Chapter 9

"So wait, let me get this straight. You have a little brother no one knows about, that now is committing notorious crimes across Ponyville? And let me just point out how ridiculous of a name that is. Seriously, Hyper Dash? Did your parents have an obsession with speed or something?" Applejack said incredulously. Rainbow Dash blinked. "My name is Rainbow, and you're named after a cereal brand, and you're calling Hyper a bad name?" Applejack blushed, putting her hat over her face in shame. "Now, where was I? Oh, yeah. Basically, my brother started looking up to me. His first word was even Rainbow. But he didn't grow up like I expected him to. He wanted to be like me, but he kept getting sick all the time, and it made it hard for him to run. He spent most of his time inside, which made him really smart. He was probably six when he realized he was adopted. It made him feel really bad that we had been taking care of him for six years, even though he wasn't technically family. We wanted to keep him with us, but he refused and went off to live in a little cottage. And yes, I do realize Rarity lived in Ponyville at the time, but she went off to a fancy school while he went to a public school. Now, I hate to admit it... but by the time he was eight, I was disappointed in him. He spent most of his time inside, designing things, and I thought he'd get his cutie mark by then- but he didn't. Much like you, Scootaloo, but instead, he was ashamed of it, and wore clothes- more specifically, black clothes and a brown scarf. Eventually, I stopped visiting him as much. I only visited him once a week- and then, once a month. I didn't know how much it hurt him- but later I found out it did hurt him a lot. Not a lot happened, until he was thirteen and I was sixteen. It was my sweet sixteen- my birthday- and he still didn't have his cutie mark. Now, I need to admit something. When I was in high school... I was a bit of a bully. No one knew I even had a brother. He sent me a teddy bear, and I thought it was the stupidest gift possible. I didn't even bother to read the note he sent me. Around three o clock, my friends told me they had one more gift. They had found the nerdiest pony possible, and they had him tied up in the highest cliff above the Ponyville junkyard. I thought it was awesome, and I flew down to see it was Hyper. Apparently, one of my friend's brothers went to school with him. He saw me and said, "Rainbow Dash." My friends looked at me, shock painted on their faces. "You know this nerd?" I lied and said no. My friends grabbed him by his mane, and pulled him towards the edge of the cliff. He looked at me with hopeful eyes, desperately wishing I would stop them. I didn't. All he felt were two hooves hitting him in the stomach. He flew off the cliff and we all heard a loud thunk. I knew the fall wasn't fatal it wasn't high enough but it was enough to knock him out. So I flew off with my friends and as soon as we went our separate ways I flew off towards my brothers house. When I got there he wasn't home so I decided to wait for him so I could apologize. I started looking around and found some of his designs he always was working on I decided to have a look at them." "Wait." said Twilight "You ignore your brother, let our friends throw him off a cliff, and than dig through his private property!" "No wonder he's seeking revenge your a horrible sister!" "I know.' Rainbow Dash sniffed "But what happens next tops it all. What I found was amazing he had been designing inventions that would allow him to fly so I would be proud of him. This touched my heart and made me feel so happy and proud of him ,but than I realized something, it had been three hours and he still wasn't home. I decided to fly back to the cliff. When I got there I went to the bottom to see if he was still knocked out at the bottom. What I found still horrifies me to this day." Rainbow Dash stopped and tears once again started to form in her eyes. She gulped " I found a metal rod sticking out of the ground with a puddle of blood around it." Rainbow Dash was now full on crying again. " I..I f-found a trail of blood like a body being dragged across the ground. I t-tried to follow it b-but the trail ended like someone stopped the blood. I didn't know what to do all I knew was that my brother had been impaled and killed and it was all MY FAULT!" with that Rainbow Dash broke into a fit of crying.