I woke up to a bright morning with the sun already risen above the sky...and what do I care about going all nature right now, I have a day of just wanting to relax to spend. As I left my home and into town, I heard a cry for help down an old and unused well outside the park area.

"Help! Heeeeelp!" shouted a voice from down the well.

I galloped over to hear the voice getting louder.

"Help! HEEELP!" a filly cried.

"Looks like my time off is gonna have to wait...I'LL SAVE YOU!" I yelled as I flew up and zoomed right down the well to find a pink filly with cyan mane and I carried her on my back. "Hold on tight, this is going to be fast."

I then zoomed out of the well with the filly and landed down by it to then find a small crowd gathered around me and they were cheering as the filly jumped off me.

"Woah! What's with this crowd?" I asked. "Uhh, I mean thanks, but I'm just like the rest of you, I'm nothing special and it's no big deal."

"To me it was." the filly I rescued "You're my hero, umm..."

"Bond Racer, you're one of a kind wise-cracking alicorn!" I boasted.

The ponies cheered, which by then the six mares showed up.

"Bond Racer, I didn't know you wanted my job to save ponies." Dash remarked.

"Oh you, I was just at the right place at the right time, it's nothing really." I replied.

"Well, sugarcube, rescuing a filly is something to feel proud of all the same." Applejack said.

"Why don't we have a 'Bond Racer's a hero' party?!" Pinkie suggested.

"I don't think a party will be necessary Pinkie." Twilight answered.

"Yeah, it was just a normal rescue I did...although being a hero isn't bad either."

"Oooh, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Dash asked.

"Hmm, I guess so. How about we make it a bit of competition?"

"I'm listening."

"Let's see if we find out which one of us gets to solve a crises faster than the other."

"You mean, making rescues as a sport?"

"Yes indeed."

"Alright, Bond, you're on."

Dash and I bro-hoofed, leaving the other five with confused expressions.

Sometime later, things were quiet in Ponyville. I was by the cafe when I heard a mare scream, I then saw a runaway pram racing down towards the ledge that overlooks a gorge. I was about to gallop off and fly when I saw Rainbow Dash already there, grabbing the pram handlebar with her teeth. She was able to stop the pram just before it reached the edge, I looked on over and I breathed a sigh of relief. The other ponies on the other side cheered as Dash's heroic moment, I flew beside her to see her blush.

"Nice going there, Dash, you got that one before me." I complimented

Dash nodded before changing her expression when she looked inside the pram.

"Oh no, there's something wrong with the baby." she commented.

The other ponies gasped.

"She's not cheering for everypony's hero, Rainbow Dash!" she added lifting the baby high up.

The ponies cheered again.

"Wow, a lifesaver and a troll, are we related?"

"Huh?"

"Never mind."

Dash then took the baby back to her mother before she got pictures taken by a group of photographers. The rest of the six showed up along with Scootaloo who was wearing a cap that looked like Dash's mane.

"There's just aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe Rainbow Dash's awesomeness!" Scootaloo stated.

"I can think of a few new words." Twilight commented.

"And modest ain't one of them." Applejack added.

"Nah, but she was kinda awesome this time." I said. "So she and I have a point each now, I wonder if the next one will be a tie breaker."

I got no reply, but this didn't bother me. During the afternoon, I was trotting along and past the flower shops when I looked to my right to see a balcony about to collapse and taking the elder ponies with it. I was gonna make my move when I heard Dash's voice again.

"Never fear, your friendly neighbourhood Rainbow Dash is here!" Dash yelled before she zoomed over.

"You're lucky that Peter Parker isn't around to hear you say that." I muttered.

Dash grabbed the balcony, lowering them to the ground safely, Dash once again got cheers and that gives her another point from our comeptition battle, she now had two points and I had one. Soon, a chant began and I knew that this was when I decided the comeptition was over.

"Hey Dash, remember our comeptition? Looks like you won the decider." I said.

"Oh yeah, I'm so awesome!" Dash exclaimed.

"And I accept defeat with humility and friendship of course."

"Oh yeah, no hard feelings at all, Bond."

We did a brohoof before she went up in the sky, listening to the chants of her name.

"I can't hear you!" she said which the crowd then chanted her name louder.

I walked away slightly towards where the others had turned up.

"Guess the comeptition between you and Dash is over, sugarcube?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah, she won the decider and I wasn't hurt at all."

"Well at least you know how to show humility, unlike Dash who has been behavin' like a huge boaster as of late."

"Call me silly, but I think this whole hero thing might be going to Rainbow Dash's head." Twilight commented.

"You may be right, silly." Pinkie added in her random way.

"Umm Pinkie, that wasn't meant to be taken, literally." I pointed out.

"Oh you silly, it's literacy, not literally."

I grumbled and facehoofed at myself...one of these days, Pinkie...

Soon afterwards, we were at sugarcube corner where the four of us, a small fanclub, Spike who was dressed as a reporter all listened as Dash told stories about her heroic deeds. I had to admit, she is starting to let this hero thing go way into her head.

"Danger is my middle name, Rainbow danger Dash." she boasted, putting on her sunshades.

Now I was beginning to see her being way more than a show-off...is she and Trixie related?

"Awesomely heroic and awesomely arrogant, that day." Applejack said quietly.

Twilight and Pinkie agreed whilst eating cupcakes.

Soon, we saw Dash put her hoof around Applejack by surprise.

"Hey Applejack, how would you like to be immortalised as my friend?" she asked.

"Immortal-what?" Applejack asked back.

But before Dash could answer, they got a photo taken.

"Are you taking notes?" Twilight asked Spike who writing something down a on a notepad.

"Yup, I've been hoof-picked by Rainbow Dash herself to write her autobiography." he answered.

A biography book as well? Seriously, Dash?

"Umm, autobiographies are supposed to be written by the ponies they are about."

"Maybe for you normal run of the mill ponies, but I'm far too busy saving lives to stop and write, that's why I hired Spike as my ghost rider."

Suddenly, Pinkie yelled, "AH! Spike's a ghost!" before zooming out of the store.

Okay, that was weird...

"Anyway, Spike here writes down everything I say. Don't you Spike?"

"Don't you Spike?" Spike wrote on his notes.

"This way, I can focus on performing my acts of bravery that nopony else has the guts to perform. Yeah, it takes guts."

Dash then got each filly to take a photo with as she carried on talking, "But it also takes brains and sometimes a big lunch and a nap. You're hero sure is not for everypony, but I am up to the challenge."

"I think we should leave her for now, girls and go somewhere else." I said to them quietly.

The others nodded as we went to the Library, we set around in a circle, thinking what to do to teach Dash some humility.

"So, what kind of idea do any of us have right now?" I asked.

"Well, ah think in order for her to stop bragging, there has to be something or somepony that can be better than her." Applejack replied.

"Wait, I've got it!" Twilight exclaimed, "We'll all make a new hero, one that protects the citizens of Ponyville."

The other girls agreed to it and talked about it a lot more, I wasn't sure however so I remained silent.

"That's a great idea, Twilight. But what do you mean 'make a new hero'?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well..." She began walking around, keeping her eyes locked on me. "If we get some pony to be the hero. One that is perfectly capable of doing the job and not boasting about it."

"What me? Oh no no no, I'm too modest."

"Exactly, you'd be perfect for the job."

"But, Twilight… how would I be capable of performing rescues?"

"Bond, we've all seen how strong your alicorn abilities are. You're strong, flexible, and very agile with wings and magic!"

I began to blush, "Why umm...thank you Twilight, but through all that, I'm just like everypony else...but..."

"But what is it?"

"I'm not sure if this is the way to go about it...wouldn't it be better to just talk to Dash about it?"

"Really dear, with her new found fame and fanclub? She would never have time to speak to us." Rarity moaned.

"Not if I can persuade her to do leave her fans for a while and to just talk to her."

"Alright, you can try and convince her, but we're still gonna go through with the plan just in case." Twilight said.

"Good, but I'm sure it won't come to that." I said, "I'm gonna go and look for her."

"Alright, we'll stay here for the moment."

I nodded as I left Twilight's home. As I walked down through the town, I was very concerned about how the others were going about it, I said that I wouldn't it but what if one of them if a few of them volunteered to be the new hero in the same disguise? What if Dash found out who the new hero was and got jealous about it? It would all end in tears and betrayal, I thought. I had to find Dash as quick as I could, but she was nowhere to be found at the moment.

But I then saw her taking autographs and there was a long line too, looks like I'm gonna have to barge my way through.

"There we go." Dash said as she was holding a pencil in her mouth.

"Someday, I wanna be just like you." a filly said who had her picture of Dash signed.

"Aim high kid, but don't aim for the impossible." she advised.

I walked towards her, "Dash, do you think we can talk?" I asked her.

"A little busy right now with signing autographs." Dash replied.

"I figured, but it's serious and I need to tell you about it."

"Okay, okay. So what is it?"

"Well, you see-"

I got cut off when I heard a scream, we all looked up to see a balloon that had burst and was falling with a mare inside it. Dash looked like she was about to do her heroic deed again and become more arrogant when suddenly, a dark blue mare with a purple hat and cape showed up from the rooftops and jumped so high and rescued the mare before the balloon crashed into a tree.

Me, Dash and the rest of the ponies walked on closer to have a proper look at the mysterious hero, they gave out cheers as the mare brohoofed the hero, before the masked hero jumped high and was out of sight. I spotted Twilight among the crowd, but she looked a little uneasy, I looked back with a glare as I began to learn what was really going on.

"Holy turnips, that pony came out of nowhere!" the mare who was rescued said.

"I've never seen so much bravery in all my life." Daisy added.

"That's right, Ponyville has a new hero." The Mayor intervened, "A mysterious mare that has done well by our fair city today." she continued as the mare on the hill disappeared, " I dub this new masked hero the mysterious, Mare Do Well!"

The ponies cheered except for Dash who didn't seem happy about it.

"Mare Do Well, huh? Well that mare would do well to stay out of my way." Dash exclaimed. "Ponyville's only got room for one hero and that hero is me."

I walked over to Twilight who didn't see me coming. "Umm, Twilight, what is the meaning of this?" I asked.

Twilight didn't answer but instead jumped in shock and ran away...okay, that was strange, but I can already tell. They probably decided to carry on their plan even though I told them that I would talk to Dash, it's just that we were interrupted by a screaming mare. I looked back and saw that Dash had already gone, this was the beginning of not going to end well when all is revealed.

The rest of the day that followed seemed to be one impending disaster after another in Ponyville, which got me thinking, why is it all happening now? Each issue that came along, Dash tried to save them but fails and then, Mare Do Well (possibly one of the five mares) would end up saving the day and of course, this made Dash more and more jealous...and not once have I had the chance to talk to her.

Well, following the dam incident, I couldn't stand aside no longer, I had to tell her all about it. I caught her flying through the clouds and decided to call her out.

"Rainbow Dash!" I called out as I flew upwards and beside her, "I've been trying to get your attention to speak!"

"Bond, not now." she replied.

"Can we discuss it by the dam, it's far away from the public's ear...this is really important."

"Alright, lead the way." she sighed.

When we landed by the dam, I first of all had to listen what Dash wanted to say before I could come out with the truth.

"All anypony talks about is Mare Do Well this and Mare Do Well that, what about me, how could everypony forget about so easily?" she asked me.

I sighed, "Well, I have the answer for you and I think I know what's been happening."

"Huh, well tell me, then."

I cleared my throat as I was going to be telling a lot, "It all started when you saved the elder ponies from the balcony and after that, the five girls all said that they were finding you to be overconfident, arrogant and with no humility. Sadly, I had to agree but when they and I discussed what could we go do to try and teach you a few things about humility and modesty, then began a bit of a disagreement. I wanted all of us to talk to you about it, but they didn't think like that, they thought of the idea to make a new hero and with four of the five mares all dressing up as Mare Do Well which will explain all of the actions that you and I saw."

Dash now had a shocked expression, but I carried on.

"Then it hit me, Pinkie was the one who not only saved the mare from the balloon, but also saved the ponies at the construction site, Applejack was the one who stopped that runaway carriage, Twilight was behind the magic who repaired the dam and Fluttershy was the one who flew past you, which meant that Rarity designed the costume...or costumes if there's more than one."

"So what you're saying is...they...wanted to...teach me a lesson?" Dash asked as she began to show a bit of anger.

"I'm sorry to tell you all of this, Dash, but I had to snitch them out and tell you the truth. If what you heard has made you feel angry and upset at them, I don't blame you. If this was happening to me, I would be feeling exactly the same way."

Dash then began to show a lot of anger in her face and I knew that if I didn't get out of the way quickly, I would feel bit of her rage, literally. I stood well back and saw Dash getting madder before she finally let her emotions out.

"ARGH! SOME FRIENDS OF MINE!" she shouted.

Her rage was being let out so much that she flew off at breakneck speed and I couldn't say anything. I was really disappointed in the other five girls for not taking Dash's feelings into consideration and giving more thought about their idea. I flew back to Ponyville and it was almost sunset, I was able to spot all five of them by the carousel boutique...with one of them dressed up as Mare Do Well.

"GIRLS!" I shouted at them as I flew and landed near them, "Inside, now!"

The mares could see that I was not in a happy mood. When we were inside, I locked the door so that nopony else could get in.

"You wanna know what's been going on, you wanna know why I am feeling like this?" I asked them sharply.

"Woah nelly!" Applejack exclaimed, "First of all, please calm down and tell us, peacefully."

"I'll try but I won't make it a promise."

"Right, now why are you mad at us?" Twilight asked.

"Because earlier today, I figured it all out when I left the library. But that's not all, just moments ago, I told Dash all of it and let's say that she is incredibly angry with you five right now and so am I!"

"But why did you do it, darling?" Rarity asked.

"I just couldn't stand aside and watch you go about getting rid of her ego problems the wrong way. There is a mare in Cloudsdale right now who is incredibly heart broken and needs far more than an apology!"

"But we were trying to teach her to be a modest hero." Pinkie said.

"But you failed to take her own feelings into consideration, obviously the one thing that was never important to all of you!"

My anger then went and I showed a sad look as they all did the same after me.

"I am extremely disappointed in you five today and consider yourself lucky that Celestia doesn't know about it, what would she say?"

"We...didn't mean to...hurt her feelings..." Fluttershy said who was trying not to cry.

"I just can't understand why you didn't take my idea in the first place...which was to just talk to her."

The ponies all hung their heads in shame as the thought of what they had done.

"And talk to her we will, let's go girls, we have a lot to explain." Twilight declared.

"I should think so, too." I added.

Soon, they left the costumes behind and we took Pinkie's balloon and hitched a ride up to Cloudsdale. When we got there and with Twilight's spell from the last time we were up here, we headed on into Dash's home which wasn't far. I knocked on her door and then opened it, to find Dash looking at a portrait on a wall, could it be her family or something?

"Hi Dash, are you feeling alright?" I asked calmly.

"Better that you're here." she replied whilst trying to wipe her tears away.

"Well, you may not like this, but there are five ponies who wanna talk to you and I'm not going to say anything, because I've said enough to them." I then stood by the wall as the others walked on in before closing the door. "Well girls, go on."

Dash turned around to see the mares all showing sad expressions, "So what do you girls want? To tell me I'm boasting about something else?" she asked coldly.

Yep, this was going to get ugly before it gets any better...if it does, that is.

"Rainbow, we came by here to see you. We need to talk." Twilight replied.

"About what, me not being graceful or whatever?"

"Rainbow please, we've been really thinking about it today, I know you're upset and you really have every right to be angry with us. But we don't want this to be the end of our friendship, it wouldn't be the same without you."

"Really, is that the best you can do?!"

"Calm down, we just want to say that we're…"

"Save it Twilight. I was bragging and boasting yes, but what you girls did was not cool at all. Why didn't you just say something about it like Bond Racer tried to do?"

Twilight and the others stood back in shame and said nothing.

"You know I remember you wouldn't stop talking about how your dresses were the best, Rarity. Oh and Twilight, you just loved to go on about being Princess Celestia's student like as if you were royalty. Yet as soon as I start talking about my heroic acts, you girls decide to gang up on me and make me the laughingstock of Ponyville. I hope you five are happy now. You're no better than every other pony I befriended."

"Rainbow, listen to me. We weren't trying to hurt you or anything, we just didn't think this would happen." Twilight said.

"Well you're a little late on thinking about it then aren't you? If you want to tell me you're sorry, then it's too late. I'm done with you girls, you ruined me just for some friendship lesson! Well you can put this into your next friendship report Twilight! We're no longer friends at all and I never want to see any of you ever again!"

It was getting real ugly, but they had it coming, I thought to myself.

"Wait, don't say that!"  Twilight shouted with her voice broken and beginning to cry. "Please…let us at least say something."

"I guess you can say something, but only for a few minutes."

"Rainbow, we all learned something the hard way today."  Twilight said. "We thought we were helping you, but instead we realized that we were not acting with humility or grace."

"Twi's right sugarcube."  Applejack said. "If anypony was not being humble, it was us. We ain't any better when it comes to boasting."

"As your good friends we really should've been more considerate."  Rarity said. "We five got caught up in being famous and living the high life. We should've thought this through more instead of humiliating you."

"We didn't mean to put you through so much."  Fluttershy stated. "We really hurt your feelings and we didn't want to do that."

"We really didn't mean to be meany pants to you Dash."  Pinkie said in a low voice. "We didn't mean to make everypony laugh at you. It's no fun for everypony to feel that way."

"The point is Rainbow, we're so sorry for what we did to you. We were being completely thoughtless about this Mare Do Well idea and should've taken into consideration your feelings. You may've been boasting and bragging about your accomplishments, but we learned when it comes to that, we're no better. We all understand if you no longer want to be our friend or anything, but please don't end your friendship with us. We're really sorry about this whole mess and we promise we'll never do something like this ever again to any other pony. Mare Do Well will never return again to hurt another pony ever again."

I looked on over at the scene I was watching, the five of them hung her heads and tears continued to drip down her faces. Dash and I could see the hurt and remorse in their eyes as they looked up at her. She was torn on what to do with her friends and what to say to them. I wasn't sure but I kept hearing whispers of more apologies towards her.

"Dash, I think they've learnt their lesson and most certainly the hard way too." I intervened, "You see girls, isn't it much better to just talk about these issues together?"

Dash looked back at the girls...and for the first time since earlier today, smiled, "Girls...I can see you're very sorry about it and don't want our friendship to end and you know what, Bond, you're right. If we can work things out together, then nothing can stop us."

"You…*sniff*…mean it Rainbow?"  Twilight asked with hope in her voice.

"Yeah I mean it, besides, what would the elements of harmony be without the most loyal friend in all of Equestria?" she asked with ambition, "Um…that wasn't being too boastful right?"

Twilight walked forward and hugged her. "We don't care Rainbow, we're just happy to have you back. Can you ever forgive us for what we did to you?"

"Sure, I forgive you, girls, but only if you promise me one thing."

"What's that?"

"The next time you girls want to teach me a lesson about something, just tell me like Bond Racer did today okay? Don't go all Mare Do Well on me."

"Of course Rainbow."

So through the beginning of the night, all seven of us began smiling and talking about it altogether. When we talked about the costumes, we agreed that the Mare Do Well costumes should be gone for good and by having them burnt. Rarity protested at first, but I promised her I would give her a treat if she did, she then accepted it.

After a while, I looked at the wall clock, "I think it's time for us to go home." I said.

The other murmured in agreement and made their way out.

Twilight look back at Rainbow and gave her one last hug. "Thank you Rainbow, it's good to be friends with you again."

Rainbow returned the hug and said, "Yeah…thanks Twilight. It's good to be friends with you all again." Dash then gave me a hug which I accepted. "Thank you as well, Bond, from how I see it, you were our hero today."

"I was, but it was for a good reason and I don't need to do that again." I replied before I whispered, "Twilight's birthday in two days, don't forget."

Twilight and the rest of us made our way outside and went into the hot air balloon and we waved farewell to Rainbow until she was no longer in sight. We landed outside Sugarcube Corner and when they got out of the balloon, I flew down beside them and smiled.

"Girls, I am very proud of you right now and I think what we've learnt should be sent to the princess." I said to them.

"Good idea, could you take a note for me, please?" Twilight asked.

"Sure." I replied as I used my magic to make a paper and quill to appear and began to write what Twilight had to say.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

Today's events have taught me something very important about friendship and betrayal. We all learned that the thing you may try to teach your friend may in fact end up hurting their feelings. You should always think about how the act of helping a friend would result in. Always make sure that you talk to them first or other methods before doing more drastic measures. If you don't, it could end up costing you a friendship.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle"

I finished writing the scroll and gave it to Twilight who said her goodbyes and left for home already. The rest of us huddled together and spoke quietly.

"Alrighty girls, Twilight's birthday in two days, make sure we all get her presents and Rarity, I promise to give you whatever it is you need in return."

"How about an accommodation in Canterlot, I need to do some shopping there for Twilight's birthday dress." Rarity said.

"Leave it to me, I'll do it first thing in the morning and help you with the shopping."

"Thank you, darling."

"Alright, goodnight all of you."

We then exchanged goodbyes and hugs before going to our homes. I walked back to mine and taking off my suit and shoes, I headed straight to bed and recapped on today's events. For me, it felt good to be a hero for that filly by the well, but who knew that a bit of boasting and bragging would cause so much friction and falling out with friends.

Ah well, the important thing is that they all learnt a valuable lesson about talking things out before doing things that will have severe consequences, it was quite ugly at times, but they seemed to have made up and I feel the friendship among all of us is stronger than ever.

As I began to sleep, two things were on my mind, get Twilight a birthday present and help Rarity out with her Canterlot shopping, time for me to go all posh I guess... Next Chapter: Sweet & Elite Estimated time remaining: 21 Hours, 7 Minutes