War... war never changes...

Funny, you know, I never really gave that phrase much thought when Ponies said it during the Great War. As the war raged on, things didn't go very well, the fact is... we had already lost from the beginning.

The war with the Zebras was bad, it pushed us all to extremes that we believed that we'd never be forced to. Even the best of us, were torn down by the war, forced to do things that we'd have never imagined.

Me and my friends, we thought we were doing the right thing, we thought we could save Ponies... not just Ponies, everything from the coming fire. That's why we built the Stables, that's why we set out to do everything we could to make sure that Equestria would be preserved.

And the Ponies we trusted with it... sometimes it worked out sometimes it didn't...

By Celestia, I still miss the old days, from before the war, when all I had to worry about was my friends and having to get our Cutie Marks. Funny really, after all the time I spent earning mine... I lost it...

I, didn't think I'd still be alive after all this. I almost wasn't, but, somepony special to me saved my life.

I just wish that I could tell her thank you... see her one more time...

There was a cough, after a few moments of silence there was a groan. An orange colored Pegasus with a purple mane looked up at the cloud covered sky with a pained look in her eyes.

Scootaloo, the first Dashite, the former Vice President of Stable-tec... was dying. She had been exiled from the clouds because she rejected the Enclave's ideals, and she was dying for her trouble.

She just barely managed to speak again, she was recording a message in hopes that someday, somepony would be able to listen to it, and maybe

“If you find this… there’s a shack marked on it. I traced Rainbow Dash to there. I think she’s living there… or was recently. Wasn’t there when I looked. But I’m headed back. Going to wait there… hope she returns. I should be there for her. Like she’s with me. Somepony should be there…”

Scootaloo coughed again.

“Just want Dash to know… we didn’t all… She’s not alone.”

Scootaloo took off her PipBuck as it finished recording and she placed it under the rock in the secret place hidden under it. She took a deep breath and started to make her way back towards the shack.

She coughed again, looking at her hoof, there was blood, she kept fighting on though. She just wanted to get back to the shack so she could hopefully see her idol again.

"Come on Scootaloo, you can make it..." she said, trying to move forward more towards the shack. She knew she was dying, but she just had to hope that somehow... maybe she could see Rainbow Dash, one more time.

The Pegasus kept walking, but eventually she just collapsed, she couldn't go any further. She looked up, she could see the shack from here, but, it was just too far away.

She reached into her bags and took out a photograph of her and a dark blue Pegasus Stallion and a young filly with light blue fur and a purple mane and tail.

"Sky Walker, Cloudy... I'm sorry..." she said weakly, remembering her husband and daughter, what were they going to think of her? She had been exiled from the clouds... from her family... all because she just wanted to do the right thing. "Stay safe..."

She sighed and closed her eyes, she'd just rest, for a little while.

There was a fluttering of wings above the ground as Scootaloo laid there unconscious. A set of cyan hooves landed and the Pony folded her wings at her side.

"Scootaloo!" Rainbow Dash said and rushed forward and picked up the orange mare in her forehooves. "Come on Squirt, wake up, please don't die on me..."

"Rainbow... Dash?" Scootaloo asked, her eyes flickering open as she looked up the mare with her purple eyes. "You made it..."

"That's right Scootaloo, I'm here, you're going to be okay, I promise," Rainbow Dash said, wishing she had some medical supplies.

"Good, bye Rainbow Dash..." Scootaloo said weakly. "Thank you... for being my big sister. Please, don't..."

Scootaloo's eyes closed, her breathing was starting to slow, but she was still alive. Rainbow Dash held her close, there wasn't anything she could do for her little sister, she couldn't help but cry.

210 Years Later.

"Hey what's in here?" A stallion asked as he pushed through the wall of a building.

"No clue," his companion, a Pegasus mare said as she poked her head in. "Looks like an old Ministry facility."

The inside was still falling apart from the apocalypse, but it was relatively intact. There were a few bits of old equipment lying here and there, but nothing that was too obviously valuable. The two ponies were Scavengers, Ponies who searched the old ruins for anything valuable.

"Not really much worth scavenging," the mare said. "Looks like a Ministry of Awesome facility used for storage."

"Yeah, lets take what we can..." The stallion said as he removed a tarp and stepped back, shocked to find a strange, pod device under it with a Pony inside it, the stallion brushed some of the dust off and looked inside. "Tawny, come look at this!"

"What is..." Tawny said as she galloped over to the pod and looked inside it in with a gasp. "There's somepony alive in here..."

"Lets get out of here, this place gives me the creeps," the Stallion said.

"Wait, no, we should check the terminal out," Tawny said as she hacked into the terminal, a minute later information popped up on the screen.

Subject: Unknown
Status: Alive.
Medical Condition: Healthy with a slight mutation from Radiation
Stasis Status: Power 3%

Open pod? Y/N.

Tawny looked at her companion for a moment before turning back to the console. "The pod is going to fail, we should at least try to save whoever it is in there."

"I don't know, we don't know who it is, they could be a killer or something," her companion pointed out. "We should just let it fail, its for the best."

"I don't think so, they could be anypony, maybe we should at least give them a chance," Tawny said as she looked at the terminal for a long moment. "They might need help, we should at least give them a chance."

"Tawny, this is highly irregular," the stallion said and Tawny just shook her head before hitting the Y key.

The pod hissed as it started to open up, there was a slight stirring from inside as the inhabitant opened her purple eyes.

"...leave me here Rainbow," a voice from inside said.

The two ponies exchanged a long glance as they were trying to figure out what to do about this.

Back then, I didn't know what to expect from the outside world, but I was about to take my first steps into the outside world.

Rainbow Dash... you didn't have to save me... but thank you, for your sacrifice. I'll never forget what you did for me.

I just hope that I'll be able to make you proud, even if you're dead... I'm still going to be the best Pony I can be. I just wish you could be here with me...

I've got a lot to answer for, a lot to make up for. And even today... there's still wars to be fought.

And war... war never changes.

But Ponies do.