Crystal thoughts

It had been three hours since the Crystal Train had pulled into the station and its passengers dropped of at the glorious Crystal empire. Every pony had pitched in to help; Princess TwilightSparkle and Princess Cadence conducted the "organization team" and RainbowDash offered her services to their weather crew.

"Dear Celestia! These colors will never do! Not at all!" Rarity channeled her energy into horn, using it to levitate a gray banner off the wall and replace it with a light blue one.

It was then that a figure flew by her, knocking down the banner and turning the startled mare's mane into a frizzy mess off intertwined knots and purple strands.

"RAINBOWDASH!" She screamed after her but to no avail, Dash was already out of earshot.

She was heading to the old throne room. That was where Dash was told to find the Princesses busy at work doing egg-head stuff and report to them the weather news. When ChillBreeze had told her he needed to tell the Princesses that all clouds were under control, Dash immediately took the chance to spreed her wings again in search of Princess Twilight and Cadence. After touching down on the marble floor, RainbowDash peeked inside the door way. There was no sign of them or anypony else.

"Twilight? Princess C-adence? Any pony here?"

Dash, after establishing that no pony was there, walked into the overly large room in front of the throne and sat herself upon it.

"I, the mighty Queen Dash, now declare that every Wonderbold treat me with respect!" She declared to the empty room.

Glancing left and right again to make sure no pony was watching, she placed the crown that had lay on the seat of this throne onto her rainbow colored mane.

"And I also proclaim tha-" She stop, hearing the Southern twang of AppleJack's voice down the hall.

"It aint gunna be a problem Fluttershy, trust me! I'll have plenty of food for every pony, but thanks any way!"

Dash frantically pulled at the crown, trying to get it off before her friend could see her. Dash tried using her wings now, feeling a sense she wasn't used to, panic. Out of no where, a large hole in the ground appeared before Dash, having no where else to run, eagerly took the ideal escape rout.

Into the darkness was her only chance to save herself from a large amount of embarrassment. Like a thick blanket covering her eyes, the darkness surrounded her....But then...Then there was a light, brighter than Celestia's sun it blinded her. She could faintly make out the silhouette of a door. RainbowDash walked carefully to the open entrance, using her left wing as a shield from the blinding light emanating from it. The intensity of the source had died down and Dash could now look at the door clearly. No sooner had she done so, then a numbing chill burst down her spine and wings. Her hooves became distant from all other parts of her pony body. All amounts of force she pushed to her legs could not keep her upright and standing. Her legs wobbled and the room spun...

The aching in her wings could no longer be felt. The pain was completely gone! Dash sighed in relief and stood to her full height in attempts to get a better look at her new surroundings. A small filly walked past her, kicking his front hoof out while next to her. Dash fell to the ground once again to the amusement of the foal.

"Hey! What give's kid!?"

She received no reply as the colt continued on his way into the foggy abyss that surrounded Rainbow. Another filly, recognizable by the orange coat and purple mane as Scootaloo, stopped into view and by her side.

"What's going on Scoots?" Asked RainbowDash.

Her answer was harsh and cold, "No pony calls me Scoots!"

The Filly raised a hoof. Dash pulled her wing up to stop the blow in time, only to have Scootaloo's hoof find it's mark on Dash's eye. RaindowDash howled in pain as blood trickled down the side of her face. It was then that she realized her wings were not there! Panic and shock filled the mare's thoughts as a flightless future seeped into mind.

"No PONY!" Dash looked up to the young Scootaloo who had once idolized her, searching for some sign of recognition.

"Scoots!? It's me...RainbowDash!" She yelled, but her word did not seem to find its quarry.

Rainbow wiped a line of blood from her eye and focused her attention back on the filly. She was gone, in her place, SpitFire!

'SpitFire?! Oh my gosh! W-w-what are you doing here!?" Dash placed one hoof over her bloody eye and the other to cover the place in which her wings once were.

"Your not Wonderbolt material!" She spat, "In fact, because of you, there ARE no Wonderbolds!"

"NO!"

Dashes parents and friends emerged from the fog.

"Mom...Dad." Dash managed to squeak, "What's happening?...Twilight? Guys? Can you here me!? What's happening to me!?"

Her screams could not be heard by any pony as they all raised a hoof to her face and chanted in unison, "Failure...Failure"

"NO!!!Stop! Mommy! Please!" Tears ran down her cyan colored fur, mixing in with the dried blood.

"Pleeeeease!" Her voice was only a croak now as she covered it with wet hooves....

"Dash?"...

"Please..Please stop..."

AppleJack poked at her friend's side a few more times.

"Dash? Are yu....Cry'n?"

"Huh?! Wuh? AJ?"

"Um. Eeup?"

Dash flung herself toward her friend and grasped her in a tight embrace.

"Whow nelly! What happen to yuh?"

"I'm so glad it's you Aj! I-...Wait....I wasn't crying!" She released AppleJack from her grasp and wiped a tear from her cheek.

"Chucks Rainbow! You were cry'n like a filly!" Aj gave her friend a sly look,"Now, let's see about get'n that crown off ya'll before Cadence and Twilight find out shall we?"

"Oh..heh, right."

"What were you doing anyway?"

"I-I don't know. I just looked at this door and..."

"Hmm....Let me take a look see-"

"Aj! NO!"