The Incredible Flutterrage: Ultimate Destruction

We find ourselves in a desert, watching a small spider walk across the sand. As it does so, a large green hoof stomps on it. The creature the hoof belonged to resembled a pegasus, but was much larger than a normal one. It had a deep green coat and a blood red mane and tail. As the creature jumped around and tossed boulders and trees, we hear the voice of a young mare speak.

There’s a thin line between good and bad. I walk that line every single day. But, when I stray from it, ponies die. My name is Fluttershy. I’m no longer a pony. I’m Flutterrage. I did this to myself, all in the name of science. This is me, and all that I’ve become. I’m a big, green-and-red time bomb.

And I’m ticking.

As Fluttershy finishes speaking, Flutterrage turns back into her original form: a pegasus mare with a soft yellow coat and a pink mane and tail. Fluttershy enters a small cabin before collapsing on the bed inside. Inside the cabin was a large machine powered by gamma radiation. The same kind of radiation that Fluttershy had been exposed to all those years ago. Sometimes Fluttershy thought about how Thunderlane was doing. But, she tried not to linger on her old love for long. But, still…

~

Fluttershy was woken by the sound of her computer beeping. Ugh, what is it now? Fluttershy thought grumpily as she answered the message on her computer. On the screen was a lavender unicorn mare with a green mane and tail with a pink highlight in both.

“Fluttershy, where in Tartarus have you been?” demanded Dr. Twilight Sparkle, who had been exposed to gamma radiation herself, but not enough to turn her into a monster.

“Oh, I’ve just been out getting some fresh air,” said Fluttershy.

Twilight sighed. “Well, I’m glad at least one of us was. All right, listen up, I’ve intercepted a transmission coming from Branson Military Base. Some spook named Rainbow Dash has taken charge. They’re planning a major foray in your direction as we speak. Fluttershy, she’s requisitioned half the ponies and supplies in the base. They know you’re out there and they’re coming for you. I need you to come into town and lay low for awhile. You’re in danger out there,”  she said.

“Twi, if I came into the city, everypony would be in danger,” said Fluttershy as she started to work more on the machine.

“Fluttershy, as your doctor, I’m begging you to reconsider. Your health is deteriorating by the hour. You’ll never find a cure for Flutterrage out there by yourself,” said Twilight.

“Twi, you worry too much, like always. Nopony knows I’m here,” said Fluttershy.

Oh, how very wrong she was.

~

Not far from the cabin, three ponies, a yellow pegasus with a fiery orange mane and tail wearing a military captain’s dress uniform, a white unicorn mare with a short purple mane and tail wearing a purple armored bodysuit, and a pegasus mare with a sky-blue coat and a wild-looking rainbow-colored mane and tail wearing a tan turtle neck and a black trench coat. This particular pegasus was looking at the cabin through binoculars.

“Hello, Dr. Fluttershy… you don’t know how long I’ve been waiting to make your acquaintance,” whispered Rainbow Dash. “Rarity, you go on ahead. I’m fine here.”

“Yes, ma’am,” said the unicorn, before making an impossible leap onto a large cliff.

“As for you, Captain Spitfire, send a warning shot her way. If Fluttershy’s in there, I want her to get the memo quickly,” said Rainbow.

Spitfire scoffed. “Don’t be a fool, Dash. We’d give away our position,” she said.

Rainbow sighed. Just gotta do everything myself, don’t I? she thought as she spoke into a walkie-talkie. “Corporal, send a round towards the outhouse by the west wall,” she said.

“Yes, ma’am!” came the response. “Alpha-one-niner, Tango is clear, I repeat, Tango is clear.”

The soldier fired a bazooka round at the cabin, destroying it. Rainbow Dash smacked herself in the head. “I said the outhouse, you idiot!” she snarled.

“Oops,” said the soldier.

But, Rainbow didn’t need to worry. From the ruins of the cabin rose Flutterrage.

“Fluttershy, I’m losing the com relays. Fluttershy, can you hear me? I’m picking up your signal. If you can understand what I’m saying, get out of there! Get out of there!” said Twilight before the transmission was lost.

Flutterrage growled. Puny soldiers… again, she thought.

“This is your chance to prove yourself, Captain Spitfire. Better make it count,” came Rainbow’s voice over a comlink.

Flutterrage then began to pummel soldiers left and right, picking them up and slamming them, throwing them, and punching them, even kicking them like a hoofball.

“All units, fall back! FALL BACK!!!” yelled a soldier on the coms.

“No! Stand your-” said Rainbow, before a soldier flew over her head. “...ground. All right, that’s it! Recon is now officially over. Send in the assault teams.”

As Flutterrage made her way into an itiy-bity little town, a helicopter dropped soldiers into the fray.

Puny ponies never learn. Guns don’t hurt Flutterrage, thought Flutterrage… before getting a face-full of tank fire. But tanks do. Time to smash!

The next time the tank fired a shot at her, Flutterrage simply smirked and punched it back, destroying said tank.

Flutterrage then grabbed a pick-up truck and turned it into a pair of metal boxing gloves, with which Flutterrage began to pound yet another tank, before she finally spotted her escape route.

And, of course, she took it.

~

Rainbow Dash and Spitfire examined the ruins of Fluttershy’s cabin.

“This isn’t over, Doctor Fluttershy… it has only just begun,” muttered Rainbow.

“I hope you’re happy, Dash. Flutterrage got away,” said Spitfire.

“Don’t worry about it, Captain. She’s a freak, and a highly conspicuous one. To be honest, I’m more worried about what Fluttershy left behind,” said Rainbow, before something caught her eye: a bio-container of some sort. “There! I want that bio-container before it’s destroyed!”

“Careful, Dash! You have no idea what you’re messing with!” said Spitfire.

“I have a job to do, Captain. Fluttershy left her toys on the playground and I refuse to let them burn,” said Rainbow as she grabbed the container, only to get zapped with a huge dose of gamma radiation.

~

About 7 hours later, we find Dr. Twilight sitting and listening to a radio inside her church lair/laboratory. It was raining heavily outside.

“According to the local weatherponies, this storm will continue with heavy rains from the northwest weather factory. Meanwhile, the governor plays down suggestions that Flutterrage is still in the area. Residents are urged to remain calm…” blared the radio as somepony knocked on the church door.

Twilight answered it. “Sorry, but confessional's-” she started to say, before realizing it was Fluttershy.

“They… took the machine from me. It was my last hope. I didn’t have anywhere else to go,” whimpered Fluttershy.

Twilight sighed. “Follow me, quickly,” she said, leading Fluttershy around the side of the church. “You really should’ve come here sooner, Fluttershy.”

“Look, I know. And I’m sorry. I think this sickness is getting worse. I think Flutterrage is trying to break away from me, and I don’t know how much longer I can contain her,” said Fluttershy.

Twilight opened the door to a small garage-like room. In there was a start for a machine.

“It’s far from completion, but it’s a start. With your expertise added, we can get inside your neural generators and figure out what triggers the beast,” said Twilight.

“Not with this kind of processing power. How are we gonna equip it?” asked Fluttershy.

“Already thought of that,” said Twilight, levitating a small helmet-like device in her magic. “Put this on.”

“What is it?” asked Fluttershy as she put on the helmet.

“Think of it as a video game,” said Twilight.