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// Epilogue 
// Story: The Mysterious Adventures of Mare-do-well 
// by Commando-Scarecrow 
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                                                                  THREE MONTHS LATER

Rainbow Dash stood there, looking at her city from the Spire one last time, only from the inside this time. Top floor. She sighed and felt her stomach. Maybe that glow that Braeburn saw on Hearth’s Warming wasn’t just her being excited after all. And maybe she wasn’t getting airsick on that flight. It was funny. Even if she failed to save Braeburn, she still gave her a little somepony to remember him by. Figured he’d pull something like that, though. Selfless jerk.
“So you’re really leaving then?” Summer and Trixie agreed to meet her there before they helped her move all of her stuff to Ponyville. New Madrid City wasn’t really the place Rainbow Dash wanted to raise her kid in this city, even if it had changed for the better.
“Yeah, she stared back at the sunset, remembering that last thing that she and Brae did together. “I‘m likin’ the sound of Ponyville more and more every day. Besides, I have friends there. Friends that actually know how to take care of foals.”
“We can help you with that, Rainbow Dash,” Trixie argued. For the past few months, those two have become her closest friends in the world. They were about as close as her friends in Ponyville, actually.
“Trixie, Summer scares the hay out of kids.”
“I do not,” she heard Summer mumble, even though he knew it was completely and totally true.
“And Trixie… Look, you know you guys are my best friends now, but this place doesn’t need Mare-do-well anymore,” She looked down to see the statue of the four heroes who risked all to save a city that wasn’t worth it. In the weeks following their battle against the Echelon, parents started telling the story of the War-Horses to their kids as a bed time story. “It can make its own heroes now.”
Trixie learned that there was no deterring her friend, so she went with changing the subject. “So what are you going to name him?”
Rainbow Dash smiled. About a month ago, she became uncomfortable with calling her kid an “it”, so she just decided on call the foal “him” instead. “I was thinking of Dutch.”
“After the apple?”
“Braeburn would have liked that,” then she gave herself a self-satisfied smile. “Besides, it sounds cool.”
Summer finally entered back in. “It does.”
“So what will you two be doing?”
Summer decided to first this time. “I hurt a lot of people when I was working for the Echelon. I think it’s time I left to go fix some of that.”
“Well, have fun with that,” Then she turned to Trixie. “And what were you gonna do?”
“I was going to follow Summer. The great and ever moving Trixie can never stay in a single place for too long.” Rainbow Dash just shook her head. In the last few months, those two had become inseparable. She wished them the best.
Rainbow Dash took one last look at the sunset, and then left. “C’mon, guys. The train leaves soon and I don’t want to have to fly all the way back to Ponyville with this guy,” She felt her stomach one last time. The two unicorns agreed and helped her with her luggage and took her to the train station.
“Rainbow,” Summer Blaze began. He was about to shed exactly one tear. “It’s been real.”
“Trixie agrees,” They’ve all been through a lot together, so naturally they would be upset to see her go. “Goodbye, Rainbow Dash.”
“I’ll be seein’ ya,” she said simply even though she knew she wouldn’t. As she boarded the train to Ponyville, sad to see her friends behind her, but happy that she would be able raise her son in a town that was better suited for that, she thought. New Maredrid City would get by without her now. It had become a city of Heroes.



The End