Falling Into Sky

“…about 19 years ago. We were playmates back then, he was the brain I was the brawn. We did all sorts of things, pretended to be Firecolts or Royal Guards, but on one day, that one fateful day, everything changed. It was raining, I can remember it so clearly, rain pelted the glass as we watch from inside, I was pouting unhappy that I couldn't go out and play, wining about how the weather ponies always ruin the fun, heh, I was so ignorant back then. We were having fun playing tag…” Rainbow hung her head.

“…Then they came. They wore all black, masks over the faces, they took Silver, and would have killed me if it wasn't for the neighbors noticing, the police rushed to the house but it was too late for Silver, 10 years later they found the ones who had taken him. Drayos Research Labs, they found Silver and he was taken into reintegration, another 3 years and he was released and sent to Hayfield. I was so overjoyed to see my friend again that I rushed to Hayfield to see him when he got off this very train.”

Her expression darkened “but he was not the same pony I used to play with, he was tall, taller than any other pony I've seen save the princesses, he noticed me right away, his memory as great as ever, but little did I know under this handsome mask lied a blood thirsty beast. What followed was unimaginable. Two years later, around 2:30 at night, on the very same night he was taken, he set fire to his neighbor’s house and barred all of the exits, of course the Firecolts came to stop the fire, but where shot down by flaming arrows, the family perished in the fire, but Silver was not done. He strolled through the center of town whistling and throwing homemade fire bombs. He killed everyone he saw, when the army finally came from Canterlot, there wasn't much left, no one alive but him. They assumed he was a survivor of an attack seeing as there was nopony else to disprove this. He came stumbling out of a burnt building, his grey coat blackened with ash and soot. They told him to stop but he didn't, then they noticed, his eyes were red his, body streaked with blood not his own, and he was dragging a bloody hatched behind him. They tried to shoot him down but missed as he had already calculated where the bullets would hit, he killed many army members before a lucky tranq shot hit him in the shoulder, they were using tranquilizers because they had long since run out of bullets.” She looked up.

“And the rest is history; a killer was sentence as mentally unstable and taken to Dragon’s reach maximum security prison & institution, 3 years later he escaped, and now we’re here”

Twilight was taken aback “so Drayos did something to him to make him this way?”

Dash nodded.

“What was it?”

The cyan pony looked at her friends, tears rolling down her cheeks, and choked out one word “Torture”