[Leo]
It was once again time for the Running of the Leaves, and Rainbow and I were once again lining up for our numbers. Both of us had trained hard for today. Or, rather, didn't stop training. With the amount of things we've done in the past month, I'm surprised we were even able to keep to our old schedule.
As we approached the line up, a pony intercepted us. "Sorry, Rainbow, Leo won't be running with us today."
"What?" Rainbow shouted. "Why?"
"Twilight had us set up a separate course for the Pack to run. There aren't many trees on it, but it will let them cut loose with their abilities."
Rainbow snorted. "It'd be a short race. Out of the two, Leo only needs to worry about Cy."
The mare giggled before leaning down to coo at me. "This way, come on."
I gave Rainbow a questioning glance before following the mare off to the side. We didn't go very far, just through a small hedge. I could see Pinkie's balloon tethered in the clearing, the mare herself and Spike were helping Zann with something. The mare waited until Pinkie had acknowledged our presence before stepping back through the bushes.
"Leo!" Pinkie chirped at me. "C'mere and help us with this."
I sighed as I made my way over. I just wanted to run with my mare. Was that too much to ask for? I stopped and stood beside Spike, waiting for instructions.
"Spike, hand him the thingy." Pinkie waved a hoof at me. "I need your claws for this."
Spike placed a mass of metal on my back and picked up a screwdriver. I twisted around to try to look at what he had given me, but I could only see what looked like a wheel embedded into a metal paw. I turned back to the fire type. <<You built a racing leg?>>
<<Well, yeah!>> Zann nodded as Spike struggled with his leg. Pinkie was holding it in preparations for... something. <<I gotta train somehow.>>
<<Building a leg is not training!>> I snapped at him.
"The hell screws did you use, Pinkie?" Spike grunted.
"Why are you asking me?" Pinkie blinked. "Zann's the one who built it."
<<I didn't use screws...>> Zann looked at Spike in confusion. <<Just rivets and welds.>>
Spike stepped back and pointed a claw at the offending rivet. "Well, what kind of screw head is that then?"
Pinkie leaned in to squint at it. "That's a rivet." She squinted and looked over the rest of the limb. "And so's that one. And that one. A~nd that one."
"So," Spike arched an eyebrow, "how are we going to be reattach it after?"
Pinkie gave Zann a calculating look. "That was your side project, wasn't it?"
The fire type nodded.
Pinkie smiled at Spike. "We're not. He built another one."
"Oh." Spike looked at the leg. "Do you care if this one is unusable then?"
Zann did his best to shrug. <<Eh, I can melt it down for scrap.>>
Spike and Pinkie shared a look. "We really need to find a way to understand them." Spike sighed.
"We can't all be Rainbow's and Flutter's." Pinkie agreed. Tilting her head, she began tapping her chin. "Or Sweetie's. Or summoners in general."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, they seem to understand their summons. Or, at least the bonded ones. Or they only get the very barest impressions." Pinkie shrugged, going back to holding the leg. "Either that or their summons use a weird mind link thingy." Spike flinched. "Either way, no. I don't think he'll be needing this."
"In that case..." Spike grabbed the upper part of the limb and dug his claws in. Sawing his claws around, he cut a jagged trail in the leg. He had to take a while to clean up the metal, but he was soon fitting a new piece to what was left. After welding it in place, he took the replacement limb from me and snapped it into place. "All right, give it a go."
Zann spent the rest of the time left before the race getting used to the leg. Spike and Pinkie jumped into the balloon, tossing the broken prosthetic into the basket and set off to commentate.
The rest of the Pack filtered into the clearing as the morning progressed. Yomega was the last one in, followed closely by Twilight. She gathered us up, before lining us up at one side of the clearing.
"So, once the race starts, you are going to be following your own course." Twilight began. "You're going to be following the blue flags. You will have free rein to use most of your abilities." She looked directly at me. "No Solar Flares, or anything of that caliber. I will be monitoring everything, which means that this is an experiment. I just want to see what you guys can do in a friendly competition. But please wait until you are outside of Ponyville before using them."
<<Does Agility count?>> Vince asked.
"No. No property damage."
Lulu leaned over to me. <<You still haven't repaid that flower box, yet, have you?>>
<<Shutup!>>
Twilight ignored us and waved to the sky. "Just waiting on Pinkie, but you'll be running on my mark." A ball of light danced in front of us, gathering our attention. We felt the ground rumble as Pinkie started the Running, but our light flashed a few times before forming an odd shape.
"Oh, I know this one! That's a five- no wait, a four? Three?"
It's a countdown!
I pulled energy and channeled an Agility just as the light vanished.
It just occur to me. Can sonic rainboom be done on the ground?
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Theoretically yes, as there are supersonic cars on earth.
Should it be done? No. The cars are build to withstand the shockwave of the sonic boom thet gets reflected by the ground. A living being would simply die from reptured lungs, not to forget what the pressurized magic might do.
This’ll be interesting. I get the feeling that Leo and Cy will take their competitiveness a bit far, and one of the others will win the race.
Hey, Void Runner!
As far as your timeline goes, assuming the Running of the Leaves takes place the same day every Month, then this is one Month exactly after Racing Dynamos.
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Considering that that's what happened with Applejack and Rainbow Dash in the actual episode, I'm pretty sure that's a given.
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Normally, that would be true, but in the case of pokemon, well, they shrug off far more deadly things than that. Plus, the movie shows that a sonic rainboom is at mach 8 (there were 7 seperate shockwaves before the rainboom).
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The number of waves has nothing to say, as the boom only occures by mach 1. Afterward is the speeding object generating a constant mach cone, a pressure wave following it. So after passing mach 1 is the car constantly under the effect of the reflected wave.
For a pokemon thet would be like being hit with Explosion every round until they stop.
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ninjask can move at mach 54 so I don't think pokemon are bothered by how fast they are going :)
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Ninjask flies, I talk about mach speed of land based movement.
And were have you read it moves so fast? If that would be true it could circle the earth in about 36 minutes.
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I'm aware. I'll have to go back through and update the timeline now that we've got a concrete point of reference for time passed. The last couple chapters have been a bit light on them.
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I know this doesn't make any sense to be true but here it is anyway https://aminoapps.com/c/pokemon/page/blog/can-pokemon-out-speed-sonic/XKhg_uM4QddYvZpNo6mpp2aV1mldN
Pokémon race is about to began.
Odd how casual Zann is for his leg... I would be way more on the side of caution because the end of the leg will suffer material degradation over time...
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clearly, the one that was cut away was a prototype, or at least first gen, hes already working on the next model, which will be removeable and therefore easier to maintain and upgrade