"Now, the W.O.N.D.E.R.B.O.L.T.S. headquarters consists of all types of pony, winged or not. And even if you do have wings, that doesn't mean you're joining the main flyers." Barley said as the two walked down the hallway. "But you, Rainbow Dash, should consider yourself lucky. You don't have to go through years of training to be with the Wonderbolts."
"Oh believe me. I have." She replied coolly, thinking of the countless hours spent exercising around her home.
"Well, I think you should be introduced to the team." The stallion said as he opened a door. Inside, multiple ponies were sitting around, and waved as the pair walked in.
A curly maned grey stallion rose from his plush seat to greet them. "You must be Rainbow Dash, right? We bunked at your place a 'coupla days ago?"
"Yes!" She said, trying to manage the squeal of excitement in her voice. "And you're Silver Lining, right?"
"Why yes! Yes I am. I'm surprised you know of me right off the bat. Usually it's Spitfire and Soarin' who get all the attention."
"Really?" Spitfire asked. "I'm sure LOADS of ponies have heard of you, Silver."
"Not really. Half the ponies I see don't recognize me as a Wonderbolt. One mare even looked at me funny and asked me why I was wearing a costume!" He huffed and sat down again.
"Strange." A blue maned, yellow coated mare said. "I'd expect ALL the pretty mares to be following you down the street, and they'd swoon head over hooves once you started talking about the latest Guards and Griffins tournament."
"Well that's mordant." A yellow maned mare replied.
Silver Lining glared at the two. "Be quiet Misty." He said, pointing at the yellow and blue mare. "G&G is awesome. And for you, Surprise." He turned to the yellow and white mare. "I've said to you a million times, can you speak a language we ponies could understand?"
Rainbow Dash was so focused on the arguing between the the ponies that she jumped as a hoof tapped her shoulder. An orange and white maned colt grinned at her. "Don't mind them. Silver and Misty could go on like this for hours. The name's Fire Streak. I hope you enjoy your time here."
"Nice to meet ya." She said. "Now, what usually goes on around here?"
Fire Streak shrugged. "Loads. When we're not training for aerial shows, we're getting up to date on the biggest threats in Equestria at the time."
"Like what?"
"Well..." The cream colored stallion motioned to a blue mare with a white mane. "Hey Fleetfoot! Should we catch the newbie up on the secret information?"
The mare walked over. "Sure. I'll fill her in, and in the meantime, could you try to reason with Misty and silver over there? I think they'll start dealing blows pretty soon."
"All right Fleet." He said walking away.
"Fleetfoot?" Rainbow Dash said excitedly. THE Fleetfoot was talking with her! "So...how was your last race in Cloudsdale?"
"Eh...first place. But that doesn't matter right now. I need to tell you about the universal rift. Now...it all started when Celestia banished Nightmare to the Moon..."
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"You shall not do this!" Nightmare Moon was surrounded in a cloud of yellow aura, Princess Celestia next to her, cuts and bruises adorning her body. She was straining to keep the equally magical alicorn in place. "You wouldn't do this to your own sister!"
"You're...not...my...SISTER!" Celestia shouted. Her horn glowed brighter as she tapped into every ounce of magical power she had in her body. The yellow circle surrounding the dark pony became misshapen as it stretched and elongated, until it became a passage to the sky.
Like an elevator, what once was Princess Luna was lifted into the sky, getting nearer and nearer to the moon. But suddenly, there was a deafening boom as Nightmare Moon punctured the atmosphere like paper.
Celestia gazed on in wonder as balls of light, varying in size, flew in through the hole and floated to the distant hills. Finally, the dark Luna reached the moon and she moved the focus of her magic.
As the beam highlighted the hole, the sky turned yellow as her magic was illuminated. The Princess gasped. All around her was some...material that surrounded the Earth in an invisible shell. One of the balls floated down to her hooves, glowing bright blue. As it hit the ground, the glow subsided to reveal what would soon be known as a ladybug. It crawled upon her hoof, as another ball came to Earth to reveal a griffin. It quickly turned tail and fled, flying away over the treetops.
"This is quite interesting." She thought, before several glowing balls landed miles away. They dimmed to reveal ponies. Green ponies. Ponies with rotting flesh. "Oh dear." She said to herself as the ponies started walking around. She turned back to the hole, which would become known as the universal rift. Once again using all her strength, she miraculously was able to seal the gap.
After defeating the zombie horde, she set to work having her scientists map the different species to appear on Earth. Among species like dragons, fish, worms, and bunnies, she was shocked to discover that singular creatures appeared. Creatures that were one of a kind like the sea serpent, kraken, and flamingobear. (It died shortly after its discovery.)
She turned to her head soldier. "Spread word of the new races. But do NOT tell them of the singular creatures without my word." He nodded and left, leaving her to her thoughts.
"Some of these creatures are dangerous." She thought. But what to do? An idea struck her. A defense team! Yes. A team of elite ponies to fight those who cause extreme danger, as long as the public doesn't know of their existence. But how to hide THEIR existence? She looked outside just as a grey pegasus flew by. Of course. A simple flying team.
Pulling out a spare piece of parchment, she wrote down one word.
Wonderbolts.