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[Early in the day, people throughout the village might spot a suspicious rainbow streak jetting upwards into the sky. Higher and higher and higher she flies... Until, suddenly, that rainbow streak is rapidly plummeting down, faster and faster until there's a resounding CRASH!

Oh, was that your house she bumped into? Maybe your garden? Business? Whatever the case, there will be a few of these ridiculous crashes until Rainbow, being the stubborn pegasus that she is, moves onto plan B.

A bit later, something a little strange will appear... a cloud floating around the village. Now, seeing clouds in the sky isn't all that abnormal. Just another part of everyday weather.

But what about clouds that float ridiculously close to rooftops? Clouds that hover suspiciously over buildings, people, and are isolated from the others? Tiny clouds that, if one looks close enough, they may catch a bit of a rainbow fringe, sometimes a pair of binoculars, over the edge of the fluffy white stuff.

That's right. This cloud is spying on you strange people. ...Or whatever's up in the cloud, anyway.

Feel free to witness either event-- Dash's crash landings from the lovely barrier or her recon mission.]

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[Whoa, okay. This is new. New and a little unnerving, and now she's trying to get untangled from this... guy. She thinks it's a guy.]

Well, I was trying to break through that bubble, but it knocked me back!

[Because she was going so fast. Equal and opposite reaction, etc.]

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[Walter pushes himself up onto his elbows, finally getting a look at what had crashed into him.

...He still has no idea what it is.]

Of course it did. It doesn't let anyone out.

[Great, so she's stuck in some weirdo place inside an unbreakable bubble. She stretches her wings and flaps them a few times before sitting back on her hand haunches and looking more than a little bit irritated.]

How'd it get there, anyway? Is it magic?

[That's about the only thing she can think of, anyway.]

[...Okay, trying to expand the sphere a little so he can get a little room to sit better. At least he had dismissed his wings to better do this.]

Some sort of magic-technology called Shifting. [For all of the good knowing the name of it would do this ... thing.] What are you supposed to be?

[Magic... technology. Yeah, she's not even gonna try to wrap her head around that one.]

Haven't you heard of ponies before?

You ask that like everyone should know.

Can you really blame me? Where I'm from, ponies are all over the place.

[Not everywhere, but certainly the dominant species.]

[Well, he could, because who in their right mind decides the first course of action is to ram into the sky--?

But he's done grousing about getting crashed into. Really.]

So you're a pony. I take it you don't know what Ferines are, then.

Nope, can't say I have.

[A beat.]

I guess we're even.

Exactly.

[...Oh yeah, he should probably do something about that whole floating-in-the-sky thing. The teriques sphere slowly starts to descend down to the ground.]

So are you just "pony," or do you have a name?

'Course I've got a name.

[... okay, this is new, but at least it's better than rapidly falling.]

I'm Rainbow Dash.

...Rainbow Dash. Really.

[Well, the name made sense with that ... mane of hers. And, if he really thought about it, it wasn't like his true name was any better.]

Yep! Pretty cool, huh?

[Yes, she has an ego. Enjoy it, Wally.]

That's one way to put it. [...He frowns.]

But you don't really dash, do you? You fly.

Oh, I dash alright. I'm Equestria's fastest flyer and the only pegasus who's ever pulled off a Sonic Rainboom.

[She smirks.]

And I did it twice.

[Equestria? Pegasus? Sonic Rainboom?

He crosses his arms even as they continue in their descent.]

Never heard of it. ["It" being left completely unnamed.]

Which part?

[Then again, maybe he doesn't know any of it. He didn't know what ponies were, after all...]

[Well, she's at least shrewd enough to ask that.]

All of it. But it sounds like a place, a thing, and a stunt.

Yep. I'm from Equestria, I'm a pegasus pony, and a Sonic Rainboom is more than just a stunt. It's legendary!

Legendary. [Since those questionable terms have some sort of answer now, he'll just ... go to the term that he can be skeptical about.]

What is it supposed to be?

It's a mix between a rainbow and a sonic boom. Most ponies think it's an old mare's tale. Or they did, until I pulled it off.

A rainbow and a sonic boom? [What?] A sonic boom that looks like a rainbow?

[They're getting really close to the ground now, fortunately; the ground should be visible through the bubble.]

Something like that! And it's tough to pull off; that's why it's so legendary.

[She knows from experience.

But with the ground in view, she'll heave a sigh of relief. Better that than falling and crashing painfully. Guh.]

And you somehow pulled it off. I see. [He might have been impressed if he actually understood the big deal about it.

He carefully stands up as they finally reach the ground, brushing at his clothes as the bubble disappears in a sparkle of black and purple light.] I would warn you against trying something like that again.

Pulled it off twice, and I could totally do it again.

[Ah, freedom at last! That bubble might've been safe, but it's totally not her style.

And as soon as it's gone, she'll be lifting herself a few feet off the ground and just sorta hovering.]

Hey, it's not like I knew I'd crash. Besides, I always take risks.

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