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's somewhere high above us!" Lancie exclaimed, hopping and perching from jutting rock crag to another. The two emerged from the deep caves, only to enter an enormous cavern flooded with jagged structures rising from the floorbed. High up, about forty-five degrees at a glance, a slender slit of light broke through the ceiling, exposing the chamber to cold air. "Bet you've been itching to take wing, eh, Sparky? Well now's your chance! Let's blow this spidersicle stand!"
Rainbow Dash didn't immediately reply. She shuffled forward, wandering past the jutting, blinding rocks as if they were enormous gravestones.
"Did ya hear me, Sparky? I'm sure you wanna ditch this place at least half as much as I do!"
Rainbow sighed, shuffling forward. As she passed another chunk of rock formations, she heard a voice drawling to her right.
"What's the point in flyin' now? You done took enough of yer sweet time in them there caves."
Rainbow scuffled to a stop. Emotionlessly, she glanced aside.
Applejack leaned against a cluster of rocks, tilting the brim of her hat back. "You know who can't afford to do gladiator combat with a giant spider?" Applejack smiled bitterly. "My lil' sister." Her green eyes glinted. "Or didja forget about her, sugarcube?"
Rainbow's nostrils flared.
"Sparky...?"
The mare proceeded forward, shuffling over boulders and overturned chunks of granite. As she climbed gradually towards the glowing destination, she passed the farm mare again. This time, Applejack strolled casually between the rocks as if they were apple orchards.
"You coulda just... y'know... told us that you had a magical gabbin' statue for a friend." Applejack's freckles glinted in the morning light. "We'd all have followed ya out here! The whole gang! Imagine if we had Twilight on our side!" Applejack chuckled. "You wouldn't have wasted all that time tryin' to negotiate with the griffons and my sister wouldn't be dead!" she snarled, kicking a cluster of rocks.
Rainbow shuddered, gnashing her teeth.
"Uhm..."
Rainbow looked ahead.
Lancie perched on a cluster of rocks, staring down at her. "I know you're a fuzzy blue horse and all, but... dare I ask... why the long face?"
"Nothing," Rainbow grumbled. "I'm fine," she grumbled again, climbing past him.
"Oh! Well... uh... that's good to know!" Lancie caught onto her tail and scurried up her backside. "Because you really went all tiger-blood on that giant spider back there. Who knew you had it in you? I mean... eheh... I suppose I knew you had it in you, but I figured you had all of your juices switched to 'emo mode' and not 'badflank mode.' Who knew you could stance dance so wonderfully?! Heh... live and learn."
As Rainbow climbed, a mare appeared to her left, shuffling along in even pace. "He talks a bit too much, ya reckon?" Applejack smiled suggestively. "How do ya even know he's on yer side? You can't trust him like you can yer friends. You dun lurve him like you do yer friends... like you do me..."
Rainbow bit her lip, shuffling forward.
Applejack trotted closer, whispering. "He led you in here, didn't he, sugarcube? Deep down with the spiders and all the misery?"
Rainbow hung off the edge of a rock, wincing, catching her breath.
Applejack's eyes hung beneath the shadow of her hat. "Ya really think he'll do what it takes to save Apple Bloom? He's leadin' ya into the lion's den! I'd say... once you get to Aatxe... just hoof 'em over... get the magical dragon 'Big Boss' to perform the necessary magic spell with them shards he's got. Then you'd be rid of both of 'em... and my Apple Bloom will be right as rain."
Rainbow clenched her eyes shut.
"And then... you and me..." Applejack's tongue teased the edges of Rainbow's ears. "...can finally be together."
Rainbow winced. She tried looking to her other side, but an angry face full of angrier freckles snarled into her vision.
"Or are ya just a dayum coward, Rainbow Crash?!"
Rainbow's hooves slipped on rocks and pebbles.
"Whoah there, Sparky!" Lancie hopped up to the next boulder and held his limbs down. "Maybe you need a little boost!"
"Mrmmffnngh..." Rainbow snarled, flapping her wings for leverage. "I'm fine."
"But—"
"I said I got it!" She ascended the boulder and brushed roughly past him.
Lancie reeled, almost slipping and falling onto the sloped cavern floor behind them. "Yeesh..." He dusted himself off, then loosely tailed the pegasus. "Somewhere—I bet—beyond a magic mirror of sorts, there's a bipedal doppelganger of you that's having her time of the month..."
"Meh. Whatever." Rainbow grumbled, shuffling forward. "Let's just go already."
Lancie squinted curiously at her... but kept following.
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No! Rainbow! Don't listen to EvilJack!
...
also, I feel this is necessary.
That title didn't make sense with the chapter's events... Or I'm maybe missing something here...?
Imaginary Applejack has a point, woulda been damn easier if they all had went. But that would be a far less interesting plot. Also I'm kinda suprised Rainbow held together so well for one of THOSE jokes. Must be the borderline going insane thing is getting to her.
So I just got a seriously crazy theory, what if Rainbow is right and this is all happening a ling time ago, and she is just putting it together right now? At the present time Dischord has taken power and shes reliving this all to remember some kind of weakness. Thats why she knows about the twists and turns thing. And of course I'm talking about the story within the story, because the real present time is Scootaloo writing this. Theres next to nothing to back this theory up I just thought it was an interesting idea.
Man, that spider juice is sadistic stuff.
This is getting dark and sad. C'mon Rainbow! That's not Applejack!
...on another note, I had trouble reading this since Love Me Cheerilee was playing over and over in my head the whole damn time.
Hey Cheerilee Cheerilee! Hey Cheerilee Cheerilee! Hey Cheerilee Cheerilee, I think I'm in love with you. And Rainbow was fighting hallucinations this whole time. Massive arachnids are always magic!
Rainbow Dash: The Awesome Knight - coming soon to a theater near you!
Whelp. Eviljack will either inspire Rainbow to new feats of awesomeness and continue her quest... or break the poor mare.
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True, but overall this venom hasn't been that bad for Rainbow. Hallucinations are bad, but it could always be much worse.
Flippin' evil hallucinations.
I hope all this Dash is suffering is not because of that comment I made ten days ago.
6316571 I'm not so sure it's just the venom. I'm wondering if the reason she's hallucinating now is because of a reaction the venom may have had with her zebra made medication.
6317456 That ... is a very good point you have there.
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Nope. Of the earlier "Appledashery" chapters confirmed that Discord did not take over.
....how did I miss this?
I can hardly believe it, but Google says this is the only page on the internet with these three words in that order. Not even SS&E has used it before.
Edit: Huh, is the venom still wearing off, or is something more sinister infecting Dashie's mind? I can see her subconscious doing some self-hate, but the way it's actively trying to get her to double-cross Lancie seems new.
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I find myself wondering that as well. This seems. . . . DIfferent, from the hallucinations she had before. Those were mostly memories, memories of guilt and abuse, sadness and pain, but memories. This. . . . This is either a hallucination of fear. . . . Or it’s something else.