...the rain was heavy that night, kinda felt like the clouds pouring rain from the skies wanted to bring every pony it could see down the ground along with the raindrops. Ace could feel the water hitting his dark green coat. Well, not his entire coat got soaked as he was carrying the saddlebags his mother had given him for his last birthday when she didn’t come up with anything else. Sure they didn’t help his mane and tail but he didn’t care as they would dry up later.

He could remember his family, all of them where regular earth ponies and it had been like that for a long time until the day when Ace was born, he stretched his wings to remind himself that he was a pegasus and not an earth pony.

No pony could could explain how an earth pony could suddenly give birth to a pegasus. His mother was happy that the foal had survived the hard birth and named him Green Ace due to his dark green coat.

Ace tried not to remember the school he had been through, all of his class mates where earth ponies and they always asked questions about his wings, questions he didn’t have the answer to and he felt like he couldn’t explain so they would understand, and some had even teased him because he was such a bad flier.

His mother always seemed to understand him as she asked his brothers and sisters to not make fun of his wings but to support him. When school finished Ace used the cover of the night to run away as he knew, he needed other pegasi around him so he could learn more about what it meant to be a pegasus.

He already knew that he could fly but he wasn’t a very good flyer and he could only fly short distances and that he could walk on clouds and push them around as he pleased.

He smiled when the memory of that one time he accidentally soaked his brother by jumping on a rain cloud passed through his mind, it felt so different than the regular white clouds he used to walk on so he couldn’t resist jumping on it.

He could still remember how funny his mother thought it was watching a soaked pony come home in the middle of a nearly clear sunny day with only one or two grey clouds among a dozen of regular white ones.

Ace stopped below by a tree to get some shelter from the rain. He had been walking in the heavy rain for what felt most of the day and as the sky was covered by grey rainclouds he didn’t know what time of day it was but he began feeling a bit tired so it was probably sometime around evening.

He didn’t feel cold thanks to the saddlebags but the rain was starting to get to him as he had a lot to trouble flying in rain and when it was this heavy it would be the worst flying experience yet not to mention he had never flown with his saddlebags before.

He noticed that below the tree everything was perfectly dry like the grass on a sunny day so he dropped his saddlebags and took a letter from his uncle who lived in Ponyville who had been great supporting him through letters and Ace felt like his uncle understood exactly how he felt.

He unfolded the letter and placed it on his nearly flattened saddlebag.

...i’m sorry to hear that you feel like you are, I know what its like, I used to be the only unicorn in the family, no pony could explain how it happened and when I was at your age I heard of this town called Ponyville where unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies lived together as if they where all the same and i think you would like it here, its a cute little town where we don’t have much trouble.

I think that if you come live with me in Ponyville you might be able to forget all you been through and look towards a bright future with some other pegasus.

Ace remembered the joy he felt when he read that letter for the first time and had planned his runaway ever since, he had prepared his trip with a map, compass and a few apples and the night before written a letter to his mother who always woke him up every morning as the sun rose beyond the horizon.

By the time you read this i’m probably far away but don’t worry, i’m heading to Ponyville to live with my uncle and I will send you a letter once i get there, I have prepared my trip carefully with a map and a compass so it won’t take long I promise.

You are the best mother any pony could possibly have and you will always be in my heart.

Ace could feel a tear as the sadness struck him from the thought about all the possible reactions his mother could have, although she remained calm most of the times, even when he scared his sisters by placing dark clouds next to their window right before they woke up and when they woke up they screamed.

Sure their mother got there wondering what was going on only to find the reason by looking at the window and she didn’t have to think much to know who was behind the prank.

She told them she would talk to him about it she went to his room, she found him rolling on the floor laughing, She told him that once he was done laughing he would have to remove the clouds and before she left, she admitted that it was a pretty funny joke after all.

Ace laughed quietly when he came thinking of that kind of jokes he quickly remembered that he hadn’t gotten his cutie mark yet and stared wondering if he ever would get one, not long after he felt too tired to stay awake and fell asleep using his unopened saddlebag as a pillow.

The next morning Ace woke up by the sun which was shining in his eyes, he got up and packed his saddlebags thinking Ponyville couldn’t be far away now. Not after traveling for nearly the whole past day, he loved watching the moon and he quietly thought to himself, “A shame it didn’t deliver the warmth and light of the sun”

Ace grabbed an apple from his saddlebag for breakfast while he packed his bags again, he was just about to start walking when he came to realize that his wings wasn’t soaked anymore. He stretched and flapped them for a few times before getting his saddlebags again. He wanted to reach Ponyville today and after a while of walking he spotted a small town with a road leading straight into it. Ace tried to figure a way to draw as little attention as he came walking into the town.

He walked into the town and he soon realized that he had reached Ponyville with all the different ponies around, it was just like his uncle had described it in his letter, unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies all around and most of them didn’t care about some of them having wings, some having horns and some having neither.

His thinking was aborted when he noticed that some pony had built a home above the town entirely by clouds, he stopped to look at it for a few moments before he kept walking down the street in an attempt of finding his uncle without getting stuck in some conversation. He began thinking that maybe he should learn to find his way around the place.

“nah. that can wait until later” he thought to himself as he looked up and looked into the mass of ponies in all kinds of colors combinations and some of them even noticed him  definitely wondering who he was but they soon got back to what they where doing earlier.   Ace looked up when he noticed some pegasi making a pass over the town making a rainbow  trail above the small town.

Ace didn’t see any pony reacting to it, they had probably seen it more than a raincloud spends time soaking every pony below.

Ace however hadn’t seen anything like it and was standing there trying to spot the rainbow again until he heard a voice screaming and when he looked around he could only see some pink pony running and the next moment some pony on the other side tells him “Thats just Pinkie Pie, she did the same when I was new in town”

Ace looked towards where the voice came from and noticed another pony, this one being a lavender unicorn and before Ace got the idea of saying anything the unicorn tells him “Im Twilight Sparkle, never seen you here before, your new?”

Ace quickly replied “Yeah, just got here.” Ace told her that he came to Ponyville to find his uncle. “your uncle? is he the dark brown uncorn with blue mane and tail that came to Ponyville looking for a new start?” Twilight interrupted him.

“yeah, thats him and I’m kinda looking for a new start myself, you know where I can find him?” Ace asked her and the next moment Ace heard Twilight saying “yea, ill show you the way”

After a short trip through the town Twilight stopped by a house and looked at Ace, “Here it is.”

“Thank you Twilight much appreciated” Ace replied before walking inside and finding his uncle in a corner reading some newspaper.

A moment later he lowered his newspaper he had been using magic to hold up and looked around to see who it was.

“Ace? is that you” he said with a smile and Ace could only reply “it’s me uncle.” and moments later his uncle gave him a caring look while saying

“How could I forget you! that green coat, those blue eyes not to mention that mane, black with a single red stripe and a simple black tail. come her and have some delicious apple pie I got for you as I know how much you love pie.”

Ace knew that his uncle was right, Ace loved pie especially apple pie.

After they had eaten the pie and spoken for nearly the rest of the day Ace heard his uncle suggesting that he shows Ace to his room as they had dried out all conversation topics they could come up with.

They went upstairs and Ace smiled when his uncle opened the door revealing a simple room with a bed, a closet and large window, Ace noticed that the window was placed so he could see the weather during the day,

And during the night the window would serve just as fine for watching the moon and the bed was perfectly placed on the side of the window so Ace could sleep without getting too annoyed by the moon light and even if he did he could simply close the curtains.

When the sun would start to rise above the horizon it would soon make the room fill with light so it would as Ace uncle kindly described it by saying “once the sun rises high enough it will wake any pony still sleeping” with a chuckle and once that was said he noticed that Ace had already entered his room.

His uncle looked at him, as Ace looked through the window to see lights starting go down as ponies went to sleep for the night.

Ace found himself getting to sleep as he was kind of tired after a day of walking to reach Ponyville, watching some pink earth pony named Pinkie Pie run away from him as if he was wearing a scary mask. He could still remember meeting the unicorn Twilight Sparkle, and watching some still unknown pegasi make a rainbow above the town.

A short while later he fell asleep in the bed his uncle had gotten for him, it was undeniably a lot more comfortable than sleeping under a tree but what can you ask from nature?

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