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.
"Pffft! Nice going, Rainbow Crash!"
"Sleeping during the lesson again, Rainbow Crash?!"
"Awwww... what's the matter? You going to cry?!"
Rainbow Dash heaved and hyperventilated. She kept one hoof gripped around Epcot's while she gawked left and right at the images and visions rippling frenetically past her. The Chaperone was leading her slowly—one oozing hoofstep after another—down the ambiant corridor, but it felt as though they were breaking the speed of light on more than one occasion.
It still didn't stop Rainbow from devouring glimpses and sensations with nauseating detail.
"Look at her!" a colt stuck his tongue out while the lengths of Cloudsdale spun in the distance. "Small and scrawny! Just like her old stallion!"
"Hah! Yeah! I bet the only reason the teacher made her team Captain is cuz her dad's about to croak!"
"Hey Rainbow Crash! What are you gonna earn for a cutie mark?! One of them vomit pales they hoof out at the hospital?!"
"Why you snot nosed little—" Rainbow flew towards them, snarling—only to be yanked back by Epcot's strong grip. She flailed at the end of her tether, her voice taking on a foalish squeak: "I could fly circles around you from here 'til sundown! In fact... I..." She panted and grimaced. "I... did fly circles around those little turd biscuits..." She turned around, mane billowing in the wind. "Celestia on a bike, where are you taking me?"
"But... but..." A teenage pegasus orbited around her, eyes watering as she wilted away from her best friend. "Fluttershy, I don't understand. I... you... Don't.... don't you like me?"
"Ah jeez..." Rainbow covered her face with her free hoof, instantly seething. "Gotta turn this crud into a gauntlet, huh?!"
"So are you going to tell me now, dweeb?" cooed a strangely gentle voice. Rainbow peeked over her hoof to see a petite pegasus curled in the feathery embrace of a griffon twice her size. A morning sunrise glistened across the edges of Cloudsdale. "Just what do you like best about flying?"
"Promise not to tell anyone, G?"
"Pffft. As if."
The mare buried her face in Gilda's down feathers. "I know it sounds lame... but... but when you got the wind in your eyes, nopony cares if you're crying or not..."
Rainbow's muzzle moved in time with Gilda's beak: "'But when you finally stop flying, what's gonna be your excuse then, Dash?'" And she turned her cheek sharply to the right.
WHACK! Even Rainbow felt the sting through the years. She looked away from the pegasus flying across the apartment room floor, landing in a crumpled, heaving mess. The shadow that loomed consumed the two of them.
"You're not so tough, Dash! Don't kid yourself! Without me, you're nothing but a sham! And where will you be without me to pick you back up, huh?! Yeah, go ahead and cry, ya lame wimp! I'm done cleaning after your filth!"
"I left that filth..." Rainbow shook her head, seething. "I left it all behind... with you." She gazed up and outward, angry eyes brimming with tears. "I crammed it inside you, ya big junkheap! That's what you wanted in the end! Admit it!"
"Sugarcube..." The warm drawl rolled across Rainbow's ears, tickling them.
The pegasus gasped inwardly. She dangled behind Epcot, her pupils shrunken to ruby specks. "No... no... please..." She ran a hoof over her grimacing muzzle. "...I'll shatter. A million buckin' pieces, I swear..."
"Don't you sweat, sugarcube..."
Rainbow whimpered. She turned. She looked back, hyperventilating.
Emerald green eyes reflected her frozen howl. Slowly, the mare turned around, walking back towards the farmhouse. The sun bent the shadows of the orchards, stretching the fertile landscape between where she trotted and a loose envelope lying discarded in the grass.
"No..." Rainbow shook, shivered. "No, please... don't go. Don't walk away. Turn around... please..."
Applejack was a distant pinprick of light by this point.
"You have to see it! Don't let this happen again—you have to read it!" Epcot dragged her further and further. The mare shook, struggled, tears streaming as she screamed into the ether: "Turn around!!!"
Applejack slammed the door shut. The resulting wind blew the letter into tattered white fragments, like stardust. White hospital sheets tangled with dead limbs and tearstains.
"Celestia damn it, Applejack!" Rainbow wailed, heaving. "I love y—"
Epcot opened a door at the end, and the two plunged through it, surrounded in darkness.
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An awful lot of recollection and character exploration to happen in a cave in the middle of a quest due to a spider bite. I wonder what this will lend to Rainbow's journey.
Was Gilda abusive in her relationship with rainbow too? I'm surprised she didn't bring that up when she was talking to Gilda about why she left.
6302991 I think that's meant to be Listing, if you read the end of the previous paragraph ithink the shadow is meant to be Gildas scene being replaced with her
6302678
Exposition, probably.
I swear, this whole thing reeks of finale. Not that I'm complaining. This is either gonna cap of the fic or cap off one massive over-arc. Or, at the very least, Rainbow's growing a bit more, emotionally. Baby steps.
Either way, it feels like we're making some real, serious progress, and I'm happy with that.
This is really her wildest quest.
6303173 ah yes, I see it now. Thanks
6301506
So worth it.
Omg, so many chapters, so far behind, must read faster (only on chapter 200 and something)...ARGH
6305101 savour this feeling! Once you're up to date you'll hate waiting even 24 hours for the next instalment.
6305392 Yeah, I guess you have a valid point there, but i wish i weren't soooooooo far behind...
6303340 Skirts said its roughly a third done, fuckin crazy.
I have done it! I have caught up to this runaway train. So, now what?
Ssaa-saa-saa-ciiideeeerspaaaaace?
6305640 seriously? Where? I can't tell if I'm more happy or sad that it's nowhere near over...
6305489 well if you really need to catch up skip sleep, washing and socailising for a few days. You'll join us in no time
6306017 commence refreshing 60 times a minute for next update.
6306468
Here you go. And yeah, I'm a bit surprised too (to say the least). I honestly thought the story was coming to an end, since all the plot points seem to be wrapping up. Then again, if it turns out the remaining 1200 chapters or so are just cuddling, I'm certainly not going to complain.
6306017
Congratulations, and welcome!
Is the Epcot Rainbow is seeing actually a figment of Epcot left in Rainbow's mind, or actually Lancie guiding her along the cave.
6303340
I don't think it's quite the finale yet, as others have said Skirts mentioned there's a ways to go yet. I would agree that this could be the last real adventure ark, at least for the shards, as she's planning on getting the rest of them all in this one go right? No more quests for one shard and then another, this is 'the big one'.
6303438
I dunno, Ciderspace was pretty wild. I'd say, this is her most dangerous quest for sure.
6308317 i think its dream Epcot not Lancie. I don't think Lancie's strong enough yet to drag Rainbow along as she lunges wildly at dream Applejack.
6306468 he said it in one of those state of the lemur addresses if I remember right, I'm happy, because at the moment atleast I seriously look forward to a new chapter everyday.
I still hope the letter somehow makes it to AJ in her absence.
The last paragraph...