You never know what you had, until it's gone.
Dead Rainbows, Dead Fashion, and Pulling the Apple's Plug
A Sad End.
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It all happened on one fateful day. Three ponies consisting of Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack went to deliver a shipment of apples to Appaloosa. Sadly, fate cheated them; as they walked amongst the crowd with no warning but a sound of the screeching wooden wheels it smashed into them. It for the longest time until the right pony could get it off them, they were trapped.
It was shocking, both Rarity and Rainbow Dash died, Rainbow Dash of a heart attack just before the carriage fell on top of them, Rarity, she died on impact. Applejack, she's on the brink of death. Here she is; lying on her death bed as her life comes to a young close. "Will mah sis make it Doc?" the cream colored earth filly asked pouting as her sister was in another room laying down her life possibly coming to a close.
The Doctor rubbed the back of his mane. He isn't exactly sure how to tell this to Apple Bloom she may not make it. He sighed and dropped to eye level of Apple Bloom. "I-I'm sure she will, she's if you want you can visit her, just be careful." With that Apple Bloom looked to her friends who were crying in their own terms.
"She was so young!" the orange Pegasus with a magenta mane whined pushing her hooves back to her eyes morning her friend/role model; her voice less raspy than normal.
Sweetie Belle took note of that as she cried. She was comforted by her godmother as of a few days ago she was orphaned when her parents died by the hooves of a pony in Manehatten. Now she's sister-less too. "Shh, shh, it's okay Sweetie," Fluttershy said softly brining a hoof across the filly's puffy mane.
Scootaloo being homeless was only just crying on the seat no-pony able to comfort her, until. "Don't worry, we'll call your parents, is that fair?" a white earth mare asked doing her best to be nice. Scootaloo couldn't muster enough energy to say anything. Scootaloo's eyes swelled with tears. "Is that a yes?" she asked doing as Fluttershy is doing.
"N-No, y-you c-can't," Scootaloo mustered enough energy for that time.
This puzzled the white mare.
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Apple Bloom opened the door gingerly with her hoof. "A-Apple Bloom," the mare couldn't keep her voice in that honest kind tone.
"I'm here sis," Apple Bloom felt a tear run down her cheek. "How ya doin'?" she asked sitting down next to her sister's bed ever so lightly.
Applejack turned away and coughed into a tissue a tear falling from her snout as the sight was almost too much to bare; the sight of blood on the white cloth. "I've been better," she said, her voice raspy from the fit of coughing. She mustered a light laugh only to cause an almost disastrous coughing fit.
Applejack bit her lip as much as she could with the pain she was in. "Sis, how much do ya care...?"
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Scootaloo sniffed as she wiped her muzzle with her forearm. Soon she was given a tissue by Nurse Redheart.
"Now, why can't I call your parents?" she took it upon herself to wipe a tear from the young Pegasus' eyes. Fluttershy still wholesomely embraced the white unicorn with her wings. She nuzzled the white filly's neck tenderly.
Scootaloo glanced at the nurse her eyes meeting the mare's own eyes.
Scootaloo had to find out how to word it. "Because..." she knew this was no time to chicken out. “Because, I don't, have parents," she looked to her hooves. Tears dripped off her snout and onto the rainbow colored floor.
The mare was taken aback; never has she seen any sign of her being an orphan.
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"A bunch! Why do you ask sis?" Apple Bloom asked cocking up an eyebrow. Just as Applejack opened her mouth she turned away and coughed into a tissue painted with red.
"Don't disagree to what I am about to say, will you do one thing for me?" Applejack asked laying in her bed inside crying in agony.
Without thinking Apple Bloom spoke. "Of course sis, whatever you need," she nuzzled the now raspy mare's neck.
Applejack felt wrong asking this of her. "Pull the plug Apple Bloom," she said a hoof running down the filly's muzzle.
Apple Bloom's eyes began watering up like a waterfall, or Sweetie Belle.
"Don't cry AB, be strong," Applejack said taking another non-red stained tissue, she then wiped away tears and wiped the tissue along her chest for any stray tears.
"I can't do that to ya sis!" she jumped backwards from Applejack.
Applejack frowned sadly a tear roaming down her muzzle. "Ya think I want you to, I know, I know I'm goin' ta die soon, I don't want ta suffer through it with these damn machines!" Applejack snapped at Apple Bloom; something she never done before - until now - as she lies in her death bed.
Apple Bloom looked away from her sister. "I-I just can't sis," she wiped a tear from her eye as she continued to look down.
"Damn it Apple Bloom! Just do it!" she covered her mouth as she just cursed at Apple Bloom. She sighed. "I'm sorry Apple Bloom, it's, it's the machines, I just want to go in peace," Applejack closed her eyes for a moment.
Apple Bloom began to cry. "F-Fine," tears swelled her eyes as she approached her sisters monitors. "Goodnight sis . . . forever," with that Apple Bloom pulled the plug. She walked out of the room and turned off the lights glancing at the now dead mare in her bed. "It's true what they say: Ya never know what ya have, until it's gone.
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Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom walked on the sidewalk stopping at a stop sign. They sighed as they looked to see rain. With that an extremely sad Scootaloo extended her full sized wings over the two fillies' heads.