Chapter 9
Veil of Thoughts
By Starwin
Chapter 9
A flash of brilliant white light was all that Fluttershy could see, it was all that she could feel. Even with her eyes closed the light still blinded her but it wasn’t just in her eyes, it was in her body, it was in her mind. She was wrapped in the light and it made her feel fuzzy, almost like she wasn’t really there.
Then, as quickly as it had come, the light faded and the strange sensation was gone.
Fluttershy chanced a glance, to see what had happened. She was not prepared for the sight before her. The first thing she noticed was that the magical storm had gone. The second thing she noticed was that Rainbow had gone. The last thing that she noticed was that everypony had gone.
She looked down at her empty hooves. Applejack was gone too. She had been right there a moment ago; Fluttershy had been holding her as tightly as she could! Yet, she hadn’t even felt her friend leave her forelegs.
Desperately, Fluttershy searched the ground for any sign of her friends. The wind had blown out all the candles and without magic only the moonlight lit the dim room. She was able to make out shapes in the shadows. The library floor was a mess. Books were tumbled everywhere around the wreckage of the table. The rest of the furniture had been pushed over or broken.
But none of what she could see on the ground resembled a pony at all. Where had her friends gone? She had looked away for one second and they had all vanished.
Her mind began to race with wild possibilities. Maybe they had been teleported away. Maybe they had all run outside. Maybe they were hiding, because they were afraid.
No, if anypony was going to be hiding, it was going to be her, not her friends. They were brave and strong and Rainbow was the bravest and strongest of them all.
A loud, startling, knock echoed from the door. The terrifying sound caused Fluttershy to dart to the ground and cower beneath a pile of books. The knock came again, louder and more urgent this time.
“Go away,” Fluttershy whispered to herself. “Please go away.” There was a long pause. Had the pony left?
The door exploded in a shower of wooden splinters. There was nothing for it, Fluttershy screamed in terror, her tiny voice no louder than a whisper.
At the door stood the tallest, most frightening pony she had ever seen. Dark shadows covered the pony, obscuring its face and body. Or maybe it was made of shadows! Fluttershy pressed herself lower to the ground.
“Is anypony here?” asked a voice that didn’t belong to the shadow at all. Fluttershy knew that voice. It had — no, it couldn’t have been — but it had, it had come from the terrible darkness pony standing at the broken door. It was the voice of Rainbow Dash!
“Yes,” said Fluttershy, getting to her hooves. The shadow pony looked at her, its eyes reflecting white in the glint of the moonlight. Then the pony stepped forward and the effect was washed away. The rainbow hair came first, then the soft pink eyes. With a squeal of delight Fluttershy leapt into the air, grabbing the pony in a tumbling hug that carried them both back out the door.
“Whoa, hey,” said the sky-blue mare with a nervous laugh.
“You’re alright!” cried Fluttershy, tears of joy in her eyes. “You’re back to you! You’re…” Fluttershy stopped mid sentence. Her overjoyed outburst left her at last as she returned to her normal, timid, self. “I’m glad you’re okay,” she finished quietly.
“Uh, yeah… me too. I guess?” said the pony beneath Fluttershy. “Do you, you know, mind getting off me?”
Fluttershy blushed heavily as she realized she had tumbled her friend end over end and come out on top of her. “Sorry,” muttered Fluttershy. She moved off the pinned pegasus.
“It’s alright,” said the pegasus nonchalantly. A quick flap of her wings got her standing again. She held out a friendly hoof. “Name’s Dash by the way. It’s nice to meet somepony else that isn’t a crazy filly.”
“I know who you are,” said Fluttershy, giving her friend a strange look. Dash lowered her hoof. “Crazy… filly?”
“Yeah, this crazy little filly named Sparkle has been following me around, telling me nonsense,” said Dash. “But I think I finally lost her.”
“If you say so, Rainbow,” said Fluttershy in confusion.
“Rainbow?” repeated Dash absently, her eyes drifted away. “Why does that sound so familiar?”
“Because it’s your name?” said Fluttershy. “You’re Rainbow Dash.”
The sky-blue pegasus shook her head. “No, that isn’t my name!” said Dash, taking a step back. Her pink eyes suddenly snapped up in defiance. “Who are you! How did you get here!”
“I’m… I’m… Fluttershy!” said Fluttershy, taking a step towards Dash. Her friend was frightening her. “I’m your friend! Don’t you remember me?”
Dash put a hoof to her chest and winced in pain as she took another stumbling step backwards.
“No,” grunted Dash. “No, I don’t… I’m all alone in here. I’m supposed to be all alone.”
“You aren’t all alone,” said Fluttershy, taking another step towards Dash. “Your friends are here with you. I’m here with you!”
“Get away!” cried Dash, holding out a hoof. “Please… stay away… please…”
Fluttershy stopped her advance. The expression in the eyes, the voice, the words… she had experienced all this before. This was exactly like the last time that she and Rainbow had come face to face out on the hospital grounds. It was the exact same feeling. Rainbow… no, Dash, was afraid of her. Dash didn’t know who she was.
“She cannot remember you,” said a new voice that made both ponies jump. Fluttershy’s usual reaction, when anything startled her, was to jump into some ponies forelegs. However, Dash tried to do exactly the same thing. The two ponies collided in midair and crashed down in a tangle of legs.
“Heh-heh, the two of you look silly,” said a small lavender unicorn. Both Dash and Fluttershy were tangled up on the ground, so that they were eye level with the filly. Her large purple eyes were glinting with laughter.
“Not you again!” exclaimed Dash trying to struggle out from under Fluttershy, who had once more landed on top of her. “Get off me!”
“No,” said the lavender filly suddenly serious. She pointed a hoof at Fluttershy. “You stay right there.”
“Um, I really do think I should get off. Dash doesn’t really seem to want me on her back.”
“No,” repeated the filly sharply. “Dash,” said the filly, turning her attention to the struggling pegasus. “You have to listen to me. I am trying to help you.”
“Horse-feathers!” shouted Dash defiantly. She was still trying to work her way out from under Fluttershy. However, without even trying, Fluttershy was able to keep her pinned. It made Fluttershy wonder how she was managing it without even trying.
“You can’t run from this. You can’t fight this,” said Sparkle, her eyes locked on Dash. “You have to see it and you must accept it.”
“I don’t want to,” said Dash, finally giving up on her futile efforts to escape. “Everything you’ve told me doesn’t make any sense! Nothing good’s come out of you!”
“You found her,” said Sparkle. She held up a hoof, pointing it at Fluttershy. “Just like I said you would.”
Dash looked up at the yellow pegasus on her back. Fluttershy smiled weakly down at Dash.
“So what,” said Dash despondently. She let her head drop to the ground in defeat. “I don’t even know her and all she’s done so far is sit on top of me.” Fluttershy felt her heart sink in her chest.
“Yes you do,” said Sparkle. “But you do not know how to see her.”
“That doesn’t make any sense! I’m looking right at her!” shouted Dash, holding a hoof up towards Fluttershy. “You keep telling me nonsense! Why can’t you do something useful like get this pony off me!”
Sparkle looked at Fluttershy and nodded. Taking this as an okay to finally release Dash, Fluttershy used her wings to get off her friend. Once Fluttershy was clear Dash got slowly back to her hooves.
“Dash, you cannot see her because you do not understand how to see,” said the filly.
“Hey, my eye doctor says I have perfect vision!” exclaimed Dash.
“Eyes have nothing to do with seeing,” said the filly. “If all you do is look, you’ll never find out what you need to know unless you see.” Dash crossed her forelegs and sat back on her haunches defiantly.
“Look at this pegasus,” continued Sparkle, holding out her hoof to Fluttershy, who looked at the ground timidly. Dash stared at Fluttershy, the pink eyes glancing over her without recognition. It was strange, Fluttershy felt like Dash didn’t really see her, like she was invisible.
“Okay, I’m looking,” said Dash. “So what? She’s just the same pegasus that’s crashed into me twice now.”
“Because you do not see!” said Sparkle.
“Yeah, whatever,” said Dash.
“Maybe you can’t see because you don’t want to,” said Fluttershy. Both Dash and Sparkle looked at Fluttershy in surprise. “Oh, I’m sorry, I’ll be more quiet.” She backed away a little.
“No,” said Dash, uncrossing her forelegs and looking away. “Maybe you’re right… I don’t want to see. Not really. I’ve been looking for answers, but I feel like I’ve done it with my eyes closed…”
“It’s not about eyes…” the filly interjected.
“…Yes, thank you,” said Dash annoyed. “I’m afraid of what I’m going to find. I’m afraid that I will see the truth and it will be terrible.”
“Why?” asked Fluttershy. “What truth do you think you’ll find?”
“The truth about me,” said Dash. “Twilight told me that we’re merged together into a single pony. But she didn’t tell me why.” Dash looked up at Fluttershy. “I’m not sure I want to know why.”
Fluttershy found that she suddenly didn’t want to know either, but she couldn’t find her voice to tell that to Dash.
“Something happened to me,” continued Dash, her eyes drifted to the tree house behind Fluttershy. “Something I don’t want to know, something that I don’t want to remember. Something, that happened in there.”
Dash trotted past Fluttershy, moving back towards the library. Fluttershy knew she didn’t want to find out what was inside but her voice simply wouldn’t come to tell Dash to stop.
“When you see it Dash,” called Sparkle. “When you know it and finally accept it, not with your eyes but with your heart, it will change you. You will finally see. And you will not like what you find.”
“I know,” whispered Dash. She halted at the threshold, looking into the dark interior.
A panic suddenly raced through Fluttershy. She did not want Dash to go inside, she did not what her to see what was in the darkness.
A cold shiver caused her whole body to tremble. She couldn’t explain it, couldn’t understand it, her hooves were moving on their own. She was running towards Dash, charging towards her friend.
Slowly, Dash stepped forward into the house. There was darkness inside that was shadowy and deep and never ending.
Fluttershy leapt into the air, momentum carrying her in a rush towards Dash. They collided for a third time, Fluttershy once again ending up on top.
“Hey! What’re you doing!” cried Dash.
A crack light thunder split the air above them. Something rushed overhead missing them by inches. Fluttershy looked up and instantly wished she hadn’t. A massive pointed spike filled the space above them.
It had come from inside the library, extending outward from the dark depths. It was so long that it reached all the way across the street before it had crashed into another house. It was wide enough around that it filled the entire doorframe.
The ground began to tremble very slightly.
“This is the part where you run,” said the filly. Her horn glowed brightly and she vanished in a flash of purple light.
“RUN!” Fluttershy yelled. She grabbed Dash and hauled her friend up from the dirt. No sooner where they clear then more spikes burst from the ground. They extended several dozen hoofs into the air behind them, creating a jagged fence that barred the way.
However, there was no time to examine it further. Fluttershy gave Dash a hard push, moving them aside as the road in front of them erupted in gleaming points.
The two ponies ran side-by-side as they fled from the spikes bursting out of the ground in every direction. Around them Ponyville began to crumble, spikes thrust out of the windows of buildings, through their roofs and past the doors. Every direction was pointed, every path ending in gleaming spikes.
They were surrounded. There was nowhere left to run. Crisscrossing spikes blocked their path in every direction, walling them in. A rapidly closing circle of points was slowly coming for them.
It was then, when they had nowhere else to run that two things went through Fluttershy’s mind. The first was that these things surrounding them didn’t look like spikes at all, now that she’d had a proper look. No, she was sure they weren’t spikes. They were horns, unicorn horns.
The second thing that came to her mind was that she had to hold Dash. She grabbed Dash around the middle and held her tight as the end approached. The spikes were only hooves from them now, closing in, tightening.
They struck from every direction, all at once, their points elongating and moving fast. The two ponies stood frozen, only moments from their end.
But Fluttershy had also thought of a third thing and she was ready, she knew what she had to do. With only inches left, she leapt skyward, Dash held tightly in her fore hooves. She had been quicker, her wings flapping harder then they ever had before.
Higher and higher they rose into the moonlit sky. Below the spikes churned and gnashed like jagged teeth, devouring all of Ponyville. Fluttershy looked away from the terrible sight, her eyes finding the shocked face of her friend she held in her forelegs.
Fluttershy had never seen Dash so shaken as she was now. The sky-blue pegasus was trembling from head to wing tip. There were tears in her eyes and she was squeezing Fluttershy even tighter than Fluttershy was holding her.
“It’s okay!” said Fluttershy, trying her best to sound as confident as possible. To her surprise, her voice was unusually steady. “Everything’s okay!”
“No,” said Dash, shaking her head. The tears in her eyes ran down her cheeks. “Everything is not okay…” Her words seemed to fail her. She looked her friend in the face, pink eyes meeting soft blue ones. “I think I finally see at last, the truth I don’t want to remember, the thing that’s been holding me back. I think… I think I died.”
When Applejack awoke, she found herself lying on the floor. Her head was pounding, like some tiny pony was playing a drum on the inside of her skull. It took her a moment to realize where she was. She felt confused as she looked at her surroundings.
This was the Ponyville public library, right where she had passed out after touching Twilight Dash. Yet, it couldn’t be. The books were all neatly shelved. The table, that had been torn asunder was whole once more, as was the bust of the marble unicorn that sat atop it. Everything was in its place, neat and tidy as it almost never was.
Her head still hurt.
Something else wasn’t right. It only took her a moment to realize what was wrong. Her friends! Her friends were not here either! She looked around in a panic. No Rarity, no Fluttershy, no Pinkie Pie and no Twilight!
She shouted for her friends but her words had an odd quality to them, like trying to talk underwater. The air was unnaturally still here too. Applejack felt like she couldn’t breathe. She had to get out of this place!
Nearly breaking down the door in her panic, Applejack rushed outside into the street. Bright warm light crashed into her, hitting her eyes like a solid force. The sun was high in the sky. How could that be? How long had she lain there unconscious on the ground?
Her eyes came back down to Ponyville. The streets were empty. At this time of day there should have been dozens of ponies out an about. Yet, there was nopony else here!
“Well, not nopony else,” said a voice from beside her. Applejack turned her head to look in the direction of the voice, her eyes darting back and forth. At first she didn’t see anypony but when she glanced down, she found a small sky-blue filly looking up at her.
It was a little Rainbow Dash who looked just the way she should have looked, except, smaller.
“Rainbow Dash?” asked Applejack confused. “Why y’all so little?”
“Nah, just Rainbow,” said the filly. “Twilight’s coming. She’ll be here in a second.”
A pop and flash of light signaled Twilight’s arrival by teleportation. Applejack couldn’t believe her eyes. It was Twilight! She was back like she should be, her own pony once more!
“Twilight!” Applejack cried, rushing forward and hugging her friend before Twilight could get any words out.
“Applejack?” asked Twilight confused. “What… how… you can’t be here! This doesn’t make any sense!”
“You remember my name!” said Applejack, overjoyed by her friend’s miraculous recovery. “How’d you set yourself right? Where’s everypony else? Why’s Rainbow so small?”
“Applejack!” Twilight interrupted sternly. “How did you get here?” Applejack blinked, confused by the question.
“Uh, I came out that there door,” she pointed behind her, turning to the tree house she had just come out of. Or at least she would have if it had been there. The building seemed to have vanished. “Huh, it was there just a minute ago.”
Everything shook, the ground, the buildings, even the sky. In the distance Applejack could swear that the mountains moved a little closer. In fact, she was sure that Canterlot was much closer to Ponyville than it should have been.
“Twilight, what the hay is going on here?” asked Applejack.
“I’m not sure how to explain this, so, I’ll just say it,” said Twilight. “This isn’t Ponyville, not really. This is a construct of my imagination, a metaphysical manifestation of how I remember Ponyville. I thought it was a dream at first, but it isn’t, not really.”
“Twilight, I have no idea what y’all are talkin’ about,” said Applejack, now thoroughly confused.
“Applejack, you’re inside my mind,” said Twilight as bluntly as she could manage.
“Inside your… wait… you ain’t saying that… that we’re all joined up, like you and Rainbow!” cried Applejack in shock. She lifted a hoof to see if it had changed color, which it hadn’t. She felt for a horn, which she didn’t find.
“No,” said Twilight. “Fusion only combines two things, not three. Having you would be one too many. I don’t know how you’re here, but I’m pretty sure that your body and mind are still your own.”
“That’s a relief,” said Applejack, relaxing a little. “For a moment there I thought we might really have a mess on our hooves…
“Twilight, there’s somethin’ I have to ask you,” said Applejack. The expression on her face looked very serious. “Somethin’ I need to know.” Twilight looked uncertain but didn’t interrupt. “Why? Why’d you do this to Rainbow? Celestia said it couldn’t have been an accident.” Twilight glanced away uncomfortably, unable to withstand Applejack’s gaze.
“You’re right, the spell wasn’t an accident,” admitted Twilight. “I did this, knowing what would happen.”
“But why!” shouted Applejack, shocked by Twilight’s admission.
“I didn’t have any other choice, it had to be done. I had to do it!” Twilight shouted back. There was silence between the two mares for a long moment.
“She can put them back exactly the way they were,” said the filly at last. “Twilight Dash can wield both the element of Loyalty and Magic. Two elements can achieve what one will not. What Celestia cannot.”
Applejack’s eyes widened at this announcement, she looked at Twilight, to see if the filly was lying. But it was there in Twilight’s face, she could do it, she knew she could do it.
“I wont!” shouted Twilight.
“You can undo this? Y’all can put you and Rainbow back just how you were?” Applejack shouted in frustration. Twilight nodded. “Then do it! Set this right!”
“No!” Twilight shouted. “If I do that, Rainbow will die!”
“But, you just said…” Applejack tried.
“Exactly as we were!” shouted Twilight. “Exactly as she was…” Twilight sat back on her haunches, lifting her forelegs to look down at them, like she expected to see something there.
“What… what happened?” Applejack asked, much more softly this time.
“Rainbow was at my house,” said Twilight, both her purple eyes looking off into the distance as if she could see the memories unfolding before her. Applejack was suddenly surprised when the air rippled and she could see the memory too. It was like looking down through a window in the air, with the main room of the tree house below.
“I had a surprise for Rainbow, a book. The newest Daring Do. It’s not supposed to be out for another month, but I received an advanced copy, signed by the author.” The Twilight in the memory held up the book for Rainbow to see. “She was so excited for it. I had never seen her that happy, not even when she met the Wonderbolts.
“You know Rainbow, she couldn’t contain herself.” In the memory Rainbow was hugging the book to her chest, the widest smile spread across her face. Then Rainbow leapt into the air inside the library. She flew in circles of excitement, crying out her joy.
The smile on Twilight’s face darkened into terrible sadness as she watched her own memory.
“You don’t think about it, not in your own home, not where you feel the safest… It’s my fault. I simply couldn’t have left the table empty. I had to pick something Rainbow wouldn’t knock over…”
The laughing memory of Twilight set down her checklist and called up to Rainbow, telling her to come down. The momentary distraction caused the soaring pegasus to collide with one of the bookshelves. Her speed rebounded her through the air and towards the table in the center of the room.
Applejack saw it happen in the memory. She watched in horrible slow motion as Twilight realized too late what was about to happen. She couldn’t react fast enough, couldn’t will her magic quick enough.
The horn of the marble unicorn atop the table went right through Rainbows back. There was a scream of pain and terror and it took all of Applejack’s will to not look away.
“She was…” Twilight couldn’t finish the thought, her voice barely above a whisper now. “… Right there in front of me. All my magic and there was nothing I could do. No time to get to the hospital. Too dangerous to try teleporting. Too deep a wound for healing magic to be effective.”
Rainbow looked up towards the Twilight in the memory but it was like she was staring through time right at Applejack, her pink eyes wet with tears. “I guess… I’ll have to give this back without reading it… let me know how it ends…” The book dropped from her hoof, bouncing under the table. Her eyes closed slowly, the faintest grimace on her face.
“I would not let that happen,” said Twilight, suddenly defiant. “I would not allow that!” The Twilight in the memory began to glow, her horn shining with what seemed like the light of the sun. The memory ended.
“I did the only thing I could think of,” said Twilight. “I saved her by giving up myself.” She looked at Applejack, her eyes pleading for acceptance. Applejack said nothing. She moved forward and wrapped her forelegs around her friend. Twilight began to sob uncontrollably and Applejack held her.
“It’s okay,” said Applejack softly. “It’s not your fault. I don’t blame you.” Through her sobs, Twilight did not notice that Applejack’s words weren’t entirely honest.
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Hello dear readers have some authors notes (sort of).
Sticking with the reality bending perceptions in this story I’m going to try something I have (oddly) never considered before. Some reader (well, commenter) participation in the actual story!
What is this participation you might ask? Simple. You, the reader, may ask a question from one character to another in the next upcoming chapter!
Your choices of character groups are: Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow (filly) OR Dash, Fluttershy and Sparkle (filly). You can have any character in a group ask another character in the same group a question.
Be warned, some questions (especially of the nonsensical fillies) may only give you more questions (or nonsense), so choose wisely.
You can submit in comment or in PM, both are acceptable. There is no limit to how many questions you can ask. Questions do not have to be actual dialog (but they can be), just tag who the speaker is (if you want) and the general idea of the question (also who you would prefer to answer). Any and all questions used from readers will get an annotation and credit at the end of the chapter.
Submission for questions close when the chapter posts. Be warned, the later the question the less chance it has to make it into the story.
Not all questions will be used (I am thinking maybe the top five (if I get any at all that is)). It is my sole discretion as to what questions fit within the story.
So, what secrets do you want to know? What question burns within that you must have answered? Have a character ask it for you and find out!
Additional: If the question is posted more then once credit will go to the first person to ask the question. If I have already written the question (as the next chapter is in editing at the moment) I will still give credit if it’s similar enough.
I had a feeling something like this would have been a reason. :(
There's just no winning for them.
Where did twilight find such a spell?
seems odd that there'd be such "easy" access to it...
Another great chapter! Hmm...can't think of a question right now, but if one comes to mind I'll ask.
I KNEW something happened to Dash, I just knew it! I guess now the question is what the breaking of the Elements is going to do...
Y u kill Dashie
Well, that was unexpected...
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AJ->Twi: "Can RD be saved with Celestia's magic if they will undo fusion spell? Will RD receive her wounded body back or simply vanish?"
I'm simply trying to find solution for this.
Excuse me if this revelation is not surprising. There was no other strong enough reason to use the spell.
What's surprised me is that Celestia didn't realise that, or one of the others.
So... Dash's inability to accept her own death has been the problem this whole time?
Interesting.
Fluttershy should ask Dash. "Do you want to live, if it means being part of Twilight?"
o.o *flails limbs wildly* MERGE ALL THE PONIES! :D
I...wha...huh?!
OK, this needs moar!! 
A question from Applejack: "If you can separate yourselves back to the way you were, why don't we take your combined body to a hospital and have you split yourselves right in the emergency room so the doctors can get to work on Rainbow Dash immediately?"
Feel free to edit for accent and long-windedness as you see fit.
This was expected... now... is there a way out? Twilight can separate them, but Dash will die if she does.
Don't know why Applejack would still blame Twilight for this though... if anything, Twilight is in danger of joining Dash. Celestia was going to pull them apart, saving Dash, which wouldn't cause Dash is still dying, but that would lose Twilight in the process.
My brain just exploded
To the fillies why have each other as their "spirit guide" as opposed to themselves
Applejack to Twilight: Did the spell erase Rainbow's injuries or did it just mitigate them? Basically, does (one healthy pony + one dead pony) = one half dead pony?
I would expect Rainbow's poor health to be the reason the Twilight Dash was dying after they fused.
I have a question for Twilight, does she intend to sacrifice herself for Rainbow Dash, or does she have a way to save both of them?
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Methinks this would lead as was insinuated in previous chapter to a puddle of Twilight goo, and a Rainbow Dash with a hold in her torso.
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I'm thinking that the big hold in her torso was probably not something that can be fixed... considering Dash pretty much died after stating her last regret. Unless Celestia has the power to heal that kind of wound and raise the dead, the hospital would just have a cold corpse when the spell lights faded.
I saw that Dash would be dead or dying the moment Twilight told Dash “Because if you don’t, our friends are going to try and put us back the way we used to be…”, it was the only motive I could come up with for Twilight to try to cast such a spell "willingly", seeing that saving Rainbow was the choice taking on the voting between the two of them just confirmed it for me, kind of glad Celestia didn't complete the separation, though I have to wonder what is going to come now.
The only question I have would be anyone asking Dash why didn't she want to remember her friends, the one that makes most sense would be Fluttershy if the choice is between her and Sparkle. I understand not wanting to remember that she died, but what does that have to do with remembering her friends?
there's Dash being an idiot, yet AGAIN. Glad Twilight was able to help out though
I'll give it a shot. Dash what does it feel like to die? Great story by the way i've done questions before and believe me it's hard to get people to respond.
Get a spine-healing spell at the ready.
1109923 1110009 I second this motion, Get the Applejack half to ask if their's any safe way for the two to be separated and, if not, get Applejack to ask if Twilight want's Celestia to sacrifice Twilight to save Rainbow.
Also, unrelated topic, i think i know where you're going with this story. (Guessing spoiler)
I think the pair will manage to take control of their duo body and live like that. That or the ending's going to be a tragic one
Was this at all inspired by Transformers Victory (or was it Masterforce where that happened, I can't keep 'em straight)?
Also, do you watch "Atop The Fourth Wall?"
1110082 If the fusion is keeping Rainbow Dash alive, at least for the time being, then it might still be possible to heal her before or during the separation, although depending on how Starwin wants to approach the story, it would be incredibly tricky. If it even is possible, then it would probably take all six Elements of Harmony. Even then, it's easier said than done because four of the Element bearers are losing the traits that correspond to their respective Elements.
*violent twitch*
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People have survived impalement even without magical aid. Unless that spike hit something truly vital, like the heart, all they'd really need to do is stitch her up and make sure she doesn't loose too much blood.
Nice chapter, but you'll probably want to fix the formatting error.
-logs on sees new chapter up-
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How come the 2 fillies are a part of each others mind?
Oh, great story.
1110202 I might just be a dumbass and not realize the obvious. But why do you ask if he watches Atop The Fourth Wall?
I have two question for Twilight. One: Who or what exactly are Rainbow (filly) and Sparkle (filly)? Are they pieces of your mind that separated from you when you two fused or what? Are they the reason that Dash can't remember anything?
And Two: Do you intend to stay fused with Dash or do you have something planed to save her.
Something just occurred to me. Now that they've all been pulled into Twidash's clusterfuck mind, how does this all look from the outside?
I am so confused!
But yet so intriged.
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Thus, no sad tag, nor tragedy... spoilers?
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There are a couple posts (that I've made) as to where I got the inspiration for this work, so if your curious just back track a bit in the comments.
Yes, I do watch ATFW (as well as some of the other channels on thatguywiththeglasses).
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Yes, my evil plan to destroy the world with twitching is finally coming to fruition. Also, corrected.
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Thank you and also corrected.
And to everyone who has posted questions thus far, THANK YOU! There are some fantastic ones in there, you guys (and gals) are so AWESOME!
The plothole is filling in. Good work on the chapter.
Trippy, man. At least now we know motives and stuff, and they're slowly figuring out how to fix things.
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See post 507 by InsaneCat for answer... maybe...
(also no, not really)
1110432 Um... no thank you.
1110018 I imagined myself flailing my limbs. And it made me lol.
But! There should be some kind of bigger twist, something that would destroy their friendships. Lead the world into chaos (without Discord), and only be saved by Twilight and Rainbow accepting their fate, and fighting along each others side while being each other. Eh, just an idea.
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Considering Sparkle (filly) was trying to get Dash to remember, I kind of doubt it.
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How does this look from outside...? Are Fluttershy and Applejack in a coma? Or are they just in a trance?
AJ and/or Flutters to the filly Dash/Sparkle respectively: "How do we get out of here? Are our bodies safe, etc."
Twilight. You say there was no time to go to a hospital, implying that if there was time the hospital could do something. What's stopping you from changing back inside the hospital?
this reminds me of comingsoon.net/gallery/52815/Inception_Poster.jpg
Hilariously, Veil of Memories rings a bell. It's a term from a video game. It hides memories from a person(s) indefinitely. The only thing that can really lift it is an object, usually having to do with the person(s)'s past.
That picture of the mane six would make a wonderful trigger...
Dash is dead. Is not big surprise.
Well... I'm not sure if she was dead per say, she's a tough character and weaker people have survived harsher injuries... although you didn't exactly where she was backstabbed. Spine? Lung? Heart? Spine and lung could potentially be repaired with magic and certain levels of tech, not certain about getting stabbed through the heart with something that big though.
Even if I'm wrong, and you've already pretty much said that's the case, the fact that her soul's still occupying something on the mortal plane of existance implies that if healed immediately, she could be saved. Grasping at straws I know, but the point is I truly hope they manage to reverse it and save lil' Dashie.
I knew it. But i didn't want it to be true
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Not straws. Brain has 3 min until it is dead after loosing heart.
Yep. If she didn't completely bled out... Oh... Spoilers much?
Wild guess: Rainbow Dash with sapphire / ruby heart?