Washouts



"The Washouts are yet to be the finest stunt team in all over Equestria. Led by Lightning Dust, they've got Rolling Thunder and Short Fuse on her hooves while she has a lot of death-defying stunt toys to play with. Also, Scootaloo wanted to join the Washouts, but that's what Rainbow Dash hated. But now... well, they're a mercenary group. Serving for Equestria to help out the Wonderbolts as soon as possible. Just because of the Great P365 War, right?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Washouts Return

The Washouts are a professional stunt team comprised of fellow ex-Wonderbolts that are led by Lightning Dust. She and her team members do away with many of the Wonderbolts' safety regulations and perform far more death-defying stunts. Lightning Dust briefly recruits Scootaloo into the Washouts, but Rainbow Dash intervenes before she gets seriously hurt during her debut. When Lightning Dust's hoof gets caught on a rope attached to Scootaloo's stunt rocket as it takes off into the sky, she is dragged along with it and declares that she and Rainbow Dash are "rivals for life."

They consist of Lightning Dust, Rolling Thunder and Short Fuse with Scootaloo as its one-time member.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, the Washouts become allies with the Wonderbolts and the Shadowbolts as part of the Great P365 War in playing their role as Equestria's mercenary aerial cavalry under the Equestrian Armed Froces' emploment in a conflict against the New Group P365 since the LP StukaBolts were allied with them.

Over the course of the war, the Washouts shot down a considerable number of the New Group P365's ace squadrons, fliers and pilots. The mercenary team's unparalleled combat efficiency proved highly advantageous to the Allied Forces during the war and decisively ended the postwar uprising orchestrated by the Grand Pegasus Enclave.