Te Amo, Rainbow Dash
Chapter 21: Act 4, Scene 3
Previous Chapter(As the scream from the previous scene fades out, the lights shine on the stage, very dimly, to reveal Soarin lying on his bed, holding the same picture of Rainbow Dash from Act 1, Scene 2 and crying heavily. Michael Ortega's 'It's Hard To Say Goodbye' is playing in the background.)
(Soarin)
"Oh Dashie! Not a moment goes by anymore that I don't think about you. I still remember when I first saw you at the Young Flyers Competition. You looked beautiful back then and you looked beautiful now. Well, maybe not now since you're dead and buried in the ground, but still, you were beautiful to me! Even if no other pony could see it! The Grand Galloping Gala took the cake for me. Nothing could change that fact. That lush rainbow mane of yours was just so beautiful for me to see on you, your confident voice that I love to hear, that dress, oh I'll never forget you in that dress! I never got the chance to see you until 3 months ago on your birthday. I'd have done anything for you Dashie. I even told you on the night we both slept together. Truth be told, I enjoyed that night even to this day. And then what? I disappear to Appaloosa for work, come back about a month later and lose you!"
(Soarin pauses to hold back tears. He then looks at the picture.)
"This picture is all I have left of you now. I look into every day and see your smile. It just pains me so much to know that you're gone. It pains me to know I'll never see your smile again. The feel of your lips upon mine, your hooves gliding themselves through my mane. All of it, gone."
(Soarin then hugs the picture as he cries. He then proceeds to place the picture on his cabinet as the music fades out. Through the darkness, a blood-red figure can be seen. He then looks at it, not seeming to recognise it.)
"Spitfire? What are you doing up this late? I apologise if my crying's keeping you up. Really, I'm sorry."
(The figure doesn't answer. Instead, it just walks towards Soarin.)
"Um, Spitfire?"
(It then can be seen through the dim light. The music from Act 4, Scene 1 begins to play as the figure is revealed to be Rainbow Dash's bloody ghost. Soarin looks horrified then takes out Pinkie Pie's drawing. He double takes at the ghost and the napkin.)
"Who are you?! What do you want from me?!"
(The ghost continues to walk towards the bed and goes around it.)
(to himself) "Okay, Soarin. It's just a nightmare you're having. You'll wake up and it'll be gone. Trust me, they always do. It's just a nightmare. Just wake up and it'll be gone. They always-."
(Soarin is cut off by the Ghost placing his face in her hooves and kissing him. Soarin's eyes shoot wide open at this. After a few seconds, the two pull away as the music fades to silence.)
"Wait. D-Dashie? Is that you?"
(Ghost)
(With the same effect as her voice in Act 3, Scene 4) "The same before I died."
(Soarin)
"Well, why are you here Dashie? I thought you'd spend your time in the afterlife or something."
(Ghost)
"And leave my beloved Soarin behind all depressed and lonely? I'm not that kind of mare you know Soarin."
(Soarin)
"True."
(Ghost)
"Also, I came to tell you that the 'accident' in Sugarcube Corner wasn't an accident at all."
(Soarin looks at the ghost.)
(Soarin)
"Wha-what do you mean?"
(Ghost)
"There was no accident at Sugarcube Corner. All those injuries you saw me in during my last moments of life, they were pony-made."
(Soarin)
"What?! Who would dare do such a thing to my little Dashie?!"
(The Ghost gives him an awkward glace.)
"I mean, who would dare do such a thing to you?!"
(Ghost)
"Pinkamina."
(Soarin)
"The pink pony?!"
(Ghost)
"Exactly."
(Soarin stands up off his bed and looks out of his window. He then slams his hoof into the wall beside the window before speaking.)
(Soarin)
(Angrily) "I don't believe this! She killed you?! She can expect the same thing from me! Goddess, when I find Pinkie Pie-."
(Ghost)
"Pinkie Pie?"
(Soarin turns back to face the Ghost.)
(Soarin)
"Yes Pinkie Pie!"
(Ghost)
"Pinkie Pie's dead."
(Soarin)
"What? What do you mean?"
(As the Ghost says the following lines, the Reprise of Laura's Theme from 'Silent Hill 2' begins to play.)
(Ghost)
"There is more than you understand about Pinkie Pie. She suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder. Pinkamina is her old self, back before she found her cutie mark and became the element of laughter. Ever since Pinkie Pie moved to Ponyville and lived in Sugarcube Corner with Mr. and Mrs. Cake, she's shut Pinkamina out of her new life. I saw first-hand what Pinkamina was like when she first didn't arrive to her suprise birthday party. She was depressed, spiteful towards me and the others and a tad bit on the insane side. Fortunately, she was able to control it. It seems now Pinkamina has decided to make a comeback and show Ponyville, and possibly all of Equestria, what Pinkie Pie didn't want us to see."
(Soarin)
"Well, how will that affect out lives? You know, in Equestria?"
(Ghost)
"Pinkamina has become a murderer. All those pains you felt back at the Ponyville Coliseum, I sent those to you telepathically in hopes you'll come and save me. Unfortunately, by the time you arrived, I was near-death and died in your forearms. The cellar was full of other dead ponies. Over the course of 3 months, Pinkamina managed to drug, mutilate and murder many ponyfolk. You've seen what she has done to me. Now she plans to do the same to you."
(Soarin)
"Well, what do we do?"
(Ghost)
"Not we, you. The whole of Equestria rests in your hooves, so to speak."
(Soarin)
"What am I supposed to do?"
(Ghost)
"You need to kill Pinkamina before she takes the life of another pony."
(Soarin)
"I can't Dashie! It would be wrong!"
(Ghost)
"Wrong is what SHE did to me! And what she wants to do to you. Besides, you said I can do whatever I wanted to you and you won't protest."
(Soarin)
"Yes, but murder is one of the things I'll never do. Also, how do I know you're not an evil spirit?"
(Ghost)
"Oh come on Soarin! Would I have kissed you if I was?"
(Soarin)
"Good point. Well, let me think about it & I'll tell you next time I see you."
(Ghost)
"Fair enough."
(The Ghost walks out the door as Soarin goes to sleep.)
(End of Scene 3)