A/N: Song is "I've Got a Dream" from the Tangled movie soundtrack. I do not own, nor do I own other things Disney or MLP.

Rainbow sat crying in her room, "Father, where are you. Why did you run away?" She asked while looking up at the moon. "You are needed to fight as a soldier tomorrow, isn't that what you wanted, to fight for our family and our freedom? Why did you disappear?" Rainbow knew he wouldn't have left on purpose, he wanted more than anything to free the pegasus race from the tyranny of the unicorns' control. She knew he wanted to fight, so why did he disappear the day before the recruits came?"

She turned to look at the letter given to her father, the one announcing his recruitment into the army. Rainbow furrowed her eyebrows; she had a feeling why ever her father was gone, he wouldn't make it back in time and if he doesn't she'll be ready. "If they want a rainbow maned stallion to fight, they'll get a rainbow maned stallion!" she opened her dad's armory to try it on for size.

Rainbow shot awake when she felt something biting on her ear. "Ahh!" She looked up at her ear and saw it was an alligator biting her. "Ahhh!" She panicked and shook her head, which caused the alligator to let go. To her surprise her ear wasn't bleeding, she noticed the alligator had no teeth. Rainbow sighed in relief but stiffened again when she saw she was tied up, she heard a voice.

"Struggling, struggling is pointless." Rainbow looked up to see a pink figure hiding somewhere on the ceiling structures. "I know why you are here. Who are you and how did you find me?" The pony came out, she was a pink pony with long straight hair.

"Aha..." Was all that rainbow could muster.

"Who are you and how did you find me!?" The pink pony said a litter louder and more intimidating.

"I know not who you are, nor how I came to find you." Rainbow realized the pink pony was talking more modern, like she used to before the war stared. "Um, hi. How you doin'? The name's R-" Rainbow realized she was still in her soldier armor, if word got out that a soldier was a mare in disguise she would be killed. "Dash, my name's Dash. How's your day going?"

"Who else knows my location, Dash!"

"Alright, Pinky."

"Pinkie!" She corrected.

Rainbow looked confused, "Didn't I just…"

"ie." Pinkie answered threatening her with a frying pan, like she knew the spelling of her spoken words.

"Okay… Here's the deal, I was in a situation, plummeted to the ground and- Oh no! Where is my wing!?" There was a 'ding' sound behind her. "What was that!?" She was panicking.

Pinkie's hair instantly puffed up, "Oh, cupcakes!" She said excitedly. Why did her hair puff up? Something was not right here.

"No I don't wanna be made into cupcakes!" Rainbow shouted.

"Ew. Why would I do that?" A much more cheery, poufy haired Pinkie asked. "And your wing is bandaged up; you won't feel it for a while because I put some numbing medicine on it so it won't hurt. You had a nasty boo-boo."

Rainbow relaxed, she knew she was panicking over nothing and that the situation was not as bad as she was making it. Besides the fact the she was tied up. "Um, I don't know." She admitted to the first question, "And uh thanks for um fixing me up, I guess."

Pinkie brought out the cupcakes and went back to Dash, "Now," she started calmly but then stuck her nose in Rainbow's face and yelled, "How did you find me!"

"What? I should be asking you that, I was just falling out of the sky when-" Rainbow looked up, she saw a hole through the roof of where she must have feel through. "Oh, sorry." She said sheepishly. "But I'm not here for whatever reason you think, I'm only here by accident!" She explained.

Pinkie continued to stare her down, "Are you telling the truth?" she put the alligator in her face like some sort of lie detector. Rainbow nodded, the alligator blinked. "So you're not here to cut my hair and sell it on ebarn!?"

"No, who would do that?"

Pinkie shrugged, "I don't know, that's what I've always assumed that's why daddy keeps me here."

"Okay well I'm definitely not trying to that."

Pinkie turned around and started whispering to the alligator. "I think he's telling the truth." The alligator just stared. "Well, what choice do I have?"

While Pinkie was turned away Rainbow attempted to get out of her confines, but the struggling only made it worse. Now she was more intertwined in her ropes than ever and she had fallen to the side, if she could feel her wing she knew it would be in a lot of pain. "Um, Pinkie."

"Shhh! I'm consulting with Gummy!" Pinkie turned back to Gummy. "I think he can help me. Okay?" Gummy blinked. "Okay, I'll do it!" And with one swift motion she freed the soldier from the ropes." Alright I freed you now you must accompany me to where I want to go!" she demanded.

"Whoa, whoa, what makes you think I'm helping you? I got to go back to Cloudsdale and get back to my fleet." Rainbow protested.

"One, you broke a hole in my roof so now you owe me. And two, you are not going anywhere in the sky on that wing."

Rainbow knew she was defeated. "Alright where is it you want to go?"

Pinkie smile widely, "Okay so every year on my birthday there are these strange lights in the sky."

"You mean the stars?"

"No, these lights are different, they are like green and purple bubbles with a black mist surrounding it!"

Rainbow has seen these lights too, they appear right before a major battle occurs. That is how they knew the unicorn fleet would attack. She didn't know it was a yearly thing. "So this always happens on your birthday?"

"Well when I asked my daddy when my birthday was he told me it's whenever I see those weird lights. I saw it recently and I know exactly where it's coming from, and I sense it's going to happen again soon."

"How do you know?"

"With my Pinkie sense." Rainbow had a feeling she should not ask about that.

"You know birthdays only come around once a year, they don't happen so suddenly." Rainbow tried to explain.

"I know, but the days and nights occur so randomly now it's hard to keep track of time." Rainbow thought about this, she hadn't been paying much attention to whether it was day or night since she joined the army but perhaps it could be true.

"Alright I'll go with you." Rainbow answered, if anything she could find out who is really starting the battles.

"Yipee! I'm finally getting out of here!" Pinkie shouted and busted open the window, which had no other opening. Rainbow looked around, there seemed to be no other way out besides the hole that she made.

"You've never left this place?"

"Nope!" Pinkie answered.

"Why?" Rainbow asked, but then she looked over to the window and she could tell why, the tower was extremely tall and Pinkie was an earth pony. "Oh." She answered her own question. Rainbow flapped her wings, even though she could not feel her left wing there was no longer a hole in it and it would glide down. "Okay hop on, I think I can make it down."

Pinkie got on Rainbow's back and Rainbow launched off of the window sill. Like she predicted she was able to glide down; however about halfway down her left wing began to tilt and Rainbow couldn't feel it until she noticed they were falling faster. Before Rainbow could fix it the wind swept over her injured wing rendering it useless, with only one wing flapping the ponies began to plummet to the ground.

Rainbow fell face first leaving a mark in the grass. Pinkie fell right on her head, which was saved by her poufy hair that bounced her up and onto her feet, making a quick recovery for the pink pony. Rainbow who was used to these kind of blow outs, recovered too and spit the dirt out of her mouth.

"Woohoo! Let' do that again." Pinkie squeeled.

"Let's not." Rainbow objected. "Okay now where to?"

"This way!" Pinkie pointed and began leading the way.

After about an hour of walking Pinkie began to walk funny, "I have to go to the bathroom!" She wined.

Rainbow groaned, "Why didn't you go before we left your tower!"

"I didn't have to go then!" She continued whining and bouncing up and down.

Rainbow looked around and found what looked to be like a restaurant. "Look lets go over there and see if they have a bathroom." The ponies went over to the place.

"The Snuggly Ducking." Pinkie read. "Oh, that sounds fun!"

"More like stupid!" Rainbow retorted.

As they walked through the door, Pinkie immediately found the restrooms. "Bathroom!" She shouted and ran into them without even glancing at the creatures inside the 'resturant'. Rainbow looked around, she saw everybody in there. There were griffins, diamond dogs, small dragons, timberwolves, ponies with mysterious costumes, and somehow a full grown hydra in the restaurant. They were all staring at her.

"Hey you!" A griffin shouted from the bar, "Your friend, uh, she usein' the bathroom there?"

"Yeah, problem?" Rainbow asked as tough as she could.

"Yeah, bit of a problem, ya see ya can't use the bathrooms without buyin' somthin'. You know what I mean. So, uh, how's about you pay up?"

Rainbow didn't have any money but she hoped Pinkie did. She looked up at the menu, this wasn't a restaurant it was a bar. Everything up there was an alcoholic beverage and she was at that weird age where you're old enough to go into the military but too young to drink. "I'll take a water." She decided.

"Water's free, you need to buy somethin'." The griffin responded.

"I can't I'm too young!" Rainbow almost shouted.

The Griffin stared at her then started laughing. "Ha! Hey Garble, this kid thinks he's old enough to let his girl use the bathroom here, but he's too young to buy any drinks!"

A red dragon about the age of a teenager (in dragon years) responded, "Ha ha, hey ain't that somthin'. What's your name kid?"

"Dash."

"Well alright Dash, do you know what we do to critters that can't pay?" The dragon got into her face and exhaled hot smoke.

Rainbow step back and unsheathed her sword. "Do you know what I do to critters who threaten me!" She managed to say with the hilt in her mouth. The dragon let out another laugh before blowing a fireball at the mare, Rainbow used her sword to block the attack. Then with her hot sword she took a swing at Garble who got a nice cut along his snout.

This made garble angry, Rainbow was ready to defend herself when a diamond dog picked her up from behind while another took her sword, "what do you think you're doing little guy." The one who picked her up said as he held her in place.

Garble was about to blow another ball of fire at the defenseless pegasus when suddenly a pink pony came in and side-kicked him across the head. "Put him down!" Everybody in the room looked at her.

Okay, I don't know where I am and I need him to take me to see the lights because I've been dreaming about them my entire life. Find your humanity, haven't any of you ever had a dream?

Garble turned away from the Pegasus and faced the earth pony. Her got closer to her and stared her down menacingly, Pinkie used the frying pan she still had with her as defense. Everyone was too shocked to do anything. Suddenly the dragon turned away from her and spoke into the air. "I had a dream once."

Random music played from out of nowhere.

I'm malicious, mean and scary
My sneer could curdle dairy
And violence-wise, my hands are not the cleanest

But despite pointy teeth
And my temperate climate heath
I've always yearned to be a base guitarist
Can't you see me on the stage performin' Flea
Hittin' the notes 'til they gleam?

Yep, I'd rather be called deadly
For my killer strumming medley
Thank you, 'cause way down deep inside I've got a dream

The rest of the ruffians began to join in

He's got a dream
He's got a dream

Garble continued on

See, I ain't as cruel and vicious as I seem

Though I do like breaking femurs
You can count me with the dreamers
Like everybody else, I've got a dream

The diamond dog holding Rainbow let her go and sang.

I've got scars and lumps and bruises
Plus something here that oozes
And let's not even mention my complexion

But despite my missing toes
And my spiked tail and my nose
I really wanna make a love connection

Can't you see me with a special little lady
Digging for diamonds in the dirt?

Though I'm one disgusting blighter
I'm a lover, not a fighter
'Cause way down deep inside, I've got a dream

I've got a dream
(He's got a dream)
I've got a dream
(He's got a dream)
And I know one day romance will reign supreme

Though my face leaves people screaming
There's a child behind it, dreaming
Like everybody else, I've got a dream

More creatures started to sing along

Trixie would like to quit and be a florist
Gilda does interior design
Hydra's into mime, Ahuizotl's cupcakes are sublime
Cockatrice knits, Quarray sews, the Shadowbolts do little puppet shows
The Timberwolves collects ceramic unicorns

Garble walked up to Rainbow, "What about you?"

"I'm sorry me?" She asked

"What's your dream?" The diamond dog asked.

" Oh- no no sorry boys, I don't sing." Random weapons were pointed towards Rainbow. She began to sing.

I have dreams like you, no, really
Just much less touchy-feely
They mainly happen somewhere dark and dead

Just me, my sword, and my shield
Defending Cloudsdale on the field
Hold Shan Yu's disembodied head

Pinkie finally joined the song.

I've got a dream
(She's got a dream)
I've got a dream
(She's got a dream)
I just wanna know what those weird lights mean
Yeah

And with every passing hour
I'm so glad I left my tower
Like all you lovely folks, I've got a dream

Everyone joined in now.

She's got a dream
He's got a dream
They've got a dream
We've got a dream
So our differences ain't really that extreme
We're one big team

Call us brutal
Sick
Sadistic
And grotesquely optimistic
'Cause way down deep inside, we've got a dream

I've got a dream
I've got a dream
I've got a dream
I've got a dream
I've got a dream
I've got a dream

Yes, way down deep inside, I've got a dream
Yeah

"Guys! There are unicorn soldiers outside!" Another teenage dragon came in and waned.

"They're after me!" Both Pinkie and Rainbow shouted, "They're after you!? They're after me!"

Suddenly one of the Diamond dogs dug a hole in the ground behind the bar so they could escape. Garble came up to them and pushed them towards the escape route. "Go, live your dream." He said.

"I will." Rainbow said.

"You're dream's gross, I was talking to her." He said pointing to the pink pony.

Both ponies escaped down the tunnel, Pinkie turned around before she left. "Thank you!"

The ponies came out of the other side of the bar; it was night time which was odd because it looked like it was the middle of the day about an hour ago. The ponies began to run but it was too late they were spotted by the two unicorn soldiers that did not go investigate the bar.

"Hey you!" He shouted and ran after them, they were both extremely fast but they couldn't outrun unicorn magic. The unicorn entrapped the two ponies with a green bubble. "Well, well look what we found, the lost Pegasus soldier. What were you planning to do now that you found the ground, go to the unicorn king and stop him?"

"Not a bad idea now that I think about it." Rainbow hadn't really considered that.

"Well you can't!" It was a good thing the bubble was there or the unicorn would have spat all over the Pegasus. "And you," he turned to Pinkie, "Think you can ran away like that, what would your father say?"

Pinkie just looked down in sadness. Rainbow saw this and said something. "You mean the one that locked you in a tower your whole life? What kind of father is that?"

"Quiet you!" the unicorn spat, "You are both going back where you came from, but for now we are just going to contain you in the nearest holding cell." The bubble was then blackened so that they would not see the whereabouts of where they were going.