Nightmare Moon on Oak Street

Chapter 8: Insanity Unleashed

“BWAH-HA-HA!” Nightmare Moon’s laughter pealed across the landscape. “Isn’t this rich?”

“Pinkie, are you alright?” Twilight asked, as she cautiously stepped forward and stopped at the lip of the open grave.

Pinkie growled and ducked down. With a wet rip, she bit down on Rarity’s neck and pulled out a string of bloody flesh in her teeth. Twilight’s eyes went wide as Pinkie viciously threw her head back, blood spilling everywhere, muscle, tendon, and white fur still in her teeth. Pinkie gulped, and smiled. “Soon, you’ll come back to life, Rarity!” She ducked her head and tore into Rarity’s belly with her teeth.

“PINKIE, STOP! What are you doing?!” Twilight cried.

Nightmare Moon’s horrible laughter echoed from above, drawing closer. She appeared in the corner of Twilight’s vision as she landed on the ground. With an impact that Twilight felt in her chest, Nightmare Moon stomped down with the force of an avalanche. A shockwave rolled through the ground, causing Twilight to stumble and nearly fall. Gravestones tilted away from Nightmare Moon, as if they feared her, while the half-dozen nearest her floated into the air, suddenly weightless. “Pinkie, shouldn’t you give the gift to Rainbow Dash as well?” she asked calmly.

Pinkie straightened up again, her mouth and neck covered in blood. As it dripped off her chin, it hit the ground as little liquid drops of rainbow. She gasped at Nightmare Moon, “You’re right! Dash deserves to be eaten, too!” In a single bound, she hopped out of one open grave and into the other.

“STOP! Pinkie, don’t—” Twilight cried, as she lit her horn to hold Pinkie back.

“I told you, worry about yourself first,” Nightmare Moon said. The floating gravestones circled around her, whirling faster and faster. With a warcry and a beat of her wings, Nightmare Moon sent four of the gravestones hurtling at Twilight with blinding speed.

Twilight’s heart quickened at the sight of the high-speed stones as she canceled her spell. Instead, she put a shield up around herself in a small sphere, like the kind her brother would use. The gravestones had such speed, the air parted and vibrated as they flew. They hit Twilight’s shield, one after the other, blasting her away. The world turned topsy-turvy as Twilight tumbled about inside her shield. She bounced down long rows of gravestones like a pinball. She ricocheted off a dozen stones before the sphere stopped on a thick patch of grass. Twilight continued to spin around inside the shield for several seconds before she dropped the spell and slumped to her stomach. “Ugh… my head,” she mumbled, her eyes rolling in different directions.

Nightmare Moon trotted closer, tittering. “Looks like I got a bit of topspin on that one. I’ve already sunk the screwball into the grave, does that mean I get another shot?” She smiled, and crouched with one leg forward. One of the floating gravestones stopped circling; instead, it hovered near Nightmare Moon’s head, pointing itself at Twilight. “Eight ball, corner pocket!” With a stomp, the gravestone blasted at Twilight with the sound of cannonfire.

“Time for a different sport,” Twilight replied, shaking off her dizziness. With a flash of her horn, a shimmering shield appeared around her again, this time in the shape of a wedge. Twilight crouched, with the shield pointed at Nightmare Moon. As soon as the stone hit the angle of the wedge, Twilight pushed off the ground. “Bump!” she called, as the missile slowly rose into the air. With a powerful beat of her wings, she took to the air after it. “Spike!” Twilight called, as she rose just above the stone and slammed both forehooves into it with tremendous force.

The tombstone flew at Nightmare Moon, rapidly turning end over end. It easily had enough force to squash her flat. She smirked. With a dull boom, the stone hit the ground right where she stood. A black cloud blew outwards, swirling onto the last floating gravestone. The cloud coalesced on top, and Nightmare Moon re-formed, using the floating stone as a platform. “What a tedious pony you are, Twilight. Didn’t your ego teach you anything?” Nightmare Moon scoffed. “Nevermind, this game is boring; let’s turn the game board upside down!” With that pronouncement, Nightmare Moon jumped straight up. She landed on the stone, shattered it, and continued downward into the ground. The impact felt like Nightmare Moon weighed thousands of tons.

Twilight yelped as the earth rose up like wave, rippling outwards from the crater Nightmare Moon stood in. The ground cracked and split, chunks of earth floating away as if they weighed nothing. “What, is lunacy like, super heavy? Is it making you fat?” Twilight shouted.

Nightmare Moon screamed wordlessly as huge chunks of rock rose into the air, collecting at a point high in the sky. Snarling, she yelled, “I’ve decided! I don’t want a wretched, stupid pony like you! I’ll take Pinkie Pie, at least she knows how to think properly!” Nightmare Moon laughed, breathing a noxious mix of colors. “Checkmate, Twilight!”

Twilight wondered what Nightmare Moon was up to, when Fluttershy, still her tiny size, darted over the cracked earth between them. Dodging the rocks raining upwards, she flew as fast as she could.

Pinkie Pie chased her, covered in blood from her mouth to her hooves, laughing like an oversized toddler. Twilight watched in horror as Pinkie used a butterfly net to swipe Fluttershy out of the air. “Got you! Why are you flying away, friend? I’m going to keep you safe!” The crazed look in Pinkie’s eyes chilled Twilight to her core. The Element of Magic absorbed Twilight’s breath, but she hesitated, unsure what to do; she didn’t want to injure Fluttershy.

“Keep her safe, Pinkie,” Nightmare Moon commanded. Pinkie nodded stupidly, her tongue hanging out of the corner of her mouth.

Twilight gulped. “Pinkie, what are you—”

Fluttershy screamed.

crunch!

Pinkie popped Fluttershy into her mouth and bit down. Blood sprayed out between her teeth and the corner of her mouth. As she chewed, wet crunching sounds echoed like drum beats in Twilight’s head with every bite. “Mmmm… tastes like pain! Now you’ll be safe in my belly, Fluttershy!” Pinkie sat on her haunches, grinned, rubbed her swollen stomach, and giggled to herself. “I’ve got butterflies in my belly!”

“NOOO!” Twilight screamed. Frozen in shock, she watched as Nightmare Moon strode up behind Pinkie and put a wing around her.

“My my, there’s no way I can get to your friends in your belly,” Nightmare Moon said. She gently brushed Pinkie’s flat mane back with a hoof. “What should I do with you, hmmm?” Her hoof traced Pinkie’s neck and ran downwards. “Would you like to go to the moon with me? It’ll feel soooo good…” Her hoof ran lower, down Pinkie’s distended belly.

Pinkie gasped and awkwardly pushed Nightmare Moon’s hooves away. “I’m not supposed to be touched there, that’s my naughty no-no place! My parents said so!”

Nightmare Moon scoffed. “Are your parents smarter than you? Are they smart enough to protect all of their friends from a horrible nightmare? Are they smart enough to turn a nightmare into a friend?”

Pinkie looked up at the taller Nightmare Moon. “You want to be my friend? You want to get inside of me too?”

Nightmare Moon’s hoof ran between Pinkie’s legs. “Oh yes, please help me.” She pouted. “I’m such a bad girl.”

“Okay!” Pinkie replied. She and Nightmare Moon both breathed out a thick mixture of multi-colored vapor. They mixed with each other, forming a dense cloud Twilight could hardly see through. Not that she wanted to, because Nightmare Moon slowly ran her tongue up Pinkie’s ear, while Pinkie moaned and giggled...

Twilight cried, tears tracing down her face. Have I lost? Is Nightmare Moon going to possess Pinkie Pie? The world really is turning upside down! As if on cue, Twilight felt herself lose her footing. She stumbled and fell, but didn’t hit the ground. “Whoa!” Instead, she slowly floated upwards. Eyes wide, she twisted in the air, and saw a new planet far above her! “What the—?”

Nightmare Moon, holding Pinkie, lifted off the ground and floated after Twilight. Tumbling through the air, the three of them settled on the planet and its pale, dusty surface. Nightmare Moon and Pinkie landed like they hit old pillows, a cloud of whitish dust rising around the impact point. “Ahhh, home at last,” Nightmare Moon said with a sigh.

“Tee-hee-hee, that tickles,” Pinkie giggled.

“Do you like it?” Nightmare Moon whispered into Pinkie’s ear. On the quiet surface of this small, desolate moon, Twilight could still hear her from far away. Nightmare Moon poured a thick, psychedelic vapor into Pinkie’s ear. Pinkie’s eyes rolled up into her head, her breathing grew shallow, and her cheeks flushed.

Twilight shook her head. “Leave her alone!” she shouted. Aiming her horn, Twilight poured her will into the Element of Magic, and she felt a surge of power. It worked! You really can use emotions to fuel spells in the dreamscape! She imagined the most powerful beam of magic she could, then fired it at Nightmare Moon and Pinkie.

Nightmare Moon gave the oncoming spell a tired smile as the light blinded her. It looked just like it did in the real world, when all six Elements of Harmony hit her.

When they banished her, leaving her alone.

Nightmare Moon suddenly snarled. “THIS ONE IS MINE! MINE! I LOVE HER!” she screamed.

The impact sent a shockwave rolling across the surface of the tiny moon. Pale dust hit Twilight like a wave, just in front of an expanding ball of warped air. She covered her eyes and mouth as the wave overtook her, covering her in a fine layer of silt. Brushing her eyes clear, she looked at the center of the new crater.

A glowing, reddish forcefield sparkled in the center, with Nightmare Moon and Pinkie on the inside. Nightmare Moon laughed hysterically. “Nothing can defeat the power of love!” she shouted. “You can’t harm us! Pinkie is mine! You can’t have her!”

“That isn’t love, you sick freak!” Twilight cried. “You don’t trap those you love!”

The forcefield faded. Nightmare Moon dragged Pinkie to her hooves. “Would you like to leave?”

Twilight sucked in a breath and bit her lip. Pinkie’s eyes looked in different directions. “My tummy hurts. Will you take care of me?” she asked.

Nightmare Moon nuzzled her, breathing into her ear. “Of course I’ll take care of you. I’ll give you everything you want.”

“Oh, that does sound like love,” Pinkie replied.

“Freak! You need to be locked away forever!” Twilight shouted. With a flash of purple light, Nightmare Moon found herself chained to a huge moon rock. “That should hold you,” Twilight said.

Nightmare Moon’s eyes twitched as she frothed at the mouth. “Let. Me. Go,” she said, clipping off each word.

“Oh no, I don’t want you to be trapped,” Pinkie said, looking up at Nightmare Moon. “I’ll keep you safe.” She touched the boulder with a foreleg and said, “Boop!”

The boulder shattered into a dozen pieces. Nightmare Moon let rip one of her lithium-high laughs. “Why thank you, dear child.” She levitated a few of the larger bits of broken rock around her and aimed her horn at Twilight. “You can have these back!”

Twilight focused, watching Nightmare Moon’s breath. By the way the vapors swirled around the first chunk of rock, she knew it would fly at her any second; she prepared to teleport to the left. The first rock shot at her with the speed of a bullet. Even knowing when it would fire at her, she almost got hit. Her teleport shifted her a stride to her left, but she had no time to think, only react. The rock hit a small hill far behind her, blowing into it with enough force to make the planet tremble.

Nightmare Moon growled while the vapors condensed around three more of the rocks. Twilight crouched, ready. Nightmare Moon fired at her in a horizontal pattern, the meteors moving with such speed that they kicked up a path of dust as they traveled a few hoof-lengths above the ground. Teleporting would be tricky— left or right, she might still get hit. With a powerful beat of her wings, Twilight took to the air. The meteors sailed under her. “Leave Pinkie alone, it’s me you want!”

“Oh? You’ll give yourself up in exchange for your friend?” Nightmare Moon asked.

Twilight nodded. “Yes, just let her go.”

Nightmare Moon snorted. “Liar!” She levitated the last rock behind her and bucked it with one hoof. It sailed off over the horizon of the tiny moon at an odd angle. Twilight raised an eyebrow. “You’re using logic, not fear, to dictate your decisions. That mean’s you’re planning to trick me as soon as you can.”

Pinkie gasped, “Twilight, that isn’t nice!”

Nightmare Moon stood behind Pinkie and slipped a hoof over her belly, rubbing it gently. Pinkie’s eyes rolled back into her head. “Oh Pinkie, won’t you let me inside of you… where it’s safe?”

Three meteors flew up behind Nightmare Moon, traveling low along the ground. With an errant spell, Nightmare Moon again used her forcefield around herself and Pinkie. The meteors slammed into it with the force of a cannonball and broke into pebbles. As the shield faded away and the dust settled, Twilight’s heart sank when she saw Nightmare Moon and Pinkie in a tight embrace. “Whoa, it’s dangerous out here!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Nightmare Moon nodded. “Once the orbit is finished, Twilight will be distracted for a moment, and then we can be together.”

Twilight focused on Nightmare Moon, ignoring everything else. “Nothing you do will distract me! Now, leave Pinkie alone!”

Nightmare Moon’s vapors turned decidedly yellow as she grinned. “Twilight, can you smell the joy on me? Can you feel it? See it? When my self-image dropped you onto the table in the hospital, you weren’t expecting it, so it didn’t hurt you much. But you’re expecting an attack now, so it’s going to hurt so much when you get hit!” Her grin grew wider.

Twilight’s mind worked rapidly. “Wait… what do you mean, what orb—”

CRACK!

A rock bigger than her hoof slammed into the back of Twilight’s head. Her vision grew blurry, and blood leaked into her eyes. Dazed, she fell into the dust like a falling leaf.

Before she touched the ground, Nightmare Moon pounced on Pinkie.

“Mmmm—!” Pinkie’s cry was muffled behind Nightmare Moon’s tongue. Kissing Pinkie on the mouth, Nightmare Moon’s vapors turned deep crimson. Pinkie’s eyes went wide.

Twilight tried to stand, her vision still swimming. “S-stop…” she mumbled.

Nightmare Moon used the hoof on Pinkie’s belly to push lower, between her legs. With a sharp jerk, she jammed her hoof inside Pinkie.

Pinkie screamed. Twilight could hear it, even through the kiss. Pinkie wept, tears bleeding out of the corners of her unblinking eyes. Nightmare Moon viciously pushed her tongue and hoof into Pinkie, deeper and deeper, while rubbing against Pinkie, covering her, enveloping her.

Consuming her.

Pinkie looked at Twilight, fear in her eyes. Twilight wobbled to her hooves and took a halting step forward.

Nightmare Moon’s form rippled and turned into smoke.

Still crying, the smoke flowed into Pinkie through her mouth and slit. The smoke still had some substance to it, because Pinkie wept as it forced her open. Within seconds, the entire cloud that was Nightmare Moon disappeared into Pinkie Pie.

Twilight galloped to Pinkie, blood still trickling down the back of her head. She didn’t notice it. “Pinkie, are you alright?!” Twilight cried.

Pinkie still wept, but her eyes focused on Twilight. “S-so… deep… deeper… deeper!” She grimaced, hot tears streaming down her face, her aura turning black. “H-help me, Twilight,” she begged, quivering.

“I’m here for you, Pinkie,” Twilight replied. “Let me think, we can fix this!”

Pinkie twitched like a puppet; her mouth opened and she spoke with Nightmare Moon’s voice. “This vessel has fear, and I will not allow my body to contain fear, only the glory that is Nightmare Moon!” Pinkie’s eyes glowed white.

“Leave her alone, take me instead!” Twilight cried. She threw the Element of Magic off her head. When it hit the ground, instead of vanishing in a puff of white smoke, it exploded into a black cloud.

Pinkie laughed with Nightmare Moon’s voice. “You want me? Fine, give me a moment and I’ll come for you!” Pinkie twitched again, and her eyes lost their glow. She wept again, doubled over, her hooves covering her distended stomach. Squeezing her eyes shut, she moaned in pain.

Pinkie retched and opened her mouth. It came out of everywhere. Pinkie vomited, urinated, and defecated all at the same time. Instead of the usual fluids, it all came out as an inky black sludge. However, it smelled about right.

Twilight stumbled backwards, away from the quickly spreading pool of vile, black muck. Her eyes went wide.

Embrace fear.

The logical side of her brain kept working, but she also had a promise to keep to her ego. She formed the correct thought pattern, steeled herself, then plunged forward.

She wrapped both wings and forelegs around Pinkie in a tight hug and said, “I love you, even when you’re afraid. Even when you hurt those around you.”

With another horrible retching, Twilight got hit with a fresh wave of the black gunk. It felt like hot tar, and burned like acid. It seeped into every nook and cranny on Twilight’s body. It went into her wing feathers, under her forelegs, over her stomach, in her tail, and into her mane. She focused on Pinkie, and tried her best not to think about what that stuff might do to her head wound.

Wave after wave, gag after gag, Pinkie poured out a seemingly endless stream of this black, disgusting tar. Twilight hugged Pinkie tighter. Pinkie shuddered and wept, and as she heaved, more garbage splattered onto Twilight’s back. Since they sat in a large crater, the sludge filled the bottom like a bowl, rising up past Twilight’s haunches and over her own stomach.

With a final heave, Pinkie stopped. Sobbing, she quivered in Twilight’s hooves. Twilight rubbed her back. “There, it’s over. You’re okay.”

Again, Pinkie twitched like a puppet getting its strings jerked. With a violent shove, she pushed Twilight away. Twilight slipped and fell onto her back, the black muck washing over her. She staggered to her hooves, sputtering, totally covered in putrid tar. Pinkie spoke with Nightmare Moon’s voice again. “Ahh, that’s better. And look at you, covered in delicious fear!” She licked her lips, catching some of the muck caked around her mouth. “I could just eat you up!”

Twilight gagged and put a hoof over her mouth. She watched in horror as Pinkie’s skin crawled, as if hundreds of bugs burrowed underneath. She opened her mouth and screamed when it happened.

With a sickening crack, Pinkie exploded! Blood and gore sprayed outward in a crimson wave, splattering into the dark pool and covering Twilight in a sticky layer. The explosion hit with such force, she slipped onto her flank. Twilight quivered, weeping tears that mixed with the disgusting soup she sat in.

Nightmare Moon hovered just over the fetid pool in Pinkie’s place.

“Oh my, that was wonderful. Was it as good for you as it was for me?” she asked. She flapped her wings slowly to keep herself aloft while she idly ran her forehooves over her face, neck, mane, and body. Blood covered her from her hoof to the tip of her horn. Nightmare Moon ran a dripping hoof down between her hind legs and rubbed herself, gasping in ecstasy. “Mmmm, this feels soooo good,” she moaned. “Pinkie was a nice appetizer, but I still want you, Twilight. I want you so bad.”

Twilight wobbled to her hooves, trying not to slip again. She cried into the pool, her tears mixing with bits of pink fur, blood, and black muck. There’s nothing more I can do, she thought. She felt so empty, so drained. She didn’t expect to feel this way, but it made sense. Funny, I still have my logic. It’s a cold comfort.

Nightmare Moon moaned, vigorously rubbing herself. Her voice fell to a calm, breathy whisper. “I’m going to rape you, Twilight Sparkle. Not like Pinkie, either. I’m going to rape you until you scream. Until your mind breaks. Until you like it and beg me for more. Then, and only then, will I take you.” She chuckled, “Shall we begin?”

Twilight sank to her haunches in the pool and let the disgusting soup soak her. The stars grew dim, and the surface of the moon dulled.