--------Chapter Two: Meanwhile ------

The six ponies gathered around, Rainbow Dash half convulsing.  "Okay, my memory spell kinda...uh...half worked." Twilight said.  "You see, I was able to restore the memories she's had until she was transported to that other world, but failed to erase the memories she gained when that man took care of her."  Rainbow was panting loudly, trying to understand what was wrong with her memory.  

"Daddy, why-y-y!" she cried, tears soaking her cyan fur. Even Pinkie Pie was sad, AND IT TAKES ALOT TO MAKE HER CRY!  

"There, there, sugarcube.  We all feel sad and sorry for ya." said Applejack, throwing an arm around Rainbow's shoulder.  

"Forget it, AJ.  I guess I'll never be happy ever again." Rainbow responded, brushing Applejack's arm off her shoulder.  Rainbow then went to the throne room of Twilight's castle.  She went over to hers and sighed.  She looked up at the engraved picture of her cutie mark on the head of the throne.  She sat down, and looked onward into space.  She observed the five other thrones around her.  She looked to the center of the room, and there was nothing.  She then dozed off, and awoke in a dream...or nightmare really.  She saw absolutely nothing.  She couldn't see her hood in front of her face.  Just black.  Then an erie voice began talking from nowhere.  

"You never belonged with him.  He was just using you, with all that fake sympathy." it said.  

"No, shut up!" Rainbow yelled.  "He truly loved me!  He would've given his life to save me from danger!"  This angered the voice, and Rainbow could tell, it was much louder, and had a much more aggressive tone the next time it spoke.

"He was planning to dump you all along!  When he first found you, he wanted you to go home, but no, you stayed until your regal, arrogant, princess took you away!"  It was hard to tell who's side the voice was on, as it made it sound like both being found, and returning home were bad for Rainbow.  Then in the distance, Rainbow saw a spotlight shining on the ground, though there was no ground to shine on.  In the light, Rainbow saw herself, crying.  Then, from the shadows emerged her father, moving in slow motion.  Rainbow tried to yell "daddy", but when she did, nothing came out.  Her father reached toward the crying pony under the lights, trying to pet her.  Rainbow was frozen.  She couldn't move to see her daddy.  She simply watched as he touched the other Rainbow.  The instant he made contact, the light turned off.  The voice from before gave a sinister laugh, slowly fading into silence.  

"Wake up Dashie!" cried Pinkie Pie, furiously shaking Rainbow.  Rainbow awoke and panicked.  She instantly turned around and bucked Pinkie in the face, sending her flying across the throne room.  Dash turned and realized what she did.  

"Oh Pinkie Pie!  I'm so sorry!" she cried, flying over to the dazed pony.  There must've been some extreme force from that buck, because Pinkie was bleeding from both her mouth and nose.  "Pinkie!  Speak to me!" Rainbow cried.  Pinkie opened her eyes.  

"Bloh, bley blere, Blashie." Pinkie said, blood bubbling in her mouth.  Her mouth was full of blood, preventing her from talking clearly.  "Blo, blabt blabbenb?  Blou blere bleebing blon blour blrone, blanb blou blere blying."  It was impossible to understand a word Pinkie said.  Every time she talked, the pool of blood in her mouth would gurgle.  Rainbow picked the pink party pony up, and ran to get medical attention.  The blood poured out of Pinkie's mouth, leaving a trail behind Rainbow.  

"Oh Pinkie, I'm so sorry.  It was just a reflex." Rainbow said.  Pinkie coughed as she let her gums bleed on to the floor.  The problem now was her nose made her sound funny.  

"Id's okay Dashie.  You didn't mee to do it.  We're sdill freds." Pinkie said.  Dash was really hyper, and having a hard time controlling herself.  She kept wondering about the strange dream she had, asking herself millions of questions.  It was all to much for Rainbow to take.  She finally arrived with the other ponies, and explained the dream, kicking Pinkie and all.  Twilight was biting her hoofs nervously.  Then the princess just burst out.  

"I'm so sorry Rainbow!  I just don't know what went wrong!  I want you to go 'home' so badly, but that's impossible!  Oh Celestia why???" she yelled.  Twilight slumped down to catch her breath, the others looking at her after her outburst.  

"Well...  Twilight, I understand.  I'll never see him.  You just played this prank just to make me feel bad.  You don't have to lie anymore." Rainbow said, tearing up.  She walked out of the study in tears, leaving a trail of salty tears behind her.

"Oh, goodness.  What have we done?" asked Rarity, starting to cry.  Fluttershy was already crying, soon Applejack was crying, then Twilight, even Pinkie, who still was banged up from Rainbow's buck, cried profusely, sobbing through her swollen lip.  The five friends watched in tears as their heartbroken friend walked away, soaking the floor with tears.  That night, Twilight sat at the castle observatory, glancing up at the moon.  She was shedding light tears, with wet tear marks streaking down her face.  She looked up into Luna's night, except tonight, every star was a teardrop, every planet, a lost soul, and the moon itself, was the man from earth, and the ground on which the pony folk walk, was Rainbow Dash.  So close, yet so far.

"I don't know why this has to be.  Why is life so cruel?!" Twilight screamed.  She soon fell asleep under the stars, traumatized by the sad truth: She can never go "home."

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