“Hey Fluttershy. Thanks for inviting me over for some tea. I guess..” Rainbow Dash said, examining her porcelain teacup with a tentative glare. “But I don’t like tea all that much.”

The duo sat out behind Fluttershy's cottage, taking the moment to enjoy the calm weather. Well, Fluttershy was anyway, Rainbow was twitching nervously in her seat. Unable to focus as the urge to fly started to overwhelm her.

“It’s okay Rainbow," Fluttershy said with a nod. "I just noticed that you seemed to have something on your mind earlier today after your talk with Lyra. I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to talk about what you had on your mind, not that you have to of course, if you don’t want to that’s fine.” Fluttershy responded, her voice growing softer and softer as she spoke.

“Nah it’s okay. It’s just... You know how she keeps talking about those weird two-legged creatures? ‘Humans’ I think she calls them.” Dash said as she looked to the sky. Her nervous twitches fading away as she fell back into her memories. “I think I knew one when I was a filly. At least, I think he was. He certainly was more cool then Lyra says though.”

“Oh really? What was that like, knowing somebody from a different race?” The cream-colored pegasus asked, her voice low.

“Well....” Rainbow answered, as she started a narrative of a trip down memory lane.

A small multichromatic filly wandered through the forest, far below her normal home on the clouds. She was scared of the surrounding forest and to make it worse her wing was sprained, leaving her to wander helplessly under the canopy of the Everfree. Suddenly she heard a crash from a nearby bush and turned around to see a timber wolf bearing down on her. The creature slowly approached but was blocked suddenly as a different creature took a stance between it and the small pegasus.

The timber wolf growled at the being and slowly began to circle around it’s new target. “Hey hey hey hey hey! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM YOU WALKING TREE TRUNK!?” The being suddenly cried as it began to unsheathe it’s incredibly long sword. The beast responded with a series of barks, obviously asking for a fight. “The reputation of team Gurren echoes far and wide. When they talk about it’s badass leader, the man of indomitable spirit and masculinity, They’re talking about me! The mighty Kamina!”

The beast suddenly took to the air in a lunge, only to encounter the large sword cutting deep into it’s bark flesh in a flash. The beast flew backwards from the force behind the swing and landed on the rough ground as it’s new wound began to seep the odd-syrup blood of the creature onto the forest floor. It immediately stood from the ground and took off running deep into the forest, whining as it retreated with its tail between its legs.

For a while neither of the two talked, letting the silence of it fade into reality. Rainbow Dash was having none of that though. “So.. Awesome.." The filly said, her eyes glittering from the sheer amounts of badass as the man re sheathed his sword. "That was amazing! You’re amazing Kamina!”

“Tell me something I didn’t already know kid! The great Kamina is always there to save any who need him!.” The man said as he turned to face the small filly, an impossibly wide grin on his face.

“Do you think.. do you think I could learn to be as awesome as you?” The filly asked, hope rising in her voice.

“I don’t see why not. All beings, no matter the race, aspire to be as great as I, the epitome of manliness!”

“So.. you’ll teach me?” Rainbow Dash asked as she looked in awe at the man. He wore a cape-like adornment and a pair of triangular orange closes adorned his face. His sheathed sword resting over his shoulder as he posed. On the back of the cape was what could resemble a flag. it held a skull that wore a pair of similar triangular shades, though in black, and fire tore through the air behind the macabre head.

“Of course I will. The great Kamina would never reject a challenge such as the likes of teaching you the secrets of my amazingness.”

“Wow...” Rainbow dash said, complete amazement covering her features. As the man struck another pose to display the corded muscle of his six pack.

"First Lesson! TALK LOUD AND POWERFULLY!"

“S-so then what happened?” Fluttershy asked, finding herself drawn into the story.

“So he taught me the secrets to being awesome. It took a lot of training but eventually I learned. It was a long training session in that forest every night. But it was totally worth it.” Rainbow Dash said, her eyes shining in reminiscence.

“So what happened? I- I mean, I never see you talking to him.”

“Well, you remember that day when I raced those bullies? The day I got my cutie mark?” Fluttershy nodded. “The day before that I told him about the mythical Sonic Rainboom and do you know what he told me?”

“What?”

“He told me ‘YOUR SONIC RAINBOOM WILL BE THE SONIC RAINBOOM THAT PIERCES THE HEAVENS!’” Fluttershy looked on, enraptured by the story being told by her cyan friend. “Yea, I don’t like to tell ponies but he was the reason I completed that Sonic Rainboom, I was so close to stopping when that cone of pressure started to form around me. I was sure that there was no logical way I could pull it off, but then I heard his voice in my head.”

“What was it saying?”

"Don't believe in yourself, Rainbow Dash. Believe in me. Believe in the Kamina who believes in you!"

“Wow, he was rather rough wasn’t he?”

“Yeah a little, but he was still the coolest living creature I ever saw.”

“So.. what happened to him?”

“Ah yea, I went back to that forest that night to try and find him but I couldn't find him anywhere.”

“Oh my, do you think he might have come across some trouble?”

“Probably.”

“You don't suppose he might have.." Fluttershy gulped. "d-died do you?”

“Nah, he can't die." Rainbow said with a grin as she pulled a pair of blue triangular shades from under the table and placed them on her muzzle. "He just leaves to be awesome elsewhere.”