A Mysterious Explosion
Chapter 5: Chapter 4 - Settling In
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAfter walking onto the ferry, the Wonderbolts head towards the cabins to settle in. Soarin, Spitfire, and Fleetfoot decide to stay together in the same cabin with three beds, and one bathroom. As the three ponies entered the cabin, the walls were customized with stickers of yellow lightning bolts, the curtains were a hint of dark blue. The three teammates stare in awe, they walk into the room looking at every piece of furniture before their eyes. Everything was positioned in their proper place.
"Oh my Celestia, I can't believe my eyes. This is so cool, a cabin customized just for us. You know what that means?" Fleetfoot replied, with excitement in her voice.
"It probably means that we're special Fleet, you get the idea", Soarin said raising an eyebrow, " And besides, we're just getting settled in. You and Spit can just unpack your bags. I'll lay down and relax".
"Where are the others?" Spitfire asked, as she was unpacking her suitcase. "I last saw them coming on the ferry with us." Soarin and Fleet just shrugged.
Soarin just laid on the bed feeling relaxed. "Don't worry about the others Spitty, they'll be fine settling in by themselves". When Spitfire heard the nickname Spitty, she immediately started blushing. She then turned to Soarin and looked at him with her blushing cheeks. "Dang that name is embarrassing Soar, who told you to call me that? My mother use to call me Spitty when I was a foul. I only liked it when my mother called me that!" Soarin looked at his captain for one second, then fell off the bed and onto the floor laughing.
Misty Fly, who was next door to the three, heard Soarin laughing loudly on the floor. She walked from the room next door, whom she was sharing with Wave Chill, Surprise, and Fire Streak, and into their room. Misty Fly raises an eyebrow. "Guys, what..is..going..on..here? Why is Soarin laughing so hard? What was so funny that made him laugh?" After about one second, Spitfire faces her. "He was laughing about the nickname my mother gave me as a foul".
"Yeah, but no offense, I think the name Spitty suits you better than Spitfire." Misty Fly just gives Spitfire a blank expression.
"Does not Mist".
"Does too".
"Does not".
"Does too".
Fleetfoot was reading her favorite her novel in bed, The Mysterious Murders of Saddle Arabia . It was a novel that had 20 different stories written into one book. Fleet was in the middle of Chapter 2 when she was interrupted by Misty and Spit arguing like preschool fillies. First, she tried covering her ears with her hooves. But, that didn't work. Then, she tried covering her ears with the paperback copy of her novel. But, that didn't work either. Fleet started losing her patience.
Fleet shouted at her two quarreling teammates angrily. "Will you guys stop arguing!?! I'm trying to read my favorite book here!!"
Misty and Spit both blushed in embarrassment. "Sorry, Fleet", they both said in unison.
After what felt like a few minutes or hours, Soarin finally stopped laughing. He got up from the floor and turned to face his teammates. He looked at them puzzled. "What's going on?" It was Misty's turn to say something. "Well, while you were on the floor laughing so hard, Spit and I were having a little quarrel about the little nickname she didn't like being called." Soarin replied back, rubbing his back nervously, "Oh yeah, I was too."
Suddenly, there was an awkward silence among them. After 2 minutes, Spitfire decides to end the silence. "Okay um, what do you guys want to do?", she said. Everypony just looked at each other with blank faces, after a second, their stomachs were rumbling. When they all heard their stomachs rumble, the teammates just laughed. The left the room and went to the ship's many restaurants. What the teammates didn't know was that the Elements of Harmony were already there.
Twilight, Rainbow, AJ, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity were in the ship's most fancy ballroom restaurant The Dish. They were wearing gorgeous dresses, which Rarity made in their cabins, before heading to the restaurant. The 6 friends already arrived at the fancy ballroom restaurant 15 minutes ago. They can be seen sitting at a big round table that connected to really large rectangular table that can hold more than ten ponies.
"How are you guys enjoying The Dolphin ferry so far?" the alicorn asked.
"Splendid darling, I love every thing about the ship. The shops, the nice cabins, the beautiful view of the ocean", Rarity said, as her eyes were sparkling.
"I'm having an awesome time Twi. This ship has amazing attractions every guest can go to. There's a large gym, sauna, indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a cool sports room, and so much more", Rainbow said.
"What about you Applejack?", the rainbow mare asked the cowgirl, nudging her friend.
"Well, I think that this boat I mean ship has some pretty amazing attractions sugarcube. I agree with ya", Applejack replied. "How about you Pinkie?"
"I love the entertainment AJ! Even the parties this ship hosts", Pinkie said. "How about you Fluttershy, what do you think?"
"I love the mythical animal center. My favorites are the phoenixes", Fluttershy said happily.
Rainbow looked at her friends, her stomach was rumbling. "Guys, do you want to order now? It's almost 7 anyway."
"Sure", all of Rainbow's friends said in unison.
As the girls were looking at their menus to order their food, they heard the restaurant doors open. The girls immediately recognized the ponies who walked through the doors, the wonderbolts. Fluttershy noticed the 4 wonderbolts come in and put down her menu. She whispered to her alicorn friend. "Twi, what are they doing here?" Twilight put down her menu with her magic. "They must be here eat".
Misty Fly, Soarin, Fleetfoot, and Spitfire appeared in the ballroom restaurant still in their wonderbolt uniforms, not realizing that the dress requirement to enter the restaurant was formal and fancy. Spitfire walked from the group and looked around to find a table. None of the tables had enough space. Just as she was about to give up, she saw the Elements of Harmony sitting at a very big round table. Spitfire turned her head and saw them, she waved at them. She shouted, "Hey girls!"
The 6 mares put down their menus and waved back. "Hey Spit!" they said at the same time.
Rainbow Dash looked at the captain. "Spitfire, what brings you here?"
"Oh ya know, I'm here with Soarin, Misty Fly, and Fleetfoot. We came here to eat."
"Nice way to make an entrance Spit. I'm afraid you forgot about the dress requirement".
After hearing that, Spitfire grew red in embarrassment after what Rainbow just said to her. "Oh um, we didn't know about that".
Rainbow just snickered at the Captain. She got up from her seat and took out a dress from under the table. The dress was embroidered with the wonderbolt symbol as the collar of the dress. It came with a light blue head band, flat shoes that were designed to look like bright orange flames. At the mid part of the dress, the fabric was designed to look like a dark blue and cyan blue wing. The fabric at the bottom of the dress was also sewn in to look like bright orange flames.
When Spitfire noticed the dress that Dash was holding in her hooves, she was speechless. The wonderbolt was at a lost of words at first. "O-h-h m-m-m-my, it's totally my style. I can't accept this, who made it?"
"I did darling", the white mare said, as Dash gave the dress to her.
"You made it? What's your name by the way?"
"Rarity. It's nice to meet you Spifire".
"Nice to meet you as well".
"You're one of Rainbow's friends, right? She told me so much about you."
"When did she tell you?"
"She told me when we were hanging out in Canterlot last year. During the time when she's was in the wonderbolt's reserve".
"Okay. Anyway, is my closest friend an official wonderbolt now?"
"She already is. But we haven't performed any new shows though".
Rarity and Spitfire talked more about Rainbow Dash. They talked about her amazing heroics, her personality, and about the time Dash first got her cutie mark.
Meanwhile Soarin, Misty Fly, and Fleetfoot were waiting for Spitfire for the past 20 minutes. The three of them had tired looks on their faces and they couldn't stand waiting any longer for their friend.
Soarin started groaning. "What is taking her so long!?!"
Misty Fly sits on the floor on all four hooves tiredly. "I could say the same thing". Fleetfoot looks at her with a grumpy face. She then starts to groan as well.
While Rarity was chatting away with Spitfire, the yellow fiery mare looks at the clock on the wall noticing that it was already 7:20pm. "Would you look at the time, I have to meet up with my teammates."
Rarity looks at the mare happily and gave the wonderbolt her dress."Alrighty then, I'll see you later Spit". The white mare walks back to the table to where her friends were sitting at.
Spitfire walks back to her teammates who were waiting at the opposite side of the Mane 6's table. Just as the she was approaching them, she hears groaning from all of three of them. Hearing this, the wonderbolt captain immediately starts giggling at them while she covered her mouth with her hoof, trying to hold in in her laughter. Fleetfoot, who still had her muzzle caught in her favorite novel, looked from the book to her captain giving her confused look. She thought. "Why is she laughing like that? Could it be because of Soarin and Misty Fly's impatience?"
Soarin looked at his close friend tapping his hood impatiently. While Misty Fly got up on all four of her hooves and looks at her captain/friend impatiently as well. Lastly Fleetfoot, the bookish mare of the team, just continued to reading the unfinished chapter of her novel. Not even paying attention to Spitfire's giggling.
"Where were you?" Soarin asked, still looking at her impatiently.
"I was talking to one of Rainbow's friends. You know, the white mare with three blue diamonds as a cutie mark. The unicorn", Spitfire said, smiling an awkward smile.
"Who?"
"Rarity. Rainbow's unicorn friend".
"Okay. Anyway, what is that dress your holding? It looks really nice sis."
"Rarity made this dress Soarin. When Dash showed it to me, I was speechless. The dress was so pretty though. I just love how the design of the dress matches my personality."
Realization suddenly hits Soarin. "Wait, is their a dress requirement?" He notices that he was still wearing his flight uniform.
Spitfire punches Soarin hard on the left shoulder and snickers. "Yup." Soarin rubs his left shoulder and blushes in embarrassment, he then turns away not wanting to show anypony his blushing face. After the two were done talking, they beckoned Fleetfoot and Misty Fly to come and sit with the Mane 6.
The door suddenly opens; Wave Chill, Surprise, and Fire Streak the walk in. Wave Chill is seen wearing a black tuxedo with a sky blue tie. On the tie, there was a sewn in wonderbolt symbol. His mane was gelled making him looking like a totally different different pony. Surprise however, was wearing a summer themed peacock dress. Instead of her mane being styled up, her bright yellow mane was styled down with tiny clip-on turquoise sequences. She was wearing additional golden shell shaped sandals. Fire Streak is seen also wearing a tuxedo, but in dark orange with a black tie. His mane was still styled the way he had it for wonderbolt events.
Soarin, Spitfire, Fleetfoot (who's attention was on her novel), and Misty Fly who were already seated turned their heads to see their three other friends all well dressed. Not able to say anything, the three already seated wonderbolts gawked their mouths in awe.
"Hey guys", Fire Streak, Surprise, and Wave Chill said in unison.
"Hey..........", Soarin, Spitfire, and Fleetfoot all said at the same time.
"You guys are speechless. Whats wrong?" Surprise said, laughing.
Soarin was the first stallion to say something. "Your dress looks nice Surprise".
"Thanks Soar. And why aren't you dressed up?"
Soarin blushed in embarrassment. "I-well-um, I forgot this restaurant had a dress requirement".
"Well Soar, what are you going to wear then?"
"I don't know, who should I ask?"
"Rarity of course, I believe she had an outfit already prepared for you."
"Alright, I'll go ask her."
Surprised just laughed and went to find an empty seat. Fire Streak and Wave chill were already in their seats, they were sitting close to the Princess of Friendship. She found an empty seat next to Wave Chill and sat down.
Soarin got up and trotted to Rarity, who was sitting across from Rainbow Dash. He nervously used his hoof and tapped on her shoulder lightly. Rarity felt somepony tap her shoulder and turned around to see who it was. "Oh hello, I'm sorry I didn't see you there Soarin. What can I help you with?"
"I was wondering if still have any outfits for me to wear?"
"Of course I do silly. I have designed three outfits just for you". Rarity shows the stallion a couple of pictures.
"Take your time", the fashionista assured him.
Being intrigued by all three of the designs, Soarin looked at each outfit carefully. He looked at the first one, then the second, and then the third. 10 minutes passed. 15 minutes passed. Finally, after thinking for 15 straight minutes, he came up with his decision. "I'm going to go with the third one", he said to Rarity.
"Lovely choice Soarin", she said. Rarity used her magic and grabbed a light dark blue suit from the rack of outfits behind her seat. The outfits on the rack behind Rarity were the clothes she sewed before she and her friends headed to The Dish. The suit's triangular collars had small sewn-in yellow lightning bolts. It also came with a black tie. It had a small white stripe sewn into the tie. Even three small yellow bar were sewed onto the shoulder sleeves of the suit. Soarin grabs the suit from Rarity and puts it on.
"What do you think? The small yellow bars are my additional touches."
"I love it Rarity. Thank you".
"No need to thank me. Accept it as a gift."
"Okay. I'll see you around". He waved. Rarity waved back and continued sewing.
Soarin ran back his seat. Once he got to his seat next to Spitfire, all of his teammates (including Spitfire) started staring at his suit. Wave Chill commented on his little brother's suit. "Well little brother, who made you that suit?It looks dashing".
Soarin blushed at the question. The saying "dashing" reminded him of a certain rainbow maned mare. "Well Wave, Rainbow's friend made it".
Wave Chill laughs at him, making the stallion blush even more. "It seems somepony has a huge crush on a certain somepony. Anyway, what's the name of the mare by any chance?"
Soarin makes his whisper inaudible. "For your information Wave Chill, I already told you that I've been having a crush on her since the Best Young Flyer's Competition. Why do you have point this out every morning? I haven't been able to confess my feelings to her because I've been trying to focus on practice. And the name of the mare who made this suit for me is Rarity."
"Okay, I won't tell any-".
Soarin put a hoof to his mouth. "Be quiet Wave".
Both colts stayed silent at the table.
At the other side of the table, Fleetfoot was still focused on her favorite novel when she was interrupted by a mare who spoke to her from across the table. "Ahem Fleetfoot, did you check the dress requirement?"
"What dress requirement?Who am I talking to?" Fleetfoot said puzzled.
"My name is Rarity darling. Did you notice that you are only wearing your uniform?"
Fleetfoot looked at what she was wearing. "Oh, now that you mentioned this Rarity. Now I know".
"I have some dresses that I designed especially for you".
"Really?"
Rarity just laughed and used her magic to levitate several mannequins in front of Fleetfoot.
Fleetfoot stared at the dresses in awe. "Rarity, these dressed look really nice. But I can't decide which one really suits me."
Rarity winks at the mare. "I'll give you a suggestion, the third one is my favorite. And it suits you well. "
"The third one?"
"Of course darling, I know when a certain dress suits a certain mare".
"Third one it is."
Fleet tries on the pale blue white summer day gown. Rarity grabs a comb with her magic and combs Fleetfoot's messy mane into a slick style. After combing her hair, she levitates the multicolored fleur-shaped clip from the mannequin onto her right ear.
"Ta da, what do you think Fleetfoot?"
Fleetfoot looks at herself in the mirror Rarity is holding with her magic. "I look different. " Rarity just laughed.
Rarity signals the mare to come off her seat and show everypony her new dress. Everypony at the table turns and stares in awe.
Rainbow Dash comments on her teammate's gown. "Nice dress Fleetfoot, it suits you totally well".
"Thanks Crash, I mean Dash".
Fleetfoot goes to sit back down hearing the Princess call for everypony's attention.
Princess Twilight levitated a wine glass and spoon, she tapped the spoon twice on the glass to get everypony's attention. "Now everypony, I'm sure you all know why you're here. I would like to welcome you all to The Dish, one of the most fanciests restaurants on The Dolphin ferry. As much as I want to tell you the fascinating history of this large ferry, I'm not going to bore you. Let me explain what you will be experiencing tonight. For the food, you will be able to taste Saddle Arabian cuisine. Also Entertainment: Vinyl has volunteered to play music from Equestria and Mareasia. In addition to that, there will be two performers singing live. Alright everypony, it's time to enjoy ourselves".
The Princess and her friends got up from their seats. The six mares decided to go see some performances before their food was served. They went to the dance floor's stage where the performances were being held. No pony around was sitting down, the six mares just stood in the very front of the stage. They realized they were the first ones in the front row. The wonderbolts walked to the stage as well. Seeing that the princess and her friends were already in the front role, the decided to stand behind them. Soon, the dance floor was filled with ponies who were also waiting to watch the concert.
After two minutes, lights go out. The stage lights turn on and the announcer appears on the stage. "Welcome everypony to The Dish, I am your announcer for tonight. Tonight, we have singer-songwriters from Mareasia and other parts of Equestria who are performing their newest singles ".
The Mane 6, wonderbolts, and the other ponies in the audience cheer excitedly. The first celebrity trots up to the stage being covered by a projector blind. The figure showed to be a singer-songwriter from Mareasia. The projector blind opens up to reveal a pegasus mare wearing a fedora hat. Below her brown eyes, she was wearing a black vine face paint with black mini plastic gems. Her neutral brown mane was partly braided on the left side of her head. While the rest of her bangs and mane was styled straight, she had her mane down instead of up. Since the singer was from Mareasia, when she spoke, she had an mareasian accent. The mare grabs the microphone from its stand with her hoof and walks towards the crowd.
"Greetings Equestria, before I start performing tonight. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jwon BoA, and I am a singer-songwriter and actress. I will be performing some of my new songs such as: Energetic and Eat You Up. As you all may know, I write songs in English, Japanese, and Korean. Anyways, after the concert, there is an autograph signing where you can meet all the other performers. I hope to see you there", BoA said.
Lights on the stage go on, and BoA uses her hoof to take off her fedora and lets the hat slide smoothly on the stage floor. She raises the microphone to her muzzle again to talk to the audience. "The first song I will be performing is Energetic. Before we start the music, I would like a couple of ponies to volunteer to be my dancers. My current back up dancers will give you basic instructions of the dance, once you got the routine down, the music will play and we can start performing. So, who will like to perform on stage with me?"
Everypony raises your their hoof.
"So many volunteers. Okay um, I'm going to be need two pegasi, one female and male. And 3 other ponies of any race. "
BoA points her hoof to Rainbow Dash. "You, over there. The rainbow-maned mare. Can you come up onto the stage?"
Oh Celestia, she called me. I love her songs and I get to be her dancer onstage. Rainbow Dash thought to herself. Dash walks from her spot in the audience and onto the stage. Her friends wave at her. Blushing, she waves back to her friends who were in the audience.
BoA points the microphone to Dash. "What's your name?"
"My name is Rainbow Dash."
"Nice to meet you Rainbow Dash. Do you want to pick a colt who is willing to come up on stage and dance with us? Or should I choose?"
"You choose", Rainbow said, as her face started going red.
The Mareasian singer laughs at the mare's red cheeks. She looks around the room for another pegasus stallion. After 5 minutes of looking, she sets her eyes on Soarin. BoA raises the microphone to her muzzle. "You, the navy blue maned stallion, can you come up onto the stage?"
"Me?" Soarin gawked.
"Yes you."
Soarin walks from his spot in the audience and onto the stage. He hears everypony in the audience cheering and laughing. His face starts to go red as he walks up to the stage. The stallion realized he was lucky to be next to his crush. This singer is so familiar. Oh wait, I have several of her CDs. Is that Jwon BoA? Soarin thought to himself.
"What's your name young colt?" The singer gives the mic to Soarin.
"Soarin".
"Can you pick any three ponies from the audience?"
"Sure".
"Who are you going to tell to come up onto the stage?"
"Let's see. I'll pick Princess Twilight, Pinkie, and Fleetfoot".
Twilight, Pinkie, and Fleetfoot hear their names, the three ponies walk up to the stage from the crowd. They wave towards the audience and just smile sheepishly.
"Now that we have our volunteers on stage. Let's start by teaching these lovely fans how to do the dance to this song."
BoA's backup dancers beckoned Twilight, Pinkie, Fleetfoot, Soarin, and Rainbow Dash to the middle stage. Earlier, they were standing on the side of the stage. For the first 30 minutes, the backup dancers showed the five ponies the basic moves of the routine. Then, for the next 30 minutes, the five ponies were getting the hang of the routine. Noticing their progress, BoA claps her hooves happily. "You are all fast learners. You all did an amazing job. Are you ready?"
Drumroll.
BoA turns on her ear piece microphone. "Equestria, are you ready?"
"Yeah", everypony cheered.
"Alright 1- 2-3".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Gzg98qrME
(Replace "hands" with hooves when this song is playing.)
Everypony in the audience started dancing. Spitfire and Fleetfoot moved their hoofs to the beat. Misty Fly whistled and cheered. The rest of the bolts moved their hooves to the beat as well.
Onstage, Twilight, Pinkie, and Fleetfoot danced the routine they were taught by the singer's backup dancers.
The song lasted for 2 more minutes, then it finally came to an end. BoA thanked the audience, bowed, and trotted off the stage. "See you at the autograph signing", she waved.
For the rest of their time at the restaurant, food was eventually served for the ponies. After dinner, the wonderbolts and the mane 6 continued dancing on the dance floor. Tonight, they were going to have the best night ever!
To continued.
Next Chapter: Chapter 5 - The Best Night Ever Estimated time remaining: 31 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Here is Chapter 4, it took me forever to write. I'm sorry for the late update of Chapter 4, I was running out of ideas. So, I decided to focus on writing chapters for my other stories while I thought about what to write for Chapter 4 of A Mysterious Explosion- A Wonderbolt Fanfiction.
Enjoy reading this long chapter. Still, it will be continued since I only update chapters once a week.