Back at Twilight's lab, Pinkie was sitting on the table sobbing. "Rarity's gone…it's my fault…"

Twilight walked up to Pinkie and tried to comfort her. "No it isn't Pinkie. It's just…"

"YES IT IS!" Pinkie burst out. "This curse is what killed her! MY CURSE!"

Twilight couldn't think of anything to say. "I'm going to help you break this curse Pinkie. I made a Pinkie promise to you and I intend to keep it." She looked at her notes. "The tragic effects of that dream aside, I was able to get some data on the exact type of magic of that curse. It's very powerful, but I think with the right combination of spells I can break it. It'll take a while to find out exactly which one's I'll need."

"OK." Pinkie said, now void of her usual cheerful mood. "I'm going to go bake something." She slowly walked out into the streets of Ponyville and back towards her house. A lot was going through Pinkie's head. One of her best friends in all of Equestria was now dead. It's not like death was a new concept for her to deal with; it had used to happen around her on a daily bases. But this is the first time since she was a filly that someone close to her had died. No, not since her family had Pinkie gone through the loss of someone very close to her.

Then Pinkie thought about what she knew about the curse. Every night she would go to sleep and then she would dream of something bad that would happen the next day. It wasn't always someone dying; sometimes it was just as simple as an inconvenience for one of her friends. Sometimes it was a little more serious though, such as the Flim Flam Brothers threatening to drive the Apples out of business. Pinkie had learned that the more she ignored what was going to happen in the future the milder her next nightmare would be. If she tried to do anything to prevent or warn anyone about what she saw, the next nightmare would be worse than the last. Someone's death would only result if she tried to do anything about the curse. But deaths happened a little differently than the other nightmares. They could happen at any time. Anywhere from one week after the nightmare to when she's still having it.

Then Pinkie also realized that whenever she didn't sleep, nothing bad happened; at least not to her knowledge. She concluded that the curse is what causing these bad things to happen. The nightmares told her what the curse was going to do next. "That settles it," Pinkie mumbled to herself as she trotted home. "I'm not going to sleep until Twilight breaks this curse." She was so mopey that she didn't feel her tail twitching.

In the skies above her a grey and rather ditzy Pegasus was flying all around in circles and loops. Derpy smiled as she enjoyed herself. But then she hit an updraft and crashed into a cart. The cart started to roll downhill with Derpy still in it. It hit a rock and flung Derpy out of it and right into Pinkie.

Derpy got up laughing. "Sorry about that Pinkie." But Pinkie was on the ground unconscious. "Hey why are you sleeping?"

Spike was cleaning up Rarity's shop when Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy walked in. He heard them walk in but didn't look at them or say anything.

"Hey Spike," Rainbow Dash said. "How are you feeling?"

"Like crap." Spike muttered back as a reply.

"Come on Spike, cheer up."

"Cheer up? How can I cheer up when Rarity's dead, AND IT 'S ALL MY FAULT?" He glared angrily at Rainbow Dash. "And aren't you even sad that she's dead?"

Rainbow Dash looked to the side.

Spike grunted and went back to cleaning.

Rainbow Dash shook her head. "Well anyway, I'm going to practice my new trick to impress the Wonderbolts, want to come and watch."

"I don't care about your stupid trick!" Spike yelled. "Rarity's dead and all you care about is joining those stupid Wonderbolts!"

Rainbow Dash growled angrily at Spike and came very close to bucking him in the face. But instead she burst out the door and flew away.

Fluttershy frowned. "She's actually very sad you know. She's just not the kind of pony to show her emotions to other people." She flew out the door after Rainbow Dash. "Wait up."

"That jerk!" Rainbow Dash muttered.

"You can't blame him. After all, he did lose someone he cared about a lot."

Rainbow Dash sighed. "Yeah I guess you're right." The two Pegasus flew back to her house. "Ok so it's obviously going to take more than a Sonic Rainboom to impress the Wonderbolts. But what if I did multiple Sonic Rainbooms in a row?" Rainbow Dash pulled out a whiteboard and drew a crude drawing of a pony with a marker. She labeled it RB. "So when I do a Sonic Rainboom I shoot down then bounce right back up." She drew from the RB symbol that showed the path of her normal Sonic Rainboom. "But what if after I bounced up I did another Sonic Rainboom?" She drew another line. "Then another, then another and then another." She kept drawing lines making a zigzag shape. "That's sure to impress the Wonderbolts!"

"Yeah it might, but don't you think that seems a little dangerous?"

"You can't get rewards without taking a few risks." Rainbow Dash went up to her room and reached for a box on top of her dresser. "But I'm going to need some goggles." She opened the box and picked out a pair of goggles. Just as she was about to get down she was startled when she heard Spitfire shouting through her door.

"Hey Rainbow Dash!" She shouted. "We got some things to do tomorrow so you'll have to show us this trick of yours today."

Rainbow Dash was so startled that she fell down from the dresser and on her wing; which caused it to bend at an awkward angle. She gritted her teeth and kept herself from screaming. She quickly got up and forced her wing back into place.

Fluttershy ran in the room. "Rainbow Dash are you ok? I heard a thump."

"It's ok Fluttershy, I'm fine." She walked out her door and greeted Spitfire. "Sorry about that, was looking for a pair of goggles."

Spitfire nodded. The two of them flew up to a high cloud. Rainbow Dash's wing ached with each flap. "Are you ready?" Spitfire asked.

"Yeah huh." Rainbow Dash looked down and gulped. She shook her head. She wasn't going to let a broken wing stop her from getting into the Wonderbolts. Rainbow Dash took in a deep breath and jumped off the cloud. She angled herself as she normally would to do a Sonic Rainboom. She was about position her wings when she felt the one she broke snap in two. "NOT GOOD!" Rainbow Dash screamed as she fell out of control.

In the streets of Ponyville bellow Pinkie jolted up from her nightmare. "Oh no I have to stop Rainbow Dash!" She shouted. Pinkie could feel her tail twitching like crazy. She looked up and saw a blue pony hurtling towards the ground at supersonic speeds. "NO!"

Spitfire gasped as she jumped off the cloud and flew as fast as she could after Rainbow Dash. Then a sudden whirlwind spun her around and disoriented her.

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and made contact with the streets of Ponyville. A large crater was created at her impact point. Pinkie screamed and ran over to it. Rainbow Dash was lying in the center of it in a gruesome mess.

Tears ran from Pinkies eyes. "No." She whispered. "No…"