Twilight Sparkle has just returned from her daily routines, which left Spike with a sore wrist as it always did. This wrist would’ve killed me before I die of old age. Thought spike. Twilight exited her door for some fresh air when she sighted a cyan Pegasus in the distance, walking towards her.

How can I face anypony? Dash wondered as she carried the body of Applejack through the streets of Ponyville. Damned cowards, they’ll pay for her death. Each and every one of them. She carried the orange mare’s body and she saw Twilight emerge from her tree house. She continued anyway, Dash no longer cared about her surroundings. Tears were still streaming down her face as she walked on. It was a rainy day, the grey clouds above looking like a water balloon that is about to burst from it having too much water.

Twilight decided to greet Dash and ask where she had been. She ran up to her and said “Hi Rainbow! Where have you-” That was when she saw the body of the orange mare By Celestia! “What…” But it only took her a second to figure out what had happened, Dash nodded her head to confirm what she was thinking of. Twilight felt her hooves go numb as she fell to the ground “Oh god…” Twilight stared at the body of Applejack, stupefied. “No this can’t be real. This…this is impossible!” Twilight said to herself. But it is possible, and it’s real. Life is full of surprises, this is one of them. Some of them aren’t pleasant. Rainbow Dash was heading towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Big Macintosh was working on his own in the fields. But he never knew that from this time on, he will always be working alone, with Granny Smith being too old and Applebloom being too young. He spotted a cyan Pegasus walking through the gates of Sweet Apple Acres, he recognized her as Rainbow Dash. He went inside the Apple household to tell them of her unexpected visit.

Oh god no… Her intention was to tell only Big Mac, who would pass it on to the Apple family. She didn’t expect to tell the whole family. But it was too late to back off now; the red stallion had brought out the Apple family. She can tell from their expressions that they were shocked. She didn’t know if they were shocked at her crying, or the orange mare on her back, or both. But she went up to them anyway and said, choking back tears as she described the events that had happened. “…I could only stand and watch as she was drowned by him before my eyes” she said and dropped the body of Applejack on the ground and left. She ascended into the clouds to leave the Apple family mourn her loss. The remaining members of the Mane six, now the Mane five, chose to appear to Sweet Apple Acres at that moment after Dash left. She didn’t stay for their reactions, but it’s definitely sorrow.

Evening is descending upon the Ponyville. A grand funeral was being held near Applejack’s barn, where everypony attended. Applejack was one of the most well-known ponies around here. And everypony would be devastated by its loss. But as they have said before: “Every balance is gained through a loss”. Everypony took their seats as the priest stepped into the stage to give Applejack his prayer.

“We beseech Thee, O Lord, in Thy mercy, to have pity on the soul of Thy handmaid; do Thou, Who hast freed her from the perils of this mortal life, restore to her the portion of everlasting salvation. Through Christ out Lord, Amen”

A few metres above, Rainbow Dash stood on a cloud, glancing down at the funeral. Everypony was dressed in black clothing, which suited the mood. She kept her eyes closed as the priest continued praying. Tears were still pouring out of her eyes as she mouthed off a silent psalm of comfort to herself. “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: ‘When shall I come and appear before God?’ My tears have been my food day and night, while they say unto me all the day: ‘Where is Thy God?’ These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I passed on with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, as multitude keeping holyday. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.” After that, she left the funeral; she could no longer stand seeing those faces of sorrow. The rain poured down out of the sky and soaked Dash’s mane and everyone else’s clothing. But little did they care, for the loss of Applejack was too great an impact for anyone to care.

A few hours had passed, and everyone had already finished their last words for Applejack and had also stepped up to talk about her. The news of her death spread like wildfire around Ponyville, but the Apple family didn’t reveal the full story, only that Dash brought the body back. Applebloom didn’t know of the full story either. Dash saw the yellow little filly walk up to her and say “You were responsible for her death weren’t you?” she said in a quiet voice “I…” Dash replied, but she couldn’t finish the sentence, some ponies were gathering around Applebloom “Were you responsible for her death, Rainbow Dash? Did you stand and watch her die?” At this time Dash couldn’t say anything, tears simply escaped her eyes for the hundredth time that day. Her quietness was annoying Applebloom, and also making everypony around aware that this was probably true. Dash stared at Applebloom’s eyes, they were cold. Dash’s eyes once had a fiery lightning in it; you could tell she was competitive straight from her eyes. But now it’s gone, forever, there was nothing inside it; the fiery lightning had been extinguished. Finally Applebloom, finally unable to control herself shouted “Did you or did you not?!” Dash looked at the ground, she could hear some of the growing crowd whispering things such as “She did it” or “She definitely did it, you can tell from her movements” Dash attempted to speak, but she was interrupted again by Applebloom “How could you?! She was your closest friend! How could you kill her?!” Dash opened her mouth to speak, but that was interrupted again as a stone hit her lightly on the arm. Soon the rocks came in showers, and she took all of it, each and every one of it. A stone hit her on the side of the head and cut her, a light stream of blood ran down the side of her head, and she fell to her knees on the ground as the repeated shower of stones rained down on her.

The punishment eventually stopped, leaving Dash battered and bleeding. She gave a yell, the loudest yell she had ever done before and sobbed repeatedly Responsible…I was the responsible one… She kept on thinking that even though it wasn’t true. I’ll take revenge for you, Applejack; I’ll kill those that killed you. She got up and headed towards her home. But her home was no longer her home, not after this, she packed up and left a note behind. It read:

Goodbye,

I’m going to kill those who killed AJ

-Rainbow Dash

She knew what she was going to do; she wasn’t going to go straight to the Wei Kingdom. She was going to first pay a visit to Lu Guo. Where she’ll find a teacher to train her; she’ll get back at those who killed her friend, no matter what the cost. What is life when all that there is left is revenge? She took a glance back at Ponyville, this was the last time she was seeing this place. The place that she grew up in and had known all her life, now gone, she will never return.