The Broken Element of Loyalty

Gilda sighed, "Alone."

Rainbow asked, "Why?"

"Because you're my friend and friends forgive one another. Anyways, I need to talk to you privately."

Rarity stepped forwards, "Absolutely not. You are going to kill Rainbow for pranking you."

Rainbow ignored the pony, "Fine. Let's go to-" Gilda lifted Rainbow up and flew to another place. It had buildings and carriages. There were shops of about everything that any pony could think of and it was unique in its own way.

Gilda set Rainbow down gently before standing across from her, "I need you to make a choice."

Rainbow raised an eyebrow, "What choice?"

She spread her wings, "I want you to join the griffin's side for the upcoming war."

"War? Joining you?"

"Yes for both questions."

Rainbow shook her head, "I'm sorry Gilda but I'm staying neutral."

Gilda put a claw under Rainbow's neck, drawing out some blood, "You don't have that choice. I want you to choose now."

"If you're here to pretend to be friends just so I would join you for war, you are wrong. I don't appreciate those types of fake friends. We'll meet in the battlefield. I could promise that." Rainbow squirmed out of Gilda's tight grip before flying off as quickly as she could. She began to make a Sonic Rainboom. Seeing what was going to happening, she continued to fly in a straight line. Unfortunately, she was flung back by the sound barrier, straight to Ponyville. Right before she hit Fluttershy's cottage, she slowed down and did the usual Dash entrance. Breaking down the door.

Fluttershy smiled, "Twilight's awake. I'll take care of the door." Rainbow stepped in and looked at Twilight. She gasped slightly. Twilight's black hair was the least frightening out of everything. She had burns and cuts on her lavender skin. Her head was bruised and her horn was a little dull in it's color. The fact that Twilight woke up was a miracle. If she woke up without brain damage would've been more than a miracle.

She approached the bed, "Twilight? Are you okay?"

Twilight shouted, "No! I was trying to stop a storm that you didn't try so I'm magically burned out! The chemicals in my horn is currently in limbo and I can't retrieve them for some time!"

Rainbow thought, 'No brain damage I guess.'

The lavender unicorn continued to say, "I'm lucky that I didn't lose any brain cells, but I'll be even luckier if I get to trot again."

The Pegasus ignored her, thinking, 'Her recovery rate is a little too quick. No pony could wake up from this in less than an hour or two. Also, if she's truly hurt, then why is she shouting instead of resting? She should know better than that.' She eyed the unicorn up and down, seeing the wounds and the blood.

Twilight shouted, "And it's all because of the fact that you refuse to help! You could've cleared the clouds away with your wings but your pride and ego gets in the way! Now, clear the clouds now!" Okay, so the injuries definitely affected her, Rainbow guessed.

Rainbow shook her head, "If your magic can't stop the storm, why do you think that I could? I mean, it's not like a Pegasus has magic." Twilight paused and thought for some time before Spike rushed in.

He shouted, "Twilight?! Are you okay?" Then, he burped out a scroll.

Seeing as Twilight couldn't opent the letter, Rarity did. She said, "Dear Twilight, I heard of the massive storm heading your way. It's rather hard to miss. I also heard that Mare Do Well made a reappearance. Please explain that situation to me. Anyways, I am arriving at Ponyville at about ten minutes, depending how fast the carriage horses could fly. Please meet me in Twilight's home. ~Princess Celestia."

Twilight moaned, "Why now? Spike, take a letter. Dear Princess Celestia, I can't make it to the tree unfortunately. I will explain everything once you come to Ponyville. I am currently in Fluttershy's cottage which is near the Everfree forest. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle." Spike wrote the letter and sent it in a burst of green flames. Suddenly, a blue alicorn appeared on the carpet. She looked around the room to see most of the ponies bowing.

Twilight asked, "Princess Luna? What are you doing here?"

The alicorn said, "My sister forgot that she could take a shortcut and teleport here. I wanted to talk to you first. Now can you tell me WHAT IN THE NAME OF EQUESTRIA IS GOING ON HERE?"

Pinkie Pie thought for a moment before replying, "Weeeellll... Twilight kind of did the Mare Do Well thing again with the back cloak and began to do the weather duty and everypony began to depend on her for it and there was a storm today and Twilight couldn't stop it and got hurt and now there's a storm that's going to destroy Ponyville!" Rainbow wondered how Pinkie said that in one breath but decided to not question it. Luna just blinked before looking at Twilight.

She raised an eyebrow, "Would you care to explain why there are fake wounds on you and why your muzzle is dripping red paint? I believe that the weather turner 'cecadtro felia compro' wouldn't have done that. It would only make you unable to use magic for a few days. It won't make you even bleed or feel physically exhausted."

Twilight looked down, "I-well... I thought that if Rainbow saw that I was hurt from clearing the weather, she might do it and become her old self again."

Luna shook her mane, "Twilight Sparkle, you should know better than that! When you defeated Discord, you said that you learned to fight for your friendships, not pretend to be hurt."

Twilight stood up as she stretching her legs, "I'm sorry Princess, I was only trying to help her get past one small mistake. I didn't mean to-"

"Did you ask her to clear the weather?"

Fluttershy whispered, "I beg your pardon b-but I did. Sorry for speaking without your permission Princess."

"Fluttershy, it's alight. But Twilight, you need a lesson or two in friendship. I guess I finally understand why my sister put th-I mean you to learn. Very well, I will pardon you this time. Rainbow Dash, if you will follow me?" Rainbow nodded as she followed the princess to another room. She wondered how she was going to be in trouble this time around.

As Luna closed the door, she said, "You are incredibly selfish, Ms. Dash."

Rainbow asked, "I'm selfish?"

"Yes, you are selfish for not disbanding this storm. You are very selfish for leaving and it doesn't even make sense."

"But-"

"No Rainbow Dash, let me finish speaking. You left Ponyville behind, knowing that they wouldn't be able to defend themselves from the weather. What did they ever do to you? Sure, they praised another hero who saved the town, but they did that to you too. Does that fault them in any way? Yes, they did laugh of you but you laugh at them for pranks that they don't want. That'll be another lecture you'll receive someday, but that's not the main point right now. Back to the topic, you got everypony worried about you. Yes, some of them are worried for your element and it's defenses but you are so much more than an element. You must look beyond that. Therefore, you have a choice. Will you stay in Ponyville and try to forgive everypony or will you try to start a new, fake life somewhere else?"