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.
Rainbow flew so fast that her vision had to adjust for the sheer momentum of the landscape blurring past her. Before she knew it, she was descending upon the side of the farmhouse. The whole Apple Family was there, but Rainbow's gaze locked immediately on Applejack, on her quivering muzzle, on her streaming tears.
"AJ!" Rainbow managed without realizing she had a voice to throw it. "AJ, what's wrong?!"
An orange face twirled, and Rainbow saw two haunting emeralds bathed in tears. Almost instantly, life returned to Applejack's face, carrying with it an intense fire kindled by her voice. "Oh Rainbow! Rainbow Dash, praise Celestia!" Applejack bent her head down, nuzzling a limp piece of yellow fabric. Two gasps later, Rainbow Dash realized it was Apple Bloom—or at least what used to be her. A waif of a filly draped in Applejack's forelimbs, her eyes bloodshot and her muzzle foaming all over with pink saliva. The sight was so instantly startling that Rainbow nearly lost track of Applejack's next words: "—didn't even scream or nothin'! One moment, she was trotting out to do her chores, and the next moment I saw her lyin' here all sick-like! Oh Goddess... Goddess alive, spare my p-poor baby-y-y-y sisss!"
"What... what..." Rainbow realized she had imagined the previous two utterances. She had to clear her throat hard to find the strength to verbalize: "What even happened?! I mean..." Rainbow squinted, spotting two red dots leaking out of Apple Bloom's right rear leg. "...is that a snake bite?"
"Ain't like no rattler I've ever seen," drawled Granny Smith. She was suddenly there, and her limbs shook as she struggled to avoid the sight of Apple Bloom. "This thang had the colors of a burning Timberwolf. Kinda glowed too."
"It... that..." Rainbow looked all over. "Did it come from Everfree?"
"Dun make much a difference now," Granny Smith said. "Big Mac dun stomped it into a bloody mess."
"Eeeeeyup," grumbled the big stallion, marching nervous, angry circles around the scene.
"Where... where did it—?" Rainbow began.
"T'ain't important, Rainbow!" Applejack barked with such severity that it nearly knocked Rainbow off her hooves. The pegasus glanced across the way to see a frowning face chiseled in the center of a waterfall of tears. "Apple Bloom's burnin' like a flame on the inside out! She dun react to our voices or nothin'!"
"What..." Rainbow Dash gulped hard, standing tall and strong. "You need me to get help, r-right?"
"Please... Rainbow... darlin', you just have to!" Applejack sobbed, cradling the little filly's body close. "Use yer fast wings to zip into Ponyville and fetch Nurse Redheart! Anypony who knows a lick of medicine!" She choked on a sob while Granny Smith gently caressed her shoulder. "Fly like you've never flown before! I'm beggin' you..."
"Right. Stay right here!" FWOOOOOOSH!!! Rainbow Dash took off so hard that she caused the weathervane atop the nearby barn to spin nine times. She swiftly left a distraught, tearstained family behind.
Breathless...
Panting...
Rainbow rocketed towards Ponyville central.
Everything was becoming clear.
Even as she broke the edge of Sweet Apple Acres, she could make out the clock tower, the wind mill, and town hall.
And then, suddenly.
Rainbow Dash stopped dead in midair.
Her tail and mane hairs whipped forward, ultimately anchored by her trembling body.
"... ... ..."
She fidgeted in midair... fidgeted some more... then swiftly pivoted ninety degrees.
FWOOOOOOSH! The mare soared straight into the Everfree Forest, following the break in the tree canopy that she knew would lead her directly to Zecora's hut.
The force of her wingburst blew at the grass below, knocking a discarded saddlebag over. A white envelope fell out, caught itself between a nestle of weeds, and gently... uselessly shook in the breeze.
Hidden from sight.
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Good bye letter.
Okay, this just can't be a coincidence. I know there Everfree Forest is right next door, but c'mon.
Also, inb4 someone (Applejack?) stumbles across the letter at some point.
...I was not expecting that.
WHAT
WHAT IS GOING ON
Serves you right for not letting the local mailmare deliver it. Did you really have the guts, anyway, to hoof it over in person and stand there while AJ reads several thousand words?
Oh, and WTF with Apple Bloom?
I really was hoping that AJ surprised us all reading the letter (at least reading it, but not necessarily responding), instead of the letter was lost, and something bad happens in the middle, which is what we all imagined it would happen. With great respect to this great history, I see this course of action a little disappointed after all the climate that was built by the letter, hoping that at least some would change, but instead turned it to the be the same as before. Now RD can repent (for any situation) and not confess to Mary and it would follow about 500 chapters with more than what we already had before. If only Mary had read the letter, there had been a significant change, even if they missed many chapters before we learn the answer, but the "satus quo" would have been broken. It's a shame
6090326 JE's not nice enough to let AJ find that. My money is on Sunset or Romulus.
6090361 I know what isn't going on: The Dashing of Apples.
Aaaaaand there it is.....
Oooof course that happened. Of course.
Man.
I am so not surprised at all.
Then again, it wouldn't be Appledashery if there was actual dashing of apples, would it? How much ya wanna bet that that letter ends up in the worst possible
handshooves, and somehow comes back to bite Rainbow in the ass?At this point I'm starting to think that the second we get actual Appledash will be the second Applejack and/or Rainbow die tragic deaths. Looking at Apple Bloom, it's not terribly unlikely.
Post...
...you're a sonuva bitch, you know that? You actually made me believe something was going to happen for a moment.
Zecora to the rescue?
Rrrgg...
Facehoofs HARD
Grrnnnngg...
Rubs her hoof hard on her face
Blaaaaaa...
Im sorry to even think of it but glowng weird evil snake?? Has discord all over it. Maybe not. Idk.
Yeah well... F* YOU TOO!
Ugh...
Why do you hate us so much?
Why do feel the need to torment us?
Why am I still loving you and your work so much?
Nggraraffffthpthhh. Chhhhhhhh. Na. Na! Peidiwch a meiddio wneud hyn. Galla'i ddim cymryd y holl dorcalon. Sut allech chi wneud y hyn i Rainbow druan?
Mob snake!
Essay, the letter, Rainbow, must not, lose.
Meh, hadn't expected anything less.
And that's what I get for being optimistic. Next time I'll just assume the worst is going to happen.
So Applebloom has... well, we don't even actually know, do we? AJ said she was bitten by something, but we don't actually know what it was. I definitely did see this kind of scenario coming up soon. I just thought it would be a fire like RD had in her nightmare.
Buck the letter. AJ's hat will end up flying off of her head and land on it, so she'll have to see it. Let's just let it sit there a while.
I bloody well new it! Well I didn't know that it was going this way, but I certainly new it couldn't end in anyway but tears! I'm really starting to love/hate you, you know? What do I mean started, I really love/hate you!!!
That letter will find a way.
Eventually.
FACK!!!
I TRUSTED YOU!!!
NUUUUUUu
8556590
You said it