"This is your final warning!" The Captain shouted outside the elevator as he motioned to the other unicorns of Department Blue. His cohorts marched up to the barricade and aimed their tasers for the grooved crease down the center. "Come out or we will—"
The doors exploded.
Three bodies toppeled back, spitting blood from the metal slabs slamming across their bodies.
The Captain ducked low as his companions rolled past him. He stood up, wincing. His beret fell off as his eyes filled with color.
A blue body blurred through him, slamming his limbs into two more guards. They fell in a pile of groans and twitching hooves.
Three Enforcers lined up, swinging their tasers at the darting figure.
Four blue hooves scraped against the floor, spitting sparks. With a breathless leap, she dodged their swings, twirled, planted off the ceiling, and rocketed into the center of them.
The guards tried shouting—they vomited instead. Thunderous gut-punches slammed them in the stomach, forcing two of them to bend over and heave before a pair of blue hooves collided their skulls together.
Two Enforcers remained. One charged, yelling, swinging his taser at full fury.
Spectral mane-hair twirled as a pair of ruby eyes glared his way. A red lightning bolt glistened in the taser light as she dove over him, came down, and bit onto his tail. With one wing stretched out, she spun four times, eight times, sixteen times and released him across the hallway.
His body ragdolled through two guards struggling to get back up. They all collapsed to the ground, falling numbly unconscious.
The last guard unholstered a crystal gun, loaded it, and fired madly.
Her blurring figured darted left and right, avoiding the sailing shards. Then, with a rainbow leap, she pounced on his figure, rolled, and came out of the somersault with his gasping face in her hooves.
Frowning, Rainbow Dash slammed his skull into a sheet of glass window lining a security alcove. Cracks formed as he dizzily reeled from the impact. Then, snarling, she slammed his face into it again... and again... and one final time with a shout.
The glass shattered. The guard's forward body toppeled into the alcove, where a resounding groan echoed before his body went limp with unconsciousness.
Rainbow Dash stood, panting, haloed by thoroughly beaten equines and discarded berets.
Belle limped out of the elevator car, her jaw hanging. She looked at the stirring guards, listened to their indecipherable groans. With shuffling limbs, she approached Rainbow Dash's flank, gulped, and stammered, "Rainbow Dash... is... are you..."
With a prismatic blur, she was gripping Belle's shoulders and snarling into her face. "Where is it?!"
Belle gasped, shivering as she stared into the face of the hysterical pegasus. "Where is what?"
"Where they were keeping me!" Rainbow's voice cracked as tears joined the sweat on her face.
Belle blinked. "You mean... You mean Alpha Storage of D-Department Blue?"
"Take me there!" Rainbow Dash snapped.
"But... But—"
"Take me there! Now!" Rainbow Dash panted, draping off of Belle with sudden exhaustion.
"Okay! Okay..." Belle nodded, slid Rainbow Dash's forelimb over her shoulder, and stumbled towards the far end of Department Blue. "Let's do this together..."
Rainbow Dash breathed, very much alive, very much shivering...
And she's back!
Back with a vengeance.
The triumphant return! Huzzah!
ALL OF MY YES!!!
Awesome.
Subject: Rainbow Dash
Suffix Title Obtained: "The Awakened"
Preview: "Rainbow Dash, the Awakened"
-Minty
(Rainbow Dash: Round Two, let's do this)
Whoa...
She really is the one.
I'm back, ponyfolk.
And on the same day as an episode featuring her too!
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You mentioned in chat that she's probably after the book that was in her saddlebag. Regardless, Dash is clearly on a mission and that makes me doubt she was 100% unconscious during this time. That, or she's running on pure chaos-fuled adrenaline.
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She could have gleaned a bit from the sequencing aswell. Maybe seen through Belle's eyes.
As a matter of fact, her asking about "Where they were keeping me!" pretty much confirms it. If she had been unconscious that whole time, she wouldn't have even known she was being "kept", she could have simply been in a hospital. So yeah, she knows something, be it from half-wakefulness or sequencing, only time (and Imploding Colon) will tell.
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My gut tells me that Shell wasn't telling the whole truth about how he came to find Dash in Aridstone. I would guess that might haven been woken up by him, but refused to help Shell and was taken prisoner. The entire sequencing facility is rather complex and the device rather suited for Dash, not exactly something you just have on hand to deal with an unconscious pegasus. So perhaps Dash was a prisoner, first, then placed in the chaos-strip coffin of sequencing afterwords as a means to get at the information she held and access the power in her element. That is, they needed a way to get the "key" without Dash, but while keeping her alive for it to work. Enter: cold-chaos stasis and sequencing.
In any case, a lot of time has seemed to pass. Dash will have quite an interesting chat with Luna once this is all said and done.
4 chapters, we get Dash back and yet you still manage to give us a cliffhanger
First of all: guns. Second of all: IT'S RAINBOW DASH!!!!
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Rainbow Dash is back, bitches!
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Whoops. Misread that bit.
In other news...
WOOT WOOT!
YES!!! SHE RETURNS!!!! YES!!!!
Awww yeah! She ain't dead! She ain't dead! Awwwwwwww yeah!
Successful prediction/hope is successful.
And what an entrance! Good on yah Dash! The enforcers are in for a he'll of a time now! Hahaha...
Onwards!
Dis gon b gud!
Nice work.
Well, that was without a doubt the most awesome thing
Pretty boss
Back and pissed.
Yeah, Dash is back, and not pulling any punches, either! That was pretty amazing for someone that's been lying in a coffin as Discord for Celestia knows how long - but its Dash, so really no surprise there
But what does she want back in the sequencing room? She's got her necklace, and she gave the book to the girl back in Dragon land. Or at least I'm pretty sure she did. And she's super pissed at something - hopefully Shell, and not Belle for some reason. Well, until tomorrow then!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Clenched Fist - Sepultura
Well, its nice to see being mostly dead only pissed her off.
Yay, she's back! Now let's hope her muscles haven't atrophied so much that she's too tired to do more than the occasional adrenaline burst on the ground.
Dash is apparently the hulk - you can't kill her, just make her even more mad. Also:
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Awesomesauce
Plus we have an entire uprising about to occur, which should give us a nice distraction ready for escape.
I fail to go on here for a few days and I've got 18 chapters to read. How do you write so fast?
you go rainbow, you go kick some flank
She's alive and kicking. And very unhappy.
Only 20 more chapters to go! Huff... Puff...
Also, something has been bothering me for a while. Does anyone remember this scene in Austraeoh?
WHAT DO THOSE STAND FOR!?!?
1884419 it may be reveled on the return trip.
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
What an entrance! You always think you're prepared for Imploding, but the guy manages to smack you in the face with awesome description every time. Dash really went crazy here though...a side effect of being a draconequess for so long? Regardless, it's good to have her back. But what does she want from the sarchophagus room...? These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
P.S.1884419Honestly, I feel like he was planning on doing something with those two when he first added them, but then Austraeoh took on a life of it's own and EE and EG were left behind. Sadly...
The Seventh element Awsominium has been discovered!
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She gave the book to Ember Speak or Swirls at the end of Austraeoh, remember?
This is Australia...
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So satisfying.
Rainbow Dash returns, and immediately kicks several soldiers' asses. This is shaping up to be a better escape than I had hoped for.
In a comment on this, I said
Yeah, I'd say I was right.
BTW, this needs some music:
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Such Awesome Rainbow Dash. But what else did you expect?
Ahhh I've waited for this! It's great having RD back, kicking ass and taking names, and she doesn't bother remembering the names.
We are back in business.
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That song is literally almost exactly like the song "Tom Sawyer" by Rush.