Stubbornness of Pain

Chapter 8: The Disorganized Mind and Soul

“Twilight… you… you can’t be serious.”
Rainbow Dash said and slowly backed off from the bed, Twilight crawled to its edge with difficulty and added with a sharp look at Rainbow Dash.
“I have never been more serious Rainbow Dash.”
“But… but just listen to what you’re saying… it’s completely insane!”
Rainbow Dash continued to defy and Twilight just once again added calmly with a sigh.
“It can’t help… it’s the only way.”
“But to bring in Discord in this will just worsen everything!”
Rainbow Dash shouted and right after that, Twilight started to cough so brutally that Dash thought it was the end of her.
“Twilight!”
She yelled in fear and rushed up to her, she helped her head up a bit so she easily could cough and when Twilight finally calmed herself, Rainbow Dash added worried.
“Are you alright?”
Shaking like a leaf in a wild storm Twilight slowly looked up, her face was miserly and her breaths were heavy.
“Rainbow Dash… soon… only you will be left… and if you want to run… I won’t judge you… I can't decide what your upcoming action will be... only you can … maybe we never had a chance from the very beginning… I don’t know… but I do know however that Discord is powerful… maybe not as powerful as Chrysalis but still… him on our side… maybe is the only way to have a chance.”

Rainbow Dash didn’t say anything this time, she just kept holding Twilight and stared down at her with fright for her life. Twilight was trying to catch her breath and when she did, she continued to speak a few words.
“Dash… it’s your call… and your alone.”
“But… but Discord will hardly just help like that… and not only that so is he in his stone form!”
Rainbow Dash said and instead of using words, so turned Twilight her head over to look at Rainbow Dash’s Element of Harmony in her hoof and shortly after that to bow down her head so her horn touched it. A weak spark awoken deep inside the red little gem and even after Twilight removed her horn from it so stayed the light inside it. Rainbow Dash watched closely her Element after Twilight was done and while she did that, Twilight started to explain.
“All you have to do to release him from his stone prison… is to touch his body with your Element… but something you need to remember and something I feel you need to know… is that you can’t trap him back… after this stage… he’s pretty much free for life… and how you’re going to get that stubborn thing on your side… I actually don’t know.”
“But what is stopping him from just leaving when he’s free?”
Rainbow Dash asked rather concerned and Twilight’s answer didn’t really calm her.

“To be honest… nothing… but in the end what does it matter… if Chrysalis isn’t stopped here… all is lost anyway.”
Rainbow Dash lowered her head and stayed quiet for a couple of breaths before saying.
“But… but how…”
Dash got though interrupt by Twilight pulling in her front hoofs to her chest and started making whimpering sounds of pain. The sweat just poured down from Twilight’s mane pass her face, she closed her eyes and bit firmly together with her jaws trying to keep her sane from her burning wound.
“Dash… the window… quick… open it and help over to it!”
Rainbow Dash’s own jaws was shaking, she wanted to say something but couldn’t find any words and ended up doing just as Twilight wanted. She forced the circle shaped window open and immediately receiving the cold rain in her face, the lightning seemed to have stopped but the storm itself hadn’t changed the slightest.

The rain was also perfect angled towards the window and just in matter of seconds the whole floor in front of it was wet. Rainbow Dash then helped Twilight over to the window just as she wanted and there she hanged over the window frame with her front hoofs and just enjoyed the cold the rain gave her. Dash thought the icing cold was unbearable and backed off from the window and waited for Twilight to ask for help to get over to the bed again. But Twilight under a rather long time didn’t say or do anything, the cold that had taken her entire body neutralized the feeling of the burning fever she had and the warm pain in her chest. Rainbow Dash could just feel from there she stood that the weather was freezing by the wind she felt and asked by worry for Twilight.
“Twilight… I don’t think it’s good for you to stay in such cold.”
“But it feels so great… I can barely feel the pain.”
Twilight responded with while having a big tired smile on her face and resting her head against her hoofs.

Without saying anything more, Rainbow Dash moved up next to Twilight and kept her company in the freezing rain. She immediately became soaking wet and started to shake by the icy feeling, Twilight however seemed not to be bother by it so much and just continued to smile out to the storm with her eyes closed. There they stayed for a while without trading a single word with each other, but it wasn't too much time that passed before Rainbow Dash just couldn't bear the rain and said.
“That has to be enough Twilight... I think you're in great need of rest.”
The next thing Dash did was to immediately help Twilight back to the bed even if she didn't want to, but Twilight actually allowed Rainbow Dash to do so and didn't add a single word. When Dash finally got Twilight on the bed and stuffed her under the cover she shortly joined her after have closed the window. She could feel how Twilight's entire body was cold as ice and decided to push herself against her so she could share the warmth from her own body.

“Dash... you can't stay her in Ponyville anymore... it's not safe... you need to hide for a while from Chrysalis while you have the chance.”
Twilight whispered out but all Rainbow Dash reacted to that was to push herself further against Twilight back with her chest and say.
“I will never leave you.”
A small sigh heard Rainbow Dash coming from Twilight and shortly after that Twilight added.
“You have always been stubborn... you know that right... but can you promise me that... if you do find yourself alone... you try to stay away from Chrysalis?”
It was quiet from Rainbow Dash's part and Twilight didn't wait too long before asking.
“Rainbow Dash?”

Rainbow Dash just continued to stay quiet but after a while she finally broke her silence.
“If... and only if I find myself alone... I will leave Ponyville.”
Without Dash seeing it so smiled Twilight and added lightly.
“No matter what happens tomorrow... I will be at your side... you knowing it or not... and I'm sure the rest also will that... goodnight my friend... and I'm sorry for not being able to keep that promise you told me one night.”
“Don't talk anymore... you need to rest to gather your strength.”
Rainbow Dash said a bit upset but as calmly as possible when she felt how she slowly was going insane in her mind by Twilight's way of talking. Twilight just smiled tired for herself and added with the last words for the night.
“Of course... we both need it after all.”

After that both of them shortly fell asleep and when the morning arrived, only Dash woke up. But despite not acting like it yesterday so knew Rainbow Dash very well that this would happen and she grieved harshly over have lost the only thing left in life that she really cared for. She left Twilight's house early and with Twilight peacefully in her own bed. There was only one place to go to felt Rainbow Dash and that was directly to Discord's statue, just outside Ponyville in the park next to the labyrinth there she remember how she completely failed her friends under Discord's influence once. Dash really didn't know what her honest feelings towards Discord was like, she obvious didn't like the idea of freeing him but at the same time she saw how Twilight most likely was right in that he maybe sadly was the only hope. In time she reached his statue and there he stood, in the exactly same and surprised pose as when he had been trapped. The rain poured down his stone form and it was in this moment Rainbow Dash just got the feeling in how this was a really bad idea.

She took her time and didn't hurry, she went around him thinking and speculate in how it would end and what she possibly could choice in terms of words towards someone so unpredictable. But in the end she wasn't any wiser as before and just decided to do it. She went up to him at the front, looking up his long body for a couple of seconds before pressing her Element of Harmony against his leg. The little shining light in the gem immediately died out and at first, nothing happen at all. Rainbow Dash took a step back and just waited patient while observing. Awhile passed and still not a thing had happen, Rainbow Dash looked down at her Element, thinking it had lost its power and meaning. But it was then how she notices something on Discord's statue, she looked at his griffin arm and saw how small fragments of stone fell from his fingers.
“Here we go.”
Rainbow Dash said to herself in a sigh and not to enlighten in her current mood, she tried to prepare for the upcoming but deep inside her mind she wonder if anyone ever could be prepared for someone like Discord.

Soon the entire statue was set in motion and small stone pieces fell from every limb of his body, his tail tried desperately to break free and his lower jaw vibrated brutally. Dash expected this to be a rather long process for him to break completely free but as soon as she thought so for herself, a giant crack appeared in his chest and followed with the entire statue to literally explode. Stone pieces flew to every direction and Dash raised a hoof to protect her face from its splitter that wasn't that bad to be honest when it hit her. Discord after the explosion reached to the sky with his head and made a satisfied roar. Rainbow Dash lowered her hoof and there she saw him, a worrying eyesight. He stretched his long back in a disturbing sound while gasping just like he woke up from sleep. After that he straighten his body and looked down at his hands in a way like it was the first time he saw them and said to himself cheerful in his rough voice.
“Ooooh how much I do hate to be a decoration in a park... twice also for that matter... can't anyone come up with a more original way?”
A big and kind of disturbing smile was on his face and shortly after he got to know his body once again, he looked up at Rainbow Dash with his smile intact. In a small jump he made his way down the little stone platform he had been placed on and walked up to Dash.
In front of her he stopped and bowed his head to her in a elegant motion and said with a voice of maximum sarcasm.
“I would thank you for releasing me... you know... if it wasn't for the little fact that you were one of those who putted me in this extremely overused prison.”

“You have no one else to blame then yourself for that!”
Rainbow Dash reply immediately harshly.
“Oh and why had it to be you of everyone who freed me... why couldn't it be that pink one... she seemed to be the only one with a mind even remotely aimed to the right direction?!”
Discord asked like it was unfair for him and instead of turning towards the more aggressive part of herself, so added Rainbow Dash just heartbroken and far from being in the mood of taking part of a argument.
“Well... there is the small fact that... she is dead.”
“Dead... you mean like... really dead... but... where's the rest then... like that orange one with a hat?”
Discord asked rather surprised and once more Dash gloomy answered.
“She is dead too.”
“And Twilight then... where's that 'precious' student of princess Dull!?”
He continued and at this point Dash didn't want to hear anymore.
“Look... everyone is dead... gone... I'm the only one left!”
She screamed out angry while Discord's surprised face faded away and he added rather not bother with his back straight.
“Figures... but I hardly believed that Twilight died by her studying and that the pink one laughed herself to death... there's something else in the air... isn't it?”

“And her name is Chrysalis... the queen of Changelings.”
Rainbow Dash said neutral which lead with Discord give away a rather thinking facial expression before continue speaking.
“Chrysalis you say... it looks like to me that even you have approached her a bit to close... seeing those two black eyes and the rest of your body.”
“Yes... I have faced her... and I'm going to do that again... but I need your help.”
Rainbow Dash added with finally mentioning what she wanted and why she in the first place released him. But Dash immediately heard in his upcoming words that he was far from willing to help her just like that. With of course sarcasm in his words, he cleared one of his ears while saying.
“Excuse me but I think I got a bit of stone left in my ear... I thought you asked me that you needed my help.”
Rainbow Dash was on the edge of losing it all together, she was tired in both body and soul and hadn't felt any confidence in days, with her both black eyes she stared into Discord's calm eyes and yelled.
“God dammit Discord... I released you for this purpose!”
“If you want to see it as I own you something for releasing me than I think we are even... you where along them who trapped me and now you released me... I think that's fair shared.”
Discord said and turned his back on Dash like he was about to leave.
“Fair shared?!”
Rainbow Dash screamed out furious which made Discord to stop and turn back to face Rainbow Dash.

“I have been fighting for my very own survival for days now... I have seen every last one out of my friends die right in front of me because I couldn't protect them... my mind is about to explode by all the struggling and you think that's fair?!”
Dash's breaths was heavy and all Discord did was to give her time to catch air and then ask far from bother over Dash's story.
“Then may I ask you something... if you only keep losing what you hold dear... why are you continuing this pointless struggle?”
“Because no one else will... and at this point... I have nothing else to lose!”
Rainbow Dash continued to yell, shaking by her mixed feelings of anger and sorrow.
“You have one think to lose... your life.”
Discord added and when Rainbow Dash heard that, she went quiet for a couple of seconds before bursting out in a small and short laugh that took Discord of guard, making him look strangely at her. When her laugh slowly went quiet she lost every bit of emotion in her face and said.
“My life... lost every bit of meaning this morning.”
This time didn't Discord add anything clever, he instead looked down at the ground in front of him with a rather unhappy face, almost like Rainbow Dash's words this time actually meant something.
“But enough with this... I'm only going to ask this once... will you help me fight Chrysalis?”
Rainbow Dash asked and the answer she got from Discord was short and hopeless feeling.
“No.”
He said with a straight face with his dark voice and Dash didn't like that at all.
“Then what are you going to do?!”
She screamed hostile towards him.

“I don't know... most likely leave Equestria.”
He continued calmly and at this point, Rainbow Dash didn't know what to say.
“You... you... I wish I never freed you... you don't care about anything else then yourself... you don't even feel the slightest care hearing that most one are dead... you're just a big cower!”
“That's not true... I'm sorry about your friends... I'm even sorry to hear that Celestia didn't make it... I truly am... but this is not my fight... you have my thanks for releasing me if that means anything... if you of course aren’t planning in re-stone me with your Element of Harmony you have there.”
Discord explain and raised a hand to point at Rainbow Dash's Element of Harmony she held.
Dash then herself looked down at her Element and just stared at it empty, it's surface looked dark and weak, almost like it's power had faded away. It didn't reflect herself in it anymore Rainbow Dash felt, it was for the moment nothing else then a gem, a stone, a piece of nothing.
“You mean this... here... just take it... everything is lost anyway!”
Rainbow Dash yelled and threw it at Discord without hesitate, he catch it in a quick motion with his hand and looked down at it in his hand.

Silent he leered up at Rainbow Dash with an unamused face and when Dash saw that she continued yelling with the feeling in her throat of the desire of weeping.
“Go ahead... do whatever you want with it... it's yours... nail it up a wall... carve a little statue out of yourself in it!”
“I'm sorry but this is nothing I want.”
Discord said and threw it back to Rainbow Dash, it landed in the grass in front of her hoofs and just the sight of it made her hating everything, even herself.
“Well neither do I!”
She screamed and stomped firmly at it so it went far into the ground through the layer of the grass and into the wet mud. Discord just watched her as she did it and with nothing more to say he turned once again his back to Rainbow Dash and made himself ready to take of.
“Wait!”
Rainbow Dash yelled when she saw that but this time with a frighten voice, Discord stopped but kept his back turn to Dash as she continued to speak.
“Please Discord... what do you want from me... I do whatever you want... anything... just please... help me.”
Helpless she said with a begging voice.

“These lands are dead... and I don't think there is any more to them at this point... which you also should see while you have the chance.”
Discord lastly said and immediately when he was done he jumped up in the air and flew away. Rainbow Dash watched him heartbroken, quiet and feeling the loneliness creeping up her back.
“What's the purpose of your life really... is it just to be annoying... having fun with your bizarre use of magic... making chocolate rain and such?!”
She screamed as loud as she possible could before he got too far away, she did however not know if he heard her because he just continued to fly further away. For some time she watched him till she couldn't see him anymore, sitting there in the rain all quiet.
“It's over.”
She said with a miserly face.
“It's truly over... I did everything I possibly could... and I still failed.”
She added and just fell forward so her jaw hit the ground. Her eyes stared away into the distance of the dismal lands with a dead facial expression. A heavy sigh passed through her lungs and in the next breath, she started to cry.

First it was just some few tears passing by her eyes silent but later, it broke out more, she started to sob and feel how her eyes twitched and then the actually weeping started. It was rather quiet but that also changed with time, after just a short moment her emotion broke wild with screaming and crying into the wet grass that she was laying on.
It was like there was no end to it, but her exhausting kicked in and she simply couldn't continue to release any more tears. She looked up at the small hole where her Element of Harmony was at its bottom and asked herself confused with a shaky voice.
“W-was it you who fail me... o-or was it I who fail you?”
She didn't stop staring at the hole in the ground, it was like she waited for a answer, but of course she didn't get one. For some time she stayed but after feeling how the weather got the better of her, she made her way up on her hoofs and walked into Ponyville, leaving her Element of Harmony. Not once did she turn her head to look back and neither did she know where she was going. Rainbow Dash hauled her body forward with her wings hanging dead on each side, the wounds under them hurt and the curtain she had around her torso to cover them up was more than soaking wet.

She gazed with a miserly face around her at Ponyville, it was so quiet and still, not a movement was to be seen anywhere. House by house she passed with each of them barely being standing.
It was dark in every single one of them and as Rainbow Dash moved forward to the end of Ponyville, she saw something truly unexpected. On what was a small hill on a giant meadow that stretched far away all the way over to Everfree forest, Chrysalis was sitting calmly and looking down its view. What Dash though found rather odd was that she didn't pay any attention to her, it was like she didn't see her but that knew Rainbow Dash she did. It was just like she didn't care, she just sat there in the rain, breathing out relaxed. Rainbow Dash stopped and watched if she would look away at her but she didn't, her eyes was focused on the view in front of her that the little hill provided her. Rainbow Dash doesn’t know why, maybe she didn't have any real reasons for it but when she saw that Chrysalis ignored her, she turned and moved up towards her.

Smoothly she left Ponyville behind her and moved up the small hill at the front, it was then how Chrysalis turned her head slowly and looked directly at Rainbow Dash with a harmless facial expression. Dash stopped with an extra heartbeat in her chest and awaited while swallow a bit of fear. But Chrysalis didn't do anything, she just stared for a while at Rainbow Dash and returned her head into its former position. Without hesitate, Rainbow Dash continued up the hill and funny enough, she sat down on the grass next to Chrysalis, facing the same way as she did. In front of them, they had Ponyville and beyond that, the mountain with Canterlot on its side. The rain as usual poured down as it had for days now but the air was somewhat clear from the fog. Rainbow Dash felt horrible, her entire body was shaking but not enough to be notice by the eye. Her eyelid wanted to fall down and make her fall asleep, she could feel the soreness of her two black eyes as she blinked and it didn't take long for Chrysalis to say.
“You look tired.”

With great delay before adding something, Rainbow Dash wiped of her face slowly as her eyes hurt when her hoof passed by them.
“I am... I feel awful... I also think I got a fever from the rain.”
“I wouldn't be sssurprisssed.”
Chrysalis added as she clearly leered to her side at Rainbow Dash but Dash didn't care. She just tried to feel comfort from the calm view in front of her and ignored the fact that she could have if she wanted to be able to lean against Chrysalis shoulder.
“I'm terrified.”
Rainbow Dash said all the suddenly with an extremely weak voice without actually knowing why she did it, it was so random and irrelevant even she thought. It did however make Chrysalis to first smile but quickly to burst out in giggles and finally laughing with control.
“You're one cruel creature.”
Rainbow Dash said unamused after have turned her head over to Chrysalis, but she got quickly word from Chrysalis in her defense.
“You have to excussse me but my amusssement are not coming from your fear... but the fact that you're sssaying that you feel it.”
“Why?”
Rainbow Dash asked and a well explained answer she got.
“Jussst think about it... a normal pony would run in fear in jussst the sssight of me... they would sssquall and cry and maybe even passs out in a sssimple touch from me... but you... you walked up to me by your own power and are sssitting here... even talking to me with a sssteady... ssstill... relaxed voice... and then you sssay that you're afraid.”

“I'm not relaxed... or any of those other things... I'm just to tired.”
Rainbow Dash said a bit grumpy but Chrysalis didn't agree, it was almost like she tried to accomplice something, to prove something for Rainbow Dash.
“But if you were afraid... you wouldn't be tired... your body would heat up and react to that fear... no matter how weak or lack of ssstrength your body are... that'sss just nature.”
The Changeling queen said very confident, it followed then with silence between both of them but Rainbow Dash looked up at Chrysalis face and felt that she had to admit something for her.
“Chrysalis... do you... do you know... that I have killed Changelings?”
“Yesss.”
She simply reply with without turning her head, her voice and acting was smooth as she didn't care and that found Dash odd.
“And... you don't want revenge over them?”
She asked curious, not knowing what the outcome would be but Chrysalis seemed rather friendly, for the moment.
“Revenge... no... my revenge isss already granted... if 'revenge' isss even the right word that isss... and I knew from the very beginning that the chance of losssing Changelings exisssted... and ssso did they.”
“I see.”
Rainbow Dash added lightly as she looked down at the ground, thinking for herself.

“But you however...”
Abruptly Chrysalis started with saying and actually stood up and moved over to Rainbow Dash. There she then grabbed Dash's chin from underneath in a soft motion with her hair and forced her to look up at her as she then continued speaking.
“You... I can sssee in your eyes the hate... you lussst for revenge over me more than anything elssse... I'm I right?”
Rainbow Dash just stood there with her mouth wide open, knowing exactly what to say but at the same time, she couldn't get out a single word. The problem was that she thought she hated Chrysalis more than anything else in the whole wide world and maybe she truly did. But as she was sitting there with Chrysalis right in front of her, even touching her so was her anger towards her surprisingly not that strong.
“I-I... I don't know... in the beginning... I hated you with passion... I just wanted to fight you and your Changelings... and nothing else... but now... now I...”
Rainbow Dash started to explain showing that she was confused over her feelings, not being either afraid in speaking the truth of those feelings, but Chrysalis made another finger out of her made up hand from her mane and placed it on Rainbow Dash mouth as she interrupted her.
“Husssh... don't sssay anything more... you don't need to... I'm sssure that deep inssside you... you want to tear me apart... and will alwaysss have that feeling and desssire... I can underssstand that.”

Chrysalis actually made a warm looking smile when she was done and slowly returned her hand into her mane. Confused out of her mind, Rainbow Dash watched her as Chrysalis did the same thing but with a much more certain facial expression then herself.
“W-why have you come here in the first place... what could possibly grab your interest here in Ponyville?”
Dash asked and the answer was simple from Chrysalis.
“You.”
She said and Rainbow Dash's entire body shivered when she heard the answered but at the same time, she didn't feel too alarmed. She was pretty much untouched by the single word and just quietly said.
“Oh.”
“Not sssurprisssed to hear that... are we?”
Chrysalis asked and lowered her head so it was in more of the same height as Rainbow Dash's.
“No... even Twilight told me that you would come for me.”
Rainbow Dash said without breaking her eyesight of what she was watching in the distance.
“Ssshe isss truly not to me underessstimated.”
Chrysalis added with a straight face, knowing for sure that she wasn't in life anymore.

“But you know what... even though I have come for you... ssso will I give you a head ssstart.”
She after a while continued saying but in Chrysalis offer, Rainbow Dash just sighed and shaken her head.
“I don't care anymore... you're free to kill me... I either don't care about the promise you made... the promise about my safety that would run out next sunrise.”
Rainbow Dash said, knowing that she literally gave herself over to Chrysalis but she honestly didn't care anymore, if it wasn't for what Chrysalis then said.
“Oh... but I'm not here for your life.”
Rainbow Dash felt immediately her blood freeze and her breaths ripped through her lungs and throat as ice shards passed down them. Slowly she turned her head over to Chrysalis that already watched her with a smile on her face and as confused as Rainbow Dash just could be, she with a shaky voice asked.
“W-what?”
“I'm here to take you with me.”
Chrysalis reply with like it wasn't a big deal but as she said that, Rainbow Dash stood up and started to back off.
“N-no... what do you want with me?!”
She yelled anxiety as she made her way away from the Changeling queen, but her distance from her didn’t really increase because also Chrysalis stood up and followed Dash as they both moved down the hill.

“Thaaatsss... a sssecret... you're a ssstrange one I must sssay... when you thought that I was going to kill you... you don't even flinch... but when you hear that I have come to take you with me... you're actually preparing to flee.”
Chrysalis said as she laugh lightly in between her pauses as she found Dash's acting amusing, but as for Rainbow Dash, she didn't approve the slightest bit the situation.
“I don't want to follow you anywhere!”
She continued to yell while Chrysalis kept her normal voice.
“I'm sssorry... but... that’sss not in your power to decide.”
Rainbow Dash just backed off and backed off, but Chrysalis was right after her, she didn't know what to say anymore but Chrysalis however did.
“Don't worry... you ssstill have your head ssstart... I'm sssure you can make a sssignificant and exciting chassse from what I have heard from you.”
In pure regret Rainbow Dash stopped which also Chrysalis did, Dash stared down into the ground with a low head, keeping her tears from releasing as she then looked up again and said with the same regret in her voice as her facial expression was.
“But... but I can't fly... my wound would only stop me and make a quick turn to the ground again!”
Chrysalis looked beyond Rainbow Dash's face over at her wings that you could clearly see was in a weak stage.

She then looked back into Dash's eyes and showed that she was a bit disappointed but none the less accepting the easy work.
“Well... that'sss unfortunate... but hey... you can ssstill run.”
“That's... that's not fair.”
Rainbow Dash said far over the edge of keeping a straight face and all Chrysalis did to that was to cruelly enough count down what was left of Rainbow Dash's head start.
“Ten... nine... eight...”
Rainbow Dash's head was about to explode, but she did do as Chrysalis had suggested and started to run away from her as fast as she could. But as she felt the wind in her mane, she started to cry, it was a open field she was heading to and she knew she wouldn't have a chance. Her tears passed by her cheeks horizontal by the speed and got absorbed in her mane, Rainbow Dash was literally running with her eyes closed while trying to make as little noise from her crying as possibly, and then it happen. Her body stopped in half a second and not by her own force, she couldn't move her legs at all. A strange burning feeling in her hoofs appeared like a shock and as she looked down, she saw how her hoofs were frozen to the ground with each of them being trapped in solid ice.
Behind her Chrysalis slowly walked up to her as she had used her magic to trap Rainbow Dash.
But Rainbow Dash tried to break free and actually managed, sort of.

She was capable of tearing lose her right front hoof from the ice but as soon as she putted it down again on the ground to do the same on her other hoofs, it froze back into pure ice and this time in a worse state. Her entire leg from top to bottom got trapped in thick ice and after that, the rest of her legs did the same to prevent her from breaking free again. But that wouldn't happen again because Rainbow Dash was too busy shouting out the freezing pain that had occupied half her body. She could feel how her heart in tearing beats struggled to keep her limbs warm and shortly followed with her shaking, in just matter of seconds she went pale and also at that moment so had Chrysalis shadow reached over her. Dash which was in a lot of pain looked up futile at Chrysalis and actually tried to beg, but her voice was so shaken and barely a single word was understandable that came out from her.

Not though that would change Chrysalis mind as she determined grabbed Rainbow Dash around her throat with a hand from her mane and looked deep into her eyes.
“Don't try to fight it... it will be easssier that way.”
She said and slowly squeezes her grip at Dash's throat so no air could pass through. Immediately started Rainbow Dash to make hoarse sounds and trying to desperately wave of Chrysalis in panic, but the lack of movement Rainbow Dash's body was in made it impossible. Her body went quickly weaker than it already was and her eyes slowly went white as her pupils rolled back. Everything went in time dark and the last thing Rainbow Dash saw, was Chrysalis. The last feeling Rainbow Dash felt was fear, fear that no words ever could describe. But that fear wasn't for dying, it was for knowing that she would once again wake up, wake up in a world she now hated and wanted to leave as her friends had.