//------------------------------// // 1:Jetting at The Speed of Pinkie // Story: How to Build an Alicorn // by RDDash //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie has been very excited. Just recently she ordered twin P320 custom-made jet engines. By custom-made, she meant that it was painted pink, has her cutie mark had been plastered on either side of it, and she made extra sure it would start spewing flames when somepony would engage the afterburners because they do that, they spew flames when they fly? "Oh and almost forgot they also have a small #3 racing flag!" Pinkie opened the box and took out all of the parts. "Yes, parts!" She said with a hint of disappointment. "Assembly is required!" She then took the instructions and then beamed right back up "Hm! I am sure if this was Rainbow Dash story She would be like who the hey reads instructions, instructions are lame." Pinkie Pie paused for a second "I suppose if Twilight was in my place she would have been all over it." Pinkie Pie giggled, "But she already has wings! Hehehe, Celestia gives you wings!" Pinkie Pie took out the small rectangular thingy and then snapped a few pictures. "Let me see, I think I can get away with this dilemma because of my photographic memory!" Pinkie Pie carefully looked over everything that's been written on the instructions and then stuffed it back inside the box. "There it's done, problem solved!" Pinkie Pie made a short pause, "Now let's go and build that thing!" A few loud mechanical noises later and... "Tada! Fear me, not only I am now fast, but I am also fast when in the air!" On her back, she did have mounted jet engines, and now the only thing that's left is to test it. Pinkie Pie exited her own house and then started up her own engines.Bark! Bark! both engines whined started up spinning with a small audible buzz. Pinkie smiled because she just heard confirmation barks that signaled that engines started up normally. The noise from the engines started to attract attention from other ponies. "Hey, How are you?"She waved her hooves to Carrot Top. She then noticed Lyra who was staring at her wide-eyed, "Hello, Lyra! How is your human fetish is going? Is your wife Bon Bon knows about it?" Lyra blushed in embarrassment and then just decided to look in another way. "Let's see, press bite the biting mechanism once to engage the vertical take-off system, bite it twice to engage turbo, bite it three times to engage horizontal flying stabilizers!" Pinkie Pie quickly recited from memory. She then has bitten the mechanism three times in quick succession. After she done so her engines wined even louder, the force of the air forced Pinkie Pie to start running and then flew straight ahead. "Weeeeh! This is fun! Weeeeh! Alright, how many times do I need to bite it to engage the autopilot mode? is it five or six?" She continued to do so until she saw a blur of rainbow passed few hundred meters near her trajectory. "Oh, so that's what the beeping warning noise that I started hearing in my head!" After a few seconds, the rainbow blur passed her again, and then the buzzing noise buzzed inside her head again "Hey Pinkie Pie!" The Rainbow blur was just Rainbow Dash, flying at near of Mach 1 speeds. "Woah!" Rainbow noticed that Pinkie Pie had been flying with the help of her contraption. "Pinkie Pie what gives?" "Ahem! Well I kind of thought that I have a bit of a surprise planned, but I guess you already caught me with my hooves down! So Surprise!" "Cool! Cool!" Rainbow Dash stopped flying in the and started hoovering, which caused Pinkie Pie to star orbiting her in a very wide circle. "Sooo! What next?" "Don't know!" Pinkie Pie shrugged "Do you want to race?" "What? You against me! You can't even fly, Oh wait you can!" Rainbow Dash chuckled in the realization of her mistake. "Whoever flies to Twilight's castle is the fastest! Three! Two! One! I am the fastest!" Rainbow Dash quickly accelerated and then flew towards Twilight's castle. "Meh!" Pinkie Pie shrugged off and then activated her afterburners and then started chasing Rainbow Dash "Hey Rainbow Dash!" "What?" "I have a better idea, fly faster!" Pinkie Pie yelled at her and then accelerated even faster. "Pinkie Pie what the hey?" Rainbow Dash didn't want to lose so she pushed herself even faster.Both of them accelerated past Mach 1 speeds. Two sonic booms exploded in the sky. One exploded in the shockwave of rainbow colors, and the second one exploded in a soft pink. Rainbow Dash completely forgot about the race and decelerated, she eventually slowed down and landed on the balcony, a few seconds later Pinkie Pie landed on the balcony. "Oh my gosh! that's the coolest thing ever" "Yap! Oh, I almost forgot!" Pinkie Pie quickly deactivated her engines, which then responded with soft Bark! Bark! noise. "I didn't know that Twilight had a dog!" Rainbow Dash was very confused by the sudden barking noise. "Well, she doesn't! Its just my engines shutting down, and they do the same when I need to turn them on." "Huh weird! Alright let's go and show Twilight what you've got!" both of them went downstairs and then just went straight to the main hall where they know Twilight had been doing her royal duties. "Hi, Twilight!" Rainbow Dash trotted straight to the table and sat down on her own crystal throne. "Oh hi Rainbow Dash as you can see I am really busy! Princess Celestia requested my help, so I am kind of helping her!" "Oh okay! Pinkie Pie and I were just hoping to show you something, but I guess we could just wait when you are available a\nd staff. "I am glad that you understand! I promise it wouldn't take long." "Yeah okay!"Rainbow Dash suddenly got a bright idea, "Oh I almost forgot do you want any help? I am sure that we can do this much faster if we could do this together!" Twilight smiled, "Are you sure? That's a lot of boring paperwork I just don't want to bore you!" Rainbow Dash nodded, "Yeah I am not afraid, besides we have Pinkie Pie here as well!" "Well okay then, just remember that you volunteered!" Twilight levitated 0ne third of the paperwork in the direction of Rainbow Dash." Here you go, here is your portion of the work!" Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie removed her jet engines and then jumped in her own chair "Alright I am ready!" "Good! Here you go! Please enjoy!. Twilight levitated her own portion of paperwork "Um... both of you are please free ask any question if you find anything that is very confusing!" "Okay! We will!" both of them replied back to her! Several hours later Twilight and the girls had finished with the paperwork "Alright let's just go to the kitchen first and then I will see what the hey both of you wanted!" "Sounds good!" Twilight, Rainbow and Pinkie Pie went to the castle's kitchen, each of them took a small snack and then they came back to the main hall. "So I've noticed that you started hiring ponies from the town?" Rainbow Dash asked Twilight a question. "Well, I am pretty much got forced by Princess Celestia. Could you imagine that one day I woke up and one day there it was the squad of royal guards had been standing in front of my castle door? I've asked them what the hey do they want, and they just give me that letter!" Twilight levitated a letter from the table and give it to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow looked at the letter and started reading out loud "Dear, Princess Twilight, it came to my attention that you ignored my advice to get a proper Castle security, so I am sending you your own personal security squad. I am also cutting your funding until you made sure to start hiring a castle staff. That's what is money is for after all. "Okay, that's pretty harsh!" Twilight sighed, no Its kind of my fault anyway! Could you imagine how easy it would have been if the security had been already present during the whole Starlight Glimmer's fiasco? For starters, she wouldn't even make past few corridors before she would have been tackled by the security. But enough about her, what is it did you wanted again?" "Oh right! Show her Pinkie" As if on queue Pinkie Pe jumped up, her own engines have already been equipped on either side "Twilight I've got myself wings!" Twilight just stared at her, then she looked at Rainbow Dash for advisement which she was more than happy to provide "It's true Twilight! She can fly now!" "But its ridiculous! Pinkie doesn't even have wings to provide a proper lift." Pinkie Pie pouted, "But Twilight I am like super light and those two engines just propel me forward, like this! She bit controller twice. Rainbow's eyes widened "Pinkie Pie wait, don't do it!" Bark! Bark! The engines started to spin and the blast of air pushed papers from the table. Pinkie Pie bit the controller again for at least ten seconds. Bark! Bark! and the engines stopped spinning. "Sorry about that, as you can see those jets are quite powerful. So I 've been thinking, do you think they will make me a Pony Princess?" Pinkie Pie you are not an alicorn, besides you are still an earth pony for goodness sake!" "Well tell me what it means to be an Alicorn, because what do you do? You are just a glorified pencil pusher! Do you want some magic, okay fine, I can create some sort of artificial horn that other ponies can use! Heck, we could even start providing medical care for unicorns with a broken horn, or something! I am sure they would really appreciate the opportunity! Or we could provide the opportunity of aided flight for pegasi with flying disabilities" Pinkie Pie started yelling at Twilight. "I am really sorry Twilight for yelling!" Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight "Its true Twilight Scootaloo is handicapped!" "But...but I thought she is just a late bloomer!" "Twilight, if she is a late bloomer, then your niece is a super genius!" Twilight gave up "Alright fine I'll see what I can do I will write Celestia a letter and I will see what she has to say! And if by chance you will receive n Alicorn enlightenment then I guess kudos to you Pinkie!" Pinkie Pie visibly relaxed, "Thank you Twilight this is all that I ask!"