More In Common Than We Thought

by Swift Gale


Visitors in Ponyville

Hello everypony! Time for the fourth fic in progress. I know a few of you are going to hate it if I shipped myself with Rainbow Dash. That doesn't mean that it's going to be in all stories. Only in 'What if' stories, such as this. If you're still confused, tell me in the comments and I'll explain. Let's get this story started!


A blue blur streaks across the sky at an alarming rate, passing over the Everfree Forest. Two unicorns then ran out of the forest, following the blue blur. Suddenly, the blur went near the ground and came to a instant stop. A figure took the place of the now disappeared blur. The figure seemed to be a blue pegasus colt with emerald green eyes, a dark blue mane and tail, and a single yellow lightning bolt as a cutie mark. He looked like he was about 20 years old give or take a year.

"So this is Ponyville," the blue pegasus said, looking at the small town from one of the high hills that were in the town's outskirts. "My cousin picked a good place for him-- Wait is that a cloud house?"

The blue pegasus had spotted a large cloud house, not very far from the busier part of town.

"What is a cloud house doing all the way out here?" the blue pegasus wondered.

Cloud house were usually in pegasi towns and cities, like Cloudsdale or Las Pegasus.

"That's Ponyville?" a voice asked. "It's actually a little bigger than I expected it to be."

The voice came from a black unicorn colt with blood red eyes, a violet and blue mane and tail, blue flame patterns on his hooves, and his cutie mark was a blue flame that surrounded a heart with a dagger through it. He seemed looked about the same age as the blue pegasus.

The other unicorn was a blood red unicorn colt with gray eyes (which were barely ever seen), a black and silver mane and tail, a blindfold that was around his neck, and his cutie mark was a blue soundwave in the shape of headphones. He also looked to be about the pegasus' age as well.

"Swift, your cousin moved to a good town," the crimson unicorn said, looking at the blue pegasus.

Swift Whooves was blue pegasus' full name. He was pretty laid-back, smart, and kind, but is competitive and a little cocky at times. He also had a short temper sometimes. Being a part of Dr. Whooves family tree, he had the power to manipulate time to an extent. Also, since he was from the pegasus branch, he has power over wind. The only problem is that he has no clue how to use his powers. The only time his powers worked was when he was in danger once, but it was to only time. Swift is pretty fast, faster than most pegasi are. With him was his friends, Dark and Chrome.

Dark Flames was the black unicorn colt. He was also laid-back, but had a shorter temper than Swift. He is an advanced magic user, but he usually uses fire magic. When he's angry, he eyes looks like Nightmare Moon's.

Chromatic Reverb was the red unicorn colt. He's extremely laid-back and usually his temper won't explode unless if somepony hits him. He mainly uses sound magic. The blindfold that he has is surrounded by mystery.

"So, why did Dr. Whooves move anyway?" Dark asked.

"Well, he said it was too noisy in Fillydelphia for him to study," Swift answered, remembering what his cousin told him.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Chrome asked, beginning to walk towards Ponyville. "Let's go!"

"I'll see you guys at my cousin's house!" Swift yelled, already flying off at top speed.

Many ponies saw the blue blur go across the sky. They were a little surprised. The only pony they've seen fly that fast was Rainbow Dash.

Meanwhile, Swift was moving at breakneck speeds. He was to see his cousin since in had been 3 years since a had visited him. However, what he didn't notice was that there a rainbow colored streak moving at the same speed and it was coming directly at him. In fact, he had closed his eyes for a few seconds, since the wind pressure was starting to burn his eyes, and when he opened them, it was too late. He crashed into another pony that had did same thing he did moments before the collision. Both pegasi fell to the ground with a loud thud. Swift had held his head and groaned in pain.

"Hey, what's the big ide-" Swift stopped when he heard the voice of a female pegasus say the same exact thing he did.

He turned around to see a angry cyan pegasus mare with violet red eyes, a rainbow colored mane and tail, and cloud with a lightning bolt colored red, yellow, and blue as a cutie mark. She looked to be near his age.

"Watch where your going buster!" She yelled angrily, rubbing her head.

"You should do the same," Swift calmly returned.

The rainbow maned pegasus looked at him with more anger. Her expression softened a little, knowing that he wasn't from Ponyville.

"Who are you?" the pegasus asked. "Never seen you around Ponyville before."

"Swift Whooves," he responded easily. "I'm from Fillydelphia. What about you? What's your name?"

The rainbow maned pegasus looked insulted.

"I'm Rainbow Dash," the rainbow maned pegasus began. "You know, only the fastest pony in all of Equestria!"

Swift rolled his eyes.

"Sure you are," Swift said. "If you are so fast, then why didn't you get out of my way?"

"You shouldn't have ran into me!" Rainbow Dash yelled, glaring at the blue pegasus.

"Whatever, I don't have time for this," Swift said, spreading his wings before flying up and taking off like a shot.

"HEY!" Rainbow yelled as she saw him fly away at a speed that could actually rival her's.

She only looked at the blue streak trail that he left.

"Who does he think he is?" Rainbow grumbled angrily, spreading her wings and flying toward her cloud house.

This sparked a rivalry and an obvious grudge between the two. They hate the others guts more than anything. But what they know that the anger between them would be the thing that would bring them closer...


I know that this is a little bit of a cliffhanger but I want get this chapter up. I was going to make it longer but if I added anything else, it might spoil something later. Anyways, see you later everypony!