I fully awoke the next morning, feeling happier and lighter as my talk with Sweet Chocolate about my past did me a lot of good. I wanted to let out my joy about being more happier about my life here and remembering what Spike said yesterday, going to a contest in Cloudsdale to support Rainbow Dash was to be an excellent idea. But I then thought about the other four mares, what if they wanted to come despite them not being able to fly? Thinking of what to do about it, I left my home and went straight to Twilight's house, I knocked on her door before opening it to find that Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack  were with Twilight as well.

"Oh hey girls, what's this about?" I asked them.

"Hey there Bond, we were helping with Twilight arranging the books around her library." Applejack answered.

"Ahhh, last one." Twilight sighed as she slid a book into among her other books. "Thank you so much for helping me clean all these book, girls. It was a crazy weekend of studying." she then rolled her eyes around to verify her point.

Then we heard an incoming loud yell and before we knew it, it was Dash who zoomed through the open window, then collided into us and the books all came falling down on the floor, then Fluttershy turned up to see what happened.

"Rainbow Dash, you rock, woohoo." she said quietly before noticing the whole place being a mess. "Did my cheering do that?"

Dash chuckled slightly as she got up, "Sorry about that, ladies...oh and you, Bond. That was a truly feeble performance."

"Actually, it wasn't all bad. I particularly liked it when you made the clouds spin." Fluttershy commented.

"I'm not talking about my performance." Dash exclaimed, "I'm talking about yours, that feeble cheering."

"What are you two arguing about?" Twilight asked.

"Were we arguing? I'm sorry." Fluttershy apologized.

"I wish you guys could come to Cloudsdale to see me compete in the best young fliers competition." Dash sighed.

"What's that?"

"It's where all the great pegasus fliers get together to show off their different flying styles." Pinkie explained as she demonstrated a few examples which had he chuckling. So this is what Spike talked to me about yesterday.

"Least I'm able to fly and give you support." I pointed out.

"Golly, ah'd love to see you strut your stuff in that competition." Applejack said.

"Yeah, I wish you girls could be there. Fluttershy's a great support, but her cheering isn't exactly inspirational." Dash said.

"Well that may be true, but at least with my cheering, you'll get a lot of encouragement to do better than 20%. I said.

"Oh yeah, thanks Bond."

"Oh! I'd love to see you make a sonic rainboom." Pinkie intervened excitedly, "It's like, the most coolest thing ever. Even though I've never actually seen it, but come on, it's a Sonic rainboom." she added, bouncing up and down for a second, "How not cool can it possibly not be?"

"What's a sonic rainboom?" Twilight asked.

"You really need to get out more." Pinkie then showed another example in her own way. "The sonic rainboom is legendary. When a pegasus like Rainbow Dash gets going so fast, BOOM! a sonic boom and a rainbow can happen all at once!"

"And Rainbow Dash here's the only pony who's ever pulled it off." Applejack added.

"It was a long time ago, I was just a filly." Dash intervened, trying to be modest.

"Yeah, but you're gonna do it again right?" Pinkie asked.

Dash hesitated for a second, "Are you kidding? I'm the greatest flier to come out of Cloudsdale. I could do sonic rainbooms in my sleep."

Now that I would pay money to see.

"Wow, if you pull that off, you'll win the crown for sure." Twilight said.

"The grand prize is an entire day with the wonderbolts. A whole day of flying with my lifelong heroes, it'll be a dream come true!"

"Yay." Fluttershy cheered quietly.

Dash was still not pleased with her quiet cheering, "I'm gonna go and rest up for later today. Don't wanna over prepare myself, you know." she then turned her attention to Fluttershy. "But you on the other hand, better keep practising. I need a cheering section to match my spectacular performance." she then flew off through the window and out of sight.

"She's practised that move 100 times and she's never come close to doing it, I don't know if I can cheer loud enough to help her." Fluttershy said as she flew off as well, both her and Dash were probably on their way to Cloudsdale.

"Well, guess we better get this cleaned up...again." Twilight said, pointing out the room was still a mess.

"And with me around, we'll get his cleared up in double time." I added.

They all nodded in agreement and soon, the Library was all clean again.

"Now that we've got this place all fine and dandy again, what can we do with gettin' to Cloudsdale?" Applejack asked.

"Well, I would like to carry all four of you, but even I'm not that strong." I then blushed and looked away.

Rarity smiled and then looked at Twilight, "Go on." she said

"Go on, what?" Twilight asked.

"Find a spell that will get us wingless ponies into Cloudsdale, didn't you see how nervous she was?"

"Nervous? Have you been paying attention, she was tootin' her own horn louder than a brass section of marchin' band." Applejack commented.

"Oh please!" Rarity remarked, "I've put on enough fashion shows to recognise stage fright when I see it. We've got to find a way to be there for her. Now go on!" she then bucked her flank sending Twilight across the room.

I giggled quietly at that moment, but I wanted to thank her for taking the attention away from me...maybe next time.

"Ugh, fine...which book should I start with?"

"Here, a flight spell, page 27." Pinkie answered, throwing a book over to Twilight.

"How'd you do that?" Applejack asked.

"It landed on my face when Rainbow Dash knocked me into the book case."

Our survey says...EH-EH...more likely it was just dumb luck, me thinks.

"Here it is, a spell that will allow earth ponies to fly for one whole day." Twilight stated as she read the book. "Oooh, it looks really difficult, I'm not sure if I can do it."

"You've got to try." Rarity insisted.

"Okay, but apart from Bond Racer, who's gonna volunteer to be the test subject?"

Pinkie and Applejack were unsure about it.

"I will!" Rarity exclaimed. "For Rainbow Dash, I will go first."

"Here goes..."

Twilight then used a whole lot of her magic as a twister began to spun around Rarity. After a moment of a bright flash, we covered our eyes and then opened them to find Rarity with butterfly shaped wings. I had to admit, she looked quite impressive with wings.

Me, Pinkie and Applejack gasped.

"I think it worked." Twilight said who was exhausted from the spell.

"My goodness! I can't believe I'm flying." Rarity yelled in happiness.

"That's so cool that you pulled that off." I complimented Twilight, "Do you think you could do it twice more?

"Umm...maybe not, creating one pair of wings nearly drained all my magic out." Twilight replied. "I know, I can create a spell so that you two and myself can walk on clouds and that we don't fall through."

"Good thinking. What about a hot air balloon, is there one around?"

"OH! I have the one I used for the running of the leaves event, it's still parked away by Sugarcube Corner." Pinkie answered.

"Then we have our transport for the three of you." I said.

"Come on everypony, let's give Dash the best support she's ever had." Applejack added.

We all agreed and travelled to Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie, Applejack and Twilight all got in the hot air balloon and they were flying away. Rarity and I flew alongside, guiding the balloon to Cloudsdale. Moments later and were approached the clouds and I knew that were arriving towards the sky city. Rarity and I arrived first and we saw Fluttershy and Dash, we waved at them to get their attention.

"Hi Bond Racer and...R-R-Rarity..." Fluttershy said, noticing Rarity's wings.

Dash turned around, "Rarity, you're flying!" she exclaimed.

"I most certainly am." Rarity replied happily as I flew down on the clouds. "Aren't my wings smashing, Twilight made them for me, I just adore them."

Dash and Fluttershy stared in amazement.

"Why so shocked? we couldn't leave our favourite flyer without a big cheering section."

"We?" Dash asked.

Then, the hot air balloon with Pinkie, AJ and Twilight appeared and landed on the clouds.

"I-I can't believe it!" Dash exclaimed.

"It's incredible." Fluttershy added.

"This is so cool, you girls made it!"

"Sure did," Pinkie said as she jumped out of the balloon.

"WAIT!" Dash yelled.

Pinkie landed on the cloud safely, before AJ and Twilight did the same.

"How did you do that? Only pegasus and alicorns can walk on clouds."

"Pretty cool, huh?" Pinkie asked as she did somewhat impressive cartwheels.

"I found a spell that makes temporary wings, but it was too difficult to do more than once. So I found an easier spell that lets the rest of us walk on clouds for one whole day." Twilight explained.

"And we came to cheer you to victory." Applejack added.

"To be honest, I was starting to get a teeniest tiniest bit nervous. But I feel a lot better that you're all here." Dash then thought of an idea. "Hey, we've got some time before the comeptition, why don't Fluttershy and I show you around Cloudsdale?"

We all agreed to the idea and began walking along towards the city.

"Here it is, the greatest city in the sky."

For me, this wasn't new as I had visited this place many times, but the others who hadn't been here before were easily impressed, I noticed Rarity admiring her wings with a mirror which was to be expected. After a long tour of the city, it was almost time for the flier comeptition, so we made our way to the stadium. We took our seats among the crowd whilst Dash went through the volunteers entrance to brace herself for the upcoming challenge.

"Hang on, where's Rarity?" I asked.

"She went to sign up at the last minute. Obviously to show off her wings." Applejack sneered.

I shook my head, Rarity should be ashamed for trying to steal what could be Dash's greatest moment. But there was nothing we could do, we had to sit back and watch the show, which was about to start.

"Mares and gentlecolts, please rise and join me in welcoming our beloved, Princess Celestia!" the announcer stated.

Celestia then showed up in her own seating area.

"Please welcome our celebrity judges for the best young flyer competition, the Wonderbolts!"

The wonderbolts then arrived and demonstrated what they can do.

"And now, let's find out who will take the prize as this year's best young flyer."

Soon, it all began and I was fascinated by each pegasus who came out one by one, overcoming the course around the stadium, this continued for some time, but we still haven't seen Dash or Rarity compete yet.

"And now, for our final competitor of the day, contestant number 15...oh and err there's contestant number 4."

We cheered on for both of them, but with my keen eyes, I looked closely to notice that Dash was very nervous about it, then with my vulcan hearing, I heard laughter form underneath the cloud we were sitting on. I looked behind me and looked down to find three colts sniggering at Dash...they must be bullies or something, can't do anything about it now, except to cheer on Dash louder than before.

Rarity and Dash did the course at the same time and finished it in unison....then came along trouble. The ray from the sun's warmth caused the wings to burn to cinders leaving Rarity with no wings, she started falling from the sky.

"Oh no! Those wings evaporated into thin air!" Twilight yelled.

"Uhh, that's what I was already thinking." I added.

I spotted the wonderbolts zooming down through the stadium, probably to rescue her...

"Hold on, Rarity! I'm coming!" Dash yelled as she went after them...I was tempted to go and help, but then I thought that this could be her chance to pull off the sonic rainboom if she can fly to save Rarity fast enough. We watched with fear until out of nowhere, we saw a bright rainbow circle appear, it was a glorious sight too.

"A SONIC RAINBOOM! SHE DID IT! WOO!" Fluttershy shouted, leaping for joy.

We saw Dash fly back up with Rarity and the Wonderbolts, landing them down on the clouds.

Dash looked by to see Fluttershy cheering her so loud and she looked back, smiling and feeling proud. Sometime later, we all met up and Rarity was in the hot air balloon, since she didn't have the spell to walk on clouds.

"I want to apologize to you all for getting so carried away with my...beautiful wings. I guess I just lost my head."

We all accepted her apology.

"And I'm especially sorry that I was so thoughtless as to jump into the contest at the last minute, after you worked so hard to win it. Could you ever forgive me?"

"Aw, it's ok." Rainbow Dash responded. "Everything turned out alright, right? I just wish I could have met the Wonderbolts when they were awake." The wonderbolts had actually walked over to us and one of them tapped Rainbow Dash. She turned around and her face immediately surrendered it's calm, cool, and collected expression. "Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohMYGOSH!"

"So you're the little pony who saved our lives." The one with a mane resembling of a fire spoke. "We really wanted to meet you, and say thanks."

"Ohmygosh Ohmygosh Ohmygosh Ohmygosh Ohmygosh!" was the only thing Rainbow Dash could reply with.

Princess Celestia and her royal guards flew over to us.

"Princess!" Twilight announced.

Each of us bowed as she spoke. "Hello Twilight Sparkle, and hello to your friends too."

"Princess Celestia, I am sorry I ruined the competition." Rarity spoke as she held her head low. She looked over to Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash here really is the best flyer in Equestria."

Rainbow Dash rubbed her hooves shyly.

"I know she is my dear."Princess Celestia responded. "That's why for her incredible act of bravery, and her spectacular sonic rainboom, I'm presenting the grand prize for best young flyer to this year's winner, Miss Rainbow Dash!" Princess Celestia herself placed the award on Rainbow Dash as every pony cheered.

"Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh!" Rainbow Dash announced excitedly as Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy carried her around for a victory lap.

I remained with Twilight, because I wanted to hear today's report…

"So Twilight Sparkle, did you learn anything about friendship from this experience?" Princess Celestia asked.

"I did Princess," Twilight replied, looking over to Rarity. "but I think Rarity learned even more than me."

"I certainly did. I learned how important it is to keep your hooves on the ground, and be there for your friends… and when a certain friend tries to talk you out of trouble…" Rarity looked gently over to me. "You should listen to them…"

"Excellent. Well done Rarity." Princess Celestia responded.

The rest of the girls brought Rainbow Dash back and placed her on the cloud.

"This really is the best day EVER!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Uhh, hey Rainbow Crash." The dark brown pony had come back.

"Dash!" The tan one nudged and corrected the dark brown one.

"Oh! Uhh... Sorry Rainbow Dash. Uhh, we just wanted to congratulate you on winning the competition."

"That sonic rainboom was awesome!"

I rolled my eyes at the irony of it all.

"Heh, thanks guys." Rainbow Dash replied.

"Uhh, we're really sorry we gave you such a hard time before."

"Aww, that's ok. Don't worry about it."

"Hey. Do you want to hang out with us? Maybe you could show us how you did that incredible trick!"

"Sorry boys..." She flew over to the couple of wonderbolts waiting for her. "But I've got plans!" She glided along with her idols as they headed somewhere else.

"Well, I best be going." Princess Celestia announced. "I hope you all had a great day! Night will fall shortly, so farewell all!"

Every pony bowed and Princess Celestia left with her royal guards and she wasn't wrong, it was sunset, so we said our goodbyes to Rainbow Dash who flew off home, whilst the rest of us went back to ponyville, with the hot air balloon in tow. We landed outside the Library and said our farewells, with me giving Rarity a quick hug as she went through a lot today.

I walked back home and my wings were getting tired, it felt good to be back on solid ground. Heading straight to bed, I recapped over today's events. Rarity learnt a valuable lesson which I hope she'll remember from now on as her selfish desire for attention nearly cost her own life, but despite that, I got to see a sonic rainboom and falling asleep, I was proud of Rainbow Dash and I knew everypony would agree with me... Next Chapter: Stare Master Estimated time remaining: 26 Hours, 4 Minutes