//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: Painful Memories // Story: Trials of a Fillyfooler // by Skylight77 //------------------------------// ”I’m leaving this school, Fluttershy,” a voice spoke in the middle of this void. Besides the Rainbow Dash figure that she saw in front of her, there was nothing but clouds that she could see. “But, why?” she asked the silhouette of a filly Rainbow Dash in front of her, who was looking towards the sea of clouds. Their voices echoed across the void as they spoke. “This school just doesn’t fit for me,” the Rainbow Dash filly spoke. “It’s too slow, and I can’t learn anything from here.” To hear those words coming out of Rainbow’s mouth tore at her heart. She was slow, yet Rainbow Dash stuck with her, until now. “P-please don’t go…” she said, but Rainbow Dash didn’t turn around. “I was told there was another school I could go to. A school that was much faster, bigger, and epic.” Rainbow Dash fluttered her wings. “The Juniors Speedsters Flight Camp! The school for Equestria’s fastest fliers. It sounds just perfect for me!” The excitement in Rainbow’s voice made her whimper. It told her that Rainbow was going to take this opportunity as soon as she could, leaving her behind. “You’ll be okay without me, right Fluttershy?” Rainbow turned around and asked. She already knew the answer. If Rainbow Dash went to that camp, they wouldn’t see each other for a very long time. She would be all alone without a friend again. “No, Rainbow Dash! I need you!” she begged with teary eyes. “No other pony has been friendly to me like you have. If you go, I'll be all alone! Please, don’t leave!” She tried walking up to her, but as soon as she did, Rainbow Dash’s wings started flapping. “Thanks, Fluttershy,” Rainbow said. “You’re the best.” Rainbow started flying away, deeper into the void. “No! Please, come back!” She tried to follow, but for some reason, her body refused to move. ...And she was smiling. Why was she smiling? She wanted to give chase so badly, but her body refused to move where it stood. It wasn’t long before Rainbow’s body disappeared from sight. And as soon as it did, she heard the maniac laughter of bullies behind her. She regained control of her body, making her smile fade quickly. One glance was all it took for her to see the many shadows of ponies with razor sharp teeth bobbing their heads in their laughter. She squealed and tried to fly away, but both of her wings were immediately caught by two sets of jaws from those shadows. They pulled her up as she flailed around, trying to escape. But to no avail. She was taken high above the mouth of another shadow. She continued to scream in agony while the shadow opened its maw. With one swift motion, both sets of jaws pulled away with her wings. She screamed in agony as many feathers all at once ripped off her wings before she started falling. Without her feathers, she lost her ability to fly. She helplessly fell in the mouth of that shadow. When it clenched down... all she could see... was darkness. ______________________________________________________________________________ Fluttershy’s shaky body slowly awakened to meet the darkness of the belly she was in. At least, that’s what it felt like to her. The sound of her crying and the laughter of the bullies were still echoing in her ears. They slowly died out as her teary eyes opened. She found herself still lying on that soggy cloud she was left on yesterday. She felt that it was moving. And she could barely hear the rumbling of thunder from underneath it, as well as rain drops thumping on what could be described as a sponge. Her surrounding area however was completely covered in a sphere of cloud, not connected to the one she was lying on. They were moving in sync. The spherical cloud was absorbing any lightning and rain that was being released from the cloud she layed on. Rainbow Dash must’ve set this cloud ride up to take her home. “Rainbow Dash…” As soon as Fluttershy thought about Rainbow Dash again, her body filled up with that aching sting once again. That dream felt so real, but it was too painful to believe. Now that she experienced it in a dream, she felt that it really happened. Rainbow Dash had abandoned her in her time of need. That’s why Rainbow’s silhouette was no longer there whenever those bullies were around. But, it just didn’t make sense. Rainbow Dash would never do such a thing. What confused her the most was the fact that she was smiling as she was watching her best friend abandon her like that. Rather than leave this cloud, Fluttershy decided to stay concealed inside, alone with her thoughts. She buried her face in the cloud, heavily shedding tears which caused the cloud to produce more rain. If it wasn’t for the spherical cloud surrounding her, today’s weather would probably be a heavy rainstorm summoned from a single cloud. Fluttershy hadn’t forgotten about what happened last night. Rainbow Dash had kissed her. And it wasn’t just a light kiss. It was a deep and passionate one that told everything that Rainbow Dash could not form into words. But despite how deep and sudden it was, Fluttershy didn’t feel the pain from it like she was feeling with these memories. In fact, the only pain she felt from that kiss, was when it was separated. Fluttershy continued to ponder to herself. She believed a kiss like that could only be beautiful between species of differing genders. Usually the pair was of the same species, but with stories like the birds and the bees, and the crush Spike has on Rarity, it was obvious that even differing species had a chance of being together. But now that she had experienced that kiss, why did she believe two ponies of the same gender could not experience it as well? Why did it feel so painful to accept? Was it because she wasn't like that? Was it because of Rainbow Dash abandoning her like that? Or was it something completely different altogether? Her mind shifted from both the past and the present, trying to make sense of all this confusion in her mind. ”Fillyfooler!” The voice that came from a teacher’s mouth repeated in her pounding head. Enduring the ache, she thought back to that day. ______________________________________________________________________________ ”Class dismissed!” the flight instructor Mr. Rivet announced. The sounds of all the fillies and colts cheering in unison boomed in Fluttershy’s ears as usual as they cleared the area. She was once again the last pegasus in the class to start leaving. Packing up her things, she started heading to her dorm. “Fluttershy!” But before she could exit the room, Rivet stopped her. With her head held low, she looked at him. “Y-yes?” she asked as she carefully walked towards his desk. He seemed to be holding out a picture on his desk for her to see. “Did you draw this?” he asked with a cold tone. One look at the picture brought warmth in Fluttershy’s lonely heart. It was a picture of her and Rainbow Dash inside her dorm. The picture held a mixture of crayons to color their forms and pencils to detail the background. In the picture, she was holding a brush in her mouth, using her hooves to keep Rainbow’s messy looking mane still as she brushed it. Rainbow’s mane was mostly spiky, but the spots that were brushed were smoothed out. She was smiling with her eyes closed while Rainbow Dash was happily laughing in it. “Yes, I did,” Fluttershy happily replied while her ears perked up. That picture resembled one of the first times she had ever experienced a soft side to Rainbow Dash. Despite how rough Rainbow Dash may have been, it was because of Rainbow that she ever experienced fun with another pony. She really missed Rainbow Dash and she really wished this side of her would blossom more. But at the same time, she was proud of her friend’s achievements. “Do you realize, you had THIS-” Rivet pulled his hoof away, “-in your locker for everypony to see?!” The increase in volume in Rivet’s voice sent Fluttershy’s ears down and made her heart tremble in fear. ...And then… she saw the dreaded words that had scarred her that day. “‘Fillyfoolers of the year’?” “DON’T SAY THAT!” the teacher’s yell frightened her to yelp as she dropped to the ground, holding her hooves on her head like a monster was attacking. The dreaded sounds of paper being shredded boomed in her ears. “Fillyfooler! What kind of example are you trying to teach to these kids?!” ______________________________________________________________________________ Fluttershy gripped her hooves against the cloud roughly as that memory came to her. It wasn’t the only time she had heard that word, but it was definitely the first. It was just the natural part of the life cycle that she would hear nothing but bad things about fillyfoolers, whether she was consciously hearing it or subconsciously. She never wrote those words on that paper. She only drew the picture. Of course, she couldn’t convince the teacher that because she had no idea who did or even how they got that picture from her. And she was too innocent to blame anypony. All it was was just fuel to the fire. All parents she met consisted of a mare and a stallion. All couples she witnessed at school were with a filly and a colt. Even the animals that she took care of fueled her with the thought it was impossible for two same genders to be anymore than just friends. A few flashes of light could be seen even through her own closed eyelids. This cloud she lied on read her emotions and pain like a book. Ever since Rainbow Dash left Flight School to join the Junior Speedsters Flight Camp, her own time in Flight School had gotten worse and worse, both mentally, and physically. ______________________________________________________________________________ ”Come on, Fluttershy!” one of the bullies holding Fluttershy down spoke. “We just wanna help you fly! Just like your friend, uh… Rainbow Crash was it?!” Fluttershy was being held down on her stomach by two bullies against her will. The first one kept her from standing up while the second one kept her wings unfurled. She tried so hard to close them, but her wings were too weak. All she could do was whimper and cry, which only pleased the bullies further. “And this is the most important lesson about flying,” the first bully spoke. “Make sure to pull out all bad feathers on your wings.” “This feather looks pretty bad to me!” Fluttershy yelped when the second bully clenched his teeth down on one of the feathers on her left wing. Immediately, he tugged on it, plucking it out with no remorse. The immediate yank caused her to yelp in pain. “I see another one! Let me help!” “N-no! *sniffle* P-please stop!” Fluttershy tried to plead, but the first bully ignored her and clenched on one of the feathers on her right wing. He then immediately tugged and plucked it out. The stinging plucks made her try harder to close her wings, but they were too weak to escape the bullies’ grasps. Spits sounded in her ears. “In fact, all these feathers are bad! No wonder you can’t fly!” “Good thing you have friends like us!” The two bullies continued to pick at her feathers, plucking them one by one. Each pluck made her flinch in agony while her feathers were sprawled in pieces all around her, some falling in her mane. Some of the plucks became as bad as three of her feathers being pulled at the same time. When they pulled, the feathers plucked apart from her wing one by one, half a second passing as they plucked, half a second that each felt worse than hair being ripped out of her coat. Fluttershy could only cry in agony as her feathers were recklessly plucked apart. With no pony around to help her, and with Rainbow Dash gone, nothing would be able to stop the pain, until all her feathers were plucked. ______________________________________________________________________________ Fluttershy gripped and hugged her cloud like it was her pillow while her wings shivered at her side. She had no idea how long she had been lying there crying about those memories. Seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to hours. Eventually, the cloud felt like it was starting to descend, bringing a drop in her stomach when it did so. Fluttershy wasn’t sure what brought her more pain in those memories, the bullies, or Rainbow Dash’s absence. Being so shy and a weak flier, she could never make any friends in Cloudsdale. The few who would even speak to her were bullies. The least that they did was tell her to give up and that she didn’t belong there. Even though Cloudsdale was where she was born, as she watched the many pegasi that left Cloudsdale to travel Equestria and move on, she believed those bullies. Often, she would see a few birds fly by Cloudsdale as well, watching them in awe and wishing she could be free like them. She was practically a wingless bird stuck in the clouds. She wanted to be able to spread her wings and escape these clouds, to be freed from bullies and live on with the animals. The animals were nothing like ponies at all. They never bullied. They understood her. And they were so adorable. But she wasn’t a bird. She was a butterfly. She was a lone butterfly who could barely fly. She couldn't escape these clouds to live on the land. She needed the clouds. For as long as she couldn't fly, she needed their shelter in order to live. If she was ever to be free, she would need the help of more butterflies to help her migrate. Without them, she would remain a trapped and lone butterfly. Fluttershy’s thought process paused when the cloud ride slowed to a stop. Opening her eyes, she noticed that the outside light had dimmed considerably. She blinked her teary eyes hard a few times to numb the sting she inflicted upon herself from all that crying. Her crying even soaked the cloud so much that she left her coat damp. Yet, despite how soggy the inner cloud was, the outer one looked perfectly fine. Except for the bottom part. Rain was still pouring onto it, but a few scorch marks were visible as well. As a filly, these cloud shelters protected her and kept her safe. She could hide in them to avoid the bullies that would fly from one cloud to another, seeking to make fun of her. But hiding inside the clouds made her feel trapped and alone. She could never stay concealed in them. She wanted to escape their comfort so that she could find her freedom. Now a similar thing had happened in present time. Looking ahead, Fluttershy decided it was time to leave this cloud shelter and be free again. She brought up a hoof and pressed it towards the clouds, sniffling the few tears still escaping her eyes. She dug her hooves through them one by one, digging out the cloud particles and creating a hole outside. The cloud shelter was surprisingly thick. But maybe she should’ve expected that if it was able to shelter her emotions. She kept digging through the cloud. Soon she would become the bird that would be free. Soon she would be freed from that past. She would return to her animals and never have to be bullied again. Grunting with resolve, she gave the last few digs to the cloud and revealed the light outside. She didn’t hesitate to push herself through and spread her wings. But as soon as she did so, she wished she had stayed in her little shelter. The sight of her once beloved cottage over the night skies showed that she could not escape her past. Because she had brought it with her. Her cottage and gardens were empty and barricaded. Her garden was starting to rot. The leaves on the trees were falling. And no animals were in sight. Her fears of the little critters had made them depressed to the point she had to let them go. She kept letting them leave one by one, not even thinking that one day, there would be none left. But now it had happened. They were all in new homes now, away from her and possibly happy. She was all alone, still trapped while they were free. And she had made it happen that way. Fluttershy gritted her teeth and squeezed her eyes. She tried so hard not to sob out of control again. But it was difficult to do so. The best she could do was fly through the window of her empty cottage, knowing all too well that she had caused this to happen this way. If only she hadn’t been so scared all the time… Fluttershy landed inside the bedroom of her cottage, heading straight for her bed. She didn’t bother turning on the lights, or doing anything else. She resisted her tears from shedding until she managed to lay in her bed, only to quickly cover herself under the sheets while she clutched the pillow tightly in her hooves. A loud cry could be heard being muffled through those sheets as it bobbed up and down. If only Rainbow Dash hadn’t left that day, she wouldn’t be all alone like this. If only she had been stronger, she wouldn’t have been tormented by so many bullies in her fillyhood. If only she hadn’t been such a scaredy pony, her fears wouldn’t have spread towards even her animals. The very creatures in Equestria that brought her happiness and joy wherever she went. And now her fears spread to them. She couldn’t even touch them. And they were no longer happy with her. What choice did she have? ______________________________________________________________________________ Fluttershy stood at the edge of the cloud, watching as the birds started flying off, some of them in pairs. She focused more on the ones paired up than the ones in groups. They just seemed far happier than the others in her eyes. To be free like that was something she could only dream of. She was a wingless bird, a butterfly who was all alone. She belonged on the ground, but was stuck in the clouds so high in the skies. If only she could somehow get down there. But as a filly butterfly who could not fly very well, once she got down there, she would never be able to get back up and return to her only home. But that didn’t matter. She knew where she would go. She would live on with the animals. She would be away from the bullies. She would be surrounded by lovely adorable creatures that she could understand. With that resolve, she wiped the tears out of her eyes and stood up. She didn’t look back at Cloudsdale. She focused only on the ground that was so far away. Even with the fear in her mind, she had to be brave. With all of the courage left in her heart, she leapt from the cloud. Gravity took her fast and she started plummeting. It was then that something sharp snapped in her mind and she started screaming in both pain and fear. The act of spreading her wings made her realize, she was featherless. Her wings had been plucked of most of their feathers, and she had no way of flying. Screaming, crying, yelling, nothing was going to stop the fear and pain in her heart right now. The only thing that would stop it was the ground she would soon meet. There was a difference between being brave and being a foal. And now she would learn it the hard way. Now it was too late. The ground came fast. And nopony was around to help her. Not Rainbow Dash. Not the animals. Not even the pegasi in Cloudsdale. Even if she had the heart to, there was nopony to blame. Nopony, but herself. As soon as her head met the ground, it all ended. ______________________________________________________________________________ There was a click in Fluttershy’s mind. She sprung up from her bed, panting from exhaustion at what her mind was doing to her. Things weren’t adding up anymore. Sweat was dripping down her throbbing forehead while her heart pounded on her chest. She braced her chest with her hooves, taking steady breaths to settle her mind. If that was how things had played out in the past, how was it possible that she was still here now and alive? But more importantly, why were all these memories springing on her right now? Fluttershy’s train of thought restarted and went back to the beginning. These memories started springing after that kiss. One, no, two kisses that told her what Rainbow Dash couldn’t in words. But now the question was, did she feel the same way? Fluttershy realized that the only reason she felt two mares could not be together was through other ponies’ words, and a haunting experience at the phrase, ‘fillyfooler’. But did that mean she had to think that way? What did ‘she’ think. That’s what Rainbow Dash asked her. She never did have anything close to romantic feelings for other mares. The feelings she had were always platonic. In fact, she never had that sort of feeling towards stallions either. And when it came to fillies and colts, only the fear of being bullied crossed her mind. There was never anything more than either shyness or just a friendly feeling that she had between anypony she met. The only times she felt that sort of joy was through… Her animals… ______________________________________________________________________________ ”Here, Fluttershy,” Rainbow Dash said in a lowered stance while her tail swished around. “Let’s try this game! It’s called leapfrog!” “Frog?” The sound of that name for some reason brought warmth in Fluttershy’s heart. “Leapfrog! Here I’ll show ya.” Rainbow Dash came to Fluttershy and nudged her to bend towards the ground cloud. After she was bent down, Rainbow Dash moved out of view. “What do I, Eep!” Something bounced off her flank and jumped over her. “Woohoo!” Rainbow Dash had lept over her, shouting in joy as she put off some distance with that jump. She wasn’t even using her wings. But when she landed, she looked back to Fluttershy. “Now it’s your turn!” Rainbow said and turned around, bending over in a similar position. “Just do what I did! Come on!” Unsure of herself, Fluttershy walked up to Rainbow Dash for a closer distance. After all of the scary and rough games Rainbow Dash had showed and demonstrated to her, this one still seemed far less threatening. The first game she was shown to play was a race from one cloud to the next. But because of her inability to fly well, she couldn’t even get off the cloud they started from. Rainbow Dash canceled the race just as soon as it started. Other games ranged from dodge cloud, hoof wrestling, chasing, and even sliding down from a cloud slide. No matter how hard they tried, Fluttershy just wasn’t having fun. She was starting to doubt they could ever do anything fun together But now, Rainbow Dash presented one that warmed her heart at the name of. She had no idea how it worked. But from what Rainbow Dash showed, all she had to do was jump over her. With that resolve, she pushed herself off the cloud as hard as she could, making her jump forwards. “Oogh!” “Ahh!” She and Rainbow Dash ended up sprawling to the ground. She managed to jump, but she landed on Rainbow Dash. Their crash on the ground made cloud tufts shoot up, clouding them in a shallow fog. “Um… s-sorry,” she apologized, getting off of Rainbow Dash. “Hey, it’s okay,” Rainbow said, getting herself back into position. “Just try again. And don’t be afraid to land your front hooves on me for that extra boost.” Fluttershy wouldn’t have known what Rainbow meant by that if it wasn’t demonstrated earlier, when she felt something bounce on her flank. Taking Rainbow’s advice, she tried again. She took a bit of a running start this time. As soon as she was in range, she stepped her forehooves on top of Rainbow’s still blank flank, using both her hind legs and her forehooves to push at the same time and leap in the air. This time, she managed to jump over Rainbow Dash. Her landing placed her within legs length of Rainbow Dash, but she still did it. “Nice job, Fluttershy! Woohoo!” Before Fluttershy could let her achievement sink in, Rainbow Dash lept over her again. “Come on, let’s keep going!” A funny feeling spread along Fluttershy’s stomach while her heart warmed. It felt somewhat exhilarating, and it made her want to keep going. Responding to her instincts, she repeated her motion and hopped over Rainbow Dash. She even let out a ‘Woohoo’ upon doing so. After she landed, Rainbow Dash hopped over her. Then she hopped over Rainbow Dash. They both squealed in delight alternatively as they continued hopping over each other. It was the first time she ever experienced something so thrilling with another pony. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t painful. It was just... fun. “Fluttershy! Look out!” Before that shout could be registered in her mind, Fluttershy met face first with a cloud wall, stopping her movements. Her body slid down from the wall until it met the ground, making her tilt and fall backwards, kicking tufts of cloud in the air as she fell on her back. It still wasn’t painful, but it startled her, which wasn’t nearly as bad as scaring her. When she opened her eyes, she saw Rainbow Dash looking down at her. Rainbow was smiling, and she couldn’t help but smile back. When she returned the smile, Rainbow started giggling, making her giggle as well. “There’s that smile,” Rainbow said through her giggles. “See? I told ya you could have fun.” Fluttershy could only laugh harder with more joy at Rainbow’s persuasion. After all the failures they experienced, in the end, Rainbow was right. “Oh no! Fluttershy! There’s a hungry tiger around that wants to eat you!” Fluttershy’s laughter died instantly as her eyes went wide. “What?! Where?!” She darted her eyes around the scenery as her body turned paler than it already was. “IT’S ME!” The next thing she felt was Rainbow’s mouth wrapping around her exposed tummy. The hard breath of a raspberry being blown on her tummy reduced her into a hysteric laughter. She flailed her hind legs around while Rainbow Dash blew harder. The hungry tiger that Rainbow Dash was was eating away at her stomach with no mercy. She didn’t have enough strength to push the head of that tiger away. All she could do was laugh and flail while Rainbow Dash blew and tickled her belly. ______________________________________________________________________________ “T-that’s it, isn’t it?” Fluttershy removed the covers away from her as she slowly sat up from her bed. The very thought of that memory brought an odd feeling in her stomach. It felt like the fluttering of different wings thumping the insides of her belly. She could describe it as a lone and delicate butterfly desperately trying to fly away from a fast preying bird. The bird would cut the butterfly off many times, but never catch the butterfly. “She is the bird, and I am the butterfly…” Fluttershy closed her eyes. “You have always thought of us as animals, haven’t you?” She thought about Rainbow Dash’s actions and how she got Fluttershy to open up in the first place. The first time she succeeded was through playing leapfrog. Fluttershy never experienced fun like that. Some games involved chasing, which were changed up from the last time they tried it. She was the prey, while Rainbow Dash was the predator, whether on clouds or in water. Other games involved things like capture the stuffed animal, and hide and seek while being blind as a bat. One of them was a terrible idea known as duck duck goose, because it required more than two ponies to play. And no filly or colt was as friendly to her as Rainbow Dash was. In the end, her overall favorite game with Rainbow Dash must’ve been playing a simple board game of Battlecloud, even though she lost every time. Rainbow Dash had quite the talent in that game, except for some reason that one time when she was in the hospital. But there was something about all these games. Not only did all these games relate to animals in one way or another, but besides leapfrog, they were all related to predator vs prey. Rainbow Dash was the predator, while Fluttershy was the prey. Rainbow Dash had been chasing Fluttershy down like a predator. She would always catch her prey, but never eat her. Despite how scary they were, Fluttershy enjoyed them. But a predator and prey were complete opposites that could never get along. So when other predators entered the fray, they preyed on Fluttershy like the vicious animals they really were. But for Rainbow Dash, it was different. Fluttershy thought back to the question Rainbow Dash asked earlier. ”Are you scared of me?” There was more meaning to that question than she initially thought. “No… I’m not scared of you,” Fluttershy answered confidently. “Rainbow Dash… I understand now.” She moved herself to the side of the bed, letting her hind hooves dangle in the air. “You see everypony just as much of an animal as you see yourself…” She closed her eyes. “You’re like a wild predator, but you don’t prey on the weak. You only preyed on the strong who picked on the weak.” Fluttershy opened her eyes to take a look outside her window, more specifically, in the direction of the Winsome Woods. “That must’ve been why you spat on the one bandit who was holding me. Because he was the one preying on the weak.” Fluttershy lowered her gaze. “When you were preying on me like a shark, you were playing the same game you always played, and showing me how to have fun. But at the same time, you were protecting me.” She tore her view away from the window and started tearing up again. “And all I did was call you a wild animal. A wild bandit that preyed on the weak.” She took a moment to wipe the tears she was shedding. Things were becoming more and more clear to her. “Is that why you have these feelings for me? Because I take care of so many animals?” Thinking about Rainbow as an animal brought up many points in her memories. Rainbow Dash would often stance herself like a predator ready to attack. She would act through her instincts a lot. She could even match her roar with a timberwolf. And when she was super happy, she would pant with her tongue out just like a dog would. “Just like I prefer the small and cute little guys, you prefer to stick up to the weaker ponies, rather than fit in with the strong… You took care of me in Cloudsdale, but I could never take care of you in the same way.” Fluttershy sniffed. “Is that why you left?” Saying those words brought back the tingle that had been torching her body for all this time. It was oddly not present at all while she was thinking to herself, until now. More words came to her mind. ”Why didn’t you tell me?” “You refuse to believe something, you build inner regret, and the more your body will suffer.” In the corner of her eye, something crossed her vision. There was a tiny object on her desk that seemed to sparkle. That object showed her the last piece to this puzzle in her mind. Her heart pumped all feelings in her body again. She could deny it no longer. She knew what she was feeling, and she knew what she had to do. Fluttershy shook off all the sadness on her face. She even wiped away the rest of the tears that soaked her eyes. With a brand new resolve, Fluttershy flew to the object, picked it up, and placed it in her mane. She went to the window instead of her front door this time to get out of her cottage. Through the night sky, Fluttershy set her destination to Rainbow Dash’s house.