EUP Chronicles: Captain Equestria

IN THE RAINBOW FACTORY!

The ring announcer stood in the middle of the ring, ready to call out the first wrestler, which was Scootaloo.

“First is the challenger! Weighing in at 115 pounds! From Ponyville... SCOOTALOO!”

Lights that matched six colors of the rainbow shone throughout the arena. Red strobe lights flashed constantly from the entrance ramp as the entire stable gathered in the shadows. Then a red light shone down on them, to signify the horrors mentioned in the Rainbow Factory story. The story of foals getting murdered to make rainbows. Cloud Chaser and Flitter were wearing the same

outfits. Plus both were wearing rainbow wigs on top of their heads to signify who they were cheering for. Glaze herself was wearing a bloody white lab coat coated in fake blood, which was red food coloring and corn syrup. Scootaloo waved, blew kisses and even shook the hands of her fans, as the entire place was in an uproar of cheers. Scootaloo was the face (good guy), and Lightning Dust was the heel (bad guy).

NOW A RAINBOW'S TALE ISN'T QUITE AS NICE!

OF THE STORY WE KNEW OF SUGAR AND SPICE!

NOW A RAINBOW IS EASY ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW IT!

WITH THE HELP OF THE MAGIC OF THE PEGASUS DEVICE!

Flitter and Cloud Chaser held the middle and top ropes apart for Scootaloo

to enter the ring. Once inside, the two just walked back down the short metal steps and joined Glaze at ringside.

IN THE RAINBOW FACTORY!

WHERE FEARS AND HORRORS COME TRUE!

IN THE RAINBOW FACTORY!

WHERE NOT A SINGLE SOUL GETS THROUGH!

Scootaloo stood in the center of the ring, the spotlight shining down on her. She raised her arms as a rainbow of fireworks, in six different colors, exploded out of the ring corners.

Then the Wonderbolts' entrance music hit the ponies' ears. With that came the jeering and boos as Spitfire, Rainbow Dash and the champion herself, Lightning Dust, walked out onto the entrance ramp. Lightning was rubbing it in that she is still the champion of the entire promotion, that she had defeated multiple mares to get where she was and to stay there, and she wasn't going anywhere.

“Cut the damn music!” Lightning had grabbed a microphone off of the time- keeper's table to address Scootaloo. When the music finally shut off, she spoke into the mic.

“That's better! You ought to be very proud of yourself Scootaloo.”

Scootaloo gave Lightning a look showing she was impressed with herself.

“You came to this very federation, unable to truly fly like a normal pegasus. You started out as a good for nothing rookie, you paid your dues and you worked hard to get where you are today. But it is unfortunate that all that you did was in vain. Because in two seconds, I'm going to charge into that ring and beat you down like I did every other mare who thought they were tough enough to beat me! I do mean everypony who faced me got the same treatment that I'm going to give you! The Masked Mare! All THREE of the Lifeguards! Everypony who faced me ended up laying on that mat you're standing on! You are going to suffer the same fate!”

With that Lightning tossed her title belt to the mare referee who signaled for the bell to begin the match officially. Then Rainbow Dash and Spitfire stood at ringside to watch their ally's victory over the up and coming mare.

The main event had begun...

Lightning wasted no time in pummeling Scootaloo in the face. Her fists were flying fast and hard against the young mare's soft skin and beautiful facial features. Scootaloo fell on her back. Lightning climbedon top of her, hooked her left leg and pinnned her.

1... 2...

Scootaloo kicked out before the ref counted to three, breaking the pin and allowing the match to continue. Lightning snarled at Scootaloo, before Scootaloo headbutted Lightning in the face, knocking her flat onto her flight suit wrestling outfit, which was royal blue with yellow lightning bolts decorating it. As Lightning Dust had been temporarily dazed from the headbutt, Scoots grabbed her from behind and lifted her off the mat, bending backwards to pin Lightning Dust to the mat.

1... 2...

Then Lightning kicked out like Scootaloo did previously. Sighing in frustration, Scootaloo went on the attack with a barrage of slaps and kicks to Lightning Dust's body and face. Lightning, in response, grabbed her right hand and her left leg, trapping both and keeping Scootaloo from fighting back. Lightning delivering a hard kick to the stomach, to cause Scoots to fall to the mat. Lightning Dust took this time to climb to the top of the south eastern corner of the ring. Scootaloo held her stomach in pain from the kick, and couldn't react in time as Lightning Dust jumped off the top turnbuckle, Landing HARD onto Scootaloo's stomach.

“UGH!!!!!” Scootaloo could only scream, as she gasped for air and was sure she heard a couple of her ribs snap in her stomach region and it painful whenever she breathed in air. Scootaloo was now feeling pain that she had never felt in her short time wrestling. But she knew these injuries were part of the job. Her body was a sacrifice for the profession she was calling her life career. Slowly trying to recover and regain her senses, Lightning Dust grew overconfident. She knew she is had injured the young mare and the future of the entire promotion. Climbing to the top of the same corner again, Lightning was more than ready to end the match. However, just as soon as she back-flipped off of the corner, Scootaloo had enough strength in her to roll out of the way. This caused poor Lightning to land face first onto the mat, and effectively knocking herself unconscious. This gave Scootaloo an opening to end the match in her favor. Rainbow and Spitfire watched as Scootaloo climbed on top of their friend, hooking her right leg for the pin

fall. They tryed to interrupt the pin count, but Flitter and Cloud Chaser rushed them to prevent them from entering the ring.

1... 2... 3!

The ref signalled for the bell to ring, to signal the end of the match. Scootaloo was handed the EMWF Championship Title belt, as confetti rained down from the spotlights above. Her stablemates rushed the ring and hugged her. Though with her injured rib cage, she told them to lay off of her for the time being. The Wonderbolts took the unconscious form of Lightning Dust out of the ring and back to the backstage area, where a doctor would take a look at her injuries, and also at Scootaloo's injuries.

–-

“Three fractured ribs, Scoots.” Flitter said backstage in the Rainbow Factory's locker room. Scootaloo was in the middle of changing out of her attire with the belt she won laying in between both mares. Bandages were wrapped tightly around Scootaloo's abdomen.

“But at least you still won the match, and I never have been more proud of you, Scootaloo.”

“I can't believe I won by sheer luck.” Scootaloo replied.

“It wasn't luck that you rolled out of the way.” Flitter said. “It was your senses and training that you knew you had to roll away.”

“I guess...” Scootaloo grabbed Flitter and went for a passionate tongue filled kiss. That was until a pony wearing all black walked inside of the locker room, wielding an arcane assault rifle that fired arcane energy blasts out of it. This intruder opened fire on Flitter.

It all was slow motion for Scootaloo, as she watched in horror as the shots fired straight into Flitter's chest. The shots blew open Flitter's chest area in the locations they hit, causing tiny fires to break out with blood oozing from the wounds. Flitter lay dying on the floor of the locker room. Her eyes wide and filled with terror, her breathing slowing by the second, and tears finally falling down her face as she began to await the Grim Reaper Pony to take her to the afterlife.  Her final moments were staring at Scootaloo, more tears falling down her face to the floor. Her soulmate, her marefriend, the pony she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, was going to live on without her or die alongside her.

“I love you... Scootaloo...” Flitter choked out before she finally lay still and limp. Her breathing stopped forever and her eyes quickly clouded up. This was enough for Scootaloo to snap. The death of the very love of her life was enough to risk her own life to take down this pegasus pony in black.

“Did I just kill your marefriend, Scootaloo?” the pony said. “Well you seem to lose everypony you seem to love. Just like your parents when I killed them...”

“How do you know my parents?” Scootaloo asked.

“Let's just say that I killed both as they were fleeing to Canterlot years ago. You were just a tiny recently born foal back then. Sound asleep as they were trying to reach that traitorous Princess Celestia, and your current family that adopted you. You are actually the same age as Princess Twilight Sparkle now. Did you know that?”

Of course, Scootaloo knew that. The Armor family practically raised her. But that wasn't what caused her to close her eyes and cringe. It was the fact that her birth parents was supposedly killed by this mad pony, a mercenary no less. At least she thought he was a hired gun to finish the job. She was so traumatized by the sudden murder of her marefriend and the recent revelation of her birth parents. This villain had been calling them and her aunt Celestia traitors of Equestria.

“My parents and Celestia are NOT traitors of Equestria! They would never betray this great nation!”

The pony in black burst into uncontrollable laughter, pulling off his mask as well, showing his silver coat with dark brown mane and tail.

“First of all, I never said they were traitors to Equestria! Secondly, your parents ran away with you and a very special super soldier serum that was to be given to the Griffin Empire as a gift to help them take control of the entire world

of Equus. So they were traitors to the Griffin Empire and of Advanced Technological Mechanics! They were just trying to stop the most powerful nation from growing! Your parents deserved to die! As for Celestia, she will die soon enough! ALL HAIL THE GRIFFIN EMPIRE AND HAIL HYDRA!”

“Hail this, plothole!” came the voice of a certain cyan blue Pegasus with a rainbow colored mane and tail. The pony turned only to get shot in the face with only one arcane energy bolt. The stallion's body fell to the floor with a soft thump. Rainbow Dash flipped a switch on her gun which retracted the gun in on itself before sliding it back into its' small holster. Entering the Rainbow Factory's locker room, she took in the scene. Flitter had bled out to death, the pony she killed was now laying dead behind her, and poor Scootaloo fell to her knees along the wall and was now crying over Flitter's body. Almost everything Scootaloo loved or cared about was now dead. First her birth parents and then her marefriend. Rainbow walked over casually and knelt in front of the current EMWF champion.

“My parents. The love of my life laying dead right here in front of me. It's all been taken away from me Rainbow Dash.” Scootaloo said as more and more tears fell from her eyes. Rainbow Dash brought Scootaloo in

for a comforting hug. As Rainbow Dash embraced Scootaloo, the latter let all of her current emotions out of her.

Are... Glaze and Cloud Chaser okay.?” Scootaloo asked. Rainbow merely shook her head as tears fell out of her closed eyes.

“I'm sorry, Scoots.”

It was enough to finally cause Scootaloo's world to crash around her. She has lost EVERYTHING she loved and cared for in this world. She did love her older adoptive brother and sister, Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle, but right now, she could only think of her parents and her friends. Now all had been taken away from her as her eyes were wide open. She began to shake out of sheer stress. Tears continued to flow from her eyes, and finally she really snapped. Every fiber of her being wanted to know who was the mastermind behind all of her suffering as of this moment. Who ordered her parents to be killed while trying to reach the safety of Canterlot and Princess Celestia's gaze? Who wanted her dead as well, going as far as to attack the arena and kill

who knows how many ponies? Ending their lives early or just wounding them, that will change their lives forever? Somepony was going to pay for everything. Her birth parents, her friends, her fans and other ponies who came to watch a fantastic show. They were ALL going to die. It was at this time that Scootaloo released a loud shouting cry of all of her emotions boiling over at the same time. Her wail could be heard all the way out into the halls, as Rainbow Dash's friends and the now arriving Royal Guards Crime

Scene Investigation Unit begin working the crime scene. They all heard Scootaloo. They may not have understood the pain she was going through, but they knew a cry of pure anguish anywhere. Some of them had let one out if they ever lost friends to terrorist acts or random violence.

Celestia and Luna were there personally to oversee the entire operation. They had to make sure that if ATM was going to go down for this, which was apparent by the dead soldiers wearing ATM military uniforms, they had to make sure everything was done correctly. Neither could afford to have another acquittal on their hands. They too heard the cry of anguish that Scootaloo screamed. Both looked at the floor in sorrow for the young mare.

“Such a tragedy, dear sister. To have a mare so young and just starting to enjoy her career and life, only to have it stripped from her so suddenly.” Luna said.

“I know. But for Scootaloo, everything will change in her life from this point on.” Celestia replied.

“You think she'll accept FLAG now?”

“I don't think: I know. She wants only one thing now, and that is not justice, but vengeance.”

“So we have her. We have her as our only super soldier. Our only hope against Granite Stone?”

“Yes, Luna. We have our Captain Equestria.”