It's Got To Be My Destiny

Five mares stood outside the door of a cloud mansion. Rarity and Twilight gawping at the Greek like structure.

"My goodness! I've seen her house before but only from afar. It's gorgeous!" Rarity complimented as the walked up to the door. Twilight placed her hoof into the fountain of liquid rainbows.

"It's lovely." Twilight mumbled.

"Err...girls. We're here ta help Rainbow. Not gawp at her house." Applejack rolled her eyes as the two mares continued to stare at the decorative cloud tower.

"Yes. Sorry, dear. Just got a bit lost."

"Yeah, come on." Twilight wiped her hoof of the rainbows and knocked on the soft door. Amazingly, the knock was quite loud. There was no reply, but a faint sound could be heard within. Twilight knocked again. Still nothing.

Applejack came forward and boomed on the door.

"Rainbow! Git ya flank out here an open this darn door!" She yelled as she pounded her hoof against the door.

Still no reply.

"Let me try." Fluttershy whispered. "Rainbow. Rainbow Dash. It's me, Fluttershy. Can you please open the door?" Fluttershy waited for a response that never came.

"Of for tha love of Celestia! Ah'm bucking tha door!!" Applejack reared onto her front hooves before kicking the door. The cloud instantly burst into nothing as the earth pony's legs came into contact with it.

"Not a very secure door." Rarity said as she stared at the empty space.

"It's cloud. It's not supposed to secure silly." Pinkie bounced into the house.

"Pinkie!" Twilight and the others called as they rushed in.

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"Wow! Wow! Rainbow certainly has a creative side!" Rarity whizzed from one item to the next as they walked through the house. The cloud house was beautiful. From it's swirls on the ceilings to pattern engraved pillars. To the potted Howea Forsteriana in tall blue pots to the modern kitchen.

"Rarity! Here now!!" Twilight demanded like a mother telling her foal off. The five mares stopped abruptly as they stared at markings on the wall. Words like, 'Pathetic' and 'worthless' were engraved onto the wall. As they walked further the words became more frequent and a lot worst. Pinkie cheery nature stopped as they walked down the hallway. Her 'bouncy-ness' stopped and she became more serious.  Everypony quietened as they began to hear wailing and crying. The closer they walked to Rainbow's room, the louder the crying got. Applejack glanced at a smashed glass cabinet and the trophies on the floor. She saw the gold crown with two wings and a lightning bolt on the floor from when Dash performed the Sonic Rainboom, and won the Best Young Fliers Competition.

The girls gulped as they finally approached Rainbow's bedroom. Words scraped across her half open door. The pegasus' cries were loud and painfilled. The mares silently stood outside the door. Listening to the wailing mare.

"Pathetic! Unworthy piece of crap!! No wonder I have no dreams!" Rainbow cried. "I...have no talent....I have...no destiny..."

The girls shared a look of concern before slowly opening the door. They all silently gasped as a glanced at the distraught pegasus in her room.

Scratched into the walls were taunting words. Feathers spread onto the floor. Huddled into the corner, completely oblivious to the vistors in her room, was Rainbow Dash. Her prismatic mane and tail, ratty and untamed. Her cyan wings spread out. Her feathers ripped out.

Fluttershy squeaked at a sentence on the wall.

'Death is an answer. Death is my destiny.'

"Stupid....waste of space...." Rainbow croaked. Her throat sore and scratchy.

"Rainbow? Are ya okay?" Applejack quietly asked.

"I-I...don't know...AJ....Am I okay?" Rainbow didn't turn to her friends. She just continued to stare at the wall.

Twilight caustiously walked closer to the pegasus.

"Rainbow....What's wrong? You can tell us. We're your friends." Twilight assured.

"Really....I'm not worthy of your time...Just another unnecessary item to fill an empty space." The tatty cyan turned towards her friends. Her eyes red and filled with pain. Tears streaming down her already moist cheeks. "You should go....I'll just waste your time."

Twilight and the others sat down aside Rainbow. Being carefully not bump into her already injured wings. They stayed silent, listening to Rainbow's sniffs as she cried.

Rarity opened her mouth to speak but quickly closed it. No words could help her now. Applejack turned to her pegasus friend, who's head was down. Her tears rolling down off her snout.

"Rainbow. Please tell us wha's wrong. It hurts all of us ta see ya like this."

"If it hurts you so much, why didn't you see it first?"

"What?"

Rainbow sighed.

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need.

A friend will be there to help you see.

A true, true friend helps a friend in need.

To see the light that shines from a true, true friend." She sang. But her voice was sad and distraught.

"What do you mean?"

"All this time....I thought my talent was flying....I thought my destiny was to be a Wonderbolt...."

The girls stared at the pegasus.

"But it is."

"No wonder I keep crashing....no wonder I haven't been accepted in the Wonderbolts..."

"Rainbow?"

The cyan pegasus began to cry again. She stood up in front of her friends.

"Didn't you see!? When Twilight fucked up our cutiemarks?! And she found out how to sort it out by making us see our talents?!" She yelled as she choked on her tears. The girls nodded. "My talent....after all this time...is bucking clouds...." She slumped to the ground crying.

Pinkie shuffled closer and hugged her best friend.

"No! Stay away!!" Rainbow pushed the pink pony. Pinkie's ice blue eyes shrunk to the size of pinpricks. Her puffy pink hair quickly deflated, and fell onto her shoulders.

"Dashie..." Pinkie whispered. Tears welling up in her saddened eyes.

"See! How am I loyal? How am the Element of Loyalty if I constantly push my friends away?" Rainbow cried even more. "I don't deserve friends....I don't deserve to live anymore." Rainbow slumped to the ground. "Just go...Just go."

Everypony just stared at the pegasus crying into her hooves. Her bloodied wings fluttering and twitching in distress.

"Please...just go...I'll only hurt you....and myself." She begged.

"Please Rainbow. Whatever is wrong, we can help you. Please Dash." Fluttershy hushed.

"Just go! Get out!! Please! Just get out!!" The colourful pegasus screamed. Her cries muffling her speech. Her face buried in her cyan hooves. "My whole life has been a lie!!"

The others stood up and began to walk away. But Applejack was more reluctant than the others.

"AJ...give her some space." Twilight whispered as she dragged the orange pony. Applejack stared at Rainbow. The pegasus crying into her hooves. The farmer pushed Twilight as she walked along with her.

"Ah....ah'm sorry, Rainbow." She croaked before shutting the door.