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// 7 - Chasing rainbows 
// Story: Ah! Magical Intervention At It's Best 
// by rey1119 
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Rey knew the direction Rainbow Dash went and he knew he had to catch up to her, he was a stranger to this world and wouldn't let something like this ruin a potential friendship, and lose him a flying coach, but there was one problem, he had no idea how to fly, panicking he flung his wings in and out of the extended and retracted state, flailing around and causing panic among the friends at the table

Fluttershy whispered quietly for Rey to calm down, and when she half had his attention she spoke. "c-calm down please, a trick i know for little birds to start flying is to first, fall." she spoke calmly which seemed to slow the pace of which everything was happening so Rey and the rest of the ponies were all listening to Fluttershy as shy spoke, "i-if its okay with you um.. i could lift you into the sky..." she whispered nervously as she noticed all eyes were on her.

Rey agreed to Fluttershy's plan, as it was the only one he had. as Fluttershy hovered from her side of the table over to Rey, Rey had outstretched his wings ready to chase rainbow dash. he grabbed a hold of her hooves, and felt himself lighten, and when Fluttershy started to ascend so did he, they kept rising above there friends and in a short while they were a considerable distance from the ground. he looked up at Fluttershy who was smiling at him reassuringly and then she dropped him.

Rey thought that if he would have gotten it wrong Fluttershy would catch him, but his heart sank when he looked up and Fluttershy was hovering in place getting further and further away from him. he turned to see the ground quickly getting closer, and without a thought spread his wings as wide as they could go, and they caught the air correcting his flight path to where he was doing a thirty degree nosedive, with as much upper body strength as he could muster pulled himself upwards, now jetting horizontally at a breakneck speed, he was sure he could catch up to rainbow.

Rainbow was slowly flying home, severely disappointed because she'd abandoned her friends in a rage, and secondly because Twilight got hitched before she did, like they always joked about, not only that, the thing she got hitched too, whatever it was had the most amazing pair of wings Dash had ever seen in her life, she couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy. but she shrugged most of it off and kept towards her home, soon she'd take a shower, and forget all about this.

Rey was rocketing over Ponyville, his whole body becoming numb at the feeling of weightlessness. the wind was whipping at every fiber of his being as he watched the blur that was ponies and houses go by, looking further ahead he could see just a tiny bit of Rainbow Dash flying though the sky, he thought he would stop and talk to her, but in all the excitement he had forgotten he didn't know how to stop!

Rainbow Dash was almost past the windmill when she heard the unmistakable sound of wind turbulence, and by the sound of it was something moving fast, she observed this sky in her view, nothing, then she turned around and saw Rey Flying toward her at insane speeds she quickly banked out of his way, realizing he wasn't slowing down she saw he was going to crash directly into the windmill! rainbow dash zoomed towards Rey, in hasty attempt to prevent the man from becoming 2D she was going to grab him and absorb some of his momentum as they crashed into the windmill.

Rey noticing she was heading for him was confused, he realized she was trying to save him, but he had no idea how,  she zoomed past him and in no time circled around and was flying right above him, she grabbed his back with her fore-hooves and started flapping her wings while facing forwards, but his weight and speed kept him at a deadly momentum while the ever approaching windmill became closer and closer

Realizing this rainbow switched positions, from his back to his front, trying to put his body completely behind hers, she was planning on crashing into the wall in his place, combined with the weight behind her, this maneuver might be fatal, and he might break a bone or two but it was the only think she could think to do.

Rey noticed what she was thinking, almost too late, with windmill was just up ahead he had to do something! with only seconds left until impact, he grabbed rainbow dash, looked her in the eyes, and tossed her away from him. Rey watched her roll in mid air to regain her balance, glad to know she didn't crash, he began to look in front of him, and crashed right into the windmill, face first.

Rainbow watched in horror as Rey crashed through the windmill and crash landed on the hard earth below. Rainbow flew to the inert figure. She stared onto what seemed to be a corpse lying on the ground. Feeling sick to her stomach she flew as fast as she could to the hospital. Soon after, she watched grimly as they hoisted him onto a stretcher with magic, that was a bit too small for him and proceeded to carry him to the hospital. Rainbow felt awful and wondered if her and Twilight would ever even speak again.