Chapters What You've Got :Remastered Backstory
A young Fluttershy is sitting alone in a large meadow, her parents are away for ten more minutes, she becomes bored, so she starts looking for something to keep her occupied. She sees a butterfly flying from flower to flower, its wings easily supporting its small frame.
She flaps her tiny wings furiously, gaining no lift, she decides just to walk over and get a closer look. She crept closer to the butterfly, and when she got close enough, it fluttered over and landed on her hoof, it surprised her, she slammed her hoof down, smashing it.
That's where it started, a butterfly.
At first, Fluttershy was sad, she had killed a defenseless creature, she loved animals, she thought all life was precious, why would anypony kill anything? She realized how much she enjoyed the rush, it was like a sugar rush multiplied by a million, like nothing she had ever experienced.
She had never felt that kind of exhilaration before, but she vowed she would feel it again, no matter what she had to do, she needed to feel that again.After a minute or two, her body finally relaxed, she walked away, and physically left the butterfly behind her, not mentally, no, she would never leave it behind mentally.
Day by day, two gruelling weeks had passed, she hadn’t killed at all, and it was starting to wear on her body, she became weaker, and she was barely able to hold herself up.
The second she arrived, she knew that cake couldn’t provide the energy that she needed, she had to kill something. Almost instantaneously, her parents scolded her for talking about a “High” of some sorts with her friend, apparently, he told his parents, and they had just told hers.
She would kill him, but not just yet, she would wait until nopony was around, or nopony was looking. She knew when to do it, three days from now, every filly and colt her age in the skies would be going to CloudsDale for their start at flight camp.
At the chariot stop for CloudsDale, she and her friend waited, the two of them knew the bus wouldn’t arrive for another thirty minutes or so, but they thought they could play or something. But the two of them had two different ideas of play.
After a few minutes of play, Fluttershy had him near the edge of the cloud, this was her opportunity, she pushed him with all of her strength. The colt flew off the side of the cloud, the momentum gained as he fell towards the ground, she could feel herself getting stronger by the second.
All of a sudden, a stallion flew by and caught him, the stallion was Fluttershy’s father, unlucky for her, he was already in a bad mood. He approached her, setting the colt down on the cloud. He got right up next to her, then hit her hard across the face with his hoof.
She wiped the blood from her snout, and looked back up at him, he was rising above her, blocking out the sun. She rose back up, and closed her eyes for a brief moment...
...Then opened them as she punched him on the front of his nout, causing him to stumble backwards and blood to fly from his snout as well. he recovered and punched her in the jaw, knocking her unconscious, her small body barely made a sound as it landed on the cloud.
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Fluttershy awoke, she was in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines, heart monitors, IV’s, plus more. She looked around her bed, and saw her mother sleeping in a chair beside her father. Yet her father wasn't sleeping, he was just staring at her, smiling.
A doctor called my parents out to the hallway, but only my mother left, only after she was woken. Her father stayed in the room and locked the door.
“Listen her you little Shitstain, if you step out of line one more time, I’ll boot your ass out of my house quicker than you can say ‘Oops” he snarled.
Fluttershy became angered, she nodded though, as if to gain his temporary trust, just enough time to do the deed. She looked beside her bed, and saw it...a needle. She grabbed it and jumped towards her father.
Before he could react, she stabbed him in the chest, causing blood to ripple out from the wound. She kicked him in the snout before he could scream, so all that came out was a muffled gurgle and a stream of blood coming from his broken skull.
Her mother immediately disowned her, filing the paperwork as quickly as she could and then left the room, leaving Fluttershy alone in the room.
Her case was sent to court, and in the meantime, she was sent to a Canterlot Juvenile Delinquency Clinic. She spent nine years there, each year she grew more and more angry, yet weaker and weaker, right up until that last year.
In that year, she was sent to a teenage facility next door. Almost as soon as she arrived, they loaded her up in a chariot and sent her to a courthouse. As the guards walked her to the stand, she eyed the audience, she saw her mother, her ex-friend, and many other ponies, including many ponies from the press.
“Due to insufficient evidence, the following case is dropped, Fluttershy case 1134543 First Degree Murder.” the judge boomed.
The guards looked at each other, and shrugged. The two of them escorted Fluttershy out of the courtroom. They led her to the front steps, and unhooked her cuffs.
She knew where she would go, she would kill the colt who started it all, her ex-friend, the one who was just at the trial, she would poison him, she wouldn't be caught, she would live free forever.
What You've Got :Remastered Backstory
After weeks of plotting, Fluttershy had come up with the perfect plan. She wouldn't just poison him, but she'd make it look like a simple cooking accident. She spent three days in the woods near his house before she put her plan into action. On the night that his parents were out, Fluttershy crept over and snuck in through the window.
She eyed her prey with malicious intent, but then flew to the kitchen, where she implanted the poisonous substance in the bottom of a glass that he'd set out a minute before. He started walking towards the kitchen, so she went for the ceiling, behind a vent.
As he reached fro the glass containing the poison, a loud creaking sound could be heard, the two of them looked around, only to realize that the creaking came from the floor. Fluttershy stuck her head out just in time to see the floor bloew him collapse, plunging him thirty feet towards the hard concrete below.
Nopony knew why the floor below that colt gave way under such little stress, most suspected fluttershy, even though she'd planned to poison him, not drop him.
Fluttershy had no family to keep her down, so she just wandered through all the major cities of Equestria, Canterlot, Manehattan, Trottingham, Las Pegasus, Stalliongrad, and even CloudsDale once.
She ran through the bad neighborhoods, being chased by rapists and druggies, each city made her more bitter, until finally she snapped. On an early August morning in Stalliongrad, a Equestria Guard approached Fluttershy, asking why she was in this neighborhood at this time.
She just went crazy, she pulled out a knife and stabbed the guard multiple times, each succeeding time making a more sickening slosh than the last, she put him to the ground and stabbed him with his own spear a few times, and to finish him off, she slit his throat, spilling blood all over the ground.
She backpedaled, examining her work, she felt stronger than ever, the more gruesome the murder was, the better. Or at least the stronger she felt.
As she was walking away from the dead body, she was tackled by at least a dozen more guards, who'd seen her horrible crime but hadn't been able to do anything.
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"Guilty.....One count of first degree Murder, eight years in Canterlot Maximum security Prison." The maximum sentence for a mare of her age, the two guards escorted her off.
Although Fluttershy was seemingly controlled by the law, her violence didn't stop just because she was sent to prison, prison fights always seemed to involve her, and so did the worst injuries.
Once, a prison riot broke out when the guards closed the telephone, Fluttershy didn't care, she just wanted to kill, so she lunged at one of the guards, and pinned him to the ground.
She laughed evilly as she pulled a shank carved from a spoon from underneath her wing. The guard kicked her off of him and pulled a shield out. She lunged once again, but the guard was ready, he hit her in the head with the shield, knocking her unconscious.
Yes, she was assigned to solitary for many years of her sentence, and she was subjected to therapy, even torture, but not a single thing got to her. Her sentence passed slowly, but on the day she was released, she just stood outside of the prison for a while, contemplating what to do next.
"Mother..." She said evilly, she set out for the ten day walk to Ponyville.
On the tenth day, she arrived in Ponyville, but things were different, there was no day, it stayed black, one of the darkest nights she'd ever seen, it brought chills to her dark core.
As she walked through the lonely streets, occasionally hearing a rustle or a crash, her world just snapped black all of a sudden.
She awoke in the Royal Palace, only there was not a Princess Celestia figure emblazoned along all of the walls, but a dark, nightmarish creature. She had a black coat, green eyes, and was an alicorn, and form what Fluttershy could see, a covered cutie Mark.
"Ffffluttershy." Her voice was sly and dark.
Fluttershy just stood her ground, she wasn't going to be pushed around by a creature like this.
"I see you're a murderer, oh, and you were accused multiple times, but only convicted once." Nightmare said, "I can clear your past if you do something for me."
'I don't care, I like my past, deal with it."
"Listen you little ingrate, if you don't preform...." her horn lit up and one of the guards near the two was levitated and he made a sickening crunch and muffled gurgle as he was broken.
Fluttershy backed up a bit, " I'm not scared."
Nightmare's horn glowed, and she cowered a bit.
"I can make you immortal, I can make you rich, I can do anything, I am more powerful than Celestia ever was!" lightning flashed around them.
Fluttershy cleared her throat, "Fine."
"Good young one, good."
Fluttershy's vision blurred for a moment, and then cleared up, she was in a bright white room with four other ponies, two mares, and two stallions, she was by far the youngest.
"Fight!" a voice boomed through out the room, and a large, sharp knife appeared in the center of the room, unlike the other ponies, Fluttershy didn't immediately rush for it, instead, she stayed back and watched them kill each other.
The two stallions were the first two there, a red one and a black one, the red one reached the knife first, once he pulled it, an explosion tore his whole foreleg off, causing blood to gush, staining the white floor. The black stallion picked up the blade ad walked over to the injured stallion.
He sunk the blade into his forehead and pulled back, causing the stallion's blood to spurt everywhere.
A mare jumped onto the back of the stallion , but he threw her into a wall, and stomped her chest a few times, crushing all of her internal organs and causing her to bleed profusely.
Fluttershy ran and slid beside the dead mare, she covered her chest in the mare's blood, and dabbed a little on her mouth to make her appear dead, yet she laid at an angle that she could still see the two other ponies who were still alive.
The two circled for a while, occasionally one would throw a punch, but nothing major. Finally the stallion leaped over and started strangling the mare with her own mane. She kicked him in his testicles, sending a wave of pain throughout his body, which also caused him to stop choking.
She stood over him, and kissed him once on the cheek. She then stomped his head in, breaking his skull. Now was Fluttershy's time to act, she rose behind the mare, who was worn out from fighting.
"Ahem..." Fluttershy spun the mare around and punched her once in the face, making her stumble backwards.
Fluttershy caught the failed punches the mare threw, and broke her limbs one by one. Once she was immobilized, Fluttershy finished her off, she kicked the mare in the face, which broke her neck from the force, killing her.
Fluttershy stood alone, surrounded by the dead, she waited to be taken out of the room.
What You've Got :Remastered Backstory
A small compartment opened up in the room, and a small, sharp dart shot out of it. The dart landed in Fluttershy's flank, shooting the substance inside her. Her vision started to fade, as did her balance. Through her fading, and failing vision she could see guards enter the room, but she was powerless against them.
She threw her hoof out mentally, but it didn't move, instead it knocked her off balance and she fell onto the floor, unconscious. The guards grabbed her and dragged her towards the royal throne.
Fluttershy awoke, she knew immediately where she was, she could see Nightmare looking at her, and she could see the rest of the room, but she couldn't move or hear. Nightmare's horn stopped glowing and Fluttershy could hear again.
"So the youngest is the most brutal, fitting." Nightmare chucked, she approached Fluttershy.
"What do you want me to do..." Fluttershy paused, "Queen Nightmare."
Nightmare reared up as she laughed, lightning shot around her and she slammed back to the ground. "I will train you."
"In what? Queen Nightmare?" Fluttershy said, she had no choice to bow.
"You will be trained harshly, weapons, stealth, camouflage, targeting, and loyalty to your country." Nightmare snarled.
"When do I start?" Fluttershy asked.
"Tomorrow, but tonight, you live." Nightmare said.
"What is that representing?" Fluttershy asked.
"Go outside of the castle grounds tonight, it will be the last time for one year."
"No, I don't need to."
"As you wish then." Nightmare turned and walked away.
Fluttershy didn't know where to go, she was about to ask Nightmare when two Shadow Guards walked up to her.
"Follow us." They said sternly, then walked up the staircase.
As the three of them were walking to Fluttershy's room, she had a few good looks around the castle itself, she saw the labyrinth, the royal gardens, and even the ball room, which for some reason, was still bright with stained glass of Celestia. As they were passing the stone garden, she saw stone dust around most of the statues. The only tatues that remained were the ones of Discord and of Victory.
"Over here." one of the guards said as they neared dormitories in the highest tower of the castle.
Fluttershy obeyed, she walked up to the guard and he used a long, black key to open the room. Once the room opened, it was revealed to have a bed, a desk, many windows, and a single closet.
"The further you advance in training, the more comfortable your room will become." the guard, she was guessing the leader, said.
She simply nodded as they walked off, this would be her last night before training, who knew when she would sleep again. The one thing she need and wanted most of all, was sleep. She etched her way over to the bed and laid down, not long after, she was asleep.
"Swwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" A whistle shot her out of bed, she landed against the wall and looked around her, her room was filled with Equestrian National forces, they were carrying some sort of weapon that she'd never seen before.
She launched off the wall and landed beside the commander, who was standing in front, he was dressed in camouflage, his rank of Captain was clearly displayed with a gold pin on his shoulder.
"Welcome to boot camp!" he said loudly.
"Where do I go?" she asked.
"Follow my forces down to the training grounds!" he commanded, and his next in line walked up to him.
"Lieutenant Shining Armor sir, permission to take command of squad 43 for now." he asked, his gold pin read Sergeant Major
"Permission granted, take this one with you." he said, and his soldier nodded.
"Private Fluttershy, follow us." he said, and turned around, his men, about a dozen or so,
As they rushed out of the tower, she noticed how alive the castle was, at the castle and the surrounding areas, hundreds of thousands of stallions were drilling, she heard loud pops, explosions, screaming, metal clanking, and hooves marching.
The sky was still dark, but the grounds could be seen, in the distance, she saw chariots that had motors and a large tube attached to them. They fired a huge flaming ball out of the tube, as it flew through the air, it seemed to get brighter, right up until t hit the ground. When they hit, the ground around them exploded into flames, the air around the impact seemed to disappear for a split second.
When the were almost to the bottom of the steps, a group of four hundred soldier marched by, followed by another and another. The ponies around her were starting to jog in place, so she followed along. She made sure to stay in step with them.
Once the platoons of soldiers completely passed, they started out on a run, the sun started to show, which made the burning in her legs more intense. They ran for what seemed like hours, but was really only 10 miles, which took about 75 minutes.
"Alright, now, there are three sets of six routines," he listed them off;
50 push ups
2.100 sit ups
3.25 over hoof wide grip pull ups
30 Dive Bomber push ups
5 minutes of backflies
Cool Down stretches
Repeat three times for an average time of 1 1/2 hours.
"Are you clear?" he asked, then put his hoof to his ear.
"Crystal, sir!" the stallions around her said in response.
They started the training, day after day it was the same for 7 weeks. By the end of those seven weeks, Fluttershy was outperforming almost everypony in the squad. The training was intense, so intense that two ponies died during it. One died during the final ten mile run on the first day, he collapsed alongside of the trail, and the trainers just left him. The second died when he fell off of the bridge during the 10 mile run.
At the end of week 7, the ten or so soldiers who remained in the squad.were sent to different parts of the camp for different fields of training, everypony was sent in a group of two, everypony except Fluttershy.
"Private! Follow Sergeant Scratch across that field!" Shining Armor called out.
She did as she was told and followed him over to a station that had a rather large weapon laid out on a white table.
"Nightmare has requested special training for you, I am currently the only other pony who has the skill and knowledge that you need." Sergeant Scratch said.
"Yes sir." she said, saluting.
