It Wasn't You

by Rainbow__Sparkle

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia, Dark, Sad, Main 6, Princess Luna, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rainbow Dash, Adventure
Length: 2401

When a terrible accident happens to Celestia revolving the fate of Equestria everypony is concerned on who did it. All signs point to Rainbow Dash. Twilight know's she didnt do it, and she plans to find out who did.

When a terrible accident happens to Celestia, the fate of Equestria hangs in the balance of her recovery. Everypony is concerned and wondering who did it. When the guards look back at the scene all of the evidence points to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash is punished, and her five friends are devastated by it. Twilight knows that she didn't do it, but she has to find out who did.

Published 2015-04-05 18:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-04-05 18:10:02 UTC

Prolog

Princess Luna lay on her bed with a game controller floating in the air. She was playing a video game before “it” happened. The game controller was surrounded by a blue magical aura. Suddenly she heard a scream.

Twilight ran into the castle with her five friends behind her. Tears filled her eyes as she looked at the letter Princess Luna sent her. Spike was on her back holding on her tight. “Twilight slow down!” Spike called,

“I can't! Celestia needs me!” Twilight cried. The ponies continued to the medical wing of the castle. Multiple guards guarded the entrance, and a couple news reporters tried to get info on what was going on. The six friends squeezed through the reporters. Some guards stopped them, but Luna came through the commotion. When the reporters realized that two princesses were in the same room as them they all gave a bow. Luna had her eyes set on Twilight and her friends.

“I am so glad you’re here” Luna started,

“Luna! What’s going on?” Twilight asked,

“No time to talk, I’m afraid Celestia needs us more than ever,” Luna said as she entered the medical wing. The ponies looked at each other, and then followed the blue alicorn into the medical wing. Doctors swarmed around the room, nurses assisted the doctors, and through the windows you could see a million camera flashes from reporters outside. A couple nurses lowered the blinds so the ponies outside couldn’t see through. Twilight looked around to try and find her former teacher. She saw some doctors huddling around a small bed, but big enough for a grown mare to lie on. Twilight ran to the doctors. She shoved some of them out of the way to see who was on the bed. Twilight’s eyes soon laid on a white alicorn princess lying on the bed. A tear dripped down the purple princess’s face. Celestia looked weak and her barely had enough energy to see her former student.

“H-Hello Twilight” Celestia whispered. Cords to machines were connected with her. A brown Pegasus held up a cord in her hooves.

“This might hurt, but it is for you own good” the brown Pegasus whimpered,

“Lay it on me” Celestia whispered. The brown Pegasus stabbed the princess with the cord. Celestia gave a silent scream. Twilight grabbed the princess’s hoof and held it tight, trying to get her mind off of the pain. The brown Pegasus looked at a machine in the room. She pressed some buttons and a beeping noise was being made. She grabbed a small patch connected to a cord and placed it on Celestia’s chest. Another beeping noise started to catch the ponies’ ears, but the beeping noise was in an octave lower. Twilight looked at all the machines.

“What are those for?” she asked,

“Oh this one if for Princess Celestia’s blood pressure, it tells us if it too high or too low” the brown Pegasus said while pointing to the machine with the cord she had to stab Celestia with, “and this one is for her heart”

The brown Pegasus pointed to the machine connected to the cord with the patch. Twilight soon understood, then focused on the princess. “Princess Celestia what’s wrong?” Twilight asked,

“Were not sure, but last night she gave off a huge scream. When I entered the room I saw my sister on the floor next to an empty bottle. Her room was a mess. Chairs had fallen over, drawers were out of their place, and black hoof prints were all over the room” Luna started.

“That sounds like somepony was looking for something in her room” Pinkie Pie suggested, “Like a donut or something.”

“Indeed” Rarity confirmed, “The first part I mean, that donut is just defiantly not it!”

“There is something I must say” Luna started. She looked at the floor nervously, “We found multiple blue feathers around the room and a couple hairs in a rainbow color.”

All of the ponies looked at Rainbow Dash. Rainbow looked at Luna in fright. She had no clue what was going on, and why there were blue feathers and rainbow colored hair in the crime scene. Twilight held onto Celestia’s hooves tighter. “Are you saying that I did it?” Rainbow nervously asked, “Cause if so I-I swear I didn’t, I would never do such a thing to a princess!”

“I’m not saying it was you, it’s just … we have been approved that the bottle contained poison in it, and we assume that somepony shoved it down Celestia’s throat. I don’t want to do this Rainbow, but the guards insist me to do a DNA test on you hoof to see if it matches the hoof prints around the room” Luna said,

“Celestia back me up! You were there right? Please tell them I didn’t do it!” Rainbow commanded,

“Rainbow!” Applejack scolded,

“N-No it is fine” Celestia whimpered, “I’m sorry Rainbow, I just don’t remember anything, a-a-and some guards saw you flying away from Canterlot. I believe you Rainbow, but I-I just don’t know anymore.”

“C-Celestia?” Rainbow Dash whimpered,

“Please Rainbow, come with me” Luna directed. Rainbow nodded and slowly followed her. Her five friends watched her leave the room nervously. When Rainbow Dash left the room they could still her depressed hoof steps. A couple of reporters tried to ask her what was going on, which made even more stress go into Rainbow’s head. As if this wasn’t stressful enough, with a half dead princess in the other room, herself being accused on what happened, and now she is 90% forced to tell everypony in Equestria that she is being accused of attempting to kill the princess. She tried to shove the reporters out of the way and continue on Luna’s trail, but more and more reporters surrounded her. Looking at the bright flashes of their camera made Rainbow nauseated, and almost half blind. With the loud noises coming from the reporters shouting questions almost blew Rainbow’s eardrum, and soon Rainbow couldn’t even hear her thoughts. “Get out of here!” Luna shouted in her royal voice. The reporters looked at her in fright, and then scurried away to the exit of the palace.

Rainbow Dash started to get her vision back. She followed Luna down the hall of the royal palace. Step by step, her worries got to her. What if she was the pony who tried to kill Celestia? What if she was blamed? Then what would happen? What would be the punishment? All of these questions raced through Rainbow’s mind. Then she reminded herself, I didn’t do it! She continued following the pony in front of her. She didn’t look back to see the guards at the entrance to the medical wing. All she knew was that she had nothing to do with this. She wasn’t at Canterlot last night, she was at Derpy’s, watching a terrible movie she waited all night to see. The two ponies entered a dark room. Once the light from the door was shut Rainbow couldn’t see a thing. She looked around nervously. “Luna?” she asked, “Luna where are you?”

“Rainbow put your hoof on this” Luna’s voice commanded. Rainbow Dash looked around. She had no clue where Luna was. It was so dark; this kind of seemed like a setup. Rainbow wanted to ask why it was so dark, but she shook it out of her head before she could ask. Rainbow looked for where Luna was, but it was too dark to see. Rainbow Dash started to walk forward. After crashing into a lot of things, the blue Pegasus who was covered in bruises soon reached where Luna was. She put her hoof on what was like a dark piece of ink. The ink felt cold and it felt as if it was used before. Luna guided Rainbows hoof to a solid. It felt like a crisp piece of paper. Her hoof was on there for a while. Luna finally lifted her hoof up, and then guided Rainbow to the exit of the room. “We won't be able to know if you did it or not until tomorrow” Luna started, “I am sorry about this Rainbow, I just don’t know why the guards would want me to do this to you. Why on earth would the element of loyalty do this to her queen? It's just un-pony.”

Luna left the room with the piece of paper with Rainbow’s hoof print on it. Rainbow Dash decided it was best to go back to the medical wing. Although Rainbow knew that she didn’t do it and that the hoof print most likely won't match, she still had a fear that she did it. She told herself to stop thinking like that, but it was no use! She went back to the medical wing, but Pinkie Pie stopped her. “Hey Dashie! We had to leave the medical wing cause the machine started to make beeping noises!” Pinkie cheered while bouncing up and down, “Like fast loud beeping noises!”

“I just hope that the princess is okay,” Fluttershy whimpered,

“Me and you both sister” AJ sighed,

“It's you and me both AJ, not me and you both” Twilight started, “Or even better, you and I both.”

“Really Twilight? A grammar lesson now?” AJ yelled. Rainbow gave a small chuckle.

“Well, I don’t know about you girls but I am starved to the bone” Rarity moaned,

“Yeah, I totally forgot about breakfast this morning” Twilight sighed as she hear stomach growl, “Let's get a bite to eat.”

The six friends all went to a café. They had smoothies except for Rainbow Dash. She was too worried to have a smoothie. She knows she didn’t do, but a small thought raced through her head. What if I did? All of her friends wanted to comfort her and put her mind off of what happened. They all wanted to believe her, but just how could they? How could they go against the evidence, and if her hoof print matched. There was an awkward silence. All of the ponies sat there drinking their smoothies. “So how was the hoof test thingy-ma-bobber Dashie?” Pinkie Pie asked. So much for putting her mind off of that.

“It was well” Rainbow paused. She was brave, and her friends knew that she was brave, but this was just terrifying for her. She didn’t want to tell her friends that for sure, but she didn’t want to lie. “It was nothing” Rainbow smirked trying to act cool about it. There is a reason why she is not the element of honesty.

“That’s good darling” Rarity charmed. For the rest of the day, Rainbow Dash just thought about what was going on, and what was going to happen.

The next day Luna had to raise the sun. She had to do that yesterday too, but today she was saddened. She ordered Twilight and her friends to come to the throne room immediately. Rainbow Dash knew what this was going to be about. She felt brave, but at the same time quite horrified. They all entered the throne room. Rainbow nervously waited for Luna to say that she didn’t do it. “As we all know, Rainbow Dash has been a suspect on Celestia’s condition” Luna started. Rainbow now realized that hundreds of ponies were in the room with her. This made Rainbow shiver, why were all these ponies here? “We did a hoof print check to find that the hoof print was a match.”

Rainbow’s heart dropped. The hoof prints were a match. What was going to happen to her? How could this happen, and just why? Why would anypony think that she did it? She heard boo’s from the crowd. She looked at her friends who quickly looked away. Except for Twilight. She mouthed the words why to Rainbow. A tear went down her face. Not only did the crowd hate her, but also her friends. Luna hushed the crowd. “The punishment for this mare is” she paused, “Death.”

Rainbow’s pupils started to shrink. Tears started to roll down her face. How could this happen? Two guards came. They pulled Rainbow Dash by the arms and started to drag her away. Rainbow struggled to get free, but it was no use. The guards were stronger than her and she knew it. Insults were thrown at her. “Lies!” Rainbow screamed, “It's all lies, I swear to the bottom of my heart I didn’t do it!”

Rainbow took a glimpse at Twilight. Her eyes sparkled. Tears dripped down, more and more of them. Twilight suddenly knew the truth. Twilight ran after Rainbow Dash. Two guards stopped her from coming any closer. “We are sorry Princess Twilight,” one of the guards said. Twilight turned around to see that all of the ponies in the room were headed to an exit, including Luna. She had to follow them. She had to find a way to prove Rainbow Dash is innocent. Twilight followed the crowd. The exits lead to the outside gardens. Ponies walked to a small arena in the castle. Twilight had to follow them.

Twilight entered the arena. There was a long platform. On the platform was a tall pole with a rope connected to it. The two guards who were dragging Rainbow entered. They were still dragging Rainbow Dash. Rainbow squirmed around still trying to get free. Rainbow was balling with tears. How could this happen? That question raced through both Twilight’s and Rainbow’s mind. The guards tied Rainbow’s hooves and wings together. Then placed the rope from the pole around her neck. Two guards raised her up. Luna came. Twilight nervously looked at her. Tears came to Twilight’s eyes as she saw her friend about to be hung. Everypony was in the arena. Twilight had to stop this. She started to fly towards Rainbow Dash as fast as she could. The wind flew through her mane. Her tears quickly raced off of her face. Her eyes were set and locked on Rainbow’s. Luna gave a nod. Rainbow Dash quickly mouthed goodbye. Just like that the two guards dropped Rainbow Dash. Twilight was now flying faster than ever. There was still a chance. The rope around Rainbow Dash’s neck tightened. She dropped hard. Her neck was now useless. Her heart slowly died.

Twilight stopped right in front of Rainbow Dash. She was just too late.