Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"A weighty choice is yours to make, the right selection or a big mistake. If a wrong choice you choose to pursue, the foundations of home will crumble without you..."
"Mrmmfff... guh..." Rainbow Dash whimpered, nuzzling her forelimbs while sweat rolled down her neck. "I don't..." She gulped hard. "Don't remember that one..."
"Shhhhh... are you back now, Sparky?"
"Epcot?" Rainbow forced her eyes open. She squinted across a dark, dark domain. "Epcot... wh-where are we?"
"Pffft! 'Epcot?!' You would confuse me with that bubbly abstract freeloader?"
"Huh?" Rainbow shuddered.
A pair of tiny stone talons placed a ruby jewel in her hooves. The Wind Chalice stone lit up, illuminating Lancie's granite grin in an eerie red light. "And here I thought we had gotten so close..."
"Lancie..." Rainbow shuddered. She sat up, wincing from her aching head. A puddle of vomit lingered on the floor beside her, and she still tasted bile in the back of her throat. "Mrmmmff... how... how long was I...?"
"Long enough for our neighboring queen and her young ones to trample on past us," Lancie said. "Though I wouldn't suggest we pitch a tent here. She's bound to be on the prowl."
Rainbow looked back at her leg, shining some light on it. The wound was still laced with dried blood, but most of the green venom was gone.
"I'm actually surprised that your fever dream ended as swiftly as it did," Lancie said. "That wasn't a mosquito that grazed you." Lancie craned his neck. "Feeling any better on the inside?"
"I... I don't know..." Rainbow winced, rubbing her jaw. "My chin still hurts."
"Oh? From what?"
"From where Listing... Listing..." She shuddered, ears drooping. "Nevermind."
"I did a bit of scurrying around while you were under," Lancie said. "I think I found a path that leads out from here."
"A... path..."
"Now, I'm not promising an exit, but with an eight-legged prima donna hungry for pony flesh, I think it's the next best thing."
"Right..."
"If you just follow me, Sparky, I'll get us out."
"Just... get us out..." Rainbow squinted down at him.
"What?" He rubbed his scalp, blinking. "Am I chipped somewhere?"
"How do I even know any of this is real?" She gulped. "Or that this didn't happen a long... long time ago and I'm just now remembering it in pieces?"
"What... does that even mean?"
"A statue that talks..." Rainbow exhaled in sharp gunbursts. She scoured the ceiling with twitching eyes. "Giant spiders. Apple Bloom and a magic snake." She ran a shaking hoof through her mane. "My life can't be this crazy. Nopony's life can be this crazy."
"The spider must have bit you harder than I thought. Hallucinations are one thing, Sparky, but complete delusional rewrites of reality?"
"I just... j-just need to get back to Ponyville," Rainbow murmured. "Yeah. Twilight needs me." She stumbled about. "The whole gang needs me—"
"And what of Applejack?"
Rainbow froze, her pupils shrinking. Something skittered past her, then hid itself deep in the wall. She looked down at Lancie, then slowly shook her head. "I... shouldn't be the mare that loves her. I can't be." She sniffled. "It's crazy... just too crazy..."
"And would you be any more awesome if you weren't?"
Rainbow gnawed on her teeth, trembling.
"Sparky..." Lancie scurried up to a stalacmite so that they were eye level. "You're here for a reason. If you can't get your head clear, then open your earholes, listen to my breath... and pretend it's the breath of... of a d-dear friend." His stone eyes hardened even further. "Follow me. Let me get you out of here. Let me show you the way."
"Show... me the way..." Rainbow Dash shuddered, running a hoof over her face. "...caves... tunnels..."
"That's right."
She gnashed her teeth, quivering where she sat. "Twists... and turns..." She fought the bile down her throat. "...are his master plan."
Lancie's limbs went slack. He leaned his head back, fanged mouth agape. "Where... did you hear that...?"
"Nnnngh... so... so tired..." She whimpered. "Apple Bloom..."
"Just..." Lancie motioned along, slithering ahead of her. "Just follow along, Sparky. We need to move... you always need to be moving."
"Right..." Rainbow nodded, glancing briefly behind her as she shuffled after the living effigy. The walls shook and quivered, and eyes peered out through the darkness. "...always need to be moving..."
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Hmm...a hallucination, or a glimpse into what could have been? Nonetheless a glimpse into what was, that's for sure...
[Desire to know more about Rainbow and Listing intensifies]
Good question. This story diverges from canon before The Return of Harmony.
I always got chills with this line and its second verse, so to speak. Much more sinister than the rest of discord.
Well, that was bizarre and ominous.
Looks like Rainbow's mental state isn't currently doing much better right now.
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Glimpses of alternate reality?
Afterall, Lancie's been able to break that wall several times.
We also can't forget the fact that Lancie is actually Discord himself. Tiny and in pieces, but no matter what reality, "twist and turns" are always going to be part of the plan for him.
Now wouldn't that be a twist, this isn't actually Rainbow's life but possibly some kind of fever dream or the product of some kind of memory technology.
But Lancie is a statue, statues don't breathe
The angry shrieks of the arachnid matriarch split the stale air as she scrambled in hot pursuit on seven able legs, and one splintered leg, painting a streak of viscous yellow ichor amidst a wake of chittering tarantulas. They scrambled after her in a broad sea of bristling gray-brown appendages and beady black eyes.
Rainbow turned her gaze above the surging rush of underground water, which reflected the light of numerous manacrystal shards protruding a scant few meters from the rocky ceiling, onto the needle-sharp points of innumerable dripping stalactites.
Taking a deep breath, she flared her wings open and launched her petite frame over the icy white waters of the churning river. Her fuzzy blue pegasus body knifed through the chill subterranean air... and then...
SPLOOSH! Back into ciderspace!
48 hour wait is painful.
Hey, at least RD is moving.
Though knowing our luck, we will take another 250 chapters tillthis ac ends.
Question though, I know the twists and turns quote is actually Discords. I've seen the return of harmony, but I dont recall that quote.
Could somebody explain it?
Thanks.
Hey, who wants to bet that the exit is East?
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It's the riddle Discord rattles off after he steals the Elements. It's part of the "game" he plays with the Mane 6.
Twists and Turns. It turns out the April's Fool chapters are canon and RD and RD swapped universes for a moment, and a little imprint of the mind of one was left on the other. Nah, I don't really think so.
6309907 Statues don't breath, and ponies don't talk.
LancieDashery is best dashery.
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*Second-best.
Ahh yes, and we all forgot that a side effect of that potion is hallucinations didnt we?
I.. Rainbow saying that has my mind 7 kinds of "wait... What?!" right now
6309841 The question is not where Lancie heard those words, but Rainbow Dash.
Chills man....
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Even moreso because it never happened in this tale, and more importantly because of the relationship Dash has with Lancie.
Austraeoh again?