Chapter 23: Wonderbolt Academy Part 2

Rating: High Teen for one scene of two soldiers getting frisky.

Summary: Harry encounters Soarin for the first time since the Love Poison incident. How will this affect the two ponies?

Harry and Rainbow Dash flew the trek to Wonderbolt Academy. The young Prince sticking close to his friend the whole way. They soon came upon a floating island with lots of buildings, and pegasi EVERYWHERE. Doing wing ups, racing each other, even running along the island on land!

"Wow."

"Wonderbolt Academy kid." Rainbow Dash said to the amazed foal.

"I've never seen so many pegasi in one place!"

"That's not true, remember when you went with the Princess to the Best Young Flier's competition?"

"Oh yeah." Harry said in embarrassement. That was the day Celestia had announced him as her grandfoal and the foal of her firstborn daughter. He had nervously waved at the cheering ponies from her side while his mother and the other Elements sat in the stadium with everypony else. Though he like the Princess was supposed to remain impartial, he cheered loudest for Rainbow Dash.

The two landed.

"I'm supposed to report directly to Spitfire. Have fun Dash!" Harry said as he left the rainbow maned mare.

"I hope he gets what he needs here." Rainbow Dash said in a sincerely worried tone as the foal left to find Spitfire.

"Wow. So many Pegasus." Harry said to himself as he trotted through the Academy grounds. "Oof." He bumped into a chest. "Sorry aboout that Si-Soarin!" Harry looked up to see the now familiar pegasus. They hadn't seen each other since the Love Poison incident. "Uh...hi." He reached up and rubbed the back of his head with a hoof. What do you say to a pony you almost got married too?

"Yeah...hi." Soarin looked away. He too was embarrassed about the whole poison case and got major teasage from his fellow Wonderbolts, minus Spitfire for it.

"So uh, how ya been?" Harry asked his friend.

"Good good. You?"

"Meh." Harry did a wavy motion with his hoof. "Grandma says I need some counseling while I'm here. I'm support to report directly to Miss Spitfire. Any idea where she is?"

Her office is in that building over there." Soarin said pointing to a building in the opposite direction. "So I guess I'll...see ya around?"

"Yeah...see ya." Harry bounded away toward the building Soarin mentioned leaving the akward encounter gratefully.

Harry knocked on a door that said "Captain Spitfire"

"Enter." Said the familiar voice of the Wonderbolt Captain. Harry opened the door and came in.

"Hmm?" Spitfire saw the door open, but nopony came in. Though she did hear hoof clops. She leaned over. "Oh. Hi squirt. So you and Rainbow Dash finally madee it?"

"We left Yesterday." Harry pointed out. "It takes most pegasi three days to get to here from Ponyville."

"Gotta be faster to be a Wonderbolt." The fiery maned mare said in her officers uniform and sunglasses. "Come on kid, I'll give ya a tour after I introduce the noobs to a world of pain."

Harry stared after the mare before following her and a Petty Officer who escorted her. Harry saw Rainbow Dash with a group of pegasus not in uniform waiting with both excitement and nervousness.

"Woah, that guy is HUGE!" Harry said to himself as he spotted the BIGGEST pegasus he had ever seen. He had a set of weight lifts for a Cutie Mark. "How does he get his body off the ground?"

"Don't let his size fool you. He's a descendant of one of the founders of Equestria." Spitfire whispered to the foal. "First of all, if any of you are wondering why there's a foal here at Wonderbolt Academy, this is Prince Harry. Princess Celestia's grandfoal. He's here to observe and nothing more."

All eyes turned to Harry who nervously waved at them.

"So, I betchou all think your Wonderbolt material huh?" She asked.

"Yes Ma'm!" All the Pegasi shouted.

"Think you got what it takes to be an Elite Flier?"

"Yes Ma'am!" The pegasi shouted.

"Well let me be the first to tell you." Spitfire said with a slight smile on her face. "YOU DON'T." She snarled in the face of a light brown mare. The mare looked crestfallen as she moved on. "If you had what it takes to be an Elite Flier you'd already BE a Wonderbolt." She got into the face of a lavendar mare with a light blue mane. "Still think your something special?" She snarled in the timid mare's face as her legs shook with fear. She moved onto the largest pony there. Took a look at his tiny wings. The nervous male bit his lip. Spitfire flapped her wings and rose to meet his face. "Think your hot stuff?" She demanded with a glare. He went down on his knees in submission.

She then moved on to Rainbow Dash. "What about you? You look like you'd quit after the first day."

Harry raised an eyebrow at the Petty Officer. "Is she serious? All the Wonderbolts know about Rainbow Dash."

"Its just tradition for the Captain to spook the noobies." The stallion whispered to the foal.

"And you." She came to the final mare. A green coated mare. "You look like you couldn't even reach the first flagpost without being winded."

"Try me ma'am." The mare glared right back.

"What's that?" Spitfire asked, lowering her sunglasses slightly to glare over them.

"Let me show you what I've got ma'am."

"So, you want a chance to prove yourself huh?" Spitfire asked.

"Yes ma'am."

"Well now's your chance. Give me five hundred laps. ALL OF YOU!" She rose into the air for emphasis.

"Aww." Most of the pegasi groaned. They'd been standing for hours waiting.

"NOW." Spitfire ordered. She blew her whistle.

The pegasus all flew into the air. The big one rather slowly. Harry giggled seeing his tiny wings flutter and lifting his bulk off the ground. "Seriously? 500 laps? Soarin only made me do 20 around Sweet Apple Acres." Harry asked Spitfire as another Petty Officer joined them to assisst in case of emergency. This one brown coated and black maned.

"You gotta be tough to weed out the best fliers kid." Spitfire said as she watched the noobies progress. "If they can't even complete 500 laps they shouldn't even be at the Academy."

Harry turned back to watch the laps. He saw Rainbow Dash neck and neck with the new mare that had back talked Spitfire earlier. Wow. She must be really fast to be able to keep up with Dash. He thought.

Harry had made a sign around lap 200 to hold up for Rainbow Dash. "GO DASH!" His sign said. Hoping it would encourage her. He was her second biggest fan next to scootaloo. When he had to hide his wings it killed him to not be able to go to her flying lessons she held three times a week.

"Lap four hundred ninety nine!" Spitfire shouted as Rainbow and the new mare litterally left their classmates in the dust.

"Your on." The new mare said to Rainbow Dash's challenging look. The two raced the final lap.

"Five Hundred!"

Harry saw Rainbow Dash introduce herself to the mare whose name turned out to be Lightning Dust. The two where very much alike. He saw them head for the Mess Hall.

"Hey Spitfire." Said a familiar voice. Soarin came on the scene. "Noobs done yet?"

"Only halfway. "AND IF THEIR NOT DONE BY SIx THEIR BANNED FROM THE MESS HALL FOR THE REST OF THE DAY!" She shouted. This made them hurry. It was only an hour till six o'clock. "Hey Soarin, think you could take the kid on the tour? I gotta oversee the noobs first five hundred laps."

"First Five Hundred?!" Came a stallion's voice from the recruits.

"KEEP FLYING!" Spitfire shouted.

"Uh...sure. Come on Prince." Soarin said to the younger foal. Harry nervously left with the teen.

"Uh, Captain, you think that's a good idea?" One of her Petty Officers asked.

"You two know the only reason they acted like that was because of the Love Poison." Spitfire shot back.

The two wisely shut off.

"MOVE IT! MOVE IT!" Spitfire yelled up at the flying recruits.

"Over there's the rec hall. We got all kinds of chairs, a couple of tvs, some video games. Pool tables, board games." Soarin said as Harry saw many older Wonderbolts going into the hall to relax. And over here we have...uh...let's move on." He looked into the alley and saw a couple of male Seargant's making out and petting heavily. The younger Seargant trailing a hoof down lower... "Don't lookm don't look." Soarin said covering Harry's eyes as he came upon the scene. Harry smelled something funny coming from the alley and heard weird noises. "This is the counselors building where you'll be spending two hours a day. One hour every Morning and Afternoon." Soarin said as they moved onto another building.

"I WANNA WATCH DAYS OF OUR PONY LIVES!" Said a male's loud voice from the rec hall a few yards away.

"I WANNA WATCH DAVID FEATHERBIN!" Shouted a female voice.

"I NEED MAH STORIES! I'LL KILL YOU! Expletive, #Bigfightbetweenseargants."

"Yeah those two get into it every other day." Soarin said to Harry's shocked expression as he heard words that made him blush. Only his uncle Macintosh had ever shouted those words and that was when he was injured.

"This is our library. Your free to browse our selection when your not observing or in therapy." Soarin told Harry. "And our final stop on our tour, the mess hall. The Barracks are behind this so its easy for the trainees who are exhausted can get to bed after getting some grub. Wanna go get a smoothie or something?"

"Sure." Harry said eargerly. "Do they have hay fries? I'm starving!"

To Be Continued...

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