It was a beautiful sunny day, and the birds were singing happily. But a rainbow-maned little pony did not hold such beauty and joy in her heart that day.
“I got rejected AGAIN!” shouted Rainbow Dash, burying her little blue face in her hooves. “This is the worst possible THING!”
“Oh Darling, it’s not so bad as that!” Rarity tried to comfort her, avoiding the mud puddles that Rainbow Dash was creating with her waterfall of tears.
“You don’t understand! None of you do!” Rainbow Dash’s voice broke with the terrible agony.
“We understand!” Pinkie Pie tried to reassure her, bouncing around in the mud puddles with rainboots on. “We might not want to be Wonderbolts ourselves, but—“
“And that’s just what you don’t understand!” Rainbow Dash had stopped crying and took to the air, flying until she was face-to-face with Pinkie. “None of you do!”
“Oh Rainbow Dash, don’t—“ Fluttershy had no chance to finish, Rainbow Dash was yelling at all of them.
“WELL YOU DO NOT! YOU! Egghead! You just read books all day and you already go to be Celestia’s priiiize student.”
“I don’t see what this has to…” Twilight began before she was interrupted.
“And YOU! Applejack, you won all those prizes at the rodeo!”
Applejack lowered her head. “Second prizes,” she mumbled softly.
“You got the attention of Hoity Toity, Miss Fashion-is-better-than-everything! You…well you two never seem to want anything anyway!” It was obvious that Rainbow Dash could not think of insults for Pinkie and Fluttershy.
“Now hold on! You performed that Sonic Rainboom, and earned the respect of everyone. And saved Rarity! Besides, just because you did not get what you wanted today, doesn’t mean you gotta take it out on us!” Applejack stomped her hoof.
Dash stared at her friends before flying off really fast in the opposite direction.
“Oh dear, I hope she’ll be okay,” Fluttershy said in a worried tone.
“We can throw her a party when she gets back!” Pinkie shouted.
Rainbow Dash flew a long time before she flopped on a cloud and had to catch her breath. Maybe Applejack was right, but how could she face them now? True, her friends would love her if she were a Wonderbolt or if her wings fell off and she could never fly again. But she wanted it so badly.
“Trouble, my dear?” said a voice from overhead.
“What? Who said that? Who’s there?” Rainbow Dash rolled around and lay on her back, staring up. All she could see was a storm cloud.
“Just a concerned, nice guy. Call me a Brony. Perhaps I can help you. You want to be in the Wonderbolts, yes?”
“More than anything!” Rainbow Dash sat up. “Why, do you know them? Can you get me in?”
“You might be able to say that!” said the voice.
“YES! PLEASE DO! PLEASE…” and suddenly bars shot up through the clouds, creating a cage around the pony. “What the…what’s going on?”
“Oh you’ll get your wish all right! And I will get mine! ALL of mine!” This was followed by so many evil laughs that Rainbow Dash wanted to tell him to shut up but he was laughing so loud she couldn't.