It was the next day and Rainbow Dash had come to the Sky Stadium, the same stadium which held the Best Young Flyers competition, very early. She was ridiculously anxious! Last night, Rainbow Dash had sent a letter back to Spitfire, asking if she was free for noon. It turned out that she was, and Rainbow Dash was ecstatic that everything turned out well.
Twilight Sparkle was with Rainbow Dash at the Sky Stadium, waiting for Photo Finish to arrive by balloon. When she was to arrive, Twilight would perform a quite simple walking-on-clouds spell so Photo Finish and her crew could take photos from the stands of the stadium.
Suddenly, a group of the most famous Wonderbolts zoomed into the stadium. It was Fleetfoot, Surprise, Blaze, Misty Fly, Soarin', and Spitfire. The 6 Wonderbolts flew over to Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
"Hey guys! Are you ready do to take some pictures?" Rainbow Dash asked.
The Wonderbolts all nodded in one accord. Spitfire then said, "We got together early this morning to practice some things. We're certainly ready."
At that moment, a pink and purple hot air balloon decorated with swirling designs burst through a few wispy clouds which were drifting next to the stadium. In the basket stood Photo Finish and her two assistants. The hot air balloon drifted to a flat part of the stadium, where it landed and magically tied itself down, creating a knot from clouds.
With a pink blast of magic from Twilight, Photo Finish and her assistants were able to walk on the clouds. The three ponies climbed out of the hot air balloon, and with a little bounce, Photo Finish said, "I, Photo Finish, have arrived."
Rainbow Dash flew over to Photo Finish, and gestured to the Wonderbolts. "Introducing... the Wonderbolts!" Rainbow then flew over each of their heads as she introduced them one by one. "Fleetfoot... Surprise... Blaze... Misty Fly..." she blushed a tiny bit at this next one, "...Soarin'... and their leader, Spitfire!"
"Okay, should we get on with it?" Soarin' asked, elbowing Spitfire.
"Ya, we should," Photo Finish said. "Wunderbolts, get into your positions so I can make... ze magics!"
Spitfire nodded and the 6 ponies flew up into the air, disappearing into the clouds for a split second. Photo Finish's assistants set up her camera and she got ready to shoot.
Rainbow Dash squealed a little. "EEEEE! This is awesome!"
"This is going to be great-- an amazing photographer and an amazing team of flyers working on a collaboration!" Twilight said, obviously excited. She looked up at the sky where the Wonderbolts just were and smiled.
Suddenly, a burst of grey-black smoke appeared and the Wonderbolts zoomed out of it in all directions. Spitfire was flying straight up; Misty Fly and Fleetfoot were zooming left; Blaze and Surprise were bolting right, and Soarin' was corkscrewing straightforward... right for Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow tried to dash out of the way of the flailing, falling Soarin', but it was too late. Soarin' crashed on top of Rainbow Dash and they slid through the fluffy white clouds of the stadium. It didn't hurt in the least bit; they were laughing the entire time.
As they slid to a stop, Soarin' hopped off of Rainbow Dash. "Sorry about that," he said, bashfully smiling.
"Oh, it's alright." Rainbow Dash was still giggling a little. Okay, so she had to admit to herself that she liked Soarin' a little. Just a tiny, eensey-weensey little bit. She certainly wasn't going to tell anypony about her tiny, eensey-weensey crush.
The remaining Wonderbolts and Twilight raced over to Rainbow Dash and Soarin'. Photo Finish trotted behind.
"Are you okay, Soarin'?" Fleetfoot asked.
"Does everypony feel fine?" Twilight inquired.
"Will you be able to fly the rest of today?" Surprise questioned.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," Soarin' answered. He then helped Rainbow Dash to stand up by offering one of his forehooves. She gladly accepted and stood up. "Now, are you okay, Rainbow Dash?"
She nodded. "I'm doing fine. Everything's cool."
Finding that everypony was okay, Spitfire then spoke. "Okay, I'm glad nopony hurt himself--" she then looked over at Soarin' and Rainbow, who were still standing next to each other, "--Or somepony else. Soarin', please be careful. Remember what we went over this morning"
Soarin' nodded. "I'll try, Spitfire."
"Okay, Photo Finish, did you get any shots before Soarin's crash?" Spitfire asked.
Photo Finish ran up to the front to talk to Spitfire face-to-face. She bounced a little after she stopped, bob bobbing with her bound. "Ya, quite a few. It iz a nice day for taking photos."
"Wonderful," Spitfire said, a slight bit of sarcasm dripping from her word. "Okay, now, I think we might need another pony to complete this next trick." Spitfire looked over at Rainbow Dash. "Hey Dash, would you like to fill that spot?"
Rainbow Dash saluted and said, "I'd be honored."
"Alright, I'll show you the basics, we'll practice once, and then we can do a final photoshoot run." Spitfire clapped her forehooves together. "We'll be doing the Cartwheel-Corkscrew Twist. Wonderbolts, let's move, move, move!"
And with that, everypony went their separate ways. Twilight, Photo Finish, and her crew tried to find optimal lighting angles and photo positions; Fleetfoot, Surprise, Blaze, and Misty Fly went off to practice their parts of the trick; and Spitfire and Soarin' went to teach Rainbow Dash the Cartwheel-Corkscrew Twist.
Today has already been pretty great, and it's just going to get better! Rainbow Dash thought.
She was right, that day was going to get better. She wasn't aware, though, just how much better it was going to get.