Repercussions

Pinkie reached into the medicine bag and produced and large syringe. “Alright, time for the last round”

Dash looked at the needle and Pinkie took that as a question as to what it was.

“Something to take the pain away” she informed as she walked around to Dash’s ruined back side. She stuck the needle into the lower part of her spine. Dash flinched.

Coming to the front again, she told her friend, “In a few minutes, you won’t be able to feel anything below your ribcage. Then you’ll be able to stay awake to watch the harvest.”

Dash started to cry again. “Pinkie” she trembled out.

“Yeah?”

“I want to go home.” Dash openly sobbed.

“Yeah, I can see wanting to do that.” The party pony replied. “Sometimes, I just wanna give up, say “I’m done with this mess” and go to bed. But you know what; you can’t shrug off your responsibilities. You got to pull yourself up and meet the challenges head on. That’s to the only way you’re gonna get ahead in life.”

Applejack sighed, she'd been wandering around ponyville. Scouring the regular areas for Twilight Sparkle.

She promised to help Applejack arrange the party for when Princess Celestia and her sister visited Sweet Apple Acres in a few days time, usually anything to do with the Princess was up there almost near if not at the top of Twilight's priority list. So Aj had expected Twilight to be waking HER up, but instead, it was midday, and Twilight was still missing,

Applejack had been meandering around Ponyville for at least an hour, slowly getting angrier and angrier at the purple unicorn who was so adept to breaking promises,

Applejack had taken the time to harvest enough apples to make enough food (she hoped), arranged the tables and chairs. she'd gotten Dashie to help her Set up the decorations, hay, she'd even managed to convince big Mac to bring out a couple of a few of the more matured barrels of Cider, which she admitted, took a lot, considering that he was VERY protective of his "precious babies",

She grimaced. Applejack found his nickname for some barrels of Cider rather strange. but considering they were the best batch of cider he had ever made, she understood his...Passion... For their protection.

She'd been stood outside Twilights house for about ten minutes. Knocking and calling for twilight, nut to no avail. She wasn't in, she considered checking in with Rarity and then Pinkie as they were both nearby.

After checking carousel boutique she discovered that twilight wasn't with Rarity either, Applejack doubted that she would be considering that Rarity had a huge order to fill in an "simply must not fall behind!"

"Thank ya' kindly all the same Rarity"

She stepped out of the doorway and let it close softly, she stepped out onto the dusty street,

"Hey Applejack!"

She turned sharply to look in the direction her name had come from, oh. Derpy. The grey pegasus waved as she flew past,
despite herself, Applejack couldn't help but smile. she lifted a hoof to return the gesture, her gaze travelled just past derpy, up the road to where Heartstrings, pushing a cart full of flowers to the market, had paused for a breath, halting right in Derpy's flight path,

"Look out!"

Too late.

An explosive sound, Derpy was lying on her back in a pile of wood and flowers, stunned, her eyes spinning, Heartstrings looked at the empty space where her flower cart had been moments earlier, as though confused about it's whereabouts, a groan brought her back to her senses, and she looked down to see Derpy lying in the wreckage that was her flowers,

Derpy looked up at her, Tears welling in her amber eyes,

"I'm so sorry Heartstrings"

any other pony would have belittled Derpy right then, But not Heartstrings,

Heartstrings was one of the few ponies who understood that Derpy couldn't help being clumsy,
she didn't intend for bad things to happen around her, she was just a central point for damage, it wasn't her fault, and her heart was in the right place, Heartstrings had always been patient with her, and understood her frustration, she poured her heart into making Derpy feel better whenever she was down, and it looked like one of those moments.

And also, she found her friends walled eyes pretty cute,

She turned her focus back to Derpy, tears streaming down her face, she sat in a hunched position with one of her lemon yellow flowers in her hoof, it had wilted and broken, twisted in the middle, she closed her eyes, and supressed a sob

"I'm just so useless"

Her heart went out to derpy, who was so used to brutality from nearly every pony in Ponyville, that she even put herself down,

"You're not useless, you're wonderful, it was an accident, don't you worry"

Derpy gave her friend a small smile, she always managed to make her feel better, she turned and surveyed the damage
"S-sorry about your flowers"
"I didn't like the colour anyway," she winked "Let's go get you cleaned up shall we?"

"Looks like i've got my eye on you Dash"

Applejack could just make out the Pink cake shop in the distance,

She halted in front of the door. The cake shaped sing displayed on the door clearly read "CLOSED". It didn't surprise
her in the slightest, the cakes were out of town, so she expected Pinkie to close up shop until they returned, still. She might be in there with Twlight

It turned.
And opened.

She crept into the dimly lit shop. Glaring accusingly at the brightly coloured cakes lining the shelves and the shop window. The fancy decorated cakes proposed a much better taste than they infact had. She was of the (unbiased of course) opinion that her pies and cakes tasted like brilliance without all the "fancy shmantsy stuff", she'd mentioned once to the cake family. that their baking would taste a whole lot better if they concentrated on the taste and not the decoration. Such a remark had gotten her banned from the sho-

Voices
Applejack could just make them out, very faint voices coming from behind the counter, she wandered into the kitchen, glancing around for the source of the voices, she paused, there was a door, it's silver handle tarnished, the red paint peeling back, it stood out against the neatness of the rest of the shop, she opened it, and the voices instantly became clearer.

she stared down a large set of very dark stairs. She gulped.

The happy sonorous tones of Pinkie, laughing at some joke she made.

"What in tarnation are you doing down there Pinkie?"

She crept slowly down the stairs, until she faced another door, pushing it with her hoof, it opened,

“Aw, don’t go yet Dash.I know I can be a real paincreas, but you know I’m just kidney with you-"

Pinkie froze. Turning her head to the door, Rainbow Dash looked at her in confusion. Then followed her gaze to Applejack stood in the doorway,

Pinkie Pie, the Crazy pink Pony, so funny, always making friends, always throwing parties, just to please them, smiled,

"Looks like the party is over"

Applejack blinked. and registered everything.

The stagnant smell of urine, vomit, the metallic smell of blood. The skulls scattered all over the walls. The bucket full of organs,the box of tools, and finally, Pinkie, with her dress of cutie marks and pegasus wings injecting something into-

Rainbow Dash, bleeding profusely from all sides. Her beautiful wings now bleeding stumps, her cutie marks, gone, her body opened up, a few of her vital organs remaining. but many more in the bucket by Pinkie's feet,

She noticed all the necessary details in a heartbeat.

" but looks like the game's about to begin"

Pinkie picked up her knife. And charged at Applejack, with revenge for intruding her game in her eyes,
Applejack turned, and used her deftly trained bucking skills to throw Pinkie across the room, her head collided with the wall on the opposite side of the room, the knife span out of her hoof, into some distant corner of the room, lost, she rose again, enraged further, not even noticing.

"NO YOU DON'T! THIS PARTY ISN'T OVER YET!"

Pinkie Pie screamed her frustration, and charged at Applejack once more, at the last second, Applejack dodged out of the way, and stuck out a hoof, Pinkie stumbled, her face collided with the wall, and with a crunch, her nose shattered, she screamed in pain and frustration, she stumbled to her feet for the last time

"HOW...DARE...-"

She put a hoof to her nose, flinched, then staggered, her eyes widened as her vision blurred, she let out a barely audible scream, suddenly blind, she sank to the ground, unconscious, or worse,

Applejack took a look at her Dashie, ran up out of the cellar into the street

"SOMEPONY HELP!"

She screamed until her lungs hurt, turning in all directions to attract attention, confused ponies began to run her way, and she ran back into the shop, back down into the cellar, the darkest, most vile place she'd ever seen, she hacked the straps holding Dashie to the table, and caught her before she hit the floor.

Trying to keep her awake, she rocked back and forth, but she knew in her heart, there was nothing she could do. that feeling was the small spark, that began to burn her,

"AJ..?"

"I'm here"

"It's too... late"

"I...know"

The cyan pony sighed "i'm sorry"

"Just stay with me and you'll get out of here alive!"

Rainbow Dash actually laughed, a painful laugh, "I have to-" a sharp intake of breath "Tell you something"

"Please, not now." Tears streaked the orange pony's face. She knew what it was

The spectrum maned filly glared at her "Then when?"

"WHEN YOU'RE BETTER IS WHEN GOD DAMNIT!" Applejack screamed, as though this would help her friend. She knew it wouldn't. Nothing would,

"You..Know...The truth" Another sharp breath, Rainbow Dash's eyes fluttered, she sighed, she was slipping away,

"Please Dashie, Please just try and Breathe!" She sobbed,

"I....love you."
"And i love you!"

Rainbow Dash smiled, a pained smile. She sighed, the pain was leaving her, as was her vision, she didn't want it to end like this, so many dreams unfulfilled, so many friends she had,

"I feel...empty-" She looked up at her lovers face " I see you...Love...You"

"Nononono! SOMEPONY HELP HER!" Applejack screamed up the stairs,

"STAY WITH ME DASHIE!"

She heard galloping on the floor above them, she lowered her head,

"Listen they're-"

Her voice broke.
Her heart gave in.
Her brain fried.
Her body shut down.
She couldn't hear.
Couldn't feel.
Couldn't breathe.

The colourful soul of a lost pony, stands in the doorway to a dark cellar, she broods in quiet resolution as she watches her loved one shed her soul and shred herself apart over a cyan mare, her mane a spectrum of colour, she recognises this body as herself, and feels a twinge of sorrow, knowing it is all over, she kneels down on the floor and scans the face of her beloved , looking for some recognition, but getting none, with a deep feeling of regret, she stands, wishing to comfort the destroyed mare cowering over her body, but unable to, she wants so much to tell her, it will be alright, that she is alright, but she cannot.
Her flowing mane shimmering in some ethereal light, she breathes in deeply, a single tear splashes onto the bricked floor, and the beautiful spirit dissapears,

"I know i'll see you soon, my love"

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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - Author Unknown