Rainbow Dash:
Who would have guessed it was a simple thing. Something I haven't felt in so long. I loved my father, I truthfully loved my father, and I know he truthfully loved me. "Twi, I want to go see my mom."
"Your mom?" She asked.
"Yes, my mom's grave site. I want to see my mom's grave site." She nodded her head. Twilight was such a good friend. We took off into the bright blue sky, leaving the Crystal Empire. Sad how we flew all this way, for nothing. We actually didn't have to fly to far. The cemetery where my mom was buried was near the Crystal Empire. Clouds Dale made this place their grave yard, I honestly didn't know why. It was just tradition.
"Are you okay?" Twilight asked me once we landed just before the graveyards gate. I looked at my friend. I honestly didn't know how I felt. I looked at the large gloomy metal gates. "Rainbow?"
"This place is depressing. I remember as a filly, Dad and I would come here. To visit mom, he would bring a bouquet of flowers. Always left them on her grave." I said as we walked inside. The place was full of head stones. I walked along the familiar path. I looked at the grave stones, some old, some new. Then we came up to my mother's. There sat on her grave site was a bouquet of flowers. "I guess he never stopped."
"He loved her so much, didn't he?" Twilight asked. I looked at the flowers. They were random, mostly white roses. White roses were my mom's favorite flower. I sniffed the flowers, they were still fresh. The smell reminded me of the one single memory I had of both my dad and mom. The day before she died.
“Hi mom.” I said sitting down looking at the lettering on her marble gravestone. I read her name out loud, “Firefly, loving mother and wife.”
“Firefly? Why does that sound familiar?” Twilight asked joining me.
“It’s because she was famous, she was a delicate flyer. Was talented at what she did, even after she died ponies still talked about her. They talked about her even more after she died. Dad never liked it. He got so mad some days. But he always kept his cool, never let it get to him completely.” I said feeling tears well up in my eyes.
“Why did you want to come here?” Twilight asked.
“Because this is why my dad died. He died because of that Sider, he loved her so much, it latterly killed him. He tried to be strong, but he couldn’t only do so much. Twilight, when he left it devastated me. But it killed him that is why he left. I loved him, I have a true reason to love him.” I said feeling myself smile. But the tears were still coming.
“Have you seen him then?” Twilight asked me. I looked at her confused.
“What are you talking about?” I asked whipping at my eyes. I felt weak for crying, but I couldn’t make them stop.
“Nothing, don’t worry about it.” She said looking at my mother’s tombstone. I couldn’t stop the tears, and it was pissing me off. But I didn’t want to do something stupid, I felt like mom was watching me. I turned around and started to leave the cemetery.
“What are you doing?” Twilight asked confused.
“Going home.” I said with a smile, alone with tears running down my face. Twilight was taken back for a minute, but she soon gave me a smile. She walked beside me as we left the cemetery. “I don’t think I’ll be able to fly back to Ponyville.”
“Don’t worry, if we walk we should be there just before dark.” Twilight said looking at the sky. She was smart, brilliant really. Smartest pony I had ever met, and ever since she met Ashura, she changed a little. She grew up a little, became even better if you ask me. She knew what to do in sticky situations, she really did earn her wings, quite literally. She was a princesses, and she was helping me. She was being a friend first and a princesses last. I was more important to her.
“Rainbow Dash, are you alright.” It didn’t register in my head at first, but I soon realized I was hugging her. I squeezed her tighter, the tears wouldn’t stop. I just couldn’t get them to stop, but it was alright. It was okay to cry once in a while. It wasn’t a sign of weakness, it was quite the opposite. We cry because we are sad, we have emotions. They are a great burden, but a bigger blessing. Never did like this mushy-mushy stuff, but it just sort of fight.
“You were there for me, you and Ash, were there for me. You didn’t have to be, but you were there.” I said looking at her. She smiled at me and put her hoof on my head, like I was a child. It didn’t really bother me to be honest. The tears soon stopped, I was still sniffling though; that was embarrassing to say the least.
“You are my friend Rainbow, why wouldn’t I be there for you. I’ll be there for all of you, don’t you know all of you are my very best friends? There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you idgits.” Twilight said hugging me. I gave her a hug back.
“Isn’t that Ashura’s word he uses instead of idiot?” I asked chuckling.
“Yeah, not sure why he uses it, but it fits him I suppose.” She said with a laugh. With that we walked, and walked. We have a lot of time to talk, there wasn’t a moment it was silent. It was like we were rekindling our friendship. The sun had already set when we made it to Ponyville. “So what are you going to do?”
“I’m going to live Twilight. I get it now, even in the past I let my dad leaving and my mom dying get to me. There were days I wouldn’t do anything, I’m not going to let that happen anymore. I’m going to do what my father wanted me to do. I’m going to live my life and be happy.” I said feeling myself smile. We parted ways after that, Twilight went to her house and so did I. It felt good to crawl into bed that night, a lot was going through my mind. I was worried about Twilight’s boyfriend, but there wasn’t much I can do. At least not yet.
The next few days I did exactly as I told Twilight. I lived my life, and for once it felt right to do so. I wasn’t even thinking about my mom or dad. Well actually, that’s not the whole truth, I would think about them once in a while. But I would have a smile on my face, I remembered the little things about my mom and all the good times my dad and I had. A week past and nothing changed. Twilight was starting to worry more and more as the days went by. Soon enough a month had past and nothing had changed, there was no sign of Ashura at all.
“What if he’s dead? Oh Celestia, please bring him back to me!” Twilight had been like this for a few days now. She would go from freaking out to calm as if she was bipolar. All of our friends tried to comfort her, and try to get her to calm down when she was losing it. But she wasn’t anywhere near reality when that happened.
“Now, now sugar cube, he’ll be all fine. Ah swear he’s fine.” Applejack said not actually believing what she said. To tell the truth, everypony thought Ash was dead. What else could we think, that was until I had an idea.
“Twilight, I think I have an Idea how we can check to see if he’s alright.” Every one of my friends looked at me with confusion. I actually had thought of it before, I just wasn’t sure I wanted to go through it again. “Use Sombra’s magic on me again.”
“What? Are you crazy?” Twilight asked, all of our friends looked at us confused. They didn’t know about what happened in the Crystal Empire. Wish I really didn’t have to bring it up again. But I felt like we didn’t have a choice. The last time I went there I met my father, and my Sider.
“I don’t think we have a choice. He’s been missing for a very long time, if my father’s Sider won’t come to us. Then one of us has to go to him.” Twilight knew I was right. But the last time she did that spell, she felt like she was about to lose someone again. But again, she didn’t have a choice.
“We are coming too.” Rarity said.
“Yeah, we can’t let our friend go in whatever this matter is alone.” Applejack said.
“Yeah!” Pinkie Pie said while bouncing.
“Yeah.” Fluttershy said shyly.
“No, this is something I must do alone. I’m sorry girls, but no one else is coming. Besides, if we don’t all make it back. Twilight will be alone, this is my decision, and I’m going alone.” Everyone exchanged worried looks. “I love you all, which is why I must do this alone.”
“We understand Rainbow.” Twilight said with a smile.
“Now let’s get this show on the road.” I said preparing myself for the spell. I saw the dark magic engulf Twilight and then shoot at me. I’ll tell you this, it hurt allot more than I remembered. Once my head stopped spinning I looked around. It was black like it was before, but both my father and my sider were nowhere to be seen.
“Well, well never thought I’d see you here.” I turned around and I saw myself.
“Sider me, where is my dad?” I asked, she had a crude smile plastered on her face.
“He’s gone, and soon I will be too.” She said flying up. I followed her, she was hiding something. Where ever we were going I had no idea.
“What happened?” I asked when she stopped.
“You’ve cut my dad off Dashie poo.” She said getting close to me. “God that name your dad would call you. Dashie this and Dashie that, gah! Gag me with a spoon.”
“That’s my dad you’re talking about!” I said pushing her. She pushed back with a smile, like she was waiting for this to happen.
“Yeah, and once I’m out your daddy will be mind to feast on. As will you.” She said falling back. I let her fall, I wished she would hit something. But she just fell and fell until I couldn’t see her anymore.
“Why hello there.” I turned around and saw my dad’s Sider.
“Where is Ashura?” I asked trying to prepare myself. But I wasn’t sure what to prepare for.
“You mean him?” Someone kicked me from behind. I felt myself fall, once my head cleared I twirled in the air and got back into the air. I looked up at the one who had attacked me. It was Ashura, or at least it looked like him. But he was blue, instead of red. “Meet his Sider.”
“I’m going to bite you.” He said with a maniacal grin.
“No you’re not.” I flew away from him, which made him chase me. I was good at avoiding him, but he had something I didn’t. He was an alicorn like Ashura, so when he got the chance to grab me with his magic, he did. He tackled me in the air and we both fell. I tried to struggle out of his grip, but he was stronger than I was. I couldn’t stop us from falling, and I couldn’t stop us from hitting the ground. The bastard positioned us so I would land on the ground and he would land on me. Once I felt the hardness hit me, I heard a huge crack.
“Bones breaking, I bloody love it!” He screamed like a mad man. I fought for consciousness but I was quickly losing it.
“Get off of her you asshole.” I heard before I felt Ashura’s Sider get thrown off of me.
“I thought you were taken care of.” He said to the thing that had tackled him off of me. I tried to keep focuse, but it was hard. I saw a red blur.
“Rainbow, let me take it from here.” I heard a familiar voice. It’s was Twilight’s boyfriend, and with that I let myself drift off.
Ashura Glitch:
Well, never thought I’d ever get to do anything. But now I do, but it wasn’t much. Especially that asshole ZXex wouldn’t help and Rainbow Dash was unconscious. I head-butted the asshole, feeling a little dizzy for a second, but I was much better off than he was.
“I just wish you’d die!” Atom said when his head cleared up. He pushed on my hind legs and forced me to the ground. I was weak from being trapped in the void. The damn place wasn’t made for anything, not even for Siders. But they were more use to it than I was.
“I don’t like to give up.” I said kicking him the face. “Blitz, really could use a hand here.”
“Alright, alright hold your horn.” Blitz said as he made his way over to Rainbow Dash. The guy had life in him, I’d give him that. But it was mostly because of Rainbow Dash. No one really gets how much loved can power someone. Especially here, in a place like this, a good feeling can be more powerful than anyone can ever know.
“You two need to get out of here.” I said pinning Atom to the ground. The guy had been losing his mind more and more. Can’t blame him, I would too if I was him. But he was me, and so where all Siders. They are us, just something we try to ignore.
“How the hell do we do that?” He asked, he was looking at his daughter. In the void, time is different than it is in reality. It’s been a very long time for him in here. A month can be as if 30 years. He’s strong, most crack in 10 years, it only took me 15 to crack.
“You need to, ah – stop that.” I said pushing Atom to the ground again. “You need to remember what it was like to be with your family, you need to feel something stronger than anything you’ve ever felt before. If Rainbow Dash stays here any longer she will be consumed by your Sider.”
“I can’t really remember.” He said, Atom was snarling and foaming at the mouth. He looked rabbid, I couldn’t hold him for much longer. Blitz really needed to hurry his ass up, was it really that hard to remember one stupid little memory?
“Remember how you felt when you first met her?” Blitz’s Sider said with a smile. He was sitting on the other side of Rainbow Dash looking at Blitz. “That really hurt me. But you won’t remember anything, you’ve been here too long, you’re hardly even real anymore.”
“I’m not staying here any longer!” Rainbow Dash’s Sider yelled as she talked Blitz’s Sider.
“Please Daddy you have to remember something. The day I was born, please remember how it felt.” Rainbow’s Sider said trying to sound like Rainbow Dash. It was enough to help Blitz, I saw them disappear soon after.
“Rainbow’s Sider-“
“Please call me Moon.” She said with a smile.
“Moon, I need you to fly as high as you can, and then fly down as fast as you can.” At this point Atom was writhing around bucking to the point where he was able to get free.
“I get ya.” She said with a smile as she flew up into the dark empty sky. Atom had bit me like a mad dog. Blitz’s Sider flew up after Moon. But he wasn’t as fast as she was, while Moon was in the void she was very adept to flying here better than anyone. She was able to leave him in the dust, but not for long, because as fast as she flew up, she came down even faster. She was doing exactly what I wanted her to do, she was going to make a sonic rain-boom. Hopefully it will be enough.
Twilight Sparkle:
I didn’t like having to use that spell on Rainbow again. This time she actually disappeared, but within a few minutes she appeared back. With a surprise as well. Rainbow Blitz was sitting by an unconscious Rainbow Dash.
“We need a doctor, stat.” He said with a sudden panic. In quick panic we got Rainbow Dash to the hospital as quick as we could. So many questions were running through my head, but I couldn’t ask any of them until Rainbow was in better hooves. Once we were there the nurses and staff took one look at me and got into action. Ever since I met Ashura we have been coming here more and more. Nurses and Doctors know it’s an emergency as soon as they see us, so we didn’t have to explain much.
“What in the hay is going on?” Applejack asked once Rainbow was in the emergency room. We made our way to the waiting area, which was empty as usual. Ponyville was a small town, so not many ponies were at the hospital. Being such a small town, the hospital was in no lack of experienced ponies or in lack of supplies.
“She fell from a great height.” Blitz said taking a seat with a sigh.
“Sir, how are you here?” I asked him. He looked at me with a smile.
“Ashura and my daughter’s Sider, they helped us get back here.” He looked at Rainbow Dash. She was sleeping soundly for being in her condition. She could die, but she looked happy. “I have no idea how I’m actually here, and if I had to make a guess I won’t be here long.”
“I hope things will make some sense here soon.” Fluttershy said feeling flustered. It stayed quiet for a very long time in the room. No pony knew what to say, there really wasn’t anything we could say. Everything was so confusing we couldn’t think of any question, didn’t even know if Blitz had any answers. The next thing we knew, we all heard a massive explosion. In a big rush we ran outside.
“Is that a sonic rain-boom?” I asked at the black and white Rain-boom.