Bittersweet Apple Acres (DARKFIC)

After escaping Sweet Apple Acres, it took three long days before Crimson was finally able to find help in a nearby town. Nopony had ever known of the horrors that happened within the farm, just as the Ponyville inhabitants never knew until one spoke the truth. Apple Bloom is the one member of the Apple Family that Crimson along with every past victim could accept, seeing she turned against her own family, even if it cost her her life.

Crimson was admitted into a hospital immediately, where he remained for several months, while the Royal Guard in Canterlot was gathered to finally put the Apple Family where they belonged. The Royal Guard infiltrated the farm, only to find every member of the family in a pool of their own blood. Once Crimson had escaped, it had violated a rule within the Apple Family's heritage, "If anypony is to escape from the farm, all family members must commit suicide. We were brought into the world as one, and we all go as one!"

After searching the farm, many disturbing things were found, such as victim's belongings, an entire cellar with jars full of pony blood, collected from their tortures, and countless photos of the victims being tortured. There were also over five-hundred torture devices found in the family's farmhouse, including whips, countless knives, used gag devices, and twenty separate brands, designed to mark the victims.

A diary of each victim's experience was found in Applejack's bedroom, each one dated and described very violently. There were also items designed for hard intercourse found within Applejack's room, including spandex clothing, a spiked whip, and modified sex kits, designed to torture the other pony. Other disturbing items included chunks of flesh cut from the victims flanks, showing a brand "AF" on each, along with other organs including hearts, tongues, and other parts of the body that are best not to be mentioned.

Books and charts stolen from the Ponyville Hospital were found as well. This is how the Apple Family knew how to torture somepony without killing them. The books and charts were given back to the hospital, however they refused to take them, due to them being used for nothing but evil reasons. The items were confiscated as evidence in the most disturbing case ever recorded in Ponyville; The Apple Family Massacre.

Braeburn and Apple Fritter were the only Apples not to commit suicide. They were found just outside of Ponyville performing sexual acts, and were arrested by the Royal Guard. Their sentence was life in Canterlot Prison with no chance of parole. The two were investigated as well, and all that was discovered is that both were having a secret relationship, which didn't help in the case, but was kept anyways.

Sweet Apple Acres was investigated more, and what the Royal Guard found would seal the farm's fate. Stuffed victims were found within the walls of the farm, and from the autopsy reports were found to only be about ten years old, which is around the time when the Apple Family's killing spree started. The twenty victims found within the farm walls were proposed as the very first victims, just before the grinder was imported, and from the looks of the bodies, were tortured severely. Their cause of deaths were all the same; unknown.

After the full investigation, Sweet Apple Acres was demolished to nothing, and is now a restricted area for anypony to enter. It is only a place of misery and torture, and is best to be left to rest. Nopony has ever been to the area since the demolition, knowing that the Apple Family was still there, waiting.

As for the only survivor of the Apple Family Massacre, Crimson recovered from his injuries, but his life is far from normal. After experiencing a horror as great as the Apple Family Massacre, he couldn't live a normal life, traumatized from the torture he had faced. The young earth pony lives in a quiet area of Ponyville, and is having regular therapy sessions, hoping to recover from the true horror he had to live through. However, it returns each time he sees the branded "AF" on his flanks. A small reminder of his experience in the slaughterhouse.

The following injuries are what he endured within the time he was trapped in the slaughterhouse.

Four broken ribs

Two bruised ribs

Broken jaw

Four lost teeth

Six severely chipped teeth

Fractured nose

Severe concussion

Fractured eye socket

Three lacerations

Severe dehydration

Fractured eye socket

Severe burns to the flank area

Stomach infection

Two severed limbs

Countless surgeries were needed to make Crimson into the pony he is now. He is able to walk, eat, and talk normally, thanks to the help of some prosthetic hooves, two months of recovery from the surgeries, six months total to heal all the broken bones, and an estimated 10-12 years of professional therapy. The road will be hard for Crimson, but he's slowly getting back on his hooves. He now is married to a mare named Daisy Bloom and has a son and daughter. The horrors from the Apple Family Massacre remain with him, but with his wife and kids to look to, he is thankful that he never gave up, and lived to tell the tale.