"Mother it can't be true" Twilight was sitting, tucked in Flash's wing as she watched her mother in worry while Cadence checked her for serious wounds but a sudden commotion in the form of ponies and animals whispering darkly drew their attention.

"Thunder!" Rumble cheered, starting to go toward the mare but his parents blocked him scolding him in whispers.

Rainbow, having heard Rumble's yell from inside the den attempted to fly to Thunder's side but a quick pull of magic from Celestia grounded her again, everyone began to whisper about the scar on her face as Thunder finally stopped walking, looking around in worry at the hatred on the faces of everyone around her.

"Why have you come back?" Celestia glared at her from where she was standing on the outcrop of Pride Rock.

"Celestia...I have nothing to do with-" Thunder began but Celestia roared over her.

"You don't belong here" She said harshly her glare not letting up in the slightest.

"Please, I ask your forgiveness" Thunder looked up desperately at Celestia her eyes begging for what she couldn't say in words.

"Celestia please, listen to her" Rainbow pleaded watching Thunder sadly.

"Silence!" Celestia snapped at Rainbow before turning back to Thunder "when you first came here, you asked for judgement, and I pass it now!" Rainbow and Twilight exchanged terrified glances while the crowd yelled their approval. "Exile!" she roared after a brief pause ignoring Rainbow cry of denial.

Thunder looked around in fear as animals and ponies began to stomp their feet "Deception disgrace evil as plain as the scar on her face! Deception, an outrage! Disgrace, For shame! She asked for trouble the moment she came!" The animals began to chant, a pair of unicorns backing Thunder up threateningly with their horns until she was forced to leap backwards so she didn't fall of the edge.

"No! Thunder!" Rainbow cried out in heartbreak, Twilight turned away to cry into Flash's fur at the sounds of Rainbow's voice.

"Deception an outrage! Disgrace for shame! You know these Outsider types she asked for trouble the moment she came see you later, agitator! Deception an outrage! Just leave us alone! Disgrace for shame! Traitor, go back with your own! She asked for trouble the moment she came see you later, agitator!" The voices began to blur together as Thunder ran from the attacking animal and ponies, leaping around snakes and trying to avoid hooves as ponies bucked at her. She ran as quickly as she could to avoid antelopes who started to crash together leading her to a line of ostriches who began to hit her in the head. She tried to stop and catch her breath but monkeys began to throw rocks at her causing her to start running again to try to get away from the assaulting creatures.

"Born in grief...raised in hate helpless to defy her fate let her run, let her live but do not forget what we cannot forgive" birds and Pegasus began to fly overhead pecking and kicking her as she ran farther from Pride Rock heading toward the trees hoping to stop them from getting to her. "And she is not one of us she has never been one of us she is not part of us not our kind" Thunder stopped in a small pool of water panting as she turned her head back toward Pride Rock, now she could barely see Celestia at the top surrounded by animals and ponies, all of them shaking their head slowly at Thunder. What Thunder wasn't able to see what Rainbow finally breaking the spell that made her ground and trying to fly up again, only to be stopped by a pair of unicorns cast the spell a second time.

"Someone once lied to us now we're not so blind for we knew she would do what she's done and we know that she'll never be one of us! She is not one of us.... Deception disgrace, deception disgrace...deception..." Thunder flinched at their unfiltered hatred looking down into the water watching her face in the ripples, staring in horror as her face became Discords. She shook her head running through the water to break the illusion splashing through the pool of water noisily until she reached solid ground and turn back toward Pride Rock a second time, this time even the animals were tiny, Celestia was a small white dot against the orange sunset. She sighed turning to walk away, the animals and ponies giving up the chase and allowing her to finally manage to catch her breath but their words echoed in her ears. She glanced back for a fraction of a second as she reached a hill but then unfurled her wings and took to the air a black and white streak the only sign she had been there at all. Zecora shook her head in sadness as she watched Thunder fly away, she sighed in looking away while leaning on her walking stick.

"Mother, please reconsider" Twilight finally managed to recover from her sadness giving Flash a soft nuzzle before hurrying to her mother's side, but Celestia didn't pay her words any heed.

"You and your friends aren't to go anywhere without an escort from now on" She turned to head into the den but Rainbow blocked her way fury in her eyes.

"No! That's not-" She began to argue.

"She used you to get close to us" Celestia tried to reason.

"No! She loves me, for me" Rainbow stubbornly continued but Celestia seemed unaffected by her words.

"Because you're friends with Twilight!" she tried to calm down and spoke a little more evenly "You will stay on Pride Rock, where someone can keep an eye on you, away from her" she said firmly.

"You don't know her!" Rainbow cried but Celestia was unmoved by her words.

"I know she is following in Discord's hoof prints as I must follow in my father's" she stood tall looking over her kingdom with a determined glint in her eyes.

Rainbow gritted her teeth in frustration the words flying out of her mouth without her thinking about them "You will never be Starswirl!" the entire gathering of ponies' jaws fell open in shock at the outraged Pegasus's words before she turned and took of into the den laying down with a depressed sigh, covering her hoof to block the stream of light from her eyes. The sudden realization made her spring up looking at the small hole that the light bleed through the rocks seemed loose enough, she pawed at them feeling them fall away with ease. She glanced back before squeezing through the larger hole she had created quickly running from Pride Rock making sure it was clear of ponies before she opened her wings and took to the sky determined to find Thunder.

Where could she be? Rainbow thought scanning the ground below as she flew I won't be able to see her from up here she glanced at the slowly sinking sun. Sighing she flew toward the ground landing softly and looking around, she had landed near a pool of water on a small clip of rock. She leapt off the clip looking under it just to be safe and slowly walked into the pool of water looking down at her reflection her eyes widening when she noticed that her reflection seemed to be half missing, with a half-hearted scoff she ran through the water. Rainbow didn't stop until she realized she recognized that this was where they had been chased by those rhinos not to long ago Rainbow smiled softly at the memory. We had our first kiss here she looked inside the small wedge of space but of course it was empty so, her heart lost and searching Rainbow turned away and started to walk again.

Author's Note

Like I said, two updates in one, I hope you enjoy both chapters even though they're short :)