Winter Hack Up - Chapter Two: Requiem for a Pony
Fluttershy left the room and returned with a cart carrying a variety of ominous tools, a spool of surgical thread, a surgical sewing needle and a box of long screws. The metal from the tools glittered in the candle light as the fire dances off their blood thirsty teeth. She stopped the cart next to her. A wicked grin carved itself across Fluttershy's yellow face as she turned to face Rainbow Dash, sledge hammer in hoove. With a swing of the sledgehammer, Fluttershy aimed for Dash's bottom left leg. A sickening crunch sounded as she crushed Dash's bones. a scream gave way through her sealed mouth. Fluttershy repeated the process on the remaining three legs all while laughing madly. Fluttershy untied the rope on the pulley, letting the board slam on the floor. Fluttershy kicked the bottom of the board, making it lay flat on the dirty floor. The vibration of the fall moved Rainbow Dash's broken bones and sent another shock wave of pain through her nerves causing her to cry out again. Her magenta eyes screamed in confusion and hurt. Fluttershy began singing her lullaby again as she started pounding screws into Dash's wings. The pain caused Dash to lose control of her bladder and urinate on the board. The yellow puddle soaked into the short, sky blue fur on Dash's hind quarters and seeped into the wounds on her flank. A burning sensation added to the pain. Fluttershy then took a butterfly knife and started to carve out words on her abdomen. She spelled out Loyalty and finished the "y" with a lightning bolt. After finishing she tugged on the pulley, sending Dash back up on the wall. Fluttershy removed all the leather bounds on Rainbow Dash except the one on her head, leaving her to hang and screw-decorated wings. Shy then turned to Applejack, still smiling wickedly. She did the same to AJ as she did to Dash, carving the word Honesty into her abdomen. She made the "o" into an apple. AJ cried and tried to writhe in pain.
"Now now AJ, if you move, you'll mess my artwork up and I'll have to start from scratch." Shy said softly. Drool started to drip from Fluttershy's mouth as she finished. What else could I do with he--YES! I know exactly what to do now, Shy thought to herself. "AJ, I was going to eat this myself but I think you should have it." She said as she shoved a big red apple between Applejack's thighs. AJ's body twitched in retaliation and tried to look over at Dash. Suddenly Fluttershy took the sledgehammer to AJ's legs, as she did Dashes. She screamed as more pain shot through her nerves. Shy repeated the same process on the other ponies. She crushed their limbs, carved their elements onto their abdomens with a butterfly knife. Everyone dripping with blood from their fresh wounds. Shy took an axe to Dash's wings and crudely attached them to her cloak.
She turned to Rarity, bringing her cart of pain with her.
"Rarity, did I ever tell you that you have the prettiest of eyes?" Fluttershy whispered. Rarity shook her head in reply. "Well they are. I want them..."
Rarity's eyes widened when she understood what Shy wanted to do and started shaking her head madly in her restraints. Fluttershy injected everypony with adrenaline again so they could watch.
Taking the spoon, Shy said, "You'll match Pinkie, Rarity! Isn't that exciting?" Fluttershy forced Rarity's right eye open and began to dig with the spoon. Bit by bit Rarity's eye came out, juices and blood squirting out. She ate the pieces as she went, chewing and smacking her lips loudly. "I had to take Pinkie's eye out. She just...WOULDN'T!...STOP!...CRYING!!!" Fluttershy yelled as she stabbed spoon in Rarity's eye repeatedly, getting more flesh out as she went. After she'd finished she looked at all of them, anger rising in her out of no where.
"STOP CRYING!! ALL OF YOU!! STOP BEING AFRAID!! YOU'RE ALL GOING TO LOVE ME!!!! That's what best friends do right? They love each other no matter what. RIGHT?!" Fluttershy shouted, her voice booming. They all nodded the best they could. Good, Fluttershy thought. She focused her attention on Twilight, bringing her board down as she did Dash's. Smiling she started to caress Twilight's face. "Hush my love, it will all be over soon." She whispered and she aimed her needle carefully above Twi's eye socket. Fluttershy drove the needle in deep and quickly removed it. "See? Now you're all better." She said, blind folding the pony and taking her away. She sat Twilight down in another room, away from the others and closed the door behind her. "I'll come back for you soon, love." Shy said through the door.
After returning to the others, she took the skinning knife and began cutting just above Dash's new cutie mark location and down below her element, then back up to the cutie mark. She cut away the skin attached to the flesh carefully and laid it bloody side up on the ground. She did this to everypony. She ripped out everypony's organs and eyes, not losing her evil smile and without giving them anesthesia. She left everyone's hearts so she could watch them all stop. Her skin artwork was hung next to their bodies. There's something missing Fluttershy thought. Ah yes, now I know! She removed their faces, and made masquerade masks out of them all. She wore Rarity's and pranced around the room with glee. Everypony's heart finally stopped and Shy yanked them out. She pulled down the bodies without remorse. She put them in a pile and burned them after opening the window to vent. She blew out the candles and left the room, locking it behind her. With the hearts in a basket, she went back to everypony's house and put them in their beds. Morning was just breaking by the time she came back home, not one pony was out to start Winter Wrap Up. She washed up and went back down to get Twilight and put her to bed, huming the lullaby to her. As they fell asleep, Shy could hear the panicked voices rise in the air, growing by the numbers as everypony slowly found a heart in her friends' beds. She smiled.
Winter Hack Up - Chapter One: The Gathering
Night had fallen and snow gently blanketed the ground in a cold embrace. All was quiet except the soft sound of hooves clopping through white streets of Ponyville. Once gentle eyes peered through Rarity's window, watching her sew the last of her dresses. Opal was asleep on the one of the backs of the ponnequins. [mannequins] As Rarity turned out the lights, a figure moved in through the back door and silently closed it behind them. The moon shone brightly through the windows of the house, casting long shadows along the walls. The minute her mane touched the pillow, the intruder made their move and quickly covered her mouth and nose with a cloth damp with chloroform. She quickly gasped as the darkness surrounded her completely. The bitter and rancid smell of blood slowly brought Rarity back into reality. There was no other light than the moon coming down through the sky light on the ceiling. As she tried to stretch, Rarity found her limbs were bound to wooden board. Fear began to grip her and sent chills down her spine. Trying to think rationally, she could find no reason as to why anyone would kidnap her. She hadn't hurt a soul in her life. She just kept asking herself why. A lump formed in her throat as she began to sob. Rarity noticed a bit had been placed inside her mouth with her lips sewn shut over it as she tried to scream. A hooded figure stepped into the moon light that shone brightly. A soft voice escaped from under the hood. It began to sing.
"Hush now, quiet now. Its time to lay your sleepy head. Hush now quiet now its time to go to bed...." The figure sang to Rarity.
The figure stepped closer, repeating the lyrics. Rarity writhed in her bonds, trying to wiggle herself free but it was hopeless. The leather bonds dug deeper into her skin the harder she tried. The snipping of scissors could be heard under her muffled screams. Rarity watched as her beautiful mane fell gracefully to the floor. After her tail was cut, the figure began to shave the rest off. She cried in agony as the mysterious pony took some skin with the left over hair. The hair was gathered up and the hooded figured left the room, leaving her alone, crying in vain and bleeding slightly on her neck and rump.
Pinkie Pie was all excited for Winter Wrap Up tomorrow and could barely sleep. Just as she was done getting everything ready, she heard a knock at her door.
"Visitors!!" Pinkie exclaimed as she leaped to the door in a flash.
Pinkie opened the door but no one was there. She giggled at the thought of a late night prank and thought it was probably Rainbow Dash. Before she turned to head inside, she spotted a cupcake just outside the threshold of her home.
"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!! I love cupcakes!" Pinkie shouted wildly.
She devoured it right then and there without wondering who it was from or why. The cupcake tasted funny but she didn't give a hoot. Turning to go inside, she left the door wide open. Her eyes felt heavy and the room started to spin. She giggled as she fell over, out cold.
Pinkie Pie woke up in a daze, everything was blurry and she heard an echoed and muffled scream. She tried to talk to herself but she also had a bit in her mouth with her lips sewn shut. She too smelled the bitter scent of blood. When everything finally came into focus, she saw another pony adjacent to her right side. It took a few seconds but she recognized Rarity. Her beautiful mane was gone and only a few cuts out of who knows how many were visible on her head. Deep gashes were littered along her stomach. Her face was streaked with black from her mascara. Tears welded up in Pinkie's eyes out of fear for her own life and her friend's. The hooded figure stepped into the streak of moon light again. This time Rarity's mane and tail were glued to the lining of the hood.
"Shh, its ok." It said to Pinkie.
"Ooh you poor, poor little baby." It said as it turned to face Rarity. "Now this might hurt for just a second.."
The figure pulled out a wooden cylinder that was rounded off at the top and shoved it between Rarity's thighs. Rarity let out a loud but muffled scream and it echoed through the room. The figure turned to face Pinkie as she trembled with fear. The mystery pony began clipping Pinkie's hair, just as it did Rarity's. Tears began to fall as Pinkie wondered if her fate would be the same as Rarity's or worse.
A knife blade glared in the moon light as the dark pony unsheathed it. Walking over to Rarity, the pony carved out the shaped of her cutie marks. Rarity let out another shrill but muffled scream. The merciless pony held each mark in place on Rarity's chest as she sewed them back on in a new location. One on top of the other. The evil pony turned and did the same for Pinkie Pie, making her now scream and writhe to try escaping the pain. Just when Rarity thought she was given a short rest from all the pain and suffering, the figure broke off her horn at its base. Again, leaving Rarity to scream and writhe in pain. After gathering Pinkie's mane and tail, the wicked figure left them to rest and bleed.
Twilight Sparkle had just put Spike to bed and was putting away her books. Before heading to bed, she stepped out on the balcony of her house for a bit of crisp winter's night air. The cloaked pony floated down behind Twilight and quickly stuck her in the jugular with a syringe of with anesthetic while muffling her gasp.
Twilight came out of her daze, her limbs felt numb and everything was blurry. Darkness over came her again as she fell back under the influence of the anesthetic. As she came back into consciousness, her attacker came into view as well as everything else. First she noticed she had so far accepted the same fate as her other two friends. A bit in her mouth and her lips sewn shut around it. She then noticed Pinkie Pie across from here and Rarity to her left. Pinkie now had blood dripping from her eye sockets. Her gleeful baby blues had gone from her skull. Her limbs had nails sticking out from them in a hurried fashion.
"Well hello Twilight, I hope you don't mind me doing a little spring cleaning," The hooded pony said. "I'm doing it because you're all my very best friends."
The dark pony broke off Twilight's horn at its base so she couldn't use her magic to help everyone to safety. Twilight let out a muffled shriek as the tears cascaded down her face. She recognized her hunter's voice she knew who it was but she couldn't figure out why this all as happening. So many events quickly running through her mind, trying to figure out the logical answer for this ponyslaughter. Twilight closed her eyes as her hair fell beneath her like everyone else's. She felt a sharp pain rocket through her nerves as she found a syringe driven into her chest. Her heart raced and she felt awake.
"Now is not the time for sleep my love, more guests have arrived." The pony said, taking off her hood to reveal her face. Her baby pink mane flowed around her yellow face. Her once sweet and kind eyes were heavy with dark circles from sleepless nights. She went around the room and lit candles in various places. Fluttershy climbed a small chair to close the hatch on the skylight above so the soft, wavering glow of candle light wouldn't escape to the outside and attract outside attention. The light bounced off every wall, leaving few dark corners. The walls were painted red with blood. It gleamed and reflected the dancing flames. Light from the candles put Fluttershy's full cloak into view. Everyone's beautiful mane had been crudely weaved together and sewn to the seam of the hood and trailed down to the bottom of her neck. Their gleaming tails were also crudely weaved together and sewn to where Fluttershy's tail would naturally begin under her cloak. It was brilliantly beautiful, in a sickening way. The two horns she'd collected had been broken and pasted back together to make one horn. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were bound to the same wooden boards as every other pony. Fluttershy had shaved them as well. Pinkie Pie was still alive, her eye sockets were sad, dark portals to her dampened soul. The blood that once cascaded down her joyful pink face had crusted. Fluttershy drove adrenaline into everypony's chest except Pinkie Pie's so they could watch everything that was about to unfold. After removing everypony else's cutie marks and sewing them back on their chests, she stood in the midst of them all.
"Don't we all look pretty now?" Fluttershy asked. Her friends just nodded quickly with fear stricken faces.
