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// Lightning Ride 
// Story: Lightning Ride 
// by Bookish Delight 
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
"Lightning Ride"
by Bookish Delight, 2010–2011
All characters and referred properties belong to Hasbro.
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Twilight Sparkle sits on her balcony, watching the skies. Midnight strikes. A breeze signals a good friend's arrival. 

Rainbow Dash smiles, allowing Twilight to hop on.

"So what did you want to show me?"

"Killer light shows. As promised."

"Wait. We're actually going to-"

"Yep! Set one up just for us. Get ready for sweetness!"

"W-why didn't you tell me ahead of time? I would've prepared!"

Dash winks. "Exactly."

They approach, and soon are in the midst, of darkened, rain-letting clouds. Deafening thunder booms from all sides. Lightning crackles in angles and arcs, branching and connecting in brilliant flashes of silver and blue. 

Energy. Chaos. Adrenaline. Danger. A Rainbow Dash loves all of these things. Her senses heighten in response, becoming stronger than the storm. 

"Yeah... yeah, yeah!"

She crisscrosses the murky skies, seemingly dodging bolts as they appeared on both sides. 

Twilight, however, shivers and clings to her escort more tightly. "D-Dash, th-they're everywhere! We'll get fried!"

"Nah. Doesn't happen with me."

"I've researched storms, Dash! Lightning is very much supersonic! You've only just made it to the speed of sound-"

"I move at the speed of awesome, Sparkle!" Dash says, amidst an extra-long roll of thunder. "I make these storms, I break these storms, so if I say I can move through these storms while keeping somepony I care about safe, then guess what? You're in good hooves!"

Everything quiets. Twilight, Dash, the storm itself. In the silence, Twilight sees that Dash still isn't missing a single dodge. In fact, she makes this look easy.

Twilight then remembers: Dash has never let her down before. Why, logic asks, would she now? 

"Rainbow... I apologize. Is it too late to start trusting you?"

Rainbow Dash's smile returns as they soar higher. 

"It's never too late."