in unison.
"because what if the package gets lost in the mail? And then some otherpony will get it and not rainbow dash? And then she'll read and think that she's rainbow dash. And then she'll remember us. And then she'll be the new rainbow dash and then the old rainbow dash will think that we forgot her!" she finished as she fell to the ground but not before jack quickly caught her, applejack then turned to her friends in confusion "does anypony understand any of this?".
Everyone shook there heads no until pinky shouted "I've got it! Will deliver the package to rainbow dash in person".
Everyone then smiled at her idea.
"I won't mind a little trip" rarity said.
"ll'l go" twilight said.
"count me in" applejack said.
"me too" fluttershy said.
"me five" pinky pie said in joy.
The boys all smiled at the idea as well "mind If we come along as well?" Corey asked, pinky pie then shook her head rapidly "of course you can sillies. The more friends the marlier". Everyone then went over to twilight's house to get read to visit there friend at the wonderbolt acadamy.
WONDERBOLT ACADAMY
Everypony gathered to the runway as they waited for spitfire to speak, one of her officers then blew a trumpet as spitfire stopped him.
"today we will be doing our famous air obstacle course. The object of this exercise is to work like your precision flying under extreme circumstances". Rainbow dash and lightning dust then looked at each other "and don't worry about winning. It's not a race" spitfire added, lightning dust then winked at rainbow dash.
"now everypony get on your marks".
Everypony then got in a line of two as they all got ready as the officer pony blew the whistles signaling them to start.
Everypony then flew with there wing pony into the air as they went through the cloud ring course first as they then entered the cloud course, some of the other ponies got hit with the clouds as others past it without a scratch. Rainbow dash then looked over at lightning dust as she smiled at her and formed a large grin on her face as she zoomed at the cloud ring course as rainbow dash followed, as they entered the cloud course they both then started dodging pink clouds left and right that were being made by the rainbow factory crew.
Lightning dust began to speed up until she made a hard stop as two other ponies were in the way flying slowly "ugh! Can't they go any faster?" she said as she flew back to rainbow dash "it's no good. I can't get around them" she whined, rainbow dash then poked her side with her elbow "doesn't matter. We can still fly completely in sync and still impress spitfire with our moves" she said with a smile.
"I guess" she said in a irritate tone as they both passed each cloud ring and did a loop in each one, they then went inside the dark clouds to start the rain course. As the two were flying the two ponies in front of her were having a hard time in the rain and wind of the stormy weather "what are they a couple of snails? It's just a little weather" lightning dust said.
They then all came out of the dark clouds and into the blue sky again, lightning dust then smiled "now's our chance to pass these slow pokes" she said as she and rainbow dash zoomed past the two causing them to fly back into the others as the other ponies then flew into the clouds, the two then dogged every single wind blower as they then landed back on the runway in front of spitfire.
"not bad. And in recoded time to" she said with a smile "defiantly made the right decision making you two a team", she then looked through a telescope and saw that the others were stuck in the clouds as they tried to get out or some of there partners tried to help them. "the others seem to have trouble with the precision part of the exercise. I better go sort them out. Why don't you two go to the mess hall a little early".
"yes mam" lightning dust said as she proudly walked on her way.
rainbow dash turned and gave a salute "thank you mam" she then turned to lightning dust "umm lightning dust", she turned to rainbow dash "next time maybe we don't cut the other ponies off like that".
"hey ya snooze ya lose" lightning dust said as she flew in the air a bit "besides wonderbolts are supposed to be able to recover from a spinout. You saw them on the dizzatron they could use the practice. I mean it's not our fault that were so much better that those other guys. Not every pony is destined to become a wonderbolt. Only the best of the best right. Besides Clayton would have done the same thing if he was in our hoofs right?", she then flew to the mess hall.
Rainbow dash then turned to see spitfire and the officers fly to help out the others as she had a look of worry and sadness "y-yea...I-I guess your right" she said. Lightning dust then bucked the doors open "of course I'm right. Now let's go fuel up. Kicking all of that tail has made me hungry" she said as she walked inside.
Rainbow dash landed as she had a worried look on her face as she walked into the mess hall.
After a few hours had pasted everypony was again out on the runway so they could do the final course cloud clearing. The officer then blew his whistle as they all flew into the sky and each team started taking out clouds one by one, after a few minutes lightning dust and rainbow dash caught up with each other.
"I have an idea of how we can literally blow away our competition" lightning dust said, rain ow dash then looks behind herself to see the others still taking there time with the clouds.
"but were already way ahead" rainbow dash said.
"are you in or not?" lightning snapped back.
Rainbow dash then thought about what spitfire had said to her:
"lightning dust likes to push herself a little harder than you do. That's why I made her lead pony".
She then turns to lightning dust "I'm in".
"then follow my lead".
The two then started to spin around in a circle at rapid speed making a huge tornado, as they were still spinning in the tornado lightning dust then starts to lose her flight control.
"I can't control it" she said as her and rainbow dash are thrown out of the giant whirlwind as it rages out of control all over the sky.
Not to far from the wonderbolt acadamy twilight and her friends are in her hot air ballon "oh this gonna be so exciting" pinky pie said.
"it sure is pinky pie. I can't wait to see rainbow dash" fluttershy said until she looked over at twilight "umm twilight. E-explain to m-me why the boys didn't get into the ballon with us?" she asked, twilight shrugged "I don't know. One minute they wanna go. The next minute max tells me that he has a surprise to show us and will be with us shortly".
The girls were all trying to figure out what the surprise was until rarity then felt a poke on her shoulder, she then turned to her side to see Corey.
"hi hunny" Corey said as he waved his hand at her.
"Corey! How in the world did you get all the way up here?" she asked him.
"oh why with these of course".
Corey then flew up over the ballon and in front of the girls line of sight showing them that he had angel wings on his back. The girls were in complete shock at this sight "how in the hay did ya get those wings there corey?" applejack asked him, "oh that would be by me buddy".
The girls then turned around to see max, dillon, sam, and jack with angel wings as well as they smiled at there marefriends.
"m-max. How did you do this?" twilight asked him as she was starstruck with joy "these are the most wonderful wings I've ever seen".
Max then smiled at her "oh I just looked up a spell on alicorn wings in the alicorn spell book" he said with pride, twilight giggled and smiled at max she was happy that he was getting good with his magic but she was even more impressed by how well he was pulling off advanced spells as well.
Suddenly applejack looked over sam's side and saw a huge tornado "it's a twister!" she yelled as it came into there path and sucked them all in.
"hold on!" twilight yelled as they were spinning inside the tornado as the twister then spat out the boys and started to snap the ropes of the hot air ballon. Rainbow dash got to her feet as she saw the hot air ballon and saw her friends flying and falling to there doom.
"nooooooo!" she cried as she then shot past her wonderbolt comrades who were watching in horror, max and dillon were able to get a hold of themselves as they shoock there heads "you ok max?" dilllon asked him.
"yea I'm good. Just a little dizzy".
Dillon smiled at him as he looked up at the sky to see the hit air ballon basket falling downward as the girls were falling with it as well.
"FLUTTERSHY!" dillon shouted as he then shot at them with lightning speed "oh no! The girls!" max said as he followed as well to save them, rainbow dash went faster as she kept her eye on her friends as she went even faster and gathered a couple of clouds and started going in a circle making a small cloud pillow for them to land in as they fell onto it, as the girls landed on the cloud pillow rainbow dash then shot it up like a spring as the girls flew up into the air until max, dillon, and four other members caught them and there package.
Dillon looked at fluttershy as she held onto him with a smile on her face as he nuzzled her sweetly, max held onto twilight closely as she looked up into his eyes "thanks max" she said as she kisses his cheek.
"no problem".
They all then landed on the landing strip as the other wonderbolts had Corey, sam, and jack on the strip as well, the girls all ran to there boyfriends and hugged them tightly as rainbow dash flew next to them "are you guys alright?" she said as they all nodded at her.
"hold on were not done yet" jack said as he pointed to the tornado that was still rampaging all over the place. The boys then looked at dillon with a grin on there face as he joined in as well "don't worry. I got this bitch" he said as he then pulled out his new fuma shuriken from his side and started to emit yellow energy from his body and his eyes started glowing pink.
"FINISHING MOVE!" he yelled as he transformed his fuma shuriken into his cousin's kamina black sunglasses "RAGING BOOMERANG!", he then threw his sunglass cutter sword at the tornado as the weapon then had pink and yellow fire covering it as it went right though the tornado and came back to dillon as he caught it as it transformed back into his fuma shuriken and he placed it back on his side as they all saw the tornado explode, "done" dillon said.
Rainbow dash then looked over at her friends "what are you all doing here?" she asked.
"we wanted to send ya a friendship package. We didn't know that you were doing some aerial trainin" applejack said. Lightning dust then flew over the crowd as she mad her way though "that. Was. Awesome!" she said as everypony looked at her.
"awesome? My friends could have been smashed to pieces" rainbow dash said.
"yea. But they weren't right" she then flew up in the air "can't say the same for the clouds. We totally wiped them out with that tornado", she then landed in front of rainbow dash "the other cadets will have to be up there for days for as many as we did". She then puts her hoof out at rainbow dash who just looks at her with an unamused look "a hoof bump. Seriously? You made me clip my wing. You sent half our class into serious tail spins on the
obstacle course. You unleashed a tornado that nearly demolished my friends!".
Lightning dust then had a smug look on her face "yea and? Clayton would have done the same thing".
"and I get that you wanna be the best and become a hero. Your going about it the wrong way. Your also going about how Clayton would do everything in the wrong way as well. Clayton wouldn't leave his friends and family behind in the dust just to accomplish his goals for his own selfish deeds. He would willingly give up his own dreams and help anypony in need no matter what. He would give his life to save somepony and make sure that his friends and comrades were safe and sound and out of danger. You may think that you know clayton. But I know him better than any other pony" she finished.
Lightning dust then hovered a bit "the wonderbolts don't seem to think so. After all spitfire did make me the leader and you the wing pony" she snapped back.
Rainbow dash sighed as she looked at her "your right...she did".
Spitfire was sitting at her desk looking at her portrait of Clayton until rainbow dash came into her office "this better be important. Your suppose to be busting clouds with your partner" she said.
"were done with that mam".
"really?" she then looks at the clock "that's An academy recoded. Explain your method" she asked.
"that's why I'm here mam. Lightning dust decided to use a tornado".
"bit excessive for cloud busting. But judging from you time it was obviously an effective tactic".
Rainbow dash then walked up to the desk "yeah! Well that effective tactic. Nearly took out my friends! No disrespect mam. But there is a big difference from pushing yourself as hard as you can. And just being reckless. And if being reckless is what gets rewarded around here. If that what it means to be a wonderbolt. Then I don't want any part of it".
"what are you saying newbe?".
Rainbow dash then places her wing pony badge on her desk "I quit".
As soon as she turns around she sees the portrait of Clayton and holds her head down as she turns to her "if clayton were here. He would be very disappointed", she then walks out of her office as she closes the door and holds her head low.
"you did WHAT!" everyone said in unison.
"but being a wonderbolt was your dream" rarity said.
Rainbow dash looked at her as she strapped on her saddle bag "not any more", max then leaned down and placed his hand on her back "sorry about what happened rainbow dash" he said. They all then cuddle together into a hug until they all heard spitfire's voice as she walked toward them.
"rainbow dash! How dare you storm out of my office without giving a chance to respond", she stops in front of her "the wonderbolts are looking for the best flyers in equestira. And you were right. Being the best should never come at the expense of out fellow ponies. It's not just about pushing ourselves. It's about pushing ourselves in the right direction. You've shown that you're capable of doing just that".
Rainbow dash then starts to smile hearing her words as spitfire raises her hoof as the officers stand aside as lightning dust comes forward, she then gives her a glare before tearing off her lead pony badge and points to the nearest exist, lightning dust then shamefully walks with the officers as she leaves but turns and gives her former friend a peace sign with her wings.
Before lightning dust heads off rainbow dash walks up to her and taps her on the back. She turns around with a look of dishonor in her eyes and sadness as rainbow dash then does something that shocks her: she hugs her.
"come find me in ponyville. When ever you wanna hang. And remember to keep your dream strong to one day make it a reality" she whispered into her ear as she backed away from her, hearing this even after all she had done made lightning dust smile warmly "thank you" she said as she headed off out of the academy.
She then walked over to spitfire who was smiling at her as she placed the leader badge on her chest "your not a wing pony. Your a leader" she said making her smile brightly "oh my gosh oh my gosh oh gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh" rainbow dash said over and over again as her friends smiled at her, spitfire then took her sunglasses off "NOW GET OUT THERE AND GIVE ME TWENTY!" she yelled as she flew to her team who all gave her salutes as she gave one back to them as they all then took off.
Pinky pie then jumps on jack's said "wait! You didn't even get to open you care package" pinky pie shouted as she held it up. "don't worry hunny. She'll get it. Trust me" jack said with a wink.
"pinky looked down at him "okie dokie" she said as rainbow dash's friends all watched her fly with her team. As she was flying she had a huge smile on her face "I did Clayton. I achieved my dream" she thought as a small tear left her eye as she smiled brightly.