//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: The Real Rainbow Dash // Story: A Cloudsdale Wedding // by Majestical4729 //------------------------------// Scootaloo and Gilda woke up to find themselves trapped in a chamber. Recalling what 'Rainbow' did to them enraged them. "I can't believe that my adoptive sister just did that to us!" Scootaloo angrily exclaimed. "And almost killing us crosses the line!" Gilda added, in a tone matching Scootaloo's. "She's just as bad as Cozy Glow and Lightning Dust!" Scootaloo pushed a tall crystal as she exclaimed, causing a much smaller domino effect than 'Rainbow' did before. Fortunately, not only was the domino effect smaller and more harmless, it also revealed another prisoner in the caves: Rainbow Dash. Angry to see who they thought was the pony who imprisoned them, Scootaloo and Gilda pounced at Rainbow, despite the cyan pegasus' pleas, "No! Wait!" she shouted, but her words fell on deaf ears. "Please, don't hurt me..." the injured, dirt-covered and messy-haired Rainbow pleaded, until she noticed who was standing on her. "Scootaloo, Gilda, it's me! Please, you have to believe me! I've been imprisoned like you! The Rainbow Dash who trapped you two here wasn't me! That was LIGHTNING DUST! She's impersonating me so she can take my place at the entire wedding, then, when she reaches my home, with no creature else, she'll kill Soarin! Just to make me miserable and heart-broken as revenge for making her get pulled away with a rocket the last time we saw!" Rainbow explained, but the duo doubted her. "Do you really think we'd be foolish enough to believe that?!" Scootaloo angrily asked. "Yeah, that's a really good made-up story!" Gilda sarcastically added, with the same expression as Scootaloo. The girls' furious expressions vanished when Rainbow started doing something her imposter did not. "Junior Speedsters are our lives, sky bound soars and daring dives, Junior Speedsters, it's our quest to someday be the very best!" Rainbow Dash said the champ, completely correct without any mistakes. "Rainbow Dash?" Gilda asked, no longer mad. "Lightning Dust would never know the champ, nor Gilda the way Rainbow would! So it means..." Scootalo gasped, "You're the real Rainbow Dash!" she exclaimed, happily hugging her real adoptive sister. "Of course I am, and I'm glad at least two of my old friends found me," Rainbow replied, as she embraced the hugs Scootaloo and Gilda gave her. "Sorry, did not mean to interrupt such a warm moment, Rainbow Dash, but who is Lightning Dust?" Gilda asked. "A reckless pegasus and my rival," Rainbow explained, "I got her kicked out of the Wonderbolts Academy after she nearly demolished my friends. She then formed the Washouts, a team of reckless stunt ponies who were kicked out of the Wonderbolts. That encounter ended with me saving Scootaloo from a dangerous stunt Lightning made her do, and Lightning getting her hoof tied to a rope that was tied to a rocket that was originally for Scootaloo's first stunt as a Washout." "I'm still really sorry about ignoring you and your warnings, Rainbow Dash, I should have known that Lightning was a reckless, put-others-in-danger monster." Scootaloo told Rainbow, nuzzling her. "Speaking of Lightning being a monster, what about what you said that she'll do to Soarin, and your wedding?!" Gilda asked. Instantly reminded about the wedding, the Pegasi changed their expressions immediately. "We got to get out of here!" Rainbow announced, "We have to stop her!" she ran off, followed by Scootaloo and Gilda. In Cloudsdale, Lightning Dust, in her Rainbow Dash disguise, was wearing a bride's outfit and singing: "This day is going to be perfect, the kind of day which I dreamed of since I was small. Every creature will gather around, say I look lovely in my gown, But what they don't know is that I have tricked them all!" Meanwhile, the real Rainbow Dash, running through the caves alongside Scootaloo and Gilda, sang: "This day was going to be perfect, the kind of day that I dreamed of since I was small. But instead of having cake, and my best friends to celebrate, my wedding bells, they won't ring for me at all." Lightning Dust, in no creature's presence, did several nasty things such as kicking flower vases, throwing roses out the window and ruining a fancy hat, as she sang: "I could care less about my dress, I won't partake in any cake! Vows, will be lying when I say: That through any kind of weather, I'll want us to be together. The truth is I don't care about him at all! NO I DO NOT LOVE THE GROOM! IN MY HEART, THERE IS NO ROOM! BUT I STILL WANT SOARIN TO BE MINE!" Still racing through the crystal caves with Scootaloo and Gilda, the real Rainbow sang: "Must escape before it's too late, find a way to save the day! Hope, I'd be lying when I say: I don't fear that I may lose him to the one who wants to kill him, Not care about, love or cherish him each day!" Rainbow tried to fly to a cliff, but failed as she had both of her wings clipped, when Lightning trapped her in the caves. "For I truly love my groom, In my heart, he does consume." Rainbow sadly sang, before Gilda decided to give her and Scootaloo, lifts out of the caves. With more hopes of succeeding in saving Soarin, Rainbow sang; "Oh, Soarin! I'll be there very soon!" While Gilda was flying Scootaloo, Rainbow, and herself through the caves, the wedding eventually started, with the newly-weds entering, as Lightning Dust sang; "Finally, the moment has arrived! For me to be a lucky bride!" In the caves, Rainbow sang; "Oh, the wedding, we won't make, He'll end up marrying the fake! And Soarin will be..." Rainbow Dash, losing hope, had tears flowing in her eyes as she fell into despair. Noticing it, Gilda and Scootaloo comfort her, having finished the flight, and were on the crystal ground. "Mine, all mine." Lightning Dust sang the final line, before chuckling evilly for no creature but herself to hear.