The Many Deaths of Rainbow Dash

The Many Deaths of Rainbow Dash is a multi-chapter story written by Relaxing Dragon. In the story, Rainbow Dash befalls victim to a curse that renders her invincible in the sense that she re-spawns next to her corpse should she die, as well as take away any semblance of pain. However, the curse also renders her highly susceptible to gruesome deaths.

Style
The story is written in the third-person present-tense, from the perspective of Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash's thoughts will interrupt the story often, coming in the form of silent dialog. These thought are written in italics. The story also takes great lengths to describe how Rainbow Dash dies, what happens to her body, and many times the story gives an update post-mortem. Entire paragraphs at are dedicated to the state of Rainbow Dash's corpses.

Chapter 1 - A Little Black Book
The story starts with Rainbow Dash delivering a package of books to Twilight Sparkle. The books are all ancient texts, and it is Twilight Sparkle's job to transcribe them. However, Rainbow Dash discovers a book hidden in a secret compartment in the old crate. After handing the book over to Twilight, the purple unicorn discovers it to be a spell book written in Old Equestrian. Upon reading said book however, the book sets off a spell on its own, and targets Rainbow Dash due to Twilight inadvertently saying her name.

Twilight then performs some test on Rainbow Dash to see what kind of effect the spell might have had. Upon finding no anomalies however, she lets Rainbow Dash go. Rainbow Dash immediately heads to a flying competition where she plans to pull off a stunt that's supposed to clear a forest of trees. Instead of pulling the stunt off however, she crashes into the tress and out of sight. When the pegasi on hand go to investigate however, they find her shaken up, but otherwise unscathed. As soon as they leave however, Rainbow Dash heads over to Twilight's library and brings her to the crash site to show her brutally mangled corpse.

Chapter 2 - Body of Evidence
Twilight cleans up the area a little, and then the two ponies drag the corpse back to Ponyville into Twilight's library without anypony seeing them save for a close call with Fluttershy. After some experimentation and deductive reasoning on part of the two mares, they deduce that Rainbow Dash is now immortal, cannot feel pain, and is prone to gruesome death. Here, Rainbow Dash manages to get killed again by one of Twilight's contraptions falling on her. Rainbow Dash asks Twilight if they should just ask the Princesses for help. However Twilight doesn't want her mentor to find out she had been casting black magic, and asks that Rainbow give her a chance to fix it herself first.

Rainbow Dash then decides to head home, and on her way decides that it might be a good idea to have some fun with her curse before she gets cured.

Chapter 3 - Reaching for the Stars
After a night sleeping without remembering to eat dinner, Rainbow Dash wakes up to a thunderclap brought on by an experimental lightning bolt hitting her sometime early next morning. After shooing away the ponies responsible and dumping her latest corpse in the shower, she sets of to try and break the height record. However, she manages to fly clear out of the atmosphere into outer space. After getting asphyxiated and depressurized over half a dozen times, she manages to get back to thick enough air after repeated spawns.

Rainbow Dash then heads back down to earth, only to vaporize during re-entry, leaving only a rainbow colored trail behind. She then fly the rest of the way slowly. After landing for a moment to consider what stunt to do next, she manages to skewer herself on a branch during a blind take-off. After her second take-off she notices in the distance a cloud of smoke signifying that a dragon has moved into the area. She decides to deal with the problem herself. She finds that this dragon is broke, and is looking for gems. After subsequently telling him to move out and annoy him, the dragon kills her. However, she continues to annoy the dragon, causing him kill her several times more before finally giving up and leaving to look for gems elsewhere. He then kills her once more completely by accident, and Rainbow Manages to get killed one more time by one of her own corpses.

Having dealt with the dragon, Rainbow Dash realizes from the growling of her stomach that she is starving, although she can't feel it. She decides to get some food before she drops dead again, but Applejack intercepts her while she is flying over one of Sweet Apple Acres' orchards. Stopping to chat for a few moments, Rainbow Dash sits on the edge of a well next to decrepit shed that Applejack explains she plans to tear down. Just before Rainbow Dash leaves however, Applejack kicks one of the boards on the shed which ricochets into Rainbow Dash's direction, impaling her brain with one of its nails. Her corpse then falls into the well. While Applejack is left wondering what happened.