Nightmare at the Gala!

Across Ponyville, Applejack is slowly walking to Sugarcube Corner, hoping that Pinkie Pie will cheer her up, but walks inside only to find Pinkie Pie with flesh peeling off her skin. "PINKIE PIE! Your face... it's..." says Applejack, scared. "This is just make-up silly! "I'm gonna be a zombie for the Halloween Gala!" says Pinkie Pie. Applejack feels light-headed and sits down. "Ah think i'm losing it, Pinkie Pie. Ah'm just gonna go home and rest, you seem busy." says Applejack. She exits Sugarcube Corner when Gilda swoops in and bumps into her. "Move it country girl!" yells Gilda. As Gilda walks away, Applejack starts to get angry. "Maybe if you knew how to fly properly.." mutters Applejack under her breath. Gilda turns around. "Excuse me?! Do you wanna say something, country girl?!" yells Gilda. Applejack starts to breakdown in tears. "Uhm.. no... ah'm sorry." says Applejack, running away.

Gilda continues walking across Ponyville when she gets stopped by Rainbow Dash. "You know Gilda, Applejack was right. You don't know how to fly properly, you gotta be like me!" says Rainbow Dash. "Are you challenging me?!" asks Gilda, raising her voice. "Oh you know, I want a race, to see who's the better flyer!" says Rainbow Dash. "Let's do it! You name the obstacle, I don't wanna overdo it for an amateur like you!" says Gilda. "Oh, it's SO on! We take 5 laps around Sweet Apple Acres, cross the train tracks, and back to where were standing!" yells Rainbow Dash "Too easy." Gilda scoffs. "On your mark, get set, GO!" screams Rainbow Dash. The two pegasi are already at lightning speed as they approach Sweet Apple Acres. The first four laps have been neck and neck. On the fifth lap, Rainbow Dash remembers Appleblooms grave and slows down to get a look at it. She looks around for Applejack and spots the hanging object that Spike noticed. A hat falls off of the hanging object. Rainbow Dash starts panicking, but gets back in the race. "I'll catch up to you Gilda!" yells Rainbow Dash. Unaware of her talents, Gilda objects. "What are you gonna do? Use your Sonic Rainboom? HA!" asks Gilda. Rainbow gets intimidated by Gilda's comment. "I don't need that to catch up with you, slowpoke!" yells Rainbow Dash. All of the sudden, as the two are flying through the woods path, an arrow shoots one of Gilda's wings. "GILDA, NO!!" screams Rainbow Dash, as she continues to fly away in hopes that she won't get hurt as well. Gilda screams in pain as she crashes onto the train tracks, unable to move Gilda sees a train approaching, but can't fly away with an injured wing. On that train, is Twilight, who is coming home from Canterlot. The paralyzed bird struggles to fly away as the train runs her over and derails off the tracks, crashing into the woods.

Rainbow Dash arrives at the spot where she and Gilda were before the race started, trying to find the nearest source of help. In the distance, she sees Twilight leaving the train station on an emergency train. "Twilight, where were you for all this time?" asks Rainbow Dash. "Well.. I was in Canterlot with Celestia when I got to meet my big brother again, but our time together got... cut short." says Twilight. She starts to tear up when Rainbow Dash remembers the hanging object. "Twilight! I saw something! Sweet Apple Acres! There was a hanging object, a hat was on the ground, I think Applejack hung herself!" yells Rainbow Dash. "Wait, why were you at Sweet Apple Acres?" asks Twilight. "I challenged Gilda to a race and we had to fly 5 laps there and I saw the hat. I tried to ignore it and caught up with Gilda, then an arrow came out of nowhere and injured her." says Rainbow Dash, nervously. Twilight gives her an angry stare. "So some assassin is the reason why I almost died in that train crash! That arrow injuring Gilda caused the train to run her over. That's why the train derailed!" All of the sudden, a ball of smoke fills up the air.

"Oh my gosh.. Gilda's trapped under that train! I have to go save her!" yells Rainbow Dash. Twilight bites on her tail, preventing her from going to the train. "She'll be fine, Rainbow. Fireponys are trying to put out the smoke as we speak, it's too dangerous!" Twilight was wrong. Within a few seconds, the ball of smoke turned into a ball of fire. "GILDA! NO... GILDA!" Rainbow cries out. "Rainbow, I'm so sorry.." says Twilight. "I can't believe I'll never get to see her again." says Rainbow Dash. Just then, Gilda's decapitated head falls next to Rainbow Dash, she screams and flies away in horror. Twilight stares at it in conusion, then starts to back away slowly, followed by running away.

Time Change

The day is now October 24, the Halloween gala is only a week away, and Rarity is still designing Princess Celestia's dress to perfection. "This dress is going to forever." Rarity complains. "Where's my assistant?!" Pinkie Pie steps out in an old dress with pin cushions on it. "Ah there you are, Ms. Pie." says Rarity as she takes out another needle and starts to stitch again. Pinkie Pie looks at her in confusion. "Rarity, you're a unicorn, can't you just use your horn to make this dress?" Rarity stops stitching and looks at her straight in the eye. "Pinkie Pie, darling, I would use my horn for any other dress, but this dress is for the Princess of Equestria, I can't afford to make a single mistake. It needs to be perfection! This dress is also between you and me, nopony else can see it, not even my sister Sweetie Belle, I've already told her one too many times that she cannot see it until it is done, and that's how it's gonna be." She trots back to Pinkie Pie to pull out another needle and starts slightly hitting the dress. "This is really worn out, you can actually see the dust coming from it." The dust enters Pinkie Pies nose and let's out a giant sneeze.

The sneeze was so strong, a few pins fell onto the floor, the pins roll across the room and fall into an outlet mounted into the floor. The electrical shock from the pins power the plug in the outlet, which powers a fan. The fans automatic start causes it to go on High. Not far from the store outside is Sweetie Belle, trotting over to see if she can get her cutie mark by helping Rarity. All of the sudden, the fan blows the window open. Sweetie Belle stops and looks confused. The fan gets stronger as it knocks over a box of extra pins and starts blowing them outside. Sweetie Belle continues walking when the first pin stabs her front hoof. She squeals in pain as more and more pins stab her. She starts screaming and running to the store and trips over herself, falling on her face as the pins stab her heart. Inside the store, Rarity is unaware of what happened outside. "I wonder where Sweetie Belle could be? She'd be bothering me about the dress by now." Rarity hears the fan and turns around. "This fan shouldn't be on, and I didn't open this window." She looks over the windowsill and finds Sweetie Belle's dead and bloody body outside. "SWEETIE BELLE! NO!" screams Rarity. She runs outside and starts removing the pins from her body as a light shines from her flank. Her cutie mark shows a microphone, to show her talent of singing, or screaming in this situation.