Rainbow Dash laid out cold on the ground in front of Spitfire.
"Too much excitement, probably. She'll be fine in about an hour." She diagnosed, throwing Rainbow's body over her back. "If you want, you guys can stick around until she wakes up to see her first day of training!"
"That sounds like a might fine offer, but we'd best be goin'. I reckon if we stuck around, she'd be too nervous in front of her friends." Applejack recommended.
"Whatever you say. But feel free to check back in anytime! OH! I almost forgot!" Spitfire remembered, running back into her room to retrieve the gifts for the other 5 ponies. "Here, you get these for winning the backstage passes. Free passes to all of our future shows, and T-shirts!" She said, giving them to Twilight and her friends.
"Wow, thanks!" The 5 said together.
Several hours later...
Rainbow Dash yawned and stretched, rubbing the back of her head. "Where... where am I?"
"Why, you're in the Wonderbolts' infirmary! You passed out when you got too excited over being accepted." Dr. Flatline told Rainbow Dash.
"I WAS ACCEPTED? OMIGOSHOMIGOSHOMI-" Rainbow Dash was interrupted by a hoof in her mouth.
"Now just hold on, don't get too excited again! Today's your first day of training!" The doctor told her, retracting his hoof.
Rainbow Dash hopped out of bed, wings fully sprung, bright eyed and bushy tailed. "Right, let's get it on!"
"The training grounds are that way, just follow the arrows through the halls and you should find it!"
Rainbow Dash rushed down the halls as instructed. She eventually found the training grounds where Soarin' was waiting for her.
"Hey, Soarin'! What's up?"
"I'm your personal trainer! You gotta learn from the best to be the best, right?" Soarin' said, with a cocky grin on his face.
"Are you saying I'm not the best?" Rainbow Dash objected. Suddenly Soarin' became nervous.
"Well uh... no... no I'm not saying that it's just that... you can be better! Right? There's always room for improvement!" He chuckled.
"Right... could we hurry up? I'm already SUPER pumped for my first day of training!"
"That's the spirit! Okay, first things first, your wing stretches. I can't tell you how many Wonderbolts have died because of broken wings from not stretching."
"WONDERBOLTS HAVE DIED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T STRETCH THEIR WINGS?"
"Nah! I'm just joking. But seriously, stretching out your wings is important, because they CAN break or strain if you don't. Do 'em with me, now."
Soarin' and Rainbow spent about 5 minutes stretching. Afterwards, Soarin' led her to the practice track, where he'd test her speed.
"Okay, now for this part of your training, you gotta beat my time! Watch and learn!"
In a fraction of a second, Soarin' took off, making several sharp turns and in that same fraction of a second, crossing the finish line again.
"One second. Now let's see what you've got!"
Rainbow Dash gulped, lining herself up with the start line.
"GO!" Soarin' yelled. Suddenly he was flat on his face, and the timer in his mouth, with Rainbow Dash right behind him. He spat out the timer, as his eyes widened from one glance.
"Ten... milliseconds..."
"Wow! I guess I don't know my own speed!" Rainbow gloated, whipping her mane back.
"Un... unbelievable..." Soarin' whispered. He shook his head and jumped back into reality. "Right! Anyways, you got the speed, but how about the moves?" He said with a cocky tone, hoping to get some reaction of fear from Rainbow Dash.
"Pfft! Please, most of those moves you did at the show yesterday were my ideas!"
"Yeah, but have you ever actually done them?"
Rainbow Dash gulped. She didn't test her moves to see if they were possible, she just wanted to see them done.
Soarin' led Dash to a wide open field, where she could try out some of the moves she made up for herself. Soarin' explained one of her moves to her, in which she had to perform a clockwise barrel roll while strafing to the left and flipping backwards 3 times with just 1 flap of her wings, all at the same time.
"Heh, this'll be easy!"
She took her position on the field, and thrust upwards towards the sky. With one flap, she got as far as the barrel roll before flapping again. In her mind, she knew she had messed up, and knowing that clouded her mind and confused her momentarily, long enough for her to go hurdling towards the ground. She stood back up and spat out the dirt and grass her mouth collected on her landing. Shaking more dirt out of her hair, she turned to Soarin', who only stood looking at her with a "trying not to laugh" face.
"What? What are you lookin' at?"
"Oh... nothing!" Soarin' giggled, stifling a laugh.
"Hey, quit laughing! It was my first try!"
"Yeah yeah, okay. Try it again." Soarin' said.
With another crash landing, Rainbow Dash hopped on her hooves again.
"Try again."
crash
"Try again."
crash
"Again."
crash
"Again."
crash
"Again."
crash
"AGAIN!"
CRASH
"UUUUUGGGHHHHHHHH! I'LL NEVER GET THIS! EVERY FREAKIN' TIME I CRASH AND CRASH AND CRASH AND CRASH! I JUST CAN'T G-"
Rainbow Dash's rant was silenced by Soarin's hoof in her mouth.
"Rainbow Dash, please just... try one more time."
"BUT I'M JUST GONNA-"
"RAINBOW DASH! Just... one more time."
Rainbow Dash sighed, and took her position once more.
With one flap of her wings, she was up in the air. She spun to the right, while turning left, trying to keep her wings as straight as possible, resisting the force of the wind no matter how strong it was. She snapped her head upward, still resisting the wind force on her wings, managing to circle around the wind on her back 3 times. She aimed for the ground beneath her, and skidded the landing, with dirt built up in front of her hooves. She stopped for a few seconds, eyes wide as the moon. When she had just realized what she'd done, she turned to Soarin' again, who only nodded.
Rainbow shook the dirt off of her hooves, and walked up slowly to Soarin'.
"I... I did it... I did it! I FREAKIN' DID IT!" She yelled. Without thinking, her lips were suddenly planted smack-dab on Soarin's. She embraced the sudden kiss, while Soarin' stood speechless, accepting it.
Another sudden realization. Rainbow Dash backed off quickly, covering her mouth with wide eyes again.
"Oh! Oh I'm uh... I'm sorry. That was... that was uncalled for. I'm sorry." Dash said nervously.
Well, can't say I wasn't expecting it. Spitfire did the same thing, after all. Soarin' thought to himself.
"Well, it's pretty late. I think we're both pretty tuckered out. Why don't you head on home and get a good night's rest, huh? I'm thinkin' I ought to do the same thing." Soarin' said with a stretch.
"Yeah, you're right. Meet you here tomorrow, then?"
"Yep, same time, same place."
"You got it, seeya tomorrow!"
"Yeah! Seeya tomorrow!... Rainbow Dash..." Soarin' said,
lightly touching his cheek.