Dear diary,

I started my day with my friends, only Rainbow Dash was absent. We gathered our beloved pets and set off to the local park as we did every week. The only reason we didn't invite Rainbow Dash was because she didn't have a pet. I always thought she should of have a pet, but she had never age any indication that she wanted one. Strangely enough, we met her in the park sleeping in a tree like a squirrel and her attitude towards not having a pet was about to change.

She was woken up by me, my friends and their animal companions making a lot of noise. She jumped out of the tree wondering what we were doing. Maybe if she stopped showing off and gloating all of the time, we might of invited her anyway and if her friends were able to stand all of her cocky behavior, she would already know what a play date was. Technically, it was a pony-pet play date. Anyway, we explained what was going on and she caught on fairly quickly. It was that simple, so luckily she did catch on quickly and not waste much time of our pony-pet play date. I know Rainbow Dash. She can be pretty dense sometimes, especially when she has just woken up.

A few moments later, for some reason she became hostile. She came up to us and started explaining that just because she didn't have a pet, it didn't mean she would never have one. I didn't see the point in getting so angry about it. Did she have anger issues? She was a cocky pony and hated losing so I wouldn't be surprised if she did, but I knew it would just make her angry if I did ask if she did. I discarded the thought immediately.

As soon as Rainbow said what she said, Fluttershy started to get excited. She flew over to Rainbow Dash and started to ramble on about what pets Rainbow Dash could get. Soon she was dragging Rainbow back to her cottage to choose a pet. I know Fluttershy is enthusiastic about animals, but really? She isn't the crazy stallion who works in the Ponyville pet shop who tries to sell you every animal she has as soon as you walk into the building, but sometimes she acted like she was a twin of his.

Rainbow Dash helped Fluttershy gather all of the spare pets she had and took them to the center of town. No pony was there so it was just the right place to place all of the pets. She blew a whistle and got them all to line up side by side. She decided to get them all together and make them go through a series of torments. Whoever won at the end got to be Rainbow Dash's pet. I didn't think it mattered. I don't think the animals knew the difference to overconfident, unbearable showoff and normal pony. What was worse was that she was scaring all of the animals. She was treating them like they were troops in an army.

Applejack noticed her behavior and asked if she knew what a pet was. Obviously not. There was no love or affection in the relationship between Rainbow Dash and the animals. Then Fluttershy came close to Rainbow Dash, pushing a turtle towards her. I'm a pony who likes to give everypony a chance to prove themselves, but at that moment, I was like Rainbow Dash. There was no way that a turtle was going to be able to win against all the other animals. Turtles were slow and couldn't fly, unlike the rest that were already in line. Rainbow Dash done the right thing and decided to let the turtle compete because if she didn't let the turtle compete, Fluttershy wouldn't stop rubbing the turtle in Rainbow's face.

Next, Rainbow Dash started to show off again, explaining to all of the animals what they needed to become her pet. We can all guess what she was telling them. Awesomeness and they had to be radical and many more things that meant the same thing. I pointed it out to her to correct her. Honestly, I walked right into the trap by trying to correct her as the next thing she said was; "That's why you would never qualify to be my pet." I know I wouldn't qualify as a pet as I'm a damn pony, not an animal! I'm intelligent! More intelligent than that feather brained Pegasus! I'm the personal student of Princess Celestia! What does she have in life?! A pile of failed rejection letters from the Wonderbolt's, that's what! I am no pony's pet. Bitch.

Rainbow Crash set up the first test for all of the animals. It was a race to test their speed. It was as boring as any other race. Just a load of animals racing each other to get first place to claim the prize. The falcon won and many other's followed behind it to finish the race while the turtle hadn't even crossed the starting line when the race was announced finished. I felt sorry for the turtle. At least he was trying to win. He was going against his natural behavior just to win. Turtles were supposed to be slow and yet he was willing to enter a race ti compete with others that were much faster than him and could fly.

The next test was an obstacle course... In the air. Even for the animals that could fly, it was a tough order. The flamingo tripped, the Butterfly just hit a wall even though it was clearly in front of him which I thought was pretty stupid. In the end it was the Humming Bird who won. It would make sense for the Humming Bird to win since it is small and fast. Unfortunately for the turtle, it was in the air. He tried to jump, but when he tried, he didn't even leave the ground at any point. Still, I respected the turtle as it was still trying. Obviously, Rainbow Dash didn't and started mocking him. It was confirmed. Rainbow Dash was being her old snobby self. Not everypony can reach your standards of 'awesomeness', Dash. I know it is wrong for me to say this, but I started to hope that karma would strike at some point in the future.

The next task didn't take much preparation at all. The only thing needed was Rarity's cat, Opal and a toy mouse of hers. I'm surprised that Rarity would even let her cat go near those 'rodents' or 'beasts' as she would probably call them. Rainbow Dash let Opal out and as I expected, they all started to shake in their own skin out of fear as soon as Opal emerged from her pet carrier. Honestly, I thought it would be the turtle that would be brave enough to go get the toy mouse because it could hide his head if Opal swung her paw at him and he had a hard shell to protect him. I started to have less and less hope for the turtle, especially as it was the Butterfly who got the toy mouse in the end. But then it became hilarious. That aggressive cat was outsmarted twice when the turtle finally made his move. When Opal returned to normal after the Butterfly's technique to stun her, the turtle slowly made his way behind Opal's pet carrier and tipped it over her. Opal escaped the sneaky attack and started scratching at the turtle that hid in his shell. My hope was slowly returning. I don't know why Rarity calls other animals’ beasts as her cat is more dangerous as a beast anyway. I wonder what made that cat so evil, aggressive and grumpy. Probably the torture that he has to go through when living with Rarity's fussiness.

There were a few other tasks that were not really important and don't want to mention. They weren't even tasks and the animals just had to show what noises they made. Rainbow Dash thought that the eagle made the best noise. Then there was some kind of show put on for the animals to show what they could do without their abilities. There was only one more to show off what he could do and it was the turtle. So far, Rainbow Dash thought the bat was the best. The bat used crystal glasses to make music while using its ability. After it did that, it used its ability to break the glasses. His ability is what bats normally do to detect things around them since they're blind.

The only contestant was the turtle. As I said before, I admire him for his courage to go against other animals that are much more skilled than him and yet he chooses the most difficult task. To prove himself, the turtle put together an obstacle course of his own, unlike the other one that Rainbow Dash put together, this one could kill him. I think Rainbow Dash was just out-dared by a turtle that she thinks is not impressive. Unfortunately for the turtle, once again, things go wrong, but at least that time he managed to get off the ground when he jumped. He fell back on his shell and Rainbow Dash finally decided to have a word with him, which at that point felt right than for the turtle to embarrass himself even more. She explained to him who made the cut and who didn't. She sent the turtle away.

She turned to the rest of the animals who did make the cut and explained to them the final task. The task was to race Rainbow Dash through Ghastly Gouge. I think beating Rainbow Dash without being snobby about how they won would be a victory in itself. If fact, me, my friends and the animals should put Rainbow Dash up for a challenge to not be a snob when she wins and everypony who bets that she will be snobby will defiantly get profit!

By the way, just before the race started, the Turtle returned without Rainbow Dash even noticing.

The race was soon of to a start and every animal had left the starting line, except the Turtle, obviously, but he was still giving it a go.

Me and everypony else made their way to the finish line by taking a short cut to get there to see who would win. We thought that there wasn't any doubt who would win. How wrong we were. Plus, karma struck. We saw the animals in view but no Rainbow Dash; every animal crossed the line except for the turtle and a cocky Pegasus. We started to get worried. We soon discovered that there was an avalanche and we figured Rainbow Dash mush have been caught in between the falling boulders, that was until we saw the turtle arrive to the finish line, very slowly, carrying Rainbow Dash on his shell. I guess he proved himself after all and not only that, but he was now liked by Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash decided to have the Turtle as a pet and not the falcon that won because the rule was whoever crossed the line with Dash became her pet and that was the Turtle. She also named it tank.

Rainbow Dash finally learned what a pet was and how to treat one. Unfortunately, Rainbow Dash didn't learn that if she didn't stop being snobby when she won, she would get a hoof across the face. Hopefully one of these days she will.