My Little RockStar

Well hello all you rockstars! I don't go against my word, things are starting to get exciting,so you won't have to wait until the weekend, I will have the next chapter tomorrow or the next day, even I can't believe whats going down, and I'm writing the thing! Thanks to my editor MyInnerWeirdo again, and like always Enjoy!!!

The occasional bump, or nudge from the jostling train would snap Rainbow out of her deep thoughts. She had kept quiet the entire trip, clinging to her guitar case that sat awkwardly in her lap. Pinkie tried on numerous occasions to try and get Rainbow to join the game of cards that was taking place between the rest of her friends, but Rainbow would silently shake her head. Pinkie looked like she had taken offense, but Twilight knew better then to try and stop Rainbow Dash from thinking so hard about something, plus the momentary silence that overtook the cabin was a nice change of pace from the usual chaotic bustle that Twilight had become so accustomed to.

Rainbow Dash knew where the Music Shop was; she and her parents had traveled there enough to make it an easy find. Finding the old record store that she found in a dark alley however, would be much more of a challenge. Rainbow was never one to turn down a good challenge, so this would just be one more adventure to take, even if she was by herself. A quick feeling of fear washed over Rainbow, but she quickly brushed it off. “I could handle this by myself when I was just a little filly,” she mumbled beneath her breath. “Who would seriously have the guts to try and mess with me anymore?” Hopefully nopony, she quickly gulped again.

The train ride took a few hours, and for the last stretch of the trip, Pinkie had finally convinced Rainbow to play a couple hands of poker. The casual card game was nice, but it still was not enough to distract Rainbow from the daunting task ahead. With that though in mind, Rainbow led her friends to the center of the city, toward the music store.

The store had grown quite a lot since Rainbow had visited it last. Then again, she was just a few years old way back then. The smell was the same inviting aroma of stained wood and brass that Rainbow had come to love back when her step father would bring her down to buy new sheet music. Applejack couldn't help but laugh when she glanced over to Rainbow, whose mouth was hanging wide open and a grin had taken over her face.

“Well shucks Dash, I thought that sleeping and the Wonderbolts were the only things that would get your off, but I guess you’re just another run of the mill band geek,” Applejack chuckled giving Rainbow Dash a slap on the back.

Rainbow tried to think of some witty comeback, but AJ was right. Music was a huge part of her life, and even if she loved rock and roll, she was still a band geek in some sense of the word.

The rest of the girls began to look around the store admiring all of the different instruments that were resting on the shelves in the front room of the store. Pinkie was the most interested out of all the ponies, even Rainbow Dash. Bouncing from each corner of the store trying to get a better look at all of the different merchandise.

“Ooh, ooh!” she yelled. “I know that I need a new tuba, and my French horn has a terrible dent in it, oh, and I desperately need a new barrel for my clarinet!” Rainbow had completely forgotten how Pinkie used all sorts of different instruments to scare away the parasprites. Maybe Rainbow wouldn't be the only one in the band with a shred of musical knowledge. Then again, Pinkie was not the kind of pony to sit down for hours and help a novice learn something.

Rainbow heard the noon bell ring and quickly glanced around to make sure that all of her friends were still occupied with picking their equipment. She decided that this was as good as any other time to make her “escape.” Rainbow ran out of the fire escape in the back of the store and made her way down the alley that appeared before her.

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Finding this old record store was going to be a regular pain in the flank. Rainbow figured that the easiest way to find to find the old place, would be to just retrace her steps. She walked back out into the bustling street and made her way to the old house that she used to take her piano lessons in. When she stumbled upon the record store all those years ago, it was when she was taking the “new and exciting” route home.
Finding the house was no biggie, it only took her about fifteen minutes to walk over from the music store. Now this is where the going would get tough. Rainbow closed her eyes shut, and tried to visualize herself walking home. It was tedious, and she wasn't getting anywhere. “Ponyfeathers,” Rainbow sighed under breath. “This is going to be harder then I expected.”

What normally would have been such an easy task was incredibly difficult for Rainbow now. Normally she would have simply flown over each alley in the city until she spotted the cyan blue store, but alas, her days of flying were long gone. The fact that she didn’t know the name of the store, or the name of the shop owner also made it incredibly difficult to ask anypony where to go, or to even call a taxi. “Oh yeah, I’m looking for the old, rundown rainbow looking record store in a dark alleyway in downtown Manehatten, do you know where I could find it?” Rainbow grunted with anger after sarcastically describing the situation to herself.

“Enough pouting Dashie,” Rainbow told herself. “Get your act together and just start exploring, what’s the worst that could happen?

She shouldn't have asked.

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“Hey guys, where the hay did Rainbow go?” Twilight asked as she stood at the checkout, with a new fender bass in hand.

“Beats me darling, but she’s a big girl now, I’m sure she knows that she’s doing.” Rarity stated with confidence.

“Oh, um, I don’t know, the city is a big and scary place, I think we should look for her.” Fluttershy said sheepishly.

“I agree with Fluttershy, we shouldn't just leave our friend wandering about the city alone.” Twilight replied.

“Now quiet you two, Rainbow is capable of taken care of herself, and she don’t need us baysittin’ her all the time. Shucks, I bet she sneaked outta here on purpose so she could be alone for a bit. She’s probably got all sorts of school friends that she’s catching up with and what not.” Applejack stated.

Twilight didn’t buy it. “Remember her story AJ,” Twilight said, “Dash didn’t have any friends in the whole city, that’s why she loved her music so much, the only ponies that actually cared about her were her step parents.” Twilight suddenly grinned. “That explains all of it, I bet Rainbow just went looking for her parents to catch up, she hasn't seen them since she was just a filly, and I bet they really miss her.”

“They sounds like absolute saints from everything Rainbow told us about them.” Rarity said. “I personally want to thank those two ponies for taking in Rainbow off of the street and giving her such a wonderful life. If it weren't for them, we never would have met Rainbow Dash.”

“I agree with Rarity, for once,” Applejack said, quite shocked. “I think we should look them up in the phone book and find their house so we can meet them, if that don’t work out, at least we would have found Rainbow.”

“Oh I love family reunions, I have to throw a party, oh wait, is there a party store in Manehatten, we’re going to have to stop there first.” Pinkie yelled at an incredibly fast pace. The rest of her friends all laughed and picked up their new instruments to began the search for Rainbow’s parents.

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Rainbow had walked through almost every alleyway in the whole city, and was becoming more and more frustrated as the sun slowing worked it’s way down toward the horizon. How in Equestria could such a small filly find a place on accident, and then when she’s all grown up, can’t find it after hours of searching? It was driving Rainbow Dash crazy.

Rainbow rounded one last corner and gasped out of pure amazement, and fright. She quickly blinked a few times to make sure what she was seeing wasn't just her eyes playing tricks on her. She had found the old record store, it looked exactly the same, with the bright cyan blue walls and rainbow trim, but it was what was in front of the store that truly made Rainbow shudder with fear. There was a large pony in front of the store with a crowbar, desperately trying to break a large padlock off of the front door. It was dark outside and Rainbow couldn't make out exactly what she was looking at. The one small street lamp cast a small amount of light into the dark alleyway, but from so far away, there was no way to tell who the pony was, or what he, or she was doing.

Rainbow inched forward, step by step, trying to get a better view of the robber. The large pony hadn't noticed Rainbow, and she wanted to keep it that way.

Each step became harder for her. Rainbow’s breath was heavy and labored, making it incredibly difficult to keep quiet. When Rainbow finally got as close as her mind was willing to take her, she just stood and watched the robber work, trying to get a better look at it.

In her new position Rainbow could make out a few details. The robber was defiantly a male, and was of a light coat color, Rainbow still couldn't tell which color it was. She also couldn't tell what their cutie mark was, or what their mane color was. One thing made the situation a little brighter. She hadn't noticed any tattoos on the pony, so whoever this was definitely was not the shop owner she had met all those years ago.

Rainbow was starting to get restless, and angry watching the bandit try and try to pry the lock off of the door. Rainbow let out a large grunt of dissatisfaction, sadly, it was just a little to large.

The robber shot up and turned around to see where the noise came from. Rainbow froze in place. She had locked eyes with the large Pony who was now only a few feet from her face. Rainbow went pale and couldn't breathe. The robber had a cyan blue coat, and was covered in scars, and mud, and homemade bandages. That was nothing compared to what was on top of his head though, Rainbow looked up just slightly to see that a large, uncut, knotted Rainbow mane was growing out of the robber’s head. He was just as surprised as Rainbow was by the look of it, but he quickly regained his composure quickly enough to put his hoof to his mouth and let out a loud whistle.

Before Rainbow could acknowledge what had happened, she heard quick hoof steps approaching from behind her. Rainbow turned around in time to see a mare in the shadows bring a large red brick down upon her head. Rainbow fell to the ground immediately, and felt her grasp of reality, slowly slide out of her hoof, turning her vision into a black hole.

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“Well I must say, Rainbow’s step parents must be rather wealthy to be able to afford such a nice place,” Rarity said as she walked past the well manicured lawn and iron fence that surrounded the moderately large house that was located in one of the nicer residential areas of Manehatten.

“Ah shucks, just when I thought we were done with all this hoity toity fancy pony stuff.” Applejack sighed.

“AJ, I think you may be overreacting to this a little much, this house isn't anything special, it’s just your run of the mill city pony house,” Twilight assured.

Applejack grunted once more, “I suppose it could be worse.”

“Enough grumpy fighting AJ,” Pinkie pleaded. “Come on, I have been so excited to meet Rainbow’s parents, they sound like such nice ponies, do you think that they like parties too? Oh my gosh I hope so, because if they don’t like parties, then, I guess I would just have to…”

“Put a sock it in Pinkie, we don’t want to scare them off before we can tell them who we are,” Twilight said as she rang the door bell.

It only took a few moments before the door slowly opened in front of a well sized light brown pegasus pony. He had a briefcase for a cutie mark which gave Twilight the impression that he was in some sort of important business.

The girls could tell the brown pony at the door was a little bit uneasy with the fact he had five unknown young mares on his doorstep.

“Um.....can I help you girls?” he asked with a little hesitation in his voice.

Pinkie stepped forward and took a huge inhale, “Well, we were just wondering if--” Applejack quickly grabbed hold of Pinkie’s mane and pulled her back, covering her hoof with her mouth. The brown stallion didn’t move, but looked even more confused then he did before.

Twilight, being the smooth talker of the group felt like she should be the one to introduce herself, as well as her friends.

“Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, but most ponies just call me Twilight, the hyper pink one over there is Pinkie Pie, the one with the cowgirl hat is Applejack, and the white mare to my left is Rarity.”

Rarity gave a quick bow, before stepping to the side to reveal Fluttershy, who had been hiding behind Rarity since they rang the door bell.

Twilight laughed and turned her attention back to the brown stallion. “The shy one is Fluttershy.” The brown pony seemed to have calmed down a bit and loosened his grip on the door knob, he was expecting to shut the door on their faces thinking that they were just some Filly Scouts trying to sell more cupcakes, but something was different about this group
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“Well, it’s um, very nice to meet you girls, my name is Paper Back. How can I help you?”

“Oh that’s quite alright sir,” said Twilight, “We’re friends of Rainbow Dash, and we were wondering…”

“WAIT!” Yelled Paper back quickly running out side of his mud room joining the girls on the porch. “All of you girls know about Rainbow Dash!?”

Twilight was slightly taken aback by the question. “Um, yes we do, we were just wondering…”

“Please girls, this is no place to talk about such things. Please come inside.” Twilight grunted as she and the other girls walked in to Paper Back’s house.

Paper Back’s wife, who Twilight imagined must have been Rainbow’s step mom entered the room with her husband with a large tray of pastries and tea. She motioned for the girls to take a seat on the leather couch that was to their left. Not wanting to be rude, Twilight sat down first, and was followed by the others.

“Ah, much better,” Paper Back said as he sat in a large leather seat across from the couch. “Now girls, please tell me that you’re telling the truth, and you actually know about our little Rainbow Dash?”

“But of course we do,” explained Rarity. “We wouldn’t have come all this way if we didn’t. She was with us just a few hours ago at the music store, but then she disappeared, we just assumed that she would have come here to see her parents while she had the time to, but by the looks of it, she isn't here.”

“Sadly no, she is not,” said Paper Back who stared into his tea cup looking back at his own reflection. “We wish she would have come. My wife and I have not seen Rainbow since she graduated Manehatten flight school. She stopped by the house only momentarily to tell us that she had gotten assigned to some village in the heart land of Equestria as a weather pony, and that she would come back for her things, but then she never did. We waited, and waited. Days turned into months, months into years, just last week marked ten years since we had seen Rainbow. It hurt every day for the first few years, every night we would set an extra place at the table in hope that this would be the night Rainbow deiced to come home, but that night never came. Life went on without her, and we learned to bear the pain. Thank you girls for coming, we may not have been able to see Rainbow, but at least knowing she is still out there makes us feel better.”

Paper Back had not taken his eyes off of his tea glass for the whole speech, and his reflection began to disappear from the ripple caused by the tears flowing down his cheeks.

He finally looked up and looked at the girls and asked, “Please tell me girls, is our little Rainbow healthy and happy, is she ok?”

Twilight was also crying by how much emotion Paper Back had put in his words. She could really tell that Rainbow’s step parents really did care about her.

“She couldn't be better.”

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“Well,” Rainbow sighed as she regained consciousness. “This couldn’t be worse.” Rainbow was tied to a chair, and had a bag over her head. She assumed by the smell of rotten wood and mildew that she was indoors. She desperately tried to get out of the ropes that tied her down but it was useless. “How and the hell did I even get in this position?” Rainbow thought. Her memory was still a bit fuzzy, but she remembered seeing the cyan and rainbow colored stallion that whistled before she was hit by a brick. Just the thought of the event made Rainbow’s head throb with pain again.

After what felt like hours, Rainbow heard a door open in the distance, followed by the sound of hoof steps. The sound was far away and muffled, this led Rainbow to believe that wherever she was being held had at least one other room attached to it.

Rainbow shuttered when she heard a strained mare’s voice come from the main room.

“Celestia, damn this night! I told ya that we would get in to a situation like this. Somepony was bound to have been guarding the place, there’s no way Reverb would have left all the money in there, only being protected by a damn pad lock.”

Rainbow shrieked as she heard the sound of hoof against cheek, followed by the sound of another pony who was in the other room. This pony defiantly was male.

“Bitch, I told you not to raise your voice to me!” Rainbow couldn't believe what she was hearing.

“There’s no way they would leave her to guard Reverb’s stash. He had no idea we were coming, he told us that if he ever saw us again, that he would end us. Besides we were too sneaky to have been caught by a low life like Reverb, but I wasn't expecting that he would know the rainbow one, we made sure that they would never meet!”

Rainbow had a million questions flying through her head. Who the hay was Reverb, and why was she not supposed to know about him? Actually the better question was who the hell were the two ponies in the other room, and what were they screaming about?

Something just didn’t add up.