Admit it

by RainbowsRepentance

Rating: mature
Tags: Tragedy, Scootaloo, Princess Celestia, Main 6, Princess Luna, Gore, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark
Length: 1666

When AppleJack goes missing, Rainbow must admit something to herself.

When AppleJack goes missing, Rainbow Dash finds that the Mane Six behave strangely, and other ponies see her as a orange pony with tentacles as a cutie mark. Her mental health slowly deteriorates as she finds out exactly who killed AppleJack, in ways that are too grotesque to describe. Only Pinkie wakes up and supports Rainbow, and she helps Rainbow admit to herself... who exactly she is. Pinkie and Rainbow support each other when the two find the roots of Princess Luna and Celestia , and 12 young fillies and colts from around Equestria make the slightly crazy group come together as they start to slowly awaken the Mane Six from the illusion that Equestria is even remotely safe.

Published 2012-06-21 03:44:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-06-21 03:44:02 UTC

Confusion

Rainbow Dash zipped through the air, ice crystallizing on her mane as a mark of how fast she was flying, despite the balmy sun hanging in the air. "TWILIGHT!!!!!!" Rainbow screeched, her voice reverberating as if she was talking through a fan. As she narrowly avoided knocking down Twilight's door (Again) as she landed on the grass.Twilight's familiar, carefully maintained mane slowly poked out of the window beside the door that still bore the faint outline of Rainbow Dash crashing through it. "Rainbow Dash..." she sighed. "What now?" Rainbow's hooves shuffled around nervously as she gasped, and it was not because of the strenuous flight, "AppleJack is gone!" Twilight's eyes betrayed a flicker of fear, but then became blank and expressionless. "So." she said monotonously.
Rainbow glared at her in incredulously. "So?! Let me repeat, Apple. Jack. IS. GONE!" Twilight stared at her as if she was a filly sitter watching a two year old throw a tantrum over a red crayon. Rainbow felt uncertainty creep into her. Twilight was the most logical, and if Twi did not worry, should she? But those blank expressionless eyes alerted her that something was wrong. She shook it off, it just might be a late study night. she smiled slightly, remembering Cheerlie's look of horror as she reviewed each of Rainbow's papers, then took out her red pen, always drawing two horizontal lines attached to one vertical one. "All right, I'm just, you know, angry because she missed my training session with her." Rainbow Dash huffed.
Twilight shook her head, retreating into the library.

As her hooves hit the pavement in front of the boutique, Rarity pranced out, seemingly aware that Rainbow would arrive to see her. Rainbow's face had the trace of a pained grimace. Surely Rarity would take her seriously, even though they didn't get along perfectly... "Rainbow, darling, Applejack's-" Rarity paused, considering her choice of words carefully, lest she make a mistake." -absence is simply because she has some work to do." Rarity's hoof flew to her mouth, realizing that she had made a mistake talking too soon. "How did you know what I was going to say?" Rarity cringed, and twirled around, daintily walking back into the boutique, calling over her shoulder, "I...I... invited her-"- It looked like it took a great deal of courage to say that- "to the boutique, and she told..well...I..." Rarity retreated into the boutique, never finishing her sentence. Rainbow shrugged her shoulders and flew off, barely hearing Rarity's sigh of relief.

As she landed on the soft grass that blanketed Fluttershy's land, animals retreated,as Rainbow watched, amazed about how shy Fluttershy kept the weirdest save for Angel, which Rainbow patted , as she felt a connection to the feisty bunny. "Why, hello Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy said, sounding monotonous. "Fluttershy, listen.." Fluttershy nodded, cutting Rainbow off. "I know, Twilight told me." "Apple-- wait, WHAT?!" Something was clearly going on without her. "I never really liked her anyway." whispered Fluttershy. Rainbow recoiled, then pumped her wings, sending her straight up into the clouds. "What is going on?" Thought Rainbow Dash as tears streamed down her cheeks.

Pinkie's Help

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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Rainbow's on-purpose mistake

As Twilight drew nearer, holding the spear aloft. "I'm not going to ask you for your last words, unlike other books, as they would be useless anyway, like all the other garbage that comes out of your mouth anyway." Rainbow half-closed her eyes, preparing for her doom, for her to never again be free... and then her sane self snapped, awaking the monster inside her. She never noticed her fur change from teal-aqua to carrot orange, that uncoincidentally matched the color of Twilight's eyes, never paused, never hesitated. She broke through the ropes, stunning Twilight. Twilight recovered herself, after all, it was she who had the weapon. She blindly thrusted, missing Dash by two feet. Rainbow Dash grabbed the spear from Twilight, and pointed it at Twilight, forcing her to back into a corner stuffed with the moldy books Spike never put away. Twilight's eyes were back to normal now, pleading with Rainbow, "Noooo.... Dash, it's me, I'm so sorry, what was I--" Rainbow smiled cruelly, her orange eyes flashing. "Yeah right." Twilight's eyes widened in fear as she drew in a breath to make another plea. But Rainbow thrust the spear right into the main artery with deadly aim. The skin ruptured on impact, peeling back, crusty. Vomit flowed out Twilight's snout as her eyes glazed over. Blood stained the books two yards away from her, splattering into Rainbow's mouth, and she swallowed it. She pulled out Twilight's mane, taking the scalp with it. Twilight said her last words with all the sturdiness and confidence of a dying pony she could muster: "Rainbow Alexandria Dash, I know it's not your fault." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, and peeled away the skin, stuffing all the flaking skin down Twilight's throat, taking out the still beating heart and splitting it cleanly on the maggot infested floorboards, with the edge of her right hoof. Small red- purple veins flew everywhere, and Rainbow taking the pink fat of the heart and swallowing it, reveling in the squishy, rubbery taste. Rainbow's final deed was to take a thin, knife-sharp bone, and slit each of Twilight's eyes, watching the film and liquid seep out of Twilight's mangled body with mild interest. What saved Rainbow was the sudden burst of purple sparks as the horn's last spell was to project Twilight's life before Dash's eyes. She saw a tiny baby, pinkish- purple filly being shown to a ecstatic, blue maned brother. Rainbow's eyes reflected what she saw, recoiling at the life she had stolen from Equestria. A small filly playing with Shining Armor and Candace. A adolescent filly gazing intently at books while Princess Celestia watched, content. Drifting in the sky on a carriage, seeing her first glimpse of Ponyville. Rainbow sobbed, hugging Twilight's gory, matted body. "What have I done?!" she choked out. She buryed Twilight in a patch of dirt that had overcome the floorboards, forever to lay among the books she so loved, with the caring goodbye of the friend she had spent so much time playing with. Twilight Sparkle, Celestia's most faithful student, the mare who had cared for everyone, who would lay her life on the line for her friends, sister of Shining Armor, sister-in-law to Princess Cadance, was gone.