“What are you scared of loosing to a pony. Unless you’re a massive chicken you’ll meet me at Ponyville Town Square for a race. Winner gets bragging rights.” Rainbow challenged as she grabbed her turtle and zoomed off.
Bolt looked to the bunny as it chittered and stared up to the dragon. “Shut up Crash.” He roared annoyed at the seemingly innocent rabbit.
Three days had passed and a large crowd had gathered around the fountain statue in Ponyville. The atmosphere was positively buzzing as the ponies attending were hoping for a good show. Dash was at the starting line surrounded by her closet friends. A white unicorn known as Rarity was wearing her purple mane up along with a large elegant headpiece with gems strewn throughout the design. Twilight the purple alicorn had also attended along with the yellow pegasus Fluttershy.
“Oh this is so exciting isn’t it?” Fluttershy asked beaming ready to show her support.
“I’m sure it’s going to be a spectacular show.” Rarity commented shortly after while she pushed her mane out of her eyes.
Twilight had just finished setting up a camera long with the device she uses to measure wing power.
“Ha he hasn’t shown up yet. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s cowering in a cave.” Dash said as she started stretching her wings.
Looking up from her gadgets Twilight asked. “What kind of pony lives in a cave?”
“Oh he’s not a pony Twilight. Some poser dragon.”
Twilight thought back to a blue dragon she’d met earlier that year. “Uhhh Dash this dragon. He wasn’t blue was he?” She asked becoming a little worried for her friend.
“Yeah why? What’s it matter?” Dash told Twilight scratching behind her ear.
“Oh no reason.” Twilight responded. If it was indeed the dragon she had met earlier she knew this was going to be a very interesting race. Not too after long Bolt walked up behind Dash as he went unnoticed.
“Only five minuets to race time and he still hasn’t shown. Ha he’s probably so slow he hasn’t even made it here yet. I’m going to win this hoofs down girls.” She reassured her friends as her confidence was in full swing.
A raspy voice called out from behind Rainbow Dash in an annoyed and threatening tone. “You’re not faster than me.”
Dash turned raising an eyebrow with a smug smile. “That’s yet to be seen dragon boy. At least you’re not a chicken and you showed up.”
Twilight waved to Bolt hoping he’d remember her. Bolt gave a small smile and flicked a wave back before heading towards the starting line. He lowered his body and donned a look of intense focus. His body occasionally started to flicker with random surges of electricity. Dash took her place behind him and got into position her wings tucked tightly to her sides. After finishing a conversation with Rarity and Fluttershy, Princess Twilight headed to the starting line. She smiled and addressed the crowed. “Hello everypony. I’m glad to see so many bright smiling faces. Today is sure to be a raging race. One of the athletes is a homegrown hero and one of my closet friends, Rainbow Dash.” The audience went wild cheering for their resident racer. “The other is a dragon who lives on the outer bounds of the Crystal Empire. He helped me reclaim my magic from an evil unicorn.” The audience cheered for the dragon’s heroic gesture but the applause was nowhere near the volume of Rainbow’s reception. “With that let the race begin.” Twilight shot off a spark of bright magic signifying the beginning of the race.
With that Rainbow Dash was off. She flew across town easily hitting 100 mph at the twenty-second mark. Dash smiled looking over her solder pleased with herself she had left the dragon in the dust. Bolt took off soon after breaking into a slow sprint. He soon kicked his pace up to a light jog coming out of the starting gate. The ground shook beneath his feet like rumbling thunder with each step more rapid than the last. As Bolt ran on all fours he looked like a nimble cheetah chasing after its prey. After his next thunderous step the blue dragon shot off like a ballistic blue bullet completely destroying the sound barrier. The resulting sonic boom knocked over the bystanders at the starting line causing a small ruckus. Rarity seemed annoyed as she scrambled to fix her mane and headpiece that were disturbed in the blast.
“Goodness! My mane!” She shrieked as she scrambled to get every hair perfectly in place.
Bolt shot past Rainbow causing her to flap her wings faster and faster.
“Speed of sound huh?” She commented as her velocity was approaching 700mph upon gaining a few more miles per hour she broke the sound barrier herself.
Dash’s sonic rainbow came into effect as a wild wave of color washed over the land. The audience cheered watching Rainbow preform her trademark move spreading a shot of color across the heavens. Dash and the dragon were now traveling at roughly the same speed, as they were neck and neck. Bolt’s body begins to spark wildly crackling with electricity as if he was building up to something big. Dash looked a little puzzled she’d never seen anybody do that before. Before too long Bolt blasted off surpassing Rainbow by a vast margin leaving her in the dust. It wasn’t long before Bolt had completely vanished from Dash’s vision.
“Where did he go?” She remarked as something came from behind her. The object in question was a blue streak traveling at physically impossible speeds. The object passed her slowing down for a fraction of a second to reveal it was Bolt. The dragon flipped her his middle claw as his face donned a cocky smile. He shot off over the horizon blasting away trees and rocks that got in his way again to only soon to zip up from behind and overtake Dash once more. Dash’s jaw dropped at what she was seeing as she watched the dragon pass her and zoom off into the distance.
“It…..It’s not possible.” Dash squeaked not believing her eyes. “How is he passing me and coming back from behind?”
Bolt zipped past Dash and came up from behind her again as he streaked past the starting line only to shoot past her and over the horizon like blue rocket on roids equipped with a warp drive. This repeated as Bolt passed Dash and ran off over the horizon a total of ten times. Arriving at the starting line again this time Bolt dug his claws into the ground while opening his wings wide. The force of his claws dug into the ground dragged him to a stop while his wings caught air slowing his motion acting like racing parachutes. Bolt stands tall and triumphant with his chest puffed out while the crowd goes crazy. They cheer and holler all while chanting his name. The egoistical dragon cups his ear as if to say, I can’t hear you. The audience screams his name louder and louder while Bolt soaks up the glory. The dragon’s ego was in full swing as he shouted.
“I am The Fastest Thing Alive! Nobody can match me when it comes to velocity. Twilight you set up a camera didn’t you? Why not check the results.”
Twilight examines the replay on the camera she had set up. She moves the playback speed to super slow motion and observes. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing as she announces to the race goers.
“After slowing the footage down to one frame per second I’ve deduced what happened. Every time Bolt rushed over the starting line and past Rainbow Dash he circled the globe once. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t just seen it. According to the data he circled the world a total of ten times. That’s staggering!” Twilight looked to the dragon utterly speechless before stating.
“Bolt you must have been traveling at the speed of light to achieve this.”
Bolt smiled cracking his claws. “A little faster actually.” He gave a victorious mighty roar that shook the ground. The ponies watching seemed a little timid after the mighty roar especially Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash stopped in her tracks and landed with a thud. Before her eyes lay a flaming trail as far as the eye could see. This fire marked the path Bolt blazed across the land and countries he had across in mere moments. Dash looked absolutely astounded as her ears drooped low from her definitive defeat.
“I lost….” She said softly looking over at the audience cheering for the dragon. Dash was being torn apart inside her ego and completive sprit had taken a major blow. She returned to the starting line after touching the flag at the edge of the woods and returning. She held her head low as both Fluttershy and Rarity congratulated her on a race well ran. “Thanks…” Said told her friends her voice devoid of any and all emotion.
Bolt zipped up to Rainbow Dash nudging her in the side with his elbow. He had a very large and smug grin as he berated the pony. “I bet right about now you’re regretting challenging me to a race.” He stood over RD as she lowered her head. “And that name, Rainbow Dash! What’s up with that? Sounds like the name of some butch lesbian. You don’t get it do you Dash? You’re just a pony. I’m a dragon. I’m stronger, faster and just plane better than you.” He placed his claws around Dash’s head and pushed her to the ground with an insult Incoming. “Loser! You never had a chance. But who was I to turn down a chance to humiliate you. Ha that was too much fun.” Rainbow stood back up a mixture of rage and sadness in her eyes.
“Okay you won. You don’t need to be such a jerk about it.” She told the dragon firmly.
Bolt smiled shaking his head. “Yeah I do. You said winner gets bragging rights. I destroyed you. Around the world ten times before you could even hit the finish line.”
Rarity and Twilight were getting ready to defend their friend against the dragon’s onslaught of insults when in the blink of an eye he was gone. Bolt’s insults didn’t go unnoticed by Fluttershy who had left to set the dragon straight.