Rainbow is Dead

It’s been a few days since the disappearance of Rainbow Dash.

Twilight knows the last place she was seen was with Pinkie, but Pinkie was the last person who would want to kill Rainbow.

“Pinkie for the last time, I can’t make cupcakes with you today, I’m trying to figure out what happened to Rainbow Dash”

“C’mon Twi just call in the royal guard to take over, I’ve been really sad about Rainbow disappearing and I want to do something fun with one of my other friends!” Twilight noticed Pinkie Pie’s flat mane, but she didn’t think much of it, she just assumed Pinkie was sad that Rainbow is gone. Twilight sighed

“Fine you win”

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“Ok Pinkie where do we start?” Twilight asked

“Oh no I just need you to taste test my cupcakes!”

“Oh, ok that will take less time so I can keep investigating sooner” Pinkie disappeared and then reappeared with a plate of cupcakes.

She shoved a cupcake down Twilight’s throat.

“Pinkie I can’t taste it if you shove it down my throat” Then Twilight’s vision started to get fuzzy.

She passed out.

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Twilight woke up to relize she was tied to a wooden table. This was the most disturbing thing she ever saw. A room filled with blood and different ponies heads.

Among them she saw Rainbow Dash’s head.

In the middle of the room stood Pinkie, a dark pink Pinkie with a flat mane.

Pinkie really did do it, and now Pinkie was about to do it it her.

Wait a minute.

“Pinkie you know I can teleport right?”

“Ooh yeah...”

“I guess i’m going to get found out” Twilight teleported next to Pinkie.

“What is this Pinkie? Why did you kill Rainbow Dash?” She looked away.

“It’s not like i’m going to tell you” Pinkie grabbed a knife and stabbed Twilight’s horn

“Can’t escape now, can you” Twilight groaned

“You barely made a scratch”

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“Rarity this is going to be so fun! We are going to make so many cupcakes then eat so many cupcakes!”

The pair stepped into Sugarcube Corner.

“Darling, Pinkie Pie why dose it sound like Twilight screaming”

Pinkie’s ears dropped.

“It’s her” Rarity’s ears dropped also

“It’s who?” Pinkie galloped into the kitchen grabbed a knife and ran back into the front door.

“Pinkie what are you doing!?” Pinkie frowned

“I have to save Twilight, and I have to use the knife to do it” Rarity replied

“Save Twilight from who or what?!”

“Rarity, if I waste time talking she might kill Twilight” Rarity shut up. She was still really confused about the situation, but she went along with it.

Pinkie ran toward the basement door. Rarity followed

“Rarity don’t come down here, you don’t want blood stains in your mane” Rarity didn’t know what that meant. Why would there be blood?

Pinkie kicked the door open and said

“I won’t let you kill another one of my friends”

Rarity and Twilight looked at each other, then at both of the Pinkies.

Twilight had a knife being pushed into her right wing. She yelled

“Which one of you is the real Pinkie?!” The Pinkie at the top of the staircase yelled

“It’s me, she is clone who escaped that one day, she killed Rainbow, and she tried killing me once. You can call her... what should we call her?” The clone rolled her eyes.

“Call me Pinkemena, but i’m not letting any of you get out of here alive to tell the public”

Pinkie ran down the stairs and punched Pinkamena.

“Rarity, Twilight, run”

Unsurprisingly they didn’t move.

“Rarity help me!” Twilight yelled. It was clear what she was doing.

There was a flicker of sparks on Twilight’s horn and Pinkamena. The fact that Pinkamena stabbed Twilight’s horn was quite apparent.

Blood seeped from every part of her horn thus baffling everypony else as to how she was able to even get the slightest bit of magic out.

With Rarity’s help Twilight was able to push Pinkemena into a wall.

Pinkie walked up to her.

“You killed Rainbow Dash, and I can’t forgive you for that nor will I ever, but I will spare you for a little while” Pinkemena broke free of the magic holding her against the wall

“Why? You could’ve killed me right then and there and be done with it, but instead you set me free, so I could kill you and all your friends”

Rarity and Twilight watched the interaction and knew they had to inform the public. Twilight ran up the staircase toward Rarity.

“You stay here, you will be more help than I can right now, I will get Applejack and Fluttershy” Rarity nodded, and Twilight took off.

“Pinkamena” Pinkie sighed

“I’m not going to kill you until everypony knows, Equestria deserves to know who killed the element of loyalty” Pinkemena smiled, an evil smile though.

“Well in that case!” Pinkemena grabbed the knife from Pinkie’s grasp and tried stabbing Pinkie’s chest. It was stopped by an unknown force. Err until a familiar unicorn yelled

“I’m not going to let you kill Pinkie”

Pinkie frowned

“Rarity, I said go, run save yourself” Rarity smiled

“Darling why would I leave you here with an evil clone who’s intention is to kill you”

Rarity dropped the knife and once again grabbed Pinkemena and held her against the wall.

“Rare, where is Twilight?”

“She went to go get everypony else”

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Twilight galloped across Ponyville as fast as lightning.

Knock
Knock
Knock

Twilight waited a few seconds before shoving the door open.

Applejack took a look at her and asked

“Twilight? W-what happened to you?”

Twilight grabbed Applejack and ran toward Fluttershy’s cottage.

Applejack carefully broke free of Twilight’s grasp. Making sure to not put pressure on her various deep cuts.

“Twilight you have to tell me what’s going on” Twilight slowed to a stop.

“I’ll explain when we get Fluttershy”

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The trio finally ran back to Sugarcube Corner.

“Twilight” Applejack yelled “you said you would explain after we got Fluttershy and we did now we are at Sugarcube Corner and you still didn’t explain, so please Twilight, we can’t help if we don’t know what the problem is” Twilight sighed

“I know what happened to Rainbow” Fluttershy looked at the floor

“...” Twilight sighed

“It was Pinkie” Applejack and Fluttershy took a step back. Twilight continued

“Well not really Pinkie, it’s one of her clones that for some reason are evil, and right now she is trying to kill Rarity and Pinkie in the basement” Twilight sighed

“Let’s go” They followed Twilight to the basement.

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“Rarity, watch out” Pinkemena had a knife in her jaw and cut Rarity’s horn, creating a deep, bloody cut.

Rarity stepped away and put a hoof to her horn realizing that she wasn’t going to be using magic anytime soon. Pinkemena smiled

“Without your unicorn horn your useless! Just a useless pony, without all your stupid magic you can’t put up a fight against me.”

Pinkie growled

“Leave her alone! If you wanna hurt anypony hurt me!” She charged at her look-alike and knocked the blade out of her hoof.

“Sorry Pinkemena but your not the only one who knows how to fight” Pinkie stabbed Pinkemena’s right fore-hoof.

The door busted open. Pinkie turned around. To see all her friends. Well except one. One that she would never ever see again. Ever. A few tears rolled down her face at the thought. She shook them off and knew right now she had to save the rest of her friends.

Pinkemena took this distraction to grab the knife and stab all of Pinkie’s hoovescausing Pinkie to fall to the ground.

Pinkemena smiled

“Any last words?

Pinkie stayed quiet. She had let her friends down.

That one faithful day. If she had gotten down into the basement just a few minutes later she could have saved her friend who was now gone forever.

Pinkie closed her eyes, silently apologizing to Rainbow Dash.

She waited, and waited expecting undescribeble pain, yet she lay there.

Felling nothing but the hot air of the obscure basement.

Pinkie opened her eyes to see that knife stabbed into Pinkemena’s chest. Pinkie frowned

“W-What just happened?” Twilight sighed

“We don’t know, the knife just turned around in her hoof and stabbed her chest”

Twilight pointed toward Pinkie

“But not before she attacked you” Pinkie looked down at her chest and fore hooves, all covered in blood, Pinkie sighed

“I’m going to pass out from the blood loss aren’t I?” Twilight looked up at her horn

“Maybe I will too”

The five of them giggled.

Pinkie fell unconscious. Everypony else ran up to her. Twilight and Rarity tried lifting her up with magic but their horns where too damaged right now to use magic.

Pinkie woke up.

Fluttershy was the first to notice

“Pinkie we have to get you to the ponyville hospital” Pinkie sighed

“I’m not Pinkie”

The four of them frowned.

“Darling I think I misunderstood you, did you just say your not Pinkie?” Not Pinkie sighed

“I was the one who made that knife stab Pinkemena instead of Pinkie”

The four of them looked at her with confusion.

“I’m Rainbow Dash ok!” She shouted.

“I died here a few days ago, and I guess i’m a ghost now, and since Pinkie was unconscious I was able to take control of her body”

Nopony said anything.

They were talking to a dead pony. A feat that had never happened in pony history. The mane six were famous for many things and this would soon be one of them, but this, this is a whole new level.

Unlike the other things they are famous for, this one is more than the magic of friendship.

Something different.

Something that puts all others to shame.

It is the magic of love.

Not a romantic way, but as friends they love each other.

(Don’t talk about MLP being gay in the comments)

Rainbow sighed

“It’s never happened to anypony before, I don’t know why it happened to me, it could be because i’m connected to the element of loyalty or what, but I had to talk to you guys”

Somehow, somepony was able to form words.

“Rainbow Dash, H-h-how”

Twilight struggled

The pink but usually light blue pony frowned.

“I don’t know, but I better go, if I stay in Pinkie’s body to long there could be side effects, just don’t tell her any of this and make sure she gets back safe”

The other four nodded. Rainbow sighed

“Goodbye everypony, maybe I’ll see you soon”

Rainbow made a grunting noise and Pinkie fell back unconscious.

All of the ponies knew Rainbow would be following them to make sure everypony is ok, she was the element of loyalty after all. She would be loyal no matter what, even if the barrier is the difference between life and death.

Rainbow will always be there for her friends, and no matter what happens she will always be loyal.

Even after death Rainbow won’t abondon her friends.

Something big is coming though.

Forget big.

Huge.

Forget huge.

Ok, you get the point, but something is coming.

Something gigantic.