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// The fight back begins 
// Story: Mare-Do-Well the Brave and the Bold: Requiem for a Rainbow Speedster 
// by Time Agent pony 
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"Now you'll both share her fate," Lighting smirked.

"Flash, GO!" called Mare-Do-Well.

From out of nowhere, Soarin dashed out from where he had been hiding. He took out the guards and then released both heroes from their cuffs. 

"It's your fate you should worried about, Lighting" Soarin said, defiantly as turned to face Lighting.

"I'm quaking in my big red booties" Lighting replied, sarcastically.

Lighting got up from of her throne and she to turn into a blur as she overpowered and grabbed both Soarin and Scootaloo, placing them in the same position the Rainbow was in. 

"She stuck us in here between eye blinks" realized Soarin.

"I'm sorry I got you all dragged into this" Rainbow sighed.

Mare-Do-Well didn't have time to react, as she too was grabbed by Lighting, she placed her in a holding cell and removing her utility belt. 

"Haven't you guess yet?" Lighting asked, poniting out the wrist bands she and her troopers wore, "Dash's power doesn't just provide my troopers with speed it increases my own velocity exponentially."

"And now that you have three speedsters feeding your power..." Mare-Do-Well began.

"I'll be able to move effortlessly though time" Lighting finished, "and conquer any era." 

"Welcome to the future, Mare-Do-Well" she declared, "you'll be here for a long time" with that she left.



Back with the three speedsters.

"I can't stop running" Scootaloo said, trying to slow down. 

"I know" replied Rainbow, "Lighting told me that the machine steals our own speed to run it" she explained, "it's like a hamster in a wheel."

"And we're the hamsters" Soarin finished. 

"I used the machine like the magic treadmill to send after images of myself back to the past" Rainbow continued, "the last thing I wanted was you two trapped, too" she sighed.

"Now, don't you start" Soarin stated, "this is my mess, if only I had been..."

"Oh, give it a rest" Scootaloo interrupted, "I think we've dished out enough guilt for any five centuries," she smilied. 

"Sorry I've been such a jerk, Soarin" she continued, "it's Lighting who's to blame and when our moment comes, we'll take her down."

"Because when you're a Dash" Rainbow nodded, "a moment's all you need."



Back at the holding cell.

Mare-Do-Well used a lock pick to free herself from her bonds, then she knocked out the guard and took his speed bracelet.

Then she phased through the bars of the holding cell, grabbed her utility belt and Do Wellarangs.

When she was readying she dashed off, taking out any guards in her way and taking their speed bracelets.

She dashed into Lighting's throne room, taking out all the guards in the room in flash.

Mare-Do-Well stopped right in front of Lighting's throne, "Your reign is over, Lighting" she declared, she dashed straight at Lighting.

But Lighting stopped her punch, without any effort, "Is it?" she asked, she gave Mare-Do-Well a powerful punch, that sent her flying.

While this happening the three Dashes watched, "Lighting's distracted" Rainbow Dash said, "nows our chances."

"To do what?" asked Scootaloo, "we can't stop running, we can't even slow down."

"But we can speed up" Rainbow Dash contined, "and create a dimensional rift, one that will send us through space and not time."

Meanwhile, Mare-Do-Well, even with her super speed, was only barely holding her own against Lighting.

Eventually Lighting managed to take two of the speed bracelets off her and beat her to the floor with two punches.

"Did you really think you could beat me at my own game?" Lighting asked.   

All three Dashes started running even faster the machine could keep up, there was a crackle of energy and a rift open right in front of them.

"There it is" Rainbow Dash said, "Only enough time for one of us to slip though." 

Soarin and Scootaloo quickly moved behind Rainbow Dash and pushed her though the rift, "Wait! I didn't mean me!" Rainbow Dash managed to shouted because she disappeared though the rift.