Sanctuary

Me and Scootaloo were on our way to the walls when we saw a puddle of blood in Fluttershy's room door.

"I got it." I grabbed a rag and wiped it off.

"There's probably more in her room..." Scootaloo said.

"Yeah. We'll get it later." I said as I turned the "Do not disturb" sign and flipped it over.

"When did this happen?" Scootaloo asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"When did she get the depression to try suicide?" Scootaloo asked again.

"As far as I know, she lost someone named Discord and went spiraling to depression." I answered.

We went to the walls to see Mac and the others thickening the walls with cargo freights.

"We found the crane at the construction site and the freights at the port a few miles away." Mac told me.

"Kyle. We need you." Dexter called.

We went to Dexter's lab to see my hand. No, not my old one, Dexter's robot one.

"It's ready." Dexter said.

I removed my old hand and placed the new one on my arm. I noticed the difference immediately as my hand could move more cleanly than before. I pressed the button on it to see a 20-inch blade suddenly pop out.

"Wow. That's a big knife." I said astounded.

"As for Bell, how do we do this?" Blossom asked.

"Easy. One of us goes to Megaville when Bell's gone to see how they are. If they want to join us, they can and we'll kill her." Dexter said to us.

"As for the others who don't want to join us?" I asked.

"We'll see if they want to do the deal." Dexter proposed.

I had to act now. No more pushing this back, no more hesitating. Just doing this plan and winning.

"Alright. We'll go as soon as we help Fluttershy out." I said.

We had to wait a few hours for Fluttershy's counseling session to end. Fluttershy walked out slowly and tried to go to her room. I had to stop her.

"You might want to wait until the cleanup crew wipes it off. It's pretty brutal." I told her.

"There's a guest room at my apartment if she wants." Sunset offered.

Fluttershy slowly nodded and walked with Sunset.

"Tell Bell you and Rarity want to talk to her." I said.

"Alright." Dexter said.

"As for us, Blossom, Daisuke, and Rain-" I almost forgot she was gone. "...and Vinyl, you three go try to recruit some people from Megaville or keep the trade going." I said.

"How about you?" Daisuke asked.

"I'll stay here and help run things. Remember, Fluttershy's on suicide watch from here on out." I said to him.

"Got it. Oh, can I talk to you for a second? Alone?" Daisuke asked.

"Sure." We walked away from the others.

"What is it?" I asked him.

"I heard her laughing the other day. I can't be her adopted father and her best friend. She needs you. She needs you to show her the way. What way are you going to show her?" Daisuke asked.

I stood there for a moment and thought about this. What path was I going to show her? How about the others?

"Dai! We need you to get ready!" Dexter called.

"Well, good luck." I told him.

"I was going to say the same thing." Daisuke said as he walked to the car.

I walked back to the library to see the others for a meeting.

"What do we do about Fluttershy? She tried kill herself! How does someone heal from that?" Coop asked.

"I don't know. But she'll manage. How about Riku? She's dyin' to kill Bell but since we held 'er back from the run, how's that gonn' affect 'er?" Applejack asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe it won't. Maybe this is the first and only case." I said as I took my seat.

"How do we know? Maybe this will happen again." Pinkie said.

We were interrupted by Sunset and Fluttershy walk in.

"Hey Fluttershy. Did you sleep okay?" Scootaloo asked.

She just sat down without response.

"She won't talk. It might be shock." Sunset concluded.

"Well, I hope you know we're always here." I told her.

"..."

We then heard a faint gunshot from the north.

They got her.

"Well, one down, one to go." Sunset said.

We talked to Fluttershy until we saw 3 cars and 1 bus drive in. We ran out to see who was with them. But what I saw was Blossom carrying Rarity with a bloody hole in her forehead.

Rarity was dead.

"Bell stabbed her in the head and we shot. The people agreed to the deal and these people wanted no part of Megaville." Dexter told me as people walked out.

I saw how many food crates was with them.

"First taste of the deal. Enough to last us months, now with this deal, we can co-exist." Dexter said as he placed crates on to the van.

"Wow. Now, we just need to help Fluttershy and nothing can stop us from building this place up." I said as we brought the people to their rooms.

"How about your sister?" Sunset asked me.

"We'll need to get some recruiters and in time, she'll show her face." I said calmly.

"How about my sisters?" Blossom asked.

"Ditto. They'll show up eventually." I said as we grabbed more food.

"He's right. Now, we need to build this place up." Dexter said.

"Alright." Blossom responded as she flew to the apartments.

"As for the term of leadership, we can manage a democracy as well as we used to. Until proven otherwise, we keep the counsel alive and running." I announced.

"How about Megaville?" A man from the bus asked.

"We'll stay in touch. We'll go weekly after we do our jobs. Weeks with no Walkers, we survive on our provisions. If we find hordes, we'll clear them out. Anywhere, anytime." I answered.

Well, time to rebuild.