Last Sunsets [Chapter 4]

"Rainbow Dash, quickly, get up now." a voice commanded.

The light blue mare woke from her late night sleep. She looked around, unfamiliar of the room that she was in. Then she remembered, she was in the Wonderbolt's bedroom The window showed grey skies, but she was unknowing that it actually was smoke.

"Wha-what's going on?" Rainbow Dash asked, stretching her wings.

"No time to explain, we need to get out of here immediately." a yellow mare in her Wonderbolts outfit replied.

Rainbow Dash jumped out her bed, curious of what was happening. She followed Spitfire as she rushed downstairs to the front room of their building. There, were the rest of the Wonderbolts, Soarin, Misty Fly, and Surprise, all in their Wonderbolts uniform.

"Seriously guys, I need to know what's happening. Is there something going on around here?" Rainbow Dash asked, still a little sleepy.

"A whole bunch of griffons are taking over parts of Equestria. I heard gunshots ten minutes before I woke you guys up to see what's going on." Spitfire replied, holding a Wonderbolts uniform. "Rainbow Dash, you must be a part of our team. We need you." Spitfire told.

Rainbow Dash held the uniform in her hoofs. She stared at it, for a long time. After her long life of being a huge fan of the Wonderbolts, her dreams, her hopes, had finally came true. Her smile grew bigger just thinking about it.

"Uh, Rainbow Dash, not to interrupt the happiest moment of your life, but go and put it on, we need to save Equestria." Spitfire commanded.

Rainbow Dash then realized what she must do. She quickly put the suit on herself, it fit just perfectly.

"Ready captain." Rainbow Dash reported.

The group of Wonderbolts zoomed outside, flying towards their first destination. The griffons had taken over Canterlot, and Gilda, their captain, kept a lookout for Rainbow Dash. The team of Wonderbolts flew into Canterlot. Spitfire ordered Soarin, Rainbow Dash and Misty Fly to go to one area to fight the griffons. Spitfire and Surprise went the other direction, seeing the once beautiful city, being torn apart, griffons using guns and swords killing the residents of Canterlot one by one.

"Rainbow Dash, stay by me, I don't want you to get killed." Soarin said, taking a right turn towards Canterlot castle. Parts of the castle were on fire, burning quicker the second. The three Wonderbolts landed in front of the castle and ran in. The grand hallway leading towards Celestia's throne was abandoned, glass from the stained glass windows scattered on the floor. The thrown was burnt and destroyed, leaving only small pieces scattering the floor.

"I think we're too late..." Rainbow Dash worried. "Wait, my friends! I need to go see if they're safe!" Rainbow Dash realized in her thoughts.

"Guys, listen, I have some friends, I need to see if they're okay." Rainbow Dash begged.

"They will be fine, don't worry." Misty Fly replied.

"No they won't!"

"They are fine!"

"No! Please!"

A tear rolled slowly down the light blue pony's cheek. Soarin felt sorry for her, he didn't want to see the mare cry. He trotted over to her, while the mare wept, her hoofs smooched in her face.

"I'll let you go, and I'll give an excuse to Spitfire." Soarin promised, putting a hoof towards her.

Rainbow Dash looked up at the navy blue maned colt, dressed in his Wonderbolts uniform. She took grasp of his hoof, and stood up. She felt embarrassed crying in front of her friend. Wiping a few tears off her cheek, she thanked him and gave him a small hug. Before Misty Fly and Soarin knew it, Rainbow Dash was already gone, off to check on her friends.

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"We've got the Wonderbolts in Canterlot ma'am." A black griffon ordered to Gilda, the captain of the Griffon Kingdom Freedom Army.

"Good. I've got a plan. How's the destruction in Ponyville going?" Gilda asked

"It had just started six minutes ago ma'am."

"Okay."

Gilda flew off to Canterlot,flying above a few towns that have been bombed. The sky was filled with smoke, once just cloudy skies after a rainstorm late last night. When Gilda had arrived in the Canterlot castle, she saw only two of the Wonderbolts, gripped in two griffons claws. Surprise and Spitfire had been captured by the griffons when they attempt to stop them. Spitfire struggled, trying her best to get out of the claws of the griffon. Surprise had given up, and decided to not use her strength against the griffon grabbing her.

"Well, if it isn't the leader of the Wonderbolts with her pesky little mare." Gilda said, walking towards Spitfire.

"You'll never get away with this! Somepony will come and save Equestria!" Spitfire yelled, still struggling.

"Oh really? Who will save all of you stupid ponies? Your princess or somethin'? Well let me tell you a secret. I killed her already, along with like two other princesses and six hundred guards." Gilda informed.

"Why are you killing all of the ponies?" Surprised asked.

"And why would I tell you? If you ponies were smart like us griffons, you would know."

"Dusty, give me the fire like maned pony to me." Gilda commanded. The griffon threw Spitfire towards Gilda. She grabbed the captain of the Wonderbolts by her neck.

"Now listen, you have two choices. Either die, or get killed." Gilda whispered harshly.

"Those are the same things, stupid." Spitfire replied angrily.

"What? did I hear either? Fine, getting killed then." Gilda said, dragging her. Before she left the room with Spitfire, Soarin and Misty Fly busted into the room.

"Hey! Stop you griffon!" Misty Fly yelled.

Gilda turned around, holding Spitfire around her heck as she struggled and squirmed around. She was surprised to see that there were more of the Wonderbolts. But that didn't stop her from surrendering. Instead she grabbed a gun inside one of her large pockets in her uniform, held it in one claw, holding it in front of the Wonderbolts.

"Come any closer and your dead." Gilda threatened. Misty Fly and Soarin backed off a few inches back.

"This girl's gonna be dead, unless you tell me where Rainbow Dash is." Gilda ordered.

The Wonderbolts stood still. Soarin wouldn't say a single word about where she was, to keep her safe from getting killed. Misty Fly knew that she probably shouldn't say too, so she kept her mouth shut.

"Well?" Gilda grabbed Spitfire even harder, aiming the gun towards her head. Spitfire was giving up, she knew if no one told, she would be dead. Still struggling around, she got even more worried as the gun was pushed more towards her head.

Soarin couldn't decide, weather to save her friend, or leader. But then he had an idea.

"Rainbow Dash is heading towards Ponyville." he admitted.

Gilda threw Spitfire on the ground and took off. Spitfire was relieved, but she was worried about Rainbow Dash.
"Soarin, what about Dash? She's gonna die." Spitfire worried.

"Right, stay away from the griffons, okay?" Misty Fly, Surprise, and Spitfire nodded, agreeing. Soarin flew off into the smokey skies.

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Rainbow Dash landed by Twilight Sparkle's library, and rushed inside. The library was completely normal, not a book out of place. But nopony was in sight.

"Twilight, you in here?" Rainbow Dash asked, hoping for an answer

"Rainbow Dash? Is that you?" a voice from upstairs called out.

"Yeah."

"Okay, good." The voice turned out to be Twilight Sparkle, as she trotted down the stairs, following behind her was Fluttershy, Rarity, Apple Jack, and Pinkie Pie.

"Dashie! We missed you soooooo much!" Pinkie Pie squealed, hugging Rainbow Dash.

"I missed you too Pinkie. In fact, I missed all of you. Are you all here because of the war that's going on?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well, yeah." Twilight responded. "Also, is that a Wonderbolts uniform? How did you-"

"No time to explain, you gatta get out of here. The griffons are bombing all of the houses!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"They are? But darling what about my fabulous dresses?" Rarity worried.

"And my animals?" Fluttershy added

"And Sweet Apple Acres?"

"And my delicious treats? They would get overcooked!"

"Woah woah guys, calm down, all the ponies will be loosing all of their things. A quarter of Ponyville is already being destroyed anyways. You guys need to get to a safer place, like Town Hall." Rainbow Dash stopped them.

"Rainbow Dash, the Town Hall is filled." Twilight Sparkle excused.

"Well, do any of you have a basement or something?"

"Oh oh! I do! I do!" Pinkie gasped, jumping up and down.

"Pinkie, why didn't you tell us that before?" Rarity asked furiously.

"Huh. I dunno!" Pinkie replied, hopping out the door. The five other friends followed her.

Later, they arrived at Sugarcube Corner. It was not yet destroyed, although a few other homes nearby have been torn apart or demolished. The six colorful equines trotted into Pinkie Pie's basement, where boxes of stored sugar, flour, and many other ingredients for tasty treats laid separated or stacked on top of one and another. The basement was not very big, yet not very small. In a corner was a bookshelf with a few dusty cookbooks and an old large history book, for what-so-ever reason. The ponies laid down on a red and pink carpet right by the bookshelf, and lit a candle right by them. Twilight Sparkle spotted the large old history book and levitated it down towards her. She opened the dusty aged book, and began to read. Rarity was luckily able to bring her sewing kit along with her, and started to begin her new design.
Apple Jack had the Apple Family's photo album that she brought along with. Granny Smith told her to take it with her, and the rest of the Apple Family would go to Appleloosa. Fluttershy brought along the girl's pets, and brought a saddlebag full of food for them as well. Pinkie just made sure all of her friends were fine. She even started looking at one of the dusty cookbooks that was sitting on a shelf. Rainbow Dash was glad that she knew her friends were safe and sound, but she needed to go soon.

"Okay guys, now that I know that you're safe, I need to go now. The Wonderbolts need me, and Equestria depends on us." Rainbow Dash explained, galloping towards the basement door.

"But Dashie, what if you... get killed?" Pinkie began to cry, she didn't want her to leave.

"I'm going to be fine Pinkie. Be safe guys." Rainbow Dash promised, then flew out of the basement, through Sugarcube Corner, and outside the smoke filled town.

"Dashie! Nooo!" Pinkie began to cry, but then all of her friends rushed over to comfort her and cheer her up.

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Gilda flew over the burning village of Ponyville, looking for the rainbow maned pegasus. The smoke made her cough, but that didn't stop her from looking. The griffon heard the sound of destruction, gun shots, explosions, screaming, and weeping. She kept her eye out on the lookout, every second left and right, left and right, left and right. With no sign of the mare, she wondered if the Wonderbolts had lied about her location. Just before she had given up and headed back, she noticed a pegasus flying faster than the speed of sound. Gilda followed her, catching up every second.

Rainbow Dash felt the wind blow onto her face, gliding quickly to Canterlot. Suddenly, something stopped her. A claw grabbed onto her tail, and pulled her back. Before Rainbow Dash could think straight, she was then grabbed by the neck and met face to face with a familiar enemy of hers.

"Gilda? What are you doing? Let me go!" Rainbow Dash struggled to get out of the griffon's claws.

"So we meet again Rainbow. You know, it's been awhile since I last saw you. And look at you now, your in a Wonderbolts outfit. Looks pretty tacky on you, I've got to say." Gilda said angrily.

"Shut up, Gilda, I've had enough of you and your stupid army." Rainbow Dash had the most furious face on her, angry with the captain of the Griffon Kingdom Freedom Army.

Gilda scrapped Rainbow Dash's cheek with her claw, leaving it to bleed.

"Aughhhh!" Rainbow Dash screamed. Her cheek had three claw scrape marks, bleeding faster the second.

"That's what you get for being an idiot." Gilda refused, pulling out her gun.

"No... No! Don't kill me! Please!" Rainbow Dash pleaded.

"Why? All the other ponies are going though the same exact pain. Now let's get this over with." Gilda said, putting the gun to Rainbow Dash's head.

Rainbow Dash began to weep. She had no other choice, no one will be saving her, no one will know where she is, and no one would even know who she is anymore. Suddenly, a colt kicked Gilda down onto a cloud, leaving Rainbow Dash surprised that it was Soarin saving her.

"Soarin!" Rainbow Dash squealed.

"Stand back Rainbow Dash!" Soarin yelled.

Gilda got up and flew at Soarin. She punched him throwing him to a cloud. Soarin fought back, punching back and forth, then suddenly, Gilda got out her gun again. She grabbed Soarin by the neck, as she did with Rainbow Dash and Spitfire. Soain strugged, trying to fight back.

"So, you came back to fight huh? Well that's not how life works." Gilda groaned and aimed her gun at Rainbow Dash.

"That's your friend? I'm ganna kill her. Then I'm ganna kill you." Gilda gave Soarin an evil glare into his emerald green eyes.

Rainbow Dash zipped at Gilda, pushing her to the ground. The griffon fell, scrapes, bleeding cuts, and dirt all over.

"Soarin, Soarin, you came back!" Rainbow Dash smiled. She flew towards Soarin and hugged him.

"I would never let you get killed." Soarin calmly said.

"Now we've got to go. The Wonderbolts are worried about you. Come on now." Soarin began to fly along with Rainbow Dash, side by side, keeping each other safe. The two pegasi flew to Canterlot though the skies of smoke.