I can’t go on like this…

A rainbow-maned pegasus begins to sob, feeling down on herself.

Then talk to her.

Rainbow perks up, listening to a foreign voice enter her brain.

Talk to her about it, don’t just sit here...

Rainbow shakes her head, blocking out the foreign voice’s pleas to take action. She sighs, depressed by the sheer fact that she simply can’t. Deep inside her soul, there’s a cord that has been torn far too many times from past lovers.

She just can’t go on.

Rainbow begins to sob, attempting to cry once again for the umpteenth time. It’s been a battle of her emotions for the past few days over this issue.

She just wishes she could fix it all...

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“SPIKE!” yells a feminine tone from the top of the library stairs.

A more masculine tone responds back irritatedly with a boom. “WHAT?!”

“I need you to contact Celestia to see if she has anymore copies of StarSwirl the Bearded Volume Twenty!”

“I thought you had that edition?” Spike questions, scratching his head with his claw.

“I do!” The feminine voice sighs. “But Rainbow damaged our only copy during her last tumble in here.”

Spike flinches at this a bit, remembering the event vividly.

“Are you still angry at her for doing…”

The now feminine character trots down the staircase, approaching her assistant with a saddened expression. “No…” She trots past him and looks out a window nearby, looking up towards the offender’s home. Spike notices her guilty expression and slips beside her. “Twilight…” he says with concern. She notices him and stretches out her wing, using it as a way to pull him closer to her. With her wing around her assistant, she looks back at the cloud home of her friend. “Rainbow, come back to me…”

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Another glorious day in the quiet town of Ponyville. The streets are filled with ponies who are walking around, shopping at the local vendors, or simply finding a place for entertainment or food. Just…

“OOMPH”

...another day.

“RAINBOW?!” A familiar purple alicorn shouts in frustration.

A now winded pegasus lays silently on the ground due to her crash into the alicorn’s library.

“Why are you so crash prone?”

The pegasus hears the voice and immediately responds,

“Because…”

The now enraged alicorn comes up into the pegasus’ view, staring down at the now flustered Rainbow.

“Well?” the alicorn asks, wearing the most angered expression anypony would ever dream of seeing.

Rainbow Dash tries to respond, but all that came out was inaudible mutters of apologies. She couldn’t simply say the words ‘I’m sorry’ because she’s said the phrase so many times that it would sound like it's looped.

The alicorn notices Rainbow’s expression and sighs. Turning her head slowly into the direction of the damage, she says “Let’s see what damage you’v-”

The damage was extensive.

Her whole book rack filled with collectors’ editions of StarSwirl the Bearded was toppled. Every single copy of each volume had some form of damage to them. Whether there was a tear on the cover, a few pages ripped out of the binding, bruises on the covers, or even char marks on the pages or covers; all of the books would have to be replaced. It was a scene that Twilight wouldn’t ever had dreamed of seeing. Snapping her attention back to her friend, she glares menacingly at her asking, “What trick were you performing this time?”

Rainbow Dash recovers from seeing Twilight’s death stare, however; her nervousness still lurks behind her as if it was breathing down her neck. With a stutter in her voice, she replies, “I-I was doing-g a Blazing Corkscr-reww…”

Without any hesitation, Twilight counters, “Why were you doing it near my home?”

“Because…” the pegasus started before losing her train of thought.

“Get out.”

What?

“Get out Rainbow.”

“Why?”

“GET OUT!”

Startled by the unusual anger, Rainbow Dash gallops out of the house in fear for her life.

Twilight watches her friend gallop out of her home. Feeling her anger begin to drop, she sighs and shuts the now charred door. She’ll have to fix that later. Turning to the devastating wreck of her once clean and polished library, she sighs and looks at her assistant. Her assistant sees her expression and nods, turning to grab some cleaning supplies from the closet. It was going to be a long day, no thanks to Rainbow Dash.

On the other hoof, Rainbow was continuing her gallop, running away from the place she just destroyed. Why did she get so angry? It’s not like I do it al- Suddenly, she stops mid-gallop and sits down on her haunches. ...the time. Realizing that she lands in her friend’s home all the time, she begins to feel saddened and guilty.

All that pent up anger…all of it was because of me.

Pawing at the ground, she anxiously lets out a breath and mutters almost inaudibly, “Stupid featherbrain.”

Now frustrated by her own actions, Rainbow turns herself around and begins her short journey back to her friend’s house, preparing herself to apologize by coming up with options to say.

I could say that I’m sorry....

Shaking her head, she knows it would be a simple fix, but it doesn’t seem like it would be enough. After all, she has crashed so many times into Twilight's house that she’s lost count.

Well, what could I say?

Stopping once again to collect her thoughts, Rainbow sits down near a tree and leans on it. What could she truly say? The good old ‘I’m sorry’ bit has been said so many times. What else could she do?

I’m going to go home…

For the first time ever, Rainbow Dash begins her slow trot to her home, defeated and hurt. But this isn’t the only thing that will hurt her best friend…

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