Rainbow Dash has only ever been in love once. So when that love's threatened, she'll smash her way through the entire universe if she has to in order to set things right.

An entry in the Poetry Group's 2024 Pony Poetry Contest, this story gained an Honorable Mention.

On a technical note, the rhythm here is supposed to be iambic pentameter from stem to stern. The rhyme scheme traces its roots back to the terza rima Dante Alighieri first used five hundred years ago in the Divine Comedy, but I'm using the English-language variation that Percy Shelley came up with a little over two hundred years ago for his "Ode to the West Wind." This variation inserts couplets after four stanzas of terza rima to break the narrative into something kind of like a series of Shakespearean sonnets.

Because, I mean, why wouldn't a person do that?