Equestria Girls HATRED Special

by EquineAvenger

Chapter 18

Previous ChapterNext Chapter

Not Important drove toward the entrance of the power plant in his newly acquired Humvee. As he got closer, he saw that a large group of soldiers had gathered at the entrance. They were all armed and had a few sandbag walls set up, it was like they were waiting for him; perhaps they heard what had happened to Fort OConnor. “Aah, the welcome committee…” Not Important thought to himself. “Time to die!” Then he stopped the Humvee just a hundred feet from the entrance, climbed from the driver’s seat into the machine gun turret mounted on the hood of the vehicle, and started mowing down everyone in his sight.

Twilight Sparkle, Spike, the Humane Five, Bulk Biceps, Snips and Snails were being driven by Trixie in the direction of the nearest military base, hopefully Sunset Shimmer and that misanthropic madman were in that direction. Each and every one of them were nervous, they were hoping they would find them before something really bad happened. Rainbow Dash was twitchy and ready for action and Fluttershy was extremely shaky.

“How much longer?” Rainbow asked Trixie impatiently.

“We’re almost there.” Trixie replied.

They all looked through the driver’s window, there was something coming up in the distance. It was a gate entrance but there were no guards posted, the sign above read ‘Fort OConnor.’ They drove through the entrance and were now inside the base. The place looked like it had been attacked: there were damaged and burning structures and corpses of soldiers lying everywhere. Everyone got out of the van and looked over all of the carnage with expressions of horror and sadness. What kind of person would commit such an atrocity? But the biggest question on their minds was: ‘Where is Sunset Shimmer?’ Suddenly two cars came through the base entrance; one of them looked like Flash Sentry’s car. Out of one car came Flash, Lyra, Bon-Bon, and Sandalwood. Out of the other car emerged Micro Chips, Photo Finish, Vinyl Scratch, and Principal Celestia. When they exited their vehicles they put on the same disturbed expressions as the others when they saw the ruin of the base.

“Flash, Principal Celestia, what are you doing here?” Twilight asked surprised to see them.

“We dropped the Crusaders off with another student search party to look after and gathered a few others to come and see if we could help.” Flash answered.

“I could no longer bear just waiting so I decided I would make some use of myself. After all, it is my job as principal to make sure that all my students are okay.” Celestia said warmly, but then turned her attention back to the horror that was all around them. “But what in God’s name happened here?”

“I bet it’s the work of that psychopathic freak!” Rainbow Dash said angrily.

“Have you heard about the murders that have been going on for the past few days?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yes, I’ve been informed of that.” Celestia answered looking over to Micro Chips with disturbed eyes.

“Well, we recently found out that Sunset’s been hanging around with that creep.” Rarity explained. “And that he had some sort of plan for her.”

“Oh God!” Celestia exclaimed with absolute worry on her face.

“Spike, can you pick up Sunset’s scent?” Twilight asked her assistant.

“I’m trying.” Spike responded. “But there are two other scents getting in the way. One scent I’ve never smelled. I think that’s death smells like and the other scent is his scent!” Twilight could see that these smells were making Spike sick, she felt bad for asking too much of him. “But I can smell a little bit of Sunset in there. I’ll try to follow it as best I can.” And the little purple pup started following his nose while his human companions stayed in toe. After a while of following Spike, Pinkie Pie suddenly stopped everyone in their tracks.

“Hold on everyone, I hear something.” Pinkie said putting her hand to her ear. Soon everyone else started hearing what she was hearing too. It was faint but it sounded like someone was weeping.

“It sounds like it’s coming from over there.” Fluttershy said pointing toward a damaged Humvee. They all crept quietly over to the vehicle. When they looked behind it they were surprised to find the person they’ve all been searching long and hard for, Sunset Shimmer, on her knees with her face buried in her hands and a small puddle of tears sit right in front of her.

“Sunset?!” Fluttershy said softly as not to startle the crying girl.

Sunset looked up for a moment, there were streams of tears running down her cheeks and her eyes were red from crying so much. Her eyes suddenly went wide with surprise; all of her friends: Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy were all standing right in front of her alive and with concerned and sympathetic expressions on their faces. “Fluttershy? Twilight?” Sunset said softly as both Twilight and Fluttershy knelt down to comfort her. “I thought you were… he said… you were all dead.”

“We would’ve been if they hadn’t come in time.” Rainbow said pointing to Flash, Bulk Biceps, and the others.

“Sunset darling, what happened?” Rarity asked.

Sunset’s eyes started welling up again as she started to speak. “He… he lied to me. He said he was my friend. But instead, he used me to cause all of this.” She said as she looked around at the carnage surrounding them. “Why? What did I do to deserve to be put through this?” Sunset then buried her face in her hands once again and began to weep. Everyone around her started feeling horrible inside, particularly the Humane Five and the other CH students.

“Sunset, no one blames for anything this time.” Twilight said gently wrapping her arms around her crying friend. “You’re a good person. You’re my friend.”

“Sunset, you’ve done nothing wrong since the Fall Formal.” Fluttershy said in a gentle and sympathetic voice. “You’re not the person you once were. I’m sorry Sunset. I’m so very sorry.” Fluttershy joined in the hug shedding tears herself.

“Oh, Sunset.” Rarity said tearing up. “I know your life has been hard. You didn’t deserve any of this. I want to take back all the horrid things I said and apologize. But can you ever find it in your heart to forgive any of us?” and Rarity joined in the group hug.

“All you’ve wanted was to make everyone you hurt happy.” Pinkie spoke with tears in her eyes. “We were supposed to give you the best holiday season you’ve ever had. It was going to be a way of showing our appreciation for being a good friend. But a terrible mistake turned everything into a hellish nightmare. I’m so super sorry, Sunset!” and the bawling Pinkie embraced her bawling friend.

“Sunset.” Applejack was next to speak. “No amount of words can express how sorry ah am for the part ah played.” The cowgirl buried her face in her hands. “Ah just wish ah could’ve been a better person and a better friend.” And the sad cowgirl joined in the embracement.

“Sunset.” Rainbow Dash said looking at her friend with apologetic and sympathetic eyes. “None of this is your fault. It was his and ours. Some loyal friend I am. I don’t deserve a good friend like you.” And with that, all seven girl were joined in this heartwarming embrace to comfort this emotionally devastated innocent girl.

The other students watching this spectacle were also shedding tears. In the past some of them would’ve leapt at the chance of seeing the girl who tormented them crying in pain. But seeing her like this now was unbearable.

“Twilight’s right.” Flash said to the other students. “Things at Canterlot High have to change.”

As the girls were trying to calm Sunset down, Rainbow broke away from the group hug and started looking around. Her eyes were filled with rage; she looked like she was going to kill someone. It became obvious when she was hoping to spot.

“Rainbow, you alright?” Fluttershy asked her friend.

Suddenly, after looking around for a whole minute, the rainbow-haired girl snapped. “WHERE IS HE?!” she shouted in spine-tingling fury. Applejack and Flash rushed to restrain their furious companion before she could run off somewhere and get herself hurt of worse. “WHEN I FIND HIM I’LL KILL HIM! I’LL FUCKING KILL HIM!” Rainbow continued to scream as her two companions struggled to keep restrained.

“Rainbow, calm down!” AJ ordered sternly.

“But that bastard hurt our friend! I can’t let him get away with this!”

“Ah know. But runnin’ off and gettin’ yourself killed is not going to Sunset or anyone!” what AJ said seemed to calm Rainbow down a bit. Flash let go of her and began to catch his breath, he’d almost forgotten how strong that girl was.

“Sunset, where is Not Important?” Twilight asked Sunset who seemed to have calmed down now.

“He took two things, I think they were bombs, and said he was going to take them to some power plant. Then he headed that way.” Sunset pointed in the direction Not Important had driven off. “I think he’s going to kill the people down there.”

For a moment, everyone stared in the direction Sunset had pointed. Some of them knew there was a nuclear power plant located in that direction and that there was a maniacal killer with a couple of explosives down that way too. What could it mean? Suddenly Micro Chips put it all together. “He’s not just going to kill the people down that way! If he has some real heavy duty explosives he could cause a big enough explosion that could wipe out the entire county and kill everyone!” Micro Chips declared with a horrified expression on his face. Everyone shared the exact same expression after hearing this.

“That’s insane!” said Lyra.

“How could anyone be that evil?” said Bon-Bon

Twilight was shocked. She was thinking the same thing Bon-Bon was thinking. However, she already met Not Important and had a good idea of what kind of monster he was. A look of determination spread across her face, she knew what she and her friends had to do. “Girls, we have to find that power plant and stop him.”

“Then what are we waitin’ for? Let’s go!” Applejack said in agreement. Pretty soon all the other members of the Humane Five looked ready to help Twilight in this mission.

“Are you crazy?!” Principal Celestia wasn’t comfortable with this at all. “This man has already killed many people. Not even the army could stop him. I will not allow any of my students to put themselves in that kind of danger!”

“I thank you for your concern, Celestia.” Twilight said. “But you forget, we have the magic of friendship on our side.”

“But… But I-!”

“Don’t worry about us. We’ve been in dangerous situations before, I’m sure we can handle this.” Rainbow said confidently.

“Just make sure the others are safe. It is your duty as principal of Canterlot High.” Fluttershy said hoping to boost their principal’s confidence in them.

Celestia smiled proudly at the six teens. They had grown so much. “Very well, but all of you better return or there will be detention for all of you.” She said in a teasing and faithful tone.

“Flash, take Sunset as far away from this place as you can.” Twilight said to Flash.

“What?!” Sunset couldn’t what she’d just heard. “But why?”

“It’s too dangerous, Sunset. Please go with Flash and the others, they’ll keep you safe.”

“But you have to let me help! I was the one who helped Not Important get this far, you have to let me help you stop him!”

“Not this time, Sunset. I think it would be better if you sit this one out.”

“But I-!”

“Sunset please!” Fluttershy grabbed Sunset’s shoulders and looked her in the eyes with tears dripping from her own. “It’s not that you don’t want your help, it’s that you can’t bear to see you get hurt again!” Sunset calmed down and saw the desperation in Fluttershy’s regretful eyes. “There’s already too much that we regret!”

“Fluttershy.” Sunset said in calm and understanding tone.

“You’ve already been through enough, Sunset.” Rainbow said agreeing with Fluttershy.

“We’ll take care of things now. Just wait for us. We pinkie promise we’ll make it up to you when this is all over.” Pinkie Pie promised.

Sunset really didn’t want to leave her friends to combat this threat on their own. But they all made a good point. So she reluctantly allowed Flash, Celestia, and the others to gently escort her to their vehicles so they could leave.

Meanwhile, Twilight, Spike, and the Humane Five had found an undamaged Humvee. After Pinkie hot-wired the vehicle, Rainbow hopped into the driver’s seat. After everyone had found a place to sit, Rainbow hit the accelerator, and they were driving down the road to the power plant to put an end to Not Important’s genocide crusade once and for all.

Next Chapter