Nightmare at the Gala!

Fluttershy sits at the edge of her door, crying her eyes out. "I want my friends back! I'll do anything! Please, I just want everything back to normal." She throws herself inside and lies on the floor, trying to catch her breath. "Why did all of this happen? Why must I be so alone?" She gets flashbacks in her head, one by one they start to haunt Fluttershy's mind. She hears the sound of a running engine. "Rarity..." she whispers. The afternoon sun starts to set and Fluttershy's hooves start to shake. "pinkie Pie..." she phispers. The pain gets worse. She feels her neck starting to swell up. "Applejack..." she whispers. She then develops a pounding headache. "Twilight..." she whispers, but growls through the pain. She lies in silence, her head pounding, her heart beating loudly. Suddenly, the sound of a neck cracking echoes in her mind. She starts to scream in terror. She tries to run upstairs, but she can't she through her tears, Instead, she collides into a wall, head first and falls back onto the floor. Her headache gets worse as the neck cracking echoes again, but louder. Then, all of the sudden, all the flashbacks come together as one big giant ball of memories.  "LEAVE ME ALONE!" she screams as she lunges herself forward, slamming her head into the wall again, knocking herself unconscious.

Her vision is blurry as she wakes up, a pony stands in front of her, trying to wake her up. "Fluttershy! Fluttershy! You need to wake up, we have to go to Canterlot." The voice in her head sounds like Rainbow Dash's. "Is that you, Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy asks. "I wish she was here." says the pony. Fluttershy's vision gets clearer, Big Mac is standing in front of her. "What happened in here?" Big Mac asks. Fluttershy looks around the room once again and the thoughts come back, tears fill her eyes. "I just want my friends back, I'm so alone." Big Mac doesn't know what to do. "We all wish they were here Fluttershy. Now c'mon, we have to get to Can-" "Big Mac, I appreciate this, I really do, but we don't have to be in Canterlot until sunset. "Big Mac leans in, "Fluttershy, it IS sunset." She runs to the window and pulls the curtains open to see the sun in the horizon lighting up the beautiful orange sky. "We have to go, now!" She starts to fly away as Big Mac runs outside. "Uhm Flutterhy?" She turns around. "I'm....you know... an Earth pony?" "Right, no time for the train, hop on my back." "Oh, well... if you say so." Big Mac gets on Fluttershy's back and takes off into the air without any flaws. "How are you able to carry me?" Big Mac asks. "I don't know... just skill I guess." The two arrive at the castle where Celestia awaits them inside.

"Welcome, both of you." says Celestia as she turns her head to Fluttershy. "Oh my! What happened to you?" "I... had a bad time at home." says Fluttershy, embarrassed. "I can make you look better just in time for your surprise!" Celestia says, confidently. "What surprise? I have no idea what you're talking about." says Fluttershy. "You don't need to just yet!" Celestia leads Fluttershy into a room where she starts putting different kinds of makeup on her. Celestia, being an alicorn, uses her horn to continue her work as she walks across the room. "I took the liberty of getting your dress from the Gala and fixing it up." Celestia opens up a curtain revealing Fluttershy's dress, completely refreshed. "How did you fix it so well?" Fluttershy asks. "I know a good friend, said that the dress didn't need much work at all." Fluttershy puts the dress on and stands in looks in front of a mirror. "Wait, something's missing... Oh! My olive wreath." "Oh your olive wreath," Celestia says. "You're not gonna need that tonight, I have something better to place on your head." Celestia opens a crystal box revealing a crown with a pink butterfly gem in the middle. "What's going on?" Fluttershy asks, nervously. "This crown will be very important to you from now on." The two exit the room when Big Mac is standing near the balcony. "It sounds like everypony in Equestria is outside." Fluttershy walks closer towards the balcony, she can hear the crowd of ponies. "That's because I invited everypony in Canterlot and Ponyville along with everypony who was at the Gala." "B-...But why?" Fluttershy asks. "They all came to see you," says Celestia as she places the crown on her head and kneels down. "Your heiress." Big Macs eyes open immediately.