Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship

by redandready45


Running Like the Wind (Part 2) (Rewrite)

"Yeah," Rainbow said with some bitterness, "I know what he's talking about."

Sunset looked concerned. "You do?" She and her friends were at their usual spot in the cafeteria. Sunset told them about Timmy's dilemma with Trixie Tang.

"When I was in elementary school," Rainbow replied with a frown, "these jerks would always make fun of me because I 'acted like a boy.'" The prism-hair colored girl's frown deepened. "And some of the girls made fun of me too, saying I was a disgusting slob." She stuck a finger into her nostril, fishing for some gold. "Can you imagine that?"

Rarity rolled her eyes. "Not at all," the fashionista muttered sarcastically.

"So, what did you do?" Sunset asked Rainbow.

Rainbow's grin became manic. "Threw bricks at their heads."

Fluttershy looked horrified. "Rainbow!" The pink-haired girl scolded.

"Hey, didn't throwing that brick get us into Timmy's life," Rainbow gloated. No one bothered to argue with the rainbow-haired girl, which made her smirk. "Anyways," Rainbow said, "boys and girls would hate me because I didn't ''act like a girl should',"Rainbow muttered with a roll of her eyes.

Sunset frowned in disgust. "That's so stupid."

"You never faced anything like that, Sunset?" Applejack asked the fire-haired girl with curiosity in her eyes.

"In Equestria, a woman, or as we say 'mare,' ruled the land," Sunset said, "And there was no such thing as 'boy stuff' or 'girl stuff.' Ponies celebrated your special talent no matter what it was."

"That makes more sense," Pinkie exclaimed. "You should just do what you think is fun."

"But in this world, you can be despised and resented for doing what you fancy if what you fancy doesn't conform to gender norms," Rarity said with some anger. "I've known many male fashion designers who quit because they were afraid of being seen as girly."

"A lot of boys made fun of Zephyr and called him a girl because he wants to be a hairstylist," Fluttershy with some lament. "That's why he hits on girls: because he wants to prove how macho he is after all the teasing."

Everyone's expression showed they also felt some pity for the boy, even Rainbow."I can't believe I'm actually feeling sorry for Zephyr," Rainbow wondered aloud with a mixture of sympathy and reluctance.

Applejack frowned in annoyance at the double standard. "Y'all know how ah love to wrestle?" Applejack asked Sunset. The fire-haired girl nodded. "When I challenge a guy to a fight, they avoid me!" She snorted with disgust. "It's either because they're afraid of losing to a girl or afraid of being hated for beating up a girl."

"It really is that serious," Sunset wondered aloud. "But Timmy can apparently look those things," Sunset said with a smile. "I mean, I don't think he should care about popularity," Sunset said with some disdain and a roll of her eyes. "But he wants to be popular for a good cause, so-"

"I'd love to teach him how to run!" Rainbow said with an excited smile.

Sunset looked hopeful. "Really?"

"People always made fun of me for liking boy stuff," Rainbow commented. "So if Timmy wants to help a girl who was in my boat, I'll help him, Rainbow Dash-style! I wish I had a friend like him when I was his age."

"I would also love to help young Timothy in the ways of romance," Rarity offered.

A grateful smile formed on Sunset's face. "Really?"

"As a budding young socialite, I sympathize with anyone who seeks to climb the ladder of society." Rarity gushed. "Especially since young Timothy seeks to use status for a noble cause of helping a young lady." Rarity smile proudly. 'If I can build upon that, I can make him grow from a lump of coal into a beautiful diamond."

"Wait, wah doesn't he just...wish for all that stuff?" Applejack asked.

Sunset gave it serious thought. "I guess he...would rather win fairly."

"If he wants to do this fair and square," Rainbow gushed, "that's all the more reason to help him."

"You guys are the best," Sunset said to her friends with a beaming smile, "for doing this for him-I mean, for the mission," Sunset abruptly said with a blush on her face.

"For a mission, of course," Rainbow teased. "That's why you want to do this." Everyone else was also looking at Sunset with sly smiles.


Timmy slept peacefully in his room. His alarm clock rang at 6'o clock, but the brown-haired kid still laid in bed, much to Cosmo and Wanda's disappointment.

"Timmy," Wanda said gently.

"Timmy," Cosmo said. The two looked at each other slyly before poofing into the shape of airhorns. They let out a harsh noise that startled Timmy awake.

"AHHHHHH!" Timmy screamed, leaping from his deep slumber. The brown-haired boy glanced at the clock and let out a tired sigh. "Can't I sleep a few more minutes?" Timmy asked his fairies with bags under his eyes.

"Sorry, sport," Wanda said with a teasing smile. "Sunset said if you wanted her friend to train you-,"

"Then you're gonna have to get your little butt up," Cosmo finished. With a tired sigh, Timmy threw off his blanket, and began to get ready.


By 6:30, Timmy was out the door in his regular attire, carrying his backpack and a bag of gym clothes Wanda helped him prepare the night before. He stood on the sidewalk, waiting for the supposed star athlete to arrive.

A few moments later, a super-fast blue car pulled up to his house. A girl came out of the driver's side. She was a head shorter than Sunset but with what looked like a lot more muscle. Her hair was all of the colors of the rainbow. She wore a blue jacket over a white T-shirt with a multicolored rainbow lightning bolt on it, white and blue sneakers, and mauve polyester pants with lightning bolts on him. When the girl spotted him, she gave him a wide grin. "Are you Timmy T?" The girl asked excitedly.

"Yeah," Timmy said, a little unsettled by the athlete's enthusiasm. "You must be Rainbow-"

"Are you ready to win?!" Rainbow shouted.

"Uh..." Timmy droned.

Rainbow rolled her eyes in disappointment. "'Uh?'" Rainbow repeated in a mocking tone. "A winner doesn't say 'uh'! C'mon where's your spirit?"

"It died when I discovered public education existed," Timmy snarked.

Rainbow rolled her eyes and smirked. "Let's try this again. Are you gonna win?!"

"Yeah," Timmy in a slightly louder voice.

"Louder!"

"Yeah!" Timmy said, feeling the passion in his voice.

"One more time!" Rainbow yelled. "ARE YOU GONNA WIN?!"

"YEAH!" Timmy yelled to the heavens.

"That's the spirit!"

"Hey!" Rainbow cocked her head to the right and saw big-nosed man who had approached their car. He wore a brown bathrobe over some pajamas and looked at Rainbow and Timmy with tired exasperation." I appreciate the passion," the man said in a hoarse voice, "but some of us are still trying to sleep."Sorry," Timmy yelled to the man sheepishly. With that he walked back inside a neighboring house.

"Who's the wet blanket?" Rainbow asked with a roll of her eyes.

"Mr. Dinkleberg," Timmy said.

A frown appeared on her face. "Did you say Dinkleberg?" She asked Timmy, her eyes narrowed.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Uh, no reason," Rainbow said, her eyes darting to the ground, "uh, why don't you get in the car while I take care of some... business." Timmy shrugged and went into the back seat. Rainbow looked at Dinkleberg's fancy hybrid car parked along the road with an evil smile.

"Time for payback," Rainbow said with vicious glee. She reached into her trunk and pulled out a crowbar. She approached the Dinkleberg's car with sadistic joy on her face, ready to smash the car to get some revenge.

"Hey!" Rainbow turned and saw a man coming out of Timmy's house. He was tall and wore an unusually frilly pink robe. His hair was dark and full of curlers. He was looking at Rainbow with a sharp expression.

"Are you planning to smash the Dinkleberg's windshield with that crowbar in an act of vengeance?" the man asked sternly with crossed arms. Rainbow guessed this was Timmy's dad.

"No...Mr. Turner, I was...," Rainbow stammered.

"If you're gonna smash the Dinkleberg's windshield, throw a brick," the man offered helpfully. "That way, you can make a clean getaway in case you activate any alarms."

Rainbow looked at the man with surprise. She then smiled when she realized he was serious. "Believe me, I love bricks. But I think there's a certain....thrill you get from destroying a windshield with a handheld weapon," Rainbow argued, "that you can't get from throwing from a distance."

"Then try my 9-iron golf club," the man offered, handing the club to Rainbow. "It is not only perfect for that long drive, but its metal head ensures that the glass will break easily, and that your act of vengeful vandalism can remain an enjoyable and lawsuit-free experience."

"Thanks Mr. T," Rainbow said with a smile. "I never thought an adult could be so cool!"

"Man, if only more kids were as polite as you," Mr. Turner lamented with a smile.


Timmy got into the backseat. He saw another girl on the right side, who looked to be his age. She had purple hair that was cut short. She wore a grey jacket, green shorts, and grey boots.

"I'm Timmy."

"Scootaloo," the girl said in a sharp voice, "I'm the sister of the coolest girl in all of Canterlot."

"Sunset?" Timmy asked.

Scootaloo looked positively scandalized. "Rainbow Dash!" The girl screamed. "Don't you know how awesome she is!"

A smirk came on Timmy's face. "Well, Sunset owns a motorcycle, loves video games, and she helped me with my homework! I doubt Rainbow can top that!"

Before Scootaloo could argue, Rainbow rushed into the driver's seat with a panicked expression on her face.,

"C'mon we've got to go," Rainbow said, scrambling to get into the car.

"Are you OK?" Scootaloo asked her sister.
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"Yeah sure, cool," Rainbow said nervously as she put the car into drive, "By the way if you hear the sound of police sirens, they're definitely not chasing after us, OK?!"

"What are you-," Timmy began, only for Rainbow to hit the gas and speed down the road. Timmy and Scootaloo yelled as she drove out of his neighborhood at high speed.

"She even knows how to make a clean getaway and escape from responsibility," Mr. Turner muttered in an impressed tone. "Timmy sure is in good hands."


As soon as Rainbow entered Canterlot's athletic field, she walked through a gauntlet of high-fives from all the athletes who showed up to train. Scootaloo also got some praise as well. "Hey Rainbow!"

"Yo Rainbow!"

"Hey Scootaloo!"

"So you're really the captain of all the girls' sport teams?" Timmy asked the rainbow-haired girl.

"Yep," Rainbow said. She paused to give some jock another high-five.

"How can you do all that?" Timmy asked the rainbow-haired girl.

"Because she's awesome!" Scootaloo gushed.

"Because I have a love of Canterlot High, the desire to be the best, and the thrill of competition inside me," Rainbow said proudly. "That's all I need to keep me awake."

"Really?"

"Well, that and s-s-sixty or s-seventy cups of coffee," Rainbow stammered, twitching like crazy. She took out a blue thermos, poured some coffee into the cup, and guzzled the whole thermos before throwing the cup away. "Ah, that feels good! Anyways, let's get to training."

Timmy followed Scootaloo and Rainbow across the athletic field. The blue-eyed boy couldn't help but notice that some of the jocks stopped whatever they were doing and gave him a weird look as soon as he walked by them. "Uh," Timmy wondered, "why is everyone staring at me?"

Rainbow and Scootaloo looked at him with odd smiles. "Uh...they've never seen a boy in a pink hat before," Rainbow said uneasily.

Timmy accepted that. "Makes sense. I'm just...not used to people-,"

"Don't be scared, Timmy," Scootaloo said, suddenly getting into his face, much to the brown-haired boy's astonishment. While Timmy was distracted, Rainbow made a "shut up" gesture to get everyone to stop staring at him. "Once you become a star athlete," Scootaloo gushed, "you'll revel in the attention."

"I could become a star athlete?" Timmy replied with disbelief. "I can't even touch my toes."

"You should stop acting so scared," Scootaloo sighed with annoyance. The two started to follow after Rainbow Dash. "I am never scared about anything and because of-,"Scootaloo paused as she felt something was being placed on her neck. The purple-haired girl she saw what it was. "AHHHH!" Scootaloo yelled. "I'M SCARED!"

Timmy turned and saw what was in Scootaloo's hand. "SPIDER!" Timmy yelled.

"AHHH!" the two elementary school students bellowed in unison. Scootaloo angrily threw the spider on the ground and began stomping on it."DIE YOU EVIL MONSTER! RETURN FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!" Scootaloo yelled in between stomps.

"Kill it! Kill it!" Timmy said, bravely cowering behind the purple-haired girl.

"What's wrong?" Rainbow said, running up to the two children.

"EVIL-," Scootaloo stomped once, "-SPIDER!" To her confusion, the spider wasn't being squished under her foot. "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!" Rainbow's eyes narrowed in annoyance. She picked up the spider.

"Rainbow," Timmy said fearfully, astonished at the athlete's audacity at picking up a spider.

"What are you-," Scootaloo began fearfully, only for Rainbow to squeeze the spider.

SQUEAK!

Scootaloo and Timmy's panic and fear were replaced with embarrassing blushes on their faces when they realized the spider was fake. Timmy suddenly heard some very amused and mocking laughter from behind him.

"Gilda!" Rainbow yelled in annoyance. The brown-haired boy looked back and saw a group of five teenagers laughing at them uncontrollably.

"Oh, you dweebs are too easy," one girl said while clutching her torso, laughing so hard it was hurting her ribs.

"Gilda, they're just kids!" Rainbow said with a growl.

"Loosen up, flip-flop," the girl said with a roll of her eyes. One thing Timmy noticed about the girl was that she was tall. Possibly the tallest girl Timmy had ever seen. She had white hair with purple highlights and yellow eyes. She wore an open brown jacket, a white tank top, brown cargo pants, a belt, and green combat boots.

"Who is she?" Timmy asked Rainbow with some annoyance.

"Gilda Griffon," the girl answered. "Captain of CHS's mixed martial arts team and CHS' top prankster," the girl gloated while doing some stretches. She gestured to her friends. "These are my teammates."

"Is she a friend of yours?" Timmy asked Rainbow.

"She would be if she weren't such a square," a girl with orange hair and yellow highlights sneered.

"I'd rather be a square than an idiot," Rainbow muttered.

"Only a square could have a sister who was a little scaredy-cat," a tall guy with brown hair said in a mocking tone. The group of jocks laughed harder, much to Scootaloo's embarrassment. Timmy felt his hackles rise as these five jerks acted mean to Rainbow's sister.

Rainbow looked increasingly unamused at the mockery of her sister. "Why don't you just-,"

"Oh my gosh!" A muscular jock with grey hair said with an excited grin, pointing at Timmy. "You got a pet beaver, Dash!" Timmy frowned at the insult to his teeth.

"Man, those buck teeth look big enough to land a plane on," an Australian-sounding girl with cloudy hair joked. The five jocks started laughing again at Timmy's expense.

Gilda walked up to Timmy and snatched up his pink hat, to his consternation."Hey," Timmy yelled. "Give that back!"


"Come and get it," the white-haired girl sneered. Timmy jumped up to try and get his hat, but Gilda kept pulling it away. "Almost got it. Too slow." Gilda mocked. "C'mon, Beaver Boy, I thought you wanted this dumb little hat!"Gilda and her goons laughed, even as Rainbow angrily snatched the hat away from Gilda and gave it back to the buck-toothed boy.

"I may look like a beaver," Timmy said directly to Gilda, "but at least my hair doesn't look like a tissue with boogers." Scootaloo and Rainbow began snorting, especially as Gilda started bristling.

"What did you say, punk?" Gilda growled.

"Yeah the beaver joke is so original," Timmy said snarked. "Not! I'm not surprised you couldn't come up with anything new. You're probably so dumb, you slept on the lawn because someone called it a 'flower bed'." Rainbow and Scootaloo laughed even more.

Gilda and her cohorts fumed with rage for a moment, much to Timmy's fear. But soon, they started laughing like crazy. "I like you," Gilda said to Timmy with a wide smile. She sounded more amused than annoyed. "Maybe we can hang out sometime, Beaver Boy," she said, before turning away from him, "when you stop being afraid of a widdle-itty-bitty spider." Gilda and her club turned around to walk away, laughing even more.

"Man, what a bunch of jerks," Timmy said.

"Yep," Rainbow agreed.

"Rainbow," Scootaloo asked in a soft, ashamed voice. "Am I a scaredy cat like they say?"

The rainbow-haired girl immediately put a warm hand on her sister's hand. "Scootaloo, don't listen to those idiots. Being scared doesn't mean you're not brave." Timmy looked at Scootaloo with a sympathetic expression, before glaring in the direction the jerks walked in.

The two Dash sisters walked to the track. "Timmy," Rainbow called back to him, "are ya comin?"

"I'll be there in a minute," Timmy said. The two sisters shrugged and walked away, while Timmy looked at fairies, disguised as arm bands on his wrists, with a cruel smile.

"Cosmo, Wanda." Timmy said.


"We really got those two good didn't we?" Gilda gloated.

"Yeah," Lightning Dust said with a cruel smile, "we-," a poof sound was heard behind her. Gilda walked, until she noticed her four friends looking at with fear.

"What's wrong?" Gilda asked her friends in an amused tone. "You look like you've all seen..."

"Not ghost," Hoops whispered with a horrified tone. "Spider."

Gilda looked at the brown haired athlete with a smile. "Yeah I'm not falling for-," Gilda paused, feeling something tickling her neck. She also heard a hiss behind her. Gilda fearfully turned around.

There were several giant brown spiders the size of dinner plates on her back, sticking their tongue out at Gilda and looking at her hungrily.

Gilda and her friends started shacking with fear.

"Help me," Gilda hissed

Rolling Thunder attempted to placate the mega-spider. "Nice...giant spiders?"

The spider hissed furiously.

With a loud scream, Gilda threw away her jacket, and ran away screaming for her mommy along with her cohorts.

Timmy laughed like crazy at this.

"Alright guys, I wish the spiders were gone." The giant spiders were wished away. Having gotten revenge, Timmy ran back to join the two Dash sisters.

Unbeknownst to him, someone was watching him from a distance, hiding inside of a trash can.

"Oh laugh it up Turner," Crocker said with malicious glee, "but I'll be having the last laugh when I capture your...FAIRY GOD-!" Crocker yelled in severe pain when when a blue thermos full of still burning coffee was poured onto his head and body. His face throbbed from the severe burns. "But first I must treat these...THIRD DEGREE BURNS!"


"OK," Rainbow said. They were sitting on some grass near the running track. "first were going to be doing some stretches." Timmy, Scootaloo, and Rainbow were clad in vests and shorts that were pink, purple, and blue respectively.

"Let's try touching our toes," Rainbow said. Scootaloo and Timmy got into position.

"Oh boy," Timmy said, happy to start exercising.

Hidden from the bleachers, Crocker prepared some green cannon with a yellow star on it.

Crocker looked gleeful as he prepared his next plan. "With my new Crocker Cannon, I shall release an explosive anti-magical sludge that can contain any magical energy. With this I will be able to capture Turner's …FAIRY GODPARENTS!" Crocker fired it at Timmy, only for the boy to duck as he bent down to touch his toes. The missile, not hitting him, flew away from him to another target, leaving a smoke trail behind.


"CHS' Mixed Martial Arts Club will celebrate our 10 year anniversary with cake, fresh from Pinkie Pie," Lightning Dust announced, placing the vanilla frosted beauty on the table near the running track. Gilda, Hoops, and Dumbbell, and Rolling Thunder all salivated at the idea of trying one of Pinkie's cakes.

Gilda rubbed her hands with glee. "There is absolutely nothing that can get in the way of our cake," Gilda said. Just as they were about to eat, they suddenly heard some whistling.

"What's-" Gilda began.

BAM!

The whole cake was destroyed, and splattered over everyone along with some strange green goo. The track team was angry and dismayed. Gilda's eye twitched as she looked where the smoke had come from.


"What was that?" Scootaloo asked, seeing the smoke and the mess.,

"You!" Scootaloo, Rainbow, and Timmy turned and saw she saw some angry man in glasses march toward them from the bleachers with a crazed expression and a cannon in his hand. "I was this close to my new world order, but you again foiled my plan."

"Let me guess," Rainbow said with an annoyed expression, "that's Crocker."

"Sunset must've already told you about my crazy teacher," Timmy muttered disdainfully as the white-shirted man stormed up to them.

"That's your teacher?" Scootaloo asked Timmy with disbelief.

"Yep. He keeps hounding me, thinking magic is real," Timmy said. The two Dash sisters looked nervous.

"My Crocker Cannon was fool-proof," the hunchbacked man ranted to the group of three. "But you ruined it, Turner." He turned to glare at the Dash sisters. "You and-,"

"Hey!" Rainbow said, getting into the man's face. "Why don't you back off, creep, and leave me, my sister, and Timmy alone before I call the cops on you!" Crocker glared back, before deciding to turn away. He gained nothing from fighting with a girl less than half his age.

"You've won again, Turner," Crocker said with a stern look, "but mark my words I will prevail." He walked away from Timmy and the Dash sisters, angrily muttering, only to bump into someone. "Watch where your going!" Crocker said with some disdain. He looked into who he had bumped into, only for his eyes to widen when he saw a very and tall and angry girl glaring at him and covered in green foam.

"So you're the idiot who blew up our cake!" the girl accused. Behind her were several jocks. They were also covered in foam and giving him dirty looks.

"You with that stupid cannon!" A less tall girl with yellow and orange hair yelled. Crocker realized he had caused them trouble, and by holding his cannon. he let himself get caught red-handed.

"This was..." Crocker began nervously, "an attempt to celebrate your team's...triumph."

The angry glares he got showed they weren't buying his excuse. "GET HIM!" Lightning Dust yelled. Crocker tried to run, only for the five to restrain and carry him away somewhere.

"Where are you taking me?!" Crocker groaned, as he struggled in their grasp.

"Yeah Gilds," an Australian girl asked. "Where are we taking him?" The white girl, who seemed to be the leader of the group, paused as she thought it over.

An evil smile came over Gilda's face. "Flying." The same smile appeared on the other teenager's faces.

"Flying?" Crocker asked with a worried expression. The five mixed martial arts students dragged Crocker to a tennis court. "What does flying entail?" Hoops and Dumbell pushed Crocker against the tennis net, while Rolling Thunder and Lightning Dust stretched both ends of it like a rubber band. To his horror, Crocker realized they were going to launch him into the air.

"You can't do this to me!" Crocker bellowed. "I...have...tenure!"

"Yeah, well, we don't exactly care about petty things like... rules," Gilda said casually.

"Night, night crazy guy," Dumbbell hissed. Crocker was launched into the air with a yell. He landed at Canterlot's student orchestra, crashing into bunch of instruments. He laid on the ground in a daze, his head trapped in a sousaphone.

One nearby band player played "wa wa wa" on his trombone.

"Oh laugh it up," Crocker said, his voice echoing from inside the metal instrument.


"Well, now that that's over with," Rainbow said with a disgusted snort, "let's see you run on the track." Timmy walked up to the starting line with a confident smile.

"Are you ready?" Rainbow asked Timmy with anticipation.

"I was born ready," Timmy said with a cheeky grin.

Rainbow looked at her new trainee with pride. "Now you're getting into the spirit of things." Rainbow said, holding up a stopwatch. Timmy braced himself to run. "And....Go!"

"I'm gonna make it to the finish line," Timmy boasted as he started running.


"Can't make it to the finish line ," Timmy said with a wheeze, having collapsed from exhaustion. "I must have been running for...two...hours."

"You collapsed after ten seconds," Rainbow said in an unimpressed tone.

"Nine seconds too many," Timmy complained.

Rainbow face-palmed. "You can do better than that," Rainbow said. "Get up." Timmy laid on the ground, panting. "Come on." Timmy continued to be inert. "OK," Rainbow said idly, "if that's the way you want it." Rainbow walked away, leaving Timmy to rest. Timmy felt something brush his scalp. He began to notice something: his head felt empty. Timmy realized his hat was missing. The brown-haired boy jumped up in a panic.

"Where's my-"

"Looking for this," a voice said. Timmy saw that Scootaloo was on her scooter, waving his pink hat around like a trophy, and looking at Timmy with a challenging smirk.

"Give me my hat," Timmy growled, his energy returning as his anger grew.

"Hmm, nope."

"It's mine!" Timmy yelled.

"Alright Timmy. I'll give it to you." Timmy walked up to Scootaloo to get the hat from the girl. "BUT FIRST YOU GOT TO CATCH ME!" Scootaloo yelled, riding away from Timmy on her scooter with a cackle.

Timmy's face turned bright red, he felt his body trembling with rage, before steam violently burst from his ears. "GIVE IT BACK!" Timmy roared, running like the wind after Scootaloo. Rainbow Dash watched this with a smirk. It appeared everyone had their own motivation.

For Timmy, it was that silly pink hat.


Timmy chased Scootaloo to Canterlot's park with exhaustion.

"Give me my hat!" the running boy yelled in between gasps.

"Come on," the girl on the scooter said with some disdain, "is little baby afraid of running ten more miles."

Timmy let out an agonized groan as he kept chasing after the purple haired girl.