//------------------------------// // Who's Who (Finale) // Story: The Rose Colored Rainbow // by Write Holiday //------------------------------// After spending the afternoon at the medical clinic getting answers, Twilight walks back to her house. At her front door is a grey pegasus with rose eyes. "Fluttershy?" "Wrong one." Rainbow walks towards her. "Oh, hi Rainbow. So you saw Fluttershy?" "Yeah, it's sad. Too convenient though, it must be an illness, just like Applejack said. Want to come over my house? I could use the company." "Sure." They head to the clouds and Rainbow opens the door. She let's Twilight in first then grabs a lamp and smashes it on her head. Twilight falls over, still conscious. She pushes up and kicks with her front hooves, pushing Rainbow down. "Are you crazy?! You could have hurt... wait. you did it. You're the one that made Fluttershy look like that, it was you wasn't it?!" No answer. She flies towards the door, but Rainbow rushes into her. They smash into a wall, pushing part of the clouds out. Twilight flies into the air and down onto Rainbow's back. There are multiple cracks, but Rainbow gets up and punches Twilight's nose. Twilight falls, holding her nose. Rainbow pops both of her wings, screaming and tears of pan in the mean time, out of place and pulls her down into the hole in the floor. "You no good lousy princess!" She flies down and hits a red button on the keyboard. She flies out and closes the hatch. Rainbow stumbles and lies on the couch, listening to the clamps and smacking of the metal with the screaming and yelling. She hears the machine pop out the needle, then it goes quiet. "Rainbow?!" Applejack yells, just below the clouds. Rainbow flies down, an evil stare locked onto Applejack. "She wasn't meant to go through the fight, just knock out and poof, she's like me and Fluttershy. But now..." A drop of red, thick liquid drops in front of her. Then another and it begins to pour the red liquid. "What is this? What are you talking about? What's going on?!" Applejack yells. "I killed her. The princess of friendship is gone, and now Fluttershy and I can make all of you like us. She doesn't want to right now, but she will. She will." "You killed Twilight?" "And you're going to look like me and Fluttershy, then we can make them all like us." Applejack stares at the grinning, evil mare. She screams and runs at her. "Here we go." Rainbow flies at her, slamming into her chest. The red rain covers both mares fighting for their lives. Rainbow punches Applejack's neck, making her cough and gag. Applejack gets up and dislocates Rainbow's wing, twisting and turning it. Rainbow flips over using her other wing and punches Applejack in the face repeatedly. Rainbow stops, breathing heavily and on top of Applejack with her hoof in the air. "You shouldn't have tried to be the hero! You are throwing away your life for nothing!" "Go ahead, kill me, prove that you're a true monster. I thought you were loyalty RD, now you're just a grey shadow." Rainbow stares at her, her face beaten up. "Don't make me kill you Applejack! I'll do it!" "Go ahead, I'm ready to die unlike you." Rainbow raises her hoof higher, her eyes shifting and her body shaking. The hoof flies down, a scream of pain following. Only, it wasn't from Applejack, it was from Rainbow Dash. She punches over and over into the gravel, a yell following each punch. Applejack kicks her off and stares at her, Rainbow punching herself in the gut and flying into the ground at full speed. "You deserve to die you corrupted mare! But I'm only doing what's right, what I thought would help. But you only kill and kill, just care about yourself. You'll never learn, never understand, never listen. I saved us all!" Rainbow flies up to her house and opens the hatch. She flies down and begins pressing buttons. She shakes too much and breaks the keyboard, making the machine malfunction. She pulls out Twilight and brings her to the hospital. All the while, she is yelling at herself and punching herself, thinking of all that she has done. She leaves Twilight at the ER, watches doctors tend to her, and flies over to Fluttershy's. "Fluttershy!" She screams, barging into the house. "Rainbow?" Fluttershy trots downstairs. "Fluttershy, I'm so sorry, I didn't know what I was doing. It was never meant to be this way, I swear. Please get your color back, if not for me then yourself, I'm sorry." Rainbow runs into the kitchen. "Dash!" She runs in after her. Rainbow begins flying around the room, yelling at herself. The oven begins to shake as Rainbow hits mostly anything in her way, and at the speed she is going it's violently shaking back and forth. "Rainbow Dash!" It falls over. Silence fills the air. "Fluttershy! Rainbow!" Applejack runs in, looking around. She sees a stream of red water coming from the kitchen. "Oh no. Please, no." She walks in and sees both Rainbow and Fluttershy on the ground, the oven on top of them. Applejack pushes it off. "Please, both of you stay with me, come on look at me!" "Fluttershy, why?" Rainbow asks, both of them on the ground and facing each other. "I deserve to die, not you. You're a good, innocent pony, why would you want to save someone like me?" "Because, because nobody deserves this. You went a little crazy, but you would have been okay after a while. It's ok now though, now it's all over." "Fluttershy, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." "No Rainbow, it's ok. Don't worry though, we will both be ok now. Now, we're free." "Don't talk like this, stay with me!" Applejack yells. Both mares on the floor breathe, and stop moving. "F-Fluttershy? R-Rainbow Dash? Hello? Please, no, please don't do this, please! Open your eyes!" Applejack pushes them, but they don't respond. She falls to her knees, crying into their coats. "T-Twilight, Twilight!" She runs to the hospital, blinking away the tears. She reaches the hospital and pushes past the nurses and doctors. "What room is Twilight in?" "Room eighteen." The secretary says. Applejack runs to the room and storms in. She slows down and stares at Twilight. "Hi Applejack." "T-Twilight, your-" "Color? I know." Her color is gone. Her coat is grey and her mane has different colors ranging from grey to black in different spots. Her eyes are a vibrant purple, standing out from the rest of her. "Well, Twilight, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, they..." "Ok, I get it. Well, it's over now, right?" "It's all over." They look at each other, each in morning silently for their friends. "Twilight, you look different now, obviously, but like a normal RD. You won't, well, do the things she did will you?" "Well, I can't tell the future, but as long as you and the others are there for me all the time, I doubt I'll do any of those things. I'm not a killer, and I don't expect to be one." They smile at each other and Applejack starts to leave. "I have to say though Twilight, you really do look different. Almost like a, a purple colored Princess."