Rainbow Dash and Soarin's friends keep teasing them about each other, but, for them, they're nothing more than friends. But the situation of Rainbow Dash being accused may bring to the surface feelings that they didn't know they had.
A while before Soarin and Rainbow Dash's practices start, they end up having an earlier, abrupt encounter that takes them both to the hospital, where they start to develop feelings for each other that could change the course of their training.