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// Live Like Rainbow 
// Story: Making Hearts Melt 
// by Faith Everlasting 
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	I gazed up once more at the gloomy city. I could feel the cold air of its winter whipping against my coat and I could hear my screams as I fell from the sky.
"NO!" I shouted to the world. "I WILL HEAR YOU NO MORE!" Then I opened up both of my wings. Pain struck me as my real wing stretched out to its maximum, but I held it high and confidently. Then I flapped them. 
At first, nothing happened, but then I flapped again and felt the lifting sensation like I had with Heartburn. I grinned and flapped again. Again. Again. Again! I was beginning to rise! My heart soared with the clouds as I gained momentum and I laughed aloud to myself and cheered.
"Disabled Pegasi, you DO have a purpose!" I remembered.
"I know, Rainbow Dash! I know!" I cheered. The wind in my mane was not comparable to anything I had ever experienced! I even managed to do a flip in the air, but then immediately stopped what I was doing and smacked myself. "I NEED to get to Heartburn!" With that, I raced towards the haunted city looming in front of me and took in a final gulp of fear before facing my biggest challenge.

"What are you doing, Super Star?" Heartburn asked as he tugged on the chains connected to his front legs. Super Star slowly walked towards him and caressed his chin with her hoof. He tried to slap it away, but couldn't manage to.
"I thought you loved me, Heartburn," She whispered in his ear.
"Super Star, you're starting to sound like the mares in Ponyville," Heartburn sounded nervous, Super Star observed.
"I don't know why the spell didn't work on you, too," Heartburn looked confused, but then his faced melted into an expression of shock as Super Star passionately kissed him. He struggled to get away, but Super Star held him their with her unicorn magic until she was satisfied with the amount of time that had passed. He gagged and spat on the floor when she had finished which made her burn with rage.
"WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME?!" She screamed insanely.
"Is that what you did this for?" He accused. "Is that why you accepted the job? Is that why you risked your life for this lunatic that we're working for?" He paused to take a breath. "I accepted my position to be able to care for myself, and you accept it to get to me?" Super Star gazed at him with hazy eyes. He didn't know if his words were even getting through to her. Then he noticed that the horn on top of her head was glowing, but not in the usual manner of unicorn magic. A single drop of drool protruded from her mouth and dropped to the floor, yet she didn't seem to notice. The glowing intensified.
"Heartburn!" He turned to see Perfect standing just meters away from the two of them. Super Star quickly whipped around and spotted her as well, but she reacted quite strangely. She roared like a lion and lunged for Perfect.

"WHOA!" I yelled as Super Star charged at me. Her eyes were looking in two different directions and the horn on top of her head seemed to grow brighter every second. I dodged her easily and she fell uselessly to my side, panting and growling like a rabid dog. She got back up and charged a second time.
"KILL PONY!" She hollered. "KILL PONY!" I stepped out of her charge path and let her run harmlessly past me. Noticing that she made a mistake, she turned around once more and shrieked in agony. The horn continued to intensify as she grabbed for it, trying to take it off. 
"MAKE IT STOP!" She cried out. Pity made me help her. I rushed to her side and tried to forcibly remove the horn from her head, but it wouldn't budge! She shrieked again and her coat began to crack open around her skull, sending streams of blood flowing into her eyes. Her body was thrown into convulsions and she continued to holler. 
"What's going on?!" Heartburn shouted.
"I don't know!" I gazed at the horn and tried to find some way to remove it, but all that I saw was a signature. That was all that I needed. A small imprint near the base of the horn showed a gray horseshoe surrounded by small flames. Then I heard a small beeping noise.
"What's that?" Heartburn asked, trying to see what was going on. The chains rattled, but remained in place. I wasn't going to wait around to find out what the beeping noise meant, so I quickly rushed over to Heartburn and attacked the chains. 
"NO!" Heartburn said, shoving me away. "GET OUT OF HERE!"
"NOT WITHOUT YOU!" I continued to bite, tug, pull, anything! The beeping began to speed up and Super Star lay still on the ground, but was breathing shallowly. 
"GO!"
"NO!"
Faster beeping.
"THE CHAINS WON'T BUDGE!"
"THEY WON'T BREAK!"
"SHUT UP!"
Faster beeping.
"LEAVE!"
"GOT IT!"
The beeping stopped. The synthetic horn exploded and turned everything within a half a mile to ashes. The rumbling from the event was so loud, that everypony in Ponyville could hear it. 
"What the hay?!" Fluttershy screamed. She glanced up into the sky and saw a large mushroom cloud protruding from the surface of Cloudsdale. "Oh, no! PERFECT!" For some reason, Fluttershy knew. Call it a motherly instinct to suspect the worst, but Fluttershy knew that Perfect was up in Cloudsdale. She could feel it.
When she arrived, there was nothing left to find. Just ashes, a few pieces of melted metal, a singed piece of golden mane, and something that Fluttershy recognized all to clearly. What she saw, lying in the debris, was a smoldering iron horseshoe.

They would never find the bodies for their were no bodies to be found. That's right, fillies and gentlecolts, Perfect and Heartburn didn't die. I didn't want them to. They're with me, for the moment, until I can use them again. Oh, don't worry, I won't hurt them or anything, but they might be able to serve a greater purpose for the next step of my plan. Scorched Shoe did the right thing when he set the horn to self-destruct. Super Star had gotten out of hoof and needed to be eliminated. 
As for me, my time is almost here. Time to take over. Time to set things my way. But for now, I wait. Until Scorched Shoe fulfills his debt to me and paves the way to victory.

END OF PART 2