Late night was now just starting to set in, as Luna's moon had not long replaced her older sister's bright sun, while a dim light was being shone down over Ponyvile, along with Cloudsdale being the same. All ponies of all kinds were cooped up in their warm houses, most of them sleeping peacefully in their cosy beds, with only a small amount that were still awake.

Amongest them was a certain brightly coloured, rainbow pegasus, as she lay relaxed on a tall hillside, which was overlooking the small town that she lived above. She sighed deeply as she looked out over the town, thinking about what their new Princess had talked to her about eariler today,

'Does she really think that us two towns can get along? Or is tomorrow going to just be a big waste?' the pegasus wondered as she poked at the ground with her hoof and looked up to the dark sky above her, watching the clouds slowly float by to reveal bright, twlinking stars, while the weather pegasi were working hard to keep tonight a fairly cool one for everypony.

'She's got to be crazy to believe that this plan of her's will actually work,' Rainbow closed her eyes as she felt the cool breeze flowing through her long mane, causing her to smile as slight chills kissed her fur every so often.

She let out another small sigh as her magenta eyes opened again, and she looked down to the sleeping town, think about its inhabitants who she disliked, before shaking her head and trying to keep those unpleasant thoughts off her mind as to not ruin this quiet night she was being gifted with at the moment.

However as she tried to focus her mind on other things, her ears twitched a little at the sound of a small cry, she turned her head to the sound, listening carefully to see if she would hear a second cry. But complete silence fell again, as the only thing the pegasus could hear was the calming sound of the wind making the trees and bushes around her rustle ever so slightly.

Rainbow shrugged her shoulders as she guessed it must of have been her imagination, and there was nothing for her to worry about as she looked back to Ponyvile, thinking about how tomorrow might turn out for her and the Princess. But within a couple of seconds another cry could be heard, and this time Rainbow was certain that she had heard it.

The pegasus slowly stood up and turned her head to where she heard the small cry come from, wondering if she would hear anymore. She waited for a while, listening carefully while no cries could be heard. She raised her eyebrow, questioning herself for a minute thinking that maybe it was just her mind playing tricks on her.

However as she thought about laying down again, and choosing to ignore the curious and suspicious thoughts in her head, telling her to go and investigate the small cries, another whimper could be heard, and another, and another, and another.

Dash couldn't deny it any longer, somepony was making those sounds, as she looked all around her, listening while focusing all her hearing on the small sobs, while she followed the sound. She walked around to the other side of the hillside, and slowly started to wonder how she had heard this small cry if the pony making it was so far away from her, as with every step she took the sobs would grow louder and much clearer, stopping suddenly as there in front of her sat a crying pony.

Choosing to hide for now and not frighten or surprise the whimpering pony, dunking down behind a small bush, and peeking over the top of it to look to the upset pony, wondering if she should go and comfort her. The young mare didn't look familiar in any sort of way to Rainbow as her darkly coloured mane and fur blened in with the night sky.

Who was this pony, and why was she all the way out here crying by herself? Rainbow could just about make out the pony's folded up wings held close to her sides, guessing that the mare was a pegasus, but still not recognising her in the least. She felt like she should go over to her and ask if she was alright, but she didn't want to seem rude, the crying pony might just want to be alone after all.

But as the minutes dragged on, Rainbow decided to at least get a little closer at her to make sure she wasn't hurt or anything, taking only about two small steps foward, before she froze at seeing the sobbing pony turn her head a little. She wasn't looking in Rainbow's direction but instead was now gazing up at the moon, sniffling a little as tears streamed down her face.

Rainbow's eyes widened a little as she looked at how the moonlight was now shining down on the mare, illuminating the colour of her dark irises inside her watery eyes, which seemed to sparkle in the dim glow of the moon, while her tears glistened as they fell and her sobs were slowly growing louder in volume.

Rainbow wasn't sure what to do as a cause of action, should she just leave the crying pony alone and go home? Or should she go up to her and offer her a bit of company? Rainbow grew nervous as she moved a little bit closer and tried to get a better look at the pegasus, feeling her heart beating a little faster as the closer she got to the crying pony, the more breathtaking she looked.

Biting her bottom lip a little, while her chest felt alwfully tight all of a sudden, Rainbow finally shook off all of her nervous feelings and walked up behind the crying beauty, stopping to sit down beside her, taking a small breath and smiled slightly up at the night sky,

"Nice night isn't it?" she asked before she glanced to the pony beside her, her eyes suddenly growing wide as she finally caught sight of the mare's face, a purple unicorn horn coming into view as the pony lifted her head and made Rainbow realise something.

This pony wasn't a pegasus as she had first thought, she was an alicorn, not only that but she was one that she recogized almost instandly once the mare had looked back to her.

"R-R-Rainbow Dash?" The mare questioned as she stuttered a little, and gazed into the pegasus's eyes.

'Princess Twilight?'

The rainbow pegasus gasped as she sat up in her bed, panting heavily, while looking around her room, taking a few minutes to calm down as her heart raced in her chest, and her whole body trembled a little. She sighed slightly as she realized she was in her bedroom in her cloudhome, and not on some hillside just ouside of Ponyvile,

'Huh, a dream?' she questioned as she threw the covers off of her and looked to her window, seeing that it was in fact early morning, as bright sunlight was flowing in from outside, peeking through the slightly open curtains. She shook her head as she winched in pain a little and bit her bottom lip, resting a hoof over her chest, 'Why does my chest hurt so much?'

"RAINBOW DASH!"

Her head turned to a familiar voice calling to her, along with the sound of a few loud knocks, she sighed again as she got up from her bed and made her way down to her front door, answering the visitor, as she opened the door and was greeted by a smiling and upbeat alicorn she recognized as the Princess.

"Hey Princess, so you remembered the way to my house this time then?" Rainbow smiled to the Princess and greeted her with a small, polite bow.

"Well I did have to ask one or two pegasi to help me," Twilight stated nerously as she smiled slightly to Rainbow.

Rainbow chuckled slightly to the Princess, "So what's up?"

Twilight's smiled formed into a slight frown, as she looked to the pegasus a little confused, "Don't you remember what we were talking about yesterday Rainbow?" she asked wondering if maybe the pegasus had forgotten what they had planned for today.

"What? Wait you want to get started at that right now?"

"Don't you want to Dash?"

"No, I mean yes...it's just, I haven't had breakfast just yet," Rainbow confessed nervously as she guessed it was probably later than she first thought it was.

"Oh okay, should I come back later?" Twilight asked only now realizing that she may have just rudely woken the pegasus up.

Rainbow's eyes widened as that nervous look on Twilight's face reminded her of how the Princess looked in her dream, that tear stained face gazing back to her, while those breathtaking eyes sparkled in the moonlight.

"Err...yeah, just give me about half an hour, alright?" Dash nervously looked away from Twilight now as she felt her heart starting to beat faster, while her chest began to hurt a little.

"Sure Dash," Twilight nodded with a smile, feeling a little guilty for just showing up on the pegasus's door like this, before she turned and left Rainbow Dash to have her breakfast a minute later.

Rainbow shut her front door once Twilight had left, sighing deeply as she thought about that dream again, biting her bottom lip again as the slight pain in her chest worsened slightly, before she shook her head and pushed all those thoughts to the back of her mind, focusing on getting some breakfast, and then going to meet up with Princess Twilight, ready for what she had planned for them today, choosing to not let that weird dream bother her.

... ...

The morning soon turned into early afternoon as Rainbow Dash had met up with Princess Twilight, while the two were flying through the sky together, Rainbow feeling a little anxious about how toady would go for her. The Princess had planned for her to reunite with her old friend from Cloudsdale who had chosen to move to Ponyvile not long after the big fall out had happened between the two towns.

"Now I know you haven't seen this pony in years, let alone talked to her, but I believe that if you can make a good impression on her, and show her the Rainbow Dash she used to know, instead of the one that you've become, we can make this work, besides..." Twilight was rambling a little as she was basically just thinking out loud now, as she read certain steps from a checklist she had brought along and was now carrying with her magic, looking to it as she inspected all the steps she would make sure her and Rainbow would follow in order for this plan of her's to go smoothly.

However Rainbow wasn't really listening to her, as she just looked off into the distance, seeming like she had other things on her mind at the moment. This 'friend' she used to know was never really a friend that Rainbow would spend a lot of time with, but she was somepony that she trusted a lot, and since the troubles between the two towns happened, she had missed talking with her. The two never did have much in common since they had always been complete opposites, with one being outgoing and reckless (as well as a bit of a hothead) and the other being shy and a little bit more of a 'grounded pegasus' who never really spent a lot of her time up in the sky where her kind were always supposed to belong.

Rainbow and her friend, hadn't really fallen out as such, they had just stopped seeing each other once one of them had deicided to leave her home in Cloudsdale and switch towns. Since then Rainbow had always thought her friend was on Ponyvile's side, feeling betrayed she had vowed not to go and talk to her ever again, but if she was really going to help the Princess out with fixing the two towns' broken relationship, then it was one vow she was willing to go back on, she only wished that she had maybe suggested to talk to some of the other ponies about changing their perspective of the pegasi who lived up in Cloudsdale before Twilight had decided on this plan of action.

Rainbow Dash sighed deeply, glancing to Twilight slightly and smiled slightly as she was still rambling on and on about how she would make this plan of her's work out, sounding so sure of herself as she smiled brightly and looked so exitced all the while, 'She sure is a weird one' Rainbow chuckled as she let the Princess talk to herself for a little bit longer, before she looked around at her surroundings and realized just where they were right now.

"Hey Princess, stop for a minute," Rainbow flew in front of the Princess as she halted her from flying.

"What is it Dash?" Twilight asked happily, stopping her rambling but that expression of sheer joy never leaving her face, as she was certain that today would prove to be a step in the right direction that would soon lead to the two towns putting the past behind them, moving on from here and getting along like all neighbours were meant to.

"Listen I know you think that reuniting me and my old friend is a good way for our two towns to start getting along again, but don't you think there's something more important that a Princess such as yourself should be doing right now?" Rainbow nervously spoke as she suddenly felt like this wasn't a good idea anymore, "Besides you do know that just getting my friend and I to forgive and forget, won't slove all of the problems that the two towns have with each other, right?"

"Dash, there is nothing more important than making a change between Ponyvile and Cloudsdale in order for all of you to get along better, after all if the two towns can come together without constandly arguing and fighting with each other than it'll mean there will be a lot less problems around here. And I know it'll take much more than just getting you and your old friend to make up, but it's a start at least, right?" Twilight explained with a kind smile to the pegasus, understanding the anxiety and fear she was probably feeling right now, while she looked away from her checklist and slipped it back into her saddlebag she had strapped to her back, being sure to focus all her attention on the worried pegasus now.

"I guess," Rainbow mumbled out nervously as she turned away from Twilight a little, while she tried to think of another excuse, hoping to stall the Princess for longer.

"Where is this all coming from anyway, you seemed all for it yesterday?" Twilight asked wondering why the pegasus was suddenly acting all nervous about this when she seemed very willing to go through with it all yesterday.

"I know, it's just..." Rainbow sighed as she paused, before she nervously looked to Twilight, "We're here,"

"We are?" Twilight questioned as she she looked around, before Rainbow pointed down to the ground below, Twilight looking to where the pegasus's hoof was pointing, to see a small house that was just on the outskirts of Ponyvile, which was pretty much right next door to the mysterious Everfree forest.

The two ponies slowly flew down to the house together. Twilight looked all around as she suddenly felt like she knew this place, she wasn't sure if she had been here before, but it certainly did look familiar to her. Meanwhile Rainbow just looked down to her hoofs, feeling alwfully out of place not just from being down in Ponyvile, but also from the fact that she hadn't been to this house in years, and was a litte surprised that she could remember how it looked after all this time.

Although this place did look quite familiar to Twilight, she couldn't really think of why it did seem like she had seen it before, as she wondred just who lived here, while her and Dash walked up to the front door, looking around as all kinds of different woodland animals looked at them curiously, some seeming more scared than others as they decided to just stay hidden in the woods.

The place looked like a small petting zoo, what with all the small animals running around, with fences built all around the front of the house, cutting off the garden from the house, the two seeming separate.

Twilight decided to not let the odd appearance and also strangly familiar look that the house had bother her, as she just took a deep breath and looked to Rainbow dash, smiling to her as she saw that the pegasus's gaze was stuck on the ground, looking even more nervous and worried now then she did a few minutes ago.

Guessing that Rainbow probably wasn't going to knock on the door, Twilight decided to instead as she rapped on the wodden door, before she stepped back a little and waited for an answer, along with the oddly quiet pegasus, who was acting very unlike herself right now.

Faint hoofsteps could be heard becoming clearer, as within a few more moments of waiting the door opened slowly to reavel a yellow pegasus, who Twilight recognised almost immeditaly,

"Fluttershy?" Twilight qustioned looking confused, as she remembered meeting this certain pegasus only a couple of days ago, being thankful that she had remembered her name correctly.

"Oh hello Princess Twilight," the pegasus greeted the Princess with a slight bow, smiling politing to her, before she noticed the familiar rainbow pegasus that was standing beside Twilight, nervously looking to the ground, and seeming to be doing her best to avoid looking up at the other pegasus.

Fluttershy seemed a little taken aback for a minute, before she just smiled to Rainbow and greeted her kindly, "Rainbow Dash, it's been a while hasn't it?"

... ...

Silence had fallen on Twilight and Rainbow as Fluttershy had now invited them inside in her home, having offered for them to sit together on her sofa, while she went to go and make some refreshing tea for them all.

Twilight looked to Rainbow with a slightly confused expression, while the pegasus nervously looked around the house, seeming tense and uneasy, 'No wonder this place looked familiar to me, I came here with Applejack and Rarity on the first day I arrived in Ponyvile. So Fluttershy was the friend that Rainbow fell out with after she had decided to live in Ponyvile instead of Cloudsdale?' the Princess wondred as she didn't think that a shy pegasus like Fluttershy could have ever been friends with a boisterous pegasus like Rainbow Dash.

"You didn't tell me your friend was Fluttershy," Twilight brought Rainbow's attention on to her as she hadn't really planned for this old friend of the pegasus's to be a pony that she had already met before.

"You didn't ask," Rainbow answered buntly as she glanced to Twilight, but still looked like she felt out of place, as she kept fidgeting in her seat every so often.

Rainbow really had no idea what she could say in order to try and apologize for what had happened between her and Fluttershy, she had thought of a few things that she thought would be good, but as soon as she had seen this house again and was remnided of the last time she saw the pegasus, she was starting to have second thoughts, remembering all of the thoughts that were going through her head that fateful day when she vowed to never come here ever again, and yet here she was sitting on the pegasus's sofa, feeling like she should leave, and that coming here was just going to be a big mistake.

Fluttershy soon came back out of her kitchen and walked into the lounge, setting three drinks of steaming hot tea and a plate of cookies down on the small coffee table, offering for her two guests to have some, which both of them politely declined to for now. Silence fell on the room again as Fluttershy sat down on the chair that was opposite the sofa that the other two ponies were sitting on, smiling to them both kindly, while Twilight smiled back to her politely, and Rainbow was back to looking at her hoofs again, avoiding all eye-contact with the other pegasus.

Twilight nervously looked to Fluttershy and then to Rainbow, as she kind of wanted to speak up and maybe help ease the heavy tension that was in the room right now, but she also wanted to let the other two do the talking, after all they would never make up if she didn't let them talk about it and work everything out in their own time. But right now as the time dragged on, and the only sound that could be heard was the slight ticking of the cloak on the wall, Twilight sighed as it seemed like neither of the two pegasi wanted to speak up, and so she opened her mouth as she felt like she should get things started off, luckily she had planned if a situation like this were to happen.

But just before she said a word, Rainbow surprised her as the Princess and Fluttershy heard the nervous pegasus whisper out the words, 'I'm sorry,' biting her bottom lip tightly as she glanced to Twilight, pleading for her to help her in some sort of way.

Twilight just smiled as she shook her head, and moved closer to Dash, resting her hoof over the pegasus's, ressuring her and pushing her to carry on, understanding that she really wasn't comfortable with this, but knowing that she could do it. She knew that Rainbow did want to make amends with the ponies here in Ponyvile, and her apologizing to her old friend was a big step to all of this, not to mention probably one of the hardest things she would have to do from here on out.

Rainbow looked to Twilight, wanting her to help her, but sighing as she knew the Princess wasn't going to talk for her. She had been this way fot much too long now, the constant arguing and rivalry between the two towns had been going on for long enough, and it was time for it all to stop, and here is where it all would start.

Twilight smiled to Rainbow as she tilted her head in Fluttershy's direction, gesturing for her to repeat what she had just whispered out. Rainbow lifted her head slowly as she looked to Fluttershy, while the pegasus just sat there smiling to her politly, being sure to give her all the time she needed in order for her to be ready to say what she wanted to.

Rainbow looked back to Twilight now as she took a deep breath, and nodded to the Princess, smiling to her slightly, brefore she looked back to her old friend, knowing that she wasn't doing this alone, and finally felt like it was time to let go of everything that had happened in the past, and face her demons here and now.

"I'm sorry Fluttershy...when you left and decided to move here I...I wasn't sure how to feel, I felt betrayed and told you that I never wanted to see you again, and that was wrong of me, I never should have said anything like that. I was mad and confused, but I know that's no excuse, we were friends and friends should never say things like that to each other. When you left it changed me, and I didn't realise that until recently. I just got so mad...I was so mean to you, telling you that I hated you and didn't want to see you anymore..." Rainbow trailed off slightly as she choked back sobs and could feel tears welling up in her eyes, threatening to slip over her eyelinds and stream down her cheeks. She didn't want to cry right now, but she was finding it impossible to not break down, her breath hitching in her throat as she clenched her teeth together tightly, and looked down to her hoofs again.

Twilight sighed slightly as she saw how much Dash was struggling right now, watching as she could see that stubborn and tough guard of her's quickly crumbling down to show the secrect sensitive side to the headstrong pegasus that lay hidden beneath everything else. Leaning down slightly Twilight nudged the shaking pegasus, causing for her to collapse against the Princess as she finally let a few slight sobs escape, while her bottom lip quivered and tears slowly started to run down her cheeks, resting her head on Twilight's shoulder, as she nuzzled against the pegsus comforting her as best she could.

Flutteshy smiled as she just let Rainbow let out all of those pent up feelings of anger and grief she must of been hiding all this time, "It's okay Rainbow Dash, I don't blame you for anything that happened, I'll admit it was hard for me to hear you say those kinds of things to me, but I understood that you were upset, and everypony says things they don't mean when they are scared or angry. You have nothing to be sorry for, we're still friends after all," the pegasus explained, as she now came to sit beside Rainbow Dash on the sofa, and rested a hoof over her's.

"R-really?" Rainbow questioned as she pulled away from Twilight slightly, and looked to Fluttershy, seeming surprised and full of hope, as the other pegaus just nodded to her with a smile.

"And friends always forgive each other," Fluttershy replied as she could feel some tears of her own welling up in her eyes, while Dash sniffled slightly, as she moved away from Twilight and allowed her old friend to pull her into a warm embrace, resting her head over Fluttershy's shoulder, holding on to her tightly as she broke down into loud cries and heavy sobs.

Slight tears were soon falling from Fluttershy's eyes as she held Rainbow close to her, while Twilight smiled to the two, wiping her eyes a little as she herself was getting a little choked up over watching the heartfelt moment between the two old friends, now finally reunited and happy again.

'I knew you could do it Dash,' the Princess thought as she could see how this one pegasus willing to change would soon turn into many, and a bright future where the great hatred that Ponyvile and Cloudsdale had for each other would no doubt be a thing of the past, with everypony ready to move on together in harmony.

... ...

Twilight sighed happily as her and Fluttershy had been talking to each other cheerfully, while Rainbow had just gone outside to have a calming fly alone, in order to get back to herself and was told to come back once she felt ready to talk some more. Really the Princess couldn't be more happy with how things went today, yes they started off a little rocky with all the heavy tension, but once Rainbow was able to swallow her pride and look deep inside herself in order to finally let her guard down everything else seemed to go rather smoothly, and Twilight was happy to see that sensitive side to Dash being brought out, only seeing glimses of it so far, and now knowing there was so much more to the pegasus, which all lay hidden under the surface.

The two ponies smiled to each other sipping their warm tea (which had cooled down a little now), while they chatted and laughed, relaxing on the sofa together, just passing the time, and waited for Rainbow Dash to return,

"I'm so glad you two made up," Twilight stated happily, picking up a cookie with her magic and dunking into her warm tea, before she took a small bite out of it.

"Metoo, I really have missed seeing her, and although it may be a little awkward between us for some time, I think we'll get through it and soon be back to how we used to be, while what had happened is all in the past now," Fluttershy smiled as she nodded to Twilight and also felt so glad that toady had worked out so well, since she had been missing her old friend terribly, and was happy to finally start building their close companionship back up again.

"Well that's one pegasus down, I just hope all the others aren't going to be much harder," Twilight thought out loud, with a small sigh, knowing that there would be plenty of troubles ahead with getting the two towns to forgive and forget the way Rainbow and Fluttershy had now done, but was feeling optimistic about it all the same.

"I reckon there will be a lot of hard cases to come, but I'm sure everything will go well, after all it's not like the ponies here in Ponyvile did anything in order to anger the pegasi of Cloudsdale too much," Fluttershy stated, causing Twilight to go wide eyed, as she looked a little taken aback now.

"What do you mean? Didn't the ponies in Ponyvile wrongly accuse a lot of the pagsi about certain things, plus they ran them out of town when they refused to follow their rules, which does seem a little harsh when you think about it," Twilight asked, thinking that the ponies were just as much at fault as the pegasi were, at least that what she got from the story that Rainbow Dash had told her.

"Well in truth nopony could really prove that the pegasi did the things that the ponies accused them of, but a lot of the pegasi, such as Rainbow Dash, weren't exactly known for their 'good behaviour' around the town, which is why most of the ponies would avoid them," Fluttershy explained, thinking that Twilight had probably gotten the story a little bit mixed up or something,

"Plus the ponies didn't run us out of their town, we left,"

"What?"

Author's Notes:

Aren't cliffhangers just the best?

Thank you ever so much for reading :D
(I had so much fun writing this chapter and I have so much more planned for all that's to come).

KillerChainsaw ;)