I Have A Problem (Rainbow Dash Part 1)
Aftermath of A Fallen Star
By Rated Ponystar
Edited by The Unnamed Pawn
I Have A Problem Part 1 (Rainbow Dash's POV)
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The first thing that I realized when I woke up was that it was cold. And not just a I will have a flu cold, I am talking about a frozen wasteland cold. I quickly got up off the floor, hoping to fly to a warm spot when I realized that I was in the middle of Ponyville during a dark grey day. What creeped me the most was apparent lack of snow while I was unable to feel even weakest wind blowing in my face, and yet I was freezing. Even more confusing was the fact that I was in the middle of the town with no memory of how I got there in the first place.
I concentrated, trying to think of what happened last night, but it was all hazy. I remembered drinking a few hard ciders, and I wondered if I’d passed out. I wondered if maybe this was some big prank that was going on; wouldn’t put it past Pinkie Pie to do so. She had been in a pranking mood ever since... well... just a long time. But for some reason I didn’t think this was a prank. I then thought I must have crashed during a stunt, but there was no crater and I had no injuries. Something seemed wrong. Very wrong.
I shook my head and fought against a massive headache before getting up and looking around, noticing two things. The first was that there were very few ponies around which was strange since this was the central hub for everypony in town. It was also market week if I remembered correctly so where were the busy ponies going up and down the streets to get to the markets? I looked up at the sky and didn’t even see a single pegasus. There were a lot of clouds, giving me something to scold the weather team about when I found them, but not a single ray of sunshine.
The second thing I noticed provided me a clue as to why everything was so grim. The street lamps, the houses, and the trees all had black ribbons tied against them. I felt myself turn even colder when I saw this, knowing all too well what it meant. It had been a few months, but I could still remember the day we all put another bunch of black ribbons out for one of the greatest ponies I ever knew, and one of the best friends I ever had. I fought back the tears in my eyes, struggling not to lose it there. Yeah, I was about to cry. So what?! If you had a best friend who had died you would...
Sorry, I’m getting off track. After I regained my senses I started to concentrate, trying to figure out who was it that kicked the bucket, but no names came to me. Walking down the street, I saw more and more of the dreaded ribbons which made me worry even more. Whoever it was that had died had to be have been somepony important. Finally, I decided to ask two ponies, a unicorn and an earth pony nearby, who it was.
“Excuse me?” I asked, but they didn’t even turn to face me. Huffing, I raised my voice. “Hey! I’m talking to you!”
Ignoring me, the unicorn said, “So, was she really this important? From what I have heard, she was obsessed with getting drunk almost everyday.”
“She only became that a few months ago, around the time you moved here, but before that she was an amazing pony. Everypony loved her, to see her just... go like that it was...,” the earth pony shivered. “I still can’t believe it. First Princess Twilight and now this? Haven’t we suffered enough tragedy in our town?”
The unicorn scoffed. “If you ask me, she caused her own demise. The way she acted and talked to ponies? I know she’s suffered a great loss, but really when you’ve been arrested for being drunk in public, causing fights, and public urination you should at least take the hint that you need help.”
“She kept denying it. You know how some alcoholics are,” pointed out the earth pony.
Despite my attempts to get their attention, I listened in with open ears. The only pony that I knew who had a drinking problem was Berry Punch. The poor mare and her husband divorced when they suffered a miscarriage and she’d been a drinker ever since with very few friends. Last I heard she was getting better, but I guess that wasn’t the case now. Despite not being close to her, I couldn’t help but feel sorry that she was gone. I was about to wonder how she died when the unicorn then said something that made me freeze up.
“Not to mention I heard she got suspended from that academy she went to. For the Wonderbolts, right?”
“Yeah, it was last week. She got drunk and caused an accident that hurt her fellow cadets, then she just got worse,” said the earth pony shaking her head. “At least she died quickly, snapped her neck when she crashed as I heard.”
You know that moment in your life when you know what’s in front of you but you deny it constantly just to fool yourself. That’s what I started to go through when I heard that. I knew there was only one pony in Ponyville on the Wonderbolts Acadamy list. Somepony who was suspended for causing a disturbance in camp that lead to an argument and a lot of hurt pegasi. Somepony who was, right now, ready to piss herself in fear.
Me.
I slowly raised my hoof, to try something. How many times have I seen this in movies or read this in books? The protagonist who did this would then find out, after he saw he couldn’t touch them, that he was a ghost and was dead. And in a split second, when I saw my hoof fade into her head without a single sign of disturbance, I knew who was it that had I died.
Me.
I was dead.
I didn’t give out a big “Nooo” or cry or anything dramatic like that. I just stood there, trying to process what I had just learned. The two ponies soon walked away, while I sat on my haunches, feeling no longer cold but alone and afraid. If I really was... dead... why was I still here? Why wasn't I in the afterlife with my best friend? Where was the pale pony coming to reap my soul? Was I going to be stuck as a ghost forever?
I shook my head. This had to be a dream. I wasn’t dead yet. I couldn’t be. I wasn’t a Wonderbolt yet and if I really was dead then I wouldn’t be here as a spirit right? I had nothing to hold me down here, nothing! I continued to believe that this was a dream and that I had to wake up from this. The question was how? I thought long and hard before remembering that you never saw your face in a dream otherwise you woke up. Twilight mentioned it once when I told her of a dream I had where I was flying into space and when I looked back I saw my head as the planet before waking up. If I really was dead, then there had to be a funeral for me right? A place for others to mourn for me?
My body sounded like it was intact according to the dream unicorn, so there had to be an open casket service. Although, I wished I had gone out better than crashing. I mean really? Dying from a crash? I know it happens but that’s so cliche. I also scoffed at what that unicorn said about me. I wasn’t an alcoholic, a heavy drinker sure, but nothing more than a bottle or two. For some reason this made my headache worse, but I shrugged it off as best as I could.
I had to get to the funeral home at the other edge of town. That way I could see myself and then wake up alive and well.
I flew into the air and rushed as fast as I could, trying to fight off the growing doubts in my head. Me? Rainbow Dash? Dead? No, way. I was gonna live until I was eighty, maybe ninety. And even if I was... dead... wouldn’t I have met... Twilight? I shook my head again. I didn’t want to think about her. Not now. I was already going through enough of headache trying to end this nightmare.
It didn’t take long for me to arrive at Ponyville’s Funeral Home where I was treated to a scary sight. A large banner was up front, surrounded by multicolor flowers with the words “Farewell Rainbow Dash” in big letters. I forced myself to laugh, as if I was trying to tell the dream that I wasn’t scared by what I was seeing.
Even though it took me a while to walk up those steps and into the building, I wasn’t nervous. I wasn’t chattering my teeth or feeling the need to just fly away and come back latter. I was... okay I was scared, but can you blame me? If you suddenly woke up, heard you were dead, and saw your funeral, you would freak out too.
I entered the main room which was filled with so many ponies in the pew that you’d think the whole town was here. Almost everypony was crying as I walked down the center aisle, seeing my weather patrol teammates and ponies I knew from the Academy looking like... well... like somepony had died. Even Spitfire was crying and that bucked me in the gut. We argued last time we talked and I... I said some things I shouldn’t have said. But she was trying to control me!
I tried not to think about it. “I’m not dead. I’m not dead. I’m not bucking dead!” I said to myself, but it didn’t help. Especially when I got to the front of the pews.
My friends were there, all of them sobbing harder than I had ever seen them, almost as much as they did at Twilight's funeral; she was the only one not there which I cursed my luck for. If she was, then I would have known this was a dream. Because I can’t forget that day when I learned that said that a mare I respected, and loved like a sister, was murdered. I’ll never forget looking into that glass coffin, seeing her so beautiful and yet so lifeless. I’ll never... I want to... I just.
I didn’t want to look at them anymore. Although it took all my willpower not to hug Fluttershy who was weeping like a rainstorm in Rarity’s hooves. I turned to the other side and I felt my heart sink even worse at who I saw. My parents, Rainbow Bolt and Firefly, were holding each other like they were a lifeline in an ocean. I had never seen them cry, not once. I walked over to them, trying to nuzzle them, hoping they could feel me somehow, but I just phazed through. Even if this was a dream I wanted at least some reaction.
“My baby... my little Rainbow....” muttered my mother who sobbed into a handkerchief.
“It’s alright, honey... it’s okay,” whispered my father. “She’s at peace now... she’s no longer in any pain...”
“Why couldn’t she let us help her!” screamed my mother, pounding my father’s chest. “Why couldn’t she just listen to us and get help! She’d be... she’d be...”
I gulped and slowly turned my head towards the end of the room. There, placed in the center, was a blue coffin with multiple flowers decorating it. Flowers that held all the colors of my mane. The coffin was open and I walked forward, doing my best to keep my eyes off it until I reached the wooden bed. I thought about not looking. I really did.
But I didn’t turn back.
I looked.
I saw who it was that had died.
Me.
I gave a horrified cry at the sight of myself lying there. I wasn’t deformed or scared or anything. It looked like I was just sleeping in my academy uniform. My eyes were gently closed. My lips formed in a small frown. My hooves folded upon my unmoving chest. I fell back, gasping and holding my heart in an effort to calm myself.
“Rainbow Dash!”
I turned around, hoping that somepony had noticed me, but what I saw was Scootaloo, in a black dress, rushing forward with tears in her eyes. I tried to take her into my grasp as she charged forward, begging whatever powers-that-be for me to touch her. Like the rest, she went right through me as if I was nothing but air.
I turned around and watched my biggest fan leap into the coffin and start shaking me over and over again. “Come back! Rainbow! Please! I don’t care if you called me a flightless annoyance! I’m sorry I called you a drunk loser! Just please come back!”
I didn’t know what was more frightening to me. The thought that I dared to hurt Scootaloo's feelings who I was teaching to fly. The fact that she called me, her idol, a drunk loser. Or the realization that I had seen my face with no hope to ever wake up.
“No... no, this can’t be! I need to wake up! I need to wake up!” I screamed louder than I ever had before. But nopony heard me.
I watched, teary-eyed, as Applejack rushed over and picked Scootaloo up. “Scootaloo! Stop! She’s gone, Scoots... she’s.... she’s gone...”
“Why?! Why did she have to die like that?! I hate her! I hate that stupid alcohol that killed her! I hate... I hate... I hate myself!” she screamed, struggling for awhile before she went lip and continued to cry on Applejack’s shoulder. “I should have helped her... I could have helped... why didn’t she listen to me...”
“It’s not your fault, sugarcube... some ponies...” Applejack bit her lip. “Someponies change when they have a problem.”
Right beside them, invisible to them all, was me, still crying.
Because I couldn’t deny it any longer. I, Rainbow Dash, was dead.
And... I was an alcoholic.
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Since you asked.... I honestly have no clue. I remain, however, ridiculously intrigued!
Looking forward to the next part!
I...need part 2 badly right now. This all just kicks me in the feels hardcore.
That sound you just heard was the global supply of feels imploding at once.
Heartbreaking, but handled extremely well. Can't wait for more!
Well this is intresting. Rainbow Dash obviously has to be alive in order to tell this story. So the question now is, what happened?
look at it from the bright side: the first problem took care of the second one^^
Maybe Luna is using dream walking to do a extreme intervention. I hope so anyways.
I feel like writing something for this, but I doubt I can make feels like this!
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I like this theory. Seems like something she could pull off.
Is part 2 already written? Looking forward to its release.
maybe the ghost of christmas future holds AA meetings?
I feel like this is an alcoholic induced dream, and that she'll learn her lesson and wake up, but it could also be that she really is dead, but I'm not at all certain.
Misplaced comma.
Other than that, good chapter. Heart wrenching, but good.
When's Part 2 coming out?
This is the best intervention ever.
I don't know if just killing everypony is the right way to go. This is about Twilight's death, so adding Rainbow Dash to the pile of corpses just seems like too much.
And if this is all a dream, that would be kind of anticlimactic, unless it's something a little more potent than a dream, like some strange magic or something Luna conjured up. Please do something interesting with this.
Catharsis Coma. Calling it now. If not some extreme form of Intervention/Therapy.
Hmmm... not sure if you're pulling out leg or if Rainbow is really dead.... too soon to pass judgement.
I'm....leaning towards extreme Twilight afterlife intervention.
Which may or may not have actually involved Rainbow dying.
One of the worst nightmares anyone could have, you or a friend of yours being dead because of you being drunk or high and doing something that caused the death.
If I had to guess, I'd say that some unconscious part of her mind realizes that she's killing herself because of her alcoholism and is making her go this to show what could happen if she doesn't confront her issues.
Don't worry rainbow dash, soon dusknoir will be hear to take you to the after life, he's just a little late
Well.
Either this is a MASSIVE lucid-ish dream, or... I dunno.
~Skeeter The Lurker
I wish it was possible to give each chapter a like. But instead, you get some sad ponies!
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Luna will get a chapter, I don't know about Derpy. I have no ideas for her yet
This is either Luna or Discord giving her a much needed wake up call, "A Christmas Carol." or "It's a Beautiful Life." style; Or she wasted the last few months of her life in a drunken spiral of Self Destruction and ended her life while F.U.I.
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I gotta admit I'm hoping for this too. Either 1) crash was part of dream or 2) crash happened but was not fatal and all of this is happening while Dash is in the hospital in a coma or some state like a coma.
One by one they all fall down . . .
3723258 Normally I'd be a little upset you made that joke, but after this whole deal damn did I need some humor to lighten the mood.
Also, this better be a dream dammit, because holy shit I can't take this if it isn't/
Maybe she'll get to meet Twilight now? Also, I wonder if Celestia will get a chapter? I can't wait to see how she rules Equestrian now that her "Faithful Student" is dead.
EDIT: Nvm, I read the main story. It was awesome, but I wish Celestia had shown them a bit more fiery vengence... If I was her, I would be sorely tempted to let them all burn and just spare Luna, the elements, and maybe Cadence and Shining Armour.
No.... PLEASE tell me the Element of Loyalty will not be forced to loyally wander the world of the living for all eternity....
I have no idea what is happening.
But I'm looking forward to find out.
Next time she's given a second chance at life to fix everything, right? Twilight had had to pull some strings wherever she is now to allow Rainbow to see her own death so she can change it. This has to be some "Ghost of Christmas Future" type shit, right? I mean, it has to be. It has to be.
If she truly is dead, I think it would be amazing for the ponies to notice her ghost by them. Just looking over and seeing rainbow staring at her own body.
Oh, my. I wonder what'll be left of the Mane Six when you're done with them......
It's a Wonderful Life always was one of my favorite movies...
Oh..sweet Celestia. Usually its just Twilight that people kill off in...well...stories where Twilight gets killed off
but you...you killed off both Twilight and Rainbow.
You've got guts dude, major guts.
This is so much!
Killer her, let her be dead, or at least don't let it be a dream. If it's just a dream with out any sort of twist I'm going and never coming back.
I reckon one of the less distraught god like beings (ie not celestia) are showing dash the future as a form of therapy to help her confront her problem
Part of me is thinking: "Please, let this be a Luna-control-dream!"
Just gotta wait out the second part...
If she is dead I hope that she meets Twilight.
Dang.... Not a great way to go.... So, where's Twilight?
what's princess celestia's reaction towards RD's death?
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You'll see what will happen
how about lighting dust?
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R-r-REALLY????? This is.......no words
She is in pergatory because she cant accept shes dead and she sinned whichkif that is what happened no offence because I love these stories but that would be stupid because I dont like the idea of because you sinned you cant go to heaven or whatever
BOOM.
Mind. Blown.