Takes place during Unification Era.
Approximately 1500 years before season 1.
Rainbow Dash was fifteen years old, she was dressed in a black leather jacket, and a crimson mini skirt. On her head, she was wearing magic powered headphones. That model specifically made to firmly get attached to pony ears, Wear & Forget.
Additionally, the headphones did have a customizable headband with decorative animal ears which served to alert the user to outside world. The current fad was biomechanical cat ears.
Rainbow Dash lived in Crystal Empire, which currently served as a beacon of culture, fashion, and technology. She really loved listening to hard rock, the music genre which came from the group of enthusiastic Griffins, which originally came from the group of earth ponies who just really liked to shred guitar.
Her dream was to become a Shadowbolt, an elite squad of pegasi who served in outer space. If she did everything right, then one day, she too could go out there.
Thinking back Rainbow thought that she shouldn't have rebelled against her parents, only much later she would understand it, but for now, she had her own destiny to meet.
"Lonely mare just came into the dark and shady alley, not even one loser who would be waiting here for me," Rainbow Dash said fantasizing. "What no, not even a single one? That's lame, what a turn-off."
"Huh, what do we have here?" Rainbow Dash looked at the ground. For some reason, there had been ponytail sticking out from under a pile of trash. "Eh, that's so..." Rainbow stopped to think for a bit. "Why should I care about some hobo anyway?" She then picked the stallion with a stick. "Hey is anypony out there? Is anyone still alive?" She flipped him on the side.Huh, he is kind of cute.
The stallion has a messy brown mane, green eyes, he was wearing a brown suit, brown coat, and a bow tie. I am really going to regret this. "Sorry but I am afraid you are coming with me, or you are going to end up as food for arctic wolves. Not that I actually care what happens to you."
She then tried to lift him up. "Now then, where I am going to ditch you because I can't just leave you here. I think I know the place."
About an hour later...
The first thing she did when she came into hideout was investigated her new guest. "What do we have here?" Rainbow took a small wallet with the blank piece of paper. "Huh, it's blank, weird", Rainbow Dash tossed it sideways. "Oh, oops my bad," she quickly dashed to pick it up and returned it to the pocket.
"Now then this is interesting, " Rainbow then took a metal stick about ten inches across. There was a green ruby was placed on the top of it. She pressed the button, she quickly regret it, it made a small high pitch frequency sound. "Damn it this thing is loud."
Headphones overloaded and sent a shutdown command, which unfortunately had been the equivalent of the brain knocking her out like a twig. For some reason, Rainbow thought it would have been twenty percent cooler if she could neuro-link the device with her brain. There were no known downsides to it, except that she now did have a second pair of ears. With that Rainbow Dash fell asleep on the couch nearby.
She woke up, but the pony wasn't here anymore. Where did he go? Rainbow went to the kitchen area of her hideout. She saw a note on the table, and then she read it.
With a regret I would have to inform you that you and I couldn't meet face to face. Although I appreciate that you saved me from a certain doom, I, however, should wear you to not touch my personal things without permission, and uh the abandoned factory isn't really a place for a young filly such as yourself. Do you have cheese? Anyway, it would seem to be that I need to go somewhere. I'll be right back in five minutes.
Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Jerk!" Five minutes passed away, he didn't come back.
"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" She sighed, "Go to the wolves for all I care!"
Five minutes passed away, then ten, then twenty, then forty-five, then two hours. He didn't come back. Hours turned into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months turned into years. He didn't come back.
Rainbow Dash graduated, went to college, then graduated again majoring in Cybertech. She then went to Royal Military Academy of Saint Germane. There she transferred into Space Marines Corps. She was about twenty-six when she got assigned to the Star Fleet brand new vessel Crusader's Furry. Some ponies could even say dream come true.
Somewhere in the middle of the Lunar Bay Sea, one small Star Destroyer and another one massive Star Battleship were floating on the surface of the water.
"Please tell me you are joking?"
"Is something wrong private?" asked ship's avatar. "My sensors indicate that you are unsatisfied with your uniform."
"Yeah, no shit!"
"Need I remind you, while you are a high ranking officer, you are still a private on this ship, on my ship. Now you are going to be a good soldier and do as I say you do. Is that clear?
"As you wish."
"I do not wish anything private. I issue orders, and your job is to follow them. I am going to repeat, is that clear!"
"Yes, ma'am! Lock and load, ma'am!" Rainbow replied in a sarcastic tone
"Smart mouth, undisciplined, and cocky. Sister, why did you reassigned her to my hull?" Sweetie Belle asked a fellow AI Platinum.
"It's true, but she is good with the blaster."
"Do we really need another meatbag with the gun?"
"Meatbag, really dear, it would seem to be only yesterday that we were like them."
"Well, we aren't!"
"Just give her a chance, I know she is difficult, but she is good at her job."
"What, like blow staff up?" Sweetie Belle asked []iPlattinum sarcastically.
"She is highly valued Cybertech Specialist, and frankly you need her more than me. Now then this decision is final. Tah-tah."
Space Battleship took off with the help of vertical thrusters. Four massive rear engines whined, and the ship gracefully started to accelerate into high orbit.