Shadowbolt Chronicles: Codename Prism

by RDDash


14: A Story of Three Sisters

Rainbow Dash had been trotting her hooves in the woods, she exited to the forest valley, that when she heard it.

"Lookout below!" And there was new pegasus fell down from the sky.

Rainbow went near her and pushed her. "Hey, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I am good! Just give me a minute, flying long distance is really exhausting."

"When we are talking about the long distance how much are we talking about?"

"Two thousand nine hundred kilometers... " when she saw that Rainbow was extremely confused then she decided to specify. "What, seriously? That's like one thousand eight hundred miles."

"I know what kilometers mean, it's just there is no way anypony can fly that far in one go!"

"Oh definitely we can my sister can fly even further by two and a half times further, but I am faster than her."

"Now you just pulling my leg nopony is faster than me!"

"Oh, really how fast is that!"

"Ever heard of Sonic Rainbow? You are looking at the mare who invented it."

"Is that right?" The mare looked a little bit skeptical, "Anyway I am supersonic."

"Well you certainly have wings for it, it's just so far you've been a bad flier you are kind of fell from the sky."

"Yeah, I always do that, it's being weird like that! I am extremely noisy as well, look!" To demonstrate she flapped her wings with a really loud thump, she said with a slightly distant look.

"Whats wrong?"

"It's nothing I just remembered my third sister, she was really good, but..."

"But?"

"She got grounded, and cant fly anymore!"

"Oh okay then I guess I had to go, I wish you luck with your sisters!"

"Um, actually can I go with you?"

"Why?"

"Why, what?"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, "Why did you want to go with me."

"Come on, it will be more interesting that way. So is that a yes or no?"

Rainbow felt like she didn't have a choice, "Fine let's go! Just a fair warning. I do travel from one place to another place, and anyone who traveled with me didn't stay for long."
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At this point, they quickly dashed through the forest and continued to fly above the tree line. There was a certain amount of safety in flying, wild animals never bothered them, and those who could fly minded their own business. Mare did have sympathetic look.

"Oh, I am sorry to hear that!"

"They aren't dead if you are wondering, we just decided to go our separate ways! Anyway, where are you from?"

"Oh, um, I am from Stalliongrad ruins. My name is Charger by the way.

"Charger huh, well nice to meet you, I am Rainbow.

Later that evening Charger and Rainbow found a small abandoned cottage right in the middle of the woods.

"I've been here before, but I don't remember this house," Rainbow mumbled. "I guess it is very unnoticeable."

They ate some food and then both of them went to sleep.


Rainbow woke up somewhere really strange, the house nowhere to be seen, instead, she was in some kind of garden filled with statues. One, in particular, was a statue of a Chimera trapped in the eternal scream.

"Where am I? I don't think I feel so good, my head is killing me with a headache."

"You are in the past, well two hundred years ago to be exact." She heard Discord's voice in reply.

"What? How? I don't understand."

"You see, I only managed to establish a psychic connection between you and your doppelganger, so you now share a body with her."

"That's a bit weird, so why here? Wait, don't answer that, this statue it's you isn't it. I had to say the sculptor created a terrible design."

"Thank you, funny you should mention it but you just insulted Celestia in her face."

"Uh, okay, so what do I just bash it with the hammer to crack it?"

"No, no! Just an old chaos will do, sometimes as simple as three little fillies will do, and before you ask this is absolutely necessary. It's better to release me from shackles then watch them all destroy and burn each other in a spectacular message of friendship is not magic."

Several days have passed since then, turns out somepony by the name of Twilight Sparkle had been visiting a castle and it just so happens that one of her friends had been keeping her company for the day. Fast forward to now Rainbow Dash has been on the cloud from her point of view she could see the whole village.

"So, you noticed that too? Everypony is extremely scared of that Zebra by the name of Zecora. The very first seeds of mistrust and prejudice. I would suggest that you would join them in their affair."

"Excuse me! Are you suggesting that I should join into a witch-hunt? Hell no!"

"Do you see that library in the next ten minutes Twilight Sparkle is going to wake up and then would start her usual day unaware of this particular situation. Later that day all six of you are going to be exactly where I would like you to be. Let's go create a little chaos."

With that Rainbow Dash flew down and rehearsed her lines as per Discord's recommendations. Turns out as Discord predicted all six of them had intruded into Zecora's hut. Then the name calling had followed. Meanwhile, while everypony had been distracted Rainbow Dash had been left to her own devices, she would later find out that the cure was quite simple, and everypony should have known better.

"Okay this is what I want you to do, do you see that chest? Go ahead and open it, there is a little present for you from me."

Rainbow shrugged, what could possibly go wrong? She then casually trotted to the chest and open it. There she found a gun, small ten-millimeter caliber to be exact.

"Do you like it?" Discord asked innocently, that bastard, that what his plan all along to create a perfect hate crime as early as possible. What could be more scandalous then all of the future Ministry Mares had been caught in it, and the best part of this would be is that one of them caught doing it.

"Are you seriously going to listen to him?" Turns out one of the side effects of her sharing the mindscape with Celestia is now Celestia came for a ride along with Discord, and right now Celestia wanted to intervene.

"My dear Celestia I believe you had your chance to make it right, and you failed, and now it's my turn!" He then addressed Rainbow "Do it!"

Meanwhile Twilight noticed that something was wrong with their friend.

"Rainbow, what are you doing?" She then noticed a strange object in her hooves, she spent way too many hours in a company of royal guards to realize that whatever it was have been extremely dangerous. "Put that thing down right now!"

"Do it!" Rainbow heard Discord mocking her, at the same time he was very eager to what's going to happen next.

Rainbow aimed a gun right into a Zecora head. At this point Twilight with a full horror of realization of what is about to happen quickly channeling a stun spell, but she was too late. Rainbow Dash quickly pulled the trigger twice and then Zecora fell dead to the ground. A pulse of magic discharged from the Twilight's horn and knocked Rainbow unconscious.

All of that did happen right in front of the other four, and some of them have been downright horrified, some didn't really care.

"Okay, I think I can fix this!" Twilight had been trying to salvage this situation.

"What is there to fix darling, we just need to bury the corpse and then we just all pretend like it never happened." Rarity said coldly.

"Wrong answer!" Twilight quickly discharged another stunner, which knocked down Rarity. "Anyone else wants to challenge me? No, that's what I thought! This is why we are going to do we are going to come back to Ponyvile and we are going to report this incident."

"With all due respect Twilight but do you realize that nopony will care!"

"Applejack! I as all of you are aware by now know that this village is full of racist bigots! I was extremely foolish to even go with this!" She then took in a deep breath "Let me make this perfectly clear we are not friends anymore! Our friendship is over!"

Rainbow Dash woke up in a jail cell, right in front of her had been standing Twilight Sparkle, she was understandably angry

"I have nothing to say to you, go away!"

"You absolutely sure about that, maybe you should start at what in the name of Tirek did you do?"

"Oh, so you know who Tirek is? Interesting. Well, you see I've been doing my job as the Element of Harmony, it was my responsibility to ensure that the Harmony is preserved, even if I had to do the unthinkable to accomplish it."

"We both know all of this is just a load of horseapples! You! You knew that Zecora was from Zebrica, how do you think Cesar is going to react when the news that one of his own citizens is killed in a hate crime! Good luck with rotting in the dungeons for the rest of your days, because frankly, this is what you will get!"

"Oh, I won't be so sure about that! Tell me Is murder illegal in Equestria?"

"Well of course it is! The last recorded murder had been over thousand years ago, and..." Twilight stopped talking, her eyes widened.

Rainbow Dash had a wide grin on her face, "...and then Celestia in her infinite wisdom removed the anti-murder clause from the book of law. Now, bye bye, for now, I am sure I will see you all in a kangaroo court sometime soon."