Equestria Girls HATRED Special

Twilight Sparkle, Spike, the Humane Five, and the Crusaders stood outside of the house, and they were all extremely unhappy. After all their searching, and surviving a massacre downtown, they felt that it was all in vain. Sure Sunset Shimmer forgave them for their cruel and wrongful treatment of her during the Anon-a-Miss incident, but they had lost her trust and, in the process, their friendship with her.

“Come on, girls. Let’s go home.” Twilight said.

“Goodbye, Sunset.” Fluttershy said softly to the house Sunset was living in and wiping a couple tears from her eyes.

“Wait, can we at least take up the garbage for her?” Pinkie Pie suggested pointing to two trash bins.

“I guess so. It’s the least we can do now after all we’ve put her through.” Rainbow Dash glumly agreed.

And so they all started heading sadly up the hill, with Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie pulling the two trash bins with them. Unbeknownst to them, a car was parked behind a tree and a couple bushes a few feet from the front of the house. Inside it sat a dark and scary-looking man. He had arrived a few minutes before the girls had exited the house. When he saw some of them through one of the windows of the living room he quickly and quietly positioned his car in a place where they wouldn’t notice him. After they had left, he pulled out of his hiding place and parked in the driveway of the house. He got out of his vehicle, grabbed a couple bags and walked up to the front door, and knocked on it.

Sunset Shimmer was inside the living room holding the gift from Fluttershy in her hands. But before she could open it, she heard a knocking at the door. She put the gift in her pocket and walked over to the door to answer it. When she opened it, she was delighted to see that the man she had been waiting hours to return from his errands had finally come home.

“You’re back!” Sunset exclaimed giving him a warm, welcoming hug.

“Yes I am.” Not Important said returning the hug. Then they both walked back inside.

“Where have you been?” Sunset asked eyeing the bags Not Important had brought.

“I was doing a little shopping and I had to pick up a few things from the tailors.” Not Important lied as he pulled out the army outfit he had stolen from the soldier he had murdered downtown.

“Whoa! You were in the military?” Sunset asked staring at the uniform.

“Yes, been serving the country for six years.”

“That sounds great.”

“Yeah well guess what. I’m supposed to report to the base where my squad is staying and I thought I’d bring you along too.”

“Really? Why?” Sunset asked surprised.

“There are a lot of people in the world who need help during this time of year. Soldiers who risk their lives for everything they believe in need it more than anyone.”

Sunset nodded in agreement.

“I’ve heard your beautiful singing voice and I thought it would be nice if some of my old war buddies could have their holiday spirits lifted a little. What do you think?”

Sunset put on a big smile. “That sounds great. I’d love to help lift their spirits. Anything to help people in need.”

“That’s my girl.” Not Important said putting his hand on her shoulder and giving her a warm smile. “We’ll be leaving in a few minutes so we’d better get ready.”

“On it.” Sunset confirmed as she walked to her room and started packing some things in a bag she thought she might need. She packed a couple books, including her journal that Twilight returned. She went through the closet and found a winter coat just her size. The thought of helping people and making the Anon-a-Miss incident inapplicable excited her. Perhaps this was going to be a wonderful holiday after all.

Meanwhile, Twilight and the others were still walking up the hill toward the road. It was a little hard to move fast because the trash bins they were carrying were very heavy. Also, the Humane Five and the Crusaders were cursing themselves for the decisions they made that led to this.

“This is all our fault.” Scootaloo said bitterly with tears in her eyes. “We should’ve come clean when we had the chance. Then Sunset would still be with us.”

“Calm down, squirt.” Rainbow Dash said gently putting her hand on the younger girl’s shoulder. “This is mostly our fault actually.”

“But we were the ones who made Anon-a-Miss.” Apple Bloom disagreed. “We were the ones who tricked all of you into turning on Sunset Shimmer.”

“No Apple Bloom.” Applejack told her sister. “We chose to believe it was Sunset Shimmer because, after all this time, we never truly knew what we had until we lost it. Ya see, Sunset did a lot of terrible things in the past, making herself seem superior to everyone. But when Twilight gave us the task of teaching her about friendship, we all got the idea that we were all better than her now.”

“Oh boy, were we wrong.” Pinkie Pie glumly added.

“We now realize that we are all just as capable of causing pain and misery just as much as she did.” Rarity said sadly.

“Perhaps even worse than she ever did.” Fluttershy tearfully added.

“And now we’ve lost our friend forever and it’s our fault.” Applejack started shedding some tears. Then she turned to Twilight. “Twi, I’m sorry. You tasked us with teaching Sunset the magic of friendship and we failed miserably.”

“We don’t deserve to be Sunset’s friends. And to that extent, we don’t deserve to be yours either.” Fluttershy said hanging her head in shame.

“Girls, I am disappointed in what you’ve all done.” Twilight said. “But you all have to stop beating yourselves up about this, that’s not going to make things better. You made some terrible mistakes that have cost you a very valuable friendship. But instead of feeling sorry for yourselves, learn from this experience. Let this teach you a valuable lesson about friendship and perhaps you can make sure that what happened to Sunset Shimmer will never happen again.”

The others took in Twilight’s words. It was starting to make them feel a little better now.

“You’re right, sugarcube.” AJ said wiping away some tears. “We have ta be strong now. For Sunset Shimmer.” The others nodded in agreement. Then they realized that they had finally made it to the top of the hill.

“Hey, Twilight.” Spike said trying to get his mistress’s attention.

“What is it, Spike?” Twilight asked.

“While we were there, there was something that didn’t smell right about the house Sunset was living in.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, it smelled like-.”

CRASH!

“Oh man!” Rainbow exclaimed with annoyance. The trash bin she had been pulling had just tipped over and spilled a couple big bags and a TV antenna onto the ground. “Great, now I have to put all this back in the bin!”

“Why would anyone throw away a perfectly good TV antenna?” Pinkie asked suspiciously examining the antenna.

“I don’t care. Just help me-.” Rainbow said angrily as she grabbed one of the bags, but then she stopped midsentence when she realized she had stained her right hand with something wet after touching the bag. “Oh great! Now my hand is-!” She started again but stopped when she took a good look at what was on her hand. It was an extremely red liquid.

“Is that…blood?” Fluttershy asked nervously.

Rainbow grabbed the bag and ripped it open. And to everyone’s horror, it revealed the pale, open-eyed, lifeless face of a man staring up at them. All of them started sweating with fear; the Crusaders struggled to keep themselves from screaming in fright.

“What the-! How could-?!” Rainbow was at a loss for words.

“Who did Sunset say she was living with again?” Spike asked.

Then it all came to them. The possibility that Sunset was living with a murderer.

“Oh no! Sunset!” Twilight exclaimed in horror, and was the first one to bolt right back down the hill toward the house with the others right behind her.

Back in the house, Sunset was finishing packing her bag while Not Important had gotten into his new uniform and finished packing his bag. He was now waiting in the living room for Sunset to be done.

“Almost done, I’ll be out in a minute.” She called to him.

“Okay.” Not Important called back. Suddenly, he heard a loud banging at the front door that caused him to jump to his feet.

“SUNSET!” “SUNSET GET OUT OF THERE!” “YOU’RE IN DANGER!” was what he heard coming from the outside.

“What’s that?” Not Important heard Sunset call and heard her coming down the hallway. He pulled out a gun and quickly hid behind the left corner of the hallway entrance, and as soon as Sunset came through, he bashed the girl from behind right in the head knocking her unconscious. But before he could do anything else he heard that whoever was at the door was banging so hard it sounded like it was going to breakdown. So he left Sunset were she was and ran to another corner of the room. Soon enough the door broke off its hinges and Twilight, Spike, the Humane Five, and the Crusaders ran in and to their horror, found their former friend lying on the floor.

“Sunset! Sunset!” Twilight ran over to her unconscious friend with the others in tow.

“She’s unconscious!” Fluttershy examined her.

“But how could-?” Rarity tried to ask but was interrupted.

“Hello.” said a voice that filled everyone with fear. They all turned around and saw a tall, long dark-haired man dressed in an army uniform and holding a gun that was aimed right at them. He had an intimidating look on his face that didn’t feel natural. Everyone stared in terror at this dark and terrifying figure that had them all at gunpoint. The three Crusaders clung to their respective sisters shaking with fear. “Let me introduce myself; I’m a man of hatred and disgust.”