Ponies think of me in many ways. Some may call me a vigilante, a bad guy. Others would call me the hero. But no matter how I am thought of, I never let it get in the way of justice. I am known in many ways, but I am mostly known as the Spider-Mare. A web slinging hero who stops crimes and beats the villains. You might still be wondering who I truly am though. I am Rainbow Dash, a hero by the name of Spider-Mare. But how did I become the powerful hero I am today? Well sit back, and you will learn my story.

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"Welcome to SparkleCorp. As you may know our company was founded by Twilight Sparkle to explore millions of areas of science. Our goal is to expand science's boundaries as well as improve it."

"Ugh, can this tour get any more boring." sighed Rainbow.

"RAINBOW!! Sorry Miss..." exclaimed Applejack.

"Starshine, Miss Starshine." Rainbow rolled her eyes as the tour guide went on about, what she'd call it, egghead stuff. She simply sighed and followed on with the rest of the tour.

"And if you look to your right you will find our room filled with genetically altered spiders, holding radioactive powers that can be transferred to another body, but we have no intentions for that. There is occasionally one spider that gets out, but we have no records to have seen the arachnid bite a pony in SparkleCorp towers." Bored from the trip, Dash payed no attention to her surroundings. A spider was then climbing down towards Dash. She didn't feel it when it landed on her neck, but a piercing pain shot through her veins alerting her.

"OW!!"

"Is there anything wrong Miss Dash?" questioned Starshine.

"No...it's fine." she lied. Dash had whacked the spider on the floor killing it instantly.

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Dash had fallen asleep on the train back to Ponyville. She slept like a young filly. Having dreams of winning every cloudsdale pegasus race in Equestria and becoming part of the Wonderbolts. Unaware of her surroundings. She flinched a little every now and then, but other than that she hadn't moved through her entire nap. The train then hit a bump on the tracks sending Rainbow to the ceiling of the car she was in. Instead of falling back down she just stuck there, like a piece of bubblegum stuck under a table. After this incident, she attracted attention to herself from every pony in the car. They didn't care to move, they just stood there, their eyes locked on Rainbow. She suddenly fell to the ground with a loud thud, still holding the attention from every pony in the car. They didn't dare to ask questions, they just stood there, still keeping their eyes locked upon the cyan mare as if she was going to do something else. The car had fallen silent for the rest of the trip, with ponies still questioning how the Rainbow-maned mare did it. Rainbow felt like the ponies were scared of her, though she didn't blame them. Somehow she unintentionally did something the average pony wouldn't be able to do. She thought that her hooves had something sticky on them, but they were as dry as a bone.

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Her night was undisturbed. She slept like a little filly. Her dreams pure, her body still. Ponies didn't need a lot of time to spread rumors about what happened on the train car. As she trotted through the peaceful town of Ponyville the next day, she noticed ponies were shooting glances as she passed by. She could tell that some were afraid of what she could be capable of doing, others looked confused, as if there were no way she could pull off a stunt like this one. Her friend were mostly concerned, they tried everything they could to contact her from Canterlot. All Dash would ever do with the notes was throw them away. 'There is no possible way things are going to end bad. They need to stop worrying, I'm fine! Am I?' she thought to herself. All she could think about was how she acted. The only thing she could tell herself was that she was fine. She just knew she was alright.

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"Let's see, hmm. What am I doing wrong?!"

"Professor Sparklight, I know you are doing your best, but you have to get this project in by tomorrow! I know that you may be under a lot of pressure, and that's okay, but you need to have this done by tomorrow." Twilight stated.

"I KNOW I'VE GOT IT! I JUST NEED MORE TIME!"

"I'm sorry, there is no more time, you either have this formula by tomorrow, or your fired. Got it?"

"Y-y-yes, yes I understand." He softly responded.

"Good."

As the purple unicorn left the room, the professor thought to himself.

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Dash thought to herself. After the incident, this became common. She thought about the new abilities she had acquired. Everypony would think different of her, some would think of her as some mutant. It was like she was cursed, cursed with inhuman powers. Dash always wanted to have some cool powers, but not in the kind of way when everypony else thought you were a mutant, and in this case, she probably was. Her powers didn't make her any different than the pony she was before. She was just the same old dash she was before, except now she had super powers. It never mattered any way, everyone in Ponyville would've known not to judge a book by it's cover. If she ever were to act normal ever again, she would have to contain her powers, but how?

'I never had to deal with this type of stuff before! It's already hard to be the coolest mare in Ponyville, but seriously? Now I just had to end up like this?' she wondered to herself as she trotted down the streets of Ponyville. Suddenly, her thoughts were cut off by a loud buzzing noise. Soon after, she was tackled to the ground by her pink friend, Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie?! What are you doing here?!"

"Weeeelllll. Applejack told us about what happened on the train ride back here, and we were worried, but mostly worried, but the important part was that we were worried!'

"I'm fine!" sighed Dash. "I just.... was having a rough day." she lied.

"OOOH-KEE-DO-KEE!" the pink mare responded while trotting away. 'Well that was close. The next time I'm pretty sure I won't be so lucky.'

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