Tragedy Is Loyal

Chapter 1 Part 2-Mailing Memories

Derpy Hooves was delivering mail as usual. On her usual route. With her not so usual timing. Everyday, she left the post office determined than ever to get not get distracted, she failed. She doesn't remember much of how she got the way she is. Her eyes. Her constantly forgetting things. Everything about her was...different. And she knew this. She knew she wasn't like the other ponies. She didn't really mind either. Nopony ever payed any real attention to her, and when they did they just laughed.

Derpy was very fond of laughter herself, but when people laughed at her, it was horrible. She felt like she wanted to go hide in a corner and stay there forever. But it wasn't like she didn't know why. Because she did know why. It was the day she got her cutie mark. The flash. The colors. The wind through her hair. The fall. She such a young philly when it happened. She wasn't the best flyer either. She didn't know what to do but to fall. Fall. The word resonated and repeated in her head over and over again for what seemed like an eternity.

CRASH! She was so caught up in that horrible memory that she wasn't paying any attention to where she was flying. She and a cyan colored pony were both falling in unison. The memories that were going through her head had come back to haunt her again. They both hit the ground hard. Mail was falling everywhere around them. Derpy got back to senses and looked at the rainbow maned pony that was sitting in front of her. She was still collecting herself and to busy to notice the thing she crashed into was sitting in front of her.

'Rainbow Dash, are you ok!?" Called a little philly from behind her. "The last thing I saw was you crash into something and then you falling."

Rainbow Dash shot Scootaloo an angry look. "You saw me about to crash and you didn't warn me?!?"

"Well, I thought you would have been paying attention to where and what you were flying into, so I wouldn't have to watch out for you." Scootaloo shot back.

"Well at least nopony was seriously injured." Rainbow Dash looked over at Derpy.

"You alright?"

Derpy shook her head at the memories that were still flooding in and looked over at Rainbow Dash.

"I think so," She responded. "Other than my mail going everywhere, and me having a headache now, I think I'll be fine"

Rainbow Dash looked around. She hadn't noticed all the mail until now, and she felt kinda bad for the mailmare.