A young cyan filly with a yellow mane soon swoops in to finish first in the flight school race.

"And our winner of the first ever Flight School Race, is one miss Loyal Winds!" An announcer said as the young cyan filly was gifted a winner's medal. During the race, she had pulled off a Sonic Rainboom.

"Way to go Loyal Winds!" A cyan mare with a rainbow mane suddenly grabbed Loyal Winds.

"Mom! Stop, your embarrassing me!" Loyal Winds said just as her surrogate brother Rocketloo, as well as her best friends Lighting Blast and Amelia arrived.

"How can Auntie Dash embarrass you? You just beat the socks off the competition, Adventurer!" Lightning Blast said.

"Yeah. And that's awesome." Rocketloo said. Suddenly her surrogate aunt Scootaloo, Lightning Dust, and Fluttershy came over.

"Hey there Squirt. Nice going." Scootaloo said, she was all grown up now.

"Oh I think you look lovely with your victory medal. Your your mother's child alright." Fluttershy said.

"And she helped me out a lot too." Amelia said.

"I'd say your just as loyal as your mother." Lighting Dust said, smiling. "I think we have a future Shadowbolt on our hands here." She added.

"It's too bad Lightning Streak and Wild Winds never got to see this day." Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah. Dad feel victim to a stroke while Wild Winds was killed in action." Lighting Dust said.

"Cheer up you two." Rocketloo said.

"Yeah. All that matters is that the three best friends from their time in flight school are here to see Victory Winds's victory." Lightning Blast said.

"As well as Aunt Scootaloo who was my mom's protogee." Victory Winds said.

"I'm not your mother's actual sister, Victory Winds." Scootaloo said.

"Own it mom; you've come a long ways; what with being in the Shadowbolts and all." Rocketloo said. Scootaloo couldn't help but smile as Rumble and Soarin soon joined them.

"Yeah...yeah I guess your right." Scootaloo said.

"That's saying a lot." Rumble said, smiling as he kissed Scootaloo.

"It's funny, the two of you were not so keen on the mushy stuff." Soarin said.

"One problem Soarin: That wasn't mushy." Rainbow Dash said, smiling.

"Heh...good point. Shall we all go for a great big get together?" Soarin asked.

"SHADOWBOLT PARTY!" Rocketloo shouted.

"Ugh...I swear Pinkie Pie has rubbed off on young Rocketloo." Scootaloo said.

"Could be worse; it could've been Rarity." Rumble said.

"OH GOD NO! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO AND PUT THAT MENTAL IMAGE IN MY HEAD?!" Scootaloo exclaimed.

"Ugh...are you all done here?" A female voice called out, before a very old a very stripped down Spitfire said coming up to them.

"Yes. Yes we are." Lighting Dust said. Everyone but Soarin started flying off.

"...Why did you do it Soarin? The wonderbolts could've been on top?" Sptifire asked.

"Because Spitfire, Rainbow Dash deserved to be on a team that was loyal to her and who she is. And that's why I'll be loyal to her until the end. You lost loyalty with me that when you initiated Plan Omega." Soarin said before flying off.

"...Loyal until the end huh? I guess we'll see how far that goes for you now, won't we? Then again, I don't think you'll have problems with that, considering how popular the Shadowbolts are with no way of any team taking you out of the running. Trust me, I tried, and I failed. Hard." Spitfire said. "I suppose I'll just have to be happy for your success...and your life." Spitfire said.

If only Spitfire had chosen loyalty over her own dream, then maybe she wouldn't be in the mess she's in.

But as a great big happy group composed of friends and family heads into Sugarcube Corner...

It does give Spitfire a smile on her face knowing that she was right all along: Some dreams are meant to be crushed for others to soar.

Her dream of being captain of a Grade A flight team may be over, but it was crushed in favor of Rainbow Dash's Dream of being on a Grade A flight team.

And that was enough victory for the now ex-captain of the Wonderbolts turned new flight school overseer.