The Power Ponies

Chapter 1: Best Athlete? More Like The School's Worst Freak

"RAINBOW!!! HEY RAINBOW DASH!!! OVER HERE!"

   Rainbow Dash groaned and pulled her hood on, trying to cover her vibrant hair. It didn't work, obviously, not on Pinkie.

   "HEY!! I'M TALKING TO THE GIRL WITH THE RAINBOW HAIR!!!" Pinkie Pie shouted.

   Everybody stared at Rainbow as she tried to hurry up with her books, fumbling with the locker combination. She grabbed her notebook and started towards her friends. It was very difficult trying to make her way through the crowd in the school hallway while holding a 5-kilo Pre-Calculus textbook and battling the evil forces of too-much-caffeine at the same time.

   She wished she could just use her (currently invisible) wings to fly through. But nooo, she had to maintain "absolute secrecy otherwise our lives could be put in danger", quoting the world's biggest egghead and spoilsport, Twilight.

   "Hey, Rainbow Dash," the girl greeted. She pulled her dark hair back into a ponytail and smiled brightly.

   "'Sup, Twilight," Rainbow answered, grinning as well. She was grateful Twilight couldn't read Rainbow's thoughts, otherwise she'd be a mashed potato by now. With her sudden magic fluctuations every now and then though, one could never know.

   "Hello, Rainbow darling, fabulous as always! How are you today?" That was Rarity, the city's most popular, and nicest, diva under eighteen. Like seriously, anybody dressed in rags could walk up to her in the streets and start cursing and insulting her father, the mayor, for not giving the lower class its rights, and all she would do was apologize for her father while whipping out a 500-dollar bill from her purse for them.  The fact that she was super rich didn't hurt her generosity either.

   Rainbow gave her a thumbs-up and opened her mouth to answer before being interrupted.

   "What's your excuse fer lookin' like a strangled cat today?" Applejack, a.k.a Mistress Marevelous a.k.a granddaughter of the country's largest apple and dairy product providers, said. Even with her popularity and outgoing personality, her honesty had always been her most prominent feature.

   Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. Just because she often forgot to change out of her sweatpants and hoodie because she woke up late, Applejack thought it to be the perfect excuse for her to tease Rainbow every opportunity she got.

   "Shut up, AJ. It's honestly not my fault this time; Mom thought last night would be the perfect time to try out her newest exercise routine that she found on YouTube and she was absolutely wasted. I had to wake up and make breakfast all on my own!"

   Applejack rolled her eyes, which only irked Rainbow more. "Yeah, sure. In mah-"

   Rainbow stopped her before she could continue. "Yeah, yeah, we know." She mimicked a high-pitched Southern accent. "'In mah house, Ah wake up at four a.m to do all the house chores, clean mah room, make the breakfast, and get ready fer school."

   Rarity let out a small snort, but quickly covered it up with a cough after Applejack shot her a glare.

   "Rainbow, maybe you could have phrased it differently?" Fluttershy said with uncertainty in her voice, a quality that had remained with the young girl all through her years of friendship with Rainbow. "I mean, that wasn't very nice."

   Rainbow ignored the last one, and smirked at Applejack, leaning against the nearest locker. "Seriously though, sometimes you're worse than my mother."

   "Who's worse than your mother? I don't think she'd be happy if she heard you right now."

   Rainbow Dash let out a small gasp and almost fell in her hurry to straighten her posture. "Soarin!"