//------------------------------// // Race-ists // Story: Continuing the Dream // by Blue Breeze //------------------------------// Author's Note: This has no purpose here. This is simply going to be padding on my story. You mad? Now, on with the story. What's the first thing that happens once we get back home? There's a huge party thrown for us. Awesome! I get wasted on chimicherrychongas. Fifty fifty on that one. Zephyr and Dark decide to get into a race... Can't tell if gusta. On one hoof, I don't have to get involved. On the other hoof, I can still tell this won't end well for me. Right now we're just trying to find Vine so we can set the whole thing up while I try not to lose all those chimicherrychongas. I groan as Drax carries me on his back. "*sigh* This is why you shouldn't east so many of those things." Drax says. "I couldn't help it. They were just so delicious." I say. I lick my lips as I start to think about them again. "So tasty." "Well, because of your over-eating, we have to hold off even longer on me showing up Zephyr." Dark says. "You show me up?" Zeph says. "Mare, please. My talent is flying fast." "Yeah, but they don't call me Dark Lightning because of my lghtning powers. I can even fly as fast as lightning." "That's another thing. If you really wanna prove how much faster you are then me, then you won't use any of your powers." "Pfft, fine. I don't need them to beat you." We continue to walk as we approach Vine, Fleur, and Fern at a mixing table. We look to see Vine placing about her dozenth glass down. "Geez, Vine. I didn't know you were such a drinker." Ice says. "I'm not, really." she says. "But I know how to handle my liquor. And my new stallion body has definitely helped raise my tolerance." she stops as she notices me on Drax's back. "What happened to you, Blue?" "Chimicherrychongas. So delicious. I couldn't stop." "Ah. So, what's going on with the rest of you?" "That's actually what we came to you for." Zeph says. "Oh?" "Yeah, Dark and I are gonna have a race. We were gonna ask Blue to help set it up, but..." the entire group looks at me as I groan. "Yeah, that's not gonna happen. So, you wanna help?" "A race? Sure, sounds like fun. And I know the perfect way to have it." Vine gets a sly look on her face as she looks back at a stage set up by town hall. Celestia, help us. Half an hour later The group from before stands up on the stage next to town hall, a big, circurlar mat with a mark of a bullseye set up infront of it. A crowd of ponies starts to form as they notice it. "What's going on?" Tilight asks her other friends. "I don't know, but it looks totally cool!" Pinkie says with excitement. Vine taps on a microphone to get the crowd's attention. "Attention, everupony! I'm here to announce a race being held in our very own town that's about to be talking place right now." The crowd starts cheering in excitement. "Ooh! Let's get up on stage and join them!" Pinkie says, taking off right onto the stage. The other girls shrug as they follow her up. Dash looks at me smugly as she sees me laying on my back. "Ate too much, huh?" "Just shut up and watch." I say. Vine clears her throat to get everypony's attention again. "This race is going to be between Zephyr Verve..." she motions towards Zeph, the crowd cheering for him. "and Dark Lightning." she motions to Dark, the crowd then cheering for him. Would they just make up their minds? "Now, this race is going to be taking place all around Ponyville. It will start here at town hall, then move to around the library, passed Sugarcube Corner, and then will finish off with each flyer going through the ring we have set up above us..." the crowd looks up to see a ring floating like the ones caoaches use at flight schools. "and then landing down at the target you are standing on." the crowd clears off of the target, getting ready in advance. "Ice and I will both be around the town, swtting up "obstacles" for our flyers. Now, let's get started." Zephyr and Dark both get in a readying stance as they prepare. "On your marks..." Almost. "Get set..." Here it comes. "GO!" Both Zeph and Dark go shooting off and near blinding speeds as the race begins. Both ponies are both going neck and neck at this point, neither one having the advantage over the other. Dark, being the way he is, tries to bump Zephyr over. But Zephyr slows himself down a bit, making Dark miss and hit a wall briefly before shaking it off. As they pass by the Carousel Boutique, a white and well-groomed cat jumps onto Zeph's face. "AH! Get it off!" he shouts. He throws the cat over onto Dark's face. "AH! No, you get it off!" he houts, throwing the cat back. "You!" "You!' "YOU!" "YOU!" They play Hot Potato with the cat for a bit before Dark eventually gets frustrated and throws it behind himself. I never did like cats myself. The two start approaching the library as Vine gets into position inside the tree. "Dark can consider this payback for the hit over the head, the coffee, and the chariot ride." she says to herself. As Zephyr starts gaining headway on the race, Dark grabs his tail by the mouth and throws him backwards. Zephyr shakes his head to get rid of any dizy feeling. "Hey!" he shouts before shooting back to Dark. Dark laughs as he looks back at Zeph. "I told you I didn't need powers to-WOAH!" he stops his gloating as he starts spinning on a branch Vine used her powers to make grow longer. Zeph whizzes by Dark, still stuck on the branch. Dark growls as he breaks off the branch and starts following after him. Coming up to Sugarcube Corner, Ice has been patiently awaiting his prey. He peeks his head out from behind to see the two coming. "Perfect." His stomps his hooves, making a dozen of so ice pillars shoot up infront of Zeph and Dark. "WOAH!" they both shout. They both bob and weeve passed the pillars with ease, each making an effort to out do the other. "Ha! This is no sweat!" Zeph says. Just then, an ice pillar shoots up from below him, launching him into a nearvy hay barrel. "No sweat, huh?!" Dark souts at Zeph tauntingly as he starts to fly towards the ring up in the sky. "Oh no you don't!" Zeph says. The crowd watches in suspense as we see Dark and Zeph climbing up after the ring. Pinkie continuously bounces on my enlarged stomach. "This is so awesome!" "Pinkie-OOF-please-OOF-stop!" I shout at her. "Oops. Sorry, Breezy." she says, looking down at me as she stands on me. "Oh, I think I'm gonna be sick." "Here, let me get up." she bounces off of me, sending me rolling off the stage and onto the middle of the bullseye." "Uh, guys, a little help?" I ask at my friends on stage. They leave me there as they just continue to watch the race. Great friends. Celestia, I'm bucked. Dark passes through the ring and immediately curves towards the target with me still on it. "Yes! I've got this in the bag!" "No way!" Zeph shouts at him as he grabs onto him. "Hey! Get off!" Dark orders, trying to pry him off. "No way again!" As the two of them start flying down towards the gound faster and faster, a visible cone starts to form around them. "Hey, what's that?!" Haily shouts. "No way! They're actually doing a..." Dash says before stopping in awe. As Dark and Zeph struggle in the sky, the cone starts becoming more and more narrow before *BOOM* A huge blue, black, and red sonic boom goes off behind the two stallions, rocketing them forward with the same colored trail following behind them. My eyes widen as I see them approaching me with double the speed as before. "WAIT! STOP!" But before anypony can do anything, they each hit me directly in my gut and bounce back from the force as I spit out brown and red chuncks all over them. They both land on the ground a few feet away from me as they sit up. They lookn at the gooey chunks coming off of them. "Aw, sick!" Zeph shouts. "This is worse than that time I stepped in manicore dung!" Dark shouts. I groan again. "I told you I was gonna be sick." "So, who won?" Zeph asks, looking back at the stage. "It looked like a tie." Vine says. "So, we both won?" Dark asks. "Actually, considering that Blue barfed on the both of you, I'd say you both lost." "Aw man! So this was all for nothing!" "Can we call it a night? I think I'm gonna be sick again." my cheeks swell up before I swalllow it back down. Celestia, that's gross. "Yeah, I think that's a good idea." Haily says. "Drax, little help?" "Sure thing." They come over to me and place me on Drax's back again as they start walking back home. "Don't worry, Blue. I'm sure tomorrow will make up for this." Haily says. "Yeah, we still need to talk about that."