Pinkie Pie trotted downtown, waving at every pony she passed. She soon arrived at her destination; Applejack's apple stand.
" Hey Applejack! The usual, please!"
She slid three bits onto the counter. Applejack smiled back.
" Oh hey Pinkie. You're just in time. Here ya go."
She slid a dozen apples over the counter to Pinkie." Thanks Applejack. In time for what?" Applejack gave a sly, insane grin.
" To take a nap, of course."
Immediately after, Pinkie felt nauseous. She then collapsed on the ground.
Pinkie woke up shackled to a wall. Her legs, chest and neck were chained back. She squirmed and tried to free herself, but she was stuck. Then Applejack slipped into the room. Pinkie noticed that her green eyes were wide with insanity, her grin crooked.
" Applejack, where am I?" She asked.
" None of your concern." Applejack answered.
" Why am I here? What do you want with me?"
" To make you feel my, and tons of other ponies, pain." Applejack replied.
Pinkie struggled some more. Applejack was carefully picking up a vial of clear liquid. She approached Pinkie.
" You ready?" She asked, laughing as she injected the liquid into Pinkie's neck.
Pinkie watched her vision spin, then turn black.
Pinkie opened her eyes. She was strapped; just how Applejack had her. Then she noticed a cyan blue Pegasus approach her. She was wearing a dress made of cutie marks. her dress, Pinkie realized. Rainbow dash smiled at her, grabbing a knife from a cart. Pinkie struggled, then felt something unusual. Wings.
" R-Rainbow Dash. I'm s-s-sorry. Please d-d-don't hurt me." she begged, stuttering.
But Rainbow just smiled at her and she started a circular cut above Pinkie's cutie mark. Pinkie yelled in pain, tears dripping down her cheek. Rainbow finished and moved on to the other cutie mark. Once she was done, she waved them like pompoms. Pinkie remembered doing the same exact thing. Same thing. Hmmm... Rainbow took a huge knife and started hacking at Pinkie's wing. But Pinkie didn't have wings. Then it hit her; this is what she had done to Rainbow Dash. She had somehow switched places with her former friend. Pinkie didn't know how Applejack had done it. But she had. Which means she knew exactly what was going on. Pinkie screamed in pain, feeling Rainbow tear her wing off. But she didn't pass out as Rainbow had. Instead, she felt the sharpness of the nails, the shock of the elctricity. Rainbow also hadn't given her the pain-killer. So Pinkie felt each incision, screamed with each cut. When Rainbow made the cut on Pinkie's neck, Pinkie though she was actually going to die. But instead, her vision spun.
Pinkie blinked several times, the pain fading away as she seemed to reenter her own body. She gasped, making short, quick breaths. She slowly became aware that Applejack was watching her reaction.
" Like it? I call it a memory potion."
" How?"
Applejack laughed." I take the memories. I guess I'm a memory stealer."
Applejack grabbed another potion.
" Please no." Pinkie begged.
" Should've thought about it before you murdered Rainbow." Applejack replied, her eyes still sparkling with insanity.
” I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry.” Pinkie whimpered.
Applejack ignored her as she injected the memory into Pinkie’s neck. Pinkie watched as her world went black once more.
This time, Pinkie seemed to be in a tall building. She noticed the long staircase and the gathering fillies. She remembered this day vaguely, though she had totally forgotten what happened. Maybe that was the point of this particular memory. Then, Applejack herself appeared. Pinkie thought Applejack was literally inside the memory, but this Applejack was chatting among Pinkie’s... sisters? Then she spotted Pinkie.
” Look Pinkie, it’s the depressed lo-ser.” One of her sister’s taunted.
Pinkie found herself saying,” Go away.”
Applejack laughed. She walked up to Pinkie and purposely stuck out her hoof. Pinkie took a step forward and found herself plummeting down the stairs. She screamed loudly, feeling pain shoot through her body. When she reached the bottom, she heard voices swarming around her, felt her body get lifted up and placed on a stretcher, though she could barely see. Then it hit her. Applejack was walking with Pinkie’s sisters, who had called Applejack; Pinkie. Which meant Pinkie herself had, once upon a time, tripped Applejack down a long staircase and caused her all this pain. She couldn’t move, but luckily the memory was quickly fading.
Pinkie opened her eyes, the memory of the memory gone. But the images were fresh in her mind. Applejack was moving around in the room, seemingly focused on her task. Whatever that might be. Then Applejack noticed she was back.
” Applejack, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean-”
She was cut off by Applejack laughing once more.
” Of course you didn’t. You weren’t necessarily all smiles and sunshine then. But I still remember.” She hissed.
Pinkie was panicking. She breathed heavily.
” And all those ponies you murdered for no reason, just dissected them like baking apple pie?” The insane earth pony asked, looking into Pinkie’s eyes.” You deserve death. But being trapped in a bad memory is good torture, more painful than death, don’t you agree?”
After saying so, Applejack retrieved several more memory tubes. She injected one memory after the other into Pinkie’s neck. Pinkie knew she had screamed, sobbed, and moaned tons of times. It wasn’t until the very end that Applejack gave another insane grin and took a smaller tube, unlike the other memory tubes, and approached Pinkie.
” You know what the best part is?”
Pinkie couldn’t answer, she was too much in pain. So Applejack answered herself.
” You won’t remember anything that happened here.”
Applejack inserted the potion into Pinkie, who immediately reacted by closing her eyes, unconsious.
Pinkie woke up in her bed. Wierd. She didn’t remember what had happened before she was in bed. She didn’t even remember why she was in bed. She just shrugged it off and decided to take a walk. She passed by Applejack’s apple stand.
” Hey Applejack!” She called to her friend.
Applejack gave Pinkie a sly grin before replying,” Howdy Pinkie Pie!”
Pinkie smiled to herself. Today would be a perfect day.
Author's Note
this is my first shot at a dark fanfic, so...
