Whatever Happened?

While there we decided to split the pay in four, so no one had to pay too much since it was a very fancy which means expensive restaurant.

"Good evening I am your waiter Horte Cuisine. And what would you want tonight?" The fanciest looking pony I have ever seen was taking our order. Rainbow Dash chimed in first.

"I'll have the salad and extra croutons along with the potato soup please." She said very politely. Then Shining ordered.

"I will take the fettuccini and alfredo sauce along with the grilled shrimp with a small dipping cup of alfredo sauce on the side please."

"I will take the spaghetti with light red sauce and sun dried tomatoes with a side of garlic bread please." I said casually-politely. Cadence went last.

"May I please have a small cup of caviar with the vegetable soup and a cup of sparkling apple cider for all please." She said as nicely as possible. We all stared in awe as she ordered her food.

"And I'll take a separate check." She said with a small chuckle."

"Will that be all?" He asked us.

"No thank you Horte."

"Any appetizers?"

"Please. I will have the fried zucchini along with the mozzarella sticks please." I said blushing before anyone said no.

"Your appetizers will be  out shortly."

After he left, Dash spoke in the silence.

"So I hear you think I'm the ol' crime-doer huh?"

"Rainbow Dash!" I hissed.

"What I deserve the right to know."

"We'll we weren't blaming you, we were just saying that because you two were the only survivors." Cadence lied.

"Suuuuuuure"

"C'mon Dash stop it! You're going to cause a scene." I hissed again.

"Alright, alright I'll stop. But just after I hear the truth. Why do you really think I did it? Did you SEE anything? Did you HEAR anything? Huh? Huh?" She was getting louder at each word? "Do you think I meant to do this?! Do you think I meant to kill anyone and everyone I loved?! Why would I ever do this HUH?! WHY WOULD I WANT TO KILL ANYONE I KNEW?! ESPECIALLY IF THEY DIDN'T DESERVE IT?!" She was shouting and leaning over the table at Cadence by now. She was also on the verge of crying.

"I was just--"

"I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! YOU ARE TRYING TO GET ME PUT IN JAIL. WHERE I WON'T BE ABLE TO SEE ANYONE ANYMORE! I WON'T STA D FOR IT!" She clanked on her glass as loud as she can without breaking it as if to get everypony's attention. (As if that was needed) "EVERYPONY! I WOULD NEVER BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN PONYVILLE! NO MATTER WHAT CADENCE SAYS TO YOU!!" Tears were streaming down her eyes now. I've had enough. I pulled her back onto her chair and started to comfort her. I was talking to her telling her to calm down. That everything was going to be alright.

"STOP!" She screamed while proceeding to push me off of my chair. Not purposely or painfully. It really didn't hurt. Everyone gasped at her. She stayed still for a few seconds. Then she dashed out of the restaurant leaving a rainbow trail behind her.

"Dash!" I yelled going after her." It took me about five minutes of chasing her I slowly caught up to her. "Dash please! You didn't mean it! Just stop!" I told her.

"NO! She was still crying. "Leave me alone! I really CAN get arrested now for verbally assaulting a princess!" She slowed down a little to walking speed. "I would have physically abused her if you hadn't pulled me back. I just... Just had to get out of there. I wouldn't have been able to eat with everyone staring at me for that. I'm sorry."

"Listen I understand. I would be upset if I was accused of something like that too." I said reassuringly. "C'mon let's get to ground so we can talk." She said nothing but did listen and tilt downwards to go to the ground. She sat down and put her hooves on her face and yelled in them. I was standing for a good five minutes before deciding to sit down. Dash was still facing away from me with her hands in her hooves. It was getting dark now. I got up and walked a couple feet away. I felt safer like that. I didn't want to talk to her fearing she'd snap again.

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Shining Armor and Cadence went to Rainbow Dash's house to give her and Twilight their food. Shining knocked on the door while Cadence hid afraid of what would happen. The door unlocked and opened.

"I don't want to talk to you." Scootaloo said before looking up. Seeing who it really was at the door and immediately bowed down and apologized.

Prince Armor, I'm so sorry I thought you were Rainbow Dash. Please forgive me."

"Ha I forgive you, but why do you not want to talk to Rainbow Dash? And please, call me Shining Armor."

"Well she sorta snapped at me earlier for getting into trouble. But it was so random."

She described what had happened earlier.

"Well looks like she is a very snappy pony lately. She snapped at Cadence here at the restaurant. We were just returning her's and Twilight's food. Obviously they aren't here, but, will Twilight be staying here?"

"I guess. She was here earlier so, yeah." Scootaloo said.

"Here the.  Put that away for them. Tell them we paid."

"Ok thanks for stopping by."

They went back to the castle to take care of Spike.

"Where's Twilight?" Spike had wanted to be with her ever since she left.

"She went back with Rainbow Dash." Cadence said without talking about warlords incident to spare Spike's feelings and worries. He frowned and sat back down. "Don't worry. I'm sure she'll come back tomorrow." Shining said.

"She'd better. Or I'm finding her myself. " he said tucking himself into bed. He fell asleep immediately. They didn't even bother arguing with him at this hour. They just went to their room to talk.

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The last thing I remembered was fighting off sleep. Then next thing I know, it's morning. But not only that, but Dash is huddled up against me. She must have came to me when I was sleeping.

"Dash?" I whispered. "Dash wake up. It's morning."

"Hmmm." Was all she said.

"We need to get back to Scootaloo." No reply. "We need to eat." No reply. "We need to feed Scootaloo?" I tried one more time.

"Who cares about her anyway? She can starve." She said.

"Hey now that's just mean." I said.

"Whatever." She replied coldly.

"Dash. Up. Now." I ordered.

"UUGH I'm up!" She groaned. "Happy?"

"Yes. Now let's go." I said.

On our way back she apologized for the mishap. I went to her house with her, stayed with her for around twenty minutes, but then left to see spike. I bet he misses me. My wings hurt from flying all that way, so I took a train.

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That's it I'm going to look for her. I'm taking the next train to Ponyville to look for her. He packed his little hobo bag for proof. He checked the time after the train schedule. Half an hour till the next train. Then that's exactly how long she has to return. He started walking toward the train station. When he got there, there was still a good ten minutes before the train arrived. He had no idea that Twilight was on that train. When the train arrived, he started getting on when both he and Twilight spotted each other.

"Spike?" "Twilight?" They both exclaimed at the same time. Along with a laugh. They both got off.

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I spotted a little purple and green creature with a blue and white hobo bag with polka dots. I automatically recognized it.

"Spike?" "Twilight?" Ha. We both said it at the same time. Then we chuckled and got off of the train.

"Twilight I was so worried! I was going to come look for you." He said half panicky.

"We'll I guess you don't have to." I replied.

"What happened anyway?" He asked.

"Dash and I fell asleep on the way back to her house."

"You mean you didn't take a train?! Your wings must hurt!"

"Believe me they do, but I'm fine don't worry. I would have been here sooner if I wasn't."

"Why didn't you just go to her house anyway?" Spike asked.

"We'll she sorta had a meltdown at the restaurant and flew out and I chased her. We ended up going to the ground and I fell asleep, then she did as well." I explained to him.

"Oh. What kind of meltdown?"

"Just some false brain messages." I really didn't want to tell the story, especially to him. He would just ask questions about it all day and night.

"Oh ok." He finally said getting the hint. We walked away to the room that we're staying in. I told him most of the things I did at Dash's house. Most, being the key word. I didn't tell him about the whole make out session. Who knows what he would've said?

"So you... Found them all?" He asked.

"Yes. It felt horrible. Here pretty soon I'm going to go check up on Luna. She told us that she wanted time alone, and when we went and checked on her, she was sleeping. So we didn't bother her."

So... Celestia is..."  Spike started to ask before I answered him before he said that word.

"Yes Spike. Celestia is no longer with us."

"Are YOU hurt?"

"No. Why would I be hurt?"

"I am just making sure Twilight. I really love you. And if you were hurt I'd do anything to heal you. Your like my mother." He said.

"... I AM your mother Spike. I'm the one who hatched  you from you egg and took care of you from day one. You aren't just my assistant. You are my son." I said sympathetically. He smiled shyly and blushed. "Tell me you got sleep last night." I said.

"I did. Cadence told me I started snoring as soon as the blanket was over me." We both giggled at him.

"Come here spike." I sat down waiting for a hug from him. I was surprised when she tackled me to the ground in a bug tackle hug. I yelped but soon replaced it with a big laughter. I felt so safe with him. We spent the next few hours talking with Shining and Cadence about many things. None of us brought up the disaster. We shared many laughs and hugs and pushes. It felt so good to laugh again.

"Well I better go check on Luna now." I said after Shining told a funny joke.

"What am I not funny enough for you?" He said with a smirk. We all laughed again. I pushed him over and gave him a hug.

"C'mon Twilight can't I come too?" Spike asked sadly.

"Ok. But just this once. You HAVE to either be on my back or by my side the whole time though." I replied.

"Alriiiight." He said annoyed.

"Hey. I don't want you seeing the things I did. It's just too much. Ready?"

"Yeah let's go!" He said with a big smile.