Under the Moonlight

by Thunderblast


Cheating Mare - Part I

Dear Diary,

I have decided to continue writing in this old thing for a little while longer, i'm quickly running out of reasons to write in it. I've become busy with the royal guard, and a very awesome mare who I am proud to call my marefriend. However, i'm having thoughts of taking our relationship to a whole new level. She is the only mare, other than my sisters and step-granny, that I love dearly, and I would most definitely take a bullet for her. I'm not sure when I want to do this, though. It's become the only thought on my mind, other than that strange necklace I have in my bedroom, and the dream I had a couple of weeks ago. I'm still trying to figure out how to activate my so called 'weapon', and what that dream was about, and why I could see, talk, and touch two ponies I have not seen in ages. Again, only time will tell.

"Hmm, alright. That should do it." Thunderblast said smiling, reading over his newest writing in his diary, which was close to being finished, before closing it and flying out of his apartment in Canterlot, and towards Ponyville, where he was planning to meet up with Rainbow Dash.


At the Ponyville Train Station, sat a very bored and fidgety Rainbow Dash, who was waiting for her coltfriend to arrive, not knowing he wasn't taking the train today. When the train arrived, she quickly got up from the bench and ran around the building to the platform, smiling brightly and her wings fluttering slightly, but to her shock, her coltfriend was not on the train.

"Where is he?" She said, her smile dropping into a sad face, along with her ears drooping down as she slowly turned around and walked away, facing down. Suddenly, she bumped into something hard, like a statue. When she looked up, she saw a mid-grey, muscular pegasus stallion with a black mane smiling down at her, the stallion being just under a head taller than her.

"Can I help you ma'am?" The stallion said, still smiling.

"Thundey!" Rainbow said, tackle hugging and squeezing him.

"Dashie!" Thunder said back, hugging his marefriend back tightly. "I missed you so much!"

"I missed you too!" Rainbow said, followed by a squee.

Thunderblast chuckled. "Was that a squee?"

"Yes! It was!" Dash replied, smiling wide down at her coltfriend, who was pinned down by her.

"You know I love it when you squee, right Dashie?" Thunder said.

"I know you do big boy, that's why I do it!" She responded, just before Thunder turned over and stood up quickly, the rainbow-maned mare still on his back. "Whoa... You're strong." she said, admiring his fit, muscular body from a new point of view.

"Hehe am I?" Thunder said, walking through the streets of Ponyville, Rainbow Dash laying on his back, laying her head in Thunderblast's mane.

"Yes, Thundey, you are. It must not have been easy getting to look like the stallion you are now, was it?" Rainbow asked.

"No, it wasn't. I'm glad the hard part is long gone though." Thunder said, chuckling and continuing to walk through town, suddenly stopping dead in his tracks.

The moment before Thunderblast stopped walking, Rainbow Dash had started to play with his wings, sitting like a foal on his back, opening his left wing and feeling it from his body to the very tip of it, which at full length, extended out nearly two and a half feet, a wing length not many ponies had, except pegasus royal guards, and very well trained athletes.

"H-hey! What are you doing?" Thunder said, looking back at Rainbow Dash messing with his wing with a curious face.

"I'm feeling your wing!" Rainbow said, putting some pressure on it, which would normally cause pain to another pegasus. Instead, Thunder laughed slightly.

"That tickles!" He said, smiling and laughing a little bit more as Rainbow Dash rubbed his wings, transitioning from tickling to a very calming feel, which made him smile more as he walked.

After a little while, Rainbow Dash finally stopped being lazy and hopped off of Thunder's back, trotting along his side, feeling small compared to his size, which to her was enormous, but in reality he just had a slightly bigger and more buff body.

"Rainbow Dash!" A voice yelled from above.

Thunderblast and Rainbow Dash stopped when a light blue pegasus stallion with a dark blue, blown back mane landed in front of them, the exact same size as Thunder.

"What are you doing, Dashie?" The stallion asked.

"Uh...um..." Rainbow Dash replied, shaking slightly.

"Who are you?" Thunderblast asked, stepping closer slightly, opening his wing and moving it in front of Rainbow Dash, just in case this is some sort of attack.

"I'm Soarin. Who are you?" The pegasus asked.

"Thunderblast. Soarin?! I've heard of you.... You're a wonderbolt!" Thunder said, folding his wing back up and smiling lightly.

"Yes, I am. What are you doing with my mare?" Soarin said.

"Huh? Your mare? Hate to break it to you, but she's my mare." Thunder said, his smile dropping into a much more serious face.

"You wanna bet?" Soarin said, walking up to Thunderblast and getting into his face.

"Guys..." Rainbow quietly said, her ears lowering.

"She's my mare. Back off." Thunder said, pressing his face into Soarin's.

"Guys!"

"Who are you supposed to be exactly?" Soarin said, shoving Thunder back slightly.

"I'm a royal guard. Who are you supposed to be? I thought wonderbolts were acrobatic flyers, not whiny little punks." Thunder replied.

Soarin then gasped. "You take that back!" He said, tackling Thunder and pinning him down, then beating on him.

"SOARIN!" Rainbow yelled, peeling him off of Thunder.

"So, are you with this poor excuse of a stallion now Dashie?" Soarin asked, glaring at her, then to Thunder, who was slowly getting up, slightly bruised from Soarin's attack.

Rainbow Dash then teared up and looked at the two stallions in front of her, then she sighed and wiped the tears away. "No."

Thunderblast's eyes shrunk and his jaw dropped. "What?"

"I'm sorry, Thundey. I meant to tell you a while back..." Rainbow said, trotting up next to Soarin.

Thunder was in too much shock to reply, his eyes filling with tears.

"I've been with Soarin for over a year now." She continued.

"A-a-a year?" Thunder stuttered, backing up slightly.

"Yes. A year. What? You got a problem with that?" Soarin said.

"Quiet, Soarin. Let me talk." Rainbow said, wing slapping Soarin lightly, not enough for it to hurt, then slowly approaching Thunderblast, who's head was down. "Thunder... Look at me."

Thunder slowly looked up, sniffling, and was greeted by a small smile from Rainbow Dash.

"It's not that I don't like you, Thunder. I like you a lot, but Soarin..."

"What's so great about him that I don't have?" Thunder snapped at Rainbow.

"He's...far more mature, than you." Rainbow said, sighing. "And, he has some things about himself that you'd have to change yourself to be."

"Then why did you date me in the first place if you think i'm immature and not what you're looking for?" Thunder asked.

Rainbow didn't know what to say then. "Because, Thundey-."

"No, you call me Thunder. I'm fed up with this 'Thundey' crap." Thunder snapped again.

"Okay, Thunder. I really liked you for who you were... But now, you've become too focused on your job, and being alone most of the time." Rainbow continued.

"Alone? If I liked being alone, why did I fly myself out here to see you?" Thunder said.

Again, Rainbow Dash was speechless, but instead...

"Come on, Soarin. Let's go." Rainbow said, close to crying.

Soarin smiled. "Alright, Dashie." he said, walking away with her, Thunder sighing and quickly flying away to Canterlot.

After arriving back at his apartment in Canterlot, unlike his old apartment which was in a high rise, his new home was in a Manehattan-style three story brick building, and was much more roomier than his old apartment. When he landed outside of the building, he casually walked upstairs to his apartment on the top floor, unlocked the door and walked inside, then collapsed on his couch, stunned that his marefriend had been cheating on him for a wonderbolt.

"Sure she loves the wonderbolts, but I didn't think she loved them enough to dump her coltfriend for one." Thunder thought to himself, trying his hardest not to cry.


"Rainbow did what?!" Stormfire and Spear said, shocked, as Thunderblast told them what happened the day before.

"She left me for that Soarin guy." Thunder said.

"Wow. Why would she do that?" Spear asked.

"Don't ask me." Thunder sighed. "I'm never dating again."

"Don't say that, Thunder. I'm sure there's somepony else out there you'll find." Storm said, resting his hoof on Thunder's shoulder.

"I doubt it, Storm. She's the only mare I admire. Well, did admire." Thunder said back.

"Well, uh..." Spear stopped.

"What?" Thunder said, looking at Spear, raising his eyebrow.

"There's this...new mare. Her name is Spitfire. She's joining the guard for the winter season, now that the wonderbolts can't preform when the weather gets cold." Spear continued, scratching the back of his head awkwardly.

"Spitfire? A wonderbolt?" Thunder growled slightly.

"Y-yes. She's a wonderbolt....and...she needs somepony to show her around." Spear said.

"I'm never getting near another wonderbolt." Thunderblast said back.

"Come on, Thunder! Just show her around, you don't have to make a move if you don't want to. Just be a gentlecolt. That's what us royal guards are supposed to do when we're not busy defending Equestria." Storm said, nudging Thunder playfully.

"Ugh... Fine!" Thunder said, trotting away.

Spear and Stormfire watched Thunder trot away.

"Poor Thunder. He's scarred for life again." Spear said.

"Yup." Storm said, watching Thunder disappear into the distance.