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// Finding Rainbow Dash.  
// Story: Blood ravens: Crashlanding in Equestria. 
// by ThatRarityIsaSpy 
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“Where’s Rainbow Dash?” Applejack asked. “She went with the scouts last night. She should've been back.” 
“I hope she’s okay.” Fluttershy said. 
“I bet she’ll be fine. She knows how to handle herself.” Rarity said. 
“Girls! I got news from my brother! Rainbow Dash is currently lost in the Everfree forest!” Twilight said nervously. 
“What?! Did those aliens eat her or do something to her?” Pinkie asked 
“No. From what some people say one of the aliens picked her up and threw her just like that to some random part of the forest.” Twilight continued. 
“Well what in tarnation are we waiting for?!”Applejack asked. “We’ve got to find Rainbow Dash!” 
“Yeah... about that....” Twilight said. “Princess Celestia just declared the Everfree forest to be off limits.” 
“WHAT?!” Everyone exclaimed all at the same time. 
“It’s just simply too dangerous. That’s it. We don’t know what these aliens are truly capable of.” Twilight said. “Bu...” 
“Hold on a sec now, would Rainbow Dash ever leave us behind?” Applejack chimed in.
“Yeah, Rainbow Dash would never leave us to die to a bunch of Alien fiends, why should we?” 
“She is a great friend....”
“And how would our parties be without her?!” 
“Well everypony just let me finish?!” Twilight asked impatiently. “We’re gonna be breaking the rules of this but we must do it. We’ve got to find Rainbow Dash and maybe we can talk some sense into the aliens so they wouldn’t try and harm anypony!” 

The five friends agreed. Time to find Rainbow Dash! 




“We’re approaching the first set of coordinates. Be ready for any contacts.” Angelos said. The first set of coordinates had taken them near a swamp. 
“Unless, the thunderhawk had sank into that swamp, then I have a feeling they did not land here.” Martellus said taking a look at the muddy water. 
"In that case, we're just wasting time.” Angelos said. “Let’s continue to the next set of coordinates.” 
The space marines continued, searching for their lost comrades. They continued to the coordinates checking each and everyone. 




“Alright. Rainbow dash was last known to be here.” Twilight said taking a look. “Huh. You’d think for a place where a fight occurred..... there’d be more to it.” 
“I am only glad there’s none of that......”Rarity said. “These alien ruffians seem not too keen on making a mess.” 
“Maybe they ate the bodies?”Pinkie said.
“Pinkie Pie! That would be absolutely awful! Why would you suggest such a thing?!” Rarity said aghast. 
“Well, they do eat meat after all and maybe Rainbow Dash was so delicious that they couldn’t help but to taste the rainbow! But this is of course just a hunch.” 
“Yeah.... an unrealistic one.” Twilight thought. “Alright girls, let’s get moving.... I think I might just know... we should keep looking...” 



Rainbow Dash had knew she was lost. She did her best in not panicking. She had no clue where she was and her best hope what to wait until her wings healed but for all she knew, it may be a few hours to a few weeks before her wings heal. So quickly she stumbled around the forest. 

“Ohhhhhh, I’ll never get out at this rate.” She sighed. “Why me?” 

A bit frustrated, she kicked a piece of timber................wolf. 

The timberwolf got up, rather angry over the fact it got kicked began to growl at Rainbow Dash who in turn ran. Summoning the rest of it’s pack, the wolves began to chase the pegasus as she ran as fast she could. 




“So the next set of coordinates comes from this ravine?” Angelos asked peering over the ledge. 
“Yes. From my calculations, this is the last possible place our brothers could be, I expect to find them here.” Martellus said. “Be careful I have detected several predatory life forms down in the ravine.The sides of the chasm are also fairly unstable. Best approach with caution.”

The space marines made their way down the ledge, on the alert. 


Rainbow Dash turned around to see how close the timberwolves were to her, this proved to be a mistake as she tripped over a root and fell face first and began to roll straight down a hill right into ghastly gorge. After a while of rolling down and writhing in pain, Rainbow picked herself up. Her body was aching and she was awfully dizzy but at least the timberwolves had given up chase and at least she was alive. Taking a look around she instantly knew she was in ghastly gorge. Knowing that she couldn’t fly her way out, she would have to walk all the way to the other side. Knowing that a tortoise isn’t going to come and save her this time, she knew she had to be careful. Taking a sip of water from a nearby stream, she bolted to the other side, happy that she was in a place where she knew the lay of the land.


“You hear something?” One of the space marines asked as they approached several holes in the side of the canyon. 
“No, but I do know there are predators in there waiting to ambush us.” The other space marine said. “Brother! You’re flamer will be of assistance.” 
The heavy weapons marine came over and began to torch the insides of every single hole. The screams of pain from the Quarray eels filled the air. 

“Targets. Neutralized.” The space marine said to his brothers as they kept moving. “Life forms ahead.” 
“What is it?”Angelos asked. 
“Scanning..... our battle brothers.” 
“Time for them to join us.” Angelos said as he quickly took the lead again and ran to greet his men. They were being led by an assault marine sergeant. His name was Thaddeus. 

“Good to see you, Captain Angelos. We have waited for someone to meet up with us. When we found we were alone, we decided against leaving this ravine in hope you would find us. Which you did.” Thaddeus greeted Angelos as soon as they met. 
“Allow me to brief you on the situation.” The captain said. “We are marooned on this planet for Emperor knows when. All we know is this planet is very friendly to life and that food and water are both plentiful. We’ve tried to stay in isolation away from the natives for now. That may change soon however. Best we get going.” 
“Oh yes Captain.” One of the marines said as if remembering something. “I was able to get into contact with our armor units. They know the location of the fortress and are moving there now. They however have to take a different route to this terrain.” 
“Understood. Let’s move blood ravens!” 




“Hey look at this trail!” Pinkie said. “It looks like somepony slid down this hill....” 
“And something.....” Twilight thought examining the trails closely. “Aside from the giant slide mark, there was also these huge hoof prints they were undoubtedly very big and whatever made them was very heavy.” 
“You think Rainbow Dash came down here?” Fluttershy asked. 
“It’s worth taking a look. She’s hidden here in the past!”Pinkie pie said.
“Well, come on girls! We’ve got a friend to help.” Rarity said as they made their way down with Twilight lagging  doubtfully behind. 



Rainbow Dash took a look around at her surroundings for where she had walked for some time. That’s when realization hit her. She was going the wrong way. Doing a facehoof while silently berating herself for being so foolish, she was about to start moving when she heard voices.... finding a rock, she quickly hid behind it and listened. 
“Good to see all of you again brothers. Though we may be stuck here for the rest of our lives, at least we know our Emperor is watching and at least he knows we will remain faithful.” One of them said. To this statement he was rewarded with many murmurs of agreement. 
“Captain Angelos.” The speaker said again. “What do we know about this planet’s inhabitants?” 
“Techmarine Martellus and Librarian Jonah Orion had both taken a look at it. Records seem to match the natives as a lost breed of the ancient Terran horse.” Angelos replied. “Haven’t been here for a long time, we are still unsure about their intentions. We only know they are very curious and keeping them off of our territory is rather difficult. Thule was contemplating on using more lethal ways of making sure they stay away. Their presence makes everyone, feel very uneasy.” 
“So what’s stopping us from cleansing the xenos?” One of the marines asked. “Surely there’s nothing that can stand against space marines.” 
“If we kill these xenos.” Martellus began. “Then as meager as our chances of returning home already are, they will most likely drop to zero.” 
“So... if we’re not going to go home anyways, then why not just slaughter these xenos and do what last favors to the Imperium that we can?” 
“Because......” 


Rainbow was about to continue listening, but that was when she heard something that made her blood run cold. 

“Captain, there is a xenos behind that rock.” 
Gabriel turned around. “Thaddeus and Martellus, you stay with me. The rest of you, take that route, it’s a shortcut.” He said pointing a less steep area of the ravine. 

At this moment, Rainbow Dash seized her opportunity and ran, which was exactly what Angelos had wanted. 
“Rest of you go on your ways. Thaddeus, think you can catch her?” 
Thaddeus grinned and readied his jump-pack. 



Nothing really surprised Rainbow Dash more than a half ton alien that fell from the sky right in front of her. Turning around, she then saw the one with the big hammer, the same one that killed an Ursa running straight for them. 

Rainbow Dash then decided, the best thing to do was to make a break for it. So, she quickly began to run around hoping to evade Thaddeus. This of course ended in failure as Thaddeus caught to her every time and eventually picked up by the mane, to this which Rainbow voiced her discomfort over. This only got her a strange look from Thaddeus.  

“I got it captain.” Thaddeus said. 
“Good.” Now turning to Rainbow Dash. “Now then, were you spying on us?” 
“What? Eh... no... I just happened to see you and hid! Now lemee go! Now!” 
Thaddeus was amused as he watched the small creature futilely trying to escape his grasp. Angelos clearly was also finding this situation humorous. 
“Are we the only two who seem to enjoy having them around?” Thaddeus asked. 
“The only one’s who seem to be mildly tolerant of them besides from us..” Gabriel said his voice carrying a now menacing undertone. “It's the three of us and our librarian.” 
“So what do we.......” Thaddeus thought he heard foot steps. Sure enough, right as he turned around, he saw more of the strange but funny little aliens approaching. 

“They got Rainbow Dash!” Rarity said. “The ruffian...... my.... what lovely armor they got.....” 
Angelos and Thaddeus turned around to see the five ponies approaching them all mostly eyeing the one that Thaddeus has in his hand. 

“Let Rainbow Dash go now!!” Pinkie said making a face at the space marines. The idea was to make a threatening look to have the aliens drop Rainbow Dash but it succeeded in almost making the three of them smile. 
Angelos looked at Thaddeus as if he wanted him to make the decision. 
“Your choice Thaddeus.” Angelos said. Martellus nodding in agreement. 
Thaddeus took a look at the five multi-colored equines and thought to himself. “Why was it that they wanted this one back so badly?” He pondered this for a few moments, and then it hit him. 

The same reason Angelos and Martellus had gone all the way here to look for him on a world that could potentially be dangerous was the that they were battle brothers till the days they would die. These five had done something similar, gone all the way here to potentially of being killed just to save one of their one. 

This touched Thaddeus, he remembers doing similar things as well as making oaths of helping his fellow battle brothers as well as citizens of the Imperium. Gently, he put Rainbow Dash down and watched with a hint of a smile on his face how happy they seemed to be when they were together again. 

“Always the sentimental one.” Martellus thought.
“Time we headed back, brothers.” Gabriel said as his two companions followed him. 





As the three space marines turned around and left, and as the friends began to rejoice with the fact Rainbow Dash was back, Twilight was still eyeing the space marines as they walked back to where they were staying. 
“Come on girls, maybe Princess Celestia should know that we just saved Rainbow Dash.......” 
"I can't believe he caught me!" Rainbow Dash said. "I should of been easily able to take him on!" 
"Which one?" 
"That big brute that was holding me! He managed to catch me! And fly as well even though he does have wings....." 
"That's a bit strange...." Twilight said. "But then again they were Aliens. Let's head on back to ponyville. My brother's waiting for us there." 


Celestia and Shining Armor took a look at the scouts, all of them had been frightened very badly, but at least there were very little injuries. 

“So... they picked you up and threw you?” Shining armor asked once again shaking his head. 
“Yep......they did just that...”Moonlight said. “Any other scouting expeditions say that these aliens regard the Everfree forest or at least portions of it to be their territory.” 
“What do you think Princess?” Shining armor asked. “It’s your call.”
“Can you give me a report of what these aliens have done besides from occupy the section of the forest?” The princess asked thinking about the subject for a moment. 
“Princess! We’re back!” Twilight said as she ran into the room where the three were having a discussion. 
The Princess smiled and nodded to acknowledge their arrival. 
“Well, they have begun to terrorize anyone who goes in and simply just don't seem to want us to go into the forest. No deaths or major injuries yet but this troubling. I think our best course of action will be to drive them out......” Shining armor continued. 
“Wait....” Fluttershy said “But these... aliens don’t have a home... if anything they seem as if they want to go home......” 
“Fluttershy, you’re not actually siding with these aliens now are you?” Rainbow Dash said in disbelief. “Come on, you’ve seen them hurt our friends as well as kill countless animals in the forest! They’re dangerous!” 
“Like I was saying....” Shining armor said not happy to be interrupted again. “I think we should drive them out or just completely destroy them. I’ll personally lead this one..” 
“Wait! Shining Armor! You can’t!” Twilight said. “Do you have any idea what these aliens are capable of?!” 
“Twilight, I am fully aware.” Shining armor said comforting his younger sister. “And that is why I am going to take charge personally.” 

This was going to be final, until the door opened once again. This time, a messenger entered in a hurry. 

“Princess! We have a serious problem!” The messenger said.” 
“What is it?” Celestia asked a bit worried. 
“One of the statues in the garden. it’s gone......” 
“Worry about that later! It's just a statue!” Shining armor said. “I've got some aliens to drive out.....”