Your Spirit Will Go On

by BeanPole

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Rainbow Dash
Length: 1106

Dash wakes up and feels.. different. A short story as she finds out what happened.

When Dash wakes up and discovers that she has been killed. She watches as her friends carry out her own funeral.

Published 2012-03-19 06:34:01 UTC
Last updated 2012-03-19 06:34:01 UTC

Chapter 1

Your Spirit Will Go On

Rainbow Dash woke early, the same as every morning. Yet something Felt... off, like she wasn’t quite in sync with the world. She brushed off the feeling and went about her morning. She reached a hoof out for her toothbrush and began to apply toothpaste to it. Suddenly she felt it land on her chest and, puzzled, she looked. She realized that she had never actually grabbed the brush in the first place. She laughed at herself being clumsy.

Ha! I’m starting to feel like Derpy!

She reached out again, paying close attention this time.

Her hoof passed right through it! She was incredibly confused and was starting to get scared.

I’ll go see Twilight! She decided.

She left her home in the sky and raced as quickly as possible towards the library in the center of Ponyville. She frantically began knocking on the door. She stopped, realizing that no sound was coming from her hoof on the door. She tried to scream… nothing. By now Dash was scared beyond anything that she had ever been.

Just then the door opened and Twilight emerged. Paying Dash no attention she began walking towards the town square.

“Hey Twi!”

“Twi?”

“Twi!?”

But Dash’s cries were useless, Twilight carried on as if she hadn’t heard a thing. Dash followed her to the town square where it seemed that the whole town was gathering to hear a speech from the mayor, who was standing on a pedestal on the town hall steps.

“Thank you everypony for coming!” The Mayor seemed to have a hint of sorrow in her tone. Or maybe a lot… Dash had never been good with that sort of thing.

The mayor continued, “It is days like these that don’t come often in Ponyville, and it is always an incredibly sad day when they do. We are gatered here now to honor one of the bravest and worthy souls in all of Equestria. This pony was a friend to many, and in her life, cut too short, she represented the very element of loyalty itself.”

Now Dash was confused. It sounded like herself that the mayor was talking about but she was right there! Or was she? She still couldn’t explain the toothbrush incident or that Twilight had seemed to not even notice her. She needed answers.

Dash Spent the rest of the afternoon diving off a cloud and trying new stunts. To her surprise doing anything in the air was much easier, she felt lighter, she seemed to float without almost any effort. Throughout her routine she thought about the events of the day. She didn’t stay for the rest of the memorial service, she didn’t want to know.

All of a sudden it hit her! She had memories of an audition… The Wonderbolts! She had a stunning performance! Not only had she managed a sonic rainboom but she had performed multiple! On a single attempt she had created three sonic rainbooms, broken the sound barrier three times achieving a speed of over mach three! But it had gone wrong, horribly wrong… She had almost don’t it a fourth time but a miscalculation sent her off course. She remembered falling, and she hit the ground at mach three speeds and then… nothing, her mind went blank after that.

But I feel fine!

She hurried as fast as she could to the audition grounds and she saw it. A crater nearly the size of the field. In the center of the crater lie flowers and a sign, it read: “To Rainbow Dash, we will never forget.”

Dash tried to cry… She was dead.

She hurried to the town square and to her momentary surprise there was nopony there.

She frantically searched around and saw town hall full of ponies. As Dash entered what she saw struck her with the need to cry but, she couldn’t. Dash sat down a watched her own funeral…

Dash watched as her best friends, with tears in their eyes walked to her casket and gently laid in a gift to be buried with her.

Pinkie Pie laid down a cupcake, Dash looked closely at it, it was clearly one of her masterpieces. It was ornately frosted with a light blue, a white cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt.

Twilight laid down her entire collection of the ‘Daring Doo’ series, oh how Dash had loved those books.

Rarity laid down a dress which she had made just for the funeral. Dash thought it was one of the most beautiful she had ever made.

Applejack laid down several blue ribbons. The ones that AJ had won over Dash in their various competitions they had with each other. Dash knew how much they meant to her and the sentiment moved her.

Fluttershy laid down an old blanket. When dash examined it more closely she saw that it was the blanket that dash had given her all those years ago in flight school after she had been bullied by those colts.

Lastly, her lifelong idols, the Wonderbolts came forward, and what they laid down broke Dash’s heart. Neatly folded up they placed a uniform and insignia patch. A note with them read: “We wish we could have flown with you, but now, you fly somewhere else.”

Dash looked on the scene and finally felt a single tear roll down her face. She had finally achieved her lifelong dream of joining the Wonderbolts. Her tears began to grow in number, the moving sentiments of her friends and the induction into the Wonderbolts even after her death. Every thing that had been given had meant so much to her in life but not nearly as much as her friends meant to her, even more-so now in death. All she wanted to do was reach out and touch her friends, her family as she had come to know them. All she wanted was one last hug from all of them. She tried to hug them just to feel them. But as she saw her self touch each of them she felt nothing, and knowing that neither did they, she lost the will to exist. She felt one final tear roll down her cheek as she faded from existence.

‘The End

Thank you for reading my story! i know it was short but it was just something i wrote while venting from depression. Any constructive criticism would be welcome and please rate up or down if you liked or didn't. i have another story that is a bit longer and i will upload as soon as i finish editing and reviewing it.