Darkness in the Heart

Light was up in the air, looking around for a flying pegasus pony to catch. She tried to see a pony lying on a cloud, but she had no luck finding one.

Whoosh

A blue... thing with a rainbow trailing behind it sped in front of Light, scaring her and causing her to fly back a bit. She looked around to find it, but couldn't find who did it.

Whoosh

It happened again. "Show yourself, coward!" she yelled into the distance.

"Who are you calling a coward, weakling?" said a voice to her left. She turned in that direction and saw a blue pegasus pony with a rainbow mane in front of her.

"Ah, there you are," Light said. "Time to get you."

"Yeah, but have fun catching me!" she dashed away at sonic speeds.

"Challenge accepted." She forced out her wings and sped at what was hopefully Light's target. She forced her wings behind her, strong enough to make the wind be forced out for about... 10 feet. She went what was fast for her, though nothing compared to the speeds her target went at. The blue mare was at a pace that was almost twice the speed of Light... I did not mean to make that joke at first... Okay, continuing on...

I can't fly that fast! Light thought. I guess I have one choice: Use deceit. Somehow trick her to allow me to catch up to her... but how? I'm not a genius... but I'm pretty sure I'm smart enough. She stopped herself, allowing herself to fly in one spot, wings flapping around her. She just stayed in the same spot, staring at the rainbow streak in front of her. After a few seconds, the blue pegasus stopped and turned around.

"What?" she yelled at Light. "Am I too fast for you? Here, let me slow down so you can put on your training wheels!" She turned around and started flying at half her old pace, which was just barely slower than how fast Light went. After a few seconds, she stopped and turned around again. "What are you just afraid, wimp?" Light just stayed at the same spot, grinning. "Fine! Enough chasing games! I guess I'll destroy you if exhaustion won't!"

So that was her plan, huh? She just stared at the blue pegasus charging towards her at what was barely under the speed of sound. When she was only a few yards away, Light dodged to the side, causing the charging mare to miss; she quickly slowed down, and turned around.

"So that's how you're gonna fight, huh? Fine, no Misses Nice-Mare!" she charged back Light, who still just stared at the blue mare. The rainbow-maned pony flew right in front of Light and threw a jab at Light, but she swiftly dodged it. Then rainbow mare threw more kicks and punches at Light, though she dodged all of those. "How..." she said between a breath. "How... did you dodge all of those?"

Light just grinned still. "You have simple thoughts and a simple heart. It was easy. Now that you've managed to knock yourself out by just throwing weak attacks and flying, I guess I might as well use my spell now." She began charging her laserified spell. (YES, THAT IS A WORD NOW.) She fired it straight at the chest of the rainbow mare, faster than she could react. While the light was being restored, Light realized she was quickly losing energy. But if she lost too much, she wouldn't just simply collapse. No. She was flying in the middle of the air; that would lead to her dying a clumsy, painful death by plummeting to the ground below her. She knew she was finishing the spell, but she couldn't take it anymore. Her breathing slowed and her wings stopped flapping; she was falling to the her doom. "No..." was the last thing she said before losing her last bit of energy. But she wasn't falling alone; her target lost her consciousness, also. The two pegasi fell from the sky, falling through clouds as they await their doom.

The blue mare slow woke up from her daze, shaking her head; she suddenly realized she was falling from the sky. She quickly gained the energy to flap her wings to stop herself from falling. "W-What happened?" She shook her head. Suddenly, something white fell in front of her. "What was that?!" She looked lower and saw that it was another pony. "Who is that?!" She just stared at the pony. "Ah! I need to save her!" She quickly turned down and started speeding at the falling pony. She sped at super speeds, trying to save this pony she doesn't know. She knew that a sonic rainboom would give her enough speed to successfully save the pony, but she doesn't have nearly enough energy to dare perform that... Well, maybe she did, but it would knock her out... But it was her being knocked out or a pony dying...

"Well, here I go!" She did a loop-de-loop (or whatever it is) and began flying faster than before. She was going at an incredible speed. She had finally caught up to the white pony... but she lost it; a barrier formed in front of her, preventing the sonic rainboom from happening. "I may not be able to do my sonic rainboom... but I'm not letting that get in front of me!" She forced herself into the barrier; she managed to shatter it, allowing her to continue on. She pushed herself a bit harder and eventually got low enough for her to save the pony by getting her to land on her back. "Oof!" she puffed as the pony landed on her. She slowly descended down to the ground, finally getting her hooves back on the ground. Before she could get this pony she doesn't know off of her safely, she collapsed and whited out.

Light eventually dazed awake, looking around; she was lying on the grass by another pony, who was knocked out cold. "Hey, hey," she said drunkenly. "I know you." She shook her head. "What the heck am I doing? I'm not drunk."  She looked at the other pony and poked her. "Hey." She poked her again. "Hey." Again. "Wake up." Again. "Come on." Again. "Wake up."

The blue mare started to daze awake. She looked at Light. "H-Hey, I know y-"

Light interrupted, "No, you're not drunk or hungover either."

The blue mare shook her head then rubbed it. "Ugh, where am I? And who are you? Didn't I, like, just save you?"

Light replied, "Yes. And things are too complicated to explain in a few minutes. Right now, I have to take you to Fluttershy's cottage." Light started walking away, but the blue mare just stayed in the same spot. Light noticed this later and turned around. "You comin'?"

The pony replied, "No. Why should I trust you? I saved you, you didn't save me. And why do we have to go to Flutter's cottage? And I still don't know who you are!"

Light face-hooved her self. "I'm Light. You're Rainbow Dash, right?"

"Yep! Only the greatest flyer in Equestria going to join the Wonderbolts soon, and-"

Light interrupted, "Keep the gloating for later. My brother came here, made everypony evil, and I've been saving your friends, and I have 1 left, and we have to save your princess, and I have to kill my brother, and I have no idea what happens after that."

"W-Wait. You have to kill your brother? That's pretty brutal."

"It's complicated. Let's just say things haven't gone too well, and I'm the creation of Light, and he's the creation of Dark, and we were supposed to never be split up, but we were, and now either 1 or both of us is going to die."

"That... doesn't sound good."

"Nooooo, really?". Light finished sarcastically. "Come on. Let's go." The other mare still didn't move. "Really?"

Rainbow Dash just stared at her. "I still don't know why I should trust you."

Light yelled, "BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T COME WITH ME, YOU'LL BUCKING DIE!!" The two just stared at each other for a few moments as Light's voice echoed. They heard many voices of in the distance. "...Oh shit."

"Wait, what did you just do?" Rainbow Dash said in a panicked voice.

"I just attracted the horde."

"You what?!"

"Every single evil pony in this town just heard it. They're coming to kill us..."

"What?!"

"We need to fly back to Fluttershy's cottage. Fast. And now." The two saw hundreds of ponies running towards them in the distance.

"Why should I still trust you?!" Rainbow Dash yelled over the stomping hooves as Light flapped her wings and flew into the air.

"Fine! Kill yourself! I don't give a buck! We can just save Equestria without you!" Light started to fly away at a very fast speed. Rainbow Dash stared back and forth between the white mare who was flying away and the mob of angry ponies, who come closer every second.

"Okay, okay! I'll go!" Rainbow Dash flew up into the air and flew towards Light.

When she eventually caught up, Light asked her, "So you didn't want to commit suicide?"

"Shut up! We need to get to Fluttershy's cottage before they manage to catch up to us!"

"Agreed!" The two sped off to Fluttershy's cottage, which wasn't too far away. The two landed and went inside to see the four ponies inside... and a party going on.

"Welcome back, Light!" Pinkie said, appearing from nowhere. "Since you're new to Ponyville, I decided to-"

Light shoved a hoof in her mouth. "There's no time for a party. We need to pack out crap and go."

Fluttershy walked up to Light, wearing a cone-shaped party hat with butterflies on it, just like her cutie mark. "Um... W-Why?"

Light replied, "Because we just got chased by nine thousand and one evil ponies, and they want to destroy us all. So... anypony here got a plan for fighting a trillion ponies?"