A new life
A new life started here. My team boss send me the message, that I was fired. “Why aren’t you on the track? Are you that frustrated about the race loss? You even missed all the press conferences!” He screamed to me with anger over the phone. I just simply couldn’t tell about Rainbow Dash being in the real world here. “I can’t tell” I answered. “What I definitely can tell, is that you are fired!” Those words were still resounding in my head while I looked at Rainbow. She slowly started to move around. With her eyes closed, she stretched her legs against the couch, causing her to fall of the couch. She slowly opened her eyes. With some blinks she looked up to me. “Where am I?” She asked without clearly knowing what happened. She wanted to stand up, but directly fell back on the floor with much pain. “Ouch! everything hurts.” I picked her up and put her back on the couch. Now she looked weird at me. “What are you?” She said with a big laugh on her face. That was the Rainbow Dash I knew. “I’m human” I answered. “A what?” She broke out in a small laugh, but got too much pain to do so. “You should rest” I said. “Why are you even here?” I asked. She looked up. “Where?” She said with a confused expression.
We looked at each other for some minutes. It was weird. Why would she be here, in the human world. “This doesn’t look like Canterlot.” She finally noticed when she was look around. “Where is the crowd, the crowd who was cheering for me? Where are the Wonderbolts? They would finally accept me as their member!” She started to panic. She was forced to calm down by the pain. She sighed when she laid down on the couch again. “You’re in my house.” I said, still looking confused about what was happening. Talking to a blue pony with wings doesn’t happen every day. She looked at me. “Your house? What happened after my second sonic rainboom? Did you see that?” She knew she was in trouble, as you could hear from her voice. “Sorry, but I didn’t see any of it. I was racing with my car when I suddenly heard a deep thud in the rear, in the garage I saw you.” I explained to her. She now really was confused. She looked weak as well. “You should take some rest.” I advised her. “Lets go upstairs, there I have a soft bed for you.” I carried her upstairs and put her on my bed. She was already fallen asleep in my arms. I put her down softly. I didn’t want to wake her up. She looked cute in my bed, the blue blanket fit perfectly with her colorful mane. I also became tired and went to sleep, on the couch. Never had unexpected guests and also never thought I would have them, so I slept on the couch without any blanket.
Even if I slept like that, I had the best dreams. When I woke up I asked myself, if Rainbow poking me to ask something was also a dream, but I really felt her. I blinked my eyes a few times. “Rainbow?” I asked. “What is it.” I nodded half asleep. “Well...” She started, when I heard her stomach grumbling. She squee’d a little. “Shall I make some food for you?” I asked with a smile. I stood up. I made some sandwiches. My hair was all messy from sleeping, I noticed as I walked past a mirror. “What do you ponies actually eat?” I asked her while making sandwiches. “Sandwiches are alright.” She sat on the couch, trying to turn on the tv. I sat down and put some sandwiches on the table. “You said something about a second sonic rainboom yesterday?” I asked out of curiosity. “Yes.” She started. “I was going to go twice the speed of the sound barrier! Only, at the moment I was pulling up, I saw a bright light. The next thing I knew, was that I was laying in your arms.” She looked down. “I don’t know what happened there, but I’m not in Equestria anymore, right?” She noticed. I looked at her. “Rainbow, I will help you getting back to Equestria.” I started. “Even though I just lost my job, you can stay here, I will search for a new job.” She looked at me with a big question mark on her face. “You lost your job?” I told her the story. “Yes, I didn’t let anyone hear from me when I brought you home.” I knew that that was my own choice, but I would never regret it. “Then why wouldn’t you just tell your boss?” She asked. I laughed a little. “Well, he probably wouldn’t believe a story, about a blue flying pony crashing into my car and that I had to take care of her.” I said laughing a little. “Also, you’re pretty famous in this world, because of a tv show.” I turned on the TV for her. She saw herself now, on a TV screen.
She acted pretty normal about that, so I tried to go to a different subject. “You want to go to the park with me?” I knew she was still weak and all, but going outside shouldn’t be bad. “The park is sort of abandoned, so we don’t have to worry about other people.” I said, she agreed.
The park was pretty far, so we took the car. The car maybe was old, but I would always love my car. I upgraded my engine a little, but for the rest it was a little rusty. Either if it was rusty or if it was half broken, I would always make high speeds on this particular road. It was a winding road, but still at high speeds. I Again went at full speed, maybe to show a little off to Rainbow. Rainbow sat in the passenger seat, looking her eyes out.
I could just feel the car on the road. I knew this road very good, since I drove every day on it. Every bump, every bit. It felt wonderful, Rainbow felt wonderful as well. You could see the fun in her eyes. “What’s that?” she asked while looking at the mirrors. In the mirrors was a sharp light, it was blinking. It was from a car, I noticed later. “That’s a car” I told her. I was still confused why he was flashing his lights. I put the pedal a little bit more down. He stopped flashing and started to speed up as well. Before one turn he put his car on my right side, it was on the outside, but then I noticed, it was a four wheel drive GTR with a complete aero packet on it. “Are you racing him?” she asked with a bright smile on her face. “No.” I said while slowing down. “I have no chance of beating him. He has a complete aero packet on his car, also he has a rear wing and a front splitter. I have nothing, except an engine which is pretty good.” I told her, not like she would understand it. “You love racing?” She asked, with an even greater smile. “Eeyup.” I said back, still didn’t get that out of my head. “So awesome!” Rainbow was happy again, even though the GTR was way faster than I was. He disappeared.
The trip to the park was fun, we talked about racing a lot. About the differences between pony races and human races. I explained the down force to her, how engines worked and all that stuff. Rainbow talked about her wing power, and how it felt to break the sound barrier. “Did you know there is a human, who broke the sound barrier, by falling down from the edge of space?” She could only react attracted to that. And so we arrived at the park. I hit right to the parking spots. I was surprised, as I saw some cars standing there. All 3 were tuned up, and had big spoilers. It didn’t take long before I managed to identify the GTR who passed me. “Rainbow, get in the back.” I said at the moment I noticed, that there was a 4th blue car blocked between the 3 GTR’s. Rainbow jumped in the back seats, still without knowing what was going on. “What is happening?” she asked. I didn’t react back, I saw a stocky man running out of the park. He was beaten up a little, some blood dropped from his head. Without thinking about Rainbow I opened my passenger door, so he would be able to jump in. After he noticed that his car was stuck, I made a u-turn and stopped right beside him. He jumped in when I went off at high speeds. The 3 men who were after him also jumped in their cars, and drove off. I went back over the road where the GTR ‘d beat me. I totally forgot about it, they were faster here. Their aero packet would give them more downforce, and the grip I didn’t had. I pushed as hard as I could, but it didn’t pay off. The 3 GTR’s came on my bumper in no time. One of them came beside me in a turn. On that moment I heard my rear window crack. I looked in my mirror, but still I kept an eye on the road. Switching from looking at my mirror and the road, I saw Rainbow, jumping out of the window. The second GTR noticed, and out of shock he lost control of his car. He sled up the road, against the other GTR. That caused them to crash off the road. They were lucky that outside the road only was sand, with only a lot of small boulders and brushes. They span off in a lot of smoke. They would be safe, but their cars would be damaged. I looked at my right. I saw Rainbow Dash moving forward on the roof of the last GTR. She stayed low, so she wouldn’t catch too much wind. Then when she was in reach of the windshield, she hit it with her hooves, as hard as possible. That caused the windshield to crack and hit the face of the GTR driver. The driver started to lose control. The car spun out of control and as if Rainbow predicted it, she jumped of the car, right through the cracked window. The GTR spun of further of the road and hit the only rock there was on this road. The rear splat into that rock, causing it to be totally destroyed and in pieces. It was a nasty hit, I knew from my racing day’s.
I stopped my car and ran to the GTR driver. He looked OK, he only was shocked. He looked in my eyes. He looked mad, but still defeated. “Come to the park in 2 weeks. Then we can have a fair battle, without stupid tricks.” He looked OK, and I didn’t want to have anything to do with that guy anymore, so I ran back to my car. I looked at my passenger. He looked surprised. As I drove off he stared at my mirror. I looked as well, then looked straight forward, totally startled about him seeing Rainbow Dash. How would he react? What would happen next? More and more things went through my head.
There was nothing but a silence, till we got to my home. I stopped the car and looked back. Rainbow was holding her hoof on a cut. “Come on in.” I said to the guy, as I carried Rainbow in my arms to the front door. Inside I put Rainbow down on the couch. I picked up the first aid kit and sutured the wound. “Do you need any help?” I asked the guy. “No it is just a small cut.” I picked up Rainbow and put her on the couch. “How do you feel Rainbow?” She looked OK. “Not very bad.” She said, as she felt her wound. “I hope those guy’s learned their lessons. What were they after actually?” She asked to the guy. The guy still looked confused to see a blue pony with wings, asking him things. “What are you?” He asked. “Hey! I asked you something first!” “I’ll tell if you tell what you are!” They started a discussion, I interfered. “Stop it! You both need to explain!” Silence. Both looked at me. “Rainbow dash is a pony from Equestria. She came here by accident. We are trying to get her back to Equestria. She probably came here by flying at a certain speed. First she needs her power back, and then we can try it again. Now you tell us, what those guy’s wanted. They raced me, before I met you!” “OK” he said. “Those guy’s are street racers, just like I am. I was the fastest one, with the fastest car. It was a blue M3, it had everything. I bet they took it by now.” He said. “Who are ‘they’?” I asked. “They are the B4 clan. They all have 4 wheel drive GTR´s in black livery. They are street racers, just like me. They were after my car, which was the number 1 for 2 years in the biggest event of all. It´s called ´The World Race`. It’s a 1000 mile street race across the country where the best racers of the world compete." That explained a lot. It is of course illegal to street race, I’m now involved with that. “Did that guy tell you something, when you were there by his car?” He asked. I knew he did, but I knew that if I told him, that my life would change forever. I also thought about money. I couldn’t take care of myself for that long, without a job. And now that Rainbow is here as well, it’s even harder. “Yes.” I said. “He challenged me for a race next week.” This is the point where I changed my life. “I’m gonna accept it, for Rainbow. I can’t live without getting money, Rainbow can’t either. Also, we need your car back.”
The guy, who’s name was Jack, was still shocked by the fact Rainbow was here. “How are we going to do that?” He asked...