"Take that, you ugly monster! No one tries to hurt my friends!" Rainbow Dash yelled proudly, as she flew over the crumpled body of a human.
"Rainbow! What have you done!" Princess Twilight Sparkle yelled, as she ran over to the dying body of George.
"What have I done? I just saved you from this monster." Rainbow Dash flipped in midair. "No need to thank me. I'm just doing my job."
"George wasn't a monster! He was a human!" Twilight yelled to her friend, tears in her eyes.
"A hooman?" Rainbow asked.
"A human! Like the species from the other world!" Rainbow's eyes widened, as she remembered the species Twilight told her friends about after her first adventure past the mirror.
Rainbow quickly shrugged it off. "Don't worry Twi. That kind of attack would have only dazed a minotaur. And you said that humans are basically minotaurs."
"Yeah, but George had a problem with his bones! He's got that rare fragile bone syndrome! You just destroyed his entire chest!" Twilight gestured to the blood spilling on the ground around the body of the human.
Rainbow gulped, before gently flying down, and gently shaking the body of the now dead human. "Hey, you okay bud?" No response. Rainbow shook a bit harder. "Hey, don't tell me a species like yours got hurt from a little scratch!" Still no response. "Come on! Don't tell me you're dead!" Rainbow's shaking finally made the body roll over, and both ponies had to puke after seeing the destroyed chest cavity and bloody mess of the human. Tears started forming in Rainbow's eyes, as he realized what she just did. "What have I done!"
"Miss Rainbow Dash!" The voice of Princess Celestia called out. Rainbow Dash was currently standing in court, accused of her recent crime. Her hoofs and wings were bound in iron, and her friends sat on the sidelines, all with tears in their eyes, worried over their friends. "You stand accused of murder, the extinction of an endangered species, unaggravated assault, and assault on a creature protected by the crown. How do you plead?" Celestia's voice boomed over the entire courtroom.
Rainbow Dash sighed, before standing up out of her chair as best she could. "I plead guilty, Princess Celestia." The moments those words came out of her mouth, all of her friends burst into tears, from Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash's oldest friend, to Applejack, who was thought to only be able to cry on the inside. Even Rainbow Dash's pet turtle, Tank, was crying.
"Then, you must serve a lifetime sentence in the Canterlot dungeons. Guards! Take her away!" A guard came over, and started pulling Rainbow Dash away, to the Canterlot Dungeons. Almost all the ponies in the room gasped at Celestia's decision, as they all know Rainbow Dash is an important figure to Equestria's safety.
After court was over, Twilight Sparkle and her friends all ran over to the Princess of the sun. "Celestia! How could you!" Twilight yelled, tears in her eyes. Her friends all nodded, tears in their eyes as well.
Celestia sighed, before responding. "I had to Twilight. She committed a crime, and has to be punished."
"But Rainbow's an important part of Equestria's defense!" Applejack exclaimed. "Without her, what would happen if we need to solve another friendship problem?!"
"While Miss Dash was an important part to Equestria's security, and has helped save Equestria on several different occasions, she still committed a crime, and needed to be punished. If she got let free, ponies will see that as you six being above the law, and complain, or even harm you and your families." Celestia said in a depressed tone of voice, not liking having to make such a decision.
"But who did she hurt?" Fluttershy asked. "I know Rainbow, and she would never k-kill somepony."
"The other day, a human arrived in our courtroom in the middle of the day. We questioned him, and learned his name; George. But we also learned that he had the rare condition of fragile bones. So, his body was much weaker than it should have been. We sent him to Ponyville, to live in Twilight's castle, as well as putting a notice on him, saying that harming him is against the law to protect him. Twilight can explain what happened next." Celestia said this, and walked away, causing the ponies to look at Twilight for answers.
'It's already been five years." Rainbow Dash thought. 'It's been five years since I-i-I killed somepony.' Rainbow hit her head with a hoof. 'If I only thought ahead, I wouldn't be in this situation.' Rainbow looked around her jail cell, noticing how barren it is. She then looked at herself, remembering how she looked before she did the act. Now her once vibrant mane and coat are dull, her eyes are almost lifeless, her wings are weak from not being used in five years, as prisoners wings must be unable to be used, unless at certain periods, which Rainbow Dash ignored, as flying reminded her of her crime. Even her body became flabby, as she hasn't gotten much exercise. 'Why didn't I think ahead! If I did, he would have still been alive! I killed a living creature!'
She was sometimes visited by her friends, but it never cheered her up much. One time she was even visited by her idol Spitfire, but all Spitfire could do was look disappointed. Rainbow cringed, as she remembered the words Spitfire used.
'I had high hopes for you kid. You could have been an awesome Wonderbolt, but you chose to throw it away.'
Even Discord choose to visit her once along with the rest of her friends, but Discord didn't say anything, except give her an angry glare, as they all knew Discord despises killing, and once mentioned how he was rather fond of the human after meeting him, stating how the human seemed to come from a 'gleefully' chaotic world.
As Rainbow Dash sat on her bunk in her cell, she pushed her head into her hooves, and cried out four last words, before only crying was heard.
"What have I done!"
Author's Note
This was just some idea I had, and I couldn't concentrate on any of my other stories until I got this out of the way.
I got the idea from remembering an episode of Spongebob.
edit: forgive me for writing this horribly written story. I'm just having some off days, as my aunt has been hospitalized, and recently passed away. This was probably some vent my mind used to help get rid of some depression.
Hope you enjoyed(ish) it.