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Stories play their role in all aspects of life. The start may or may not grip you, it may not excite you. The adventure may or may not be thrilling, sad, tragic, funny, etc. It’s all the adventure of it that gets everyone. But the endings, they are is what really gets everyone. The ending can be good or bad, most are bad. I watched the beginning with Twilight Sparkle first meeting Ashura Glitch. I watched her trials that she had faced. She was scared, but she passed all her trials. I watched Rainbow Dash grow up without a mother or a father.
The ending is one of the most important part of anything. All things end, it is an inevitable fact that no one can ever change. But an ending never truly ever has to be a complete end. I have watched everything that has happened. Rainbow Dash has lost something, something that makes her different from what she used to be. She has forgotten something she cannot live without. She isn’t the same Rainbow as she was before. In ways, she is out of character. But her new friend Moon, her own Sider has what she is missing.
The choice is hers though, nothing can make someone choose a path to follow. The one who is choosing must chose, or the default will be the result. I’m waiting patiently for the right time. So this story has the right ending it should. Not everything is set in stone, and if it is, stone can be broken. Nothing is ever permanent, but there are some things that are unfortunately. Things fade away, things change. A choice and a path is what determines what lies ahead.
“Dammit Rainbow Dash, slow down!” Moon yelled as she flew after the frantic colorful pegasus. I have to chuckle at this, their roles have switched. Or at least it seems that way anyhow. The truth will be shown soon enough.
“No way, I’m going to take this bastard out!” Rainbow Dash said as she flapped her wings even harder. The wind that was pushing back on her took a great deal of strength the fly against. But she was able too, at least for a time.
“Rainbow Dash! You have to slow down now!” Moon yelled as she was left behind, but her words were taken by the wind. Rainbow didn’t hear nor would she listen. She kept trying to fly faster and faster. Soon enough the next thing Moon saw was her twirl in the air violently and soon fall. Moon dove down as fast as she could, she was able to catch the careless mare. “Dammit, I told you to slow down. This is a battle that we have to win, we can’t go at it carelessly.”
“I need all of this to stop!” Rainbow yelled trying to take off into the air again.
“This world will burn! Everything will die!” The monstrous being bellowed loudly as it laughed. A white flash engulfed the two mares.
“Dashie, are you alright?” Firefly asked her daughter. Rainbow blinked a few times confused beyond belief. She looked around and there sat her mom, dad, and little brother at the dinner table. Firefly was looking at her with worry. The whole site was funny, awkward for them though.
“What? What just happened?’ Rainbow Dash asked confused, she looked around. It was their old home they use to live in. The colorful mare couldn’t believe what she was seeing, or feeling.
“What do you mean Dash? Quite being dumb.” Her little brother said as he stuck his tongue at her. Firefly gave him a stern look and so did Blitz.
“Jolt, be nice to your sister. She is probably just tired from her Wonderbolt Training.” Rainbow looked at all of them shocked. This life she realized is what she had always wished for. A smile soon started to creep on her face as her mind became clouded.
“I’m fine, it’s alright now.” She said with a large smile. Firefly smiled at her daughter and so did Blitz. Jolt stuck his tongue out at her again. “Don’t worry buddy I’ll get you later for that.” At that moment Jolt sucked his tongue back in his mouth and avoided Dash’s stare.
“Now get along, this is family time.” Blitz said with irritation.
“It’s a lie!” Moon’s voice yelled echoing around the room. It made Rainbow jump, but everyone else didn’t seem fazed. They just sat there and ate their meal; Rainbow did the same and soon enough a conversation was started to take her mind off of the voice. The night was relaxing, a little family time. Dash and Jolt playing a game that ended in a fight. But all through that time Rainbow couldn’t feel at ease.
“Rainbow please look at me.” It sounded like Moon again, but it sounded different; plus when she looked around she couldn’t see her. She shook the thought out of her head, heading up to her room. She yawned in responds to the time of night. She took a long relaxing shower, let herself relax by lying in her warm comfy bed.
“Dash.” A voice said followed by a knock on her window. She looked at the pegasus with confusion. The stallion hovered just outside the window. She went over and opened it for him, he crept in trying to be as quiet as he could.
“What are you doing here?” She asked the stallion. He looked at her with confusion.
“You’re the one who said I should come over.” She had no idea what he was talking about. But her face was a clear result of what she thought of the guy. Good looking, and a probably a trouble maker, but a good guy at heart.
“Mom and Dad re still awake.” She said whispering, she was lying to him. Probably because she felt awkward about the situation. I couldn’t help but laugh, boy toy wasn’t going to have any fun.
“Never stopped us before.” He said with a chuckle. He kissed her on the cheek. She blushed from the contact, which showed she was becoming less like her actual self.
“Tonight is different, sorry.” Rainbow said and return she got a look of disappointment. But being the good guy he was he left leaving with a kiss. “What just happened?”
“Rainbow Dash, you need to listen to me!” Moon yelled, this time Rainbow could see her.
“Moon?” She asked squinting to see the faded image of her friend. The mare smiled and sighed with relief.
“Finally, look you need to snap out of it, or you’re going to become what I was.” She said franticly looking around. “Please you need to come back to reality!”
“But this is my reality, this is all I ever wanted.” Moon screamed before she ran in the opposite direction as Rainbow Dash, fazing into the wall like a ghost. Rainbow shook the event from her head and laid in her bed once again. Her mind clouded up and she forgot all about what Moon said. She fell into a deep sleep afterwords, finally feeling at peace. When she awoke, her day began. First it was off to the Wonderbolts Academy for her personal lessons with Spitfire and Sorin. Then it was off to her part time job, then to pick up her brother from school.
Her whole day was exactly what she had wished for when she was growing up. But something dug at the back of her mind that wouldn’t settle. “Please you need to come back to reality.”
“No this is my life, this is everything I ever wanted. She said aloud, Jolt looked at her with confusion and then giggled.
“Stop talking to yourself stupid.” He said before continuing to play with his little toy of one of the Wonderbolts.
“Shut up brat.” Rainbow said in return. She felt anger build up in her. At first it scared her, but it soon cooled down. His reply was him sticking his tongue out at her and then threating to tell their mother on her.
“This isn’t your life! Please I can’t do this on my own!” Rainbow looked around frantically trying to find the voice she heard. The one that has been bugging her through all of this. But who she was searching for was nowhere to be found. When she looked back at her brother she jumped in a fright. His whole features changed, his eyes had turned black and his skin was like a corpse. Rainbow gasped and ran out of the room.
“That can’t have just happened.” Rainbow said to herself trying to make sense of what just happened. But the picture was burned into her head. Anxiety started to take over her mind. Her breathing had become fast paced and she was feeling light headed.
“Please Rainbow!” Rainbow’s head was spinning faster and faster before a sick feeling took over. The picture was burned into her head, anxiety started to take over her mind.
"This isn't your life Rainbow Dash!" Rainbow's head was spinning. A sick feeling over took her stomach. She made it to the bathroom before her lunch had come back up into her throat. "Please I'm only trying to help you!"
"I just wanted a family." Rainbow said starting to cry. She couldn't help it, all the feelings she has had was what she always wished for.
"That little colt is not your brother. Please Rainbow you have to wake up." She couldn't help but cry. This life is what she always wanted. But it wasn't her life she could have. Rainbow rubbed her eyes and moved to the mirror. She saw herself, and she didn't look at all like herself. In fact her fur was a darker color and her eyes were turning darker as well. "If this keeps up, there is no going back!"
"Alright! I get it now, just let me do one last thing." She said before going into the room where her deformed brother was playing. His features had returned to normal, looking like a normal pony again. She went up to him and hugged him. He gasped and complained, telling her to let go. "Bye Jolt, I'm going to miss you, mom, and daddy."
"Dashie, please don't go." Jolt responded sounding sad. It stung her to let go of him. She always wanted a little brother. But this wasn't her life, not in the slightest. Once she had come to that she left the world that blinded her for a short time. Little Rainbow Dash had to grow up on her own. Who she became is who she has to be.
Who is Rainbow Dash exactly? She is talented, strong willed, and a great friend. A family is all she ever wanted; blinded by the things we want we start to lose who we are. I wonder if Rainbow can find herself again. She left her home she had wished for and the world outside was eerily dark. Moon stood on the other side of the door.
"Please Dash, we need to go." She pleaded, she wasn't able to enter. The only thing she was able to do was plea to the unsure Rainbow Dash. She looked back at her brother who sat there with begging eyes.
"Please don't go." He pleaded she couldn't hold back the tears. She took in a breath and stepped through the door. Moon hugged the crying saddened Rainbow Dash. Soon the crying stopped, and Rainbow was able to look at Moon. Her fur had changed color. It was more of a snowy white color. Here eye color was now black and her mane were a bright neon version of Rainbow's.
"I'm so glad to see you." She said sounding like she could cry. Something change in Moon. She was softer, calmer. Rainbow wasn't sure what to think.
"What's going on?" She asked rubbing her eyes. Moon smiled at her friend.
"I found who I am, and now you have to remember who you are." Her black eyes held a great deal of happiness. Rainbow smiled at her. But she was scared, thoughts rang through her mind. How did I forget something? Was the one question that rang trough her mind? "Your father's Sider is waiting, you have to go and help him."
"Help him? What! Why would I help someone that wants to destroy everything?" She asked shocked and confused. It didn't make sense to help something that only wanted death for everything.
"Because he is a part of your father." Rainbow nodded and followed Moon. The abyss of darkness never seemed to end. It was almost like being in the void she had visited before to see her father.
"How much farther?" Moon looked back at her and smiled.
"Depends, are you truly ready to see him?" Rainbow thought about this for a little. Yeah she was sure, but there was a little doubt that hung in her mind.
"Yes, I'm ready." She said and the darkness faded. Soon they were in a field full of trees and flowers. Rainbow looked around at the beautiful site. Soon she saw somepony, and she knew who it was too. She ran towards the mare that she recognized. Moon watched with a smile as she ran ahead.
"Dashie mine." The mare said turning to look at Rainbow Dash.
"M-mom?" She asked unsure of what was happening.
"Yes, it’s me my little one." She said offering a smile. Rainbow had doubt in her mind. This could be another trick. Moon walked up to them.
"This isn't a trick Dash. I promise you it's not." She said, and Rainbow Dash believed her. With a large smile she hugged her mother Firefly Dash.
"I'm so happy to see you." Rainbow said with tears in her eyes.
"I'm glad to see you too, but you have to let me go." This shocked Rainbow Dash to no end.
"Dashie." Rainbow looked over and saw her father standing just a little distance from where they were. "You need to let both of us go."
"What's going on?" Rainbow asked, she looked at Moon and all she offered was a light smile.
"You need to let them go. You have to be who you are and not what you wished you were." Rainbow didn't want to hear this, any of this.
"She is right dear. You have held onto us for a very long time. To stop all of this you have to let us go." Firefly said to her daughter.
"You’re not actually my parents are you?" All three of them nodded. Rainbows head dropped.
"We are what's trapped here that holds Moon and yourself here. We keep the Sider you are fighting alive." Her father said with sincere eyes.
"It was smart, it took what was important to you. Bonded with you, as long as you hold into all of this. It will never end." Her mother said looking at Rainbow's father.
"They are here because your parents loved you, this is the last message from them. The message ZXexian tried to warn you about. It helped, but it wasn't enough." Moon said, Rainbow looked at her mother and father. All she ever wanted was a family. A mother to care for her, a father to protect her. She felt like a filly as she wanted to cry again.
"Why couldn't this have happened before? All of this could have been avoided." Rainbow said wanting to cry. "But I guess I didn't want to accept that my family was gone."
"But they aren't gone Rainbow. You have family, your friends are your family. Blood isn't the only thing that determines who family is." Moon said with a smile. Rainbow Dash looked at what was left of her mother and father.
"It's okay dear, we are in a better place." Her mother said offering a smile.
"We will see each other again. Trust me on that Dashie." Her father said with a smile.
"The last message your friend Twilight let you see." Moon said as Rainbow's parents faded away. Tears were brought to her eyes, she was going to accept they were gone. But she was never going to forget who they were. "Twilight summoned a spell for you to see this."
"That idiot Ashura is smart. Always knows what to do, I'm sure he has his secrets. But he won't let anything happen to anyone. I trust him because I trust Twilight and I trust my friends. I need to save them Moon." The two mares embraced in a short needed hug.
"Don't worry Dashie, you will." Everything went white and Rainbow found herself not far from Fluttershy's cottage. With a smile she ran towards her friend's house. She saw Fluttershy step out of her cottage looking dazed and confused.
"Fluttershy! I'm so glad you're okay!" She yelled before tackle hugging her friend into the air.
"I'm glad to see you too Rainbow. Are you okay, you’re not acting like yourself?" Fluttershy said quietly. The two landed and Rainbow smiled feeling a little embarrassed.
"I'm just fine, just having a good day is all." After that the two mares headed back to Twilight's library where they found the rest of her friends. All of them but Rainbow, Twilight and Ashura would remember what happened. The rest of them were dazed and confused but that soon changed.
"You know there is a better way of having this go." I heard, turning around I saw Moon and ZXexian standing not far from me.
"I do not intercept in the affairs of Ashura. He does as he wills, no matter what, the ending will be the same." I said to them.
"I hate you." ZXex said with a sigh.
"I know you do, but you don't have a choice in the matter. The path I laid out is what must happen." I said walking a little away from them.
"I'm just glade Rainbow Blitz can finally rest." Moon said in a cheery tone.
"Moon, you have to watch out for Rainbow Dash. Things are just beginning." ZXexian said to the snowy white mare. I scoffed at her, she looked at me confused.
"Problem?" She asked me for once sounding irritated.
"Who do you think you are exactly? Huh Moon?" I asked the stupid Mare.
"I'm Rainbow Dash's Sider that has saw a bigger picture." She said with a crude smile.
"Tell me what it's like to be a Sider then?" I asked her, and a look of confusion spread on her face.
"I-I don't remember." She said shocked. I laughed at her, she was a stupid girl.
"You are a ghost of what Rainbow left behind. The cheery happy shit you are portraying is what she would have become if she had the life she wished for. Her Sider was at the heart of it all when her father died. It took control and knew how to manipulate Rainbow Dash." This shocked the mare.
"But...but I remember everything that happened." I looked at ZXex and he looked just as shocked as she was.
"What are you talking about, there are all kinds of Siders. I've met some that have turned good by my own doing." He said with an angry tone.
"A Sider can only bond with the being it belongs too, at times a being is formed that is what Is left of what caused great power in a Sider. That Sider wasn't her father's, it was her own. This Moon is just a damn puppet, a free being of its own now. You will never die until the thing you came from dies or you are killed. You will never know love, just a damn shell that wonders in the shadow of the original, you are what I call a Fera."
"Shut up!" Moon yelled, both of them looked ill. But I didn't care, I was already done with my part. I just want all of this to end, but I'm just a ghost of what will happen. A fucking fera.
"I'm sorry Moon." I laughed at ZXex, for everything he has been through he is utterly stupid.
"You’re a Fera too ZXexian, don't lie to yourself. Only existing to serve a higher purpose." His head hung low. What a fool he is trying to keep secrets. That Ashura ZXexian Glitch is the biggest fool of them all. "I'm done here, I'm sick of talking. This story is nearing its end. I'll be waiting for the end of it all. You know what will happen ZXex, and I suggest finding that Fera of Twilight's."
Rainbow Dash:
A few days had pasted and everything went back to normal. I saw Moon from time to time, apparently she had a life of her own now. Synith and she became good friends, I was happy to see that. Friends were always the best, and Synith wasn't that bad at all. I had two new fly buddies. Although Moon wasn't much for racing, but Synith. Now that mare was fast, but not as fast as me. I was still the fastest, coolest mare in all of Equestria.
Things really cooled down, no pony but Moon, Twilight, Ashura, and I remembered what happened with the whole Sider business. Synith was told about it by Ashura and she believed every word. There are some serious question I had, but I didn't know if I should ask, or if I should even ask. So I just kept them to myself.
"Are you alright?" Twilight asked me. I turned to her with a smile.
"I'm always alright, it’s me Twilight.” I said with a laugh. Saying that felt good. Everything was starting to get back to normal.
"Well I'm just happy we can have this time." She said with a smile.
"Yeah no kidding." Ashura said while loading up a sandwich with a lot of food we brought. Some of those things really didn't seem to fit on a sandwich, but it didn't faze Ash.
"Stop that, all of this is supposed to be for everyone." Twilight scolded him. The stallion took a bite from the sandwich and smiled.
"Come on Twi we have plenty." He said with a half full mouth.
"Yeah Twilight, monster sandwiches for everyone!" Pinkie yelled happily as she copied Ashura.
"Oh Celestia, it scares me when you two act the same." Twilight said placing her hoof on her head feeling frustrated.
"You guys need to relax, this is a picnic after all." Rarity said as she laid back on her love seat she 'had' to bring.
"Yeah, I agree with Rarity." Fluttershy said with a quiet voice, drinking from a juice box.
"Relaxation." Applejack said laying down on the big blanket be brought. Tipping her hat over her eyes to keep the light off her face.
"Game time!" Synith yelled as she bounced a ball into the air. Moon smiled at her new friend from her spot in the grass under a nearby tree.
"No way Synith, we eat first, then play." Twilight's brother Shining Armor said trying to get some of the food from Ashura and Pinkie. "Would you two share?"
"Calm down dear." Princess Cadence said to her husband. She chuckled at him as the two frantic eaters kept the food to them. But they did share, at least after a little goofing around.
"Hi daddy, hi mommy." I said to my parent's grave stones. Everyone got quiet. "Told you we'd have a picnic together." I said with tears in my eyes. The tears were both of sadness and of joy. I was sad that both my parents were gone, but I was happy that I had so many friends here with me. "That's all we ever needed was a picnic."
"I hear that!" Ashura yelled taking another bite from his sandwich. Pinkie did the same and I couldn't help but laugh. Everything went back to normal. Finally, everything felt right again. I got into my hooves and flew as fast as so could at Synith.
"I'm so much faster!" I said taking off with a head start.
"You are so not!" Synith yelled as she took off after me.
The End...
For now ;)