It doesn't matter if you're the slowest kid in gym class or the fastest girl alive. Every one of us is running. Being alive means running... running from something, running to something or someone. And no matter how fast you are, there are some things you can't outrun. Some things always manage to catch up to you.

Rainbow and her friends just exited the movie theater after watching a zombie movie. Twilight and Sunset was both talking about the movie as Rainbow listened.

"Regular movie scale, that was a seven or an eight. Zombie movie scale, it was, like, a four, tops." Twilight said as they walked.

"There's a zombie movie scale?" Sunset asked.

"Did you know that zombies exist in nature? There's a species of fungi that infects ants, causing the ants to attack plants that can release spores which in turn infect new hosts." Twilight said before noticing that went over her friends heads.

"I'm going full nerd again, aren't I?" Twilight asked sheepishly.

"Yep." Sunset confirmed.

"A real egghead." Rainbow smiled.

"Anyways, I'm a lot more interested in the amazing as of late." Sunset spoke up.

"You mean 'cause of this "blur" thing?" Rainbow asked.

"She's out there. People are talking about her." Sunset said.

"I still don't get how someone can move that fast!" Twilight almost shouted.

"Twilight, let it go." Rainbow said calming her down.

"Sorry, sorry. I just can't warp my head around it." Twilight told them.

"You know I am really intuitive about this kind of stuff. Someone even posted a picture after being yanked from a car accident. It's a red blur leaving the scene. Here, what do you see?" Sunset said then pulled out her phone.

Both Twilight and Rainbow look at the phone only to see someone else on there.

"I see your boyfriend's calling." Rainbow joked.

Sunset turned the phone to see and saw it was indeed her boyfriend.

"Oh, I should probably get this. I'm crashing at his place tonight, and he's supposed to leave a key for me somewhere." Sunset explained and answered her phone.

"Wait, I was joking. She has a boyfriend?!" Rainbow asked Twilight.

"They met when you were still in a coma. She's been meaning to introduce you to him, but she keeps forgetting." Twilight told her.

Before Rainbow could ask her more, her phone rang and saw it was from Soarin.

"Hello?" Rainbow answered.

"Code 237 on Ward Boulevard." Soarin said.

"Public indecency?" Rainbow asked, glad she took those police lessons.

"Wait, I think I meant a 239." Soarin tried to correct himself.

"Dog leash violation?" Rainbow asked again, before Spitfire voice took over.

"Bad man with a gun in a getaway car. Go." She said.

Rainbow turned to see Sunset still on her phone and Twilight was on her laptop doing who knows what before running off.

Elsewhere in town, A man was indeed in a getaway car with the police right behind him. The police pulled up next to him and he fired at them with his gun.

"He's got a gun. Look out!" One of the officers said.

Rainbow was running towards the chase and soon went to the side of the car, before zooming through both cars and running back. The officers turned to the car seeing it was empty.

"Where'd he go?" The officer asked his partner.

The two then heard something in the back and turn to see the guy they were chasing was in the back of the car, cuffed up.

"What the..." One of the officers as as the two look at each other.

Rainbow raced back to Twilight and Sunset just as Sunset got off her phone, neither of them had noticed Rainbow was gone.

"Key's in the mailbox. I'll see you later. Bye." Sunset said before hanging up.

"You wanna grab a bite? I'm feeling a little famished." Rainbow asked.

"After the Mongolian barbecue we had before the movie and the extra large popcorn you had at the movie? How are you not fat?" Twilight asked not sure how Rainbow could eat so much.

"I've been jogging." Rainbow told them.

Meanwhile...

A group of people from the Mayor's office were getting a meeting together to talk about the new threat they were facing.

"This super power people are becoming more dangerous. We need a plan to stop them." One of them said.

"What about this Red Blur? We been hearing that she's been stopping them." Another asked.

"She could be just like them. Who knows how many people have changed from that storm?!" A third shouted.

"We need to find them and see if we can cure them." A fourth said.

"Silence, all of you!" A fifth man said as he appeared in the doorway.

"Who are you and how did you get in here?" The first asked.

"Come now is that anyway to treat your king?" The man said as he showed his face to them.

"Sombra? But how..." The first asked again before black smoke appeared around him.

"I was the greatest mayor this town ever had. Then you all turned your back on me! So now the King has returned. I will have my revenge." Sombra said before turning into the black smoke and started to cover each shaft member one by one, laughing evilly.

Rainbow walked inside her home to see Luna with papers around her, only they weren't work papers, but files about her father murder.

"Luna? Where did you get these?" She said due to never seeing them before.

"I met a officer during the time you were in a coma. He help me get through it and we soon started dating. When I told him we wanted to far the truth about your father murder. He said he will help." Luna said.

"OK, first Sunset and now you?! Is everyone getting a boyfriend?!" Rainbow asked surprise.

Luna turned to her and smiled.

"So where is he?" Rainbow asked.

"Hey Luna, where's the coffee?" A voice said before a teel man with a short white hair and yellow in police uniform stepped out of the kitchen.

Rainbow turned to Luna who was blushing a little.

"Rainbow, this is Case Solver, Solver this is Rainbow Dash, Storm Cloud's daughter." Luna said, her face getting redder.

"Hello, Rainbow. It good to meet you. I watched your interview. I will say you didn't look like your were lying." Solver said.

"Um... thanks?" Rainbow said before turning to Luna.

"Does Celestia know?" She asked.

"Yes, Celestia knows that Solver wants to help us." Luna answered.

"No, I mean does Celestia know you have a boyfriend?" Rainbow asked again.

"No." Luna answered sadly.

"Is something wrong?" Solver asked.

"Well, my sister used to have a boyfriend as well, but they broke up nine months ago and well, let's just say she's not to happy to hear I have one." Luna said.

Rainbow nodded in agreement. Looks like this is another kept secret. She just hoped Luna did not tell Solver she was a Metahuman.

"So Solver, what do you think about these super power people?" Rainbow asked.

"So far? Not sure. But the Red Blur is different so far." He said.

"Oh? How so?" Rainbow asked.

"Other than a student from your school, no one ever saw her. If I recall one of your teachers become a superpowered human." He said.

"Yeah, he's still out there." Rainbow said.

"Actually, we found him." Solver said.

"WHAT?!" Rainbow and Luna shouted.

"However, he's dead." Solver said again.

"Dead?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes, it's weird. His heart looked like it was ripped apart, but there was no sign of a cut to reach it." Solver said.

Rainbow started to think. Was there another meta-human out there killing them? If so, Rainbow's gotta catch them before they are killed off. Maybe Soarin and Spitfire might have a few ideas.

"Luna, I'm heading back out real quick. Let Celestia know ok?" She said and walked out the door.

"Where's she going?" Solver asked.

"Just to meet up with some friends." Luna said.

"Fascinating, a meta-human that can manipulate poison gas." Lightning Dust said as they watched the news report about the attack on the Mayor's office.

"Is it just poisonous gas, or can he control all aerated substances?" Soarin asked.

"And how is he able to formulate the connection?" Spitfire added.

"This individual can create a mental nexus using gaseous substances." Lightning Dust said.

"You mean connect with gases on a molecular level?" Spitfire asked.

"Yes." Lightning Dust said.

"That is ridiculously cool." Soarin said.

"You guys must really like this." Rainbow said walking in.

"Rainbow, I take it you heard about the attack on the Mayor's office?" Soarin said.

"No, and I take you haven't heard that Science Fair has been found." Rainbow said.

"Really, they found Master Blaster?" Soarin asked surprise.

"Yeah, he's dead." Rainbow said.

"What?" Spitfire asked shock.

"Look, we can talk about him later, so a another meta-human?" Rainbow said turning to the TV.

"Yes, it appear that this Meta-Human is appearing to use gases to kill people. We'll been a lookout if he strikes again." Lightning Dust said.

"That's what I want to talk to you about. I don't think Everfree Jail can hold these meta-humans. So you got any ideas?" Rainbow said as they began to think.

"A meta-human prison. Sweet." Soarin said getting an idea.

"Until we figure a way to remove their powers." Spitfire said.

"There is one place here that might hold them." Soarin said.

"You can't be serious. I mean, we haven't been down there since... it's cordoned off." Spitfire said knowing where this was going.

"What?" Rainbow asked.

"Soarin is right. It could be modified to act as a makeshift prison." Lightning said.

"What could?" Rainbow asked again.

"The particle accelerator." Lightning Dust said, remembering that night well.

Flashback...9 months earlier,

"Tonight, the future begins. The work my team and I will do here will change our understanding of physics, will bring about advancements in power, advancements in medicine. And trust me, that future will be here faster than you think. Words, my father use to say and he was right. That's why I started this, for him." Lightning Dust said as the crew around her cheered.

"Lightning Dust, we just got the latest weather report. A big thunderstorm is rolling in." Soarin said look at his computer.

"We're not launching a space shuttle. We'll be fine." Lightning Dust said.

"Tahiti? I know it's a long flight, Freeze Burn, but we can binge watch Orange Is The New Black." Spitfire said to a light blue man with white hair and eyes.

"Oh, okay." Freeze Burn said.

"But what about Italy?" Spitfire asked.

"Pizza and wine and more pizza." Freeze Burn told her.

"Yes, but Italy doesn't have mai tais, and a honeymoon isn't a honeymoon without mai tais." Spitfire said smiling.

"Miss Dust, the accelerator is primed and ready for particle injection." One of the workers said.

"Well, I feel I should say something profound like "one small step for man," but all I can think of to say is, I feel like I've waited for this day for centuries." Lightning Dust said as the machine turned on.

"That's it? You'd think there'd be, like, a loud bang." Freeze Burn asked.

"If there was a loud bang, we'd all be in big trouble. Take it from the guy who helped build it." Soarin said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we did it." Lightning Dust said as the workers cheered again and Spitfire and Freeze Burn kissed.

"Mai tais it is." He said.

One of the workers popped open a drink as others grabbed their cups. Everyone stopped as they saw the liquid raise out of it. Before anyone could asked what was happening, the alarm went off and the the room shook with a loud noise filling the air.

"Was that..." Freeze Burn started to asked.

"A loud bang." Lightning Dust said.

Flashback End

"Spitfire, Spitfire. Did you hear me?" Lightning Dust said snapping Spitfire out of her thoughts.

"We're going down to the accelerator ring." She said.

"Actually, Lightning Dust, Celestia wants Spitfire to be my new Science teacher, plus it might might help to see if anymore students are meta-humans." Rainbow said.

Spitfire turned in surprise. Her, a teacher?

"Okay." Lightning Dust said.

"If that's okay with you?" Rainbow asked her and she nods.

"Let's go." Rainbow said and the group left.

"Welcome to Canterlot High." Rainbow said.

"So this is your day job." Spitfire teased.

"Come on, I'll take you to the classroom." Rainbow said.

They reached the science class and many students was surprised to see her walk in with Rainbow Dash. Rainbow took her seat as Spitfire stood in front of the class.

"Um, for some that that don't know me, My name is Spitfire and I work at S.T.O.R.M. Labs." She said.

One student raises his hand and asked, "What does that mean?"

"It's short for The Scientific and Technological Organization of Research and Magic." She said.

"That's a mouth full." Rarity said.

"How do you know Rainbow Dash?" Another student asked.

"I'm her personal physician. I'm one of the people that helps Rainbow recover from her coma and I've been checking up on her to see if anything has changed about her." Spitfire said.

The rest of the Class just turned to Rainbow who shrugged. Another student rose his hand and asked another question.

"What is it like at S.T.O.R.M. Labs?" He asked.

"That's a little hard to explain." Spitfire said.

The rest of the class decided to hold on the questions as Vice-Principal Luna walked in.

"Hello Spitfire, how's it going so far?" She said.

"Fine, so far. Is there something you need?" She said then asked.

"I need Rainbow Dash for a few seconds." Luna said.

Rainbow got up and walked over to Luna and they both left the room leaving the class confused.

Celestia was sitting at her desk thinking about about the attack that happened. Another Meta-Human has appeared. She knew Rainbow was going to try and stop him, but first they need to know what they're up against. Celestia sighed, she remembered Aurora Dash really well. They were best friends, when Aurora got married, Celestia was her maid of honor. When Rainbow was both she and Luna was name her Godmothers. A life she once almost had. She was knocked out of her thought with a knock on the door.

"Come in." She said and saw Case Solver walk in.

"Sorry, I thought this was Luna's office." He said.

"It's alright, is there something you need?" Celestia asked.

"No, but I'm thinking I might found something about the attack on the Mayor's office." He said.

"Really? Please share." Celestia asked.

"If I recall you used to date the last mayor nine months ago." Solver said.

"Please Solver, I do not want to talk about it." Celestia said sadly.

"I'm sorry, but there has been signs of him returning." He said.

"What? But he's not even here." Celestia said.

"I'm sorry, but there is a chance he might be after you. Whatever happened between the two of you, you be careful." Solver said.

Another knocking was heard and Luna walked in.

"Oh, Solver! What are you doing here?" She said.

"Just telling Celestia about the attack on the Mayor's office. We just finished." He said.

"I'll take you to your car." Luna said.

"Thank you for your time Celestia." Solver said and he and Luna left.

"Okay, this has got to stop. I came here to surprise my girlfriend, instead I have a talk with her sister about the crime... not exactly the afternoon I was planning on." He told her once they were at his car..

"I know, I know, it's just... it's not the right time to tell her." Luna said.

"When is, Luna?" Solver asked.

"I know my sister. She'll kill us." Luna said.

"Right now, you're killing us." Solver said and got in his car and drove off.

Luna sighed, keeping Rainbow's secret was easy, but keeping this secret was harder.

Lighting Dust and Soarin had reached the particle accelerator and looked at the area they were going to use.

"The copper in the tube is arranged to form cavities, and we can use those cavities as containment course, we'll have to design them to counteract meta-human abilities, but... might just work." Soarin said.

"First, we have to decouple the main injection system on the gantry level. I'll be right back." Lightning Dust said and started to walk away.

"Why don't I do that?" Soarin quickly said.

"I need the exercise." Lightning Dust said and walked out of the room.

Soarin looked at the pipeline. He never forgot the choice he made.

Flashback...

Everyone started working trying to find out what happened.

"There's an anomaly in the core chamber." Soarin said.

"The ring's structural integrity is holding." Spitfire said looking over it.

"It's starting a chain reaction. The system is collapsing. We need to shut it down. We can't ramp down the accelerator from here. We need to do it manually." All three said at different times.

Once they realized what they had to do, Lighting Dust turned to Soarin and said, "Go."

"I'll come with." Freeze Burn said.

"Freeze, no." Spitfire said making him turn.

"I'm the lead engineer. I know how to operate the shutdown valve." Freeze Burn reminded her.

"It's not safe." She said sadly.

"Fire, I have to go." He said and give her a quick kiss before he and Soarin ran off.

Both Soarin and Freeze Burn reached the pipeline and got to work.

"Okay, you stay here. We've only got a few minutes before this thing blows, and if I'm not back in time, you need to initiate lockdown." Freeze Burn told him.

"No way. I am not closing this door. I won't be able to open it again." Soarin said not wanting his best friend to be stuck in there.

"Soarin, if you don't seal off the blast, everyone in this building will die, including Spitfire." Freeze Burn told him.

Soarin still didn't like it but he knew Freeze Burn had a point.

"Set your watch. Two minutes." He said.

Soarin did and watched as Freeze Burn ran in the pipeline.

Flashback End

"Soarin, Soarin, we're ready to go." Lightning Dust breaking him off of his thoughts.

"Must be hard, coming back down here. A lot happened that night. If you feel the need to talk..." Lightning Dust said knowing what he was thinking about.

"I was just thinking, we need to nail those voltage calculations. One fault, and the helium blowback could damage the mountings." He said.

"Smart." Lightning Dust said and Soarin walked away.

Back at School, it turns out that Luna just needed to know what Rainbow and the others had planned for future meta-humans. Rainbow told her and found her class was over. She looked at Spitfire and knew something was on her mind.

"Can I ask you something that you don't have to answer?" Rainbow asked.

"My least favorite kind of question. Shoot." Spitfire said.

"Freeze Burn, What was he like? You just never talk about him that much." Rainbow asked again.

"We met when we were working on the particle accelerator. He was the structural engineer. He liked to joke that he was basically a very high-priced plumber. We were very different. You might have noticed I can be a bit..." Spitfire said.

"Guarded." Rainbow said.

"He used to say we were like fire and ice. He wasn't supposed to be there that night. He was just there for me. If he hadn't..." Spitfire said before something cut her off.

She turn to see the printer working and a paper coming out.

"I met that officer who was here earlier and he asked for my help. He got a bit of the gas that killed the staff in the Mayor's office." She said to the confused Rainbow.

"This says that there was no residue of gas in the tissue, poisonous or otherwise. It must have evaporated. We'll need to get a fresh sample. Wait, this can't be right. This says that there are two distinct strands of DNA inside the tissue." Spitfire said looking at the paper.

"How did someone else's DNA get inside the victim's lungs?" Rainbow asked.

Meanwhile, Sombra sat at the mall, looking for his next target. He soon saw her talking on her phone.

"Well, my docket was clear, so I stopped by the mall to pick up your homecoming dress. I am a great mom. I'll see you for dinner, sweetie." She said and got in the elevator.

"There's no DNA match in the database. I don't understand. Why would a chemical attack leave behind another person's DNA inside the victim?" Spitfire said.

"What if the meta-human we're looking for doesn't control gas? What if he becomes it?" Rainbow placed it together.

Just as the elevator doors close Sombra stepped in.

"Dr. Heart. Good to see you." He smiled.

"Sombra? But you were locked up." She said.

"Remember what you said? "He is insane, there's nothing I can do." Well, now there is." He said before turning into smoke that filled the elevator.

Just as Rainbow and Spitfire left the classroom the heard a new report from the room next door.

"This just in, there been an attack at the mall and the police at already there looking for answers."

Spitfire turned to Rainbow who was ready to go out and stop whoever was killing people.

"Rainbow, don't. We don't know enough about what we're facing yet. It's not safe." She said.

"Spitfire, I have to go." Rainbow said and speeds off.

Soarin and Lighting Dust had also heard the report and got to work knowing Rainbow had grabbed her suit before going after the attacker.

"I patched into the mall's security system. According to witnesses, the gas attack was in the main elevator in the north wing." Soarin said.

"Which one is the north wing?" Rainbow asked over the com.

"The one with The Sugarcube Corner." Lightning Dust answered and saw Soarin looking at her.

"I eat." She said.

Rainbow made it to the crime scene where everything looks like a stand still as she checks on the body. She was dead and Rainbow looked around before seeing a black smoke disappeared behind a door. She quickly ran after it and saw who the person was.

"Why did you kill that woman?" Rainbow asked.

"She deserved to die. Now go run away. I still have one more name on my list. Don't make me add you to it." Sombra said smiling evilly.

Rainbow just frowned at him and rushed up to him trying to hit him but she faded through the smoke and fell to the ground. She stood up to see Sombra smile and become smoke again. This time he went past her and had some of his smoke enter her to attack her body. Rainbow fell to her knees and gasped. She wasted no time in getting up and running back to S.T.O.R.M. Labs.

Rainbow, Rainbow can you hear me?" Lightning Dust said into the com.

"Her vitals are weak, but she's alive, Lighting Dust. I'm sure she's fine." Soarin said.

Just then, Rainbow speeds in trying to breath.

"I can't breathe." She told them wheezing.

"She needs oxygen. Get the crash cart!" Lighting Dust shouted and Soarin ran to get one.

Rainbow was placed on the bed still trying to breath as Spitfire rushed in.

"Rainbow!" She said looking at her.

"Rainbow." Soarin said trying to keep her away.

"Cut me open. The poison's still in me." She told them.

"She brought us a sample. Spitfire, we need to do a pulmonary biopsy, extract an active portion of that gas." Lightning Dust said.

"I can't give you any anesthetic. Your metabolism will burn right through it." She said.

"I heal quick, remember?" Rainbow said.

"Do it." Lightning Dust said.

"Soarin, give me the syringe. This is gonna hurt a lot. It's a small needle. You probably won't even feel it." Spitfire told Rainbow.

"You're definitely going to feel it." Soarin said.

The needle went in and Rainbow gasp for air and pass out.

A few hours later Rainbow woken to see Spitfire next to her and smile.

"The Red Blur lives." Spitfire said.

"My chest feels like that one time I had a cigarette. Yeah, teen me lived for danger." Rainbow said to the confused look on Spitfire's face.

"This isn't funny. You could've..." Spitfire said before she was cut off.

"I didn't." Rainbow said.

"Now that we have a sample, we'll get to work analyzing it, figure out the makeup of the poison, maybe get a clue as to his human identity. Or at least a way to stop him from turning into a black fog. Black Fog. Okay, that's his name. End of discussion." Soarin said and walked away to get to work.

"I got to get back home." Rainbow said getting up.

"You should be resting." Spitfire said.

"I have to talk to Celestia and Luna." Rainbow said and speeds back home.

Celestia and Luna was waiting for the report on Rainbow. They heard that Rainbow went after the meta-human and was poisoned during the fight. It had been a few hours before they heard their door open. Before they could ask Rainbow if she was alright, she spoke first.

"Celestia, Luna. I had him. The meta-human. We were wrong. He's not controlling airborne toxins. He can literally transform himself into poison gas." She told them.

"That's new." Luna said.

"The victim was a doctor." Rainbow said.

"I'll get Solver to start going through some of her old cases to see if there's a connection." Luna said reaching for her phone.

"It's too late. I should have been faster." Rainbow said feeling guilty about not saving someone.

"Rainbow please..." Celestia try to say but Rainbow cut her off.

"You don't want to know what I'm thinking about. My mom has spent 14 years in a 6x8-foot cell for a crime she didn't commit. I couldn't save my dad, but I can save her." Rainbow said.

"Didn't I promise you that we would get your mom out of prison together?" Celestia asked and Luna gasped at what Rainbow was planing.

"I don't need your help, Celestia. I could be in and out of there with her before anyone even sees me." Rainbow said.

"Okay. You break her out of there. Then what? She's on the run for the rest of her life. And something tells me she's not as fast as you are. You don't know what it's like there. You think I don't understand what you're feeling? I have been a principal for almost as long as you've been alive. So you should know, putting on that suit does not make everybody safe. For every person you save, there's gonna be somebody you can't. And the hardest thing you're gonna have to face is not some monster out there with powers. It's gonna be that feeling of uselessness when you can't do anything. Or the guilt that weighs on you when you make a mistake. Some things, Rainbow, you can't fight. Some things you just have to live with." Celestia said, knowing she couldn't stop every bad thing at school.

Rainbow sighed and walked away. Celestia knew Rainbow might still try to get her mom out, so she decided maybe to talk to Aurora to get Rainbow to stop.

Sunset was on her phone talking to one of the witness that was at the attack at the mall.

"Yes, I'm writing this down. Red streak at the mall during the gas attack. Thank you for calling. Never fails." She said after she hanged up.

"Tip lines bring out the potheads and the crazies." A teen boy said and sat down next to her.

"Moonlight. Good to see you." Sunset smiled at the night black boy with light blue hair and dark blue eyes.

"Did they get a good look at the Red Blur's face?" She asked him.

"Not you too." Moonlight groaned.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Sunset asked.

"We need to talk." Moonlight said.

"About?" Sunset asked.

"Us, your friends know about us, oh wait. I never meet the one that was in a coma." Moonlight said.

"Oh! Right, Rainbow Dash. I keep wanting for you two to meet, but I keep forgetting." Sunset said.

"And I also want to talk about your blog. Why are you writing about something that's impossible?" He asked her.

"When Rainbow was five years old, her father was murdered. Murdered by someone she calls the Women in Yellow. And the strange thing is, that women was an impossible. She was very fast, fastest than any human can run. With those new super powered people out there, the impossible is becoming the possible. The Red Blur is one of those people, but she's been saving others." Sunset explained.

"Still don't like it. My dad's a cop and he wants the Red Blur caught before something bad happens." Moonlight said.

"Moonlight..." Sunset started to said.

"No, even if the Red Blur is some kind of hero, she's still dangerous. Please, just be careful." He said and got up and walked away.

Back at S.T.O.R.M Labs, Rainbow was wanted for the test analysis to finish. She turned to Spitfire and spoke.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, leaving like that." She said.

"It's okay. I get it. You had to go. It's just... that's the last thing that Freeze Burn said to me that night." Spitfire said.

"My father died 14 years ago. I used to think that the further away I got from it, the less it would hurt. But some days, the pain, it's worse than the day that it happened. Some things you can't fight. For so long, I've been terrified of going into that hole." Rainbow explained.

"What if I went with you?" Spitfire asked.

Flashback...

Soarin's watch had been showing that two minutes had passed and there was no sign of Freeze Burn returning. Keeping his promise, Soarin shut the door to the Pipeline. Just before Spitfire ran in.

"Where's Freeze Burn? Soarin, where is he?" She asked worried.

"He's still inside." Soarin told her.

"What? Open the door." Spitfire told him.

"I can't. We're in lockdown mode." Soarin said back.

"Soarin, we have to get him out of there or he'll die." Spitfire said fearing the worse.

"Soarin, can you hear me?" Freeze Burn's voice said through the walkie-talkie.

Spitfire grab the talkie and answered it.

"Freeze Burn, it's me." She said.

Freeze Burn was on the other side of the door and was shocked to hear Spitfire's voice.

"Spitfire? Is Soarin there?" He asked.

"Yeah, Freeze Burn, I'm here. I'm listening." Soarin said.

"I adjusted the magnets to redirect the beam to try and vent the system so the blast goes up and not out." Freeze Burn told him.

"I'll need to reset the particle parameters to compensate." Soarin said and got to work.

"Soarin's doing it. There has to be another way out of there. You have to find it." Spitfire told him.

"Fire, the chain reaction, I can't reverse it. The doors need to stay shut to protect you. You still there?" Freeze Burn said then asked after not hearing her voice for a few seconds.

"I'm here." Spitfire said almost ready to cry.

"Spitfire, whatever happens..." Freeze Burn started to said before he saw the energy coming at him.

"Freeze Burn. Freeze Burn!" Spitfire call out as an explosion was heard.

Flashback End

"He saved so many lives that day, and no one will ever know what he did. I do." Spitfire said finishing the story.

"He was a hero." Rainbow said, also knowing it was because of Freeze Burn she has her speed.

"I didn't want him to be a hero. I wanted him to be my husband." Spitfire told her.

"Rainbow, Spitfire, you down there? You got to come look at this." Soarin's voice said over the speaker.

Rainbow and Spitfire walked up to the main room where Soarin and Lighting Dust was waiting for them.

"Hey, check this out. It's a 3D molecular model of the gas we retrieved from your lungs. We have identified the toxin." Soarin said and show them them results.

"Hydrogen cyanide?" Spitfire asked realizing what it was.

"What's interesting is what's mixed in with the cyanide... A sedative." Lightning Dust said.

"Of course. The night of the explosion, find out if anyone was executed." Rainbow said.

"Why?" Soarin asked.

"Thank Faust for watching cop shows, That sedative is given to criminals on death row before they go to the gas chamber and breathe in hydrogen cyanide." Rainbow said.

"That's right." Lightning Dust said, seeing what Rainbow was getting at.

"There was no one being executed, but the was the mayor visiting when the particle accelerator exploded. We got a face." Soarin said as the picture appeared.

"Mayor Sombra." Spitfire said.

"That's him."

"He must have gotten gasses went the particle accelerator exploded." Lightning Dust said.

"Doctor Heart was his doctor. She declared him insane." Soarin said.

"His staff turned their backs on him, so he got back at them and Dr. Heart." Spitfire said.

"It said here that there one big supporter for his run for the mayor office." Soarin added.

"He said there was one more person on his list. Find out who it is, it could be his next target." Rainbow said.

Soarin look and was shock on what he found.

"Rainbow, the supporter who help him..."Soarin said looking really worry for Rainbow.

Celestia walked up to the desk and said, "Here to see Aurora Dash."

"Sign here. Personal effects here." The guard said.

Luna was back at home look over the case of Rainbow's father's murder when her phone rang. She picked it up and saw it was Rainbow calling.

"Rainbow, what's up?" She said.

"Hey, do you know where Celestia went? She's not picking up her cell." Rainbow asked her.

"Uh, not sure." Luna said, she already promised Celestia she will not tell Rainbow where she was.

"Luna, it's really important I speak to her. I need to know where she went." Rainbow said getting more worry.

"She went to Everfree Jail to see your mom." Luna said.

Rainbow's eyes widened and turned to the others who notices the look. No one knew that Sombra was already there ready to take his next target.

Rainbow was already in her suit when Spitfire step up.

"Rainbow. I reverse-engineered an antidote to the toxin. I hope you won't need it." She said and handed over the antidote.

Rainbow nods and ran off, ready to save this one target.

Celestia sat in the chair and saw Aurora be brought in. She looked at Celestia and sat down. They both took the phones and Aurora spoke first.

"What are you doing here? Is Rainbow all right?" She asked.

"She's fine." Celestia told her.

"Then to what do I owe this visit?" Aurora asked not happy.

"I know I should have come to see you sooner." Celestia said sadly.

"You just weren't up for a little chitchat with a woman who murdered her husband in front of her own daughter?" Aurora asked angrily.

"Except now I know you didn't kill your husband." Celestia said, surprising Aurora.

Rainbow was well on her way to Everfree Jail when Soarin spoke over the com.

"Rainbow, I pulled up the specs on Everfree Jail. It's maximum security, but I think I can talk you through breaking in there." He said.

"Don't bother. I've been figuring out how to break into that place since I was 5." Rainbow said shocking them.

Celestia sighed before saying more.

"Some new evidence has come to light. I can't go into detail. It's just... Look, the important thing is, I'm trying to reopen the case. I'm gonna find out who really killed Blitz, and I promise you, Aurora, I'm going to get you out of here. I am so sorry." Celestia said almost ready to cry.

"It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in me... Because you always believed in my daughter." Aurora said.

Celestia smiled, before the herd the guards start choking and dropping to the floor. Celestia watched as a black fog took the shape of her former boyfriend.

"Hello my Queen." It said.

"Sombra? But how?" Celestia asked.

"It's been nine months and you haven't changed a bit." He said.

"You have. I been hearing about your attacks. They were just trying to help you." Celestia said.

"No, they were trying to destroy me. Trying to keep us apart. They paid for that. I don't want you to have the same fate, but I will if I have too." Sombra said.

"You try to keep me away from my family. Keep me away from Luna, from my goddaughter. I broke up with you for that reason." Celestia told him.

"If you join me, I will spare your life. We will rule this world as a King and Queen." Sombra said.

"You're not the Sombra I know. You let power get to your head and you lose yourself in it. I'll never be your queen." Celestia said.

"Shame, I really hoped you would join me. Good-bye Celestia." Sombra said before turning back into the fog and poisoned Celestia.

Celestia fell to the ground unable to breath. Aurora gasped as her friend fell to the ground and banged on the window.

"Celestia? Celestia! Help! Guards! Somebody help!" She called out.

What Aurora saw next shocked her. Rainbow had run in and saw that Celestia was poisoned. Acting quickly she give Celestia the antidote, before look up to see her mother. The two dashes look at each for a few second before Rainbow had her face blur once more. She looked back at Celestia who was able to breath but was really weak.

"Go get him." She said and Rainbow nods.

Rainbow found Sombra outside and he smiled.

"So you survived. You think you can stop a king?" Sombra asked.

"You're going somewhere you can't hurt anyone ever again." Rainbow said.

"Wrong." Sombra said back and attacked her in his fog form.

"She used the antidote on Celestia." Spitfire said seeing Rainbow didn't have it.

"You need to stay away from him, Rainbow. Do not breathe him in." Lightning Dust said.

Rainbow quickly dodged an attack and spoke back.

"I'm not sure how that helps me, guys." She said.

"You can't fight him, Rainbow. Just keep him coming at you. That should sap his strength. Gas is the least stable form of matter. This meta-human will not be able to stay in his fog form for long. His particles will need to reform." Lightning Dust explained.

Rainbow looked at Sombra and then did was she does best, run. Sombra followed her try to cover in his poison fog, but Rainbow was too fast for him. Rainbow ran and ran until she noticed that Sombra started to form back into his human state trying to breath. Sombra was shocked, he never went back to normal when he was in the fog. He didn't have time to move when Rainbow slam into him knocking him out.

"Rainbow. Rainbow?" Lightning Dust's voice said over the com.

"We won." Rainbow smiled.

Celestia awoke to see she was in the hospital and Rainbow sleeping in the chair. She watched as Rainbow's arm slid off the chair's arm that woke her up.

"It's been awhile since I watched you sleep." Celestia laughed softly.

"Rescuing you is exhausting." Rainbow said.

"I really miss the ability to be able to ground you." Celestia said knowing it will not work.

"Sorry I went and grew up. I could have got my mom out of Everfree Jail tonight." Rainbow said.

"I know." Celestia said.

"But you were right. That's not the way." Rainbow said seeing it won't help.

"Sister." Luna said as she and Solver came in he room.

"Luna, I'm fine." Celestia said as the two sisters hugged.

"I'll let you guys talk." Rainbow said and left the room.

"Hey Celestia." Solver said.

"You two arrived at the same time?" Celestia said with a eyebrow raised.

"Celestia, we have something that we need to tell you. Celestia, the thing is..." Luna tried to say but Celestia cut her off.

"You two are dating. I know." She said.

"You do?" Luna asked.

"I'm your sister remember? And both of you are lousy liars." Celestia told them.

"So you're not mad?" Solver asked.

"Oh, I'm mad. And if the doctor hadn't confiscated me to the bed, we'd be having an entirely different conversation." Celestia said trying to stay calm.

"Well, I should let you two talk, and I'll just be outside looking into the witness protection program." Solver said and walked out of the room.

"I'm sorry." Luna said to her sister.

"Luna, this is going to be complicated. You know I don't like complicated. Do you like him?" Celestia said then asked.

"I do." Luna said.

"Then I'll try my hardest not to kick where it hurts." Celestia said making Luna laugh a little.

"That all I asked." Luna said.

Sombra roar as he try to get past his new prison, but his fog could not get through.

"Will it hold?" Rainbow asked.

"The barrier is powered by an 8.3 Tesla superconducting electromagnet, which is about 100,000 times the strength of earth's magnetic field." Soarin said

"In other words, yes." Rainbow cleared up.

Lighting Dust turned to Sombra and watched him try to get out.

"Hmm. He's mad." She said as she watched him try again to escape.

"Well, good night. " She said and shut the door to the pipeline.

"So we're just supposed to get used to working above a makeshift prison housing evil people with superpowers?" Spitfire asked.

"You'd be surprised what you can get used to, Spitfire." Lightning Dust said as she walked away.

"Spitfire. Could I talk to you for a second?" Soarin said running up to her.

"Sure. What's up?" Spitfire asked.

"It's about the night that Freeze Burn died. I..." Soarin try to say.

"Look, Soarin, I'm okay. I thought coming down here would undo me, but thinking about what Freeze Burn did to protect us... It just made me love him more. Come on. I need ice cream or a drink. Let's see which one we hit first." Spitfire said making Soarin smile.

Rainbow had return to Everfree Jail again to see her mother.

"Celestia's gonna be okay." Rainbow told her.

"You know, lately I've been thinking about dad. A lot. I miss him." She added.

"Did I ever tell you about the time you learned to walk?" Aurora asked her.

"A couple times." Rainbow answered.

"Everyone was walking before you. All the little babies running around the neighborhood, not you. But your dad was never worried. He just said, "She'll walk when she has someplace to go." and sure enough, the first time you took a few steps, you moved so quick, you didn't just walk, you started..." Aurora said.

"To run." Rainbow cut her off with a smile.

"And you ran to your dad, Rainbow. Right into his arms. You had someplace to go." Aurora smiled back.

I thought being the fastest girl alive would make my life easier... that I could outrun anything. Turns out, no one can outrun pain.

A woman was was getting mugged when she shouted for help.

"Somebody help! Please, somebody!" She shouted before a red blur speeds past them making the women hold the knife and the thug to run away.

Life is tragic. But it's also precious... And sweet... And extraordinary. And the only way I know to honor my dad's life is to keep running.

The Dash

Nine Months ago

Lightning Dust watched as the energy went up to the sky and mix with the thunderstorm that hit them. She soon heard Soarin's voice speak to her over the com.

"Lightning Dust. Lightning Dust!, Freeze Burn did it. He vented the system. S.T.O.R.M. Labs should hold." He said.

"Good man. I'm on my way down." She said and started to leave.

She didn't head down to the pipeline, but instead she went to her secret room. She sat on her desk and saw Rainbow's classroom when she got from her desk. Lighting Dust watched as Rainbow turned around and saw a lightning bolt hit her and slam into the wall with the chemicals falling on her.

"See you soon, Rainbow." Lighting Dust smiled.

Author's Note

And here the third chapter. Thanks to Mr. Allan for giving the what the letters in S.T.O.R.M stands for. Just three more chapters until Rainbow start using the name The Dash and six more chapter before Lightning Dust meets Rainbow as the Reverse-Dash. Up next is the chapter with Captain Cold. I was asked for two characters to play the role. One was a Gen 3 pony name Minty and I was also ask to use Starlight for the role as well. And I had this chapter edit before posting it up. I going to be doing that from now on.