Dear Rainbow Dash,
I saw you in Canterlot last week!
I went to the racetrack and I saw you there! You were really awesome Rainbow! It was so cool when you shot into the sky and finished the rest of the race on the cumulonimbus cloud that you dragged out of the sky, and it was even more impressive when you won the race!
What else did you expect from the former “Youngest Wonderbolt?”
Did you see me there? I was in seat G15. It’s okay if you didn’t, I didn’t really expect you to.
Watching you flying through the air makes me jealous of the fact that I don’t have a pair of wings, and that even the ones I create with my magic can’t begin to compare to yours. You are truly a legend Rainbow, and your story isn’t even over yet! You’re still going strong, and you’re still the best, even though the newer generation is riddled with talented fliers, a number of whom are able to perform the Sonic Rainboom that we all loved.
But you were the first to prove that the legends were true, and you were the first one to show that three Sonic Rainbooms in the same stretch of flight was possible. You may have broken your wing afterwards, but you will forever be remembered in the annals of aviator history!
“The first pony to fly faster than machines that exceeded Mach three--” I have to admit that even I had my doubts, but you still managed to do it! It was a momentous day for all of us, but I bet you were far more ecstatic than anyone else there that day!
It was a good thing that we managed to convince you to go and join the Wonderbolts. It warmed my heart when you said that you didn’t want to go because you’d have to leave your friends. We knew it had been your dream to join the Wonderbolts for a long time Rainbow, we couldn’t just let you give that up. Your loyalty to the ones that mean the most to you is an incredibly awe-inspiring feature, but please don’t let it get in the way of your aspirations. If you did, I wouldn’t be able to say that my friend is one of the most talented flyers in the history of Equestria.
You’ve done so much in your life Rainbow Dash, I wish I could say the same for me.
That’s not all you are either, is it? You were the reason the six of us found our talents. If it weren’t for that first Sonic Rainboom, we may still be blank flanks, wandering the Earth as peaceful nomads, seeking our destined skill. You brought us all together, long before we had even met, and for that I have to say thank you.
Thank you so much Rainbow Dash.
If it weren’t for you I wouldn’t have been able to experience the brightest and happiest years of my life.
Thank you.
I wish I could explain to you just how much our friendship means to me, and I wish I could show how bleak my life would be without you, but even with my years of having my nose in books I lack the necessary vocabulary to articulate the sensations I endure in the deepest depths of my heart. There’s no way I can let you see life through my now-opened eyes, but you’ll have to take my word for it; without you I would have no meaning, no reason to live. Every day, I wake up in the hopes that I’ll be able to see your happy faces again.
That is why, Rainbow Dash, that I feel I so desperately need this. For me.
The six of us are starting to walk different paths that go different ways, and it’s getting increasingly harder for us to meet up and talk, like we used to when we were pubescent teenagers. We’ve been friends all this time, and I don’t think that will ever change, but we’ll all have to deal with the fact that some of us are tens of miles apart. Others, hundreds.
I promise that I’ll still remember your faces when we meet again, as long as you promise to show us all of your new tricks, okay?
It will be hard, those first few days without the five of you there beside me and without the option of talking to you through the letters we send, but I’ll pull through. I’ll pull through because I know I need this, and because I know that I’ll see you all again, when it’s all over.
I’ll learn so much on my trip, and I’ll see ponies from all over the world!
I don’t really know what I’m looking for on this trip, it could be a lot of things, but I think that by the time it’s over I’ll know what it is that I was looking for.
I hope the rest of your career as a Wonderbolt is as wonderful as it has been so far!
You deserve it after all those years you spent practising.
I’ll make sure to see another one of your performances Rainbow! I’ll be hiding in the crowd though, so you’ll have to try and find me!
Also, I sent you a package Rainbow. It should arrive at your home in Ponyville sometime next week. Make sure you pick it up! I know you’ll love it! It’s the newest edition after all, and it’s signed!
Your Number One Fan,
Twilight Sparkle