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The Author Jumps Worlds (MLP)	By : Haunter_Rayne Category: +M through R > My Little Pony Views: 14327 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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**Author's Note** Hello everyone, here is a fun chapter full of ponies standing up for their friends. Individuals put their pride aside and remember what's really important in the happiness and well being of their loved ones. The shifting viewpoints will continue throughout the story but I will try to make sure to keep the times of day clear so that you always know what is happening at what time. No sex tags here yet. There will be some adult snippets thrown in but prepare for lots of plot in future chapters.

Also as of 5/9/18 I only just found out how to check my reviews on this website. Many thanks for those that are following along. You are noticed and appreciated. As for requests of more Applejack, just please be patient. There will be much more of her in the story to come. Keep reading and for now, enjoy chapter 19!

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Author Jumps Worlds (MLP)
By Haunter Rayne
Chapter 19 - The Integrity of Friendship

In the Castle of Friendship several different ponies were just starting to wake. Twilight had not rested well from having gone to bed with a great many worries on her mind. “Oooooh... I wish I could have at least gotten better sleep.” She sighed sorrowfully seeing that at the time she woke from bed it had still been dark in the sky. Right about the time that the sun had been risen she was now stepping out of the bathroom from having brushed her teeth and freshened up for the morning. But as she rounded the hallway she saw something that she certainly had not expected. There in the map room were two Canterlot guards that appeared to have been patrolling the main lobby of the castle. But after looking up and seeing the sun rising in the sky they now looked like they were leaving towards the front doors. “Huh? Hey, WAIT!” Twilight shouted out at them as she rushed over.

“Oh, Princess Twilight. I hope that we didn't wake you.” One of the guards said, remembering their orders not to disturb anypony if it wasn't necessary.

Twilight shook her head but then looked up to the guard feeling worried. “Not at all, I didn't even know that you two were here until I walked into the room. But what are you doing here? Is Canterlot okay? Does Princess Celestia need help?” She asked with concern.
Now the guards looked to each other and then shook their heads. The other one spoke up saying, “Not at all. Princess Celestia sent us here to make sure that everything was alright with you here at your castle.”

“What?!” Twilight exclaimed in surprise.

Now the first guard spoke again. “Late last night there were sights of a magical explosion coming from your castle. Princess Celestia was concerned and stated that she would write to you in the morning but decreed for two of her guard to come see if there was anything we could help with. We were ordered not to disturb you if nothing seemed amiss and to return to Canterlot if no danger was discovered by morning.”

Twilight looked down a little disappointed. “Oh. I'm sorry that you guards had to come all this way for nothing. I don't know what that explosion was. I wasn't in my castle at the time that it happened and I haven't had time to investigate yet. Thank you for protecting my home while I slept. Your efforts are appreciated.” Both of the guards bowed graciously to her before taking their leave and Twilight returned to her thoughts to ponder this mystery. “What could have happened last night to produce that kind of effect? I have read and reread every book in my library. I would know about it if I had any ancient magical tomes that explode. It couldn't have been Starlight backfiring on a spell. She went out on a date and came back with a sugar coma. What could have…. SPIKE!” She suddenly shouted, scolding herself for not remembering about his little date last night sooner and ran immediately for his room.

Meanwhile in her castle a different mare was just waking up. “Eeuuhhh, still feel a bit off…. Where's… where is that medicine?” A dreary eyed pony said half raising her head and accidentally knocking several things off of her end table with her magic looking for a small vial. Eventually noticing that it was on the bed sheet right next to her she opened the top and took a deep sip. Immediately feeling better she roused herself from bed. “Ooh, phew. You need a shower girl, too much fun dreaming last night hehe.” She looked into the mirror as she started to brush her hair and smiled at pictures of all her friends. “I'm gonna have to make sure those love birds are okay too before the mother hen comes cracking down on them.”

Meanwhile in Spike's room the new couple still laid coiled together. The new bed that Rarity had setup was still small but accommodated them both well enough. Also even though both of their positions had shifted several times throughout the night, they both remained cuddled together enjoying each other's presence even in their sleep. However just then, the door to Spike’s room slowly began to slide open. Light from the hallway illuminated the floor and a shadow stepped forward looking in at the two.

A few minutes later Starlight was walking down the hallway headed to bathroom so she could get cleaned up. “Ugh, I can't believe that I found a marshmallow still in my mane. I don't even remember eating marshmallows with Rayne yesterday.” She sulked to herself sourly. But as she walked along she was stopped by a surprising sight. “Oh no!” She gasped. Before her she saw Twilight standing right in the open doorway to Spike's room. “Ugh, oh come on. It's too early for this!” Quickly she rushed over to Twilight's side but slowed when she approached the door. “Twilight, please! Don't!” Starlight begged in a whisper as she peered in seeing that Spike and Rarity were both still asleep. As soon as she saw them though Starlight's eyes went wide not being able to believe how cute she thought they looked together.

But Twilight surprised her friend as she whispered out, “Don’t worry Starlight, I'm not going to disturb them.” The princess did not even look away when she spoke and Starlight began to wonder just how long Twilight had been standing here for. “Look at them…” Twilight said softly. “Look at the smiles on their faces. Look how peaceful they are together. There… there isn't anything wrong here, is there?”

Starlight just looked to her friend and placed a hoof on her shoulder. “They do look pretty cute together. You're really moved by seeing them like this, aren't you?”

Twilight started backing out of the room now and closed the door as quietly as she could. “I had yelled so much. Tell me honestly Starlight, was I horrible last night?”

The unicorn scoffed and smiled as she said, “Not at all. You were mad and you had every right to be. It was late, this was all so sudden, no pony had time to process. But you were both right. You didn't do anything wrong and neither did Rarity. We'll let them sleep in a little and then we can have a nice civil conversation about this like adults. I don't know about Rarity but I know that Spike will be up soon anyways.”

Twilight sighed, “Thank you. That really makes me feel better.” The two ponies hugged happily together. “It's good to have… oh um, uh Starlight?” Twilight suddenly said uneasily as she pulled back from her friend.

The unicorn looked to the alicorn in surprise but then noticed that Twilight had been sniffing. “I know! I know! I smell! I'm sorry, I was headed to the shower right now.” Starlight said feeling a little annoyed but not really upset as she walked back the way she was headed and Twilight wondered on towards the map room.

- Up Above in Cloudsdale -

Ponies were rousing quickly in the sky city once the sun had been raised for the new day. Rainbow Dash and Spitfire woke up together at the sound of another Wonderbolt entering in the dorm. They stretched and looked up from their beds to see Fleetfoot walking in who stopped a little surprised seeing that it was just the two of them alone in the dorm. “Oh, good morning.” The artic blue pegasus said while looking at them curiously. She looked from Spitfire to Rainbow Dash. But when she looked back to Spitfire again, the Wonderbolts Commander had a smirk on her face and raised her eyebrows towards Rainbow Dash. Suddenly a pillow smacked Spitfire in the face from Dash’s cot. “Hahaha don't worry. None of my bus-thines-th.” She said, walking over to her own cot to get ready for the day. Now Rainbow Dash caught that look of excitement from Spitfire's eye as she listened to Fleetfoot’s lisp. Dash was the one smirking this time until Spitfire threw that same pillow right back in her face.

Less than an hour later all of the Wonderbolts were dressed and assembled out on the field. They all stood in front of the obstacle course which had now been dubbed the W.O.T.C. or the “Walked" by Surprise and Blaze because it sounded like the acronym and left all of then ‘walking away‘ yesterday.

Spitfire stood proudly before it and today she had an instructor's pointer with her as she prepared to break down the training session for the day. “Alright Wonderbolts, welcome back. We had a rough start on this course yesterday but we're going to keep at it today until we get it right!”

“YES MA'AM!” They are shouted in perfect unison.

“You all got your first taste so I know many of you have a basic idea of what to expect already. I wanted to get a measure of your instincts to see how far each of you got. Flash Magnus was against throwing you into the course without any instruction. But I argued that Wonderbolts need to be able to think on the fly and there wouldn't be instructions in live combat scenarios. He was worried that it would break you when you all challenged the gauntlet and failed. Well let me ask you! Are you broken Wonderbolts?!”

“NO MA'AM!” Again they all shouted and each of them grinned with pride, eager to surpass their performance from the previous day.

“That's what I want to hear! Alright, so today you ARE going to get some instruction though. This is still training after all. And don't worry Crash, there won't be any classroom portion. We don't have the time to get an entire town together to put on a montage to help you study.”

“HEY!” Rainbow Dash shouted as Spitfire and a few of the bolts snickered. But then Dash grinned and pointed with a hoof, “Good one, hehe.”

Now that things were lightened up a bit Spitfire went back to business. “Alright now time to get to it! Here is your official WOTC review!” They all straightened up as several faculty unicorns made their way onto the field over the stone walkways they could stand upon. Spitfire used her pointer to indicate each challenge of the WOTC, which were now indicated by color coordination.

“The first few challenges are simple! We have a set of long tunnels to fly through, only several of which open up at the end. There should be no excuse for any Wonderbolt to fly blindly into a dark area where they can't see where they are going! Unless you are like Blaze and High Winds who seem to ENJOY FLYING INTO DEAD ENDS WITH A LOUD BANG!” Several of the Wonderbolts laughed while Thunderlane and Soarin gave them each a playful shove. “Oh I'm not through yet!” Spitfire snapped. “You're all invited to your commander's comedy show now because today I've got jokes for each of you! After the tunnels, which the staff will be changing after each run through by the way… are the swirling loops! This should be a cake walk for us because loops are literally what we have trained with nearly EVERYDAY SINCE FOREVER!!! Let me hear it if you want to be the butt of my next joke!”

“NO MA'AM!”

“Well that's too bad because speaking of butts, I'm looking at you Thunderlane!” Now several of the others snickered at he looked surprised. “You've got some of the biggest muscle on the team and that's a good thing. But if you don't learn some grace or lose some weight I'm going to be calling you Thunderbutt for the rest of the year! I don't ever want to see you ‘stuck’ in a set of hoops again!” He nodded looking mortified, not wanting that as a nickname.

After this it was Fleetfoot who was the first to break composure for the morning. “Ha, ha, ha. Phew, hehe. Thunderbutt haha!” She laughed, being much louder than she realized.

Now Spitfire's eyes narrowed. “Thank you Fleetfoot!” She called out loud but sarcastically. Instantly the blue pegasus stopped laughing and looked ahead nervously. “It sounds like somepony likes my comedy routine!” Spitfire yelled but none of them trusted that she was sincere. “It sounds like we have a volunteer!”

“NO MA'AM!” Fleetfoot called out all by herself while the others starred nervously at her.

“Oh are you sure? Because to me it sounds like you are up next!” Spitfire said mockingly and Fleetfoot gulped. “I know exactly how hard it is to be tackled by you Flatfoot! You almost broke my hoof on your first day. So when we set up a barricade that you are supposed to knock down… I DON'T WANT YOU TO STOP TO GENTLY HUG IT!!!” Fleetfoot was blown back a little by the force of Spitfire's shouting. Now all of the Wonderbolts were standing up seriously and no one was laughing anymore. “Do you get me!”

“Yes-th ma’am!” Fleetfoot attempted to shout but it came out rather wimpy as she had just been reprimanded.

“We need to get it together everypony! I can't stand here and yell at you all day!” But then she paused for a minute and smiled. “No wait, that's exactly what I am going to do hehe. BUT IT'S TIME TO GET YOU IN THE AIR! So here's your review!” Using the pointer again she started at the beginning. “Pipes! Loops! BARRICADES CLIPPER! Revolving columns! Twirling rows! Spring Trap! Wind tunnel! And the Magic Slapping Paw!” Spitfire stopped there even though she was only half way through the course. “That is only as far as we are going to practice today. You WonderBITS aren't ready for the rest of the course yet until you can reliably get passed at least the first eight challenges! Most of you didn't even get that far yesterday. I really want to see what you've learned! Now get into formation!”

“YES MA'AM!” They all cheered and started to fly off to the starting line.

“Just like yesterday, I'm going to watch your performance and help you through. Then half way through the day you'll have to work without my guidance as I will be running the gauntlet with you. Now, are you ponies ready?!”

“YES MA'AM!”

“THEN GOOOOO!!!!!!” Spitfire shouted. She watched as they all took off from the starting line and spiraled around a bit all looking for different tubes that had light at the end of them. After they were through, most of them made it passed the hoops without crashing into any of them but Spitfire sighed when Thunderlane was being overly careful of making it through each one. The barricades started to give them trouble though. The first few were knocked back but the strength of each pegasi seemed to dwindle as they plowed through each one. Also towards the end several pegasi had a problem with either sliding off a barricade in the wrong direction or still not tackling hard enough on the last two blocks and getting stuck to the honey like coating they were covered in.

Even though they were all scattered and disorganized Spitfire was happy to see all of them eventually make it to the fourth challenge as a group. However that is when things really started to go wrong. “Come on!” Spitfire encouraged. “Dodge, dodge, dodge! You need to MOVE out of the way before you get hit! It's not rocket science you guys! Evade left or right for the columns and up or down for the rows!” But it was becoming very apparent that some of the squadron was naturally attuned to dodging one way while others dodged the other way. So no matter who it was, every pegasi was getting beat around a little in either the fourth or fifth challenge. At least a pegasi or two would fall to the ground and out for that round on each run through.

Afterwards there would only be three of four left to face the spring trap. The pathway was closed by a large rubber beam that required a pegasi to stop and pull as hard as they could to bend the path open. Then they had to dart through before the beam snapped shut on them. This was how Blaze got her wing injured yesterday. This seriously delayed each one as there were only two beams so they could only squeeze through two at a time. “What is taking all of you so long?! You guys are better than this!”

“But this… is… heavy!!!!” Misty Fly strained at her turn to pull the trap. When she zipped through she wasn't fast enough but luckily it only caught her mane and not one of her limbs.

“You're not going to let a bad hair day stop you, are you Dizzy Fly?!” Spitfire continued to cheer. “Come on, let's move it Wonderbolts! Crash, Clipper, Flatfoot, all of you who are left! Let's go!” However for those who were able to make it this far, it seemed that Rainbow Dash and Soarin were the only two with the wingpower to make it through the wind tunnel most reliably. Some just couldn't fly hard enough while others kept getting blown in different directions which was the issue that Spitfire herself had been having.

Then the Magic Paw challenge seemed to be where the Wonderbolts were stuck. Whenever Soarin or Dash weren't taken down by something else, they always fell flat once they got this far. The issue here was that there was a giant padded paw that had a homing spell attached to it. All you had to do was fly through the hoop behind it but whenever a pegasi got close the paw would slap them out of the sky with incredible accuracy. Dash and Soarin both got slammed down two times each. Somehow High Winds had made it this far and so did Thunderlane just once but the result was still the same. Later in the day when Spitfire finally made it through the Wind Tunnel for her first time, which she was very proud of, she got slapped down by the paw before she got anywhere close to the hoop.

“This is ridiculous!” Rainbow Dash suddenly complained as she flew out the side of columns and skipped ahead in the obstacle course to help Spitfire back up off the ground.

“Hey! Get back in formation!” Spitfire slurred seeing what Dash had done.

The multicolored mare just ignored her though and pushed Spitfire into a sitting position. “Sure thing, I will do just that but only AFTER I have checked to make sure you are okay. I saw what happened from across the WOTC. The metal arm on that paw caught you right across your head. I'm not letting you up off the ground again until I've checked you for a concussion!” She said adamantly, twice strong arming Spitfire to force her to be still. Seeing this each of the other Wonderbolts abandoned their progress and came over to make sure Spitfire was okay.

Finally shoving herself free Spitfire yelled, “I'm fine!” But nopony missed that she was walking away from Rainbow Dash instead of flying away from Rainbow Dash. “Maybe… maybe we should all take five and rest for a minute.” It was then that they all knew she really had been hurt and was just putting on a brave face.

But suddenly an angry voice made them all jump as Dash skipped the entire course and cut right into the Slapping Claw section. “WHY YOU STUPID…!!!!” Everyone watched as she charged around the paw to the right but was slapped down. Then she caught herself halfway down from the ground and charged it again to the left. “Aaaahhhh!!!” Again she was slapped down. This time just before hitting the ground she recovered and tried to fly over the paw. This time Dash was knocked crashing down to the dirt with a loud thud. She didn't seem to be moving and several of the Wonderbolts screamed and rushed over to her.

“Hey, hey!” “Crash!” “Are you okay?!” “Crash!” Came several voices. But when it seemed like she began to wake up Rainbow Dash’s eyes suddenly shrunk to pin needles of anger. She had been working on this with her friends all day. It was already getting late and not one of them had made it passed that magic paw. And not only had it just humiliated her, it had also hurt one of her friends.

She gave a mighty flap with her wings until suddenly something large rammed right into her stomach knocking the wind out of her. “L-let me GO!” She wheezed, seeing that both Soarin and Thunderhoof had tackled her.

“STOP!” Soarin yelled looking down at her angered eyes. “Rainbow!” He called out as he held her hooves and Thunderhoof held her wings. “RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOW!” Soarin continued to yell until sudden he say her pupils go back to normal and she looked confused as to why she was being held down.
“I'm sorry Dash.” Thunderhoof said with his deep voice. “I hope I didn't hurt you. But you totally lost it there for a minute.”

Dash stood up and looked to the scared faces of her other friends. “I'm sorry everypony. That really wasn't cool of me to act like that. I saw Spitfire get hurt and I just couldn't help myself. Yeah the obstacle course is hard and a little dangerous. But that slappy thing up there is IMPOSSIBLE! What moron designed that part of the challenge?!”

Suddenly a booming male's voice roared out across the field in the Traditional Canterlot Voice. “I DID!!!!!” Looking over all of the Wonderbolts saw Flash Magnus himself stomping over to them. Rainbow Dash suddenly turned white and then bent down to hide behind Soarin who immediately yelled disapprovingly.

“I'm sorry that you had to see that.” Spitfire said to him as he approached. She was standing but with Fleetfoot supporting her now.

Feeling very insulted, Magnus turned to Spitfire saying, “May I have a word with you in your office please?!”

Spitfire sulked and nodded. Then she turned over her shoulder and announced, “Alright, hit the showers everypony. I might be stopping by the doc after this so go ahead head home tonight after you all get cleaned up. I'll see you tomorrow.” And with that Fleetfoot helped carry Spitfire back to the compound while Magnus leaned in to help Spitfire on her other side.

“It seems we all got ‘Walked’ today.” Blaze said to Surprise as Soarin had to help Rainbow Dash in much the same way.

**Author's Ending Note** So who liked my Walked pun? I think that WOTC and Walked sounds pretty close if you try to say them out loud. It makes sense to me, I hope you readers liked it.

There is more to the training course than what is shown in this chapter but I am undecided yet if I will ever specifically describe the full thing. The WOTC is just a plot device to help build this part of the story. But in later chapters these eight challenges should be enough to build the arch that I am leading up to. What do you think of the course so far? Don't worry, I think you'll like what I have in store for this.

Comments and questions are always welcome in the reviews. Thank you for reading!
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