The Strangers I Once Knew

by Fireflamefox

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Sad
Length: 574

Applejack tells how all her friends went insane.

Hello. My name is Applejack. I used to visit strangers at the Ponyville Psychiatric Hospital every day. They were my best friends. Then they escaped. This is what happened before and after they were in the hospital.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-07-20 19:46:54 UTC

Fluttershy

  "Where's Winona?" I asked Fluttershy.

  "I dunno." She replied.

  "Hmm, ok." I said. I walked off to continue searching for Winona. The only things we had found were her collar and some blood, with a yelp in the night. I was so worried that she had been killed. I continued my search to Fluttershy's cottage to see if there were any signs of Winona. Now, I didn't expect that Fluttershy had killed her, I was only looking for traces of Winona. Then I saw somethin' odd. A shed behind her cottage. I slowly walk toward it, but right as I opened the door, I heard a scream and turned around to see Fluttershy begging me not to go in there.

  "Alright Fluttershy, I won't." I said. But I'd lied.

  I was too curious. I just had to know what was in there. When Fluttershy left to collect berries, I snuck out to the shed. When I opened the door, I couldn't even let out a scream.

  Inside, I saw many animals nailed to the walls, their organs hanging out. Then I saw Winona. She was probably the worst. Her body had been turned inside out, and her guts were cut open. Then I finally screamed. I even saw Rose, who'd been missing for weeks, turned into a rug. I was standing on her. I tried to process it all. It's a dream, it's a dream, I told myself. But in my heart, I knew it was real. Fluttershy was really a monster. I didn't even know how, how a Flutters turned evil. I then heard a revving of a chainsaw. I slowly turned around to see Fluttershy standing at the door, the chainsaw in her hooves.

  "What did I say about my shed!?" She said. I was horrified.

  I screamed as Fluttershy rammed into me, making me fall. I tried to get back up, but she used her leg to slam my face back into the ground. She raised the chainsaw and then made it come down lightly, hardly raking my back. I suddenly felt a rush of adrenaline and shoved Fluttershy off me as I stood up.

  "Is it that the best ya got?" I screech, running into her and knocking the chainsaw out of her hoof. She looked up and wailed, then threw me to the ground and picked up her chainsaw. Just as she was about to kill me, I bucked her as hard as I could with my legs and she fell down. Her chest was already bruising, and she wheezed. But I wasn't going to kill her. I wanted a trophy from the fight. So using some rope I found while she was down, I tied her up and knocked her out. I picked up the chainsaw, and walked over to her hair. I slice it all off, leaving only a bit left. Her hair was now jagged and crooked and Rarity would hate it, but I didn't care.

  I had survived, and that's what mattered. Using my strength, I pick up Fluttershy, no, Butchershy, and put her on my neck. I hold her hooves and legs so she wouldn't fall off, and take her to the Ponyville Police Office.

  I told them everything, and even how I renamed her. They were so shocked, one pony dropped his coffee. They took her to an asylum, putting her in the room 473 and giving her my nickname, Butchershy.