Prologue: The Tryouts

It has been a thousand years since the creation of the Shadowbolts and the Wonderbolts were created and Luna and Celestia are getting along nicely for as long as anypony can remember, even if they have the two groups of show pegasi compete to see who is the best.  And they only have a three month off season to train and to rest before it all happens again.

So both of them decide that each year they will hold many matches to see who is the best and both teams go to different towns and cities to see how well they do.  And right now the Shadowbolts won in the last three years and the Wonderblts are hoping to get fresh new talent so that they could win.

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Clousdale Flight Academy

Rainbow Dash and her friend Soarin are on there way towards the Wonderbolt Tryouts so that they could get into the team and show off there skills and be on the best team ever.

"Can you beleive it Dash, we might get into the Wonderbolts." says the light blue coated navy blue maned pegasus

"Yeah, this is awesome Soarin." says an energetic cyan coated pegasus whom also has a rainbow colored mane and tail

"I wonder if we will perform together?" says Soarin

"Very funny Soar if they do that then hope you can keep up with me." says Rainbow and then she flew off leaving a confused Soarin who is thinking "It seems like yesterday that we met each other at Flight School."

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A few years ago

Soarin is walking towards his first class and just when he arrives, a cyan blur crashes into him and before he could says anything he notices that the pony on him is a mare, "And a cute one at that."

Then the pony says "Sorry about that, I really need to watch where I'm going." she then gets off of him and helps him up onto his hooves and says "I'm Rainbow Dash the best flier around here."

"Well she sure is sure of herself." he thinks and then says "Hi, I'm Soarin."

"Well Soarin, where are you off to?"

"I'm off to Phys. Ed."

"Wow, I'm off to there also, and I think another one of my friends will be there."

"Who?" says Soarin with a raised eybrow

"Her name is Fluttershy and she will be the nervous one there if I remember."

So then both of them went off to class and when they got there Rainbow went off to talk to a yellow pegasi with a pink mane and tail and he assume that is Fluttershy and he walks up to them and says "Hello there, hope I'm not intruding."

"No your not Soar and this here is Fluttershy, Shy this is Soarin."

From what Soarin could see Fluttershy is nervous about meeting strange ponies so he decides to go slow with introducing himself.  "Hi Fluttershy, you don't have to be scared." he then holds out his hoof slowly and after a while Fluttershy shakes his hoof with her own and says in a quiet voice "Hi."

Before he could says anything, the coach says "Alright ponies, time for class to start."

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Back to the Present

After Soarin catches up to Dash he sees that the entire stadium is filled with many pegasi and some of them are on the field and to his surprise the captain of the Wonderbolts is there along with some other pegasi.  He then says to Dash "This is going to be tough."

"Come on Soar, we can do this."

"Ok," he then looks around and says "Is Fluttershy here?"

"Nope, she moved to a place called Ponyville and last I heard she made some good new friends there."

"That is good to hear."

Then before they could say anything else, the announcer says "Alright ponies it is time for the Tryouts to begin and before anything gets started there seems to some new guests here and let me introduce the Shadowbolts."

Then a thunder like noise could be heard and three black streaks flew across the sky and before anypony could do anything, they then did some tricks which gain them many cheers from the stands and when they landed one of them takesthe mic and says "Good morning Cloudsdale, I know some of you are wondering why we are here," he says that while looking at Spitfire "Well, you see one of our own has retired and we need a replacement so hope you don't mind us coming here taking a look at these new recruits and don't worry, we are only picking one of them."

At first Soarin has a worried look and when he turns to Dash, he could tell that Dash seems to have the same look but then Dash says "Don't worry Soar I'm sure neither one of us are going to be chosen."

Soarin then nods and then the Tryouts began.

About a few hours later many pegasi tried there best but only some of them made it into the Wonderbolts but not one was chosen for the Shadowbolts.  When it came for Soarin to try out, Dash says "Good luck." and then when Soarin got out there he at first was nervous until he sees Dash and he thinks "This is for me and you Dash, even though I did not say it at first but after this tryouts, I'm going to tell you something I wanted to tell you for some time now"

After that, he then close his eyes and breaths in deeply and flew up into the sky and he did some loops and corkscrews and after all of that he then landed on the clouds and created spread some rain that were stored in the cloud and when he finished the crowed cheered and Spitfire came up and says to him "Well now that was some fine flying, whats your name?"

"Soarin miss."

"Well Soarin, welcome to the Wonderbolts."

Soarin was pleased with himself and he hopes that Rainbow Dash gets in.

After about a half an hour, it was Rainbows turn to tryout and she did not hesitate and went right into it and flew to her hearts content and what seems to be about a few minutes, she flew on back down and landed gracefully.  There was then many cheers for her and before Spitfire can do anything, the Shadowbolt captain comes up and says "I think we just found our new Shadowbolt."

There was then silence through out the stadium and Soarin and Dash could not believe what they heard. Next Chapter: Chapter 1: The Wonderbolt Estimated time remaining: 42 Minutes