Hardships serve to reveal true friends and expose false ones. True friends are not bound by convenience, rather by the ability to stick together and pick each-other back up when times are rough, even if the two "friends" barely know each other.

This is the lesson Fluttershy learned the first time she met Rainbow Dash, back when the cyan pegasus stood up for her against the most popular filly in Cloudsdale Flight School. A time when Fluttershy's own "friends" didn't stand up for her.

This is the story about how Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, two fillies with radically different personalities, became friends.

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It's common knowledge that Rainbow Dash wants to be a Wonderbolt. She's proven again and again that she's the fastest flyer in Equestria already, so why is she so determined to earn that role? Money? Fame? Power?

Only Fluttershy knows. She's been waiting all those years, quietly cheering her friend on and waiting for their dream to come true.

A gift for I HV NO FEAR, for being with me since the start. You wanted FlutterDash, so I delivered.

proofread and edited by my besties: Afro Pony and DegeTheMighty

Dash and 'Shy, after earning their cutie marks, go through a lot of things that could hone them not just as ponies, but as something else...And by a lot, it meant mutants, aliens, organizations, and some things they least expect to happen.

Cover art by Rannva