Flash Sentry Must Pay

“Well now, how’d ya like ta plead?” Applejack glared as she looked down on the Pegasus she and her friends had tied to a chair. The very confused and bound Flash Sentry stared up at the ponies surrounding him. From left to right stood Applejack, a joyfully grinning Pinkie Pie, a very serious faced Rarity, a cold and rage filled Rainbow Dash, and last but not least an obviously frightened and cowering Fluttershy. Behind him was a strangely shimmering pool that seemed to call to any who looked into its depths.

Flash was taken aback, he wasn’t aware of any crime he might be accused of, at least any crime they would know about. Also there was no reason that Princess Twilight’s friends would be involved in this kind of inquisition if he had been found out. Still he fell right back on his training and simply answered, “What the spit shine do you think you’re doing? I don’t care who you’re friends with, you don’t have any kind of authority near what you would need to attack and detain a Royal Guard.”

“Well ain’t that funny, cause our friend is the reason yer hogtied..”

It was then that Rainbow took over the interrogation hoping that a little variety would make things go more smoothly, “And you, mister big fancy Royal Guard, said quite a few things about our friend that we take exception to.”

“And it took me three hours to make her smile after you made her cry.”

“Honestly Darling, a black plastic garbage bag couldn’t make Twilight look fat or in any way unattractive.”

Fluttershy only cringed more as her friends looked to her to say something bad about Flash. Still in spite of the stage fright she managed a little squeak that sounded a little like, “You should apologize... if that’s alright with you.”

Of course Flash’s response was something none of the five mares were expecting, he began laughing at them as if they had been joking. Then wearing a manic grin he addressed his captors, “Really? Is that what this is about? Well buck me running, here I thought I was in trouble. Did the fattest little alicorn put you foals up to this?”

While Dash was about to tear Flash Sentry’s tongue out Applejack managed to hold her back with her body and one word, “Rainbow.”

With a smile and a blush, Dash quickly settled down and replied, “Thanks Boss.”

“Any time Sugarcube.” Then Applejack turned to Flash and continued, “Now that’s no good Flash, yer goin’ about this the wrong way. See yer supposed ta beg us fer yer life.”

Then Rarity took over when Rainbow’s struggles became barely manageable for her strongest earth pony friend, “With that kind of attitude it makes one wonder what she saw in you in the first place. What changed Darling? Are you not the same stallion as before?”

More laughter echoed from the captured guard as he spoke again, “Me? Nothing changed about me. I just found out that little slut you call a friend wouldn’t put out. I should have known she was a dyke considering the company she keeps.”

Fluttershy whimpered at Flash’s cruel words as Rainbow finally managed to free herself from Applejack and shouted, “Yeah cause that’s the only reason a mare wouldn’t want to waste her time with your useless two inches. Throw him in the pond Pink!”

Flash Sentry had not noticed Pinkie approach him until she tipped his chair backward into the pond behind him. Applejack quickly pulled him out by a rope attached to the chair while Pinkie wore a wide grin as she approached a second Flash Sentry who was crawling out of the pool with an entirely blank expression, “Hi! I’m Pinkie and I’m going to call you Brad.”

“We ain’t keepin him Pinkie. No sense namin him when Rare’s just gonna send him right back into the pool after ah’m done.”

Pinkie pouted when the original Flash began laughing, “Is that supposed to scare me? Are you trying to make me think that you would actually kill me and replace me with that empty headed sod?”

The lights went on in Pinkie’s head as she suddenly realized, “Hey that’s a good idea! Hey A.J. can we do that instead of the other thing?”

Applejack was struck silent by Pinkie’s hasty willingness to consider murder. Fortunately Rarity was quickly able to talk her friend out of using a hammer she had pulled from her mane to crush Flash Sentry’s skull, “Now darling how do you think Twilight would feel if she knew we killed somepony? Even if it was this worthless sack of horse apples, if you’ll pardon my language.” Of course at that point Rarity had begun considering murder as well. So it was up to Rainbow Dash who hated Flash the most to talk Rarity and Pinkie out of murder.

“No no no nononononononono! We stick to the plan, dying is too good for him... so we gotta make him wish we were gonna kill him.”

Applejack then finally swallowed her surprise and added, “Rainbow’s right. We stick to the plan... ah’ll go first ta give him a taste. Now Pinkie, keep Brad still, ah don’t want him runnin off.” Without a word Pinkie forced Brad to the ground and held him there as Applejack stood over them with a hoof raised over the clones left foreleg.

A stomp.

A crack.

A scream.

And all was silent but for the whimpering of the clone with a shattered limb and the laughter of the stallion who just watched his doppelganger being maimed.

Flash sentry was the first to speak after the act of violence still wearing his snide tone, “Really? You’re just going to beat my clone senseless and expect me to change my wicked ways? Good luck with that, stupid mare sluts. Hell I’ll bet you’re all in love with Twidyke Sparkle.”

Curled in a corner, Fluttershy continued to weep at the pain one of her friends had just inflicted, but still each of the others did their part in exacting their mob justice. Rarity advanced on the clone, Pinkie reassured the broken non-pony, and Rainbow Dash gloated in Flash’s face, “You just wait, the best is yet to come. Hit it Rares.”

With a flash of unicorn magic Rarity sent Brad back to the mirror pool, but instead of sending him straight back the remnants of the clone first passed through Flash causing the guard pony to begin screaming in agony as if his left foreleg had been crushed by a powerful strike from an earth pony.

Yet there were no marks or evidence that would indicate a broken bone. In fact Flash Sentry was entirely whole and only feeling the pain inflicted on the clone without any of the damage that could be used as evidence against the girls in that cave. Twilight’s friends had found a way to torture a pony without even touching him in a way that could not be traced back to them. In fact Rarity had discovered that if anything the psychological suffering would appear strangely self-inflicted.

When Flash’s cries of agony finally subsided he bolstered himself so he could glare at his captors and spit more of his venom, “Is that all you have in you? I was trained to resist far worse tortures than this little charade.”

“Oh I love charades!” Pinkie cheered as she pushed Flash back into the pool. When Applejack had pulled him out of the water and his next clone appeared she continued, “Now guess this one!” Pinkie then pantomimed as a pony being hung by the neck like an execution.

Flash grinned as he responded coldly, “Oh let’s see, is it some stupid pink pony finally getting executed for her crimes against nutrition?”

“No silly, it’s you! Well not you, because we aren’t going to kill you so it will be your copy but we won’t kill him either because Rarity and Dashie are concerned about what that will do to you so we’re going to hang him up and beat him like a piñata in fact I might copy myself for this, but they might get too excited and beat your copy to death which like I said is probably a really ba-” Applejack finally put a stop to Pinkie with a well-timed hoof in the pink pony’s mouth.

“Alright sugarcube, that’s enough, Rare and I’ll get him hoisted up, and y’all can just grab the stick and go to town.”

“Ah... I don’t want to go to town with the stick. How am I supposed to beat him with it if I take it to town?”

Rainbow stifled her laughter, while Applejack smiled at her confused friend and replied warmly, “Alright Pinkie, you win. Y’all can hit him with the stick instead of going to town.”

Pinkie cheered with excitement and began pummeling the clone with reckless abandon. Welts and bruises appeared quickly and bleeding breaks in the skin soon followed. This abuse might have continued for hours if not for one simple thing. The stick snapped after one particularly strong strike to the ribs. Rather than mourning the loss of the stick, Pinkie celebrated by throwing a bag’s worth of candy onto the ground under the swinging clone.

Rarity sent the clone back to the pool through Flash, Pinkie ate the candy prize from her fleshy piñata, and Flash whimpered at the pain of the beating he hadn’t received.

“Ah bet yer wonderin why we can do this without feelin bad about it. Ya see, Twi did some tests after Pinkie’s little episode and discovered that the clones’re no more living things than a mud puddle. So ya see we ain’t harmin anythin that’s got any kind of... um ah think Twi called it a self... the clones don’t got a self.” Applejack offhandedly commented when Flash gave her a rather confused look. She then smiled realizing it was Rarities turn.

Another dunk in the pond meant anther clone and this one was dealt with quickly. Keeping her distance in case of splatter, Rarity began focusing her magic on the Flash clone’s internal organs. Then slowly but surely, pop! Each and every one, one at a time was expanded until it ruptured. The heart was last and was only broken for a second before Rarity returned the clone to the pond.

Rainbow Dash took the next turn ignoring Fluttershy’s pleas for this horrid action to be stopped and began jumping up and down on her clone’s stomach and chest. Then stepping off her victim she ran toward Applejack planting a passionate kiss on her favorite farm mare’s lips. When she was done and her clone was gone the girls finally took the time to listen to Flash Sentry’s pleas for mercy.

“Please... I’m sorry... I don’t... don’t want any more-“

Applejack shook her head when she interrupted with a simple reply, “Sorry sugarcube, but y’all have three more legs ah haven’t broke yet. Plus Fluttershy still needs a turn. Then we’ll go around the room and see if any of the girls want a second go.”

Flash whimpered and sobbed as he was lowered into the pool yet again and quivered in fear as he watched Applejack stomp on the copy’s legs one by one leaving the left foreleg the only to be untouched.

Despite the continuing agony Flash noticed something odd. The yellow Pegasus was less than willing to participate with the others. As they argued, the pain in his body slowly receded and he could hear them speak.

First Pinkie, “But Fluttershy, it’s so much fun! Like having a birthday party and a wedding on the same day! Except with more blood... and broken bones... same amount of crying though... but not crying for happiness, more crying for pain and sadness... so not like a wedding at all I think...”

Then Rarity was next, “Come now darling it isn’t as though we will be hurting any pony who doesn’t deserve it. Just remember what he did to Twilight.”

Rainbow didn’t say a word that Flash could hear, instead she chose to embrace her longtime friend and whisper her words of encouragement into her ear, “You can do it Flutters, I believe in you.”

Finally Applejack simply gave Fluttershy a reassuring pat on the shoulder and an encouraging smile as she slowly moved toward the clone the others had prepared for her.

Tears welled up in her eyes as she heard the clone speak one word to her, “Hi!”

Fearfully jumping back, Fluttershy looked up at the copy of Flash Sentry and felt anger boiling in her at the memory of what the real flash had done to her friend, still she didn’t want to be rude so she replied, “Oh, um... hello... I’m afraid I’m going to hurt you now... sorry.”

Strangely the Flash clone only smiled with his warm reply, “Sounds good! I totally deserve it, well not me, but the pony I was made out of deserves it, and if I can help him get what he deserves than I’ll sleep better at night... or not because I won’t be... anything anymore.” It seemed odd to Fluttershy how polite this version of Flash was, but she knew what had to be done and if this Flash was fine with it then that was even better.

With a grunt of effort Fluttershy kicked at the clone eliciting a small, “Oh,” causing Fluttershy to ask with great concern in her voice.

“Oh dear, did I hurt you? I’m sorry.” Obviously to the others in the room it seemed that Fluttershy had forgotten that she had intended to hurt him

“No actually you didn’t hurt me at all. Maybe you could try hitting me a little harder.”

“Oh, okay... sorry.” Another attempt and another failure was this time met with laughter, cruel and heartless laughter along with the mocking voice of a still securely tied Flash Sentry.

“Well it had to happen eventually, you pulled a total faggot out of the pool and you managed to pair him with the weakest most pathetic coward in Equestria. Well it does make a little sense why you would bring that buttery pushover. You needed a scapegoat in case this all went south and she’s just the codependent slut to get the job done.”

Every mare in the chamber aside from Fluttershy was itching to rip Flash’s wings off, but only moved to their friend’s side to comfort the now weeping mare. Even the Flash clone tried his best to comfort the pony who had been trying to damage him.

The group slowly ushered Fluttershy out of the Mirror Pool chamber when Flash spoke again, “you know it makes sense why Flutterslut would be friends with that useless princess. It’s because Twidyke is the only pony in Equestria more worthless than she is. Did she crawl like a worm when she begged you to pop her little dyke cherry? She had to have gotten some practice before she traded favors to Celestia in exchange for becoming a princess. I wouldn’t have thought that Celestia would do something like that, but why else would she give a crown to that stupid-“

Fluttershy’s eye twitched.

“Useless.” Fluttershy’s eyes began burning with the tears streaming from them.

“Second rate.” Fluttershy’s wings flared with her growing anger.

“Mare licking.” In spite of her friends trying to get her away from Flash, Fluttershy turned back and began marching toward the object of her rage.

“Fat assed, ugly dyke!”

Fluttershy’s eyes were blinded by nearly endless stream of tears as she thought back to the pony she loved more than any other and the reason for this whole ordeal.

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Fluttershy smiled as she watched Twilight busily moving around the kitchen of her new castle. They were going on a picnic with their other friends and it had been Pinkie’s idea to send Fluttershy alone to make sure Twilight was not panicking, then the pink mare had giggled at the thought of a ‘picnic panic’ or something to that effect.

The only slightly panicking alicorn hurriedly searched high and low for the salad bowl she had left sitting on the counter in plain sight. Fluttershy let out a small quiet giggle at the sight but soon realized her mistake when Twilight stopped her search to look straight at her and ask, “Did you say something Fluttershy?”

“Um... n-no, I just thought... um is that the bowl you’re looking for?” Fluttershy answered softly while indicating the exact bowl Twilight had been looking for.

“Yes! Um well yes I mean yes that’s it.” Twilight showed obvious embarrassment. Still she showed even more awkwardness when she found herself unable to look Fluttershy in the eye and instead continued while timidly looking at her bowl, “thank you Fluttershy... I want this picnic to be perfect.”

Fluttershy had chosen to forget the reason for the gathering and that statement brought the horrible memory back. Twilight was going to introduce her coltfriend to them for the first time. Of course in Fluttershy’s opinion this Flash Sentry would never be good enough for her. Twilight was too beautiful, too smart, and above all far too kind for some stallion. Then again, Fluttershy had not met Flash Sentry so he might be good enough and even if he wasn’t, there was no way Twilight would fall for a homely mare like herself.

Fluttershy shook her head to drive away her thoughts and asked quietly, “So Twilight, what are you bringing to the picnic, I have some celery sticks and peanut butter.” She had grown the celery herself, but was far too bashful to boast about something like that.

“Wow that sounds nice, I love peanut butter.” Twilight exclaimed joyfully, but Fluttershy already knew that about her. Twilight however knew nothing of this and simply continued, “I’ll be bringing a quinoa salad my mother used to bring to picnics when I was young. It has cheese, spring onions, and sugar peas with a kind of mayonnaise based dressing. It’s always been one of my favorites; I just hope Flash likes it.”

Fluttershy smiled warmly at her friend as she apprehensively replied, “Oh, well I think it sounds wonderful.”

“Thanks Fluttershy!”

Of the girls, Twilight and Fluttershy were the last to arrive and each exchanged pleasantries with their friends until finally Rarity addressed the elephant in the room, even though they were not in a room at the time, “Tell us Twilight darling, where is this mysterious Flash Sentry you keep telling us about?”

Twilight thought for a moment considering when her stallion would arrive when she saw him slowly descending toward then out of the corner of her eye, “Oh there he is, right on time.” She then moved away slightly and began waving and calling out to her coltfriend.

Behind her Rainbow rolled her eyes as she commented boldly, “Right on time my flank, he’s fifteen minutes late.”

“Oh shush, most love struck mares think that their mate can do no wrong.” Rarity quickly chastised Rainbow, but was almost interrupted when Dash laughingly mentioned.

“Wow, hey A.J. thanks for never doing that to me and always making sure I knew when I was doing something dumb. Twilight’s way just sounds really-“

“Rainbow.” Applejack quickly interjected with a stern look causing her marefriend to stop immediately with an almost glowing blush.

“Thanks Boss.”

“Any time Sugarcube.” Once again, Applejack was all smiles when Flash landed near the group. She was the first to approach the newcomer with hoof extended as she spoke, “Howdy, y’all must be Flash, Twi’s told us so much about ya.”

Flash stood dumb struck as he stared at her hoof as though it had been dipped in fresh cow pies after stomping rotten eggs, still he couldn’t let himself be rendered speechless. So in a deeply indifferent tone he replied vaguely, “Yeah... hi.” It seemed odd to him that almost half of Twilight’s friends were... earth ponies. What in the wild world of Equestria was Twilight doing socializing with those who were beneath her, Still he chalked that up to the fact that Twilight just wasn’t that bright, all things considered, which would make everything he wanted from her all the easier to attain.

The picnic went by without much drama aside from Flash’s obvious aversion to Pinkie, Applejack, and eventually Rainbow when he found out about her relationship with the filthy earth pony. It seemed odd to the girls as racism like his was almost unheard of in modern Equestria. Even more surprising was the fact that Twilight didn’t notice and was actually sweet on this obviously lower life form.

“Look, I’m just saying that with everything else, celery with peanut butter seems a bit childish. At least your fattening ‘salad’ took some effort to put together. I mean if this is how you eat all the time, cupcakes, apple pie, mayonnaise on salad, you’re gonna need a lot of exercise to get rid of that belly.”

Fluttershy visibly shrank at Flash’s critique of her dish, but the other girls were ready to start yelling at the inconsiderate stallion when their anger was interrupted by Twilights voice... but it wasn’t Twilight’s voice. It seemed, broken... submissive... as if her horn had been surgically removed, cutting away her strength, confidence, and very reason for existing, “Yes I suppose you’re right Flash, I could also cut down a little on the sweets...”

Pinkie Pie was the most shocked out of all of them when she saw Twilight place the cupcake she had been about to eat back on the tray it came from. Her mane deflated slightly until she saw Twilight give her a weak and defeated smile. Pinkie along with her friends wondered how Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, element of magic and personal protégé to Celestia could be so... beaten by the monster called Flash Sentry.

A monster that noticed when the friends of the mare he was dating were about to pry her from his grasp, “Come on Twi, Let’s get out of here.”

A flicker of hope bloomed in the hearts of Twilight’s friends when the young princess finally stood up for herself against the rude and insensitive Flash Sentry, “No. No, I want to stay with my friends. I haven’t gotten to spend nearly enough time with them lately.”

“Well that’s fine if you want them to watch while I take that pesky virginity of yours.”

Twilight was struck silent by Flash’s disrespectful assumption that he was going to get anywhere near having sex with her... ever. Twilight was back, much to the joy of her friends. She glared with almost as much intensity as Fluttershy’s stare while she verbally taking back her horn, “No Flash! If you ever had any chance of having sex with me you can kiss that chance goodbye. You are an unpleasant, insensitive, inconsiderate, unintelligent, manipulative, bully! I love Fluttershy’s peanut butter celery sticks, I love A.J.’s apple pie, I love my mother’s salad recipe, I love each of my friends, and I love Pinkie’s cupcakes!” To emphasize her last statement Twilight telekinetically lifted a cupcake to her mouth and devoured it in three bites before continuing, “That was wonderful Pinkie you should try to remember that recipe. As for you Flash, you need to grow up! Find a character building exercise or something because as you are now, I’m fairly certain you are the worst pony I’ve ever met and I can’t believe I didn’t notice it before!”

Flash was enraged. He had been careful this time, making sure he kept Twilight from thinking about anything that made her more than just another mare that needed a stallion to think for her. He almost spat as he turned his anger on Twilight, “You fat sack of horseapples! I should have known you were a dyke when I found out about all your dyke friends and I’ll bet all that filthy dirt pony stupidit-“

In a burst of violet light Flash was gone. Twilight shook with anger, sadness, and hopelessness. She felt anger at Flash’s words, sadness and shame at being too blind to see how he had been treating her friends, and hopelessness at the thought that she would never find a pony who would love her. She sniffled quietly before turning to her friends, “Oh girls... I’m so sor-“

Twilight was abruptly interrupted by a sudden group hug from each of the five ponies who loved her most, aside from her own mother and father, and Celestia... and probably her brother and Cadence... still it was enough to just feel her closest friends tightly embracing her. In fact none of them heard Fluttershy’s whispered words, “Oh Twilight, I’m going to make him hurt... I’m going to make him apologize... then-”

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“I’m going to kill you!” Fluttershy almost screamed as she shouted at the still bound Flash sentry. None of her friends had ever seen her like this and it frightened them, but more than that, it frightened Flash. At least until he felt her hooves strike him.

She was weak. Completely useless, aside from giving him the authority to have her arrested for assault. What a dumb mare. He began laughing until he noticed that the attacks had ceased. He assumed that her friends he pulled her off of him, at least he thought that until he opened his eyes and saw Fluttershy retrieve half of the stick Pinkie had been using as a piñata bat and bring it to him.

With a twist of her head and a step forward, Fluttershy embedded the stick deep into Flash’s abdomen. This was the point of no return; they had all become accessories to this very real crime of attempted homicide.

Flash twisted against his restraints while Fluttershy’s friends watched with a perverse sense of awe at what she started doing next. The normally shy pony had released one of Flash’s wings and after managing to catch it in her mouth she bit down hard. The stronger bones of her teeth had little trouble with the hollow birdlike wing bones and the sickening crack of breaking bone was crescendoed by a sudden heave and splatter of vomit.

Enough was enough, no matter how much they despised Flash Sentry, they would not let their friend continue down her dark path. While Rarity received a soothing back rub from Pinkie, Dash and Applejack ran to rescue their victim from almost certain death.

Naturally the fastest flier in Equestria was there first wrapping her hooves around Fluttershy and trying to pull her away from Flash. Flash wailed in pain as Rainbow pulled harder only to find that each pull only made Fluttershy’s teeth clench tighter until finally there was a moment of silence. Everything stopped as her friends stared as Fluttershy holding Flash Sentry’s severed wing between her jaws.

Seeing Flashes blood spray over them both, Rainbow Dash fell away from her friend in horror. She began clutching her own wings shuddering as she imagined what such a removal had to feel like. For once in her life she had become truly terrified of what another pony might do to her if so inclined. Applejack however was about to tackle Fluttershy to the ground when she heard a familiar voice that was not supposed to be near them.

About the time that Flash Sentry had been abducted, Twilight Sparkle received a letter from Princess Celestia asking for her immediate presence at Canterlot Castle. Being a punctual mare by nature she focused a long range teleportation and almost instantly appeared in the throne room before three other princesses.

Luna breathed an obvious sigh of relief as Cadence hugged her sister-in-law and speaking words that confused Twilight even more, “Oh Twilight, I’m so glad you are alright.”

Twilight finally had enough and teleported a few feet away from the loving embrace and spoke, “Of course I’m fine. Should I not be fine? Is there something I should know?”

Luna was the first to reply and answered each question in as direct a manner as she could, “Yes Twilight Sparkle, there is a reason that thou could have been injured... or worse we suppose. Also yes, thou should know of the danger to thy life.”

Celestia actually smiled. Twilight was completely taken aback that her beloved teacher would smile about a threat to her student’s life. Seeing the confusion in the eyes of her young protégé, Celestia spoke to alleviate all concerns, “Well there was a danger to your life. That threat has been greatly diminished with the capture of almost all the known conspirators.”

“Conspiracy Princess? What in Equestria were they conspiring to do?” Still frazzled Twilight felt the need to force information out of Celestia that her mentor was about to give freely.

“It was a plot to assassinate you my faithful friend. Now as I was saying-”

A fearful Twilight Sparkle quickly interrupted Celestia again, now afraid that she had somehow failed at her duties as Princess of Friendship, “Assassinate?! Me?! But... but who would want-”

Now it was Luna’s time to interrupt, for the sake of both Twilight and her sister, “Please Twilight Sparkle, let our sister finish.”

Celestia smiled warmly at being allowed to continue once more, “Thank you Luna. Now Twilight please, we have found through interrogation that there is at least one more conspirator. Tell me do you know the current whereabouts of Flash Sentry?”

In surprise Twilight almost spat the name of her ex, “Flash?! That incomparable fool is no longer welcome in my sight. Why should I care what particular rock he has decided to crawl under?”

Cadence took the initiative quickly as this part of the story was hers to tell. After some very thorough investigation by Shining, it was discovered that Flash murdered several of my subjects in the Empire as part of an oddly elaborate scheme to get closer to you. Then he intended to seduce you and murder you after one night of... coupling.”

“You mean he was going to kill me after we had sex?” If not for the dire situation the other princesses might find amusement in the irony of the Princess of Love’s embarrassment at hearing the word, ‘sex’. Still, now was not the time for such matters as Celestia began again.

“I suppose by your reaction you know nothing of his location. It makes me happy that you were not as enthralled by him as we feared you might have been. Now go back home and keep close to your guards, I will send word when the traitor is captured.”

Twilight knew that tone well, it was the one used when a mother would not allow her daughter to argue with her. Twilight actually smiled at the thought of how proud her actual mother would be if she had heard Celestia. Yes the princess was right, going after Flash alone would be dangerous, Still if she just found him for Celestia, that wouldn’t be so bad... right?

Twilight poured through her books for almost three hours before finally finding the spell she needed. It was a tracking spell that would lead her right to the pony who had wanted her dead.

She then dismissed her guards as she claimed that she intended to do a little light reading before taking a nap. She knew they would remain close enough to come when she called, but they would also give her privacy. With experienced focus Twilight cast the tracking spell successfully and immediately lost focus.

He was close... a bolt of fear went through her when the spell told her just how close he was. She calculated in her head for distance and direction and focused once more casting another teleportation.

When she reached her destination she immediately recognized the hole that led to the mirror pond, with the boulder that should have blocked it carefully set to the side. Then swallowing her fear she stepped down into the chamber calling out, “Hello! Is anypony down here?”

Within only a few seconds four very familiar mares nearly tackled Twilight. The surprised princess allowed her curiosity to overwhelm her as she asked, “Girls, what are you doing here? Where is Flash?”

Applejack quickly took the lead to explain the situation, “Twilight, it’s horrible, y’all gotta help. Fluttershy is-“

All it took was the mention of a pony that wasn’t there to realize that Fluttershy was in trouble and without hesitation Twilight teleported into the main chamber ready to save her friend from Flash.

The moment her friends ran for the exit Fluttershy stood with renewed vigor still holding Flash’s wing in her teeth. She marched right in front of the Squirming Pegasus and without a moment of remorse she thrust the bloody part of the wing into Flash’s eye. The cracked bone eased the wing’s entry and allowed more blood to spray out over the yellow mare’s face.

She then turned to retrieve the other wing when she heard a confused, “Fluttershy?”

The same said mare squeaked in panic, Twilight wasn’t supposed to see this... she wasn’t supposed to know what she was doing for her. Fluttershy kicked back in a fit of despair catching the chair Flash was tied up in just right so it fell forward.

Flash screamed like a filly as he watched the ground fly up to him, but was suddenly silent when the force of the fall pushed his severed wing deeper into his eye socket until it pierced deeply into his frontal lobe permanently damaging much of his higher brain function. Without the ability to put the sensations of pain into perspective and rise above them, Flash began to wail like a mindless animal. Fluttershy shivered as she Turned to Twilight and began begging, “Please Twilight, I’m sorry, I need to finish this. I... I j-just can’t let him live anymore.. n-not after he hurt you.”

Fluttershy’s blush was easily obscured by the blood that painted her face, though her eyes still told of all the emotions she felt. Anger at Flash for hurting her friend. Sadness at the thought of Twilight seeing her kill the worthless pile of flesh before them. And finally, love. Love for the innocent pony who would never have before imagined Fluttershy of all ponies to be covered in the blood of another.

Twilight’s blush was far more obvious when she saw the tears cutting through the blood on Fluttershy’s face and wondered how she could have not noticed how genuinely beautiful her friend was “It’s okay F-fluttershy... Flash is a bad pony. I won’t stop you. I was just wondering... may I watch?” While Twilight had become fascinated by the torture of Flash Sentry Fluttershy was frozen in her nervousness of being observed while she put the ailing animal out of its misery.

Well, um... there really isn’t much left to watch. With the wing in his... brain I don’t think he can function enough to understand his punishment.”

Twilight smiled. Alicorn Princess Twilight Starfall Sparkle actually smiled at the words describing Flash’s brain damage. With a wink to Fluttershy she ignited her horn using her power to lift Flash and his chair into an upright position. Then using a little more concentration she focused on the wing and the damaged part of the brain.

Fluttershy nervously approached her friend and asked softly, “Um... Twilight, what are you doing?”

“It’s a little time magic that can reverse localized time. In theory it could reverse death but since the brain would remember being dead it would really only put undo torture on the poor pony who was brought back. Since I’m using it on Flash, I don’t care! So I’m fixing his brain so he can think again. I want him to see me before he dies; also I’m making him remain conscious and alive longer so he won’t die from something silly like loss of blood or stress induced heart failure.” Twilight wore a grin that showed how proud she was of her actions no matter how dark and twisted they were becoming.

Fluttershy still felt a little exposed when consciousness returned to Flash’s eye and cringed when an obviously excited Twilight watched her expectantly.

“So, what’s the next step? I would imagine you plan on going for the other wing, right?”

“Y-yes, I am going to-”

“Here, let me help!”

Fluttershy tried to Stop her friend but in a blink she had severed Flash’s other wing like she had used a sharpened blade. While Flash was in pain it was far less than anything else that had been inflicted on him. Fluttershy found confidence as she stomped a hoof and chastised her volunteer assistant, “No Twilight! He won’t hurt enough if you just cut off his wing. Now please, give me the-”

Twilight was upset by her failure for only a moment before reattaching the wing like new. Her eyes brightened as she remembered how sensitive her own wings were. She smiled as she asked, “Like this?” Without waiting for a response she began breaking the wing bones one by one with her magic, eliciting far more pained screams from her would be assassin.

Fluttershy was impressed with Twilight’s quick grasp on torture but became confused when Twilight left the humerus intact until she noticed the lavender alicorn’s expectant gaze. Twilight was like a puppy excitedly awaiting her master’s approval. Approval that Fluttershy gave with a smile and a kind word, “Wonderful Twilight. Now how are you going to remove the wing?”

“Like this.” Twilight happily replied as her telekinesis split with one part grasping the shoulder and the other taking hold of the elbow. With the shoulder now locked in place Twilight advanced to get a closer look as she began twisting the elbow.

Flash screamed again as he realized what was going to happen. His last, intact, wing bone was going to twist until it shattered, then only Celestia knew what would happen next. Well Celestia and Princess Twilight who happily told him just after the bone splintered, “I’m going to keep on turning the wing until the flesh and skin tears apart. Isn’t that wonder-” The flesh broke sooner than Twilight thought it would and found herself with a face and mouth full of blood which she immediately began spitting out onto the pony who had provided it.

Then as Twilight turned back and saw the grin on Fluttershy’s face she began giggling at the sight of her blood soaked friend. She grinned showing her blood stained teeth and Fluttershy responded in kind causing both mares to giggle at the sight of each other.

Flash’s flowing tears stung his eyes as he heard four more ponies approaching. They were back and there was no way they would end his misery.

Rainbow Dash was the first to speak, crying out at the sight of even more bloody carnage, “Twilight! What the buck? Shouldn’t you be arresting-?”

“Rainbow ah’m sure Twi has a perfectly good reason fer just sittin in a pool of blood instead of... well whatever a princess is supposed ta do in a situation like this.”

“But come on Boss, Fluttershy is-”

“Rainbow!” Applejack spoke her lover’s name once more, but this time she said it with force that told her precious mare that she needed to stop.

Dash sheepishly turned her gaze away and responded meekly, “Sorry Boss.”

Applejack smiled at this change in attitude and nuzzled her marefriend as she spoke to Twilight, “Well sugar cube, care ta tell us what’s goin on here?”

“With pleasure!” Twilight then gave her friends every bit of information she had learned from her fellow princesses about Flash Sentry’s assassination attempt and the conspiracy to have her killed. She then assured them that Fluttershy and herself were acting as executioners of Flash’s punishment.

Still horrified, the girls remained silent until some pony they had forgotten about spoke up. “Wow! That’s awful, I’m sorry my original tried to hurt you Princess. If you would like you may punish me for his crimes against the throne.”

While everypony was surprised that the clone had not fled, Pinkie was actually happy to see him, “Brad! You survived!”

“Sorry Miss Pie, I’m not Brad, Brad got sent back to the pond after Miss Applejack broke his leg. Isn’t that great?”

All the mares rolled their eyes, but it was Rarity who ended up asking about the bloody sight before them, “So darlings, what are we supposed to do about that?”

Twilight was stunned, she hadn’t thought about clean up at all and never realized that a still giggling Fluttershy was advancing on her . Fluttershy however simply whispered softly in her Princess’s ear, “Oh don’t worry, that will work itself out. For now at least,” Fluttershy kissed Twilight on the cheek and giggled more before continuing, “Relax my beautiful princess.”

Twilight felt her cheeks heat up at Fluttershy’s advances and tried to use her words to calm the situation, “No Fluttershy, I’m filthy don’t-”

The yellow Pegasus interrupted Twilight with a full kiss on the lips before speaking in reply, “Well if that’s your only complaint, I don’t see any reason to stop.”

“I do!” Suddenly another familiar voice carried through the chamber. Celestia stood in all her glory glaring at the blood stained pair as she continued, “Twilight Sparkle, I told you to not get involved. Flash Sentry is... Oh I see.” Celestia paused only a moment as she stared at the bloody form of Flash. She then stepped slightly back before Restarting, “Flash Sentry was a dangerous criminal... It seems you girls made quite a mess... I’ll just take care of this, you may go on about your business my little ponies.” With that her horn brightened as she focused her magic on Flash to set him ablaze.

The pain renewed, Flash screamed and thrashed against his bindings. Celestia’s eyes widened as she realized what she had done. She spoke quickly trying to remember a spell for dousing fires as well as healing third degree burns, “Oh my, I’ll just put him out then shall I? It won’t be-”

Celestia found herself silenced when a pink hoof carrying a cupcake entered her mouth. Her eyes rolled back in pleasure at tasting such an exquisite confection. So the fire and screaming raged on while Pinkie scolded her princess, “Tsk tsk Princess, we don’t need no water. Let the motherbucker burn.”

Celestia only nodded through her cupcake induced blankness though mumbling could be heard that almost sounded like queen and Faust, but High Queen Faust, the First Alicorn was just a myth. So the ponies admiring the fire paid Celestia little attention, knowing full well that Pinkie’s cupcakes often made ponies say odd things.

Rainbow Dash was resting her head on her lover’s shoulder smiling when she finally broke the silence, “You know Boss, I don’t mean to sound gay or anything, but I think fire is very romantic.”

“Rainbow.”

“Yeah Boss?”

“Y’all are gay.”

In that time Rarity vomited again, this time at the smell of burning fur. She began whimpering, wondering why she hadn’t just left.

Celestia suckled on Pinkie’s hoof like a foal does its mother’s teat and Pinkie giggled at the tickling tongue lapping at her hoof.

The noise was cacophonous and Twilight was sick and tired of it. With a flash of magic she sent Princess Celestia and her friends minus Fluttershy back to Ponyville. She then embraced Fluttershy and pressed her lips to her new lover’s.

The pair basked in the warmth of burning flash and each other until they realized that the final flash clone was staring at them like some kind of mindless pervert.

Twilight groaned as she finally addressed him, “Hey, why don’t you do me a solid and throw another Flash on the fire, this one is burning out. Then go buck yourself. Fluttershy and I are trying to have a private moment.”

The Flash clone saluted and ran to the mirror pond quickly giving his clone its orders, “Go throw yourself on that fire.”

The clone’s clone smiled as he saluted and quickly followed his orders. Then the first clone made another and spoke, “Hi! I’m Flash Sentry!”

The new clone replied, “Hi! I’m Flash Sentry’s rectal discharge!”

The first Flash grinned even wider before making his proposition, “You want to have a good time?”

“Sure!”

Twilight observed a little longer before suddenly finding herself quite enamored with the idea of watching the two identical twins rut each other senseless. She bumped Fluttershy’s shoulder and with a wavering tone she spoke, “Hey Fluttershy, you got to see this.”

Fluttershy let out a heavy sigh; she only wanted to bask in Twilight’s love. In fact she was about to say as much as she raised her head only to see for herself what had gotten Twilight distracted, “Oh my... he’s quite flexile isn’t he?” After a pause and some head tilting to observe at different angles Fluttershy continued, “I wish you and I could do that.”

These were words that Fluttershy would not regret even when they caused Twilight to cry out in sexually frustrated excitement, “I will magic it! Magic will happen and you and I will do that!” Twilight wore a manic grin as she looked down on her partner who chose that time to tackle her alicorn lover into a tight embrace filled with enough love to feed a changeling hive for a thousand years.