"You WHAT?!?!" The ever busy Twilight, was only recently informed of the 'competition' that Sonic Dashfire had gotten themselves into during the upcoming wedding.
"Uh... Yeah. Sorry." Rainbow Dash blushed and rubbed the back of her head with a forehoof.
"Sorry? Don't apologize to ME, apologize to Applejack and Soarin'! That's supposed to be THEIR night, and now YOU intend to turn what was supposed to be a half hour performance into a huge three-way contest." Twilight was positively fuming as her mane started to flare up and her hide turning red. "So much for 'not wanting to take the spotlight from AJ on her special day.'" Twilight then turned her attention to the other two. "And you two. You just LET her make a plan like that?"
Spitfire was taken aback, falling back onto her haunches, her eyes opened wide and she pointed a hoof towards her wife, almost like a reflex. "Hey, it's her fault."
"Thanks babe." Rainbow Dash said through gritted teeth.
"Hey, I love you, but I won't be punished for you screwing up. Sorry love." Spitfire smiled and gave a slight shrug.
"Twilight, It's not that big a deal." Twilight almost broke her neck as she turned her attention to Spike.
"Not that big a deal? Do you have any idea how much I have to move around and re-plan in order to fix this?" Twilight looked like she was about to erupt in a burst of flame.
Spike walked over behind the lavender mare and started rubbing into her shoulders with his claws. "Look, I'll make the plans for you Twilight. I am your number one assistant after all. It's the least I could do. We'll talk it out with Applejack and Soarin' and make everything work out."
Twilight snorted like a bull, but then her breathing returned to normal as Spike smoothed out a knot in her neck. "Fine... But you have three days to finish a schedule that will fix this problem Spike. If not, Celestia help you."
"Three days. No problem." Spike chuckled as he turned to Spitfire and Rainbow Dash. "Go on guys. Go give word to AJ and Soarin'.And don't forget to look for new recruits as well."
"Will do Spike." With that, Dash turned and walked out of the library with Spitfire in tow. "Well, that went better than expected."
"We have our favorite teenage dragon to thank for that." Spitfire said with a smile. "We owe him one."
"We owe that dragon a lot more than one honey." Rainbow Dash laughed. "Now, is her place left or right?"
"Are you serious? You don't remember where Sweet Apple Acres is?"
"Not Sweet Apple Acres. Our new recruit's home."
"OH! Well shouldn't we tell Soarin' and Applejack first?"
"Ah, we can tell them later. Right now we need to recruit quick and train hard. Now... it's right." Rainbow Dash continued on, but turned her path to the right.
Spitfire gave out a sigh and followed after. "She's not even a pegasus! How are we going to get her to fly with us?"
Rainbow Dash turned her head and smiled at her lover. "Trixie."
"Who?"
"Twilight's girlfriend, duh. Trixie knows a spell that can work once per day. It allows the user to become either a pegasus, a unicorn or an earth pony for the day. If we can convince her to-"
"Watch out!" A sudden SLAM bashed right into the two mares as they were walking about. For a second there Rainbow Dash thought she was color blind as she noticed a grey hoof where hers should be, then she noticed the bubbles above it and let out a sigh. "You okay Rainbow Dash?"
"Yeah Derpy, I'm alright." Dash sat up, pushing the wall-eyed pegasus off of her. "Delivering the mail again?"
"Yup! I'm covering for Raindrops today. She's home sick. But I'm nowhere near as fast as she is, so I thought that I'd go really fast today, but bugs started flying into my eyes, so I closed them." The blonde pegasus gave a doofy looking smile. "Smart huh?"
Spitfire gave out a laugh. "Oh Derpy, you need to see where you're going...Wait here one moment." With a sudden BOOM and a trail of fire, Spitfire was gone. About a minute later and a similar BOOM echoed in the distance, and Spitfire was back with a pair of goggles around her neck.
"You've certainly been practicing, haven't you?" Rainbow Dash chuckled as she bumped Spitfire's shoulder with a hoof.
"Maybe a bit." She took off her goggles and handed them to the mail horse. "Here Derpy. Now you can go fast, and keep your eyes open, so you can see where you're going, and hopefully not bump into everypony."
Derpy gave out a rather sudden gasp as she swiped the goggles and put them on. "Thanks Spitfire! Well, I better be off!" And with that, the grey pony took off, leaving a trail of letters behind her.
Spitfire picked up an envelope and gave a little 'tsk'. "Poor Mr. Breezy won't be getting this letter today." She put it down and chuckled with Rainbow Dash. "Say, why don't we have Derpy join us?"
"Uh... I dunno if that'd be such a good idea." Rainbow Dash scratched behind her ear with a hoof.
"Oh come on. She'd be great with some training." Spitfire smiled. Suddenly they heard another smashing sound come from a few feet in the direction that Derpy flew off to. "Um... a LOT of training."
The two started walking again until they got to a house where two ponies were sitting on the porch, one on all four, the other sitting on her rump. "Yo! Lyra and Bon Bon!" Rainbow Dash waved to the two mares to attract their attention. The mint and cream ponies looked over and waved back. "Bon Bon, do you mind if we borrow Lyra for a moment?" Bon Bon shook her head and motioned for Lyra to head on over. The unicorn gave her lover a little peck on the cheek and rose up on her hind hooves, walking as only a bipedal pony could.
"What's up guys?" Lyra said as she leaned against her house.
"We want you to join Sonic Dashfire." Rainbow Dash announced.
"Sure, sounds fun."
"Wait, just like that?" Spitfire was taken aback. "But you can't even fly, how are you planning to join us?"
Lyra gave a shrug. "I'm sure there's a spell or two that could help me out."
Rainbow Dash gave a smile towards her partner. "Told ya so." Dash extended a hoof to shake with Lyra. "Welcome aboard Mrs. Lyra. We'll find you a spell to get you airborne in no time."
"I've always wanted to fly!" Lyra spread her front legs and motioned like she was a plane. "So, what do I have to do?"
"Let's just get you initiated with the other team members." Rainbow Dash turned to walk away. "C'mon."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"So, you decided to recruit Spike, I can understand that, but how are we going to get Lyra into the air?" Scootaloo sat next to Dash and Spitfire within Sugarcube Corner, slurping down a strawberry shake with hot sauce (a Pinkie Pie special).
Rainbow Dash smiled and slapped a rather thick book down on the table next to her own Rainbow Smoothie. "With this!" The title was crossed out with the words 'Property to THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE.'
"And how will this help?" Scootaloo asked through her teeth, straw in her mouth.
The other three mares smiled at one another. "Watch this." Spitfire grinned and turned her attention to Lyra. The minty green pony returned a smile of her own. She brought both of her front hooves on top of the table, focusing and grunting. Her horn glowed a with a yellow light, then her back had two yellow glows appear as well. After about a minute, Lyra's horn disappeared and was replaced with a pair of wings. Lyra smiled and fluttered her brand new wings. "And that is how she'll be flying with us."
"Pretty neat eh? and when we're done with her wings, we'll just have Trixie change her back to a unicorn. The spell can last for up to three days." Rainbow Dash smiled.
"But, we're not allowed to spread knowledge of this spell to anypony else. Trixie was very reluctant to let even us know about this" Spitfire added in.
"Then why did she give it to you?" Scootaloo asked.
"We threatened to tell Twilight about the book and how Trixie had an 'encounter' with the red pony that was here for three days." Lyra smiled a wicked smile.
"And why go to all this trouble? I mean, not that I don't want Lyra, but wouldn't it have been easier to ask Gilda?" Scootaloo took another gulp from her shake.
"No good, she's joined the Wonderbolts rather recently." Dash Explained.
"Blossomforth?" Scoot tried again.
"Dashie has the feeling she may be number 6 of the Shadowbolts." Spitfire sighed. "And I get that feeling too. Call it a mare's intuition."
"Derpy?" As soon as Scoot said that there came a unanimous 'eh...' from the other three ponies at the table. "Yeah, I get it. So, we still need to find another member. Who is it gonna be?" The four ponies sat in thought for a moment. Then a moment became a while, a while became an hour, and an hour brought them to closing time. Walking out of Sugarcube Corner, the mares realized that it was now raining.
"Wait a minute." Spitfire tapped Rainbow Dash on the shoulder and pointed her to the sky. They saw a blue and yellow streak zooming by, pounding down on all of the clouds with great speed and precision. "One of the contests is weather prowess. That pegasus is one of the best weather mares I've ever seen." She turned to look towards her lover. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
Rainbow Dash gave an ear to ear grin. "I'm thinking that's our ticket to victory."