//------------------------------// // I Love Ellipsis... // Story: Rainbow Dash's Last Chance // by BubbleyBathTub //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash lifted her head to see some very strange creatures... "It's alive!" one of the creatures shouted, lifting his skinny hooves above his head, erupting into a fit of mad laughter. "Must you do that?" asked a purple creature, her eyes rolling in a familiar manner. At least it's something. Even if she couldn't tell what they were, she at would at least have a clue what they were thinking. But their faces were still so otherworldly... Duh... Rainbow thought to herself, I am in another world. Rainbow looked at the ponies around her... except they weren't ponies... or griffons for that matter. They were not dragons, nor were they phoenixes or wyverns or thestrals or... anything Rainbow could think of. In the vast land of animals and ponies, Rainbow couldn't think of anything quite like these things. They stood on two legs, like a chicken. But they didn't have wings. The torso was solid, but at some point it looked like it thinned into flaps that could protect their legs and arms. The armor color varied. It was usually white, but the ones in front had pastel colors. Their claws looked... squishier, then they should have been. Rainbow took another look at these creatures. So strange. The creatures surrounded her on all sides. Erm... Rainbow felt a bead of nervous sweat working its way down her cheek. What do I say? Should I say anything? Ugh, stupid formal alien manners are hard! Rainbow stood up, feeling the material under her bounce a little bit, the soft padding comforting, if not disorientating. Rainbow forced a nervous laugh. "Uh... Hello?" One of the purple creatures gasped in mock suprise. "Oh dearie me, Hello, and forgive me for being so rude." She walked up to the small bed the mare was standing on. "Oh! Aren't you the cutest!" She pulled Rainbow into a hug, rubbing her cheek all over the mare's cyan fur. "Bettie! Geez! you can't just make contact with an alien that way! You have no idea where that thing has been!" "Woah, woah, woah." Rainbow Dash said, pushing the purple one away from her. "Number one, I am not cute, I am awesome and intimidating." Bettie let out a sqeal of laughter. "Second, I am not filthy! Can you get any ruder? My coat is silky smooth, tangles are not aerodynamic." She flipped her mane back in a display of grandness. "Magic pony! How can you not get excited!" Bettie shouted, throwing her arms in the air, and stomping her legs up and down. "My childhood dream!" As far as Rainbow Dash could tell, this was not normal behavior for ... whatever these were, based on the looks the other members gave Bettie. She was definitely a very eccentric ... thing? Neveremind, at least somepony was excited at the arrival of the best flier in Equestria. Which is of course, me, Rainbow Dash. Thought I guess I am technically NOT in Equestria anymore... nevermind. Wait... Rainbow dash remembered, My wing! I was badly injured! "Hey!" she said, getting the attention of the small group. Rainbow Dash thought of a question, "Where did you find me, I mean, I feel much better, what happened?" Well, that was more than one question... "Oh! We found you near an alleyway at a part of the residental zone near Quasar Junction. Wonderful piece of town, it's layout is simply great." Rainbow rolled her eyes, yawning softly into her hoof. "It was super lucky that we found you... well, Monty specifically here, found you" Monty waved from the back. "We all helped though, we brought you here and fixed you up as... best as we could." He rubbed his hoof... tentacles together. Claws, kind of. Ugh... nevermind. "Wait... what's wrong with me?" Rainbow bluntly asked. "Nothing wrong!" he denied, putting his claws in front of him, shaking his head. "Just... different." he mocked a smile. The group looked at each other, giving worried nods of agreement. "It isn't my wing is it?" Rainbow worriedly asked. Please, don't be my wing... not the wing, not the wing, not the wing... "Well, yes." Rainbow almost fainted. She wanted to faint, her blood ran to her hooves. It could have been anything wrong with her, broken knee, lung cancer, well... not lung cancer. Lung cancer is not a joke. Her eyes shrunk, and curiousity demanded she found out the problem. Rainbow spun in circles, trying to see what could possibly was wrong with her wing. Darn... get over here you stupid thing! Please don't be broken! Come on! "Sir..." one asked. "Is it uh, chasing it's tail?" "You evade me fiend!" Rainbow was out for blood, not her blood of course. The life blood of knowledge. "Monty, could you go fetch a mirror, so it doesn't drive itself crazy?" "Uh, sure." he said, strolling off to the nearest shower. "Hey! Rainbow pony... thing. Stop that!" the leader shouted, pointing his finger at the spinning mess of a pony. "Seriously stop!" Woah... I should stop... Rainbow Dash, nearly falling over front hooves, slowed to a stop and fell of the bed. "Geez, am I having issues with keeping the floor still today?" Her eyes rolled like cherries on a plate. "Oh my gosh, sir! I think it's mentally challenged..." she whispered the words. "I heard that." the lady jumped. "Seriously, what is wrong with my wing? Ugh..." despite her heavy encouragement, the floor was only slowly rolling to a stop. "Got your mirror!" Monty came through the door, handing it to him. "Here," passing the mirror to Rainbow Dash, she held it akwardly in ther hooves. With a decent amount of moving and readusting the mirror, she finally saw her wing. The mirror shattered on the floor, seven years of bad luck, she was not concered about at all. "What..." The word came out slow and shaky, as she turned slowly to see the atrocity attached to her left side. The cold, dark metal jutted out unnaturaly, revealing a fan of glass blades with circuits etched into the surface. The colors matched the colors of her mane, only setting in her mind it's connection to her. The glass shimmered lightly in the blue of the room. "You know... the material we used to make the circuits on your wings, they actually are supposed to be white, um... we don't know why they match the color of your mane, guess that's pretty cool huh?" the creature nervously laughed. Rainbow stared at the disk at the top slowly spin, the rainbow revolving around a screen on nonsense code in dark green. Rainbow stared intently at it, the lines slowly scrolling upwards. "... did you do to me?" she said, finishing her sentence.