//------------------------------// // The Descendant of Jupiter by wille179 // Story: False Starts // by wille179 //------------------------------// The Descendant of Jupiter by wille179 Description: Rainbow Dash wakes one morning with jewel embedded in her forehead. Imprisoned within it is the soul of Jupiter, the strongest and most tyrannical pegasus to ever live. Jupiter is forced to grant Dash a portion of his strength if she is going to survive the challenges ahead. (Start before S3, after S2. Set in same Equestria as Black Queen, Red King.) Tags: Comedy, Adventure, (some)Slice of life, Alternate Universe. Characters: Rainbow Dash, Mane 6, Scootaloo, Wonderbolts, Changelings Rating: Teen (violence) Despite the rock embedded in her forehead – and the voice in her head that came with it – Dash had to admit that this was a pretty sweet deal. All she had to do was keep some long dead dude trapped within her body and she got access to a kind of magic all for herself. What could possibly be wrong with that? Rainbow Dash gave her wings a rustle, savoring the feeling of her electricity arcing off of each feather. She lifted them high, the wind rushing in to gather under each feather. With a snap, Dash brought her wings down. She shot upwards at tremendous speeds. The air under her wings moved as if it was her own muscles, assisting her body upwards. In three flaps, a flash of light and violent boom erupted from below her. The blue pegasus turned an eye down to see the distinctive ring of a sonic-rainboom. In that moment, her ego grew to the size of Equestria itself. Two weeks ago, she had just managed to do her signature stunt on cue for the first time. Now she had done it going upwards. From a dead stand-still. In THREE WING FLAPS! She let out a squee of excitement, only for it to be drowned out by the roaring winds. ‘HA! You think you’re something special, Miss Warden?’ That would be King Jupiter, the sky tyrant of the old Pegasus Empire. He’s the reason for Dash’s newfound super-speed. As the strongest pegasus in recorded existence, Jupiter had been quite feared amongst all three tribes. He had grown so powerful that he had ascended into a wind spirit, his body literally made of the air that he so easily commanded. The ponies, in fear of what he had become, devised a plan to capture him and imprison the now immortal tyrant. Lead by his own daughter, Commander Hurricane, the three tribes united and sealed his soul within a jewel. Which was now fused to the skull of his distant descendant: Rainbow Dash. ‘Of course, gramps. Why wouldn’t I be?’ Rainbow Dash Retorted. ‘You said it yourself: I’m the magically strongest living pegasus in the world. Any other pegasus would have died if they had taken in your prison. And because I did, I’m faster than ever before!’ Jupiter yawned from within his prison, an impressive feat considering that he did not even have a mouth to yawn with in the first place. ‘The sonic-rainboom is a parlor trick. Half of my old army could do one without even breaking a sweat. Miss Warden, you can be so much more. You could be the queen of the sky. Let me out for a minute and I will make you so much more ~’ He ended the thought in a flirty, sing-song tone. ‘HA! Like I’d ever let you out!’ Jupiter growled at his stubborn container. It was not the first time she had stopped his attempts at freedom, despite how short it might be. He knew he could project outwards, making a temporary body for himself, or he could take over his warden’s body. Of course, he needed her permission to do either, and she could regain control at any time. The only time he could directly control her without permission was when he had the capability to save her life. If she died, he would be stuck in limbo for decades until another pegasus came along that was strong enough to contain him. ‘You told me yourself: the magic of your tiny prison forces you to do whatever I want. I can make you train me!’ Dash laughed to herself as she drew pictures in the sky with her namesake trail. ‘Then I’m practically guaranteed a spot in the Wonderbolts!’ ‘It’s nothing special, Miss Warden,’ Jupiter said to her. ‘One of my previous containers – number 48, I believe – was a Wonderbolt. He hated the paper work.’ The mare flipped and dove towards the ground. At the last minute, she pulled up. Her belly was tickled by grass blades as she flew inches above the ground at super-sonic speeds. ‘Paperwork? Cloudsdale already forces the weather ponies to do lots of paperwork. It’s the one part of the job that I hate. Last month, the stack was almost as high as Celestia herself! I’m no egg-head, but if there’s one thing I do faster than bucking clouds, it’s doing paperwork. Get it done the first night and you can snooze the rest of the month.’ ‘HA! I like your style, kid. You may jus-TREE!’ Jupiter shouted, taking control of the super-sonic pegasus’s magic. A surge of lightning shot out of her extended fore hooves and vaporized the obstacle an instant before she would have collided. ‘STOP! LAND!’ he ordered. Obeying, the startled pegasus banked to bleed off her speed. Her hooves touched the ground. A split second later, the wind that her stunts dragged with her blasted Dash from behind. It would have been a cool sight had she not been coughing up wood chips. ‘Miss, lesson one: if you are in the air, you pay attention to your surroundings above all else. I tried to distract you. You fail. I win.’ Rainbow Dash growled, mad at herself for being stupid and mad at her prisoner/mentor for… well… just because! He was right about that. Every single time she had been hospitalized was because of her own carelessness. What kind of element of loyalty would she be if her own stupidity took her away from her friends? No, she’d practice. Dash would train herself like she had always done before, and with Celestia as her witness, Rainbow Dash would out-fly even Jupiter himself!