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// 7) Spitfire's Dream Transformation 
// Story: Loyalty's Vision 
// by SapphireRose87 
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{Rainbow Dash}

Late that night, when I finally fell asleep, I was in the dream realm and Princess Luna greeted me.

She smiled. "Greetings Rainbow Dash! I'm so happy to see you, just like I'm happy to be able to hear Loyalty's voice again. Now, there's something I need to talk to you about before you enter Spitfire's dream." 

"Yes, Princess?" I asked.

"You didn't know this at the time, but when Pinkie Pie threw you that engagement party and ponies humiliated you because you said no to a fellow element of harmony bearer there were ponies looking out for you. You weren't alone like you felt you were," Princess Luna said. 

I tilted my head. "Huh? It didn't seem like it at the time. I mean no one bothered to hear my side of the story! Where were you at the time? That's why I left Ponyville in the first place!"

Princess Luna sighed, "I know and we should've told you we were looking out for you. For that, I am sorry. The main issue that we were trying to help you with was that the other Element or Harmony bearer thought you weren't being loyal because you said no to a fellow Element of Harmony bearer's marriage proposal."

"That's exactly what that spoiled brat Twilight told me," I growled. "I wasn't being loyal my butt!"

Princess Luna frowned and her ears dropped. "Well, if it makes you feel any better, Twilight's been ousted from the royal family and has been stripped of her title. She is no longer the ruler of Equestria."

"Ouch," I flinched, "was that really necessary?"

Princess Luna nodded. "Sadly, yes, but all of us heard about the engagement party and that you were humiliated because of it, we were angry. For a few days after you left, we argued with the ponies who took Pinkie Pie's side to at least sit down and hear your side of the story. We even tried reasoning with Pinkie Pie herself, but she didn't want any part of it."

"I wonder if that's why everyone started urging me to come back to Ponyville?" I pondered.

"Well, did they sit down and listen to your side of the story?" Princess Luna asked.

I shook my head. "Nope, not at all. Even when Pinkie Pie was joking around, I knew for fact that was a front. I put on a brave face and stayed in Ponyville. I have no idea why I did that. They gave me plenty of reasons to stay gone."

Princess Luna's jaw dropped, then I saw by the look on her face, her shock and sadness quickly turned to anger. "Did the Princess of Friendship at least sit down and hear your story?"

I shook my head again. "That would be a negative. She didn't want any part in that either."

Princess Luna gasped, "One would think the Princess of Friendship would hear both sides of the story before making such a harsh judgement!"

I sighed, "I know that's what I thought the friendship journal was for." 

Princess Luna scowled. "It seems like Celestia should've enrolled Twilight in acting classes instead. She sure put on a front didn't she?"

"Yup, she and Pinkie Pie both!" I agreed. "I think they should've their hooves in Hollywood. Funny thing is, that was right before we discovered the elements of harmony. She was the one that did the 'spark of friendship' thing. Although according to Loyalty, the whole 'spark of friendship' thing was Magic's idea."

Princess Luna laughed, "Why am I not surprised by that? When I first met Magic, it was just as arrogant as it was when it met Twilight."

I snorted, "Yeah, and I just had to tie the bridge so my so-called friends could get across safely so we could defeat Nightmare Moon." 

Princess Luna gave a gentle giggle, "You do realize Nightmare Moon was me right?"

I grinned. "Yeah I knew it was you. Honestly, I wouldn't have minded it if it was nighttime all the time. It would've given me more time to sleep."

Princess Luna gave a gentle giggle again and that reminded me of how Fluttershy laughed when I first met her.

"But I heard you were the one most terrified of the thought!" Princess Luna exclaimed.

"Nah, I was acting, maybe I should try my hoof in show business?" I remarked. "I acted because I had my suspicions of Twilight from the beginning." 

Princess Luna laughed at that thought. "Just so you know, I'm not laughing at your acting skills, I'm laughing at how you protected your friends back in Equestria. I'm proud of you because you're still doing that while working as an agent for the Sixth. Do you know what they're saying about you around the Sixth now?"

I rolled my eyes and said with annoyance, "You mean the 'Gilda line?'"

"Is that what you're calling it now?" Princess Luna said. She gave me a curious look. "How does it go?"

I groaned and then mumbled, "I'm tough, I'm fast and I'm the definition of the word awesome. Yeah, that's still a big fat lie!"

Princess Luna snorted. "Aww that's cute! You're in denial because you know it's true. So tell me, how is it you're not the definition of the word awesome?"

"Because I'm not!" I insisted. "I'm just doing a job, that's all. If anyone's the definition of the word awesome, it would be Spitfire!"

Princess Luna laughed and shook her head. "Nope! You're wrong on that, you didn't know this but Spitfire looks up to you. My sister and I look up to you also."

My jaw dropped when I heard this. "How is that possible? Spitfire's the Captain of the Wonderbolts! You and Princess Celestia are rulers of Equestria! Why would you look up to me? For Celestia's sake, seriously!"

Princess Luna giggled, "I wonder if my sister and I should change that term of endearment? The reason why me and my sister look up to you is because you set the bar pretty high at excelling at everything you do. True, my sister and I are Alicorns and have unlimited power, but we don't excel at everything like you do. Although before you were taken by the Machine, you were pretty cocky about that. But from what I was told about it, the reason why you were so cocky was because it helped you get the job done and be okay with it, even if you failed. The funny thing is, you don't know when you're doing a good job."

I chuckled, "That's exactly what Samantha tells me at the time! But I still don't accept it. I'm just doing my job, that's all."

"You're going to have to get past that," said Princess Luna, "believe it or not, my sister and I agree that if anypony should becomes an Alicorn, it should be you."

I did not want to become an Alicorn, there's no way I was going to accept that when I just accepted myself as a pegasus. I shook my head. "No thank you, I'm good."

Princess Luna smiled. "Okay, that's enough talking. Spitfire's having a memory as we speak. In order for you to start her dream transformation, you need to knock her out of a normal flight pattern. It doesn't matter how you do it, just as long as it gets done."

I nodded. "Yes, Princess."

Princess Luna stomped her hoof on the ground in the dream realm and the realm swirled around us. Finally, the swirling stopped and in front us was a door. I looked in awe at what Princess Luna had just done. When the door opened, Spitfire was flying around and fast too. Honestly, every time I saw Spitfire fly back in Equestria, I wondered why she didn't do a sonic rainboom herself. The funny thing was, in the dream I was looking at; it looked like she was waiting for someone. 

"In case you're wondering," said Princess Luna, "Spitfire is waiting for somepony, and that somepony is you."

I gasped, "What? Why?"

Princess Luna smiled. "You'll see soon enough. It's time to enter Spitfire's dream now."

I nodded. I then went through the door and entered Spitfire's dream.


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After I entered Spitfire's dream and because she was flying, I picked a cloud, sat down on it, and waited for her to notice me. I smiled as I watched her fly, because I hadn't seen her fly in a long time. I remembered back in Equestria, Spitfire and I would do these 'private flies' because she said it was to improve my flying performance. I figured since she's the Captain of the Wonderbolts if she said I needed the extra help, then I needed the extra help. I just took her word for it. I mean, why wouldn't I trust her? 

What I'm still trying to figure out is why would the Captain of the Wonderbolts look up to me? The fact that the rulers of Equestria look up to me felt very startling. 

Finally, when Spitfire looked behind her and noticed me, she skidded to a stop in mid air. She came over to the cloud I was sitting on. "Well it's about time you got here!"

I titled my head. "Why were you waiting for me?"

"This was a memory at first, but now I know it's a dream," Spitfire replied with a small smile. "I was flying around the Wonderbolts Academy at first and then it faded. I was wondering when you were going to show up in my fantasy!" 

I paused. "Uh, fantasy?"

Spitfire smiled and nodded. "I've always loved flying with my star student! You were the best flyer in the Academy! You made me want to put more heart into my flying. You always put a lot of heart in your flying. However, even the star student could use some improvement on their flying. So you wanna go for a 'private fly?'"

I nodded. "Sure!"

The private fly started with both of us standing on the same cloud getting our flying stances ready. 

"Ready...Set….Go!" Spitfire said. I let her jump off the cloud first, and then I followed. 

At first we started with a couple of barrel rolls and then we circled each other by doing backflips. I was very happy and having fun flying with her. Although I wanted this dream to last forever, I knew I had to start Spitfire's dream transformation. I looked over my shoulder to see that a random building popped up out of nowhere. I saw Princess Luna's face on the building. "I know you're having fun, Rainbow. But it's time for this dream to come to a close."

I sighed and stopped flying and stayed at a hover, "Fine."

Spitfire skidded to a stop when she saw me hovering. "What's wrong Rainbow?"

"You do realize you're not a Pegasus in real life just yet right?" I asked.

Spitfire nodded and rolled her eyes. "Well duh! I know this is a dream. I'm going to have to wake up soon." She frowned. "I don't want to wake up yet."

"Yeah I know," I said, "but before you wake up, I'm going to give you two things to help you to start getting your old body back."

Spitfire tilted her head. "What are they?"

"You'll find out when you wake up," I responded.

I took Spitfire by surprise and bucked her into the nearby building Princess Luna made pop up for me. She crashed into the wall pretty hard. That's when I got knocked out of the dream because I knew that she had just woken up.


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When I woke up, I didn't know why but I was anxious to see Spitfire's transformation start. I noticed that Oliver was holding me in his arms while he slept. He was holding me as if he were worried about me. I couldn't tell if that was the case because it looked like he was sleeping soundly. As soon as I moved, Oliver woke up right away. 

"Did you even sleep at all?" I asked.

Oliver yawned, "Yes, but barely. I can't help it, I'm worried about you and everyone else is."

"Oh." 

"You look nervous," Oliver said after raising an eyebrow. "You want to see Spitfire's transformation start, don't you?"

"Yes, I am," I said quickly, "and I should apologize for bucking her into a nearby building, that was Princess Luna's idea. But I still feel bad about it."

Oliver gave a puzzled look. "Why do you feel you need to apologize for something that happened in a dream?"

"Because she's going to be mad at me!" I panicked. "She'll probably never speak to me again!"

Oliver laughed, "Okay Rainbow, calm down. It was a dream and not real life, so you didn't hurt her."

Once again I panicked, "Fine, but I'm not taking any chances!"

Oliver got dressed quickly, but before he could finish getting dressed, I zoomed out the door faster than you could count to three. "Slow down, Rainbow! My goodness!"

When I got to Spitfire's room, I hesitated. I knocked on the door and stammered. "S-Spitfire, are you awake? I'm sorry about bucking you into a nearby building to start your transformation."

I heard Spitfire laughing as she opened the door. "Are you kidding me Rainbow Dash?" 

When Spitfire came out of the room mine and Oliver's jaw dropped, she had gotten her old body back already. She was fully transformed into Spitfire!


*	*	*


"Y-Y-You what, uh?" I stammered.

Oliver looked at me. "I thought you were only supposed to give her wings and a tail."

"That's what I thought!" I was floored by what happened.

"Please, I can explain," We heard Princess Luna say from behind us.

"Okay," I said. 

"The dream transformation thing can be partial or whole," Princess Luna explained. "It depends on how much a person has accepted themselves. I've seen a full transformation only a handful of times. And now Spitfire's full transformation adds to the twenty-one agents that have done this!"

Spitfire was on her back laughing pretty hard. I didn't know what she thought was funny about this. "You should see the looks on your faces! And your jaw is dropped the most Rainbow Dash!"

Spitfire put a hoof underneath my chin to pick my jaw off the floor. Oliver and Princess Luna started laughing at my reaction. Normally I would've said it's not funny, but because I was so speechless at the moment, I didn't say a word. Spitfire tapped a hoof on my shoulder and that snapped me out of it. 

Princess Luna grinned and nodded. "Well, now that's taken care of, I shall take my leave now."

After Princess Luna left, Spitfire gave me a look of concern.

I groaned. "I wish people would stop giving me that concerned look. I'm fine."

"Agent Oliver, are you going to let Rainbow Dash access that blood barrier thingy again?" Spitfire asked. "She seemed like she was really sick the last time she did it. Is it that painful?"

"It is painful, but Rainbow Dash didn't do it for that long," Oliver answered. "It was only for an hour and a half. She didn't do the two and a half hours like I did when I first met her."

Spitfire snorted and Oliver's face turned red in embarrassment.  

"Let me guess, you were trying to show off in front of her, weren't you?" Spitfire said. "It's okay Agent Oliver, in the memory I had last night, I was showing off in front of her while I was doing a complicated flying routine. I asked her to do it for me as I pretended I failed to accomplish it. She took everyone by surprise by outdoing everyone on the team! Then I did it for real in front of her and then she outdid me! Everyone was shocked because she outdid the Captain of the Wonderbolts Military!"

Oliver gave Spitfire a look of disbelief. "Rainbow Dash outdid you? And you were the Captain of the Wonderbolts Military?"

"Yup!" Spitfire beamed proudly.

I paused. "Wait a minute! I remember doing a complicated routine but I don't remember ponies jaws dropping. However, I did remember ponies cheering and I just had to do a victory dance afterwards."

Spitfire fell over on her back laughing.

"Did you by chance make the routine in such a way that it looked like Rainbow outdid you?" Oliver asked.

"Hello! I was trying to show off in front of her!" Spitfire said after she got to her hooves. "What part of that don't you understand?"

"Why does everyone want to show off in front of  me?" I said with annoyance. "I'm not awesome! I just do what I need to to get the job done and that's it. I'm good at all sorts of things but I must've failed at something back in Equestria."

"Well, the victory dance did show your cockiness, so I guess you failed at being humble at the time?" Spitfire chuckled. "But you deserved that one."

"Okay, but I haven't been doing that lately, I just do my job and protect my friends and that's that," I said in a matter of fact way. 

"Wow," Spitfire said. 

"Okay moving on!" I said. "Can we get started with Spitfire's training Oliver?"

Oliver shook his head. "Not yet, we just woke up, so I think we should grab a bite to eat."

Right on cue, my stomach growled. "Well, sounds good to me!"

As we walked to the café at the Sixth, I wondered how Spitfire's training was going to progress from now on.