//------------------------------// // Planning, // Story: When Rainbows Cry // by well_thishappened //------------------------------// Chap 1:Scoots comes and gets pushed off chap2: Scoots dies Chap 3: Rainbow's friends are looking for her and scoots, rumours that there are ponies in Ghastly gorge, they investigate (by order of Celestia?)and see a starving, dirty, bloodstained, unconscious Rainbow lying near a rotting corpse, they don't know who it is, it ends with them realising it's rainbow and scootaloo. chap 4: Rainbow wakes up in a hospital (badly injured but able to take care of herself) she thinks that it was all a nightmare, fluttershy tells her and gets a broken nose and a dislocated wing, Rainbow escapes, sees scoots grave and kicks it slightly cracking it, ends with the pieces of rock falling on the ground chap 5: Sweetie belle and applebloom grow tired of waiting (don't know about Scoots yet) so they check scoot's family tree, see that she is a 9th cousin 6 times removed to Rainbow dashes aunt, they go to find rarity and AJ get told to go to the hospital, they enter (rainbow is with everypony else, she looks as if she's about to break, they try to tell her that scoots is her 9th cousin 6 times removed by her aunt but as soon as they mention scootaloo rainbow screams and looms over them, they become to scared so they just stutter in a way that makes her think that Scootaloo was her long lost cousin, ends with her broken and laughing chap6: starts with luna and celestia talking about dash and what they should do, they come in and visit see that she's completely OK and leave, the other 5(no spike) visit, dash acts completely normal. Ends with the signing of Dash being able to leave. (by now her physical wounds have healed) Chap 7: Rainbow wakes up in her bed, and starts to go through her normal day (get up, have breakfast, take a shower, leave, go to the weather station,) ponies their act weird and sorry for her, she asks why but they don't answer they just reply 'it must be hard for you' one even says (the jerky one) 'thank god that her parents are dead other wise you'd be in a hecka heap trouble'. Rainbow finishes work (brings in a couple small rain clouds) and goes home, on the way she sees the school let out S.B and A.B. are acting particularly sad, they all are, she feels as if somepony's missing. She takes a nap on a cloud for a couple hours, goes flying for the remaining before going to bed, while falling asleep she hears a voice singing 'Children of the night' end with: 'as the final chord died down Dash's eyelids fell as she joined Luna in her land of enchantment.' end with: 'Sleep opened it's mouth like a feeding python, and blackness returned. An unconscious Rainbow Dash lay in her bed' chap 8: Rainbow wakes up, a pair of glowing bloody wholes stare at her, she screams, a hissing noise and the 'eyes' disappear. Wanting to get away she walks around town and comes across her friends, she runs over to them and they invite her to lunch, all the while they are acting strange and suspicious, they talk and then go for a walk, they come across 2 kids playing on scooters one with orange fur and a red mane, the other blue fur and magenta mane, they stop to look at her and wave then continue playing, it comes up that while she was in hospital they were invited away to Cadences birthday, unfortunately Rainbow can't come so she'll be on her own. They chat for little longer before Pinkie/flutters reminds them that they have to go, they go pack as Rainbow watches, when they finish it's dark out. Ends with them fading into the darkness as the train leaves the station, somewhere a melodic voice laughs. chap 9: Starts with a thing(description?) about sleep, slowly morphs into fears, then guilt ends with family and friends. Rainbow wakes up and sees a shadow run out window Chap 10: Starts with Rainbow being unable to move, stuck down on the ground of Ghastly Gorge, A figure comes into sight, it's deformed and mutilated (Scootaloo(after death)) the siren-pony also comes, they dance about her singing chants and songs, slowly a picture comes forth from their singing in it Rainbow pushes scoots of the cliff, as she falls it fades, the siren-pony coils around her, through a small gap rainbow sees Scootaloo(before death) coming towards her she stops right up close to rainbow (loud breathing) she starts to melt to a skeleton before her eyes, the other voices fade then slink away, it leaves just the melted scoots and rainbow, it scoots starts to sing (in latin (find old latin song about death)) the song ends and the scoots melt into a puddle, the dream fades away. Ends with Rainbow lying in bed, not moving and finally: Scootaloo chap 11: starts with a thought track of Rainbow about Scootaloo(now that she knows she's dead), the thought track ends with something about how it's her fault. Meanwhile Twilight's friends are in the crystal empire chatting and enjoying themselves Rarity sees a rainbow coloured cloth and is reminded of Rainbow, they talk about how they hope she's OK and that it's not to hard on her. Ends with Rainbow standing in front of Scoots grave and thinks: 'Gone. She's gone. Dead. Dust. Mort. Finem chap 12: roseluck goes and asks thunderlane why there has been non-stop rain, he responds that there's been no requests from the 'boss'(rainbow) to change it. roseluck then proceeds to complain about her unresponsibilty and immaturity, scene ends with' i don't care if scootaloo's dead, well i do, but... It doesn't matter! It's not like Rainbow killed her herself!' Rainbow thought track: freaks out about how it 'happened' then thinks that she needs to hide it, or they might find out. A melodic voice says(not in head)' It's to la~te' Rainbow then screams(also not on head) ' No it's not!' And starts crying until she passes out. chap 13: starts with Rainbow walking through town, her mane is frazzled, her smile is fake and unnerving. she stumbles into Thunderlane who's explaining to lily about rainbow's absence, he sees her and she just smiles then flys to the weather factory. everypony asks her where she was, the jerky pony complains and says 'stop acting like that! It's not like you killed her yourself!' rainbow stands there and runs out crying. Rainbow crys on her bed a voice tells her 'She hurt you! How dare she! She insulted Scootaloo! Hurt her! Hurt her like she hurt you and Scootaloo!' rainbow whispers 'who are u?' it replies 'your friend... Now hurt her! don't let her do that to you! Justice! Revenge! Death took the wrong pony! Show it who really should die! For vengeance! For justice! For Scootaloo!' rainbow smiles. chap 14: starts with twilight shouting at the train conductor about all trains being cancelled for the next couple months because of a weird power going through all the crystals, so it's a security thing. A.B. and S.B. are out looking for somepony, they bump into Rainbow and are excited they found her and ask questions that R.D. find prying and she runs away. Next scene she's lying on her bed mumbling incoherent things under her breath, another voice comes and tells her to stop A.B. and S.B. from hurting others... stop them, the first voice chimes in and encourages it as well rainbow then falls asleep listening to the 2 voices lecture her. chap 15: Twilight and friends decide to walk, as it would be quicker, ends with Rarity complaining about dust. A basket is left outside including: some flowers, some fruit and a baguette, a note from the jerky pony saying: 'Dear Rainbow, sorry for hurting you eve though you acted completely irrationally and you didn't even kill that little brat. It's ok nopony even like her. Rainbow gets mad and grabs the baguette trying to smash it, it's stale she takes the basket and goes inside. Next scene starts with rainbow trying to cut some old baguette then gets frustrated and starts stabbing it, she then sees the jerky pony's face in it and stabs harder, it cuts into her hand and cuts her hand open, before even realising it she lost a large amount of blood. Ends with her collapsing from blood loss and dropping the phone with the hospital connected. chap 16: Dash wakes up in the same room as before. Looks around and sees an IV and a bandaged up leg. A doctor comes in and tells her what happened and that she can go but she gotta take it easy, the doctor leaves. The 2 voices come back and start to chat with Rainbow (no homicidal stuff) half way through a third voice enters proudly and the others are excited, the third voice starts to ramble on about nothing when a nurse comes in. Rainbow is lead outside but before gets an over-priced hospital bill, she gets angry but then it turns out that because she's under the care of Celestia she won't have to pay. Rainbow gets home and gets an old letter from mane 5 and spike about how much fun they're having, she's too angry to read the end of the letter or the date it was sent, the third voice tells her to kill them, Rainbow is horrified and immediately calls a therapist in fear that she might eventually do it. Twilight and friends are starving, it starts to rain and they are all overjoyed, then lighting strikes, ends with Pinkie's hair going flat. chap 17: Dash Enters the room for therapy, it gets tedious so the guy decides to do hypnosis, nothing special then suddenly he suddenly decides to do reactions to songs plays two before (one happy, one sad) decides to kick it up a notch (flutter rex song) but nothing happens then goes of and plays Children of the night by accident, Dash starts to shiver and quiver mumbling alarmed things she convulses until the song ends, then her eyes snap open, and she gets up murmuring the song, he takes down notes then send her to sleep, after a couple minutes he gets pictures of town ponies and she just says a quick comment on them, then he does one that she would know typical results according, then the jerky ones he notes down her results, the pic of scoots and she starts crying and closes her eyes the guy says something mildly offending and dashes eyes open, rage induces and she screams, jumps on top of him and beats him, breaks his spine but he doesn't die, he un-hypnotises her she wakes up to see him dying by her hooves she laughs hysterically, and slowly starts to peel of his skin as he dies, she starts singing creepy happy songs and playing in his blood and body, the 3rd voice comes in and complains about always being gone for he action, she finally accepts them and then continues to play in him. Ends with Spike sending a letter to Dash with no luck and a beed of sweat falls of Spike. chap 18: Something about 2 weeks later. Dash steps back and looks at a board on a wall covered with photo's of ponies and red strings, she smiles and adjusts a couple strings accordingly, then pulls out a feather from her wing relishing in the pain and throws it, and whichever pony it land on she kills, it lands on Thunderlane, she smiles and turns to leave, and the lights go off. Twilight and friends see ponyville and get excited and happy, and start to run. Dash walks into work smiling and composed, the other ponies are happy but unsettled but when she starts to chat it turns out she found ways to cope with the pain for the foreseeable future, she invites Thunderlane into her office, the door locks, ends with a pony scream being drowned out by laughter and the clank of a falling machine. chap 19: begins with dash arranging Carrot Top's head amongst the others on Scootaloo's shrine, she utters a prayer then leaves to her board, crossing out C.T., dash then removes one of her few remaining feathers, smiling slightly and throws it, it lands on the jerky pony, Dash's smile grew huge and laughed hysterically grabbing multiple knifes and axes swinging them wildly, she then sees the picture of Scoots and stops, a tear flowing down her cheek, she picks up a skinning knife and walks out. Twilight and friends walk in the outskirts of Ponyville and find the most recent newspaper, it talks about loads of deaths and serial killing, a horrible thunderstorm starts as they read that the weather place is being weird and messed up. Ends with the blood sprinkled coat being draped infront of the shrine and a knife being out back on its shelf. chap 20: Dash is chasing nurse Redheart down the street and cuts of her head and violates her insides e.g. makes a necklace of guts (in detail). Twilight and friends talk and decide to wait for a few days to see if there was a misprint or really a serial killer, Rarity then complains and starts walking towards town but then thunder strikes and squeals and runs back cowering. A.B. and S.B. hiding in the clubhouse, crying A.B. wants to go and leave and find A.J. before Dash gets them , S.B. shouts crying more and grabs her before she leaves, A.B. smacks S.B. and runs out leaving S.B. alone, she curls in the corner and rocks back and forth singing hush now quiet now. Dash lies in bed, decorating her bed sheets with the blood on her hoof, she runs out just before it's finished so she cuts herself on the joint of he near bare wing, using her feathers to finish it and add detail ,Tank walks in and Dash smiles her mouth drooling remembering that she's running out of food, she walks over trying to speak calmly to Tank, grabs him and smashes his shell, shoving it in her mouth raw, blood trickling down smiling and laughing, ends with her losing her last speck of sanity chap 21: A.B. runs down the street crying, she comes to a dead end, nothing, nothing, nothing, come little children, a blood red strand of hair trails down her head, A.B. looks up and sees Dash, her mouth has been cut up in a smile but carved so that it goes into points accordingly, her eyes are slightly yellowed and blood shot, her body is full of cuts and scars; she talks about how much she missed her and where's S.B., Dash falls off the pole and walks away, picks up a large hunk of gnarled wood and walks towards A.B. again, A.B. curls up and whimpers, Dash reminds her that she would have been fine had she said that Scoots was not her long lost cousin, A.B. corrects her (6th cousin, 9times removed by her aunt), Dash stops and stares, awestruck, she makes the laughing sound but stays dead panned, random spasms on different body parts, she continues this walking towards A.B. and says: "I missed you, but Scootaloo misses you more.". Right as twilight and friends decide to go find out what's up, A.J. stops and refuses to go, feeling something wrong, her behaviour is weird and serious so the others stay, ends with A.J. hoping that A.B.'s ok, Twilight reassures that she's in safe hooves with Dash. chap 22: S.B. is still in the corner, but is starving and cried so much that her eyes were sore and raw, she gets up in a state of false confidence and stomps down to Scootaloo's grave, praying to her, then marching down to Dash's house and marching in, making her way to the back of the house to Scootaloo's shrine, and called Dash. Dash walks in and immediately senses that someone else is in the house, she stalks around whispering threats until she comes to the door of Scootashrine, she stops and creeps in, Dash looked around, spotting S.B. she catches her breath and growls, walked over to her and then sat down, defeated,. S.B. stops and looks down concerned Dash then explains tearfully and heart jearkingly about why she did that, what she thought and felt when she did it, and why she does this(when she says this she goes over and cuts off S.B.'s horn, blood comes gushing out enough for her to bleed to death but over about a minute,) S.B. asks why as she dies, Dash responds with (something along the lines of): The voices, they tell me to do it, I know that's not an excuse but their worlds hurt, their arguing hurst, even when it's not to me, they started out as just arguing jokingly and being nice, then they grew mean after I killed the first man, they noticed my weakness and exposed it. I'm scared, horrified. I just want them to stop, so I kept on killing, but they never did, I soon forgot about them and killed for the pleasure and revenge. I know I'm a monster but my spots of sanity are getting fewer and fewer, I fear this may be my last so please, just if you survive, tell everyone to run, get Celestia and bring me down. Dash then continues to stare and cry, a faint voice starts to sing Come little children, as S.B.'s vision fades she sees Dash singing and looming over her, S.B. tells her that her voice is so beautiful but dash shushes her and tells her to apologise to Scoots for her. Ends with Twilight and friends stepping into Ponyville and looking around, Rarity starts to whimper and says Sweetie Bell. chap 23: Mane 5 and spike walk around town freaked out, it looks like a ghost town, they don't see anyone home so they go to Dash's house hoping that she'll still be there. As they go they get more and more anxious and scared, Rarity nearly faints but continues for S.B.'s sake, when they get to the house Rarity splits of screaming as she's too scared. As she runs she sees a shadow and Dash, Dash smiles and acts as if it's not her that did this and that A.B. and S.B. are OK she then explains that her appearance is like that because she's adapted to scaring off the murderer, Rarity is scared but accepts it, Dash asks if she'd please explain to the others as it's awkward for her, Rarity agrees then sets of walking. Dash creeps up and silently drapes a naked wing over Rarity's mouth cooing softly and then tightens, pulling back her head until it snaps, Dash the pushes her into a bush and walks away arguing with the other voices. Spike goes of after Rarity and watches the entire time even when she's killed, he follows her but then snaps on a twig and Dash sees him, at first she looks shocked and scared she bows down acting inferior Spike falls for it and acts all high and mighty, while Dash is grovelling she multiple time says shut up and yeah, yeah I know (to the voices but Spike doesn't know that), Spike is concerned and asks why, she just says the usual voices nothing scary, I think it's schizophonis or something, Spike suggests schizophrenia, and she agrees she then pleads him to tell her how to get rid of it as they're scaring her (he also says to the voices that hurt as they got mad at her for wanting to get rid of them), he sits down and starts to do a basic brief of schizophrenia, Dash then listens but creeps closer constantly until she is only 20cm away he then starts (but doesn't actually say anything scientific) about how to het rid of schizophrenia Dash then corrects that she doesn't want to get rid of that, Spike is confused, she then explains that by them she meant Twilight, Fluttershy, pinkie Pie, Applejack and him(Spike) she then walks over and explains that since he wasn't nice to her and help her she's going to teach him how to help people and be nice, by helping him see Rarity again, when the realisation dawns on him it's too late and she slits his throat with a near by sharp rock and then asks him to tell Rarity that she's sorry but she never liked her fashion sense, she then leaves saying loud enough for him to her : she never even liked you. Dash goes around abusing the trees and making sure that Applejack sees them, when she does a.j. gets mad and bucks a tree that dash 'just happens' to be in she falls out and feigns pain and dying, a.j. gets sad and worried and hold Dash in her arms in a cliche manner, Dash then apologises that she can't spend so long on her and she needs to hurry up as she's taking to long already, a.j. is confused and then Dash kicks her in the stomach, as she keels over Dash gets up and beats/stomps a.j.'s head until she is nearly dead, right before she dies dash teases that she's not really that strong especially if she was so easily beaten. P.P, F.S and T.S. decide that P.P. should stay outside and guard while the other 2 go inside and investigate what's going on, they agree, and they go inside, Pinkie is scared and is singing giggle at the ghosties, Dash sees this and is shouted at by the voices to hurry up and kill her already so that she can stop the others from hurting Scootashrine, as soon as G.A.G ends Dash starts to sing come little children and walks out so Pinkie can see, Pinkie is scared but stays silent until the song ends, when she then gets a good look at Dash and starts to cry, Dash then shushes her and tells her to never stop smiling she then makes her pinkie promise to never stop smiling, pinkie promises and starts to smile, Dash then turns mean and commands her to go into the forest and not say a word, pinkie is scared but obliges, Dash then follows after grabbing a rope from her shed, she then forces pinkie to hang herself, she's so horrified that she does so, smiling the whole time, right before pinkie tighten the rope Dash tells her that over the past few weeks pinkie has been acting boring, probably due to her realisation that the only reason her friends stick wit her is free food, pinkie then voluntarily hangs herself, smiling all the while. Twilight go ask Fluttershy if she can please quickly check on pinkie as she's acting rather quiet, Fluttershy does so but as soon as she sees that pinkie is not there she regrets it as she sees a shadow moving slowly towards her, she realised it's Dash and just stops, she immediately figures out that Dash did this as she knew that dash was not good with dealing with emotional stuff, she asks dash (still scared) if she killed scoots, dash responds with yeah, would you like proof?, fluttershy is too horrified to move and knows full well that this is her death, while she lies on the ground with a knife in her chest (dash stabs her)she just says: thank you, i didn't want to love in a world where my best friend is a murderer, dash tries to say something hurtful but chokes up. Twilight leaves the kitchen of Dash's house, confused about her everypony else is, she sees an old yellowed door with a browny red splotchy door handle, she starts to walk inside, meanwhile dash walks into the house searching for Twilight, she sees things turned over and tossed about, making dash mad, she then hears the creek of scootashrine being opened, she runs in right when Twilight is about to see it, she tackles her and grabs a machete, Twilight struggles and screams, Dash then shouts at her and threatens her, Twilight still struggles and asks why she can't see it, Dash sighs and lets her see, Twilight gasps (describe scootashrine in detail) she then looks at Dash and Dash nods, Twilight cries a bit but then looks Dash in the eyes and asks her to kill her, Dash is surprised but slowly presses the blade to her throat, Twilight then tells her to stop and then kisses her, Dash blushes but only stutters awkwardly, Twilight then whispers good bye and uses her magic to push down the blade. Ends with Rainbow sitting there in Twilight's blood thinking: The only one I truly loved killed herself for my misdeeds. How did I let it get so far? Chap 24: Starts with the princesses worrying about why Twilight isn't back yet, they bring ing Cadence and she says that everypony was there except for Dash who experienced a very traumatic event and could possibly be holding them hostage, the princesses are dubious but agree as any lead is a lead. Shining armour (for guard reasons and Twi's bro) and Spitfire (for flight and fight) as well as many other guards search Ponyville and find nothing but desolation and a scrap bit of watered down newspaper but can only read about a serial killer but nothing else. They get to Dash's house and it smells of rotten meat, they walk in (just shining and spit) and split up, Spit goes upstairs, shining walks around, and gets to Dash's room where he sees her lying on her bed, he just sees naked wings and some cuts, nothing that bad and the sheets, he then notices her her mumbling things and crying, he coughs and she freezes, he then tries to talk to her but she remains frozen, he walks in silently but she still tells him to not, he asks how she knew, she responds with that he's so loud let me show you how you move quietly, shining closes his eyes and doesn't think she even moved as all he hears is silence, she tells him to open his eyes and when he does she says boo and he sees her, he screams but she just calmly hushes him, when he falls quiet again she tells him that screaming is only going to hurt everypony involved, he warns her that there's many guards outside but doesn't mention spit, she just smiles and asks him why they're here, he replies that they're looking for Twilight, she stiffens and says stiffly that he should go, he asks and then she breaks down and says she didn't do it, it was because of her but she didn't do it herself and gibberish about Twi, she then goes to the window and asks a bunch of questions about the guards and how many there are, what species, what training etc. Shining answers them all but walks forward Dash makes it evident that she can hear him, he walks over and puts a hoof on her shoulder, she then cries that she thought she finally lost it he questions but she ignores him, then as soon as she needs the insanity it stops, the voices even leave her alone and rarely speak, one she dies, when he asks she responds with Twilight and sighs then look in the bed, he sees it while he sees her she says I never wanted her to kill herself, I loved her you know but she did anyway, she should have been generosity as well, she sacrificed her life to bring back my sanity. Take me to Celestia, please. Shining is incredibly disturbed but he manages to call Spit down. Chap 25: Dash is at court in front of everyone, her wounds are starting to heal, while everypony is pleading insanity for her she just begs Celestia to please kill her, she can't live with the guilt, insanity was what happened while she was killing she's healed now, just kill her. Celestia agrees to execution, much to everypony else's displeasure. Dash is meeting her mum, dad, and sister, they are all distraught and she has an emotional talk with them all, especially her sister (about scoot's age) they see her desperation for death and let it go and admit to her dying; she then meets P.P's parents that just look at her with hate and contempt, especially Maud; F.S.' parents who just speak in hushed tones how strange it was until Dash says sorry and they burst into tears over F.S.; Rarity's parents refuse to go in the same room as her after killing both their children; Twi's family, they all have mixed feelings Shining=disturbance Velvet=grief and fear dad=Pity, they all speak separately until they all say unanimously you didn't kill Twilight, but you did; Celestia and Luna and Cadence come in, they're all sympathetic, they look sadly ate her and she follows them out. Dash stands in front of millions of ponies who feel sorry for you, she gives a long speech (rough draft thingy): I know that most of you feel sorry for me. Don't. Everything that happened was entirely my fault, and I brought upon myself, even insanity was induced by an action of mine and refusal to seek help until it was to late. Don't think of me as anything except an example, an example to always seek help about anything mentally strange, an example to never do dangerous things to ponies without confirming everything first, the list goes on but most importantly, an example to not kill others. It may seem strange and obvious that i would say that, but even me, Rainbow Dash: flying prodigy, friendly neighbourhood hero, element of loyalty, even that fell to insanity and murder. It's not like in movies when you randomly start killing ponies and get addicted, it's slow, it's gory, it's painful. I admit, that I got addicted to killing, for what I thought was a reason, insanity doesn't make you want to kill ponies. No, it destroys your sense of reasoning and emotions, or most of them at least, leaving you in the perfect state for you to kill. I give myself as an example. I give myself as a lesson. I give myself as a specimen. And for all you ponies out there who I killed someone that you loved, or even hurt in the slightest way, I kill myself for you. I don't want to die to not suffer the guilt or the hate, it's what i deserve, living is more of a torture. No, i kill myself for their vengeance, for justice and karma. I kill myself to say sorry and apologise to you and the ponies I hurt. I know it shan't be enough, but I shall do everything I can to make up for the pain I've caused, I know it isn't enough, nothing is ever enough, but it's all I can do. And to the ponies I hurt... Well I can apologise to you in person.' Dash then slips out of the noose, walked down from the podium, picked up a knife from one of the guards, stepped in front if the podium (still onstage) and dragged the length of the knife along her throat. As she dies she smiles and laughs (as much as she can) and says "Hey squirt, let me join ya in that nap."