“Hiya Sunny! Whatcha doin’?!”
“Hi Izzy. I’m just reading, as you can see.” Sunny Starscout, the Earth Pony, tells to her Unicorn friend, Izzy Moonbow. The former reading inside of her now-half-destroyed house.
“Oh okay.” Izzy walks up to Sunny until she’s too uncomfortably close.
“Ah, anything I can help you with?”
“Whatcha reading?”
“This?” Sunny closes the book she’s reading, a marker marking her place, then holds it up for her friend to see. “This book is all about Rainbow Dash.”
Izzy looks confused and dumbfounded, her not knowing exactly who that is.
“Uh, Rainbow Dash. One of the fastest pegasi to ever exist. Captain of the Wonderbolts and pulled off a sonic rainboom. Many times, I should add. Not to mention she was best friends with Princess Twilight Sparkle herself.”
Izzy blinks once, still looking as dumbfounded as she was before.
“You really don't know who Rainbow Dash was?”
“Nope! Remember, unicorn,” Izzy points to her horn, “Our whole tribe was separated from the rest of the ponies for who knows how long,” Izzy brings up a map of Equestria, pointing more specifically to her home of Bridlewood, “Plus it’s not like all of Equestria’s history was preserved during all this time. So nope, I don’t know who this ‘Rainbow Dash’ is.”
“Oh.” Sunny says with a sad realization until she gets a bright idea. “It’s typical you and all unicorns not know who Rainbow Dash was, but I bet our pegasi friends, Pipp and Zipp, know all about her.”
“You really think so?” Izzy asks skeptically.
“Oh I don’t think so...” Sunny pauses for dramatic effect. “...I know so.”
***
“What’d ya mean you don’t know who Rainbow Dash was?!” Sunny acts surprised by the fact that neither Pipp Petals nor Zipp Storm know who the rainbow mane pegasus Rainbow Dash was either.
“Again, Rainbow who?” Zipp asks honestly. Looking as confused and dumbfounded as Izzy was.
“Rainbow DaASH?” Pipp says, her too looking confused and dumbfounded.
“Rainbow Dash! Y’know, rainbow mane... rainbow lightning bolt for a cutie mark... was a pegasus just like you!”
Both Zipp and Pipp stare at Sunny in silence, before Zipp breaks it:
“Oh. I think I know her. She was a ‘wonderbolt’, right?”
“Yes! They were a huge part of Equestrian history. Most noticeably pegasi history and pride!”
“Say Sunny, I know you sure know all about this ‘Rainbow Dash’ stuff, but what was the exact reason you were reading that book on ‘Rainbow Dash’ in the first place?” Izzy asks her friend, hoping to take this whole conversation someplace else.
“Why?” Sunny brings up out of her saddlebag the Rainbow Dash book she was reading just earlier. “This book tells all about her. From her achievements, her quotes, her motivational quotes,” Sunny says with an eye roll, “and not lastly, most importantly if you ask me, all of her downfalls.”
“Downfalls?” Zipp asks questionably.
“Y’know, all the biggest mistakes she’d made. Like,” Sunny opens up to a random page, “That time she agreed to join the Cloudsdale Equestrian Games’ team over her hometown of Ponyville’s team because they had an opening.”
“Uh... equestrian games?” Pipp asks, still confused by all this.
Sunny blushes an embarrassing shade of red. “I’m getting ahead of myself. Just, Rainbow Dash was a pretty cool pony. If you want, you can borrow my book here. To, y’know, learn more about her.”
“Huh?” Zipp looks over to her sister. Pipp doing the same. “If you wouldn’t mind, we would like that very much.”
“Great!”
(The Next Day)
“Hi Izzy, what brings you today-“
As soon as Sunny opened her front door and sees her unicorn friend does she get tackled by the unicorn, causing the two to tumble down onto the grass.
“Izzy. Why did you-“
“No explaining. It’s... the pegasi... they want to see you!”
“See me? Really? Well I feel mighty glad-“
“Oh nononono. Not glad. You shouldn’t be. They want to see you to find out more about Rainbow Dash!”
“Yeah. And...” Sunny motions her hoof for Izzy to go on.
“And, they’re hungry, ready to devour MORE of Rainbow Dash’s life. And they all know you can help satisfy their hunger for knowledge of Rainbow Dash!”
“Again, what’s the problem? I just see it as-“
Sunny gets interrupted when a whole herd of pegasi land right about twenty feet from them.
And boy do they look hungry (for knowledge of Rainbow Dash).
“There she is!!! The smart, knows more about Rainbow Dash pony!" One of the pegasi exclaims to the whole herd of flying ponies.
And like that, all of them fly immediately towards the both of them. Most noticeably Sunny.
“We should get you to safety.” Izzy says as she picks Sunny right up with both her front hooves like there’s no problem and runs into Sunny’s house with her, closing and locking the door tight right after she sets Sunny down on an area rug.
The sound of excited knowledge seekers knocking violently on Sunny’s door.
“There has to be a reason for all of this. There must be somepony responsible-“
“I uh, I think we can explain.” Zipp Storm interrupts Sunny as both she and Pipp walk out from the shadows.
“How did you get in here?” Izzy asked.
“Long story. And yes, what you just saw is because of us.” Pipp Petals explains to them.
“You see, after we both finished reading the book you’d lent us, we were 'oh so inspired' by it. Like, it felt like we finally got in touch with our pegasus’ history. Reading all about Rainbow Dash helped us really get a new perspective on our pegasus lifestyle. Almost like we were truly missing something.” Zipp tells Sunny of what she’d learned from reading up all on Rainbow Dash.
“Mmhm. It truly was inspiring,” Pipp tells them both, “And that’s why this,” Pipp points a hoof towards the door, which is still being violently knocked on, “Is happening. You see, after reading from it did I decide I want to try to inspire other ponies. So, I live-streamed me and sis here reading the book together. And well, you see, because of my big social media following and influence did, yes, help inspire other pegasi but also, I guessed, they got so too inspired that they wanted to know more about her. And I may have blabbered on about you knowing way more. And that is why they are here.”
Sunny Starscout looks on in silence. Thinking about everything that is transpiring.
Like, ponies really want to know more about Equestria’s past.
And they want her to tell them all about it.
A smile grows big on Sunny’s face. An idea popping in her head.
“I think I have an idea.”
(Two Weeks Later)
Sunny Starscout, with the help of her friends and PRG (Pegasus Random House), wrote together a book.
A book about Rainbow Dash titled: The Book of Rainbow Dash, Movational Outlooker.
And once immediately the book released did it sell like wildfire. Becoming a bestseller overnight, ten-seconds-fast.
Pretty much every pegasus getting their own two front hooves on a copy. So they too can read up and learn all about one of the most prominent figures in Equestria’s history.
So they too can be inspired through the life of Rainbow Dash.
“Say Sunny, so now that you’re a successful author with a bestselling book, not to mention how popular you are now for all things pegasi, what are you gonna do now?” Hitch Trailblazer asks his longtime childhood friend.
Sunny opens her mouth to answer before thinking more about what she could say.
Coming up with nothing, Sunny simply strugs at Hitch’s question.