Last Sunsets [Chapter 7]

The morning sun rose above the cotton white clouds. The sky beamed a beautiful pink color, reflecting the colors onto the clouds. The dark and choking grey smoke way a few feet below the hovering clouds. Equestria was still being attacked, burning down every minute. Many ponies have died from the horrifying catastrophe, and only a couple hundred ponies are still left to live. Most griffons were still asleep, but a few troops have woken up early and start blowing up a few buildings.

Five Wonderbolts were asleep on a large cloud, Surprise sleeping on a large puffy part of the cloud, Spitfire sleeping nearby Surprise, Misty Fly laid along with Spitfire, Rainbow Dash and Soarin were cuddled up by each other on a edge of a cloud.

Rainbow Dash was dreaming about her future. She dreamed of the war finally ending, all the ponies rebuilding the buildings, and Equestria shining once again. She would be flying through the glistening sun with her Wonderbolt friends, showing them her most awesome stunts, their jaws wide opened. Rainbow Dash dreamed of herself going to her other five friends, and all of Ponyville enjoying a celebration of peace at Sugarcube Corner, with Pinkie Pie as the host of course. She couldn't forget how silly her crazy friend was with her zany pranks and strange surprises. Then she thought about Apple Jack, her honest friend. She knew how epic it would be to go out to Sweet Apple Acres and steal a bucketful of apples and laughed her head off when Apple Jack curiously wonders where her apples went. Then she recalled her generous friend Rarity. She thought about the one time when Rarity dressed Rainbow Dash up in a large puffy dress and made her wear the biggest hat, making Rainbow Dash disgusted. She then remembered Fluttershy, the most quietest pony of them all. She thought back of when she was at a boring animal watching weekend. Watching little bunnies eat their grass dinner, stare at birds joyfully tweeting songs back and forth, and oversee butterflies flying here and there. Then she thought back Twilight Sparkle, and the two of them having a reading competition to see who can read the most books. Obviously, Twilight won. That dream made Rainbow Dash feel good, and she could almost think that it was real, even though it wasn't.

Suddenly Rainbow Dash felt a shake on her head. Soarin was waking her up from her dream.

"Good morning, Rainbow Dash." Soarin said cheerfully, like there was absolutely nothing to worry about.

"Ugh...oh...it was just a dream..." Rainbow Dash sighed. She'd wish the dream were real, just thinking about it made her upset.

"I see you had a futuristic dream, huh?" Soarin guessed.

"Yeah, the most greatest dream too...but I know that it'll never happen."Rainbow Dash turned her head and sighed.

"Don't doubt it. You just gotta believe that it will happen." Soarin told.

Rainbow Dash looked up at him. She loved those words, they sounded very almighty to her. She thought for a moment, thinking about those words, and how she had said that the dream won't come to reality. "He's right...I should really just believe that it will happen, just as he said." Rainbow Dash thought.

Spitfire opened her eyes slowly, then shut them back closed. When she opened them gain, she was startled to see the Surprise was right in front of her. Spitfire screamed quickly and pushed Surprised off.

"What were you doing?" Spitfire asked, her heart prancing.

"I was wondering if you were awake, Duh." Surprise excused quickly.

"Well don't do it again. You scared me half to death." Spitfire walked over to Misty Fly to wake her up.

Misty Fly woke up quickly and stood up. She glanced at every bit around her. She then looked back at Spitfire.

"Shouldn't we be saving Equestria?" Misty Fly suddenly asked.

"Yeah. But I think first we should figure out where we're going and how were gonna do it." Spitfire trotted over to Soarin and Rainbow Dash.

"Good morning you two. C'mon over here, were gonna discuss stuff and save Equestria." Spitfire then walked back to where Misty Fly and Surprise were.

Rainbow Dash and Soarin stood up and followed right behind Spitfire. The five of them all sat down to listen to Spitfire in a corner of the cloud. As they listened, Spitfire began giving orders about what they will be doing.

"Aright, we've still got a bit of Equestria left. We can either save the ponies and Equesria, or we all die from those dumb griffons." Spitfire directed.

"I say let's eat first, I'm starving." Surprise interrupted.

"I say let's eat after we've gotten rid of all those griffons. They spread around Equestria like parasprites!" Spitfire yelled.

"Fine. But if I die of hunger I'll blame you even if I'm dead." Surprise excused turning her head armed crossed. Spitfire rolled her eyes.

"As I was saying, we need to get more ponies to team up with us. Rainbow Dash, how about your friends? Spitfire glanced at Rainbow Dash.

"Oh yeah, we should totally team up with them." Rainbow Dash smiled.

"Great. We may need a few more ponies."

"How about that alicorn mare that we ran into last night? I think she was Luna or somethin'." Misty Fly wondered.

"I have no idea where she is though, who knows if she had gotten killed already. Or maybe not. Whatever, if we run into her, we'll ask her to team up with the rest of us." Spitfire explained.

"I think us and Rainbow Dash's friends are enough, we've got ten ponies to defeat the griffons." Soarin told.

"Yeah, and if we run into any other ponies, they can join us." Rainbow Dash said.

"Great, I think we've got the plans all settled then. Come along Wonderbolts, we've got our beloved land to save!" Spitfire stood up, the others following along with her.

Rainbow Dash opened her bag that Rarity made for her, and grabbed the photo of her friends. "I'll get us all out of this. I promise." Rainbow Dash whispered quietly as she looked at the photo. She put it back into her bag and zipped it up. The five of them began to prepare for flight. Together, their wings opened, and flew off the large cloud.

The five of them soared through the morning. There was barley anymore smoke covering the skies, leaving the sun to beam throughout the burnt land. A few clouds here and there, but not many. Soon, all five landed safely beside Sugarcube Corner. This time, Pinkie's dessert gallery palace was now half damaged. Only the entrance rooms and parts of the basement entrance stood. Rainbow Dash began to worry more and more as she began walking inside the damaged building. The roof had cracks and holes in it, leaving sunlight to shine through.

When Rainbow Dash trotted down the stairs of the basement, she screamed. Her five friends had bleeding cuts and were tied up.

"Rainbow Dash! Help!" Twilight shouted. The mares were all looking at Rainbow Dash, teared eyes and cuts and bruises covering themselves.

"Sweet Celestia, what happened to you guys?" Rainbow Dash shrieked.

"These griffons came in and tortured us! One of them was Gilda!" Pinkie explained while struggling.

"WHAT? Gilda? Soarin killed her already!" Rainbow Dash grew angry.

"Darling, why don't you stop talking and help us! This rope really hurts!" Rarity complained.

"Sorry, I'll get you guys out." Rainbow Dash helped untie the backs of the five girl's knots that tied their bodies up.

Just then the Wonderbolts cantered downstairs. They were surprised to see the five ponies cut and dirty.

"Thank you Rainbow Dash." Twilight Sparkle glanced over at the Wonderbolts, who appeared behind the mare.

Rainbow Dash realized that she had her bag full of first aid items for her friends. She opened her bag and spotted seven band-aid boxes. She then gave four band-aids to each pony, even the Wonderbolts. Now there was only a few boxes of band-aids left. Rainbow Dash decided that it would be best to not give any to herself, to save some band-aids, just in case. All nine of her friends were all set and bandaged up, ready for further instructions.

"Alright you five ponies, uh, Twilight Sparkle I believe?" spitfire went over to the purple unicorn.

"Yes, you got the name. What do we do?" Twilight asked.

"Well, we need all of you to help us with our task, which is to defeat the griffons." Spitfire exclaimed.

"Hold on a second! I wanna use my party canon! Can I use it? Pleasepleasepleaseplease?" Pinkie hopped up and down impatiently.

"Use it if you want." Spitfire moaned.

"Where are the griffons? Have you seen any around?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

"I'm not quite sure, I haven't seen any since we've gotten up this morning." Spitfire wondered.

"Huh. That's strange." Twilight Sparkle tilted her head and started thinking.

"We should get going though. This building could fall apart any minute now and trap us in here." Rainbow Dash inturrupted.

"Okay everypony, come with me. Stay together." Spitfire lead the way, and all the ponies tried their best to stay in a group as close as possible.

The ten ponies walked outside carefully, aware of their surroundings. Spitfire guided the ponies through the town of ashes. The sky was beginning to grow cloudy, a storm was brewing up in the land. The wind blew the group's manes in the air. The group of ten were by a nearby park, at least it was a park. The grass was gone, replaced by dirt and ashes. The trees no longer had beautiful green leaves. Flowers that once grew all over the park disappeared. Spitfire stopped and told the directions that she had planned while she lead the group.

"Okay team, this is how we will be doing it. This team will be split in half. I will be with the Wonderbolts, including Rainbow Dash. The rest of you are a team, Twilight in charge. Next we will each go a different direction for hunting down the griffons. If one of you guys spots a griffon, you are to use one of your teammates to be sent over to go find me. It may take awhile, but you may want to use a quick and fast teammates. Make sure that your group stays in that exact place where the griffon is. Try to beat it up if you can while that teammate gets to me. Is that clear?" Spitfire explained.

"Yep! We got the plan all settled!" Twilight Sparkle said boldly. The others nodded their heads.

"Good. Now, my group will be heading north, and Twilight, your group goes south." Spitfire ordered.

"Okay. Let's get to it!" Twilight Sparkle gathered with her group of five, but then turned around to Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow Dash, stay safe. I don't want you getting killed." Twilight Sparkle worried.

"I will try not to Twilight. You guys be safe too." Rainbow Dash hugged Twilight, then went over to her five other mare friends and hugged them one by one too. Pinkie was beginning to cry.

"Dashie... don't go!" Pinkie cried.

"Pinkie, I'm gonna be alright. I promise. Cross my heart, hope to fly...stick a cupcake in my eye." Rainbow Dash tried to do the Pinkie Pie Promise as best as she could, then hugged Pinkie.

"Okay Dashie...sniff." Pinkie wiped her tears away.

"Bye guys, be safe." Rainbow Dash wished to her friends.

"You too Rainbow Dash." Twilight Sparkle was starting to gallop away south with her group. Rainbow Dash watched sadly as her friends went off into the south, disappearing into the fog.

"C'mon Dash, we've got to go." Spitfire said to Rainbow Dash while spreading out her wings. Rainbow Dash turned around, and widened her wings.

The five of the Wonderbolts started to fly off north. The skies were darker, since the storm was coming from that direction. The group searched for any sign of griffons, but no sight of any yet. Rainbow Dash sighed, searching for griffons wasn't very easy for everypony. Eventually, the ponies began seeking hunger. Surprise whined while her stomach growled.

"Ugh, can we get some food? I'm really hungry." Surprise complained.

"Fine. Stop complaining now, I'll find some food somehow." Spitfire wasn't sure how she would get food though, there was no sources at all.

"Spitfire, it's impossible to find food." Misty Fly excused.

"I know. But if we find any along our way, we'll stop for a few minutes to eat." Spitfire sighed.

Rainbow Dash was flying nearby Soarin. She hadn't spoken to him since last night. It seemed like she has been ignoring him for a long time. She thought for a moment, deciding whether or not that she'd dare to speak a word to him. Rainbow Dash made her final decision.

"Soarin?" she asked.

"Yeah?" Soarin replied.

Rainbow Dash didn't know what to say to him.

"Uh...did you sleep well?" Rainbow Dash smiled guiltily.

"Well, yeah, I sure did, heh." Soarin smiled back at Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash looked at herself. She barley even realized that her Wonderbolts uniform was torn and ruined, showing cuts, and parts of her light blue skin. She noticed that even her friends had also gotten ripped Wonderbolt suits.

"Did you...have any dreams?" Rainbow Dash asked Soarin, trying to brew up a conversation.

Soarin looked at the rainbow maned pony. Rainbow Dash looked back at him, and to Rainbow Dash, it seemed like a staring contest between the two of them.

"I had the most greatest dream...The war had finally ended, and Equestria was back in peace. I was flying alongside with you...back to our newly rebuilt Wonderbolt base. When we got there, we saw the most greatest surprise, all the ponies in Cloudsdale were in there, and greeted us with a warm welcome. There were new Wonderbolts, including the recent ones that we have now." Soarin explained.

Rainbow Dash sighed. She wished that the stupid war would end already.

"Guys, guys! We've got a swarm of griffons heading towards us!" Spitfire yelled suddenly.

"What are we gonna do?" Surprise asked.

"Kill them!" Spitfire roared.

"With our hoofs?" Surprise lifted up her two hoofs.

"Yeah! They're coming closer! You know what to do team!" Spitfire shouted.

The herd of griffons were in fact heading towards them. Gilda, captain of them all, was leading the griffons. She glared at the five pegasi, who were flying towards them aswell. Gilda no longer had her captain's suit, and instead, she had cuts, scrapes, and a large cut in her chest from when Soarin stroke a knife into her. Dirt and bits of blood covered her feathers on herself. Gilda then stopped, her army followed her lead. That's also the time when Spitfire stopped, and the four other Wonderbolts paused along with her. Spitfire stared at Gilda, and Gilda stared at Spitfire.

"Why are you still alive? We killed you already!" Spitfire demanded for an answer.

"Well, let's just say that we used some help from one of your pony friends. Midnight Flake! Pass me the pony!" Gilda commanded.

An alicorn was gripped to the claws of a griffon who appeared from the crowd. The Wonderbolts all realized that it was Princess Luna, who was beaten with cuts and bruises all over herself. Her left wing was damages, and unable to unfold open. There was a large claw scrape on her nuzzle, which was bleeding quickly.

"Luna?" Rainbow Dash was about to fight against Gilda when suddenly Luna was about to talk.

"Gr-greetings...good-good ponies o-of Equestria..." Luna weakly said, her whole body was trembling.

"Tell them your story you little foal." Gilda hissed.

"Well...well...these griffons-caught me...while I-I was flying...and they commanded me to-to heal...their captain...or else I'd get killed.I re-refused...but then they started t-to beat me up. I-I ended up healing the griffon... and-and now, I have used all my p-power for the healing spell...and now I'm unable to...to...do anything..." Luna stumbled.

"Seriously Gilda? That's so uncool!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"I thought you were dead already Rainbow. Why are you still here?" Gilda randomly asked.

"We are just as powerful to be Wonderbolts ourselves. We don't leave one behind and just give up, we stick together and fight for justice." Spitfire blurted in. Gilda stared at Spitfire again.

"What do you mean? Your nothing but a few ponies and a weak leader." Gilda turned over to her army.

"We are even more powerful and stronger than you are. Take a look around you. What do you see? Smoke, burned up buildings, and ashes. That gives proof of how we can defeat you guys." Gilda grinned an evil smile.

"Your right, you do have the strength to kill the ponies and burn up Equestria. But that doesn't mean that you guys win. It also means that we still have a chance to bring back the land, and brighten up the days again." Rainbow Dash suddenly interrupted.

"Says who? The population of this pony land is pretty much gone. There may be a few more ponies left, but we know that there is no one who can stop us." Gilda told.

Spitfire had an idea burst in her head.

"Well, you do realize that we can stop you at this exact moment right?" Spitfire boldly said.

"As you can see, the five of us made it through the 'worst part of the storm'. If one of our teammates were to of fallen, we still kept together and helped each other. Misty Fly, the one who was always a part of any conversation that we were in. Surprise, the one who was always just as helpful to keep us entertained. Soarin, the one who was always there to help somepony. And me, Spitfire, the one who was always a leader to my four Wonderbolt friends." Spitfire exclaimed.

Suddenly, the five pegasi started to have a mysterious glow around them. Levitation it seemed, but there was no source of who was doing the magic. Princess Luna's horn wasn't glowing at all. The five of them were beaming with a magical blue glow, that shined onto the griffons. 

Then, there was a huge boom, that sounded like a bomb going off, but it was them. Their magic was filling the land of Equestria with a blue haze.

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Twilight Sparkle was leading the five mares south of Equestria. All they saw was dirt and ashes, and every now and then, they might see a few burned up pieces of buildings.

There was then a huge explosion sound, that startled the girls.

"AAAAAAAH! What's going on? Why is the ground shaking? Is there a bomb nearby?" Pinkie shrieked.

"Girls look over there!" Twilight Sparkle pointed just north of them. The ponies turned around and were surprised to see a beautiful light blue glow shining towards them. The light grew bigger and bugger and closer and closer to them. Soon, there was a large gust of wind that blew the ponies out of a group.

"Everypony,come towards me! over here!" Twilight shouted at the top of her lungs.

The four mares gathered towards Twilight, as they watched the sky turn from a light blue color glow, to a hazy purple and blue color. Sparkles glittered onto Equestria, and over the ponies who were dead. The sparkles created trees, and green grass all over the land. The ponies trembled back to life, and assumed that they were in heaven. Looking around, they realized that they were actually in their own homeland, which was growing back to life.

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The Wonderbolts' creation of a blue beaming color shined from them, and showered onto the griffons. Gilda and her herd of griffons screeched as they were beginning to twist and turn and shimmer into the blue light. The next thing that the five ponies knew, was that the griffons were no longer alive, and had disappeared into thin air.

There were a few other griffons in Eqestria, and unexpectedly, they vanished as a blue glow twirled around them.

All five of the Wonderbolts landed safely onto the ground below them. As they looked around, they were surprised to see that the land had turned from brown dust, into a beautiful land of green.

"We did it Wonderbolts! We saved Equestria!" Spitfire shouted joyfully.

"YAY! Group hug!" Surprise grabbed the four pegasi and hugged them.

"This is just awesome! Hey, look! Our cuts are gone! And our Wonderbolts uniforms are fixed!" Rainbow Dash noticed.

"Oh my gosh! This is a miracle!" Misty Fly joined in the gleeful conversation of the ponies.

"Citizens of Cloudsdale, you have rescued our land. Thank you" came a voice from behind them, which was Princess Luna.
 
But behind Princess Luna, was a crowd of ponies, who were all wearing a flower crown on their heads. Princess Luna had made one herself, but as she discovered the ponies, she duplicated more for all the ponies to wear.

Then, out of nowhere, Rainbow Dash felt more hugging around her. But it wasn't her Wonderbolt friends. It was her other five great friends. They were all hugging Rainbow Dash, squealing of excitement and joy.

"Rainbow Dash, you and your friends saved us all! The griffons are no longer in the range of taking over our land!" Twilight Sparkle remarked.

"Yes, Rainbow Dash and the rest of the Wonderbolts, you have freed us from the fate of Equestria." came a voice from the large crowd of ponies.

All the ponies made a way of a white alicorn, with a colorful mane and tail. It was Princess Celestia, who was wearing her usual crown, necklace, and slippers.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight Sparkle was astonished.

"We thank you five brave ponies, for returning our land.The power of your bravery saved Equestria from falling into the griffon's claws of harm." Princess Celestia levitated five flower made crown that the other ponies were wearing onto the Wonderbolts' heads.

"But the buildings, all of them are destroyed." Rainbow Dash interrupted.

"Don't worry, we'll get the buildings all back to normal." Princess Celestia promised.

"Yeah, we can all work together to get everything back to normal! Right everypony?" Twilight blurted out.

"Right!" cheered the ponies.

"Now where can we get materials..." Pinkie giggled.

"We can get some from The Griffon Kingdom, right?" a pony asked from the crowd.

"Sure. We will need some pegasi though." said Rainbow Dash.

"Good, soon enough Equestria will be back to normal." Celestia smiled.

"Let's split up. Pegasi over here with the Wonderbolts and I. Unicorns over with Twilight Sparkle and Rarity. Earth ponies with Pinkie Pie and Apple Jack." Rainbow Dash directed.

The ponies did as Rainbow Dash asked them to do, and she was glad that her plan was going to work out well.

"Great. Shall we begin Dash?" Spitfire looked up to Rainbow Dash who was flying in the air.

"Yep! We got everypony all set to go! Your group leaders will tell you all what to do okay everypony?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Okay!" The ponies shouted back.

"Now let's get to it!" Rainbow Dash beamed.

The ponies began going in different directions, according to what their group leaders told them to go.

Rainbow Dash knew that her dream was becoming a reality. It should be awhile to get Equestria back in it's original form though. Her time to spend with the Wonderbolts and showing them epic stunts are pushed aside for now, until the land of Equestria is back to normal.