Dust and Dirt

by Stelsun Darkstar

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Alternate Universe, Rainbow Dash, Pony Life
Length: 1408

The colorful world is destroyed, and Rainbow Dash is all alone. Looking for hope.

Rainbow is all alone now. Alone in the now destroyed world that she used to call 'home'. She barely remembers what happened and how it happened. All she knows is that she must walk foward and find new hope.

Slight note:
I'm not really great at writing that type of dark stories, but i still decided to try.

Published 2021-09-09 11:10:00 UTC
Last updated 2021-09-09 11:10:00 UTC

Ch. 01 - Emptiness Around the World

Hundred years ago, there was Equestria. There were the colorful and safe places for the pastel colored ponies and other creatures to roam around, without getting harmed and killed. There was their ruler, Princess Celestia, and the co-ruler, Luna. They had all the power to save an protect their peasents.

But no..

Somehow, those colorful and powerful creatures failed on doing a single task. Protecting the darn kingdom. Protecting all the inoccent families, friends and creatures. Not just living beings, but buildings, plants, everything that could create even a slight curve on the horizon. It was depressing to watch the emtpy world where now the only living being could live. And that, was Rainbow Dash. She wasn't the same after this horrific accident. The dark magic, which was possibly responsible for all of this, deformed her body. It made her four legs really long, and tall. Tall as a whole apple tree. If an apple tree was even that tall..

"I lost my friends.. My family.."

"..."

"And.. all of this is actually real.."

Yes, it was very real. Thanks to the princesses, now Rainbow couldn't see the smiles on her friends' faces. Everything was lost. Everything.

Rainbow Dash wanted to scream, but her face only knew one expression and emotion right now, at that moment. Shock.

The fact that the whole plan of her friends, the princesses, the entire kingdom's happened infront of her presence, the fact that Rainbow tried fighting the new evil spirits, their ruler.. The fact that this thing hit her with full force, that it struck her on the ground like a lighting.. The fact that her friends hid her somewhere safe and continued fighting without her.

She was there.. Rainbow saw how it happened.. but she barely remembered anything that happened back there.

The colors were a little faded away, and it seemed that the things around her were slowly dying. Which was true. Everything, even the inanimated objects were dying. Dying because of those things, those evil spirits..

"Hey! Guys!! Let me help you all!! You need MY HELP!!! GUYS!!!"

...

She was late. While still trying to escape from the locked house where she was put in, her friends were getting destroyed by those spirits. The princesses were getting torn off into small pieces, and the world from the outside was basically melting. The colors were fading away, like old toys being left in a attic for twenty years. Rainbow Dash just couldn't remember the pure horror, written on their faces anymore.

The deformed pegasus was still walking on the empty land. It was now the only thing she could do, sence everything was gone. She couldn't feel anything, maybe a side effect from the dark magic, floating around the place. In the same air that the pale, rainbow pony breathed. Speaking of her rainbow colors, her mane and tail were getting even paler and paler. The same thing was happening to her blue coat and magenta eyes. Her cutie mark, a rainbow lighting bolt, was now almost gone from both of her flanks. And at the end of her long, tall and skinny legs were her hooves, almost as sharp as kitchen knifes.

"While probably the whole Equestria is like this, i now doubt it that i'll find something... 'cool'." Rainbow whispered to herself with the same raspy voice that she always had. "Who knows, i'll need actual good magic to find something 'awesome' and.. not depressing as.. this."

On her way, the deformed mare was kicking small rocks and dusty clouds were forming on the bottom on her legs, which was covering her leg fur with dirt and dust. And when it was getting really windy, her whole fur was getting covered in dust, including her mane and wings. This was making her look even more 'dead' and pale, just like the dust around and in this place.

After many, many stares at the empty, dusty and windy place, Rainbow Dash started to notice something... different. It was something she haven't seen in a long time.. colors. Real, neon, pastel, any kind of colors, right infront of her. When she finally walked close enough to the sorce of those pretty colors, the only thing there was just a small circle, full of every type of color in the world. Even the nonexistent ones. This small moment was like.. a dream-come-true for the poor mare. Like, what if this flashing circle was like a portal to another, better world? Where she could see anyone again? Where she could feel better, where she could taste real, awesome food and drinks, where she could talk to her friends again.. Where everything could be like it was before..?

Rainbow Dash was entering the colorful portal.

Ch. 02 - The Endless Void..?

Rainbow Dash entered the portal, where she thought that her endless problems would just perish, and go away. But maybe that wasn't really the case here. When she entered in, there was.. nothing. Just nothing. The deformed mare was just floating in the endless void. Probably forever.

"I.. really thought that i'll see my friends.. again." Quietly, the mare started sobbing. She thought that her now shattered dreams and thoughts would come true, and yet here she was.

But then, something caught her ear's attention.. There's no sounds in an void.. except Rainbow's voice, right? Then if that's the case, why was she able to hear the relaxing running of a river? And the calm wind? The moving of the tree leaves, bushes and grass..?

The colorfull world where she lived.. was back?

Was the void where the mare was earlier just a start of creating her own, perfect world?! If this was true, then Rainbow had to test it out. With all of her streght, she began thinking about the sudden loss of her best friends, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Applejack, Twilight, Rarity... they were all there, right infront of her, waiting for her to fly right at them and hug them, as hard as she could be happy about the fact that it worked. The mane six hugged. They laughed, spoke to eachother, ate random tasty snacks and drank some cool drinks, and talked again.

Everything, so Rainbow could forget that this was all supported by her own imagination. That this world.. is not real.

Right now, that was nothing to the happy mare, who was now all better, since her deformities were gone and she was back to normal. She was colorfull as the walking and living rainbow she was.

"Hey Twilight!" Rainbow said as she noticed her alicorn friend, just sitting on the edge of a cliff, all alone. "Heya Twilight. Heh, it was a pretty awesome day today! Wasn't it?"

Twilight looked at her rainbow friend, smiled and answered, "It was indeed awesome, Rainbow." Then, the smile from the alicorn's face faded, "Rainbow? Are you sure you're feeling alright?"

The rainbow pegasus was a bit confused by Twilight's question, but still answered simply, "Oh yeah, i'm absolutely sure." Rainbow said as she sat beside her purple friend.

"Rainbow," Twilight continued, "i feel like there's something bothering you for real. Are you sure that you're allright?"

The rainbow pony's ears drooped and she frowned. She wanted to tell the truth to Twilight, but at the same time, she didn't want to ruin her new life that she was living.

Out of a sudden, the purple alicorn hugged her. Rainbow felt warm inside and let a tear drop.

"Rainbow," Twilight said again, "just because we're gone here, doesn't mean that we're gone forever."

As Twilight said those words, Rainbow closed her eyes and continued of hugging her friend. Slowly, as the ponies hugged, the world started to fall apart again. But this time, it was rather calming and quiet, with no loud sounds that could distract anybody.

When Rainbow opened her eyes, she was back at the current world. Her deformed body was back and her colours were faded like before. She noticed that her body was in a sitting position and her forarms were wrapped around her thin body, like she was about to hug somebody, like her friend..

Her pale magenta eyes looked around, then she tilted up her head, directly at the sky.

"I will always remember you guys!!" The mare shouted, while her now even paler eyes filled with tears once again.