Avoids Wonderbolt attack

The shockwave slammed into me, making my insides feel like jelly as it picked Velvet and Xenith up off the ground and hurled us all brutally forward. A ring of crackling, electrified black smoke followed the shockwave, as did the roar emanating from the mushroom-like cloud that rose up behind us.

My whole body felt bruised even before I slammed into the ground. I thanked the Goddesses that Velvet had put my reinforced Canterlot Police Barding back on.

The Wonderbolt shot out of the mushroom cloud, opening fire on her downed opponents, The air between us filled with beams of frantic pinkish light. Biting back a moan, I rolled behind the splintered remains of one of the flak-shredded trees, taking cover.

As the Wonderbolt shot past us, I realized to my dismay that the explosion hadn’t even been a weapon. It was an aerial maneuver. But… how? I knew that pegasi and possibly even earth ponies had their own inherent magic. (Well, duh! Have you met Pinkie Pie?) Pegasi could walk on and manipulate clouds, after all. But this was beyond the pale. I was forced to quickly reassess what “the best at shock and awe” might actually mean.