It was another day at Equestria as I was on the couch, playing Pac-Man on the Xbox One, and since I'm the master of video games, I was doing well, but with one life left.
"Wow, you're very good in this game." Kodi commented.
"Yeah, I've been practicing a lot, and I'm starting to do exceedingly well. After all Kodi, I am the master of games, or maybe you should call me-" Suddenly, the three ghosts cornered me and had already killed, getting me a Game Over. "Oh dang it!"
"Well better luck next time, I guess." Kodi said, making an assuring smile.
I let out a sigh and made a soft smile at him. "Yeah, I guess so..." I rubbed him on his belly, much to his joy. Suddenly, I noticed Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash outside, talking about something. "Oh hey, it's Rainbow and Fluttershy." I said, happy to see them. You know, seeing Dash flying, it wants me to try out my hover-board again, I never tested it since the dragon incident back then. Maybe Dash can show me some of her moves.
I headed towards my room and into the closet and grabbed my board and headed outside, but not before realizing that I wasn't wearing any shoes. "Oops!" I muttered as I headed back inside and put my shoes back on. "Come on Kodiak, let's go!"
"Okay!" Kodi nodded as we headed out to meet up with Fluttershy and Rainbow.
"Alright, now, what have we learned?" Rainbow asked as she paced in the air.
"Lots of control." Fluttershy answered, feeling confident. Huh? Wonder what's up?
"Good." Rainbow nodded.
"Scream and hollering."
"Yes, and most importantly?"
"Passion!"
Right!" Rainbow said as she landed on the ground. "So now that you know the elements of a good cheer, let's hear one." Cheer? As in cheering?
Fluttershy took a breath in and yelled "Yay!" very quietly in a soft tone.
Rainbow let out a disapproving expression at her and said "...Ugh! You're gonna cheer for me like that? Louder."
"Yay!" Fluttershy gave it another shot, but the volume remained the same.
"Louder!"
"Yay!"
"Louder!" Rainbow screamed.
Fluttershy took a large and deep breath and let out a "Yay!" Oh well, at least she tried.
"Ugh..." Rainbow hoof-faced on her forehead and fell backwards.
"Too loud?" Fluttershy asked in worried.
"I...don't think that's why Fluttershy." I said, sweat-dropping and smiling sheepishly. Rainbow and Fluttershy became surprised to see me.
"Oh, Ren! Hello!" Fluttershy waved happily to see me.
"Oh hey Ren, Kodi!" Rainbow waved to us. "So what are you doing here?"
"Oh, we just saw you outside and thought that maybe you can teach me some tricks of yours?" I asked.
"That's nice, I like your spirit Ren!" Rainbow said with a smile before she frowned a little. "But I'm afraid that I got something important to do!"
"Really? What's that?" Kodi asked curiously.
"Rainbow is competing in the Best Flyers Competition." Fluttershy explained. "She's practicing for it right now, and asked me to cheer her on."
"I see, so I take it that its some sort of race?" I guessed.
"Nah!" Rainbow waved off. "It's a competition where you show off your moves and stuff, and I'm gonna win this competition!" Rainbow boasted.
"She's really determined, Ren..." Kodi whispered to me.
"You can say that again..." I said, rolling my eyes before turning back to Dash. "Well it makes sense, I know you're going to win it, Dash." I smiled happily towards her.
"Thanks Ren, I need all the encouragement!" Rainbow smiled. "But it's gonna take more than luck to win it! Besides, since you two are here, maybe you can help be my support? Then I can teach you my moves later."
I thought for a while as I put down my board. Hmm, I guess it would be a nice offer. "Okay, I'll do it!" I said in a determined expression.
"Yeah, me too!" Kodi added.
"Yeah, so will I Rainbow Dash! Yay!" Fluttershy cheered softly again.
"Right..." Rainbow then took a deep breath and bounced on the cloud. She began flying straight downwards but shot left before she hit the ground. She began maneuvering through a line of trees accurately, passing us like a rocket. A large gust of wind blew our hairs/manes while Fluttershy released another cheer. "Whoo-hoo!"
"Alright Dashie!" Kodiak cheered, more louder than Fluttershy's.
"You can do it Dash!" I cheered as well. Rainbow smiled happily at us and wink as she continue her pactice run. She shot upwards at an angle and did a few loops before flying straight toward us. She was significantly gaining speed and she continued to dash downwards. Fluttershy, Kodi, and I gaze in suspense as Rainbow was about to finish her performance.
Is she crying because I could've sworn that I just saw forming tears from her eyes. Suddenly, Rainbow started going fast that it broken the sound barrier with her speed. She had almost made it, but suddenly, Rainbow was suddenly bounced back and was launched towards the opposite direction.
"Whoa, that was...awesome!" Kodi jumped happily.
"Umm, I don't think that was suppose to happen." I said, feeling unsure of that was the way how Rainbow would've ended her trick.
Fluttershy then turned to us and said "C'mon Ren! Kodiak! Let's go follow her!" We nodded as Kodi jumped on Fluttershy's back as she started to fly towards where Rainbow crashed. I grabbed my board and flew as well to catch up towards her.
We finally arrived and found out that she landed in Twilight's home. Me, Kodi, and Fluttershy flew through the window and...Oh wow, this place is a mess.
"Rainbow Dash, you rock!" Fluttershy exclaimed softly. "Woo-hoo!" Fluttershy shook her hoof a little. However, she noticed the mess that Rainbow caused in Twilight's home; books were scattered everywhere. "Did my cheering do that?"
"Um...I don't think so, Fluttershy." I said, sweat-dropping.
"Wow, this place should really get cleaned up. Its like a tornado hit this place." Kodi commented.
"Gee..thanks." I overheard Twilight muttered.
"Hehe...Sorry about that ladies." Rainbow said as she recovered from the fall and stood up. "That was a truly feeble performance." She shook her head to relieve from the pain from the crash.
"Actually, it wasn't all that bad." I said, shrugging my shoulders.
"Yeah, I particularly liked it when you made the clouds spin." Fluttershy added.
"Ugh, I'm not talking about my performance, I'm talking about yours!" Rainbow pointed at Fluttershy. "That feeble cheering!"
"Hey, hold up Dash!" I said, trying to calm her down as I climbed down the bookshelves with Kodi on my shoulder. "Fluttershy tried her best, besides I thought it was cute." I said, as I noticed Fluttershy blushing lightly. Seriously, what is up with that?
"Cute? Cute!?" Rainbow scoffed. "You couldn't hear her if you right next to her in a library!"
"But...we are in a library." Kodi pointed out.
"What are you four arguing about?" We turned to Twilight and the others, who got back up from the fallen books on the ground.
"Were we arguing? I'm sorry." Fluttershy apologized.
Dash lowered her head sadly as she grunted and said "I wish you guys could come to Cloudsdale to see me compete in the Best Young Flyer Competition."
"What's that?" Twilight asked.
"And what's Cloudsdale?" I added. Suddenly, I was grabbed by Pinkie as she exclaimed "It's where all the greatest Pegasus flyers get together and show off their different flying styles! Some are fast!" She spun around in a circle through the clutter of books and created sounds like she was a racer in a race car track. "And some are graceful!" She balanced herself on one hoof, but soon lost balance. "Whoa, whooooAAAAH!" She crashed onto another pile of books.
"And Cloudsale is me and Rainbow Dash's home." Fluttershy answered my question. "It's a city of clouds on the top of the skies of Equestria. You can come with us, but only Pegasus and other creatures that can fly can go there." Fluttershy added with a sad look.
"Besides, even if you all managed to get there, you'll just end up falling through the clouds. We Pegasus ponies can walk on clouds, remember?" Rainbow reminded me.
"Oh right...but then again, that sounds pretty awesome!" I exclaimed in joy.
"Yeah, that sounds like fun!" Kodi added.
"You can say that again." Applejack agreed. "Golly, I'd love to see you strut your stuff in that competition."
"Yeah, I wish you guys could be there. Fluttershy's a great support, but her cheering isn't exactly inspirational." Rainbow explained as Fluttershy lowered her head a little in disappointment. I frowned upon hearing that from Dash. I mean, come on, she's trying the best she can.
"OOOH! I'd love to see you make a sonic rainboom! It's like, the most coolest thing ever!" Pinkie commented as she bounced around happily. "Even though I've never actually seen it, but I mean come on! It's a sonic Rainboom! How not cool could it possibly not be?"
Sonic Rainboom? Sonic..Rainboom. Sonic...Boom! Oh, clever name. That name reminded me of a certain blue hedgehog named Sonic. I love that character so much that I played all of his games, even his recently two released games, Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces. Though, everyone love Sonic Mania, but later became disappointed the moment they played Sonic Forces due to the levels and the story being too short. Oh well, maybe Sega can try better next time, and I just hope they maybe tried to do a remake of Sonic Forces, but this time, better! That is if I can manage to get back to my world, that is.
"What's a Sonic Rainboom?" Twilight asked, only for Pinkie to get up in her face.
"You really need to get out more." Pinkie said. "The Sonic Rainboom is legendary! When a Pegasus like Rainbow Dash gets going so fast...BOOM!" Pinkie crashed into another pile of books. Okay seriously? Where does that even come from? "A Sonic boom and a rainbow can happen all at once!"
"And Rainbow Dash here's the only pony to ever pull it off!" Applejack added.
"Really?" Kodi asked in excitement.
"Yeah, but that was a long time ago." Rainbow said, scratching her hood bashfully. "I was just a filly..."
"Wow, since when you were a filly?!" I asked in surprise. "That's amazing Dash, it sounds like you were born to be the fastest pony in all of Equestria." Rainbow blushed upon hearing that comment of mine.
"Thanks Ren, but my real dream is to become a Wonderbolt!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"A Wonderbolt?" Kodi asked, tilting his head in confusion.
"She means that its a group of performers that are well known famous around Equestria." I answered him, which Kodi understood.
"So Dashie, you're gonna do it again, right?" Pinkie asked, hopefully.
"A-Are you kidding?" Rainbow scoffed, but I could feel her hesitate. She's not...nervous about this competition, right? I mean, she's Rainbow Dash, the bearer of the Element of Loyalty and the fastest Pegasi in all of Ponyville. Though, I can't blame her to be nervous. "I'm the greatest flyer to ever come out of Cloudsdale! I could do Sonic Rainbooms in my sleep."
"Wow." Twilight replied, impressed with Rainbow's confidence. "If you pull that off, you'll win the crown for usre!"
"I don't care about the crown, I want that grand prize!" Rainbow stated. "To spend a whole day hanging out with the Wonderbolts! A whole day of flying with my lifelong heroes! It'll be a dream come true!"
"Why am I not surprised for you to be excited about that?" I asked myself, shaking my head with a smile. "Besides, we'll be cheering for Dash."
"Thanks Ren." Rainbow nodded. "Now excuse me, I'm gonna go rest up. Don't wanna over prepare myself, you know. Hehe.." Strange, I could've I heard her chuckling nervously. "You, on the other hoof, better keep practicing!" Rainbow exclaimed, pointing towards at Fluttershy. "I need a cheering section to match my spectular performance."
And with that, Rainbow flew off, outside the window.
Fluttershy let out a sigh and turned to us. "She's practiced that move a hundred times, and she's never even come close to doing it." This caught me by surprise. Sounds to me Rainbow was too scared to admit it at us. Poor Dash..."I don't know if I can cheer loud enough to help her."
"Don't worry Fluttershy, I'm sure you can do it, you just gotta believe." I smiled towards her.
"Thanks Ren, well bye!" Fluttershy waved as she flew out of the window.
"Well, better get this place cleaned up...again.." Twilight sighed.
"Hey, don't worry, we'll help Twilight." Kodi offered as he tried to pick up a book with his teeth, but had a hard time doing so. I decided that I want to help Rainbow Dash but...I don't know where Cloudsdale is at. Rarity then let out a cough, grabbing our attention.
"Well, go on, go on." She said.
"Go on what?" Twilight asked, feeling annoyed.
"Find a spell that will get us wingless ponies..." Rarity then soon turned to me and Kodi. "And human, and talking dog into Cloudsdale."
"What?" Kodi asked.
"Didn't you see how nervous she was?" Rarity answered.
"Nervous?" Applejack asked, raising a brow. "Have you spit your bit or something? She was tooting her own horn louder than the brass section of a marching band!"
"Oh puh-lease!" Rarity scoffed, waving her hoof. "I've put on enough fashion shows to know stage fright when I see it! We've got to find a way to be there for her!"
"Well...she isn't wrong, she is a fashionista." I said, shrugging my shoulders as I settle down my board on a nearby table. "Besides, I want to be there and try to help her out from being nervous."
"Well, that's very nice of you Ren." Twilight smiled before frowning. "But how am I supposed to find a flight spell in this mess?" We looked around and realized that she was right, it was so much of a mess. How are we gonna find one?
"Flight spell? One sec!" Pinkie said as she streaked over another pile of books, before throwing a book to Twilight's feet. "Page twenty-seven."
"How'd you do that?" I asked in surprise before realizing one thing. She's Pinkie Pie of course, not after I learn that whole Pinkie Sense thing yesterday.
"It landed on my face when Rainbow Dash knocked me into the bookcase." She explained happily.
"Wow, that was both lucky and convenient." Kodi commented in surprise.
"You can say that again." I muttered, sweat-dropping while making a nervous smile.
"Here it is!" Twilight announced as she looked at the page. I looked over it and saw how it worked. "A Flight spell that will allow earth ponies to fly like a Pegasus. Ooh, it looks really difficult! I'm not sure I could do it."
"Well even so, we can at least give it a try." I shrugged.
"I guess..."
"Well hurry up! We got no time!" Rarity exclaimed. "You've got to try!"
"Well, alright, but who's gonna volunteer to be the test subject?" Twilight asked.
"I'll do it!" Kodi offered as he hopped up and down. "I've always wanted to fly like a Pegasi!"
"No, no, no!" I exclaimed. "I'm sorry Kodiak, but I won't allow that! I mean, we're not sure if its even safe to begin with!"
"Ahhh...." Kodi pouted. I gently rubbed his head, cheering him up a little. I don't something bad to happen to him and might cause him to be hurt or worse.
"Well then, I'll do it! For Rainbow Dash!" Rarity declared.
"Okay, just hold still." Twilight replied as she faced her horn at Rarity and began casting the spell. Her horn released a faded glow as she closed her eyes on concentrating the spell. She grunted as blue, which looked like ribbons, surrounded Rarity.
They began levitating her and bravely embraced the magic as its consumed her. Twilight grunted and groan at the intensity of the spell. Finally, a spark of light ignited, creating a pulse that knocked her away, causing me to catch her.
"You okay?" I asked in concern.
"Y-yeah, I think so..." Twilight said as she slowly got up and tried to relieve the pain.
"Whoooa..." Kodi stared in awe as we looked up to see Rarity with...oh my god. She's like an angel, only except with butterfly wings.
"Dang..." I said in amazement and shock. I can't believe it actually worked.
Rarity started flapping her new wings as showed many beautiful colors like an actual butterfly. "It worked! I'm actually flying! Is there a mirror about? I'd like to see my new wings!"
"Here you are!" Pinkie said as she held one up as it got Rarity marveled in amazement.
"Ah! They're gorgeous!" Rarity commented.
"They're too gorgeous.." I muttered towards Kodi. "I'm ain't putting that on my back. I rather use my hover-board."
"Yeah, I kinda take that back about getting wings now." Kodi said, not wanting to get those wings Rarity got.
"So pretty!" Pinkie gasped.
"Just dandy!" Applejack agreed. Well it makes sense for them to like it since they're girls. Not that I complain or argue about.
"And too much effort." Twilight said, causing us to look at her with confusion. "Listen everypony, I wanna be there for Rainbow Dash as much of any of you. But that spell is too hard for me to cast on all of us."
"That is a problem..." I agreed with her. "There's just have to be something else here, right?" I asked Twilight.
"I think so...wait!" Twilight began going through book after book, until she gasped onto the next one. "This is it! This will help us see and cheer Rainbow Dash on!"
"Really? What is it?" Applejack asked, curiously.
"According to this book, it contains a Cloud-Walking Spell that will be able to allow us to walk on clouds for three days. Plenty of time to get to Cloudsdale and enjoy the competition." Twilight explained, much to our joy.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Let's do it!" I exclaimed as Twilight let out a nod and prepared the spell on us. Once she hit the spell on all of us, I didn't feel any different, but I did feel a little lighter than before.
"Did it work?" Kodi asked.
"Only way to find out once we get to Cloudsdale." Twilight replied. "Now how are we gonna get there?"
Suddenly, we heard a whistle outside as we raced outside and saw Pinkie coming down with a huge hot air balloon. "Hi!" Pinkie waved to us, which I slowly waved back to you.
"Pinkie...how did you..." Twilight couldn't find the right words to described this.
"Well, while you guys were busy, I ran out of the library and grabbed the hot air balloon for the Running of The Leaves." Pinkie explained.
I smiled back at her and said "Once again, you save the day Pinkie." Pinkie grin happily to hear that as the girls and Kodiak got on board.
"Aren't you coming Ren?" Applejack asked, noticing that I didn't come in.
"Don't worry, I'll use my hover-board to get there!" I said as I ran back to the library and grabbed my board, turning it on, and began flying out of there as we flew upwards towards Cloudsdale. I can't wait to see the look on Rainbow and Fluttershy's faces.
Wow...this is so...awesome! We finally arrived to Cloudsdale to see that they weren't kidding about it being up real high to the sky and looking at this place, it was almost similar to Angel Island from Sonic The Hedgehog 3. I flew out of a thick layer of cloud, encountering Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy as they were both amazed and surprised to see us.
"I don't believe it!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"So incredible." Fluttershy added.
"This is so cool!" Rainbow said as the balloon set itself down. "You guys made it!"
"Of course Dash, we wouldn't miss it!" Kodi said as he jumped off the balloon.
"Wait!" Rainbow said, but then became shocked to see my little puppy standing on the clouds, and not falling. The others and I hopped out with no troubles either. "How'd you do that?" Rainbow asked. "Only Pegasus ponies can walk on clouds!"
"Pretty cool, huh?" Pinkie giggled as she began cartwheeling around us.
"I used a spell to give temporary wings." Twilight explained, pointing at Rarity. "But it was too difficult to do more than once. So I found an easier spell that lets the rest of us walk on clouds."
"And we came to cheer you to victory Dash!" I added with a smile.
"To be honest, I was starting to get just a teeniest, tiniest bit nervous. But I feel a lot better now that you guys are here." Rainbow said, smiling sheepishly. "Hey, we've got some time before the competition. Why don't Fluttershy and I show you around Cloudsdale?"
We cheered happily to her as we began following Rainbow and Fluttershy.
Later
"Here it is!" Rainbow announced. "The greatest city in the sky!" We looked around to see many ponies flying around Cloudsdale, along with the different homes made from clouds.
"Look at this place, it's so amazing!" Kodi exclaimed.
"Yeah..." I nodded, before noticing some of the ponies looking directly at me. Oh wait, they haven't seen a human like me before. I nearly forgotten about that since everypony back in Ponyville gotten used to me that I thought I was a citizen of Equestria.
"It seems like no one knew about you Ren." Fluttershy said, feeling worried about me.
"Yeah, but don't worry, I'll be alright." I said, smiling softly at her. "It'll take a while for them to get used to me." Suddenly, we were interrupted as we saw Rarity looking at herself in a mirror to check out her wings.
"Uhh..." Rainbow sweat-dropped upon noticing Rarity. "Some of the greatest Pegasi in history came from Cloudsdale!" Rainbow said as she walked us over to another area.
"Oh, wait for me!" Rarity called over to us and flew to catch up. I had my hoverboard under my arm as I looked back to Rarity.
"Rarity, are you sure you can handle your new wings?" I asked in concern.
"Ren's right." Twilight agreed, joining in on our conversation. "Those wings are made from gossamer and morning dew, and they're incredibly delicate."
"Don't worry Ren and Twilight." Rarity waved it off. "I'm sure they can't get worn out from too much attention?"
"Since we're up here, I'd sure like to get a look at where the weather's made." Applejack requested.
"Great idea." Rainbow said. "Come on everypony! To the weather factory!"
We arrived to the Cloudsdale Weather Factory, or so did Rainbow told. It was surrounded with thunderclouds and rainbows, as well as rainbow falls pouring into the lands below. We wore protective work clothes and hard hats as we entered the factory. Well, the girls only wore the work clothes and hard hats, while me and Kodi wore the hard hats as well as we didn't have the size for those clothes. I think I had those kind of clothes back home, the ones Rarity made for me.
"This is where they make the snowflakes, each one hoof-made." Rainbow announced in a hushed voice.
"Why are you talking so quietly?" Kodi asked, keeping a hushed voice as well.
"Well, snowflakes are very delicate and can easily break into pieces if fallen or loud sounds." Rainbow answered.
"Oh." Kodi nodded as we continued to walk around to see dozens of Pegasus ponies at different stations, with tiny carving tools, magnifying glasses, and wearing earmuffs from the cold being pumped into the room to keep the snowflakes from melting.
"As you can see, it's a very delicate operation." Rainbow said.
"Yeah no kidding." I replied quietly.
"Say Ren, do humans ack in your world make the weather like these snowflakes?" Kodi asked curiously.
"No, humans don't have control of the weather Kodiak, it just happens randomly." I responded, much to the mares shock.
"Wow, that's amazing." Fluttershy said happily.
"I guess your kind might be lucky to not make weathers, huh?" Twilight asked, raising a brow and a smiled. I rubbed my head bashfully and blushed in embarrassment.
Suddenly, I noticed several worker ponies looking at me in surprise and started murmuring something. It's either that they're seeing a human for the first time or overheard our conversation about humans not making the weather.
"Ooh! The snowflakes look even better from up here!" Huh? Was that Rarity? We looked up to see that it was indeed Rarity as she flapped near some flakes that had been hung. Unfortunately, the beat of her wings caused a strong breeze to blow about, sending the flakes and the workers into disarray, as they ran about, trying to catch the flakes.
I widened my eyes in shock as Kodi hid behind me, while Rainbow winced upon seeing this. "We'd...better move on before Rarity ruins winter and causes a drought."
"Agreed." I nodded.
We moved to anothe work area where we saw some liquids pouring from one container to another below it.
"And here's where they make the rainbows!" Rainbow said. I was amazed to see so many rainbows being made here. I've seen rainbows a lot back from my world, but seeing one being made is so awesome!
I then noticed Pinkie and Kodi looking down the pool of rainbow as Pinkie dipped her hoof in the rainbow and licked it, and Kodi started drinking the rainbow, much to my shock. They tasted it for a moment until they're faces started going through different colors, the same colors as the rainbow and made different expressions before they were back to normal, and panting.
"Spicyyy!" Pinkie exclaimed as she ran off.
"Too spicy! Too spicy!" Kodiak exclaimed as he began running around in circles until the heat started to disperse out from his mouth.
"Yeah, I don't think you should do that." I said with a smirk, which made Kodi glare at me. Hey, I didn't tell you to lick the rainbow.
"Yeah, rainbows aren't really known for their flavor..." Rainbow explained.
"Whoa! Where'd you get those amazing wings? I want a pair!"
We looked and saw Rarity showed off her wings to three workers, who took notice of us.
"Oh, it's Rainbow Crash again!" The dark brown pony said.
"Hehehyeah!" The light brown pony with the long brown mane added as they walked towards. "Rainbow...umm...eyah...Crash!"
"Rarity! What're you doing talking with these guys?" Rainbw immediately asked, annoyed by the presence of them. I can already tell that these guys are no good.
"Oh, they were just admiring my wings." Rarity replied like it was no big deal.
"Do yo know these guys, Dash?" I asked.
"Yeah, they always like picking on me and Fluttershy back then." Rainbow replied, rolling her eyes. I looked at Fluttershy, who hid behind Applejack in fear.
"Hey Rainbow, you should just forget the Sonic Rainboom and get yourselves wings like those!" The dark brown pony said, as they laughed mockingly at her. I gritted my teeth upon seeing them pick on Dash like that.
"Hey, why not put your wings where your mouth is?!" I said, causing the three Pegasus bullies to glare at me.
"What was that?" The dark brown Pegasus glared at me. "And what are you supposed to be? Some hairless mindless ape?" He and his two friends started laughing at me.
"My name is Ren Loodan, and I'm a human, thank you very much." I said, narrowing my eyes. "Besides, if anyone''s mindless, it's you three." I said, causing them to stop laughing and become angry at me. "Now listen, leave my friend alone and go mind your own business. Bullying and hurting others is wrong, even for grown ponies like you!"
"You know, for something that has a weird lame name knows how to say some things!" The dark brown pony sneered. "Besides, what would someone like you would do?"
"You back away or else I'll bite ya!" Kodi growle angrily at them, causing them to laugh at him.
"Oh please, like a little mutt can bite our plots off!" He exclaimed in laughter. I let out a sigh and took out my Megaphone Hacking Gun and aimed it in front of him.
"Knock-Back!" I shouted as the gun blew a gust of wind, blowing them away off a distance.
"W-whoa!" The light brown pony said in shock.
"H-how did you-"
"Rule number#1: Never mess with me or my friends." I said, smirking at them. They growled angrily and flew off. Once they were gone, I let out a sigh and turned back to my friends, who were surprised that I did that. "Sorry girls, I just don't like people picking on others like that."
"It's okay Ren, we understand." Twilight said, frowning a little. "Although, I think you took that too far." I rubbed my head in embarrassment, realizing that she was right.
"Yeah, I guess I got carry away with that..." I said, blushing.
"Well even so, it was nice for defending Dash like that." Applejack said, smiling softly at me.
"Yeah, but I would still bite them." Kodi said, smirking at us. I smiled softly towards him as I rubbed his head, thanking him for helping me against those bullies. Then I noticed Rainbow Dash, who was starting to panic.
"Uhh....come on. Why don't we go see how clouds are made" Fluttershy announced as we started to leave the area.
I then walked Rainbow Dash with assuring smile. "Don't listen to them Rainbow, I know you're gonna win that competition for sure."
"Are you kidding, I can't do the Sonic Rainboom!" Rainbow exclaimed in fear. "And just look at these boring feathered wings, I'm doomed!"
I couldn't help but feel bad for her to feel nervous. I just hope she can prove those bullies wrong.
Later
We soon came to a machine that Fluttershy says that it makes clouds. I noticed giant purple funnels pumping out clouds of all types, workers making sure there were no blockages so there was smooth flowing, some adding water to the machines to be vaporized and condensed into cloud. But suddenly, a lot of workers dropped what they were doing and went to admire Rarity's wings.
I face-palmed upon them admiring Rarity like she was a big star, and she said that she wouldn't attract too much attention.
"Why, these old things?" Rarity bragged. "Go ahead everypony. Photos are encouraged."
Rarity continued to show them off, causing Rainbow to lose more of her ego and rise up in being frightened and nervous.
"Rarity." Twilight walked over to Rarity and glared at her. "We're supposed to be helping Rainbow Dash relax, remember? Put your wings away and stop showing off!"
"Oh pfft! How can you asked me to put away perfection?" Rarity said as she ascended straight towards where the sunlight peeped through the factory. The sunight passed through Rarity's wings, delicately, and forming several bright colors among us, causing the crowd to be amazed.
While every other pony was distracted with Rarity's wings, Rainbow Dash was on the floor shivering.
"Rainbow Dash, are you okay? You don't look so good." Twilight asked. Of course she doesn't look so good, she's panicking about the competition.
"Of course!" Rainbow answered as she panted. "Why wouldn't I be okay? Everyone's so in love with Rarity's wings that they won't even notice when I totally blow it in the Best Young Flyer's Competition."
"Hey, there's an idea!" One of the workers said. "You should enter the competition!"
"Yeah, I could watch you fly all day long!" An elderly Pegasus mare agreed.
"What?!" I exclaimed in shock.
"There really isn't anypony who uses their wings quite like me." Rarity boasted. "Perhaps I should compete!"
"WHAT?!" Rainbow screamed as the workers followed Rarity to continue to admire her. We all gathered around Rainbw, who was slumping down in worried.
"What am I gonna do? I don't stand a chance at winning now...." Rainbow muttered.
"Rainbow..." I muttered sadly. This is bad, I need to do something to make her get her full confidence back.
"Ren, what are we going to do?" Kodi asked worriedly. I began to think for a while to try and solve all this. Unless...
"I'll...enter the Best Young Fliers Competition." I said with a determined expression. Everypony became shocked to hear that.
"What?!" The girls and Kodiak exclaimed.
"But Ren, you can't, no offense, but you're not a Pegasus pony like Rainbow or Fluttershy!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Yeah? Besides, do you even know any good tricks for the competition?" Applejack questioned.
I smiled sheepishly and rubbed my head bashfully. "Well...no, but I need to help Dash from feeling nervous. I'll try to encouraged her and show some of my hover-board skills, that why I can help her find her inner courage again!" I explained, glancing towards the nervous Dash.
"Well..." Twilight was still unsure about this decision at all.
"Come on Twilight, I'm sure Rennie will do a great job!" Pinkie exclaimed. "Besides, everypony here in Cloudsdale will be amazed to see the first ever human to ever compete in the Best Young Flier's Competition!"
"Well...she isn't wrong about that..." I muttered, blushing.
"Oh alright!" Twilight said, giving me a worried look. "Just be careful, alright?"
"Got it!" I gave her a thumbs up as Fluttershy walked over to me.
"Please Ren, just be alright, and I'll be cheering you, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity throughout the entire competition." Fluttershy said, smiling softly at me.
"Don't worry Fluttershy, I'll be okay. Besides..." I glanced over to Rainbow, who was still shivering in fear. "Rainbow is gonna need luck throughout this competition."
"Mm-hmm.." Kodi nodded in agreement. I just hope nothing goes wrong throughout this competition.
Later
After some difficulty with registering to the competition because I wasn't a pony, I finally got in thanks to Twilight and the others sticking up for me, telling those ponies that allow ponies to participate in the competition that it was for everyone, including me, and also showing them off my hover-board by flying around in the air with it.
Soon after, every competitor, including me, Dash, and Rarity, were waiting for it to begin. I noticed Rainbow was still acting nervous as I walked towards her and put my hand on her shoulder.
"Dash?"
"Ren! Hey..." She said, feeling uncomfortable about this.
"Rainbow, you just have to relax." I encouraged her. "You're one of the most awesome, confident, and heroic Pegasus I ever know, and one awesome flyer! You're gonna do great!"
"Thanks..." Rainbow muttered.
"Hey, be glad you're number two." I added, pointing the number on her flank. "I'm like dead-last! Guess it's not my lucky day, I guess." I rubbed my head bashfully and laughed nervously.
"I'm going to be a while!" I overheard Rarity exclaimed as I glanced at her, closing the door to a room. I frowned and sweat-dropped at her.
"And here she said she wouldn't attract that much attention..." I shook my head.
"Fillies and gentlecolts! Please rise and join me in welcoming our beloved Princess Celestia!" I overheard the announcer said. I looked over the curtains and saw Princess Celestia appeared from the sky and landed on a special cloud reserved just for her. A couple of those royal guard ponies of her's each stayed by both sides of her. Princess Celestia waved at every pony watching the event. "Please welcome our celebrity judges for the Best Young Flier Competition. The Wonderbolts!" Wait, the Wonderbolts?! Suddenly, six high-flying Pegasus ponies wearing blue outfits with lightning patterns on it came down and started doing amazing aerial acrobatics. They lined up, did a loop de loop, before spiraling out into a fireworks effect, everypony cheering, as the Wonderbolts took their seats at the judges table. Well it makes sense for them to be judges since they are world famous here in Equestria after all, or so I heard.
"And no, let's find out who will take home the prize as this year's Best Young Flier!" Well, looks like this is going to be a loooong day.
One hour later
"Ugh..I'm so bored!" I said, leaning against a wall. This room is almost empty and I still haven't been called to go. Whole I waited in pure boredom, I noticed a shaking and frightful Rainbow Dash.
"Dash? What are you still doing here, I thought-" Huh? I then noticed that her number was 15 instead of 2. "What the?! Rainbow! Have you been switching numbers so you wouldn't be sent out?!"
"Maybe...." Dash smiled sheepishly at me, causing me to face-palmed. This mare...
"Number fifteen, come on! Let's go!" The referee called. At the moment, the door next to me opened, revealing Rarity, but there was something different about her.
"Rarity...is ready!" Rarity announced. I widened my eyes upon seeing Rarity dressed in some weird make-up, some crazy outfit. I face-palmed upon seeing her like that. I feel like she’s stole Lady Gaga’s style.
“Look, you three, I don’t know what to tell you.” The referee groaned. “There’s only time for one more performance! If you all wanna compete, you gotta go out there together!”
“Well, darlings, shall we?” Rarity asked me and Dash.
“And now! For our final performance of the day, please welcome contestant number fifteen! And…apparently contestants four and sixteen as well!” The announcer shouted out.
“Well, we kinda don’t have a choice.” I said, smiling nervously.
“Oh, and darlings, I hope you won’t mind that I changed the music. That…rock and roll doesn’t really match my wings.” Rarity added.
I shook my head in disappointment at her while I smiled encouragingly at her. But suddenly, a score of classical music rang out through the arena and they saw Rarity doing what appeared to be an aerial ballet.
“Come on, Rainbow Dash!” Rainbow muttered, tapping her head. “You can do this! Just remember the routine!”
I turn on my Hover-board as we soar into the skies.
“And also, for the first time ever in Pegasi history, a new creature who goes by the name of Human is competing in some magic board or whatever!” The announcer said. Everyone became amazed to see me for the first time as I just smirked and followed after Rainbow. She went for the first phase by going through the cloud pillars, I followed after her and did what she did, but Rainbow accidentally bumped into a cloud pillar and crashed against an arena wall, and it just had to be below the bullies from yesterday. Well I wasn’t expected them to show up.
“Nice work, Rainbow Crash!” The dark brown pony mocked, laughing with his friends. I puffed my cheeks and glared at them, but I let out as sigh and just dropped it.
“Alright, time for phase two!” Rainbow muttered as she flew out the arena while Rarity just danced around. Rainbow then began phase two of her trick as she flew upwards and started spinning the clouds. I did it as well and followed her movements. As Rainbow was concentrating on spinning a cloud, a piece of it knocked her off. This caused the cloud to spin straight towards Princess Celestia, but luckily, they ducked and dodged it as the cloud dissolved above them.
I let out a sigh to see her a-okay. After that, I saw Rarity began flying upwards towards the sun. Hesitating for a moment, Rainbow Dash followed as well…preparing to do the third and final phase…the Sonic Rainboom…
I was about to do it, but I was distracted by some huge light as I saw Rarity beamed her wings at the sun, showing off her colors. “Look upon me Equestria…” She announced loudly. “For I am Rarity!” The crowd stared in awe upon seeing her like that, even I was. Unfortunately, her wings burst into flames and were ashed all at once. Rarity noticed and widened her eyes in shock.
“Uh-oh…” She muttered before plummeting towards her doom.
“Oh no! Her wings evaporated into thin air!” Twilight exclaimed.
I realized and tried to save her, but the Wonderbolts got to her first. Wow, they’re sure know how to react first. The Wonderbolts tried to save her, but Rarity was panicking so much that she accidentally kicked them, causing them to be knocked-out and fall along with Rarity. Rainbow saw this and immediately turned around, racing towards Rarity.
“Hang on! I’m coming too!” I exclaimed as I follow after Dash.
We continued to rush at top speed to catch up to them. I can’t let Rarity nor the Wonderbolts die! Not in my watch! We saw the ground almost down and realized that even if I saw them, I won’t be able to pull up, but maybe…
“Rainbow, you save the Wonderbolts, I’ll save Rarity!” I exclaimed.
“You got it, Ren!” Rainbow nodded as she she went forward with top speed as she started to push the sound barrier, is she gonna do it? Anyway, I grabbed my Hacking Gun and grabbed Rarity as I aimed it at the ground.
“KNOCK-BACK!” I shouted as it shot a powerful gust of wind out of it, causing me to fall back to the sky with her. Suddenly, I heard an explosion as I saw Rainbow Dash going through the speed of light as she performed…
“Rainbow, you did it!” I exclaimed happily to see her perform the Sonic Rainboom. She zoomed into the air and made a beautiful as soon as we arrived back to the stadium. Once I made it back, Rarity hold onto me tightly.
“Oh thank you for saving me, Ren darling.” Rarity said.
“Anytime Rarity, though you should’ve took Twilight’s warning for seriously next time.” I said, with a smirk and a raised brow as Rarity smiled sheepishly at me. I then noticed Rainbow settling don the Wonderbolts to some Pegasus ponies taking them from her grasp as she look at the crowd in excitement.
As she landed, Rainbow was blown away by the applause, everypony cheering their hearts out, Fluttershy most of all. Wow, she must’ve been exciting the moment she saw that Sonic Rainboom.
“I did it…!” Rainbow muttered.
“You sure did Dash!” I said, smiling towards her. “And that was an awesome move you did, you gotta teach me that!” I said happily.
“Heh, I guess so! Best…Day…Ever!” Rainbow yelled in excitement.
After that was done, me and my friends gathered in front of the hot-air balloon where Rarity was, as she never gotten the cloud-walking spell cast on her since she got those butterfly wings.
“I just want to apologize to you all, especially you Rainbow Dash.” Rarity said sadly. “When I got my…beautiful wings!”
“I…think we get it Rarity.” Kodi said, getting tired of Rarity saying that.
“Yes well, I guess I just lost my head.” Rarity sighed.
“Nah, it was no big deal.” Rainbow waved it off.
“Well even so, I am sorry for jumping into the contest after you two trained so hard for it.” Rarity added.
“Hey, it’s okay, it turned it out fine in the end, right Dash?” I asked with a smile.
“Sure, though I wish I could’ve met the Wonderbolts while they were awake.” Rainbow sighed. Oh right, she was competing in it to win so that she could meet the Wonderbolts. Well, there’s always next time.
Suddenly, somepony cleared their throat as we turned and gasped upon seeing the three Wonderbolts that we’ve saved.
“So you’re the little pony who saved our rumps! We just wanted to thank you.” One of the Wonderbolts said.
“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” Rainbow kept saying in excitement to see her biggest heroes. That kinda sounds like me when I hear a new game coming out.
Suddenly, Princess Celestia and her royal guard ponies came flying down to us.
“Princess!” Twilight said as she bowed. We bowed as well as Celestia let out a chuckled.
“Hello Twilight Sparkle, Ren, and hello to your friends too.” She said, happy to see us again.
"Princess Celestia, I am sorry I ruined the competition." Rarity spoke as she held her head low. She looked over to Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash here really is the best flyer in Equestria."
“I know she is my dear.” Princess Celestia nodded. “That’s why for her incredible act of bravery, and her spectacular Sonic Rainboom, as well as Ren helping alongside her and using his quick-thinking to save one of his friends, I am presenting the grand prize of the Best Young Fliers to this year’s tying winners, Rainbow Dash and Ren Loodan!”
Everypony cheered as Princess Celestia placed the winner’s crown on Rainbow’s head while the guards presented me with a trophy.
“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” Rainbow kept shouting out as Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy carried her around for a victory lap. Me and Kodiak stayed behind as I stayed with Twilight and Celestia as we started to hear their conversation.
“So Twilight Sparkle, did you learn anything about friendship from this experience?” Celestia asked.
I did Princess.“ Twilight replied, looking over to Rarity. ”But I think Rarity learned even more than me.“
“I certainly did.” Rarity nodded. “I learned how important it is to keep your hooves on the ground, and be there for your friends…and when a certain friend tries to talk you out of trouble, you should listen to them…”
“Nice on Rarity.” Kodi smiled happily for her. I gave her a thumbs up, which Rarity smiled happily to hear.
“Excellent, a well learned lesson, Rarity.” Celestia nodded.
“Uh, Rainbow Crash-I mean Dash.” Huh? That voice, it couldn’t be…
We turned around to see the Pegasus jocks coming towards us.
“Uh, Rainbow Dash. We just wanted to congratulate you on winning the competition. You too, Ha-I mean Ren.” I smiled softly and nodded at them, showing them respect as they gave respect back to me.
“That Sonic Rainboom?! And that weird Megaphone gun?!” The light brown pony said excitedly. “Totally awesome!”
“Well, thanks guys!” Rainbow smiled appreciatively.
“And we’re sorry we gave you such a hard time.” The dark brown pony added.
“Ah, don’t sweat it!” Rainbow waved it off, balancing her newly prized crown on her head.
“Hey, do you wanna hang out with us? We’d love to learn how you did that incredible trick!”
“Sorry boys.” Rainbow streaked past them and instead, headed with the two waiting Wonderbolts. “But I’ve got plans!” She glided along with her idols as they headed somewhere else.
The jocks became depressed that they got rejected as I felt bad for them.
“Well…I’m no Rainbow Dash, but if you wanna hang out, I’d like to introduce you to my pals!”
“That’d be awesome!” The dark brown pony yelled in excitemement.
“Oh by the way, I never did get your names?”
“Oh, my name is Hoops!” The dark brown pony known as Hoops said. “And this is my friends, Billy and Dumbbell.”
“Well, my name is Ren Loodan, and yes, I’m aware of my name is weird, but it’s Estonian for Hope. Oh, and this is my talking little dog, Kodiak, or Kodi for short.” I said, introducing him to my puppy dog pal.
“Hello.” He waved to them, much to the jock’s shock.
“Wow…awesome…” Billy muttered in amazement. I smiled happily to see these bullies are finally acting friendly towards my friends.
Later
The sun was setting as me, Kodi, and my friends decided to party back at my place to celebrate both me and Rainbow’s win. Rainbow Dash was still hanging out with her Wonderbolt friends, so it was like making a surprise party for her. While walking, I decided to chat up with my friends.
"That was some loud cheering you did.“ I said to Fluttershy, much to her embarrassment.
"Oh." She blushed lightly upon my commet. "I was just so caught up with the excitement…I'm a little embarrassed about it now…"
"Don't be, you were fantastic."
“Yeah, you were extremely awesome back there!” Kodi added.
“Mm-Hmm! You were so loud Fluttershy, more louder than me, probably!” Pinkie agreed, causing the others to giggle at that.
She smiled. "Thank you, though I guess it really wore me out…"
"Well… I still think your soft cheering is perfect."
"You really think so?" She asked as she looked over to me.
"Mmhm." I nodded. "You were quite awesome back there.“ I said, noticing Fluttershy’s cheeks turning red. Seriously, what is going on?
“Now now guys, let’s just focus on getting this party all set.” Twilight reminded us as we finally arrived to my home-ship.
“Okay everyone, let’s get started and-” As soon as I opened the door, Me, Kodiak, and the other ponies saw something that caused us to be extremely shocked and put us into silence.
“What the…” I don’t believe it. What we saw were…humans. Two of them to be exact. One had black hair that goes way down to his neck and had light blue eyes, wearing a white hoodie sweater and had a red scarf around his neck, and was wearing a bamboo stick around his back and was wearing black sandals and wore black sweats.
The other was a little girl wearing a top pink flowerly like top shirt and had short hazel hair, but with a short ponytail that goes all the way to her neck. She had blue eyes and has knee-length black leggings covered by a puffy white skirt that seems to resembles a cloud and wore red sandals. She seems to be nine years old judging by her height.
They noticed as the little girl hid behind the black haired boy as he glared at them.
“Who goes there?” He asked sternly, narrowing his eyes at shock. We just stood there in silence upon seeing them. Does that mean…I’m not the only human here in Equestria?
“Hey guys, I’m back!” We heard a voice as it turns out to be Rainbow Dash as she entered my room in excitement. “You would not believe it you guys, the Wonderbolts so amazing, so cool, so…so….” Rainbow then noticed our shock expressions as she raised a brow and looked at what we’re looking as she noticed the two other humans in shock.
“…Oh…” She muttered in shock.
“D-did…that pony with wings just spoke just now?” The black haired boy asked in shock.
“…Awkward….” Pinkie muttered. Well, this is what I call a plot twist.