Lightning Dust was kicking rain clouds, furious that she couldn't get them to tear apart with just one kick. She growled and tried to grab one, only to have it slip away from her hooves.

“At ease, cadet!”

Lightning Dust turned over and growled again. She had to use all her inner strength to not punch Rainbow in the face. She turned back to the clouds.

“I said cut it out, Lightning.”

“Can´t. My detention period is not over yet,” Lightning said, without looking back.

“It is now. Spitfire says you need to leave that already and followed me to the south track course.”

“Oh really, then why isn't she here telling me that?” Lightning retorted.

Rainbow Dash glared back at her and both mares held a staring contest for a full minute. Rainbow finally give up and turned her head, saying “Fine, if you want to stay the whole day kicking clouds, be my guest. But if you want to ever get your badge back, you better start taking orders, girl!”

Lightning Dust growled a third time and stomped over a cloud.

*****

“Task is very simple. See those storm clouds ahead? We need to gather them all and push them back into the storage area, “Rainbow Dash explained. “We'll circle around them and then pull them with an upward spiral. Keep your wings at a ninety degrees angle and...”

“I know how to do my job,” Lightin replied and rushed towards the clouds.

Rainbow sighed and followed her. As usual, Lighting was going at full speed, without any regards to others or even her own safety. Rainbow kept a steady pace, going the opposite way and keeping the hurricane under control. Finally, they managed to make the clouds go up and they moved it towards two other males ponies that took them to be stored.

“Told you I can do it,” Lightning Dust said.

“Lose the attitude, LD. Spitfire still has you under probation,” Rainbow Dash said.

“And sent you here to keep an eye on me?”

“She sent me to get you back in your hooves. To teach you how to work with partner.”

“Yeah, partner. You well know that I'm better than you,” Lighting said with her arms crossed.

“You are faster than me. Not better. You still have a lot to learn about teamwork.”

“Oh yeah, and I'm going to learn it from you, Mrs I won´t go to training tomorrow because Princess Sparkle wants me to reshuffle her library or whatever?” Rainbow glared at Lightning. “I don't even know why I'm still here.”

“You wanna know why you're still here? Because Spitfire thinks you deserve a second chance! Me? I would have personally kicked you out of the field after what you put my friends in danger so, be grateful than the captain thinks everypony deserves a second shot, otherwise you will be back in Fillydelphia cleaning rainclouds, you got that?”

Lightning Dust turned around, seeking to avoid the discussion. Before Rainbow could say anything else, they both heard screams coming from the storage area.

“Hey, you remembered to trigger the lightings out of the clouds, right?” Rainbow Dash asked her.

“You didn't told me to!” Lighting Dust stuttered.

“Do I even have to? Even a filly knows that!” Rainbow Dash shouted and rushed towards the storage area.

Embarrassed, Lighting Dust followed her soon after.

The maintenance pegasus had problems trying to keep the clouds in keep, since every time one shoot a lighting, it triggered the other clouds. Rainbow rushed in between the clouds, seeking to spread them apart before they keep triggering each other. Lightning Dust took a different approach, pushing one cloud against the others.

“What a re you doing?” Rainbow shouted.

“Making one big shot. Better than what you're doing!” Lighting shouted back.

“You dumb reckless mare!” Rainbow yelled and followed after her.

Despite her recklessly, Lighting´s plan seemed to be working. She kicked the giant cloud and released all the lightnings at once. One of them hit one of her wings and she fell down. Above her, the cloud expulsed the excess of water as rain.

Rainbow Dash catched her before she hit the ground and they landed on the track field.

“You idiot!! What were you trying to do?” Rainbow yelled at her.

“Showing-off, like always,” Lighting Dust tried to joke. “Guess Spitfire made a mistake keeping me around.”

“Enough about that! You wanna know something? I lied! Spitfire didn't want to keep you around, she wanted to expell you. I'm the one who rooted for you. I begged her to keep you under probation!”

Lighting looked at Rainbow, incredulous to those words. “Why? Why did you do that?”

“Because I don't want to loose the best partner I ever had!”

Water kept falling over them, making their usual lively manes look sad.

“You're reckless, loud and never listen to orders. You know who else is like that? Me. You are just like me or like I used to be. But I learned to be better, to work with others. And I know you can do that too. But you hot to stop doing dangerous stuff like this! We work great as a team and I don't want to lose you. I already lost a great partner once because we couldn't get along and I don't want that to happen again.”

The cloud over them was still raining.

“Guess I made that cloud way too big,” Lighting Dust joked.

Rainbow let go a soft chuckle.

“Next time, just tell me to discharge the clouds before.”

Rainbow didn't answer her. Both mare stood under the cloud, waiting for the rain to stop.