//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Soarin' through a Rainbow // by Onefallenstar //------------------------------// The sky was shinning with Princess Celestial's beautiful sun and a few clouds scattered around Ponyville one fine morning. A multicolored figure could be seen moving quickly through the sky. The figure was moving so fast it was hard to see what it was, it was making loops and spirals through the air causing one pony to be in awe. "Woo! Go Rainbow Dash!" cheered a small filly with a pink mane and an orange coat. Rainbow Dash was flying through the sky at high speeds, creating her own dazzling tricks, and loving her freedom of the beautiful morning sky. "Isn't Rainbow Dash amazing?! I hope to be just like her one day," said Scootaloo in a daze. "She sure is!" shouted Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were watching Rainbow while on their way to school. Scootaloo would not budge after just one look at her flying,so the other two decided to watch a bit before school started. "I hope she does a Sonic Rainboom! I heard it looks amazing, I have yet to see her do one.." said Scootaloo. RING "Well..there goes the bell," said the saddened Sweetie Bell. The three crusaders walked on toward school and Rainbow continued with her flying. _______________________ "Gahhh!" yelled the multicolored mane pegasus as she stretched out on a fluffy cloud. "That sure was a tiring practice, created some new tricks and they were prettyyyy uh-mazingg if I do say so myself." It was about noon when a proud Rainbow Dash decided to lay back and stop practicing for the day, she was worn out and pretty tired. Rumble "Heh..hope no one heard tha-" "Well someone is hungry," laughed a familiar voice. Rainbow was flushed and peeked through the clouds to see who the voice was coming from. Rainbow's eyes grew three times bigger and her face was completely red. 'Oh my gosh Oh my gosh Oh my gosh Oh my gosh Oh my gosh!' she said to herself. It was Soarin' from the Wonderbolts. She could not believe her eyes, Soarin' was really right there in front of her! 'What was he doing here in Ponyville?' thought the excited pegasus. "Hey I remember you, you're Rainbow Dash. Saved me and saved my pie from eternal darkness," said Soarin' with a playful wink. "Hey if you're hungry, wanna grab a bite with me and hang out?" Rainbow flew toward the ground quickly, not believing what she just heard. "Yeah!" shouted Rainbow in excitement. "I mean..you know that's cool." she said looking to the side. "Wait do you mean 'hang out' or actually hang out?" questioned Rainbow as she remembered at the Gala when they asked her to hang out and did not even get to actually speak to any of the Wonderbolts. Soarin' just chuckled which caused Rainbow to be in confusion. "Sorry about that night," said Soarin' lightly laughing, "We all really did want to talk to you but there was so many things going on, many ponies wanted to speak to us, plus all of the photos they wanted, that we did not even get to speak to our hero." Soarin' smiled. "But this time I really mean to hang out with you, one on one, if that's cool with you." Rainbow blushed at the fact that Soarin' called her their hero, being a huge, no...massive!..no..There were no words to describe how big of a fan of the Wonderbolts she is, and being called their hero meant a lot to her. "Woohoo!" shouted Rainbow. "Wait so you are the only Wonderbolt here?" "Yes indeed, the others are going to be here, but not till tomorrow. We're here to do a surprise signing for any of our fans." Rainbow got even more excited. The thought of having all of the Wonderbolts here sent a bolt of happiness through her. She felt as happy as Pinkie Pie when it rained chocolate milk. "So where do you want to eat? I'm not too familiar with the restaurants here in Ponyville." "Well you do like apples," giggled Rainbow. "Lets go into town and see if they're selling some apple sweets from Sweet Apples Acres." "Sounds good to me! Lemmie just go and change out of my uniform so no one else really 'sees' me here and won't ruin the surprise for tomorrow." Soarin' quickly flew up and back down in about 30 seconds without his uniform revealing his winged lightning bolt cutie mark. "Alright I'm ready for some apples!" shouted Soarin' ______________________ Rainbow and Soarin' walked through the town in a bit of silence, only exchanging a few words back and forth. Rainbow would ask him some questions on tricks the Wonderbolts created and what it was like being a Wonderbolt. Rainbow Dash was so happy to be talking to a Wonderbolt, she remembered when she first had an encounter with Soarin'. It was during the Best Young Flyer competition, Rarity was falling and knocked the three main Wonderbolts unconscious and Rainbow flew as fast as she could to the point of making a Sonic Rainboom and saved them all. Afterwards she got to spend the whole next day with the Wonderbolts. Flying at high speeds, chatting with them, eating with them, and best of all having fun with them. Their second encounter was at the Gala when she saved his precious Apple pie from hitting the ground. Rainbow didn't really get to hang out with Soarin' or any of the other Wonderbolts that day. The most current meeting was at Shining Armor and Princess Cadence's wedding, they took a picture together, which Rainbow has currently in her room in a nice frame. "Well hey there RD" said a happy voice. "Hey Applejack, Got anything sweet here for Soarin'?" smiled Rainbow. Soarin' walked to the side of Rainbow Dash and noticed the blonde mare. "Hey you were the one who gave me that AMAZING pie!" "Aw shucks..Ah knew they were good, but haven heard amazin' " said Applejack embarrassed. "It was more than amazing! More like fantastic delectablely spectacular!" Rainbow felt a bit awkward while Soarin' was complimenting Applejack on her apple pie, maybe even a bit jealous..