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// 9: Forgivness 
// Story: Cupcakes: Truth Revealed 
// by mcb893 
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A/N I usually don't write new chapters chapters on Sunday , but there are few reasons why I did today. One, I hate where I left off, I can't stand leaving it hanging like that. Second, I want to address the assumption made by SuperDarthVader1. I don't care if this is a spoiler, Rainbow Dash is not going to die. The very reason I made this alternate ending was because I hated the idea of her dying like that, as well as Pinkie being the mastermind. So, in this: Rainbow Dash doesn't die, and Pinkie Pie never wanted anything to do with this. If I sounded rude, I didn't mean to be. Just trying to explain. Please enjoy the rest of the story.

Pinkie stared, overjoyed to see her friend. She was alive! She was okay! Despite her enthusiasm on the inside, outside, she could barely move or speak. She was in awe. Her eyes trained on her midsection, which were covered in bandages. Right where her wings were supposed to be were two large blood stains. Pinkie instantly felt ashamed. She had caused that. Not some accident or amputation, her. Her actions, nopony else's.

"Dashie... You're okay..." She says with a shocked expression. Rainbow nodded and walked toward her. She paused for a moment, then turned back to the door.

"Get out here Twilight. We know she can be trusted." She said. Twilight? She was here too? Pinkie looked up to the interrogator room, and the unicorn figure cautiously backed away. It turned to the left, and started walking that way. Rainbow turned to Pinkie and smiled.

"It's good to see you Pinkie. The REAL you. Not that psychopath I saw in the basement." Pinkie chuckled slightly, but still hung her head in shame. Pinkie heard the door open, and looked up. Twilight stood there, staring at her with neither hatred, nor compassion. But somehow, her gaze still gave the impression that she had forgiven her. Rainbow turned back to her, and Pinkie saw her midsection. Still stained with blood. Pinkie gulped, and asked what she feared to.

"Dashie... Your... Your w... Wings... What happened to them?" She choked out as Twilight began to mess with the leather around her forelegs. Dash looked to the bandages, and sighed. Her eyes closed halfway as she looked to the ground.

"They're... They're not looking good... The doctors say there is a slight chance that they can reattach them, but probably not. I... I might have to accept the idea... of never flying again..." She said as a tear fell from her eye. Pinkie felt the leather fall from her foreleg, but she was too focused on Rainbow. Her... Never flying again? No... That was horrible... It couldn't be... Could it? But... Flying was a part of her! She had already endured so much, why should she lose her flying too?

"I... I'm so sorry... Dashie... I... I never wanted this..." She said as she began sobbing. She brought her hoof to her face, tears stained her fur, but she didn't care. It was her fault... everything... Why did this have to happen... It wasn't fair!

"I'm so sorry..." She said again. She felt a hoof on hers, and she moved her hoof away from her eyes. rainbow stood there smiling.

"I know you didn't. I knew from the second I saw hesitation when you grabbed that knife to cut off my cutie marks. I saw that tear in your eye, the guilt in them. I knew that you weren't the one responsible for your behavior. I understand completely. I knew you weren't the bad guy." Pinkie sniffed, and wiped away a few tears from her eyes. It was then when she got a good look where the leather straps had been. They were a light shade of red, and they tingled lightly. She knew that this meant they were numb. Twilight released her other hoof, and she brought it to the other, rubbing it to bring back feeling.

"I can't say I was a certain as Rainbow was." Twilight said. She walked forward to Pinkie, and she gave a breath. There was no indication of what she felt and Pinkie wondered what she might be feeling. Pinkie didn't know what to think, but apologized. Twilight nodded, staring at her hooves. Pinkie looked to them as well, they were still red, and one seemed to have light shades of purple. The purple circled around the red softly, as though it were revolved around it. She must have had blood circulation cut off from the area.

"Guess I made those a little too tight. Sorry." Twilight said. Pinkie tried to place her first hoof on the floor, but wobbled slightly. She managed to stay up though, and looked over to Twilight.

"How did you know where to look for us? Nopony ever follows me down there, and I never gave a good reason to make anypony think to follow me down there." She said.

"I was testing out a homing spell at the time. Rainbow was the best candidate since she moves around so much. The spell lets you know how they feel, where they are, and what they're doing. I was a little concerned when she stopped moving, and just sat in one place, but I figured she was asleep. When I started feeling like she was in pain, I asked the guards about the abductees. One of which was Hay Stack. I went to his grave and tried my memory spell, and I found out he had been in the EXACT same place Rainbow was. So I took this to the Princess. She agreed to let me take some guards to investigate, and we went into Sugarcube Corner. When we heard crying in the basement, we knew that was where she was. When we were running down the corridor, we heard you saying it was time for the 'harvest', and we got in just in time." Twilight explained. Pinkie nodded.

"Twilight... Thank you. I don't know if I'd be able to live with myself if I killed her." She said. Rainbow smiled and gave her a pat on the back. Twilight smiled as well, and gave her friends a quick hug. When they pulled away, Twilight looked back to Pinkie.

"Pinkie, I have one final question to ask."

"Anything."

"Do you know where he is? We need to find and stop him." Pinkie thought for a moment, she had to remember back, he had shown her where he was... but where...