Never Existed Ch 31

Pinkie was starting feel a new vibe running through her body, her straightened dark pink mane was beginning to poof up again, but only slightly as a small smile appeared across her face.

"Maybe how I acted before wasn't the real me. I guess my fears got the best to me." She explained to the ponies that began to smile also, Twilight had already been smiling and knowing that this would eventually happen.

Twilight walked up to Pinkie and rested one of her hooves on Pinkie's shoulder in comfort. "You see Pinkie; you're becoming more like your true self again."

"How do you know?" Pinkie asked almost innocently

"Well, if you had listened to me earlier, in which I knew you didn't; you would've heard me talking about it with the others." Twilight stated in a kind way. "I had told them each how they acted back in my world before it was all changed."

"Wait," Pinkie excused Twilight while gently pushing her away so she could stand in the centre of the rest of the ponies. "You were all different in a different world? This doesn't make any sense!" She shouted in doubt.

"I know it doesn't. But it's best to go along with it." Applejack told her, knowing how much Pinkie didn't make sense sometimes; like now for example.

Pinkie looked down in shock and somehow amusement, which astounded a majority of the group.

"Why whatever is funny, dear pinkie?" Rarity asked feeling confused.

Pinkie finished her continuous giggling and exhaled deeply with no expression but with her eyes closed in seriousness. There was an eerie calm for a moment before Pinkie interrupted it.

"Never mind that Rarity, sometimes things that are serious will always make me laugh." Pinkie stated with a small smile, which also caused her spark to ignite in Twilight.

The young alicorn gasped in shock as soon as she felt it, but then felt a calming relief as she drew closer to her main goal. Twilight was starting feel more confident and happy that this will all turn out well in the end. She looked up and saw Athanasia' signature cloud pattern written all over the sky. She glared at it with a smile of pride and confidence that this will all end smoothly and happily.

"Alright, so is that the third spark Twilight, which just occurred..?" Applejack wondered with a slight hint of confusion.

"Yes, it was." Twilight replied in a sweet voice with a smile of hope written on her face.

"Oh, I umm…don't mean to interrupt. But isn't that Rainbow Dash flying over our heads?" Fluttershy asked to the others as she directed every pony's eyes towards the sky.

They all looked up and gasped as they saw a shadowy figure fly overhead at a fast speed; they all knew who that was immediately. Twilight looked over at Fluttershy and they both nodded in agreement to fly up and chase after her while down on the ground Applejack guided Rarity and Pinkie towards to where Twilight and Fluttershy were flying to.

"We need to keep on followin' them until they've got Rainbow, we don't wanna lose them!" Applejack called out to Rarity and Pinkie as she ran in front with the other two running close behind.

"We sure don't want that happening."

"What?" Pinkie asked to Rarity who made that statement.

"We don't want to lose Rainbow again." Rarity replied.

"Oh." Pinkie said while longing the time she took to extend that sound she had made.

Meanwhile, Twilight's wings were aching a lot and she was struggling so much that she was behind Fluttershy. The Pegasus could see her struggles, and had offered to help Twilight get back up to speed but Twilight told her to keep on going.

"But, you need help. I said that I would always be kind to my friends." Fluttershy hesitated.

Twilight exhaled in tiredness and began to weaken as she looked up at Fluttershy. "Please Fluttershy, just go and catch up to Rainbow; I'll make it my own way. "

Fluttershy felt worried and confused of what she should choose. She knew that her true self was to be kind to every living creature, especially friends. So what was she left to do? She knew that they needed Rainbow Dash on their side most of all, but Twilight was in awful pain as her wings were starting to flap out of time. Fluttershy was running out of ideas of what to do, she didn't want to disappoint Twilight by abandoning her but she knew that she would disappoint her even more if she didn't catch up to Rainbow Dash in time.

So as she and Twilight flew across the sky keeping a trail on Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy had panicked but then sighed deeply as she nodded and picked up her speed to catch up to Rainbow in time.

"You can do it Fluttershy!" Twilight called out as she remembered Fluttershy improving her speed during the time when her fears had gotten the best of her, she hoped that a similar thing would happen this same moment.

Twilight could tell that Fluttershy was struggling to keep up, so she looked down at the three other ponies who had been following them on the ground by running at a constant speed, but unfortunately they were tiring very quickly, Pinkie and Rarity especially.

"C'mon, ya'll! You can do it!" Applejack cheered as to give Pinkie and Rarity confidence that they'll make it.

"I don't think I can! I ate too much candy when I was in a state of depression!" Pinkie cried as she began to run out of more breath.

"Really? Well they say that chocolate usually makes you feel better." Rarity called over to Pinkie as they ran and she was running out of breath also.

"Gettin' off topic ya'll!" Applejack reminded them as they continued to run underneath the shadow of Twilight who was slowing down due to severe pain in her wings.

"Sorry, AJ. We're just getting tired." Pinkie hesitated.

As Applejack and the two tiring ponies continued to run as fast as they could to keep up with the others, it made Applejack think of the state that Rarity and Pinkie Pie were in. Should she let them rest, or should she ask them to put their backs into it? Applejack somehow seemed more comfortable with them doing their hardest and holding on to every last breath they could until they would drop from lack of energy and air.

She sighed deeply and then began to speak. "Look, I know how tired you two are. But we need to keep up with them in case anythin' bad happens. And we all need to be right there and ready when they need us; especially Twilight."

"So what are you saying?" Rarity asked as they all continued running but with herself and Pinkie panting very harshly.

"I'm asking ya'll to put your backs into it!" Applejack almost screamed as she was beginning to feel more like her true self.

Pinkie and Rarity looked at each other then sighed in exhaustion, but then began to pick up the pace as they had run closer to Applejack than they did before. They both knew they could do it; they were just too worried that they might drop from exhaustion any moment soon.

But back up in the air, Fluttershy was struggling with her fear from when she was young about her weak flying. She was extremely worried and kept a close eye on her wings from worry of them clenching together and tying her down to the ground in where she would fall. But she knew that something deep down inside, something that had sounded very familiar to her but somehow unbelievable to hear to her.

Do it for Equestria,

Do it for Rainbow Dash,

Do it for yourself!

She almost began to cry as she heard the chants she had heard from when she was little but then heard those three sentences once again about her being convinced about her flying. It all became too much for her and Fluttershy had decided to face her fears and see what would happen if she did, so she sped as fast as she could until she had fortunately and successfully had caught up to Rainbow Dash and had accidentally crashed into her which caused both pegasi to tumble to the ground.

Applejack knew that this was her chance to put her reasons to action by showing Rarity and Pinkie that Fluttershy and Rainbow had fallen, so they needed someone down on the ground to make sure that Rainbow wouldn't escape once again.

"See? Now let's catch up to them before Rainbow lets loose again!" AJ called out as she sped up her pace which impressed both Rarity and Pinkie.

Twilight had flown down gently and carefully towards the ground shortly after Fluttershy had crashed into Rainbow, she had to be careful since her wings were oversized compared to her body in which she didn't realize was starting to develop into a more recognizable alicorn. She hadn't recognized this and was beginning to grow suspicious of when she had first had gotten her wings and noticed how much Cadence and Luna were more developed than she was, it was most likely that she was a newborn alicorn.

But on all the meanwhile, Fluttershy had toppled on top of Rainbow as she heard the groans and moving of Rainbow trying to get up but feeling as if she was either weak or had hurt something.

"Get off of me!" Rainbow mumbled as Fluttershy's hair got caught up in Rainbow's mouth.

"Oh, sorry. I'll get off now." Fluttershy blushed as her kindness got the best of her.

"Wait, Fluttershy!" Applejack called out as she ran towards the two of them while Fluttershy was about to get off of Rainbow who was beginning to smile as she was preparing to make her escape.

Fluttershy almost jumped at the sound of Applejack's calling voice from the distance but done as the earth pony told her and stayed put, as to not let her kindness fully control her. She knew that this was Rainbow Dash they were dealing with so she didn't want to disappoint everyone at this point.

"I said: GET OFF ME!"

"Um, correction: Get off of me." Rarity stated while closing her eyes and feeling smart about what she had just abbreviated as she and Pinkie as well as Applejack had caught up to the two lone pegasi.

Rainbow rolled her eyes and shoved Fluttershy off and was about to make a fly for it but then something strange happened as she tried to lift herself off the ground, and it actually wasn't Applejack or anyone else who was stopping her; it was actually her wing that was stopping her. The pain was intensified so much that she was unable to fly, and this pain was more unbearable than Twilight's wing pain.

As her body was pulled back to the ground by gravity, she had examined her wing shortly afterwards and had seen that her main wing bone had been bent almost to the point of breaking but it wasn't able to flap properly. She began to have tears of sweat as she began to panic, but she remembered that she could still run at the same speed as she would with flying. So she pulled her tongue at the others as she began to run as fast as she could from them.

"Oh no you don't!" Applejack called out as she started running again.

Rainbow then had a sudden realization that Applejack was faster than her, but even though she knew that Applejack had a good chance of catching up to her, she still ran as fast as she could while looking at her wing in sadness and anger.

"No, I'm not slowing down for you earth pony!" She called back.

"Well now, look who's' talking! A pony that can't fly!" AJ called back.

Rainbow felt angered by Applejack's words and began picking up the pace and trying to make obstacles behind her as to slow down Applejack. She had a lot of hope that those obstacles would slow her down, but as she looked back she saw that those obstacles only gave Applejack a boost.