Prologue: Rainbow's new stunt
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In the skies above Ponyville, the silence of the morning was cut short by an explosion of sound and a rippling wave of all the colors of the rainbow. Ponies all rushed out of their homes to see what was going on, but it didn’t take them long to find the source of the sound. Flying across the sky at the head of a rainbow-colored contrail was Rainbow Dash. As she flew over the town, she doubled-back and flew upward again, getting ready for yet another Sonic Rainboom.
Below, woken from her slumber by the sudden noise, Twilight Sparkle walked groggily to her window. When she saw her friend in flight, she narrowed her eyes and sighed “Oh come on, it’s too early for this.” She opened her window, spread her wings, and took to the air in the direction of Rainbow Dash. She flapped her wings as fast as she could, but Rainbow was too fast for her to catch up with. She called out to Rainbow, but Rainbow was flying too fast to hear her.
As Rainbow Dash continued her routine, she began to hear a faint noise. She slowed down a bit so she could make out what it was, and soon she realized it was a voice calling out to her. Once she figured out that somepony was trying to get her attention, she slowed to a stop and turned to look for the source of the voice. Soon, an exhausted Twilight Sparkle flew out from behind a nearby cloud, gasping for breath. “Hey Twilight,” Rainbow called, “were you just calling me?”
Panting, Twilight flew up to Rainbow and responded “Yeah, that was me. What are you doing, Rainbow Dash?”
“What’s it look like? I’m practicing some new tricks” Rainbow responded.
Twilight raised her eyebrow and asked “What kind of tricks? Just looks like a bunch of Sonic Rainbooms to me.”
“Exactly,” Rainbow said with a grin, “I’m trying to push my speed even further. I’ve already broken the sound barrier, so now I’m going to see what the next speed barrier is!”
Twilight sighed “Rainbow Dash, the only barrier, for you to pass now, is the light barrier, which is physically impossible for anypony or anything to reach. No matter how fast you fly, you won’t be able to break the light barrier.”
Rainbow shrugged “Maybe that’s true for the average run of the mill pony, but I’m no average flier. With a bit of a boost, I should easily be able to break even the light barrier.”
“Rainbow,” Twilight replied, “I’m telling you it’s against the laws of physics.”
“So is magic, right Twilight?” Rainbow asked. Suddenly, her face lit up as she came up with an idea. “Say, maybe that’s it. Maybe your magic can give me the extra boost I need.”
“What are you talking about, Rainbow?” Twilight asked, “what kind of a boost?”
“Well,” Rainbow responded “maybe you could enchant my wings for extra endurance, or blast me with a magic pulse to push me forward.”
Twilight was taken aback by this idea. “But Rainbow, that would be extremely dangerous.”
Rainbow grinned confidently “Oh come on Twilight, when have I ever been worried about anything being too dangerous?”
“Well, you have a point” Twilight responded, but quickly shook her head “wait, no, I can’t believe I’m even considering this.”
“What’s the big deal Twilight?” Rainbow asked, “what’s the worst that can happen?”
“I don’t know,” Twilight said, “nopony knows what happens if you try to break the speed of light, and theories range from inter-dimensional travel to time travel.”
Rainbow suddenly put on a sly grin “In that case,” she said, “ wouldn't you like to be the one to find out? It would be a great experiment, wouldn't it?”
Twilight’s eyes widened at this idea “Say, now that you mention it, that would be an interesting experiment.”
“Then what are you waiting for?” Rainbow asked, getting into position to take off, “let’s get this show on the road.”
Twilight gulped, “Um, okay Rainbow, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try.” As she said this, her horn began to glow.
Rainbow grinned “That's the spirit Twilight!” She took off flying straight upward. “WOOHOO! This is gonna be awesome!” She flew up above the highest layer of clouds before she arched downward, building her speed until another sonic cone began to form around her. “Just a little more” soon, the sky was lit up with another massive explosion as Rainbow rocketed downward from the Rainboom. As she flew past Twilight, Twilight aimed her horn at Rainbow and fired a pulse of magenta magic at her. Because of Rainbow’s speed, the magic pulse took a few seconds to catch up with her, but as soon as it hit her the change was undeniable. The rainbow contrail behind Rainbow took on a new magenta hue and Rainbow rapidly sped up. As she neared the ground, she grinned and did a perfect downward U-turn, heading back upward.
Twilight watched in awe at Rainbow’s new level of speed “Nice work Rainbow” she cheered, despite being fully aware that Rainbow couldn't hear her while flying at such high speed. Soon, Rainbow was almost all the way back up to where she had started, and she arched downward again for even more speed. Twilight clapped in excitement but suddenly jumped back as Rainbow was engulfed in a bright flash of light. As the light faded, Twilight slowly opened her eyes, squinting to see what had happened. When she stopped seeing spots, she looked to the spot where Rainbow had just been, and she was alarmed to see that the end of the rainbow contrail was suddenly cut off at the last spot Rainbow had been before the light. “Rainbow?!?” Twilight called in a panic, "where’d you go?!?”
As Rainbow continued to build speed from the magic pulse, everything around her began to look like it was standing still. She was astonished at how easily she was able to handle this speed as she flew back up to the point where she had first taken off. She did a downward turn for speed, getting increasingly excited at the idea of breaking the ultimate speed challenge. Suddenly, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning as she was surrounded by a blinding white light. She continued to fly with her eyes closed, and finally managed to pry her eyes open. When she could finally see again she looked around and was amazed at what she saw. She was flying in the middle of a large tunnel of light with bolts of lightning running along the walls. She looked around, astonished by the alien sights, until suddenly she saw a light at the end of the tunnel. “Finally,” she said, “a way out of here.” She sped up until she reached the light and flew out of the tunnel, only to see a large wall of orange directly in her path.
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Inb4 Regidar
First post
Nice story, your grammar seems to be fine, intrigued to see what happens next
Excuse the rudeness above, but this is the first time I've legitimatly gotten either of those achievements.
You have my attention.
good story, a bit short, and some things like the beginnings of sentances need to be caped, but still rather good
These. You seem to have a tendency to not capitalize the first letter of a character's dialogue from time to time. Also, you generally capitalize the next line of dialogue as well
"Such as. . ." said I as I paused for effect. "This."
Other than that, nothing quite jumps out at me.
You need to remember to use commas more. You miss them a lot in quotes as well as between dialogue in quotes. "When somebody is speaking," she said, "You should have it formatted like this."
There should be a quotation mark after panic I think.
Also, If you like, I know of a group made of up pre-readers.
Formatting. Please, god, the formatting, fix the breaks between paragraphs.
I could be yo prereader :P
2299130 that was- heeeeeeyyyyyyy ur not supposed to talk Gordon
Good start, but my scientific brain is throwing a tantrum
Not to discourage you of course, keep going.
2294366Dude, you never see Regidar anywhere all of a sudden. I haven't seen him in about a month.
2299532
IE: Use them.
A story that isn't broken up into a proper paragraph structure is one step away from being a wall of text and seeing stories like this is becoming a worrying trend.
not possible to go faster then the speed of light, don't even both saying anything else, it's not possible no matter what you say...
2301394 It's THEORETICALLY impossible. Does not mean definitively impossible. Do you have any evidence to back up your opinion?
Grammar needs work. Otherwise, this is a decent read. I shall continue.
2301394
Are you asking for a CHALLEEEENGE!
2301394
True, we can't go faster than light But who says we can't make light go faster first?
The grammar is a little funky, but is nothing too noticeable, especially for fast readers.
The light barier...
I just...
You do realize that the reason it's called the sound barrier is because when you get up to that speed you're moving so fast that you physical pass through the sound of your own movement, right? Light doesn't work the same way, so even if you were moving faster than the speed of light you wouldn't ever pass through the "light barrier".(the speed of light bouncing off of or coming from an object is equal to the speed of light relative to the object, and yet still just the speed of light because PHYSICS IS INCREDIBLY CONFUSING!)
Also, if rainbow went to 0.9C, her body would disintegrate and she'd cause a massive nuclear exlosion that would wipe out ponyville and poison everything for dozens of miles around.
2299724 He's not talking. He's typing words on a computer. Totally legit.
This is a story that's a crossover between a world filled with tons of different monsters (with very inconsistent gods) and magical talking ponies yet the comments are arguing about physics. Can people stop arguing about stuff they don't understand and just enjoy the story?
Me if saw this
...I see several similarities between this and Double Rainboom.
That's... Worrying.
It's decent so far, though, so I won't judge until I've read more.
2313883 Well as long as we're arguing about physics, I might as well point out that the speed of light is represented by a lowercase c, not a capital C.
This is off to a great start!
I thought a Sonic Rainboom was her breaking the sound barrier and the light spectrum at the same time.
3916687 Not quite. When she performs a Sonic Rainboom, she creates a rainbow at the exact moment she breaches the sound barrier, so the light energy from the rainbow is carried by the force of the sonic wave. That's my theory, anyway, and there's probably also magic involved, cause this is MLP.
2862244 You and me both. you and me both...
She has entered the Speed Force.
rainbow dash you complete and utter buffoon
I’m re-reading this, and now I’m wondering two things:
I'm surprised there wasn't the Flash or speed force reference there.
This is very Alicorn worthy heh.
Okay, I looked through the episodes of Pokemon Best Wishes! Season 2: Episode N/Pokemon the Series: Black and White - Adventures in Unova (Dang, those titles are a mouthful), and I've pinpointed that this fanfic took place between "Plasma-dan's Ambition! The Controlled Pokémon!/Team Plasma's Pokémon Manipulation!" and "N's Secret...To the Other Side of the Mist!/Secrets From Out of the Fog!"