Rainbow Blitz:
I watched the black and white rain-boom just like everyone else. But unlike them I knew what its purpose was. Ashura said it was a long shot, but he said if this all turned out how he thinks it will. Than everything will be alright. To me, that’s just fine, something is better than nothing. The colors were starting to evaporate.
“Who in this world could make a sonic rain-boom like that?” Rarity asked looking at all of us. Everyone looked at her with confused looks.
“It’s my daughter’s Sider, she is the only one able to make one like that.” I said still looking at where the sonic rain-boom was. The next thing I saw was my daughter’s Sider flying toward us.
“Get the hell down.” Ashura said running toward us. He dove into prone, I dropped to my stomach and so did everyone else. A large eruption rang through my ears.
“What in the hay was that?” Applejack asked.
“To put it lightly, all hell is breaking loose.” Ashura said looking at Twilight. Twilight smiled at him.
“Ash, you didn’t say this would happen.” I said looking at a huge black void opening in the sky.
“Yeah…well I say a lot of things.” He said giving me a smile. “Come on, this is where all the fun begins.”
“You’re such an idiot.” I said giving him a stern look.
“Hey that’s my idiot.” Twilight perked in. Another eruption blew through the sky. I watched as the whole sky was clouded in darkness.
“Can some pony please explain to me what’s happing here?” Rarity asked.
“Yeah, I would enjoy an explanation.” Pinkie Pie said with her ears flopped to her head.
“I would like one too.” Fluttershy said shyly.
“The only one who could really explain what’s going on is Ashura.” My daughter’s Sider said.
“Moon is right, let me put it this way. I had Moon break a portal into reality, bad thing is…It’s a two way door. So if we don’t stop it, it’s going to consume all of reality and everything will cease to exist.” Ashura said looking at everyone. Everyone-including myself was looking at him with their mouths open, not believing what he was telling us. “Alright…everyone on board…okay…where the hell is Rainbow Dash?”
“She’s in the hospital in critical condition.” I heard myself say.
“Ah hell.” He said walking past me into the hospital. I watched him enter the building, he then soon stuck his head out. “Hey Moon can you come with me?”
“Ah…yeah sure.” She said flying into the hospital. Everyone exchanged confused looks to one another. I saw Ashura’s head pop out of the hospital again.
“Are all of you just going to stand there or you going to come in and help?” All of us exchanged confused looks again. We all headed inside, despite how we were all feeling. Once we were inside Ashura was nowhere in sight. Turns out he had pushed himself into the emergency room and was now in my daughter’s room. We only knew that because of the nurses and staff freaking out.
“Come on everypony, I’m not going to wait forever.” I heard Ashura yell.
“Ash, why are you freaking the hospital staff out and causing such a commotion?” Twilight asked before we walked into the room. “Ash get your hooves off of that.”
“Can’t do Twi, have to get Rainbow flying again.” He said about to unplug everything.
“Get away from her!” I yelled tackling him.
“Blitz, get off of me.” I said trying to struggle out from under me.
“Have ya’ll lost yer mind? She will die if you do crazy things like that.” Applejack interjected.
“Oh good, A.J. Fluttershy, Rarity, I need you to go with Twilight to the library. Twilight, I need you to do what I asked you to do if we were ever in great harm.” Twilight was staying calm. I looked at her and she gave me a nod. She trusted him, and I would have to too.
Rainbow Dash:
I felt at peace, I was walking in a calm and cool state. That was until I was seeing myself. Whenever I closed my eyes I would see my Sider self.
“Dash?” Was that my dad? None of this was making sense.
“You’re almost dead you know.” I looked at my Sider.
“What are you talking about?” I asked her. She smiled at me, odd I think this was the first time I saw her smile.
“You’re almost dead. Tell me, what do you remember?” She asked.
“I remember falling…and dad. That’s it.” I said looking around me. Nothing felt right anymore. Anxiety was starting to set in. My breathing was fast and more rapid.
“Dash, calm down. Would you calm down dammit?” I was pinned down, almost instantly my mind came back to me.
“My Sider? When did you get here, where am I anyway?” I asked her. She gave me a look that told me she was confused.
“Please call me Moon.” She said letting me up. Once I was on my own hooves I looked around. I was at my home, and I saw myself, along with Ashura and Twilight.
“What is that?” I asked going over, I tried to touch Twilight but my hoof went right through her.
“We are inside of your mind, a part of the void has touch it. I have to help you.” I looked at Moon, she was giving me a sympathetic smile.
“So what do I have to do to get out?”
“Learn from the past.” I looked at her like she was insane. Her facial expression didn’t falter. She was serious.
“Okay, when did I step into looney-vile.” I asked walking away.
"Rainbow dash it's been two days since you left your home. Have you even eaten anything? Your skin and bone." I turned around and looked at what was happening. I remember this, this was when my friends came to help me.
"Dash, this isn't healthy." Ashura said trying to force me on the ground with his magic, I resisted by trying to fly away. "Man her wings are strong even without eating." But soon enough I got tired from lack of nutrition to keep my strength up. I was acting like such a baby.
"Daddy says this is healthy! He says it’s good!" I yelled feeling light headed, I was near passing out. I lost my mind…I swear I lost my mind that day. I just missed Daddy.
"Rainbow, what are you talking about?" Twilight asked me. I looked at Moon, she nodded at me.
"He's still here Twilight, he's keeping me strong." Daddy wasn’t there, my father wasn’t the one talking to me. It was his Sider, I was being manipulated. That’s why he left me, he left me to protect me.
“My little Dashie.” I turned around…I was at my childhood home, and there stood before me was my mother. Both my mother and father were watching a little baby me play on the ground.
“No…no. Get me out of here!” I turned around and ran through the first door I saw.
“Dash, why did you run away like that?” Moon asked, I looked at her panting hard. I didn’t run far but I did give myself a panic attack. There was no way I could face that part of my life again…I don’t even remember what happened, but that moment of my life scares me to death.
“I don’t know exactly.” I looked around me. I was at my old school, we were in the halls near my locker. I saw myself as I was when I was a teen. Man that style of hair was cool back then, looking at it now. It was a total mistake. When I closed my locker I noticed what I was seeing. This was a bad memory that I wish I could forget.
“Rainbow Crash, how ya doing.” One of the bullies who picked on me said as he knocked my books out of my bag.
“Hey, not cool guy.” I said staring the guy down. He had a smug smile on his face as he held my stare. At that moment Fluttershy was strolling by, she was humming a song, not really noticing anything around her. She had a little bird perched on her head. It was a blue bird and Fluttershy had named it Blue. It was her pet when she was a teen. Those two went everywhere, at least they use to.
“Oh look its Fluttershy.” One of the other bullies said. Fluttershy wasn’t paying attention, and was really confused when she was tripped by one of the bullies.
“Oh my?” She said pushing herself up a little. Blue was flying just above her head. She looked up and smiled at her little friend. “I’m fine Blue.”
“Clumsy, clumsy Fluttershy. Can hardly fly not to mention walk.” One of them said staring her down. Fluttershy gasped and back down scared, trying to make herself small on the ground.
“Hey cut it out.” I said interjecting.
“What you’re going to stand up for this loser?” The main bully said staring me down again. I stared him down too.
“She isn’t a loser, you are.” I said shoving him. This irritated him to no end. His smug look was replaced with an irritated look. I hated this part so much.
“Make them hurt.” He said knocking me on the head. I went down like a sack of bricks. I was fast not strong, so I really didn’t stand a chance against them. Fluttershy was hopeless, sad to say. I tried to help her, but we were beaten pretty hard that day. Blue had flown up out of reach helplessly watching us getting pummeled. They had to stop when the bell rang and all the students were leaving.
“Get the bird.” I heard the main bully say. Fluttershy was unconscious and I was nearing it too. I watched as the other two flew up into the air to catch Blue. He was smaller than them, so he was faster, but they did catch him. “Next time I won’t hold back.”
“You’re just a stupid jerk.” I spat at him. I watched at Blue was thrown on the ground, his wing was broken when he landed, so when he tried to fly away he couldn’t get anywhere. I watched as the guy stepped on Blue, killing him. “Oh Celestia.”
“Next time I won’t hold back.” The event faded away like a bad movie. I had to explain everything to Fluttershy. She didn’t forgive me for a week…it was the longest she was ever mad at me.
“You’re avoiding something, and now you’re going to go through things you wish to forget until you face it.” Moon said putting her hoof on my shoulder. I looked at her with tears in my eyes.
“I don’t think I can face that moment in my life.” I sobbed, I heard a bell ring.
“Things will get worse until you face it Dash. If you want to save yourself from torture and save everyone back at home, you will face your past.” Moon had changed, she wasn’t the same as when I first saw her. Is my dad the reason she changed?
“Hey loser!” I heard my own voice yell. I looked at myself as a teen again. This was a week after Blue was killed. I became a bully, never did tell Fluttershy what I did. Maybe I’ll have to do that someday…I hope she’ll forgive an idiot like me. The real question though, do I even deserve her forgiveness?
“Alright, if this is for my father and everyone back at home. Then I’ll do whatever it takes.” I said walking away from the event. The door I walked out of appeared in front of me. I looked at Moon and she nodded at me. Taking a deep breath I pushed myself through the door. There was my mother and father, my dad looked so young. My mother looked so full of life.
“I’ll get us some snacks.” My mom said as she walked off into the other room. Dad watched her leave with a smile on his face. He looked at me, I was playing with a little stuffed bear and some building blocks. This memory I blocked out of my mind, but it haunts me to this day. The next thing I hear is a thud my dad’s head turns to where my mother just went and asks, “Firefly?” My dad goes rushing into the other room.
I’m still sitting there playing with my toys, not know what’s happening. I heard dad cry out my mother’s name. This makes both me and the little me cry. There is worse things in the world, but this was the worst part of my life. The day both my parents died. I turned away from the event, trying to hold back my tears but it was no use. I couldn’t stop them, I looked at Moon. She was crying too.
“Wake up.” She says with a smile. The next thing I knew everything went black. I felt warm blankets, I heard whispers. I smelt the air around me, I opened my eyes and I saw my father looking at me. I was still crying from the event I witnessed.
“Dashie?” I asked with worry on his face. I grabbed him and embraced him in a hug. He did too, he was so cold.
“Ouch.” I noticed that a great pain almost everywhere on my body.
“You fell from a long distance. You should be near death.” My father said softly rubbing my face. I looked in the room. Moon and Ashura where standing near my bed.
“Not if Moon and her become one.” Ashura said with a smile.
“Was this your plan from the start?” Moon asked looking at him.
“Not exactly, my plan was to come to Equestria for peace, but trouble followed me…”
“Not your life plan you idiot, your plan to get us out of this mess.” Moon said sounding like she did before. Cruel and mean.
“Again, not exactly. But sometime you just have to roll with it and make a plan up on the fly. I know a great deal about this stuff, just trust me. It’s not like you’re going to die Moon, you and Rainbow will basically become one. Only with two minds.” Ash said tipping his Fedora.
“You’re an imbecile.” Moon said going over to my bedside. “I’m already one with her, I helped her get back into reality. The pain is just a faint memory of it, it’ll pass soon.”
“Fantastic, I do love it when others know what’s going on.” Ash said happily.
“Except, none of us know what’s going on.” My dad said looking at him with worry.
“Twilight does, and soon all this mess will be taken care of and everything can go back to normal.” Ashura said walking out the door. A moment later he stuck his head back in the room. “You all coming or not, I’m going to need all of your help.”
Twilight Sparkle:
My friends and I walked to my Library. I get what Ash is saying, the plan he told me about. That means nothing is as it seems. Not everything is making sense. I opened the door and my friends and I went inside.
“So whats this plan Ash has?” Applejack asked.
“Yes do tell darling.” Rarity interjected.
“Is it fun, does it involve cake?” Pinkie Pie bounced happily.
“Yes please tell us Twilight.” Fluttershy said.
“The plan is to bring my friends back.” I said before charging the spell Ashura taught me. The four of them looked at each other with confused looks. “You four are not my friends.”
“Well that’s just silly.” Rarity said with a huff.
“Have ya gone and lost yer mind?” Applejack asked disgruntled.
“My friends disappeared when Ashura did. They didn't return until I got back, they did not ask Rainbow Dash and me what was happening, what had happened. They care more than this, all of you are fake!” I was still charging up the spell. The four of them looked at each other and then back at me. The four of them had the same smile on their faces.
“Very clever little one.” The four of them said in sync.
“I knew something was up when ZXexian was the one who was running toward us not Ashura.” I said feeling the power flow over me.
“That guy has been a thorn in my side for the longest time. If I could kill him I would.” The four said at the same time. The merge of their voices becoming one. Soon the four of them were engulfed in darkness. The four clouds of darkness merged and became one. It was Blitz’s Sider.
“Twilight now!” I fired the spell and nothing happened.
“What was that supposed to do, hmmm?” He asked, I smiled at him.
“A spell of love can go a long way. But a spell of happiness can make everything even better. That spell sends warmth through everyone’s heart.” I felt the warmth go through me, felt a little dizzy but it was worth it. This was the beginning of the end. I wasn't going down without a fight.
“I’m in the real world now girl. Feelings don’t affect me this time.” He said walking towards me. I stood my ground.
“It wasn’t for you, it was for my friends. To give them strength to fight the idiot who is standing against us.” I said with a smile that was short lived. The Sider had struck me across the face.
“Hey! Pick on someone your own size!” I heard Rainbow’s dad say. I saw him tackled his Sider to the floor. Rainbow Dash, ZXex, and Moon all entered the Library. I had a feeling I was going to have to make repairs on the Library later.
“Get him Dad!” Rainbow cheered her father on.
“You idiot, your hardly anything to me anymore. I drained you of everything you had, you’re just a shell of your former self.” The Sider laughed kicking Blitz off of him. Blitz was flown back against the wall. His face was cracked up like broken glass. “This realm will be mine to control, and there isn’t a god damn thing anyone can do to stop me.”
“Rainbow Dash can do something.” ZXex said in his usual tone. He wasn’t pretending to be like Ash anymore. He was himself this time. Rainbow looked at him and was surprised.
“Okay, why are there three Ashuras?” Rainbow asked looking at ZXex.
“There just is, just roll with it Dash.” I heard a familiar voice say. Like a bad movie Ashura made a cheesy dramatic entrance. I felt shame pour over me as I watched the event. How did that guy steal my affection?
“I thought I killed you!” Blitz Sider screamed, he looked murderous as he ran at Ashura. He saw this and hightailed it in the other direction.
“Catch me if you can idgit!” Ashura yelled with a laugh as he ran away. Everyone exchanged awkward and confused looks.
“Rainbow go help Ash, Twilight stay here with me. Blitz isn't looking so good.” Rainbow and I nodded at each other before she ran out the door after the two.
“What can we do to help him?” I asked, ZXex leaned against the wall and looked down.
“There isn’t a thing we can do to help him. He’s just a whisper of what he used to be. The last fighting bit of Blitz, living because of his daughter.” He looked at Blitz with sorrow.
“That can’t be true, can it?” I asked looking at Blitz.
“I already knew that was true, I knew my time here was short.” Blitz said with a laugh. “Been so long since I felt anything.”
“Time in the void is different than it is anywhere else. Time doesn't exist there, one year can be a lifetime or one second. You broke a very long time ago.” I couldn't help but tear up. This was the last time Rainbow will ever see her dad, and she was out helping Ashura. I ran out the door after Rainbow Dash, I could not allow her not to say one last goodbye to her father.