A collision occurred. A child stole away her vision from darkness and opened them to the hard cloud floor. They hacked and spit as their own juices spewed from out their body. They glanced upward to the three blurry, dark figures above.

Red-stained teeth gritted as their hoof wiped at their mouth. The figures spoke, but it all became blurred before it could reach the child's ears. The child got back on their hooves as they lost themselves to the singular thought that encompassed their entire head.

Their emotions were knitted upon their sleeve. Complete uncontrollable wrath is what they possessed. The fire in their voice sent forward to the figures as the child's eyes became fueled by spite. 

They didn't care anymore. Their hooves carried them forwards as their lungs vibrated from their screams. Nothing mattered, they thought. However, a force greater than them sent their figure backward. A foot kicked them out and banished them from the clouds forever more. A bed caught their fall. It wrapped them in its own bedsheets as they struggled to gain free. Eventually, they caught light.

The child scanned the room, her frantic mood only developed as time passed with the ticking clocks. Their mind wandered in fear as everything around them was unrecognizable.

“Mom?” a voice came from beside her.

The child looked to the mare standing at her bedside. The mare reached for the child’s hooves and grasped them tightly. A silence developed between the two of them.

“Ah,” Rainbow Dash came to her senses as she calmed herself down. “What brings you here, Light Bolt?”

“I wanted to see my mother, is all.” Nothing more was said of her after that.

Rainbow Dash sighed. “I don’t have long, do I?”

Light Bolt teared up. She buried her face in Rainbow’s fur as her emotions came clear.

“You could always tell when I was hiding something.”

“You really aren’t the best of liars, you know,” Rainbow scoffed. 

The duo remained silent as Rainbow examined her past, present, and future. Rainbow spoke up.

“You know, when I was just a filly, I always thought that no matter what I did, nothing really mattered in the end.”

“Mom,” Light Bolt’s tears pulled themselves to a stop. She stared at her mother. “Don’t say that. That’s not like you.”

Rainbow could only stare at her daughter with her casual grin. "Is that so?"

“It is so, Rainbow Dash. I never expected that alignment of words to come out of your mouth.”

The two looked at the door, Princess Celestia came through.

“I always thought that you were the one of the group with the most hope out of everyone else. Has the thought of your death changed you?”

“Changed me?” Rainbow scoffed. “I’ve always feared death. I was just the last one of the group to realize my fear in every situation we’ve been through. If anything, I was just stubborn.”

“Even so, Rainbow, it was your stubbornness that brought us all here. Each and every one of my little ponies are safe and sound due to your undevoted loyalty to your friends. Even though they may not be here with you today, your friendship brought new generations of ponies to come.

"And even though your life may be coming to an end, you can at least enjoy the thought that your children will enjoy what you've laid out for them."

Rainbow crossed her hooves and smirked. She held herself back but still laughed. “What am I thinking?” she came clear to herself and ignored those thoughts. “Of course the world doesn’t revolve just around me.”

Rainbow turned to her wide-eyed, teary daughter. "You're in control now, you hear? Since the day you were born, I knew you would do something great with your life, and look at you!"

Rainbow’s neck departed from her thunderbolt necklace. She placed it in the hooves of her daughter. “It’s yours now. You’re the next Element of Loyalty.”

The stone glowed from Light Bolt's touch. Tears ran down her cheeks as she gave her mother an endearing hug.

Rainbow looked to Celestia, her white wings spread as her smile beamed with light. Rainbow was almost blinded from the sheer radiance of the Goddess in front of her. "Are you ready to be carried upon the skies with my wings once again?”

Rainbow smiled. “I’m ready.”

And so, Rainbow Dash vanished and appeared once again in the skies full of heavenly clouds up above and remained there forevermore.