Author's Note

SHORT CHAPTER AND I APOLOGIZE! It is abnormally short... but I ran out of ideas for it... I might rewrite it or add on to it later... If you have any ideas about what could be added, please let me know in the comments. I'll look over each suggestion and add whatever idea I draw from a hat... Disappointment ho!

In Which a Darkness is Shown

Rainbow Dash sped towards the sector she decided she wanted. She had a feeling she needed to be near the jousting arena. Along her path, she felt an eerie lack of ponies.

In no time at all, she was at her destination. She entered the building and looked around, attempting to find anything of note. Unfortunately, what she found was not relevant to her current situation. She came across the occasional extra pointy lance, a few pieces of armor that would have been hard pressed to stop the cold, much less a weapon... But nothing about the princesses' location. Even the trap doors held nothing more than the occasional pile of bones. What few secret passages she found led only to torture rooms.

Again, nothing relevant. She decided that she might try the rest of the fair grounds. As she stepped outside, she felt that a hammer had hit her right between her eyes. She reached up and grabbed the culprit. A bullet, and a somewhat long one at that. She felt her forehead close back up.

"Ow..." She muttered.

Suddenly she felt a rather familiar stir in the air. Instinctively, she batted the air in front of her with her wing. A few feet to her left, another bullet fell harmlessly to the ground. Soon, a barrage of the things joined it.

Rainbow smiled to herself. She couldn't help herself.

"Do that again. Do. That. Again. I dare ya. I double dare you. DO THAT ONE MORE MOTHERFUCKING TIME!"

She let the next barrage hit her full on. No blocking, no dodging. After the fire stopped, she shook the bullets off.

"Apparently, you didn't get the memo... Loyalty is undying? Laughter eventually dies down... Generosity has its bounds... Magic runs out... Honesty can only go so far... You can only be kind for so long... But ponies always swear their undying loyalty to others. That's why..."

She sped towards the first line she saw. It connected to all the other attackers, of course, because of their loyalty to one another. She grabbed the side of their head and forced it into the ground, hearing a more than satisfying crunch.

"You can't kill me." She finished.

One by one, she killed each sniper. She turned one neck 180° to face her. She shoved another's gun through their eye. The fourth and final sniper, she kicked into the air, before flying up and up... She grabbed them and put them in a headlock. As they fell in tandem, she broke the sound barrier. Her signature "Sonic Rainboom" resounded through-out the fields as she slammed the pony detained in her grasp into the ground.

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She began her investigation of the fields almost immediately, searching for any clue as to where the Princess of Love and her child could be... Of course, said calm was quickly destroyed when she felt the presence of more gunsponies. She sighed as they surrounded her and began firing their machine guns. She deflected each bullet with her wings and sent the bullets flying into other attackers.

Another wave surrounded her, this time with various bladed weapons. As the first spear was thrust at her barrel, she grabbed it by the shaft and broke her attacker's arm foreleg. Taking the spear, she whirled around the field, dodging each blade that made it's way towards her.

Any weapon she didn't dodge, she deflected with the spear. Quickly, she took aim. After she finally got where she wanted, she released the spear. It flew through the ponies, pulling each pony towards one another. Of course... She couldn't take all the credit. All she did was tap into her element's latent powers and tied the spear to their lines before throwing it.

She decided to search the ponies around her. She eventually found one with a schedule. Reading it, she found that it was the feeding schedule for the prisoners Flurry Heart and Mi Amore Cadenza. She noticed a reminder that gave their location and sped off towards it.