Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
It was three flaming breath dodges and two fallen body hurdles later that Rainbow Dash finally saw Sunset Shimmer. The unicorn flinched and trembled on the sidelines to the melee. Her knees wobbled and her coat had gone all pale.
Rainbow ducked a squirrel-fly-by and bucked aside a lurching diamond dog. At last, cradling the crystal to her chest, she slid up to her target. "Hey! Sunset!"
Sunset Shimmer's eyes instantly jolted in the mare's direction. Her teeth showed as she snarled: "You..."
"Quick! Take this!" Rainbow held the crystal out. "You gotta take this and—" ZAP! A manabolt struck her forehead. "OW! Sonuva..."
"This is all your fault!" Sunset shook, sneered. She dragged a hoof across the floor as her horn sizzled. "Look at what you've done!"
"A little hard to..." Rainbow rubbed her forehead, winding, frowning. "...when you're giving me electrosuck treatment!"
"Shut up! I've lost everything!" Sunset sobbed. "Everything because of you!"
"Look, will you just calm down and—"
"Do you have any idea... any idea how much I gave up to get th-this far?!" Sunset heaved. Her bulging eyes jerked towards the fight, and blossoming tears glittered with the sporadic breaths of flame. "This was going to be my chance. My one last chance to make things right!"
"No, Sunset..."
"Nnnngh!" Sunset turned to gallop away. "Get away from me—!"
Swooosh! Rainbow flew in front of her, blocking her way. "THIS..." She held the teleportation crystal out in her hooves. "...is your one chance!"
"What...?!" Sunset jerked in place, tears flying loose. "The teleportation crystals..." She reached out with a trembling hoof, barely touching it. "You..." She looked up at the pegasus. "You saved one?"
"Is it enough for you to get home with?"
"Yeah, but—"
"But nothing!" Rainbow thrusted the thing forward. "Take it!"
"I... I can only take m-myself!" Sunset's pale expression wafted over the maddening fight beyond. "What—... the others?"
"You don't owe them a darn thing. You never have."
"No... it's too late..." Sunset seethed. "If I go back to Equestria, I'm a fugitive."
"Maybe. Maybe not."
"What w-would I-I even do?!" Sunset exclaimed, grasping her mane.
Rainbow leaned forward. "Go to Celestia."
Sunset's lungs emptied in a gasp. She stared straight ahead, pupils shrunken.
"Go to her. Confront what you love and hate... instead of... grnnngh... running around all half-baked trying to fit your square-shaped life through a round hole!"
"Uhhhh..." Lancie poked his head out of Rainbow's saddlebag. "Sparky?"
Rainbow batted him off and glared at Sunset. "Dang it, girl, I'm giving this to you and you alone because you're attached to the Princess' hip! And if my loyalty to Twilight means anything, then I'm gonna make this happen even if I have to drag you there myself!" She pointed. "But it's a long friggin' way flying back with dragons on your tail so take the stupid crystal!"
She shoved it into Sunset's grip.
Sunset clasped her hooves around the ruby. She shivered in place. "But... b-but what if Celestia doesn't even take me in?"
"Of course she will, you idiot." Rainbow smirked devilishly. "She's Celestia."
Sunset stared, gaping.
"Listen to me." Rainbow leaned forward once more. "Clean up your life. Make something good out of yourself or else jerkfaces even worse than these guys and me combined will be dragging you into an even deeper pit of Tartarus. Got that?"
Sunset shuddered. Eventually, a dull nod shook through her body.
"Now go!" Rainbow flew backwards, waving. "Let... the bacon come back to life. Or something. I dunno."
"What... wh-what do I tell her?" Sunset glanced around at the ongoing mayhem. "About this?"
"I don't care."
Sunset blinked.
"I know what I'm here for," Rainbow said, flying off. "I always have. Now beat it!"
Sunset took several deep breath. Her horn glowed, and she held the ruby tightly to her chest.
FLASH!
As the yellow strobe dissipated, Rainbow snuck a look over her shoulder.
Beyond the fighting bodies and random explosions, she saw the corner empty where Sunset had been.
Rainbow took a deep breath. Flapping her wings harder, she ascended above the chaos, flying towards the nearest stairwell.
"Well, Sparky?" Lancie leaned towards her ear. "What now?"
"Now..." She clenched her teeth. "...we win the day."
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May you find blessed relief in newfound redemption and forgiveness, fair bacon horse...
That was literally perfect, and I'm very curious what Celestias reaction to this, especially Rainbow's involvement, will be.
Sunset Shimmer: Status: in rehabilitation.
Rainbow Dash gained +50 karma.
Too bad she can't send it to her other save.
Wait. Crystal. Wut. Gave. Sunset. Miracle?
I thought she was gonna keep it to get home with. Now what?
Live long and bacon.
Sunset Shimmer will remember that.
I think Sunset's main concern isn't going to be the warm and forgiving Celestia (at least until she finds out about the whole chaos shard business, assuming she doesn't already know), but Rainbow's friends, who are going to go ballistic (likely literally in Pinkie's case) when they find out where she left Rainbow, and why.
6536399 well considering Dash told Sunset to leave without her then flew off before Sunset could take her with her, more anger born of worry at Dash than getting pissy at Sunset I'd imagine.
Though I would imagine the others have noticed her absence by now and are quite annoyed at her sudden disappearance this time in particular.
I expect much lecture from Twilight when she gets back, and a slap and hug from AJ for "bein' so reckless, but thank you fer savin' mah little sister."
Except more mush mush and then they cuddle.
6536080 I think I have a pretty good idea of what will happen... Not telling, of course! Because Skirts might change it. Lel.
6536470 Lel? Was that a typo or does it mean Laughing Exceptionally Loud.
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"lel" is one of the newfangled ways of typing "lol". Also, "kek".
Well, that was an unexpected way to end Sunset's involvement with this whole mess, but not unwelcome. Good on Rainbow for offering her that kind of chance and encouraging her to take it. Though I was really hoping Rainbow would have worked with Sunset to be done with Romulus for good.
6538002 Rainbow is done with Romulus for good, one way or the other.
What our hero did was as un-stupid as you can get. Romulus, Top Dog, even Squidgy... Doesn't matter if they survive the dragons. They are stuck here. Only Sunset Shimmer can do the long distance teleport (unless Dash shows mercy and has Lancie give them a lift home).
BTW, is this where Squidgy comes through and saves his partners from the dragons?
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But she's not done with him yet until she gets the staff and poofs back to Ponyville. I don't remember him getting killed off, just knocked down by the squirrels. As long as her and Romulus are still breathing and in the same airspace - he'll be a problem. There's still a few chapters yet, I would think, before Rainbow can get the staff and I'm sure none of the bad guys that are left will make it easy for her.
6537792 huh. Learn something new everyday.
That was nice. I'm glad to see the one in need of redemption got what she deserved. Now let's just hope the rest who need a helping of death get what they deserve.
Also:
Is... is that endgame I smell? Is this the part where it finally trickles back to Rainbow's circles exactly what she's been doing all this time?
Sooooo was the whole arranging the stones in a circle thing just for show? You only need to hold one to transport one creature? Maybe cause the stones on the other side are still a circle? There's so much STUFF to remember.
But I like what Dash did for Sunset. Rainbow may not have gotten out of this 8000% squeaky clean, but that would have been insane, and I'd still call her a white knight overall.
7072838 Probably standard ritual casting. A single teleport just needs the stone as a regent to empower the cast and increase distance. opening a portal needs Aligned leylines more cast time Properly arranged stones as power noes, etc etc.
Sorry I play too many games like D&D
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Does that mean that Sunset will be the protagonist of season 2?
Killing two birds with one stone here - saving the one sympathetic character in the group, and simultaneously stranding all the others behind the storm barrier.
(I'm so glad that Shimmy is on the path to redemption. Now Twilight gets to snag herself another adorable nerd-unicorn to cuddle, and she's two thirds of the way toward collecting the complete Glim/Shim/Trixie set. )