Chapter 3: Revelations

Rainbow made it to the weather teams headquarters merely minutes before she was counted as late. Something that was a new record for her. The pegasus trotted up the stairs to the third floor of the could build building where her office and crew of the day had made their residence. Once she had arrived, she found an open spot between a butter colored mare with a light blue mane, her cutie mark was three water drops. Her name was therefore Raindrops. On Rainbows right side was a grey pegasus with a blond mane, her cutie mark happened to be three bubbles. The name of that mare was Ditzy Doo who was better known as Derpy Hooves. Though for some reason, Rainbow never understood the name other than the fact that the eyes went cross of each other. Other then that, nothing she could discover.

Rainbow looked lazily around the crowd that was waiting for any news. Waiting long enough for her own standards, which weren’t much to begin with, the cyan coated mare finally spoke up what was on her mind. “So what’s the schedule for today?” was being asked out loud.

In response there was a big, black, burly looking pegasus who turned in her direction and rested the golden rimmed eyes upon her. “Well we’re supposed to start up a storm at about noon that ends at midnight but other than that same weather as yesterday.” After the words were spoken, the pegasus gave a shrug and turned around again.

Rainbow on the other end closed her eyes and let a sigh escape her lips. Glad that for once, the day was at least going to be a smooth one. But celebrating too much wasn’t high on the mare her list as there was still one thing that could throw soot in the events. Don’t bet on it sissy, she heard another voice say. Confused by those words, she nearly asked Thunderlane, who sat across her, about it when she realized just who they belonged to. Oh come on don’t tell me this isn’t what you always wanted? Dull asked ironically before releasing a snicker.

The mare had to use all of her willpower to avoid flatout punching herself in the face in front of the others to shut her mental sister up. It was bad enough that she had to deal with her constant badgering before a hunt alone. But recently she had actually begun to judge her during her work hours. And that was something that irritated the most, as it were those hours, she needed her focus on completely.

She suddenly felt a piercing pain that raced inside her head and her sister’s comments didn’t help at all. Aww look at the poow wittle baby. What’s wong baby, something wong with your wittle head? Dull asked snickering at her sister’s minor pain.Rainbow Dash forced her eyes close and shook her head.

Then it was Thunderlane who turned back Rainbow and was about to give her some orders. Though the plan changed as a look of concern washed over his face when noticing her grimace. “Rainbow Dash, are you okay?” The cyan coated pegasus could only look up at her boss and pray on her life she could come up with an excuse.

“Yeah... Yeah I’m fine Thunder. Just a minor headache, that’s all.” Rainbow shook her head and noticed that most of the ponies in the group were heading for the stairs down to the first floor. Not wanting to stay behind, she quickly joined her co-workers and found her way outside in the big blue skies. The mare took her place and started to buck the clouds to darken them up in preparation. Following up, they were brought over to the nearest lake in order to make them moist. A little thing done so that the rain was good and clean as it would possibly get. The last thing they wanted was another manure rain incident. Once that was done, they were carried and then placed in the storm clouds themselves.

She kept up working with her co-workers, her headache would only grow in agonising pain as she went way past her boundaries. For instance, whenever she got near the rain clouds to darken them up for the storm, it was her head that would suffer a splitting pain that was almost worse than being near a cloud just as a thunderclap started. Not to mention, her sister’s constant comments were anything but helpful.

“Sorry Thunder I got to call a rain check on this one. My head’s been killing me sorry.” the mare apologized to her superior who looked at her before he nodded in response. With his approval, Rainbow flew away and stopped by the office to see if she had gotten any mail at her desk. And much to her own surprise she found a letter addressed for her personally, just resting on her desk. Curious to the content, she opened it and saw that it was a newspaper clipping from an old Equestria Daily news print, one that was dated years ago actually. It also had a note stuck below it, one which read: I know who you are. And that was it, nothing that said or indicated who it was from or anything. After Rainbow had placed the note into a nearby garbage bin, she unfolded the newspaper clipping and started reading the headliner.

Cloudsdale Cannibal Nightmare Finally Over!

As of twelve forty six last night the infamous Cloudsdale Cannibal, now revealed to be none other than Firefly herself, actually turned herself in after giving the police a run for their bits for over several years. The most puzzling thing about this though is that no-one has seen her dau-

The newspaper ended before the headline could finish but even Rainbow could figure out what it meant. This particular mare, whoever she was, apparently had a daughter but what also had her stumped was that there appeared to be a picture of Firefly. However, it was just a pink hoof in the corner. Only then did the pain in her head return with extreme prejudice. Rainbow struggled against it as it continued to increase. Though it was a losing battle and her pained expression was a clear indicator of just that.

Yet all of the sudden she remembered a mare’s voice in her head saying what seemed to be calming words. Almost like a mother would say them to an upset filly or even foal, it’s okay my little Dashie, mommy’s here now, it’s okay. And just as quickly as it came it vanished. Rainbow rubbed her head in utter confusion. Just what was that all about? She held on to the newspaper and figured she would, if not needed to, ask Twilight about it during the sleepover that night and made the decision to head home.

When she returned to her beloved cloud palace, she found tank as usual sitting where he was when she left, snuggled down into his bed sleeping peacefully. This just disgusts me, Dull spoke up through her mind before she made a vomiting sound as well and that was when Rainbow lost it all. The cyan pegasus left for her bedroom and slammed the door shut behind her, once more nearly dissolving the clouds it was formed out of, and proceeded to utterly trash the room like it was nothing.

Her table was the first to go as it was smashed into pieces and the rest of her room nearly dissolved in response for the utter rage she felt having to deal with her sister every single bloody day of her life. That’s it sis! let it all out! I haven’t had this much fun in a very, very long time! the voice in her head snickered of the insane laughter.

But what Dull could, Rainbow could return. Except she didn’t spoke it mentally. “Shut up! Shut, the buck, up, you bucking nag!” she yelled at the top of her lungs before she continued with her rampage.

It was only after a good fifteen minutes of pure raging, throwing everything across the room till either it went into thin air by the sheer force or it went sprawling across the room to break by the impact of the wall, that Rainbow then broke down and wept in silence. Yet the fact that surprised her the most, was to hear her sister actually try to comfort her. Hey sis, come on. Chin up the day isn’t over yet is it? Besides, Dull said in an almost soothing tone, you still have that, ugh, sleepover to go to right?

Those last words got Rainbow’s attention and almost instantly the cyan blue mare sat up and nearly fell over once again due to her ‘teeth’ that laid on the floor, hidden under a scarf she had gotten from Rarity. A beautiful thing which caused a happy memory and her sadness to collide, resulting in something far more powerful.

The pegasus instantly froze as she saw it flashing before her eyes. Horrible pictures of animals ravaged and bloodied shot through her head. She tried to shake the pictures out of her head but to no avail. Rainbow did the only thing her mind could think of and that was to grab the fangs and she placed, if not threw, them in her not so secret ‘hunting’ closet.

Her hooves tried to close the door but it wouldn’t shut properly because of the heavy beating it received so she removed the teeth out of it and and looked for the scarf. Once it was found again, the hellish thing was wrapped inside of it before being place carefully in the realms of the closet again. She made it look like it was just a hump of scarf piled upon one another before closing the door as shut as it would go.

Her legs then started to descend down the stairs and once downstairs, she saw the two dark eyes which reflected the moonlight perfectly. A moon who provided a dim light as it ventured through the window and was reflected in those two sorrowful, red rimmed eyes. “Hey Tank...” was the only thing she could say as she made for the final step. Like Fluttershy, he was one of the few beings that knew the other side to Rainbow Dash but also knew that her sister wouldn’t kill him due to her also liking him. Which was odd but literally his saving grace.

Rainbow gave the tortoise a brave smile to let him know that it was her and not Dull. His face brightened up a little as his propeller started up and he headed towards the kitchen to his food bowl. The room itself went darker and she couldn’t help but look out and saw the storm raging she helped create. It calmly floated across the night sky and with its thick clouds, blocked out the silver light originating from the moon itself. The gigantic dark cloud was huge, almost akin to a hurricane and in her mind it described what was going on in her head to the letter. A raging storm nearly destroying the dam she built inside her mind so that Dull Sloth wouldn’t even think about hurting her friends. Cracks had appeared, but only time would tell if it would be broken or not.

But like all things, mental or physical, the dam was getting weaker and soon, she feared that not even she could stop the flood that would come gushing out. And then as quickly as the thought came to her, it vanished vanished. She then kicked off from her front porch and a few hard beats of her wings she found herself heading towards the sleepy town of Ponyville.

Her wings brought her near the Golden Oak Library where Twilight lived and tucked them back against her body. With a confident walk she entered the living tree house and found herself in a room dark and devoid of light. Huh reminds me of home, Dull spoke up. Though before Rainbow could pursue the subject, she heard some giggling coming from a nearby source. Her ears couldn’t pinpoint it,, despite her obvious advantage of being a hunter. Something doesn’t sit right with- Holy sweet Celestia, what the buck?! the voice in her head yelled the second the lights flickered on and the rest of the gang yelled out, “Surprise Rainbow!”

What the buck were they thinking!? I nearly had a heart att- Oh wait, that’s right...no real heart, Dull said while Rainbow merely snickered in response to the greeting.

The group of six had decided at a small harmless game of truth or dare in which they used an empty bottle of Applejack Daniels. “Okay then Rwainbow Dahssr” Twilight slurred, drunk from the seven bottles of liquor that she had downed in her throat, “truth or burrrrpppp!” The once so proper unicorn, reduced to a drunkard.

Do the burp. The burrrp! Dull hammered, somehow being drunk as well. Rainbow on the other end, decided to go for truth and opened her mouth to give her answer…but ended up giving the loudest burp heard in all of Equestria and possibly beyond.

The rest of the girls merely looked at her before Pinkie decided to break the silence. “Oh, my, gosh,” she said looking at her friend in amazement, “that was totally awesome!” and the rest of them cheered the same thing until Twilight actually managed to use a sobriety spell and while they were cleaned up, it came with the price tag of a small hangover.

After a few moments spent with a headache and quite a few barfings Applejack decided to see how Rainbow handled their old game of hoof wrestling. “Hey! RD, old butterhoof!” Applejack shouted and got the pegasus’s attention immediately.

The cyan coated mare turned around and saw that Applejack had set up a table and had one hoof on it which meant one thing. “Seriously AJ? You wanna try your hoof against one of the best hoof wrestlers alive?”

I think the hangover is still effecting her, sisterly dear quipped. Rainbow floated down towards the cowgirl and sat down in front of her holding her own hoof on the table and the two began the match. At first it wasn’t clear who was winning as both mares had a strained look on their faces and both were giving it their all. Both hooves were shaking massively under the pressure that was given by the both of them.

However, it was Rainbow’s sudden headache who decided to make a comeback and that was something that costed her dearly. For Applejack noticed her hesitation and in response just yanked the hoof down as hard as she could. While she did manage to get Rainbow’s hoof down she also managed to throw her friend into a nearby bookcase, a rather unforeseen side effect of her massive strength.

Rainbow landed against the bookcase with a hard crack and sounded like it had broken her back together with her left wing upon sliding down to the floor. Her head seemed to have been hit pretty hard and actually drew blood from the impact. With the strength left inside of her body, the mare tried to touch the spot but when she did she winced in pain.

“Shucks sugarcube, Ah’m sorry!” Applejack exclaimed before she tried to help with the blood on her friend’s head. The rest of the group rushed forward and all tried to see if Rainbow was alright.

But while that happened, Dull Sloth was having a field day with their so beloved friend. What the buck was that, you bucking mule?! she yelled at Rainbow Dash. Something that caused her to actually shrink back from her friends. The combined voices were almost too much for Rainbow to handle on her own.

“Dashie, are you okay?” Pinkie Pie asked with a little worry in her tone.

You had her! You, bucking, had her! Dull yelled at her in a manner similar to how a parent yells at their child when being punished...more than it deserved.

“Darling is something wrong?” Rarity asked in a concerned manner before she brought a hoof to her mouth.

I should’ve been in control, then we wouldn’t be in this mess! But nnnooo, you had to be bucking miss Smartass, didn’t you?! You see this, this is the shit I’ve been telling you about! They never cared for you! They onl-

“Shut, up...” Rainbow suddenly spoke up in a whisper. “Shut up. Shut up! Shut up and get out of my head you sadistic bucking nag!” And with that Rainbow kicked off from her spot on the floor and jetted home to try and escape the voices.

The remaining mares just sat in Twilight’s treehouse in utter confusion, all of them except one. Oh Rainbow I thought you said you had her under control? Fluttershy thought to herself as she was the last one to turn away from the window.

“What in tarnation do ya think that was all about?” Applejack asked. She was genuinely confused as to the pegasus and her behavior.

“Well you did throw her against a bookcase, Jackie.” Pinkie said. The farm pony had an embarrassed look on her face as she remembered what caused her to bleed in the first place and was about to retort when Twilight spoke.

“But...it happened before at the farm months ago and she laughed it off like it was nothing. Not to mention, that doesn’t explain however why she yelled ‘get out of my head’ at the top of her lungs though.” the cowgirl spoke up in her defense but also with curiosity.

“I wish I knew what was wro- hey where’s Fluttershy?” Rarity suddenly asked and the rest of them noticed that she was gone as well. Something done while they were talking, the pegasus had snuck out the backdoor and headed towards Rainbow’s cloud mansion in the covers of darkness. The cold night air blew in her face as she sped towards her friend’s home.

As Fluttershy landed on the front porch she knew instantly that something was wrong. The front door was missing for one thing and the inside wasn’t faring any better from what she saw. “H-Hello? R-Rainbow are you, here?” the yellow coated mare asked in a near whisper and heard two voices that were almost eerily similar shouting at each other in the upper levels.

“What would you know about my friends huh?! It’s not like you ever talked to them yourself and no, those memories you leech off me don’t count!” was yelled by the first voice. a voice who Fluttershy could identify as Rainbow herself but then the other voice cut in and its sound nearly caused her to run right out the door again and hide under the clouds.

“I know them better than you ever did, Rainbow Crash! I know for a fact that the only one that even has a slight chance at being a real friend to you, is a bucking little recluse and that should be saying something to you! I told you we should’ve ditched them for Gilda, who we should thank Celestia and Luna for, for actually believing our story! Tartarus we’re lucky she even stuck around afterwards and hung in Cloudsdale so that we could explain things to her!”

Those were were yelled by the second voice and although she never heard it before Fluttershy knew instantly just who the owner of the second voice was. The sick twisted version of her friend that was nopony else then Dull Sloth herself. She heard another loud noise like a crash and the sound of clouds disappearing. With concern for her friend in mind overshadowing her fears, the shy mare started to go up the stairs to Rainbow’s bedroom and gently nudged the door open. And at the sight she was presented, released a gasp and a silent ‘oh my’.

If what she saw downstairs was chaos, then the bedroom she just walked into was nothing else but Discord’s playhouse. For the whole room was totally wrecked and she also saw hints of what appeared to be dried blood on the wall. How that happened she didn’t want to know. But then there was Rainbow herself. Fluttershy had seen her friend bruised before but never in such a condition as she was in then. For starters she seemed to be unconscious but still alive as cuts ran across her legs. Her wings looked worse for wear but still looked functional. Yet then there was her face. That was absolutely the worst part to be looking it. Cut, torn, bruised and so on, all of it had happened, somehow, somewhere.

When Rainbow finally opened her eyes, she turned towards the pastel yellow pegasus mare in the room and tried to form some words. “F-Flutters?” she stammered out. Almost instinctively did Fluttershy rushed forward. She draped her wing around her friend in an attempt to help comfort her to the best of her ability.

“It’s okay Rainbow I know it wasn’t you that flipped out at the sleepover. I’m sure the others cou-mrph!” Fluttershy cried with a look of surprise on her face. But it came out muffled due to a cloth being shoved at her muzzle. Dull Sloth nearly had to put a hoof on her own mouth to prevent the small chuckle she had inside of her. After all it was just too easy, the mare figured but one couldn’t have everything.

A moment later, Fluttershy ceased her struggling and slipped into a state of unconsciousness. The cyan coated pegasus stood up and carefully took her pink mane in her mouth. Only to drop her into one of the other rooms. Sleep tight Flutters. Sorry about knocking you out, but I couldn’t have you spoiling the surprise just yet, she thought to herself. As the body of Rainbow but the mind of Dull closed the door behind her, she made sure that the door was blocked on the outside with something heavy like a chair. She then headed back to her bedroom and opened her hunting closet, ready for another hunt. And I know just who to visit, Dull spoke up to herself as she put on the hoodie.

“Geez Twi’ that storm out there looks pretty rough. Yall reckon tha’ Rainbow and Flutters is still out there?” Applejack asked with a look of deep worry to her friends. Friends who were huddled together in Twilight’s oak house. A few hours had passed since both of the pegasi left the library and then the group actually were concerned due to the ferocity of the storm outside.

“I’m sure the darlings are okay Applejack, they’re probably waiting this storm out just like we are. And considering this is a sleep over, we might be best doing that.” Rarity said but with a little doubt in her voice. Yet just after she had finished her words, a massive crash could be heard over head, a crash loud enough to startle each of the four mares.

“What was that Twilight?” Pinkie asked who tried her hardest to sound upbeat about the situation with a smile on her face. But being her, it was rather difficult to see if it was genuine or set up. The mulberry mare herself couldn’t respond due to sorting through numerous answers to one simple question.

When Applejack saw the hesitation from the group she spoke up her words. “Ah’ll go an check it out Twi, don’t yall worry none.” The cowgirl rose to her hooves and headed for the door that led over to the staircase. The rain pounding on the window only increased the effect. The rumbling of thunder was heard as bright flash light up the room as she opened the door and looked over the staircase that led to the upper levels.

As she ascended up the stairs, the cowgirl was careful to avoid tripping over any debris that might have fallen from the window ceiling and any puddles caused by the rain. She finally reached the first floor and saw right away what caused the loud crash. A tree branch that had somehow broken off from its spot and was flung through the window at violent force spraying glass shards from the broken window all over the basement floor.

When Applejack realized that, she sighed in relief and went back down the stairs to tell Twilight. But she couldn’t shake the feeling of somepony’s presence off, almost like something was watching her from the shadows. The cowgirl shook the thought out of her head as she felt her heart skip a beat. “Nah, it’s nothin’” she said more to comfort herself than anything. She started to climb the stairs again but still couldn’t shake the feeling. She glanced over her shoulder while cold sweat formed on her forehead as she kept a steady pace for the door. But suddenly she stopped dead in her track and listened. And that was when she heard it, a loud audible creak as though something was on the stairs with her. Quickly she turned around to see if there was somepony with her, but nothing was there.

The cowgirl took one final glance on the upper floor and when she saw that it was clear outside of the caused mess, she headed down and closed the door behind her. As the storm kept on raging and delivered a flash of lightning, it was revealed to nopony that the limb wasn’t simply broken off. Instead it was torn from it’s spot by what could only be described as bite marks from a large predator.

As the rest of the group huddled together in worry they heard several loud cracks and soon saw Applejack appearing again. She explained that it was a branch from a tree that broke off. A revelation which earned a chuckle from Rarity due to the same thing happened at her last sleepover at Twilight’s and that they had nothing to worry about.

As they blew out the last of the candles they all thought back to how weird their sleepover was and headed up stairs. With Applejack the last one to go up, but she suddenly had that feeling that something bad was going to happen, and it would be soon. Though before Twilight went to bed, she walked over to the sight of impact and conjured a magical shield before the open gap. The branch and glass was being collected before reduced to ashes by her mind.

With the door of Twilight’s bedroom closing and Applejack still down, the cowgirl suddenly heard another creak and turned around. Yet as she did that, she nearly tripped on her hooves. At that point she started to panic as she knew there was no way somepony was following her. Her green rimmed eyes darted around the room and scanned for anything at all.

She jumped at a sudden flash of lightning that lit up the dark library and in that mere second thought the cowgirl that she saw a reflection from the corner of her eye. The silence was the worst part about standing in the stairs, engulfed by darkness she could barely see her own hooves in front of her. Applejack felt her heart hammer in her chest and throat when a sudden warm breeze caught her off guard.

The rough and tough mare turned around the instant it made contact with her neck and she looked bewildered in the direction of the breeze. Her eyes hadn’t yet adjusted to the darkness enough yet but she thought she saw something reflecting in the bright flash of another lightning bolt that bursted through the air outside.

But nothing could prepare her for that what she was being greeted when she turned herself back around. For only then there was a sudden punch to the muzzle delivered. Groaning from the impact, the second punch was actually a hoof shoved right into her mouth. As she continued to struggle against the unseen assailant, Applejack tried to get a good look at her attacker’s face. But all she got was a pair of blood red eyes that showed no remorse in any form. The cowgirl continued to fight against the hoof shoved in her face, she did the first thing that came to mind. Bite.

Her teeth set themselves in the hoof which recoiled immediately from her mouth. With it being free again, she yelled out to the others that one simple word of, “Help!” Soon afterward though, she heard an irritated growl that could only be made by an animal of some sort, followed by the feeling of weightlessness. Confused by that alone, the mare looked down and saw that she was in fact several feet above the ground.

The mysterious attacker soon threw her against the wall near one of the bookcases. Applejack glanced up from her spot on the floor and she could swear that the figure actually grinned at her pain. The figure then unfurled its wings and thus revealed itself as a pegasus. But it still could have been everything. It took off as the vision of Applejack blurred thanks to a tremendous pain from her head. it forced her to shut her eyes in agony as she soon slipped into unconsciousness state.

The other mares headed downstairs after they heard the cry for help. Once arrived in the library itself, they all saw the body of the cowgirl on the floor and surrounded by books that were strewn about from the shelf they fell from. Pinkie Pie nearly gasped in pure shock at how brutally her friend was banged up, Twilight nearly had a panic attack followed by a breakdown and Rarity fell back at the sheer barbaric nature of her friend’s wounds. Twilight tried looking around to see what the source was but could only hear the rain pounding on the old oak yet forgot to turn on the lights in the haste of the situation.

“T-Twilight what do we do?” Pinkie asked nervously. Her hair had deflated into a sad heap, as she started to shiver in pure fear. Twilight tried to answer but heard a soft raspy chuckle from the shadows. A chuckle that caused all of them to startle and be on their guard more than anything.

“Pinkie, get Applejack out of here now.” Twilight said as she tried to assert herself while she tried to hide her own fear. Pinkie complied and went over to the orange coated mare. She just got Applejack’s hoof over her shoulder when she felt something warm rolling down her own leg. She looked down and nearly fainted in pure horror. For the leg had a huge chunk of flesh missing and had a hole with blood seeping from it.

Applejacks hoof landed with a dull thud back on the ground as the pink pony screamed out in horror. Pinkie’s cry of terror was cut short and she yelped as a pain shoot through her right hoof. Something had grabbed her leg and began to lift Pinkie up to the ceiling. She started flailing her three free legs and tried to get out of the painful grip. Her right hoof pulsed in pain and the blood that rolled down her right hoof felt cold against her coat and skin.

Pinkie could feel her heartbeat throbbing as the pain shocked through her hoof, a heart that continued to pound against her chest before climbing to her throat. A warm and wet tongue licked her wounded leg and she heard the being actually smacked the lips in satisfaction, somehow. She was soon brought muzzle to muzzle with the new creature who only looked at her with a sick grin on her face. The metal fangs glistened after another lightning bolt flashed across the sky and revealed the blood on them. Not to mention those red eyes, those piercing red eyes seemed to have drilled into her very soul. Terror struck Pinkie more than ever before

After what seemed like an eternity, she felt the mare’s hooves let her go but instead of Pinkie falling she was still floating surrounded by a violet aura. Twilight was trying her hardest to keep her friend afloat, something their attacker was none too pleased about. The being gritted the teeth in anger and was about to charge her but then she heard Twilight yell her words. “No! No don’t throw it yet!!”

The mysterious creature stopped for a moment, confused as to why that was being yelled. But then something hard came in collision with the head. The being dropped out of the skies and smacked down on the floor. It stood up and shook its head before turning to face Rarity. Who hit the thing with another chair.

Rarity looked around trying to find more furniture when she noticed the assailant’s eyes were blood red. But something about them was familiar. And that’s when it hit her like a brick. Those are my contact, that brute! she thought to herself and actually managed to pick up the creature in her magic. The move itself surprised both of the beings as they looked with a set of widened eyes. The assailant suddenly broke free of her stunned gaze and tried to break free of the bindings the pale unicorn’s magic placed on it, but to no avail.

As Rarity struggled to keep the rambunctious being under her control she suddenly saw that one of the contacts was missing. Rarity decided to press on her advantage and forced the dark creature to turn around with her magic and saw the eyes once again. Though that time she saw something that nearly made her lose focus on the spell. The eyes of their attacker were two colors. One was red flaring with a fierce fire that could even burn a thousand dragons the instant a gaze was given, the rage in them was evidence enough that this pegasus came here with one goal in mind, to really hurt her friends or worse. But the other one, it was a magenta red eye filled to the brim with tears. The sorrow in it made the unicorn feel pity for the poor soul.

The magenta eye had a familiar fire to them. It was a long shot but she couldn’t shake the idea out of her head. “R-Rainbow is that...you?” she asked the creature who stopped its struggling. Only to actually cry out in sorrow and remorse for the deeds sone. As Rarity gently started to lower the creature back to the ground, the other two mares merely stared at her in horror. Though it was the white coated mare who noticed that the red eye suddenly flared up again. She tried restraining her possible friend again but the strength she had left her and with a roar did the creature escape from the magical cage and charged directly towards her.

A zapping bolt of Twilight’s magic met the cloaked creature before it could reach Rarity and it slumped to the floor barely moving the only indicator that she was still alive was her chest rising up and down slowly. The trio just stood there staring at the unconscious body. A body that revealed a rainbow colored mane. For all three of them it was clear as crystal about who it went, but that still left the questions. “W-Why would Dashie, do this Twilight?” Pinkie asked her lavender friend unable to even make an attempt to hide the sorrow in her voice. The unicorn mare found herself unable to answer due to her actually being stumped for once.

Rarity shoot a glance over her shoulder at the two mares “W-What should we with, her?”

Twilight closed her eyes and focused herself on the task at hoof. “We need to tie her up.” That answer, caused both of the mares to look at her in shock.

Pinkie limped up beside Twilight and shook her head violently in protest. “B-But it’s Dashie!”

Rarity looked from Rainbow Dash’s body to Pinkie’s hoof. “I hate to say it, but I think she’s right darling.”

Pinkie pie was unable to hold back her tears. “But...” Twilight's horn charged itself up up and one of the chairs Rarity had used as ammunition was lifted up. It was placed in the middle of the room before her eyes opened up again with a determined look in them.

“She knocked Applejack unconscious, bit off a chunk of your hoof and...who knows what she did with, Fluttershy.” Both mare stood frozen in their tracks, in all the commotion they had all but forgotten their butter colored friend and with those words they were realized to that like hammers.

It was something that settled the score as they trotted forward and hauled the body into the chair and bound her with some magical ropes that both Twilight and Rarity had conjured in existence. The farm mare on the other end, actually started to get back on her hooves groggily, but still able to stand by herself. The mare shook her head and turned towards the others. Only to see they had the varment who grabbed her all tied up with magical rope and were using what looked like a black wash cloth to rub the face for some reason. The farm mare snorted in irritance and trotted forth angrily at the mare who just attacked her and her friends. She tried to get through but was stopped by Pinkie.

“Out of mah way sugarcube! That little nag right there done tried to hurt me and look what she did to yah for Celestia’s sake!” Applejack shouted at the party mare who still stood her ground. After several more attempts to get past her failed the farm mare practically yelled in anger and shoved her out of the way. The two unicorns stepped out of her way as she was about to punch the pegasus. But when she saw her face and mane though she stopped. Her eyes filling with tears, unable to process who it was that attacked them and instead hugged her in pity.

Before Applejack even got the chance to ask anypony what had happened, the front door burst open revealing an extremely angry looking Fluttershy. She galloped forward not towards Twilight or any of the other four mares in the room but to the unconscious hooded mare on the chair. She pushed Applejack out of the way with no effort and reared her hoof back. What followed was a loud audible smack from the butter yellow mare’s hoof as it hit her sky blue coated friend. As the hoof retracted the tied up pegasus jolted awake with a look of fear on her face. She looked around the room, taking in what just transpired. She turned back towards her frightened and angered friends before she let the water works flow out.

After a few seconds had passed by, she suddenly remembered who was controlling the body and what her entry had been in. “The first floor! Is Spike okay Twilight? She, she didn;t hurt him, did she?!” Rainbow yelled out loud earning a few strange looks from them all with the exception of Fluttershy.

Confused but still needing to answer, the unicorn shook her head. “No Rainbow. He’s fine... Answer me this though, why the buck did you try to kill us?” she then asked angrily.

“Yeah, that wasn’t nice Dashie!” Pinkie yelled at her as she was jabbing a hoof at her injured leg and winced deeply.

“I can’t believe yah threw me up against that blasted wall sugarcube. THe buck is wrong with you?” Applejack berated at her, the fires in her eyes rekindled as she wanted nothing more but answers from her.

“And to think you used my lenses for such...horrid deed, shame yourself Rainbow Dash!” Rarity scolded her before she went to inspect on Pinkie’s wound.

But the scolding of the mare wasn’t over there. Each of them had spoken their lovely little words of rage with the exception of one. And that being nopony else then Fluttershy. “You think they had it rough Rainbow?! I seem to remember you dragging me into a closet and then blocking it with a bookcase!” the pegasus her words were the loudest out of them, much to everyponies surprise and the cyan coated pony lost control again, releasing the devil inside of her once more.

“How about, all of you just shut the buck up, and let us explain you little pieces of shits!” she yelled in a tone and voice that wasn't like the Rainbow they knew and loved. The group looked stunned before they all noticed the grin that crept up the side of Rainbow’s face. “Oh yeah, didn't she or Flutters here tell any of you yet? Sorry about that earlier though butterscotch.” Those last words were aimed to Fluttershy followed by an obvious wink.

Fluttershy gasped because she knew what would be coming next. “You think Rainbow’s bad? I don’t see any of you yelling at Fluttershy even though she knew I might get out. Also Pinks you might wanna lay off the sugar...the blood tasted way too sweet to be remotely normal.” the mare said before she threw her head back in a sickening laughter of some cruel inside joke.

“Oh wait where are my manners to you all?” she spoke up while looking specifically at Rarity for some reason. “Hi, I’m Dull Sloth. Rainbow’s older sister and your resident cannibal.” Dull said with a bow of her head.