Friendship Isn't Final Chpt 1: Remember?
My Little Friend: Friendship isn't Final: Part 1 –Remember?-
-DRAFT 3.
By: DawnApon
-Back then, everything was normal. Until the flash. What was to come next? I would have hoped, but never guessed. I was walking, down the street, carrying my custom made messenger's bag. It was black with a red stitched pattern of two wings on the opening flap. Inside, were jumble up papers, pencils, a couple arm bandages and all my drawings. Stopping to truffle through the bag, there was a distant flash that caught my eye; it was there for only a few seconds. It being a sunny day, I cover the top of my eyes to get a better view. I was greeted with a concussion. The next thing I know? I’m flying. Being pulled up and forward by the strap of my bag. I not dared look up, risking a sight of what’s pulling me, I could easily slip out of the strap and fall. My breathing grew heavy. This action was met by a slower, now descending flight. Looking down and seeing the world below speed by, I noticed we were still going fast enough to only hear the wind. Curiosity got the best of me. I ruffled only slightly to try to get a glimpse of what was leading me. Again the risk was too high; I fell through the strap, not even coming close to see what had me flying. What I had only faintly heard was a frail voice, -"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" Dropping the bag, it whizzed by, hitting me in the head. Knocking me out. What luck... It must have been a short while since I came to, all I did for my rest was relive the past minute of my life, trying to get a glance at it. The next thing I know? I’m sitting on the roof of a hospital; I go to rummage the bag once more only to find a single, rainbow colored hair, long and beautiful. I then pulled out a mirror, and looking into it notice an oozing red liquid, coming from a slit in my head. Treating it carefully, I stared back into the mirror. And... And there, upon my cheek a rainbow colored kiss mark.
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13. *One Week Later*
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15. I dreamt of the one who had left you on the roof. "Was the flying a dream? Was I just set on the roof top by a passer-by? Was the flying an illusion cause by my horrible gash?" These thoughts, and others, faded as I stared at the rainbow colored hair left behind. I had carefully placed it into a glass display stand. Only to keep it in good shape. I had surveyed the areas I had been to that day. Finding nothing more than memories I’m not even sure were real.
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17. *That Night*
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19. You never see rainbows at night. I barely see the logic in it. But tonight was different, the air was... bright, light, and flowing. But what caught my eye, was another flash, much like the one the week before. Only this time it was closer. I saw something fly for me, not knowing what it was, I prepared to catch it. "UHG" It had hit my chest and landed in my arms like a steaming meteor. It was... Rainbow-Dash!? It had never crossed my mind, I mean "It was only a show right? Right?!" Quieting down, I noticed she was comfortably unconscious, I, being the brony that I am... started -to excuse my language- Freak the flying fuck out! I shrugged off the feeling and ran into my house; I was standing right outside, looking at the rainbow that had now disappeared. I lay her in my bed and sat at the computer next to the bed. Searching anything to do with Rainbow-Dash in the real world. I searched for hours, and nothing more than a few fan-fictions appeared. Growing tired from my all night research I went to sleep. Me, only having one bed, had nowhere else to sleep but the couch. But truthfully, I would have slept on the bed with her otherwise as well.
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22. *After Noon*
23. Waking only slightly after noon the next morning, I wasn't surprised to see rainbow-dash still sleeping. I then got up, and fixed dash a bowl of candy for when she awoke, which I knew wouldn't be for a while. I wondered how she had got here, if it was her who had flown me just days before. Or if her friends from her world were looking for her, or if they knew? Looks like it was just time to wait. It seemed odd that when dash got up early and neglected to even acknowledge the bowl of candy I had left for her. I was dosing off, sitting on the couch, down the hall to my right was a straight path to the room me and dash had slept in, the door wasn't in the best of shape bit it wasn't falling apart either, I heard a quick creaking sound and something pound my shoulders down at sonic speeds. -"Where am ..." she stopped mid-sentence, to look at my face for awhile. She sat back on the other side of the couch. -"I.. I’m sorry" she began "For that day, when I knocked into you... I must have..." I cut her off -"Why are you here? How are you here?" I was responded with a slow hover to the door, -"Wait!" I said with a sheepish smile. "I meant... here in my world?" She stopped and quickly flew back to the couch. -"I was sent here... to.." She stopped dead in her words. -"Follow me!" I threw no argument to the commanding Pegasus’s statement. She took to the sky after bursting through the door, still motioning me to follow. -"And how am I'm ganna follow you if you can fly!?" -"you have those wings don't you?" she said gesturing at my bag. I shook my head in an odd aura of laughter. "That’s just a pattern" -"Oh... uh, I knew that. I was joking! A haha. I got you!" I knew she wasn't though. She easily pick me up by the strap of my bag, taking me to wherever she wanted me, I had no say... or argument. I must have been day dreaming, because before I knew it we were landing in as the darkness arose all around us. We landed on top of a resturant. My hesitant gaze around the roof was met with a -"Open your bag!" yelling "Quickly!" as I opened my bag. She hopped inside, and spun around once or twice before laying in my bag. "You see that alley a few streets over?" I heard a whisper from my bag. I nodded only to be responded with a repeat of the question. -"Yeah" -"Ok take us there." I looked to my right only to see a few streets away an alley, it was the only alley for at least 5 blocks, and it wasn't hard to spot it. I made my way down the staircase, which led down to the kitchen; I found it not difficult to make my way around the chiefs without being noticed. When I’d made it out of the kitchen I was in the seating area, to my right was the exit, I casually walked through only to be met by gun point. It took awhile to process what had just happened, a black suited man, with a gun, was pointing it, STRAIGHT AT MY FACE! His gun point was met with a rigid sounding swallow. I felt something kick my leg, from my pack. Having the realization gut me, I casually pushed the gun aside with the back of my hand, and kept walking. The man just stepped back, his jump to gun point and letting me go without a fight meant he was probably inexperienced. As I walked to where I had seen the alley from the roof top, I casually rested my left arm on my bag. I was responded with a sarcastically spoken -"Smooth..." from Dash. Before I knew it we were in the alley. I opened the bag to let Dash out. -"Don't shoot!" Dash had spoken in a whisper to herself -"What?" -"Oh, uhh.... nothing, I just didn’t think we'd make it." -"Don't trust me?" -"Trust you? Sure. Believe in you? By Celestia no..." -"That boosts my confidence level a whole lot. Now why are we here Dash?" -"Why'd you call me Da...." She stopped mid-sentence, and blushed. She seems to do that a lot. "We're here because this is where..." Again. Another mid-sentence stop! "Just go now. Thanks for your help though." -"I'm not leaving." I was met with her rose-red eyes, and a cocky head tilt, as if she expected me to say that. "Then follow me, oh wingless one." She flew to the top of the building leaving me on the ground, staring down at me. There were two tall dumpster to my left and right, to my right was a pile of metal trash cans, I used these to climb the right dumpster, jump to the left dumpster, and pull down the fire escape ladder with a couple of jumping tries. I climbed the series of ladders to the top of the building. This is where I was met by Twighlight-sparkle and Rainbow-Dash both awaiting my arrival.
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Friendship Isn't Final Chpt 2: A Choice Fit For a Foal
My Little Friend: Friendship isn't Final: Part 2 –A Choice Fit For a Foal-
-"Is this her?" Asked Twighlight. -"First of all it’s a him... and no, I brought him along for the ride cause I.. LIKE HIM... of course this is him!" Rainbow-Dash said without thinking. -"Wait, wait, wait, wait!?" I said with the shaking of my outstretched hands. "What do you mean him? Why am I so special?" -"The princess will explain when we get there." The two ponies said in unison. -"Get where?" My question was answered when the next thing I knew we were in what seemed to be Twilight’s room, I had the layout memorized from the show... but... it felt different actually being there. I spun around, not noticing until I was done... that I was walking on all fours. I looked down to be greeted by shining red hooves instead of feet. I was only slightly taller than rainbow-dash and Twighlight, I looked in the window only to be greeted by this long-legged stallion of a Pegasus who looked romantic and focused. My coat was red shading into yellow. I had a mane that is blue, and it reminded most of a wave of water. My hooded eyes were scarlet. My mark was a blue shield with a thin red question mark of blood going across. I gawked in surprise and delight, just as any brony of my stature would. My eyes felt heavy. My legs... no... My ... hooves, quivered, I fell sideways, only to be lifted off the ground by my wings, uncontrollably. Probably just a flinch reaction to falling. I was set down gently by my wings, now already fast asleep, no idea why. It didn't really matter because I was awakened by both the always ancy, deep cyan coated, rose-red eyed Pegasus Rainbow-Dash and Twighlight-Sparkle the lavender unicorn of pure magic and egg-headery. "So... you took to my changes nicely I see..." Little Miss Sparkle said with a ghasted look on her face. -"Is it that obvious?"-"Well... duh!? You’re a pony now! Not a weirdo human." -"Rainbow!" Twighlight said with the faintest voice and a small nudge. -"No... No, its fine, no-pony's ever ganna love my normal human self, even if I can love a pony, they'll never love me." -"Well, I guess that’s quite alright then!" a slightly booming voice said, as if it were from royalty. Princess Celestia walked out from the shadows. "You look fine now, and you’re not here to make friends boy..." My chest puffed out, I stood tall, almost rivaling Celestia's height. -"Then, why me? Why bring me here. If you need me so much, why be so strict?" -"BECAUSE!" Her voice boomed, shaking the foundation of the home. "The story you make here, will affect us all, one of loves TRUE interests would cloud your mind." I stood down. Moving my head to the left glancing back at Rainbow-Dash, then to the right at Twighlight. I then hung my head mid-center down low. -"And what choice would that be!? Huh? All knowing Celestia?" I said, with the best impression of her booming voice. Twighlight gasped at my lack of respect. Rainbow-Dash had just blown hair of one of her eyes, just when a back hoof, slashed across my face. Rainbow-Dash looked away with a grotesque look on her face. -"One that may as well shape Equestria forever... Your here because... “She was stopped cold in her words when Twighlight stood in front of me and started to defend me, just as Rainbow-Dash draped a wing over my bloody face and pulled me back with her. "Well then..." I interrupted. -"It looks as if I know my choice already. To screw you over the best I can." -"I'm sure that choice will come... and trust me. Your judgments already clouded." -"Trust me I'll..." I stopped when I noticed she had disappeared just as quickly as she had arrived. -Don't worry about it... she’s been a bitch for awhile." Rainbow-Dash said investigating my newly found gash. As I walked up to the window to investigate my scar, I saw the reflection of my flank and asked aloud, trying to change the subject. "What’s my mark mean?" Twighlight already investigating in her book said: "Defender of the unknown for all that is good at heart, for whomever need, but self" she said hesitantly, reading it over and over. "So I specialize in..." -"Defending stuff" Rainbow-Dash welcomely said with an uninterested look on her face. Twighlight shaking it off, quickly turn to a vault hidden away under a loose floor board and unlocked it with ease, she pulled out a book and began to read, hastily flipping pages and referring to a hung up calendar few too many times. While all that had just happened, the first thing Dash thought to do was ehh... I don't know... GO THROUGH MY PERSONNEL THINGS! I caught her looking at one of my drawings of her. I slyly hid the bag under the same floor board Twighlight had kept the book, while Dash was distracted with the one drawing. Everypony seemed busy enough, and I had some things to think about... before heading downstairs I had grabbed my I-pod, totally customized with brony related things, such as stickers or backgrounds, and every single song either reminded me of ponies, or was made by a brony. I spent some time fumbling with the earphones, but after I had got them in, I celebrated my success by grabbing a fur-tastic blanket and lay on the couch downstairs. I fell asleep moments after figuring out the hoof situation, while listening to: Good ol' Days - The Living Tombstone, Mic The Microphone and Jackle App, only to awake to see Rainbow-Dash had taken the earphones and mp3 player, and fell asleep on the other side of the couch. I, deciding to see what Twighlight was doing, covered Dash with the blanket and ran upstairs, running in on Twighlight, asleep, face first in a book, drooling on its pages. I lifted her onto her bed, and went back downstairs to lie on the couch. Dash had her half, I had mine. The only intrusion of space was once or twice when Dash through half of the blanket over me. We all slept soundly for that night.
*The Next Morning*
The morning after, Twighlight woke me with a whisper. While technically it was morning, it was still dark out. At a time where everypony is sleeping and nothing speaks aloud. She tugged me along up the stairs as she rushed my otherwise slow ascent. It wasn't until I noticed that her room was only candle-lit that she was wearing a skimpy see through dress, other than her naked attire, which I know sounds less attractive to some sick... sick... people out there, but it didn't fit her well, she didn't seem like the seductive type. I told her that the dress didn’t look good on her, and she took a sigh of relief. "You think so too?" -"I mean, it looks a certain way..." I continued "It covers up your beauty." -"You ... you think so?" -"I know so." She magically slipped the dress off when she was secure under the covers. She then gestured me to join, as she magically started to un-tie my bow-tie Doctor Whooves had lent me, mostly because we had bonded the moment we met, also because everypony needs at least one bow tie. Bow ties are cool.
(*!YOU HAVE A CHOICE!*)
1:Join Twighlight Under The Covers.(Non-Sexual)
2: Go back Down To Sleep on the Couch Again.
3:Join Twighlight Under The Covers.(Sexual)
3:(-!Coming Soon!-)
(*!Choice Oucomes!*)
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You join Twighlight under the covers, only to begin cuddling. You find she begins to slip her hoof down where your pants would be after a few kisses and a long hour snuggling and talking, but you stop her in her tracks by holding her hoof in place and giving her a long passionate kiss. Breathless, you both fall slightly out of place, and she begin to lay next to you, her arm wrapped around the back of your neck, and her lips pressed against your cheek as you both sleep. You walk down stairs after Twighlight is fast asleep, only to see rainbow-dash... awaiting an explanation, explaining you didn't mean to hurt her feelings and that you didn't understand why she got mad, she replied with a blush.
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You shake your head in sorrow and say: "I'm sorry Twi, just... I can't right now, too many things on my mind."A...Another time then... please?" -"Maybe, just not right now..."
You walk back down the stairs to see Rainbow-Dash gone, the door wide open, and the picture she kept out of your bag where she had lain, on the back it reads: "Why with an egg-head like her? Why!? Come find me when you reached your senses." You sigh in agony and begin to cry. You go to find her in her house, in the the sky, only knowing the location by the sobs that rain across Ponyville. "Dash!" You yell unendingly in to the sky. "What!" you hear rainbow-dash yell:
2:(*!YOU HAVE A CHOICE!*)
2-1:-Ask To Come Up And Join Rainbow-Dash To Explain.
2-2:-Ask Rainbow-Dash to Come Back So You Can Explain.
2-3:-Walk away without another word
2-3:(-!Coming Soon!-)
(*!Choice Oucomes!*)
2-1: "Can I come up to explain?" -"No!" -"I..."
You speak only to be cut off. -"Just please... go." I left without a fight, fearing my choices will endanger my chances even more. As I arrive at the house though, I was surprised to see rainbow-dash there once more. -"Hi. I...I'm here for that explanation..." you gawk in surprise, before explaining you didn't mean to hurt her feelings and that you didn't understand why she got mad, she replied with a blush.
2-2:"Rainbow" you start."Will, you come back to the house with me so I can explain?" -"Do you mean it? Or will you just trick me?!" -"I mean it..." You both start towards the house both gaining speed, soon the casual fly back has turned into a race. It’s you, then her, then you again, and then she finally starts gaining by major amounts, only to stop right in front of the door, that you uncontrollably slam into. This action is replied with a giggle from Dash, and as you open the door to let her in as any gentle colt should, she walks by you only to get a spin along with a kiss from her. You then explained that you didn't know she felt this way, or why?
-Pick-up: After the long moments before I met dash's eyes, I drifted off, to a first-person vision, One of Twighlight and I, together both studying, as her hoof meets mine I see her go in for a kiss. Another vision begins, this one not first-person: I’m following Dash's flight, just as an action camera would, only to see her searching franticly, I see her gasp in a grim surprise. Could my choices determine on one of these fates? Or, one yet still sealed. I blinked at least 10 times before coming to. Only to notice I was lying on the couch, resting. How long had I been day dreaming was unknown to both I and everypony around me. Still half asleep, rainbow-dash flew down to check on you, "Hey, Twi's got a surprise for you sleepy face. And it’s awesome!" Hesitantly I got up from the couch taking the blanket I had with me, again, still half-asleep. -"Hurry up, slow-hoof!" Dash yelled down the stairs in a commanding voice. All you could do was reply with a grudge: "Ughuhh." -"I hope that’s sleepy talk for I’m coming." -Said Twighlight sarcastically. Moments later, you had reached the top of the stairs, all you could see through the groggy haze left over yours eyes was a floating book, shoved in your face, stumbling you back a few steps. You walk into the room only to walk past both of them to reach Twilight's bed and slowly tip over the it to sleep. "In a minute, just..." you say dozing off.”Just let me sleep." -"There's no time!" Twighlight said magically lifting the blanket from your unmoved body. "Ok what’s so damn important that you need to disturb my beauty sleep?" You say with a dazed smile on your face. "I don't think you can get any more handsome then right now." Dash said jokingly. This, as you know, meant you looked horrible with bed head. -"THIS!" Twi held the book unsteadily to your face. You grab the book from her grip so you can actually read it, however you fumble many times holding it in your hooves. Finally steadying it I noticed it read: The one summoned by that of royal commandment, is to stop a terrible evil. Twighlight interrupted your reading. "Of course, this has only happened once before..." Rainbow-Dash had spoken in turn: "Well, as long as you don't pick a retarded choice, we'll be alright." Twi turned from you to Dash; she gave her a deep look, as if to tell her to be quite, without words herself. You pressed on in your reading; the only known person to be given this honor was more than 1000 years ago. It was for-told one was given a choice, where rested his/her own fate, along with Equestria’s, hung in the balance. -"well... I don't think anypony’s going to ask me a question anytime soon, sooooo. What do we do?" Twighlight had already taken the book for herself and started reading through it. "Wait?" Dash said sitting her flank on the bed next to you. "Ummm.... can I try something?" Twighlight said pushing you lightly with her hoof.
(*!YOU HAVE A CHOICE!*)
1: Yes.
2: No.
(*!Choice Oucomes!*)
1: "Ok." Twighlight then grabs an odd looking book that doesn't look like it belongs in her library and chants: "Sleep, one that's deep, only the one, now lay, and have some fun." You raise an eyebrow and tilt your head and say: "I don’t think it worked." Twighlight turns to you saying: "Are you sure? You’re not..." you were fast asleep.
2: "I'd rather you not, Twighlight..." -"Oh... well, too bad." She then quickly chants: "Sleep, one that's deep, only the one, now lay, and have some fun." You quickly poke your head out and tilt it slightly at Twighlight. "You don’t know what could have happened when you said that! What if you bucked up! I coul..." You drift off so fast you couldn't even pinkie-pie swear before you were out cold.
Friendship Isn't Final Chpt 3: Memories of a better TIME
My Little Friend: Friendship isn't Final: Part 3 –Memories of a better TIME-
-Pickup: You had, probably.... no you DID have the best dream ever. I... I felt like I was there, it was so real, so unquestionable! I was still a pony, but... I best not get into details, but, it was about… uhhh… Vinyl Scratch… but that’s beside the point. I woke up on the couch with both of my best pony friends lying near me. Rainbow lying on the other side of the couch, as she did a few nights before. Twighlight was sprawled out on the floor next to the couch. I got up; taking the blanket I had been using, to cover Twilight. Feeling very odd, I had ventured out in the middle of the night, my judgment clouded by my groggy Post-Nap feelings. And just kept flying in a general direction as if by impulsive urges, upon which I acted. I found myself pulled to a cave, far into what I believed to be un-explored, or un-renovated parts of Equestria. I had now entered the cave. I. Was. Speechless. There, standing against the wall of the cave with a cocked head… stood Twilight, and Princess Celestia. I went to speak, only to be stopped by my lack of words. "Uhhgkk…" was all I could get out. I swallowed hard. An angry look grew upon my face when the next thing I knew… I was on the moon, I think… at least. It was my 12th hour pacing around the moon, jumping around had gotten old faster than I thought. I’d thought I had heard a small bang of some sort, it didn’t sound like any spell I had ever heard before, however, taking in I had only been legitimately in Equestria a few weeks. I had kept optimistic. I followed to the source of the sound, where a blue police box stood, ridiculously out of place. I went to knock, only with my efforts to be foiled as Doctor Whooves had opened the door. "How late am I, buddy?" He said, acting as if this is normal. A not-so-faint grin grew across my stunned face. I started a throat tickling laugh, and fell to the moon rock floor, unconscious. The next thing I knew? The Doctor had been shaking me to my life, scanning me with a blue beam. "How about an adventure, old chap?" My grin had not faded. "Where are we?" -"Why, we are in the TARDIS my friend." –"Oh… That sums it up doesn’t it?" –"Oh, you want the dimmed down version then? We’re in a time machine that also travels across dimensions and space." My insane grin would have grown bigger, but I was at my limit. 12 hours on the moon with no hope of returning does that to you. "Ok?" I said, forgetting my banishment to the moon. "Well, first things first…" He said flipping a switch. We were in Equestria again, in Ponville. I walked out, we both walked as ponies gasped and gawked at me. I couldn’t blame them because, to them, I have been gone for so long. I knew most every pony in the short time I was there. We walked to the library, looking for Twilight. She wasn’t there. We went back to the TARDIS and went forward in time a little more. We appeared in front of the library this time, Whooves not wanting to walk all the way there again. We walked in to see a slightly older Twilight-Sparkle. "Oh, hello again Doctor, Hello again Dawn." -"Hello again? We haven’t seen each other for…" I looked to The Doctor. He nodded ten times. -"Ten years!" I continued. I heard Whooves make a loud gulp.
(*!YOU HAVE A CHOICE!*)
1: Go to see Rainbow-Dash.
2: Continue to converse.
(*!Choice Outcomes!*)
1: I held my head high towering over Whooves. I shook my head lightly, and flew out the door. I knew where I was going, and I bet Whooves did too. I arrived at my destination, but… my destination wasn’t there, the clouds were gone, her home was no more, all that lay in her memory was a stone ensemble for her memorial. It read: "Here lies Rainbow-Dash the Pegasus pony, one pony we all should thank; she singularly took out the invading Zebra forces with her Sonic-Rain-Bomb. We will all remember her." I made a loud gulp sound and bucked the ensemble. I hollowly broke open to reveal two things. One of which was a rainbow binder that fluxed with colors as it moved. The latter of which was what I took first. It was a note… it read: "Dawn… if your reading this, I’m dead, or worse. Don’t blame anypony. I chose to do this… whether it works or not I’m as sure as I am lame. I’ll always remember you. I’ll miss you." I… I cried so hard it felt like I was tearing blood. In fact, I was… The blood rained down my face in groups, a drop spilled from my cheek and landed next to a rainbow colored kiss on the bottom of the paper. My bloody tears subsided. A smile formed as The Doctor had ran up on the left of my flank, he nuzzled my cheek and said: "She sure did love you. If there was another way to kill those merciless zebra without her dying … Well, I could help there. Sadly, I’m sure there’s not." My eyes opened wide as Twilight came up on my right. I whispered something into Whoove’s ear, and he replied with an optimistic shrug. "Twilight…" I began. "What did you mean when you said: Hello again?" She replied with a drop of her ears. –"Well, you had come back just a few minutes after you’d left the last time…" Whooves and I looked at each other with concerned looks. "Do you know… by any chance what we said?" Whooves said, slowly turning his head toward her.
2: "What. Was. That." I punctuated every word with a hefty stomp toward Whooves. "Well uhhh…" I closed my eyes and flew for the only person who made sense in the world I was in. R.D.- I arrived at my destination, but… my destination wasn’t there, the clouds were mo more, her home was no more, all that lay in her old home’s place was a stone ensemble for… a memorial? It read: "Here lies Rainbow-Dash the Pegasus pony, one pony we all should thank; she singularly took out the invading Zebra forces with her Sonic-Rain-Bomb. We will all remember her." I made a loud gulp sound and bucked the ensemble. I hollowly broke open to reveal two things. One of which was a rainbow binder that fluxed with colors as it moved. The latter of which was what I took first. It was a note… it read: "Dawn… if your reading this, I’m dead, or worse. Don’t blame anypony. I chose to do this… whether it works or not I’m as sure as I am lame. I’ll always remember you. I’ll miss you." I… I almost cried… But, I held my tears back, R.D. wouldn’t have let me, anyway, crying was for small cults and fillies. "She sure did love you." The voice of Whooves began. "If there was another way to kill those merciless zebra without her dying … Well, I could help there. Sadly, I’m sure there’s not." My eyes opened wide as Whooves came up on my left, and Twilight came up on my right. I whispered something into Whoove’s ear, and he replied with an optimistic shrug. "Twilight…" I began. "What did you mean when you said: Hello again?" She replied with a drop of her ears. –"Well, you had come back just a few minutes after you’d left the last time…" Whooves and I looked at each other with concerned looks. "Do you know… by any chance what we said?" Whooves said, slowly turning his head toward her.
