It was a warm, sunny day in Canterlot and the birds sang in Celestia´s vast garden. But Twilight Sparkle was inside, sitting in the old castle liberary, reading her books. The unicorn had not even been outside in three days now, she was completely bruried in her books. The princess started to worry about her favorite student and decided that it was time for Twilight to get out and do something healthy.
"Twilight" she said with a big smile on her face. "I have concocted a plan... There will be a fimmaking competition, and I want you to participate. Me and Luna will be the judges and the winner will get a prize!"
"A filmmaking competition?"
"Yes! Are you interested? You can use Canterlot´s old camera that we bought some years ago..."
"But I havn´t red any books about filmmaking!"
"Nopony has! There are no books about that in Equestria, my faithful student. You will have to go out and start filming."
The same afternoon, Twilight and her friends assembled in the Canterlot garden and unpacked the old, dusty camera from its crate.
"It looks ancient," said Rarity. "When did she say they bought it?"
"Property of Starswirl the Bearded..." Rainbow Dash said, mockingly. "I wonder if it still works?"
"Oh! May I try it...?" asked Fluttershy.
She took the camera and loaded it with film and a newly charged battery. Fluttershy pressed the red START-button and started filming.
"Oh, my! I want to film animals. And birds, and butterflies and..."
"Yeah..." said Rainbow Dash, scratching her mane with her hoof. "It sounds awesome... But I was thinking, maybe we should do something more... something cooler!"
"Like 20% cooler?" said Rarity, trying not to burst with laughter.
"Mhm..." said Rainbow Dash, not very amused. "I have written a script about a fast, daring pegasus. She is the fastest pegasus alive and..."
"Has her name possibly something to do with rainbows?" asked Rarity.
"No! Off course not! She is called... hm... her name is... is..."
Rainbow Dash quickly hid the script under her wing. But Rarity grabbed it from her, fast like a deadly viper!
"No! Don´t read that!" screamed Rainbow.
"The Amazing Adventures of Rainbow Dash, Captain of the Rainbowbolts and Fastest Flyer in Equestria...?" she red out loud. "You wrote a script all about yourself?!"
"It´s not like that!"
"But it says so right here on the first page!"
"And... I thought... eh... it had to be a documentary... and... I..."
"Rainbow, we have to make this film about something we can all agree on," said Twilight. "It can´t be a film all about you!"
"You are all ganging up on me! It´s not fair!" Rainbow shouted and stomped her hooves. "But I will make my film ANYWAY! And I will win this competition!"
And then Rainbow stormed off. Twilight felt bad, she knew that they had somehow hurt her feelings. Rainbow Dash had her flaws, but she was also loyal and kind. What in Earth had gotten into her?
"What happened?" she asked.
"Just her pride," said Rarity. "Rainbow was like that a lot when she was younger... She´ll soon get over it. Her ego is big, but so is her heart."
The next day Rainbow Dash had bought a brand new camera and employed a gray, wall-eyed pegasus as its filmcrew. The two pegasi landed on the roof, carefully avoiding to step in the holes made by Twilight´s capsized telescope a week earlier.
"Careful now, Derpy..."
"It´s a piece of cake!" Derpy Hooves said, placing the camera on the chimney. "Or a piece of muffin! I wish I had a muffin right now..."
"Yeah... I´ll get you a muffin when we are done filming. Now, let´s make the most awesome film ever!"
And Rainbow Dash started to fly around the castle´s old towers, tumbling trough the air at high speed.
At the same time, Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy was filming all the things they had agreed on; It was a film of a squirrel eating an acorn. Then Rarity stepped into the picture, wearing a beautiful outfit and the squirrel ran of. Twilight suggested that they shuld somehow make it a documentary on squirrels, but nopony knew where they could find a new squirrel.
Then Rainbow Dash passed over them, swooshing trough the air! She hade the speed of a cannonball and made a barrel roll before she disappared behind the castle´s wall.
"Oh..." said Fluttershy. "She is so fast!"
Dash came in for another turn, made a half loop and left a rainbow colored trail after her.
"Fluttreshy! Focus! We must find something interesting to film. Princess Celestia is counting on me, and I can´t let her down!"
When the time came for the two princesses to review all the films, they gathered the participants in Canterlot´s liberary. It was dark outside and the castle´s gardener, Mr Greenhooves, had hung a white sheet on the wall, right over an old portrait of Clover the Clever.
The ponies were full of exitement when the first film started to roll. It was a bad, shaky film of a donkey getting hit by a football. Everyone laughed, except Cranky the Donkey, who was the one getting hit. (But after a while, he found it funny too)
The next film was Rainbow Dash´s. She was so proud and knew that her film would easily win the competition. She had used the best camera money could buy, carefully instructed Derpy Hooves to hold the camera steady and also, as a matter of precaution, used only top quailty film.
But when the film rolled, it was pitch black. Derpy had forgot to take of the lid from the lence!
"NO!" screamed Dash in shock. "It can´t be true!!! ArrrggHHH!!! All my effort! All my stunts!"
She then realized that the whole crowd was looking at her.
"But... on the other hoof, I think it was best that way... I wanted so desperately to win over my friends, just to prove that my idea was the best idea all along. But now I don´t think it matters at all. The important thing is to have fun and I don´t have to win every time."
The ponies aplauded her speech and agreed that Rainbow Dash should get a consolidation prize for her effort. And then, they showed Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy´s film. It was a squirrel, Rarity and... Rainbow Dash! Fluttershy had filmed her flight and followed her perfectly with the camera, carefully documenting most of her stunts. All ponies gazed in awe and Celestia and Luna decided to award the prize to Twilight and her team.
"But Rainbow Dash and Derpy will get second prize: A basket of muffins!" Celestia said.
"Yay!" shouted Derpy.
THE END