I'm sorry girls, I need to leave for a while. I can't tell you why or where but I have to go.
'I'm sorry girls, I need to leave for a while. I can't tell you why or where but I have to go.'
That letter was the last we heard of her for years. When she returned she wasn't the same mare she was before, she had changed and not for the better.
what happened to you Rainbow?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- credit and big thanks to my co-author super57
"Hey Rainbow!" yelled Derpy, trying to get Rainbow Dashes attention. Derpy is a gray pegasus. She has a straw colored main and a golden wall-eyed stare. "You got a letter today! It's from some guy named Steel Wing!" 'Now why would that piece of trash still be writing me? I told him to back off!' Rainbow Dash thought. Rainbow Dash is a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail. She also has magenta eyes. "Could you leave it at my house Derpy? I've got to get these storm clouds to the Everfree tonight." "Sure! Bye Dash!" Derpy replied as she started to fly to Rainbows house to drop of the letter. Now saying Rainbow Dash didn't like Steel Wing would be an understatement. No THE understatement of the century. He used to be her best friend until she found out he was stalking her and Fluttershy. As soon as she found out she took Fluttershy and left the city, telling him to never contact her again. So why would he write now? 'Guess I'll find out soon enough.' Rainbow thought sullenly. 'At least Flutters is non the wiser about him. She would be scarred for life.' With her clouds now above the Everfree forest she would return to her cloud mansion and read his letter, after all better safe than sorry when it comes to stalkers. As she got home the letter read this. Dear Rainbow Dash, I love you and you know this, but you push me away. I got tired of this so I will fight for you. Did you know there is a weak cloud in the 'ground' of cloudesdale? Or that with a simple spell stored in a gem, pegasi could be stopped from flying? Come back to cloudesdale and be my marefreind for a year and I'll 'forget' about that weak spot in the clouds and that gems can hold spells. Don't tell anyone about this. I'll give you a month to get here or the first one goes. Show this to anyone and the first one goes. I'll be waiting in the same house as always. See you then. Love you,
Steel Wing Rainbow was shocked, that was insane! That was also precisely why he would do it. To protect everypony she had to leave. But on the other hoof she should be loyal and tell her friends. Still he insinuated he would KILL pegsi if she didn't comply. He also said to not tell her friends, so she decided to go. Nopony was getting hurt because she didn't go away for just one year! It may be with a slime ball of a stallion but it was necessary. Hastily she scribbled a note that read, I'm sorry girls, I need to leave for a while. I can't tell you why or where but I have to go. She quickly left the note at Fluttershys house with her animals, it was time to go. Rainbow Dash started on her trip to cloudesdale, the place that he had called her to. When she got to the old house that they used to play in as kids, he wasn't there. As Rainbow went to the house to knock on the door it opened to reveal Steel Wing. He is a tall, muscular stallion who usually gets what he wants. His coat is a crimson red except for the steel gray feathers on his wings that shone in the setting sun. His mane is a deep dark blue almost matching his slightly lighter blue eyes. His cutie mark is a steel feather with a sharpened point. "You got here sooner than I expected dear, I thought it would have taken one death for you to believe me." The stallion stated. "I'm not excited over the prospect of someone dying over me asshole." Rainbow Dash retorted with venom, "This time next year we will be over and I'll be with my friends again. " "You will act like a proper marefreind or you know what will happen! Or maybe I'll try something a little worse for you, after all you don't know all that I can do." He responded slyly while beckoning her inside. As Rainbow Dash entered the house a crowd stared at the area of what just happened, eventually discarding it as a couples squabble. Nopony knew that she may have just saved all their lives. This is how Rainbows secret was born. In an old house on the edge of cloudesdale, with a stalker and empty threats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'What's this?' Thought a butter yellow mare with a long rose pink mane and tale, along with a triple butterfly cutie mark as she spotted a letter in her home. There was no mail today other than express deliveries, so why did she get this? It was addressed to all her friends but rainbow. She quickly read the note and said with no small amount of surprise "Oh, my." She quickly decided to tell her friends but not have them get involved. Even though Rainbow thought she didn't know about the stalker she did, and she figured it was him. He was insane so if they got in the way he would probably kill them all. She would never allow that, she would stop them herself if she had to. After telling her friends about the letter Fluttershy left town for a while so she didn't accidentally tell anyone else. This was Rainbows secret to keep if she so wishes it. Now to prepare needed for a life with a changed Rainbow, after all, how could this not change them both? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It was perfect, his pawn got the rainbow pegasus out of the way for the year. He could grow in power and break that pegasuses loyalty, have his pawn make her run and hide. This is the ultimate plan in his opinion. Unlike Discord who was so foalish as to artificially change the elements feelings, for his safety he would simply crush one of them. Deep underneath Canterlot there was a Rumbling evil laughter that gave each and everypony a shiver of primal fear. "Hahaha. HAHAHA! HAHAHA!Within the year loyalty will die!"
Fluttershy feels conflicted for leaving town. Should she tell her friends the secret, or just keep it the secret so her friends are ok? What next? Stay away from her friends so they get more worried about Rainbow? Or should she just let it keep going?
No, she wasn’t going to let it keep going. She needed to go see what HE was doing to her. Fluttershy hoped that Rainbow was ok and flew to where Steel Wing lived. She found the old looking house and felt scared at seeing how bad it looked. It looked destroyed.
The house almost looked ready to just fall off the cloud, in fact Fluttershy was surprised it didn’t with it being on a cloud and all. When Fluttershy walked up to the old house, she could hear sounds of struggling and things breaking. When she came up to a broken window and looked through it, she felt shocked at what she was seeing through this window.
Rainbow Dash and…...Him, were fighting each other. With how the fight was going, Rainbow looked like she was winning. She was bleeding from her nose and Steel wing looked pissed and angry.
Fluttershy was cheering on for Rainbow quietly, and with how shy and quiet she was they couldn’t hear her. Then Rainbow hit Steel right in the jaw, and he flew across the room. But before he got up, he took a knife off a table that he was right next too. He was now on his two back hooves and jumped straight for Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow looked scared but put a brave face on and tackled him to the ground. After that, She tried to fight valiantly but Steel Wing hit her with his knife and broke one of her wings. She screamed and fell on her side and held onto her wing protectively. Fluttershy couldn’t do anything but watch, she knew if Steel wing saw her that he would kill her. So all she did was weep sadly at the scene she was now seeing.
Steel wing Smirked smugly at Rainbow, who was rotting in pain from her bloodied wing. Rainbow Dash was crying, and she was crying because it was gonna take a while for her to fix that wing in order to fly again. Rainbow glared at Steel wing, and was going to yell at him for doing that. But then, Steel wing put the knife on her other wing to make her shut up.
After that, Steel wing decided to tie up Rainbow Dash and see if she wanted the care that he can give her.
“Now then, we can do this the easy way. Or the hard way. What do you choose Sweetheart?” Steel wing said dangerously.
Rainbow knew better. She was tied up and wouldn’t like to lose her other wing.
So she said, “Fine. I would like the easy way. Please,” Rainbow said, Hesitantly.
“Good. Now then, let’s get that wing bandaged up and better alright?” Steel wing said, smiling.
Rainbow dash huffed, and put her broken wing in front of Steel wing so he could fix it up. That’s when Fluttershy decided to leave, she stayed too long. She also wanted to make sure that Steel wing didn’t see her, so she quietly tip-toed away. Then when she thought she was out of eye view, she flew away as fast as she could.
Steel wing smiled and Touched Rainbow dash’s wing. Rainbow flinched but then Steel wing cleaned up the blood and bandaged it up.
“There you go hun. All better, at least as much as it can be,” Steel wing said, laughing.
Rainbow glared, “I hate you,” She said venomously.
Steel wing smiled, “I hate you too Dashie,” Steel wing said mockingly.
“Now then, I am going to leave you here. Tied up. With nothing to do. Excuse me, I need to go do my *Ahem* errands. See you later hun!” Steel wing exclaimed with a wave and a smile.
“What!?!?!?! You’re leaving me here?!?!?!?! Tied up!?!?!?!” Rainbow yelled, shockingly.
Steel wing felt happy with how his plan was going. Now he excused himself with *errands* even though what he actually is doing is meeting his master. He wanted to make sure his master knew how his plan was going by telling him his report.
Now if only Steel wing could remember where his master lived. He then remembered that it was somewhere in the Everfree Forest. He hated that place, but he needed to see his master. So he flew through the forest and found the dark cave that not many other’s knew about.
He winced at the darkness since he forgot how dark a cave usually gets. He looked around and then yelled out, “MASTER! Are you here!?!?!?!?!?” loudly. After he yelled that out, he waited for a response.
“Yes, I am here you nitwit. Out with it. Why are you here this time?” Master says coldly.
Steel wing *EEPED!* and said, “I am here to bring you a report with how our plan is going master!” He said, with his voice cracking.
“You mean my plan right?” His master said, angrily.
“Yes master! Your plan! How your plan is going!” Steel wing said, bowing to his master.
His master laughed evilly and said, “Now tell me. How is breaking the element of Loyalty going?” his master said, cackling.
“It’s going good master. She is dominated and doing everything I say. Because she knows what will happen if she doesn’t,” Steel wing said smiling.
“Goooooooddddddd.” His master said, Drawing out the word evil-like.
“I must warn you. If you’re lying to me in any way, I will steal your soul and make you my puppet. Understand?” His master said, devilishly.
Steel wing chuckled nervously and said, “Don’t worry master! I promise that nothing will go wrong! And that your plan will be completed!” He said, scared.
“If you think nothing will go wrong, Then why don’t you go home and see if your ‘Sweetheart’ is still tied up?” His master said, angrily. Holding up his shadowed hooves for quotations.
“Yes master! Understood master!” Steel wing said, saluting then flying off to the old rust-bucket of a house.
When Steel wing got home and stopped sweating from all the nervousness he felt, He went inside and made sure his ‘mare friend’ was still tied up. When he found his mare friend NOT tied up, he started freaking out. He was flying all over the house breaking things along the way. After freaking out, he got mad and stomped his hooves on the floor in frustration. From the sudden shake of the house, something fell from atop his head. It was some kind of photo, and when it hit him in the back of his head, he fell unconscious.
“Ha! How does that feel asshole?!?!?!?!” A voice said. Steel didn’t know who it was, Because he was unconscious.
Rainbow smiled, “Ha! How does that feel asshole!?!?!?!? I always wanted to do that!” She said, smiling more when she saw Steel wing fall right onto the floor, face first.
