You could say I'm a bit Broken

I woke up on my cloud soft bed, because it was a cloud soft because it was a cloud. But what really puzzled me was that it was wet. I rubbed my eyes and moved some rainbow hairs out of face. Why was it wet? I struggled to get out of bed, my movements were sluggish and slow, soooo not like me. Well like me in the morning. Ugh! I hate mornings. What happened last night. Then the memory of last night hit me right in the face like a brick.

"Dad! Please don't go! I'll be alone!" I wept at my dad's hospital bed. I was on my knees begging him not to tell the doctors to.... to unplug him. He looked at me. His wings had no feathers on it anymore, they were just flabs of skin. Unless. His eyes were grey and dull, unlike the bright and cheerful eyes I had grew up with. His face was pale, he needed one of those things that went into his nose to breath. He lifted a hand, it was shaking so badly, and began to pet my head.

"I have to..." He struggled. "I've been in pain for too long, Dash." He said. I knew in my heart he was right. But he couldn't! I wouldn't let him do it!

"No! Please! Don't!" I wept. "Dad! Dont! I love you!" I cried. I would be an orphan if he died. My mother died during giving birth, my grandma was in a mental hospital, my grandpa was gone, and my mom's side refused to speak to any of us since my mom's death, so I never met any of them.

"Dash... Dash.... Dash....." His voice trailed off. Just then he closed his eyes. His heart monitor stopped. He did it. He was gone. And I was an orphan.

"No! Dad, no! Just.......no." I cried at his side until the doctors came to take his body away. So now here I am. Rainbow Amazon Dash was an orphan. No family. No one. My family is now shattered. There is nothing left for me to do.

I fell crashing onto the floor remembering the bitter sweet memory that still lingered my mind. My dad, the greatest and most agile flyer in all of Equestria -no- in all time, was gone. I let the tears fall. There was nothing left for me to do. I glanced at the clock, my vision blurry from the tears, but I made out 10: 06.

"Come on, Dash. You're late for work." I said getting up of the ground. I changed into a plain blue shirt and black running shorts. Not to over complicate things, well mostly to not over complicate my brain, which still can't handle the shock. I also put on my dad's birthday present he gave me last year. It was a small outline of a pegasus. I loved it. I never wore it though. Now I think would be a good time to start. By 10:30 I was ready. I flew out the door, not bothering to make my bed or brush my hair.

"Dashie!" Pinkie said bouncing over to were Rainbow was working that day. Today's weather schedule was overcast skies. No pony knew why, it would of been a lovely day. Rainbow ignored Pinkie which was really hard. She wore a neon pink shirt and a dark pink skirt. Plus her normal talking was the volume of somepony screaming. "Dashie?" She called.....No reply. Pinkie sat down and stared at Rainbow Dash while she worked, hoping she would notice her.

"Pinkie, darling, what are you looking at?" Rarity asked walking over to her, the others following her in tow.

"Dashie. She isn't paying attention." She said, and to prove her point she randomly found a rubber chicken -pulled it out of nowhere to be exact- and threw it at Rainbow, it bounced off her head. She didn't even flinch when it hit. They looked at each other then at Dash, she continued to move clouds. The others didn't know about Rainbow's dad, in fact she never even brought up the subject of her family. Rainbow would rather suffer painfully quiet than let her friends know. She moved the last cloud then started to fly off.

"Come on y'all. We can't just let her go off like that! We need to know why she's ignoring us!" Applejack said, already starting to follow her. The others followed Applejack. Rarity squealed. Fluttershy looked a her.

"What was that about?" She asked softly. Rarity looked at Fluttershy. Then moved to the back of the group to not be heard.

"I have reasons to believe that Applejack has a little crush on Rainbow!" She said with a squeal. Fluttershy looked at Rarity in surprise.

"Are you sure this isn't like the time where you said 'Twilight and Pinkie were soooo in the like' whatever that meant." Rarity blushed.

"Okay, I was wrong then. But in my defense, they would of been adorable! Twipie!" Rarity sighed and looked off, remember how cute they would be together. 'You know after you get the Appledash train to leave the station, maybe you should get some passengers for the Twipie train.' she thought. 'and if Appledash goes sour, there is always Flutterdash or PinkieDash, and hummm for Applejack? Ah ha! Twijack! Adorable, but not as adorable as Appledash.'

"Rarity!" Fluttershy scolded her. They all knew if you wanted to hang out one-on-one with one of your friends don't let Rarity catch you, if she does she'll start to ship. "Stop thinking whatever you're thinking right now!" She said.

"Hmmmm, Appleshy........" Fluttershy's blood went cold. Great now instead of Appledash, it's Appleshy!

"Rarity!" She said blushing. She didn't feel that way about Applejack and she was for sure Applejack didn't feel that way about her. Rarity was just taking uer ships just a bit too far. Like the time she embarrassed Rainbow Dash when she said to both Rainbow Dash and Sorain that she couldn't wait to see what their foals looked like. They avoided each other of two weeks after that until Rarity agreed to not ship SorainDash.

"Sorry, darling, that's only if Appledash and Flutterdash goes sour. I promise!" Fluttershy looked at her. Rarity sighed. "Fine. No more Appleshy." She said angrily. Fluttershy smiled. 'Now to sink those other ships!' she thought. But what she didn't know was that Applejack didn't want the ship Appledash to sink, she wanted it to be -what was the word that Rarity always uses?- cannon.