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// Story: Spitfire Wonderbolt Tale. 
// by ShyM 
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The door bell rang countless times from what I could hear which caused my ears to twitch to the sound, so I got out of bed to go to the door and push it open with my hoof.  "Don't you know what time it is?" I asked the pony standing infront of me, my eyes were only half open I couldn`t tell who it was.  "Yeah according to Celestia`s sun and my phone it is like three in the afternoon," the mystery pony stated,"Your gonna sleep your whole life away or something?"  By now I knew it was Blaze, Blaze was like my sister and twin in someways since she pretty much has the same orange-yellow coat and red-orange mane but the only difference was our hue color,hers blue, and mine were orange.  Huffing to myself I wiped my eyes finally able to open fully to see my twin smiling brightly at me, "Well come on in Blaze if you want to," I mummbled,"My home is your home." I felt like something dry was sticking to my cheeks but I didnt know what it was,"Well I was just comming over to get you to go shopping," Blaze stated,"Spitfire is that dryed up tears on your face?" 

Tears? Oh no got to find something to dry them, "Tears what tears," I responded nervously turning my face away so she could not see them, "I dont know what your talking about Blaze."  Blaze trotted over infront of me and used her wing to lift my chin up so she could look at me,"Spitfire..were you crying?"  Taking my face back from her wing I sighed,"It doesnt matter sis," I said softly went over to the bathroom to turn the hot water on in the sink and used to whipe away the tear stains on my face,"See..what tears?"  I said comming out of the bathroom looking at Blaze seeing she had a worried look on her face.

Going over to get my goggles that I had sat on my desk and I put them on top of my head keeping the lenses off my eyes for now,"Why do you always wear those even though were not at practice," Blaze asked curiously with her head tilted to the side,"Dont those get irritating always being on your head?"  I stuck a tongue out at my twin keeping my left eye open and right eye closed, "Nah it sort of fits my style," I said proudly,"It just does you know?" 

Comming out my house I trotted along the sidewalk with my eyes closed, a smile on my face, humming a little tune to myself, and bobbing my head side to side.  Blazed sighed loudy and poked the back of my head with her hoof while flying a few inches away from me in the air, "Why do you live in ponyville instead of cloudsdale?" she asked,"Don't you know theres way more Pegasus ponies there than in ponyville?"  I frowned at the question and stopped in my tracks and Blaze did the same, closing my eye for a moment and looked back up at her also noticing how Blaze`s ear dropped a little, "I know that Blaze but its more calmer here and besides the Pegasus there are down right cruel," I snorted at my own statement,"First you have the commander and if not that you have the pegasus up there just down right making fun of you."  Breathing in and out softly I kept my head high and trotted on,"Notice my flank Blaze," I said with a growl,"Anything in paticular thats suppose to be there?" 

With that question Blaze went silent and the silence was kept until we reached Ponyville Mall, once we got to where we were going it seemed like we might have got the directions wrong because we ended up at an ordinary clothes store,"Oops I think we were suppose to make a left at Hoof Rd," I said looking up giving Blaze a sorry smile and she shook her head, "Well Ill guess well make this work for now im to lazy to go find the mall."  So me and Blaze went inside the store, and looked around at all the hats,sunglasses,scarfs, and boots, "Hey Spitfire, dont I just look sexy in these?" Blaze asked and I turned around to see her wearing red and orange polkadotted socks,"Oh sweet Celestia, your into those things as well, honestly i dont see what so charming or sexy about those," I said with a little laugh, not to put her down but she did look adorable for putting them on anyways,"Your such a dork Bla-" 

I stopped my sentence only to find a sunglass rack with one row filled up with dark purple shades they almost looked like the one the commander wore during drills, I looked closer at them and noticed a image in the lenses and it was the commander!  In my eyes it looked like she was standing right behind me so I turned around fast to notice no one was there but when i looked back at the purple shades the commander was still standing behind me, "Look at your self Firespit," she said with a growl,"Your weak, youll never be a true Wonderbolt, Celestia you dont even have your cutie mark yet and your pretty much a grown mare!"  The Commander yelled harshly at her and yet nobody else in the store seemed to notice. 

"L-leave me alone.."  I whispered under my breath.

"Daw are you about to cry?" 

"No im not going to cry!" I yelled back even though it was the truth, it didnt matter if she wasnt there she still had power over me. 

"Yes your are, crying is a weakness.. and I dont except weakness in my academy or the Wonderbolts."

"Shut..up.." 

"Heres an Idea how about you just quit the Wonderbolts?!" 

"I Said Shut up!" with that loud scream I whipped around and pulled in my hindlegs and kicked them out shattering the glasses and knocking out the glasses whole rack to the floor.  "What the buck lady?!"  I heard the casher register mare scream my way but i didnt pay it no mind, I shivered, tears ran down my eyes, I couldnt move,"Spitfire was wrong?" Blaze asked with a whine in her voice as she got close to me and place a wing on my back but I jerked away from it and and moved away from her and every one else, I saw a few ponies including Blaze come near me,"Spitfire calm down I think your having a panic attack, you have to calm down." Blaze said getting closer but i just back away as far as I could before a wall stopped me. 

"Stay back damn you," I mummbled,"I warning you all motherbuckers!" I screamed at them but the screaming made me light headed and made me tremble a little,"Stay back!" I yelled and galloped out of the store, spread my wings far and pumped them a few time until I was in the air soaring away.  

I felt sick and I wanted to get away from it all, my vision was getting blury the higher I went, into the clouds and past Cloudsdale and I didnt know where I was going. 

If im so pathetic then why do I even...  my vision finally blurred out and I stopped flapping my wings causing my to fall back down as a rapid pace, Sticking a hoof out infront of me as I fell.  I was giving in, maybe im not strong enough, maybe im not fast enough, and maybe im not Wonderbolt material. It was only a matter of time before gravity would smack me down hard onto the road or wherever I might end up falling at, My wings were tired my body was to weak to do something, Guessing my time had come i felt my self hit something hard. That was it, it was over, "Spitfire... Spitfire!" I heard a mare pony call out, I opened one eye to see the back of a mares light orange hair, I couldnt respond, looking over seeing two wings flapping.  Somepony caught me..., with that thought I passed out. 

My eyes flashed opened and I gasped lifting my head up from the pillow that I was apparently sleeping on, What just happ-, before I could finish my train of though I felt a pair of hooves wrap their selves around my neck and was pounced back on the bed, My eyes widened as I heard Blaze crying into me and I patted her back with my hoof,"You idiot! You idiot... what were you thinking!"  Blaze cried out to me and I had a confused look on my face,"Blaze what are you talkin abo-" my head started to spin with a flashback of what just happened, me kicking over the rack, flying high into the air, falling to my death, and.. an orange maned pegasus catching me. 

"Wait, you caught me?.." I asked confused pulling back from her and getting out of the bed

"Caught you? I was no where near you when you were falling." 

"Then How did I get back to your house if you didnt catch me?"  If she didnt catch me..then who did?

"I dont know how but my doorbell did ring while I was pacing around in here worried and went I went to answer it, there you were passed out on my doorstep and I dont even know who put you there if someone caught you."  Blaze said and looked at me with sadness in her eyes, sighing rubbed the back of my mane with my hoof and sat on the floor where I was and looked up at Blaze, "Weird.."  I heard Blaze sniff and saw her brush a tear away,"I don`t care who caught you, all I care is that you are alright."  

After she hugged me a few more times we got out selves together and just talked about what happened,"So what happened in the store Spitfire?.."  She asked and I looked up to her and frowned a little bit then looked down at the ground,"Well I dont think you would beilieve me but, I saw the Commander in the sunglasses and I know it might sound crazy but I did and she just went off on me about how weak and am and about me not having my cutie mark yet and junk."  Blaze sighed and looked away and spoke with a growl in her town,"She has been getting to you, shes been pressuring you hasnt she?!"  Blaze yelled and looked back at me with hate in her eyes,"All because of her, shes driving you mad." 

My ears dropped and I whined looking at her,"Sister dont worry about it okay?" I pleaded to her but that seemed to only upset Blaze even more,"Forget about it, you couldve died today! You know what listen what ever she is telling you is not true you hear me?" Blazed stated but I sighed and locked eyes with her and got back up,"It is the truth Blaze!"  I yelled back in frustration.  "What kind of pegasus am I, Im weak... not strong, my emotions are easily tampered with and I always cry Blaze!" I continued to yell, not really at her but most of it was at myself.  "Look at my bucking flank Blaze, I dont have my cutie mark," I turned around and showed her both sides,"You,Soarin,Misty and other pegasus ponies have been got their cutie marks.. except me." 

"You want to know why I dont go up to Cloudsdale like that anymore? It is because I was always a target because everypony else has their cutie marks except me and they thought it would be cool to make fun of and bully me because I didnt have one and even now they still do it," I sighed softly and looked away,"Im to grown to be pushed around but that doesnt stop them from whispering behind my back..Let me tell you of how hard my life has been."

"You leave me alone! All of you think your something just because you have cutie marks?!" I screamed at the other pegasus ponies.

"Come on squirt, dont you know what these stand for, it means were better than anyone without them, which would be you." the pony said and rushed over and used his head to knock me over. 

I tried getting back up but was on succesful into being knocked over again

"Theres no room for you, and I heard you always wanted to be a Wonderbolt? Ha! Whatever blank flank."  A different pony mocked. 

"Go on get out of here!", "Yeah No room for you!", "Blank Flank!" 

Ill show you all that wrong one day... 

Tears ran down my cheeks and muzzle and Blaze had her hooves wrapped around me comforting and I placed ny face in her hair shivering.  "Spitfire...your a great pegasus and one day will make a great Wonderbolt."  Blazed whispered to me and sighed hiding her face into my shoulder.