Memories hurt; she knows this. A thousand years on the moon with nothing but your own thoughts is torture beyond imagination. Sometimes, the easiest thing to do is pretend they never existed. But sometimes, those memories don't want to be forgot
Rarity has never been quite right, but has anypony? Opal was never quite sure what to think of them. Ponies were weird, and that's just how it was. Nothing they ever did made sense, like swimming or singing... So why was Rarity acting so weird?
There's a certain word for love built for somepony in secrecy; it's called naivety. Once this point is reached, lessons are learned the hard way and sorrow flows like a river. Rainbow, like always, is the hardest to fall.
Equestria, desperate, trapped in a four-year aerial conflict against an enemy they can not beat, seeks an end to the war. Now, hundreds of miles from Equestrian soil, an attack on the enemy force is their last option.