Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were standing at Apple Bloom’s grave. Scootaloo slumped “This is our fault, we left her all alone. Maybe if we joined her she would still be with us.”

Rainbow placed a hand on Scootaloo’s shoulder “Don’t weigh yourself down with the past. Move forward with her in your heart, one day you will see her again.”

Sweetie Belle looked at her sister with tear in her eyes “How can you stand so strong? She was our friend and it may have been our fault she’s gone.”

Rarity didn’t know how to answer that question, Sunset stepped forward “It’s never good to dwell on what if’s, Princess Celestia is an emotional bag of problems bottled up like a volcano. She has one thousand years of deaths on her withers and blames herself for every single one. If it hurts tell someone, just vent it all out. Bottling it up is never the answer, trust in your friends.”

Applejack placed a small set of flowers on the grave “Sister, rest well. Ah hope you are at peace wherever you are.”

The group returned to the barn like home that the Apple family had built, Granny Smith was sitting at the table with Big Mac. Applejack, Rarity, Sunset, Sweetie Belle, Rainbow and Scootaloo took seats at the table, Applejack raised an eyebrow “Who’s cooking in the kitchen?”

Big Mac smirked “Guess?”

Rarity frowned “Pinkie Pie, she loves baking. Sonata maybe.”

Sunset raised an eyebrow “Sonata went with Pinkie to visit her family back home remember. Gilda maybe.”

Cozy, Gilda and Fluttershy walked down the stairs wearing a fresh set of clothes and took seats at the table. Scootaloo blinked “There are no spare seats, who is cooking?”

Everyone’s eyes widened as Rainbow walked out of the kitchen wearing an apron that read carrying an apple pie ‘Taste the Rainbow.’ The Rainbow at the table stood up and walked over to the other Rainbow. As soon as they made contact, the Rainbow Dash that exited the kitchen was still there as the other one dissapeared from sight, Rainbow smiled “I wanted to prepare some food for everyone but I also needed to comfort Scootaloo. I simply decided to do both and sent a version of me alone with her. I could see everything that happened in both places.”

Gilda blinked “I didn’t know you could bake?”

Rainbow rubbed the back of her head “I kind of kept it hidden, I was trying to keep that tough girl image up. I don’t see any real reason to do that anymore, it was really stupid of me to do that.”

Sunset shrugged “I can understand the power of image, many people say that what people think do you doesn’t matter but really does. You can’t avoid it unless you live under a rock.”

Rainbow shrugged “I’m sick of the whole bravado thing, it cost me my friends once.” She grimaced “Never again will my ego blind me.”

Rainbow then put the pie down “Enough dreary talk, I’ll bring the rest of the bakes goods in.” It wasn’t long before a large assortment of pies, cakes and other baked goods covered the table.

Gilda’s took a bite of an apple pie and tears began to flow down her face “This is best thing I have ever eaten in my life.”

Applejack took a bite and she began crying as well, Sunset took a bite and blinked “Rainbow, how did you get this good! You could be a chef in Canterlot serving Princess Celestia with this level of talent!”

Rainbow blushed “I’m not that good, I just cooked at lot at home. My father and mother aren’t very good cooks so I had to take up the slack from a young age, turns out I had a knack for cooking.”

Sunset smirked “You would make found that the legendary chef, Kitchen Nightmare would put in his restaurant.”

Cozy Glow blinked “Who is Kitchen Nightmare?’

Sunset laughed “He is a Unicorn Chef in Canterlot with a fury so great that he had Celestia whimpering like a foal. She burnt some toast that was put in front of him and he swore up a storm. A stallion worthy of great respect.”

Applejack frowned “He sounds like that Gordon Ramsay guy, Ah have seen his show which was called Kitchen Nightmares. He is rude and filled with fury.”

Gilda smiled “I like him, a no nonsense kid of guy. A man with such passion and love for food. A man who holds the potential for such destruction and yet is capable of making such amazing food.”

Fluttershy took a bite and soon tears flowed from her eyes, soon everyone other than Sunset was sobbing as they dug into Rainbow’s food. The rainbow haired teen was as red as tomato as Sunset looked at her “I do believe you have future in cooking should ever decide to pursue that as a career.”

Rainbow Dash took a bite and shrugged “I put a little too much cinnamon in and it’s too sweet, needs something sour to balance it out.”

Applejack paused “Wait if you are this good a cook why didn’t you say anything about our food. I hate to admit but this is the best food I have ever eaten. How have you not seen all other food as inferior.”

Sunset smirked “The mark of a true master chef in the making, seeking perfection and in doing so catches excellence. You should open your own restaurant in Canterlot, it would be a huge success. There must some joy that derive from this.”

Rainbow nodded “I don’t know, I just get this feeling when I cook. It’s like this is what I should be doing but I have kept it hidden for so long under the tough girl persona. I have put so much time into being an athlete that I have never thought of doing anything else, I believed that it was my future.”

Sunset frowned “Is that want you want to do for the rest of your life?”

Rainbow frowned and shook her head “Not really, it just was what was expected of me.”

Sunset smiled “Then cook, you seem to enjoy it. Maybe there is a future I it for you.”

Rainbow commented “Maybe, I still enjoy sports but more as a hobby.” They soon dug into the food eager to leave the serious conversation for another day.

Author's Note

Rainbows is good at cooking in this universe.