Fading Rainbowsby RainbowBaiChaptersCh. 1-One bad night to rememberCh. 2-Back to normal? And a Surprise PartyCh. 3-A bad case of tearsCh. 4-Oh NoCh. 5-Soarin’ into her heartCh. 1-One bad night to rememberRainbow Dash sat on the hard floor well Applejack untied the ropes that bound her legs as she remembered the horrible night she had just experienced. Flashback Dash had been bored and alone on Saturday night and decided to go to the local bar; she didn’t want to drink just to check it out. She sat in a booth with her virgin cider martini and looked around at the new setting. She had an early job tomorrow and had no time for a hangover. She was starting to get bored with this setting of drunken fools and was about to leave when she noticed her good friend Thunderlane. She walked over to say hi and it all went downhill from there. Thunderlane looked her up and down and laid out his trap. He had a horrible plan in store for her, but it wasn’t her fault, he would have done it to the first mare that walked up to him, unfortunately that mare was Rainbow Dash. “Oh hi there Dash” he slurred acting way more drunk than he was, “how’s it goin with ya?” he asked still slurring also adding in a few hiccups for effect. It had worked, “damn Thunderlane, your drunk” she said with a slight chuckle. After a shot while of overdramatic drunken talk Rainbow was getting tired, “I think you should go home Thunderlane” she said concerned for her friend, “ya I guess so” he responded still acting drunk, he got up and walked to the door, “er hay Dash, do ya know where my house was” he said playing the expert drunk, she sighed “yeah I do, let me fly you home” she said looking out for her friend. When they arrived he did a drunk sway and walked inside not closing the door. He lived in a normal ground house, so it wasn’t too difficult to find. “haya Dash give me a hand” he said with more hiccups and slurring then making the sound of falling, “you’re pathetic Thunderlane” she said with another chuckle. She stumbled into the dark house looking for a light switch, she unknowingly walked straight past him, “hey Dash” Thunder said with a strangely clear voice, she turned to question him, but was knocked out with a hard hit to the head. When she woke up she immediately noticed the pain in her head and then noticed that all her legs where tied down to wooden bed post. She panicked hoping this was a bad dream and also hoping that Thunderlane left her body alone, she was wrong; in front of her was a board with crude pictures pinned up of Thunderlane and her. “You like what you see?” he said playfully hopping in bed with her and softly rubbing her wings, she said nothing in return and tried to pull in her wings. Noticing her faint struggle, he leaned over her rubbing his hooves along her body, and kissing her neck, “aw come on Dash, I had lots of fun last night” he said quietly to the struggling mare. He did it again, only this time she was awake and felt every horrible moment. Her eyes where burning with anger, but she never looked directly at him nor did she cry; all she did was either close her eyes tight or stare directly ahead. He looked closely at her as he smiled, then he ran off to get something for his next round. She opened her eyes and looked for anything that could help her, luckily she saw a crack in the bed post holding her hind legs; she kicked and struggled with all her might until it broke. With her hind legs free she flipped over so that she could buck the bed post holding her fore legs. On her last buck to freedom an angry Thunderlane walked in starring at his freed victim before she sped out of the room. She only slowed down when she got to the front door, she quickly opened it and flew out hoping that somepony would be out, but it was Sunday and everypony was probably still inside sleeping so Thunder easily tackled her down. “Hey now, I didn’t say you could go anywhere” he hissed as his eyes burned with a mixture of anger and lust; he quickly tied her up again and threw her onto his back. As soon as her face was away from his hooves she screamed for help, “stop yelling, no pony is coming out this early, remember it’s Sunda-“ he was cut off as he was bucked hard in the stomach, Rainbow Dash landed on the floor shocked to see Applejack and Big Mac in front of her. Big Mac walked over to Thunderlane who was slowly getting up, “Hey Big Mac, we’re friends remember” he said nervously, “nope” Big Mac said knocking him out with a hoof to the muzzle. Big Mac and Applejack had been the few ponies to have an open stand out on Sunday, so well they were on their way to the town center and they had heard the cries for help and quickly rushed to them. ****Present Time**** Big Mac threw an unconscious and tied up Thunderlane into the cart well Applejack tried talking to Rainbow Dash. “Sugar Cube, what in the hay happened?!” she asked, but Dash just shook her head giving a deadly look at nothing, “Sugar Cube I’m yer friend” she said pleading, “well so was Thunderlane” Dash said with a quiet hiss, “Dash ah would nevah hurt y’all” she said worried at what went down inside that house, Dash sighed “I know” she said, but she kept her stare forward never turning to her friend. They walked Thunderlane to the Police office in silence, but pretty soon they head a stir in the cart. Thunderlane sat up and took a look around, “so Dash” he said turning his attention to the light blue pony “did you tell your friend here about our wild night” he smirked, Applejack looked confused, but then to her horror she fit two and two together; she saw the nasty smirk on Thunderlane and the painful fire in Rainbow’s eyes. Carefully she turned to Dash, “did-did her take advantage of yah?” she said with a quiver, Rainbow’s eyes harden as she kept her deadly stare, but she slowly nodded. “What? Rape? Oh yeah I guess I sort of did that” he said with a chuckle, Rainbow cringed slightly at the word. Applejack looked horrified and with one quick buck to the face Thunderlane was out again and missing a tooth; she placed a hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder, “do ya wanna talk?” she asked, Rainbow shrugged off the hoof, “I’m fine” she said flatly once again keeping her deadly stare. They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they arrived Rainbow asked to talk to the head pony in charge inside a private room, once that came out they took Thunderlane away and she left. Big Mac had to leave to go work the apple stand and left, Rainbow Dash was left with Applejack. “Are ya sure ya don’t wanna talk?” she asked truly concerned, “I’m fine” she said again flatly, “well at least tell the others” he said trying to get some emotion out of her friend, “you can, but I don’t want to-“ she said cut off by a pounding pain in her head. She grabbed the throbbing spot on her head and slightly grunted in pain, “Let’s get ya to a doctor” A.J. insisted, “no, once I go to a doctor, they will put me in some special rape room made to “help” me “she cringed slightly at her own words, “at least get it checked by twilight when we- I mean I tell the girls” she bargained, Rainbow agreed. When they entered the library her four other friends where already there, “my pinkie sense was going off telling me something bad happened so I gathered everyone I could find what’s wrong?” Pinkie Pie asked without a breath, “Rainbow, go sit in that there room and I will fill them in” A.J. told Dash and Dash listened and went away. “alrighty listen here, Rainbow Dash h-has been r-raped by Thunderlane, he is in custody now, but don’t try and comfort her, that is the absolute last thing she wants” she said while gasps where exchanged through the room, “now just try to act normal with her and be careful with what y’all say round her” she said and then walked over to Twilight, “ey Twi, Rainbow got a pretty bad bump, but refuses to go to any fancy doctor, she wants you to check it out” she explained to the lavender unicorn quietly and Twilight agreed and followed A.J. into the room where Rainbow Dash was. Twilight used her magic to examine Dash, “Rainbow” she said worried and concerned, Dash knew what was coming next and shot a glare towards her, quickly changing her words she continued “it’s not a serious injuring, but it will cause severe headaches for about a week” she said with a sigh. Rainbow nodded and flew home. Once she was alone inside her house she fell to the floor exhausted. Every bone and muscle I her body told her to cry, but she refused “once I cry, once I shed a single tear for what he did to me, he wins” she thought to herself. She quickly picked herself off the floor and went to her bed. Luckily she had no dreams, no flashbacks; nothing came to her mind, just a quiet black sleep. Ch. 2-Back to normal? And a Surprise PartyCh. 2-Back to normal? And a Surprise Party Two weeks had passed since the incident with Thunderlane and Dash did her best to get back to normal. She still refused to cry although her eyes did get glassy once in a while, but although her friends thought she was ok, she really wasn’t. She did everything like normal, but she was broken. It was hard for her to trust her friends anymore and she would never let anypony into her house. Everything that touched her fur made her jump, and she was even having troubles trusting Fluttershy. She had gone to only 1 of Pinkie’s 5 parties she had thrown and when she did go she stayed separated and never talked to anypony. Even after 2 weeks had passed, her body was still begging her to release her emotions, but it hurt. Dash was defiantly not back to normal, she did her normal things; she still laughed, worked, and flew fast, but she wasn’t back to normal. It was like fixing a toy with glue, it looked good as new, but never really worked the same way. Sadly only Fluttershy saw through Dash’s fake enthusiasm. Rainbow sat on her couch again in silence; her eyes were starting to get shiny. She huffed as flashbacks filled her mind and it hurt her, “no you can’t cry you stupid pony, if you cry he wins” she barked aloud to herself, “no he doesn’t” a shy voice came from the door making Dash jump two feet in the air. Fluttershy had come up for the third time this week to check on her oldest friend, “yes it does, if I give in, it is proof her broke me, and if her broke me, her wins” she said as her eyes hardened, “no Rainbow it doesn’t, if anything you won by putting him behind bars, you won by escaping, if you cry it only shows that you are a normal pony” Fluttershy said quietly but confidently, Rainbow sighed and flew upstairs and Fluttershy sadly let herself out. The next morning Rainbow Dash flew over and did her normal weather duties and flew home to take a nap. Ever since the incident, she refused to fall asleep anywhere besides her own bed. While she was flying home she was stopped by the enthusiastic pink party pony, “Dashie! Dashie! Down here silly” she called up at her so Dash would land. “Yes Pinkie?” Dash asked tired, “well I know you don’t like parties anymore, but my cousin Surprise called and she wants me to come throw her a birthday party! She said I could bring whoever I wanted and I really want to bring my five bestest friends in all of Equestria! Pretty please with a cherry and sprinkles on top come, if you want you can go sit in by yourself at the part, but I want you especially to be there for my first Wonderbolt birthday party” she squealed at her without a breath, “if it means that much to you I will go” Dash said and started to get ready to fly off, “wait, aren’t you excited about the Wonderbolts?” Pinkie asked confused, “sure I am” Dash said giving her a fake smile and flying away, “wait Dash, we leave tomorrow, Fluttershy will be up to get you” she yelled up at her then disappeared. Dash wasn’t actually excited for the Wondebolts because she’s been finding it hard to get happy or excited about anything recently. When Dash woke up she was shocked to see Fluttershy in her home rushing around doing things. “Um, Flutters? What are you doing?” a very confused Rainbow Dash asked, “oh um I’m terribly sorry for um intruding, but um pinkie said you were joining us to Canterlot for the party and that we were going to um be down there for a couple of days, so if you don’t mind I packed you a few things and cleaned up a bit” she squeaked out, Rainbow only nodded, picked up her bag, and they both flew out. They met their four other friends at the train station and quickly got on and departed. Her friends giggled and laughed the whole way there, but Dash just sat quietly in her cabin. Fluttershy entered to check on her or ask her if she needed anything, but always was turned away. Fluttershy just wanted her old friend back to normal, but Rainbow never seemed so far away as she did then. Late that night while Rainbow lay awake in her cabin she heard soft weeping from the cabin next to hers. She got up to investigate; she saw that it was Fluttershy sobbing quietly in bed, “Flutters?” Rainbow worried for her sad friend, Fluttershy sat up and hugged Rainbow as tight as she could, “I’m sorry Rainbow, but I miss you” she wept, “what in Equestria do you mean Flutters, I’m right here” she pointed out, “no I mean I miss the you before that meany hurt you” she said still sobbing, “what? I’m still awesome Rainbow Dash” she said again trying to cheer her up , “no, you are still awesome, but you are also hurt and broken and you refuse to admit it, I hate seeing you bottle up you tears” she said crying even harder now, Rainbow was shocked at this, “try and get some sleep Flutters” she said as her eyes got glassy again and her heart was squeezed tight, she turned to see a concerned Applejack at the door wanting to say something, “try to calm her down A.J.” Rainbow said with a tiny crack in her voice only Fluttershy would hear if she wasn’t crying. Rainbow walked back to her room and listened to the sounds of A.J. calming down Fluttershy. When they got off the train the two cousins squealed at each other and hugged and started a rapid-fire of words they knew as a conversation. Nopony really understood them and just waited for them to finish, then they went off to their suites to get. Rainbow was unpacking when she was interrupted by a knock. “Hey Rainbow I just stopped by to tell you that only 3 Wonderbolts can come to the party” Pinkie said extremely fast, “oh ok pinkie thanks for the heads-up” Rainbow said as enthusiastic as she could sound convincing Pinkie Pie as she left the room. Rainbow sighed and closed the door, as she continued unpacking and getting ready she saw a few of the Wonderbolts outside from her window. They were racing and flying, she missed being sincerely happy, but that’s not something that she can force out. The party finally came and they all went down to enjoy themselves. Rainbow quickly separated and found a nice empty balcony to sit and enjoy the night sky. She heard the giggles and laughs and music shooting up at her and she just sighed as she slumped down into a chair. “What’s got you so glum Ms. Dash?” a stallion’s voice was heard from behind her scaring her, she slowly turned around to see that it was only Soarin’ that had snuck up on her, “what a mare can’t enjoy some time alone?” she questioned with a sigh. This confused Soarin’ because normally when he saw her, she bounced off the walls like an extreme Wonderbolts fan, but now she seemed so upset, he hadn’t seen her since the wedding and something seemed different. “A-are you ok? You usually perk up when you see a Wonderbolt” he said with a goofy smile, “I’m fine” she simply said, “Are you no longer a fan?” he questioned, “I don’t know” she said, “please do tell me you still want to become a part of the team?” he questioned her more, “I don’t know” she sighed, “Dash, what happened? What’s wrong?” he said with actual concern in his voice, “I’m fine” she said again as she could feel her eyes get glassy again so she looked down towards her hooves, “I’m fine” she whispered more to herself than to Soarin’ who had been inching closer to her. Ch. 3-A bad case of tears“A-are you crying?” he asked surprised as he inched closer to Rainbow, “NO” she snapped at him. She was right, she wasn’t crying but her eyes where pretty glassy, she wanted to cry but she wasn’t letting herself. “Hey you don’t have to act so tough around me, if you want to cry than cry” he said with a caring voice, “no I can’t cry, or he wins, I can’t break, or he wins, I’m not letting him win” she said with her voice slightly cracking enough for him to noticed, “who wins?” he asked sitting down very worried now, “I can’t say, it makes me look weak, I am not weak” she said determined to stop the flood of tears pushing at her eyes, “I have to go” she said with a squeak and then flew away. She stopped on a puffy white cloud and couldn’t contain herself anymore. She cried and cried, she sat the sobbing for five minutes before a familiar voice came back to meet her, “Rainbow! What in Equestria is wrong with you?” Soarin’ asked with his eyes wide at the sobbing pegasus, she said nothing back to him, she just stopped crying, “I’m sorry, but I think you need to cry” he said bewildering himself at his own statement, “why do you care so much” she sniffled with a deadly glare pointed his way, “why shouldn’t I care” he said as he brought a cloud over next to her and placed wing on her back to comfort her, “don’t touch me” she said immediately backing off her cloud, his eyes got wide in shock at her reaction “what’s wrong with her, any other sad mare would have loved to get a hug from him, but she just seemed downright scared” he thought. Dash was showing her true emotions for the first time in two and a half weeks, and her emotion was scared and tortured; fear lit up in her eyes as she stared down at the stallion who had just tried to hug her. “Dash what is wrong, please tell me maybe I can help” his voice was smooth and calming, and his eyes were sincere, “I-I was raped a couple weeks ago, don’t worry they caught the guy, but the guy was a close friend of mine that I trusted up until he hit me over the head and knocked me out” she said quietly starting to cry again, she sat back down on the cloud but stayed on the edge of it. Soarin’s eyes grew wide a the scared mare unraveled what had happened not too long ago, her friend had abused and raped her twice, now she has trust issues and is terrified of anything or anypony that tried to touch her, “Dash” was all he could get out of his mouth, he sighed and continued “just cry Dash, he won’t win if you cry, he wins if he gets into your head and controls your life” he said quietly as she took in what he said, she listened and started sobbing again. She sat there with him sobbing for a majority of the night; Soarin’ tried a wing hug once again to comfort her. She let him and even scooted into him for warmth; she laid her head down and just sat there with the broken breathing. He sat with her comforting her then remembering something she had mentioned, “Dash, when you said telling me about the incident made you look weak you were wrong, you don’t look weak to me” he said trying to comfort her, “yes I do, I’m weak and vulnerable right now, I am so bucking pissed at myself right now” she said sadly, “stop torturing yourself Dash, I don’t like seeing you like this” he sighed, “well you don’t have to, I got to go back to my suite now, thanks Soarin’” she said as she flew away, he was sad that she was gone, but he had to go too. “Have a fun date last night?” Surprise said jumping into hotel Suite they were staying at, “I didn’t have a date” he grumbled as he was barely trying to wake up, “don’t lie Soarin’ it isn’t a very good habit” she snickered, “I saw you on that cloud with a mare, I saw you cuddling her” she continued, “I was comforting her, she needed some help and I was the stallion who fit I guess” he said a little annoyed, “oh yes some help I see” she started giggling, “NO, don’t even joke about that, she had a very traumatic experience, Rainbow Dash could barely be touched by a hug without jumping scared!” he yelled at her, “oh that was Dash? I am so sorry, I had no idea it was her, I feel bad for the mare” she said sadly, “whatever, I’m going off to find her, do you know what hotel they are staying in?” he asked obviously annoyed, “yup, they are staying in the castle” she giggle softly “of course they are” he sighed and took off to find his new friend. He arrived at the castle and realized he didn’t want to go prancing in through the front doors so he searched any open windows he could see. Window after window seemed to fail for him until he got to a particular high room, once he glanced inside and saw the pretty light blue pegasus with a rainbow mane, doing some stretches and exercises that looked like her morning routine. He tapped on the window with his hoof making her jump two feet in the air. “Damn it Soarin’ you scared me again” she cursed at him, but was strangely happy to see him, “oops sorry Dash” he said blushing, “can you explain why you hunted down my suite?” she asked suspiciously, “what, no Dash, I mean, I just wanted to see you again, not that I was trying anything, and sorry” he stuttered to find the words, she chuckled and flew outside the window and over to a cloud. “ He landed next to her and they sat down again like they did the night before. “I’m glad to see that you aren’t crying anymore” he smiled, “I actually cried all last night, fell asleep on it, somehow it made me feel better, but it still hurts” she said as another tear unlatched from her eye and dripped down, he caught I with his hoof and wiped it away, “please no more crying, I’d like to see you happy” he said with a goofy smile, “but I thought you said you wanted me to cry” she said with a chuckle, “no I said it might help, not that I like to see you cry” he corrected as they sat there in silence Ch. 4-Oh NoRainbow hugged Soarin’ goodbye and told him to visit her as soon as possible, her friends thanked him for doing whatever he did to help her and they left. This time Rainbow happily was added to the friendly chit chat and didn’t sit alone in her cabin. When she arrived home she realized how much she missed Soarin’ and hoped he would visit very soon. She kept thinking about him well she walked into her house and got a very unwelcoming greeting. She was hit in the head and knocked out as soon as she locked her front door. She passed out and an angry looking Thunderlane picked her up and took her to bed. She woke up in her bed strapped down by some sticky thick clouds she couldn’t get out of. “Hello Dashie dear” Thunderlane said while stroking her wings and side, she was filled with fear this time, “yup I prefer to be here, that way the only pony that can get to you is a very shy and weak Fluttershy” he chuckled, she immediately hardened her look and looked away from him, “aw come now Dashie, it is time to celebrate I believe” he said slyly as he carefully slid onto the cloud bed with her and restarted up her nightmares. He never stopped teasing her and toying with her, he never stopped torturing her; he kept at it for hours until he finally fell asleep on top of her. “get off of me you ass” she hissed, “not now Dashie, it is time for bed” he said very slyly and started kissing her, she started to struggled but he held her down, “I like it fierce” he hissed with a wink and started kissing further down, she clamped her eyes shut until he actually went to bed this time. This had lasted for two days now, he left a sign on her front door saying, “not home right now come back later” and he kept his pleasure and her nightmare a secret. Everything hurt on Rainbow, her dignity, her pride, her throat from screaming, her wings, her hooves, her body… he never gave her a rest. She just stopped struggling and cried as he had his way, “come on Dash, stop crying, I know you’re tougher than that” he complained, she couldn’t do anything to help herself, whatever those clouds where made of was strong and sticky, it never budged. By the time the fourth day had passed she had given up hope, she thought that she was going to die and that nopony was coming for her this time. She still screamed for help if she thought she heard anypony around, or if it just got too unbearable. Still she was left alone; he thought it was a laugh riot when she got her hopes up only to crash down in tears. She finally had the courage to talk to him a bit for info. “Why are you doing this to me when I was your friend?” she asked hopelessly, “well the first time was because I needed to get laid, and well you were the first to walk up to me in the bar, but now I’m doing it just to hurt you Dashie, for putting me in prison, which obviously I escaped” he ended with a chuckle. She didn’t want to talk anymore she just screamed for help. Soarin’ was flying on his way to Ponyville for the first time since Dash left on the train. He was excited to see her again and he followed the directions she gave him. It has been a week since he had seen her and wanted desperately to be with her. He stopped at Sugar Cube Corner to grab some pie for the both of them to enjoy, but noticed Pinkie Pie with slightly deflated hair. “Hey Pinkie, what’s up?” he asked concerned at the sad mood of the party pony, “well, we haven’t seen Dash since we got back a week ago, we went to her house but she left a note on the door saying, “not home right now come back later” and we never hear from her, the weather isn’t being cleaned up and I’m worried” she said as her hair deflated even more. This worried Soarin’ too, he was scared that the worse had happened unknowingly he was right. Getting bored with her by day five, he started getting violent. He punched her and burned her and just plain hurt her until she could barely move she hurt so badly. Even with her pain at maximum level he still raped her and kissed her and smoothed over her which hurt even more against her injuries. Still with all this going on for seven days now, she still yelled for help, hoping that some pegasus flew by. She cried during her ten minute break then went straight into the beatings. What tortured her most was that, wincing and flinching did nothing so all she could do was lay back and endure pain. Soarin’ flew at top speeds to her house and stopped when he saw the note on the door, he was about to turn away when he heard hoof steps. “Dash, I know you’re in there, please come out now, your friends are worried” he reasoned, she tried to scream for him but her throat burned and dried up, she tried to move around and make noise but it hurt her wounds, and as she made the struggle Thunderlane just watched amusingly as her painful struggle continued on. “Help” she croaked out, “help!” she tried again louder, “HELP!” she shouted although it burned her throat, Thunderlane jumped on her and beat her a bit to shut her up, all she could do is cry. Thunderlane didn’t know it, but Soarin’ slightly heard her cries for help and searched for a way in. He found a window that wasn’t completely closed off with blinds and he peaked through. He saw a stallion on top of Rainbow beating her; Soarin’ cringed at every punch laid down onto her muzzle. Out of anger he plowed straight through her window and tackled the insane Stallion to the floor, viciously beating him with his hooves until he was unconscious. Ch. 5-Soarin’ into her heartSoarin’ kicked the fallen pony a couple of times to check if he was down for good, then he turned to Rainbow. She looked up at him and tried to smile, but even that hurt her. Soarin’ walked towards the bed and looked at the clouds bound to her, they were rare but he had dealt with them before; he left the room for a split second then bringing back slightly warmed water and poured a little on each cloud melting it. When she was free she didn’t move, she couldn’t, “S-Soarin’ I c-can’t move, i-it hurts too m-much” she croaked as tears fell down her face, this making his flood with tears. “Listen, Dash, I won’t be gone for long so don’t worry, I am going to take this dirt bag back to the police, then I will be back with Fluttershy” he said, she nodded gently and he left quickly with Thunderlane dragging behind him. Within 20 minutes he was back with her yellow friend who became teary eyed at the sight of Dash. She quickly got out of her stage of shock and got to work. Bandaging her up was the easy part, but then she refused to talk, she just sat there as her two friends watched her both crying, “Fluttershy please go alert your friends of Rainbow’s state, they probably want to see her” he told her flatly as tears still rushed down his face. Once Fluttershy left he quickly started to sob at the foot of her bed, “Dash I’m so sorry, I had come sooner, I probably could have prevented this” he said as the tears rushed down his face, she was shocked, she had never seen a stallion cry and certainly didn’t think it would be for her. “D-don’t c-cry S-Soarin’ p-please” she croaked with all her might, “wait, why aren’t you crying?” he said confused that he was crying more than her, she did the best she could to shrug “it hurts to much to cry, I can barely even talk” she said as her raspy voice clearly burned her. That made him hurt even more, he just kept apologizing to her; “Stop s-saying sorry, y-you sound like a f-foal” she tried to laugh but doubled over in pain instead, “Please stop talking, I can’t handle you hurting yourself anymore” he said as his eyes where filled with pain. Fluttershy walked in only 5 minutes later with her friends and a doctor, “I brought a bed to transport you to the hospital” he said seriously and once he left to bring his pony workers in, the girls surrounded Dash with apologies. She was transported to the hospital without much pain and Soarin’ never left her room. She stayed in recovery for two weeks and Soarin’ stayed right there with her. A nurse or a friend either brought them food, and he was grateful for it because he didn’t want to leave Rainbow alone for another second. He was temporarily excused from the Wonderbolts to stay with her, he had 2 months off. Slowly she started talking again with ease and laughing, but when it was just her and Soarin’ she cried; the memories of it were all too vivid for her and Soarin’ just held her hoof and cried with her, sometimes he even forced himself to cry just so she didn’t feel weak or vulnerable. When she was released he walked right out with her happily. He told her that he had a surprise for her and that they were going to the park. When they arrived he took them under a willow tree, and they had a picnic, he stalled her until it as getting dark. Three days before Rainbow was released Soarin’ talked to Fluttershy about something. He waited until Dash was asleep to talk, “hey Fluttershy, listen I really like Dash, I mean I don’t want to leave her side anytime soon and I need your help for a nice thing I’m planning for her as soon as she gets out” he told the butterscotch pony, she agreed and they both where excited to pull this off for Dash. Fluttershy set up her bird chorus and some fireflies where ready to come out as soon as night fell. Dash was curious as to why they were just sitting there watching the sunset. She soon found out why. As soon as night time fell a beautiful chorus of birds sounded up and a rain of fireflies light up the tree around them, “Dash, I’m so relieved you are ok, it scared me half to death when I heard you were missing two weeks ago, but that’s also when I realized something, I realized that you are a beautiful mare and I really kind of like you, so I was wondering if-“ he went rambling on until Dash cut him off with a kiss on the lips. She loved him no doubt about it in her mind, when he crashed into her house to save her, when he stayed with her the whole two weeks in the hospital, and now when he had set up this beautiful date for her; he then started talking to her, rambling on and on about her, so she took the opportunity to shut him up and she kissed him. At first the kiss was simple, but then they both leaned in with passion and fire, they locked lips and tongues as they held each other. Both of their wings sprang up and both of them blushed as they pulled away for a breath. They lay side by side in the soft grass talking all night, soon though Rainbow Dash fell asleep. Soarin’ sighed and picked up the beautiful mare he loved and flew her home. When he entered the house he set her down on the couch, and went to her room. He fixed the window best he could and cleaned up any filth left anywhere. As soon as the room looked good as new he went back out for Dash. He carried her in by holding her with his hooves while flying over, and he set her gently into bed; Soarin’ was tempted to crawl in next to her, but thought better of it. He slowly trotted over to the couch and fell asleep there happily. When he awoke he was presented with a lovely gift of a sleeping Rainbow Dash. She had gotten up and went to lay with him on the couch. “Wow I must be doing something right” he muttered to himself as he smiled at his mare, “you are” Rainbow opened an eye up to him and snuggled a bit closer. He smiled down at her, kissed her on the head and they both fell back to sleep.
Ch. 1-One bad night to rememberRainbow Dash sat on the hard floor well Applejack untied the ropes that bound her legs as she remembered the horrible night she had just experienced. Flashback Dash had been bored and alone on Saturday night and decided to go to the local bar; she didn’t want to drink just to check it out. She sat in a booth with her virgin cider martini and looked around at the new setting. She had an early job tomorrow and had no time for a hangover. She was starting to get bored with this setting of drunken fools and was about to leave when she noticed her good friend Thunderlane. She walked over to say hi and it all went downhill from there. Thunderlane looked her up and down and laid out his trap. He had a horrible plan in store for her, but it wasn’t her fault, he would have done it to the first mare that walked up to him, unfortunately that mare was Rainbow Dash. “Oh hi there Dash” he slurred acting way more drunk than he was, “how’s it goin with ya?” he asked still slurring also adding in a few hiccups for effect. It had worked, “damn Thunderlane, your drunk” she said with a slight chuckle. After a shot while of overdramatic drunken talk Rainbow was getting tired, “I think you should go home Thunderlane” she said concerned for her friend, “ya I guess so” he responded still acting drunk, he got up and walked to the door, “er hay Dash, do ya know where my house was” he said playing the expert drunk, she sighed “yeah I do, let me fly you home” she said looking out for her friend. When they arrived he did a drunk sway and walked inside not closing the door. He lived in a normal ground house, so it wasn’t too difficult to find. “haya Dash give me a hand” he said with more hiccups and slurring then making the sound of falling, “you’re pathetic Thunderlane” she said with another chuckle. She stumbled into the dark house looking for a light switch, she unknowingly walked straight past him, “hey Dash” Thunder said with a strangely clear voice, she turned to question him, but was knocked out with a hard hit to the head. When she woke up she immediately noticed the pain in her head and then noticed that all her legs where tied down to wooden bed post. She panicked hoping this was a bad dream and also hoping that Thunderlane left her body alone, she was wrong; in front of her was a board with crude pictures pinned up of Thunderlane and her. “You like what you see?” he said playfully hopping in bed with her and softly rubbing her wings, she said nothing in return and tried to pull in her wings. Noticing her faint struggle, he leaned over her rubbing his hooves along her body, and kissing her neck, “aw come on Dash, I had lots of fun last night” he said quietly to the struggling mare. He did it again, only this time she was awake and felt every horrible moment. Her eyes where burning with anger, but she never looked directly at him nor did she cry; all she did was either close her eyes tight or stare directly ahead. He looked closely at her as he smiled, then he ran off to get something for his next round. She opened her eyes and looked for anything that could help her, luckily she saw a crack in the bed post holding her hind legs; she kicked and struggled with all her might until it broke. With her hind legs free she flipped over so that she could buck the bed post holding her fore legs. On her last buck to freedom an angry Thunderlane walked in starring at his freed victim before she sped out of the room. She only slowed down when she got to the front door, she quickly opened it and flew out hoping that somepony would be out, but it was Sunday and everypony was probably still inside sleeping so Thunder easily tackled her down. “Hey now, I didn’t say you could go anywhere” he hissed as his eyes burned with a mixture of anger and lust; he quickly tied her up again and threw her onto his back. As soon as her face was away from his hooves she screamed for help, “stop yelling, no pony is coming out this early, remember it’s Sunda-“ he was cut off as he was bucked hard in the stomach, Rainbow Dash landed on the floor shocked to see Applejack and Big Mac in front of her. Big Mac walked over to Thunderlane who was slowly getting up, “Hey Big Mac, we’re friends remember” he said nervously, “nope” Big Mac said knocking him out with a hoof to the muzzle. Big Mac and Applejack had been the few ponies to have an open stand out on Sunday, so well they were on their way to the town center and they had heard the cries for help and quickly rushed to them. ****Present Time**** Big Mac threw an unconscious and tied up Thunderlane into the cart well Applejack tried talking to Rainbow Dash. “Sugar Cube, what in the hay happened?!” she asked, but Dash just shook her head giving a deadly look at nothing, “Sugar Cube I’m yer friend” she said pleading, “well so was Thunderlane” Dash said with a quiet hiss, “Dash ah would nevah hurt y’all” she said worried at what went down inside that house, Dash sighed “I know” she said, but she kept her stare forward never turning to her friend. They walked Thunderlane to the Police office in silence, but pretty soon they head a stir in the cart. Thunderlane sat up and took a look around, “so Dash” he said turning his attention to the light blue pony “did you tell your friend here about our wild night” he smirked, Applejack looked confused, but then to her horror she fit two and two together; she saw the nasty smirk on Thunderlane and the painful fire in Rainbow’s eyes. Carefully she turned to Dash, “did-did her take advantage of yah?” she said with a quiver, Rainbow’s eyes harden as she kept her deadly stare, but she slowly nodded. “What? Rape? Oh yeah I guess I sort of did that” he said with a chuckle, Rainbow cringed slightly at the word. Applejack looked horrified and with one quick buck to the face Thunderlane was out again and missing a tooth; she placed a hoof on Rainbow’s shoulder, “do ya wanna talk?” she asked, Rainbow shrugged off the hoof, “I’m fine” she said flatly once again keeping her deadly stare. They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they arrived Rainbow asked to talk to the head pony in charge inside a private room, once that came out they took Thunderlane away and she left. Big Mac had to leave to go work the apple stand and left, Rainbow Dash was left with Applejack. “Are ya sure ya don’t wanna talk?” she asked truly concerned, “I’m fine” she said again flatly, “well at least tell the others” he said trying to get some emotion out of her friend, “you can, but I don’t want to-“ she said cut off by a pounding pain in her head. She grabbed the throbbing spot on her head and slightly grunted in pain, “Let’s get ya to a doctor” A.J. insisted, “no, once I go to a doctor, they will put me in some special rape room made to “help” me “she cringed slightly at her own words, “at least get it checked by twilight when we- I mean I tell the girls” she bargained, Rainbow agreed. When they entered the library her four other friends where already there, “my pinkie sense was going off telling me something bad happened so I gathered everyone I could find what’s wrong?” Pinkie Pie asked without a breath, “Rainbow, go sit in that there room and I will fill them in” A.J. told Dash and Dash listened and went away. “alrighty listen here, Rainbow Dash h-has been r-raped by Thunderlane, he is in custody now, but don’t try and comfort her, that is the absolute last thing she wants” she said while gasps where exchanged through the room, “now just try to act normal with her and be careful with what y’all say round her” she said and then walked over to Twilight, “ey Twi, Rainbow got a pretty bad bump, but refuses to go to any fancy doctor, she wants you to check it out” she explained to the lavender unicorn quietly and Twilight agreed and followed A.J. into the room where Rainbow Dash was. Twilight used her magic to examine Dash, “Rainbow” she said worried and concerned, Dash knew what was coming next and shot a glare towards her, quickly changing her words she continued “it’s not a serious injuring, but it will cause severe headaches for about a week” she said with a sigh. Rainbow nodded and flew home. Once she was alone inside her house she fell to the floor exhausted. Every bone and muscle I her body told her to cry, but she refused “once I cry, once I shed a single tear for what he did to me, he wins” she thought to herself. She quickly picked herself off the floor and went to her bed. Luckily she had no dreams, no flashbacks; nothing came to her mind, just a quiet black sleep.
Ch. 2-Back to normal? And a Surprise PartyCh. 2-Back to normal? And a Surprise Party Two weeks had passed since the incident with Thunderlane and Dash did her best to get back to normal. She still refused to cry although her eyes did get glassy once in a while, but although her friends thought she was ok, she really wasn’t. She did everything like normal, but she was broken. It was hard for her to trust her friends anymore and she would never let anypony into her house. Everything that touched her fur made her jump, and she was even having troubles trusting Fluttershy. She had gone to only 1 of Pinkie’s 5 parties she had thrown and when she did go she stayed separated and never talked to anypony. Even after 2 weeks had passed, her body was still begging her to release her emotions, but it hurt. Dash was defiantly not back to normal, she did her normal things; she still laughed, worked, and flew fast, but she wasn’t back to normal. It was like fixing a toy with glue, it looked good as new, but never really worked the same way. Sadly only Fluttershy saw through Dash’s fake enthusiasm. Rainbow sat on her couch again in silence; her eyes were starting to get shiny. She huffed as flashbacks filled her mind and it hurt her, “no you can’t cry you stupid pony, if you cry he wins” she barked aloud to herself, “no he doesn’t” a shy voice came from the door making Dash jump two feet in the air. Fluttershy had come up for the third time this week to check on her oldest friend, “yes it does, if I give in, it is proof her broke me, and if her broke me, her wins” she said as her eyes hardened, “no Rainbow it doesn’t, if anything you won by putting him behind bars, you won by escaping, if you cry it only shows that you are a normal pony” Fluttershy said quietly but confidently, Rainbow sighed and flew upstairs and Fluttershy sadly let herself out. The next morning Rainbow Dash flew over and did her normal weather duties and flew home to take a nap. Ever since the incident, she refused to fall asleep anywhere besides her own bed. While she was flying home she was stopped by the enthusiastic pink party pony, “Dashie! Dashie! Down here silly” she called up at her so Dash would land. “Yes Pinkie?” Dash asked tired, “well I know you don’t like parties anymore, but my cousin Surprise called and she wants me to come throw her a birthday party! She said I could bring whoever I wanted and I really want to bring my five bestest friends in all of Equestria! Pretty please with a cherry and sprinkles on top come, if you want you can go sit in by yourself at the part, but I want you especially to be there for my first Wonderbolt birthday party” she squealed at her without a breath, “if it means that much to you I will go” Dash said and started to get ready to fly off, “wait, aren’t you excited about the Wonderbolts?” Pinkie asked confused, “sure I am” Dash said giving her a fake smile and flying away, “wait Dash, we leave tomorrow, Fluttershy will be up to get you” she yelled up at her then disappeared. Dash wasn’t actually excited for the Wondebolts because she’s been finding it hard to get happy or excited about anything recently. When Dash woke up she was shocked to see Fluttershy in her home rushing around doing things. “Um, Flutters? What are you doing?” a very confused Rainbow Dash asked, “oh um I’m terribly sorry for um intruding, but um pinkie said you were joining us to Canterlot for the party and that we were going to um be down there for a couple of days, so if you don’t mind I packed you a few things and cleaned up a bit” she squeaked out, Rainbow only nodded, picked up her bag, and they both flew out. They met their four other friends at the train station and quickly got on and departed. Her friends giggled and laughed the whole way there, but Dash just sat quietly in her cabin. Fluttershy entered to check on her or ask her if she needed anything, but always was turned away. Fluttershy just wanted her old friend back to normal, but Rainbow never seemed so far away as she did then. Late that night while Rainbow lay awake in her cabin she heard soft weeping from the cabin next to hers. She got up to investigate; she saw that it was Fluttershy sobbing quietly in bed, “Flutters?” Rainbow worried for her sad friend, Fluttershy sat up and hugged Rainbow as tight as she could, “I’m sorry Rainbow, but I miss you” she wept, “what in Equestria do you mean Flutters, I’m right here” she pointed out, “no I mean I miss the you before that meany hurt you” she said still sobbing, “what? I’m still awesome Rainbow Dash” she said again trying to cheer her up , “no, you are still awesome, but you are also hurt and broken and you refuse to admit it, I hate seeing you bottle up you tears” she said crying even harder now, Rainbow was shocked at this, “try and get some sleep Flutters” she said as her eyes got glassy again and her heart was squeezed tight, she turned to see a concerned Applejack at the door wanting to say something, “try to calm her down A.J.” Rainbow said with a tiny crack in her voice only Fluttershy would hear if she wasn’t crying. Rainbow walked back to her room and listened to the sounds of A.J. calming down Fluttershy. When they got off the train the two cousins squealed at each other and hugged and started a rapid-fire of words they knew as a conversation. Nopony really understood them and just waited for them to finish, then they went off to their suites to get. Rainbow was unpacking when she was interrupted by a knock. “Hey Rainbow I just stopped by to tell you that only 3 Wonderbolts can come to the party” Pinkie said extremely fast, “oh ok pinkie thanks for the heads-up” Rainbow said as enthusiastic as she could sound convincing Pinkie Pie as she left the room. Rainbow sighed and closed the door, as she continued unpacking and getting ready she saw a few of the Wonderbolts outside from her window. They were racing and flying, she missed being sincerely happy, but that’s not something that she can force out. The party finally came and they all went down to enjoy themselves. Rainbow quickly separated and found a nice empty balcony to sit and enjoy the night sky. She heard the giggles and laughs and music shooting up at her and she just sighed as she slumped down into a chair. “What’s got you so glum Ms. Dash?” a stallion’s voice was heard from behind her scaring her, she slowly turned around to see that it was only Soarin’ that had snuck up on her, “what a mare can’t enjoy some time alone?” she questioned with a sigh. This confused Soarin’ because normally when he saw her, she bounced off the walls like an extreme Wonderbolts fan, but now she seemed so upset, he hadn’t seen her since the wedding and something seemed different. “A-are you ok? You usually perk up when you see a Wonderbolt” he said with a goofy smile, “I’m fine” she simply said, “Are you no longer a fan?” he questioned, “I don’t know” she said, “please do tell me you still want to become a part of the team?” he questioned her more, “I don’t know” she sighed, “Dash, what happened? What’s wrong?” he said with actual concern in his voice, “I’m fine” she said again as she could feel her eyes get glassy again so she looked down towards her hooves, “I’m fine” she whispered more to herself than to Soarin’ who had been inching closer to her.
Ch. 3-A bad case of tears“A-are you crying?” he asked surprised as he inched closer to Rainbow, “NO” she snapped at him. She was right, she wasn’t crying but her eyes where pretty glassy, she wanted to cry but she wasn’t letting herself. “Hey you don’t have to act so tough around me, if you want to cry than cry” he said with a caring voice, “no I can’t cry, or he wins, I can’t break, or he wins, I’m not letting him win” she said with her voice slightly cracking enough for him to noticed, “who wins?” he asked sitting down very worried now, “I can’t say, it makes me look weak, I am not weak” she said determined to stop the flood of tears pushing at her eyes, “I have to go” she said with a squeak and then flew away. She stopped on a puffy white cloud and couldn’t contain herself anymore. She cried and cried, she sat the sobbing for five minutes before a familiar voice came back to meet her, “Rainbow! What in Equestria is wrong with you?” Soarin’ asked with his eyes wide at the sobbing pegasus, she said nothing back to him, she just stopped crying, “I’m sorry, but I think you need to cry” he said bewildering himself at his own statement, “why do you care so much” she sniffled with a deadly glare pointed his way, “why shouldn’t I care” he said as he brought a cloud over next to her and placed wing on her back to comfort her, “don’t touch me” she said immediately backing off her cloud, his eyes got wide in shock at her reaction “what’s wrong with her, any other sad mare would have loved to get a hug from him, but she just seemed downright scared” he thought. Dash was showing her true emotions for the first time in two and a half weeks, and her emotion was scared and tortured; fear lit up in her eyes as she stared down at the stallion who had just tried to hug her. “Dash what is wrong, please tell me maybe I can help” his voice was smooth and calming, and his eyes were sincere, “I-I was raped a couple weeks ago, don’t worry they caught the guy, but the guy was a close friend of mine that I trusted up until he hit me over the head and knocked me out” she said quietly starting to cry again, she sat back down on the cloud but stayed on the edge of it. Soarin’s eyes grew wide a the scared mare unraveled what had happened not too long ago, her friend had abused and raped her twice, now she has trust issues and is terrified of anything or anypony that tried to touch her, “Dash” was all he could get out of his mouth, he sighed and continued “just cry Dash, he won’t win if you cry, he wins if he gets into your head and controls your life” he said quietly as she took in what he said, she listened and started sobbing again. She sat there with him sobbing for a majority of the night; Soarin’ tried a wing hug once again to comfort her. She let him and even scooted into him for warmth; she laid her head down and just sat there with the broken breathing. He sat with her comforting her then remembering something she had mentioned, “Dash, when you said telling me about the incident made you look weak you were wrong, you don’t look weak to me” he said trying to comfort her, “yes I do, I’m weak and vulnerable right now, I am so bucking pissed at myself right now” she said sadly, “stop torturing yourself Dash, I don’t like seeing you like this” he sighed, “well you don’t have to, I got to go back to my suite now, thanks Soarin’” she said as she flew away, he was sad that she was gone, but he had to go too. “Have a fun date last night?” Surprise said jumping into hotel Suite they were staying at, “I didn’t have a date” he grumbled as he was barely trying to wake up, “don’t lie Soarin’ it isn’t a very good habit” she snickered, “I saw you on that cloud with a mare, I saw you cuddling her” she continued, “I was comforting her, she needed some help and I was the stallion who fit I guess” he said a little annoyed, “oh yes some help I see” she started giggling, “NO, don’t even joke about that, she had a very traumatic experience, Rainbow Dash could barely be touched by a hug without jumping scared!” he yelled at her, “oh that was Dash? I am so sorry, I had no idea it was her, I feel bad for the mare” she said sadly, “whatever, I’m going off to find her, do you know what hotel they are staying in?” he asked obviously annoyed, “yup, they are staying in the castle” she giggle softly “of course they are” he sighed and took off to find his new friend. He arrived at the castle and realized he didn’t want to go prancing in through the front doors so he searched any open windows he could see. Window after window seemed to fail for him until he got to a particular high room, once he glanced inside and saw the pretty light blue pegasus with a rainbow mane, doing some stretches and exercises that looked like her morning routine. He tapped on the window with his hoof making her jump two feet in the air. “Damn it Soarin’ you scared me again” she cursed at him, but was strangely happy to see him, “oops sorry Dash” he said blushing, “can you explain why you hunted down my suite?” she asked suspiciously, “what, no Dash, I mean, I just wanted to see you again, not that I was trying anything, and sorry” he stuttered to find the words, she chuckled and flew outside the window and over to a cloud. “ He landed next to her and they sat down again like they did the night before. “I’m glad to see that you aren’t crying anymore” he smiled, “I actually cried all last night, fell asleep on it, somehow it made me feel better, but it still hurts” she said as another tear unlatched from her eye and dripped down, he caught I with his hoof and wiped it away, “please no more crying, I’d like to see you happy” he said with a goofy smile, “but I thought you said you wanted me to cry” she said with a chuckle, “no I said it might help, not that I like to see you cry” he corrected as they sat there in silence
Ch. 4-Oh NoRainbow hugged Soarin’ goodbye and told him to visit her as soon as possible, her friends thanked him for doing whatever he did to help her and they left. This time Rainbow happily was added to the friendly chit chat and didn’t sit alone in her cabin. When she arrived home she realized how much she missed Soarin’ and hoped he would visit very soon. She kept thinking about him well she walked into her house and got a very unwelcoming greeting. She was hit in the head and knocked out as soon as she locked her front door. She passed out and an angry looking Thunderlane picked her up and took her to bed. She woke up in her bed strapped down by some sticky thick clouds she couldn’t get out of. “Hello Dashie dear” Thunderlane said while stroking her wings and side, she was filled with fear this time, “yup I prefer to be here, that way the only pony that can get to you is a very shy and weak Fluttershy” he chuckled, she immediately hardened her look and looked away from him, “aw come now Dashie, it is time to celebrate I believe” he said slyly as he carefully slid onto the cloud bed with her and restarted up her nightmares. He never stopped teasing her and toying with her, he never stopped torturing her; he kept at it for hours until he finally fell asleep on top of her. “get off of me you ass” she hissed, “not now Dashie, it is time for bed” he said very slyly and started kissing her, she started to struggled but he held her down, “I like it fierce” he hissed with a wink and started kissing further down, she clamped her eyes shut until he actually went to bed this time. This had lasted for two days now, he left a sign on her front door saying, “not home right now come back later” and he kept his pleasure and her nightmare a secret. Everything hurt on Rainbow, her dignity, her pride, her throat from screaming, her wings, her hooves, her body… he never gave her a rest. She just stopped struggling and cried as he had his way, “come on Dash, stop crying, I know you’re tougher than that” he complained, she couldn’t do anything to help herself, whatever those clouds where made of was strong and sticky, it never budged. By the time the fourth day had passed she had given up hope, she thought that she was going to die and that nopony was coming for her this time. She still screamed for help if she thought she heard anypony around, or if it just got too unbearable. Still she was left alone; he thought it was a laugh riot when she got her hopes up only to crash down in tears. She finally had the courage to talk to him a bit for info. “Why are you doing this to me when I was your friend?” she asked hopelessly, “well the first time was because I needed to get laid, and well you were the first to walk up to me in the bar, but now I’m doing it just to hurt you Dashie, for putting me in prison, which obviously I escaped” he ended with a chuckle. She didn’t want to talk anymore she just screamed for help. Soarin’ was flying on his way to Ponyville for the first time since Dash left on the train. He was excited to see her again and he followed the directions she gave him. It has been a week since he had seen her and wanted desperately to be with her. He stopped at Sugar Cube Corner to grab some pie for the both of them to enjoy, but noticed Pinkie Pie with slightly deflated hair. “Hey Pinkie, what’s up?” he asked concerned at the sad mood of the party pony, “well, we haven’t seen Dash since we got back a week ago, we went to her house but she left a note on the door saying, “not home right now come back later” and we never hear from her, the weather isn’t being cleaned up and I’m worried” she said as her hair deflated even more. This worried Soarin’ too, he was scared that the worse had happened unknowingly he was right. Getting bored with her by day five, he started getting violent. He punched her and burned her and just plain hurt her until she could barely move she hurt so badly. Even with her pain at maximum level he still raped her and kissed her and smoothed over her which hurt even more against her injuries. Still with all this going on for seven days now, she still yelled for help, hoping that some pegasus flew by. She cried during her ten minute break then went straight into the beatings. What tortured her most was that, wincing and flinching did nothing so all she could do was lay back and endure pain. Soarin’ flew at top speeds to her house and stopped when he saw the note on the door, he was about to turn away when he heard hoof steps. “Dash, I know you’re in there, please come out now, your friends are worried” he reasoned, she tried to scream for him but her throat burned and dried up, she tried to move around and make noise but it hurt her wounds, and as she made the struggle Thunderlane just watched amusingly as her painful struggle continued on. “Help” she croaked out, “help!” she tried again louder, “HELP!” she shouted although it burned her throat, Thunderlane jumped on her and beat her a bit to shut her up, all she could do is cry. Thunderlane didn’t know it, but Soarin’ slightly heard her cries for help and searched for a way in. He found a window that wasn’t completely closed off with blinds and he peaked through. He saw a stallion on top of Rainbow beating her; Soarin’ cringed at every punch laid down onto her muzzle. Out of anger he plowed straight through her window and tackled the insane Stallion to the floor, viciously beating him with his hooves until he was unconscious.
Ch. 5-Soarin’ into her heartSoarin’ kicked the fallen pony a couple of times to check if he was down for good, then he turned to Rainbow. She looked up at him and tried to smile, but even that hurt her. Soarin’ walked towards the bed and looked at the clouds bound to her, they were rare but he had dealt with them before; he left the room for a split second then bringing back slightly warmed water and poured a little on each cloud melting it. When she was free she didn’t move, she couldn’t, “S-Soarin’ I c-can’t move, i-it hurts too m-much” she croaked as tears fell down her face, this making his flood with tears. “Listen, Dash, I won’t be gone for long so don’t worry, I am going to take this dirt bag back to the police, then I will be back with Fluttershy” he said, she nodded gently and he left quickly with Thunderlane dragging behind him. Within 20 minutes he was back with her yellow friend who became teary eyed at the sight of Dash. She quickly got out of her stage of shock and got to work. Bandaging her up was the easy part, but then she refused to talk, she just sat there as her two friends watched her both crying, “Fluttershy please go alert your friends of Rainbow’s state, they probably want to see her” he told her flatly as tears still rushed down his face. Once Fluttershy left he quickly started to sob at the foot of her bed, “Dash I’m so sorry, I had come sooner, I probably could have prevented this” he said as the tears rushed down his face, she was shocked, she had never seen a stallion cry and certainly didn’t think it would be for her. “D-don’t c-cry S-Soarin’ p-please” she croaked with all her might, “wait, why aren’t you crying?” he said confused that he was crying more than her, she did the best she could to shrug “it hurts to much to cry, I can barely even talk” she said as her raspy voice clearly burned her. That made him hurt even more, he just kept apologizing to her; “Stop s-saying sorry, y-you sound like a f-foal” she tried to laugh but doubled over in pain instead, “Please stop talking, I can’t handle you hurting yourself anymore” he said as his eyes where filled with pain. Fluttershy walked in only 5 minutes later with her friends and a doctor, “I brought a bed to transport you to the hospital” he said seriously and once he left to bring his pony workers in, the girls surrounded Dash with apologies. She was transported to the hospital without much pain and Soarin’ never left her room. She stayed in recovery for two weeks and Soarin’ stayed right there with her. A nurse or a friend either brought them food, and he was grateful for it because he didn’t want to leave Rainbow alone for another second. He was temporarily excused from the Wonderbolts to stay with her, he had 2 months off. Slowly she started talking again with ease and laughing, but when it was just her and Soarin’ she cried; the memories of it were all too vivid for her and Soarin’ just held her hoof and cried with her, sometimes he even forced himself to cry just so she didn’t feel weak or vulnerable. When she was released he walked right out with her happily. He told her that he had a surprise for her and that they were going to the park. When they arrived he took them under a willow tree, and they had a picnic, he stalled her until it as getting dark. Three days before Rainbow was released Soarin’ talked to Fluttershy about something. He waited until Dash was asleep to talk, “hey Fluttershy, listen I really like Dash, I mean I don’t want to leave her side anytime soon and I need your help for a nice thing I’m planning for her as soon as she gets out” he told the butterscotch pony, she agreed and they both where excited to pull this off for Dash. Fluttershy set up her bird chorus and some fireflies where ready to come out as soon as night fell. Dash was curious as to why they were just sitting there watching the sunset. She soon found out why. As soon as night time fell a beautiful chorus of birds sounded up and a rain of fireflies light up the tree around them, “Dash, I’m so relieved you are ok, it scared me half to death when I heard you were missing two weeks ago, but that’s also when I realized something, I realized that you are a beautiful mare and I really kind of like you, so I was wondering if-“ he went rambling on until Dash cut him off with a kiss on the lips. She loved him no doubt about it in her mind, when he crashed into her house to save her, when he stayed with her the whole two weeks in the hospital, and now when he had set up this beautiful date for her; he then started talking to her, rambling on and on about her, so she took the opportunity to shut him up and she kissed him. At first the kiss was simple, but then they both leaned in with passion and fire, they locked lips and tongues as they held each other. Both of their wings sprang up and both of them blushed as they pulled away for a breath. They lay side by side in the soft grass talking all night, soon though Rainbow Dash fell asleep. Soarin’ sighed and picked up the beautiful mare he loved and flew her home. When he entered the house he set her down on the couch, and went to her room. He fixed the window best he could and cleaned up any filth left anywhere. As soon as the room looked good as new he went back out for Dash. He carried her in by holding her with his hooves while flying over, and he set her gently into bed; Soarin’ was tempted to crawl in next to her, but thought better of it. He slowly trotted over to the couch and fell asleep there happily. When he awoke he was presented with a lovely gift of a sleeping Rainbow Dash. She had gotten up and went to lay with him on the couch. “Wow I must be doing something right” he muttered to himself as he smiled at his mare, “you are” Rainbow opened an eye up to him and snuggled a bit closer. He smiled down at her, kissed her on the head and they both fell back to sleep.
