For the honor to perform at the Gala: Shadow Bolts vs. Wonderbolts!
For the honor to perform at the Gala: Shadow Bolts vs. Wonderbolts!
Rarity was taking measures of her friends, letting her imagination flow to create the perfect dresses for them. She just finished with Applejack and was about to start with Rainbow Dash, who was staring to Twilight waiting if the purple alicorn would tell the truth about the immortality, but of course she wouldn’t.
In fact Twilight seemed absent and thoughtful, and the whole situation annoyed Dash. Why did she wouldn’t tell the truth?
“Okay, I have what I needed” smiled Rarity. “It’s like you haven’t change a bit since last time I measured you, apparently Father Time doesn’t’ affect us, just kidding! Anyway, it’s a relieve for me”
Twilight smiled nervously while Twilight was glaring at her, but then the Boutique’s door opened letting pass the team of chaos.
Rarity frowned.
“What are YOU doing here? Another of your pranks perhaps?” She said visibly annoyed with their presence. “Because if it’s for that I inform you I have tons of work and your stupidities have delayed me enough. Now get out and…”
“In fact we came to make a deal” explained Dark evaluating the dresses for Rarity’s irritation. “You’re an enemy and all but there’s no better designer in Equestria. That’s why want you to design our dresses for the Gala”
Rarity couldn’t believe it.
“Are you telling me somepony invited you?”
“Any problem?” Mocked Mist with an insolent spark on his eye.
Rarity was furious, especially with Black who had especial talent to piss her off more than the other agents of chaos. By their way Twilight and Rainbow were wondering how it’ll end when finally Black show her true face. But they’ll had to wait until Twilight reveal her own truth.
Luckily Pinkie interrupted the discussion by bouncing into them.
“So you’re coming to the Gala! Cool, I thought it would be as boring as the last ones but you’ll assure it would be a hell of a party!”
“Laughs assured Pinkie, laughs assured” said Night Seed making a high-hoof with her counterpart, who excitedly returned the gesture.
Shadow slapped Applejack at the back as old friends and winked an eye to her.
“I understand last time Princess Celestia declared that thanks to your disaster it was the best Gala ever; so we’ll defeat you one more time, show all Equestria why the team of chaos is the best”
Applejack pushed Shadow away.
“Who do ya’ think ya’ are? This is not funny, you’re nothing but a bunch of spoiled brats and A’ swear why if A had a Harmony Grenade A’ll see who ya really are right now”
Again Rainbow glared at Twilight like inviting her to tell the truth but it won’t happen.
“Enough!” Commanded Rarity. “I’ll appreciate you to go out of my Boutique and never come back, understood?”
Spike made appear a diamond and offered it to Rarity, but it didn’t work since it remembered her when Discord tricked her with a giant rock; even if the diamond war real this time.
“Or do you prefer lots of small diamonds?” Asked Spike clacking his fingers and turning the big diamond into a cart full of them. “Or bits, I just have to go to a Pawn House with those babies”
“We need something fancy but also that allows freedom of movement” instructed Black. “We’ll need to run the hell out of the Gala when things escalate for the last level”
Rarity looked at her friends like asking for advice. Applejack was as annoyed as her but she was the only one, Pinkie Pie was obviously at the Agent’s side so as Rainbow and Twilight. Fluttershy didn’t care.
Then Mist approached with an ‘innocent’ smile.
“And we add an extra” he said offering her six golden tickets. “For every outfit you make us, we’ll add a magical pass to make you invulnerable to our pranks. No matter what we plan, only show us one of these and that prank won’t affect you”
Rarity sighed defeated.
“Make it seven and we have a deal”
Spike offered her an extra ticked and she shook his claw, the deal was set. Then the fashionista looked at her friends.
“A little help? The sooner we help them, the sooner we’ll get rid of them as well”
Applejack shook her head.
“A’ can’t believe what you just did but whatever. Have anypony showed you how to behave?”
“Camouflage Powers” explained Shadow. “You’ll never know who we are”
Applejack frowned but took measures of the little filly and showed her the way out of the Boutique. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie also took measures of their respectives counterparts; the only ones who didn’t joined were Twilight and Rainbow Dash, who silently left the building and waited for the agents of chaos outside.
“Ey, what’s up?” Said Spike leading his team when they finally went out.
“Do you know how bad idea is go and provoke Rarity and Applejack before telling them?” Asked Twilight. “Girls, I need time to tell them but if you keep behaving like that…”
“It was my idea Twi” said Spike. “You can’t avoid the subject forever, we have to pressure you somehow. Besides it’s not even your fault the six of you are immortals!”
“On the first place you shouldn’t tell your agents Spike!” Complained Twilight.
“Ey, don’t vent your frustrations on me; you should tell the truth as soon you knew!”
Rainbow nodded.
“I hate to admit it but this time I’m on their side, tell the rest already!”
Twilight sighed.
“Yeah, I suppose you’re right, but give me some more time okay? I have to find the right time and your little trick only angered them”
“It was a bad idea from the very beginning, but not as bad as I dressed Angel as the Five Nights bunny to tranquilize Fluttershy” said Mist.
“Speaking of Fluttershy, how is she?” Asked Dark.
“Better. Maybe your idea was bad but it helped her realize how badly she needs help” said Twilight. “And Spike’s donative helped to pay doctor Sigamane Freud’s sessions. At least she is not afraid of real bears, chickens and rabbits anymore”
The team of chaos sighed relieved.
Then Derpy arrived flying destroying Big Mac’s kiosk in the process crashing to a tree.
Rainbow and Twilight helped her to stand up and the mare gave them a warm smile.
“Derpy, are you alright?” Asked Twilight.
“Sorry Twi, I just don’t know what went wrong” giggled the gray Pegasus.
“It’s a mystery” ironized Rainbow. “So what’s up Derpy?”
The gray mare offered a letter to Rainbow very happy.
“It can’t be! A letter from the Wonderbolts!”
“What does it say?” Asked Dark approaching to Rainbow.
Rainbow Dash proudly read it aloud:
“Dear Rainbow Dash, as a reserve member of our team we need you to report immediately to our personal Stadium to train hard. There’s no time to explain, we can only say that we’re gathering our best recruits to help us with a very important presentation. Our reputation is in danger Rainbow Dash.
Spit Fire.
“How cool is that?” Smiled Rainbow. “See you girls, my team needs me!”
And she flew to the Wonderbot Stadium at full speed, where Spit Fire, Soarin, Fleet Foot, Rapid Fire, Lighting Dust for some reason and another recruit called East Wind were waiting already.
“Sorry for the delay, I came as soon as I got the letter, what’s going on?”
Fleet Foot nodded in approval.
“We knew we could count on you Rainbow Dash. Thank you all for coming. As you already know, we have a very delicate situation between hooves”
Rainbow raised an eyebrow just as East Wind and Lighting Dust. What the hay was going on?
Spit Fire shook her head and began:
“As you already know, six months ago Princess Luna completely reformed her personal Guard including a new Royal Airforce; leaded by the strongest warrior Equestria ever knew. But also that captain, the damn Black Swordsman, formed his own team of air athletes to compete with us and we’re not going to allow it”
“So as usual you want to defeat the Shadow Bolts” sighed East Wind.
“This is no game!” Shouted Soarin. “ After they defeated us on last Cloudsdale Fest, Princess Celestia agreed with her sister to bet our position as official performers at the Great Galloping Gala in a competition between them and us. Wonderbolts vs. Shadow Bolts face to face for the honor to perform at the Gala. We’ve being underestimating them for too long and now we’re paying the consequences, well it’s time work hard. That’s why we called you, it’s because we need the best of the bests to defeat the Shadows!”
Both veterans and recruits shouted in excitement.
Spit Fire cracked her neck.
“Good, that’s the energy we need to win. Prepare youngsters, this is going to be along weekend; remember this is no game, is for the honor of the Wonderbolts!”
They began to train, all the new recruits were really excited; and were more than ready to show the veterans they were ready to belong to them. Especially Rainbow Dash and Lighting Dust.
When they finished for the day Spit Fire gave them all a few tickets to invite their families.
“Here you go, invite friends and family to watch us defeat the exhibitioners of Black Swordsman and Lighting Flash once and for all”
The recruits smiled excitedly and went to the special dorms the Wonderbolts prepared for them. Rainbow was the most excited of all, she was about to show what she was capable of not only to Spit Fire, but also to Wings of Darkness; a member the Shadow Bolts who ended up being really close to her. She bumped into him in a bar one day and since then both Rainbow and Wings of Darkness were really close friends, maybe something else in the not so distant future.
But then the cyan Pegasus remembered the immortality thing and sighed. Why it had to happen to her?
The rest of the weekend was kind of fun, full of hard training for both Wonderbolts and Shadow Bolts under the vigilant eyes of their leaders, waiting for the time of truth: the face-off in Cloudsdale. Everypony were talking about, were the Wonderbolts would finally fell before the all mighty Shadow Bolts?
Anyway, waiting for the weekend Rumble arrived to the chaos headquarters:
“Girls! I just had the best of ideas!” He announced. “This Saturday everypony will be too busy watching the face-off between Wondres and Shadows; so the Weather Factory would be practically empty. Why don’t we mess up with the ingredients of weather?”
They all jumped excitedly.
“Mist, you’re such a talent!” Cheered Dark. “If we mix the weather ingredients with our own…”
“The grownups who spread the chaos instead of us. Dude, you’re freaking awesome!” Said Shadow.
“The only problem is that we’ll miss the face-off” sighed Black.
“Who cares? I didn’t get a ticket” said Night.
“Neither me” sighed Night. “So I’m free to have fun”
“Same here” said Shadow. “What about you Mist?”
“Well, yeah, my parents are soldiers of the Lunar Airforce remember? Directly under the Black Swordsman’s command! Anyway that day they would be busy and I’ll had to assist alone with my brother; and I wanted to go with them. Thunder will understand and even if he works at the Weather Factory he won’t tell to his partners”
Night raised an eyebrow.
“You told Thunder?”
“Hell yeah, since Dark was caught I told him and my parents; and they took it very well, they’re proud of me”
“Such relaxed parents!” mumbled Shadow Bloom.
Spike nodded.
“I know, but we’ll talk about Rumble’s family later, right now we have a plan to concentrate in. Rumble, pal that was just brilliant”
And they began to plan, as good agents of chaos they were always ready to make a disaster.
And the great day arrived!
Saturday Rainbow Dash and the rest of the Wonderbolts met at Cloudsdale Stadium ready to change and began the performance. But must for Spit Fire’s irritation, they met with their rivals, the Shadow Bolts.
“Morning” said the Black Swordsman as always. “Ready for today’s competition?”
“You don’t need to ask Swordsman, we’re always ready” said Spit Fire grinding her teeth.
Black Swordsman smiled sincerely.
“Let the best team win”
“Thank you loser” said Spit Fire, “now come on! We have to hurry, or are you already giving up before the mighty Wonderbolts?”
The rest of the team followed while Black Swordsman shrugged.
“Speaking of competitive spirit. Okay guys, let’s move!”
The rest of the Shadow Bolts followed except for one, who stayed behind along with Rainbow Dash (much for Soarin’s anger). Wings of Darkness.
“Ey Rainbow, what’s up? Ready to see who is the best once and for all?”
“Always ready Wings of Darkness, always ready. But it’s kind of sad Wings, are you hiding before your team to have an excuse to lose to me?”
“Don’t blame me for your own plans sore loser”
They both stared each other and laughed happily with a friendly smile; truly things were very good between the two of them even if Soarin didn’t like it.
But he couldn’t go threat the night flyer because in that time they were called by their respective captains and then moved on to the arena.
“ATTENTION ALL COMPETITORS, PLEASE PASS TO THE ARENA, THE FACE-OFF IS ABOUT TO START”
And as always as the opening act, Spit Fire and the Black Swordsman shook hooves before the hour of truth.
Now, speaking of the hour of truth, on the surroundings of the Weather Factory, a group of black foals leaded by a black and purple dragon arrived to the entrance, where a half-sleep security guard was complaining on his cabin. The team of chaos hid behind a column but it was unnecessary, the guard was too angry to notice.
“And all because I arrived five minutes late yesterday! Come on, I wanted to see the Wonderbolts fall, but no, the boss put me in here. I wish you burn in hell”
Mist raised an eyebrow but quickly noticed a few pigeons near and after speaking a little to them the birds flew to the guard annoying him even more. Of course the Pegasus took a broom and began to chase the birds while the team of chaos passed in front of his cabin and found the main key under the carpet.
“Too easy” sighed Dark.
“Considering the crime rate in Cloudsdale is almost zero, I’m not really surprised” said Mist.
“Enough talking we have to mix our especial ingredients before anypony notices” said Spike. “Now let’s separate: Mist and Dark, as pegasi you can reach the highest level of the plant, where the clouds are made; add your ingredients there. Night and Shadow, do whatever you can with the rainbows and Black; you and I let’s mix our stuff with the water for rain and snow. Are you all ready? Good, let’s move on!”
And they ran to accomplish their missions, at the water station Spike smiled while taking two carts he had with his magic. On the first one he had powdered milk, on the other one cocoa powder.
“An old favorite Discord’s classic” said the dragon in good mood.
Black smiled to him and took a book from her saddlebag.
“Here! The deodorant and transparency spell; no pony will notice we add something to the rain”
They both chuckled and after adding the milk and the chocolate, Black turned it undetectable with the two spells; very easy to cast but only worked in small amounts; except that with Black’s tremendous power (equivalent with Twilight’s when she was still a unicorn) it was more than enough hide the prank in the whole water supply of the Weather Factory.
“Mission accomplished” smiled Black to Spike. “Wanna do something while we wait for the others?”
Spike blushed.
“Sure. You know Sweetie? I don’t know but, have I ever told you that I like to spend time with you more than with the others? I mean, it’s great and all to spend time with all of you guys but with you is just… special”
Sweetie giggled.
“I know, I feel the same way Spike”
They both approached to each other’s lips when Spike burped a letter with his messenger breath:
RETREAT, PONIES ENTERING THE FACTORY, RETREAT!
“Great!” Complained both and ran away.
But they couldn’t advance much since the ponies were approaching where they were. Spike quickly made them both invisible when they saw two ponies who weren’t workers of the factory entered; how they knew they didn’t work there? because of the uniforms: both of them had their respective insignias as Wonderbolts and Shadow Bolts helpers.
“So why are we taking this clouds again?” Asked one.
“I don’t know, for their dumb competition I think”
They took the clouds and after check it were the quantities required by their bosses they moved them to the stadium.
When they left Spike made he and Sweetie visibles again.
“Is just me or Rainbow Dash is going to kill Scoots?”
“Well she can use her Sonic Dark Explosion to escape” mumbled Spike.
And they both escaped, in case something went wrong; all of them knew the emergency procedure.
…
Back to the competition both teams were tied, demonstrating they were at the same level. Spit Fire glared to the Black Swordsman, who calmly smiled to her.
“So it reduces to this, an obstacle race with relieves”
“You’re gonna lose” snarled Spit Fire.
Swordsman gave her a confident shrug and both captains flew to their positions waiting for the competition to start.
The referee explained the rules:
“Okay, this is the last competition; the winner will perform at the Gala this year so you better prepare yourselves. Each team will divide in six relieves to fly in a track with the most vicious obstacle we ever created and I assure you: you’re gonna sweat as never before”
Everypony examined the track: enormous pendulums moving left to right at great speed to destabilize the competitors, canons loaded with confetti and fireworks to make them los concentration; lasers to temporary blind the athletes during the race, wind tunnels and such. But the worst par were the clouds hyper-charged with electricity and rain. A movement in false and they would spend at least a week in the hospital.
“See the clouds? Are there as weapons. You can threw each other to make you fall in the obstacles or worst, but you’re only allowed to use the clouds, any tool or weapon would mean instant disqualification. Understood?”
The whole audience muttered, this was going to be really hard for both teams.
In the meantime at the VIP seats, the Bearers of Harmony were seeing their friend’s performance very closely.
“And why Scootaloo isn’t here?” Asked Fluttershy softly.
“They didn’t gave Rainbow Dash enough tickets” explained Twilight. “In fact, I came with my Royalty Ticket”
“But any of us would mind to give our ticket to poor Scootaloo” said Rarity. “Isn’t Rainbow Dash’s little sister after all? Any would understand that”
“Rarity is right, why Rainbow didn’t invited her?” Asked Applejack.
Twilight sighed, hoping not having to answer too many questions.
“The thing is Scootaloo will see this by her own” said Twilight not wanting to mention it was thanks to Spike.
Luckily for her the competition began before her friends asked her more things.
The captains would start the race while the rest will wait until the right time; and Rainbow was lucky to wait along with her friend Wings of Darkness.
“Ey, if you win I buy you a drink”
“Same here” said the Shadow Bolt. “And by the way, my true name is Eternal, Eternal Wings. That Darkness stuff is only my artistic name”
“Good to know” smiled Rainbow. “You can keep calling me The Dash”
They both nodded with a playful smile while the competition began. The referee took his position and began:
“THREE, TWO, ONE, GO!!”
Black Swordsman and Spit Fire lifted off at great speed, moving professionally all over the track.
The first obstacle: the giant pendulums, but it was no problem for the two experimented flyers. Both of them with their own strengths: Spit Fire’s, her speed; the Black Swordsman, his agility and reaction. Spit Fire grinded her teeth, she knew Black had the advantage in this one so she had to do something.
Taking one of the clouds the assistants prepared, she threw it to Black who reacted on time but he was used to use one of his two swords to deviate attacks and now that he had nothing, the cloud impacted fully on him; throwing him to one of the pendulums.
But strangely enough, instead of fall or something, the cloud glued him to the trap. Spit Fire kept flying away but noticed the Black Swordsman wasn’t following her. Of course she attacked him first but at this time he would recover, what happened. When she turned she had to ask for time out.
“EY, WHAT THE HAY? STOP, TIME OUT, TIME OUT!”
The audience were mumbling, wondering what happened.
“What happened?” Asked the referee followed by the security staff.
“THIS CLOUD IS MADE OF COTTON CANDY FLAVORED BUBBLE GUM!” Protested the Black Swordsman still glued to the pendulum and doing his best to hold the nauseas he was feeling since the enormous thing was still moving.
The referee shook his head not believing what he was seeing.
“It’s true!” Declared one of the staff members after trying another clouds. “The clouds are adulterated, we cannot continue with the competition in this conditions!”
Unbelievable, this was a complete indignation to the sport and the Equestrian Flyers tradition.
“Considering the situation I have no choice but disqualify the Wonderbolts. Shadow, you win…”
“No, we didn’t do this!” Protested Rainbow. “There’s no need to cheat since we’re the bests of the bests!”
“Yeah, I have to be on the Wonderbolt’s side” said the second in command of the Shadow Bolts, Black Swordsman’s little sister Leafa from the clan of Sylf. “This isn’t something they would do”
The referee and the security staff exchanged a confused glance. What to do?
“HEY! I’M STILL HERE!” Called the Black Swordsman.
The security staff flew to help the warrior while the referee keep wondering how to act considering the situation.
Finally the staff released the Swordsman but he had a long night before him removing the gum.
“I also believe they didn’t do this” said Black Swordsman. “Soemepony else had to… a prankster who doesn’t like airshows”
Prankster, the adjective rang a bell on Rainbow Dash. Now that she thought about it, bubble gum clouds that was Dark’s trademark move.
“Again? SPIKE! DO YOU THINK A FLYING COMPETITION IS ANOTHER OF YOUR GAMES? THOSE ARE PART OF CLOUDSDALE LEGACY! WHERE ARE YOU HIDDING, LITTLE LORD OF CHAOS?”
The cyan mare was furious, how they dared to ruin an airshow from her? Not, they would pay for this.
And the audience let escape an exasperation moan, the lord of chaos, of course! Who else enjoyed to annoy the ponies making a game of everything? It didn’t seem good for Spike and his team, for the first time kids and adults agreed he went too far.
So at the end the face-off was declared a draw and since the Gala was going to be next week, there was no time for a rematch, not for this year the air performance would have to be cancelled. This time the team of chaos made a lot of enemies.
Back to the surface, the team of chaos was chilling out with some ice cream.
“Second time our prank go out of control. We better make future ones with an emergency trigger oor something”
“We cannot” explained Spike. “Mr. Boss’ rules, I can’t fix anything, my powers are to create disasters not fix them”
“Oh, what a shame” mumbled Apple Bloom.
They kept eating in silence when they heard a zoom approaching more and more.
“YOU SIX ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS! I WONT’ FORGET HOW YOU RUINED OUR CHANCE TO DESTROY THE SHADOW BOLTS, WE BOTH LOSE AND…!”
Spike gulped.
“Guys, RETREAT!”
Spike and Sweetie teleported; Apple Bloom used her black apples of chaos to enchant a tree to catapult her away, Night used Pinkie-logic to also teleport away and Mist called two condor friends.
Only Dark remained who just looked at her older sister, gulped and:
“SONIC DARK EXPLOSSION!”
“Oh, you won’t get away that easy, SONIC RAINBOOM!!”
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My money's on StarSwirl. But he's really old and tribalist and hates technology and everything newer than he is.
Fucking Star Swirled. Has to be, only Twi would mention him over and over. Probably corrupted himself in magic or something, only way he can become a villain.
Why do they not work together to create an airshow or have two one to open the gala the other to close it?
Nice chapter. I liked how Rainbow and Eternal wings are friends. By the way. Do you like if people suggest ideas for the agents of chaos to do? Because I got a few in mind.
If it's flash sentry I swear...
6988548 Yeah, I'm always open for suggestions
How about giving the gala truth serum laced food? Having everybody actally tell others what they think has so many opportunities for shenanigans
Why can't spike clean up his own chaos? Discord could.
Somepony's in her period.
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