Author's note: Cloud City.

Chapter 12: Magic Ruins Everything.

I am starting to regret telling Twilight I exist. The questions just won't end.

"What does it feel like to be dead?" Twilight asked

"Floaty," I said, getting tired of her. Twilight was just writing away in her book, as if it will help.

"Is there away for this is be recreated?"

"Yes."

"Really? How? If we can know how to bring spirits, we can gain so many questions," Twilight said.

"Sorry, Twilight, but you must be a spirit before you die to be like me," I said. And also have a run in with the Doctor.

"Oh," Twilight said, with her ears down.

"Twilight, all these questions are getting a little old know. So how about I show you something that will explain life itself," I said, baiting her.

"What!? You mean to tell me that you have an understanding of creation?" Twilight said, excitedly.

"Yes, but in order for you to understand it, you must figure it out on your own."

"But you just said-"

"I know what I said, I am going to show you, not tell you," I said.

I took the quill and book from her hoof, and began to draw a series of intersecting circles. I handed it back to Twilight, as she tilted her head at the picture.

"Um, what is this supposed to be," she asked, moving the book in different angles, trying to make sense of it.

"That Twilight is called the Flower of Life, and until you figure it out, I won't answer any more of your questions." This should keep her busy for a few days.

"Hm," Twilight pondered, looking at the drawing.

Since Twilight was now busy with that, I went back to organizing the books back on the selves. Since she has come to accept my existence, she has been reading all kind of supernatural books.

"There, last one," I said, while putting up the last book.

I looked over to see Pinkie and Applejack watching Twilight, as she was redrawing the Flower of Life for the 15th time, trying to understand it. I wonder which one of them will understand it first, my guess is Pinkie.

I then hear what sounds someone yelling, and it was getting closer.

Then a blue blur came crashing through the window of the library, and hitting the shelves, and scattering the books.

Everyone in the library was pelted with books because of that blue missile, judging by the groans of pain.

Fluttershy then appears at the broken window, "Rainbow Dash, you rock! Woohoo." Fluttershy then looks around and gasps, "Did my cheering do that?"

So it was Bird Brain who did this. Guess I know who to haunt next.

"Hehe. Sorry about that ladies. THAT was a truly feeble performance," Rainbow said, getting up out of mess.

"Actually, it wasn't all bad. I particularly liked it when you made the clouds spin," Fluttershy said.

"Ugh. I'm not talking about my performance, I'm talking about yours. That feeble cheering!" Rainbow said. Rainbow you were the one who cause the disaster to happen, don't blame her.

"What are you two arguing about?" Twilight asked.

"Were we arguing? I'm sorry," Fluttershy apologized.

"I wish you guys could come to Cloudsdale to see me compete in the Best Young Flyer Competition," Rainbow said. Cloudsdale? Like a city of clouds?

"What's that?" Twilight asked.

"It's where all the greatest Pegasus flyers get together and show off their different flying styles! Some are fast! And some are graceful. Woah, woah, WooooaaAAAAHH!" Pinkie said, making some car noises.

"Golly. I'd love to see you strut yer stuff in that competition," Applejack said.

"Yeah. I wish you guys could be there. Fluttershy's a great support, but her cheering isn't exactly inspirational," Rainbow said, disappointed.

"OOH! I'd love to see you make a sonic rainboom! It's like, the most coolest thing ever! Even though I've never actually seen it, but I mean COME ON! It's a sonic rainboom! How not cool could it possibly not be?!" Pinkie said. Sonic rainboom?

"What's a sonic rainboom?" Twilight asked.

"You really need to get out more. The sonic rainboom is legendary! When a Pegasus like Rainbow Dash gets going sooo fast... BOOM! A sonic boom and a rainbow can happen all at once!" Pinkie explained. So Rainbow can break the sound barrier?

"And Rainbow Dash here's the only pony to ever pull it off!" Applejack said.

"It was a long time ago... I was just a filly," Rainbow admitted. So a filly could break the sound barrier, and not one other pony could do it ever.

"Yeah, but you're gonna do it again, right?" Pinkie asked, bouncing around.

"Are... you kidding? I'm the greatest flyer to ever come out of Cloudsdale! I could do sonic rainbooms in my sleep," Rainbow said, little nervously.

"Wow. If you pull that off, you'll win the crown for sure!" Twilight excitedly said.

"The grand prize is an entire day with the Wonderbolts. A whole day of flying with my life-long heroes... It'll be a dream come true!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Yay," Fluttershy said gentaly.

"I'm gonna go rest up. Don't wanna over prepare myself, y'know. Hehe," Rainbow said, and then turned to Fluttershy, "YOU, on the other hand, better keep practicing. I need a cheering section to match my spectacular performance."

She then attempted to fly off, but not before I threw a book at her, knocking her out of the sky. 3 points.

Luckily, no pony saw me do that, so they continued with their conversation.

"She's practiced that move a hundred times, and she's never even come close to doing it. I don't know if I can cheer loud enough to help her," Fluttershy said.

"Well, guess we better get this cleaned up... again," Twilight said. Again? I was the one who cleaned it up in the first place.

"Go on, go on," Somepony said. I turned and saw Rarity. When did she get here? I really got to keep a better eye on these girls.

"Go on what?" Twilight asked.

"Find a spell that will get us wingless ponies into Cloudsdale. Didn't you see how nervous she was?" Rarity said.

"Nervous? Have you spit yer bit or somethin'? She was tootin' her own horn louder then the brass section of a marching band!" Applejack argued.

"Oh, puh-lease. I have put on enough fashion shows to recognize stage fright when I see it. We've got to find a way to be there for her. Now go on!"

"I got to agree with Rarity on this, she could use some extra support," I added. I noticed both Rarity, and Applejack go a little ridged when I talked.

"It doesn't matter how many times you say it Twilight, I'm still not use to this spook about," Applejack said to Twilight.

"Don't worry Applejack, he is a friend," Twilight said, as she started to look for Rarity's spell, "Owaa! Ugh. How am I supposed to find a flight spell in this mess?" Twilight was getting agivated not finding it in a few seconds.

"A flight spell? One sec," Pinkie said, quickly grabing a book, and handing it to Twilight, "Page twenty-seven."

"How'd you do that?" Applejack asked.

"It landed on my face when Rainbow Dash knocked me into the bookcase," Pinkie said. Is it sad that Pinkie makes the most sense out of all these ponies?

"Here it is! A spell that will allow Earth ponies to fly for three days. Ooh, it looks really difficult... I'm not sure I can do it," Twilight says, while reading the book.

"You've got to try!" Rarity said.

"Okay... But who's gonna volunteer to be the test subject?"

"I will! For Rainbow Dash, I will go first," Rarity said, stepping forward.

"Here goes," Twilight said, focusing her magic.

Twilight's magic soon streamed from her horn, and enveloped Rarity in a multicolored cocoon. Soon the magic started to disabate, and there was Rarity, with a pair of colorful butterfly wings.

"I think it worked!" Twilight said, happily.

Does this make her an alicorn now?

Twilight ended up not being able to repeat this magic anymore, because it took too much magic to do. So she read the rest of the page, and found that there was a simpler spell for cloud walking underneath the wing spell.

So Twilight ended up granting the rest of the ground walkers the ability to cloud walk, now we just needed a way up to Cloudsdale.

Of course, it was Pinkie who had the solution, that pink hot air balloon. So the ponies piled into the balloon, and went off to Cloudsdale for Rainbow.

When we broke through the cloud layer, the first ones we saw were Fluttershy, and Rainbow. Fluttershy was the first to see us, or more precisely, Rarity

"Rare..." Fluttershy said, not believing Rarity was flying.

"Rare?! The sonic rainboom is WAY more than rare!" Rainbow shouted, oblivious to us.

"Rarity?" Fluttershy finally said, causing Rainbow to turn around.

"Rarity! Are you... flying?!" Rainbow asked, stunned by Rarity's new flight power.

"I most certainly am! Aren't my wings smashing?! Twilight made them for me. I just adore them! Why so shocked? We couldn't leave our favorite flyer without a big cheering section!" Rarity said, and ponied at the rest of us.

""We"?.. I... I can't believe it!" Rainbow said, looking at all of her friends.

"It's incredible!" Fluttershy said happily

"This is so cool! You guys made it!"

"Sure did!" Pinkie said, jumping out of the balloon.

"WAIT!" Rainbow called out, just to see Pinkie standing on the cloud,"... How'd you do that? Only Pegasus ponies can walk on clouds."

"Haha. Pretty cool, huh?" Pinkie said, jumping on the clouds.

The rest of the ponies got out of the balloon.

"I found a spell that makes temporary wings, but it was too difficult to do more than once. So I found an easier spell that lets the rest of us walk on clouds," Twilight explained.

"And we came to cheer you to victory!" Applejack added.

"To be honest, I was starting to get just the teeniest, tiniest bit nervous. But I feel a LOT better now that you guys are here. Hey, we've got some time before the competition. Why don't Fluttershy and I show you around Cloudsdale?" Rainbow offered.

The others agreed, and followed the two pegasus.

"Here it is: the greatest city in the sky!" Rainbow said while we walked through the city.

"Oooh! Aaah!" the ponies said, while I remained silent, I looked over, and saw Rarity making the same noises, but just for herself in a mirror.

"Uhh... Some of the greatest Pegasi in history came from Cloudsdale!" Rainbow continued.

"Oh, wait for me!" Rarity said, getting too caught up in the mirror.

Soon we passed by some work ponies.

"Those wings are gorgeous!" One of the pegasus called out to Rarity.

"Why, thank you!"

"Be careful with those wings, Rarity. They're made from gossamer and morning dew, and they're incredibly delicate," Twilight warned Rarity.

"Don't worry, Twilight. I'm sure they can't get worn out from too much attention," Rarity said, dismissing Twilight's worries.

"Since we're up here, I'd sure like to get a look at where the weather's made," Applejack said.

"Great idea! C'mon, girls. To the weather factory!" Rainbow said, leading us further into the city.

When we entered the weather factory, the first thing we heard was the roll of thunder.

"This is where they make the snowflakes. Each one is hoofmade. As you can see, it's a delicate operation," Rainbow said, pointing at some workers.

I looked around, and saw boxes of snowflakes being filled with snow. They had even hung some large snowflakes from the rafters in a form of decorations.

"Ooh, the snowflakes look even better from up here," Rarity gasped from above.

Unfortunately, it seems that Rarity's wings had started stirring up all of the snow, and causing some problems with the workers.

"We better move on before Rarity ruins winter and causes a drought," Rainbow said, leading them away.

The next room we went to had a large waterfall of Rainbows. Rainbows are liquid here?

"And here's where they make the rainbows!" Rainbow declared.

Pinkie, seeing the colorful liquid decided to taste some of it,"Spicyyyyyy!..." Pinkie yelled, with a tongue of fire. Pinkie then ran off to put out the burning.

Note to self, Rainbows are a hot sause.

"Yeah, rainbows aren't really known for their flavor," Rainbow now said.

"Whoa!" Somepony exclaimed. I turned and saw a brown pegasus, an orange one, and a fat purple one.

" Oh, where'd you get those amazing wings? I want a pair!" The brown pegasus called out. A guy pegasus wants butterfly wings?

"Hmm... Yeah, I guess I could see that," Rarity said, enjoying the attention.

"Oh, hey look, it's Rainbow Crash again!" he said, pointing at Rainbow.

"Heheheyeah! Rainbow... Umm... Eyah... Crash!" said the orange one. I think that one is a little slow.

"Rarity! What're you doing talking to these guys?" Rainbow asked her.

"Oh, they were just admiring my wings, Rainbow Dash," Rarity defended.

"Yeah, you should forget the sonic rainboom and just get yourself some wings like these!" the brown one said.

The three idiot pegasus started laughing at Rainbow.

Ok, now this is going too far. I look around, and saw a large stirrer for the rainbows. I grab ahold of the thing, and I swing it towards the three idiots, throwing rainbow at them.

Each one of them ended up with some rainbow in their laughing mouths. Well, at least their mouths that use to be laughing, but the looks of the pained looks on their faces.

I placed down the stirrer, and floated back to the group.

"What the?" Rainbow questioned, looking at the stirrer on the ground.

"Now Chrome, was it really necessary to do that, they were just admiring my wings," Rarity said, towards the stirrer.

"Rainbow has enough to deal with, she doesn't need them making it any worse," I said.

"What the, who is that?" Rainbow turned to face me.

"Rainbow this is Chrome, the ghost I told you about," Twilight explained.

"Oohh..."

"Uhh... C'mon, girls. Why don't we go see how clouds are made? Don't listen to them. You're gonna win that competition for sure!" Fluttershy said, trying to get us away incase those idiots return.

"Are you kidding? They were right, I can't DO the sonic rainboom, and just look at these boring, plain old feathered wings. I'm doomed!" Rainbow said, pointing at Rarity showing off her wings to the workers.

"What, these old things? Go ahead, everypony. Photos are encouraged," Rarity said to the workers.

"Rarity, we're supposed to be helping Rainbow Dash relax, remember? Put your wings away and stop showing off!" Twilight shouted over the crowd.

"Oh, pfft. How can you ask me to put away perfection?"

"Rainbow Dash, are you okay? You don't look so good," Twilight asked Rainbow.

Rainbow started panting, "Of course! Why wouldn't I be okay? Everyone's so in love with Rarity's wings that they won't even notice when I totally blow it in the Best Young Flyer's Competition."

"Hey! There's an idea! YOU should enter the competition!"a random pegasus said. Ok, no. I am drawing the line here. I start floating over to Rarity.

"Yeah! I could watch you fly all day long!" another pegasus added.

"There really isn't anypony who uses their wings quite like me. Perhaps I should compete," Rarity said.

"WHAT?!" Rainbow yelled.

I went over to Rarity's ear and started whispering, "I am disappointed in you Rarity. Who would of guessed that The Element of Generosity could be so greedy for attention, that they would harm their own friend."

Rarity seemed a hurt by what I was applying.

"But while I would like to compete, I cannot. I didn't come here to compete for glory, I came here to help a friend who needs her friends support," Rarity added to her previous statement

Some of the workers were disappointed by this, and just dispersed.

When me and Rarity got to the group, she started speaking again.

"Rainbow I wish apologize for my earlier behavior, it was unbecoming of me. I was letting these wings of mine got to my head, and almost risked causing what we came her to prevent," Rarity apologized to Rainbow.

"Um, yeah it is ok. And yeah, it isn't like those wings could ever beat me and the sonic rainboom anyway," Rainbow boasted.

Well the group ended up separating after that, the girls went to go find their seats, while Rainbow went to the waiting room. I followed Rainbow just incase she need any moral support again.

While we were waiting, Rainbow reveled that she was much more nervous then she admitted.

When it was almost time for her number to come up, she panicked, and took someone else's number, to buy some time. But even when it was near her new number, she then took the highest number she could find, so that she could have even more time.

Rainbow was a wreck when there were only 2 more ponies I front of her, she was curled up in a ball, shaking from the fear of performing.

"Rainbow," I said, when the others moved away to prepare.

"Who's there," She asked, looking around.

"I am Chrome, Rainbow."

"Oh, what are you doing here, this is only for contents only."

"I came to make sure you could go out there," I explained.

"I-I can't do it," she admitted, "I can't do a sonic rainboom, I have tried and tried but just couldn't repeat it."

This mare needs a kick in the pants, "Well I just guess you aren't good enough."

"What was that?" Rainbow asked, looking offended.

"I said you must not be that good. All of your talk about you being the best flyer, and all of your skills, were just lies," I continued.

Rainbow stood up, looking angry at me, "I am the best flyer in Equestria, buster. Don't you dare doubt my skills."

This had me smiling, "All you seem to be right now is big talk, so right don't you try to prove me wrong Bird Brain."

Rainbow flew up, and looked ready to attack me, "Yeah, I will show you! And you had better be ready to admit, that I am the best flyer, after I win this thing!"

"Number 15, if you are done yelling at nothing, your turn is up," said a peach colored pony.

Rainbow then ran out toward the stage, with the intent of showing me wrong.

Seeing that my work was done, I decided to go back to the others.

I ended up finding the girls, and watched what remained of Rainbow's show.

She had picked a rather difficult routine by the looks of it, but I did enjoy the rock music that went with it. It seemed to keep her in sync with her moves. Rainbow's act was almost finished, when I heard something crackling next to me.

I turned and saw Rarity's wings starting to drip, and sweat.

"Um, Twilight, I think something is wrong with Rarity's wings." I said.

Twilight looked, just in time to see Rarity's wings disintegrate.

Rarity looked at where her wings were, "Uh-oh,"

Rarity ended up falling through the cloud screaming.

"Oh no! Her wings evaporated into thin air!" Twilight yelled.

Oh hell.

Suddenly, three pegasus, dressed in blue spandex came flying down to rescue Rarity from her drop, but Rarity was flailing too much, and knocked them out with her legs.

"Hold on, Rarity! I'm coming!" I heard Rainbow yelling from above as she started to dive.

"Oh, I can't look!" Fluttershy said, hiding her eyes.

I continued to watch as Rainbow continued to gain ground on the falling ponies, and noticed a cone of white form around her. Then a large boom was heard as the cone broke, as Rainbow broke the sound barrier, and caught the falling ponies.

"A sonic rainboom! She did it! She did it! WOOO!" Fluttershy cheered, "A sonic rainboom! Wooo! YEAH!"

Rainbow then brought the fallen ponies back up to Cloudsdale, and had Rarity put back in the hot air balloon's basket.

"I did it. I did it!" Rainbow said excitedly.

"You sure did. Oh thank you, Rainbow Dash. You saved my life!" Rarity sighed in relief.

"Oh yeah. I did that too. Ha, best day EVER!" Rainbow yelled, "Everything turned out alright! Oh,I just wish I could have met the Wonderbolts when they were awake."

Then the blue spandex pegasus from before approached Rainbow.

Rainbow gasped ,"OhmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohMYGOSH!"

"So you're the little pony who saved our lives. We really wanted to meet you, and say thanks," Said the yellow pegasus with fire colored hair

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!" Rainbow continued, with her fan moment.

Oh hey, here comes Princess Celestia.

"Princess," Twilight said, as they all bowed.

"Hello, Twilight Sparkle, and hello to your friends too," Princess Celestia said, "I am her because of your friend's incredible act of bravery and her spectacular sonic rainboom, I'm presenting the grand prize for best young flyer to this year's winner, Miss Rainbow Dash!"

The crowds cheered for Rainbow's vicory.

"Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh!" Rainbow said, "This really is the best day EVER!"

" Uhh, hey, Rainbow Crash." Oh hey, it is the brown idiot from before.

And the orange one, "Dash!"

"Oh! Uhh... Sorry. Rainbow Dash. Uhh, we just wanted to congratulate you on winning the competition."

"That sonic rainboom was awesome!"

"Heh, thanks, guys," Rainbow said.

"Uhh, we're really sorry we gave you such a hard time before," apologized the brown one.

"Aww, that's okay. Don't worry about it."

"Hey. Do you want to hang out with us? Maybe you could show us how you did that incredible trick!"

"Sorry, boys... But I've got plans!" Rainbow said as she flew away with the wonderbolts.

Well then, that ended better than I planned, and no one ended up frozen in carbonite.