Chaos Reborn: The Corruption of Harmony

Chapter 4: Epic Cupcake Time

Twilight’s eyes slowly opened. It was blurry, but she could make out an orange silhouette standing over her.

“Hey y’all, she’s wakin’ up!” Applejack called to the others in the room.

Another blur stood over her, this one purple and green, followed by another that was yellow and pink.

“You ok, Twilight?” The purple one asked

“Spike, is that you?” she said as her eyes began to focus.

Standing over her were Applejack, Spike, and Fluttershy. Twilight was back in her bed at the library. Suddenly it all came back to her, and she sprang to life.

“Where’s Rarity?!” She called out frantically, grasping Applejack by the shoulders and pulling herself up.

Applejack looked over at the others. Fluttershy just looked down at the floor and began to cry, as Spike struggled to hold in his tears. She turned back to Twilight and shook her head. “We don’t know what happened to her, Twi. Both me and Fluttershy only woke up a few hours ago, and ain’t none of us knows how we got home. Fluttershy checked Rainbow’s place and I checked Rarity’s. We both ran into each other over at Sugarcube Corner lookin’ for Pinkie Pie. Weren’t nopony home there neither. Finally we got here and Spike let us in. He don’t know how you got back here either. He says you were just here when he woke up.”

Twilight got up out of bed. “Then the first thing we need to do is find our friends.” She looked over to her Spike “Have we gotten any new letters from Princess Celestia while I was out?” Spike shook his head. “Hmmmm…I wonder why she hasn’t tried to check in.” Twilight thought out loud. “Well, never mind that for now. We have to find our friends.”

“But where do we start? We already tried their homes.” Applejack questioned

“We’ll have to go back to the Everfree Forest and check there. If they’re not there, hopefully we’ll at least be able to piece together find some clues that might lead us to them.”

Elsewhere, Rainbow Dash was also coming to. She she opened her eyes slowly, trying to move, but snapped back to consciousness quickly when she found herself to be held down tightly by leather straps, stretching her out flat and spreading all four of her legs apart. The only things not strapped down were her wings, which fluttered frantically through the backless fame of the device, as she tried to pull free from her bonds.

Pinkamina stepped from the darkness into the light which came from a single, dull bulb above the rack that Rainbow was held captive in. On her neck was a necklace with a single white horn.

“You’re finally awake, Dashie. Let’s not get started too fast this time around. You didn’t make it very long last time we did this.” She looked up and down Rainbow’s body.
“This is already a little different from last time. Sorry I don’t have my special dress to show you. I didn’t get to pack before I came, but I’m starting a new one.” She displayed a white horn dangling from string on her neck. “And how fitting is it, that this be the first piece of my new dress? Rarity would simply die, knowing that she got to make the first contribution to the design.”

“W-what are you talking about, Pinkie? Last time?" Dash asked I confusion before crying out in horror as she locked eyes with the horn hanging from Pinkamina’s neck. "Oh my gosh, what have you done with Rarity!?”

“Don’t worry. Mommy’s right here, Darling” Said a voice from the darkness, before stepping forward. Out came a white unicorn with a purple mane. She had cuts all over her face and body. The ones on her face looked as if she'd been attacked by a small animal, but the cuts elsewhere...they seemed to have been inflicted purposefully. On her chest was scar in the shape of a heart. It appeared to have been burned into her with some sort of iron.

“Rarity! Oh no, what happened to you!? And if that’s not your horn, whose is it?” Rainbow Dash asked trying to figure out what was going on and why all of this was happening.

“Oh, don’t worry about me, Rainbow Dash. You should be more worried about what’s going to happen to you.” Lil’ Miss Rarity said, reminding Rainbow Dash of her current predicament.

“Yeah I’d hate to be you right now.” A third voice called out. “What a failure. You don’t deserve the name ‘Rainbow Dash’, you worthless waste of wings.”
The pony stepped out. It was a pegasus, but not just any pegasus. It was another Rainbow Dash! The only noticeable difference between the two was that this Dash’s tail was died jet black and the look of malice in her cold, rose colored eyes.

"Hey! That's not very nice!" The pink pony scolded Dash's double.

"Pfft! What's your point?" The pegasus rolled her eyes.

“I- I don’t understand. What’s going on?” Rainbow Dash cried out as she tried, hysterically, to shake free from the leather straps that held her in place.

“It’s ok Dashie, I won’t kill you too soon this time. I plan to keep you alive and cut you up little by little so we can enjoy every last second together. And don’t worry about anypony interrupting us. With this other Dashie out there, nopony will even know you’re gone unless she gives herself away by being a big meanie pants. We have the whole place to ourselves. Isn’t that exciting? Mr. and Mrs. Cake left all of Sugarcube Corner to me, should something happen to them. Well guess what?!”

Pinkamina picked up a knife and reached over to flip a switch. The entire room lit up and revealing a table at the far end. At its center, sat a large silver plate containing two stuffed heads...those of Mr. and Mrs. Cake. Their eyes had been scooped out and the mouths sewn shut. Rainbow Dash vomited from the shock and disgust of seeing the murdered couple.

“How…How could you, Pinkie?” Rainbows eyes began to fill with tears.

“Don't you see?” Trollestia’s voice chuckled from behind Rainbow Dash, as she stepped forward where the frightened pegasus could see her. “That’s not your friend Pinkie Pie, and I’m not Princess Celestia...at least not the Princess Celestia you know.”

“Then where are Pinkie and the Princess?” Rainbow Dash demanded.

“The princess is fine last I checked, but your pink little friend, that’s another story. Turns out only Alicorns can breathe in space. Who knew?” Trollestia shrugged her shoulders and in an “I dunno LOL” position.

“Pinkamina’s going to take excellent care of you, my dear” Lil' Miss Rarity chimed in.
“Don’t you worry your little head. I’m sure the pain will be exquisite. I’m actually quite jealous.”

Pinkamina turned to the white unicorn and plunged the knife deep into the fleshy area of her plot, causing her to shudder in ecstasy and bite down on her lower lip.

“Yes! That’s Mommy’s sweet spot. Keep that up and I can't promise I'll be able to contain myself.” Miss Rarity winked at Pinkamina.

“Maybe we can have a little ‘private party’ later.” Pinkamina blushed as she pulled out the knife and licked it clean.
“But first, Dashie and I have one final play date. Hopefully, this will take a while. You two meet up with the girls. I’ll catch up after I’m done getting one last taste of the Rainbow.”

Pinkamina and Trollestia smiled down at Rainbow Dash, as the two ponies departed from the basement of Sugarcube Corner to find Twilight and the others, the only sounds the twisted copies of Rarity and Dash could hear behind them were the sound of power tools, laughter, and screams of agony.