My Little Pony: Will Of Fire

The Fire Element Alicorn

Chapter 12

Supernova Cannon

After watching Rainbow Dash perform her Sonic Rainboom during the Best Young Flyer competition, Flareon decided he wanted to try it performing it too. After they returned to Ponyville, Flareon took everyone with him to the park to show them his Sonic Rainboom. As he was high in the air about to perform it, Rainbow Dash, who took longer to arrive since she had been busy talking with the Wonderbolts, asked what Flareon was doing. "He's trying to do a Sonic Rainboom," Fluttershy replied. "Wait...what?" Rainbow Dash asked, "Flareon thinks he can do it? We'll see about that." As Flareon was beginning to make his decent, he quickly went at full speed preparing to do a Sonic Rainboom. Soon after, Flareon was almost there as all he had left to do was break the sound barrier. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to fly fast enough as the barrier quickly rebounded Flareon and sent him flying backwards through the air. As he recovered, Flareon decided he wasn't about to give up and gave it another chance, but the same thing happened as he was once again repelled by the sound barrier. As Flareon flew back to the ground near everyone, Rainbow Dash walked up to him and said, "Sorry Flareon, but you can't do the Sonic Rainboom. You're just not fast enough." "It's ok Flareon, even Rainbow Dash struggled to perform the Sonic Rainboom at first. Keep at it and maybe you can do it too!" Applejack said as she patted Flareon on the back trying to give him some reassurance. "Why do you want to perform the Sonic Rainboom?" Twilight asked. "If Rainbow Dash can do it, why can't I?" Flareon said, "I have never seen anything as cool as what Rainbow Dash did at the Best Young Flyer competition. Mark my words, I will do the Sonic Rainboom!" As the rest of the day went by, Flareon constantly attempted to do the Sonic Rainboom, but time and time again, he was repelled and sent flying backwards by the sound barrier. "Why can't I fly faster? I'm so close, but that I just can't get through that pesky barrier." As he landed back on the ground, Flareon could tell right away that his body had reached his limit, so he decided to head back home and try again tomorrow.

The next day was no different as Flareon tried do the Sonic Rainboom a couple of times and got nothing but complete failure. "Ok...let's try something different." This time Flareon attempted to do the Sonic Rainboom by flying upwards instead. "Here goes nothing!" Flareon yelled as he began to fly into the air. Unfortunately, he found that flying upwards to do the Sonic Rainboom was harder than flying downwards. After he was repelled by the sound barrier, Flareon flew right into a nearby tree, and after falling on some branches, landed on the ground. As he got up, Flareon saw Rainbow Dash standing in front of him looking concerned. "Flareon...we need to talk." After she brought him to the middle of the park, Rainbow Dash said, "You need to give up trying to do the Sonic Rainboom. Look...it's not that I don't want you to do it, it's just I don't want you injuring yourself. I can already tell your exhausted and you need to rest. Your putting too much strain on your body and if you keep at it like this, your just going to get yourself hurt." Right away, Flareon got back up and replied, "Let me guess...Twilight asked you to come here?" Even though Rainbow Dash didn't respond, Flareon could tell by the look on her face that he was right. "I will do the Sonic Rainboom Rainbow Dash...I'm not going to give up!" After he walked away from her, Flareon flew into the air once again more determined than before.

After Rainbow Dash left, Flareon continued to try performing the Sonic Rainboom. As the day went on it slowly turned to evening and eventually night. After another failed attempt, Flareon landed on the ground to take another break. He was barely able to stand as every muscle in his body was throbbing in pain. Even though it was almost unbearable, he didn't want to give up, Flareon wanted to do the Sonic Rainboom more than anything, and he wasn't going to let a simple thing like pain stop him. As Flareon got up and was about to fly into the air again, he heard a voice behind him say his name. As he turned around, Flareon saw Twilight with a concerned look on her face. "Flareon...can you please come home? It's already late and you look exhausted." "Sorry Twilight," he replied, "I'm very close to doing a Sonic Rainboom. Just give me a few more hours and I guarantee I'll pull it off," but as he tried to fly into the air, Flareon quickly fell on the ground. It was no use, his body didn't want to cooperate with him anymore. "Flareon...just stop this...please. Why do you want to perform Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom so badly?" Twilight asked. Flareon finally decided to tell Twilight the truth. "Rainbow Dash was able to perform the Sonic Rainboom when she was just a filly and here am I, a full-grown stallion, who can't even do something a little girl was able to do. You have your amazing intellect, Applejack with her rodeo skills, Fluttershy and her animals, Pinkie Pie with her parties, and Rarity with her talent for fashion. The only thing I can do is use fire magic with my horn...big deal. If I could do the Sonic Rainboom, then maybe...you guys would think more of me than just the chosen one." Twilight simply smiled and replied, "Oh Flareon...you don't need to do the Sonic Rainboom just to impress us. You're our friend and more importantly...you're my husband and I love you!" Just as he was about to walk over to Twilight to hug her, Flareon suddenly collapsed on the ground. As he began to lose consciousness, Flareon could hearing Twilight yelling his name. Soon after, her voiced slowly faded away and everything went dark.

Flareon then began to have a strange dream. He was dreaming about a red alicorn pony that kind of looked like him. The alicorn was flying through the air and suddenly ran into a window that was in his way. No matter how many times the pony tried to break through the window, he kept failing over and over. The alicorn then used his magic to cloak himself in fire and charged at the window. The pony successfully managed to break the window and fly through it leaving a small sun in his wake that soon exploded. Suddenly, he woke up from his dream and when Flareon looked around, he noticed he was lying in his bed near Twilight, who was still sleeping. "I'm back in our house? Wait...after I fainted, Twilight must have carried me all the way back here," he then looked at her and felt a huge amount of gratitude. "That dream I just had...it seemed so real. Was that pony...me? He cloaked himself in fire to break through that window." Suddenly Flareon was hit with an idea. He knew how to perform the Sonic Rainboom now. As Flareon quickly woke up Twilight, he told her to go get everyone and meet him in the park as soon as possible. Later on, after everyone arrived at the park, Rainbow Dash asked him, "Why did you have Twilight tell us to come here?" Flareon smiled and replied, "I know how to do the Sonic Rainboom." As he excepted, everyone was completely surprised. "Let me show you...a real Sonic Rainboom!" Soon after, Flareon flew high into the air, and began his decent as usual. When Flareon reached top speed, he used his magic to cloak himself in fire, which acted like a speed boost that helped him finally break through the sound barrier. Instead of a rainbow appearing behind him though, a miniature sun appears, and a second later, it explodes showering the park with small, white snowflake stars. Everyone in the park, including his friends, were absolutely amazed by his new move. When Flareon flew back to the ground, everyone rushed over to congratulate him. "That...was...awesome!" Pinkie Pie yelled as she hoped around him. "It was so beautiful and elegant Flareon...I'm impressed," Rarity replied. "It was ok...my Sonic Rainboom is still cooler though," Rainbow Dash said as she crossed her arms, but then she smiled and replied, "Seriously though...good job Flareon." Twilight then walked over to him with her eyes still glowing and said, "I see...so you used your fire magic to cloak yourself in fire and that helped you break through the sound barrier. I'm very impressed, but that clearly wasn't a Sonic Rainboom, it was something you created on your own. So Flareon...what do you want to call it?" Flareon then put his right hoof on his forehead, and after some thought, he smiled and said, "How about...Supernova Cannon?" As everyone commented on how much they liked the name, Flareon felt a sudden feeling of complete satisfaction as he now had his own signature move.