The Hive

The fastest baki in equestria

Pain…. It was all the cyan mare could think as she looked at the knife that had been imbedded in her chest her vision was starting to blur and blackness started to creep into the edge of it. She looked to her killer but couldn’t see the monster. Instead a pink mare with stark terror in her blue eyes on the brink of break down “p…pinkie?” the rainbow mare let out and the party mares eyes widened further right before the darkness engulfed her vision.

“P…pinkie?” the dying mare asked before life drained from those red eyes. Pinkie fell backwards and crawled away shaking her head

“no…..no….this isn’t happening this wasn’t how this was supposed to go he eyes fell to the bloody knife still in her best friends chest a knife that she didn’t draw, a knife that shouldn’t be there. She lifted her hands as it to stop the image but the blood on her hand sprung into view.  She brought her hands to her face screamed letting the tears fall. She looked at rainbow then closed her eyes when something clicked in her head as if some unknown command had hit her brain. On this she got up and stepped towards the corpse of her friends staring at her with new intention,

she hit the release button on the back of the table and her friend fell into her arms “she feels like an oversized doll.” Pinkie couldn’t help but think as she turned her over and looked into those unseeing eyes she noticed the thin trail of blood on her friend’s check. Pinkie cleaned it from rainbow’s fur then gripped the knife and pulled it free like a knight one handedly drawing Excalibur from the stone.

She examined the knife with distain the pink pearled handle the yellow and blue balloons on the blade now stained with blood.  Her face twisted as if she was going to be sick then throw the blade away letting it skitter across the hard floor causing sparks to fly. She cradled the body of her friend and looked at the others with new determination in her eyes. she spoke the words that dominated her mind.

“I am not a monster...” she turned her back on her other friends and walked into the darkness. She knew what she needed to do it was dash’s only hope. She found that small room the one with the single table. That single table she had laid on before becoming… the words escaped even her. She laid dash gently on the table giving her one last hoping glance before moving into the glass room.  She watched the claw gild out of the darkness.  It replayed its actions as it did with her first it seemed to examine dash as if trying to decide the best approach to doing its wicked task.  She expected to find herself disgusted at the event taking place but could only find a mild fascination with it.  Then it took the plunge she remembered the pain the fire and only hoped dash was numb to this part. But once it removed the blue orb pinkie felt a slight rumble in her stomach that she for the life of her could not explain. She watched the claw intently as if waiting for it to drop the precise orb. It moved out of the area and she followed it.

First the claw placed the orb on a pedestal and disappeared from sight as two beams of light ran over every inch of the small orb. Pinkie could see words racing across the small metal boxes in the glass room. She couldn’t read any of it; it passed so fast she doubted even twilight could read that fast but then images started popping up. As they flashed by pinkie instantly understood what they were. these pictures were dash’s memories being played through.  She stared mouth hanging open as dash’s whole life passed before pinkies eyes. Only when something made a loud hiss almost like a large pot of tea was going off did she tear her eyes away from the screens. Now what looked like an empty shell lay on a table near dash’s orb. It looked like pinkie’s body only colorless nothing but a soulless husk. A vessel that wasn’t going to be empty for long the claw returned picking the orb up as the body’s chest opened as if waiting for the orb. Once the orb was place within a large burst of light went off pinkie watched in amazement as color flooded through the body first the cyan fur spread through it. Then the rainbow hair sprung out of the head and the tail seemed to grow out of nowhere sporting the same rainbow colors. It moved her friends along a rail taking her out of pinkies sight but she quickly raced to not lose her completely.  Once rainbow was put into a glass tube it seemed she was sleeping and pinkie’s heart nearly did a back flip when the small box on the front read the words stable in a comforting green.  She did a little twirl flailing her hands in the air in her own little victory dance “yes I saved dashie!!” she called out in joy.

The tube opened up to revel the new rainbow dash she was a bit shorter then pinkie but shared the same basic design a round head with the signature messy rainbow hair two line ran down her cheeks from her eyes down to her chest. Like pinkie the neck area was covered by the beginning of the hourglass shaped body then started at their chin and ended in a thin waist with a triangle like skirt that covered the top of their long skinny legs that ended with rounded feet not unlike the hooves they were use to walking on.

Dash opened he eyes for what felt like the first time looking into this fussy blurry world. She stood up more on instinct them on her own will placing a hand on the top part of the tube as she threatened to fall. She felt something wrap around her she looked down to see the pink hair of someone familiar. Pinkie had wrapped her arms around dash’s waist while tears of joy fell down her cheeks. Dash looked down at pinkie and almost returned the hug till memories hit … pain, a knife, and then darkness.

The former cyan mares face twisted in anger, pinkie looked up at her just in time for dash’s knee to make contact with pinkies chest causing the air to whoosh out of her lungs. The blow had enough force to lift pinkie up into the air a few inches before getting back handed into the wall.  Pinkie scrambled to an upright position before looking to her cyan assailant. Who stared at her own body looking at her hands she looked in stark terror at what she had become. Then she looked at the scared pinkie

“What have I become……what you have turned me into…?” She finished with a new look in her eyes before moving towards her making pinkie move her hands close to her body as if to protect herself. But dash grabbed hold of her arm and looked coldly into those blue eyes.

“It wasn’t bad enough you killed me ….no? so you turned me into the same freak as you?” dash raised a fist in the air holding it there long enough for pinkie to stare at it as it came back in to her cheek causing her whole head to rock with the blow.  She looked up at rainbow eyes wide in shock, dash used pinkie’s arm to string her up to eye level. Pinkie stared into eyes that felt like hellfire searing into her soul. While pinkie was staring into dash’s eyes the brutal formal pegasi aimed a quick punch to her ribs causing pinkie to wince in pain. A twisted smile spread into rainbow’s face at her former friend’s pain and quickly gave another and another till pinkie finally cried out in pain. Dash’s smile was full psycho as she pulled her arm back for another punch but something extra crept out of her wrist. She looked at it and was satisfied with the twin wrist blades that had sprouted for her. They were sharp and ready to spill blood just like dash was at the moment.

“Oh how convenient it seems that even this body you put me in is calling for retribution.” She smiled wider and her pupils were tiny almost red dots in her eyes as a piece of rainbow mane fell into the middle of her face as she aimed the killing blow she was taking her time in raising her arm making it dramatic. Breathing felt like inhaling fire through a dragons nose to pinkie she just wanted it to stop she looked weakly at the blades that surly were going to be her doom… what was going to be her last thoughts her ,last words ? Then something clicked in her mind as if telling her something she wasn’t aware of.

“I’m sorry dash….” She spoke letting her hair cover her eyes as she hung there.

“For what killing me!?” dash spoke with venom “well a little too late sugar cube.” Dash when for the final stab aiming the blades for pinkie’s chest

“no for this!” pinkie let out before swinging her leg up wrapping dash’s arms avoiding the blades then used her weight and dash’s arm to flip the surprised rainbow on to the floor before pinkie used her other leg and foot to literally jack hammer dash’s skull in to the floor. Pinkie let dash fall and stood back to look at her handy work .with a faint smile on her lips as dash got up with a groan rubbing the back of her head. There was a sound of metal being unsheathed and dash got up looking pissed now armed with two sets of wrist blades. Her wings spread out and her arms an even length apart she looked kind of like a warrior angle till she opened her eyes. Then she looked more like a demon sent from hell to murder and slaughter with those fiery red eyes. Pinkie held her arm straight out her knife pointing straight at dash she angled it to one side looking at the now spotless blade how she held it know she didn’t know but she felt oddly glad she did. She returned her eyes to attacker, cocked her head to one side and gave a cocky challenging smile. This managed a smile out of rainbow

“I’m going to enjoy this far better now that the prey has learned to fight.” She spoke like a hunter eyeing her prey. She flexed her arms as testing their strength and the weight of her new weapons. Which she obviously found to her liking for the look of a cat with a new toy that crept across her face while pinkie closed her eye to rainbow.

“Your not dash…” when she opened her eyes that insane grin was inches from her face. Pinkie dodged backwards just nearly missing the swipe of dash’s blades but the cyan predator was almost nonstop in her assault. They both were stuck in a dance of death one would strike and the other would dodge like a waltz where one would lead and the other would follow. The difference being well for one there were both unknown creatures and two one had fucking predator claws coming from her fuckin wrists while the other had a knife worthy of a psycho killer, and the sparks of one blocking another’s attack danced like fireflies in the dark.

Dash was starting to get frustrated where ever she attack the pink bitch would almost disappear from sight like dash herself the fastest pegasus was moving only in slow motion the thought of being slow in anyway shape or form pissed her off beyond reason. Though pinkie wasn’t exactly having a party herself though she really, really wished she was at the moment that would be nice just a big party with her friends including dash all drinking punch and eating…. Weird glowing orbs? What in the name of Tartarus is that?

She latterly stopped moving to cock an eyebrow and stand there with her hands palm up making the universal “what the hell” look.  She snapped out of that train of thought as dash’s blades nearly cleaved her in two. The cyan…whatever we where was relentless but was getting sloppy if ever there was a chance to end this now is the time. She thought to herself blocking an attack that was moving so fast it had its own mach cone. She took her knife placed it between the two blades twisted moving the arm with it then kicked rainbow’s knee out got behind her cyan opponent and aimed the hilt of her knife straight into where dash’s spine meet the base of her skull .

With a short thwack!

Dash slumped to the floor and laid there the blades slowly retraced into her wrists. With her friend lying on the floor out cold she finally slumped to her knee’s finally getting that blessed chance to catch her breath. She looked at the knife in her hands and sighed before putting it away almost on muscle memory she stopped mid action and looked where she was putting the thing. Straight into a sheath on the side of her leg it just seemed to pop right out her leg then go back in when the knife was placed correctly inside. It was weird but fascinating she was certain if she hadn’t scared twilight that the purple unicorn would have been as fascinated as she was

…………. “Ooooh shit the others!!” pinkie let out in horror at her own lapse in memory.

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