"What is it that you wanted to tell me?" inquired the lavender unicorn as she closed the door when Rainbow had entered in the treehouse, "Have you had any strange dreams as of recently?"
"Yeah I did. I should also tell you about what happened yesterday as well." answered Rainbow and Twilight nodded, following along to what the cyan pegasus was saying. Rainbow then recalled all that had happened in the last day, "Okay, so when I got out of the hospital, Pinkie went and showed me all of Ponyville. She also reintroduced me to all of our friends."
"How did that go?" asked Twilight as she grabbed a notepad, writing down what her friend was saying.
Rainbow had shrugged, "It went alright I guess. Applejack showed me Zap Apples and Fluttershy showed me where I lived," she said as she was moving all around the inside of Twilight's treehouse noticing that various where out and spread across the numerous tables, "I didn't know that Rarity was so dramatic."
"Yeah, she can be a bit of a drama queen at times," nodded Twilight has she was still writing down all of what Rainbow Dash was saying.
"I also found out, she has the world's most embarrassing mom ever."
"Doesn't everypony?"
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Rainbow nodded and continued to tell Twilight everything that had happened, "When I was done talking to Fluttershy, I went up to my house. A memory came back to me, I remembered when I met Fluttershy for the first time."
"You're making progress Rainbow." smiled Twilight as she was still writing down things on the scroll, "That's good."
Rainbow continued on,"When I entered in my house, a voice was talking to me."
Twilight had stopped writing on her notepad to look over at her friend, "Who was the voice?"
"A voice that was in my dreams."
"What did the voice say to you?"
Rainbow had shook her head, trying to remember what the sinister voice had said, "The voice belonged to some creature called Discord. He was in one of my dreams, he showed me this place where we're all arguing and vowed never to talk to each other ever again."
Twilight frantically and quickly wrote as fast as she could. She looked up at her scroll and said, "What else did he say?"
"Right before I entered my house, I heard his voice again. He also said something that he was looking forward to our future visits."
Twilight had gasped, dropping her notepad in horror of what Rainbow had just said, "I was right."
"Who is Discord?"
"A creature of chaos and disharmony. He once ruled over Equestria and Princess Celestia had banished him with the Elements of Harmony. Once the princesses lost their connection with the Elements, Discord came back."
"Was the dream I had a memory when Discord came back?"
"Yes," nodded Twilight, "When Discord had tricked all six of us. When he thought he won."
"So, why did he come back?" asked Rainbow in confusion, "If he's so bad, then why is he still around?"
Twilight had sighed, "Princess Celestia thought it was best for Discord to reform for his magic, but I see know that he's back to his old tricks again."
"Did he took his freedom for granted?"
Twilight nodded, "It seems so. He needs to checked in his place, to show that he doesn't rule Equestria again."
"Twilight," said Rainbow much louder to tear the unicorn from her thoughts, "In my dreams, Luna showed me tree." she shook her head trying to remember the dream, "On the tree where these crystals that Luna said was the Tree of Harmony."
"The Elements of Harmony!" Twilight hastily whispered . Twilight had gasped again, hurrying to grab a scroll to tell the Princess of what had just happened. She said in a much more frantic voice, "I must write to Princess Celestia as soon as possible!"
"There's no need for that," said Rainbow. Twilight had dropped the scroll and just looked at her friend in confusion. "Luna said in my dream to come and see her sister after the Wonderbolts show."
"When is that?" asked Twilight in a much calmer voice., She picked up the scroll and quill, putting them in the appropriate spot and shelf, "The Wonderbolts show, I mean."
Rainbow quickly and happily responded, "I wanted to talk to you before I took the train to Canterlot."
"Of course," Twilight had whispered to herself, "I forgot what today is."
"So, I figured go to Canterlot, see the show and talk to the Princesses. Sounds good, right Twilight?"
Twilight had shown a look of worry to her friend, "Are sure that's wise Rainbow? I mean, you just came back from the hospital two days ago."
"Come on Twilight," whinned Rainbow, "If I ever want to be Wonderbolt, I should know how the show goes."
"Rainbow, I'm just worried about your safety."
Rainbow whimpered and whined again, "Twilight, I'm a big pony now. I can handle myself."
Twilight had sighed, "Alright Rainbow, just be careful."
"Okay fine, mom." snickered Rainbow.
Twilight had glared at her, "I'm just worried about your safety."
She had laughed, started to trot towards the door, "That's what happened so far. If I ever have strange dreams. I tell you first Twilight." she opened the door and said before she exited, "I also will tell you what Luna and Celestia said as well."
Twilight had smiled again, "That would be wonderful!" Just before Rainbow was out of the door, Twilight quickly said back, "Oh Rainbow, I forgot. I was meaning to give you this." She was now levitating a book and quickly gave it to Rainbow, "The newest issue of Daring Doo, I know how much you love the books."
Rainbow grabbed the book Twilight had gave her and quickly examined the cover. A tan coated pegasus wearing a safari hat was running from a boulder holding an artifact. Rainbow had noticed that the pegasus had the same mane style and slightly the same coloring. Hers being rainbow colored and the adventure going pegasus's mane was different streaks of black. The title had read: Daring Doo and the Palace of Doom
Rainbow Dash had laughed as she examined the book, "A Daring Doo book I haven't read?"
Twilight gave a chuckle, "Does such a thing even exist?"
Rainbow had laughed and exited Twilight's treehouse. She had quickly trotted over to the train station and waited for her train to arrive. Various thoughts began to race through her mind, "This going to be so awesome!" Rainbow quickly looked over and saw a yellow coated filly with a red mane sitting at a stand. Curious, she quickly went over to the stand and saw the little filly was selling was apples. She looked at the filly as she was slumped over and bored of sitting at the stand.
"Hey, Apple Bloom." said Rainbow as she stood over the stand and grabbed the young filly's attention, "What are you doing here?"
"Howdy there Rainbow Dash." beamed Apple Bloom as she sat up when she saw Rainbow Dash had arrived closer to her,"AJ put me in charge of selling apples today."
"Really?"
"Eeyup, " came the the simple response from the filly, "Would ya like to buy some apples?"
Rainbow had looked at what the young filly had for display and simply shook her head,"What else do you got?"
Apple Bloom thought for a moment as she went under her apple stand. As she was under the apple stand, Rainbow had noticed the filly's little setup. On the top of the stand there was a drawing of an apple smiling and around the apple were several ponies dancing. The drawing had looked far too advanced to be drawn by a filly. With big bubble letters read; BUY SOME OF SWEET APPLE ACRES AMAZING APPLES
"Did you draw this all by yourself?" asked Rainbow has she looked, marveled at Apple Bloom's ability to draw.
"Eeyup." came the filly's voice as she still under her stand looking for something, "AJ said it look nice, but she has no artistic bone in her , Granny Smith said it looked amazing, but she's mah Granny. She's suppose to say things like that."
"Its pretty cool looking, keep up the good work kid." encouraged Rainbow as she noticed her words had caused Apple Bloom to smile.
Apple Bloom quickly rose up and beamed, "Thank ya kindly." she then grabbed a pie and brought it up to the stand, "I got some of Granny Smith's apple pie, if ya want it."
"I'll take the apple pie, how much?"
"Usually its five bits," Apple Bloom had said nervously as Rainbow noticed a familiar red coated pony was standing off in the distance. When the red coated stallion got distracted and was talking to another pony, the young filly got close to Rainbow and hastily whispered, "Don't tell Big Macintosh, I'll give ya the family and friends discount of two bits."
"Is that even a thing?"
"Eeyup."
"Okay," said Rainbow as she handed her the money and grabbed the pie.
"Hey Rainbow Dash, can Ah ask ya something?" asked Apple Bloom as she took the money from Rainbow.
"Sure, what is it?"
"Ah was talking to Scootaloo and she said that ya didn't even said "Hi" to her, what's that all about?"
Rainbow had sighed, "Tell her, I'll make it up to her." She saw that her train had arrived, "See you Apple Bloom." she said as he went over to the train.
"See ya Rainbow."
As she was entering the train Rainbow heard a deep voice. She quickly looked over and saw the red coated stallion was scolding Apple Bloom," How many times have Ah told ya Apple Bloom, stop giving ponies discounts."
Apple Bloom looked down at the ground and quietly said, "Ah'm mighty sorry Big Mac."
Big Mac noticed the frown on his sister's face and tried to cheer her up. He looked up and noticed the drawing on the stand, "Did ya draw this Apple Bloom?"
"Eeyup," Apple Bloom said quietly as she still looked at the ground, "AJ said I could design the stand."
"Well it's really good," smiled Big Mac as he encouraged his sister, "Keep up that good work and who knows. Maybe ya'll get yer cutie mark."
"Ya really think so Big Macintosh?" beamed Apple Bloom as she stare was no longer at the floor but now at her brother. She was no longer frowning, now giving her brother a smile.
"Eeyup," the red stallion simply responded as he smiled at his sister. His smile grew larger when he noticed she was smiling as well, "Ah'll help ya clean up."
"Thank ya Big Mac."
Rainbow had smiled at the tender moment between brother and sister as she entered the train to quickly get her seat. As the train started to move, Rainbow had started off into space with a cheeky smile now on her face. She quickly examined her Wonderbolts ticket and thought, "Why do I have a VIP access ticket?"Rainbow had only shrugged as the thought raced her mind, "Maybe it has something to do with my dream about Soarin?" She then yawned and stretched her hoofs. She tossed and turn until she found a comfortable place on her seat. She had yawned again and closed her eyes, "I should of asked Twilight about that sleeping spell."
***
A voice belonged to male pegasus could be heard from miles, "Oh no! My pie!" she shouted as if somebody had stolen something from him.
"I got it!" shouted Rainbow as she slid across the ground and made the amazing save to catch the pie before it fell to the ground. She quickly stood up and handed the stallion the pie, "There you go."
"Oh man, you're a life safer." said the male pegasus as she took the pie from Rainbow
Rainbow had shrugged, "It was nothing really."
"Can I have your name, pie saver?"
"Sure, my name is Rainbow Dash." as she looked up at the stallion. She looked in shock as she noticed he was wearing a Wonderbolt outfit."You're-"
"Cool, my name is Sorain." said the pegasus taking a bite out of the pie, totally oblivious to what Rainbow had said.
"Wait?" Rainbow had said quickly at what everything had just happened, "You're a Wonderbolt."
Sorain laughed, "Yeah I am. Hey, wanna hang out with me and the other Wonderbolt. I owe you, you saved my pie and everything."
"I would love too, but I came to the Gala with my friends and-" Rainbow quickly changed her mind as she saw Pinkie dancing all over the place and Rarity walking off with a noble looking pony, "Oh second thought, I would love too."
"Awesome," smiled Sorain as he grabbed Rainbow's hoof, "Follow me. You're gonna love it, trust me!"
"This is SO awesome!" thought Rainbow as she and Soarin were now in group surrounded by other members of the Wonderbolts, "This is the best night ever!"
Rainbow quickly woke up and looked outside her window. She saw that she had reached her destination and got ready to get out the trains. As she was about the get out the train, she heard a familiar voice.
"Hey, Rainbow Dash." she looked and saw it was Soarin who was calling her name. He was wearing the normal Wonderbolt outfit, but with the hood down revealing her messy dark blue mane, "Oh cool, you got some pie." he said as she noticed the pie she was holding, "How did you know apple pie was my favorite?"
Rainbow had shrugged, "Lucky guess?" she then handed the stallion the apple pie, "You want it?"
"You're the best." smiled Sorain as he quickly grabbed the pie from her. He then cleared his throat, "Hey, I was thinking." His face was getting hot and was blushing. He cleared his throat again, "You wanna hang out before the show begins?"
Rainbow's cheeks were getting hot and started to blush as well, "S-Sure." she stammered as she remembered dancing with him at the wedding. She remembered her blushing as she was dancing with him. She wasn't sure, did she have a crush on him? The two pegasuses started at each other, each lost in eachpony's eyes.
Soarin had given her a nervous laugh and was the first to break the stare, "O-okay cool." he stammered as well tearing his gaze from Rainbow as he started to trot a bit, "Err, follow me."
Rainbow nodded and trotted beside two pegasus were walking together out of the Canterlot train station. Several moments had passed and nopony had said a word. Soarin had finally cleared his throat in order to break the silence, "Hey can I ask you something."
"Sure."
"Err, remember the wedding? Remember that we danced and stuff like that?" said Soarin as he looked at Rainbow again.
"Yeah." she nodded as she recalled her dreams. "Did Twilight's brother get married to one of the princesses or something?" She knew Twilight had a brother and knew there was a royal wedding. She just didn't know whose wedding it was. She shrugged at the thought and listened to what Sorain had to say.
"Well, I was wondering. If you're not busy, after the show….wanna go o-"
"Sorain!" shouted a voice that made both Rainbow and Soarin to jump, the voice had belonged to bright yellow mare with a fiery orange mane. She was wearing the same outfit as Sorain was and looked angry. Her fiery orange mane had matched her quickly landed on the ground and continued to shout again, "The show starts in thirty minutes, I look away for one second and you're gone!? We have to get this done perfect. All three princesses; Cadance, Celestia, and Luna are going to be there!"
"Sorry Spitfire, I was just getting a friend from the train station." shouted back Sorain defensively. He tried to offer the mare a smile ,"The Wonderbolts are the best of the best, we never mess up a show."
Spitfire just shook her head and avoided Soarin's smile to look at Rainbow, "Glad to see you made it kiddo." she said in a much nicer tone. She then quickly turned to Sorain and shot him a angry look, "You're so lucky you're friends with one of Equestria's saviors." Spitfire quickly flapped her wings and flew up and away, "If you need me, I'll be practicing, and caring about what the Princesses think about our performances!"she shouted again as she flew away.
As Spitfire flew away from the duo, Rainbow looked back at Soarin and said, "Did I get you in trouble."
"No, don't worry about it," said Soarin as he offred Rainbow a smile, "Just Spitfire being Spitfire." His smile quickly faded to a look of defeat and mumbled, "When she's right, she's right." He looked at Rainbow and quietly said, "We should get back at the stadium before the show starts, before Spitfire gets even more angry."
Rainbow nodded in agreement and offered Soarin a reassuring smile, "Yeah, that seems like the best thing to do."
Soarin nodded as well and guided Rainbow off to where the show was being held. As the two pegasus went further and further into Canterlot, the more Rainbow had noticed the vast majority of ponies in it where unicorns. Canterlot was the place where all high class society things and ponies, buildings all made out of ivory with golden spires. Waterfalls and rivers going through it all. Soarin and Rainbow had not talked to each other since Spitfire showed, in an effort to break the silence between the two, Rainbow cleared her throat in attempt to spark some sort of conversation.
"I wouldn't guess Canterlot would be place to have a Wonderbolts show." said Rainbow as she looked so snooty unicron all over, "Rarity would fit right in." she thought as the two passed more snooty unicorns. She noticed the two unicorns that had passed them, held their heads up high.
"Why would you say that?"
"Canterlot seems to snooty for the Wonderbolts." said Rainbow looking around and quickly whispered to Soarin, "Also the majority of ponies here are unicorns."
"Is not just any show," said Sorain who was now back to his goofy self and gave Rainbow a smile, "Another year has passed under Princess Celestia's rule. Every year, a show is done in her honor."
"Really?"
"Yeah, it's been that way when Luna got banished. After a year of peace since then, the Wonderbolts would a show in honor of the Princess of the Sun."
"That's how the Princess celebrate peace?" asked Rainbow, "A Wonderbolt show is anything but peaceful."
"Hey, Princess Celestia knows how to have a good time. It's also to celebrate Princess Luna's return as well. It's been a year since her banishment on the moon ended."
Rainbow had laughed in response and smiled back at Soarin, "I guess you're right about that."
Soarin nodded, "Yup, it's been like since Princess Luna got banished to the moon. After the first year of peace, an elite aerial team was formed by the royal guard that protected Celestia. They wanted to celebrate the first year of celestial peace."
"I may of lost my memory, but I didn't lose all of it. Especially when it involves any sort of history about the Wonderbolts." shot back Rainbow has she flashed Soarin with a cocky grin, "Everypony knows why and how the Wonderbolts got formed, you learn that it in school. Its common knowledge to anypony that lives in Equestria."
Sorain had laughed too and smiled at Rainbow noticing her cocky grin, "Yeah, you know your stuff." He shot back at her with a playful smirk, "Oh yeah miss smarty pants? Do you know how the Wonderbolts got their name?"
"Legend has it, that the show was filled with so much energy a magical lighting cloud showered the crowd below. It was so amazing that the team has been called the Wonderbolts ever since." explained Rainbow as she looked at Sorain who still had his goofy grin. She then gave him a smirk, "If I want to be a Wonderbolt I should at least know the history."
Soarin laughed and smiled back to her, "Yeah, I guess you're right about that."
"It's still some awesome piece of history," remarked Rainbow as she smiled at Soarin and looked into his green eyes. She felt her cheeks get hot, but she ignored the feeling and continued to smile at him "But then again, anything involving the Wonderbolts is awesome in my book."
"Yeah, your right. That is pretty awesome history." smiled Soarin as he gazed slightly into Rainbow's magenta eyes, "I agree, anything that involves the Wonderbolts is pretty awesome in my book too."
The gaze had caused the cyan pegasus to blush as she was the first to break the gaze, as she looked up and saw that they were in front of stadium with blinking lights going off, "Is it that the stadium?"
Soarin had looked up and nodded, "Yup, that's it." Soarin then looked back at Rainbow, "Hey, wanna see us practice?"
Rainbow froze for a moment and had stared off into space for a moment. She ignored how hot her face felt and ignored the blush on her face as she looked back at Soarin and nodded, "If I do, will Spitfire shout at you again?"
"No," Sorain had shrugged, "She has other things to look after. Besides, I'm second in command."
"Really?"
"Yeah, when Spitfire isn't around, I get to command the Wonderbolts in her place."
"How often does that happen?"
Soarin sighed and muttered, "Usually never. She never misses a show or practice. It's almost like she lives and breathes the Wonderbolts," Sorain had noticed Rainbow didn't a word he said and just flashed a goofy grin at her, "Hey Rainbow, a little birdie told me that you wanna be a Wonderbolt?"
"Yeah," Rainbow nodded and gave him a smirk, "It's been my dream since I was filly. I wanted to be like them since I saw them in the first show I ever saw with my dad."
"Your dad sounds pretty cool." said Sorain as he offered the cyan pegasus another smile, "The again, anything involving you seems to be pretty awesome."
Rainbow had nodded again and smiled in return, "Yeah, he is. He taught me how to fly. He also told me that any dream is possible, I just got to make them a reality."
Soarin had smiled back in return, "Well, what are we waiting for? Come one, let's go!"" Soarin went in front of Rainbow and opened the door for her to enter. He gestured for her to go through the door first, "After you."
Rainbow had laughed and went into the door. She smiled back at him, "Well, aren't you the gentlecolt."
Soarin laughed along as he entered into the stadium as well still wearing that goofy grin on his face, "I try."
As Rainbow and Soarin entered into the stadium, she looked in awe in what was infront of her. She looked saw rings that hung in the air as she looked and saw pegasus fly threw the rings and saw other pegasus doing various aerial moves. All had moved elegantly and gracefully as the made various designs. She saw the pegasuses doing an aerial performance that resembled a sun. It looked like the morning sun, rising from the ground.
"That move is called the Icaranian Sun Salutation that's Princess Celestia's favourite.," explained Sorain as brought up his hood and goggles, "There's a another one too, called the Lunar Night Cycle, Princess Luna likes that one."
Soarin quickly flew up to join the others. They were doing the Lunar Night Cycle and Rainbow noticed how elegant and fast they had moved. She noticed how fast each pegasus moved to make each moon cycle, she also noticed one of the pegasus messing had thought it looked amazing, and felt the one pony messing up was unnoticeable at first. She saw a familiar looking pegasus shouting, she recognized the voice belonged to Spitfire.
"You finally showed up," Spitfire had said bitterly as she shot an angry glare at Soarin and continued to shout again at the other Wonderbolts.
"Come one Spitfire, lay off them." Soarin had said calmly and quietly muttered, "And lay off me too."
"Well excuse me for wanting to make sure our performance is perfect for the Princesses to see." shouted back Spitfire giving Sorain another angry glare.
Soarin had only let a heavy sigh as he said calmly, "Come on Spitfire, I'm second in command. You don't have to treat me like a recruit."
"Then arrive to practice on time then," Spitfire shot backed. She then looked and noticed Rainbow and shouted, "You hear to watch?" Rainbow nodded and Spitfire shouted back, "Take notes kid; if you wanna be a Bolt, you gotta know the routine.