Alex was soaring at nearly the speed of sound in the direction of Ponyville, the memory of where it is clear in his mind. He closed his eyes and drew a large breath against the wind rushing past him. He expelled the breath as he snapped his wings together as hard as he could, sending him soaring forward even faster. The town quickly came into view, and he spread his wings to slow down. He felt the wind fill his wings as he slowly came to a stop in the middle of town. The sun was just starting to rise, and Alex still felt like a million bucks. He folded his wings, and demorphed them. He took a look around, to reveal nobody had come out just yet. When an idea struck him, he immediately brought back out his wings, and flew towards Twilight's tree.
God, flying is great. He could always glide, but being able to endlessly be in the air was a completely different story. He wracked his brain for any aerial maneuvers he could do, but his brain search came up with nothing. Evidently, the pegasus he absorbed didn't know how to do anything other than fly. He was disappointed. He would either have to absorb another pegasus who was better at flying, or actually learn something. But for now, he did not have to worry about that. He had arrived at Twilight's tree. He landed a few feet from the door, about to knock when it flew open.
"I'll be back by tonight Spike! Try not to-" She walked out and right into Alex. Her expression was priceless. "Oh hello."
"Hey, I need to talk to you."
Twilight agreed, before closing the door behind her. "Talk while we walk. I need to go to Rarity's."
"Alright. But what I came here for is I wanted to learn some new spells. I..." A sickly grin broke his lips. "... Acquired some unicorn powers last night."
And as soon as the words left his mouth, he morphed the horn out, reaching out almost a foot off his head. Twilight looked up and gawked at the horn. She couldn't miss her chance to teach an alien how to use unicorn magic. How did he get that? The words just about left her mouth.
"How did you..."
"Don't ask. I also have wings now. But like I said, I need to learn combat spells, and teleporation would be nice."
She gave him a confused look.
"Why?"
Alex sighed. Before proceeding to explain the imminent dragon problem. Her face grew dark, and her tone grew deathly.
"wow...I..That's incredible. You and us? Against a dragon? This is not going to be good, or fun. Well, we're here."
They came upon a very tall, fancy looking building. It struck him as something a princess would enjoy spending time alone in.
"I want you to meet Rarity. Although I'm warning you, she's going to go nuts over the clothes you're wearing."
Alex turned to her and laughed.
"These don't come off. Sorry. Say, do you know anyone I could learn flying from?"
He morphed his horn away, and brought out the wings. He recalled Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, but he had no idea where they lived.
"Rainbow Dash is the self-proclaimed 'best flyer in all of Equestria' so you might want to try her. She lives in a cloud home that way." She pointed a hoof off to the right, in the clouds.
"Thanks, oh and Twilight, explain the situation to Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack, and Fluttershy please, then meet me with all of them at your place tonight. I'm most likely going to spend a lot of time with Rainbow Dash."
He stretched his wings, not even saying goodbye as he took off in the direction of Rainbow Dash's. He heard her yell something along the lines of 'what about the new spells?' He dismissed it, and continued his flight.
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Rainbow Dash had woken up earlier than expected that morning. When her eyes opened, Luna's night was still conquering the sky. She got up and walked over to her mirror. Her mane was still the same exact way it was every day. She had an innate ability to never get bedhead. She looked happily at her reflection, before heading off to the shower. She turned the hot water on, and stepped in. The hot water soothed her wings, and wet down her mane when she heard a loud screech scream past her house. Shaken, she immediately ran down stairs, and walked outside to see... Alex? With wings? Flying bucking FAST? She could only believe it because she saw it. Long, black and red wings. They were huge, and they beat quickly as he flew quickly into the distance. At this point, she noticed her wings were at full extension, ready to go. She looked back at them, and laughed quietly to herself. She turned back and closer her door, before going out to fly the water out of her mane real quick.
She immediately took off, and beat her wings as hard as they could go. She could feel the water sliding out of her mane and tail, drop by drop. She took a deep breath, and let it out of her mouth. In the moment her mouth was open, she had managed to cross flight paths with a small fly. The poor little fly ended up in her throat, causing her to go into a coughing fit. Just when she thought she was going to get it free, the fly decided to be a bucking pain, and lodged itself in her neck. Rainbow Dash knew she was fighting a loosing battle, and instantly turned her flight path home.
She reached her home, and immediately bust through the door and headed for the nearest faucet. She dunked her head under, and began chugging. She brought her head out triumphantly just as she heard a deep voice come out from behind her.
"Rainbow Dash?"
Her head whipped around to see Alex standing a few feet behind her, with a look on his face that depicted someone who was about to break down in laughter. She swallowed the water she didn't realize she had in her mouth.
"Gah- *cough* Yeah. What's up?" She said nonchalantly. Alex's face turned serious, wiping off the slight smile he didn't realize he had.
"I want to learn good flying maneuvers."
"Sure, let's go!" Eagerly she ran towards the door, before quickly turning "Wait, why?"
Alex sighed audibly, realizing he would have to explain this whole situation again.
"Come on, I'll explain on the way out."
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"Perfect! Nice backfip!" Rainbow yelled at Alex, as he finished a fully perfected loop, coming to a sudden halt silently in the air.
"Thanks." He said coolly. "Let's go to Twilight's."
She looked at him quizzically. "What? Egghead's? Why?"
"One, it's finally getting dark. Two, I said we'd be there by night." Alex didn't even wait for a reply as he took off towards Twilight's at a speed that rivaled Rainbow's. He could hear her yell something in the distance but could not hear it over the wind rushing past his ears. He turned his head and saw Rainbow Dash appear next to him, she yelled something, then proceeded to fly a little closer, and yelled again.
"So what's your plan on fighting this dragon thingy?"
Alex chuckled. What was his plan? The same plan as everything else he killed.
"Either rip it's head off, break it's spine, or tear into it's brain." He laughed like a maniac before speeding up once again towards Twilight's, pulling far ahead of Rainbow Dash. He arrived at Twilight's in less than a minute. He landed in front of her door, before turning around to see a blue dot, followed by a rainbow colored trail, approaching him quickly. He leaned against the door as a very tired looking Rainbow Dash landed in front of him.
"You.. you're fast... Nopony has ever beaten me before." She continued panting, as Alex simply turned and opened Twilight's door. He looked into the room to see all the Elements present, save Rainbow, who was behind him. He walked into the room, bearing the stares at his wings by the current occupants. He sat down across from Twilight, next to Rarity and an unusually calm and silent Pinkie Pie. Rainbow took a seat next to Twilight.
"I've explained the situation to them," Twilight said. "And we're ready to back you up when the dragon comes, we just need to know your plan."
Alex chuckled. "Plan? I don't need a pla-"
His sentence was cut off by a deafening roar. The seven occupants of the room looked at each other, knowing exactly what they had just heard. The dragon had come early.