Sweet Apple Revenge

So let it be known, if any pony's life has been taken and the victim is without his or her cutie mark. The dead shall arise to deal with the murderer. Only then will justice and vengeance be served.
-Anders the Alicorn of justice and vengeance

Have you ever wondered what happens to ponies whenever it is their time to pass their souls into the afterlife. Well, parents would always tell their young fillies and colts that when they die, their spirits move on to pony heaven. Where the grass is always green, the water is crystal clear, and the light never dies out. It’s also where three fillies were supposed to go, but some pony has decided to give them another chance of life. If they do one simple thing that they thought they would never do.

The three fillies were expecting to wake up in a meadow full of flowers, but instead they wake up in a crater on some asteroid in space. The three fillies one by one slowly got up with whatever is left of their strength. One of the fillies Applebloom took a look at her surrounding area and looked to her friends with confusion “I don’t understand, aren't we supposed to wake up in pony heaven?”

The other filly Sweetie Belle tried to answer her question the best way she could “maybe we are being judged, but I don’t know? That's my guess.”

And finally Scootaloo simply snapped at her friend “The only one who should be judged is that jerk Big Macintosh!”

Then out of nowhere a blue sphere of light came out of nowhere and lowered itself in front of the three fillies. After it landed, the sphere of light started to reveal a tall figure that’s about the same size as Princess Celestia, but a little bit bigger. The tall figure had a 7 ft wingspan, full black body armor, flaming mane with one half blue the other half red, and his cutie mark was a scale. Since he was also an Alicorn, the only thing the three fillies could do was bow down as he gets closer to them with every hoof step. One of the fillies Applebloom looked up to the Stallion and without hesitation, she just started squeezing his right front hoof, and started begging “please don’t send us someplace bad, I know we did some things we weren't supposed to do, but we just went through something bad.”

The Stallion shook her off and tried to calm her down “I am not here to send you to the void, but I am here for one thing, and it requires you three.” The three fillies just looked at him confused and they all said together “what do you need us for?”

The Stallion replied back to them while giving them an introduction “I am Anders, Alicorn of justice and vengeance, you may not know this but Big Macintosh has broken an ancient law that requires my attention. I am here to resurrect you, so that you may kill Big Macintosh.”

Sweetie Belle objected “how do you expect us to kill him if we are fillies?”

Anders gave her an answer “when you are resurrected, I will make sure that you are fully grown mares.”

Scootaloo then interrupted their conversation “at least we finally get to wipe that dirty smirk off of Big Macs face.”

Anders then used his magic to teleport them out of the floating rock in space. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo started opening their eyes again. But this time they woke up in what looks like their coffins. They tried with all their strength to break out of there. With one final kick the hinges of the coffin came flying into the sky. All three of them started to ascend onto the surface while Anders was digging the dirt back in their graves to make it look like nothing happened. The three fillies looked around and saw that it was midnight in the graveyard. Then they looked at each other and saw that he was right, they are grown up, and the best part about it... Is that they have their cutie marks. Applebloom’s looked like a paintbrush painting an apple multiple colors, Sweetiebelle’s looked like a bell surrounded by musical notes, and Scootaloo’s looked like a scooter wheel with wings.

Before they could ask Anders what they meant, they saw him leaving the graveyard. So they followed him down the road he was going. At first they were a little confused at the direction he was going. But it turns out that he was heading towards a lake in the Everfree Forest. When they stopped at the lake and sat down next to each other Applebloom just couldn't help but ask him something “so, is there a reason why we are here instead of over at Sweet Apple Acres?”

Anders gave her an answer “so I can tell you what happened while you were away.”

Applebloom raised an eyebrow and looked at him “well, we’re listening.”

“While you were away, Granny Smith died of old age thus making Big Macintosh the new head of the Apple Family. He hoarded all the apple seeds that were supposed to go to apple family members all over Equestria, and now the entire family has moved to Sweet Apple Acres in hopes to grow more apples. However selling to other places in Equestria has become harder for them.”

Sweetie Belle stopped the story for a second “hold on, are you about to say that Big Macintosh also got away with killing us.” Anders nodded his head in agreement, then Scootaloo made a little outburst “how is that even possible?”

Anders continued with his story “Big Macintosh was also going to do the same to Applejack as he did to you three. But then something in his subconscious told him not to. When Applejack saw your corpses, Big Macintosh acted like he just saw this for himself, and said he would have gotten her sooner, but after seeing the bodies he was ‘petrified in fear’ to do so.”

Sweetie Belle then stopped his story again “what happened next?”

Anders continued with the story “ Big Macintosh blamed it on a unicorn who once called herself ‘the great and powerful Trixie.’ It wasn’t long until Twilight and the royal guard hunted her down on all four corners of Equestria. They last found her in the Everfree Forest where she... She...”

“She what?” Applebloom said with anticipation.

“She took her own life, they found her body hanged and a note taped to her flank saying ‘I didn’t do it’.”

After hearing all of this Applebloom just simply burst into tears and buried herself around her arms. Her two friends tried to comfort her the best way they could by rapping their hooves around her. Applebloom then looked at Anders with a few tears left in her eyes “how long... How long have we been dead?”

Anders didn’t want to give her an answer but he knew that he couldn’t lie to her “In the mortal world, you have been gone for five years.”

Applebloom’s heart just skipped a beat, she couldn’t believe it, she was gone for five whole years. She looked at her reflection in the lake and just asked herself silently “how could it have been five years.”She took a minute to look at her reflection while having to take all of this in. If she and her friends were gone for five years, then what happened to every pony else she knew? Anders stood next to her and put his hoof around her shoulder “Do not worry child, once this is over, no more blood will be on your brother's hooves.”

Applebloom got up and looked at him with a determined look and a grin. “Alright, so when are we gonna get our hooves on that mother bucker?”

“Patience young one” Anders said in response “before you can face him physically, you must first develop the courage to fight him.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that I know deep down, all of you still fear him, I know a method that is developed to swallow your fear. But some ponies rarely make it out alive.”

Scootaloo quickly got up to her hooves “what are you talking about?”

Anders turned his head to Scootaloo after hearing her question. “I speak of the Amnesia Realm, some call it the dark world, but the truth is more simple than apple pie, and scary as ponies made out of cupcakes. The Amnesia realm is the fear world, every known fear treats that world like their own safe haven. When you arrive, the only way out is to conquer all your fears, and I mean ALL of them.”

The Cutie Mark Crusaders took a moment to let it all in, SweetieBelle on the other hand asked him a question out of curiosity “how long will it be in there if we go to that world?”

“That's a good, but yet easy question” Anders said to Sweetie Belle “When you are in there, what would feel like a minute in there is a second in this world.”

“So... Time runs slower in that world, while in pony heaven it's a lot faster.”

“Indeed, I will give you a minute to prepare, while I call someone who will send you to the Amnesia realm.”

“Who is he?”

“I cannot tell a lie, he is not pony, dragon, diamond dog, buffalo, nor Draconequus. But something much more powerful and older than Celestia, even older than me.”

The Cutie Mark Crusaders took a few sips from the lake so they can feel hydrated and ready to go. While they were waiting, Anders was looking at his reflection in the lake and started separating his hooves far apart from each other as he started taking slow deep breaths. They didn’t know it yet but Anders was opening a portal to the one who will bring them to the Amnesia realm by doing some chant in the Alicorn Language. Here's how it went.

“Kalo tin paratiritis apo ti sfaira Amnisia. Treis thnitoi epithymoun na ypernikisoun tous fovous tous, oste na boroun na min echoun katholou fovo gia ti machi brosta tous. Sas kalo Miedo, na anoixei to dromo.”

After that little chant, a dark cloud covered the lake. Out of the cloud came a hooded figure in black robes, looked like he was standing on two legs, boned wings (that doesn't mean its a wing boner, it's the bones of a pair of wings) and the only part of its face that's showing is the glowing orange eyes. The hooded figure took a minute to look at Anders silently, and then started talking in a cold, dark tone in his voice “So, you finally call me at last Anders, I always thought you didn’t like me.”

“That was of Different times Miedo” Anders said in frustration “you know our kind was at war back then.”

“Sorry, I'm just in a teasing mood right now.” The hooded figure known as Miedo then turned to look at the the cutie mark crusaders “so, these are the mortals you suggest their fear is to be conquered.”

The three fillies nodded their heads as they looked at Miedo with a blank expression in their eyes. Miedo then started talking again “Before we go I must tell you that before you can face your primal fear, you must face your personal fear.”

The three of them looked at him confused as he continued speaking “when you arrive, the three of you will be separated. For you must face your personal fear alone, only when you are together is when you will face your prime fear... Big Macintosh.”

Scootaloo then started bluffing “pfff please, since when did I have a personal fear? I never had one, cause I’m as badass as Rainbow Dash.”

“Really?” Miedo said with a bit of sarcasm “then tell me, how did that work out for you in Cloudsdale?”

“What are you talking about?” Scootaloo said in defense “I don’t know what you mean.”

“You mean you forgot the time you knew you can never fly and you got kicked out of flight camp.”

Applebloom shouted at Miedo in defense of Scootaloo “hey, don’t start tripping her, our trial hasn’t started yet.”

“True, but didn’t Scootaloo ever tell you why she could never fly, why she never made friends in flight camp because they all made fun of her.”

SweetieBelle then walked in front of Miedo “Ok, you're starting to take things a little too far.”

“I’m just only telling you the truth, Scootaloo lied to you two and Rainbow Dash, cause if she ever told you the truth, she thought you would make fun of her.”

Scootaloo grinded her teeth as tears started pouring out of her eyes. Then she started Screaming in rage “DON’T YOU TELL THEM, IF YOU DO I..... I..”

“You will what?” Miedo said to Scootaloo “what will you do when I tell them that you are a.” He stopped his sentence for a minute as he quickly dashed to Scootaloo’s right side and whispered the last two words in her ear “flightless Pegasis.”

Scootaloo just stood there silent for a moment as Miedo was walking a few paces backwards away from her. Right there, more tears rolled down from Scootaloo’s eyes. After hearing what Miedo just said, she felt like her heart has just been broken into thousands of pieces and she can’t pick them all up. AppleBloom and Sweetie Belle stood in front of her friend and both looked at Miedo in frustration, wondering what he said to her. Miedo then opened up a black portal under them and one by one, they all got sucked up. They tried their best to fight back but the darkness just keeping pulling them in. Once they all got sucked up, Miedo looked at the portal and stepped around the black void around him. Before he went through, he looked down the portal seeing the cutie mark crusaders and said these words to them “Welcome to the realm of Amnesia, my little ponies.”

To Be Continued