A few clouds hung about the sky above Ponyville. Rainbow Dash awoke from her nap atop one of the clouds. She stretched out her legs and wings and looked towards the sky above her. She took off with a burst of speed, dispersing the clouds beneath her hooves. She gained altitude rapidly, all the while performing aerial stunts, such as loop-de-loops and aileron rolls. She flipped over so that her back was facing the ground as she flew straight ahead, and gazed up into the deep blue sky. She knew she was the fastest flyer in all of Equestria (excluding her idols, the Wonderbolts, of course,) but she never really considered just how high she could fly. What better way to show to the world that she was Wonderbolt material by becoming the high-flying-est pegasus in all the Equestria! So she flipped herself around and took off like a shot straight up. She closed her eyes and felt the wind blast through her mane and the sensation of fighting gravity as she flew farther and farther from the ground.
She was spinning slowly as she tilted her head to look down at the world below her. Ponyville was just a spot below her, and Canterlot was just a bump on the molehill nearby. The Everfree Forest looked like a patch of moss reaching out to the sand in the south. Even Cloudsdale was just a small puffy cloud from this height. Rainbow could see farther then she could have ever imagined. She swore that just at the edge of her vision, she could see the peaks of Manehatten’s towers clawing against the blue expanse of the eastern ocean. To north, she saw the snow-capped mountains, the brilliant aurora emanating the Crystal Empire.
Rainbow was in a state of awe from all that she could see, so it came as an even greater shock when she came to sudden stop with a clonk to her head. She was winced from the pain as she rubbed the top of head with her forehoof before looking up. What she saw caused her head to hurt even more. It looked to be tiny cracks in the sky where she had hit it. She reached out with her hoof and touched the cracks. It was solid. As she looked around, she could barely perceive that the “sky” that she had run into was curved around, like the top of a giant dome.
Rainbow had gone too far to let some silly dome stop her now, so she let herself fall a significant distance before performing a rapid U-turn so that she could maintain her speed while rocketing towards the spot she had before. She pushed herself to pick up speed, trying to go the fastest she had ever gone before. She could feel the air around her forehoofs begin to warp around her. She closed her eyes just as she was about to hit the cracks.
CRASH!!!
Rainbow suddenly lost all of her momentum. She was now floating, with no control over her own movement. She opened her eyes and was instantly filled with fear. What she saw was the world that she left through a jagged hole in a seemingly endless void. There was nothing else but black all around her. She was slowly floating away from the hole, and no matter how much she struggled with her legs and her wings, she couldn’t change her trajectory. She screamed.
*Rainbow Dash awakes*