Colin McRae Equestria Rally

by JustDing

Wonderbolts Stadium, Super Special Stage

It was early in the morning, as Celestias celestial sunrays began to tickle on the snout of a very certain pegasus mare.

Spitfire, the captain of the wonderbolts, stirred and opened her eyes weakly. She was still very much half-asleep, but the daily training of the wonderbolts always began early.

The training of the wonderbolts consisted of practicing the stunts and tricks for the next shows, but also it includes mental training to stay concentrated during a real show.

She stretched her limbs and wings, before she hopped out of the bed. After her daily morning business, she get out from her room, and directly went to the door of her friend Soarin, who always was one of the ponies who slept until late in the morning. She knew that Blaze were already practicing for the next show, so she doubt she was still in her quarters. And the other Wonderbolts members were in their holidays.

"Soarin! Get your lazy flank out of your lovecave!" Spitfire yelled after she knocked at the door. As she still received no answere, she groaned and opened the door.

"Soarin?"

She looked around at his quarter, but he was nowhere to be found. His bed was a mess, though it was empty. He was also not in his bathroom. Then she realized it.

For the first time, Soarin woke up earlier than her. A brief smile shot across her lips as she trotted out from the stallions quarters. Getting her mane in the usual position, so it looked like a freeze frame of a blazing fire, she headed to the exit...

She stopped as she heard shouts outside. The shouts were from a mare and a stallion. And then there was the sound of roaring, which sounded like two dragons.

"Oh no..." the thought of her friends being attacked by dragons sent chills down her spine. She charged at the door, slamming it open with her shoulders and ran outside into the blinding white light which was Celestia's sun...

The Wonderbolts Stadium has changed.

Instead of a plain green field which was the training area, there were many lose gravel roads. To describe it, it starts with what looked like two roads next to each other, but it was only one road with curves, crests, jumps and a bridge. Two cars are starting at the same time, but from different startpoints. They are not driving for driving past each another, but for the fastest time; it is a run against the clock.

At that moment, a red Citroèn Saxo Kit Car and a silver Volkswagen Rallye Golf were racing on the track, while the stallion Soarin and the mare Blaze were sitting at the start/finish lines of the course, spurring on the vehicles while they were eating a bag of popcorn. And the ponies looked like they were enjoying the show.

"WOOOHOOOO! Did you see that? It drove through the curve like a eagle doing a salto!" Blaze yelled furiously, as the Volkswagen drifted through a two left, which was a sharp left curve.

Hundred over crest in five left, tightens came from the Citroén as it took a fast curve, while the Volkswagen was driving underneath the bridge.

Spitfire looked at the scene in disbelief before she rubbed her eyes, maybe she was seeing things. But even as she pinched her wings with her theeths, she has to deal with the realization, that this was indeed real.

"SOARIN! BLAZE! ARE YOU OKAY!?" she yelled over the sound of the roaring vehicles, she feared for her friends.

Soaring turned to her, a big smile plastered his face "Hey, Spitfire! Nice to meet us! Sit down and enjoy the show!"

"What happened here? And what are those for things?" she asked, not taking her eyes from the Volkswagen.

"Well, I was sleeping when I heard a roar outside around six o'clock. I woke up Blaze and we went out and saw this!" he pointed at the track, "What are those for things, I don't have any clue, but as soon we found out they meant no harm, we thought we could at least look what they're doing. And whatever they're doing, they are awesome at it!"

Seventy over crest into stop.

He turned around as he heard one of the vehicle, namely the red one, slowing down. Spitfire, still scared, but also a little bit curious, asked "Why is it stopping?"

Blaze swallowed her popcorn before she spoke "Well, we found out that they are driving against the clock, not for the first place. They are starting from different startpoints and when one of those...chariot thingies...reached his former startpoint, he has won against the clock."

"They were doing this the whole morning, but each round is with different ones. At the first time, there were a totally blue one and a purple one... now I know how it must feel to watch our performances. It's an amazing feeling."

Spitfire watched as two different vehicles, a yellow one (Fiat Punto Super 1600 Rally Car) and a green one (MG ZR 1600 Rally Car), were standing at their start/finish line, engines humming. The former vehicles just disappeared in thin air.

"...I must inform the Royal Guards and the princesses about this...do you know who or what are driving those things?" Spitfire asked as the new vehicles just started, their powerful engines were actually roaring like manticores.

"I dunno, but I didn't pay attention.", Blaze said, not looking up to Spitfire. Her eyes were practically locked at the vehicles.

Thirty five left, opens came from the yellow one.

"Fine, you stay here while I'll try to save our daily training." Spitfire said before she leapt up in the air...

At the trainstation of Canterlot...

The trainstation of Canterlot was one of the few most busiest trainstation all of Equestria; Canterlot is the capital city of Equestria and carries the greatest responsibility of the country. Ponies went in and out of the town for treats, business and financial affairs.

At that moment, six ponies were stepping out from the friendship express, following the solar princess plead to come as soon as possible to Canterlot. Despite it took a full night, they have arrived at their destination.

"I wish we could drive with one of the humans chariot thingies, then we would have arrived here in ten seconds flat..." Rainbow Dash muttered. She could not bring the four minutes and twentynine seconds out of her head.

"At least, they meant no harm...", Fluttershy said. At first, she was shocked when she spotted the chaos in Ponyville the humans caused with their noise making vehicle, but then she was relieved when she saw that nopony was hurt.

"But for how long," Twilight said, "Did you see their technology? Such an advanced species has for sure modern technology in other ambits..." She shivered at those words.

Pinkie Pie knew what Twilight meant, but that did not scared the thought away of meeting a human one day "Maybe you're right, but I still must say, they were exciting with their loud thingie..."

"I am right." the unicorn said back.

"I didn't saw humans before and their aweful machine. But I'm still interested how they're looking like.", Rarity said. When the Subaru Impreza was doing it's stage, she was sitting in her boutique, designing new fashion for an order. She heard the noise and the panicked screams of pony, but she was so concentrated at her work, she was not bothered at all.

Applejack walked next to Twilight, but she said nothing because she did not have any clue what her friends were talking about.

Hyoomans?

Subaru?

Those words were saying nothing to her.

So the six friends were trotting up fast to their final destination, namely to the castle.

Meanwhile in the castle

It knocked at the door to Princess Celestias throne hall.

"Open the doors, please.", Princess Celestia commanded to the Royal Guards, who were standing at the door. She hoped that Twilight arrived now with her friends, but this hope was destroyed as she saw the captain of the Wonderbolts stepping in.

However, she kept her genuine smile on her face as she said "Hello, Spitfire. What brings you to me?"

Spitfire bowed deeply in respect, before she spoke "Your highness, it's better when you come over to the Wonderbolts Stadium."

The pegasus kept all her patience together to not to blurt everything out.

"Why? As long as there is no real reason, I see no point to watch some of your performance." she said, but still smiling. Of course she took great interest into the Wonderbolts stunt shows, but not now.

"Nonono, it's a emergency. Somehow our stadium transformed into a arena for a unknown species and their strange loud chariots..." Spitfire said back.

The smile left Princess Celestia's face with all sudden as she heard this. The humans are in Wonderbolt Stadium? Here in Canterlot?

At the same time, the doors of the throne hall opened again, but this time, six ponies bursted in "We're here, Princess Celestia. We came by the fastest way we could!"

Princess Celestia stood up from her throne, holding up a forehoof. Twilight and her friends were stopping in the middle of their tracks.

"No need for talking right now. Captain Spitfire told me that the humans have transformed the Wonderbolts Stadium for their own competitions. I say, we should take a look at that."

"Captain Spitfire?! Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!" Rainbow Dash said aloud as she all but hopped around Spitfire, who raised an eyebrow at her childish reaction.

"Rainbow Dash! Collect yourself, this is not the right time for showing them your tricks!" Twilight rolled her eyes at her friends actions. Rainbow Dash stopped, looked at her friend, then at Spitfire, before she scratched the back of her head "Hehe...sorry'bout that..."

"When you're ready, I will teleport us all to the Stadium." Princess Celestia said reassuringly.

The ponies, including Spitfire, got into position, before Princess Celestia channeled magic in her horn. Not a moment after, there was a loud ping and a bright flash of light as they were teleported to the Stadium...

*PING!*

After the blindness subsided from their vision, Princess Celestia was the first who noticed the changes instantly. She knew the stadium very well, and she was also surprised that the plain grass field was replaced with lose gravel path, signs and of course... the human's fast and loud vehicles.

At that moment, a Peugot 206 and a Ford Focus were racing against the clock on the course, and it looked like the Ford was faster than the Peugot, but the Peugot took the curves and crests much quicker than the Ford due it's less wheight.

Seventy six right, then three left under bridge.

Princess Celestia was startled as the Ford Focus drove past her on the road, she did not imagined the engines so loud. Some dust hit her pristine white coat, but she quickly used a simple spell to clean the dust off. The other ponies were more startled by the sound than her, Fluttershy hid herself behind Celestia's ethereal mane and Applejack almost lost her stetson hat.

"So...these are the intruders.", she said as she followed the vehicle with her eyes. She then looked over to Soarin and Blaze, a bunch of empty popcorn bags and some empty pie plates surrounded them. They were still spurring on the vehicles "YEEEEEEES! WOOOOOHOOOO!!!", while they waved their hooves wildly.

"And what are they doing?" the princess asked.

"Cheering. I don't know what's so amazing about those things, but they're turned on by them." Spitfire said with a wave of her hoof.

"And what meant that voice? It sounds like the source of the voice is directly in my ears."

"I don't know, but I'm figuring it out already." Twilight said, taking notes on a block she took from her saddlebag. She scribbled down what she heard "Seventy...six...left? No, it was right... then three left under bridge... I know the right, left... commands... or are they advices? Then the bridge... yes... but what meant those numbers?"

Pinkie Pie took a look at her notes, then back to one of the vehicles. It was going to drive over a high crest, another but higher crest followed directly after. This crest followed a quick right curve.

Ten over big jump into big jump, then four right, attention don't cut.

A proper lightbulb appeared over Pinkie Pie's head, getting her friends attention as she got the result. This mysterious voice makes sense! It is just not a voice to cause confusion.

"Assuming from the lightbulb over your head, you have an idea. Care to tell us?" Rainbow Dash smirked.

"Yes, I know what this voice means!" Pinkie Pie squealed in joy as she bounced up and down, she was so happy now as she figured it out.

"Pinkie Pie, take a deep breath, then you may explain it to us." Princess Celestia said. She always liked the strange behavior of one of Twilight's friends.

The pink pony took a deep breath, before she explained "This voice is not just there for fun. You may have noticed that there are two humans in each vehicle. One of them is controlling the vehicle, while the other gives information about the course. For example, the 'Ten over big jump into big jump, then four right, attention don't cut' from earlier. The ten is propably the estimated distance between the vehicle and a occurence in metres, maybe a curve or in this case, two crests which end jumpy for the vehicle. The four right means... you know some bicycles have gears to switch between speeds. So that means the driver should drive through the curve with the fourth gear. The attention warns the driver of dangers for the vehicle, 'don't cut' means the driver may don't cut a curve because there is something lying in the way, a rock or a pole for example."

"That... makes sense.", Twilight said after she closed her jaw.

Princess Celestia put a hoof on her chin as she thought about Pinkie's explenation "But... that must mean that they were here once before, otherwise they would not know about Equestria's roads," her horn began to glow, "And I don't sense any hint of strange or unknown magic..."

"But... that's impossible! Such strange occurences must have a source of their magic!" Twilight gasped.

Seventy over crest into stop.

They watched the Peugot 206 slowing down to a stop, but still throwing a lot of dust in the air. A few seconds later, the Ford Focus stopped at his former startpoint. Princess Celestia flew over the fence and trotted slowly to the Ford Focus. She looked through the dusty sidewindows.

"Be careful..." warned Twilight.

At that moment, Soarin and Blaze spotted Princess Celestia. They shot up and went straight to her, before they bowed to the ground "Your highness!"

But Princess Celestia did not looked up to them, instead she watched the humans having a discussion in their vehicle. Like any other pony, she could not hear the words. She wanted to get human's attention, so she knocked at the window with a hoof.

*knock-knock!*

The humans showed no response.

She looked at the handle of the door. Gripping it with her magic, she tried to open the door to have a talk with humans. She just wanted to ask them questions like why they are driving on the roads and not on proper race courses... she did not know that rally cars are mostly driving on unpaved roads.

But to her dismay, the door did not budge.

Now Twilight and her friends were approaching the vehicle cautionously. Applejack dared a look through the rear window, while Rainbow Dash hovered over the Ford Focus' hood, looking at the humans through the front glass.#

"Ugh...I must say they look ugly!" Rainbow Dash screwed up her face.

"But look at their fashion! I assume it represents the... vehicle they're driving. It looks absolute marvellous!" Rarity said as she stared at the human's clothes.

"Why they are wearing helmets?" Fluttershy asked. She found it odd to wearing helmets in a closed vehicle.

"I believe it's for their own safety. You see, those vehicles are very fast and avoiding accidents is a little bit tricky.", Pinkie Pie said.

Applejack, who noticed all those iron rods in the vehicle -the on roll cage- said "If ah'm not mistaken, ah assume those rods are also for their safety. Ah think it enforces the... body of the vehicle."

"So they are safe in the case of an accident. But still, it is an dangerous activity." Twilight said as scribbled more notes down on her block, while Princess Celestia trotted around the vehicle, reading all those unknown names.

"Daltech... Focus... Esso... what are the meaning of this names?"

Twilight opened her mouth to say that they are propably the names of the companies who are participating to such an activity, but then the vehicle disappeared in thin air.

"And again, before we could ask them questions, they ran off..." Rainbow Dash waved with a foreleg in frustration.

Then there was a flash of light in the Wonderbolts Stadium, which blinded everypony in the Stadium. Celestia, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and the Wonderbolts members covered their faces with their wings in reflex, while the others used their forelegs.

As the white blindness in their eyes began to subside, they looked around to see what happened.

Everything was back to normal.

"The road... the road! Where is it?" Twilight gasped as they found themselves on the plain grass field which was the training area of the Wonderbolt Stadium.

"Oh well, at least the daily training has been saved." Spitfire smirked, not giving a single horseapple what just happened before, as she looked at Soarin and Blaze, who hung their heads down in dismay, but not of the upcoming training, more of the loss of the former show performed by those vehicles.

"Your highness, thanks for your help, but now we have to catch up our training schedule..." Spitfire said as she trotted off with her friends

Even Princess Celestia was stunned. The magic the humans propably used was unknown among her knowledge... if magic that was. The simple magic detection spell she used did not reacted to the vehicles nor to the roads. It was like the road was normally built and the vehicles were manufacted by a unknown equestrian company.

"Princess, what are we doing now?" Twilight asked, trying to break the silence. She was now a little bit scared at the behavior of the humans. They just popped out of nowhere... it was also her guilt that they appeared, but instead of saying nicely "Hello!" to the ponies and have a nice conversation, they just decided to do some... whatever this is called with their noisy fast vehicles.

"I don't know, my student, but-" Princess Celestia said, but she was interrupted.

"YOUR HIGHNESS!!!"

She looked up, to see a white pegasus Royal Guard flying down to her. Taking some steps backwards, she watched the Royal Guard landing in front of her. The poor pegasus was panting, he was flying very fast as something happened.

"Highness, please... come to the Royal Garden... there is something..." the guard panted hardly, speaking was now more difficult for him.

"I will take a look," she turned to the six ponies, "Are you ready for another teleportation?"

Their nodding was all the confirmation she needed...

*PING!*