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// Happiness - TheMusicalBoy93 
// Story: TwiDash Prompt Collab 
// by TwiDashCollabs 
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Rainbow Dash had always thought speed was what made her happy. For all her life, she had wanted to test the limits, break the boundaries, and achieve the impossible. She always loved swooping through the skies, performing incredible aerobatics the likes of which nopony had ever seen before. Dips and dives and loops and twirls were only the warm up manoeuvres to her. But freefall dives from one thousand feet over a rocky gorge, or loop-de-loops through flaming hoops, those were the tricks and stunts she lived for. Yes, in her mind, flying was the only thing in the whole wide world that would ever make Rainbow Dash happy.

But now, standing here, looking out at the sorrowful faces of her fellow ponies while she retold the tales of her closest friend… she realised she was wrong. It was never the swoops, or the dives, or even the sonic rainboom that gave her happiness. No, in recent years, Rainbow Dash had come to realise what it was that made her truly happy when she performed these feats. And it wasn't the crowds of ponies who loved and adored her while she zoomed across the sky with reckless abandon. It wasn’t the thunderous applause she received when she completed her displays. Nor was it the rush of endorphins and adrenaline she got from riding the fine line between awesomeness and near-suicidal-recklessness. What made her happy… was seeing the look of adoration on her face when she returned to the ground in one piece.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle had been in a happy relationship for two years now, and Rainbow had felt happiness like she had never expected. But it was only now that she realised it. Now, while she read from a sheet of paper she had Spike scribe for her, with the clear glass box in front of her, holding her lover just within reach, but tauntingly inaccessible behind a glass wall did she understand what truly made her happy all along.

The Pegasus’ eyes watered as she told the precession before her how wonderful Twilight was; as a pony, as a friend… and as a wife. She thought to herself how she hated those nobles for having sneered at the Princess of Friendship. How she loathed them for besmirching her beautiful name at every turn and, in the end, how they had ended her life in cold blood.

The prismatic pony looked out to the front row of the spectators, and her eyes settled immediately on Pinkie Pie, who was cradling a bundle of linen, and smiled as a curious little purple snout peered over the robes, her violet eyes glittering in the light and her rainbow coloured mane falling across one eye as the one final gift Twilight left her made her presence known. Rainbow smiled at her daughter and blew her a kiss before finishing her goodbyes and returning to her baby, holding the tiny bundle close as she made a silent promise to her beloved.

I love you, Twilight. And Rainbowrise will never know sorrow, for as long as I live. I’ll be with you one day, Twilight. Always. And we’ll live happily ever after, just like you wanted us to.