Cinch looked up. She looked rather bored. She plastered a smile on her face when she saw Soarin and the girls.
“Why, hello Soarin, girls, what can I do for you?” she asked.
“Well...” Twilight started.
“Wearekindasortalookingforaschooltogotobecausewecan’tgotoouroldoneanymoreandweneedtogotoaschoolbeforewearetofarbehind” Pinkie said and took a deep breath after.
“Um....”
“I'm sorry ma'am, what she ment to say was: We are looking for a new school to go to” Sunset said.
“All eight of you?”
“Yes...”
“I'll see what I can do” Cinch opened a drawer and grabbed something. “Here are your uniforms, you start tomorrow at 8:30, here is your schedule. Oh, and your books” Cinch handed the uniforms, schedule and books over.
“Thank you miss” Starlight said.
“I'm happy to help. Soarin, the bell will go in three minutes, maybe you should go to your class”
“Oh... Thank you for reminding me” Soarin said and walked out of the room “Bye Dash, see you girls later”.
“Bye Soar” Dash said. He closed the door.
“Hmm... You look... Familiar...” Cinch took a good look at Twilight and the other girls. “Oh, I remember”
“Um... Well... Hehe...” Twilight scratched the back of her head.
“What's wrong um... Twilight Sparkle?” Cinch asked.
“Aren't you still mad at us...?” Fluttershy hid behind Dash.
“No, of coarse not! After a while I realized that it was my fault... But I'd rather not talk about that...”
“We understand” Sunset said. Fluttershy stopped hiding.
“How can we know you really changed?” Dash crossed her arms.
“Dash! Don't say something like that!” Twilight said.
“Don't worry Twilight, it's alright. It can take a long time to forgive someone” Cinch said. The bell rang.
“We should probably go, don't want to distract you more” Sunset said.
“Thanks girls” Cinch smiled and went back to work. The girls walked out of the office. Once Twilight closed the door she said:
“What was that all about Rainbow Dash!?”
“You're seriously trusting her?!”
“Maybe you should too!”
“How can you trust her after all she did?!”
“Lemme think: She looked like she really was sorry about what she did, she just allowed us to go to her school after we defeated her. Enough reason for you?!”
“Fine! You just go and trust her! But leave me alone while you do so!” Dash yelled and ran outside. Pinkie, Sunset and Starlight ran after her, but all they could see was a rainbow trail.
“Great! What do we do now?!” Starlight asked.
“I don't care” Twilight said.
“Twilight listen! Rainbow is our friend! Without Rainbow Dash, we will not be complete, and if we're not complete we won't be able to defeat anyone evil!” Sunset said.
“We should wait for Soarin, maybe he knows what to do” Fluttershy said.
with Rainbow Dash
How can they trust her?! Don't they remember everything she did?!
“Hello, Rainbow Dash”
“Not now, Karai, don't you have anything better to do?”
“Nope” Karai pulled out two swords. “Let's see what you can do without your precious friends”
Dash growled. She grew her wings, only ears and her hair grew longer. “Bring it on”
Karai ran up to her and attacked. Dash could barely dodge. She flew up and sped down, nearly knocking Karai off of her feet. Karai attacked again, this time slicing into Dash a bit. She cut her near Dash’s other cut. Dash covered her wound and flew up again.
with Soarin, end of first class
“Soarin!” Starlight ran up to him.
“Yeah?”
“It's Dash, she ran away!”
“WHAT?!”
“Can you help us?”
“But I'm still at school, I can't just walk away like this”
“Twilight told Cinch already, come on!”
with Karai and Rainbow
After a few minutes, Dash had a small cut under her eye and a small cut in her arm. Karai had a few cuts too, but it was because of the gravel they were fighting on.
“Not giving up yet?” Karai smirked.
“Nope”
“Alright then” Karai managed to grab one of her legs and pushed her down to the ground. Dash tried to get up, but the pain in thigh was too much. Her pony features disappeared. Karai smirked.
“If you had given up, this wouldn't be the end of you”
“This won't be the end of her” Soarin said.
“Ugh, you think you can help her?” Karai cut slightly into Dash’s stomach. Dash grabbed ahold of her stomach. Shock was written all over Soarin’s face.
“Of coarse he can help her” Sunset -who just showed up- said. Behind her, Starlight, Pinkie and Rarity walked up to them.
“We'll handle Karai, you go save Dash” Rarity whispered into Soarin’s ear. He nodded. The girls walked closer to Karai, all slowly turning part pony. Soarin walked around them and up to Dash. Applejack and Fluttershy joined the girls.
“Dash, it's going to be okay, okay?” Soarin slowly picked Dash up. He felt her nod into his chest. He grew his wings and flew up to a roof. He carefully put her down. He grabbed a first aid kit out of his backpack and opened it. He pulled out band aids and some alcohol. He pulled her shirt up a little so that the wound was visible.
“This is going to hurt, you can hold onto me” he said. He put the alcohol on a band aid and put it on the wound. He did the same to her other wounds. He felt her hold onto his shirt tightly. Once he was done, she said:
“Thank you” She stood up and held onto her element, she looked down at the other girls fighting, Twilight had joined them too.
“It's no problem at all” Soarin said and hugged her. She sighed.
“This is all my fault...” she said.
“Why would you say that?”
“I got into a fight with Twilight. I ran away... And now they're fighting Karai because of me...” she looked at her element. A grin spread over her face. “... But... I think I can help them” she grew her pony features and flew down.
“Wait! Dash!” Soarin flew after her. He almost bumped into her when she stopped in mid air.
“What are you doing?” he asked. She smirked.
“Trust me”
“Um... Okay...” he hesitated but nodded anyways. She touched her necklace and closed her eyes. After a few seconds, a bright red light could be seen. Everyone looked up.
“W- what's that?” Fluttershy asked and hid behind her hair.
“I- I think it's Dash...” Sunset said.
“I'm 100 percent sure it's her, remember? That time we fought that monster?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah! All we had to do was touch our element and close our eyes! Can we do it now? Pleasepleaseplease?” Pinkie asked.
“I... Think we might have to...” Sunset stated.
“Um... So... You touch your element and close your eyes? That's all?” Starlight asked. The girls nodded. “I think I can do that...”
“Not if I stop you from doing it” Karai smirked and tackled Starlight.
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“Um... Dash?”
“Soarin, I need to concentrate for this to happen”
“But...”
“Not now”
“But i-”
“I said not now”
“Dash! It's not working!” he held her shoulders. She opened her eyes.
“What's wro- STARLIGHT!” she flew down quickly. Soarin went after her. Dash held her arms in front of her head and slammed into Karai as fast as she could. Soarin stopped flying in shock, but went after them anyways.
“WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!” Karai yelled.
“I'm going to give you a choice: You go away and leave us alone, of I'll send you straight to the hospital” Dash said. Karai groaned and walked away.
“This is NOT over!” she threw an arrow at Dash. “Not for me!” She laughed. The arrow hit Rainbow Dash. She didn't feel anything. ANYTHING. Is this what dying feels like? Nothing? Is this how I'm going to die? Not being able to feel anything? No sadness? No anger? No happiness? No pain? She fell on the cold, hard floor and slowly closed her eyes. All she could see were the worries expressions on her friend's faces. Sadness... And pain.