Rainbow Dash found herself standing in the middle of a nearly empty hospital room. The room was completely white and a simple hospital bed lay in the center. Something was on the bed but it was covered with a sheet. Rainbow gulped. She knew what was under that sheet. She turned back towards the door and heard a series of footsteps fast approaching.

"Face the aftermath. Face the aftermath," Rainbow uttered as the door flew open. Aaron was the first to enter. He was followed by Stormflower, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Sunkick, Thunder Storm, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Caroline. "Here it comes."

"Why did you bring us here?" asked a confused Stormflower. Pinkie slid into the back of the group and out of everypony's eyesight.

"I...I just needed to tell you that I found Rainbow Dash earlier this morning," Aaron replied. There was a series of relaxed sighs.

"Thank Celestia!" Caroline said.

"Where is she?" asked Thunder Storm.

"She...she's right there," Aaron replied as he pointed towards the cloaked hospital bed. "I'm...extremely sorry."

It was then that the truth slowly began to sink in. Their smiles of relief disappeared quickly and were now replaced by sad expressions of horror.

"No...no...it can't be!" choked Stormflower. Thunder Storm began to approach the bed but Aaron got in his way.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. It's not a pretty sight," Aaron sighed.

"Get the fuck out of my way!" said Thunder as tears began to fall down his face. Thunder pushed Aaron aside, ran up to the bed, and pulled the sheet off of the bed. A series of horrified gasps echoed through the room. "No....no Dashie no!"

Thunder grabbed Rainbow's corpse's head and stared into it's lifeless, smiling face. He then collapsed next to the bed. Caroline ran over to Thunder and held him in her arms as she too broke into an uncontrollable sob. Stormflower and Sunkick held each other and cried into each other's arms. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity also broke into a stream of tears. Rainbow turned towards Pinkie, who was standing awkwardly in the back of the room.

"You can cry now," Pinkie whispered to the voice crying within her. A stream of tears rolled out of Pinkie's eyes and she fell against the wall behind her. Aaron stood awkwardly in the middle of the room of crying ponies, his face lowered in an emotionless expression of sorrow. Rainbow backed away towards the edge of the room and watched her friends and family continue to mourn over her death. She too was about to break down into a fit of sobbing.

"It's a horrible feeling, to lose somepony that you love," said a familiar voice. Rainbow looked down and saw the filly standing next to her. "It's funny how we don't realize how much we love something or somepony until they're gone. No...it's not funny. It's tragically sad." Rainbow cocked her head in confusion as the filly looked up at her. "Pinkie's tears are genuine."

"They can't be. How can she feel sorry for purposely killing me?" Rainbow asked angrily.

"How can you be so sure that Pinkie Pie was the pony who killed you?"

"Now what the hell does that mean?"

The filly chuckled and disappeared. The room began to crumble away around Rainbow and suddenly she found herself standing in the middle of a bleak field of dirt and rocks. A small house stood off in the distance and two ponies were walking through the field, away from the house.

"Now who is...no...it can't be," Rainbow breathed as her eyes fell on the two ponies. One of the ponies was a small pink pony with a bouncy, vibrant mane and the other was a small gray pony with a gray-white mane. "It's...it's Pinkie! It's Pinkie...and that filly!"

Rainbow slowly approached the two ponies and realized that this Pinkie Pie was much younger than the one she knew. This Pinkie was at least seven years old.

"Where are you taking me this time, Pinkamena?" the filly asked.

"I thought I told you to not call me that anymore! The name's Pinkie Pie from now on!" exclaimed the seven-year-old Pinkie Pie.

"Whatever. So, Pinkie Pie, can you tell me where you're taking me?"

"To a party!"

"Another party?"

"Yeah! I made a new friend a few days ago and he loves parties just as much as I do!"

"What's his name?"

"Rufus!"

"Rufus? I've never heard about him before from Mommy or Daddy."

"He's new around here. I came across him a few days ago and we've been best friends ever since!"

"So that's where you've been disappearing off to these last few days?"

"Yep! He really wants to meet you, Bella!"

"Now you've given me a nickname too? Fine. Bella it is. So this Rufus really wants to meet me?"

"Yeah! He told me that he really likes to make new friends!"

"Have you told Mommy or Daddy about him?"

"No. He says he only gets along with fillies like you and me. He doesn't like adults very much."

"He sounds shy."

"I think he is pretty shy. He says that he's sad because hardly anypony comes to his parties. He's lucky if he's able to get even one guest!"

"That's sad."

"Yeah. I think the two of us being at his party will make him feel happy."

"Well I do like helping you make other ponies smile."

"Well come on, sis! Let's hurry up and meet up with him!"

"Okay!"

The two fillies broke into a run and Rainbow chased after them.

"It's a shame that I couldn't get Irena to come with us," said Pinkie. "She told me that she was too busy with her music to go to any parties."

"Well I guess that means more cake for us!" Bella said happily.

"There he is!"

Pinkie pointed off in the distance towards the edge of a nearby forest. Two ponies, a gray one and an orange one, were standing in the spot that Pinkie was pointing to.

"Wait...who's that with him?" Pinkie asked. The scene suddenly faded away and Rainbow found herself back in Sweet Apple Acres.

The pegasus picked herself off of the ground and noticed the filly known as Bella sitting a few feet away.

"You," Rainbow breathed. "You're-"

"Pinkie's little sister, Bellamina," the filly replied.

"How...what was that?"

"Us spirits of the dead can look into the past as well as the present. We cannot, however, look into the future...though some powerful spirits have been able to do so in the past."

"So what I just saw was something that happened in the past?"

"Ten years ago to be exact."

"Ten years ago."

Rainbow felt a sudden shock in her head. She knew something important had happened ten years ago. But what was it? Then she remembered. The night her father returned home from a certain investigation. Stormflower had learned about the crime but she, Rainbow Dash, had been too young to learn about it at the time. Could that past event with Pinkie Pie and Bellamina somehow be connected to that memory of her father?

"Is it possible?" Rainbow asked herself.

"I can see that you have a lot of questions," Bellamina continued. "I bet you're wondering about what exactly happened that day ten years ago."

"Yes. What happened?"

"You'll find out in due time."

Then she was gone. Rainbow kicked the ground angrily and stormed out of the orchard. She was a sly one, that Bellamina. She certainly had a fair share of secrets. Like the fact that she was friends with an otherworldly spirit named Susie Salmon, the fact that she knows that spirits can look into the past, and the fact that she's Pinkie Pie's little sister.

"I'm going to discover your secrets, Bellamina," Rainbow stated. "And, in the meantime, I'm going to help my friends uncover Pinkie's secrets!"