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Rainbow looked up at her new enemy that had done so much wrong to her in the past little while. Murdered her best friend in cold blood, framing Rainbow for that very murder and turning her friends against her. She had nowhere to go now, but she knew what she'd do with Dawson.

"The only question I have for you is if you like a nice, painful death or not! If you don't, all the better for me!" Rainbow snarled.

"Oh come now, you MUST have at least one question for me."

Something in Rainbow wanted desperately to get the answers Dawson offered. It's as though a new purpose was forming inside her, something that was slowly eating away.

"But I will not reveal enough, because then you'll have no use for me and you'll make an attempt to kill me. And I don't plan on either of us dying anytime soon." Dawson explained.

Rainbow kept getting angrier and angrier, knowing full well that what he said was true.

"How many people do you plan on killing?"

"Well, there's only one person I want to kill, but to do it, the deaths of several ponies must take place. It's all business, and I hope you know that in business, people have what you want. I have answers. You need them. The reason I am keeping you alive is because I need you. And because you need the answers, you need me." Dawson explained.

Rainbow shook her head, not understanding some of what he said.

"Alright... To put it simply, you won't kill me, and I won't kill you. Got it?"

"Fine." Rainbow muttered. She decided to ask some worthless questions to try and stall, to give her more time to think about the situation. "What was really going on at the party? Why'd people keep acting strange to me?"

"You were the 'guest of honour' because you ran the party. You planned it so that the murder of Pinkie Pie could take place. And you went to the Everfree Forest to gather your thoughts, I assume?"

Rainbow was stunned. None of this was true, except the forest part. It couldn't be, she'd never do such a thing to Pinkie. But any disagreeing she'd try against Dawson would be pointless, so she let him carry on. Honestly, a part of her really thought that he was telling the complete truth, and these so-called 'pointless' questions seemed to satisfy her need for answers.

"We are more alike than you think. I won't answer any more questions, even though I asked your questions for you, honestly. All will be clear in due time, but not until it's too late. Well, I'd love to chat, but I simply must carry out some more of my plan." Dawson waved and walked away.

"What? Plan? So another murder?! Get back here!" Rainbow frantically charged at him, but he characteristically disappeared out of thin air, yet again.

Now that she was all alone, she collected her thoughts and took a look at the situation. This colt murdered Pinkie Pie, and has framed Rainbow for it. She got over that relatively quickly though, to her surprise and terror. It seems that he was driving her purpose away from her friends, and succeeding. Then, Rarity saw the staged situation and will undoubtedly tell the whole village that it was Rainbow who commited the crime, and then she would have no friends or places to go in Ponyville to seek help.

Rarity, Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie and Fluttershy... several ponies... several... it seems that Dawson is planning on killing her friends. The thought of what motives he could have against Rainbow made her shudder.

She then realized that she was in the Everfree Forest, and was completely lost. She figured that if she flew, it wouldn't be a problem, but as she began to fly, she found that her wings were magically disabled. It seems that the colt has a lot of abilities, and although she was still driven to get answers from him, it'd be hard to save her friends if he had those extraordinary talents. "No", she thought, "Saving my friends is my purpose, however strong this colt may be. Not answers. I will kill this colt, for Pinkie.". She knew Dawson was using his abilities to change her purpose, and it wouldn't work on this loyal pony.

Rainbow climbed a tree to see where the village was, and began walking in it's direction. It would take at least a day's walk to get there, but she wasn't called Rainbow Dash for no reason. She got ready for a good run to the village, but discovered that she could barely run at all. She barely slept, and her energy is taking it's toll for it. She began her slow walk to Ponyville, all the while hoping that whoever Dawson planned on murdering would be okay for a while.

After a full day's walk, she was within throwing distance of the forest's opening. As she left the forest to get closer to Ponyville, she saw Scootaloo trotting by the path.

Scootaloo saw her before she could hide, and she began to cry out "Guards! Guards! It's Rainbo-" Rainbow put her hoof on her mouth and told her to be quiet.

"Please don't kill me Rainbow! I always thought you were awesome!" Scootaloo said frightened.

"Calm down, calm down. Listen, Scootaloo, I'm glad to see you. I've been framed and I NEED to get into Ponyville and warn my friends of the murderer that's planning on killing them!" Rainbow whispered to Scootaloo.

Rainbow waited for any guards to come to the forest opening, but found that none came. Scootaloo broke the silence.

"I knew you wouldn't do such a thing! I believe you! And I will help you in any way I can, as long as you protect me from this murderer you mentioned." Scootaloo said excitedly.

"You'll just believe me for my word?" Rainbow responded.

"Of course! You are so loyal to your friends, I would trust your word for them to the ends of the earth!" Scootaloo exclaimed. "The only one of your friends in Ponyville at the moment is Twilight, you should contact her. She'd probably be the next target!"

"We have to go! Come on!" Rainbow hurried.

The two ponies hurried over to Ponyville, but found that the whole village was surrounded by guards, and Twilight's library was in the dead center. She'd have to go through guards to get there, but they'd capture her before she could explain her situation. She couldn't face the guards, but she had to get to Twilight before it was too late. She asked Scootaloo for ideas, but she came up with a blank too.

But then, Rainbow realized, every building must have a sewer drainage nearby, and she found the sewer opening on the side of the village, a good distance away from any guard's eyes. It would be very disgusting to travel this way, but it'd be worth it to save her friend's life.

She told the plan to Scootaloo, who said that she couldn't really help in a fight, and would step down from following Dash. Rainbow understood, told Scootaloo never to lose hope, and commenced her adventure in the sewer. However, she was blocked before she even entered the sewer, noticing that the gate was locked tight. It would need a key to open.

Ironically, the key was inside the sewer, within a wing's distance hanging on the wall. A wing's distance...

Rainbow got her wing which, although disabled, was still strong and flexible, and she claimed it with relative ease. But on the way back, she snapped the wing and cried out in pain. She knew the guards heard, so she unlocked the gate and quickly entered and locked the gate back up again, keeping the key with herself and heading down the dark sewer, but with one major problem - the guards probably had keys, and she had no idea which sewer would be the right one.

She checked tons of sewer grates, getting filthy in the process, but with no success. She finally found one that worked after what was probably her 20th grate, and it was quite close to Twilight's house. The clouds overhead were overcast, and she thanked Celestia that the other Pegasi were being lazy and not cleaning them up. She had darkness on her side, and the ponies of Ponyville were in their homes, preparing shelter from the future adverse weather.

This allowed Rainbow to easily get to the library, and quietly opened the unlocked door. Hmm, why would it be unlocked if there was a supposed murderer on the loose?

Before she could enter the library, however, 3 guards began to approach Rainbow, knowing full well who she was, Rainbow slammed and locked the library door, waking Twilight, who had been taking a nap.

"Rainbow, you know better than to wake me up at this hour... RAINBOW DASH?! GUARDS! GUARDS! KILL HER-" Rainbow put her hoof on Twilight's mouth and explained the whole situation while she had her hoof on her. She needed to find and eliminate Dawson before the guards got inside, they were banging very hard against the locked door, trying to get in. She was running out of time.

"Come on, we have to get out of here Twilight! Someone is coming to murder you and I need your help to clear my name!" Rainbow exclaimed.

Twilight nodded suspiciously, thinking that the story seemed a bit far-fetched. She thought of ways with Rainbow to escape, because facing the guards would be very bad. Surely, she was a kill on sight criminal according to them, so as soon as Twilight would open the main door, they would storm in and kill her before any explanation could be made. Neither could fly, made apparent by Rainbow's disabled wings. But there was one other way.

"I might believe you Rainbow, but I'll keep my eye on you. The only reason I trust you in the slightest is because I know that being the Element of Loyalty, you'd probably never betray your friends. I think I know a book that has a good teleportation spell I can use though. Normally I can teleport, but after we faced Discord a second time last month, he cast a terrible spell on me that prevented the use of most of my normal spells. This teleportation spell is different, because it is designed for very long distances, which is perfect in our case. We can teleport close to Canterlot and get the help of Celestia!" Twilight explained.

It was a great idea, but Rainbow didn't think that there was enough time. The door was almost knocked down, and you can't count out Dawson, who may show up at any given moment.

"Here, I found it!"

Twilight opened the book to the proper page and showed the page to Rainbow. The rainbow pony looked down at the pages, but discovered that she could not read the pages, they were covered in blood. Fresh blood, that she noticed was dripping out from Twilight's neck. Slowly, Twilight's life blood poured out onto the book, but instead of Pinkie, she could still speak jaggedly.

"Dash... why... Dash..." Twilight sputtered.

Rainbow was devastated, knowing that there was no way she could save Twilight. This would be just like Pinkie... No, there was always hope. Rainbow slammed Dawson into the bookshelf, grabbed Twilight and went up the stairs to her healing concoctions that she had in her books. Rainbow tore through the books, but Twilight was stopping her.

"No... no use saving me, I'm too far gone... because of you..." Twilight uttered.

Twilight collapsed to the ground, having died just like Pinkie. Rainbow couldn't believe this twisted turn of events, and felt as though the world had come crashing down again, just to torture her. Her rational thought was being lost, and her sadness at the death of her friend was not as strong as it was for Pinkie. Something was turning very wrong for her, and she needed to find out the answer why...

END OF CHAPTER TWO