The Awesome Spider-Dash: Origins

by Flufux

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Rainbow Dash

(Beware, this is the new and improved version of the first part of the first chapter. The old version of chapter one is still there if you want to read it, but only this version is considered canon to the rest of the story)

Canterlot City.

A vibrant metropolis recognised for its tall buildings, busy streets, and its many, many people. Over nine million of them to be precise...and that was without counting all the tourists that came from all over the world to see the city with their own eyes.

There was no place quite like it, and the town had earned its fame for all sorts of reasons. One of those reasons was the fact that the city was once home to the world's first real superhero: A masked woman with amazing powers, and went by the name of...Captain Jupiter!

What? Were you expecting someone else? Maybe someone with a bit more...'spidery' name perhaps? Well, hold your horses, I'm coming to that.

Anyway, Captain Jupiter was a woman so wrapped up in mystery that she had practically become a legend. No one knew who she really was, where she came from, or how she got her super-human powers. All they knew was that when the city was in danger, she was always there to save it.

She made her first appearance around the same time an alarming amount of dangerous meta-humans and other supervillains started to show up and wreak havoc all over the city. While it was never confirmed if her arrival had anything to do with them, she was the one who was ultimately responsible for saving Canterlot from their rampage.

Despite that fact that barely anything about Captain Jupiter was known to the public, the citizens of Canterlot both trusted and adored her.

When the going got tough, they always counted on her to protect them. When a new villain appeared, they knew that she would be able to defeat them, and when the people needed someone to believe in, she was there to serve as their role model.

That was all until one day...20 years ago.

There was an incident that day...one that Captain Jupiter was solely responsible for. An incident that not only costed the beloved superhero nearly all of the respect she had once had...but also the lives of 37 innocent people.

While the details of what exactly happened that day was never fully explained, it was not a day anyone in Canterlot was ever going to forget. It was the day when the faith people, not only in the city, but also the entire world, once put in masked heroes...was shattered.

In the wake of the tragedy, Captain Jupiter disappeared off the face of the earth just as mysteriously as she had appeared, leaving many questions unanswered.

Still, despite the loss of its hero, Canterlot City had managed to survive for at least twenty more years. Though, the spark that once made the city so great was sadly lost after the incident.

If that spark was ever going to be reignited, the city would need a new hero to prove their worth and show the world that there is still hope for heroism left. Yet, for the last twenty years, no such hero had ever appeared.

However...maybe it was time for that to change...

At the very edge of the city of Canterlot, there was an often overlooked suburban district that most people liked to call 'Ponyville' for its close proximity to the numerous animal ranches and expansive farmlands to the south.

It was a fairly nice place to live in if you couldn't stand the hectic and stressful environment of Central Canterlot. And it was here...in a perfectly ordinary suburban house...where our heroine began her heroic journey.

Who was this heroine in question, you ask?

Well, she was a lazy 16-year old girl who was snoring loudly under the covers of her bed while drooling a little on her pillow...and her name was Rainbow Dash.

What? No one said she had to be perfect.

Also, after having spent nearly all of Friday afternoon trying to get a giant pile of homework and overdue school assignments done, Rainbow was hoping to enjoy every second of proper sleep and relaxation this Saturday morning could give her.

"...wow, Shy, I never knew you were so...aggressive..." She mumbled in her sleep, making it clear that she was really enjoying the dream she was having...and had no intentions of ever waking from it.

However...the universe had other plans.

Suddenly, a horribly loud noise blared into her ears, instantly making the pleasant dream she had fade away into oblivion.

It took Rainbow a few moments in her groggy state to realise that the sound was coming from the ringing alarm clock sitting on the table next to her bed.

When it started to become clear that the clock was not gonna stop making the noise any time soon, an arm reached out from under the covers and lazily tried to find the button to turn the infuriating alarm off. However, when she finally found it, she accidentally dragged the irritatingly loud object down to the floor instead, far beyond her reach...and that did not make it stop ringing either.

Eventually deciding that she had heard enough of that infernal sound, Rainbow Dash threw the covers off of her, picked up the clock and finally turned the noisy machine off. The second after it stopped ringing however, she fell back on the bed and let out a loud groan.

In her sleepy state, only one thought was present in Dash's tired brain.

'I hate that stupid clock...so much.'

Wearing nothing more than a white tank top and a pair of panties, Rainbow was already missing the warmth that came from her covers. Though...actually she missed that very pleasant dream a bit more.

She was a hormonal teenager, it's not like she could help it.

Rainbow Dash had the body of a young athlete, with toned muscles and a sleek frame. She was a bit on the short side though, but that wasn't anything too unusual for a girl her age. However, her messy shoulder-length hair that seemed to have been painted in every colour of the rainbow was a bit more unusual. Strangely enough, it hadn't been dyed to look like that. It was just her natural hair colour.

Make three guesses where she got the name 'Rainbow' from.

With the morning pretty much ruined for her, she gave up on any attempt to go back to sleep and slowly opened her magenta-coloured eyes, taking in the unruly mess that was her bedroom.

Clothes and various other objects were scattered all over the floor, and just about every wall in the room were covered in posters of some kind or another. Most of those posters were of fighter jets or famous pilots throughout history, but a few were also about the fictional heroine Daring Do and her many adventures.

One poster stuck out from the rest with the simple image of a tortoise on it with the words 'When the going gets tough, the tough don't notice because they have hard shells'. It was actually one she had kept since she was a child, and it had inspired her even to this day.

In addition to posters, she also had shelves filled with model airplanes and trophies for all sorts of sporting events that all had her name on them. Also, she had reserved one shelf in particular for her huge collection of Daring Do books, making it very clear what her favourite book series was. In fact, the Daring Do series were about the only books she usually enjoyed reading. Nearly every other thing she had tried to read had made her bored out of her mind to the point where she once came to the conclusion that reading was only for, quote on quote, 'eggheads'...and not for someone like Rainbow Dash.

Daring Do had definitively proven her wrong about that.

After releasing a big yawn, she slowly and reluctantly pulled herself out of her bed, placing her feet on the decidedly far less comfortable cold floor littered with dirty clothes and various other objects.

'Yeah, I probably should clean this up, but...not today. Got stuff to do today...important stuff...stuff I can't be late for... stuff that has to do with Twilight and that...Celestia-something place. I dunno. I better get some breakfast before I fall asleep again.'

It wasn't really a normal occurrence for Rainbow Dash to get up this early on a Saturday morning, especially if given a choice, but today was a bit different. Today was the day where she and her little circle of friends were finally going to see the interior of the world-famous CelestiaCorp Tower for the very first time.

Twilight Sparkle, one of Rainbow's friends, had recently started an internship there, and had apparently done such a good contribution that she got permission from the company's president, Celestia herself, to give her friends a tour of the place.

Not that Rainbow Dash was particularly interested in science or anything, but if Twilight wanted her to come along so much, then she couldn't just stay home and slack off, could she?

After all, she had to stay loyal to her friends...even if they were into things that bored her half to death.

Besides, her little hobby of taking pictures with her camera wherever she went would probably be something the others would appreciate. Shame none of them cared about photography nearly as much as she did.

With her mind set, she began her trek towards the door...only to immediately trip on something hard and fall face-first into one of the many piles of clothing on the floor.

For a second time that morning, Dash let out a tired and irked groan. Not only were her toes feeling a bit of pain now, but her face had also been planted right onto one of her discarded bras she had used the other day.

She must have been working out that day because it still stank of her old sweat...which, mind you, was not a very pleasant aroma to wake up to.

Slightly annoyed, she then turned her head around to see what exactly it was she had tripped on.

Her annoyance quickly turned to guilt though when she saw that it had been none other than her pet tortoise Tank that she had accidentally kicked and subsequently woken from his peaceful nap on the floor.

After realising what just happened, Rainbow awkwardly said, “Eh...Morning, Buddy…”

Tank pulled his head out of his shell and gave her a slightly grumpy glare...which was apparently something tortoises could do...or at least something that that particular tortoise could do. Tank...well...he was special, let's leave it at that.

“Yeah…sorry about that, Tank.” She apologised with a sheepish smile while rubbing the back of her neck. For a girl, she had a kinda raspy voice, and it cracked a little when she raised her tone.

Her reptilian friend tilted his head to the side, then let out a big yawn, pulled his head back into his shell and went back to sleep.

This wasn't nearly the first time this had happened, and Tank had grown pretty used to it by now. Also, he really didn't have it in him to stay mad at her...or anyone else for that matter...not like a certain small fluffy white bunny could at least.

Rainbow then heard the familiar voice of her mother call out, "Hey, Dashie, breakfast's ready!"

"I'll be right there, mom!" Dash shouted back.

She got back up on her feet and began to look around for something to wear. It didn't take her too long to find a pair of blue jeans lying around in the mess, and it didn't take her long either to put them on.

However, what did make her take a little longer to leave was the sight of a bundle of home-printed photographs sitting on her desk...or to be more precise, it was the sight of the person in those photos that made her freeze up.

She walked over to the desk and picked them up, giving each photo a close look. She had taken these as recently as last Sunday, and all were of herself and another girl about her age with spiky white hair and a brown leather jacket with a furred neckline.

In one picture, the two of them were holding their arms over each other's shoulders while smiling for the camera, another (admittedly blurry) one showed them kissing while Dash was trying to take the photo herself at the same time, and yet another had her lying on her bed with the other girl sitting on her lap with an annoyed expression. The final photograph though had the white-haired girl try to reach for the camera while keeping Dash pinned under her own weight.

'Gosh, I can't believe this happened just a week ago.' Rainbow noted silently, 'I freaking loved that stupid harpy that night, and now I can barely stand the sight of her. Funny how these things work out.'

Rainbow then threw the whole bundle in the trash and left the room with no further ado, neither wanting nor needing a reminder of her bitter ex-girlfriend right now.

Downstairs in the kitchen, Rainbow Dash's parents, Rainbow Blaze and Firefly, were currently enjoying their morning while waiting for their daughter to come join them.

Firefly, Dash's mom, wasn't too similar to her daughter in terms of appearance, given that she favoured the colour pink a lot in her wardrobe, had plain blue hair instead of prismatic, as well as dark purple eyes in clear contrast to her daughter's magenta ones. Also, they barely shared any facial similarities whatsoever.

In terms of personality and attitude however, the apple really didn't fall far from the tree. Firefly was just as bold-headed, tomboyish and fierce as Rainbow Dash, and that had served her well in the airforce when she fought in the Yakyakistan War as a member of the elite military flyers known as the Wonderbolts.

With the world's current peacetime though, Firefly had retired from the front lines and now spent her days teaching as a flight instructor. While not nearly as exciting, the chances of getting shot down was significantly smaller.

However, at this exact moment, she was busy making pancakes that Rainbow Blaze, her husband of nine years, was completely ignoring in favour of reading the latest issue of the Daily Bugle.

Unlike Firefly, Blaze was a bit more laid back and not nearly as hot-blooded as his wife or daughter could be, though he shared his daughter's strange habit of falling asleep at odd places at the drop of a hat. In addition to that, he also had the same rainbow-coloured hair that Dash was born with, albeit with a few slightly grey tones in it due to his more advanced age. He wasn't quite there yet, given that he was only 46, but one could tell that it was slowly but surely loosing colour.

However, when he was younger, he was actually a very good athlete who could compete with the best of the best in world championships...though he didn't win any. Well, he got a bronze trophy once that he was very proud of and still kept on display in the living room...and never shut up about.

Nowadays though, he owned the local Ponyville Gym where Rainbow Dash usually trained. It wasn't the most glamorous or exciting job in the world, but it suited him just fine.

While Firefly was in the process of making yet another pancake for the rest of her family to enjoy, she let out an annoyed sigh when she saw that Blaze hadn't even touched the two that she had already put on his plate.

"Honey...is it too hard for you to at least look at your food?" Firefly chided.

Without tearing his eyes away from his newspaper, Blaze answered, "In a minute, Fly..."

She rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to the pancake currently residing in her frying pan. It looked about finished, so she put it on a plate and began to prepare the next one.

After a few seconds of being ignored, she couldn't help but ask, "Okay, seriously, what's so damn interesting in that paper of yours?"

"Oh, nothing much..." He replied nonchalantly,"...just that we have the first ever confirmation of extra-terrestrial life in recorded history."

Firefly had to do a double take to make sure she heard that right, "Wait, what? Really?"

"Yeah, there was this strange black mud stain in this meteor that turned out to be-"

She snatched his paper right out of his hands to check out the headline herself. It read 'ALIEN LIFE FOUND INSIDE METEOR?!', with a picture of a strange black substance held inside a glass jar.

After skimming through the article a bit, she just rolled her eyes and scoffed, "Alien life? This is a black splash of paint! I was thinking more in the lines of UFOs piloted by giant bug-eyed monsters with laser-guns that say 'Take me to your leader'! Is this really worth getting excited over?"

Rainbow Blaze reached to get the newspaper back, "Well, it's the principle that matters. Now if I can only finish readi-"

"No! No more reading!" Firefly declared in a frustrated tone while she held the paper well out of his reach, "Now for goodness sake, eat your damn pancakes!"

Blaze grumbled a bit under his breath, but eventually did as he was told. However, he secretly wowed that he would get the paper back one way or another.

Firefly's eyes then lit up a bit when she saw her daughter finally coming down the stairs to join them.

"That's a bit slow, Dashie," she criticised, "The airforce doesn't tolerate slackers, ya know?”

“But I’m not in the airforce now, am I?” Rainbow quipped back with a yawn.

"Not yet, maybe. But if you ever want to be a pilot, you'll need to have some discipline in the morning. I sure as hell didn't get my certificate by being lazy."

Dash took a seat at the table next to her dad and began to inspect her breakfast, "Sure, sure, but until then I'm going to enjoy my days of free napping as much as humanly possible. Wait, are these supposed to be pancakes? Where's the syrup?"

"Complaining won't get you anywhere either, Cadet."

"Gee, mom, I was just asking. Also, can you please stop acting like a drill sergeant for at least five minutes?"

Firefly snickered a little at that, making it pretty clear how much she enjoyed making fun of her daughter.

"Trust me, I'm way nicer than any drill sergeant. As to your question, those are Swedish pancakes. Specifically: Spitfire's grandpa's homemade recipe, and you're supposed to have cream and strawberry jam to that, not syrup."

"Looks like crepes to me." Blaze commented offhandedly.

Firefly sighed, "No...those are completely different."

"Different how?" Dash questioned.

"They... they're...they just are, okay!" Firefly snapped, not really knowing the answer to that question herself. "Spitfire just gave me a recipe and said 'Hey, you like my granddad's pancakes? Here, try and make some yourself', and that's what I did. Though, of course, the only way to know if I succeeded or not is to, well, try them out. So go on, have a bite and tell me what you think."

Rainbow reached out for the strawberry jam jar and took a look at it, shrugged, and poured some over the pancake on her plate. 'When in Rome...I guess.'

She may not have been too big on sugary substances like her food monster of a friend Pinkie Pie, but she could indulge herself with something delicious from time to time, as long as it wasn't too often. One does not become an athlete by gorging themselves on sweeteners after all.

After taking a bite of it, Rainbow savoured the taste a bit, 'Maybe a bit on the sweet side, and not very filling at all, but it's decent enough.'

Out loud, she didn't say anything, she just gave a wordless thumb's up to her mother instead.

For Firefly though, that was all she needed. "Ha! I had a feeling you would like it."

Blaze chose this as the perfect time to change the subject a little, "So, Dash, excited for that visit to CelestiaCorp today?"

"Not really," Dash answered honestly. "I mean, yeah, it's great that Twilight got her internship there and all...plus, I think Scootaloo got her new leg from there too...but I barely even get half the stuff of what's going on in that place. I'm probably gonna fall asleep within the first minute."

"Then...why are you going there in the first place?"

"Well, for one, I'm pretty sure the others will want pictures of that place to remember the day by, and that's where my insanely awesome camera skills come into play. Also, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and even Applejack are coming, so if I sit out on this I'm gonna be the jerk of the group...again."

"Rainbow Dash..." Firefly said sternly, "I've said it once, and I'll say it again: you are not a jerk. Don't you dare call yourself that again."

"Sure, because making Fluttershy so terrified she could barely leave her own house for days was because I was a nice person?"

"That was not your fault, Dashie, and you know it."

"But I let it happen! She told me what Gilda said to her behind my back, but instead of listening to her like any good friend would, I just ended up ignoring her!"

Blaze argued, “It was only natural of you to side with your girlfriend-“

But the moment he said that particular word, Rainbow reminded, “Ex-girlfriend!”

"Either way, it is pretty common to not notice anything wrong with the person you're dating. Heck, before I met your mom I went through a similar experience in High School myself."

"Sure, but Fluttershy and I go back since...gosh I don't even know how long."

"Since first grade actually." Her mom provided.

"Exactly! And I promised that I would never let anyone hurt her if I could help it. Breaking a promise like that is so not cool. Hell, Pinkie keeps saying that's the easiest way to lose a friend."

At that exact moment in a slightly rusty old truck driving not too far from their location, the driver nearly lost control of the car when her passenger suddenly had the urge to shout "FOREVER!" out of the blue for no apparent reason.

Back in Dash's house, she finished, "I'm just sick of things always ending up being my fault."

"They only are if you keep thinking like that," Firefly assured. "Fluttershy forgave you for what happened. Maybe its time for you to do the same."

“Yeah...maybe I should," Rainbow considered, then let out a small yawn. "Anyway, I'm just way too tired to talk about this stuff."

"Sooo..." Blaze began while trying to come up with a new subject matter. "...how are you planning to get to the CelestiaCorp Tower?"

Dash took a piece of pancake in her mouth and answered, "Applejack borrowed Big Mac's truck and is..." then she made a small pause to swallow it, "...on her way here. She's picking up Pinkie first though, then me and Fluttershy. Twilight's already there as far as I know, aaaaand...I guess that's it."

"What about Rari-ehhh..." He stopped himself when he remembered what had happened recently. "Oh, right, forgot about that. So...then you'll be with the usual gang for the rest of the day?"

"Yeah, we'll be back at seven or something. Also, I think that girl Twilight's hanging out with all the time, Sunset-something, is gonna be there too."

“Right, and when are-”

Ding-Dong!

A sudden call at the front door prevented him from finishing that question.

"That's my cue! Gotta go, bye!" Rainbow said rapidly before she got up, put what was left of her pancake in her mouth, and bolted for the door...all in under ten seconds.

"Don't forget your camera, Dashie!" Firefly reminded before her daughter was out of earshot.

Rainbow's response came in the form of a muffled, "I won't!"

Firefly then looked at her husband and commented, "Always in a hurry, that kid."

"She got that from you," he answered with a small chuckle.

She narrowed her eyes at him slightly and reminded, "You know that's not true."

"I suppose not..." he noted in a more sombre tone, "...So...um, can I get my paper back?"

Firefly sighed and gave it back to him.

Rainbow Dash was a textbook example of a tomboy. Brash, athletic, assertive, incredibly competitive and with an ego larger than Mount Everest. So who would you expect to be her oldest and closest friend? Perhaps someone just as tomboyish as herself? Another reckless daredevil who would challenge Dash to her absolute limits?

Well, if that is what you thought, then you would be gravely mistaken. Okay, sure, she did have not one, but two friends just like that, but they...to make a long story short, weren't really her friends anymore.

No, Rainbow's oldest and closest friend was a kindhearted and introverted animal-lover who was given the very fitting name of...Fluttershy.

Despite the fact that they had barely anything in common, not to mention personalities that seemed to be polar opposites of each other, Rainbow had always had a soft spot for Fluttershy, and Fluttershy had always felt safe whenever she was around Rainbow Dash.

What started this odd friendship in the first place was a bit of a story, but the important part was that they had actually known each other ever since first grade of elementary school, and despite all that had happened during that time, they still remained best friends to this day.

Also, the two of them lived literally across the street from each other, thus making it very easy to stay in touch.

It also made it easy for Fluttershy to pay Dash a small visit before Applejack was coming to pick them up.

While she was making her way over there, Fluttershy hummed a soft tune to herself while keeping an eye out for any birds, insects, occasional squirrels or other small animals that might be around in this relatively quiet suburban area.

Just by looking at her, it was clear that this girl was nothing like Rainbow Dash. Where's Rainbow was built like an athlete, Fluttershy was rather thin and lanky, and actually stood a full head taller than Dash. In contrast with Rainbow's slightly boyish shoulder-length prismatic hair, Fluttershy had long wavy silky hair held away from her eyes with a barrette that looked like a butterfly. Also, it was pink...which was one of the few colours Dash didn't have in her rainbow hair.

When she came up to the front door of Rainbow's house, she didn't have to wait long after ringing the doorbell before the door was slammed open and a very awake Rainbow Dash greeted, "Hey Fluttershy! You ready to go?!"

A bit taken back by her friend's sudden appearance and in-your-face demeanour, Fluttershy stuttered, "Um, well, I guess I might be. But-"

"Good! I'll be right out in a sec!" Dash responded before darting back inside.

A few moments later, Rainbow came back out, now wearing a sky-blue jacket and a pair of shoes with her camera bag hung over her shoulder. Having little to no patience to speak of, she didn't wait to listen to what Fluttershy was about to say before she ran out of her house and began to look around for any signs of Applejack's truck.

"Come on, Shy, let's..." she then noticed something. "...wait, where's our ride?"

"Oh, it's...not here yet," Fluttershy answered, still standing in the same spot as before. "Applejack called me and said that she would be here any minute now...which was actually...half-an-hour ago...I think."

Rainbow slumped over slightly, "Ah man! And I just got past my last get-up-in-the-morning record for this!"

"I suppose...it might be a little tricky to find your way around here?" Fluttershy suggested.

"Well, she better come soon. I did not wake up this early just to stand here and wait!"

Fluttershy took a seat at the front porch of Rainbow's house and said, "She'll be here, there's no need to worry." then gently patted the spot next to her, inviting Rainbow to come join her.

Dash was about to say something else, but the words died in her throat when she looked into her friend's big, blue eyes. 'Damn, she's adorable. Well, I guess sitting and waiting with her might not be such a bad idea after all. Maybe this will be the perfect opportunity to ask if she's- wait, no, don't go there, Dash. It's not worth it.'

Rainbow shrugged and walked over to sit beside her. "Fine. But if this takes another hour, Applejack's buying me a soda or something."

"Just a soda?" Fluttershy wondered. "I didn't expect you to settle for anything less than a full barrel of cider."

After having taken a seat at the porch next to her, Dash answered, "Trust me, that is next on my list...right after I convince her to go a whole day without once saying the word 'Sugarcube'."

Fluttershy snickered a little at that, "Hihihi, oh my, then maybe you should go an entire day without saying 'Awesome'...if you're...you know...okay with that."

"Hehe, good point," Rainbow admitted with a small blush.

For a few minutes, the two of them just sat there in silence. Fluttershy was quietly listening to the bird calls that filled the summer morning's air, all while keeping her eyes peeled on any little critter that might seem fit to show up today. Rainbow Dash on the other hand...she was periodically sneaking in a few glances in Fluttershy's direction every once in awhile, all while trying to make it look like she wasn't staring at her.

'Dammit Rainbow! Get a hold of yourself! I know she's really cute, and has those adorable puppy-dog eyes, and that soft pink silky hair, that sweet smell and that nice rack-' She physically shook her head a little to get those lewd thoughts to leave her alone. 'Oh gosh, now I'm doing it again! What the hell is wrong with me? She's my best friend, I can't keep thinking of her like that. It's just weird.'

Rainbow tried to focus on something, anything, else than her unwanted and most certainly doomed non-platonic feelings she had begun to develop for her oldest friend. However, that turned out to be far easier said than done...especially since there was barely anything around to distract herself with.

'Maybe I should just tell her? I mean, we've been through a lot, and it doesn't feel right to keep something like this from her, and...who knows, maybe I could score a new girlfriend out of it. But then again...what if she isn't into girls after all...or me for that matter? Wouldn't that just make things really awkward between us? Heck, she might not even want to be friends with me after that. Urgh...why do these things have to be so damn complicated?!'

While Fluttershy obviously couldn't hear Rainbow's internal monologue, she did notice that she was fidgeting an awful lot, and it was making her a bit concerned. "Um...Rainbow Dash, are you feeling alright?"

"Yeah, 'course I am, what are you talking about?" Dash replied nervously.

"Well...you seem to be a bit...uh, jumpy."

"No way, I'm just...ehhh..." She then spotted something familiar come into view. "Oh, hey, there they are!"

Fluttershy followed Rainbow's gaze and saw the red slightly rusty old truck that was pulling over at the house. Recognising it as the one Applejack was going to borrow from her big brother, she decided to save their conversation for later and follow an impatient Rainbow Dash who was now making a beeline for the approaching car.

Once the truck had parked properly, two girls about the same age as Rainbow and Fluttershy stepped out of it.

The one who was driving the truck was Applejack, and if one were to describe her in one word it would probably be 'Country'. Not only was she wearing an orange plaid shirt, had Western-style boots on her feet and slightly torn worker jeans on her legs, but she was also rarely seen without her trademark stetson on her head. Her sunny blonde hair that was tied up in a ponytail as well as her freckled face gave her a certain country flair, and her well-built and slightly heavy-set physique and sunburned skin made it clear that she was used to hard work.

Her passenger, Pinkie Pie, on the other hand was another matter entirely. Everything about her screamed energy, parties, happiness and pink...lots and lots of pink. She was wearing a pink T-shirt with a logo of three balloons on it in addition to a pair of blue shorts with polka-striped leggings to compliment it. Her chaotic curly pink mess of a haircut had a slight resemblance to cotton candy...and may or may not contain its own pocket dimension. Also, one could surmise that she had a bit of a sweet tooth judging by the fact that seemed to be on a constant sugar rush and also because she was a fair bit chubby.

As soon as Applejack had gotten out of the truck, Rainbow Dash got right up in her face and shouted, "What took you guys so long?!"

With a touch of sarcasm, Applejack replied, "'Howdy, Applejack. I'm mighty glad y'all are here to give me lift today.' Now that, Sugarcube, is what you're supposed to say," in the Southern country accent she had grown up with.

Rainbow rolled her eyes, "Urrgh...Well, hi, AJ. You happy now?"

"Eeyup!" she answered smugly. "Now as to that question of yours...well, turns out this here area is easier to get lost in than a circle in a corn field."

"Haven't you been here like a million times already?"

"Sure, but I just got my license last month, and it's a heck of lot harder to navigate this place on your own. Also, I'm pretty sure I would have been here a mite bit sooner if someone..." she cast a glare at Pinkie, "...hadn't scared me half to death by screamin' like a banshee when I was trying to concentrate on my drivin'."

"Sorry, Jackie, can't help it!" Pinkie explained in her energetic and high-pitched voice. "Someone somewhere in the world was talking about breaking a Pinkie Promise, and nobody breaks a Pinkie Promise!"

Applejack crossed her arms, "Plus, her 'advice' on directions were a bit...all over the place."

"Well...DUH!" Pinkie exclaimed. "That's because you said we should take exactly the same way I did last time I went to Rainbow Dash's house, and the last time I went there I got a teensy bit lost looking for some ice cream to eat on the way but the first place I found didn't have any of Mulia Mild's delicious chocolate-strawberry-deluxe-specials, and I really, really, really wanted one of those, so I went around and around and around to every place I could find but no one had it, and that's when I realised-"

Before she could go on any longer, Applejack put a hand over her mouth to shut her up. "Y'all get what I mean?"

Even with her mouth shut, Pinkie could still be heard mumbling something with the same excitement as before. In fact, she barely even seemed to notice that nobody could properly hear what she was currently saying.

"I...think I got it," Fluttershy said meekly.

Feeling a bit impatient, Rainbow asked, "So, can we go now or what?"

"Sure thing," Applejack concurred before removing her hand from Pinkie's face.

However, that lead them all to hear a very strange and out of context comment that sounded something like, "...and then I said 'Cornflakes, are you crazy!?'"

A confused silence reigned among the girls for a moment after she said that...then they all proceeded to put it out of their minds and continue on with their day.

"Then what are we waiting for?!" Rainbow asked impatiently while taking a grip on Fluttershy's hand. "C'mon, Shy, let's get going!"

"Alright, Da-WOAAAAH!" she responded when her much faster and less patient friend pulled her over towards the back seat of Applejack's borrowed vehicle.

Before the other two could react, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were already in their seats and waiting. Rainbow was even tapping her foot on the floor impatiently as if to say 'we don't have all day'.

Applejack chuckled a little, "Hehe, always in a hurry that gal, ain't she?"

"She's just excited about this trip...and so am I!" Pinkie declared while making a move to follow them.

However, all of a sudden, she stopped in her tracks while her strange hair started to twitch, then her ears began to flap around on their own, her eyes fluttered a bit followed by an uncontrollable twirl of her fingers. In response to the peculiar reaction her body had, Pinkie's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates while she let out a loud gasp.

Applejack raised an eyebrow at her friend’s unusual antics, “What's it now, Pinkie?”

Pinkie immediately grabbed Applejack by the shoulders and hysterically warned, “I don’t know how, and I don’t know why, but my ‘Pinkie Sense’ is telling me that something totally and absolutely unexpected is going to happen to someone in our immediate vicinity within the next twenty-four hours that will change that person’s life…FOREVER!" then her posture abruptly softened a bit "...or I forgot to feed Gummy again. I can never really tell which is which.”

“Suuure, if ya say so…” the confused farmgirl replied...not having the slightest clue what to make of Pinkie's sudden rant.

...Little did anyone know that Pinkie Pie's prediction would most certainly come true...and that this little trip was not only going to change the life of one person...but that of the whole city.

This is the story of how a once normal teenaged girl became Canterlot's newest superhero...and what she had to do to get there...

(Wait a minute...this wasn't were the old chapter ended, was it? That's what you're thinking, isn't it? Well, except if you're a new reader, then you were probably thinking of something else.

Yes, this is only half the chapter, and I will rewrite the second half too, but this part was starting to get very long, so I decided to split it in two parts to have this out sooner.)