Dash lazily daydreamed through her first class, only taking time between her thoughts to conspicuously pass notes with her new friends. Aerodynamics was never really interesting to her anyways. She didn't care how it happened, all she cared about was going fast. Going fast and winning that is.
After aerodynamics, they were given a five minute break before their next class with Ms. Moonbeam. In that time, Rainbow and her new friends learned a lot about each other.
Turns out, Gilda was really into racing too, and hated losing almost as much as Rainbow Dash.
"Yeah, I'm a big-time flier, ya know? I love feelin' the wind against my wings and the rush you get when you leave all of your opponents in the dust. The looks on their faces are always priceless!" she told Rainbow.
"Yeah, that moment when the wind breezes right through your mane, and once you finally stop, it looks like you just rolled out of bed. I live for that kind of speed." Dash said enthusiastically in response.
"Heh, yeah I can see that by your perfect looking mane." Gilda said sarcastically.
Dash too a moment to look at her reflection in the window. Her mane was all spiked and messy as usual. She blushed and looked back at Gilda.
"Yeah, I don't comb it much. Ahem" Dash cleared her throat, "I don't like to waste my time with girly-girl stuff like that." she said, with a bit more pride.
Gilda just chuckled. "Suuure Ms. Feminine, whatever floats your boat. Anyway, if you ever wanna fly I'll be more than happy to race you."
Dash sprang up in excitement, "Whenever, wherever! I'm the fastest flyer in all Equestria, you probably couldn't even keep up with these babies!" she boasted, flexing her little wings, just to have them weakly fell back down.
"I meant to do that.." she said sheepishly.
Everypony shared a laugh at that while Dash blushed hotly again.
"Whatever you say," Gilda said, chuckling to herself once more, "And we'll see just how fast the Fastest Flyer In All of Equestria, really is after school today." Gilda added, doing her best Rainbow Dash impersination.
"Ha, you're on!" Dash said grinning, "And you won't be laughing when your eating my dust either!"
They went back and forth for a while, but after a few more witty remarks from Gilda and weak comeback attempts from Dash, Rainbow finally pouted and gave up, leaving a huge grin on Gilda's face. After that the conversation got a lot less one sided and began to lean over to the other to fillies in the group.
Fluttershy timidly showed the other fillies her amazing connection with animals by calling a large flock of nearby birds to the window simply by humming a soft tune to them.
"How'd you do that?" Rainbow said dumbfounded. "Oh, its nothing really. A-All you have to do is take a deep breath, and sing something.... um... nice," Fluttershy replied softly, "but be gentle, and don't make it too loud." she quickly added.
Dash approached the window, took the deepest breath she could muster, and began to make an attempt at singing. What came out of her mouth was possibly the most horrendous noise ever heard by pony ears. Everypony who was still in the room, even Ms. Moonbeam, cringed at the awful sound.
Dash stopped in her tracks when she noticed her friends' reaction.
After a few seconds of silence, Fluttershy spoke up gently, "Well....that was um....uh.... a good start."
Rainbow looked over to the other two to notice Ditzy barely holding back laughter, and Gilda rolling on the floor, practically crying.
Gilda then burst out, "HAHAHAHA! Wow Dashie, you never told us about your simply marvelous singing voice! BWAAHAHAHAAHA!" she continued, hysterically.
For the third time today, Rainbow blushed hard in embarrassment. "I-" she began weakly.
"No, no, no, let me stop you there. I don't waste my time with girly-girl stuff like that! Let's just hope you can fly better than you can sing!" Gilda interrupted, still giggling.
"Save it for the race Gilda! Like I said, you won't be laughing when I'm flying circles around your head!" Dash replied hotly, her pride clearly shattered.
They went at it again, still with Gilda poking fun at Dash, and Rainbow furiously defending her pride. Once again, their argument settled down, and Gilda and Dashie regained their composer and started to talk to the other two pegasi.
Now they were on to Ditzy Doo. Ditzy had some sort of strange obsession with muffins, and said something about bubbles as well, but to the disappointment of the other fillies, she revealed nothing about her eyes.
As she went into more details regarding bubbles, Dash noticed something new about Ditzy that she hadn't noticed before. In the middle of her right flank, Ditzy had a cutie mark of seven bubbles. When dash noticed this, her jaw dropped and she spoke in surprise, "Whoa, cool! Ditzy already has her cutie mark!"
Once she said this, the classroom was instantly thrown into chaos as all of the little pegasi in the room emediatly shot up from their seats and ran to get a closer look at Ditzy. As they gathered around her, everypony started shouting.
"WHOA, THAT'S SO COOL!!!!" Raindrops said.
"HOW'D YOU GET YOURS? THAT'S NOT FAIR, I'VE BEEN TRYING FOREVER TO GET MINE!" said a black coated pegasus who they would later find out to be called Thunderlane.
"YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!" randomly shouted a rather muscular white pegasus.
Gilda quickly turned to Rainbow, "Is that guy even in our class?"
Right then a full grown stallion walked through the classroom door and dragged the white pegasus back.
"How many times do I have to tell you that you're in the 5th grade..." he said as he closed the door behind him.
After the brief pause, the fillies quickly brought their attention back to Ditzy and returned to their gawking.
Ms. Moonbeam simply sighed, "It always has to be right before I start a lesson, doesn't it?"she said to herself.
Ms. Moonbeam walked over to the crowd of young fillies. "What's all of the commotion about my little ponies?"
"The pony with the funny eyes already has her cutie mark, Ms. Moonbeam!" said Cloudchaser, a filly with with a messy light blue mane.
Ditzy winced at the "funny eyes" remark but cheered up when Ms. Moonbeam spoke, "How great! What's your special talent dear?" she said tenderly.
"Bubbles!" Ditzy exclaimed excitedly.
There was a short pause until one of the three colts that had bullied her before spoke out, "That's lame!"
The other fillies laughed and all spoke out in agreement.
"Dumb-bell! That's not nice at all! apologize this instant!" Ms. Moonbeam said angrily.
"Sorry...uh... I don't know her name." the gray colt said flatly.
The other fillies snickered as the mare spoke, "Her name is Ditzy. Now apologize." Ms. Moonbeam responded sternly.
"Sorry Ditzy..." he spoke again.
"More like Derpy with those eyes." the tall colt said to the two others, who who snickered in response.
"Hoops, did you say something?" Ms. Moonbeam said, shooting a menacing look at the pegasus.
"No, Ms. Moonbeam." he replied quickly.
"Good. Now Ditzy, are you okay?" she said gingerly, addressing Ditzy this time.
"Yeah, I'm fine..." Ditzy replied glumly with her head down.
"No need to feel bad dear, blowing bubbles is a great talent! Its very..... um, fun!" she said for lack of a better word.
"Yeah, its really cool that you even have a cutie mark! I know I wish I had mine..." Rainbow said encouragingly, with a hint of jealousy in her voice.
Ditzy looked up and smiled at Dash. Then, she suddenly raised up her head and hugged her. "Thanks Dashie!" she spoke, smiling radiantly.
Dash smiled too and hugged he back.
"Dashie," she thought to herself, "I think I like that name."