It was a perfect, sunny spring day in the land of Equestria. Birds chirped their quiet melodies, and ponies went about their normal business down in the streets of Ponyville.
However, a certain rainbow-maned cyan pegasus had a different way of spending time.
While all the other ponies walked the paths below, the pegasus gracefully soared the skies, performing dangerous tricks, dazzling any citizens who happened to be watching from below.
She stopped, panting heavily and hovering in place.
“And now for my grand finale! Prepare, audience of Ponyville, for the most amazing, action-packed, awesomest trick ever…the Sonic Rainboom!”
She felt that what she was about to do deserved a very bold opening, although no one was listening.
With a sudden burst of energy, she began to soar upwards, climbing altitude fast. She looked down as she climbed, watching the civilization below begin to shrink at a steady pace.
She stopped once she could hardly breathe from the thin air. Then, without wasting a second, she jetted downwards at alarming speeds.
Her descent was very powerful, and tears began forming in her eyes. She beat her wings with all her might, destined to break the visible light spectrum, and shatter all of Ponyville’s windows.
A steady cone began to form around her outstretched hooves, and began to sharpen quickly, electrifying the surrounding air particles.
“Come on…just a little…more…” She grunted.
A noise echoed through her ears.
“Hey, Rainbow Dash!”
Surprised, Rainbow opened her eyes a little bit to see who was calling her name. It was Twilight Sparkle.
Alarmed at such a sudden disturbance, Rainbow stopped flapping her wings, and spread them out like a parachute, desperately trying to halt her descent.
However, her descent rate was far too high, and she crashed into the ground with the power of a meteorite. Dirt and dust was kicked up in all directions, blinding both of them for a short amount of time.
When the dust cloud cleared, a large crater was visible in the earth where Rainbow had landed.
She groaned, and rubbed her head.
“What is it Twilight? That almost killed me!”
“Sorry about that. It’s just that I learned a new spell, and I wanted to see if you’d be my guinea pig. If it works, it’ll be my biggest breakthrough!”
“Uh, I don’t know, Twilight. Whenever somepony steps up to be your guinea pig, something goes horribly wrong.”
“Don’t worry about that. I knew there would be dangers to trying a new experiment, and that you were one of my friends. I checked the calculations multiple times.”
“I’m still not too sure. I don’t want something to happen to me, with the Wonderbolts auditions coming up in a few weeks.”
“Speaking of the Wonderbolts, I got a couple tickets to a front row show that’s right after the auditions. I was going to give you them if you agreed to try the experiment with me.”
“Hey, what could go wrong? Let’s do this!”
Twilight laughed.
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Twilight led Rainbow down into her basement, where some strange symbols were drawn around some areas of the room.
“What’s going on here?” Rainbow asked.
“You’ll see. If it works, you shouldn’t be in Equestria anymore.” Twilight responded.
“Wait…WHAT?”
“Don’t worry, it’s completely safe. Now just stand there in the middle.”
Feeling very uneasy, Rainbow did as she was told. Then, Twilight started the spell.
She closed her eyes, and a steady stream of magic flowed out of her horn. Starting from the bottom up, it slowly began to envelop Rainbow Dash.
Twilight didn’t appear to be struggling with the spell, because her face kept a calm expression. She didn’t tense up, or stutter.
The feeling was very strange for Rainbow. There areas around her body that were covered in magic were completely numb.
More of her body began to feel this way as the glowing energy surrounding her began to climb higher up her body. It moved up past her abdomen, and continued to rise past her back. It tickled the tip of her wings, and began to surpass her neck. Finally, the magic coating reached her face, blocking out her view of Twilight and the world around her.
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When the darkness cleared, Rainbow realized she was falling. She was startled by the sudden lack of ground underneath her hooves, and was slow to respond to the crisis she was in.
The first instinct that came to her mind was to start flapping her wings. She did so desperately, but her descent didn’t seem to slow. She was falling with her back to the ground, and had no control over her terrifying plunge.
Within a matter of about ten short seconds, Rainbow hit the ground with a loud thud. She had landed right on her wing.
She clutched her wing in pain.
“Ahhh! Ow!!! My wing! Ah……somepony help me!!!”
“…What do you mean by ‘somepony’?” A voice said.
Rainbow gasped, startled by the sudden voice of the pony standing next to her. She turned toward them, and was…surprised by what she saw.
The pony standing next to her was actually not a pony, but a strange cubic figure that stood on two legs. He had a casual blue t-shirt and jeans, and held a crystal-like blue sword in his hand.
“Whatzit to you, cube face? Who…or what…are you?” She asked.
“I could ask you the same question. You’re not from here, are you?” He replied.
“Where’s ‘here’?”
“Minecraft. Somehow, you’ve landed yourself in the land of Minecraft.”
Rainbow looked around. Everything around her looked like a very large wild wilderness, with nothing manufactured within eyesight. However, everything was made of blocks. There wasn’t a round thing to be found.
“W…where am I? What’s your name?”
“My name is Steve. And yours…?”
“My name is Rainbow Dash. THE Rainbow Dash. The line for autographs starts over there.”
Steve rolled his eyes.
“Listen, do you want that wing healed or not? If so, you’d better quit the boasting. You’re in my world now, buddy. And in my world, you don’t want to be out here when the sun sets.”
“What do you mean by that?”
Steve held out his cubic hand.
“Follow me. You have a lot to learn, traveler.”
To be Continued…
Author Notes:
Here we go again! I love this idea, so I couldn’t keep from writing for long!