//------------------------------// // Target: Generosity and Laughter // Story: To be a Wonderbolt // by Diablomuerte2 //------------------------------// Target: Generosity and Laughter Ponyville, what used to be a vibrant and exciting town full of odd ponies was now a town without hope, The buildings in disheveled states and the ponies grumpy and uninterested in the world around them. Too many problems had arisen and without any miracle to save them they felt as if they had angered Celestia by some how offending her without the knowledge of how or why. The mood was always tense and happiness was a myth in this wasteland of a town. There was one pony here still with hopes and dreams and aspirations to make it. She was a marshmallow pony with dark purple hair and an attitude of a diva to match her beauty. Her name was that of her quality for she was a Rarity. She saw the collapse of her town after already seeing the horrid departure of her Pink friend who lost her mind. The atmosphere in the town was sullen after that. Then the second major blow was when the canary mare who used to enjoy spa trips together with her disappeared completely from the face of the world. Celestia had informed that she was being taken in by some pony who would help the mare recover from the tragic heartbreak. Rarity wish she knew more but Celestia didn't want word spreading that could possibly lead to Rainbow Dash finding out. Rarity's mind went through the events that lead this miserable state of hers. Rainbow Dash had left, after having her way with poor Fluttershy. Then the marshmallow unicorn was assaulted by her best friend. She was then reunited with the brash pegasus and lead to a night club. Then the hotel... soon after the hotel she unleashed her hate towards the out of control cyan wonder. She went to canterlot and was told to buck off by the princess, not literally but it felt that way. So they were all home. Twilight left to the Crystal Empire to be free of Celestia. Drama queen. Pinkie went insane, Fluttershy disappeared, The storm hit and Granny Smith died and Big Mac got injured, poor Scootaloo was taken away. Her shop was destroyed and she emptied her gems to the people who were in need and now here she is at her parents house living with Sweetie Belle who spends most of her time crying about missing her friends or just trying to spend time with the fashionista. "Is this all my life will amount to? I am an aging mare and soon the prime of my life will be over, I need some prince.. stallion... someone to sweep me off my feet and marry me. I want to have foals and settle down. I hate being alone.. I hate not having my shop ... I miss opal...." She shouted to no one in particular. Opal her cat was gone.. the shop when it was falling to pieces managed to have some debris land on the usually hissy animal. Sweetie Belle on the other hand was just in pieces about losing her friends. "Stupid storms and stupid rules. I want to see my friends... What did I do to deserve this?" Said the sweet voiced filly. "She was alone now since the storm and since she was still a blank flank it was hard for her to socialize or have fun. She was so upset with life and it's cruel way of choosing who's turn is it to suffer. Something happened that moment, a sign that hope has arrived. A sonic Rainboom lit up the sky and caused of all ponyville to look up and smile. Whether it was through decaying roofs or just from being outside they all saw it and they all reveled in the symbol of happiness that was the source of all their sorrow and joy. Rarity looked up and started crying "There is only one pony who can make something so beautiful." She said with tear filled eyes. her heart started pounding and her body was tense. Just then from the boom came a blur of color. A trail of prismatic joy, the towns folks all cheered on and realized she has returned. Some were uncaring as if they had lost all hope and others were waiting for the results of this meeting before they got excited. Some were already full of mirth and joy. hope and elation that was evacuated in the small town was now slowly returning. The mayor of the town had a small smirk on her face. I told that girl not to make Sonic Rainbooms too close to town ... oh well. She slowly approached where the trail landed and saw the crowd surround a cyan beauty with a rainbow mane. "So Rainbow Dash what brings you from your mighty kingdom today?" She said with half a serious tone as she was still unsure of what her arrival meant. Since her departure from Ponyville no one has seen her except a few one month after but that was it. She never returned to Ponyville again. Now she was back and it seemed she was still the same pegasus who used to bust clouds and make trouble. Rainbow Dash waited for dramatic effect.. Dun dun dun "Sup every pony, now before you all start yelling, or crying, or anything I have some quick announcements to make and then I am going to find Rarity and be off because I am super busy on a top secret mission for Celestia and I have no time for small talk but when I make my grand return to Ponyville then you can all bombard me with hate, love, and questions..." She said a mile a minute. She was rushing along not wanting to waste time with the eventual flood of emotions from the town she grew to love as a growing mare. "Alright first off I am not going to be a super fancy Wonderbolt anymore.. being one caused me to leave my main town behind and because of it ponies got hurt. So with that said I also will be generously donating a hefty sum to the Ponyville treasury whatever that means to help get this town back in shape. I am also reinstating Sweet Apple Acres and the Apple family is moving back. I will be bringing Twilight Sparkle back or did but that is later. I am also going to get Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy back. Oh and Scootaloo. Yeah I have plans. So that said hurry hurry hurry get me the papers I need to sign and all that because I just want to move along." The town was stunned. Though some were curious about the "special mission" they weren't caring about that part. The part that just mattered was someone was going to use their money to fix a town with no reward asked. She almost seemed as if tossing her money aside to do something this kind wasn't even on the top of her to do list. "Let me get this straight darling, you are meaning to tell me that you expect us to believe you are going to pay to rebuild Ponyville and reunite the ponies that made our town a great place to be in?" Rarity wasn't buying it. Rainbow Dash rushed towards her and smiled "I am also getting your boutique back in business and one more thing I need one of your fancy dresses before I quit being a Wonderbolt. I am going to pimp your product so hard. You will have ponies lining up to wear your designs." She looked rushed her wings flapping a mile a minute while hovering frantically. The mayor rushed back with some paper work and Rainbow Dash just signed off uncaring as if it didn't bother her, because it didn't. Rarity was at a loss for words so she did what any drama queen would do in this situation.. faint. The town ignored her and they just looked at the papers to see if she truly signed it and when they found out the papers were signed legit with her name and the sum she was donating they all smiled. It was a good day in Ponyville today. The town started having a more calm mood and while Rainbow Dash was out of ear shot they all cheered and hugged. Rarity awoke and and started squealing in her most giggly fashion. Just then a chariot of armored pegasi approached her and a unicorn tapped her on the shoulder. "Rarity, Celestia has requested you join her this day please come with us." Said the unicorn while Rarity looked at herself, She didn't feel groomed enough to visit royalty and what would she wear... and she had to get an outfit for Rainbow Dash to show off. while she was going off about the things she needed to do the stallions were all grumbling to themselves. ____________________________________________________________ Pinkamena Diane Pie, she was insane. She was classified with disassociate disorder and delusions grandeur. She was wrapped in a straight jacket after her numerous outburst of violence. she was locked inside a magic proof room because of her mysterious disappearances and reappearances. The guards outside were all the best of the best not allowing anything to slip control. She was in there singing "Dashie.. Dashie... Come back to me..., Dashie Dashie.... Stop dying..." it wasn't like the Pinkie Pie everyone knew and loved it was creepy. Her voice was empty without anything but sadness and craze filling her lungs. Nothing could break her out of the delusion she was in. Pills, therapy, pictures of the cyan pony. Nothing would help her. She was convinced she killed Rainbow Dash in a horrible manner. "Dashie... Dashie... your bleeding... stop bleeding... Dashie..." She would constantly talk to an empty room but to her it wasn't empty. There was an image of her dead friend there without any cause of it appearing. The guards always on edge especially when she was suddenly pressed against the glass giggling with an evil tone and her mood would drastically change. Her hair was always flat now, it used to switch between flat and puffy but as time passed the puffiness never returned and neither did her temporary sanity. It was a sad sight indeed. Some of the nurses were wondering why Celestia didn't just terminate the poor pony and end her suffering. Any Dash memorabilia was strictly prohibited in this wing of the sanitarium for obvious reasons. One of the nurses made a mistake of wearing a Rainbow Dash Cutie Mark tattoo and was violently beaten by Pinkamena Pie before they used the anti magic room for further protection. Pinkamena was licking the glass and shouting "Who want's a party?" She was in such a deep recess in her mind that nothing she stated even remotely made sense anymore. She was constantly making the guards jump and nurses to worry. They had a tiny slot for food to slip into and they were still afraid to go near it. "Hey let me out I am all better now..." she started as if she was normal they ignored her because it usually followed with "hahahahaha DASHIE!" She was out of it. Hallucinating and doing random things. Some of the ponies tried visiting her but it was not helping anything. The princess said when the time was right some pony would be able to save her. They didn't know what that meant but they were hoping something was done soon because the staff were always on edge as of late and were threatening to quit if something wasn't done about the pink menace. The guards were hearing some noises one semi silent while the other very loud "I said where the buck is Pinkie Pie... I am not leaving with out her." The noise escalated Pinkamena's movements as she was yelling "DASHIE DASHIE!" the guards knew a shit storm was coming. They tried to prepare for the incoming blur but as physics demands when something moves with great force the world must move with it. So the resounding shock wave from the rapid burst of movement caused the guards to fall back and meet their attacker. Rainbow Dash was seething. "Pinkie... what did they do to you... I am going to get you out of here buddy... I am going to make you better." She said before confronted by guards. "Look I don't know if you know who I am. But I am one not to be bucked with. I am Rainbow Dash and -" They shut her up with a hoof. "Listen we know who you are and you must leave if she gets over excited she will get too dangerous. She doesn't see you alive... she thinks you are a ghost because she has killed you in some sick fantasy. I don't know why you are here but just please leave for everyone's sake." He said trying to not sound as scared as he was as the sudden loud pink fury was screaming "Dashie Help... Help me Dashie... Dashie... DASHIE!" Pinkamena was crying and banging herself against the padded room. Rainbow Dash stomped her hoof down on the ground causing a resounding crack and loud thud "Listen here you stupid bastards I am going to get my friend and there isn't anything that will stop me. She isn't insane she is just misunderstood and she misses me... The one who should be in there is me because I caused her to be this way. Now there is two ways this will go. Either you move the buck out my way and let me take my friend out all nice like, or I will Sonic Rainbomb this entire building and you will deal with more than one escaped psychopath. The choice is yours and you have exactly 10 seconds to make it." The guards started to worry. Was she bucking serious? She looked serious... they decided it wasn't worth it. Whether because of her threat or because of who she was, she won the day and they moved aside. As the five second marker was being counted down. "Fine then she is your responsibility... Just I hope you know what you are getting into." The unicorn said before unlocking the door and watching a pink Blur break free of her straight jacket and pounce on the cyan wonder. "Pinkie... I am so sorry Pinkie... " She said while wrapping her forelegs around her insane friend. "I promise pinks I will take care of you until you get better I will see you smile... I will make you smile again and I promise to make sure it never fades." She said while continuing to hold her tight and cry onto her shoulder. "Dashie.... I am bored here and you are alive... take me home Dashie... I want to go home now." She said slowly and carefully sounding like a broken version of the inflated haired pink pony. She was slowly coming to grips with the world around her still her brain was shattered and she would need a lot of therapy and care before she could recover but Rainbow Dash was back.. she could tell she was back. "I love you Dashie.. sooooo much." She said before nuzzling the usually emotionally detached pegasus. Rainbow Dash didn't care about rep she wanted to help her friend and nuzzled her back. The nurses came in with paper work and dash grabbed them with her teeth before whooshing out the sanatorium with pinkie pie in her hooves. She brought Pinkie Pie to the castle in canterlot and noticed her friends had all arrived save for the marshmallow unicorn. She was glad twilight was there because she needed someone to look over the medical jargon and paperwork that she herself didn't understand. Rainbow Dash let go of Pinkie as she approached Twilight with the papers in her mouth. She spat out the papers and with her fatigue showing she slowly commanded "Hey you... take those papers and sign them and watch Pinkie Pie for me until I come back, got one more stop then fancy meeting with princess then I take Fluttershy home.... and then make sweet sweet love... ok? Bye." She stated while trying to whoosh out but was met with fatigue and tiredness. I must keep going, I can't stop now I am so close. She pushed through and started to overwork herself ignoring the dangers of doing so because she was on a mission and nothing was going to stop her. I will die before I let my day end without holding the mare of my dreams. ____________________________________________________________ Rainbow Dash knew her actions were going to bring her trouble as she plotted her next move, after all she had one more thing to do before she could face Fluttershy. Just before she set off she noticed a royal carriage bringing a marshmallow pony who was frantically waving the cyan pegasus down. "Rainbow Dash I got the perfect outfit." Rainbow Dash just grabbed whatever it was in the box and zoomed off at considerably low speeds compared to her usual form. She didn't care what it looked like she was going to wear it in the center of Cloudsdale before she grabbed Scootaloo and returned to get her girl. After all being awesome is what it means to be a Wonderbolt.... While making her move to Cloudsdale she noticed something was off. Her breathing was becoming erratic. The fatigue was wearing her body down. She had two choices fight through it and possibly die or slow down and rest. Her mind searched deep within her for some reserves. Her body was straining from the constant abuse it was receiving. The muscles were threatening to explode as it was inflamed and shooting off pain. She was hungry, tired, and all around exhausted. She wanted to eat and rest but... if she didn't get this done today that would mean one more day alone. One more tear-filled night. One more day of being empty in the heart. She wanted nothing more than to just sleep on the nearest cloud. She wanted to relax and wait.. let her body catch up. But love makes a pony do crazy things. She decided to push through the pain and keep on moving. Just as she was about to lose conscious she thought about something... if friendship is magic then love is something more powerful... something in her was bursting out and she realized her reborn element Loyalty was giving off the energy she needed to continue her trek. She was going to break through all limits just to reach the one she loved. Nothing will stop me... nothing. but at what price? Will her body fail her before reaching her goal or is there enough awesomeness in Rainbow Dash to achieve the impossible?