This story started long ago, in the bewigged city of the pegasus, Cloudsdale. Here, a young filly was participating in a stupid little race against a couple of mean colts from the summer camp she was attending. It really wasn't anything serious, but as you very well know, when you’re a foal everything is serious, and for this little filly it was no different.
The explanation of how the filly ended up participating in this race is simple:
This little filly had put her honour on stake to protect her friend, and had then been challenged to do the race.
The little pegasus filly soared through the sky. Seeing the cloud marking the last part of the race approaching, the filly pushed herself to increase her speed once more, increasing the distance between her and her rivals, hoping for it was enough for her to win the race.
Seconds later, she passed through the cloud ring and went straight upwards, up into the beautiful turquoise sky that she loved oh so much. After a few seconds, she could feel the air pressure building up around her body and the tears flying out of her eyes.
Soon, the pressure around the small filly's body was so heavy, it made every muscle ache in such a way, that the little filly wondered how much longer it would take before it broke every bone in her body.
The pain was so intense on the little filly that she even started to consider trying to abort the stunt, just to get away from the pain despite knowing that it was extremely dangerous.
The thought had just enough time to plant itself in the filly's mind when it happened.
*BOOM*
Suddenly all the pressure around the little filly’s body disappeared, swept away by an enormous, rainbow colored explosion which spread out in a wide circle behind her. A rainbow unfolded behind the foal as she continued forward at top speed, pushed by the sheer power of the explosion. The filly continued on, flying further away from home than she'd ever been before. After a short while, she realized that she was actually enjoying the flight.
As she watched, the green, grass covered fields and occasional hill beneath her were replaced with a muddy, gray landscape, littered with rocks, all with varying shapes and sizes .
The little filly had never seen anything like it, but she had heard that, not far outside Ponyville, a little family worked doing something called ‘rock farming’, what ever that was. As she passed by one of the fields, she saw something pink in the middle of all the various shades of grey covering everything in the area.
If the filly could have, she would have stopped dead in her tracks, flying down to ground level and checking out the pink dot - which, in fact, was another filly, whose life undoubtedly had been changed by the rainbow explosion the other filly caused.
But the pegasus filly couldn’t stop, at least not without killing her self in the process, and therefore the filly continued on, all the way to the beautiful city of Manehattan. Without even meaning it,the little filly had crossed half of Equestria in less than a day.
Since it was summer and warm, the filly simply decided to sleep in the park before flying back home to Cloudsdale the next day.
The next day, as the filly was flying home, she once more flew over the rock covered fields, but at a much slower speed.
Now, she could see the fences marking the different fields, knowing for sure that it must be the so-called rock farm that she had heard of. Yes, there was no other explanation for the fenced fields holding nothing but rocks.
As the filly examined the grey landscape passing by beneath her, she was reminded of the pink dot she had seen out in the fields. What she would do next was never intentional, no, something in her mind forced her body to stop dead in its tracks and land on the hard, dusty ground, wincing slightly as the earth was filled with -surprise, surprise- rocks.
She looked around her, and noticed that only a few meters away was a big, metal construction that the filly didn’t even knew the name of. It was a formed like a cylinder and the roof was gone.
The sound of loud party music and ponies laughing seeped out through a crack in the door . Despite knowing she could get in trouble if they noticed her, the filly walked over to the building and peeked inside.
Inside, a grand party was under way. The participants were four fillies, a mare and a stallion, obviously a family, and most likely the owners of the farm. All of the members of the family had dull, uninteresting appearances and colours, all but one...the filly at the door almost made her presence now, managing to suppress a scream of surprise before it had time to slip out of her mouth.
In the middle of the building was a pink filly with curly, dark pink hair and a pair of big, shining blue eyes. She was bouncing up and down in excitement and her colours were almost ridiculously outstanding compared to her parents and siblings dull palette and the dusty, unappealing background.
Seeing the pink filly bouncing around, dancing and laughing along with her family, woke something in the other filly's heart. She felt that the rainbow - her rainbow, had created all this happiness, and most of all, the filly. She knew the rainbow had been special, and this was a proof of that.
Happy with what she had seen, the pegasus filly spread her wings, taking off into the skies and quickly leaving the grey, depressing landscape behind her and continuing back to her own home, Cloudsdale, the city in the skies.