The SS

She coughed shakily, raising her body off the ground once she had gotten away. That was a close one. She thought, wiping some dust off off her body-- no, Twilight Sparkle’s body. She’d have to get used to that. She looked around, getting used to the vision that the Princess seemed to live with. It’ll do. She froze when she heard the crunching of leaves behind her new body, followed by an exhausted voice.

“Twilight…..where are you?” She sighed. The pegasus still was chasing after her, even after all the swerves she had done past nearby buildings and hazards. She spread her wings and flew up to a nearby building, just as a weary blue pegasi stepped into view.

“T-Twilight…..” Rainbow yawned and began to look around in the leaves.

“Rainbow Dash, it’s okay, I’m just practicing flying,” she yelled, doing her best impression of the Alicorn. It was quite easy, considering she was her at the moment.

Rainbow Dash stood there for a good few seconds, blinking in confusion. She shook her head before bursting into laughter. “Bwahaha! You seriously expect me to think you would be flying this late at night?” She wiped away a tear and waiting for “Twilight’s” response.

Perhaps not as easy as I thought.

This is going nowhere. She can’t know any of this happened. She coughed again, before she flew back down the the laughing pegasus, who was surprised to see her friend refraining from eye contact.

“Uh, Twilight, you okay?” She tried squatting to see if she could see her eyes, but they were covered by her blue mane.

“Yeah, but I led you down here because I wanted to show you something.” Although it didn’t sound much like Twilight, she was happy when Dash awkwardly accepted to follow her. Her mistake.

The pegasus followed after the Alicorn, not questioning her motives or ideas. It might have been late, but she was still her friend. Then again...She wasn’t bringing me here.

Dash was cut short when Twilight stopped in front of her. “Are we here yet?”

She nodded, and Dash swore the area around the two of them got darker.

“Hey, what’s going on he-”

And then everything went black.

* * *

Dash woke up in a cramped space. A little too cramped. Sighing, she went to open her eyes. ‘Where the hay am I?’ she meant to say, but all that came out was garbled noise. Bleh, I gotta stop tucking myself under the covers. She thought, ignoring the dreaded noise that came out of her mouth.

Reaching out for the cover, she felt something hard against her head. She tried focusing her eyes, but it was far too dark to see anything. Dash gulped nervously, grabbing around the edges of the strange box that seemed to be covering her. Box. Dash suddenly panicked, cold sweat running down her muzzle as she realised this could very well be what she thought it was.

Then, something gave way, and she flinched as she felt something fall onto her face. Brushing it off, she continued past the wood and tried to dig through the mush that was slowly mixing in with her fur. She gasped for air as soon as the mud moved past by force. Finally, she could relax.

But then she realised something. Hopping out of the small hole she had created, she looked around to see where she was, although the heavy rain made it hard to see. She was at a cemetery. Her eye twitched.

“W-What the…” Her usually egotistical personality took a backseat to her fear. Why was she here? What’s going on? Why was she…..buried??

“That’s a good question for you to ask.” Dash froze, before she realised the display she was making and quickly turned around.

“Who are…..you?” Dash really meant that question for once. Being popular also meant that usually fans and admirers would encounter her, and she’d try not to forget them. This was different.

Standing before the confused pegasus was a giant creature--maybe two or three times her size, staring down at her. It had a wispy appearance, almost like it wasn’t there. From it’s head sprouted antlers, which were connected to a skull of some shape. The lower body seemed to be shaped like one of the cows at Applejack’s farm, but it was rather long and slender.

“LiberDrio.” The figure simply said, staring down at Dash with its cold black eyes. “You’ll be wanting revenge now, I presume?”

Dash blinked. “Uh…..What?” She asked, and although she tried the best to smirk, she didn’t exactly feel like it with this ‘thing’ in front of her.

“Twilight Sparkle killed you.”

Dash blinked a few more times. That’s crazy. She would have said, if she didn’t wake up underground in a coffin. You’re some sort of prankster, right? A small tombstone titled “Rainbow Dash” was one of the first things she saw. She froze in place. “W-Why?” She finally managed to blurt out, wanting answers.

“Well, I’m afraid I don’t know the answer to that. But, you do want revenge, yes?”

She winced. “No….I don’t.” Even if Twilight did do what this creature was saying, she wouldn’t plan revenge on anyone. That was stupid, even for her.

The creature snarled, it’s pupils lightly shimmering. “You will soon.” And with that, it slowly dissolved away until it was no more.

Dash sighed. What is going on? She was going to get answers, she knew it, but for the moment all she wanted to do was sleep. Her legs fell down on themselves and she found herself unable to get up as she began to nod off, but not before she heard a strangely familiar voice behind her.

“There, there. You’ve been through a lot, just rest for now.”