Canterlot

Home of the Rich, the Nobles, and the Royalty, and at this time five of the Elements of Harmony. While normally the chatting would consist of laughter and joy. This was a time for sorrow and grieving. For today they all gathered to remember their dear friend Rainbow Dash.

“I can’t believe she’s gone.” Fluttershy, Rainbows oldest friend said. One year ago today Rainbow Dash disappeared in a flash of light and smoke, and it was only four weeks ago that she was pronounced dead by the royal guard. The news hit each of them hard, Fluttershy not leaving her house for weeks, Applejack almost working herself into the grave, Rarity closing the boutique for a week, Pinkie Pie going into a state of depression that even now no one has been able to change, and finally Princess Twilight Sparkle who blames herself for the death of her winged friend.

Twilight was testing a new spell that she invented that could teleport a pony from one town to the next with relative ease. Rainbow Dash being the loyal friend that she is agreed to help Twilight with the spell. The spell however did not work as planned. In a bright flash, Rainbow did not make it to her destination, but instead the grave.

“Alright everypony we need to be strong.” The purple princess said “For Rainbow Dash.” She added in a low voice. With a heavy sigh, she began the ceremony that was held just for the five of them. But being a princess, Twilight has a few guards around the room, Princess Celestia’s orders.

“We are here today to remember our dear friend Rainbow Dash.” She told the small crowd, trying her best to choke back tears. “She will always be remembered as the element of loyalty, the fast pony on Equis, but most importantly she will be remembered as the greatest friend in the world.” The levee finally broke and now the purple pony had tears streaming down her face, wiping her face she quickly got back to the matter that was at hand. “She will always be missed by those that she had touched and let into their life.”

All of the ponies in the room started crying, with Applejack being the last to break, trying to stay strong, and only failing when she started to think about all of the good times she spent with her rainbow maned friend. All of the races, competitions, and other forms of sportsmanship would never happen again. Applejack had lost her best friend.

For a short time all five of the ponies in the room where silent.

Suddenly, a bright light and smoke entered the room with a figure wearing a black suit of armor that had a brown cloak with an image of a two headed bear on it, the cloak looked as if it attached to the body of the pony and a black helmet with the letters RD on it along with the numbers 147 on the side. The figure took off their helmet to reveal a rainbow mane, and rose eyes with a cerulean coat. The girls all stood back in shock that Rainbow Dash was both still alive and right in front of them.

“Hey Gir-” Rainbow said with a smile. Now traveling through a different dimension and space she did the only reasonable thing. She threw up on the floor. “Oh fuck, I’m going to kill Mark if I ever see him again.” She said wiping he mouth on the sleeve of her armor. The armored mare took a quick look of her surroundings before turning to her shocked and slightly disgusted friends. “What the fucks going on here, somepony die?” She said with a curious glance.

“R-R-Rainbow, y-y-you’re supposed to be dead.” Twilight said stumbling on some of her words. How could her friend be alive? What is that weird outfit that she’s wearing? But most importantly, why is Rainbow swearing like a sailor?

“Oh believe me I know I should, somehow I’m not though. Thank Doc Mitchell for that one.” The Pegasus replied with a slightly bored tone. With a bored yawn she reached for the gun that had saved her life more times than once, Lucky as it was simply named. Going over a routine check of the revolver hoping that she could do something to fix up her beloved handgun, but of course like it had always been it was in perfect condition. Almost just like the day that she got it.

“Alright, I guess I must be the one to address the elephant in the room.” Rarity said proudly “Where have you been Rainbow Dash it’s been one full year? What are those, those, things that you have all over you? And what in the name of Celestia are you wearing?” The fashionista said all of her friends giving her a slightly angry look. “What we were all thinking it.” She replied back to the ponies.

“I’ll tell you I promise, but first can I get some fresh food? I’ve been fucking eating over 200 year food for a year.” Dash said to her white coated friend with a chuckle. Life had been hard for Rainbow, and now all she wants to do is sleep on a nice fluffy cloud and nap. Shooting up her wings she revealed to the stunned crowd multiple scars that showed she had been in many fierce battles, and still came out victorious. To the guards at the door they recognized the wounds immediately. They were bullet wounds, and there are a lot of them.

“O-Of course Rainbow.” The stunned princess to her cerulean friend. “But I have to ask, what’s that on your hoof?” The chrome item in question covered the left foreleg of the pony just above the hoof. It had knobs on the left side, three buttons, and a screen in the middle that was blue. The device was currently on a screen that had the tabs ‘Weapons, Apparel, Aid, Misc., and Ammo.’

“Like I said I’ll tell ya, just give me a minute.” The Pegasus said to the pony with a serious. Looking down at the item she smiled immediately as she started to think of the first time she met the strange man. “Alright everyon- everypony sorry gotta get used to saying that again. Anyways gather around and let me tell you the story of the Courier.”

Author's Note

Hope you all like this, chapter two should be out sometime in the near future. Also in that chapter I'm going to go through all of Rainbows S.P.E.C.I.A.L skills.