Shocked and Speechless

9:00 pm. Twilight Sparkle woke up to find Rainbow Dash watching the news on the TV.

“So what’s the forecast for this week? Do we have to prepare for a storm?” asked Twilight, with a little chuckle. Rainbow Dash didn’t answer.

“What’s the matter?” Twilight asked, a little worried.

“Watch the TV.” whispered Rainbow Dash, in the type of voice you have when you cry. Twilight cautiously turned her head to the screen, and her body got bathed in shock in a matter of seconds. She didn’t even think it was possible.

One of the twin towers of the Celestia Clone Center was on fire. The fire’s so high, how’d that even happen? Twilight asked herself via thought. She didn’t want to know the answer, but the news anchor answered it anyways.

“If you are just tuning in, a Wonderbolt has just crashed into one of the towers of the Celestia Clone Center.” said the anchor-pony in great grief, “We yet to know how many ponies have been killed in the explosion, but it was huge so we don’t have high hopes.”

Twilight couldn’t turn her head. It was like her head was being magnetized to the television screen. If the incident wasn’t horrible enough, apparently some pony had actually captured the Wonderbolt striking the tower.

The video showed two firefighters fixing a pipe in the city, just 5 minutes away from Twilight’s tree house. The sound of a fast strike filled the air, as the camera-pony turned. The tower became visible to the camera, just as the Wonderbolt hit the building, creating a large explosion that caused an earthquake. Twilight was surprised she didn’t feel it.

She finally got the nerve to turn her head towards Rainbow Dash, whose face was heartbreaking. Tears came down in a stream straight down from her eyes down to the floor.

“Rainbow Dash, I’m so sorry.” Twilight said, starting to cry.

Rainbow Dash was speechless, shocked at the fact that a Wonderbolt, a pony, had crashed into the tower, not only killing him/her, but also hundreds of innocent ponies.

Finally, she answered. “It‘s okay,” she sniffed, “I just can’t believe that a Wonderbolt, a good guy, had crashed into the tower.”

“Was it a type of rebellion?” Twilight asked.

Rainbow Dash’s eyes filled up with tears. “I DON’T KNOW!” she yelled, stomping her hoofs to the ground and burying her face in the floor.

Twilight came up and hugged her. Twilight had turned from a few tears to full-out crying.

One thing went through both their minds, and millions of other ponies around the world: Who would do this? Why would some pony do this?