//------------------------------// // Love is all we need? -Alternate Ending- // Story: A Different Time // by Gardian Angle //------------------------------// Ponies say when you're hurting a little love is all you need. "Hey Firefly wanna come to my house and hang out?" "Sorry Rainbow Dash but I can't be seen talking to you." "Why not?" "I just can't, we can't be friends anymore." Firefly walked out of the classroom. Rainbow Dash tried to go after her but then she saw Soarin and Thunderlane. "Hey guys great work on the suicide scene it almost made me cry." "Thanks RD we worked all night on it." Soarin smiled at her. "I wish Juliet could be played by a girl." She knew she messed up when the hallway grew quiet. Billy and his friends started to laugh. "Rainbow Dash like colts! Rainbow Dash likes colts!" Soon everyone was saying it even Gilda. All she could do stare at Soarin and hope he would stand up for her. "Come on Soarin lets go." Thunderlane pulled Soarin away but he didn't move. "No I think I'll walk with Rainbow Dash." I was so happy that Soarin wasn't like the rest of them. I actually had a friend in all this mess. "Rainbow Dash did you tell your mom that you got cast in the school play?" Rainbow Loom asked. Speedy Wings looked up from her meal. "School play? What happened to trying out for the Junior Speedsters. Don't you wanna be a Wonderbolt?" "I didn't get into the Speedsters." Rainbow Dash push around her food. "Really after all that training we did." "Sorry mom I'm just not coordinated." "But your coordinated to act? School play huh? Isn't that for colts?" "No it's for fillies to, were doing Romeo and Juliet I'm playing the nurse." "That's wonderful isn't honey?" Rainbow Loom but in trying to reason with her wife. "Did you know that Shakespony wrote it for his true love Lady Flower Petals?" Rainbow Dash added in. "Lady?" Speedy was getting more irritated. "Yeah but he could break up with his coltfriend so he wrote Romeo and Juliet." "And who told you this?" "Mr. Dubla." "Who's that?" "The drama teacher." "We'll have to make a call to that school." It grew quiet at the dinner table. "Did you see the new hetero couple down the street move in?" "Yes I saw them and how do you know they're not gay?" Rainbow Loom asked with curiosity. "I saw him put his arm around her and they have a pink and blue flag in their window. Rainbow Dash I want you to fly the other way to school." "But that's twice as long." "I don't care." "Honey I think you're being a little to hard there." "No I will not have my child exposed to that kind of lifestyle. Mares and stallions living together like it's okay. It's agents Celestia's rules so, revolting." "I'm sorry you think that way but my friend Soarin says.." "Soarin? It's a boy?" "Yeah so what." "What does this, boy, say?" "He says that some things you can change and some things you can't, but you are who you are and he's okay with it." I got sent up to my room but I was glad I said it. That Sunday we went to church. The preset took the stand and she held up her hoof for silence. "In light of the northern empire where heterosexual marriage is legal. I want to remind you Celestia says that all heterosexuals will burn in hell. It is a sin for a stallion to lust for a mare. It is a sin for a mare to lye with a stallion outside of breeding season. Let us pray." All I could think about was Soarin and how we would hold hoofs and talk about everything. He told me he wants to be the first colt to be in the Wonderbolts. The way we kissed. The fillies in school were starting to get suspicious and they would beat me up for no reason, but Soarin would always be there to stick up for me. I remember Gilda stuffing my head down the toilet in the boys bathroom. "Just admit you're a Ro, Ro." Gilda pulled Rainbow Dashes head up only to stuff it back down. "Gilda what are you doing in the boys bathroom?" Mr. Dubla asked. "Get out of here now!" He pulled Rainbow Dashes head out of the toilet. "Rainbow Dash this behavior is not tolerated. Maybe it would help if you get a marefirend, what would your parents say if they saw you holding hoofs with a colt? This just a phase Rainbow Dash and I should call both of your parents, but I think this is punishment enough now get out of here." I wondered if this was just a phase like Mr. Dubla had said. Then I remembered how Soarins Hoof felt in mine and how the thought of kissing him made me go crazy. That's how I knew it wasn't a phase and I loved myself for it. He made me the happiest pony in Equestria. Rainbow Dash sat in her room reading over her lines when a letter came through the transporter. Rainbow Dash is a RO! She wanted to ignore it but then others came. Rainbow Dash does it with boys! Nopony wants you Rainbow Dash. Heterrrooo!!! The letters just kept coming and coming. Finally Soarin sent me a letter saying we need to talk. We met up in the auditorium after school. "Rainbow Dash." "I know what you're gonna say and it's okay. You don't have to hang around me anymore. I just thought that you liked me." "I did, do, anyway Thunderlane found out and he threatened to tell my parents they'd kill me if they found out." "No they wouldn't they love you." "You don't know my dads. I just wanted to tell you that I don't care. I'll never leave you alone." "Really?!" Rainbow Dash stared at him in disbelief but he nodded his head. "Then prove it, let me kiss you." As I leaned into him I heard a voice from the other side of the auditorium. "Gotcha." Gilda said with a smirk on her face. "So what. Who cares if we like each other it's none of your business!" Soarin exclaimed. "See that's the problem you can't be nice to Ro's, but you can always teach them a lesson. Grab them!" Rainbow Dash and Soarin flew out of there but Gilda, Billy and his friends were on their tail. She never felt so alive running away with a boy. They flew into the gym. "Grab them!" Rainbow Dash and Soarin bumped into to Thunderlane and they all had them surrounded. "So you're the hetero that tried to hold my friends hoof." "He wanted me to." "No you forced him!" "No! I wanted her to. I asked her to. It was my choice." "Then you're just as bad as she is!" Everypony pushed them to the floor and started to beat them up. Everypony started to chant. "Smear the Queer! Smear the Queer!" Gilda got on top of Rainbow Dash while everypony else beat up Soarin. She pulled out a black marker and wrote 'Hetero' on Rainbow Dashes forehead. "Why don't you do us a favor Ro's and kill yourselves." It hurt so much. But when I looked over at Soarin and he gave me a half smile I knew I wasn't alone. We stayed out that night and looked at the stars. We talked about how we'll leave this place when were older and move to the northern empire and be happy together. "No she didn't come home today." Rainbow Loom was talking on the phone looking for Rainbow Dash. Then she walked in the door with a busted lip and hetero on her forehead. "Rainbow Dash!" Speedy Wings looked at her and immediately got angry. "Who did this to you!?" "Nopony." "Well you didn't do this to your self." Rainbow Loom held her daughters face with caring eyes. "Who did this to you?" "Gilda, Billy and some guys at school." Speedy couldn't believe it. "I'm going to give that school a call. Rainbow Dash go up stairs, NOW! And clean up your face." I could hear them talking from my room. Yelling at each other about moving and me taking karate lessons. I didn't mean to make them upset. When I was with Soarin I just lost track of time. Everypony hated me because I was different. Why didn't Soarin? Why didn't he hate me? Was it because we were both different? Rainbow Dash listened to her parents from the top of the stairs. She locked herself in the bathroom and ran water for a bath. The she turned on the sink and started wiping the marker off her face. She laughed, hard and she couldn't stop. It's funny how everypony is angry, mad, or upset and me and Soarin are so happy. Her mother, Rainbow Loom, knocked on the door. "Rainbow Dash are you okay?" "Yeah mom I'm fine I'm just gonna take a bath and go to bed." "Okay, don't let the water over flow. And Rainbow Dash we love you." "I know." Rainbow Dash looked at the tube and turned off the water. She stepped in and let relaxation overflow her body. Word spread around the school about me and Soarin dating each other. My mom was okay with it but my other mom wasn't. I think you can guess which one. Later in years heterosexuals started to overpopulate Equestria and homosexuals were the outcast. Wait that's the world we live in now. We treat people so bad because they're not like because they're different. You can literally bully somepony to death if you're a bully you need to stop or you can cause someones death. If you're being bullied talk to someone you have a choice. Take me for an example and live throw it. Don't worry about what everypony else thinks just be you and have fun with it. Then maybe you'll be able to smile, laugh, and play without a care in the world. Hopefully your life isn't like this because it was a different time and a lonely place. But being with Soarin made everything a little brighter. What they say is true. "Love is all you need."