After the sun was up and before ponies came out of their homes, Hard Chord and Twilight got up went back to Sugarcube Corner.
"Are you sure they won't say anything?" Twilight asked nervously. After she ran out, she was afraid of facing her friends again after the incident.
"Relax I told them not to say anything." Hard Chord responded. However his thoughts were elsewhere. He had seen girls with crushes on him before but for Twilight it seemed more like love from what he could tell. It raised the question if he felt the same way? While sure he did think she was cute, and he enjoyed holding her, on top of that he deeply cared for her. He remembered last night when she hit her head on a rock. That was when he remembered how he felt, he was scarred for her. That was one of the reasons he crawled in bed with her to warm her. She was just shivering like she had brain damage.
"Maybe I do like her?"
"What!" Twilight said.
'Sh*t, I always have a problem with saying things out-loud.'
"Sorry, thinking out-loud." Hard Chord said rather calmly. Yet he knew Twilight heard his words because of the way she acted. She was hoping that it was true. That he liked her back. Ever since she saw him she was more in love than she had ever been. Though Twilight had some crushes at school, this was the first time of being in love.
"Hey Hard Chord, get your flank up here and show these ladies how flying is done!" Hard Chord looked up and saw his brother and Soarin in the air with the the mares, Caramel and Nova sitting on the ground watching them.
"How come you never said you were friends with a wonderbolt?" Rainbow Dash asked, speeding up to Hard Chord at lightning fast speeds.
"I've only known you for five days." Hard Chord responded.
"Oh yeah, heh heh sorry." Rainbow said awkwardly. She dashed into the sky and was face to face with Notes.
"Why didn't you tell me you were friends with a wonderbolt?"
"It never came up." Notes said shrugging his hooves.
"Bull, I've told you I was a fan of the wonderbolts."
"Well clearly I wasn't listening then."
"I'm buck you in the throat so you don't have anymore talent." Dash threatened.
"Ow, damn that has to burn." Hard Chord called as he ascended to their height.
"Yeah Rainbow. Come on hit me in my talent." Notes said as he revealed his throat. "But wait, Soarin, would you let a good friend be hurt by your 'number one fan' cause I forgot to tell her we're friends."
Soarin had a smug grin on his face. "Why I'd never. My friends mean a lot to me. It would be a damn shame if Dashie here hurt my friend." Rainbow Dash blushed at the use of her pet name. "I might need to ban her from our shows."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Rainbow Dash screamed.
"Hey woah woah there I was kidding." Soarin said. Rainbow looked like she was on the verge of tears. Soarin realized how big of a wonderbolts fan she was.
"Listen how about a race and if I win then you gotta promise me an apple pie." Soarin said.
Rainbow Dash only had a sly grin on her face. "And if I win you have to do something for me. Privately." She gave emphases on the last word. Nearly all ponies watching knew what it meant but they decided not to embarrass another friend today.
"Alright you got yourself a deal." Soarin said as he reached out his hoof. He knew what Rainbow Dash wanted. She was a WONDERBOLT fan after all. Rainbow Dash took and shook his hoof and took a while before letting go.
Soon a starting gate was made out of clouds and Notes was holding his hoof up in the air.
"Alright I want a good clean race. No pushing or shoving. No distractions. No lethal take downs. If a rainboom or thunderboom, wonderboom, whatever Soarin calls his, is coming then just get the hell away from it since you may be blown away from it." Before Rainbow Dash could say at how blown away the audience will be, Notes stopped her, "No boasting Rainbow Dash."
"Hey!"
"Alright on your marks!" Rainbow Dash got in a ready position while Soarin put on his goggles.
"Get set!" The audience below starred with anticipation
"I got five on the blue one." Hard Chord called.
"Which one?" Caramel asked, knowing it was a joke and the ponies laughed.
"GO!"
The two took off so fast that outlines of their bodies in dust stood where they were a mili-second a go before they fell through the clouds.
Soarin was in the lead and was shouting back to Rainbow Dash.
"Want me slow down for ya Dashie.*"
"Yes I would. Then I can win and say I beat a wonderbolt in a race." Rainbow said in pride and confidence.
"We'll see about that miss Dash." Soarin called back teasingly.
The race was around the edges of Ponyville and back to the start. They were already past-half way there.
"Looks like that pie is as good as mine Dashie." Soarin wasn't tasting pie but something else. Thats when Rainbow Dash had zipped right pass him. Something told Soarin that she really wanted that favor. It was over before Soarin knew as Rainbow Dash passed the finish line and Electronic Notes put his hoof down as she crossed.
"Winner! Rainbow Dash." He said as he grabbed her hoof and pulled into the air. The ponies began to cheer and clap.
"Damnit. The bet is screwed." Hard Chord said, imitating a guy who lost a bet at a race. As Soarin crossed, Rainbow turned to him.
"Come on. You have a deal to do." Rainbow said as she grabbed Soarins' hoof and pulled him away. Soarin seemed excited to go with her.
"Hey how about the two brothers race." Applejack suggested. Both the brothers looked like they hated the idea.
"Yeah that would great." Pinkie said as she bounced around.
"Come on do it." They called. Eventually they had enough and were lined up at the starting point with Fluttershy as the announcer.
"Okay well uhm on your marks,"
"You're going down man." Notes said to his brother.
"Dude you couldn't beat me at anything when we were young."
"Shut up." Notes responded aggressively.
"Get set."
"Calm down dude."
"Listen assh*le for once I'd like to not be pushed around by you anymore." Notes said angrily
"Go." Fluttershy said quietly. But the brothers heard her fine and took off so fast it knocked her off the cloud. The audience watched in fear as she fell screaming. She fell onto something or somepony as there was a large grunt of pain for catching her. When Fluttershy saw who it was her cheeks went pink.
"Miss are you alright?" He asked.
"I...uhm...am..."
"Big Macintosh thank goodness you're here." Applejack said running up to them.
"Eeyup." He said as Fluttershy slid off him.
"You be safe now miss uh..."
"Fluttershy." She said. Actually having a normal voice tone. After realizing how loud she was, she hid behind her mane.
"What made the brothers take off like that?" Twilight asked as she saw the two speeding around the layers of town.
"Who knows. Those two were at it for years before they never saw each other for three years." Vinyl said as she turned her head towards the brothers.
Meanwhile the two brothers were going at it. Shouting basic brotherly insults at each other and were racing neck and neck. When one got slightly ahead the other would move forward more an be slightly ahead. Soon, just as the finish line was in sights, Hard Chord was ahead of his brother.
"Looks like you lose again."
That set Notes off as he flapped his wings faster than he had ever done. When he passed his brother and the finish line he had felt like he had accomplished his greatest dream.
"Finally! I beat you." He said as his brother landed.
"Alright don't rub it in."
"Screw that. You did the same crap to me when you beat me at a race when we were colts. You used go and show off on how you beat your little brother at a damn race. Well how does it feel?" Notes didn't realize that his tone went to an angry rant. Hard Chord had enough of it.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!" He screamed so loud the whole town probably heard. Notes stopped and looked at his brother who had a fire in his eye. Instead of yelling back at him he looked down and saw their friends who had witnessed the two yell. They all had a sad look on their face.
Hard Chord just flew off back to the library to lay down.
"I'm gonna get a nap." Notes said with sorrow in his voice as he flew back to his hotel.
The others stood there shocked at what they just saw as Rainbow Dash and Soarin came back. Both were out of breath and Soarin had several wet marks on his cheek.
"What did we miss?"
* Someone please tell my why horse races in Red Dead Redemption was a bunch of yelling at each other.
[A/N] Been a while Programs. Had school work and stuff. Damn I gotta go. I think I caught a fever or something. My damn vacation is here since my dad had the flu and when he recovered my mom hurt her ankle.