> forgiveness > by MidnightShy21 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are sorry rainbow dash, but we did it because you wouldn't stop bragging about your hero deeds, I hope you can forgive us...." Fluttershy said in a sad tone. "I can forgive you but..... Promise me you won't do something like this ever again" Rainbow dash said. Twilight immediately said: "We promise we won't ever do it again, right girls?" She said looking at them when she said the last part. They all nodded. Rainbow dash walked over and they did a group hug. ........................... a few years later... "No! Stop! I'm so sorry...." Rainbow dash said, tears welling up in her eyes. I killed them... I killed them all... This is all my fault! If i wouldn't have done the cookie prank, none of this would have happened! she thought. She was crying. She started to think about everything that has happened these last few days. They wanted me to stop! But i didn't listen... I... I killed everyone! I killed them! She started to breath heavily. She couldn't take it anymore. She just wanted it to be over. The "zombie" ponies were really close to her now. They all opened their mouth. "IT'S A PRANK!!!" They all yelled and some of them started laughing, others were giggling. There were a few ponies that felt guilty. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Mrs Cake. Rainbow looked at them in shock. "This is all a prank?!" She yelled. She felt more tears coming. "You wouldn't stop pranking us, so we decided to prank you ourself!" Twilight said happily. "Y... You..." Rainbow dash said before flying away as fast as she could. When she got home she packed some stuff and tank. She flew out of town. She didn't care where she would go, as long as it was away from the place she called home. After about an hour of flying she flew down to a cloud and started to cry again. I'm such a crybaby right now... she thought. "Are you okay?" She heard a voice say. The voice sounded familiar to her. She wiped her tears away the best she could. She turned around and looked at the presence behind her. Soarin... When he saw her he asked her: "What's wrong Dash?" He sounded really concerned. "N- nothing" she said. "Dash, i know something is wrong, you wouldn't just cry about nothing, at least the dash I know wouldn't" he said sternly. "W-well... Uh... M-my friends..." She said. "What about your friends?" He asked. "They... They..." She said. "You don't have to tell it if you don't want to" he said with a reassuring smile. She smiled back weakly. "Where were you going?" He asked after a few minutes. "Uhm... Anywhere that is not ponyville" she said. "You wanna come with me?" He asked. She nodded. 45 minutes later "Where are we going?" Dash asked. "You'll see" he replied. A few minutes later he said: "Close your eyes". "I can't fly if i close my eyes" She said. "You have to trust me" he said. She nodded. He flew closer to her and she closed her eyes. She felt a hoof wrap around hers. "Where are we?" She asked. "Shhh quiet" he put his other hoof on her mouth and flew further. A few moments later she heard Soarin talking to somepony. "She is with me" she heard Soarin say. "Alright, come on in" the other pony said. She heard hoofsteps coming closer to her. "Come on" Soarin said. She felt a hoof wrap around hers again. He pulled her with him. She heard a door open. "Alright, you can open your eyes, your tortoise already flew in" he said, laughing a little at the last part. She opened her eyes. "Is this the wonderbolt headquarters?!" She asked with wide eyes. Soarin nodded. "OMYGOSHOMYGOSHOMYGOSH! I can't believe you took me here!!" She yelled. "Hey, no problem, I thought you would like it" he said. "Thank you so much!" She said and hugged him tightly. He hugged back. "Hey Soarin!" Spitfire yelled. Immediately Soarin and Dash stopped hugging. "You remember that rainbow maned mare? She is missing!" She yelled, running up to him. "Spitfire, calm down!" Soarin said. "Why?" She asked. Soarin stepped aside a little so that Spitfire would see Dash. "What is she doing here?! *gasp* Did you kidnap her?!" Spitfire asked shocked. Dash giggled. "No of coarse I didn't kidnap her! I found her outside a few miles away and decided to bring her here," he explained. "Why was she out there all alone?" Spitfire asked. Soarin looked at Dash. He saw that her smile faded. "Uh... She was uh... Practicing! Yeah practicing...." He said. "Yeah sure...." Spitfire said. "Well i have to go now, see ya!" She said and walked away. Rainbow sighed. "Come with me" Soarin said. few minutes later "I have to practice right now, if you want to you can watch!" Soarin said. Dash nodded. She watched him fly away to the other bolts. She saw Spitfire give them a speech. After that they started practice. She saw them do loops and all types of tricks. She was really impressed. After practice Soarin flew over to her. "You ready to go?" He asked. "Where?" She asked. "I thought it would be best if we went to my house, since you can't stay here...." He said. "Okay! Lead the way!" She said. They flew to Soarin's house. "Why did I have to be quiet before?" Dash asked him. "I needed to get past all of the wonderbolt fans without being seen" he explained. "Ohh" she replied. "Wait where is tank?!" Rainbow said as she started to freak out. "Your tortoise? He is flying right above you" he said. Dash looked up. "Oh thank goodness!" she said. "What happened before?" He asked. "What do you mean?" She asked. "With your friends" he said. "Uh they..." She started to say, but stopped herself. "I shouldn't have asked" he said. "No it's fine, I can tell you...." You thought it continued didn't you? > chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- in ponyville "Twilight!" Applejack yelled. "What's wrong?" Twilight asked. "You let Celestia add an article about Rainbow dash missing in the newspaper?! What is wrong with you!?" Applejack yelled angry in her face. "I was just trying to help...." Twilight said. "Listen Twi! If any villain reads this, they can easily come here to ponyville and attack us! We won't be able to stop them without the element of loyalty!" She yelled again. Twilight was starting to get pissed too. "Well someone that is really loyal wouldn't leave her friends because they pranked her!" Twilight yelled back. "How dare you!? Can't you see we went too far! Yes, she pranked us a lot of times too but we made her think she killed us! You can call it "teaching her a lesson" but trust me it's not! You're supposed to be the princess of friendship! We could've just looked for her!" She yelled in her face. Twilight saw she was really mad. "Well I-" "GIRLS! This is not how you treat a friend!" Fluttershy interrupted twilight. She sounded angry. "Uh... I'm sorry..." Applejack said. "You better be" Fluttershy shot twilight a glare "-I mean.. I'm sorry too..." "See? That is better" Fluttershy said in her normal voice. "Twilight! Ponyville is under attack!" Spike yelled, running into the castle. "Who is attack- *gasp* SOMBRA?! HOW DID HE GET HERE?!" Twilight yelled. "I don't know twilight, but I do know we NEED Rainbow" Spike said. with Soarin and Dash "-And that's what happened..." Rainbow dash finished with a sad sigh. "What's the big deal? You pranked them too" Soarin asked. "The big deal is that I thought I killed my friends!!" Rainbow said with tears welling up in her eyes. "I thought you would understand..." "I'm sorry... I didn't know...." He said as he put a hoof on her shoulder. She turned around to look at him. "No... It's fine, I should've told you..." She said and gave him a small smile. "Oh look! We're at my house! Soarin said all of a sudden. He opened the door. "Ladies first" Dash giggled at this. "No need to be so formal" she laughed. He smiled. "Well in that case!" He said and ran inside. Dash laughed at this and walked in, closing the door behind her. She looked around and was amazed. "Your place looks amazing!" She said. Soarin looked around a corner to where dash was standing. "Hmm" he said with a piece of pie in his mouth. She laughed loudly. "Hey, what are YOU laughing about?" He asked. "Uh you- you have a little s-something on your face" She said in between fits of laughter. Soarin immediately flew to a mirror, when he looked at himself he wiped his entire face to make sure his pie-beard was gone. Then he shot her a glare. "What?" she asked. He flew over to her and got close in her face. She just looked at him with a shocked face. He put his mouth close to her ear and whispered:"Bet you can't handle tickling..." Her ear twitched a little, feeling his breath against her ear. Before she could respond he started tickling her. "Wh- HAHAHAHA- why are you doi- BWAAHAHAHAH- doing t- this?!- HAHAHAHAHAHA- S- STOP IT!!- HAHAHAHAHA" she yelled between fits of laughter. "This is called revenge" He said. "F- for what?!- HAHAHA" she asked. "For not telling me about my pie-beard. You just laughed at me and now it's time for me to laugh at you" he said and he started to laugh. "Okay okay!- HAHAHAHA- I LEARNED MY LESSON!" she yelled. "Alright alright I'll stop" he laughed. He stopped tickling her and walked to the living room. "You coming?" He asked. She walked after him. Again she looked around and was amazed. She didn't look where she was going and bumped into a wall. Now is was Soarin's turn to laugh. "Maybe you wanna watch where you're going..." he said. in ponyville "Oh... What are we going to do..." Fluttershy shivered. "I don't know, but what i do know is that we need rainbow dash!" Twilight said. "Oohh this is all our fault!" Pinkie said as her mane deflated a little. "Don't worry pinkie, it's not our fault! Rainbow dash left and that is her decision! Equestria is in danger now! We can't just sit here and cry! Things will NEVER get better if we do that!" Twilight yelled. "Twilight! How dare you say such awful things?! It is our fault! Can't you see that darling?" Rarity said. Twilight just looked at the ground. "Listen girls, arguing isn't going to get us anywhere" Applejack said. with Soarin and Dash "Soarin!" Rainbow yelled as she ran in with a newspaper. "My friends added an article about me in the newspaper saying I'm missing! There is no place I'm save..." "Dash, listen to me, WE are going to make sure no one finds you okay?" Soarin said. She nodded weakly and gave him a small smile. "Listen, I'm going to buy some food and I'll be right back okay? You'll just stay here and makes sure no one sees you" he said. She nodded again, this time she looked absolutely certain. "Alright I'll see you later" "Bye" she said as he walked out the door. She just sat on the couch and slowly went to sleep. "DASH!!!" she heard a few minutes later, waking her up. "What's wrong?" She asked. "Ponyville is under attack!" > chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting ponyville "How are we going to fight him off without Dashie?" Pinkie asked. "I don't know! Nobody knows what to do!" Twilight spat at her. "I'm sorry..." Pinkie said. "No, it's not your fault, I'm just really........ peeved right now" Twilight said. "Uhm girls..." Fluttershy said. "We NEED Rainbow dash! Without her Equestria is doomed!" Rarity whined. "Girls.." Fluttershy said again. "Just stop talking! I need to think!" Twilight said. "Girls" Fluttershy said again. "Oh we're doomed" Rarity whined again. "GIRLS!!" Fluttershy yelled. Everyone looked at her. "Thank you... Ahum, as I was going to say... I saw rainbow flying outside" she said calm as ever. "Why didn't you say so?!" Twilight yelled. Applejack face-hoofed. with Soarin and dash "What are we doing?" Soarin asked. "*sigh* We need to find the elements of harmony and the bearers of harmony" Dash said. "Alright!" Soarin said. "Uh, where are we going to find the elements?" he whispered a few seconds later. Dash groaned. "A big crystal castle," she said. "Aha... Do you know where that is?" He asked. "Just... Follow me okay?" Dash said. A few moments later they arrived at the castle. They searched for a place to get in. After a while they found an open window which led into a big room. They flew inside and began their search. About five minutes later Dash spoke up. "There they are!" Dash said and walked over to the elements. "Now we just need to find the beare-" "DASHIE!!" they heard someone yell. "Pinkie pie?" Dash asked. "Oh I missed you so much!!" Pinkie yelled and ran up to Dash to hug her. "DON'T touch me!" Dash hissed. Pinkie stepped back. Soarin was surprised by her reaction. "Pinkie? Where did you go?" Twilight yelled. A few moments later she walked in with the other elements. "Rainbow!" She was going to do the same as Pinkie but got the same reaction. "DON'T TOUCH ME!" Dash yelled. "Dashie, what happened to you?" Fluttershy asked. Dash shot her a glare so she stepped back. Dash took a deep breath. "Nothing happened," she sighed. She got uncertain looks from the other bearers. "Let’s get this over with" she said. Everyone nodded, not wanting to piss her off more. They quickly grabbed their element and ran outside. They went to search for Sombra. After a while they found him. "Sombra!" Twilight shouted. Sombra turned around to face them. It looked like he would attack any second by now. "Ready girls?" Twilight asked. They all nodded. Sombra walked closer to them and he looked pissed. "Dash, go!" Twilight said. A rainbow shot out of Dash's element, connecting it to the other elements and then circled around Twilight. The rainbow connected to her element too. They all closed their eyes. Twilight opened her eyes and there was a big white flash everywhere. It blinded Soarin, which caused him to close his eyes. When the flash was gone everything was back to normal. They were about to do a group hug but Dash said: "Don't think I'll forgive you... Not yet..." She said and then she flew away. Soarin flew after her, leaving the others behind. Pinkie's hair deflated again. "She left us again," she sobbed. Applejack went over to pat her shoulder, trying to comfort her friend. .................................. "Dash wait!" Soarin yelled. Dash started to slow down and turned around. "I'm sorry..." She said. He flew over to her and gave her a comforting hug. Of course she hugged back. somewere else "Ugh! Everything fails! Even when she is not there she finds out something is wrong and she gets there in time!" A female voice said. "Don't worry, Chrysalis we'll win this eventually, we just have to get the rainbow pony and THEN we attack," Tirek said. "But we NEED Sombra back! Without him this won't work!" She hissed. "Then let's free him," Tirek said with an evil smirk. "How are we going to do that?!" She asked. She sounded REALLY annoyed. "We have the most powerful princess of all, just tell your army to bring Celestia here. Oh and ask one of your changelings to transform into her dear student Twilight," He said with an evil smirk. Chrysalis smirked back. "Perfect! CHANGELINGS I DEMAND YOU TO COME HERE!" she yelled. A few seconds later all of her changelings came into the room. "You! Come here!" Chrysalis yelled, pointing at one of them. He flew towards her and when he was close, he bowed. "I need you to transform into princess Twilight," Chrysalis said. The changeling did what he was told. "You 5! Come over here!" She yelled again, pointing at 5 other changelings. They did the same as the other one did. "Bring me princess Celestia!" She demanded. The 5 nodded and flew away to get the princess. "I need the rest of you to stay here for if Celestia is trying to escape," she demanded the other ones. They nodded and flew into corners of the room. "You did great, my queen," Tirek said. She gave him a simple nod. A few minutes of waiting later the door swung open to reveal the 5 changelings and a weak-looking Celestia. "Celestia, I need you to do something for me," Chrysalis said. Celestia slowly looked up to her. "Why would I do you a favor?" She asked in a harsh tone. "Well I don't expect you want anything to happen to your most faithful student, or do you?" Chrysalis asked, revealing the fake twilight, tied up against a pole. Celestia looked shocked. "Let. Her. Go!" She yelled. "If you do me a favor," Chrysalis said. Celestia shot her a glare but then sighed. "What do I need to do?" "I need you to bring Sombra back to us," Chrysalis stated plainly. "*sigh* I'll do it, just let Twilight go" Celestia gave in. "Good..." > chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- with Soarin and Dash "I hope there won't be any problems anymore till I've forgiven my friends..." Dash said. Soarin put a hoof on her shoulder. "Your pink, yellow, orange and white friends seem to feel really bad about it... I would too if I made a beautiful and amazing mare feel this way... He said, but mumbled the last part. "What was the last part?" She asked. "Oh, uh... It was nothing..." He said. She didn't believe him. "Come on, tell me..." She said and gave him a reassuring pat on the back. "I said I would feel bad too if I made a beau- uh, friend feel this way..." He said. Dash just stared at him. A few seconds later she snapped out of her trance. "Oh okay.." She said. Dash! What are you doing? You can't get lost in those beautiful green eye- ugh! she thought. He looked confused. "Sorry about that, I was just... Thinking..." She said. He patted her on her back. "You can tell me" he said. She looked at him and gave him a small smile. "Thanks..." She said. "I was just thinking about...... Why are you so nice to me?" She asked. Soarin looked nervous. "Well, you have always been nice to me and saved my life uh... 2, 3 times? You have been a great friend and you're absolutely gorg- uh I mean... A great friend" he said nervously. Dash walked closer to him. "Y- you think I'm gorgeous?" She asked. This made Soarin even more nervous. "Uh... W- well you are..." He said. Dash blushed at this. "Awh, isn't little Dashie just the cutest when she blushes?" Soarin said teasingly in a baby voice. She blushed even more. "I- I'm not" she said. Soarin walked closer to her and pressed her cheeks together. "Yes you are" he said, squeezing her cheeks. He moved his face closer to hers. "You're just the cutest little filly ever aren't you?" He said again. "Just shut up and kiss me already" Dash said. Soarin did what he was told, slowly melting away in the kiss. Dash did the same. I must be dreaming Soarin thought. After what felt like ages, they broke their kiss, their foreheads still touching. "So.. What does this make us?" Soarin asked her. "What do you want us to be?" Dash asked. "Will you be my marefriend?" He asked her. "Of coarse" she answered. She felt like the happiest pony alive. But that didn't last long. "Oh how beautiful, young love" They heard a female voice say. "I just want to drain it all from you" "Chrysalis?" Dash asked and searched around them. "Let's see how you can live without your coltfriend" Chrysalis said. "Leave him out of this! What do you want?!" Dash yelled. She felt herself getting weaker, only to realize her love was being drained from her. "S- Soarin, I need y- you to fly away a- as fast as you c- can and w-warn my friends.." She said. Soarin gave her a small kiss and flew away. All dash could do was smile a little, but after a while she didn't feel anything anymore, no love, no hate, no sadness, nothing. The only thing she felt was the feeling of being taken away. with the main 5 "We need to get Dashie back without her this won't work!" Pinkie argued with Twilight. "We only need her as the element of loyalty! Without her equestria is doomed" twilight said. "*gasp* How can you say something like that?! We need her as our friend!" Pinkie yelled. "Girls...?" Fluttershy asked. Everyone looked at her. "Uhm... I just saw Soarin fly outside" she said. "....without Dashie". Pinkie pie started to cry again. Fluttershy walked over to her and hugged her. "There, there pinkie... Why don't we go look what Soarin is up to?" Fluttershy said. Pinkie looked up to her and nodded. All of them walked outside. They looked around, hoping to find him, until applejack looked up. "There he is!" She said. "Soarin!" Rarity yelled. Soarin looked at them and flew down. "Come with me!" He said. "But some of us can't fly" Twilight said. "Ugh, wait a second" he said and flew away, only to come back with a hot air balloon. They quickly jumped in and Soarin pulled them with him as fast as he could. "Ugh, where are we going? This wind gets my mane out of style" rarity said. Soarin groaned. "Do you care about Dashie?" He asked them. "Of coarse!" Fluttershy said. The main 5 looked concerned. "Do you know this pony thing called Chrysalis?" They all nodded. "She saw me and Dash kiss and she drained something out of her and then she kidnapped her" he said. When he realized what he said he looked a bit nervous. "Chrysalis took her?!" "She drained her love?!" "YOU KISSED HER?!" Everyone shot a glare at rarity. "Uh, I mean... Heh..." "Anyway, I need to know how to get there" Soarin said. "I'll help" Fluttershy said and flew next to him. They started to talk about how to get there and stuff (not that interesting). "This is all our fault!" Pinkie sobbed. Rarity and Applejack tried to comfort her. "Hey Soarin!" They heard someone say. They all turned around and saw.......... "Rainbow dash?" Twilight asked. "THE one and only" Dash said. "I really missed you" The girls were about to hug her but... "Stop!" Pinkie yelled. "A few hours ago she said that she didn't forgive us yet, she never forgives someone this easily!" "You're right!" Rarity said. "Stupid little pests" came out of the rainbow mare, but it didn't sound like dash at all. "You better didn't hurt her Chrysalis!" Applejack hissed. "Don't worry little cowgirl, she is save in my palace where she is actually being treated right now" Chrysalis said with an evil smirk. "Treated for what?" Soarin asked. Chrysalis laughed. "To be like the rest of my friends" she said. The others all gasped. This made Chrysalis laugh even more. "She should be done by now, it's too late little ponies" > chapter 5 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ow! What are you doing?!" Dash yelled as some changelings put a chain around het neck and hooves. "Don't worry it'll be over soon" one of the changelings said. He walked up to her and put some devices on her head and back. "No stop i-nngghh!" She said before she got some tape on her mouth. She started struggling to get out. "Begin!" One of the changelings yelled at the others. They nodded and turned on a device. Dash felt weird vibrations going thru her body. When the feeling reached her head, it turned into pain. She saw weird lights flashing in front of her eyes. A few seconds later it stopped. The changelings walked over to a different machine. There was a tag on it that said: "memory loss". She started to freak out even more. All her good memories..... Gone? The machine got turned on and her body started shaking, except for her head. A sharp pain shot thru her head. She could kind of FEEL the memories getting sucked out. Once everything was gone, she felt something being put inside her head. New memories. Once that was done, she fainted. with the main 5, Soarin and Chrysalis "I'm gonna go now, let's see how you'll save equestria when one of the element of harmony is at the wrong side" Chrysalis said and laughed like a maniac. with the princesses (except for twilight) "What are we going to do?" Cadence asked. The others just looked at her. "I- I don't know..." Celestia said. "We can't just sit here! They have flurry! I'm not going to let them do anything to my baby!" Cadence yelled. The others looked at her with worried expressions. Luna walked up to her. "I need you to calm down, we won't think of anything if we keep worrying. We'll get her" she said with a reassuring smile. Cadence hugged her. > chapter 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have to find Rainbow dash!" Twilight yelled. Fluttershy tried to calm her down. "Shush, calm down Twilight.... We'll find her" Fluttershy said. "Oh but little filly, you already found her" a voice said. "Who's there?" Applejack asked. "Awh, already forgot about me?" The voice said. "Ah swear, if ah find ya, I'll kick y'all's flank!" Applejack yelled. "W- wait, I think th- that's... Rainbow...." Soarin said. "For real?!" Pinkie asked. "Good guess, stallion... Too bad I'll have to get rid of all of you" Dash said, flying out of the shadows. "Dashie!" Pinkie yelled, running up to her. But she was stopped by Soarin. "That is NOT Rainbow dash, look at her eyes" Soarin said. "Awh, is the little stallion trying to be smart?" Dash asked. "Rainbow dash, what happened?" Fluttershy asked. "Listen to me, big baby, I don't know how you know my name, but I do know I can't trust you" dash said. "W- what did they do to you?.." Rarity asked. "Who?" Dash asked. "Chrysalis a-and those changelings" Twilight said. "I don't know w- what you are talking about" dash said. "She's lying" applejack said. "No I'm not!" Dash said. "Stop it applejack, they probably gave her new memories" Twilight said. "Rainbow? Please turn back to normal" Soarin said, flying over to dash. "Don't come any closer! This is who I am! This is who I have always been!" Dash yelled. "No it's not" Soarin said. "What is he doing?" Pinkie asked the other mares. "I don't know" Twilight said. "Stop! This is who I've always been!" Dash yelled. "Dashie, remember that time when you saved my life at the young flyers competition?" Soarin asked. "That never happened!" Dash yelled. "Do you remember the time you saved my pie at the grand galloping gala?" He asked, hoping she'd remember it. "I don't know what you're trying to do, but you need to stop! I don't know you!" Dash yelled. "What about the time you helped me back onto my team after I clipped my wing?" He asked. "Aargh!" Dash yelled as she sped over to Soarin. He used his wings to shield himself. Dash crashed right into him, causing him to tumble down. He stopped just above the ground. "Dashie! I won't fight you!" Soarin yelled. "I will!" Twilight said and flew over to dash. "Twilight no!" Applejack yelled. "I have to do this!" Twilight yelled. "Stop it Twilight!" Soarin yelled, flying over to twilight. "Stop! We need to stop her!" Twilight said as Soarin grabbed her. "Just let her fight me Soarin!" Dash yelled. "Y- you remember my name?" Soarin asked, looking at dash. She flinched. "No I don't! How the hay could you think that?" Dash asked, looking confused. "You just said my name" Soarin said. "Aargh! Stop it!" Dash said, flying over to Soarin and twilight and she pushed him to the ground. Hard. He fell onto the grass hard, what caused him to faint. Dash grinned. Twilight flew right into Dash, it caused her to fly back. She looked at Twilight with gritted teeth. Twilight did the same. Dash flew into Twilight, witch caused twilight to loose balance for a few seconds. Twilight glanced at her, but then she grinned. "I'll end this fight fast" Twilight said. An aura formed around her horn. "Twilight! Stop! Don't hurt her!" Rarity yelled. "Don't worry rarity, It will just put her to sleep for a few minutes" Twilight said. The aura around her horn grew. She pointed her horn to rainbow dash and shot a beam of magic. Soarin woke up and saw the magic going towards dash. "Dash no!" He yelled and flew up. "Soarin stop!" Fluttershy said, flying after him. She was just able to stop him. "Fluttershy, what are you doing?" Soarin asked. "Don't worry, the spell shouldn't hurt Dashie, at least that's what Twilight said" Fluttershy said. Soarin sighed and flew down with Fluttershy. Twilight was using all the power she could muster to stop dash. "Come... On! J- just give up!" Twilight yelled. Rainbow dash was fighting off the magic. "Dash! It w- won't hurt you!" She yelled. Dash was starting to get weaker. She got blasted back a few meters. "I don't care, I w- won't let you s- stop m- me!" Dash yelled. She felt light headed. She got blasted back again. She lost her consciousness and fell down. Just when she was about to hit the ground rarity saved her with her magic. Everypony went over to her. "She will wake up in a few minutes, we should probably tie her up" Twilight said. Everypony nodded. "Does anypony have some type of rope or something?" Soarin asked. They all shook their heads. "Can't somepony just put her in a cage or something?" "I can, but I can only do it for about 10 minutes" rarity said. "And I'm too weak to do it right now" Twilight said. "Alright, let's do this!" Pinkie said. The others nodded. "We just have one problem, we need to turn her back within 10 minutes" Twilight said. "I think I can help with that!" Someone yelled. "Zephyr Breeze, what are you doing here?!" Fluttershy asked. "Well, big sis, I see my princess here has a problem" Zephyr said pointing at rainbow. "But don't worry, Zephyr Breeze is here to save her" he said, leaning closer to the sleeping rainbow mare. "DON'T touch her" soarin hissed. Zephyr turned to him. "And who do you think YOU are? Her coltfriend?" Zephyr asked. "Actually, I am" Soarin said with a proud smirk on his face, bringing a hoof to his chest. "Yeah sure! You think rainbows would be so foolish she'll be with somepony like you? Haha, don't make me laugh" Zephyr said. "Look! She's waking up! Rarity, now!" Applejack yelled. Rarity used her magic to form a globe like shape around rainbow dash. "Oww!" Dash groaned as she woke up. A green glow started to surround her. "What's happening?!" Pinkie yelled in panic. The glow started to expand and rarity's magic started to fade. "Hurry up darling! I can't hold it much longer!" Rarity yelled. Soarin flew over to rainbow dash. "Dashie stop it!" He yelled. Her eyes turned normal for a second. "Soarin....?" She asked. He flew closer. Her eyes turned red again. "Ugh! I'm sick of you!" She yelled. Soarin flew back a little. Then, an idea popped up in his mind. "Dashie! Remember when i first kissed you?" He asked. "Stop, you fool!" She yelled. He flew closer. "Dash! I need you to remember! You mean the world to me and i don't want to loose you!" He yelled flying closer. "No! Stay away!" She yelled, flying back until her back hit a mountain. Soarin was still flying closer. "Come on Dashie! Please come back! I-.... I..... I love you!" He said. "No you don't! nopony can love a monster like me!" She yelled. He flew closer to her till they were just an inch apart. "You are not a monster" he said. "N- no! Stop! It's not true! Y- you're lying!" She said. "It's not a lie, it is all true..." He whispered and kissed her. She closed her eyes. A green light came out of her heart. It went into the air and turned pink. The pink light came back into her heart, giving her all of her memories back. > chapter 7 (part 1) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I can't believe she tricked me!” Celestia whined. Luna gave her a hug while Cadence patted her back. “It's not your fault sister” Luna said while breaking the hug. “HOW is it not my fault?!” Celestia basically yelled. When she saw her sister's reaction she said: “Sorry...” “Come on Tia, we all would've done the same thing when someone we love was up there” Cadence reassured her. Celestia sighed and nodded. “Hello little princesses. How is your stay?” Chrysalis asked, walking into the room they were in. “Where is my flurry heart?!” Cadence scowled and lounged right at Chrysalis, only to be pushed back by some kind of shield. She landed on her back on the cold floor. “I wouldn't do that if I were you. You know? I know a lot of ways to hurt ponies, a baby won't be any harder” Chrysalis said. The princesses looked at her in shock. “Well, I'm going to leave you again, bye!” she said as she trotter away. “Oh and” she said while turning around. “That hole over there gives you a view over ponyville, I just want you to see your precious elements of harmony being destroyed” she turned around again and trotter away. “We can't let her hurt flurry heart!” Celestia said. Cadence trotted towards the hole Chrysalis mentioned earlier. “I know she is evil, but I also know she would NEVER hurt a baby” Cadence said. I just know it she thought. with mane six and soarin “They took flurry heart too?!” Dash asked after the girls explained everything that happened. Twilight nodded. “That just took a baby?” Soarin asked. Twilight nodden again. “That's just crazy!” he yelled. “We have to save the princesses!” Dash said. “What about flurry heart?” rarity asked. “She's a princess too right?” Dash asked. After that a lot of “ohh’s” were heard. “We still need a plan” Applejack said. Everypony started thinking. “I've got an idea!” Dash yelled all of a sudden. Everyone looked at her. “How about Soarin, Fluttershy and I will go search for flurry heart and the rest of you save the other princesses?” she asked. Twilight nodded. “That could work” twilight said. “Uh.. Why are the three of us going to save flurry heart and not some of the others?” Fluttershy asked. “You said she is in the highest tower right?” dash asked. The others nodded. “It will be easier to fly there then to run up the stairs” she explained. Fluttershy nodded slowly. “So everypony agrees?” Pinkie asked. Everypony nodded in agreement. “Yay! I can't believe we're going on another adventure!” she exclaimed happily while jumping up and down. “Lets do it!” Applejack said. “Yeah!” They all yelled filled with confidence and started to run/fly to the changelinghive. Once they arrived their confidence faded away. “Uh.. Ready?” Dash nervously asked. The others nodded with hesitation. “Okay... Lets go...” she said and started to fly, soarin and Fluttershy following close behind. “So... How are we going to get in?” rarity asked, looking after the three pegasi. “Uh... Fight our way in there?” starlight asked, startling everypony. “W- where did you come from?” twilight asked. “I was here all along, you just ignored me..” starlight chuckled before being tackled by pinkie pie. “Im sososososososososososososoooo sorry!” pinkie said while hugging her tightly. Starlight patted her back. “It's okay” she said. Pinkie let go of her. “Oh thank goodness! If you were gonna be mad I would me sad and when I'm sad, I'm no fun to be around with and then eve- HMPPHH” Pinkie was saying before she got a hoof on her mouth. “We get it” Applejack rolled her eyes. “We have a mission and no time to loose” she said, letting go of her crazy friend. The other girls nodded “Let's do this!” with soarin, dash and fluttershy “Are we there yet?” soarin complained. Dash rolled her eyes. “You have eyes right?” she asked in an annoyed yet, playful tone. He playfully punched her shoulder. “We don't have time for this” Fluttershy said. The pegasi flew up to the highest tower and perked inside. “Um... Those are a lot of changelings..” soarin said. “Oh really Sherlock?” dash said, her voice full of sarcasm. “Come on, be serious about this” Fluttershy said. “Lets go in” Dash said. “How are we going to do that?” Fluttershy asked. “We'll fight our way in there” soarin said. “Oh... I'm not so sure that's such a go-” she was interrupted by the sound of glass shattering. “Od idea...” “What is happeni- oh... The element of loyalty! And her idiot coltfriend...” Chrysalis said, walking into the room. Everypony stopped fighting. “He's not an idiot! You're the idiot! You think you can take over equestria? Remember what happened last time? At cadence and shining armour’s wedding?” Dash shot at her. “Oh but my little Dashie, I'm not on this on my own, Tirek! Come in here please!” she yelled. “Changelings hold them” “What is it my quee- Ohh, the element of loyalty and.... Whoever that is” Tirek said while walking inside. “Tirek, could you take care of our little Dashie? I'll take that dude and her little friend outside of the window” Chrysalis said. “FLUTTERSHY RUN!” Dash yelled. Fluttershy flew away the fastest she could. I have to warn the others she thought. Chrysalis started to trot away. “Oh and Tirek? Don't hurt her too much. And did you take the princesses their magic yet?” she asked. “Yes ma'am” while he was talking to Chrysalis, Dash managed to break free and open the cage flurry heart was in. Flurry flew out of the window as fast as she could and went after fluttershy. The changelings noticed and went over to rainbow dash and grabbed her. “Now, I'm going to leave you good bye!” Chrysalis said and left with the changelings, but before she left she put a shield on the broken window so dash wouldn't escape. “Now, lets begin” Tirek said walking over to dash. “W- what are you going to do?” Dash asked. Immediately Tirek lifted her up and threw her to the opposite side of the room. with the others “Finally we’re in” rarity said. “We have to find the princesses” twilight said. “AARGH!!” Someone screamed from far away. “That sounded like...” Twilight said. “Rainbow Dash” “We have to save her!” applejack yelled. with dash and Tirek “AARGH!!” she yelled as she was thrown across the room again. “You like that don't you?” Tirek asked. “Chrysalis? Would you be a dear and take away the magic shield?!” he yelled. Right after that the magic shield disappeared. “Ready for some fun?” he asked her. He picked her up and threw her out of a different window, causing it to break and let her fall out. Before he would not be able to reach her he pulled her back in. She was full of scratches and cuts. “I think that was enough” he said and took her down the stairs of the tower. with the girls The girls were still thinking of a plan. Then, something flew out of a window from the tower dash was in. “Was that rainbow dash?” rarity asked. “The poor dear...” > chapter 7 (part 2) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Ow!” Dash cried out as she was thrown in a jail cell with the princesses. They immediately ran up to her. Because Cadence reached her first she helped her stand up, but she fell down again. “What happened?!” Luna asked as she helped Dash up with cadence. They knew that of they let go she would fall again, so Luna gently placed her on her back. “F- Flurry Hea-” she managed to say. “What about flurry heart?” Celestia asked. “W- we saved he- her” Dash said. “What happened after that, how did this happen to you?” Luna asked full of worry. “I couldn't g- get away” Dash stuttered. Luna gently put dash on the floor. Just then the door opened. Somepony threw a band aid kit in the cell. If Celestia hadn't dodged it, she would have been hit in the head. Then the door closed again. Cadence immediately grabbed the kit and started to open it. Then she grabbed some band aids and started to patch dash’s wounds up. Dash groaned from time to time. Everytime she did, cadence asked if she did something wrong. Everytime she got the same answer. “No...”. Then chrysalis walked in with Soarin. He was looking down. Then he slowly looked up and found himself staring into the eyes of the one he loved. “D- Dashie, what happened to you?” he asked in concern. “He beat her up is what happened” Chrysalis said. Soarin ran up to dash and hugged her, trying not to hurt her. She slowly wrapped her hooves around him. “How can you do something like this?!” Celestia asked. “Tirek deserves some fun too” Chrysalis said. “If this makes him happy I'll let him do it, but don't worry, he only asked for the rainbow pony so your faithful student is save Celestia” she said. Celestia gritter her teeth. She was opening her mouth to speak but was interrupted. “I can still ask him to do it if you want to” chrysalis said with an evil smirk. “No...” Celestia said just above a whisper. “I'll leave you now, goodbye” Chrysalis said and walked away. “What do we do now?” cadence asked. “We can try to break out of here” dash said as she stood up. “Thank goodness you can stand again” cadence said as she sat down on the cold floor. “How are you planning on breaking out?” soarin asked. “With this” dash said as she took out her element of harmony. “I can't believe they didn't see it”. “Dashie you're brilliant!” soarin ran up to her and lifted her up causing her to blush. “I knew something beautiful would happen to rainbow dash” cadence said to the other princesses. They nodded. “I never expected her to be the first one from the elements of harmony to find true love” Luna said. “I can just kiss you right now!” soarin said looking at dash. “Yes you can” dash said booping his nose. “But I don't think this is the best time to do that” she said as she got down. When she saw soarins disappointed look she gave him a small kiss on his cheek. “Rainbow dash, you think you can make that hole bigger or make us smaller?” Celestia asked. “I can make an area around the hole weaker, but someone has to break it” dash said. “I can do it” Soarin said. “Okay...” dash said. Faced the wall and closed her eyes. She focused all of her magic on her element. Her element got a red glow around it. All of a sudden a rainbow shot out of it. The princesses and Soarin got pushed back. Dash gritted her teeth and started to sweat a bit. Then part of the wall fell on the floor. Dash fell down, panting. Soarin flew up to her. “Are you okay?” he asked her. “Yeah... Guess you don't have to jump through te wall now” she said with a chuckle. He hugged her and helped her up. “We should go before somepony comes here” Celestia said. Dash walked up to the hole and looked down. “I can't fly.....” dash said with a sad sigh. Cadence walked up to her. “Don't worry, you can just go on my back” she said. “Thank you” dash said when cadence got down so she could get on. “Let's go” soarin said. He flew out first, followed by cadence, Celestia and Luna. “Look down there!” dash yelled and pointed her hoof at the other bearers. They flew down. “Are those the princesses?” rarity asked. The others looked up too. “Look! Soarin and Dashie are there too!” pinkie yelled. “How do we know it's them?” Fluttershy asked. “The changelings aren't strong enough to change into princesses” twilight said. “Chrysalis is” applejack said. “But there aren't three chrysalis’ right?” rarity said. “Yeah that's true” twilight agreed. “RAINBOW DASH! DASHIE! OVER HERE!” pinkie yelled. “Shush, be quiet, somepony could hear you” rarity said. “Oh yeah hehe” pinkie whispered. “Look, They are coming our way” twilight said. They watched the princesses, soarin and dash come down. Once they were down, pinkie and applejack were the first to run up to dash and pinkie lifted her up from cadence’s back and then she put her on the ground, hugging her carefully. Next Fluttershy, rarity and applejack joined in the hug. Twilight walked up to Celestia. “How about you join your friends in their hug?” Celestia asked. “I'm not sure rainbow would appreciate that.....” twilight said. “You feel bad about what you did right?” Celestia asked. Twilight nodded. “She is the element of loyalty, she forgave discord for wat he did, I'm sure she can forgive you too. Just look how happy she is” Celestia said. “Soarin?” cadence asked. “Yes?” he walked up to her. “I'm happy rainbow found someone like you” she smiled at him. He smiled back. They both looked at the scene that was going on in front of them. Rainbow dash being hugged by her bestest of friends. Twilight ran up to them and joined. After a few seconds they broke the hug. “Oh Dashie?” soarin said in a sing song voice. She walked up to him. “I think I deserve the kiss you promised me now”. “You wish fly boy” she chuckled. He shot her a weird look. She quickly shot forwards and kissed him. She broke the kiss after a few seconds. She looked right into his eyes, he looked into hers. He saw two things in them. Love.... Love like he had never seen before and... Fear..... “Dashie?” he asked her. “Yeah?” she said. “You're scared...” he said. “Please tell me what gets you scared...”. Her expression saddened. “I... I... I don't want to loose you... Any of you....” she admitted. “We are all scared...” Pinkie said while walking up to her. “But we can get through this together” Fluttershy said. Dash smiled at them. “Goo goo” flurry heart flew up to her and hugged her. Dash gently took her in her arm and hugged her gently. “You would be a great mom...” soarin said. “Oh no... Nono not a mom yet” she said with a chuckle. “What a beautiful moment, too bad I have to ruin it” a voice said. “Sombra! Come out!” Luna hissed. A smoke started to form right behind her. “Awh, where's the fun in that?” sombra said. Luna turned around. “Hmmm, still beautiful as ever” he said. Luna gritted her teeth. “What are you doing here?” twilight asked. “Don't worry, I just had to get the rainbow pony back to Tirek” he said. Soarin immediately stood in front of rainbow. “Now, where is she?”. He looked around until he spotted a rainbow tail. He decided to get close to her. “Don't come any closer” soarin said through gritted teeth. “What are YOU going to do about it?” sombra asked. “Anything I can” soarin replied. “Soarin it's too danger-” “I've got this” soarin interrupted dash. “Please don't do this.....” dash said. “Dashie, I can do this” “Soarin, please don't....” “Don't worry” “I don't want to loose you too!” dash yelled and she started to cry. Twilight and rarity were in front of Soarin all of a sudden. “Now!” cadence yelled as the alicorns and unicorn all shot their magic at sombra. “This is not possible! We took away your magic!” sombra yelled. “We have our secrets...” Celestia panted. “Girls use your elements!”. The other elements all got next to twilight and rarity and focused on their element. A rainbow shot out of their elements. The rainbow surrounded sombra and he slowly faded away. “Dashie?” soarin asked. She turned around to look at him. “What did you mean with: I don't want to loose you TOO?”. She sighed. “My grandma got send away by sombra right in front of my eyes when I was a filly...” she explained. “I'm so sorry...” he said. “Don't be” she said as she booped his nose once again. He smiled at her. “Y'know, we still have to take care of the changelings and Tirek” applejack said. “Yeah, let's go” soarin said. They slowely walked up to the hive. Bad idea... Right there stood Tirek with a lot of changelings. Tirek looked right at them until he saw rainbow. “You! I wasn't done with you yet!” he yelled. “Then why won't you come and get me?!” dash yelled back. “Dashie, what are you doing?” soarin asked. “Trust me” she said and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. He nodded. She walked away from the group. “Come get me big guy!” she yelled. He ran up to her immediately. She jumped out of the way. He bumped into the wall. “Come back!” he yelled. “Guys, I need you to take care of the changelings!” she yelled at her friends. They nodded. “Stupid little pest!” Tirek ran up to her again. come on wings please work.... she thought. She closed her eyes. “Come on dash, do it” she said to herself. Tirek came closer to her. He stopped in front of her. She opened her eyes. “You can't run away now!” Tirek yelled at her. “You know I'm right in front of you right? You don't have to yell” she said. He raised his arm and got ready to punch her. “Any last words?” he asked her. “Do I really need them?” she asked. He growled. He punched her right in the face. At least.... He thought he did. She flew out of the way before he could hit her. He heard someone laughing above him. He looked around and saw that almost all of the changeling were beaten. “This is not possible! You weren't able to fly!” he yelled at her. “What can I say? Time heals” she replied. He gritted his teeth. She started to fly circles around him. He threw punches all around him. She dodged almost all of them. Almost..... But everytime he hit her she kept going. That was until he hit her in her face. Lucky for her it wasn't hard because he started to get dizzy and tired. She fell to the ground. If he had hit her with his usual strength... That wouldn't look really good for her. She slowly stood up, but she just fell again. “Why go through all of that trouble if I was going to get you anyways?” he asked her. “Look around! Do you see any changelings still fighting?” she asked. He looked around. “It doesn't matter! You can't defeat me without your freaky rainbow powers!” he said. “But you are weaker now! We grew stronger! And we're not just with the six of us! It's not too late to choose the right side! You don't have to do this!” she yelled. Her friends walked up to her. “You think I'll join a group of weak little ponies? No way!” Tirek yelled. “You're just scared you're going to loose!”. “Can't you see you already lost? It's not too late to change” dash said. He ran up to her again, but was stopped bij a magical aura around her. “If this is what you want...” dash sighed. “Girls now”. Again, the elements of harmony closed their eyes and focused their magic on their element. Once the rainbow started to form the princesses shot their magic at twilights element. The rainbow went a few circles around her and collided with her element. She opened her eyes and the rainbow collided with Tirek. It didn't work... Soarin noticed them struggling and walked up to dash. He put his arms around her neck, touching her element with his hooves. She smiled to herself. All of a sudden her element and part of soarins hooves started to glow a bit. He closed his eyes too. Then, another rainbow shot out of dash’s element and collided with the others. This rainbow circled around twilight too and the rainbow collided with her element. The rainbow shot out of her element and did the same as the other rainbow. “No! I can still change!” Tirek yelled. “Oh come on Tirek, everyone knows you'll never change” Celestia said. “Aarghh! Noooo!” Tirek yelled before fading away. The elements of harmony and soarin fell down. All of them were smiling. “Great job girls” soarin panted. “We couldn't have done it without you” dash said from underneath him. He hadn't realized she was there until now. She smiled at him. He smiled back at her and kissed her. She broke the kiss after a few seconds. “You know that we didn't save equestria yet?” she asked him. “Awh come on, you love it when I kiss you” soarin said. “I have to say, rainbow dear, you just turned the most delightful shade of red” rarity said. Dash blushed even harder. “Alright, enough messing around” twilight said. “Um... Soarin?” dash asked. “Yeah?” “You should probably get off” “Off what?” “Me” “Oh yeah.. Hehe... Ha?” he said full of embarrassment and stood up. The others giggled at this. “We should probably search for chrysalis” cadence said. “Yeah let's go” dash said while standing up. Once everyone was standing they walked up the stairs. “Why hello” chrysalis said when they were up. “Hiiiii!” pinkie yelled. Applejack punched her in the shoulder. “It seems like you got through the others, but it won't be easy to get passed me” chrysalis said and shot a magic beam towards dash. Soarin jumped in front of it. “Soarin no!” dash yelled and pushed him out of the way. The beam hit one of her wings. A sharp pain shot into her wing. “Dashie! Are you okay?” pinkie asked as she ran up to her. “Yeah, I'm okay” dash replied. Chrysalis shot another beam, this time it went towards cadence and flurry heart. It hit them. A green mess formed around them and they couldn't move anymore. The others looked at chrysalis in shock. “Which one of you should I destroy first? What about... The boy” chrysalis said. “No! Don't hurt him!” dash yelled. Chrysalis shot a magic beam at her and a green mess formed around her too. The chrysalis did the same to the others, except for Soarin. Her horn had a green aura around it. The same type of aura formed around Soarin. She threw him a few feet further away from her. Then all of a sudden flurry heart sneezed and she destroyed the green stuff around her and her mom, Fluttershy and rainbow dash. Chrysalis was about to shoot another beam at Soarin. When her horn started to glow, dash quickly flew in front of Soarin. Chrysalis’ magic shot forward and hit dash right in her chest. To chrysalis’ surprise, dash didn't get shot into the wall behind her. Instead her element made some sort of shield in front of her. Chrysalis her magic was still hitting dash in her chest and dash was struggling to not just give in and get destroyed. “Just give up already!” chrysalis yelled. “You don't have to destroy her!” soarin yelled. “And why is that?” chrysalis asked. “Because it's not too late to change!” he said. “I made a mistake too! I was able to change!” starlight, who had just been freed by cadence yelled. “Just please stop it!” pinkie yelled when she noticed dash couldn't hold it much longer. maybe they are right... chrysalis thought. She could see dash was about to give up. She stopped her attack on the pegasus. “I'm so sorry...” chrysalis cried as she fell to the ground. Dash stumbled up to her and put a hoof on her shoulder. Chrysalis looked up to her. Dash was... Smiling at her? “It's okay” she said. “How is it okay? I let Tirek do this to you...” chrysalis said. “Don't worry about it” dash reassured her. “Goo goo” flurry heart flew up to them and hugged chrysalis. Chrysalis smiled. maybe I can change.... she thought. a few years later “Mommy, daddy, aunty Chrissy! Rainbow dash and Soarin are here!” flurry heart yelled after she opened the door. “I'm coming!” cadence yelled. She ran downstairs, followed by chrysalis and shining armor. “Dash, Soarin, how are you doing?” shining armor asked. “Uh... Well... We are here to ask some advice about....” dash said. “Pregnancy” soarin finished. “Oh my gosh! You are?! I'm so happy for you!” cadence said and hugged dash. “Are you serious?!” chrysalis asked. Dash nodded. “This is amazing!” she yelled and hugged dash too. After hours of talking Soarin and Dash were sitting on the couch. Soarin stroked her belly. “She is going to be a strong one”