Rainbow Dash flew through the air, whooping with every flip and trick she performed as if she were beating some sort of record. Really, she was always at the top of her game, but now she had a new little fan to perform for.
She called over to the tiny little colt, sitting on a cloud with his eyes wide in wonder. Her colt, Evergreen Blaze. The very sight of him made her heart swell in—well, what felt like pride, but this was different from the adoring cheers of thousands of Wonderbolt fans.
This was something special.
The colt started to whimper, clearly fixated on something within his sight.
“Yeah buddy? What is it?”
Evergreen clearly didn’t have the ability to explain himself, so he tried to tell her in the only way he knew how.
Rainbow swooped in to catch him just as he launched himself off the cloud, his wings buzzing with all their might.
“You don’t have your wings quite yet! Soon though! You’re gonna learn early, like me. Just you wait.”
But Evergreen clearly had no interest in whatever his mom was saying, even as she held him. He had something else in his sights.
“Oh, the weather factory? You wanna see that? Not my radical flips?”
Eleven months of no flying and my kid doesn’t even think I’m cool?
Rainbow thought to herself, but she didn’t take it seriously. She couldn’t be mad at her boy even for a second.
He whined even louder, pointing to the distant structure and struggling to break free. So his mom let him take flight.
“Okay, we’ll go to that cloud over there!”
She pointed to a cloud a few yards away before swooping down under him, creating wind with her wings to lift him up.
“I got you, buddy! You’re doing awesome!”
Rainbow couldn’t help but laugh at his expression, the determined little face he made with his tongue stuck out.
“Flap as hard as you can, we’re almost there! You can be the wind in my wings too!”
The mother and baby made their final push until they got to the cloud and made their landing.
“Whoo! Good job, Ev, that was a long way!”
She looked back at the other cloud just a short ways away, knowing she was lying about the distance. He had done a great job for somepony who had only been out in the world for a few months, though.
Not too long ago Rainbow Dash would have found it super lame to be slowing herself down for a baby, but since Evergreen was born last winter, her outlook had changed. Her life was full of surprises—she never expected she’d be a mom at all, let alone by the stallion who was helping her career take off. It was crazy if she really thought about it.
But none of that mattered. She didn’t need to think about it. All she knew was that here and now, she had a little guy to look out for. And she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“You wanna go for another fly? To that cloud over there?”
She pointed out another few yards, feeling excited for another trip through the skies, but Evergreen was intent on staying right where he was.
“Alright then. We can watch from here.”
Rainbow settled down beside him, chuckling as he cuddled into her feathers.
“I got you, Ev. I’m not going anywhere.”
Rainbow Dash’s cutie mark by BlackGryph0n
