//------------------------------// // Inquiry and Some Missing Ponies. // Story: Rainbow Dash's Last Chance // by BubbleyBathTub //------------------------------// "Oh!" Pinkie Pie grinded to a halt, nearly toppling the stack of cakes resting on her muzzle. "Dear!" Miss Cake, walking into the room. "Let me help you." Pinkie Pie, now without her load, ran out of the shop. "Twi! Twilight!" she shouted, spotting her friend. "Pinkie, not now, I need to get a book from the Canterlot Library, I was just leaving... what do you want?" "Look! My tail is twitching, my ears flopped three times, and my knees shook, so...?" Pinkie paused, waiting for a response. "Pinkie, I don't have my chart of crazy things you say right now, so just tell me what that's supposed to mean." Twilight rolled her eyes. "Ugh, do I have to explain everything?" Pinkie sighed loudly. "It means one of my best best BEST friends had something happen to them. So then my left eye twitched, then my right knee shook, and that means it was one of my pegasus friends, and then my whole body shook, then my knees, and my left eye twitched, my knee started aching, and then my ear flopped twice, and that means sompony lost something very dear to them." "Pinkie, look I need to find a spell strong enough to let me see very far away, so I can find wherever Rainbow Dash got teleported to. My head aches, and I feel like throwing up, so could you please, give me, five hours of peace?" Twilight brought her head close to the ground, her eyes closing in pain. "Twilight! Either Fluttershy lost something dear to her or Rainbow Dash did!" "Well we don't know it's Rainbow Dash..." "Fluttershy!" Pinkie screamed at the flying mare. "Hey Fluttershy!" "Oh, hey guys." Fluttershy landed. "How is it today? Oh Twilight! You look awful!" "I feel awful." she muttered. "Fluttershy, did you lose anything dear to you lately?" "Well, I lost my hair brush." she responded, rolling with Pinkie's nonsense. "Noo, like something so very dear to you, you couldn't live without it?" Pinkie questioned. "Not recently, no. Sorry?" With that, Fluttershy flew off with her basket of fruit. Twilight sighed. "So if it wasn't her..." "Rainbow lost something so VERRY important to her!" Pinkie exclaimed. "Yeah Pinkie, she lost us?" "No, silly, if it was that, then I would have noticed it when she left, not now. It's been two days since she left." "Well then... " Twilight brought her head up as it dawned on her. "May Celestia have mercy on whatever planet Rainbow Dash is on." "Twilight? What's wrong?" "Pinkie, what is the one thing Rainbow Dash loves more than anything else?" Twilight questioned, putting her hoofs on each side of Pinkie's face. "The Wonderbolts?" Twilight rolled her eyes. "Pinkie, it can't be anything here, if anything bad happened, Rainbow couldn't know about it. She lost something she brought with her." Pinkie raised an eyebrow. "I think she lost her wings." "No!" Pinkie backed away from Twilight's grasp. "Their screwed." "Who?" "The creatures on Rainbow's planet." "How do you know...?" Twilight sighed. "Nevermind, I have a book to find." -------------------- The crowd watched as Rainbow ran in circles, screaming and crying. "Whhhhy?" she screamed, "Whhhhhhhy?" "Er, magic pony?" "Charles, I wouldn't." Taking a deep breath, Charles walked to the front. "Hey!" "What?" Rainbow replied, not stopping. "Calm down, okay? Just slow down." Slowly stopping in front of Charles, Rainbow realized how tall these things were. Almost tall as Celestia. Tears were still heavily pouring over Rainbow's cheeks. Her eyes flared in a burst of anger. "How dare you! Not only am I ripped from my own planet, I lose the single most important thing, the thing I love nothing more that anything else!" Charles was backing away, "It was the only thing we could do! You're wing was too heavily damaged to save, all the nerves were severed, your bones were destroyed! In the end we made a decision to... amputate it." "We made absolute sure that your new wing is the same weight, down to the very gram. It's all distributed the same! If nothing else, you can still fly." "I'm a racer, I fly everyday, faster then anypony! I am Rainbow Dash! I can't learn to fly again, I should know how to fly!" "Well?" The female asked, elbowing Charles. "Console her." "What? Oh no no no no no. I am NOT going to babysit the magical talking pony." he whispered. "Do it or your fired." She demanded. "Well, Betty, looks like like were a team. We get to babysit Rainbow Dash." "Yay! Betty and Charles, fighting crime!" "Not crime, not fighting. We're just taking care of a pony." Betty stuck out her tongue. "... are you guys even listening to me?" Rainbow asked. "My life is ruined!" "Look, we were just talking, and you get to come with us, to where you will be staying." Betty waved. "We are going to my apartment now, so come on." "Pfft. I'm not following you to your crummy apartment." she sat, making herself comfortable. "You can't stay here in the hospital!" "I'll make cookies!" Betty bribed. Rainbow Dash raised her eyebrow at this. "What kind?" "Chocolate chip!" she exclaimed. "Well, okay." "Really?" Charles asked. "Bribery?" Bettie just smiled in reponse. The trio walked out the door, Bettie leading the way with her smile. "Hi Junior, oh hi Darthy! You still have cancer? Oh, well take care," Charles rested his hand on his eyes as Bettie continued to say hello to every person in the hallway. "Geez you guys look absolutely weird." Rainbow commented. "What is that supposed to mean?" "It just means that you look like Discord put you together with whatever he had in the junk drawer." "I don't know how that is, and I am greatly offended." "Good." The silence between them was loud, growing in size with every second until... "Bettie, when did you get a robot?" Rainbow's ears perked up, hearing footsteps. "Oh I didn't..." "It's mine!" Charles exclaimed, leaning towards Bettie whispering, "Bettie! Seriously, this planet hadn't seen organic life in over 300 years. Shut up." "Stahp." Rainbow Dash's face was being smushed by two hands. "So lifelike! Where did you get it?" "I had it built by a friend. Isn't it so great?" Rainbow, realizing the situation, did what any smart mare would do. Stop bending her knees and move in jerky motions. "Beep Boop! I am a calculator! Error, muffins are ready!" "Uhh, is something wrong with your robot?" "No it's just stupid." Charles kicked Rainbow Dash's back leg. "Sweet Celestia!" Rainbow cried, cradling her leg. "Well, okay then..." walking off, Rainbow let her 'disguise' go. "Nice move, Rainbow." Charles rolled his eyes. "Your disguise was seamless."