Aftermath
When Discord woke up, his head felt like Celestia had dropped the sun on it.
A tiny glass of water appeared next to him as he kept laying on his back, above the glass two pills materialized, dropped into the water and dissolved.
The draconequus picked the glass out of the air and rushed it down and threw it away.
He was unwilling to get up and his hands remained on his face like the last twenty minutes he been awake.
Once again a glass- two pills and a rush down his throat.
It was like trying to fight a forest fire with a garden hose.
"Ey, you are up" Rainbow walked into the room as she watches the routine he had done the past minutes. glass, pills, water – no effect.
Rainbow got around on his side as she heard a really deep sigh.
"Oh don't be such a wuz!" she said and pushed him from the gurney he was laying on.
He didn't even bother to say "ouch" as he hit the ground like a wet sag of potatoes.
The blue pegasus stepped on the gurney with her front hooves and looked down onto the draconequus. "Not quite a sunshine eh?"
A minute passed by but he was still not moving and Rainbow began to worry a little. Maybe he was sick?
She got around the bench up to his face and sat down. He still was breathing so much was obvious.
"Get up..." she grabbed his griffon paw and tried to pull it away from his face but he refused and it became a tug war - as she put herself into a higher gear and fought to pull it away, but he was way to strong to even make him move a little, despite his slick appearance.
"Fine!" she snarled as she moves to his other side and stepped with force on his tail, but the effect was barely noticeable. A second he shivered and his body got stiff, but there was no further reaction.
Still, giving up wasn't a option, if he wanted to play stubborn, so would she!
Rainbow walked up to his side and sat brash down on his back, like when she had tackled him before.
"Whats the matter...?"
A glass plopped up next to her, two pills dropped into it and dissolved as he tried to grab it, she took it away "And whats that?" taking a sniff, before nibbling on it.
Her strange couch gave a sigh... he could not reach the glass, so the paw retracted back to his face.
"Painkillers?" dumping the glass over his head, but he didn't bother.
Now she was the one to sigh.
She had seen a lot depressed pony's in her life: show business was meant to wrack pony's once in a while, but this was the worst case yet, it sure would take some time to get trough to him.
The pegasus got on her side and laid on his back like a cat would, making her self comfortable as possible, holding company to him, while trying to think of something else she could try.
An hour or two passed and Rainbow fall asleep in between, waiting wasn't quite exciting towards her.
Discord was still not moving and she figured there wasn't to much she could do about it yet... at least until she came up with some kind of plan or trick.
Also there was still the possibility, he was one of those which just needed some time for them self, just being alone to figure out what ever was stuck in their heads.
"If you stop moping, call me... i have to pluck a pullet with Fluttershy."
"Nhhggg...." he grunted.
The pegasus turned around with an risen eyebrow. Was that a reaction?
She thought a moment about what might had caused it as she got close to his ears …
"...Fluttershy?"
He bent his neck away from her "Ngaa......" - four pills materialized and a big glass water got dumped above them as they dropped to the ground, starting to dissolve on the wet floor.
"Uhh..." the pegasus had hit some nerve, rubbing her chin.
She was about to give it a second shot, when the draconequus snapped his finger and the sport cabinet to her left started to levitate and flew trough the closed door.
He snapped once more as the lamp above her head got teleported outside the dome onto the parking space, hitting the chariot of a snobby duke.
Discord snapped a few more times like somepony trying to ignite a broken ligther as items flew across the room, changed shapes or vanished all together, when the sink flew above Rainbows head, forcing her to drop onto the ground.
"Cut it out!" Rainbow shouted at him, as she finally vanished.
"Mghmm..."
Finally she was gone. Silence, sweet silence.
Not even a minute later she walked once more into the room "I said: Cut it out!"
Oh, his head.....
Right in this moment there was a pony walking trough the Palmomind dessert... it was thirsty and really could need a glass of water to make it into the next town but how are the chances he would find something like that?
"Boneless... i think we wont make it to this party..." giggling as he thought about it "... it was a blast having you around pal...".
The pony sat down and looked up to the vulture's in the sky, circling above his head, at least they would leave his rubber friend alone... maybe he would find a new super party pony to travel with some day? Life was funny sometimes.
Suddenly a bucket of water appeared right in front of him on the ground, as well a pack of pills which missed the bucket barely and dropped into the sand beneath.
He just took it for what it was worth, giving a short praise to what ever beneficent power had done this – rushing down the miracle drink, after putting a tiny umbrella into it.
"Party on, lets go...!" he cheered, continuing his never ending travel towards the town on the horizon.
Focus. Discord grabbed towards all edges of his mind, to pull together the last bit of focus there was left – he had to get out of there before something horrible would happen... again.
The trick worked for the biggest part, Discord vanished from where he had been and reappeared in the "Badlands".
There was just a minor flaw this time, his powers had torn a chunk out of the dome, the sickbay he had been in came along with him and everything and everypony inside with it.
"Wow!? What happened!?" Rainbow asked when her sight came back.
The room looked like before but she had a really bad feeling about it, as she opened the door there was no more dome, only a lifeless dead mountain region of brown and red rocks, jackal howling in the distance.
The door got slammed close in an instant, just to get slit open a bit again for a few seconds longer and shut close again.
"WHERE ARE WE!"
The response she got wasn't quite satisfying: Zip, blub, vsshhh, gulp, chink - silence.
Rainbow got next to him and tapped on the ground in front of him, like sitting on a bar counter.
Another glass and two pills plopped up. She grabbed this one and waited a second before rushing it down. Giving a really long sigh. "Thanks".
The hours passed and the pegasus had given up on him.
He might grunted by the mention of Fluttershy's name... but even when she tried to ask him out about her he didn't do anything more than that.
Night had the mountains in his harsh grip. Outside she could hear all kind of wildlife and the cold air slowly crouched into the room. At some point she dared to peek outside and saw a bunch of jackals... and something that could had been a mountain lion, but they just circled her room.
Maybe the animals just didn't know what to do with this strange thing in their middle, or they was afraid about what was inside... of course if they would find out one of them was just a meat morsel and the other one didn't care at all...
Still, being torn to pieces slowly became secondary, since it got colder and colder by the minute as ice crystals formed of her breath.
Rainbow managed to find a lamp and light it up, but there wasn't anything to form a fire with.
Most stuff in the room was not flammable or would cause poisonous smoke and kill them off even faster than the cold.
She got over to Discord and shook him "Bring me back! Come on!" he still played dead man, but his mood had gotten worse it seemed.
This is when she sat down "i'm gonna die here" she said to her self silently, starring at the ceiling.
She had spend her howl life, to put together the greatest show Equestria ever had seen... earned all the bits she needed - to die in some no-man's-land alongside with a giant nutball!
At what point she did go wrong? How did she deserve this!? It was insane! Why was she the one to get screwed by life over and over again?
Every time something good happened, something even worse followed after. Until now she had fought trough it, believing there would be a pay up to all of this. Was this the pay up?
Freezing to death and get torn to pieces afterwards?
At this point she gave up.
She put her self down to the floor and laid on her side. There was no point fighting it, she could only chose how to leave the stage. Suicide wasn't her stile and eaten by wildlife sure wasn't pleasant. Sleeping away... ye... probably the best option she had.
Laying on the ground wasn't half bad the pegasus told her self. It sure had been better if the daybed had not turned into a flowerpot... but once again, life wasn't fair... not at all.
Her side began to feel numb after a while and her shivering got less. Rainbow was now rolled together like a ball, it was a instinctive reaction but no use.
Slowly the rest of her body started to feel numb... her legs, her neck, her back, her wings... she felt so tired. Maybe just a little nap would be okay. Just closing her eyes for a minute or two.
Her vision got dark and she fell asleep, dreaming as usual to fly careless above the land.
Discord felt extreme awful. The only thing he could compare it to was Celestia's beam, but kinda like it had struck his heart with full strength.
If you lost the only thing, which had mattered to you in over a thousand years,
what else was there to do?
An immortal life feeling like this... was about one eternity to long.
He might just should zap him self into a black hole or so. A black hole, that would do. It was like he felt right now.
His body felt numb, but it wasn't from the cold. It had felt like this since he had woke up.
Physical he was just fine, but he had no strength in his body as he moved.
All powers of the universe in his hands, but not a spark of energy to do anything.
Rainbow Dash got caught by his eye and he starred down to her. He could not quite remember why she was here or even where -here- was at all.
He had done quite a lot of awkward and amusing stuff to pony's over the years...
but killing even a single one? No. He never had done that.
Maybe he... could help her out a little?
It took not even a whiff of magic and blue pegasus had a fireplace next to her.
This sure would do.
The welcome heat made the pony stop shaking ...and Discord kinda felt pleased about it.
Maybe a little more could not harm he assumed.
The pony now was on a couch, not laying on the cold ground anymore as the chimney heated the room.
At least he had some company, zapping him self into oblivion could wait a minute.
As the sun rose Rainbow woke up to find her self in heaven.
Her eyes wandered around the room, but her mind could not quite follow what was going on.
She must had died.
At least being dead seemed to have a good side to it, so she won after all, what irony.
The room was bright and warm, the walls snow white, a big crystal chandelier on the ceiling and red heavy curtains with gold frames hung by big windows trough which the sun came in.
Most of the furniture was made out of dark thick wood, partial crested with gold and diamonds.
The bed she sat on was nothing less than comfortable. She felt like being in Cloudsdale again, sitting on one of the clouds, which made her slide a bit around to get this dejavue out of her head. It had been many years to have this level of comfort beneath her, which had gave her often ruff nights.
Rainbow got up and walked to one of the big windows, which let to a big balcony outside.
The gate like windows swung open and she stepped out, taking a look around.
"Oh-my-gosh!"
This place was a freaking castle!
It was a freaking castle and almost big as the dome... no wait, it was even bigger!
Huge white towers rose all around her towards the sky, a wide entrance path was below - ready to be used by chariot's and a big wall was framing the howl property, with a broad and elegant steel gate in the middle – and this was just her first glance, there was so much more to see!
If it haven't been for those damn red brown mountains around the castle, she would never doubted she was dead in the first place.
Now she had to pinch her self ...and it did hurt... but on the other side... who knows maybe she was dead anyway and those mountains just look similar for some reason?
Can you feel pain being dead?
"If i was just a smarter" she thought to her self, some egghead sure could tell her.
The room she found her self in, was at least six levels above the ground and she knew a sure way to find out if this was real, so she got her hooves up, to step on the railing, before taking a deep breath.
"Here goes nothing!" jumping of the balcony, flapping her wings.
It worked, it really worked... for about three seconds, than she began to fall - screaming as loud out of her loungs she could "Wuaaaaaaaaaaah!!!" but only for about two levels, before getting levitated back into the bedroom.
Discord was standing in the middle, food on a plate in his paw "Pardon me, i'm not that bad of a cook..." giving her a smile.
Rainbow blinked the shock away "So... i'm not dead...?"
The draconequus giggled, pointing on the railing, like he would offer a second try.
Her mind was kinda blown and she just bursted like a steam boiler "Who are you anyway? You are insane! You think that's funny? I almost died because of you! ...twice! don't get even close to me!" raising her hooves threatening to show she meant business.
He dropped the plate and started to frown, shrinking in size as he bowed down like a balloon running out of air.
"Oh come on! Whats the matter with you!? At first you safe Fluttershy, than you mope around... a-almost kill me! ...and ..." she made a few quick steps towards the balcony, pointing outside "THIS!?....i don't get it..... ur NUTS!"
Discord now was laying again on his stomach, his hands over his head.
Rainbow was just facehooving "Not this again... what is the matter with you!?" she didn't even took a moment to calm down and walked past the psychopath "see ya, freak..."
It took about twenty minutes and a lot of swearing to figure out, how to get outside and still it wasn't the front exit, but who cares - she was outside at least!
For Celestia's sake, there was even a large garden here with a decorative river and small lake.
What pony would like that kinda kitsch? Except... nah... throwing away the though. That was even more crazy than the last twenty-four hours.
Nopony ever would believe this story already, so better not put a cherry ontop of it.
Rainbow walked along the wall until she finally found the gate she had seen from above, but as she checked it, the pegasus got quite disappointed.
Even in bright daylight there was a bunch of predators outside and if she thought about it, she didn't had seen any clue of direction from the balcony, so she had to ask him again!? Great.
This sure would get on her -worst day ever list- and rank up at least second.
The pegasus didn't even bother to try to talk him out of his depression, instead she tried the next best thing which had proven to work, stepping on the railing - jumping of the balcony.
Discord had noticed and reacted like a snake, catching a mice and Rainbow was levitated into the room again, right in front of him.
Taking a closer look, he looked tired like he hadn't sleeped last night.
"If you want mope around some more, leave me out of it buddy!"
"The door is unlocked, so is the sky" he sulked.
"What an great idea" making a overly thoughtful motion "maybe, i should get busted my wing and wander of into the jackals waiting outside!"
He blinked once and leaned a little on his side, to get a look on her wings. The right one seemed just about normal – leaning now to the other side, to see the other one was in some black fabric.
His paw reached out onto the wing and grabbed it thigh, as the pony bit her teeth in pain, while trying to fight his grib of "arg, let go, it hurts!"
Discord just rolled his eyes. Stupid pony's, like most of them never had touched a history book.
A slight glow came from his paw and her wing started to feel really warm for a couple of seconds, but she still didn't stop to struggle, so as he let go she lost balanced and fell to the ground.
He waved off the insults which got now thrown at him rapidly and got him self back to the ground in his usual pose, not really in the mood to deal with her anymore.
The pony got up on her hooves, trying to loose up her wing as she noticed it didn't hurt when she moved it, so she tried it once more, still it didn't hurt as usual. It had hurt since she was a filly and stopped just like that?
"You fixed it!?" she quickly pulled the fabric of it and tried a few flaps and it felt just alright, so she tried something more complex and hoovered over the ground "this is amazing!" cheering out loud and trying a sprint trough the room – over the balcony and a quick zig-zag between the towers to get back into the room landing next to the draconequus.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" giving him a hug "Can i give you something for that? I saved a lot of bits for the Flim Flam Doctors - you can have it!"
Trying to endow a almighty being was kinda pointless, still the gesture was kinda nice, as well as her hug, so he let slide down one of his hands to give her a glance. She was smiling from one ear to the other.
It was really easy to make pony's happy and he kinda liked it at times... giving him a shiver running down his spine. Why did he care only about a hand full of them was beyond his understanding and in this special case, he hated him self a hell of a lot doing so.
How could he dare to feel like this, when he just had lost what was most important to him?
He didn't feel by any means good... but even if he felt just a little less awful for a few minutes, he could not help to think he had cheated on Fluttershy in this regard, sending his mood back to the ground.
Discord tried to reconsider what Celestia had said to him, but it didn't make so much sense now like back then. wasn't it his beloved wife who could make him happy? Only her and her alone? Was it that easy to replace somepony so irreplaceable?
Why life was so cruel to him? What he ever had done to deserve this... because of a few pranks?
Right now he wasn't sure of anything anymore, he felt even more lost than before his talk with the alicorn and talking to her once again probably wasn't a option.
He felt like he needed some alone time and got up on his feet.
The pegasus had spun some more rounds across the room and landed in front of him, putting her hooves on his chest and tapping it repeatedly in tiny quick moves "you are awesome!"
"I doubt." he said dry.
His first snap made the castle disappear. They now stood in the old boring dessert they had been in the first place.
"Whats the matter!?" at this he vanished in a bright flash, leaving her back alone in nowhere.
The jackals and other predators now wasn't hold back by any walls and running towards her, she just wanted to fly off, but before she even had her first flap finished she found her self back in the small hospital room again – crashing head first against the ceiling, falling onto the hospital bed "Ouhf!"
After rubbing her head a little she got her self up and got sure her wings still worked like before and they did, making her feel really relieved.
"This guy is insane..." but she could not help to keep her wings moving all the time "but kinda cool" grinning at her re-newed flight ability's.
Rainbow just walked outside the station to the main hall, the others sure be searching for her already and she was a right. A big group of pony's sat around and security had got beefed up quite noticeable.
"Hey everypony, waz up!?" she made her usual entrance as faces turned towards her.
"Aunt Rainbow!!" the young filly screamed and jumped right away at her, closely followed by her mother "Oh thank Celestia, you are okay!" closing her hooves around her, while her man hold him self in the background.
Everypony around her started to whisper, some cheered, but most looked like a big bolder had fallen of their hearts.
"I was just gone for a few hours, whats all the ruckus!?" she said, holding the filly casual.
"Mrs. Dash, you are not up to date as usual i assume?" Prim Hemline said in her calm, but somehow biting tone, as she hold up a newspaper.
"Whats that?"
"What does it look like? A newspaper of course" handing it to her assistant to bring it the few steps over to her, rather than walking her self.
The filly and Fluttershy made some space as Rainbow reached for the newspaper and sat down, reading the headline´s. She never had seen a special issue with two headlines before, which seemed more apart than this. This one sure was spreading like a wild fire all around Equestria right now.
--- Miracle saved Crystal Empire / Manehatten destroyed by Monster ---
The articles each took about half the front side and run along two more sides parallel to each other to show that not one of the articles was any more important than the other, also this issue lacked all the gossip and smaller articles and not even a single commercial was shown... nopony would had been this stupid to print his name on that kinda news.
Her eyes just flew over the sides and she read the short articles, each of them having a big picture on the second side to show everypony the prove.
"... Crystal Empire... land become green once again... thousands of trees.... saved from starvation... family's return home... big celebration planned... no explanation yet...."
That was some darn good news she had to admit, she had seen the land below from Cloudstale and knew what it had looked like when she was a filly.
It had literally turned from green to brown in just a few days and been like that ever since – the picture on the last side shown a huge beautiful area of green life, making her feel lucky for everypony living there.
Than she read the second one quickly
"Manehatten - whipped out...... thousands homeless..... Celestia wounded....... economy destroyed .... luckily no pony hurt...... day of mourning set up for Sunday... Spirit of Chaos aka Discord identified as source of destruction..." This part she had to read twice.
This was the worst news she had read since the Changeling attack, back in the day... they had planned to put a show up over there, but now there was nothing left they could perform in, other than ruins. Her hooves started to shake as her eyes caught on to the print, showing Discord – making her wave the news paper wildly.
"That cant be! That's a bad joke, right!?" but the pony's around avoided her glance.
"You read it your self Mrs. Dash, that guy is a maniac - where is he right now? Is he still here?"
"No... he zapped us in some dessert and..... then there was ....... i mean...... no, he s gone."
How could all that possible fit together? He might seemed a little crazy, but not in that kinda way.
"Rainbow?" Fluttershy asked her out, putting a hove onto her shoulder.
She really had no idea where to start. It would sound just to crazy and giving the news they all just had received it probably was to much to handle... she could barely handle it herself right now.
"Are you okay?" the yellow pegasus checked as she got no response from her friend.
Rainbow got up on her hooves, made a phew steps forward and spread her wings out, making a short flying motion before retracting them onto her back again. The pony's around were speechless.
"He might is a maniac... but i owe him a lot."
Rainbow still had to answer a bunch of questions about him and what he done and even showed that she really was able to fly, which caused even more questions to be asked, ranging from "Is he insane?" to "What did you trade in?" and some even "You two want take over Equestria?"
At this point it was enough. Rainbow threw out everypony which wasn't at least on her pay grade, reducing the mass from about fifty, down to twelve, which turned out to be the most understanding and calm about the situation. This was also when she had noticed Fluttershy was gone.
She searched the place to find her finally on her favorite spot: the roof. It had a small garden on it, reserved for royal customers, but right now it was empty and she sat there all alone, right in the middle.
The blue pegasus hovered slowly down to the yellow one and sat next to her.
"Whats up Fluttershy, why you hide here?"
"I .. i just wanted to get some fresh air."
"Oh come on, i know you better than this" giving her a close look.
The yellow pegasus pushed the grass around a little with her hoof.
"Uhm.. , you think... i can try the Sonic-Rainboom again?"
This made Rainbow more than mildly confused.
"What for!? You don't need to."
"But .. i w-want to."
The blue pegasus leaned forward to get a glance at her face, but Fluttershy kept turning her head in all kinda directions in order to avoid it, it almost looked funny from a distance until Rainbow grabbed her head and looked her straight in the eyes.
"What is going on?"
Fluttershy pushed her hooves away and got up "I will..... i want try it tomorrow again" but before she was able to walk away her path got blocked several times and even on a attempt to fly away, she could not get far until Rainbow grabbed her on her tail and pulled her down with her own weight.
"You don't try that stupid stunt again, you hear me?"
Fluttershy had rose her voice to a normal level, which was for her standards pretty much shouting "But i really want to." stepping down with her front hoof.
Her coach did this a lot better, stomping down with gusto "And i say you don't and that's final!"
Both pony's was huffing at this point, heated up by her struggling conversation, when Rainbow tried to calm her down "You never been like this, whats the matter? I was only gone for a day and you go nuts?"
Once again the yellow pony avoided her sight, but Rainbow tried again"Nothing has changed...", still her friend sulked, so she sat next to her, watching down on the busy town below them.
"Why don't you just tell me... i'm ur friend and that's what friends are there for"
"I....." Fluttershy bit her lip.
"You...?"
She took a deep breath and almost spoke to silent to listen over the background noise coming from below "I thought you... don't need me anymore"
Rainbow had to think about this for a few minutes "I ... don't get it."
Fluttershy once again played around with her hoof, making circles on the ground like she was writing in sand, but didn't go on for a while.
"You know, if you don't tell me, i´ll go..."
"Please don't"
Rainbow hold in.
"I don't want you to leave, ever."
Now she walked back to her and put her leg around her neck "Why would i?"
"Because... you... i guess..."
It might had took a while but now the penny dropped.
"Did you think i kick you out, just because i can now fly my self?"
"............ maybe.......i uhmm... yes......." the mare said sheepishly.
Rainbow ruffled her mane "You are my friend, i never would threw you out... for Celestia s sake! I owe you even more than anypony else, you always been there for me!"
"Y... y-ou mean it?"
"Of course i mean it! You are awesome! You are not just a great flier, you are the most amazing super spectacular friend i ever had!"
This made Fluttershy blush like a tomato.
"Hey and you know what?" she gave her a small nudge "Maybe we can do our next show together, what you think?" giving her a grin.
"That be..." she started, trying to think of a cool enough word "... amazing"
"Cant year you!"
"Amazing..." she said, unnoticeable raising her voice.
"Louder!"
"Amaazing...!!" this time she had shouted like a sports commentator at the crucial goal, as her shout echoed between the stadiums over the streets - quickly putting the hooves about her mouth.
Many pony's had heard the shout from above, starring to the roof to find the source.
Even Rainbow was surprised about the noise she had made "...you sure are".
Far away from Yanhoover, in this small peaceful town pony's gone after her usual life, but their way of life had changed quite noticeable. Only a few days ago, raw numbers of workers streamed in and out on a daily basis, but now the stream had been cut of, still the train was far from being empty.
The workers from Manehatten had spread the word already, the ones with family and home back there didn't care to go to work, as well many volunteers who thought they could help in the crisis, giving BigMac a hard time to keep the farm running. Since there wasn't many pony's to get the work done, he had raised the loans for the ones which still came and even got him self back on the field.
The stallion really enjoyed his work and he sure worked hard as he possible could, telling himself that, for everypony he replaced - one more could go back and help out the ones in need.
Many other pony's sattled down in town, being refugees in need.
The hotels became overcrowded, so rooms got double and tripple resavations, but the stay was free for everypony, since Mayor Mare and the Apple Family had come together to carry the costs for shelter and food. Following this generous example, also citizens took strangers into their homes, caring for them like they belong to their family´s – to receive nothing than gratitude in return.
Only one white filly had come to town for other business. She also just had got the news on the train down here. For a moment she had thought about going back, but much as she knew everypony was okay – only the city was destroyed, so she took her bravery and waited until she was in Ponyville to leave the train.
The young unicorn made her path trough the crowd, as fast she could to one of the more rarely visited places, heading towards the Ponyville-Hospital.
The hospital wasn't to big, only three floors in high and space for about twenty patients at a time. This small town rarely ever needed that many space, having only two doctors and a few nurses working in there. Luckily there was barely a pony around the place, like to confirm the news: that may her home town was no more, but at least nopony had got hurt.
The green hospital doors got pushed open and the filly run up to the counter "Hey, Mrs..."
The nurse mare looked around but there was nopony in sight, as it called again "Hey, down here" two small hooves stepped onto the edge of the counter and the young mare´s head came in sight.
"Oh, hello... what can i do for you?"
"Is it true, is Rarity here!?"
The nurse expression became professional and lost her smile in the process "Do you belong to the family?"
"She is my sister!" the filly shouted, holding up a photo, on which the two smiled at the camera.
"In this case, yes she is, i will bring you to her right away."
The yellow nurse brought her to a room in the first floor, giving her a few rules "please, be quite and don't take to long, she needs her rest" leaving the filly, when she was convinced she had understood.
Sweetie pushed the door open a little and knocked afterwards on it, receiving a quite "Come in" from a familiar voice, so she pushed it all open and stepped in, shutting the door behind herself.
Her sister laid on the bed and she looked ravaged. She had bandage around her forehead and over one of the ears, her mane was partial cut short, patches scattered all over her body and her right rear leg was bandaged up to the hip.
Still she was smiling like the sun, when she noticed the visitor being her sister, reaching out with her hooves "Sweetie Belle! Darling, is that really you!?"
Sweetie Belle didn't had to be asked twice and ran over to her sister, jumping on the bed with her forelegs to get into a hug "Its really, you, isn't it!?" she sobbed in glee, when her little sister started to sob her self "Its all my fault, i'm so sorry i left... i though y-"
This was when Rarity pushed her back a bit, so she could look into her eyes "no, you sure don't have to be sorry for anything dear... i'm the one that has to be sorry... i was stupid - and stubborn... i just hope you can forgive one last time... i promise i change." giving her a shivering lip and big eyes.
Her sister jumped fully on the bed and swung her hooves around her neck "Oh, Rarity, of course i do. You are my big sister after all..."
The older unicorn almost had laughed, when she buried her nose in the filly mane, smirking her tears on her small checks. "...you drama queen" Sweetie Belle giggled tearful.
Rarity whispered something to her self, like she would thank somepony.
The younger turned her head a little "Sis?"
"Nothing Sweetie, i just was thinking of a good friend of mine." holding her tight, like she would never let go again.