Rainbow Dash: Ponyville Assassin

Rainbow Dash had chased Trixie back to Ponyville. She manages to get inside the town proper before Trixie raised a barrier. She turns and sees her friends trapped on the outside. Dash was on her own with a crazy and powerful Unicorn dominating the will of the citizens.

Dash approaches Lyra, who was sitting upright on the park bench as usual. "Lyra! Are you alright?" She asks, grabbing the entranced Unicorn.

"Join us, Rainbow Dash." She said monotonously. "Join the Great and Powerful Trixie and end your torment." She continued, freaking out Dash.

The screen flickers and Silver regains control of Dash. He takes her up as high as he can and uses Second Sight to find Trixie's trail and examines the magical barrier. He finds a golden trail leading up to Twilight's library. He returns to ground level and approaches the barrier with Dash's friends on the outside and interacts with it.

Dash slams a hoof on the barrier and starts tearing up. "I'll stop her, girls!" She says with very little confidence.

"You do what you need to do." Twilight said. "We have faith in you!" She adds, increasing Dash's confidence.

The screen flickers. Dash is turned around and hovering in the air. "Locate and assassinate Trixie without killing any Ponyville citizens."

Silver makes his way to the library, but Ponyville Pegasi were determined to stop Dash from getting to it. He was undeterred though and plows through the Pegasi, being careful not to hurt any of them.

Dash enters the library's basement, the same place Twilight taught her how to use Second Sight. The place was lit up, but there was no fire to provide the light and was almost cyberpunk-ish. Silver notices a pair of prominent lights and investigates the area, finding yet another staircase going down. It wasn't a big staircase, but it led Dash to a long corridor with the same lighting theme.

The corridor ends in a large open room. Silver can hear Trixie chanting something. Silver was no linguist, but from the documentaries he watched, he knew that it was an ancient pony language. He moves Dash to the marker, the screen flickers and the device took over.

"Trixie!" Dash yells. The Unicorn turns around and laughs maniacally. "You foal." She opens. "Do you honestly think that you can stop the Great and Powerful Trixie?" Dash swallows hard. "I have both the Alicorn Pin and Alicorn Amulet." She boasts. "There is nothing you can do to stop me."

The screen flickers. Dash is hovering. Silver can hear Trixie begin casting her magic. "Assassinate Trixie." A popup read. "How though?" He asks himself quietly.

Silver started by trying to directly attack the Unicorn, but Dash would get knocked back, eliciting laughter from Trixie; the room was too small to try using an atomic rainbomb, but even if it wasn't, he wouldn't risk using it underground.

After minutes of trial and error, he noticed mirrors lining either side of the room. He placed Dash in front of a mirror, waited until Trixie cast an attack spell. Once the spell was cast, he waited to the last second before rolling Dash out of its path. He wasn't sure if it was possible, but the event proved otherwise: Trixie's spell bounced off of the mirror right back to its caster., knocking her back.

Trixie lets out a low groan. "HOW DARE YOU!"

Lather, rinse, repeat. Silver continued the assault until a cutscene plays. "You will never gain the pin nor the amulet!" She yells out before concentrating on yet another spell. The amulet powers up and Trixie appears to be making clones of herself.

"What the hay?!" Silver exclaims.

"Can you find the real Great and Powerful Trixie?" All the Trixies say at the same time.

There were seven Trixies, each powering up a magic spell. Silver quickly activates Second Sight, the result was predictable as he was able to identify the real Trixie, who had a gold aura.

He was moving Dash around to buy him some time to get in front of a mirror ahead of the real Trixie. He finds his window of opportunity and takes it. The Trixies cast their spell at Dash and Silver once again waits to the last second before moving Dash upward and again, the spell bounces off of the mirror and hits the real Trixie, knocking her onto her back.

Dash knocks the pin away from Trixie, pinning the Unicorn to the ground. Trixie tries using her magic, but her reserves were depleted. "This isn't possible!" She cries out.

Dash cuts the amulet off of Trixie and tosses it to the side. "We gave you a third chance, Trixie." Dash says, holding the blade to her neck. "It's quite obvious that you can't resist the lust for power. While I have no such ambition, I do know the feeling." She adds.

"How could you? How could you understand what it feels like to be in control?" Trixie interjects.

"It's a euphoric feeling when you're on somepony's pedestal." Dash says. "But the expectation that comes with that feeling must ground you. If you fail to live up to that pony's expectation, they become disappointed and resentful." She continued, eliciting a tear from Trixie. "I don't know who you failed to become the mare you are now, but I imagine you did everything you could to earn back their respect." She adds, burying the blade into Trixie's neck. The Unicorn's eyes slowly dim and become lifeless. "I hope you find that respect in the next life." She concludes, closing the Unicorn's eyes and takes a lock of the Unicorn's mane.

The screen flickers back to where the barrier had kept the others out. Dash slowly trots up to the crowd. She tosses the Alicorn Amulet and Alicorn Pin onto the ground in front of Celestia.

"So... it's over." Celestia says in a troubled tone. Dash adds the lock of hair to the pile. "Unfortunately, yes." Dash says, trotting to Spitfire. "I'm sorry, captain, but I can't do this anymore." She says, removing the blade from her foreleg.

Spitfire rests her foreleg on Dash. "You did well, Rainbow Dash." She says, but the words didn't comfort her. "But remember, there are others out there who will continue this pursuit." She adds. "There will always be a place for you with us."

The scene slows down and the screen flickers white. It was all over.