"Can you pleeeeeaaaaassssseee let me go?" Rainbow Dash pleaded with a yellow orange pegasus to bring her back to life.

"I'm sorry Dashie but the rules are the rules..." Dash crosses her hooves together in the white mist garden.

"Then can't you go and send Princess Twilight a message?"

"Hey! I got killed too! It's not my fault that I'm a Soul Keeper!"

"What's so great about a Soul Keeper anyway?"

"L-Listen Dashie...I know how much you miss your friends, but I just can't let you go back to Twilight!"

Dash sighs and walked back to a matured orange pegasus with a purple mane and tail. Dash shakes her head right to left at the crouching pegasus as she tears up and cries.

"If I could, I would Dashie..." The soul keeper puts his hoof on her back and left the white gate.

"No...I will see Twilight again! Even if it means losing my soul!" Dash flew towards the gigantic white gate and tried desperately to fit through the bars. The soul keeper ran back to the gate and pulled Dash's rainbow tail back to the green garden.

"You can't do it Dashie! You won't survive it!"

"But I have to see her! I have to see her one last...time."

"...Okay Dashie..."

"W-What?"

"I'll let you through." Dash threw her hooves around the soul keeper and snared him.

"Thank you thank you thank you SO MUCH!"

"Hurry up before I change my mind..."

A few days later A pony corpse in a white blanket was brought back to the White mist gardens. When the soul keeper dragged the blanket away, he could not believe his eyes. Rainbow Dash, cold, no pulse, and dead. The soul keeper knelled on his knees with his hooves in his eyes. Tears came down his cheeks as more pony souls looked at him with sympathy. "I knew I shouldn't have left you..." The soul keeper mumbled, "Why? Why..." The soul keeper opened his eyes, walked towards the corpse, and shook her. "Wake up! Don't die on me! Don't die!...Please..." He puts his ear to her nose and felt some air sucked out and pushed away from it. "Ugh..."

"Rainbow! You're alive!"

"Who are you?" The soul keeper's smile stopped dead.

"Soul Light! The uh...stallion who takes care and keeps souls." Dash didn't flinch, Light was almost back to tears, and the crowd breathed with relief.

"I don't remember you..." Dash rubs her head a bit.

"Uh...Okay...Do you know Rainbow Dash?"

"Yes! Yes I do!"

"Applejack? Fluttershy? Pinkie Pie? Rarity?"

"Yes, yes, yes, and yes."

"Princess Twilight?"

"What are you talking about? I am Princess Twilight!" The entire crowd bowed on their legs.

"Ehh...You look a lot more like Rainbow Dash to me." 'Dash' looks down at her hooves and saw that he was telling the truth.

"What am I doing here? What is this place?"

"I have no idea, and this is...something like heaven."

"How can I get out?"

"Simple...You go through that gate." Princess Twilight started to walk towards the gate until she heard a warning. She nods back at him and walks out of the gate. She felt her body being separated from her soul as she turns transparent. Twilight went to the library and saw her body writing a letter. No doubt that it was Dash in her body. Twilight used her magic to take her out of her body and back to The Eather. She casts herself inside her own body and started to read the letter that Dash wrote.

Dear Princess Twilight,

I am inside your body right now and I want to send a message to you. I would rather do it personally but my time is running out. So here we go...I'm glad you became a princess but why did you feel so down lately when me and my friends were older? Maybe because you thought we were going to be separated at death, but you're wrong. Ponies will always have each other in their hearts, death will not separate us and you should know that. Sometimes friends take a new path in life, but that doesn't change who you are. We will always be your friends. Remember that.

Yours tru

A tear ran through the alicorn's face as she folds the paper and kept it in her storage.

"So...How did it go Rainbow Dash?" The enormous purple dragon asked.

"I'm Princess Twilight..."

"Oh...So did you read it?"

"Yes Spike...I did."

"You don't look so good." The princess made a nervous laugh and said, "I guess there is a reason to go on after all that I have been through...Still..." The princess sighs and went back up to her room, looking at pictures of the past. She shed tears, tears of the past and the present, but she knows that she cannot cry for the future. She lay on her bed...peacefully as the dreams of her friends flooded her mind. One by one they started to disappear. Not without a flash of their deaths. She woke up after the nightmare of her friends dying. Only this time, the nightmare was based on the reality. She wept bitterly on her bed till midnight. A bright light came inside her home.

"What's wrong?" The light said in a peaceful, sound, tone.

"I-I had the dream again."

"Remember, you're a princess. Sometimes some things are sure to die, others will live for as long as they want."

"But I don't want to live anymore! I want to be with my friends..."

"Twilight...It is your destiny to live as royalty. Destinies cannot be changed so easily."

"I just want to see them again..."

"Maybe they will be reincarnated...mayb-"

"But they will just die again!"

"Twilight...I cannot interfere with the cycle of life."

"Then I will!"

Author's Note

This segment was written by ultimatekevin1
Author ultimatekevin1's Note:
Here's the explanation for the body exchange thing. Dash had her soul taken away at the gate of souls, she wanders around Ponyville and steals her body. They basically have a soul exchange as Twilight goes back to Dash's body and Dash goes to Twilight's body.

Side Note: This segment feels like it would come later on in the main story, someone should write that.