Chapters Three months. Three whole months. It takes me three months to finally stop crying. When I finally decide to show up to work, I was drawn back and reserved. I ended up losing my job, and found another. I won’t go into the details, but it was not pleasant.
After work one Wednesday, I felt like walking again. I took the usual route and ended up going to the old park where Dashie used to fly around. I just barely can say her name anymore. Just thinking about her evokes too much emotion. I saw the old tree on the way home, the one where we reunited the first time. I realized then that what happened there could never be repeated,and I began to sob. Big, heaving, uncontrollable sobs. I tried to control myself, and I managed to stagger home. I sat down on the couch and stared. What I was staring at, I was unsure. Her recliner, her old room that now functioned as an office, the television. The television has been playing Nascar for three days straight. I can’t even bear changing the channel, like she wouldn't want me to.
My house is a mess. The wide open space around the house feels empty and isolated now, like I truly am alone in the world once again. During my three month dormancy, my mother’s painting was eaten by moths. I tried to save it, but it was much too late. I even lost my mother. I began to sink back into my good old routine depression. Once, in a fit of rage, I smashed the potted plant that Celestia put in the office that was Dashie’s room. In the soil was a small, red, lightning bolt-shaped jewel, like the one in the Element of Loyalty from the show, and I placed it on the nightstand in my room.
I started walking twice, three times a day. I didn’t really care who saw me. As I walked by, I kept staring at that tree. The tree was wilting, just in time for fall. The thick leaves have fallen off of the old tree, and as I sat under its bare branches, it could no longer could protect me from the cold, stinging rain like it used to all those years ago.
‘Heh,’ I think to myself, ‘I wonder what she is doing right now...’ That one thought was all it took. I ended up crying on the sidewalk. “WHY? I can’t even focus anymore! My daughter! My little Dashie! Oh God, or Celestia, or whoever is out there, why!?!”
‘Oh, God, my head hurts.’
Rainbow Dash woke up six hours after Celestia and the Mane Six brought her to Equestria. Fluttershy was sleeping on the floor next to her. Fluttershy woke up, stretched her wings, and smiled at Rainbow. Rainbow Dash didn’t know why, but she smiled back. Pinkiepie came bounding in, her face screaming love and tolerance.
“Dashie!” said Pinkiepie, her smile stretching wide, “I was worried for a minute! Do you still recogn-”
Pinkiepie quickly shut up and looked around quickly, a look of concern on her face. She seemed worried, like she said something she shouldn't have.
‘Ow,’ thought Rainbow Dash, wincing in pain. She had a brief flashback, a hazy picture of something above her. It had something like a face on a head-like structure. It looked like she was in a cardboard box. A word she did not recognize popped in her head. ‘Human’. Is that what that thing was?
Coming back to reality, she asked how long she was asleep.
Fluttershy said, “About six hours. Why?”
“I just felt like it was a lot longer, that’s all.”
Two Months Later
Rainbow Dash had felt weird lately, but she had to go manage the clouds.As her daily duties continued, she kept having constant headaches, but her bullheadedness kept her from going to the hospital. She also kept having flashes of something, another world, different from Equestria.
A human holding her in his arms.
A room with a television showing race cars.
Rainbow sitting in a large recliner.
A beautiful painting on the wall.
A bed and a nightstand.
A room filled with Nascar posters.
The man calling her “Dashie”.
And, the strongest feeling of all, an overwhelming joy when she called him “daddy”. Rainbow Dash was confused by all the good feelings she had in her flashbacks, and an unrelenting feeling that the Mane Six, especially Pinkiepie, tore it away from her. So she kept her memories to herself, and tried to act like the original Rainbow Dash. She first became overly kind. She tried to enjoy herself as much as possible, maybe to simply forget the feelings swirling in her brain. But it never went away. Then, after the memories haunted her for the fourth day in a row, she withdrew, becoming shy and less brash. Her sense of bravery and courage quickly drew back inside herself, and she became cowardly, jumpy and paranoid, like she was about to be killed at every corner. Her overwhelming fear kept her glued to her friends, who tried to comfort her as much as possible. She kept this up for two weeks. But the wanting and the needing for her adopted father built until she burst. On a walk with the others of the Mane Six, Rainbow Dash told them everything that was happening in her head. Instead of being comforting as Rainbow thought they would be, Fluttershy screamed and flew away.Twilight began to mutter to Rarity and Applejack, and Pinkiepie just stood there, and suddenly stopped smiling. Pinkie’s reaction seemed strangest of all, and it frightened Rainbow.
Twilight spoke up:”So you got it all back, huh, Rainbow? I really thought the memory spell would have worked. Oh wall, I guess I should try again.”
Twilight approached with her horn glowing. Rainbow quickly backpedaled, screaming at the top of her lungs.
“No! No! Get away! Please! I won’t let you destroy my life again!”
And with that, she flew off into the night sky. She sat on a storm cloud in the middle of the sky and slept.
Pinkie was insane. Every night, for two weeks, Pinkie was insane. The same leather straps, the same operating table, the same insane, straight-haired Pinkiepie. The same constant, enduring torturous pain as Pinkie tortured, dissected, and tore Rainbow apart to make her famous “cupcakes”. The same death, over, and over, and over again. The same feelings of betrayal. But every time, no matter how long she stayed awake, the dream returned. Rainbow Dash finally snapped.
Rainbow began feeling withdrawn and hostile, especially to Pinkiepie. She began avoiding Pinkie as much as possible. All the stress and her clouded memory taken into account, she became paranoid and distrusting to everyone. She kept her distance and began to hide herself away.
“What is wrong with Rainbow Dash lately?”
Mutters of her odd behavior began spreading through the town. Eventually, Rainbow dash was all alone. She felt betrayed. Abandoned. And with no one to stand at her side, the lightning jewel that she kept with her shattered.
And thus, the element of loyalty began to deteriorate from the land of Equestria.
It’s nice to have friends. I finally got around my trauma. It has been a year, after all.
My life is as normal as an orphan that has lost his “daughter” can be. I’ve been going to a lot of parties lately. It helps me keep my mind off things. I don’t like having to think about Dashie. I’m just glad I've basically returned to normal.
Chaos. That is the only way to describe things in Equestria.
Paranoia.
Distrust.
Betrayal.
Battles for power.
Celestia and Luna overthrown, hiding away with a few allies.
Anarchy.
This is Equestria after loyalty has been destroyed by trauma and a single pony’s psyche. Not even the Mane Six were immune from the feeling of paranoia. And nobody trusts Pinkiepie.
Rainbow Dash’s memories of Earth have fully returned by then, and she spent a week crying out for Daddy to come back and save her. Rainbow did not know why this love for her adopted father was so strong. She did not eat or sleep. She stayed in her delirious stupor for three days. In her weakened state, she became delirious. She needed to get back home, her real home of fifteen years. She began walking aimlessly through the forest, looking for the human she called “Dad”. Three hours later, she fainted from exhaustion.
Two Days Later
Rainbow Dash woke up and looked around. She was on an abandoned city street in the middle of what was once a nice neighborhood. She blinked several times, and realized she was on Earth, once again. How, and why she was not a filly like the first time, she did not know. The street was broken and overgrown with weeds. She was confused, but felt like she could think rationally and get home. She stretched her wings to the sky and looked down. She found some apples in an orchard nearby, then searched the surrounding area. The same familiar lawn and wide space drew her to her old home. As she landed on the porch, she noticed that the front door stood ajar, revealing pizza boxes and beer bottles strewn across the floor. A familiar man was asleep on the couch, while beer spilled from a bottle in the man’s hand. She did not want to believe it, but Rainbow already knew that this broken shell of a man was her father.
I was having an awesome dream. Dashie was trying to wake me up. I fell asleep on the couch after I stayed out for awhile longer than I should have. She was nudging my arm with her nose and had a look of desperate concern on her face. I didn’t want it to end, just to see my little Dashie for just a little bit longer, so I rolled over and tried to sleep. However, something sharp was digging into my side. But I ignored it. Whether what I saw was real or not, I wouldn’t know for sure until later that day. For now, I wanted to rest.
Rainbow Dash finally began to remember the chaos in Equestria. She flew out of the house and tried to brainstorm a way to get help. She knew she couldn’t find help anywhere else, so she tried to think of a way to get back to Equestria.
“What I need is some magic,” she mused, “and a good thunderstorm. That’s how I got to Earth in the first place. But the only person I can think to ask is my Dad.”
With a sigh from having to go back to that defeated man, Rainbow Dash headed home.
I woke up with a start. Someone was standing on me, and was trying to get me up. I looked to my left and saw Dashie again for the first time in years, if I don’t count my dreams. Tears quickly came. If I ever missed having my heart explode, I was satisfied in that moment.
“Dashie!” I cried, and took her up into an embrace.
“Dad!” said Dashie, Then crinkled her nose. “You smell really bad right now.”
I suddenly felt how dirty I was, and went to take a shower. Excitement and joy quickly spread on my face as I took a hot shower, then shaved and put on a fresh set of clothes.
“How did you get here?”
“I fainted in the woods. I actually went crazy for like, two weeks. All the memories returned after about two months, but they confused me and I ended up getting all paranoid. I think I still am, at least towards the other ponies. But not with my dad. Not with you.”
I started to reply, when an urgent look flashed across her face.
“Oh no... I forgot why I came here in the first place. I need to get back to Equestria.
“What? You only just got here!”
“I know, but there has been problems in Equestria. While I was crazy, I became distrusting, and abandoned all of my friends. I think everyone else lost their loyalty too.How, I’m not really sure. And then my element of harmony like, shattered. So there’s a whole bunch of stuff going down, and I can’t help them anymore. I can’t be loyal to them with my father an entire dimension away. I would go nuts again. So I need to go back, and I need you to come with me. I think that way, I can stay rational and we can save my friends. I need you with me Dad.”
“That is completely crazy. But, you are my daughter, so I guess I better go with you. But how?”
“We need some sort of energy source, like a magic item. Also, we need electricity. At least, that’s what I think. I’m not great with magic.”
I immediately remembered the small red lightning jewel I had. I fell asleep holding it. So I went digging in the couch. When I finally found it, it glowed, presumably sensing the presence of the owner of the Element of Loyalty.
“Hello, Rainbow Dash. This is Princess Celestia. If you are hearing this, there is a state of chaos in Equestria.. You are most likely with your father, and have full memories of the last fifteen years. This jewel is the Element of Loyalty, but I enchanted it so that it would take you and one other, preferably your father, to Equestria. Please leave immediately. This message is most likely only half a second long here, bu still, you must hurry.Save Equestria. Go!”
There was a bright flash. And I stood , for the first time, in the Cloud Castle.
Flutterb*tch
Rainbow Dash set out with her father to go find her friends. She looked up at her dad and asked,”Who should we find first? I mean, who would be easiest?”
“How about Fluttershy? She always seemed the gentle type. Maybe she will remain calm, and can think this through.”
So they carefully set towards Fluttershy’s hut. It was unusually loud as they approached. Fluttershy was yelling something indistinguishable. The cry of an animal was heard, then a loud thump. Dash and her father went to the back of the hut, and recoiled in shock. Fluttershy was in there, and so were the animals, but something was wrong.
“You! bring me the next one!”
Fluttershy looked angry. A deer approached, obviously scared out of its mind. In its mouth was a small bag of bits. Most of it was probably found when travelers dropped their wallets.
“And what have you brought me, filth?”
The deer laid down the bag of bits and backed away.
Fluttershy was muttering. “Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty nine. Humph. You mock me with a pitiful gift as this?”
She gestured to a nearby bear.
“Kill it.”
The deer bolted, but the door was locked. The bear ripped off the deer’s head and chewed contentedly. The body was thrown into the other room by a team of falcons.
“What happened to Fluttershy?”
Dash muttered something that sounded suspiciously like “Flutterb*tch.”
We thought up a plan. Obviously Fluttershy was unstable, so she needed to be detained. I found a coil of rope nearby.
“Can you swoop in and grab Fluttershy?” I asked.
“Sure.”
Dash flew in and grabbed Fluttershy around the waist. I hog-tied her and tied down her wings as well. We carried her into the Everfree forest, Fluttershy screaming bloody murder the entire time. I gagged her with another piece of rope. We carried her about three miles down a path, and stopped to rest.We set her down in a clearing. I removed the gag.
“Fluttershy, what happened to you?” Dash looked concerned.
“What happened was that you left! You’re supposed to be the most loyal pony in Equestria! But when you left, we felt abandoned! And you!” she said, glaring at me,”How dare you steal Dash from us! The first time was an accident! How in the world did you do it the second time? The entire town went crazy! When Rainbow Dash told us what happened, and how she remembered what happened on Earth, I freaked out and flew away.”
Something clicked in Fluttershy’s brain. She did a double-take. She saw Rainbow Dash, and stared all quiet-like, her pupils all but disappearing. She stayed like that for five minutes.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
She screamed, snapped the ropes binding her, God knows how, and flew off.
Dashie set out to follow her, and I followed on foot. When I found them in the back of the Everfree Forest, they were hugging and crying. Fluttershy saw me, a big smile on her face. She explained what happened.
“I got this irrational fear that my animals were going to betray me, or eat me or something.So I got them to obey me by killing Angel Bunny. When I killed him, all the others, including the bears and lions and things, got scared, so I just went on like that. I don’t really know why, maybe just because I felt nothing wrong with it. But now...”
She trailed off, knowing she would never get Angel back. She sat there in silence for ten minutes, just staring, so I picked her up (she is rather light) and went down to Ponyville, Dash flying above.
Fluttershy looked up at me, tears in her eyes. I almost didn’t catch what she said next.
“Thank you...”
TARDIS on the Psychology of Dashie
A/N: Please read How did I Get Here, by k12314 before going any further. You WILL get completely lost if you do not. Sooooooo worth the time... I’ve been having writers block, so I just read stories for a while. Sorry this chapter is complete crap. Big thanks to Fluttrick for his support, and now, I present, DA NEXT CHAPTER!!!
Ponyville came into sights. We were walking towards the town, hopefully to find the other Elements of Harmony. Based on my knowledge of the Mane Six, here’s what I expected.
Applejack will (1) get all lazy, or maybe (2) go and buck every tree in Sweet Apple Acres and hoard the apples
Rarity might just (1) burn her mane off and marry Prince Blueblood, or (2) shut down Carousel Boutique, run to Chineigh, and make a living selling egg rolls on a stick.
Pinkie... I don’t even want to think about Pinkamena anymore...
Twilight will (1)go crazy,(2)go crazy,(3)go crazy,(4)go crazy, or(5)go crazy. Your choice.
Dashie hit me with a rock for the third tome today. Her mind was still in the “fifteen-year-old tomboy” mode, mind you.
“I swear, if you don’t get it big time, may I be struck by...”
I trailed off, noticing the thunderhead Dash was resting on, with an evil grin on her face. Then I got an idea.
“A telephone call booth!”
Of course, this is the part of the story when
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Da BUCK, PINKIE?!?!?!?!
Ooh, ooh, ooh, hi readers! I am Pinkie Pie. And I am here to tell you a story. Once upon a time, Ditzy Doo walked into Sugarcube Corner. She gave me this weird box that had a bunch of stuff inside. The paper felt like felt. I love felt. Like, one time, I was making felt hearts for Hearts and Hooves Day, and I accidentally made one wrong. So I cut it up into confetti. Remember, always have a 3:2 ratio of streamers to confetti. Because it’s not a party without streamers! And cupcakes, and
AGHHHHHHHHHHH! Pinkie, please! I’m trying to write a story. So please fix the fourth wall now...
Of course, this is the part of the story when I get hit in the head by TARDIS, the magic, dimension-warping 1980’s call booth. Dash was laughing like a maniac.
“Sh*t! What was that?”
“A telephone call booth...”
I almost forgot that Fluttershy was there. But that left my mind as I saw who stepped out. Ditzy Doo. The Doctor. A human I didn’t know. And Rainbow Dash. I noticed this Rainbow Dash was slightly larger than Dashie. My Dash saw it too, and jumped down and ran to my legs. The Doctor looked around, dusted himself off, and stared. At me. At the fifteen-year-old mare clinging to my legs. Then at the human over there. With the older Dash holding his hand.
“Awkward... well.” the Doctor said,”The only reason we are here is because TARDIS here needs some fixing. But this could turn out interesting. I am the Doctor. Who are you? Never mind. I already know. Interesting relationship here with the ponies. Oh well, I guess we must help in this dire predicament. This,” gesturing to the man, “is Kyle. Over there is Ditzy, and, as you know, that is Rainbow Dash. I believe you and Kyle over there have some stories to swap.”
Kyle stepped forward. “I think I’ll call you Francis. You look like a Francis. Don’t argue. I’m calling you Francis. Anyways, I came here to Equestria on accident, through a time-space rip while skydiving. I now live in a cloud home with my loving pony-wife, Rainbow Dash. I bear the element of love, and we have adopted Scootaloo.
But that is a generalization, so I will go into specifics later. So, what’s your story?”
“Well, let’s see. I am an orphan. I found Dash in a box on the side of the road. She was only like, four or five at the time. So I took her in. I raised her for fifteen years, and the Other Mane Six found her and took her back. I thought I had come to accept it, but there was always something missing. The void grew everyday. And I broke down. I got over it eventually, of course, but I never stopped missing her. But, Dash came back, and now, I am in Equestria, trying to get the Elements of Harmony back together. but right now, I don’t think I have much to offer in way of making a dent in the chaos in Equestr- wait. Did you say YOU were an Element?”
“Yeah. Love.”
The Doctor stepped in.
“Now, Francis. I think there is something here greater than you know. You DO have influence here, and a huge one at that. I also know that I am not needed here. But, Kyle is. And so are you.”
“ME TOO? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE?”
The Doctor looked amused, and said,
“Go away, Pinkie.”
He snapped his hoof, Celestia knows how, and Pinkie disappeared. But she did get a word in.
“Well, it’s nice to see all you guys again.Good luck on the thing, Francis! KTHNKSBAI!”
“Gah, that mare is always popping up everywhere.” The Doctor looked exasperated. “I really must figure out how she does that. It could be vital to my research.”
The entire time, we forgot about the two rainbow-and-cyan mares wrestling themselves to the ground. The younger Dash was being pounded to a pulp, unable and unwilling to fight back against the sheer superiority in age and weight.
“Whoa girls!” said Kyle. “Calm down.”
Dash came back to my side, bleeding from the lip, and the other Dash came to Kyle.
“So,” said the older Dash, “why am I over there, young, bleeding, and bruised, clinging to a man I don’t know like he’s my daddy?”
“WERE YOU NOT LISTENING THE ENTIRE TIME?”
“No.”
“Well, first, you BEAT HER TO A BLOODY PULP!”
I took a deep breath, and calmed myself down.
“As for the other thing, I am your daddy. Technically. At the very least, I am HER dad, for fifteen years of our lives. She is softer, and more compassionate than you, and I feel that that is how I came to call her my daughter. She is compassionate, caring, and loyal to a fault. She is strong, but she has a heart. And,” I added, my anger coming back full force, “SHE IS NOT A COMPLETE BITCH!”
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Torrie, Transformers, and Triple the Rainbow
The Doctor calmly looked on as Kyle and Francis began pummeling each other into the dirt for their (AND RAINBOWS’) honor. He chuckled when they kicked each other in the balls at the exact same time, for the third instance in so many minutes. The two Rainbow Dashes were simply sitting there, dumbstruck, as their two human friends fought for “glory.” The Doctor decided a change of pace was necessary. He set the TARDIS to envelop the surrounding life-forms, and launched the whole party into a different dimension. He did not think of the repairs he forgot to do in all the excitement.
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS in his familiar bipedal, trench coat-clad form. He sighed, stretching his new digits. Sooooo much more relaxing than hooves. He saw the other “changes” the TARDIS had made. There were now not only five humans surrounding the TARDIS on the beach in Los Angeles, but two wrestling ponies. Fluttershy looked around, and stared at the bright yellow tank and capri pants she was wearing. Ditzy looked right at home in a grey v-neck and jeans, her eyes were perfectly fine. And both the Dashes had bright blue tees on with a rainbow bolt right down the middle. Denim shorts cut off right above the knees. One was obviously about twenty five, the other, maybe sixteen. The two ponies, Kyle and Francis, stopped wrestling abruptly.
Kyle was a light grey color, and an average build for a stallion. As a unicorn, he had an unusually sharp horn. His cutie mark was a heart that seemed to always shift colors.
R, O, Y, G, B, I, V... the Doctor mused on that for a moment, and turned his attention to the pony on the left.
Francis was a pegasus, a dark shade of orange, almost to the point of brown. He was leaner than the average, even for a pegasus, yet his wings were well muscled and spanned maybe seven feet. His own cutie mark was a tree, with rainbow leaves.Once again with the rainbows... he addressed the crowd.
“Hello, there. It seems our species integrity has been compromised.” He noticed the now-crying Francis and Kyle. “Oh, get up, you two. If you don't stop wallowing in self-pity, I'll bite your nose. I do have incisors and canines, now.” He chuckled. “We are here to blow off unnecessary steam. You two need to stop fighting. So we will have a beach day. Kyle and Francis are strong enough for a rider, so Dash, both of you, mount up.” The Doctor then reached into hammerspace and pulled out riding saddles, even one that fit a pegasus pony.
I felt ridiculous. Kyle was barely trotting with the older Dash on his back, visibly struggling. I had less of problem, but Dash wouldn’t stop fidgeting. My wings fluttered in protest. Dash was having the time of her life, riding her father on the beach. (Shut up, perverts.) She giggled uncontrollably. I, for some reason, felt like my wings were natural. So, on impulse, I leapt into the sky and landed on the pier. I found no fault with this. But, like real humans, everyone else was staring. is staring. I heard the whispers.
“Is that a pegasus?”
“What is that thing?”
“Mommy, can I look?”
“Dr. Who? What the HELL?”
“A unicorn! Impossible!”
“The one in yellow is kinda cute...”
“Still, weird...”
“MY LITTLE PONY! PONIESOMYGOSHOMYGOSHOMYGOSHHHHHHHHHH!”
Unsurprisingly, it was a man, maybe early twenties. He and his friends fainted on the spot.
“Oh, dear. We must leave, quickly. I forgot that humans know what the other ponies from My Little Pony look like.”
We ran back to the TARDIS. It was smoking in an unreassuring way. The Doctor began muttering about an overheated power core, and he dashed inside with a bucket of seawater. The smoking abruptly stopped, only to be replaced with a vortex just as disorienting as the teleport spell Twilight uses.
We looked around, and found ourselves in Ponyville Town Square. Completely abandoned. Everyone was back to normal, except for me and Kyle. We looked and we had a strange tattoo on our shoulders. Our Cutie Marks? Huh. A tree with rainbow leaves. Fitting. Also: I still had wings. And Kyle still had a horn. The wings tore a hole in my favorite shirt. Oh, well. Still, really cool I have wings. I flapped up to the roof, like it came to me naturally.
I heard Kyle muttering in a corner to someone. I listened and caught the name “Torrie”. I wonder what that meant. A flash went off in some corner of the Everfree.
A blue pegasus grumbled in the middle of the Everfree Forest. He stomped on a branch in rage, and muttered about another botched spell. He kicked his hoof and fluttered his wings.
“Oh, well, better get back to Town Square. The others will want to know where I am.”
And with that, Rainbow Blitz shot off into the distance, leaving behind a not-so-unique-anymore rainbow trail.
Attack, Antagonists, and All That
Rainbow Blitz looked at the rapidly growing skyline of Ponyville. The first thing he noticed was the noise, or lack thereof. He flew up and landed on the roof of Sugarcube Corner. There was nopony around except some ponies sitting in the middle of the square talking. A stallion and four mares. He also saw some weird ape-thing in the corner. It had a unicorn horn, maybe the result of the same botched spell that got him in the middle of the Everfree. Two of the mares looked almost exactly alike, and very similar to himself. The yellow mare looked an awful lot like Butterscotch. And the grey one looked something like Klutzy. But, they were obviously spies.
If you thought that Blitz just sat there thinking all this out, then you were wrong. He was going as silently as he could to sneak up on him, when he was tackled from behind.
I saw Rainbow Blitz from a long ways away; he made no precaution to be stealthy. I flew up behind him and pinned him down to the roof of Sugarcube Corner.
“Hullo, Rainbow Blitz,” I whispered into his ear, “Dusk screwed up another spell, huh?”
“Huh? I know you know my name, because you are obviously a spy, but how in Solaris’s beard did I get here?”
I chuckled. “I’m no spy, but you need to come down here with me. I think there are some ponies you need to meet. And, some people, too.”
Blitz finally realized that he was being pinned not by hooves, but hands and feet. He freaked out, bucked me in the chest and sped off. I quickly followed suit. Unsurprisingly, I had no problem keeping up. Based on the little physics I knew, I could tell that Blitz was not as fast as Dash would be. Even with the pain in my chest, I still managed to hit the nerve cluster in the back of the thigh I found on Dash with a sharp, straight-fingered jab. I grabbed him around the wings and hauled ass back to Town Square before Blitz recovered from the shock I just gave him.
First Person Kyle
I finally managed to shut Torrie up. I looked up and realized I had a horn on my head. Sweet. I went over to the others as Francis landed in town square with another cyan-and-rainbow pony. The third one this year. Oh, joy. I looked closer and realized that this pony was male.
Rainbow Blitz? Okay, this is getting really messed up.
“Hey!” Rainbow Blitz said as Francis pinned him down. “Get off of-” He stopped abruptly, fully seeing the sight before him. He backed away with fear in his eyes.
“What are you?” he asked, obviously referencing me and Francis.
“Well, I am Kyle Bucy, and I suppose under the circumstances, I am a mage. And that would make Francis over there an angel. Or possibly, I could be considered a unicorn, and Francis a pegasus. Huh, funny how that works.”
Both the Rainbows wanted to speak, so they did. At the same time.
”I’m Rainbow Dash, the fastest flier in all of Equestria.” They looked at each other and laughed. “Jinx,”
Blitz shook his head, and looked at Fluttershy. “So, why is Butterscotch a girl?”
Francis laughed. “Her name is Fluttershy, and I believe Scotch is safe back home. Unlike you.” He looked at the rest of us. “We need to find out where the other Elements of Harmony are.”
Dr. Whooves looked excited “So! A team of eight i all we need to find them, if we can get along. So, let us be off on this randomly entertaining mission I have found myself in! Let us go! Allons-y!”
Ohoho... let’s see what kind of fun I can have with *this group...
Things started crazier and crazier as the entire group traveled along. Kyle was busy levitating everything in sight, still not quite over the fact he could not wear his favorite hat. Francis and all three Rainbows were playing tag, flying and things. Dr. Whooves, Ditzy, and Fluttershy slowly trotted along, and tried to look inconspicuous. Just the fact that they were together in a group made them suspicious in the eyes of every pony they met. One pony even started throwing cake out the window. Kyle muttered something about “assaulting us with cake”, but no one wanted to get any closer to the lunatic. It was time to make a decision.
Francis landed and asked, “Who would be the most helpful now that we need to find the others?”
Fluttershy chimed in, “Probably Twilight. She’s super smart, and probably know what to do,” she glanced at the two humans “and probably knows what to do with you two.”
Kyle said “Yeah, Twi would know how to go about all this.”
“He could also help train Kyle...” Ditzy had a good point.
“So it’s settled.” announced Dr. Whooves, “we find Twilight and help her see sense, then the others. But where?”
Fluttershy spoke up. “I have an idea... Twilight used to go out to a cave in the Everfree. I know she never saw me, and I think I’m the only one who knows where the cave is other than Twilight. We can check there.”
“Twilight, huh?”
Twilight sat in her inner sanctum in the Everfree Forest, debating with herself.
“Come on, Celestia wouldn’t abandon me, her prized student. Everything will be fine Fine, fine, fine....”
“But what if it’s not? What if Dash has left for good?”
“Dash is the element of Loyalty. She wouldn’t do that.”
“But she already did. Twice. And it was your fault.”
“My fault?”
“Yes, your fault... if you didn’t make so many mistakes, if you weren’t such a failure, none of this would have happened.”
“Oh, sweet Celestia, it is my fault. But what am I supposed to do?”
“My dear, isn’t it simple? The human is coming here with others right now. Rainbow Dash is in that group.”
“But that is a good thing, isn’t it?”
“Nonononono, my dear, she is not the same, she had betrayed you for the human. Rainbow Dash and the human will destroy Equestria.They already brainwashed innocent little Fluttershy into joining their cause. But you, the most powerful unicorn in existence, can stop all this madness. Just kill them. One spell is all it would take.”
“One spell...”
“One spell.”
“You’re right, I can do this. For Equestria. Who are you, anyway?”
“Just the voice of reason, my dear, in the midst of all this chaos .”
“So, what can I call you?”
“How about... Kordis. My name here symbolizes bringing a chord of truth amidst all this destruction. I am the sense of justice, and follow the path of the median. I can teach you chaos magic to aid you in this endeavor, of destroying the ones who caused all this. Did you know that four hundred ponies have died so far?”
“N-No, I didn’t know that.” Twilight steeled her nerves. “But it will all end. All this destruction will finally end. Teach me what you know, Kordis.”
“Okay, I think I got this. I have to focus on my horn, and imagine the end result.”
“Exactly, my dear. If you want somepony gone, imagine their head charred, and lightning will burn their brains out. That, my dear, is how chaos magic works.”
Twilight had been working for several hours, at a much accelerated crash course on chaos magic. She progressed steadily, and easily managed distraction magic: the usual chaos magic used by Discord, and destruction magic: lightning, fire, tornadoes, and all that. All that was left to teach was detraction: the ability to instantly draw the life force out of another being. And she was making quick headway. Killing larger and larger animals with increasing ease, she did not stop until she felled a manticore. Her personality had been tinged to the point that it was unrecognizable.
“Okay, human, let’s dance.”
He Flies No More, She Tries No More
The cave was empty. Of course it was. We had been walking for four hours, and my feet were sore.
“Damn, I thought she would be here.” Francis sounded mad.
“S-sorry.”
“Nonono Shy, I didn’t mean it like that,” said Francis, “I’m just under a lot of stress right now.”
“Anywhere else to look?” I said.
“Dr. Whooves began, “Maybe we can try-” he stared at a cliff outside the cliff. “Right over there.”
The two RDs both looked overjoyed. “Twilight!”
“Grab her!”
I squinted at the group below me. I could kill them, easy. But still, how did Fluttershy ever get fooled into befriending somepony so evil? It just didn’t make any sense. Still, they must die. And if Fluttershy is in league with them, she must die too. They were yelling something, and the human with wings tried to tackle me. Ha! That was all the proof I needed. One word came out of my mouth before I launched my first attack.
“DIE!”
We ducked for cover as Twilight launched a huge fireball. Why she would do that is unknown to me, but still, Francis got hit on his wing, and landed quickly.Blitz was also in the air at the time, and got burned, hit by the brunt of a fireball. He crashed in a bush, his wings on fire, and the bush was set ablaze. Blitz got struggled for a few feet, moaning in pain, right before he was hit with a lightning bolt, and was seared to the bone.. He thrashed weakly, and stopped. There was no way anypony, or anyone, could survive that. Rainbow Blitz was dead.
“Blitz!”
In a state of shock, we backed up to the mouth of the cave, while fire constantly spewed out of Twilight’s horn. It was only then, in the light of the forest fire now blazing around us, did I see all the different char marks and mutilated bodies of forest creatures stuffed in the back of the cave. And how far Twilight had gone.
“What is wrong with you!?” screamed a desperate Rainbow Dash. The older one.
“Hah,” said Twilight, as the flames stopped pouring forth, “there is nothing wrong with me, but there is obviously something wrong with you,” she squinted. “Why are you with these murderous humans, and why cling so dearly to those whose fate is sealed?” She cracked a smile.”They die here, and if you don’t move, you die too.”
“T-twilight,”
“You too, Fluttershy. It doesn’t matter, if you don’t leave these humans, then you die too.”
“N-no.”
“What?”
Fluttershy looked calm, but stood her ground. “I said no. Their cause is a good one, to end all this destruction. They did nothing at all, other than show the deepest kindness to me. I won’t move, because they aren’t evil, Twilight, but it looks like you might be.”
“What?”
No, this is right. I couldn’t be evil, could I?
Oh, yes, yes you can, if it is for the safety of your precious Equestria.
But, Kordis, do I kill them?
KIll them all.
“They aren’t evil, Twilight, but it looks like you might be.”
No. I can’t hurt my friends. Stop this, Twilight. Come on!
FLASH
Twilight found herself suspended in the middle of a white matrix. An ethereal orb of darkness floated in midair.
“Twilight, my student, this is a stupid move. Sparing them will only cause more death.”
“No. I can’t kill my friends! Not ever. I already killed a pony once. I didn’t even know that stallion. No more Please. No more.”
A sharp pain filled her mind and body, her body convulsing uncontrollably.
“Kill them, or I do it for you.”
Twilight looked up weakly. “N-no.”
“Fine. If you won’t do it freely, then I’ll make you do it.”
The same pain wracked her body, like a searing brand going right through her organs, but a voice was saying in the back of her mind,
Submit. Accept your new master, and this pain will leave you forever.
“No, no please stop this. Please.”
Submit!
“Please, stop... please.”
Submit to your master!
The pain intensified with every repetition.
“N-no, ple- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!!!!”
The matrix flashed, and Twilight floated there, the pain finally gone, her psyche shattered.
Good. Good girl. Now, come to me.
FLASH
Twilight looked back one last time to see seven figures straggling towards the body of the pegasus she killed, teleported away.
“Blitz!” All of us ran to the charred and disfigured body of Rainbow Blitz. Fluttershy and Ditzy cried into each other, yet both Rainbow Dashes were stone cold.
Kyle looked at me.
“Francis, what happened?”
“Well, it looks like Twilight has gone full-on evil.”
“It almost sounds humorous until the destruction stares you in the face.”
“Yeah.”
“I wonder what Twilight is doing right now?”
Twilight found herself outside a stone temple. There was a pony sitting on the steps. She recognized him immediately as Kordis. She bowed her head to him, both in respect and in defeat, in servitude and in depression. Her voice was shallow and empty.
“I am here to serve, Master.”
A/N: Sorry, I suck at battle scenes, but I felt pushed into getting serious with this fic. I hope you enjoy, and please don't hurt me.
“Now what?” said Kyle, sitting on a rock.
“What else? We have to save Twilight!” I blinked. Strong words, especially for Fluttershy. ”Who knows what could have happened to her? She might be dead!”
Dr. Whooves looked thoughtful. “I don’t think she’s dead. Even with all the chaos going on here, Twilight wouldn’t turn evil like that on her own. There must be some sort of outside force influencing her psyche. There are things worse than death, after all. I’ve been through worse, surely.”
We continued walking. I started trying to think of a way to save Twilight. She’s immensely powerful, so we need magic. Kyle is the only one among us who can use magic right now, but he’s untrained. And still, the magic Twilight was using was on a whole other level. She shot a freaking lightning bolt and killed Rainbow Blitz! And that fireball was at least ten feet in diameter. My wings still burned painfully. Kyle needed a magic teacher. A powerful one. I went through all the ponies that could help us. Twilight sure can’t. Rarity? No, Rarity focused on dexterity. Multiple objects all at once, all small. No use in a fight. Who else? We can’t make it to Canterlot without getting destroyed, so I pulled a blank. We plodded on through the Everfree, still wondering what to do. As we walked, Ditzy and Dr. Whooves were discussing the situation with each other.
After we walked almost wordlessly until sunset, and as Luna’s moon crawled through the sky, we stopped to rest. Dr. Whooves had somehow made a fire in a clearing. As we sat around the fire, eating food that Fluttershy had gathered with Kyle, we discussed our situation.
“Where could Twilight be?” Kyle was thinking hard. “Can’t she teleport or something? We have no idea where she could be!”
I blinked in frustration. “Crap! I forgot about that. I was also thinking that we need to find somepony that can use magic. You need somepony to help you use the horn on your head. We can’t stand up to Twilight otherwise.”
Kyle started throwing things around with magic. “ think I’ll practice on my own, okay?”
“Don’t go too far.”
“Yeah, whatever.” I watched Kyle walk away. I had a sense of overwhelming fear that something was going to happen, maybe to Kyle, maybe to my Dashie.
Please, stay safe.
Kordis chuckled at his new servant. He loved looking at that defeated face, sucking up all the desperation radiating out of her body and slowly breaking her will further. Soon enough, she will be mentally unable to deny any command he gave, often to the point of doing it all willingly. He already sensed the power in the slave’s aura, and enjoyed that it was all his. She was his instrument, his tool. He had a blast breaking her over the full of the day. She was grudgingly obedient, slowly growing more accustomed to his commands. She gradually turned darker and darker, to the point of being almost as evil and twisted as he was. He was satisfied when she willingly and swiftly killed several ponies he had captured, skinned them, and ate the raw flesh. She ate them, bones picked clean, regardless of how wrong it was. Her only complaint was that Lyra was a bit stringy. Probably from standing on her back two hooves for so long. He went over and weaved the smaller bones into her mane. She smiled up at him when he was finished. Good. She was accustomed to her master. Yet, he had to remember that he shouldn't get attached to his slave. His pawn, nothing else. After a few hours of rest, he called her over.
“Slave, there is competition in these woods. Another user of magic. You will sense him by his unique aura. You will destroy this threat to your master, and come back. I may reward you if the task is complete. You don’t even have to kill him. Weaken him to the point of immobility, and he will die eventually. Nopony in this land will ever help him.”
Twilight bowed to him, and teleported away.
Twilight had her mission. She didn’t like her master, but she couldn’t disobey. Not anymore. She scanned the surrounding forest. The target was carelessly using his magic. Poor fool, how weak he is. His spells were not worth Master’s time. He was with several others, around a fire. He moved away from the others he was sitting with, and she followed. One shot, and he fell silently, his force quickly fading. He lay there, unmoving. Twilight smiled, as it was a perfect hit.
“I should get back to Master. He will miss me, his... what am I? My name is... my name...” She shook her head. “No matter. I am a slave to the Master now. That is all I am. I should be grateful to Master. He has kept me safe, and has given me food.” She smiled, remembering the taste of that red, quiet one, Big Mac, he was called. "Surely he cares for me, regardless of what I am."
With a smile, Slave teleported back to her Master.
“It is done, Master.”
I was shocked at what I saw approaching the fire. A figure dragging a limp body. I stared in shock as Discord and Kyle shone in the flickering light of the fire.
“Lookie what I found.”
A/N: Thank you for reading so far. This chapter is short, with a bit of a cliffhanger. Please be kind with the critiques. This whole Idea came from one line of dialogue in this chapter. find it, and you get an internetz. One entry per user.
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“Mission successful, Master.”
Kordis used his magic to scan the surrounding area. No sign of him. Good. He smiled.
“Time for your reward, slave.”
His slave approached the stone pedestal Kordis was sitting on. Kordis summoned a small orb of light, a ball about three inches in diameter. He opened her mouth and rammed the ball down her throat. Kordis chuckled inwardly. Always good to be cautious. Even if she somehow managed to break the psycho cage he placed on her mind, these orbs should keep her under his thrall. Like a drug, it spreads through the body, giving an elated feeling, followed by extreme withdrawal symptoms. Completely harmless, but highly addictive. It even has mild healing properties. No need to damage the merchandise, after all. Oh, my little slave. No hope for you now.
The best feeling in the world. That was the only way Slave could even begin to comprehend how she felt right at that moment. Completely incredible. Yet, the moment of total ecstasy was gone, far too soon. There was only one thought on her mind now, one thing that wouldn’t stop playing a staccato beat in her brain with mallets coated in concrete. More.
Kyle? Kyle is dragging a beaten up and badly burned Discord back to the campfire. Weird, but not as weird as the other things I’ve seen this week.
“What happened? Who did that to Discord?” I was extremely confused.
“I don’t know. I guess we’ll have to ask him after I patch him up.”
“Fluttershy, why would you even think about doing something like that! He’s a monster!”
The older Rainbow Dash looked angry, but Fluttershy already started treating Discord’s burns. They were extensive, but by the looks of things, it was survivable. Discord started to wake up, and he moaned.
“Water...”
Kyle produced a canteen of water and poured it down Discord’s throat.
“Who did this to you?”
Discord got up shakily, and sat down on a log.
“Well, let me start from the very beginning.” He started messing with some putty he magicked and stuck it uncaringly in Pinkie’s hair. She started pulling and tugging at the pink goop, and fell behind a log.
“Hey!”
“Well, I was messing around with some of my old buddies, you know, Screwball, Nutcase, Whack Job, and my girl, Eris. A sweet girl. Always feisty, just the way I like it, she’s actually very sweet. We were camping in the woods, as an escape from all the death and destruction. I’m not a big fan of death, I’ll have you know, and I’m nothing,” he turned to look at the audience, “like what Hot Diggity Demon says I look like. Ha, ‘bring me your virgins’, complete garbage. No talent at all. I just like to have a bit of fun every once in awhile. Pinkie, you know what I mean.”
“Huh?” Pinkie was still getting the putty out of her hair.
“So I went out to take a leak. I sensed a high concentration of dark magic, then I was hit with a strong blast. I only saved myself because I knew it was coming. It hit me square on, but I diverted it to only my skin,and it hurts, but survivable. But the strangest part wasn’t the energy bolt, it was the assailant. She was giving off a lot of possession energy. Either she is controlling a proxy, or she is a proxy. I got a look at her before she left. It was Twilight Sparkle.”
Kyle was confused. “Dark magic?”
I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder, and it started to throb. Regardless, I stepped closer. Then I asked,
“What sort of dark magic?”
Discord felt the wave hit him, and he knew immediately what it was. He held out his paw and blasted the human away, directly into Fluttershy and the two Rainbow Dashes.
FLASH
All three fell into a rigid comatose.
“That kind of dark magic.”
For once in his life, Discord felt sorry for what those little ponies were about to experience.
I looked around, and found myself in a white matrix. I was glowing, and floating in midair. The Rainbow Dashes and Fluttershy were staring into space. They were obviously scared.
“Hey!” I said. But instead of them looking up, they all screamed in pure agony, their bodies wracked with pain. At that moment, my arm started to hurt. For some reason, I felt no remorse for their pain, only confusion why they weren’t listening to me. I tried again. “ Hey! Follow me and maybe we can get outta here! Come on!” They cried out in pain again, and they seemed to freeze for a moment. Finally, Fluttershy spoke. Her voice was dull and monotone, but still distinctly Fluttershy.
“Follow...”
Both Rainbow Dashes nodded.
“Follow...”
“Follow...”
“Unity...”
“Unity...”
“Unity...”
I was getting desperate to get their attention. They wouldn’t even look at me. “I’m to the left! Get over here!”
They all bowed in unison, bowed to me. It freaked me out to no end, yet it felt... right. Wait, what had they said... “unity”?
“Yes, master.”
FLASH
“Wait,” said Kyle, with a confused look on his face. Discord had just finished explaining how the mind field worked. “Why would Francis even want to do that? Enslavement? Really?”
Discord nodded. “That is the only possible purpose of that spell. Although, I’m unsure how he cast it, and whether he really will try to enslave them. If he does nothing, everyone will be fine.”
Kyle looked pissed. “If he does ANYTHING to my Dash, I’ll punch his face in, God help me...”
FLASH
All of us woke up.
I was sitting on the ground near where I collapsed. Fluttershy and both Rainbow Dashes sat up and looked around. Fluttershy saw me, and started to run away. Both Rainbow Dashes charged me instead, ready to buck my face in. So I did the first thing that popped into my head.
“Stop.”
Fluttershy froze about fifty feet from the clearing, and slowly turned around. Both Dashes fell over each other and screeched to a halt, their eyes shooting daggers.
“Fluttershy, come here, please.” Fluttershy stiffly walked over to where I was sitting, crying and pulling her head away like it would make her turn around. I turned to the rest of the group. “I guess I have some explaining to do.” While in the matrix, I thought out exactly what had happened, and realized that something in there rewired their brains. What happened outside, just now, confirmed that. I glanced down at my shoulder and saw that my tree had three roots coming out the base, two blue streaked with rainbow colors, one the color of lemonade. I guess it’s true, then. I nodded toward Shy and both RDs. “I am the Element of Unity, and I am your Master.”
BAM
The punch connected solidly with my face.
BAM
Another one, in the kidney.
BAM
I started bleeding from my lip.
BAM
My eye started to swell.
BAM
I guess I deserve it.
BAM
I stole her from him.
BAM
What am I supposed to do about it?
BAM
I didn’t know what was happening.
BAM
But it doesn’t feel wrong.
BAM
I shouldn’t feel alright with this.
BAM
But it happened.
BAM
I can live with it.
BAM
This could be a good thing.
BAM
It’s not harmful in any way.
BAM
Dash could stop being so annoying.
BAM
It was supposed to happen.
BAM
Element of Unity, right?
BAM
I have a right to it.
BAM
Ow.
BAM
Stop.
BAM
Please.
BAM
Please, stop.
BAM
Please!
BAM
BAM
BAM
BAM
BAM
BAM
BAM
I’m supposed to be the Element of Unity. Am I really this alone?
BAM
A/N: OMG Plot Twist LOL. I needed more emotion in the fic, and this is what I came up with. Also, longer chapters WOOT. I kinda cheated, though. Oh, well. KTHXBAI!
The Element of Unity. Doesn’t really roll off the tongue, does it. But, that’s me, I guess. But, if I really am the Element of Unity, I suck at my job. The three ponies now under my control were just standing there, unable to do anything until I gave them orders. The others left. I mean, why shouldn’t they? I’m a slave driver, and these are my slaves. What am I supposed to do with three ponies who can’t even eat without me telling them to? Earlier, I tried setting them free. It never worked. I tried making them leave, do what they want, and to not obey everything I said. For some reason, those commands had no effect. In fact, after each command, they seemed less and less willing to argue, fight, or, in Fluttershy’s case, to cry and run away. Right now, they couldn’t move beyond looking around without orders, but they kept either their angry or terrified looks on their faces. The older Rainbow Dash looked the angriest of them all. She was probably thinking about Kyle, and how he managed to beat me into a bloody stupor. Even then, I made Fluttershy fix me up and I was healing nicely. Fluttershy was a wreck. Se would do what I ask, but she could never stop crying, whimpering, or sniveling, so I instructed her to stop. She managed to suck most of it up, but she still managed to look completely terrified. My Dash looked angry, scared, tired, but mostly, confused. I could imagine the only thought running through that head. Why, daddy? It broke my heart. Then, I remembered something I saw in the white matrix. It gave me an idea.
“All of you, come over here.”
They walked up to where I was standing, and kneeled.
“I want you to follow me, and see where I go. If you follow my instructions exactly, it may just set you free.”
“Yes, master.”
I closed my eyes, and focused.
FLASH
The matrix. I saw the three ponies floating, their eyes wide. Then, they saw me.
“What did you do to us?!” screamed Rainbow Dash the Elder, trying to fly over to me. “Damn you! Damn you, Francis! Why?! You tore away our-”
Her voice strangled off, because I silenced her.
"If you want your freedom, then do as I say. I want you to leave. Leave this matrix. Just try. It may even work.”
I saw all of the ponies struggle against the commanding force of the white matrix. As the ponies fought against the magic’s grasp, I saw smoky tendrils begin to wrap around each of the ponies. I looked down, and these tendrils were coming from my fingertips! I was subconsciously trying to keep control of my slaves. But, as I tried to tear the tendrils off of my fingers, they felt solid and attached, like they were part of my body. I could only watch as the tendrils cocooned first one Rainbow Dash, then the other. Surprisingly, only Fluttershy was left, fighting off the tendrils with her teeth and legs. She kept struggling for the longest time, and I could still only watch. The tendrils suddenly contracted all at once, and I could barely hear the crack of bone above Fluttershy’s brutal screaming. The tendrils finished wrapping the screaming and thrashing victim, and blood seeped from between the ever-tightening bands of the cocoon.
FLASH
Both Rainbow Dashes got up from their resting places and looked around. I turned to them and said,
“It didn’t work.”
That’s when I saw Fluttershy. She was splayed across the clearing, barely recognizable due to all the blood. Her skull was in several pieces, and her body looked like it was crushed in a car compactor. I stared in silence for several minutes at the horror sprayed all over the clearing, and turned to the two Rainbow Dashes.
“We need to get rid of the body. Start digging a hole, six feet deep, in the clay over there. Then lower the body, and bury it deep. Stomp the ground flat with your hooves. And do it quickly.”
“Yes, master.”
When it was done, I stared at the bald spot in the grass where Fluttershy’s body lay. I then turned my attention to the docile Rainbow Dashes, standing at attention, humbly waiting for orders. And at this moment, I realized something. I miss my daughter. More than ever before. She’s standing twenty feet away from me, and I still felt like it was her in that grave. I put my head in my hands and wept.
‘I miss you, Dashie.’
A/N: I fell like this chapter was meh. Not great, but not a complete tank. I wish I was better at these kinds of emotional scenes. I also wish my chapters could be longer, but I feel like the end of each chapter is a good stopping point. But anyways,thanks for reading!
“Please, don’t. No, no, don’t do it. Come on, You can fight this! Or, rather, I can fight this... Nononononononoono!”
As she broke down crying, staring at the despicable sight before her, her stomach filled. She would have caused herself to stop eating, but she couldn’t move anything at the moment. The cocoon around her was constricting her every move. At least she could see. As she stared at herself eating, she began to vomit. And, to her horror, the vomit came red, mixed with raw flesh and aquamarine fur. And the strangest thought came to her.
I wonder if I get more?
She really should leave. So she set to work. With tooth, hoof, tail, she struggled to loosen the bonds around her. And then, her oh-so-powerful brain kicked in. Use magic! Duh! And she did. However, as the bonds loosened, she felt something wrong. Very wrong. So very, very wrong. She stared down at the cocoon binding her, and watched as it fell away. Her fur, her mane, her entire body, was white. All of it. Her cutie mark was bleached to invisibility, and she could barely tell her hooves from the rest of her body. And she felt... different. So different. Wait, not different, but indifferent. She continued to watch the scene before her, and to her non-surprise, she didn’t care. And then she left, as she didn’t care to go into details.
Twilight woke up, and looked at Kordis sleeping on his stone chair. She walked away, and said only one thing.
“Meh.”
“Come on, let’s go.”
The trio walked to the forest’s edge, and went to town square.
“I still can’t believe it’s only been three weeks since it happened. No contact from Kyle, and no movement by Evil Twilight either.”
Ponyville was slowly rebuilding. Apparently, there was more trust, if not loyalty, among the ponies since the Element of honesty was back in the realm of Equestria, and the communities were slowly coming back together. But there was always something different. Always an air of distrust. Always something to miss.
“Hello? Can you hear me?”
“Huh?”
“Hey, she’s waking up! Get over here, Kazuhiro!”
“Really, Shigeo?”
“Yeah.”
Fluttershy blinked for a few seconds, and tried to get up. She was on all fours, as usual, but it hurt her back more than usual.
“Hey, why you standing like that. Get up, come on!”
He pulled her up to her standing on her hind hooves, but it made the pain go away, so she didn’t complain. The air was crisp, and the scent of cherry blossoms filled the air, and she lost herself for a moment. She looked down at her yellow turtleneck she was wearing.
"Hello," said Fluttershy. "I'm Sakura."
A/N: UUUUBER SHORT TODAY I’M TIRED AND HAVE TO PUT SOMETHING UP. I NEEDED SETUP,SO HERE ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ALL AT ONCE.
“Hello, there.”
Princess Celestia stood in a back room. She looked haggard and tired, like she just came back from a fight.
“I see you made it to my Cloud Castle. As you know, I an Princess Celestia. However, you may not know that this land is in turmoil. It is partly your fault. It is also partly mine. Finally, blame may also be blamed on my student, Twilight Sparkle. Thankfully, Rainbow Dash is sane once again. However,things are not going to be easy. Discord will never let a chance like this pass him by.One way or another, we cannot risk Discord breaking out of his prison. With loyalties skewed, though, that task in itself will not be easy. I cannot go out in public in this state, for I will be attacked, so young Rainbow must be the one to do it. most likely, you and her will want to stick together, for both personal and safety reasons. But we still need the Element of Loyalty. And that was destroyed almost two weeks ago. Unless... do you still have the jewel from the potted plant?”
I thought of the small lightning jewel resting in my pocket. I didn’t want to let it go, but
it was needed here, for this universe and the ponies’ safety. So I reluctantly gave up the beautiful gem. Celestia then set the jewel into a solid gold necklace, and set it in a jewel encrusted case alongside four other necklaces, and a big crown-thingy. Dashie finally spoke.
“So all we need now is the other elements of harmony, and everything will be okay, right?”
“Yes,” said Celestia slowly, “But how easy will it be?”
AN: Sorry this chapter is so short. I will now section the chapters into bits 500-1000 words long, according to plot development. So please no HATIN’ PLEEZUS.
