“Okay. Ready, Sensei?” Rainbow Dash asked; she, Splinter, and Flash Sentry were each holding a guitar and standing in the gym.
“I believe so.” Splinter said sounding anxious.
“Don’t worry, Sensei. It’ll be fine.” Flash said comfortingly. “We’re just going to start with a few basic steps. Like this, a simple note.” He strummed one string of his guitar and made a note. “You try it.”
Splinter wanted to impress his teachers, so he did his best to strum the same string and mimic the sound.
“Good. Now try this one.” Rainbow Dash adjusted her fingers and strummed another string; Splinter did the same. “Nice. Now try to combine those notes to make a chord. Like this.”
Rainbow and Flash strummed their strings and Splinter attempted to do the same.
“Okay, good. Good.” Flash said encouragingly.
Rainbow nodded. “Right. Now we move on to—”
“Hey there, Rainbows!” A new voice said.
Rainbow Dash cringed; she immediately recognized the voice and she didn’t want to turn around to see who it was. Flash turned to the door and raised an eyebrow.
“Zephyr Breeze?” He asked.
Splinter looked up to see a teenage boy with sea foam green skin, pink eyes, and blonde hair pulled up in a bun enter the gym and walk over to Rainbow Dash. She had a very uncomfortable look on her face and he could tell right away that she didn’t want this boy to be here.
“Whatcha doin’? Playing your guitar?” Zephyr asked, trying to sound suave.
“Go away, Zeph. I’m busy.” Rainbow Dash replied.
“Yeah, you’re kind of interrupting our lesson.” Flash chimed in.
“Lesson?” Zephyr then looked up to see Splinter sitting next to Flash and his expression quickly changed from calm to surprised. But then he calmed down. “Oh, so is this the famous rat man I heard so much about? Hi, name’s Zephyr Breeze. I’m Fluttershy’s little brother.” He offered his hand to the mutant, which he reluctantly took.
“Um, how do you do.” Splinter said.
“And is Rainbows here teaching you how to play? Well ain’t that neat!” Zephyr exclaimed. “She certainly is one of the best guitarists at CHS. But I’m sure the only reason she took up guitar was to impress me, just like she does everything.”
Rainbow Dash quickly tensed up as her face twisted into an expression of shock and disgust. She glanced over to Flash and Splinter, silently begging them to help her get Zephyr to leave. Splinter nodded his head at his friend and stood up, put his guitar down, and walked over to Zephyr. He cleared his throat.
“If I may, Zephyr Breeze… allow me to make a suggestion.” He said calmly.
“A suggestion? Uh, sure. What kind of suggestion?” The boy asked before the mutant gently poked him in the chest, which immediately caused him to tense up and fall to the ground. He was unable to move or speak.
“Perhaps you should leave us alone for a while. Rainbow Dash is busy.” Splinter said.
That was when Snips and Snails poked their heads out from behind the door to see what was going on; they saw Zephyr on the floor, ran up to him, and started dragging him away from the trio.
“Why don’t we just get him out of your way for you?” Snips suggested.
“Yeah. He always does this.” Snails added as he and his friend exited the gym.
Flash, Rainbow, and Splinter all looked at each other before they started laughing; he picked up his guitar and sat back down.
“Now, where were we?” He asked, eager to get back to the lesson.
Rainbow Dash smiled. “Okay, now we’re gonna try a few different chords.” She and Flash strummed their guitars as their sensei followed suit.