//------------------------------// // An ace among angels // Story: Dashing with rainbows // by Wafflegodman //------------------------------// It's been a week without an incident and Rainbow Dash wanted to know more about this new world, and more about Leon. Leon had just got back from the store, now was as good a chance as any. "What is the deal with this world?" Rainbow asked hoping that Leon would catch her drift. "What about, the world is a big place?" he asked getting a faint idea of what Rainbow was eluding to. "Why is everything glowing and how is it possible buildings can get so tall and... yeah?" she said revealing her curiosity. "Ah..." Leon let out with understanding, clearly Rainbow Dash wanted to keep cool but was an egghead at heart. "Well ya see, about three years ago a war ended. It was between the human race and some alien life forms much like your self, except instead of getting here by accident, they wanted to be here." Rainbow grew more interested by the second. "They nearly wiped out the human race, now I suppose it isn't fair to pool all the aliens together. Some of them fought with us, actually nearly a quarter of them are still on Earth living side by side with us. But anyway, It started around 2025, the war advanced our technology by a few years and then wiped it out. any way I was born just before the thick of it When I was 18 I ended up being a pilot for the last of the H.S.A., it means Human survival alliance. I became an ace, the only ace actually. I was the only Human able to go toe to toe with an Alien pilot without completely wrecking the ship afterward, I also became a commander and offered advice to the generals when they needed it. Long story short, the humans won and most humans and aliens that wanted to live on earth decided to replace there memories with happier ones, I didn't. We finally rebuilt most of the world, the human population is four billion, the alien population on earth is three billion. I, along with multiple other soldiers and aliens that kept their memory started EVOTEK and now we're here running from something that was originally meant to make situations like these easier." he said like it was no big deal. "So you were a pilot, and you were one of the reasons that the rest of those people," she pointed out the large window at the city. "are still alive." she said with admiration evident in her voice. Leon smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head."Well when you say it like that, I sound kinda cool." he kept his smile but clearly something dark came over him. "What I did was terrible, the only thing I don't regret is saving a couple of lives, and flying." he said looking down. Rainbow Dash looked at him closely and whispered "Sorry." Leon lit up and clapped his hand's "I've got good news, come on." he pulled Rainbow with him as he nearly ran to the elevator. (LIFE AND DEATH MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES) They were in a lab, there was a man that was very slender and was slightly taller then Leon in the middle of the room. "Hey Krag, she's here." Leon called out to the man. "AH, miss Dash, I've heard quite a bit about you." he said smiling. Rainbow noticed the Krag's hands, he had four long fingers instead of five, and was very pale. Then she noticed the table, there was a thin black sheet laying down on the chrome table top. "Is it ready?" Leon asked Krag. "Yep, it's been tested and re-tested under every possible condition, and we've adjusted it to fit the specks of it's new host." Krag said happily. "Wait, what are you guy's talking about?" Rainbow asked slightly worried. "This!" Leon said with a huge grin as he put his hand down on the table the black material was sitting on. "Okay... what is it?" Rainbow asked. "I've been developing it for years with the help of a couple of old friends. You can think of it as a pair of wings." he said with the biggest grin Dash had ever seen on Leon. "I want to give them to you." he said warmly looking over to Rainbow. She was speechless. The sheet didn't look like wings, that was the first thing to cross her mind. The second was pure joy that she was going to be able to fly again. "Listen, here's the sketchy part." Leon said looking slightly more serious. "You get to keep the wings forever, but to get them to work like...well... wings, you need the sheet to hooked up to your body, as in connecting it directly to the spine and nerves in you back." he said rubbing the back of his head and looking up. "It is completely safe, and you would be knocked out for the surgery so you wouldn't feel a thing, but I would understand if you wouldn't want to get cut open and all that jazz." Leon said trying to judge the look on Rainbow's face. "If... you promise that I won't feel a thing, then I suppose it wouldn't be to big a problem. But only as long as I don't have to stay in a bucking hospital after the surgery!" she said apprehensively, she trusted Leon, but she hated the thought of a hospital. "That won't be a problem miss Dash, we can do the surgery right here right now and you can be out of here in an hour flat." Krag said confidently, with a big reassuring smile. Rainbow took some time to think before she nodded in agreement, and before she knew what happened she was floating in a green material that felt like gel, but when she took a breath it was like the substance was non-existent, then she slowly lost her vision, it was like when she closed her eye's to yawn and when she opened them she was on a comfy bed in a room that reminded her of a hospital, but was much warmer and instead of feeling claustrophobic, it felt cozy. She sat up and looked around, sitting in the corner of the room was Leon, he was looking out the window to his left and his cheeks were as red as an apple. Rainbow then looked down and blushed deeply as she pulled up the blanket to cover her chest. "So, how do you feel?" Leon asked now looking back at Rainbow. Rainbow took some time regaining her senses, she felt great, then her back started to burn a little but it wasn't bad and it didn't last long. "I feel fine." she said wondering why her back got so hot for that single second. "Great!" Leon said jumping out of his seat. "Do you want to check out your new wings?" he asked happily, Dash had never seen Leon so excited other then when he's doing one of his extremely dangerous presentations to his class that he supposedly had all planned out. "Yeah, I'd love to." Dash said excitedly, her throat was dry and she needed a drink before anything else, and some clothes. "Right I'll get some water and clothes for you, meanwhile there's a mirror over their." Leon said hearing how scratchy Rainbow's voice was and pointing to a mirror on the wall in front of Rainbow's bed. Leon left the room, and Rainbow got out of bed and looked at her self in the mirror, her hair had grown quite a bit. It covered the left eye and curved off to the side but was still spiky, she liked it. She was still fit, but her chest was large, it almost annoyed her some times but it was evident that Leon liked it, and she could use her assets to tease him mercilessly, 'the worst kind of torture' she recalled Leon saying once. She grabbed a hand mirror on a dresser off to the side and looked into it to pear over her shoulder into the bigger mirror on the wall. The left her back was alight with an intricate design of blue glowing lines and circles that were all connected save for down the center of her back, and the design was then mirrored on the right side of her back. Emitting from the light were a pair of transparent wings. Panels of glowing blue glass like material took the shape of feathers and floated closely together, though not touching, making the form of wings. She bent her wings forward, it felt like when she was still a pegesus, and reached out with her hand and touched the panels that made up her wing. Her hand went through a panel slowly and it rippled, it was like gel but once her finger pierced the membrane of light, it felt like air. She pulled her hand out and the panel slowly stopped rippling and took back it's form. Rainbow was so happy, she launched herself backward into the bed with one powerful flap of her wings, sparkling blue emitted in the wind she created as she flew backward, she landed sitting down on the edge of the bed and smiled even more, the wings worked and felt like the wings she had back in Equestria. She tucked her wings in and they did as she commanded, then she relaxed and the wings flickered off and the her back stopped glowing, 'This just made this world 20% cooler' she thought to her self as she heard a knocking on the door. She wrapped the blanket around her self, and opened the door to allow Leon in, he was carrying a glass of water and a one of Rainbows tighter fitting hoodies, which was more like a zip up tee-shirt with a hood then a sweater, and Rainbow's first pair of jeans. Rainbow took the water greedily and nearly choked on it as she chugged it like there was no tomorrow. Leon smiled as Rainbow's wings lit up when she stretched her arms out, the blanket still tied around her chest so it wouldn't fall off. "Perv." Rainbow said with a smirk, looking over her shoulder at Leon. Leon blushed and was about to say something witty back, but decided that it wasn't worth it and turned around to leave the room and let rainbow get dressed. (WHAT'S THIS, A TRANSITION, RUN AWAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!) Rainbow walked into the living room, and noticed Leon was staring out the window again. She jumped up and with one powerful flap of her wings she cleared the twenty feat she would've had to walk two hours ago, she landed on Leon's back and wrapped her arms around his neck. Leon smiled and Rainbow let go, he turned around and hugged her. Rainbow's wings shot outward, 'They really are like wings, damn' she thought to herself blushing. Take some time to catch your breath, we've got work to do. Well that took much longer then I wanted, I've been out training...parkour and freerunning stuff. Anyway, I'm back and I'm gonna try and speed this up. Tell me what you think, and leave me a couple of your ideas about what you want to see happen next in the story. Ciao.... and um, yeah. Have some music that I really should have put somewhere in the chapter.