The crushed dreams
"Well, this was a great - tiring; but great journey.", cheered Fluttershy with her small voice.
Turning to her friend, Fluttershy read on her face an upset and concerned expression. She didn't ask questions, afraid that her friend would react badly. After a while of walking and waiting, she decided to ask her anyway:
"Oh, Rainbow. What's wrong?"
"Nothing", muttered the rainbow-maned Pegasus.
"I know something is on your mind", she insisted. "You can tell me."
"It's just that... I realize... The Wonderbolts suck! I mean, not in flight. They're great at that but... See how they ditched Soarin' for me? That's not loyalty, it's my opposite. I can't join a flight team where you give up on your teammates."
An awkward silent installed. Rainbow Dash was devastated. Her favorite fliers, the best fliers in all of Equestria were just big ditching jerks. They didn't know the true value of friendship. She even wondered if the Wonderbolts were all friends... Probably not. Or maybe Spitfire was really one of the worst friend a pony could ever have. All she needs is her wings, other good wings, and victory. RD thought she learned something about friendship when Lightning Dust was there. But apparently not.
"I understand. They're really mean, I must say... Maybe you could make your own flight team."
"Fluttershy...", her friend murmured, her eyes widening and sparkling. "You're a genius!"
"I am?"
"She is?", a Pinkie Pie hopped out of a bush. "I was just passing by and heard you talk."
"Pinkie Pie, I'm making my own flight team. Sorry girls, gotta go!"
The blue Pegasus dashed to the sky, a rainbow-colored trail behind her. She had to write down the names of all the Pegasi she knew and she could count on. Which means, no Spitfire, no Fleetfoot. She hopped on a cloud, then took off again, the mane in the wind. Flying really was her destiny. Her Cutie Mark told her! But her Cutie Mark didn't say she had to be a Wonderbolt. She didn't even want to anymore. Finally, she reached her house and went in. She was a bit tired, but she had to work for her new flight team. She yawned and stretched and sat at her old desk. It was so dirty! She didn't use it for ages, since she didn't have any homework. She even felt strange to touch a pencil.
"There goes nothing... Now let's see... Twilight. Nah, she's a lousy flier. Fluttershy? She can fly fast with a bit of motivation. And by a bit... I mean a lot. Who else... Cloudchaser and Flitter, of course! Hmm, also Thunderlane, Blossomforth, Helia..."
And on and on. Rainbow spent the whole night writing down names. There were quite a lot. Now she realized how popular and how many friends she had. And when she saw that, her heart bumped fast and loud. She felt like all those ponies were supporting her... Then she boosted and wrote down more names. But unfortunately, some of those names had to go. At that thought, the blue Pegasus sighed: she didn't want anybody to be left out...
Rainbow Dash was so asleep she didn't even hear the knocking at her door. After a few more loud knocks, she moaned, grumbled and opened her eyes. It was morning already. She turned at the paper where she wrote everything about her new flight team: during the night, she drooled on it! Her eyes widened in shock and she muttered:
"Oh no oh no oh no oh no I'M COMING oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no . . ."
Fortunately, only a few names were blurry. She retraced and dried the paper a bit. The knocking became even more pressed. She flew as fast as she could to the door, annoyed. When she opened it, she saw a familiar yellow face and a purple face looking at her. Twilight and Fluttershy, of course. Behind them, in the floating thing, were Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie Pie.
"What *yawn* do you want?", she asked, rubbing her sleepy eyes.
"Fluttershy told me about your project", said Twilight. "It sounds very interesting!"
"Yes, it is... Is that all you wanted?"
"Darling, you MUST tell us about it! ALL about it!", insisted Rarity.
"Fine", the cyan pegasus finally smiled. "Come in!"
The 6 friends all followed Rainbow Dash in and sat at the living room table. Rainbow Dash told them to wait so she could go get the paper. They sat there and waited before Rainbow came back from her room. She had her pencil behind the ear. She put the paper flat on the table, everypony looking at it.
"I made a list of all the ponies that could be in my team!", she explained.
"There are... quite a lot", noticed Applejack.
"I know... I'll have to erase some names. Maybe you could help me?", asked Dash.
"It's your flight team, not ours", replied the purple Alicorn.
"You could maybe pick the ones that would be interested in joining your team", proposed Pinkie.
"Yeah. I'll have to make the decisions myself. I can do this! Thanks for the tip, Pinkie.", she exclaimed.
Her friends walked at the door and waved. Rainbow sat down and ran down the list with her eyes. There were a lot of great fliers in there... She took out her pencil and stroked some pony's names who wouldn't really be interested. Her list was emptying, but a few good and interested fliers rested on the paper. She smiled, but then something popped out in her brain: she needed a name for her flight team! And an icon, too.
"Hmm... The Prism Dashes? The Spectrums? The Rainbooms? I kind of like Rainboom... I'll need somepony creative to help me."
She knew just the one.
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Sorry RD but the Rainbooms was already taken by "You".
5255656 Actuallyyyy this is before Rainbow Rocks lol xD and she doesn't know what happens in the human world. You got any ideas? ;^;
5255660 Well, how about the antithesis of the Wonderbolts? I am of course referring to the Shadowbolts from the Season 1 premiere, as a way to mock them in a sense.
5255726 Yeah, but I thought Shadowbolt's a too dark name and you know. It would sound evilll
5255730 Let's see...Thunderbolts or Rainbolts come to mind at the moment. Why not make a poll and let the fans decide?
5255736 Yeah, I shall do that, thanks. I like Rainbolt.
5255754 Happy to help out a fellow author.
It's not a bad idea for a story; I think you have to ignore that Spitfire seems to have learnt the lesson of Loyalty at the end of Rainbow Falls but, hey! This is fanfiction! That's less of an AU jump than most!
FWIW, It wasn't the first time that Spitfire made a sucky command decision based on valuing flash and raw performance over maintaining a good team dynamic. I don't know about the Wonderbolts as a whole but I, for one, would hesitate to join a team whose leader is so ethically flexible.
Did someone already do the 'make her own team, with blackjack and hookers' joke?
5256130 In fact, forget the team.
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But what if it's a team of hookers?
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Damn it... You beat me to it. Regardless here's Bender anyway.
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Sorry but I have to go with Shadowbolts.
Reasons
The Wonderbolts have a very good name and are, in this universe, not so good underneath.
They are composed and directed by the pegasi attached to Celestias part of the military.
The Shadowbolts would have a name that has not so good connotations but would be very different underneath.
They could have Lunas backing, which might mean Thestral members and night shows.
This also giving some equality between the sisters as well as major comptiono for the Wonderbolts
5256383 I was thinking more along the lines of either soiling the Wonderbolts' name (since they are similar) and/or teach the Wonderbolts how they should behave. It's a good tone-down from RD's egocentric name ideas (RD seem to be one of the few characters who can be awfully egocentric without being annoying... yeah, she's a cool gal).
This concept is very, very good. But you need some more editing. Dear author, take come time to come up with chapters and try to fill them with more substance. A pre-reader to catch mistakes and to help you write it perfectly is fine too.
Jokes aside, you've got the ball going, author. Do not drop it!
Derpy should join.
Not only was she fast enough... well, the best choice for the relay race when almost everypony else was already in teams, but with the almighty power of headcanon I'm quite sure she'd be a great stunt flyer.
I imagine that she can't fly straight, so she learned how to do weird things like fly upside down, backwards, or sideways, so she can keep going forward when she can't tell which direction the ground is.
5256287 That's a good point.
5256569 I agree!
5257018 Ehhh too much "bo" lol xD
Sonic Rainbooms
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So far so good.
You know I think the Wonderbolts are technically part of Equestria's military so the smarter thing to do would be to have Twilight use her royal powers to launch an investigation into the Wonderbolts to see just how badly the team has been compromised. Rainbow falls plus numerous incidents in other episodes tells me something has gone seriously wrong with the program. Heck I'd wager the current Wonderbolts would fail the "Bell Test" from Naruto right now...
5258271 Thanks! i really meant that the fliers were interested though
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How'd they find out and let Dashie know though? You show that she doesn't leave the house. Other than Twilight saying it was a lot of fliers, nopony's been over to visit Dashie so she would be unable to know of interested parties.
It comes across like ponies with interesting flying abilities, or skills. But if you id mean interested. A few lines about either Twilight letting others know, or something. And saying ashe'd let them know to stop by if they're inerested. Or something along those lines.
5261195 ..... What's Twilight role in all this again? o__O
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XD. Well Twilight, Flutters and friends came to visit Rainbow Dash. But all they did was look at the list, say "wow that's a lot of ponies!" then left. Adding a line or two about Twilight telling other fliers if they're interested or what not. Would make the interested fliers bit make sense. Since at the moment there'd be no way that they'd know about the flight thing since Rainbow Dash hasn't left her home to tell others.
And it could give a bit more meat on the visit the friends made. Since all that really happened was they say it sounds like a good idea, that there were a lot of ponies on the list, and left to let RD work on the list.
Shots fired!
This does kind of fit Rainbow, though. She's loyal, not Miss Sensitive.
"Super cool" does not sound like something the purple bookworm would say. Something more formal like "very interesting" or such would be more in-character.
This is an interesting concept. I hope it works out.
5261676 You're right about Twilight I should rectify that xP
Just go and ask Luna, if her (well, Nightmare's) offer to be the leader of the Shadowbolts still stands?
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No interested is the right word here. Dash is crossing off the ponies she thinks wouldn't be interested in joining a flight team. Since she seems to pulling from a list of ponies she knows this would work without her asking or telling anyone else about it.
That being said this story could use a round of proof reading. Interesting concept though so it's got my favorite for the moment.
I was seriously expecting her to name them the Sonic Booms and having a motto like,
"If you aren't breaking sound or going deaf, then you aren't flying fast enough."
Well, time to get off my lazy ass and comment on this, considering I fav'd and everything...
Potential Teammates: Thunderlane's a lock, Derpy and Bulk would be nice, too. I was thinking about Flash, before realizing this takes place during Season 4, thus making it impossible to get him away from the Crystal Empire. (Shame too, since he only appears in FlashLight fics) Cloud Kicker, maybe? Also, Scootaloo for lolz.
Team Name: Eh, whatever works for you.
On another note, the "Blackjack and Hookers" joke must be made in-universe by someone. It doesn't matter who, just someone.
5263158 That's a cool motto!
Even before Rainbow Falls the Wonderbolts have always been questionable.
Hurricane Fluttershy: Spitfire didn't help with the tornado.
Secret Of My Excess: They couldn't stop Spike.
Wonderbolt Academy: Spitfire approved of one of her students cheating, and at the end she scolded RD for not wanting to be a danger to herself and those around her, and even waited until the last possible second before talking...or in her case confronting RD. In Spitfire's mind she was not responsible for the safety of her students, or even for chaperoning her students. In Spitfire's mind RD was in the wrong for wanting to be honorable by leaving the Wonderbolts. "How dare you storm off without giving me a chance to explain myself!"...How dare she? HOW DARE SHE!?!?!
HOW DARE SHE!!!!!!!?!?! How dare YOU avoid doing your job by not supervising the students, how dare YOU for supporting cheating, how dare YOU make an injured pegasus continue to fly, how dare YOU almost get 5 civilians and most of your own students killed!
Sonic Rainboom: The Wonderbolts straight up get knocked out by Rarity. Seriously? How can strong athletes be knocked out so easily by somepony like her? That's like if Lance Armstrong got knocked out by Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Also, they never really do anything spectacular, other than shoot smoke out of their butts. So they aren't really that good at flying really.
At first I thought RD would join them and get them into shape, but the episode Testing Testing 1 2 3 shows that RD is starting to slowly be acting like THEM.
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Greta Thunberg confirmed.