“Get off there and put 'em up!” she shouted, rearing her front limbs threateningly. “Come on! Let's go!”
“Hey,” he shrugged with devilish nonchalance. “I'm here to deliver a message.”
“I've got a message for you too!” she grunted.
He stood up and glared at her, his red pupils swimming in a yellow sea. “Listen closely,” he said. “This is important.” In a blur, he was floating around her, smirking as he dictated. “A weighty choice is yours to make. The right selection or a big mistake. If a wrong choice you choose to pursue the foundations of home will crumble without you.”
She blinked quizzically, unsure of the game he was playing. But soon everything became truly, horrifically real. He stood before her, and with a snap of his talons he opened a portal through which she saw the fate of her place of birth. The city in the sky was buckling, imploding. Soon its immaculate columns were falling chaotically, sending panicked pegasi flying across the sea of dissolving clouds.
“Clousdale...” she mumbled incoherently. “Crumble... without me...?” Her heart began beating a mile-per minute. Her vision blurred, and everything she cherished and loved collapsed in an instant. “No!” she shouted unashamedly, like a little foal.
There was another snap. A package appeared, levitating in front of her.
“That box contains your wings,” he said. She felt his presence curling up around her, and then a claw tracing the edges of her scalp. All the while, her eyes were locked helplessly on the container. “You can take them and leave the game or you can carry on aimlessly wandering this maze.”
She was hyperventilating. For over a year, she had made several close friends. In a dozen solid months, not a single one of them had abandoned her, or had ridiculed her—in spite of all of her egotism, pranks, and overtly braggart ways. She was lucky, she realized, to not be alone.
But still, they were just five friends. Just how well did that weigh against the entire dying population of Cloudsdale?
“Your choice,” he added in a low voice, and then was gone.
She didn't pay him anymore attention. She saw hundreds of thousands of pegasi being crushed to a pulp as their city collapsed around them. She hadn't realized the decision she had made until she saw the maze disappearing below her. She was flying, soaring, speeding towards the northern horizon. There was no need for friends, not so long as there were lives worth saving. A loyal existence was a lonely one, after all. It hardly dawned on her that all the colors had gone. Everything was gray, neutral, dispassionte and necessary. She could fly through those blank horizons forever.
So she did.
Hm. HM.
I THINK I SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
I love it!
There are three core questions I am asking.
My predictions for two of them are now locked.
So I'm thinking Discord has something to do with all of this... dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Discord.png
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IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
Now...it's finally here...something this author rarely gives us...ANSWERS!!
So I think we finally know, after 75 chapters, what happened to the mane six. Dash gave in to temptation. She took her wings from Discord and left the maze. In this act, not only did she let down her friends, but unless I'm wrong, (which I rarely am, mind you) Dash also condemned her friends. The Discord incident couldn't have gone the same as it normally did - something had to have gone differently. I think that, when Twilight tried to un-Discordize her friends, they couldn't do it for Dash. She was the one that couldn't be saved. She was saved somehow, in the end. But by that time, it was too late. Her friends were already beaten. That's why she keeps dancing around the questions about her journey. She blames herself (and sadly, with good reason). I'm still not sure if her friends are dead, and I'm still kind of going out on a limb suggesting this series of events, but I still thought I'd just throw this out there. These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
P.S. I know I said I'd wait until tomorrow for this chapter, but it was really short, so I figured I'd just do it and give you guys a special treat. G'night!
And now that I'm done with "Wish You Were Here", it's time for sleep!
Uh...huh. So we're harking back to the season 2 opener here. I really don't know what to think right now, Discord is clearly weakened, if not outright defeated, but they still need something from the Armoury none the less. <slams head on desk> I'm so confused.
125 chapters to go, almost half way there, and a quarter way in total.
Nice description of that scene, obviously a bad memory of her abandoning her friends in her time of need.
When loyalty dies, the whole world cries.
So by her wrong choice in s2, she actually doomed everyone, perhaps......Harsh regardless.
So she doomed her friends at the least and so Discord didn't just leave them in disharmony, but rather killed them. Talk about a curveball
He always did seem much more verbose when around Rainbow Dash, makes you wonder. Always loved the riddles he gave as well, I have a hunch that this will be important later.
Than Mare Do Well happen.
See, this is the part of Season 2 that never really sat right with me. Discord broke her Loyalty...by making her save her hometown? That's not really disloyal... Like at all. Yeah, I know it was essentially brainwashing, but... Like. The logic just isn't there.
Ooooh! Okay, I might be slow, but I finally get what all this transformation stuff/dizzy spells are. Seeing grey / red & yellow eyes... It's from Discord. Discord's eyes and how he drained them and turned them grey (except that's what they see, I guess). Having seen Armageddon's animation (which contains a bunch of spoilers btw) & the curse seemingly having something to do with the moon (althought I could be wrong about that), I thought it was Luna involved. Although I think she's merely trying to keep it away.
Geez, people are slow. Only now they see the red and yellow stuff. My question remains. Is Rainbow CURRENTLY suffers under the spell, and it's all one giant fever dream, or was she not fixed after somehow defeating the freaky snake back there. Granted how we all but said it outright that the other five are dead-dead it is very likely that she wasn't uncorrupted properly...
Yes, answers! Glorious, glorious answers!