Babs Seed was in a park bench, basically devouring the latest issue of Mare-Do-Well.

"Look Silver Spoon, Mrs-too-good-to-hang-out-with-us is back in town."

Babs looked from over her comic and glared at the two earth ponies "What do you two want?"

"We were on our way to the spa but when we saw you came back to town, we decide to give you one more chance to hang with us cool ponies, right Silver Spoon?"

Silver Spoon nodded.

"I don´t want to hang out with you again. You´re just a pair of immature bullies."

"Ha, says the filly who reads Mare-Do-Well comics!" Silver Spoon laughed.

"Shut up! Everypony in Manehattan reads them!"

Now both fillies laughed. "What a bunch of losers! Those comics are for babies!"

"No, they´re not!"

"Don´t you know she is not even real?" Diamond teased her.

"She is! Apple Bloom told me she met her in person!"

"Please, it was all a lie. A prank the Princess and her friends pulled on that dumb Rainbow Crash. The entire town knows about it." Diamond continued.

"You´re lying!"

"Really? Then why do you think she retired? Because she was never real to begin with!"

Babs got up of her seat and raised a hoof. For a second, it seemed like she was about to punch them but finally she turned around and left in a gallop.

Babs Seed was running with her eyes shut. She didn´t wanted to see the truth. She didn't wanted to believe the heroine she admired the most, the one who helped her during those horrible times, was a fraud. Back when she was at that school, when all the other ponies teased her for being a blank-flank, Mare-Do-Well adventures were her only happiness. You couldn´t see her Cutie Mark, for all she know she could be a blank-flanks as well; and that gave Babs hope. But now...

"Watch out, kid!"

Babs opened her eye and realized she was heading straight to the train tracks. Before she could do anything however a streak of multiple colors saved her.

"Woah, that was a close one! I know you´re new in town but you need to look where you´re going! Um kid, are you crying?"

Rainbow took Babs to a nearby hill and heard her story.

"Those dumb fillies. I knew all the time it was my friends. I mean, what were the chance of an alicorn superheroine in Ponyville, seriously!"

"Rainbow, aren´t you mad at them for tricking you?"

"...nah. I needed the reality check. I was acting way too cocky. If I had continued acting like that somepony could have got hurt because of my recklessness. They did the right thing pretending to be Mare-Do-Well."

"But...all this time, I thought Mare-Do-Well was real. That she was a heroine, somepony I could admire. And now..."

"Heyhey, a pony doesn´t need to be real for you to admire her. I admire Daring Do and if you dare say is a book for little fillies I will smack you! I admire how awesome she is and how she never gives up, no matter what! A true heroine inspires whenever she is real or not, you got ta?"

Babs Seed nodded and took a good look at Rainbow. Any casual looker would have noticed how embarrassed Rainbow was for that confession, blushing and forcing a pose. But Babs saw something different. She saw a brave pony who wasn´t afraid of anything, even being humiliated. Now she could understand why Scootaloo always talked about her. It was impossible to not admire Rainbow Dash since she was strong and cool and pretty.

"Why are you staring at me, kid?"

"Umh nothing. Rainbow, you mind if I spent the rest of the day with you?"

"Uh well, I wasn´t planning to do anything spectacular. Just do a few more exercises and then take a nap."

"Can I help? I´m the best at sports at my school!"

"Sure thing, kid!"

****

"This has been the best weekend ever!" Babs proclaimed jumping up and down -"I can´t wait to tell my friends all about it!"

"And remember to show them your own Rainbow-Dash-fan-club badge!" Scootaloo said, sharing the secret hoof-shake with her.

"I´ll be back next weekend. Can we do some more training, Rainbow?"

"Sorry kid, next weekend I´ll be backa t the Wonderbolts Camp."

"Oh." Babs hung her head low, grabbed her luggage and headed into the train.

"Buuut, when I come back in Monday I might take a little detour around Manehattan. After all, I have to pay a visit to all the venues of my fan club." Rainbow said, winking at her.

Once inside the train, Babs hold tight her badge. This feeling inside her was completely different to the one she had for Mare-Do-Well. Maybe because she wasn't real but Rainbow was, and thus the feelings she had for the pegasus were real as well.