Goodnight Moon

by Majikkstar

Rating: everyone
Tags: Rainbow Dash, Sad, Original Character, Slice of Life, Wonderbolts, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1159

Rainbow Dash makes a mistake and an earth pony is fatally injured

A Wonderbolts show takes a turn for the worse and a filly gets hurt.

Coverart is by http://arcanelexicon77.tumblr.com/, a great pony artist!

Published 2015-07-01 06:40:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-07-05 03:34:57 UTC

Goodnight

Goodbye and Goodnight

I was so excited to finally see the Wonderbolts live and their newest member Rainbow Dash.  It was worth waiting hours in line and getting lost finding our seats to finally see the show.   Rainbow Dash was amazing; doing stunts and tricks that should have broken her wings like it was nothing.   I just have a problem being short so I had trouble seeing when Rainbow would get to low or far away.

     "Mommy, can you pick me up?  Can you please?  Pleasepleaseplease?"  I begged mommy to pick me up on her back like when I was little again.  I felt like I could touch the energy in the air.  My mom's a unicorn and I'm an earth pony like my dad and I'm okay with that.  Some fillies would tease me when I was little but not anymore.  Foals will be foals they say.

I felt my mom's magic around me as she picked me up and held me over her so I could see better.  A few ponies behind us yelled but I couldn't hear them clearly; the show, the crowd, the energy.  It was all encompassing to the point I couldn't even think, only feel.  Then it happened.  A moment I would remember for the rest of my life.  Rainbow Dash waved at me.  ME!  A thousand ponies and she waved at me, the little earth pony who barely passed school just got a wave from the coolest mare in Equestria.  Except for my mom, that is.

At first I was so excited I thought I might pee, as gross as that sounds it's not unheard of but I held it in.  My entire body locked tight at what happened next; she flew to me and picked me up from my mother's grasp.  With a couple words I couldn't hear through the roar of the crowd I saw my mom smile and nod.  With a few flaps all I heard was wind screaming through my ears.   NO, wait, that was me.  I was screaming, it was so much fun.

We were so high that when I looked down I couldn't see the forms of anypony, just colorful dots moving around.  Then, we stopped.  She looked at me and smiled the warmest smile I'd ever seen and I knew what she was going to do.  "Ya ready squirt?"

"Oh yeah!"  I screamed before I gasped.  The air was really thin up here but I was too distracted by the awesome cyan mare holding me, wrapping her legs around me.  Her voice was so soft and smooth and the world was so peaceful here.  I really need to get a Pegasus to bring me up here again.  I felt her stop flapping and my heart stopped, my breath halted and my eyes widened as her grip tightened across my body.

Mom, Dad, Ring, Dry, Switch... my family and friends were all about to see the biggest moment in my life so far.  We tipped and began to fall head first toward the ground.  The world was so quiet and peaceful, like a dream where you touch the sky before a dog jumps on your bed and startles you awake.  That's what happened when I felt the cloth on her uniform tighten as she opened her wings and began flapping them.

The air started to whoosh, then sounded like rocks falling, then it screamed in my ears before turning silent.  A sparkle of white caught my eye and I looked ahead at it and laughed.  Rainbow Dash, the most awesome mare was about to do a Sonic Rainboom with me, as the end of her show.  I watched the spark get brighter and, I don't know why I did it, but I bucked my hardest and snapped my head back and up to try to see her.  I caught her unaware and she opened her wings quickly to break speed and she stopped.

But, I didn't.

I heard screams and gasps as the air rolled my body to look at her.  She flew at me faster than any creature should ever move.  Closer and closer she got.  It was so cool.  This HAD to be part of the show.  I turned my head and saw a dozen unicorns below me and coming closer fast.

Yeah, even if it's not part of the show they'll catch me.  No problem.  It's what magic does, my mom said tha-

Ugh, my ears are ringing so bad.  They must've caught me really close to the ground, I think I can see...  Yeah, my friends!  "Mom, dad?  Everypony?  How was the-"  Oh I hate when I cough when I talk.  The same for yawning, just always at the best time you do the worst thing to hold everything up.  Wait, somethings...  "Oh my!  Rainbow Dash!?" I tried to shout but I coughed again.

I want to yell and scream and get all fan-filly at her but I can't, move, my, bucking, body!  The best I'll have to do is smile and hope that I can get an autograph.

"Heya, Squirt," Oh my gosh she called me Squirt.   "Glad ta see you made it this far.  I'm, I'm really so-"

Why's she crying?  Did she say sorry?  What for?  I don't und--

I woke up again and fell asleep a few more times and saw my mom talking to a doctor or somepony...

(...ot a few hours left, you need --)

(...OOO, my baby; my child!  Not like this.  Not lik --)

(...inutes.  She's waking up, be as quick as you can.)

"Sweetie?  Moon Watcher?  It's mommy and daddy and all your friends... And Rainbow Dash.  We're here to say goodnight."

It's so sleepy here.  Hard to think, just wanna go to sleep.  "I feel like I was up in the sky again.  The thin air.  The silence and quiet, peace all around me.  The tightness of Rainbow holding onto m-"  Bucking coughing!

Okay, coughing's stopping, I can talk again. "I'm really sleepy everypony, can I have pancakes for breakfast tomorrow?"

Why is everypony crying?

I opened my eyes wider and saw them all standing around my bed.

What the hay?  This' my room and every ponies crammed in here?  What's that beeping noise?  And why's the ceiling white?  And where's my--

I woke up again and felt hooves all over my body, well not all over but I looked down and saw mom touching me, but I couldn't feel it.  Weird.

"My little pony," Rainbow said between sobs, "my little pony."

"I used to wonder what friendship could be," Ring said dryly.

"Until you shared its magic with me," Dry whispered, she always has been quiet.

"Big adventure, tons of fun," dad sobbed.

"A beautiful heart, faithful and strong," Switch said with his teeth tightly closed, why's he so sad?

"Sharing kindness is an easy feat and magic makes it all complete."  A small chorus of voices sang and I gasped looking to the doorway.The wonderbolts are in my room!  There they were, five others in full uniform, looking at me, but they were getting farther away.

"You're my... little...   pony."  My mom's voice faded away like I was falling as everything turned darker and that beeping noise sang a tone that faded with my mom's voice.  It got so dark suddenly and every pony's crying stopped.

"Mom?  Why'm I so sleepy?"