16 - Tension
The week couldn’t have gone slower for the filly, wishing her will along could cause time to fast forward to the following week where her sister (and sort of sister) were to give a Wonderbolt’s presentation to the entirety of the school.
Slowest. Week. Ever.
But alas, the week did eventually come to an end, along with the weekend that came afterwards. With that the day of the presentation would finally come around, and Little Wing’s excitement was present but adequately contained.
“Eeeeeeh!” Little Wing squeed as she made her way into the Junior Flight School, bouncing in a way that would make Pinkie Pie proud.
There were many student around, going about their usual mornings as they did each and every single other day. There was, however, a steady stream of fillies and colts heading in the direction of the main assembly hall. Rainbow Dash’s presentation was going to kick-start the school day.
Misty Gust, who was accompanying Little Wing, only just resisted a roll of her eyes. “Come on Wing, you see her all the time.”
“Not all the time,” Little Wing rebuked, stopping her bouncing and beginning to walk alongside her friend like a normal pony. “I haven’t seen her in a little while, she lives in Ponyville. It’s been even longer since Scootaloo came up here.”
“Did you see her before school?” Misty asked.
Little Wing shook her head. “Nah. Mum and Dad said she’s busy setting everything up. I’m sure we’ll hang out after school though.”
“Can I come?” Misty asked hopefully.
“Of course!” Little Wing confirmed, laughing lightly. “Why wouldn’t you?”
“I’m not your sister,” she pointed out.
Little Wing shrugged. “You’re my best friend, practically the same thing.”
“Not really.”
“Pfft,” Little Wing said as her retort, waving a hoof of dismissal towards Misty’s remark. “Besides, who else would I bring? Silver Breeze?”
Misty visibly shuddered. “Why wold you even consider that!?”
“I’m not,” she responded, but tapped a hoof on her chin in thought. “Though I’d like to see him try something in front of Dash.”
Misty Gust giggled behind a hoof. “I don’t think he’d be brave enough.”
“Who knows?” Little Wing remarked. “I think he would, he’s just mean.”
“Yeah, I guess so,” Misty conceded. “Remember when he said he’d faced down one of those big things from the scary looking airship?”
“That was three years ago, he was just one!” Little Wing pointed out, not hiding her disdain for the colt’s tale. “All I remember was being locked up for a couple days in the house.”
“I don’t really remember anything about all that,” Misty admitted. “Just that it was… kinda scary.”
“Yeah, it was,” Little Wing agreed. “But Rainbow Dash beat them up! She’s told me the story, like… a thousand times!”
“I bet she exaggerates.”
Little Wing puffed up her cheeks. “She does not! There was the seaponies, and this cat person!”
Misty looked unconvinced. “If you say so, Wing.”
“I do say so!” Little Wing countered. “So... there!”
“Well, I suppose we could ask,” Misty noted, pointing one of her small hooves at the entrance to the assembly hall.
Several teachers stood at the entrance, ensuring that all of the school’s students were being admitted in a neat and timely manner. They corralled the little ponies into a single file line, scolding those who tried to push and shove their way inside. Little Wing and Misty Gust placed themselves at the back of a que, a few more students then piling on behind them. The wait was rather gruelling for the many young, energetic and easily bored colts and fillies, but steadily the line did move on forwards and both Little Wing and Misty Gust themselves were eventually admitted.
A few more teachers guided the pair to one of the middle rows, systematically filling up the seats one by one. Little Wing had to straighten herself up to the limit in order to see completely above the heads of some of the taller fillies and colts, but found a comfortable enough view.
Even if she would have preferred front row seats, but what could she do?
It took a little while longer to fill up the entirety of the vast assembly hall, the rest of the school trickling in and taking their seats. The noise within was almost deafening, the fillies and colts chatting amongst themselves to pass the time away while awaiting the start of the talk; Little Wing and Misty Gust were among them, talking about whatever came to mind whilst waiting.
Some of the talking did die down when the last students filed in and the doors to the assembly hall were closed behind them, the teachers lining the outsides of the hall. Some chatter remained, however, only dying off completely when the headmaster demanded it so through the microphone installed upon the forward stage. With the general nattering at an end, he could finally speak.
“Right, well then students,” the Headmaster began. “Welcome to yet another school day, and one which beholds to you all a very special guest. We have a member of the Wonderbolts coming to speak to you all, along with another pegasus whom she is mentoring.”
Little Wing grinned.
“What’s more, this Wonderbolt is among Princess Twilight Sparkle’s inner circle, a Bearer of Harmony who has been involved in many recent historic events in this busy era,” he announced, then stepping to the podium’s side while gesturing a hoof to one of the stage’s entrances. “So please put your hooves together for Rainbow Dash!”
General applause rolled throughout the stadium, the stallion on stage standing there rather awkwardly as the mare he was expected didn’t so much as poke a head out of the side curtain. The applause died down as the children began to look around in confusion, or to laugh at the Headmaster’s predicament. The stallion in question lowered his hoof with a scowl on his face, about to go back stage and see what the hold-up was.
Only for the entrance to the assembly hall to burst open as a prismatic blur streaked up and above the fillies and colts before doing a blatantly practiced superhero landing on the stage that Little Wing, having seen her practice once, couldn’t help but roll her eyes despite her glee.
The applause erupted again, far more enthusiastic due to the children’s enjoyment of the unexpected spectacle.
The Headmaster looked rather cross.
While the applause was ongoing, an orange pegasus also flew in through the doorway and casually glided her way to the stage. Scootaloo came into a land next to Rainbow Dash, the latter of which was fully decked out in a Wonderbolt flight suit. Scootaloo gave a sheepish wave to the crowd, though it became a little more enthusiastic when she spotted Little Wing and her own joyful waving.
“That’s enough, I’ll have silence in the assembly hall!” the Headmaster commanded down the microphone. “That’s enough… excitement for a while.”
“Hey, at least they’re paying attention now,” Rainbow Dash pointed out, confidently taking the podium herself. “You just gotta play it smooth and cool.”
The Headmaster grumbled something to himself, but departed the stage nevertheless, lest there be any more delays.
With all attention on her, Rainbow Dash began to speak. “Well then, I’m pretty sure you fillies and colts should know me and Scoots by now, but in case you fell asleep…”
Rainbow Dash glanced at a couple of colts she knew she had woken up with her… dramatic entrance. Putting that aside, she continued.
“I’m Lieutenant Rainbow Dash of the EUP Wonderbolts,” she announced to the crowd. “I’m the Element of Loyalty, defeater of Nightmare Moon, Discord, etcetera etcetera. And this here is Scootaloo!”
On being gestured to, Scootaloo spoke up. “Yeah, hi! I’m Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash’s protégé and sort of adoptive sister at times. Speaking of little sisters, hiya Little Wing!”
More than a few eyes turned towards the pegasus filly, who could feel herself go from gleeful to melting into her own seat from sheer embarrassment.
“Yeah, you and Wing are both pretty great,” Rainbow Dash agreed. “But anyway, Scoots here is also one of the founders of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and their Summer Camp, which I bet some of you will or have already attended. She’s also definitely going to be the next Wonderbolt on the main team, and all at the age of sixteen. Not bad, huh? Reminds me of me.”
“But better,” Scootaloo added with a smirk.
“Heh, you always had big dreams Scootaloo,” Rainbow replied. “But what’s most important about Scootaloo here is, for a long time, she couldn’t fly.”
“It’s true,” Scootaloo confirmed. “My wings have always been… smaller. It was only a couple years ago that I managed it, but I’ve gave it my all ever since!”
A little hoof popped into the air, Rainbow Dash pointed towards the colt the hoof belonged to and motioned for him to ask his question.
“Yeah, um… Miss Scootaloo, how did you manage to do that?”
“Aside from the best flight instructor ever?” Rainbow Dash teased the younger pegasus, before adding: “And being plain awesome?”
Scootaloo chuckled. “I think that can wait until the end, where we’re meant to take questions. First, the Wonderbolts…?”
“Ah, right,” Rainbow stated. “Well, for any aspiring ‘bolts out there, first thing you ought to know is…”
Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo had continued to talk about the Wonderbolts for the next hour, at the end finally stopping to take questions. Scootaloo had answered the initial colt first, before they moved onto the plethora of hooves that had erupted forth afterwards. Little Wing herself had remained silent throughout the event, content on letting her elder sister talk and the other fillies and colts get answers to the questions Little Wing had mostly already received the answers to.
In the end they had run slightly over their given timeslot, and the Headmaster had to come back onto the stage and conclude the presentation for the now rather annoyed pegasus. Alas, she did depart after a final farewell equally dramatic to her entrance.
Then Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were gone.
With that done the teachers began to dismiss the gathered students row by row, eventually reaching Little Wing and Misty Gust who exited with the rest of the fillies and colts they had been seated next to. They then had a brief break before their first actual class of the day, Misty Gust deciding to head on out into the courtyard while Little Wing promised to catch up after getting a drink from the canteen.
With that in mind, the two fillies briefly split up. Little Wing didn’t want to keep her friend waiting long, so she half galloped towards the canteen and got her drink of apple juice from the dinner lady on duty. Task complete, she rushed back out again to join Misty Gust in the courtyard.
Only to find, when she got there, that Misty Gust had some unwanted company.
“Bet you wish you had her as a sister, huh?” Silver Breeze commented snidely, some of his buddies standing a little ways behind the colts as she spoke to a silent Misty Gust. “Seeing as you’re an only child, must be lonely. Is that why you actually hang out with her, because you’re lonely?”
“She’s my friend,” Misty quietly rebuked.
Silver Breeze snorted. “Yeah right. I bet she only hangs out with you because of pity. It’s quite sad actually, you poor little foal.”
Little Wing, on all days, made a habit of avoiding Silver Breeze and refusing a response. Now, thoug, her blood boiled to the temperature of Celestia’s sun.
“Hey, knock it off you jerk!” Little Wing shouted out, planting herself between Silver Breeze and Misty Gust. “She’s my friend!”
“Were you eavesdropping? That’s not nice you know.”
“Neither are you!” Little Wing shoved an accusatory hoof in his face.
“Hey, don’t talk to me like that!” the colt demanded. “Or is it because you have a famous sister that you can do whatever you like now?”
“What’s Dash got to do with anything?”
“Figures you’re too stupid to figure it out,” Silver Breeze commented, making Little Wing’s feathers stand on end in frustration. “Oh well. Not like it matters, you’ll never be as good as her anyway.”
“I might be, but who cares if I am?” Little Wing retorted.
“Nopony,” he replied smugly. “Nopony will care about you in the slightest. It’ll always be ‘Rainbow Dash this and that’. You’ll be all alone, nopony to love you, and that really is sad.”
Little Wing flinched. “A-alone?”
“Well, yeah. Nopony would care for a loser lost in somepony else’s shadow.”
“Nobody would care for you out there anyway,” her father stated dismissively. “Unless you do what we say, you’ll always be alone.”
"I don't want to be alone! I just want some friends, Dad!" Emma retorted.
"Tough, now sit down and keep to yourself."
“But can’t I at least go to the park?”
“How many times, Emma!?” her father snapped. “You’re not going to school, you’re not going to the park! Now be a good girl before you find yourself somewhere bad with nobody to love you.”
His words stung, but only because she was there already.
“SHUT UP!” Little Wing bellowed out, holding back tears.
Silver Breeze flinched back as Little Wing’s wings flared out aggressively, one hoof raised in preparation to strike at the offending colt.
“What’s going on here?” Rainbow Dash asked, trotting over to the pair. The volatile tension between the two was obvious a mile away.
“She’s crazy, she was going to hit me!” Silver Breeze accused, pointing an accusing hoof at the filly in question.
“You were being a jerk!” Misty Gust spoke up, coming to her friend’s aid.
“Was not!”
Rainbow Dash looked between the two as she was joined by Scootaloo, studying the colt before noticing that her little sister was completely still, and with tears in her eyes.
Rainbow Dash glared at Silver Breeze. “Listen kid, I think you'd better scram. Now.”
Silver Breeze relented under the harsh glare, holding no delusions that he could tussle with a Wonderbolt. “Er, yes ma’am.”
In a moment he and his entourage were gone, Rainbow Dash glaring at where they had scampered off to. Meanwhile, Scootaloo crouched down and spoke to Little Wing.
“Hey Wing, you OK?”
No answer.
“Come on, you can talk to me.”
“Scoots, could you go fetch one of the teachers?” Rainbow suddenly requested.
“Uh... Yeah, sure,” Scootaloo confirmed as she got back up into her hooves, albeit hesitantly. “I’ll be right back!”
Once Scootaloo too had departed, Rainbow Dash laid down beside her little sister and gave her a gentle nudge. The filly responded with a small glance, but then locked back towards the floor and kept her gaze locked on a single random tuft of cloud.
“Little Wing, what was that about?” Rainbow Dash asked. “What did he say?”
Little Wing once again refused to answer, but Misty Gust did.
“He was being really mean to us!” Misty explained quickly. “He said I was lonely, and then told Little Wing that nopony cares about her when she helped me!”
Misty Gust’s gaze too became downcast after she had said that, scuffing a hoof along the ground guiltily.
Rainbow pushed down her own seething at seeing the filly's sadness. “Are… you alright?”
Misty sniffed. “It’s my fault, she was only trying to help me…”
“Hey, it’s not your fault at all,” Rainbow Dash assured the filly. “So don’t blame yourself for something like that, okay?”
Misty Gust sniffled, before suddenly grabbing into Little Wing in a tight hug. “Thank you for helping me!”
That finally got a reaction from the blue filly, who looked towards her friend in surprise. “You’re… thanking me?”
“Well you DID stick up for her,” Rainbow pointed out, Misty still clamped tightly into Little Wing. “But Little Wing… were you really going to hit that colt?”
Little Wing was compelled into silence once more.
Rainbow Dash sighed, knowing the answer was yes. “You know, I’m all for sticking up for yourself. But… you can’t be doing that stuff in school, I don’t want you to get into trouble for what somepony else was doing.”
Little Wing nodded weakly.
Rainbow’s sigh was doubled. “Listen, you want to talk about this some more?”
“C-can we wait until we get home?”
Rainbow Dash grimaced, but nevertheless nodded in the affirmative. “Alright.”
Seeing as the movie is out, I thought a reference was appropriate, 
Also, flashback #3 and Silver Breeze, poor Little Wing... Children can be very cruel indeed.
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poor little wing even in the sorta afterlife she can't escape the cruelty of her past
Great chapter!!
Thank you for dropping movie spoilers before people have had the chance to see it, jerk.
I really hope this confrontation with Silver Breeze has a semi-peaceful resolution, but somehow I doubt that’ll happen. Anyway great work and see you next time.
Silver Breeze is a little bastard that NEEDS to have the hell beaten out of him. I honestly personally prefer him having one of his wings torn off without anesthetic. I don't care if he's a kid. Little shits like him should be removed from the gene pool.
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What spoilers? There are airships, troopers from said airships, and they lose. Oh, and seaponies and Capper.
Four have been in ALL promotional material, one is a given.
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You can delete my comments all you want, it won't stop the email notifications that automatically go out.
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Um... not really...? I haven't seen the movie, and nothing in this chapter that I noticed is anything that I couldn't (and didn't) infer from the trailers...
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Maybe some of us have intentionally not looked at promotional materials? Because some of us want to avoid spoilers?
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That's... like reading a story that vaguely references events in episodes you haven't seen yet and then complaining about spoilers for those episodes... At that point you might as well not read fanfiction...
I find your arguement invalid
Wow. That's a bully right there. That was cruel.
ayyy
aww come one, I somewhat hate it if they suddenly start taking new episodes or the movie in the storie they were writing way before that. Well it isn't really that bad, but sometimes I wish some stories would go back to the old times.
I watched that yesterday and while it was a nice thought of Thunderlane I didn'T liked how he tried to force Rumble into doing it, that way he couldn't have any fun there.
I also liked it that Rumble mentioned some arguments that were used on this site as well, that often enough they act like they were forced to do one single job.
Don't get me wrong I understand it and I'm quite serious about tempest, but for some reason I would have prefered it otherwise. However I started to act a bit more relaxed about this stuff.
I'm maybe a Fluttershy fan, but while I love the show, there are always a few episodes that are even a bit to uhhhh (is mushy the right word?) for me, that and the look in a trailer looked a little bit to cute but maybe that was only because of my handy.
Nice episode again, sometimes I really love her past catching up to her. Is there going to be a moment where they figure out where Little wing came?, I really want another moment like that, where Little wing is really shocked and doesn't respond for a while being trapped in her past.
I think I want a dire situation without the need of some evil forces.
I start to think Silver Breeze might has a crush on one of them and is acting like that type of jerk you only see in a movie and that is actually in love with the main char.
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Indeed. I also have avoided the promotional material, and thus did not even recognize that it was a reference to the movie until I came down to the comments section. So, ironically, they would not have been spoilers to me at all, had some people not called out "Spoilers!"
I am calling it right now that as they get older and Silver Breeze gets his ego deflated by Little Wing, they are going to fall in love and gate married.
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What? You seriously never saw any of the ads for the film?
yeah...bullies are one of those things you hope to avoid, but more often than not can't.
What I tell my nephews is don't let them get to you. More often than not if you do not give a response the bully will move on to the next kid...one who gives them the reaction they are hoping for...
If you do get marked by a bully tell your teacher, your parents, and let the adults try and handle it.
Then if the bully still has not stopped, and you have tried every non-violent way possible...then fight back and force the bully to find another target.
I don't ever want my nephews thinking that their health and happiness is not worth fighting for...
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Your definition of a spoiler must be radically different from that of the typical person. 'literally anything in the movie' is not a spoiler.
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...regrettably her actions are, sadly enough, actually the best way to get rid of bullies...
Nice chapter, good work.
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It takes a long time and treatment to get away from abuse, and while she has a much better life now, with a happy home and a real family that loves her she's never learned how to deal with the ghosts of the past when they come calling. It's hard to know how to stop them, more so for someone as young as she is, but how can you get help for a past that no longer exists other then in your own memory?
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it makes me wonder if one of these episodes are gonna get her past revealed
Yes some children are so cruel that they make fun of you just for your name. My response to them was a spin-kick to the balls (no one made fun of me again)
The next day they feared me and I was like 'yes fear me' in my head
Not again...
No, no, no... Why?
Why do you keep puncturing my slowly deteriorating happiness?
Geeehe geeehe geeehe!!
can we leave silver breeze to flowey's devices please.
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