Who's Who?

by Write Holiday

Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Nightmare Night and the Seventh Element

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Chapter 4: Nightmare Night and the Seventh Element

"I'll make sure you get there safely."

"But, but what if-"

"No, don't think like that, you'll be fine, good-bye Dashie." Rainbow

Dash floats in the air, strapped down to the air balloon. She

struggles to get free, but to no avail. Three Pegasai, suited in blue,

fly into the ballon. They are tangled and cannot get free.

"Please, go away!" Rainbow Dash pleads the trapped ponies. One gets

free, but he does not fare well. With a broken wing, he struggles to

stay in the air, and hurdles towards Earth. He dies on the impact. The

two others are still

trapped. Rainbow Dash manages to pull a wing from the rope, and

frees her other with it. They are falling quickly to the ground

now. When she finaly gets her last hoof untied, they hit the ground.

"Ah!" It seems like time has stopped. Rainbow Dash looks around the

room, only Scootaloo and Fluttershy are there. She can't breath. She

gets down from the bed, and walks outside of the room. She quickly

trots to the bathroom, and washes her face off. She looks into the

mirror, and sees half of her face is dripping with the color of the

rainbow. It all turns to blood. "What?" She asks, not talking to

anypony. She backs up into what looks like another Pegasus with two

extra sets of wings, and some sort of quilt wrapped around his body.

"Hello Dashie, want to make cupcakes with me?" Pinkie Pie asks.

"No, no!" Rainbow Dash yells. She runs down the hallway, but trips.

She looks up. "D-daddy?" She asks. The man picks her up.

"Just know that you will always be my little Dashie." His eyes turn

red, and sharp teeth extend from his gums. "And the smaller, the

tastier." Rainbow Dash manages to wiggle herself out of his hands, and

runs back into the room. She is breathing heavily.

"Fluttershy, we have to-" Fluttershy turns around. Her eyes are empty

and smoking black, and she is wearing a choke collar.

"Please, don't go." Fluttershy says, her voice turning demonic.

Rainbow Dash becomes unable to move. "Hush now, quiet now, it's time

to lay your sleepy head. Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed."

Rainbow Dash feels a sharp pain in her stomach. She closes her eyes,

and opens them. She is in Pinkie's basement.

"You know, I thought you would be more fun than this. I know Gilda

was." Pinkie Pie says. She makes a incision in Rainbow Dash's

stomach, and begins to pull out guts. Rainbow Dash stares into a

bright light, and her vision focuses. She is in a glass case in some

sort of lab. She has all sorts of pads on her body. Men are walking

around in suits and writing things down as they stare at her. She

looks over.

"I'm sorry Dashie, I tried my best." Claims a man, next to her. Then,

a sharp crack and he drops to the floor. For some reason, Rainbow Dash

feels like she knew him her entire life.

"Ok uh, what was it? 509-56? Lets see what you are made of." The man

lifts up the box, but Rainbow Dash tries to fly away. The cords pull

her twords the table, and the man comes over with a knife. He saws a

wing off of Dash's back.

"AH!!!" She screams. The man takes the now limp appendage,and leaves

it in a bin with other wings and some horns. She feels like she is

going to pass out, but

when she opens her eyes, she back at her house in cloudsdale.

She watches as a past Rainbow Dash is about to be hurt. "If your not real,

then why do I feel breathing down my-" Spitfire hits her in the head

with a branch, then glues a note to her wing. The present Rainbow Dash

can also feels this, and passes out.

(Fluttershy)

"Hehehe." Fluttershy chuckles.

"Why Fluttershy? Why would you do this?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"Because, I want you all dead!" She presses the red button. It all

goes white, then back to normal. She walks around the town, looking at

all of the dead corpses. "Finally, finally, I have done Discords work!

They are all dead!" She yells to the air. She then trips, and falls

into a puddle. When she pulls herself out of it, she is a filly. She

looks up at Cloudsdale, it's so big. The butterflies in front of her

suddenly drop dead.

"Hello Futtershy."

"W-who's there?" She asks.

"It's me, your daddy."

"Daddy? Oh I missed you." She gallops over, and gives him a hug. "Wait a

minute." She looks up, it's King Sombra. "No, no no." She backs up,

but steps on a nail.

"Hahaha!" He swings his headand cuts off one of Fluttershy's hooves

with his horn.

She is about to pass out when she is picked up by Rainbow Dash. Her

hoof is there.

"Oh Dashie, thank you." They are both full grown mares. Rainbow Dash

just looks at her, disappointed. She raises a hoof, and a machine picks

up Fluttershy. It straps her to a table with chains, and a knife

appears out of a thin strip of metal. "Dashie? What's going on?"

"Where not a single soul gets through." And it slices through her throat.

"Fluttershy?!"

"Ah! What?" Fluttershy asks, sitting up in the bed. Scootaloo is

shaking Rainbow Dash, who is calling Futtershy's name. "Scootaloo,

what's going on?"

"It's Rainbow Dash, she isn't waking up and she's been screaming our

names for the past hour." Futtershy gets down, still dizzy from the

horrible nightmare that just happened. She walks over to Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow. It's ok, I'm here. It's ok, just breath, loosen up, and

relax. I'm still alive." She looks at her pillow. Rainbow Dash was

crying during the night, a lot. Rainbow Dash flies forward, sitting

up. Scootaloo is thrownHer eyes are bloodshot and she is shaking.

"F-Fluttershy?" She looks at her, and hugs her. She is crying even

harder now. "I just has the worst nightmare of my life. There were

humans, and creepy things and me being hit in the head, and-" she

stops talking.

"I did too, don't worry." She continues holding Rainbow Dash until

she calms down. "How would you like to go and see how Twilight and

Applejack are doing? Get away from all of this." Rainbow Dash nods her

head like a sad puppy with no home. Futtershy walks the other two down

stairs, and pays the thirty bit fee for the night. They walk to the

hospital, the entire walk being completely silent between the three

ponies. Rainbow Dash shakes all the way there, trying to not fall.

Scootaloo runs up next to Rainbow Dash, and basically becomes a

resting stool for her to lean on. They walk into the hospital.

"Ah, there you all are. You will be glad to know that Applejack and

Twilight Sparkle are both alive and well. Applejack's room is

one-fifty four. Twilight is in the room just to the left." The nurse

says. Fluttershy looks at Rainbow Dash with an excited face, but sees

that Rainbow Dash wasn't even even paying attention. She sighs.

"Ok, thank you. Scootaloo, Dashie, come on." They all walk to

Applejack's room. They hear thrashing and groans from inside.

"What is going on in there?" Fluttershy asks.

"Hold on AJ, I'm coming." Rainbow Dash quickly opens up the door,

stands there at the door way for a second, then slowly closes the

door, looking almost pale.

"Well, what happened?" Fluttershy asks.

"Uh, um, she uh, Scootaloo, go over there please." Rainbow Dash asks.

Scootaloo nods, then walks around the corner. Rainbow Dash walks next

to Fluttershy. "Yea, Twilight was in there."

"Where was Appleack?" Fluttershy asks.

"In there." Rainbow Dash says, running a hoof through her mane.

"Ok, but I still don't get-"

"On top of Twilight." Fluttershy takes a moment to process this.

"Oh, oh. I uh, I get it now." She says, feeling embarrassed that it

took her this long to figure it out.

"It's fine, just don't mention it to Scootaloo. And lets not let them

know that we know this, ok?"

"Ok." Fluttershy says. The two walk around the corner, and meet Scootaloo.

"Hey, look what I found." Scootaloo says. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy

look at the poster. It's advertising nightmare in Ponyville.

"N-nightmare night?" Fluttershy asks, terrified. She doesn't like nightmare

night, everypony dressed up and the stories and the legends

and just all of it.

"Wait a minute, nightmare night. Fluttershy, do you think that this

could have something to do with our nightmares?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"It m-might. I, I don't know. How many days until nightmare n-night?"

Futtershy asks, stuttering.

"Four." Scootaloo responds. Fluttershy's breathing becoms erratic.

Rainbow Dash walks behind her, and just hugs her. It calms her down.

"Look, lets just get AJ and Twilight and get back to Ponyvill."

Rainbow Dash suggests. Fluttershy nods, and they head to the door.

Scootaloo goes to open it. "No!" Rainbow Dash says, nearly a yell. "I

mean, I'll do it." She knocks on the door.

"Ah. Ah. T-Twi, w-wait." Twilight looks up, breathing heavily.

Applejack looks back at her, barley able to speak, trying to control

herself. They hear the knocking again. Twilight, disappointed, goes to

open the door. Applejack pulls the blanket over her, trying to hide

herself a bit. Twilight takes a deep breath, trying to return her

breathing to normal.

"Oh, hi Rainbow Dash. Sorry, I was caught up in something." Twilight

says. Rainbow Dash sees Applejack blush behind her.

"Right, well, when you two are ready, we all can head back to Ponyville."

"Ok, thanks Rainbow Dash, we'll be out in a jiffy." Twilight closes

the door, and looks back at Applejack. She frowns, and walks over to

her. "I'm uh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come on to you like that, I

just-" Applejack pulls her in, meeting her lips with Twilight's. They

hold the position or three seconds, then pushes Twilight backwards.

Applejack looks at her, and nods. She gets up, and opens the door.

Twilight smiles, then walks into the hallway, following Applejack.

"Ok y'all, we're ready to go."

"Alright. Ready Scootaloo?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"Yes mommie." She responds.

"Mommie?" Twilight whispers to Applejack. Applejack just smiles,

finding it cute that Scootaloo loves Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy so

much.

"Alright, then lets Move out." And they head to the train station.

Fluttershy gets flashes of her past while walking there, but tries not

to show it. However, Rainbow Dash notices Fluttershy sweating, her

eyes small, and trembling. "Fluttershy, are you ok?" Rainbow worriedly

asks. A flash of her falling to the ground appears, then another of

her being trapped in a cave. "Fluttershy!"

"What? Oh, s-sorry. Yea, I-I'm fine." Rainbow Dash frowns, knowing she

isn't. They finally get to the station, and walk onto the train.

"I'm going to hit the hay, y'all. Have a good night." Applejack waks

to her room. Twilight goes to walk with her, but stops when she

realizes that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were there. She walks into

her own room, silent.

"Come on, lets find our room." Rainbow Dash leads Scootaloo and

Fluttershy to their room, and lets them all walk In. "What do you

think Twilight will do when we back Ponyvill?"

"What do you mean?" Fluttershy asks.

"Well, her and Applejack definitely together. I can't figure any of it

out though. Your putting an egghead, with an athlete. I don't get it."

"Dashie, look at you and me. A brave, strong, fast, known athlete with

a shy, quiet, helpless Pegasus. We don't exactly work together well

either, but we still manage. It's just how we feel, it's natural."

Rainbow Dash doesn't know how to respond, so she just sits there,

thinking all of it through.

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Scootaloo asks Rainbow Dash.

"N-nothing, Scootaloo. We just uh, we, uh, w-we." She looks at

Fluttershy, trying to get her to help.

"We were just wondering if Applejack and Twilight were trying to hide

something from us."

"Why would they try to hide something?" Scootaloo asks.

"Well, people are embarrassed of cirten things in their lives, and

they don't want others to know." Fluttershy explains.

"But what are they embarrassed of?"

"We think they are, together."

"Oh, like you and mom?"

"Right, exactly. But they might be embarrassed, and they don't want us

to know."

"Why?"

"That's what we are trying to figure out." Fluttershy and Scootaloo's

conversation ends. Rainbow Dash is relived that Fluttershy stepped in

when she did, it would not have gone the same if she had talked to

Scootaloo about it.

"I'm going to go to bed, goodnight Fluttershy, goodnight Mom, love you both."

"Good night Scootaloo, love you too." Fluttershy says.

"Night Scootaloo, love you." Rainbow Dash kisses her, and Scootaloo

goes into the Room next to theirs. Fluttershy sits across from Rainbow

Dash, thinking.

"What's wrong?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"I, I don't know. I just have this bad feeling about going back home.

When, when was the last time you saw Rarity or Pinkie Pie?"

"Not since the royal palace. Why?"

"Nothing, just a bad feeling." Rainbow Dash would ask about what, or

why, or when she thinks what ever bad will happen, but she knows she

won't get anything out of Fluttershy. She goes up to her, and kisses

her.

"Love you Flutters, good night." She then goes onto the bed, and falls asleep.

"Hello?" Rainbow Dash says to the air. No response. How did she get

here? What happened? She gets up, and trots over to a hill. Nothing

but sand. She gets to the top. Endless sand. That's all there is,

lifeless sand. She goes to fly into the air, but her wings are both

broken. She starts walking, looking for any sign of life. She walks,

and walks, and walks non stop, trying to get even the smallest glimmer

of hope. She then sees a pond, and runs over to it. She runs a hoof

through the water, but it's sand. It's a mirage. She gets up,

dehydrated, looking around. She is surrounded by sand. She breaths

heavily, and keeps walking. She slowly grows to a trot, then a sprint,

and then begins to run. She is running, hoping to find something,

anything, that can save her. The sand turns, twists, and she passes

out.

"Dash!"

"What? Who?" She asks, sitting up in bed. She sees Scootaloo next to

her, worried.

"Rainbow Dash, are you ok? You were yelling and twisting." Fluttershy

says, slowly sitting up in her bed.

"It was nothing, just another bad dream."

"Oh, right. I forgot that we have been having those." Flutttershy

says. She looks out of the train window, and sees a sign as they pass

it. It said, "Ponyville, ten minutes." "Good news, ten minutes until we

reach Ponyville."

"Good, I just want to go home." Rainbow Dash says.

"Agreed." Scootaloo says, walking into their room.

"Well, lets all go get something to eat, I'm starving." Rainbow Dash

suggests. They all head out to another cart, and begin to eat.

"Morning Twi." Applejack says, walking into Twilight's room.

"Morning Applejack. How'd you sleep?" Twilight looks up, slowly

rubbing her eyes.

"Fine. Though it would have been better if you were there." Applejack

says, making Twilight blush. "So, explain to me again, why do you not

want them knowing?"

"I, I don't know. I just feel weird like this. You know, with

somepony. I know Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash told us as soon as they

were sure, and I am sure, but I just, I don't know." Twilight sighs,

thinking.

"Listen Twilight, I know this is all, new, for ya, and it is for me

too. But if this is going to work, we need to let the others know.

It's not a threat or anything, it's a fact. We need to at least let

Fluttershy and RD know." Applejack says.

"Ok, let's go do that." They head into Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash's

room. They slowly open the door, the rooms empty. "Let's try the

dining cart."

"Thank you mom, thank you Fluttershy." Scootaloo says, beginning to

eat. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash just smile at each other, and also

begin to eat. Twilight and Applejack walk into the cart, and find

their two Pegasus friends. They walk over, Twilight not wanting to.

"Hey y'all." Applejack says.

"Oh, hey AJ. Hey Twilight, what's up?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"We uh, we need to tell y'all somthing." Applejack says, at this point

completely forgetting Scootaloo was there. "Me and Twi', we uh, we are

planing to get married when we get back to Ponyville." This hangs in

the air, making Applejack regret ever saying that.

"That's great, congratulations to you both." Fluttershy says happily.

"Wait, your ok with this?" Twilight asks.

"Well yea, of course we are. Why wouldn't we be? Look at me and

Fluttershy, we are two mares, but we're together. We even have a kid."

She looks at Socctaloo, smiling, then looks back at Twilight. "So yea,

of course we are ok with it. Plus, we are your friends. We wouldn't

care if you wanted to marry an animal."

"Well." Rainbow Dash kicks Fluttershy under the table, not wanting her

to in inturupt. "I mean, right. If you two are in love, then go and

get married, we will always be here to support you, no matter what."

Twilight smiles, and slowly cries. Applejack sees her, and holds her

with a hoof around her neck. Twilight leans into Applejack, crying.

They all smile. The train stops.

"Current stop, Ponyville!" The conductor yells. They all get off. They

see Pinkie Pie, dressed in black, her hair straight down, with tissues

surrounding her at a table in the station. She looks up, pretending to

be happy to see them, but they can tell something is wrong. She runs

up to Fluttershy, and hugs her, beginning to cry again.

"Pinkie, are you ok? What happened?" Fluttershy asks, remembering that

she had a bad feeling about coming back.

"I-it's Rarity." She says through tears.

"What about her?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"S-she's d-d-dead." The air gets still, and there is not a sound when

she says this. They all go silent, not believing what they just heard.

They look at each other, and look at Pinkie Pie. Rainbow Dash is the

first to speak.

"H-how do you know?" She asks gently. Pinkie Pie leads them all to a

graveyard, and brings them to a grave. Fluttershy reads the writing

out loud.

"Here lies Rarity, a generous unicorn who always put herself last, and

never gave up on her friends. She will be deeply missed." Fluttershy

stops, unable to read the rest from crying. Rainbow Dash takes over,

Fluttershy leans her head into Rainbow Dash's mane, still crying.

"Cause of death, unknown. That's it. Nothing else is on the stone.

Pinkie, do you know why she, passed?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"The last I saw her, she was very sick. And I mean sick. That was

three days ago, the day before that, she was in perfect condition."

Pinkie Pie answers. They are all quiet, thinking. Finally, Rainbow

Dash speaks.

"We should all head home, it's been a long few days." The rest nod,

and silently head home. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Scootaloo stay,

staring at the grave.

"What do you think?" Fluttershy asks.

"What do you mean?" Rainbow Dash asks, confused with the question.

"Well, it's clear that you don't think she died because of being sick.

I have known you long enough where I know if you disagree with

something, so what is your opinion on this?"

"Nopony gets sick, and three days later, dies. It's not natural. And

if it really was because of her being sick, the grave would say it."

Rainbow Dash feels something twitch at her hoof. She looks down,

Scootaloo is shivering from the cold. Rainbow Dash looks up, and

signals Fluttershy to take her home. "I'll be there in a bit." She

whispers. Fluttershy nods, puts Scootaloo on her back, and flies up to

Rainbow Dash's house. She stays at the grave, staring. "There is no

way she died from sickness. I'm going to get to the bottom of this."

She walks away, not looking back. She walks to the edge of Ponyville,

and looks down at it. The world begins to spin, and she falls over.

"Hey! Wake up!" Rainbow Dash looks into a Pegasus's, tan colored eyes.

"Good, your awake. Look, we don't have much time, we need to get out

of here."

"Wait, what is going on?" Rainbow dash asks. She sits up, they are in

the sand. "And why am I in the sand?"

"No time to explain, we have to-" the Pegasus is cut short from a beam

of light going through its chest. The Pegasus falls over, dead.

Rainbow Dash scrambles to get up, and begins to run. She dodges

multiple beams, trying to keep changing directions.

"Stop! You will not be harmed if you give yourself up!" She hears a

voice yell out to her. She keeps running, despite the urge to stop.

She finds a hole in the sand, and jumps in. She hears nothing but her

own breathing. A shadow appears over the hole, and a unicorn appears.

It hasn't spotted Rainbow Dash. "She isn't here, let's report back to

the princess, I'm sure she will understand." They walk away, but cover

their footprints, just incase if Rainbow dash is still alive. She

looks over the edge of the hole. They are gone. No hoofprints, no

nothing. She lies back down in the hole, breathing heavily. Her eyes

are dried, her hooves aching, and her mind racing. She closes her

eyes, once again surrounded by sand. Lifeless sand.

*beep*...*beep*...*beep* Rainbow Dash wakes up to the sound of a heart

rate reader. At least, that's what the unicorns call it. She looks

around, tired. The door opens, and Discord walks in. "Well well well,

Rainbow Dash. You shouldn't have turned me to stone, all it does is

let me think."

"Discord. How did you get out of-" He puts his hand over her mouth,

she reaches for it, but she is tied down to the bed.

"You know, you have had an interesting life. You were the leader of

the Pegasus weather team, you were the first ever to preform a sonic

rainboom, you were the manager of the Rainow Factory, you even died to

Pinkie Pie's hand. And now, look at you. Ready to embark on a new

journey. You will never truly be dead, none of us will be. We all live

in multiple dimensions, it's how life works. Like Twilight, she

accidentally killed Mike Something, the fluffy pony. At the same time,

she failed magic kindergarten, being held back until age seven. And

yet, in this dimension, she has friends, and is the perfect alicorn. I

could go on and on, giving you examples for all of you evil

no-gooders. But, alas, it would be a major waste of my time. I am

here, as a friend who is trying to warn you to stay away from me. From

the sand, the ever so lifeless sand. Otherwise, it will just be

another problem for you. Maybe not for this dimension Rainbow Dash,

but for another. Possibly even the one that was always referred to as

little, Dashie." For some reason, when he said this, it struck a

nerve. She broke one of the strings, and punched Discord in the face.

Her hoof goes right through him though.

"W-what?"

"See, this isn't real. None of this is real. It will never, be real.

However, for you, the one who is living this, the one who is feeling

these emotions, the hard ships, it is. You are real and Fluttershy and

Scootaloo are real as well. But they are only as real, as you make

them. And the same goes for them, as you are only as real as they make

you to be. It's sort of a way for the universe to make sense of

itself, with these different dimensions and parallel worlds. So don't

worry, you won't notice anything. It will all be the same as before,

just you now know how it all works. How you became the one to kill

Scootaloo in the factory, how you became a victim to Pinkie Pie's

cupcake recipe, how you were teleported to earth and thought a random

stranger was your father, how you got trapped in the lifeless sand,

and how you became married with Fluttershy." Discord begins to fade,

and Rainbow Dash's vision goes with him. It all goes black.

"Fluttershy?" Scootaloo asks, looking up at the light-yellow mare.

"What will happen with Sweetie Belle?" Fluttershy sits there,

realizing what Scotaloo means.

"Uh oh." She flies over to where Rarity used to live. She flies in

through a window, and feels something fall onto her back. She falls to

the ground.

"Fluttershy?" She looks behind her, Sweetie Belle is on her back.

"I'm, im so sorry. I just, I don't know what to do. I'm sorry

Fluttershy." She begins to cry. Fluttershy puts her on the ground, and

looks behind them. There is a platform, with knives under it. She

caught Sweetie Belle in mid air, over the knives. It all makes sense.

"Sweetie Belle, why would you even think of doing such a thing?"

"I, I don't know. Rarity was the only family that I have that I live

with, and with her gone it just, it doesn't matter to me anymore. I

don't even have my cutie mark, and I'm sisters with one of the most

well known clothing designers in all of Equestria. And now that she is

gone, I just, I don't know." She breaks down, crying heavily.

Fluttershy goes to offer to take her in, but then realizes that

Sweetie Belle is a unicorn. She holds her tongue, not wanting to add

insult to injury. She thinks of asking Applejack to take her in, but

she already has so many family members, and Pinkie Pie is in no

condition to take her in. Maybe Twilight will take her. "What do I do?

I can't stay in this house alone, what do I do?"

"Well, I guess twilight could take you in, as long as she is willing

that is. But I'm sure she will be." Fluttershy says, hoping to not let

Sweetie Belle down. Sweetie Belle looks up, her mane wet with tears.

"I would let you live with me and dash, but we are in cloudsdale.

Applejack has a very busy life, so she would have a difficult time

keeping up with the entire family and you, no offense. But Twilight

only lives with Spike, so you could live with her." Sweetie Belle

fakes a smile, and hugs Fluttershy. "Just know that you should never

do something like that, there is always light at the end of the

tunnel." Sweetie Belle continues to hug her, and Fluttershy hugs her

back. "Here, let's go to Twilight's, see if she is willing to take you

in."

"Ok." And they head to Twilight's house.

Rainbow Dash slowly opens her eyes, trying to focus her vision. She

slowly pulls herself up, and looks around. She is in her house, on her

bed. She looks at he foot of her bed, and sees Scootaloo asleep. Her

wings are stretched out, and her back is beating. She slowly wakes up,

and looks at Rainbow Dash. "Mom." She weakly says. She smiles, and

stumbles to get up. She stumbles and trips over, and lies next to

Rainbow Dash. She almost falls asleep immediately.

"How, how did I get here?" Rainbow Dash asks, confused as to how she

is back in her house in Cloudsdale.

"I..." Scootaloo stops to yawn. "I brought you up here."

"How?"

"I carried you on my back, and flew up here." Rainbow Dash is stunned.

Scootaloo, of all Pegasuses, a filly for that matter, was able to

carry a full grown mare on her back, and fly from the ground to the

sky without dropping her, and put her on her own bed. How in the world

did she do it? Scootaloo picks up on Rainbow Dash's confusion. "I just

did what you always said. Clear, fly, fall, complete." The orange

filly closes her eyes, and falls to sleep. Rainbow Dash is awake, and

wants to find Flutteshy. But even Rainbow Dash can't ignore the

cuteness of a filly like Scootaloo sleeping, her tail around her face

and Mane in front of her eyes. It puts Rainbow Dash into some sort of

trance, causing her to become tired as well. She submits to the

tiredness.

"Twilight, are you home?" Fluttershy asks the door. No response. She

knocks, and the door opens.

"Oh, hi Fluttershy. Hi Sweetie Belle, what's up?" Twilight asks.

"Oh, well, Sweetie Belle here was stressed earlier, and well, we would

like to know if you'd like to take her In." Fluttershy lowers her

voice to a nearly inaudible whisper.

"What was that last part?" Twilight asks. Fluttershy looks at Sweetie Belle.

"If you would like to take me in to live with you. Please Twilight, I

have no where to go. I can't live with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash,

Pinkie Pie is depressed beyond belief, Applejack-"

"Yes." Twilight cuts Sweetie Belle off.

"W-what?" Sweetie Belle stutters.

"Yes, I will take you in. Sweetie Belle, you have no home, no family,

no anything. The least I can do is offer shelter. Even if it's

permanent." Sweetie Belle's eyes swell up, and she runs to hug

Twilight. She constricts her hoof, hugging it tightly.

"Thank you, thank you so much." She says in tears. She looks back, and

hugs Fluttershy. "Thank you too."

"Glad I could help." Fluttershy says. Sweetie Bell turns back to

Twilight, and continues crying. Fluttershy points to the air with one

hoof, and Twilight nods. Fluttershy flies back home. "Hello? Dashie?

Scootaloo?" She asks the empty living room.

"We're in here." Rainbow Dash whispers, but loud enough to let

Fluttershy hear her. She walks in, and sees Scootaloo sleeping,

leaning up against Rainbow Dash's side. Her wing is covering

Scootaloo, acting as a blanket. She slowly lifts her wing, and gets

off the bed, going on all four hooves as quietly and slowly as

possible. Scootaloo falls to the bed flat, and adjusts herself, still

asleep. Rainbow Dash walks over to Fluttershy.

"Why is she so tired?"

"She says she brought me here. I don't know If it's the truth, but I

believe her either way. Anyway, how many days until nightmare night?"

Rainbow Dash asks.

"2, 1 in 2 hours." Fluttershy answers. She looks at the clock to make

sure, it's 10 P.M., 2 hours until tommorow. "We should get to bed, we

have a lot to think about." Rainbow Dash nods, and heads to the bed.

Scootaloo is on the right side, where she usually sleeps, so they just

slip under the covers.

"Goodnight Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash says, kissing her head.

"Goodnight Dashie." She returns the kiss, and falls asleep nearly

instantly. Rainbow Dash, however, does not want to go to sleep. She

lays there, keeping her eyes open, barely ever blinking. She remembers

what Discord said about the Lifeless Sand. She doesn't want another

dream like that, so she tries not to sleep. Eventually though, she

gave in to the tiredness, and fell asleep.

She wakes up in the hole, trying to find a way out. She pulls herself

out lift, and looks around. Sand. She sighs, and begins to slowly trot

in a random direction. She can feel her throat, dry as bones. Her

stomach went from starving to full, that can't be good. She picks up

her pace, thinking she is running out of time. She begins to run,

hysterical now. She looks around, trying to find any source of water

or food. She spots a pond, and runs over to it without any second

thoughts. She leans down, and begins to furiously drink. It's real,

not a mirage. She continues drinking it, trying to fill herself up on

it. After ten minutes of drinking, she backs up and looks forward. The

sand is no longer sand, it's snow. A fairly small blizzard manifests,

and traps Rainbow Dash in the snow. She figures that the weather team

is trying to freeze her out, but she keeps walking anyway. She finds a

tree, then another, and soon a forest. She runs into it, thinking that

where there is a forest, there is civilization. She slows down, and

realizes where she is. The EverFree Forest.

Fluttershy slowly opens her eyes, waking up. She yawns, and looks

over. Rainbow Dash is twitching in her sleep. Fluttershy would usually

wake her up, but she figures they all need sleep, seeing as though

Nightmare night is tomorrow. She looks down, trying to see Scootaloo.

Scootaloo is leaning up against Rainbow Dash's back, but over the

covers. Fluttershy slowly gets up, and walks over to a mirror. The

mirror is broken. She walks over to the kitchen, it's been ransacked.

Fluttershy lets out a small, high pitched gasp. They were robbed. She

trots over to a table, it has a note on it. "To whom ever may read

this, I am not dead. But I will make all of your lives a living

nightmare if you do not do what I ask. Meet me tomorrow at the front

of the mayors office." Fluttershy finishes reading the letter to

herself, and wonders why it's always letters. Every time something

happens, it's write in a letter. She puts it back down, onto the

table. She walks back into the bedroom. The sight was adorable, seeing

Rainbow Dash curled up under the blanket in a ball shape, and

Scootaloo in a ball, her tail over her nose and mane covering her

eyes. It made Fluttershy's heart melt from the cuteness. She sees

Rainbow dash twitch again, and star bear thing heavily. She starts

mumbling things, then screams at the top of her lungs something

inaudible. It makes Fluttershy whimper, and lie down covering her

ears. She then runs over, uncovering her ears. She runs her hoof

through Rainbow Dash's mane, whispering to herself. Rainbow Dash stops

screaming, and slowly starts to normalize her breathing. She goes back

to just being asleep. She slowly backs up, then heads back into the

kitchen. When she turned the corner, she could have swore she saw a

Pegasus with light-pale skin, a mane of yellow and green spikes, and a

lab coat on. But when she blinks, it's gone. "Hello?" Fluttershy asks.

No response. She ignores it, and begins to clean the kitchen.

"Now Twi', I know you want to give her a home and all, but do you

really want to adopt, her?" Applejack asks.

"Yes." Applejack rolls her eyes, Twilight quickly continues. "Look I

know that it's just another pony but I don't want to see her on the

side of the street. Plus, I like a Sweetie Belle. She's, I don't know,

cute."

"Fine. Just, take it slow with her, you know, like don't force her

into a room on the first day."

"I understand." Twilight says triumphantly.

Rainbow Dash sits up, breathing fast and her vision not focusing. She

is freaking out, trying to find out where she is. Cloud bed, cloud

walls, cloud calling, cloud floor, she is in her house. She looks to

her left, and sees Fluttershy through the doorway, cleaning. She sees

everything as a blob, a colored blob. She looks down, Scootaloo is

still asleep. But something had woke. To her left there was an imprint in

the bed showing she had moved. Rainbow Dash gets up, and stumbles I I

the kitchen. "Fluttershy?" She whimpers, trying to be louder.

"Dashie." Fluttershy runs and hugs her. "How are you?"

"F-fine. How about you?" She was far from fine. She could barley see

anything, she was stumbling and couldn't keep upright, and she was

barley able to talk loud. She was quieter than Fluttershy.

"I'm fine. You should rest, just take it easy. You had a rough night

sleep. You were twitching and screaming and turning and just, you need

to rest." Rainbow Dash is embarrassed that Fluttershy knew.

"N-no, I-I'm fine."

"No your not. Tomorrow is Nightmare Night, and we need to be focused.

You are suffering from a loss of sleep, and other stuff. You need to

get rest, even if you don't sleep."

"... Alright." Rainbow dash says, defeated. She heads back to bed,

where Scootaloo is waking up.

"Morning mom. Where's Fluttershy?" Scootaloo asks, yawning.

"She's in the kitchen cleaning." Rainbow Dash exsaughstedly says.

Scootaloo gets up, stretching, and trots into the kitchen. Rainbow

dash lies into the bed, and closes her eyes, trying to relax.

"Morning Fluttershy. Oh wow, what happened here?" Scootaloo asks,

seeing the mess of the kitchen.

"Nothing, it was just an accident." Fluttershy carefully lies. "How

are your wings and back?"

"Sore."

"How did you do that in the first place?" Fluttershy asks.

"I don't know. I saw her on the ground, and I jumped to try and help.

I saw she was unconscious, so I just picked her up, put her on my

back, and fly up here. At the time I didn't even realize what I was

doing, but now I do." She says, cracking her back. Fluttershy

understands, and isn't too surprised. She figured it would have

something to do with danger and instincts.

"Well, I'm going to visit Twilight. Stay here and keep mom company?"

Fluttershy asks, finding it odd calling Rainbow mom.

"Will do." Scootaloo happily says. She walks into the bedroom, lies

down, and falls asleep. Fluttershy smiles, and flies down to meet

Twilight. She walks up to the door, but it flies open, hitting her.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Fluttershy, are you ok?" Twilight nervously asks.

"Y-yea, I'm fine, thanks. How are you?" She asks, rubbing her head.

"I'm fine, happy to have Sweetie Belle with us. Thank you for that."

Twilight says.

"My pleasure. I guess the CMC are having hard times huh?" Fluttershy

says, laughing slightly.

"Yea." Twilight responds, also slightly laughing. "I uh, I should get

back to work, I have lots of studying to do. Talk to you later

Fluttershy." Twilight says. She leans over, and kisses her on the

cheek. She backs up, blushing. An awkward silence falls between the

two ponies. "I'm, I'm sorry. It was a force of habit. Iv been spending

so much time with AJ lately I guess I kind of lost myself. I'll uh,

I'll see you later." She runs back into the house. Flutershy is left

standing there, dumbstruck. She just turns around, and tries to forget

about it. As she walks down the road, she sees PinkiePie in her lawn.

"Fluttershy?" Pinkie asks, looking up. She looks awful. Her pink face

is pale, her eyes are blood shot, and her straight mane is an odd

color mix of grey and pink.

"PinkiePie, what happened to you?" Fluttershy nervously asks.

"What do you mean?" PinkiePie hoarsely asks.

"You look awful, come on, you need to see a doctor." Fluttershy grabs

her mane with her mane, and the hair just rips off. She spits it out.

"Ugh, what the, Pinkie, you need to see somepony, now."

"No, I don't. If I die, then I die. Rarity is waiting." This hurts

Flutterhshy. To see one of her best friends like this, it's difficult.

"Pinkie, please don't talk like that. You have so many friends here,

don't just give up because one is gone. We depend on you to lighten up

our lives, to bring us laughs, and to be the great friend who you are.

Please do something about this. Please." Fluttershy says. PinkiePie

looks up, sad looking.

"I know. I know I do, and I know they all do. They all love me for who

I am and I appreciate it, but I don't deserve friends like them. They

deserve better than me. It's all just pointless." Fluttershy goes

silent. She walks away, defeated. But she gets an idea. She flies over

to the doctors office, she convinces the doctor to go to PinkiePie's

house, and check on her. She then trots over to Applejack's, fairly

proud of herself for helping PinkiePie. She gets to the door, and

knocks.

"H-hold on, I'll be there in a second!" Applejack yells from inside.

She cracks the door, not seeing who it is. "Who's there?"

"It's me, Fluttershy." Fluttershy answers. Applejack swings the door

open, pulls her into the house, then closes it. She trots into the

other room, looking around nervously. Fluttershy notices her hat is

crooked and she was a bit pale. Her hooves are shaking, and

her eyes are dilated. She looks back at Fluttershy, and runs over to

her.

"Listen, I need your help. I need you to." She stops.

"What? What do you need me to do?" Fluttershy asks, as nervous as her

friend is.

"I, I need, I need you to, I'm sorry." Applejack breaks down crying.

"I didn't mean it to happen, I didn't at all. It was a

misunderstanding, I didn't mean it to go that far. Why? Why me? Why

her? Why?" She asks, not paying attention to Fluttershy who is

beginning to slowly back up twords the door. Applejack sees her do

this. "No! Wait, please, don't go. Not you too. Please!" Fluttershys

stops, standing still. "I, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to break down like

that. I just, I need to tell ya something. I'm, I'm the one, I'm the

one who killed Rarity." She says, still crying. Fluttershy goes from

scared to mad in such a quick time she couldn't breathe. She runs at

Apple jack, picks her up with her teeth, and flings her against the

wall. She pins her against the wall with one hoof, and leans against

her and the wall with the other. Her back hooves are still on the

ground.

"What, do you mean you killed her?!" Fluttershy screams.

"I, I didn't mean to. I just meant it as a harmless threat, not a warning."

"What are you talking about?" Fluttershy asks, her voice deeper than

memory serves her ever having it.

"I noticed her having a thing for Twilight, and I became jealous. Then

I caught her having fun with Big Macintosh, and I pulled her aside

saying that if she married Twilight, I'd kill her if she messed up at

all. I guess she knew she would, because she then told me shed rather

kill herself than deal with me. I guess she really meant it."

Applejack says, crying even harder now. Fluttershy losses her hoof,

and gets back on all four hooves.

"I'm, I'm sorry. I thought you meant you killed her yourself. I just

saw PinkiePie and she is depressed beyond belief because Rarity is

dead. I'm sorry." She says, walking back to the door, her head

lowered.

"It's ok, I understand. I just, iv never lost somepony as close as

her. My entire family is alive, and iv never known death. And to see a

friend die, and know I was most likely the reason, I just, I can't."

Applejack says, her voice cracking.

"I understand, it's difficult for everypony right now. Just, get some

reast Applejack, you deserve it." Fluttershy softly suggests.

Applejack nods, and heads to her bedroom. Fluttershy exits the house,

and flies back up to meet Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo say her house.

Once there, she sees the kitchen is spotless, the house is nearly

sparkling because of the cleanliness, and the bed is empty. She walks

downstairs, and sees Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo talking.

"Oh, hi Fluttershy, how do you like it? Me and mom worked on it all

day." Scootaloo says.

"It's incredible, thank you both so much. Rainbow, can if talk to you

upstairs please?" Fluttershy asks, trying to sound happy.

"Sure, hang on a sec Scoots." Rainbow Dash follows Fluttershy upstairs,

"Scoots?"

"What? I like it." Fluttershy smiles, and keeps walking. "So what's up

Fluttershy?"

"I went around to all of our friends, they are all terrible right now.

Well, except for Twilight. See, Twilight was busy taking care of

SweetieBelle, so she quickly said hi. But she kissed me on the cheek

because she has been spending so much time with AJ. Then I went over

to PinkiePie's, and she looks terrible. Rarity being dead has taken a

huge toll on Pinkie. So after talking, I went to a doctor, and got him

to travel to her house. Then I went over to Applejack's, and well, bad

news. Applejack warned Rarity not to intervene with twilight, and

well, Rarity took her own life. You right, it wasn't a sickness.

Applejack is a mess, I'm scared for her and Pinkie." Rainbow Dash is

caught off guard with all of this new information. She didn't know how

to react. Should she be mad? Sad for her friends? Worried? Conflicting

thoughts threaten Rainbow Dash's stable mind. She forces herself to

stop thinking about it. Fluttershy notices Rainbow Dash and her issue,

and quickly picks up on it. But as she goes to say something,

Scootaloo walks in.

"Hey guys, what time is it?" Fluttershy looks at the clock, it's seven P.M.

"Seven. You should go to bed." Fluttershy suggests. Scootaloo yawns.

"Ok, goodnight mom, goodnight Fluttershy, love you both." Scootaloo

stumbles up the cloud stairs.

"We should get some sleep too, we have a big day tomorrow." Rainbow

Dash suggests.

"Ok." Fluttershy leads the way back to their bedroom. Once there, they

both get under the covers. "Goodnight Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy

whispers, trying to not fall asleep before saying it. Rainbow Dash is

kind of disappointed, as she was planning to have some fun. But she

sees how tired Fluttershy is, so she just lets it go.

"Night Shy'." Rainbow Dash turns to kiss her, and Fluttershy kisses

her as well. Fluttershy, not knowing if this will be their last day

together or not, figures they might as well have some fun before

tomorrow. She rolls onto Rainbow Dash, keeping their lips locked. They

fall asleep four hours later, having the best night since their first

night married.

"Why didn't you finish them off?"

"I'm sorry, I tired my best, but Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy keep

interfering. I tried to get rid of them, but they are just, ugh."

Rarity sighs. She looks up, seeing the anger in her master's glare.

"But don't worry, tomorrow for sure they will be out of the way. With

this power you gave me, I can do anything." She sees a smile filled

with anger and hatred.

"Good. Now, go do my work. The moon is waiting."

Fluttershy slowly opens her eyes, waking up. "Hello?" She asks. She

looks down, sand. She looks over, and sees Rainbow Dash lying in the

sand. "Oh no." She trots over, and looks at Rainbow Dash. Her chest is

slowly going up and down, but she is unconsious. Fluttershy puts her

on her back, and begins to walk. She continues walking for a long

amount of time, too long for her to tell. As she walks down a hill,

she sees a light in the distance. It slowly glows brighter and bigger.

Fluttershy pauses, amazed with this. Rainbow Dash slowly opens her

eyes.

"W-what? Oh no, get down!" Rainbow dash rolls off of Fluttershy, and

Fluttershy falls to the ground. The beam of light is shot, and sand is

flown everywhere. The hill that Fluttershy was walking down is now

gone. She becomes covered in sand. "Don't move a muscle." Rainbow Dash

whispers, hoping Fluttershy hears her. The three unicorns float over

to where the two pegasi are, and begin shooting the sand with a spell

that was found two weeks ago. It rips through the sand, leaving a hole

in the ground. Somehow, the sand does not fill the hole back up. They

shoot closer and closer to Fluttershy, but stop three feet from her.

They look around, and float back to the way they came. After five

minutes, Rainbow Dash gets up and shakes all of the sand off of her.

"Fluttershy? Are you still with me?" She asks the air.

"Right here." She answers, getting herself out of the sand. She shakes

all of it off. Rainbow Dash immediately runs up and hugs her.

"Oh thank goodness, listen, we need to, we, we need to." Rainbow Dash

trails off.

"Dash, stay with me! What's going on?" Fluttershy says.

"We need to find a way out of here. I don't get it though, i though I

was in the EverFree forest."

"I found you lying in the sand after I woke up in the sand."

"Wait, you woke up in the sand? Oh no, no no no get out. I don't know

or care where you go but get out." Rainbow Dash warns.

"But why? I don't know where to go, even if I were to leave."

"I don't know, but you can't be here. Just, go." Rainbow Dash runs in

a random direction.

"Dash!" Fluttershy yells. Rainbow Dash is too far off to hear her. A

unicor appears behind her.

"So now you know. I'm sorry to do this to you, but you just had to get

involved." The unicorn says.

"I don't even understand what's happening." Fluttershy says. The

unicorn takes off the hoodie, revealing a unicorn Spitfire, the leader

of the Wonderbolts.

"It could be worse, you could die without honor." Her horn glows a

bright yellow, and Fluttershy's wings are broken. She lets out a

high-pitched squeal, and the yellow horn burns even brighter. The last

thing Fluttershy ever sees is the beautiful array of colors, yellow

being the main one.

"Ah!" She whips forward, breathing deeply and quickly. She sees

Rainbow Dash twitching, and shakes her.

"What! Who?" She says, just being startled.

"N-no, please, mom, Fluttershy, please!" Fluttershy grabs a pillow

with her teeth, and flings it at the wall. It seeps through the

clouds, and hits Scootaloo. Right on target. Scootaloo runs into their

room, and hugs the both of them. "I, I dear end of you two abandoning

me, and flying away. My wings were broken and-" her voice dies off,

tears running down her face.

"It's ok, we would never do that to you. We are a family, thick and

thin, we are there for each other." Fluttershy looks at Rainbow dash,

who is still breathing quickly. Rainbow Dash smiles.

"Right. We, we would never do that Scoots, we love you." She says

through breaths. "I dreamed I was in the sand, and-"

"I was there, and carried you on my back to a hill. You told me to

leave, but Spitfire killed me and I woke up." Fluttershy finishes a

Rainbow Dash's sentence.

"How did, did you have the same, but why, oh no. Scootaloo, what day is it?"

"N-nightmare night." Rainbow dash stops breathing. Her eyes dilate,

and her mind circles.

"Rainbow dash!" Fluttershy yells at her quiet tone.

"We, we need to go to the mayors office. Now." Rainbow Dash says.

"Scootaloo, stay here. We'll be back." She jumps out of bed, and flies

to the ground. Fluttershy remembers the letter.

"We'll be back." And she flies down to meet Rainbow Dash.

"Come on, to the mayors office." Rainbow Dash says, and flies as fast

as she can there. Fluttershy, surprisingly not far behind, runs there.

She stops, out of breath, right behind Rainbow Dash. She looks around

her, and sees nothing. Then looks in front of the building, and stands

still. It's Rarity.

"Oh how lovely of you to join us."

"Us? Rarity, how are you alive?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"Yes, us." Princess Celestia flies down from the sky.

"I, I don't follow." Fluttershy says, deeply confused.

"Oh you idiots. How do you not see like Rarity? You see, ive been

waiting for a thousand years for the elements of harmony to be taken

off of my hooves. And when my sister was sent to the moon by yours

truly, I couldn't be happier. Now that the six elements are separated,

the seventh element is stronger than ever."

"Seventh element?" Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy look behind them.

Applejack, Twilight, and PinkiePie ran up behind them in the middle of

Celestia talking. When PinkiePie sees Rarity is alive, he color come

back, her mane goes back to its curly state, and face becomes ecstatic

with excitement.

"RARITY!" She screams. She bolts to her, but runs straight into a

force field protecting Rarity.

"Happy to see her, are we?" Celestia mocks.

"Princess Celestia, i don't understand, why are you doing this?" Twilight asks.

"Oh Twilight, I thought you would be able to figure it out if if these

four didn't. You're nightmares, all of them within the past two

months, are because iv been giving them to you. Especially you two,

Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. I believe iv been giving you two the

worst. Why, with the rainbow factory and your human father, I figured

you'd enjoy seeing other yous. But, alas, I was incorrect. So, now, on

the day if the nightmares, we shall rise above Equestria, and make it

our own!"

"We?" Fluttershy nervously questions.

"Look in fear Equestria, for we are the Solar, Empire!" Hundreds of

pegasi and unicorns rush the small group. They surround them.

"What are you doing? This wasn't the deal." Rarity says to Celestia.

"Oops, sorry, I must have forgot. Here, take this as your reward." She

lifts all of the diamonds in Equestria, and let's go of them when they

are over Rarity. But before they crush her, a small brown light

appears over Rarity. The diamonds fall around her, and cover the

ground for hundreds of miles. The small brown light grows, and turns

into a figure. There is a bright light, and then Discord is revealed.

"Why hello Celestia, haven't seen you in a good amount of time."

"Discord, what are you doing here? I thought they turned you to

stone." Celestia says.

"They did, but Miss Sparkle here let me out."

"But how? I teleported you to the EverFree Forest."

"Rainbow Dash went into the forest in her nightmare, and found me. She

punched me from frustration, and it cracked my stone open. Now I'm

here."

"But, but I did that in a dream." Rainbow Dash stutters.

"You see, your precious princess here made it so dreams and real life

interconnect. The Rainbow Factory, the Tetris, the fluffy unicorn

death, the human dad to Rainbow Dash, they are all real. But not to

us. We live in our own dream, and we are dreaming of this, but us

ourselves are living it. It may be confusing, but trust me, it makes

sense. And you are not able to kill an element, Celestia, as you were

one yourself. However, you are no longer." Discord stops talking, and

looks at Twilight. He winks. "Why else so you think you can't kill

me?" He snaps his fingers. A yellow light appears over all of them,

and it splits into seven small beams of light. It shines on all six

ponies, and one shines in Discord. The elements of harmony attach

themselves to the ponies, and a necklace of gold, with a white ball in

the middle with a blue line going through the ball attaches itself to

Discord. Rarity is pulled to the others.

"No, no this can't be! I destroyed the seventh element eons ago!"

Celestia screams.

"You can't destroy something that isn't physical. We have Laughter,

Magic, Loyalty, Kindness, Honesty, Generosity, and the one I have

represented since the day I was created, unity."

"Guards, kill them, I want their heads!" Celestia yells. They rush the

six ponies and Discord, but time stops. The six ponies fall, and

Discord slowly falls. He looks at them.

"You see ponies, I may have been bad before, and I may have threatened

to turn Equestria into the chaos of the world, but it was all a test.

I knew it was only time before Celestia became power hungry, so I

wanted to make sure you six were ready. And obviously, you were."

"So, when you tried to get Derpy to kill us, you were testing us?"

Fluttershy asks.

"Yes." A silence falls in the air. Discord walks to Celestia. "Oh, if

only you said yes, we wouldn't even be having this issue sweetie." He

kisses her frozen face. "I must leave you now, it will be another

million years until I can walk this planet again. My element can only

be used once every million years, as unity lasts that long. But don't

worry, I'll hear you, and I'll show up every now and again. As for you

Celly, I'm sorry." Discord reaches out, and puts his hand on her

chest. His hand goes through it, and he feels her heart. "Goodbye." He

says. He wraps his hand on her heart, and squeezes. It all goes white.

"Fluttershy. Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash yells. She opens her eyes.

"It was a dream, wasn't it?"

"Dream? No, what is this? A cliche book story? We're alive. We are all

alive." Fluttershy looks up, and sees all of them pulling themselves

off the ground.

"We're, we're alive. Dashie, we're alive!" Fluttershy hugs Rainbow

Dash, and she leans into her chest, tears wetting their manes.

"Ugh, is everypony ok?" Twilight asks.

"All good here." Applejack replies.

"Happy as a clam, we won!" Pinkie pie screams. They look over and see

Fluttershy and Rainbow dash hugging. Twilight realizes that now

Princess Celestia and Luna are both gone, nopony is in charge.

"Wait, there's no princess to rule." Twilight says.

"Why I reckon there is." Applejack says confidently. Twilight is

confused, and then realizes what she means. She, is a princess. "All

hail to Princess, Twilight." Applejack says. Twilight blushes.

"Wait, what about-" Shining Armor runs down the street, finding them.

"Twilight, Cadance died."

"Wait, what?" Twilight asks.

"I don't know she just, died. She fell over. I, I don't get why."

"I think I do. Brother, Celestia is dead."

"What?!" He yells.

"It is true. She was going to turn this rule of hers into a

communist-type rule. Thankfully though, they were her to stop it." A

unicorn says, coming form behind the corner of the mayors office.

"What happened is that your wife, Cadance, must have been depentandt

on the princess for life. And now they are all gone, I hereby announce

Twilight Sparkle as the new princess of Equestria." Everypony,

including Shining Armor, bow.

"This, this all happened so fast. I, I don't know what to say."

Twilight says. Applejack gets up, and the rest get up as well.

"Well, I don't know what to say either, but I'll always be here to

help." Applejack kisses her on the cheek. Spike runs to Twilight.

"Twilight, we have a problem."

"What is it?" Twilight asks.

"It's Trixie, she's back."

"But I thought she was happy now, how is it a problem?"

"Zecora and her. They know how to do banned 46."

"Oh no." Twilight quietly says.

"Banned 46? What does that mean?" Fluttershy nervously asks.

Twilight nerovusly says, "Black Magic."

On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Jacob Robbins <[email protected]> wrote:

MLP Fan-Fic "Who's Who? Nightmare night and the seventh element"

(Rainbow Dash)

"I'll make sure you get there safely."

"But, but what if-"

"No, don't think like that, you'll be fine, good-bye Dashie." Rainbow

Dash floats in the air, strapped down to the air balloon. She

struggles to get free, but to no avail. Three Pegasuses in blue suites

fly into the ballon. The are tangled and cannot get free.

"Please, go away!" Rainbow Dash pleads the trapped ponies. One gets

free, but with a broken wing. It struggles to stay in the air, and

hurdles towards earth. It dies on the impact. The two others are still

trapped. Rainbow Dash manages to pull a wing out from the string, and

frees her other one with it. They are falling quickly to the ground

now. But when she finaly gets her last hoof untied, they hit earth.

"Ah!" It seems like time is stopped. Rainbow Dash looks around the

room, only Scootaloo and Fluttershy are there. She can't breath. She

gets down from the bed, and walks outside of the room. She quickly

trots to the bathroom, and washes her face off. She looks into the

mirror, and sees half of her face is dripping with the color of the

rainbow. It all turns to blood. "What?" She asks, not talking to

anypony. She backs up into what looks like another Pegasus with two

extra setsof wings, and some sort of quilt on.

"Hello Dashie, want to make Cupcakes with me?" Pinkie Pie asks.

"No, no!" Rainbow Dash yells. She runs down the hallway, and falls.

She looks up. "D-daddy?" She asks. The human picks her up.

"Just know that you will always be my, little, Dashie." His eyes turn

red, and sharp teeth grow from his mouth. "And the smaller, the

tastier." Rainbow Dash manages to wiggle herself out of his hands, and

runs back into the room. She is breathing heavily.

"Fluttershy, we have to-" Fluttershy turns around. Her eyes are empty

and smoking black, and she is wearing a choke collar.

"Please, don't go." Fluttershy says, her voice turning demonic.

Rainbow Dash becomes unable to move. "Hush now, quiet now, it's time

to lay your sleepy head. Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed."

Rainbow Dash feels a sharp pain in her stomach. She closes her eyes,

and opens them. She is in Pinkie's basement.

"You know, I thought you would be more fun than this. I know Gilda

was." Pinkie Pie says. She cuts an insertion in Rainbow Dash's

stomach, and begins to pull out guts. Rainbow Dash stares into a

bright light, and her vision focuses. She is in a glass case in some

sort of lab. She has all sorts of pads on her body. Humans are walking

around in suites and writing things down as they stare at her. She

looks over.

"I'm sorry Dashie, I tried my best." The man is shot dead. For some

reason, Rainbow Dash feels like she knew him for her entire life.

"Ok uh, what was it? 509-56? Lets see what you are made of." The man

lifts up the box, but Rainbow Dash tries to fly away. The cords pull

her twords the table, and the man comes over with a knife. He cuts a

wing off of Rainbow Dash.

"AH!!!" She screams. The man takes the wing, and puts it with other

wings and unicorn horns. She feels like she is going to pass out, but

when she opens her eyes back up, she back in her house in cloudsdale.

She watches as a former her is about to be hurt. "If your not real,

then why do I feel breathing down my-" Spitfire hits her in the head

with a branch, then glues a note to her wing. The present Rainbow Dash

can also feels this, and passes out.

(Fluttershy)

"Hehehe." Fluttershy chuckles.

"Why Fluttershy? Why would you do this?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"Because, I want you all dead!" She presses the red button. It all

goes white, then back to normal. She walks around the town, looking at

all of the dead corpses. "Finally, finally, I have done Discords work!

They are all dead!" She yells to the air. She then trips, and falls

into a puddle. When she pulls herself out of it, she is a filly. She

looks up at Cloudsdale, it's so big. The butterflies in front of her

suddenly drop dead.

"Hello Futtershy."

"W-who's there?" She asks.

"It's me, your daddy."

"Daddy? Oh I missed you." She runs over, and gives him a hug. "Wait a

minute." She looks up, it's King Sombra. "No, no no." She backs up,

but steps on a nail.

"Hahaha!" He takes his horn, and cuts off one of Fluttershy's hooves.

She is about to pass out when she is picked up by Rainbow Dash. Her

hoof is there.

"Oh Dashie, thank you." They are both full grown mares. Rainbow Dash

just looks at her, disappointed. She rises a hoof, and a machine picks