“No! No!!” Fluttershy shouted, as if arguing to the wall, “The princess would not abandon anypony! She wouldn’t approve of this!”

Fluttershy angrily kicked at the electroshock gurney and it clanged against the knock of her hoof. She stretched out her one working wing, awkwardly and painfully managing to fly up and out of the room through the hole in the ceiling. She resolved to wait out the rest of the night under the stars, away from the wretched old hospital.

Fluttershy feared falling asleep again, not wanting another nightmare. She decided to walk around to keep herself awake. Somepony had to find her eventually. However, the more she walked, the more she noticed the ground began to shift beneath her hooves. She then realized that the apparent hole in the ceiling she flew out of was unstable ground. The roof of the electrotherapy room was nothing more than packed mud and clay that had collapsed after the hurricane. In fact, the ground was collapsing where Fluttershy stood.

The pegasus tried to break into a gallop, but the muscle friction caused pain to shoot back up her broken wing and she fell to the ground. She had not made it far from the electrotherapy room, and had only managed to reach the right side of the building. The sides closest to the building had the least stable foundation of all; places where the storm had caused the base of the building to sink. Fluttershy screamed as the ground crumbled beneath her and she fell into the chasm.

Luckily, Fluttershy managed to flap her good wing just enough as to make a safe landing on the smooth rock beneath her. She managed to land all four hooves on a large boulder, but pain shot up her broken wing again, and she slipped off and fell into a small body of water. The water wasn’t even deep enough to cover her legs, and Fluttershy trotted out onto an underground shore.
The upper level of clay and dirt had crumbled into a natural cavern in which rain water collected, forming a small pond. The cavern was a pocket that went deeper than the rest of the island’s foundation, and was the reason that the ground surrounding the right side of the asylum was unstable.

Fluttershy breathed in her surroundings, taking notice of natural beauty of the cavern walls, and the sparkling blue pond, shimmering with the light of the moon. The distance between the floor of the cavern and the ground above was only about fifteen feet, but Fluttershy was far too tired to fly back up again, and she didn’t want to take the chance of falling into an even deeper pit.
The pegasus’ ears perked when she heard splashing in the water.

Fluttershy gasped when she saw the same, starving white rabbit hopping around in the water. Fluttershy beckoned to it again but it hopped deeper into the pond until the water went just over its head, with only its little ears poking out of the water. Fluttershy followed after it, into the pond, but it disappeared again, its ears sinking in the water, and Fluttershy lost sight of it.

“Not again.” Fluttershy said, “I can’t let him drown!”

The pegasus took a deep breath and dunked her head under the water, keeping her eyes open and trying to look for traces of movement. The rabbit was nowhere to be found, but Fluttershy kept swimming ahead. The pain of her untreated, broken wing was a constant nuisance, and Fluttershy quickly became tired again. Her head burst out of the water and she gasped for air, finding herself floating to the opposite side of the pond.

The other side of the pond was only dimly lit by the moonlight, as the cavern became a narrow alcove, and the water became deeper. Fluttershy swam to a small corner of shallow water and rested her hooves on a boulder. She reached up and suddenly lost her grip as a large piece of smooth white rock slipped in front of her.

The smooth white rock was actually the skeletal remains of another pony, greeting Fluttershy with its permanent smile. Reminded of her nightmare, Fluttershy gave a terrified shriek and swam backwards, back into the water. Her hooves reached another shallow, but unstable portion, and Fluttershy soon realized she was standing on a mixed conglomeration of bones from the remains of ponies, rabbits, mice, birds, and other small creatures.

Utterly terrified once more, Fluttershy pony-paddled her four legs back to the safe side of the pond, but only made it about halfway when a freshly rotted corpse, its putrid skin and muscles dangling from its exposed jaws, ribcage, and eye sockets, burst out of the water and apparently dragged Fluttershy under. The pegasus lost consciousness, her last sight being the shimmering, blue moonlight, distorted under the water.

Fluttershy woke up screaming, finding herself strapped to the same gurney as her living corpse twin in the dream, and the other unfortunate patients of FIHM.

“No! Stop! Please! Calm down!” pleaded a kindly female voice, “It’s okay! You’re okay! You’re alive! You’re safe!”

“They’re dead! They’re all dead!!” Fluttershy screamed, “EVERYPONY’S DEAD!!”

“Nopony’s dead!” the female voice retorted, “We’re all right here!”

Fluttershy started to recognize the face that was speaking to her. It was a white mare with a pink mane and a nurse’s cap. Nurse Redheart was softly pressing on Fluttershy’s chest with her front hooves as two large brown colts in white uniforms carried the hysterical pegasus on a white cot toward a large flying carriage with a red cross insignia on its side.

Celestia had raised the sun again, and the guards and medics had also found Fluttershy. She had been strapped down and her broken wing had been wrapped in gauze, bandaged by medics. Nurse Redheart was directing the two orderlies to gently place Fluttershy in the back of the flying ambulance.

“What about the little bunny?” Fluttershy asked.

“What little bunny?” Redheart inquired.

“I was chasing…a little bunny…” Fluttershy answered, “Before I…fell in the water…”

“We didn’t see any bunny, Fluttershy.” Redheart said, “You need to lie down. You’re delirious and your wing needs to be properly treated.”

“I need to see Princess Celestia…” Fluttershy continued, “I need to see Mom and Dad…”

“You’re parents are waiting for you at the hospital.” Redheart explained, “They’ve been worried sick about you.”

“What about…the little bunny?” Fluttershy whispered before she fell asleep once again from exhaustion.

Author's Note

Okay, so I stole this part from the ending of Friday 13th, but I couldn't help but make the reference.