Mass Effect: New Beginnings

by Sleepyted


Chapter 22: Flight

Rainbow Dash

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I can’t believe them.

Why don’t they trust her? So yea she may have not told them much, she may be a bit mysterious sure, she does have that weird magic as well and have weird teeth but why don’t they trust her.

I’m lying on my bed in my cloud house staring up at the roof, thinking about my friends and Shepard.

I know my friends are just worried about me but don’t they know I can handle myself.

Also Shepard is in the Royal Guard, she wouldn't do anything bad if she could help it. She did help Bon Bon with that robber and asked nothing in return.

But I can't tell them about the weird stuff, then they definitely won't trust her.

The egghead in me wants to know how she can use magic or biotics as she called it without a horn. I want to ask Twi if that's even possible. I think she said it had something to do with radiation before she was born. Isn't radiation deadly if you get enough of it? And why haven't I ever heard about something like this before? Ugh, all this thinking is making my brain hurt. I'm going to get some fresh air.

I got off of my bed and headed outside. Looking down towards Ponyville always made me feel better. Getting to admire everything from a distance.

I jumped off my front porch and started to plummet towards the dirt road below me. Wings firmly strapped to my sides as I decened made my heart beat furiously in my ears. The feeling of adenine rushing through my blood made me feel..... Excited is the best thing I can describe it as.

As I was about to hit the ground I unfolded my wings and pulled up. Wind rushing through my mane as all the G's were applied to my body.

I flew for a good hour before I heard somepony yelling my name.
"DASH! WHERE ARE YOU?" I heard Twilight yell from below me.

I made my way down to my friend and landed with a soft thud in front of her.
"Hay Twi, what's up?" I asked flicking some mane from my eyes.

"Oh, there you are. I got a letter from Shepard." Twilight said pulling out a letter from her saddle bag.

That puzzled me. "Really, it's not even been a day yet, what happened? Please tell me nothing bad happened." I said starting to panic.
What if she's hurt? I've only had a mare friend for a few day and then she goes and gets herself hurt. I need to get to her if sh-

"She just sent me a letter asking me to give this to you, I think it might be her saying she's O.K." Twilight reassured me with a small smile.
That quickly brought me back to the ground.

Twilight floated the letter over to me. I held out my hoof and the letter felling into my grasp. I starred at for a few moment until I opened it to which it read.

"Dear Rainbow Dash

One thing I want to say before I begin is that I may have lied a tincy little bit. I was never in the guard but I was in an army for 14 years, I didn't lie about that. I just wanted to say I was sorry, I did it because everything was new to me so the first thing my body did was dig me into a hole I'm trying to get out of. Anyway.

At the moment I am at boot camp for the night guard, the drill instructor is a push over to what I'm used to. He was using words like 'maggot' and 'wimps', where I'm from they had a much more colorful vocabulary. I bet this guy would be pissing himself in front of the guy I got trained by.

Anyway I ended up getting into a jousting match with one of the actual night guards, I won of cause. You should have seen his face, priceless.

Once that was all over we got sent to the barracks to unpack and that's where I am now. Other than that nothing has happens except some one staring at my ass. I'll be writing again tomorrow, also I don't know your address so Twilight will probably give this to you.

Till next time
Recruit Jane Shepard, Specter, N7 operative, Hero of the Skillein blitz, Commander of the Normandy SV-2. I love all the titles I've earned, it makes it fun to sign off letters."

Firstly. Why didn't she tell me she wasn't in the guard? I wouldn't think any less of her if she wasn't in the guard. But it still seems like she was in some type of army then.

Secondly. Woah, that's a lot of titles, what are mine? There's winning the 'Best Young Flyers Competition'. Fasted flyer in Equestria. Most awesome pony in Ponyville. If I have more time I could think of hundreds.

Also I didn't know her name was Jane, I just presumed it was just Shepard. She must prefer being called that if that's how she introduces herself. Come to think of it my friends do call me Dash and it IS my last name.

Also she seems to be doing quite well with how she wrote her letter.

But a few things seemed a little odd, and I may need a egghead to help answer it.

"Twi? Have you ever heard of something called 'The Skillein Blitz'?" I asked tilting my head to the side a bit.

"Never heard of it, you might have to ask her next time we see her." Twilight answered with a reassuring smile.

"Also I hate to say this but you were right. Shepard wasn't in the guard." I said lowering my head.

"Oh? What do you mean?" She asked looking confused, I didn't blame her.

"She said that she was never in the guard but still says she was apart of this 'N7' thing." I said looking back up.

"Don't worry Dash, I'm sure she had her reasons on why she didn't tell you at first. She is rather mysterious after all."

"Yea, I hope your right, but right now I'm heading back home, my wings are killing me." I said stretching out my wings.

"Than I'll be on my way, bye." She said walking off with a smile.

"Bye Twi, thanks for delivering the letter for me." I said with a wave.

Once Twilight was out of sight I flew back home, to write a letter of my own.