Chapter 7 - Return of Evil
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Falling. All she remembered was a flash of a strange puppet that seemed all too familiar, and then just falling for several seconds before passing out. She awoke back in the air on the back of somepony else. It was Soarin, she didn't remember being with Soarin. The last thing she remembered before the fall was kissing him, but she didn't know where they were now. After regaining some sense of coordination she rolled over off Soarin's back and let her own wings support her weight once again.
Soarin seemed taken by surprise at her sudden movement. Dash thought he looked concerned for her.
"You okay Dashie?" he asked her with obvious and serious concern.
She was slightly taken aback by the use of her nickname, "Uhh, yeah, I'm fine. I just don't know what happened."
"We were flying to my place to start our vacation and you just passed out while flying. I managed to catch you but at the expense of my suit case." He shrugged it off. "Oh well."
Vacation? Dash was seriously confused. They still had eight more shows until vacation! She also found it odd that she was going on a vacation with Soarin, she barely knew him. She tried to rack her brains to find some bit of info that she was missing but soon realized that she couldn't remember anything before joining the Wonderbolts.
"How long has it been since we first kissed and had drunken sex?"
Soarin was taken aback by the sudden and blunt question. "Well umm, about a month and a half?"
Rainbow Dash stopped flying in mid air and just hovered pondering what she had just learned with a dumbfounded look on her face. How could it have been that long? She didn't remember a single thing except the drunken sex and some Celestia damned puppet that kept flashing through her mind.
"You ok?" Soarin look a little confused.
"No, I'm not." She responded bluntly to the question. "Look Soarin, I'm sure that in the last month and a half we have had a great time together but I need to confess that..." She paused a moment before saying it and a look of distress flashed across Soarin's face. "I don't remember anything since that night that we first got together." The look of distress turned to one of sorrow.
"Oh..." It was all that he could say through the tears welling in his eyes.
Dash thought about going home but, she didn't remember where that was. " Look Soarin, I know I don't remember anything but I'd still like to come with you if that's okay." She paused a moment before continuing, "you know maybe you could fill me in on what has been going on the past month."
"Sure thing Dash." Happiness returned to his face at the news that she still wanted to be with him. "Are you sure you don't need a doctor or something?"
"Yeah I'm sure i do." She let out a soft giggle. "But i hate those places so it can wait."
The pair shared a laugh and flew towards Manehattan together.
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Twilight ran back and forth in her home trying to find something that indicated what that rumbling sound that they heard at the wedding was.
"Twilight!" Spike's voice called from the other room. "I got a letter from the princess!"
Twilight dropped everything that she was doing and rushed to the other room to read the letter.
Dear Twilight,
I know you have been working on figuring out the strange noise we heard. I believe I know what it was and would like you to come to Canterlot to discuss the matter
That was all the letter said. Twilight focused on her magic and with a sudden pop and a flash of light she was in the Canterlot castle throne room.
"Ahh, Twilight, I'm glad you came so quickly." The princess had a look of distress on her face. telling Twilight that whatever she had to say it wasn't good. I'm afraid that Discord had escaped."
"How did he escape?"
"I don't know but i went to check his prison and he was gone. My guess is that there was some hole in the enchantment that i used to containment and he found it. But luckily he doesn't have the elements of harmony this time, can you get all your friends together with the elements?"
"That might not be easy." Twilight said, "none of us have heard from Rainbow Dash in well over a month. She didn't even show up to Fluttershy's wedding. It completely devastated her."
"Well as the element of loyalty that doesn't sound like her at all." She paused as if thinking before continuing. "I'm sure if you found her then you would find out that she was just busy and couldn't be there that day. Do you know how to find her?"
"No, I checked the Wonderbolts tour schedule and they are on vacation right now. She could be anywhere in Equestria right now." Twilight well well aware that they needed Rainbow Dash for the elements to work but at the same time she had really meant what she told Fluttershy about not wanting anything to do with her.
"Well hunting her down is first priority. All we can do until then is try and avoid discord, which won't be easy." Celestia had almost a desperate tone to her voice. "I need you and the others to start searching as soon as possible."
"Will do, princess." With that she ran as fast as she could out of the castle and made her way back to Ponyville she didn't have enough energy left to teleport back so all she could do was catch the first train.
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Soarin and Rainbow Dash sat in his house, just like the had for the past few hours while Soarin filled Dash in on everything that had happened in the past month that she had forgotten. They heard a noise from the other room so they got up to go investigate. Sitting on the bed was none other than Discord. He was laying like was was tanning on a beach with sunglasses and everything.
"Well hello you two lovebirds!" He mocked as if he was just noticing them. Suddenly he struck out. With an evil laugh rolling through the building the couple blacked out.
Author's Note: Hooray! I finally pulled up the inspiration to write again. Well today (July 1st) is my birthday so I'm gonna publish this chapter now and you can expect to see chapter 8 sometime this weekend. Love you guys *Brohoof*