Chapter 5- Is It Love Or Lust

                                                                        Chapter 5- Is It Love Or Lust

Rainbow Dash was visiting with her friend Fluttershy. She noticed that Fluttershy acted differently with her now then she did when they first met. She was more anxious to hear about her day, she was slowly becoming shier around her, and she wanted to do nothing but tend to her every need. Rainbow Dash just decided that it was because of how awesome she was and brushed it off. Dash was telling her about how she just finished her daily cloud round up when she noticed the clock.

"Oh my Celestia! I have to get going. I have to meet Pinkie in 5 minutes!" Rainbow Dash said.

Fluttershy looked at her and said meek as ever, "If you have to go, then you should go."

Rainbow Dash geot up and flew out the door in a flash.

'I have to tell her eventually.' Fluttershy thought to herself.

'I'm going to tell her now!' Fluttershy said to herself mentally.

She petted her pet Angel Bunny and walked out the door following the rainbow Dash left.

Rainbow was flying at almost Sonic Rainboom speed so she could get to Sugarcube Coner in time. She saw on the town's clock tower that she was already late, but she hoped Pinkie wouldn't care. She landed in front of the little bakery and walked inside. Pinkie Pie was behind the counter, but in an instant she was tackling Dash to the ground with a hug. Rainbow tried to force her off, but soon realized that it wasn't going to happen.

Pinkie finally pulled away from her and said excitedly, "You Came! You Came!"

"Yes Pinkie I came over like I promised sorry I'm a little late."

Pinkie looked at her friend and said, "That's okay silly. You're here now and that's all that matters!"

Rainbow Dash looked around the shop and asked, "So what do you need me for Pinkie?"

"I need your help setting up a party for Twilight!" Pinkie said with boundless glee.

Dash looked at her friend with a puzzled look.

"Uh, Pinkie? I'm not good at setting up parties. That's your talent."

"Oh silly Dashie I just need you to help set up the streamers." Pinke said.

"Well in that case, I'm game!" Dash said with some gusto.

"Oh goodie! Here you can have this cupcake!"

Dash observed the pastry and decided that it looked really delicious, so she ate it. Dash felt her head begin to spin.

"Pinkie wh..what w..was in that cu...cupcake?" Dash asked.

"Just a little somthing to help you sleep Dashie!"

That was the last thing Dash heard. Soon after the darkness surrounded her, and she hit the floor.

When she reopened her eyes she was still surrounded by darkness. She tried to move but ultimately she couldn't. Suddenly a blinding light came on above her and she could see that she was bound to a table by leather straps.

She heard something moving to her left and she called out, "Hey! Pinkie what gives? Why am I straped to this table?"

The rest of the lights came on, and Rainbow Dash looked around in horror.

The things she saw made the Rainbow Factory seem like a regional fair. The skins, the skulls, the blood on the walls. She just couldn't look away from it all, and standing in front of her was Twilight.

"Hey! Twilight! Help me out of here!"

She watched as her friend didn't move at all. It was then that she saw the needle work and the fact that Twilight's horn wasn't the right size. Her eyes were dull and lifeless, and she wasn't breathing Dash saw upon closer inspection.

"Oh my Celestia! No! NOOO!" Dash screached.

'Calm down Rainbow Dash, calm down.' she thought to herself. 'I'm sure there is a reasonable explantion for this.' she said trying to comfort herself.

Then Pinkie entered her vision from her left side.

"Pinkie! What happened here?" Dash asked her pink friend.

Pinkie looked around with an enormous smile, "I decorated this place! Isn't it neat?", the pink mare bragged as one of her eyes twitched.

"P...Pinkie this all a joke right?", Dashed asked with a hint of fear in her voice.

"Oh no, Dashie. I would never lie about this! Twilight here helped me play some games that I hope you'll play too!"

Dash stared at her insane friend and asked in a trembling voice, "But Pinkie, I thought you wanted me to help decorate?"

"You will silly filly, right after we play some games!"

Dash didn't like the tone of voice that Pinkie Pie was using. She began to thrash about screaming at the top of her lungs, praying to Celestia that somepony would come along and help her. She couldn't believe that Pinkie Pie of all ponies was capable of such senseless murder, but the proof was staring her grimly in the face.

'I have to ecsape from here! I must! The Rainbow Factory needs a Rainbow forepony!' Dash thought to herself.

Pinkie smiled at her friend, "You know Dash, I can't wait any longer! I'm going to start the game right now! Hee hee!" Pinkie vociferated.

Dash felt a twinge of fear shoot down her spine as her friend gleefully said this. Dash began to panic. She began to think about all the things she would never get to do like, get accepted into the Wonderbolts, see her office again, or see Fluttershy again. Dash prayed that the fate she was about to experience would never be used on her friend.

'Fluttershy I'm going to miss you.' Dash glumily thought to herself.

'Why am I focussing so much on Fluttershy?' she asked herself.

At this point in time as she began to realise her true feelings for Fluttershy,where as Pinkie was busily selecting which one of her toys was she going to use. She decided on using a scalpel for Dash's cutie marks .

'They have to go first.'

Pinkie Pie excitedly thought to herself.

She walked over to Dash with the scalpel in her mouth and said, "Dashie, don't move to much or I might hurt you somewhere else."

Pinkie Pie began humming sweetly to herself as she placed the scalpel an inch above Dash's cutie mark and made a perfect cricle around Dash's cutie mark. Dash cringed from the pain shooting though her. Pinkie grabbed her craving knife from the cart and returned to Rainbow Dash. She used it to seperate Dash's cutie mark from her flesh. Pinkie then hopped over to the other side of Dash and repeated the process. With Dash's cutie marks in hoof she walked back over to her cart and contemplated on what to do next. Pinkie Pie decided to remove her wings next, and from this task she grabbed a knife.

Pinkie hopped back over to Dash and grabbed Dash's right wing and pulled it in such a way that Dash thought Pinkie might dislocate it first. Pinkie pulled the wing straight and pinned it down with her hoof. With the knife in her mouth now she sunk the knife into Dash's wing at the base of it. The pain shot through Dash like electricity surging in her veins. She immediately started to frantically flap her wings trying desperately to get them away from Pinkie. Pinkie just held the wing in place and lifted the knife up in the air. She sent the knife down with such force that it went right through the bone and firmly planted Dash's wing to the table. Pinkie Pie walked over to her tray and came back with a meat clever.She looked at Rainbow Dash and smiled as she heaved the incredibly large cleaver in the air.

Dash stared wide eyed as she watched the cleaver come down. The cleaver struck where Pinkie had previously attacked Dash's wing with the knife. The snapping of the bone drove Dash crazy. The pain was the most excruciating pain she had ever felt. Rainbow Dash began to cry as she watched her wing fall to the ground.

Pinkie gingerly picked up the wing and said to Rainbow Dash, "Looks like you can't wing it anymore Rainbow Dash!"

Rainbow Dash was beginnig to break down. She had lost her wing and she knew that there was no way she could escape and have it reattached in time to same it. Her lifetime goal of being a Wonderbolt was brought to a smashing stop. She was releasing a stream of tears and watched as Pinkie rised the cleaver up over her other wing.

Rainbow moved her wing out of the way in time to save it from from being amputated by the cleaver. Pinkie gave her friend a fustrated look and went back to her cart. She returned with a another scalpel.

Dash screamed and thrashed her wing about pleading with the pink mare, "Please Pinkie, please stop! Why are you doing this?"

Pinkie looked Rainbow Dash in the eye, "You know Dashie, this game is so fun it should be illegal. Oh wait! It is! Hee hee!"

Pinkie giggled completely avoiding Rainbow Dash's question. She grabbed Rainbow Dash's one good wing and placed the scalpel on the base of it. She skillfully used the scalpel to cut the tendons in her wing. She released the wing and it fell to the table with a thunk. She retreived her cleaver and once again raised it over Rainbow Dash's wing. Dash tried to move it but found that it wouldn't budge. She tightly closed her tear filled eyes and waited for the pain.

The cleaver came down with such force that it broke the bone before it even entered the flesh. Pinkie Pie hacked away at the wing until it also fell to the floor. Once again Pinkie picked it up. She tossed it over on to Rainbow Dash's chest. Rainbow Dash remorsefully stared at her wing and began to cry again.

"I HATE YOU!" Dash screamed at the top of her lungs, "I HATE YOU! I HOPE ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU! Just as you have taken mine from me."

The last statement was almost as quiet as a whisper.

Pinkie's hair instantly lost its puffiness and became straight. Rainbow Dash had only seen this Pinkie a couple of time before in her life, and she knew that this Pinkie wouldn't be gentle.

"What did you say?" Pinkie asked with an evil grin on her face. "You hate me? Well I haven't time to spend on somepony such as you, so why don't we just end this game?" Pinkie said with a hint of disgust.

She grabbed a mallet and raised it above Rainbow's head. Rainbow closed her eyes and thought of Fluttershy. It was then that she realised that she loved her. Loved her more than life itself. The mallet began its decent towards her head.

Her last thought was, 'I wish I had told Fluttershy about how I feel.'

"I HATE YOU! I HOPE ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU!"

Fluttershy knew that was Rainbow Dash's voice. It sounded like it came from under her, but she didn't know how to get down there. She looked around for a door but didn't find one. She began pacing the room, and as she paced over the rug she heard a "THUNK" She wasted no time. She removed the rug and saw a trap door. She openned the door and heard a voice that she thought was Pinkie Pie's.

She slowly walked down the steps into a dimly light room and saw the most horrific sight of her life. Pinkie Pie was standing over Rainbow Dash with a mallet aimed at her head. The room seemed to freeze as she looked all over the room and saw other horrific sights, but the one that hurt her the most to see was Rainbow Dash.

She had blood coming from her back and her hind legs. It was obvious that she had been crying, and Pinkie Pie standing over her ready to deliver a final blow. Fluttershy didn't think.

She just did what her heart told her to do, and her heart said 'You have to save her!'

As she charged Pinkie at breakneck speed she watched the mallet slowly inch closer to Dash's head. Just as it was about to make contact with Dash, Fluttershy collided with Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie was sent flying across the room from the force of the blow. She looked up in a half daze and saw Fluttershy.

"Well look who it is.", Pinkie mused.

"Wh...what have you done!" Fluthershy demanded.

Pinkie was surprised, she honestly thought that Fluttershy would be to scared to stand up for herself mush less anyone else in a place like this.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE PINKIE!? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY RAINBOW!?" Fluttershy screamed as she glared 'The Stare' directly at Pinkie.

"YOU WILL STAY THERE AND DO NOTHING!" Fluttershy continued.

Pinkie couldn't look away from 'The Stare', and her mind was powerless against it. She sat down and stared at the wall as Fluttershy fueled by anger and love grabbed the mallet and walked up behind Pinkie. She brought it back and aimed for Pinkie's head.Then she swung with all of her might.