The suspense was quite unnerving for Rainbow Dash. She hadn't talked to Trixie since last night when she had yelled at her, so she wasn't sure how she was feeling this morning. As she sat on the lounge, she was feeling quite nervous. Trixie was her best friend, her only friend, so she certainly didn't want to make her think any worse of her.

Her thoughts were disrupted when she heard the sound that she not only wanted to hear, but also feared; Trixie's bedroom door open. She watched as Trixie walked into the room and looked down at Rainbow Dash, she seemed very tired. She sighed, and sat down on the couch beside her.

"Good morning." she said monotonically, avoiding eye contact.

"Morning..." Rainbow Dash replied. There was a large silence, before she began talking again. "I'm sorry about last night, I shouldn't have intruded. I was just trying to help, that's all."

Trixie looked up at Rainbow Dash and sighed heavily. "It's okay, you were only trying to be considerate. I shouldn't have yelled at you, I was just upset."

"Well, uh, do you want to talk about it? Or do you just want me to leave it?"

Trixie sighed again and slowly leaned back against the couch. "Rainbow Dash, do you remember when I first let you into my apartment, and I said you could stay?"

"Yeah?"

"You asked me why I was being so nice, and I said it was because I didn't have any friends." She paused for a moment. "I was lying."

"Lying?"

"Yes, that wasn't the real reason I took you in and took care of you. I mean, I didn't have any friends, but something else was bothering me."

"Oh, okay. What was it?"

"Rainbow Dash, I... I just needed someone..."

"Needed someone? What do you mean?"

"Well, something happened not long before I found you in the street and... it made me so upset..."

"Well, uh, what was it?"

The thing that Trixie said next, Rainbow Dash never thought she would ever hear her say. She knew that whatever was troubling her had to be something big, but she would have never thought it would be this. She felt like she was seeing Trixie for the very first time.

"My fiancé left me..."

"T- Trixie..." Rainbow Dash stuttered as Trixie began sobbing softly. "I'm so sorry... I didn't know you were getting married."

"It's not your fault, these things happen sometimes, I just have to move on. I'll get over him." Trixie attempted a weak smile and looked over to Rainbow Dash. "I told you, a lot of things had happened in my life since we last saw each other."

"Yeah, but... You've changed so much, you're like a completely different pony."

"Yes, I have changed a lot..." She paused for a moment, then let out a short weep. "We were supposed to get married yesterday..."

Trixie sniffled, her emotions were clear across her face for Rainbow Dash to see. She wiped away her tears. "Rainbow Dash, can you please promise me something?" she said pleadingly.

"Yeah, sure, anything." Rainbow Dash replied.

"Can you please... not leave me? I can't live alone anymore."

Rainbow Dash looked at Trixie, and smiled. "Of course not, I promise. Besides, even if I did leave, where would I go? I need you just as much as you need me.

A slight grin slowly spread across Trixie's face. "Thank you, Rainbow Dash..." she said. "You're the best friend I've ever had..."

Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Spike all stood around the desk as Twilight laid out a map across it. She looked over it, it was a map of Equestria.

"Now girls," she said. "If we're going to have any luck finding Rainbow Dash then we need to cover every town and city in Equestria. I'd say we should start with Cloudsdale, that's where she'd most likely be."

"And if she's not there?" Rarity asked.

"Then we'll just have to go looking for her elsewhere."

"And how do you plan on getting us to Cloudsdale?"

"The same way we got there for the Best Young Flyers competition. I'll use the spell that lets us walk on clouds, and then we'll just borrow the hot air balloon."

The five ponies walked outside the library, the map in Twilight's saddlebag, and began walking through town. It was still quite early in the morning, the sun had just begun to shine over the mountains in the distance. Already the town was beginning to awaken, few ponies filled the streets and many businesses were still closed. There was some light rain last night, and the light of the sun caused the droplets to glisten like a freshly polished gemstone, it was quite a beautiful sight.

But they didn't have the time to stop and observe the elegance of the town in the morning sun, they were on a mission.

As they walked, Twilight stopped when she heard someone call her name. She looked around unsurely, until she identified where the voice had come from. She looked across the street, and saw Amber standing in the doorway of her house.

"Hey Twilight," Amber said again. "Where are you five going?"

"We're going out to try and find Rainbow Dash." Twilight replied. "Would you care to come along with us? We kind of need as much help as we can get right now."

"Uh, I don't know Twilight... You're her friends, you should just go without me."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I've got stuff to do anyway... Good luck with finding her."

"Thanks, we need it." Twilight turned to the four mares. "Okay, girls, let's get going. We've got a lot of places to go to."

"Here we are." Twilight said as she and the other four got out of the balloon and onto the clouds. "Split up, ask around. We'll meet back here in half an hour, okay?" The four mares nodded in response. "Okay, let's get a move on."

The five ponies began walking in a separate direction through the city. Twilight looked around, there were pegasi everywhere, but of course there was no sign of Rainbow Dash.

"Excuse me, miss." she said to a mare. "I'm looking for a mare." She levitated a photo of Rainbow Dash out of her saddlebag. "Have you seen her?"

"Uh, that's Rainbow Dash, right?" she asked.

"Yeah?" Twilight's face began to light up.

"Sorry, haven't seen her."

"Oh, okay." She frowned again. "Thanks anyway."

Twilight continued walking, occasionally asking a pony if they've seen Rainbow Dash, while at the same time keeping an eye out for her. She couldn't stop thinking about Rainbow Dash, she should have gone looking for her right away, rather than waiting a whole month.

After twenty minutes passed, Twilight was still having no luck. She stopped, looked around, and sat down.

"Hey, Twilight." Pinkie Pie said, coming out of nowhere and sitting beside her. "Found her yet?"

"No..." Twilight sighed. "You?"

"Nope. I asked every pegasus I saw, none of them have seen Rainbow Dash." She began to frown. "I don't think she's here."

"Yeah, I figured that..." She let out a deep sigh. "We should head back to the others now."

"Okay. Maybe they've found somepony who's seen her." They both stood up and began heading back to the balloon.

"So, girls," Twilight said when the others joined her and Pinkie. "Did you have any better luck than us?"

"I'm afraid not." Rarity said.

"Me neither." Applejack added.

"Uh, no." Fluttershy said with a frown. "I didn't really get to talk to very many ponies..."

"Oh well, we gave it our best shot." Twilight said. She levitated the map out of the bag and looked at it. "Uh, moving on?"

"Okay, where to next?" Pinkie asked.

"Hm.. We should go to Las Pegasus next, so then we can travel across Equestria in a clockwise fashion." She looked over the map some more. "If we do that, then the last place we'll have to check is Manehattan."

Twilight walked back over to the balloon and got it. "Come on, girls. It's gonna take us a while to go across all of Equestria, you might have to be away from home for a while."

"Of course, Twilight." Rarity said. "I don't mind getting, ugh... a little dirty to save Rainbow Dash."

"Save?" Twilight said back. "We're not saving Rainbow Dash, we only need to find her."

"Fine, we're 'finding' her."

"Um, excuse me?" Fluttershy asked timidly as ponies walked past her. Although they were ignoring her, she kept at it. "Uh, hello, have you seen-"

"We'll never find her at this rate." Rarity said as she and the other three walked a couple of metres behind Fluttershy.

"Look, we can't give up, not when we've come this far." Twilight said. "I'll give Fluttershy a hoof."

"What's the point? We've been out here for two weeks and haven't seen any sign of Rainbow Dash. If she wasn't in Cloudsdale, what makes you think she would be here in Manehattan?"

"We have to check everywhere, every corner of Equestria. I just want to know that she's okay."

"Okay, Twilight." sighed Rarity. "We'll keep looking."

Twilight gave Rarity a quick grin, and then walked ahead to catch up with Fluttershy.

"Hey, Fluttershy." she said once she had caught up with her. "I admire your persistence, but we're not making much progress."

"I know." Fluttershy sighed. "I have trouble getting ponies' attention sometimes."

"Why don't I give you a hoof." Twilight looked around a bit, and then stopped the pony who was walking past. "Hi, we're looking for this mare." she said, levitating the photo of Rainbow Dash out of her saddlebag. "Have you seen her?"

"Uh, no... Sorry, kid."

Twilight frowned slightly, before approaching a stallion who was coming towards them. "Excuse me, have you seen this mare?" Twilight asked, showing him the photo.

"Mm..." the stallion hummed, observing the photo. "Uh, yes, I've seen her, that mare with the rainbow mane."

"You have?" Twilight said, smiling. "Where? Do you know where she is?"

"She's a waitress." he said. "She works in that restaurant over there." he said, pointing across the street.

"Waitress?" Twilight asked, looking to her friends who had joined her. "Uh, thank you." she said as they galloped towards the restaurant.

"Yeah, no problem."

The five mares slowed their pace as they approached the doors of the restaurant. Twilight took a deep breath as she pushed open the door and walked in, the others followed.

She looked around the room, there were several tables scattered around, but only a few of them were occupied. There was no sign of Rainbow Dash.

"Hello, may I help you?" one of the waitresses asked, walking over to them.

"Uh, hi." Twilight said. "Uh, we're not eating, but we were wondering if you could tell us where we could find a mare named Rainbow Dash?"

"Oh, yeah, she's not working today." she replied.

"Oh... Well, do you know where she lives?"

"Yeah, she said she lives in an apartment building about a block away..."

Rainbow Dash sat, slumped over the couch. It had been a very lazy afternoon for her. Trixie was in the kitchen making some lunch, so there wasn't much for her to do. The silence was quite relaxing, so the knocking on the door almost startled her.

"I'll get it." Trixie said, walking out of the kitchen.

"No, I'll get it." Rainbow Dash said, standing herself up.

Rainbow Dash walked towards the front door of their apartment. She didn't know who it was behind the door, but she still answered it like she normally would.

"Hello?" she asked, opening the door. Once she saw the five ponies who stood just outside the doorway, she stopped, her mouth agape. The other ponies also simply stood there, no one spoke.

"Rainbow Dash, who is it?" Trixie asked.

Rainbow Dash remained silent in shock, but then mumbled out a single word.

"Hello..."

Author's Notes:

That chapter was really poorly done...
Next chapter will (probably) be the last.

As you can probably guess, Rainbow Dash's promise to stay with Trixie will conflict with Twilight's plead for her to return home.
And there is no romance between Trixie and RD.