Revenge of all Colours

Chapter 3
A Twisted Apple

As Rainbow Dash flew from Zecora's she felt so alive again! She missed her wings more than her very life, and now she was never going to part with them again! Dash was on top of the world! And before long she had forgotten all her problems and began doing the daring, blood pumping stunts she missed.

But of course for every moment, there is always something to ruin it. Rainbow Dash heard a scream, it was Applejack! Dash changed direction and took off so fast it almost instantly shattered the sound barrier. No one was going to lay a hoof on her friends!

Applejack didn’t know what was going on. One moment she was doing chores in the barn with her little sister, the next she pulled out a knife and attacked her. Big Mac was in town and Applebloom had completely lost her mind! Fear gripped the trembling earth pony, she was driven into a corner. She was stabbed in the right, back leg and cut all over. She was in so much pain she could hardly do more than tremble in fear.

The crazed sister slowly approached her with a menacing grin. “Now now there big sis! Ah recon y’all hurt your self if you keep squirming!”

Applejack was trapped, about to be put down by her own sister. Her own flesh and blood wanted to kill her! “Why? Please, Applebloom!” She could hardly speak the tears were to strong.

“They always ask the same damn thing! Why, why, why?! Yall really wanna know why? Cause it's fun!” Applebloom screamed as she raised her knife for the final strike.

Applejack closed her eyes only to hear a loud “Smack!”

When she opened her eyes she saw her little sister on the floor face down a couple feet from her. And standing beside her unconscious body was the frail, faded colored body of a Pegasus she knew far to well.

“Rainbow Dash!” she screamed as she ran and hugged her long missed friend. Applejack had dozens of questions she tried to ask but she was still scared and trembling. “What's goin on? How'er y’all alive? Why did Applebloo...”

Dash lifted her hoof to silence the terrified earth pony. “Maybe you should sit down, there is allot to explain.” Rainbow went into the bathroom and grabbed bandages and wraps for her friend. The cuts were deep but were not dangerous. When she was finished patching up Applejack she was still trembling.

Dash sat beside her, “First of all I want you to tell me everything you know, and ill fill it it in. I have some questions for you too that need answers.”

Applejack looked up at her degraded friend with worry, but trusted and answered her savior. “Ah only know what everypony knows by now. Pinkie Pie lost her marbles and.... well, you know. Ah was the one who found y’all, but I musta been just a moment too late, cause all I saw was a figure jump out the window while y'all were still strapped!” Applejack started to cry, she tried to block out the images of her dismembered friend. Rainbow Dash only listened and hung on her every word.

“There were several other killin's all over ponyville! Diamond Tiara, Mr. Cake, even Zecora's brother! Coarse we all thought she lost her marbles too, when she said Pinkie Pie did it!” Dash let out a silent snort.

Applejack didn’t notice and continued her story, keeping as much detail as she could for Rainbow Dash. “But durin' your funeral there DNA tests came in and our worst fears were realized.” Applejack let out a sob, “It WAS Pinkie Pie!”

Applejack broke down and collapsed against Rainbow Dash. Dash didn’t know what to do, she just hugged her back and told her everything was going to be ok. To her surprise it slowly started to work and withing a minute or two, she was continuing her story. “By the time the police got to her house she had already high tailed it outa ponyville. An she still has yet to be found.”

Dash looked at the floor in thought and began to worry about her friends again. “How has everyone been? You know, without me?”

Applejack was shocked at the question but reluctantly answered, “Everyponies wrapped up tighter than a birds nest! Twi locked her self in her room, readin every damn book she's got! Rarity dedicated a whole dress line to you! An Fluttershy hasn’t even spoken since the funeral!”

Rainbow was hurt by the news but not necessary surprised. She would probably be no better if she were to trade places with somepony. Applejack was determined to get her answers now.

“All right now it's your turn! Beginning to end! What the hey is goin on!?” Rainbow Dash hung her head and sighed. She wasn’t sure how Applejack would react to what she was about to hear. But for everything she's told her, she earned the truth.

“I woke up in the grave and dug my way out. When I realized what I was and remembered what happened, I knew what I had to do.” Applejack cocked her head in question of her sudden “duty.”

“An what might that be Dashie?” Rainbow Dash smiled. It felt like forever since she was called that. She kind of missed it. But she went right back on track and answered her question.

“I'm the one who knows Pinkie Pie best, I'm the one who experienced her evil and can still do something about it. I’m the only one who has seen her other half and can stop it.!” Rainbow Dash hung her head again, she knew what Applejack was going to ask next.

“An how'er y'all gunna stop her?” She asked not thinking of the horrible answer that awaited her.

Rainbow Dash looked up at Applejack with a tear in her eyes. “Well, hopefully I can help her beat this “demon” in her. But.....” Dash was having trouble finishing her sentence, she began a cold sweat and grew a lump in her throat. She swallowed her pain and tried again to continue. “But if I can't bring her back ill have to...” Dash couldn’t finish. She couldn’t say it, especially not in front of someone who Pinkie meant as much to. All she did, was reach in her saddlebag and pull out her knife.

Applejack's jaw dropped. Suddenly it all clicked together. “Oh Celestia no...” Applejack stepped back in fear, “Aint no way y'all can be serious right!”

Rainbow Dash kept her head down and spoke in a dull, pained tone. “Applejack, Right now Pinkie Pie's in pain. Even more pain than we are. She's forced to torture and kill her friends, family, and everyone else! While she was torturing me, Pinkie Pie came out for a split second and gave me a mercy shot. If it weren’t for that I would have been in pain allot longer. Pinkamina would have made sure of that. If all else fails, ill repay her mercy shot.

Applejack wanted so badly to protest but deep in her heart she knew, Dash was right. Pinkie was suffering, more than any of them combined. It I better to die than to kill. Applejack had nothing more to say, she simply put her head down and cried. Rainbow Dash stood up and walked to the door.

“Where y'all goin now!?” the pained pony exclaimed.

“Im going to set things right.” Dash opened the door.

“What about our friends!? What about Applebl..” Applejack froze. Applebloom was getting back up, chuckling to her self in the most disturbing manor any of them had witnessed.

“Y'all think you can stop her? Pinkamina's fun has only just begun!” she pause to laugh hysterically, making the two friends stomach turn. “Im the one who killed Diamond Tiara, under her aid of coarse! And my big sis over there was supposed to be next, but some flashy city pony had to get in the way!”

All Applejack could do was cry. “Why Applebloom? What the hey happened to you!?”

Applebloom looked to the floor and grinned. “I already answered that sis. But in case y'all don’t remember let me remind ya!” Applebloom dashed toward Applejack, knife I hand. “Because it's fun!”

Applejack closed her eyes again, and again heard a sound. But this time it wasn’t a slap, it was a blood curdling “Snap!” Rainbow Dash had kicked her in the head again just in time. But this time she kicked too hard. Rainbow Dash broke Applebloom's neck.

Applejack remained frozen, wide eyes fixed on the fresh corpse of her little sister. Everything else in the world didn’t exist. And Dash didn’t want to say anything. She too was horrified from what she had done. Applejack dragged her self towards her sisters body and put her ear to her chest, hoping to Celestia her ears were mistaken before. But no such luck, Applebloom was dead.

“Applejack, Applebloom. Im so sorry!” Dash could hardly stand. She felt like she was going to throw up. The first person she ever killed, was the little filly sister of one of her best friends. She collapsed to her knees and begged for Applejack's forgiveness. Applejack looked like she didn’t even notice her.

“Get out...” Dash almost jumped from the coldness of Applejack's voice. There was no emotion. Like she was banished from a robot. Dash hoped her ears were mistaken too. “Sorry.... What?”

“GET OUT!” Applejack screamed at the top of her lungs. Dash had no idea what to do, all she felt was fear. Rainbow Dash took off as fast as she could. In the distance she could hear Applejack scream her sister's name one last time.

“Im so sorry Applejack....”

Rainbow Dash just kept flying. She flew as fast and as far as she could until she crashed. Here eyes were full of tears and she busted through 3 trees ans smashed into the center of the Everfree Forest.

She couldn't care less. It wouldn't kill her, it couldn't kill her. She was in so much pain but that was only temporary. The only thing on her mind, the only thing she cared about was the Apple family.

What has she done? She killed Applebloom! She murdered her best friends little sister. She tried to tell her self it was the right thing. That it was ether Applebloom or Applejack. She saved Applejack's life. But the pain in Applejack's voice, was not something she could get over.

Dash just lied there the rest of the day, crying in the crater the had made. She had hoped that she could stop Pinkie and it would be like nothing ever happened. But she was dead wrong.

Even if she could somehow defeat Pinkamina and bring Pinkie Pie back for good, nothing will ever be the same. Too many people have been hurt, too many people have died. Zecora's Brother, Mr. Cake, Diamond Tiara, and now Applebloom.

There families will never be the same. And how will she ever be able to even look at Applejack again after what she had done? None of this had to happen. “None of this had to happen. It's not fair! It's all her fault!”

Rainbow Dash began to get up, her wet tears being defeated by fires of anger. “Pinkamina did this! Pinkamina killed all those people! Pinkamina turned Applebloom into...”

Dash could not hold it any more she became consumed by rage and utter hatred for Pinkamina. She ruined her life and so many others. Dash went on a rampage, beating down everything in her way. Trees, rocks. Nothing was in her way long. She snapped trees and crushed boulders until she started to calm down. Her hooves were cracked and bloody from kicking and the crater forest is used to be was suddenly a crater of smashed trees and shattered rocks.

Rainbow Dash collapsed of a pile of rubble and thought to her self. “I wonder if Pinkie converted more people. Will I have to kill them too?” Dash got up and looked around at what she had done. Then she looked at her hooves, they had already healed and she would have never known it was her that did this.

Rainbow dash looked out into the sun set and deeply thought about her duty. Now she knows the stakes. The longer she waits to stop Pinkie Pie not only will she kill ponies, But she will turn them. And then that means Dash will have to kill them.

“Pinkamina, you sick f....” Dash bit her lip and shook away another tear. She has had enough of this. Dash took to the skies. She did not know how she was going to find Pinkie, but she had to. For the sake of everyone she knows and loves, She has to. There was just one thing she had to do before she left Ponyville.

Applejack and Big Mac had just finished burying Applebloom. None of them said anything. They buried Applebloom right next to where Dash was berried. Big Mac took Applejack's chores for the night and let Applejack be with her sister alone.

When Applejack finally started heading back to her home, she noticed one of the trees on the way there. It was missing bark.

When she got up closer and could get a good look at it, she froze. Tears immediately ran down her cheeks and she hung her head down in shame of how she yelled at Rainbow Dash earlier. She saved her life, she did all she could. Her regret and pain was only amplified by what she saw. Carved into the tree was a message.

“Im Sorry Apple Family
R.D.”

Applejack fell to the ground, her hoof still on the tree. She looked up back to the message,

“Im sorry too Dashie.”

Thanks for all your helpful advice and great comments on the last chapters!

And I apologize for the manly tear I may have caused!

Ill get working of the next chapter ASAP as usual!