After Applejack had realized any punishment or edict she could give to Applebloom would be moot, she sighed and then her and Rainbow Dash followed the overjoyed filly. Applebloom refused to tell them what Scootaloo's cutie mark was or how she got it or anything of the story, she wouldn't even say where they had disappeared too. The suspense was killing Rainbow Dash, she wanted to know if her training had payed off finally or, if her training was a waste and scootaloo has no need for it other than transport. Applebloom made them wait in news-purgatory for a while longer as they went to get the others. Her and Sweetie Bell had split up to gather everypony, apparently this was more than your average cutie mark.
"Come oooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnn." Rainbow Dash moaned repeatedly trying to nag the information out of Applebloom.
"Now ah told ya, no pony hears till we get everypony together!" Applebloom said cheerily, not phased at all by the incessant nagging. She just kept bouncing along. She was happier than Pinkie Pie, which was nearly impossible to beat.
It only took them about 30 minutes before the two crusaders had gathered up everypony in town. A surprise to Rainbow Dash as she would have thought it would only be her friends to come and see. It must be more amazing than could be thought. Rainbow couldn't put her hoof on it, but she had a bad feeling about this, which was odd seeing as her favorite filly in the world has achieved her life goal.
The mayor began to calm down everypony from the podium.
"Settle down mares and gentlecolts! It seems Scootaloo has a world class surprise for all of us." The mayor yelled so that everypony could hear.
Within the next few seconds everypony quieted down just before three ponies zoomed down to the stand at an extreme speed. They all were wearing the same uniform, a blue one-piece that covered their entire body with a lightning bolt shown on their underside along with lightning bolt patterns along their ankles, with a pair of goggles just above their eyes. Their cutie marks were also stitched into the appropriate area on each of them, the one male had a winged lightning bolts, while the two females had solo lightning bolts. Two of them were easily recognizable as Spitfire and Soarin, but the third one was new. Rainbow Dash had never seen her before on the team, but she knew instantly who it was.
Scootaloo was standing alongside the pegasi Rainbow wanted more than anything to be part of.
"I am very proud to present," The mayor continued, "that the newest member of the Wonderbolts is Ponyville's very own filly: Scootaloo!" Cheers erupted from the crowd after the mayor ecstatically shared her news.
Rainbow Dash was stunned silent. She wasn't sure whether she was happy for Scootaloo or jealous. Being so used to her usual arrogance and gloating and being-better-than-most-pegasi attitude, it made it harder for her. She felt... -20% cooler at that moment. Beaten by a filly she was training!
Pinkie had been the first to run up on stage and congratulate Scootaloo. She said something to her and the crowd, but no one could understand as she said it so fast. The only thing anyone could make out was the obvious. Maybe they heard it because of how obvious it was and they didn't need to hear it to know it, or if she purposely did that. She then quickly rushed off to begin planning Scootaloo's party for joining the Wonderbolts.
In part of an attempt to bring attention to herself and actually congratulate her friend at the same time, Rainbow Dash jumped up on stage and tackled Scootaloo in a giant hug. "Congratz Scoots!" She cheered. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom had managed to find their way on stage as well, although much less obviously.
"Ahem! Quiet down everypony!" Spitfire said nearly yelling into the microphone to drown out the cheer to no avail. The crowd was still conversing about the insanely awesome surprise or just cheering still.
"SILENCE!!!!!!!" Sweetie Belle screamed. Some of the cheers had turned to quick screams of pain from the sudden strike to their ear drums. "Thank you." Sweetie Belle said as ponies began to calm down and regain their hearing.
"Uh... thanks?" Spitfire said rubbing her own ears. The crowd thought it was devastatingly loud, and she was right next to the mic! "OK so first as previously said," She began in a higher voice than normal, "I would like to congratulate our newest member, Scootaloo! And also, we are going to hold a celebration for your town in Canterlot with everyone being invited, so, Soarin go fetch the insane pink pony that just darted off. She seems like a party animal, I'm sure she'll be fun to have plan it, and she seems to know what shes doing with that stuff." Spitfire continued while motioning Soarin to go fetch Pinkie Pie. He quickly zoomed off to fetch her.
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"PINKIEEEE!!" Soarin called. He didn't actually know her name, but Pinkie fit her perfectly as a nickname or at least it was better than calling out 'insane, ecstatic, pink, pony' or something else of the sort.
"Yessssss?" Pinkie replied jumping right in front of Soarin's face. He nearly crashed right into her, but at the last moment he was able to turn with precision and instead smash headfirst into the nearby house. He fell back dazed and staggering and the first thing he noticed was a brand new indent pushed into the house he hit.
"Are you OK??" Pinkie said sticking her face in front of him again. He immediately fell back again shocked from her sudden strike again. "Hmmmm?" She asked again.
"Ya... ya I'm fine. It's not the worst crash I've ever had." He replied rubbing his head and remember that time when he was a filly and was just starting out on doing stunts and flying fast as a sport. "Ouch!" He muttered as he pulled his hand back down to his field of vision to see a piece of plastic stuck in his hoof. "Darn, now I need new goggles." He muttered to himself.
"Here," Pinkie said offering a hoof to help him up. "so I'm Pinkie Pie, if you don't already know, and your Soarin right?" She said as she pulled him up off the ground.
"Ya... I just came to tell you something about the party your throwing, we were already planning on holding a celebration for all of Ponyville, and we have land at Canterlot already. You seem fun enough, it would be great if you could plan yours over in Canterlot." Soarin said still in a bit of pain. At the same time he was trying to pull the piece of plastic out to no avail.
"Here lemme help you with that!" Pinkie said as she pulled out the piece of plastic. "Oh and that sounds AWWWEEEESSOOOMMEEE!!!!!" She cheered afterwards and bounced high in the air wiggling her legs and cheering.
"OH OH I'M GONNA START PLANNING RIGHT NOW! Even though I was going to start now anyways, but this is still amazing anyways, oooh oooh, sorry I would love to stay and chat and all but I have to go start planning!! This is going to be the best party ever!" Pinkie cheered and then promptly charged off to begin while talking to herself about all the details.
"Shes..... different?" He muttered to himself. He then took off to return back to the stage with Spitfire and Scootaloo.
***Meanwhile back on stage***
"OK..." Spitfire began, "who would like to introduce me to the plethora of ponies that have mysteriously, and non mysteriously" she looked at Rainbow Dash on this last word, "arrived on stage with us?"
"Ohh these are my bestest friends in the world, Sweetie Belle and Abblebloom! And this is my favorite pony in the world! She made me who I am today, Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo said in the happiest tone anypony had ever heard from her.
"Oh yes Rainbow, I remember you. Seems like we run into you everywhere." She giggled.
"Yup, lucky for me." Rainbow replied. "You know, how did Scootaloo join the Wonderbolts? In fact, how did she even find you guys?"
"Oh ya that is one heck of a story..." Spitfire began but was soon interrupted by Soarin. He crashed right into the podium and took out Spitfire and they both collided right into Rainbow and Scootaloo behind them creating a dog pile of pain on stage. "What the hay?!" Spitfire cried once it was all over.
"Sorry, I'm a bit dizzy from crashing into a house, Pinkie, that pony I went off to chase, surprised me and it was either the house or her, oh ya, we need to put in an order for more goggles." Soarin said, the latter half while showing his busted goggles. "Too bad they didn't break a few hours ago when we got Scootaloo's in the mail." He added.
"It's OK, doesn't seem like anypony got hurt anyways." Spitfire replied while checking on the other two at the same time, who were standing up fine. "Now, as I was saying: it all started in Manehatten after one of our shows while we were on tour, which we unfortunately had to halt for later after this, a few of us were going out for a quick midnight flight to stretch our wings when it all started...