Rainbow Dash woke up to Spectrum, my friends, and the cutie mark crusaders; however, something was wrong. Fluttershy wasn't in the group, and neither was Scootaloo! "wha- where am I?" she asked, staring at them wearily.

           Spectrum approached her and said, "I have some bad news" ,he paused and looked her in the eye, "Scootaloo and Fluttershy were attacked by Soarin."  she looked at everyone, hoping desperately that this was just some cruel joke that they decided to play on her, but their expressions were deathly serious.

           "Where are they! What happened! Did he-" her voice caught, and she looked up at Spectrum with tears in her eyes. "Did he do to them what he did to me?" Spectrum pulled the sobbing Rainbow Dash into a hug, giving her a small kiss on the forehead as she wept.

           Finally he said, "I think he tried to, but I think that I got there just in time." Dash glanced at her concerned friends through puffy eyes, embarrassed that they had to see her like this.

           "Where are they?  Are they alright?" Spectrum nodded, looking to Rainbow Dash's left. There in hospital beds were two more pegasi, one mare and one filly.

           As Rainbow Dash lays in bed, reading a Daring Do book for the umpteenth time today, she gazes upon the lump of bandages that used to be her sister Scootaloo. A lump forms in her raw throat as she remembers that day.

           "I'm sorry sir, but you can't see any of them." Rainbow Dash hears the doctor say outside her door. She hears a strangled gasp and a quick "I'm sorry I didn't know that it was you sir, go right ahead." the door opened to reveal my brother: Spectrum. seeing as it was past visiting hours I didn't know why he was here.

           "Why are you here?" I asked pretty confused on why he would even by here. I sat up on the bed and gave my brother my signature "What the hell!" look. It is rather ineffective as I am more scared of his appearance as he is of mine, though he has a look of shame and a kind of look that someone gives when they have beat themselves up multiple times over the subject. "I don't blame you, you know right?" I say as he sits down in the chair in between my bed and Scootaloo's with a look of surrender in his eye.

            He looks at me with his baby blue eye, a look of deep sadness that I have only saw once before. I was even more surprised when he started to softly cry, which looked really weird since his left eye leaked blood instead of tears. "It's my fault Dashie! If I had stuck around you guys more I could have prevented this!" I pat him on the shoulder, not really knowing on what to do in a situation like this. "Well" he said getting up, "I'm here to take you home. I'm going to live at your house for a few days so I can help you do stuff around the house, and pretty much be a butler/bodyguard."

           Scootaloo stirred awake, blinking at us before she burst into tears as the memories flooded back to her. Spectrum wrapped her into a hug, holding her while she "cried the pain away". I take off my bandages as Spectrum comforted Scootaloo, staring at one particular scar on her flank shaped like a hoof print. "So Scoots, I started remembering how she loved that nickname, what did that dirty bastard do to you?!" Spectrum kind of scowled at me as Scootaloo said:

           "he tied me up and hit me, while he tried to do something with Fluttershy's mare parts and his stallion parts..." I felt an emotion that I haven't felt since what happened to me that fateful  day, a small spark that quickly grew into a wildfire: anger.