Author's Note

This will be the last chapter (maybe I’ll put up a sequel if I feel like it). You’ll either like this chapter a lot or not like it at all. Warning: Rainbow is a little bit OOC in here now.

This chapter isn’t that long either but I just think that this would be the perfect place to stop.

Pack Your Bags

Rainbow shuffled around uneasily, wondering what she should do. She never thought this much in her life, never mind in the moment. She stood there for a moment before looking at the princess. Princess Luna stood there, as stoic as ever.

Rainbow finally said, "I think that I will move out and have a new name, a new face."

Princess Luna nodded, "As I said, it's your choice. Unfortunately, since I am the princess, I order you to stay in Ponyville."

"... That doesn't sound like I have a choice."

"You don't," Luna admitted, "I was going to chose for you no matter what."

Luna spreaded out her wings, as if she was going to fly, “Listen Rainbow, I want you to have a bright future and I see the future with the other 5. I know that you probably hate my right now, but it’s for your own good. I must go now, but I will communicate with you again.” Her horn lit up and she’s teleported away. The door opened again and Rainbow turned around quickly, expecting Princess Luna again but instead, she saw the face of the elder sister.

Rainbow bowed, “Princess Celestia.” She looked behind the princess and saw the other five standing behind the princess, looking at any place besides where she was.

Princess Celestia looked at Rainbow, “There is no need to bow for now, Rainbow Dash. I came here to talk about what my sister ordered.”

“You heard her?”

“You could say that. Either way, I had a small talk with your other friends.”

“Their not my-“

“I know that you are upset about needing to live around here. To compensate for this, I could order the Wonderbolts to watch you and see if you could join them. Most likely, it’ll be a yes since I asked them. Also, I could send bits so you don’t need to get a job. I’ll provide anything and everything for you.”

Rainbow Dash sighed, “When I was a little filly, I always wanted to join the Wonderbolts. It was any pony’s dream, if they were a Pegasus. Many of the Pegasi still dream about joining and doing tricks with them. Flying with them would be awesome, but do you know what would be better?”

“What?”

“Going in fair and square. I don’t want to get in and get the special attention just because a Princess ordered to. I am just another pony who just happens to bare the element of loyalty. Loyalty is not the same as generously, kindness, magic, etc. though. Loyalty has to run both ways and needing to bribe somepony to be loyal isn’t how it works.”

“I’m the Princess though.”

“But Princess Luna was the one who bore my Element,” Rainbow countered, in her rare egghead mode, “You never actually experienced it. Only when she was jealous and felt like you weren’t loyal to her, did she turn into Nightmare Moon. Imprisoning me in this town wouldn’t help matters, just like banishing Luna to the moon for 1000 years didn’t automatically solve the problem. It took the real elements to do it.”

Princess Celestia raised a hoof, “Rainbow, all I’m asking is for you to give them another chance.”

“It wasn’t Princess Luna’s idea to make me stay, was it? She still has a large part of loyalty within her, and she’s the one who understands me the most.”

“Your friends understand you.”

“I know they do, in some small form. Tell me, even though Twilight has the Element of Magic, do I understand magic just because my friend is an unicorn?”

“Her Element is special.”

“Why?”

“That’s because... Well, her element is a crown and is in the middle!”

Rainbow rolled her eyes, “That’s because her element wasn’t destroyed by the stomping in the first place. Also, in order for the broken elements to form, the ponies would need to be pure in the elements to just activate it. Twilight just happened to be an unicorn and could use the crown. Also, don’t the other elements connect to her element? You would need all the elements in order to power up friendship.”

Princess Celestia blinked, “You’re the element of loyalty though! You would never act like this.”

Rainbow retorted, “I’m also a pony, just like the townsfolk outside. If you can’t see me apart from being an element, then maybe you are the one that needs to fix your own problem.”

Rainbow hovered in the air, “The element of loyalty doesn’t like to be contained, like me. It needs to flow in ponies, some that are stronger than others. Unlike generosity, which is something like a free gift, loyalty needs a clear path to travel through. Would you be honest to an enemy who’s trying to tell your plans? Would you be generous to the enemy? If loyalty truly is just something that doesn’t need to be earned, then maybe I’ll fight for the griffins.”

She opened the window and turned around, “Princess Celestia, you need to learn the meaning of true loyalty. Maybe somepony else will help you with that. If you used the elements just to maintain alliances and to stop some threats, then maybe you would need to step up and talk about it.”

Rainbow flew out of the cottage and said her two words for them, “I’m out.” She began flying, as free as she wanted. Rainbow created a sound barrier by her wind speeds and broke it, creating the most marvelous view and clearing the clouds away. The last thing that was seen by Ponyville was a trail of rainbow.

The End