Admit it

Rainbow's wings fluttered lazily, helping her get up, her hooves touching the luxuriously soft cloud. She gazed at the sun's rosy color as Celestia retired, and Princess Luna's majesty encroaching onto the light of day. Her knees buckled as she remembered what had happened. Looking back, it seemed like a dream. Yes, a dream. Fluttershy, Rarity, and Twi would never act like that. As she got back up, she decided to go back to Twilight's house, unconsciously making a check that the event really was a dream. As she flew down, her wings nearly clamped onto her sides in horror, as she could see that Twilight's house was boarded up, looking like years had passed since a pony had dared take a step inside. Yet she had just visited... the realization that that dream was absolutely real made Rainbow Alexandria Dash feel like she had placed last in the Equestrian 500.

As Rainbow slowly approached the library, shivering not of the cold, but of the images running through her mind about what happened to Twilight. She pushed open the door, which swung open with sounds of shifting inside the decaying structure. As Rainbow Dash took a tentative step in the library, the floorboards cracking. A loud roar made Dash whip around, accidentally closing the door, plunging the library into blackness except for the light purple glow of a horn being lit as Twilight mumbled something, a bare light slowly swinging from the vast ceiling, vainly trying to light the library. Twilight's horn glowed as she made ropes snake towards Rainbow, who was only minutely aware that she had collapsed against a rickety wooden chair. As the ropes intertwined around her, her face changed from one of relief to pain, confusion, and fury. "T-twi? What are you--" "Spare the talk, Alex, I've had enough of your empty, unintelligent words ever since I met you." Rainbow struggled against the ropes, leaving raw, red rashes with many large red boils, some of which had burst, soaking the ropes with pus. Twilight grinned, showing her glazed, painless orange eyes that glared down at her. Twilight was a mess, her mane mangled, several shiny bald spots poking out. Her horn was blunt and gnarled, her hooves down to bloody stumps. "Twilight, CUT THIS OUT!! And don't call me Alex!" "Oh Rainbow, so naiive. If I took the trouble to tie you up, then this clearly isn't a April Foals day joke. And I don't think that you have the authority to tell me to stop doing ANYTHING, Alexandria Dash." Rainbow's eyes flamed as she screeched, with a little menace and the hint of a whimper, "Let me go! What are you going to do with me, you bucking..."
"Now, now, Alex, no need for crude language. I will kill you, and enjoy every minute of it. You always suppressed me, now I will get rid of a terrible burden on Equestria... and the ponies you stalk... is it, the WonderBolts? Anyway, enough talk, silly me, I should have gotten mouth gags... but of course, too late now." Rainbow's eyes closed, just trying to imagine this was a nightmare just like after she read that Cupcake book. She of course, could not resist opening her eyes, spotting Twilight's weapon of choice, a blunt spear. Twilight caught Dash's gaze, and with a maniacal grin she said, "Crude isn't it? All the better to kill you with, my dear. Besides, this will prolong your pain..." Rainbow toppled the chair backwards in her effort to get away. Goodbye, Wonderbolts, Pinkie, my hopes and dreams... goodbye, Equestria..

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