Blitzkrieg: Redemption

Escape

     Lightning Dust cringed in fear from the verbal assault of Rainbow Dash. As the prismatic pony approached Lightning Dust, she quickly started looking for a way out of the room. Her eyes scanned the front door.

     'No, to many ponies, that mob will tear me apart.'

     She looked back towards Spitfires bedroom.

     'Buck! That won't work either, I'd have to go through Rainbow Dash to get there.'

     Lightning Dust frantically searched the room for a way out, Rainbow Dash drawing nearer every second. Just as the rainbow maned pony was but a few feet away, Lightning Dust noticed a bright glare in her eyes. The rest of the room was bathed in a bright light as well.

     'Wait.....I'm a bucking idiot!'

     Lightning Dust quickly lifted herself on top of the desk behind her, maintaining eye contact with Dash as she proceeded. Standing on her hind legs, Lightning Dust placed her left leg on the back edge of the desk. As soon as she found firm purchase with her rear leg, she flipped backwards off of the desk, propelling herself with her right leg, whilst launching the desk at Rainbow Dash, knocking the surprised mare over. As Lightning Dust fell backwards, she raised her front hooves over her head and braced for the impending impact.

     *Glass shattering

     Lightning Dust flared her wings and quickly rolled herself upright, flying away from the newly broken window as fast as her wings could carry her. She didn't make it far before a low, deep air raid alarm began to boom over the pa system. Lightning Dust began to panick once more as she saw several squadrons of pegasi hurtling towards her. Obviously her spectacular show of breaking out of Spitfires window was a little too showy, since now half the academy knew who the alarm was for.

     Lightning Dust banked to the left to narrowly dodge  a trainer who got to close, causing him to smack into the ground below. As several more pegasi drew near, Lightning Dust banked towards the mess hall, quickly tucking in her wings to slip through the partially opened front doors. As soon as she had room, she unfurled her wings once more, zooming past surprised pegasi, and knocking a few over in the process. Lightning Dust quickly turned out of the entry hallway and into the main dining hall. Her eyes grew in shock as she saw an entire table of wonderbolts scatter and take up positions around the dining hall. Lightning Dust hovered where she was for a second, eyes scanning the room for a way out. Several pegasi appeared in the doorway around her.

     "Stand down, we have you surrounded!"

     Lightning Dust continued searching frantically, her eyes finally stopping on Soarin. As the two made eye contact, a crazy idea popped into Lightning Dust's head.

     'Sorry Soarin, but I'm about to make you look stupid.'

     Soarin stared back at her, his eyes showing confusion at the grin forming on Lightning Dust's face. Suddenly, the mare bolted for him, accelerating extremely fast. Soarin smiled. This mare actually thought she could tackle him. She was about to be proven otherwise. As he readied himself for the mares impact,Lightning Dust reared back and tucked her wings in at the last second, causing her to land on her back. She continued sliding right between Soarins legs, winking coyly at the baffled stallion as he watched her slip by. As soon as Lightning Dust slid out from underneath the table behind Soarin, she pushed back with her wings, propelling herself face forward into a window at the back of the dining hall. Upon clearing the jagged glass of the window frame, Lightning Dust began flying towards the southern end of the field. She looked back to see several pegasi finally exiting the mess hall to pursue her. They were way to far behind to cath he-.

     *Smack!

     Lightning Dust spiraled out of control and smacked  into the dizzitron. She tried to stand and take flight again, but as soon as she opened her wing, she screamed in pain. It was broken, and whatever hit her was to blame. Lightning Dust looked up to see Rainbow Dash glaring at her, her face slightly bruised from smacking into Lightning Dust so hard, but otherwise the mare was uninjured. Lightning Dust tried to backpedal, but only managed to smack into the dizzitron behind her. Rainbow Dash closed the distance quickly, grabbing Lightning Dust by her collar and  bringing them face to face.

     "You couldn't be the best, so you had to try and take out the competition! Was that it?! Was I the next pony you were going to slaughter?! Answer me!"

     *Smack

     Lightning Dust brought a hoof up to cover her face in case Rainbow Dash tried to smack her again. Her cheek now red from the hit, Lightning Dust looked back to Dash, her eyes pleading to the young mare.

     "Rainbow I-I didn't kill her! It wasnt me-"

     *Ooof

     Lightning Dust curled over in pain, her stomach screaming at her to do something, anything to get her away from the enraged mare before her.

     "Don't you dare lie to me! You wanted her dead! She took away your dream so you went and took her life!"

     Lightning Dust weakly raised her head to stare into Dash's rose colored irises.

     "Dash, you have to-" *wheez* "-believe me! It wasn't me!"

     *Smack

     Lightning Dust went flying into the dizzitron once more, her jaw aching from Dash's last punch. As the prismatic mare began walking towards Lightning Dust, she raised her head weakly and looked around, hoping for something to get her out of her current situation. Her eyes stopped when she saw a red latch hooked onto the backside of the dizzitron. She tilted her head slightly to read the writing on the latch.

     EMERGENCY RELEASE

     Rainbow Dash closed in, now only a few feet away from Lightning Dust. She stared down at the mare, still fully enraged.

     "Now your even too afraid to make eye contact with me? Face me you coward!"

     As Dash drew close she lowered a hoof to grab Lightning Dust by her mane.

      *zzzzzzZZZZZZ FWUUUM

     Rainbow Dash's vision blurred and faded to black as she collapsed on the ground. After all, getting an uppercut from a massive metal tilt-a-whirl wasn't something one simply "walked off".

    Lightning Dust held on to the dizzitrons safety harness for dear life. Her vision was a massive spinning blur, but she could make out the mass of ponies heading towards her from the mess hall. She took a deep breath.

     'I only have one shot at this, if I release too early I get launched into the sky and fall to my death. Too late and the janitors will have one doozy of a mess to clean off of the ground.'

     Lightning Dust closed her eyes and began silently counting off.

     'One, two, three, one, two,.......Three!'

     Lightning Dust released her grip on the device and felt a second of weightlessness overtake her. After a few seconds of air time, she opened her eyes to find the ground racing by below her. Very close below her. She looked up to find the southern cliff approaching her rather quickly. Panic began to set in as Lightning Dust tried to slow her approach, only succeeding in further hurting her broken wing and causing her to spin uncontrollably. As she approached the cliff, she could barely make out a small grey figure directly in her path.

     *Thwop

     Two screaming mares fell from the side of the cliff, too entangled in one another to break free. As they fell, Lightning Dust could only make out a blur flying past the two. It wasn't long before she realized this blur was actually the side of the mountain the academy rested on top of. Feeling completely helpless, Lightning Dust closed her eyes and awaited the inevitable doom that the bottom of the mountain would bring.

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     Derpy Hooves continued screaming loudly as the world spun by her. She tried unfurling her wings, but couldn't due to the mail satchel strap wrapped around her barrel. She quickly set to work attempting to rip the strap off of her body, her teeth beginning to tear at the strap a little. After a few more seconds of gnawing, the strap snapped in two, causing Derpy's wings to quickly unfurl. She began beating downwards with as much force as possible, attempting to right her decent. She quickly realized something was wrong. She felt a heavy tugging around her waist. She looked down to find the pegasus that ran into her earlier that day clinging to her for dear life, one wing hanging limp and bloody at her side. Derpy knew she couldn't lift both of them, so she did the only thing she could think of. She began flapping her wings away from the mountainside, guiding the two's decent towards the forest below. With the forest rapidly approaching, Derpy flapped with all her might, closing her eyes as she prepared for the inevitable impact.

     *Smack

     *Bang

     *Crack

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      Derpy Hooves slowly opened her eyes, her vision fading in and out of darkness. Once she could stand, she looked around groggily, taking in her new surroundings. She was surrounded by a dark forest, small rays of light piercing through the canopy overhead. The chirps of birds and various other animals could be heard all around. Derpy looked at herself and was relieved to find that she had no serious injuries. But there was blood, lots of blood. She looked around again, her eyes finally resting on the mangled aqua green body of the mare that had tackled her off of the cliff. Her messy orangish-blond mane matted with blood. Her left wing  bent well out of its normal shape, blood pooling from the wound.

     "I think they crashed over here!"

     "Are you sure? I could've swore that the murderer landed more in this direction?"

     Derpy's throat clenched in fear as she heard the two pagasi above speaking.

     'Murderer? I'm down here alone with a murderer?!'

     Derpy quickly cupped her hooves over her mouth to scream out at the guards. Before she could utter a single syllable, an aqua hoof came over her mouth, silencing her. She turned frantically to find the mare from earlier standing shakily behind her. As they made eye contact, Derpy began whimpering softly.

     'I don't want to dieidontwanttodiei-'

     As their eyes met, Derpy stared straight into the mares amber irises, her breath catching short. She had never seen such a look of fear on another ponies face. Her eyes were bloodshot, clearly showing the pain and fear the made felt. Suddenly the mares knees gave in, causing her to collapse, freeing up Derpy's mouth once again. Derpy backed away and began to turn around to scream for help once more. She stopped as she made eye contact with the mare once again. By this point the mare was sobbing uncontrollably, tears pouring down her face as she looked into Derpy's eyes.

     "P-please d-don't....." *whimper* "-he-help me..."

     With these last words and a final, pathetic whimper, the mare collapsed, the pain finally too much for her to bear. Derpy blinked once at the sight, her heart wrenching in its place.

     *Sigh

     She knew what she had to do.

     "Hey! Down here! I found the murderer!"

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