Sombra Timeline: Rainbow Dash
Sombra timeline
Rainbowdash
The small blue filly watched in agony as the brown bully crossed the finish line. She had absolutely no idea what had happened. One minute she was going faster than she had ever gone before, and the next she was frozen in mid air. She felt completely humiliated. She should have been smart enough to see that coming. When she finally did get free she moved away from the race in embarrassment. One thought plagued her head as she flew slowly back to her home. She had failed. She had lost.
----------------------------------------------------------- “Rainbow, you have been outside forever.” a blue pegasus yelled. “It’s time to get some dinner sweetie.”
“In a minute mom. I have to try this new trick. Next time I race those bullies I am going to WIN.” The filly raced back and forth practicing flips over and over again. “I just have to fly faster.” She sped past.
A rainbow haired pegasus moved outside the cloud house. “Now come on honey. She is such a determined little filly.” He picked up his daughter, “your gunna become a fine racer one day. Just like me. You know.... it would not surprise me if you made the wonderbolts some day.”
The filly broke from her father's grasp. She looked down. “The wonderbolts will never take me. I am a loser.”
“Come on sport. You lost one race. I lost many in my time.It's not like the fate of Equestria depended on it”
“But I could have WON. I could have won is those bullies did not freeze me like that. I was that close!!!” The filly started to fly away before her father stopped her.
“Hey come on. Maybe you can be one of the princesses royal guards someday. Then no one will ever mess with you.” The filly squealed and jumped up with excitement.
“That’s it!!!!!!” The filly yelled as she spun around. “I will be one of the princesses royal guards. Then no one will ever freeze me like that again!!! I will be so famous and awesome!!” She flew into her father's arms. “Thanks for that idea.”
The stallion laughed. “I think you should look at your flank Rainbow.” The filly turned around and squealed again in excitement. On her flank there was a shield with two swords criss crossing, surrounded by a circular rainbow.
“I got my cutie mark!!! I got my Cutie mark!!!!” The filly flew around with joy.
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Rainbow Dash, now a full grown pegasus soured and flew through the smog filled skies. Tonight was a very important night. The night of the “summer sun celebration.” This was where her one chance to show her princess her stuff. Her one chance to possibly become one of celestia's guards. She flew faster and faster through the polluted skies into ponyville.
Rainbow did not know much about ponyville, other than it happened to be the birthplace to the most successful apple packing industry in equestria. It also had a reputation for being very dirty and polluted. A funny choice for the summer sun celebration but it did not matter to rainbowdash. She whisked through the ever growing smog into ponyville. Ready to impress the princess.
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Rainbow Dash stared in complete helplessness up at the black night mare.
“From this day forth the night WILL LAST FOREVER!!!!” She screamed.
“You can not do this.” a small voice whispered. A purple unicorn with books as her cutie mark stepped forward. Rainbow felt like she had seen her before, but she knew that was ridicules. “Those of us who will be loyal to the princess will always fight for her. Always.”
The dark princess just laughed. “Then I will just have to vanquish anyone who stand in my way.” She shot out a string of light from her horn and hit the purple pony. The unicorn laid motionless on the floor. This caused quite an uproar among the ponies.
Screams and running filled the air. Rainbow just stared at the body of the young mare. A sudden rage filled her. A rage unlike anything she had ever felt before. That mare was defenceless, innocent.
All sense completely left rainbows head and she was not exactly sure what she was doing. Her body was disconnected to her thoughts. She sped as fast as she could to the princess. Faster than she had ever flew in her life. She flew straight into the mare and suddenly she hit her, but where where should have been an impact there was a huge boom. A boom that completely wiped rainbow out and crashed her into a nearby wall. A weird mass of color and darkness filled everywhere. But rainbow could only focus on one thing. The rainbow circle growing bigger and bigger. “I did not know I could do that. I did not know I could do
that.” She whispered to herself over and over. It took her a long time to get out of her trance. It was not until a white unicorn with a purple mane told her to run that she did.
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Rainbow Dash stood at the princess royal court. She bowed as the princess stood over her.
“You have a gift Rainbow Dash. I have never seen anything like it. Somehow you
were able to perform a sonic rainboom. One that was strong enough to put nightmare moon back on the moon. Have you ever done anything like this before.”
Rainbow blushed. “No, I have only been able to even fly that fast once before.....and well....it did not end well.”
“Rainbow dash how would you like to become a part of the royal guards, as our secret weapon.” The princess said.
Rainbow looked up from her “It will be an honor princess.”
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The royal guards all stood in a straight line. Rainbow dash at the end. The captain paced back and forth between them. “We have been able to contain them in canterlot with these.” He held up a spray with a symbol of an apple on it. “A product from Sweet Apple Industries. It was a originally meant to speed the growth of trees, but failed. We have found another use for it. If you spray it on a changeling they will die and resume their original form.” He sprayed it on one of the guards. It had no effect except to make him sneeze. “However on normal ponies, it is harmless. We have also found a pink pony with psychic abilities. She is able to tell whether or not someone is a changeling. We are still barely mudding through though.” He looked directly at rainbowdash. “I think in order to get rid of them for good, we are going to have to use the secret weapon.”
The rainbow mare looked down. “I....I don't know Shining Armor. I have only been able to do it once and I did not even know it was going to happen.” The white stallion looked down at her.
“You know I see a lot of my sister in you.” Rainbow blushed. The captain spoke his eyes glistening with tears. “So many other ponies could have died if it was not for you. We are counting on you. We know you can do this.”
The mare looked up “I will do all I can.”
----------------------------------------------------------- A sharp pain bursted on rainbows ear as she pushed away changeling after changeling. The spray was not strong enough for all of them. She had only one choice. She had to do this. Within a window of changelings she flew up higher and higher. Until she was looking over the entire city of canterlot. She could not think straight. Her ear was throbbing so bad. One of those things must have bit her. She forced herself to focus on the task at hand. She had to do this. She had to. She took a deep breath and began to fly downward. Just as she was picking up speed a hot pain hit her left wing. A pain unlike anything she had ever felt before. She could not stop though. The adrenalin from the pain caused her to fly faster, and she kept going. Faster. Faster and Faster. When suddenly it happened again. The same thing from before. A huge burst of sound and color. Rainbow hit the ground with a thump. She looked up and saw several changelings being blasted away with her rainboom. She had done it. She looked at the place where her left wing should be and there was a blob of blood in its place. It had been ripped off. She had done the boom with one wing. She laughed at how funny she looked and then passed out.
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The princess paced in front of Rainbow. She now had a metal wing and there is a picture of her on one of the stain glass windows defeating the changelings with her sonic rainboom. “In this time of crises and war Rainbowdash. We look to you.This is our hardest challenge yet. You are a very special pony.”
The mare bowed. “I will not let you down princess.” She said proudly.
-The events of “The Cutie Remark” happen within a week after this.