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// The Kindess Chronicles 
// Story: Saving the Elements 
// by Flames173 
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	Rainbow Dash was holding with all her strength trying to stay on the ceiling, so the guards wouldn't see her. They won't look up, no pony ever looks up. A guard paused beneath her, he looked around, then used magic to take out a flashlight to investigate the shadows, but he wouldn't move. A trickle of sweat appeared on Rainbow Dash's face from the exertion. She couldn't fly, the beat of her wings would be too loud, and she couldn't get out, the door was closed and she didn't pay attention to the code Soarin punched in to enter. 
Soarin. Rainbow Dash thought. When I get my hooves on that two timing back stabbing piece of shit, he's going to pay. She would've kept ranting in her head, but more sweat formed on her face, and it was about to drip down and hit the guard, and just like in all spy and secret agent movies, the guard would feel it, look up, and catch her. So she begged to Celestia that gravity wouldn't work until the guard went away.
After a few excruciatingly slow seconds, the guard shrugged, if ponies could shrug that is, and walked away. Just in time too, the little beads of water plopped on the ground right when he left. Rainbow Dash sighed mentally, and dropped down gingerly, so gingerly it was silent.
"Rainbow Dash, what are you doing here?" Soarin asked her from behind.
"What am I doing here, what are YOU doing here? You know if her plan succeeds, Spitfire will end up destroying Equestria!" Rainbow Dash whispered back.
"Look Rainbow Dash, I love you, I really do." he said quietly.
"Then you wouldn't have done this!"
"I'll let you out of here scotch free, just promise me you won't interfere in any ways."
Rainbow Dash suddenly formed a plan. "Yes, ok fine, I won't get in the way of your plans." she said.
"Here's the code."Soarin slipped her a scratch of paper. "But it changes every fourth use, so this will be the last time that code will work."
"Thank you." Rainbow Dash quickly took the paper and bolted for the door. She quickly punched in the numbers, but she screwed up on the last number. The mechanism buzzed loudly. "Shit." she quickly typed the numbers again. She got out and slammed the door, just in time to catch two guards in the face. Who should I tell first? Rainbow Dash wondered. FLUTTERSHY! Then she darted for Fluttershy's cottage. There wasn't a pony in sight. "Oh no, oh sweet Celestia no!" she said, frantically running around the property, looking for her friend. Eventually she saw a familiar white rabbit hopping around happily. "ANGEL! Where's Fluttershy?"
Angel made a bunch of gestures that made no sense to the Cyan pegasus.
"Where?"
Angel looked at her, not used to a pony who couldn't understand him. After a few seconds, he picked up an apple that was conveniently lying on the ground next to him. Then Angel pointed at it.
"She's at Sweet Apple Acres?"
Angel nodded.
Rainbow Dash took off so fast, the wind blew Angel's newly groomed fur. He swore the best a being incapable of speech could.
"FLUTTERSHY?" Rainbow Dash shouted when she arrived at the Apple house.
"Ya just missed her, she and mah brother went over to Rarity's to talk for a while." Applejack said, taking a bite of a doughnut. "Why do you need her?"
Rainbow Dash payed no mind to the question and flew top speed to the boutique. I swear if she's not there when I get there, I'm going to kill someone. She arrived just as the two left the building.
"Fluttershy, you have, to, get your, element, of harmony, and go to, my house, now!" Rainbow Dash said between pants. Flying that fast all around town is tiring, even for her.
"Why." Fluttershy asked.
"I'll, explain, later."
Fluttershy looked at Big Mac, who looked at Rainbow Dash, who stared back. Then Mac looked ta Fluttershy and nodded. "Ya know, you didn't have to ask my permission to right?" he asked.
"OH, well ,its just, I'll be there in a few minutes Rainbow Dash." then Fluttershy took off, slowly, she was going fast for her, about 10 miles per hour.
"Why do you need her now?" Mac asked, then he looked over to where Rainbow Dash was, only to see a rainbow streak fading. "Damn, that girls fast."
Eventually, Fluttershy arrived at Rainbow Dash's cloud, so she knocked to be polite. Two hooves darted from the door, grabbed her, and pulled her in. Then the shutters were closed, and the doors and windows locked. Fluttershy was thrown into a chair.
"What the, whats going on?" She asked, a pony, shrouded in shadows was slowly circling her. Whoever it was didn't bind her in any way, so it obviously wasn't going to be someone too bad right? Right?
"Fluttershy, do you truly know why I asked you to come here?"
"N-no, who are you?"
"Oh, sorry, it's Rainbow Dash." then the pegasus stepped into the light. "See? Anyways, I needed you here, for your element of harmony."
"Why?"
"Spitfire and Soarin, they're trying to get all the elements of harmony, Celestia knows why. We need to defend them the best we can! Give me you're necklace." Rainbow Dash extended a hoof towards Fluttershy.
"Don't you think it would be better if all of us had only one element at a time. that way if they get robbed, we only lose one of them?"
"Yes, but they already took mine, and we both know I'd be better at defending anything than you." Rainbow Dash said, not moving her hoof.
"Oh, ok, here." Fluttershy slowly gave Rainbow Dash her necklace.
"Yes, yes, YES!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "Just four more!"
"Wh-what?"
"You fool! I'm not you're idiotic friend. I am Queen Chrysalis." Then the changeling leader reverted back to her normal form. "This is going to be easy!"
Fluttershy gasped and jumped back in her chair. "What did you do to Rainbow Dash?"
"Look up."
Fluttershy looked up to see Rainbow Dash duct taped to her ceiling, her mouth taped shut and her arms, wings, and legs bound, she was completely incapable of movement.
"Good luck stopping us now!" then the queen changed back to Rainbow Dash and darted off, laughing evilly.
Fluttershy flew up to her friend and took the tape off of her.
"Are you ok Rainbow Dash?" she asked.
The cyan pegasus brushed off her coat, still a bit sticky from the tape. "Yeah, now we have to stop her!" Rainbow Dash flew full speed after the royal changeling. Queen Chrysalis was going just slower than Rainbow Dash, but she had such a good head start, it would take a while for the two to meet.
Rainbow Dash flew as fast as she could, pushing the limits of physics. She was gaining speed insanely fast. Mach one, two, three, four, five. She couldn't go any faster, her skin was barely clinging to her muscles.
Eventually, the two were 5 miles apart when Chrysalis changed back to herself and changed direction flawlessly, from straight forward to straight down. Rainbow Dash couldn't turn fast enough, and she was sent way off in the distance. She turned back. When the pegasus arrived at the not so secret base of Spitfire and company, the door was already locked shut again.
"NO! WHY! I was so close! What did I do wrong to deserve this? I was trying to help Equestria!" she shouted at the sky angrily. She turned back and went back to Ponyville. "I am a failure, I don't deserve to be on this planet." she said. "I deserve to be, on the MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!! No, I will not fail again, I will not let any more of the elements slip through my grasp, I will stop you Spitfire, and Soarin, I will personally see to that you get your punishment. I must tell the rest of the girls."