在一个平常的一天，云宝黛茜几乎没注意从卧室窗帘那透进来的一点点阳光，毕竟这也是自己平常的一天，这里也不是她平常睡的卧室，至少现在不是了。云宝黛茜回到了她在云中城的家，这位蓝色天马也并没有像平常大多数一样睡在小马镇上空的一朵云上，而是在她那布满彩虹图案的小床上伸了伸懒腰，她的翅膀都感觉有点小抽筋。很明显这张床可要比她记忆中还要小得多。

云宝黛茜打了个哈欠，看着那束阳光依次照亮了她小时候得到的各种奖杯、缎带还要她小时候的各种物品上，这些东西依然摆在好几年前她用自己的小蹄子精心摆放又重新布置的位置，它们承载了她许多的回忆！

云宝黛茜的目光落在了她的书架上，她的旧玩具泰迪熊蓝蓝，脸上还带着他那标志性的空洞表情坐在那。云宝黛茜立刻就回想起她妈妈把泰迪熊送给她的时候，那次是为了奖励她第一次看牙医时表现很勇敢。然后云宝黛茜注意到了她的云边篮球框，回忆起她将所有时间都花在完美投篮上，而不是完成家庭作业。她从不喜欢学习太多。云宝黛茜只经历过一次考试------那就是进入闪电飞马队的考试！

框上的海报是云宝黛西这么长时间对闪电飞马忠诚的迷恋。在著名的“风暴之眼”节目中，著名的闪电飞马精英队在活动上展开翅膀，并向终点冲刺。那是一场十分精彩的演出！年幼的云宝黛茜每天晚上入睡时都盯着那张海报，梦想着她有一天也会成为一名闪电飞马，穿上黄蓝相间的飞行服。

现在她的梦想终于实现了，云宝黛茜现在就是经常自己和她的团队在小马国上空巡逻，表演复杂的动作和令马兴奋的技艺，让崇拜她的观众们都兴奋不已。正因为如此，她此刻才回到这里，在云中城，她父母的家里。

“早上好，最亲爱的小黛茜！”风哨子冲进卧室端着一碗热气腾腾的粥和一盘涂满了果酱的烤面包。风哨子兴奋的时候，那杯橙汁在她女儿面前晃来晃去，“我为你准备了你最喜欢的早餐！我最喜欢的小闪电飞马今天怎么样了？”

“我，呃——”在她的父亲趵虹突然出现在她母亲身后之前，云宝黛茜几乎都是结结巴巴的反应。

“她已经起床了吗，亲爱的？我们的冠军女儿准备好在闪电天马的周年纪念秀——连环冲冲冲上首次亮相了吗？！

他凝视着风哨子的肩膀，紫罗兰色的脸上绽开了一个巨大的微笑。他的彩虹色鬃毛向四面八方伸展，就像他的女儿的鬃毛一样。

“爸爸，它叫作连环呼啦圈。”云宝黛茜一边从床上起来，一边笑着叹了口气，“我想我是时候该起床了！”

“不，不！不要动你的肌肉，亲爱的！”风哨子催促道，她冲了过去，把女儿塞回了被里，把早餐盘摆好，把一堆食物摆出了摇摇欲坠的样子。“放轻松然后吃你的早饭。你需要为表演节省体力。云中城的每匹小马都会来，而且他们都迫不及待的想看到你了！女孩们甚至会在那儿玩一整天！打扮，看演出，然后在雨滴咖啡厅吃午饭。最后，轮到我来炫耀我的女儿了。如果让我继续听有关飘雪的女儿月亮漫步和她的雪花奖，我就当不知道了。”

“女孩们？”云宝黛茜呻吟着。“全都要来？”云宝黛茜的母亲在云中城装饰材料收集俱乐部非常活跃。虽然名字这听起来挺温和，可是当俱乐部所有小马们都聚在一起时，那可是老热闹嘈杂了。

“不，不，当然不是。”风哨子笑道，“那太荒谬了！只是飘雪（Snowfall）、碧云蓝天（Blue Skies）、波姆（Pom Pom）、露珠闪耀（Dew Shine）、闪闪淋光（Sparkle Showers）、阳光海滩（Sunny Shores），还有…海伦（Helen）。”风笛骄傲地笑了笑，“哦对！还有芭芭拉（Barbara）！”

“谁还不喜欢芭芭拉呢？”云宝黛茜紧张地笑了笑，咬了一口吐司，以掩饰她焦虑的情绪。自从她因为她对父母上次闪电天马表演太过支持她而对他们大吵大闹，云宝黛茜就很认真地努力去接受他们的支持和赞扬。她是匹幸运的小马，能有这样如此爱她的父母，尽管有时太过头。这些都要感谢飞板璐还有她的学校报告，云宝黛茜现在是记住了。

“我希望我也邀请了那支老蹬球队，”趵虹脸红着补充道。“他们仍然不敢相信，那个曾在球场上飞来飞去并要求他们比赛的小家伙现在是一位真正的闪电天马了！”趵虹擦去自豪的眼泪。他把云宝拢进一个大大的拥抱里。

“如果你们想邀请整个城市，我实际上也邀请了一些朋友，”云宝黛茜承认道。“但是我真不确定他们是否会来，我的意思是------我甚至还不知道他们有没有收到我的邀请函…”

“为什么他们会可能收不到？”风哨子扶了扶她的额头。“你没有他们的地址吗？”

“不是那样的，”云宝黛茜解释道，她喝完最后一口粥，擦去下巴上最后一滴粥。“他们，呃…没有地址，他们看上去更像…总是在到处跑？我希望还好——毕竟我先邀请他们来的。”

“太棒了！”风哨子带着她持有的乐观精神大声欢呼。“有客人真是太好了。”

“哦，我迫不及待想见到他们，”趵虹评论道。“我女儿的任何朋友在这个家里都是受欢迎的。现在不如你帮我在他们来之前整理一下好吗？”他小跑到窗户前，拉开窗帘，房间里充满了新鲜的空气和阳光。但在云宝还没有来得及感谢她爸爸之前，趵虹惊愕地发出一声响亮的咕噜声。

“哇哦！”趵虹的下巴垂了下来，他的眼睛变得比一套风笛的收集盘还大。“积雨云里的那个东西是什么？”

“退后！”趵虹飞奔过来准备行动，她已经准备好接受她可能发现的任何危险的事物。云宝黛茜根本不害怕，她已经见过不少了，巨龙、蝎尾狮、在九流镇的那些奇怪生物，甚至是风暴大王。

这就是为什么云宝黛茜应该会看到这个巨大的物体正朝他们的房子靠近了。

但接下来见到的这些可真是完全出乎她的意料。

（注：本章部分翻译包括译名参考了前译者“Awsome”发布的翻译版本，感谢她的付出）

翻译地址：https://fimtale.com/t/2567

英文版：

On a normal day, Rainbow Dash would have barely noticed the sunlight peeking through the curtains of her bedroom. But this was not a normal day, and this was not her bedroom. At least, it wasn’t anymore. Rainbow Dash was back in her hometown of Cloudsdale. Instead of nestling into her fluffy cloud duvet back above Ponyville, the blue Pegasus was tucked tightly into the rainbow-patterned sheets of her fillyhood bed. She had a wing cramp. Clearly the bed was much smaller than she’d remembered.
Rainbow Dash yawned and watched as the light made its way across the eclectic array of trophies, ribbons, and relics of her youth that were still in the exact  spots  they  had  been  years  ago  when  she’d  carefully  arranged  and rearranged them with her tiny hooves. There were so many memories on display!
Rainbow Dash’s eyes landed on her bookshelf, where her old stuffed teddy bear, Blue-Blue, sat with his signature blank expression. Rainbow Dash instantly remembered when her mother had given him to her as a reward for being brave through her first dentist appointment. Rainbow Dash then noticed her cloud-rimmed basketball hoop and recalled all the hours she had spent perfecting the perfect shot instead of completing her homework assignments. She never did enjoy studying too much. Only one test had ever mattered to Rainbow Dash—the one to get into the Wonderbolts!
The poster above the hoop was evidence of Rainbow Dash’s longstanding devotion  to  the  elite  Pegasus  flight  team.  It  depicted  the  renowned Wonderbolt Super Stream in action—wings outspread and racing toward the big finish in the famous “Eye of the Storm” routine. It was a legendary show! Young Rainbow Dash had stared at that poster as she drifted off to sleep each night, dreaming of the day when she, too, would become a Wonderbolt and don the blue-and-yellow flight suit.
Now that her dream had finally come true, Rainbow Dash often found herself visiting locales across Equestria with her team, performing complex routines and thrilling feats to the delight of adoring onlookers. Which was precisely why she was back here at this very moment, in Cloudsdale, in her parents’ house.
“Good  morning,  dearest  Dashie-kins!”  Windy  Whistles  burst  into  the bedroom,  carrying  a  tray  of  steaming  porridge  and  toast  slathered  with cloudberry jam. The cup of orange juice sloshed around as Windy practically shook  with  excitement  at  hosting  her  daughter.  “I  made  your  favorite brekkie! How’s my favorite little Wonderbolt feeling today?!”
“I’m, uh—” Rainbow could barely stammer before her dad, Bow Hothoof, popped in behind her mom.
“Is she up yet, dear? Is our champion daughter ready for her big debut in the Wonderbolts’ anniversary show—The Loopy Woop Woop?!” He peered over Windy’s shoulder with a gigantic smile spreading across his violet face. His rainbow mane poked out in every direction, just like his daughter’s.
“Dad, it’s called the Loop-de-Loop Hoopla.” Rainbow Dash sighed with a smirk as she bolted upright in bed. “And I guess I’m up now.” She tossed the covers away and began to climb out.
“No, no! Don’t move a muscle, missy,” Windy urged as she rushed over and tucked her daughter back in, balancing the breakfast tray in an impressive teetering display. “Relax and eat your food. You need to save your energy for the big performance. Everypony in Cloudsdale is coming, and they just can’t wait to see you! The girls are even coming—making a whole day of it! Dressing up, seeing the show, then grabbing lunch afterward at the Raindrop Café. Finally, it’s my turn to show off my daughter. If I hear another thing about Snowfall’s daughter, Moon Trotter, and her Snowflake awards, I just don’t know!”
“The giiirls?” Rainbow groaned. “All of them?” Rainbow’s mother was very active in the Cloudsdale Decorative Plate Collecting Club. It sounded tame enough, but when all those mares got together, they could be quite the hoof-ful.
“No, no, of course not.” Windy laughed. “That would be ridiculous! Just Snowfall,  Blue  Skies,  Pom  Pom,  Dew  Shine,  Sparkle  Showers,  Sunny Shores, and… Helen.” Windy grinned proudly. “Oh! And Barbara.”
“Who doesn’t love Barbara?” Rainbow Dash laughed nervously and hid her mounting feelings of anxiety by taking a bite of toast. Ever since she’d blown up at her parents for being too supportive at her last Wonderbolts show, Rainbow Dash had made a serious effort to accept their support and praise. She was a lucky pony to have such loving parents, even if they were over-the-top sometimes. Thanks to Scootaloo and her school report, Rainbow Dash remembered that now.
“And I hope it’s okay that I invited the old buckball team, too,” Bow Hothoof added, blushing. “They still can’t believe that the little tyke who used to fly around the court following ’em and asking ’em to race is a real Wonderbolt now!” Bow wiped away a proud tear. He gathered Rainbow Dash into a big bear hug.
“Invite the whole city, if ya want. I actually invited some friends, too,” Rainbow Dash admitted. “But I’m really not sure if they’re going to come. I mean—I don’t even know if they got my invitation. . . .”
“Why wouldn’t they?” Windy furrowed her brow. “Didn’t you have their addresses?”
“It’s  not  really  like  that,”  Rainbow  explained,  taking  the  last  bite  of porridge. She wiped away a rogue drop from her chin. “They, uh… don’t have addresses. These friends are sort of… always on the go? I hope it’s okay —I kinda invited them to the house first.”
“How lovely!” Windy chirped with her signature optimism. “It’s so nice to have guests.”
“Well, I can’t wait to meet ’em,” Bow Hothoof commented. “Any friend of my daughter’s is welcome in this home. Now, how about you let me do a bit of tidying before they arrive?” He trotted over to the window and thrust the curtains open. A blast of fresh air and sunlight filled the room. But before Rainbow Dash could thank her dad, Bow let out a loud, startled grunt.
“Whoa!” Bow’s jaw dropped and his eyes became larger than a set of Windy Whistle’s collector plates. “What in the cumulonimbus is that?!”
“Stand back!” Rainbow Dash sprang to action and darted over. She was ready to take on whatever fearsome sight she might discover. Rainbow Dash wasn’t afraid. She’d seen it all: Dragons, Manticores, new and scary creatures in Klugetown, and even a Storm King.
That’s why Rainbow Dash should have expected to see the massive object lurching straight toward their house.
But it took her completely by surprise.