The moon was hoisted fully into the sky as Twilight Sparkles, Soulstice, and Spike were all making their way into the park to study the Red Heart Moon; a strange cosmetic event that had been dormant for over two hundred.

“It sure is beautiful out tonight” Soulstice said as he put down the bag of stargazing supplies.

Twilight smiled at her friend. “It sure is” she said, nodding in agreement. “Hey Soulstice, remember when we use to sneak out at night to go and star gaze?” she asked.

The blue stallion grinned as he looked up into the stars, as he remember him and the little filly Twilight giggling and sneaking into the schools observatory, where they would look through the giant telescope and they would point out all the constellations and planets. “Yeah, those were good time.”

“We sure did some crazy things when we were young” Twilight laughed. To her that was her largest sense of rebellion she has ever had.

Spike was finally up the hill after dragging a five hundred pound telescope, or what at least felt like that. “Hey Twilight, can you help me out for a sec?”

“Sure thing Spike. Excuse me for a second” she said as she trotted to the exhausted dragon.

“No problem, I’ll just get set up” Soulstice went to grab the telescope and pulled it higher up on the hill.

“What’s up Spike?” asked Twilight when they were both alone.

“I just had a question.” He took a big breathe. “How come you never talked about Soulstice before?

“What” she thought. She had realized that Soulstice hadn’t been on her mind lately, but surely she had mentioned it to Spike at some point. Or did she? It wasn’t like her to forget someone so important to her, but she has been incredibly busy as of lately.

“Oh I’m sure I at least mentioned him. You know, at least once” she laughed nervously.

Spike just stared at her, but ultimately, decided to leave it for now. just then there was a call from the top of the hill.

“Hey Twilight! We have a little problem up here!” shouted Soulstice.

A look of terror struck twilights face. “Oh my stars! What’s wrong? is it something with the telescope?”

“No that’s up it, It’s the sky” he pointed up to see that an abundance of thick grey clouds began to clutter the sky.

“Oh is that all” smiled Twilight. “That’s not a big deal.”

“Not a big deal? No offense Twilight, but without a clear sky, we can’t exactly see the moon…..”

Twilight just rolled her eyes. “You know, for a pony that always has his head in the clouds your…..” She couldn’t finish it, kind of screwed it up. “Look, don’t worry, unlike someponies, I talked to the weather ponies before we got here and had them send a good friend down for help.”

Soulstice just gave her a sly look, almost like he was impressed. “Well look who is all high and mighty, Miss Twilight” he said sarcastically.

Twilight couldn’t help but let a laugh slip out. “Well, somepony has to be. And if not you then it might as well be me.” She gave him a devious stare back. Soulstice just rolls his eyes.

“So who exactly is coming here again?” he asked.

“Oh, just the fastest, coolest, and most awesome pony in all of Ponyville, no scratch that, ALL OF EQUESTRIA!” boomed a voice from the sky.

The two ponies and the dragon looked up into the sky, and sure enough the cyan blue, Rainbow Dash swooped down from the sky and landed by the two unicorns.

“Hey Twi! Who’s this guy?” she asked bluntly.

“Rainbow Dash, this is Soulstice. He’s here to so some research on a strange cosmetic happening called the re-“

Rainbow cut her off mid-sentence. “Yeah that’s great Twi, hey can you just tell me what I need to do? I kinda need to get some sleep before my next nap.”

“Oh, okay I guess…” she said. “If you could just move some of these clouds so we can see the moon. It would be really appreciated.”

“Is that all?” she snickered at the menial task she was given. “No problem, I can do that in ten seconds flat!”

And just like that, rainbow bolted up into the air, swirling and twirling as she began to clear the sky of the clouds.

Soulstice looked at Twilight. “She seems……nice?”

Twilight just laughed at his response, he wasn’t use to dealing with Rainbow. “Don’t worry about her. She may be a bit self-centered, but she is a good pony.”

“WOOHOOO!!” screamed Rainbow as she dashed through the clouds, each one exploding as she bolted through them.

Soulstice couldn’t help but smile. “Yeah, she seems like a real blast.”

“Almost done up here guys!” shouted Rainbow from the sky. She began to make a das h towards the last cloud left in the sky.

WHAMM!!

Just suddenly there is a huge explosion of clouds as two pegesi began to hurtle towards the ground, hitting the earth with a tremendous thud.

“OH NO!” screamed Twilight, as she, Soulstice and Spike run towards the crash site. Spike was the first to arrive.
“Hey Rainbow!” he called. “Are you okay?”

Emerging from the dust, the now dizzy and dusty Rainbow emerged from the ground. “Yeah I’m okay, I guess” she seemed to still be a bit groggy.

There was a moan coming from the ground on the other side of Rainbow.

“Hey that’s the guy who ran into me!” Rainbow scowled angrily. “Hey dude, what gives?”

The shadowy figure began to rise, he fluttered his wings to clear the dust from him and the air around him. He gave another groan as the pegesus but his hoof over his head, trying to nurse it better. The pony stepped forward a few feet revealing himself.

“Ow, Goddess…… My head…” he groaned.

The dust had all cleared as Rainbow looked to see another pegesus standing before her. He was a slim pony, but he still seemed to have muscular looking wings. His fur was a messy, light brown. His mane and tail were long; longer than most stallions’ manes were at least, and it seemed to part down the middle, so that his hair falls down on both side of his neck, covering his squinty brown eyes.

“Hey, stupid, watch were your going next time!” said Rainbow angrily.

He was slow to respond. “What……. What are you talking about?” the other pegesi replied. “It’s not my fault that you can’t fly!”

“Did you say what I though you said?” Rainbow said furiously. “Do you know who your talking too?”

“Yeah” he replied. “I’m talking to the dumb mare who can’t watch where she’s going!”

“Oh you did not jus-“

“Oh yes I did!”

“I’m Rainbow Dash! Fastest, coolest, most athletic and awesomest pony in all of Equestria!”

“You wish. That title belongs to me: The Stray Cloud!”

“The what?”

“Stray Cloud, professional ninja, master of stealth and speed. Nopony is faster than me, especially some rainbow mane loser!”

“Oh yeah?!”

“Yeah!”

“Alright then” said Rainbow, catching her breath from the long exchange of words she just had. “Prove it, you and me right now! first to Cloudsdale and back wins!”

“I accept your challenge. Prepare to lose miserable at the hands of the mighty brad-“

“GO!” screamed Rainbow, racing towards the cloud city.

“Hey, no fair! You fly with no honor!” screamed Stray Cloud as he flew after her.

The two unicorns and dragon just stand there, unsure of what exactly just happened.

“What the hay just happened?” asked Soulstice, confused at what had just unfolded.

“I……” began Twilight. “I don’t know.”

Soulstice looks at Twilight. “Should we……. Get back to work?”

“Oh right! The moon. I’ve almost forgotten.” Said Twilight as the two made their way back to the telescope.

“Okay, so if you take a look through here…” he adjusted the telescope’s sights and focuses. “And if you look closely, you can see that the moon is almost half full of a strange red light.

Sure enough when twilight took a look through the telescope and looked at Luna’s moon, she saw that Soulstice was right. The moon was almost half red, with just a small crescent on the left side still being white, while the right side was still glowing a bright white.

“By the stars……” Twilight said, pulling her bewildered head away from the telescope. “This is just incredible!”

“Exactly! Twilight do you know what this means?” Soulstice began.

Before he was able to finish, there was a loud screaming coming from the sky. The two looked up and saw a blue and brown blur hurtling towards them.

“LOOK OUT!” Rainbow screamed.

The unicorns were able to move quickly enough to avoid the pegesus. Unfortunately, the telescope didn’t.

CRASH!!

Rainbow and Stray Cloud fell from the sky, completely destroying the telescope.

“Don’t you ever get tired of crashing?” Stray Cloud said to Rainbow, face down in the dirt.

“AWWW, is somepony jealous because they lost a race to a certain awesome cyan pony” Rainbow said smugly, her face stuck in the front of the telescope.

“OH I LET YOU WIN!”

“YEAH YOU WISH!”

“WELL, YOU CHEATED!”

“DID NOT!”

“DID TOO!”

“ENOUGH! BOTH OF YOU!” screamed Twilight, smoke whistling out of her ears. They had destroyed her telescope, and now they would both pay for it. She began to concentrate as she separated the two arguing ponies with her magic.

“HEY WHAT THE?” said a startled Stray Cloud.

“You two are going to apologize for breaking my telescope and then we are all going to go home!” said Twilight sternly.

The two pegesi looked at each other, then at Twilight. She did not look happy. Not happy at all.

“Alright, I’m sorry Twilight” Rainbow finally muttered.

“For breaking your telescope, I am truly sorry” said Stray Cloud, bowing his head in shame.

“Alright, now both of you, GO HOME.”

The two didn’t argue, and as soon as they were released, Rainbow flew off. Never once looking back.

Stray Cloud looked at the two unicorns, his head still bent downwards. “I am sorry, for ruining your evening, and your telesocope.”

“Oh that’s okay, we’ll jus-“

“Ninja Smoke Bomb!” he yelled, throwing a small round pellet from his tail to the ground, exploding in a screen of smoke. As the smoke cleared, the pegasus had completely vanished.

“Wow Twilight” said Spike. “That was so cool.”

“I’m glad you found that entertaining Spike” she coughed.

Soulstice began to laugh.

“What’s so funny” Twilight asked.

“It’s just that……” he began but started to laugh more.

“What?” Twilight demanded.

Soulstice shoots her a grin. “I was just thinking, they’d make a cute couple.”

The purple pony just laughed at her friends observation.

“Come on” she said. “It’s starting to get late.”

Soulstice nodded with agreement as they pick up the now sleeping Spike and head back to the library, bathing in the red glow of the moonlight.
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