Twilight searched the ground, while Purple RD combed the skies, but after thirty minutes of searching they had seen any pony resembling Rainbow Dash.

“Still nothing?” Twilight called up.

“Nope…wait, wait I think I see something!” Just as she said that a Sonic Rainboom was painted across the sky from the distance, yet it was only a solid green color.

“You should go check-“

“I’m gonna go check that out!” Purple RD interrupted her. Twilight furrowed her brow and ran in the direction of the Sonic Rainboom.

When Purple RD arrived where the ray of light had come from, she searched high and low for the culprit and eventually after a minute or two a green pony came zipping past her, causing her to spin around uncontrollably.

After getting herself situated again Purple Rainbow Dash saw the green Pegasus weaving between trees and doing loops in the air at incredible speeds. Eventually the green blur stopped in front of Purple RD.

“Hey you’ve gotta be fast right? Come on I’ll race ya, ready set go!” And just like that the pony was gone in a dash.

“Did you find something?” Asked Twilight finally able to catch up to her.

“We’ll yes I think I found Rainbow Dash’s competitive nature!” Purple RD called back.

“Well hurry up and catch her before she gets away!”

“It’s no use, even though we’re technically the same pony, she’s basically wired to win. I’d never be able to catch her, we need to think of something else!”

Twilight thought for a minute, and an idea popped into her head. “Hey come back down we need to get some help real quick!

Applejack ran behind Twilight and Purple RD flew at pace with them. Applejack had been given the short version of the story and rushed along with the two purple ponies to help.

Purple RD shot up into the sky and looked around the for green blur, and after a moment she noticed her flying high in the sky.

“Hey Green Rainbow Dash, you wanna have a race!” Purple RD called out to her. Within an instant she was floating in front of her ready to go at the sound of a whistle.

“Finally someone who can actually keep up to me! Where we flying to?”

“Oh no, I’m not the one you’re going to race; it’s AppleJack.”

“AppleJack? Psh no way, I’m not gonna waste my time racing that slow poke!” Green RD said starting to fly away.

“Well that’s okay if you’re afraid, I mean you wouldn’t want to look foolish loosing.” The green pony stopped and turned around getting right in her counterpart’s face.

“I never loose! Bring it on!”

“Okay, but it’s going to be a hoof race, no wings.”

“No problem,” Green RD said with the upmost confidence.

After a few moments of preparation, AppleJack finally pulled tight the rope binding down Green RD’s wings tight enough so she wouldn’t slip out.

“All right, ya’ll ready?” Applejack asked.

“Just give me a countdown!” Both ponies took their starting positions and dug their hooves into the dirt.

“Ready, set, and GO!” AppleJack yelled. Both ponies trampled off through the forest path.

Even though RD was a pegasus she still had to speed and stamina on land, and was still a challenge for an athletic earth pony like AJ. However AJ was not about to be beat by the simple shadow of her best friend.

AJ turned on the juice and quickly gained the advantage over Green RD. This only frustrated Green RD further and caused her to put all the energy she could muster into sprinting ahead of AppleJack.

Eventually regaining the lead, she looked back to gloat at the trailing orange pony, yet as she deterred her attention AppleJack called out “Now!”

From above the trees Purple RD and Twilight jumped down onto the green pony and trapped her in a net. Green RD struggled to get free yet she couldn’t break the snare and the rope was tied to tight for her to get off so her air power was useless.

“Alright, way to go AppleJack!” Twilight exclaimed.

“Thanks…it was…nothing.” AppleJack said as she jogged over; out of breath.

“Well this is one down and we have three others to go. Hopefully Pinkie Pie and Yellow Rainbow Dash had as much luck as we did.”