A Year in My Care: A My Little Dashie Sequel

The perspectives of double

When I got through the portal, I felt a strange feeling in my body. I couldn't move, and I started plummeting towards the ground quickly. I couldn't regain control. I notice my more feint rainbow trail that I left behind. Thinking it meant my life in general was losing hope.

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I turned towards the object that had caught my eye just seconds ago. Whatever it was, was leaving behind a rainbow trail as it flew-er, fell. I wasn't positive which one it was. Not so surprisingly, the first thing that came into my head was Rainbow Dash. I mean, she was my favorite out of all the mane six, I don't know what else could have possibly popped into my mind. I tried to think of something else that could possibly leave rainbows as it passes. But the thought quickly came back as I looked more closely at the source of the rainbow. I could see a body, four legs, and a certain shade of blue. Definitely along the lines of baby, sky or cyan. It was hard to tell from a distance and they're already so closely related as it is.

I suddenly found myself sprinting as fast as I could towards the object. Which by now, was certainly falling.

I was getting hundreds of hooves closer with every passing second. 'What a way to go down, and for the fastest flyer in Equestria of all ponies.' Rainbow Dash thought to herself, almost losing all hope of possible rescue.

It was getting pretty close to the ground now, probably just a few hundred feet. I started to worry, if by some magical way that thing that's falling was actually Rainbow Dash and I didn't catch her, she would probably die! These thought stormed through my mind, but they're quickly stopped as I find myself in position to catch whatever it was that was falling. I slipped my arms under what felt like a back, and then dived towards the ground to break its fall.

The ground was close now, too close for comfort. So I closed my eyes and waited for the worst. But then I felt something, it felt like there were arms going under my back. Then I hear a thud, followed by a short "-Mmph". Did I get saved? Or did I perish and leave the world surrounding me? I feel too dizzy to get up, dead or alive. Rainbow Dash thought to herself.

I looked at the thing I had just caught, not really knowing what to expect..... What I saw put me at a loss of words. I was fairly certain that this was either just a dream, or my eyes showing me what I probably wanted to see. My heart skipped a beat trying to process this. Lying there was a real, living, Rainbow Dash....

I felt like never moving again, even if I was truly still alive. But then I heard a voice, an unfamiliar voice at that.

"A-Are you okay?" I asked, hoping for a response. Hoping that I was able to break her fall enough for her to survive. After a minute, I started to lose hope. But then I got the response I was hoping for. At first it was just a groan, but then she answered my question.

"Yeah.....I'm fine, I-I think." I looked up to see what had caught me. What I saw hurt my brain.. It was.... A human. Rainbow Dash was in shock that somebody who didn't even know her, had just saved her.

"Why are you here? On Earth?" Was all i could think to say, with my brain still in mix of weird emotions. She was now up on her four, slightly trembling hooves, and shook her head. "Y-You know this isn't Equestria.... Right?" I said that, hoping that she wasn't surprised by the fact that I knew all about - well, everything.

"Well, umm... You see, back where I'm from, we have princesses. One of those princesses needed a portal to be tested, and I volunteered to do that, which is a decision I'm regretting . But when I got here, I couldn't flap my wings and started to fall, and you know the rest I guess.... Wait, the portal!"

Once she said those words, she bursted up with the acceleration of flying cheetah on steroids. She flew straight upward and started heading for, well, what I can infer anyway, was a portal. Most likely a portal that leads back to her home, Equestria....

I could now see the portal, a few thousand hooves away now. But I could also see that it was looking smaller by the second! I pumped my wings even harder. "I have to make it back to that portal!" But then I see the waffle cone forming around me, getting more acute with every second. Which symbolizes that I'm getting close to performing the sonic rainboom. If I have to perform this to make it back to Equestria, I will! I push my wings just a little further, then I hear a big boom, nearly deafening me. But I don't bother looking back, all I can look at is what's right in front of me.

But then, it disappeared. It disappears and I zip past the spot where it once was. I slow down and come to a halt in mid-air.

"What am I going to do now?... I won't be able to see my friends for a whole year. Where will I stay? Where will I go? A whole year...." Rainbow Dash spoke out loud to herself full of sorrow, tears forming at the rims of her eyes.

What I saw only seemed to last a few seconds. It seemed like one second, Rainbow Dash was explaining why she was here, the next second she's flying towards, what I'm guessing was at least, a portal, then she performs the sonic rainboom overhead. Now though, she's gliding down to the spot where I am, with a heartbreaking look on her face. This fills me with worry. Did she not make it through the portal? Even going at her top speed of over mach ten? Impossible is what I was wanting to think, but she landed on the ground, and I looked at her, thinking of something to say. Finally I think of something that isn't stupid.

"Are you okay? Is the portal going to open back up anytime soon?"

"No, in fact its not going to open again for a whole year. I don't know what I'm going to do now, where I'll live for a temporary home, how to get food, or really anything." Rainbow Dash says, in a teary voice.

My mother was only a few feet away now, staring in awe at the cyan flying pony with a rainbow mane right in front of her.

"Hey mom?" I ask, with a small smirk involuntarily forming on my face.

"Uh...Yes Jake?" My mother said, struggling to cough up her words at all.

"You know how you said that the next decision that had to be dealt with, would go to me?" I ask, almost beginning to chuckle at this amazing timing.

"Yes, why?"

"Well, I've decided that Rainbow Dash will stay at our place until the portal reopens!" I say, practically smiling ear to ear.

"Really!?" asked Rainbow Dash excitedly.

"Of course! Who wouldn't give somebody as awesome as you, a place to stay?"

"Thank you! Oh thank you, thank you thank you! Your name is Jake right!?"

"Yeah, that's my name. Don't wear it out!" I reply sarcastically.

"Well then, thanks Jake!" Rainbow Dash replies, her tears of sadness looking as if they've turned to ones of happiness.

She brought me into a hug. It was a little awkward at first, since I know for a fact from the show that she's not much of a hugger. But, settling into It I realized that this is really happening... This is just another one of those moments in my life that I've always kept in my memory, as well as my heart.