Prologue

To Fall or Fly

GigaMix

To fall or to fly, two very important things a Pegasus learned at a very early age. Flying is the best thing anypony could experience. The sensation of the wind under a Pegasus’s wings brings out the most pleasing emotions that one can feel. Some may even call it orgasmic. There are so many that wish that they could just fly forever, never stopping, not even to sleep.

To fall though, brings out the total opposite emotions, pure terror. No Pegasus ever lives its life without have a nightmare of just falling, spinning uncontrollably, not being able to stop no matter what, most Pegasus just wake up in a cold sweat but a few just fall right back into an seemingly infinite loop of pure terror.

Why Rainbow Dash? You were my mentor, my friend... my sister... I always looked up to you no matter what, trying to make you proud of me. I would do anything to make you happy, but I failed. Just because I felt to help a fallen friend... I thought you would be proud of me. To see me sacrificing what was most important to me for the good of others. But instead you hated me for it and killed two of the few ponies who actually cared for me... I loved you... Yet you put me of through more agony than anypony deserves and you kept me from flying for years. And now… I'm falling…

Orion.

Aurora.

A single tear leaves Scootaloo's scarlet eyes as she plummets down toward the land of Equestria. The pain of the liquid thunder finally reaching her, making her entire body fill with pain. She felt as if each one of her organs were being ground into a fine powder and burned. Her head felt as if it was as light as a balloon, yet throbbed with at an intensifying rate. To Scootaloo it was so painful she could not even scream.

As she neared the ground, the last emotion she thought she had seemed to appear. Not fear or pain but a pure, heartbreaking sadness. One that could make anypony cry for hours on end, not even stopping to take a breath.

Scootaloo was only seconds away from connecting with a large pool of water. It was surrounded by a vast forest that stretched on for miles and miles. Right above the forest was a beautiful rainbow. One that showed with a brilliance like no other. To any other pony it would have brought on a wave of happiness, but to Scootaloo it was a dying memory. Long lost under her grief.

Scootaloo thought she saw something beyond the rainbow. A light blue Pegasus was flying as fast and flat as its body seemed to let it. Its front hooves straight out towards her as if intending to catch her. It was fast, almost as fast as Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash? It has to be! Nopony else flies like that... But the… Why, why would she be coming for me? Does she still care for me? After all those years locked away? No.

Remember she tried to kill me! She probably just wants make sure I die!

But she called me her sister. She wanted me to live, I could see it in her eyes.

Then why Dash?… Why?

That was Scootaloo's last thought before she collides with the water and all sense faded away, evaporated into the darkness, like smoke into the night sky.

Author's Note

I would like to thank my editor Argon Glow and StormierCash (soon to be changed). I'd also like to thank and apologize to Aurora Dawn for giving permission to write this story and for not finishing it. I went to start writing this like a week before summer vacation (2 months in Germany with no computer = no writing) and it has been so busy with school and orchestra that I just haven't been able to really sit back and think about this story. But with the help of my friends I should be able to write my own, its just to hard to write about someone elses work, sorry guys.