The Muffin Mare

Derpy had never anticipated Bit to betray her the way he did, Bit just seemed so honest with his words it seemed like he had never told a lie in his entire life, at least not to her. Yet, there she stood, in front of the stallion that had betrayed her, and right next to her was her newfound friend, Sound. Derpy knew she had to think of a way to escape quickly, but a quick glance around the room revealed that the only exit was the way they came in, which was right where Bit and the other two threatening stallions stood.

Silence had taken over the room and time grew longer as the ponies in the room stood there and thought about what their next actions would be. Derpy had cowered back in fear and closed her eyes as a loud noise had killed the silence that had taken over the room. It felt like forever had passed till she opened her eyes to see the event the had caused the loud noise, and was shocked at the sight that laid before her very eyes as she opened them. Derpy was devastated to see her new friend Sound was on the floor in a thick pool of blood that was surrounding him as he lay there breathing slowly and groaning in pain in between his breaths.

Derpy had broken inside at the sight of a pony slowly dying in front of her and it was even worse to see that it was her friend. A tear fell from her face as she stood there looking at Sound. She looked up to the three stallions that had stood in front of her “What did he do to you?! Why couldn't you have shot me?! You’re after me anyways!” she shouted at the three with rage filling her voice as she interchanged her stare from Sound’s body to the the stallions that had shot him.

“I-It was an accident! I-I swear! Th-The trigger slipped!” Bit said as his hoofs became weak and tears started welling up in his eyes as his gun fell through his hoofs hitting the ground with a loud thud “I-I didn’t mean to kill him! I didn’t want to kill anypony!” Bit cryed out as he put his hooves to his face while tears steamed down them.

“You didn’t kill anypony Bit.” Derpy said through her tears and over Bit’s sobbing “You killed my friend.” she said as her tears went away and were replaced with only anger.

“I’m sorr-” was all Bit could get out before being cut off by the shock of his two friends flying back into a wall behind them.

“To think I trusted you. Does my trust mean nothing to you?” Derpy said through her clenched teeth as she walked closer to Bit while occasionally taking glances behind Bit to see the other two struggling stallions stuck to the wall with their guns on the ground beneath them, having dropped them due to the sudden surge of magic because of the impact with the wall. Derpy could see just how scared he was as she was face to face with the quivering stallion “Come. On. Then.” she said calmly.

As soon as she had finished getting her words out she reared her hoof back and shoved it right into his nose as hard as she could, causing him to tumble across the room and shout in pain. He sat there for a while staring at the blood that was dripping from his nose and falling on to the ground “Please… No more…” Bit said through his sobs of a bloody nose while holding his hoof in front of his face to defend himself as much as he possibly could.

“You killed my friend. Yet, you can’t even stand a bloody nose?!” Derpy questioned him as she walked closer to the trembling stallion across the room “What kind of stallion do you even consider yourself to be?!” she shouted at him as she got closer, unable to contain herself at this point but she hadn't given him time to respond to the question before continuing. “I know. A weak one. The weakest one I’ve ever seen. Because you’re nothing to me.” she said while stopping a few feet in front of him “Nothing.” she said as she kicked Bit with all her strength.

Upon receiving the blow to the stomach the stallion moaned through the pain and coughed up some blood while sitting there with tears going down his face. His mouth was moving but only air was coming out, causing him more pain. She had knocked the breath out of him and tears were streaming from his eyes as he begged her to stop through his breaths.

“Once they take you to prison. Remember. Tell everypony there. Don’t. Mess with The Muffin Mare.” Derpy said as she picked him up and threw him to the wall where the other stallions were. Bit had hit the wall hard and fell to the ground with a loud thud. Derpy picked up one of the guns the stallions had dropped earlier and pointed it towards Bit “Give me one reason why I shouldn't just kill you right now for what you’ve done to Sound.” Derpy said as she roughly pushed the gun into the side of his face.

Bit was struggling for the answer as he tried to speak with all his power. Yet, his will power finally showed through when he started forming words and speaking “Because… I didn’t kill him…” Bit said as he pointed his hoof towards the other side of the room. As he finished his sentence and went to drop his hoof he also ended up dropping his face onto the ground and just laid there breathing, trying to keep conciseness. Though confused, Derpy had turned around to see that he wasn’t lying to her this time.

There Sound was, laying on the floor extending a hoof towards her trying to speak. Derpy immediately dropped the gun and ran in Sound’s direction. “Are you okay?!” she asked while looking the gunshot over and seeing the blood surrounding the wound. As she touched the gunshot wound Sound flinched and winced in pain.

“Hospital…” was all Sound could say through the pain as he was on the brink of consciousness.

Derpy had turned around to see Bit who was crawling towards the door to get away and she slowly walked towards the escaping stallion. As Bit saw her coming closer to him he attempted to speed his crawl, which he found to be useless as he went the same speed but the pain just increased. She had walked right up to him and saw his face of panic and fear “I’m not done with you yet.” she said as she picked Bit up, resulting in him screaming in pain as she did.

She lifted him up to the ceiling and put the mix on him, causing him to stick to the ceiling, which only resulted in more screaming from him because of the gravity pulling him down to ground “The police will be here soon.” she said to bit as she walked towards one of the stallions in the club “Call the police.” she said the stallion as she picked him up off the ground to help him get up.

As she finished helping the stallion up she walked towards Sound who was on the other end of the room in his own puddle of blood. “Let’s get you help, buddy.” Derpy said as she picked up Sound carefully, still receiving groans of pain from him. “It’ll be all okay” she comforted him while trying to keep him on her back while flying him out the door and into the busy streets.

As Derpy flew through the streets she could hear Sound moan in pain as she would hit bumps in the air while flying and when she ran into random strangers in the streets due to her rushing. Yet, through her struggle, she had finally reached the hospital and rammed into the doors with her head, making them fly straight open and hit the wall, which had caused lots of noise and made everypony at the room look at the two that had just burst into the room.

“Help me! Please!” Derpy shouted in despair as she ran up to the main desk where the receptionist sat “He’s dying! Help!” she said as she focused on Sound and bent a wing pointing it towards the dying stallion on her back. As Derpy focused on Sound she noticed that she couldn't feel his heartbeat on her back anymore “Please!” Derpy said hurriedly while panicking at the thought of Sound dying on her back at that very moment.

The nurse behind the desk could barely fathom words to respond to Derpy because of the shocking sight of the mare with a bloody stallion, that was dying, on her back “Uh.. Yes ma’am! Right away!” the nurse said as she ran from behind the counter as she helped Derpy and got the stallion off Derpy’s back as another nurse went and ran to go get a stretcher. Right as the nurse had finished getting Sound off of Derpy’s back, the other nurse was right there next to them with a stretcher ready for Sound.

Sound was placed on the stretcher quickly and carefully as they rolled him away, while one of the nurses held Derpy back from running after the injured stallion. “Ma’am! You have to stay here! You can’t go after them!” the nurse shouted at Derpy while pushing Derpy back with all her strength and not allowing her to run after Sound. Yet, the nurse had managed to keep Derpy back long enough to make her give up chasing them. Derpy had then realized that chasing Sound was useless, she knew it wasn’t going to keep him alive any more to stay next to him than if she wasn’t.

Derpy had just stood there and went limp at the sudden realization that she wasn’t able to do anything to help Sound in his current condition, and with that thought she had fell straight to the ground and started crying. Derpy sat there in her own puddle of tears while wishing things could've gone differently, just wishing that she would’ve never met Sound just so she could let him live.

Derpy sat there on the floor for almost two hours before looking out the window to see how late it was. Even though she was completely distraught with the current situation and couldn't barely think, she realized one thing. It was late and Dinky was at home. Her eyes opened wide as the thought hit her in the head, she couldn't help but think about how long she had left Dinky home alone. With all that panic in her mind for her sister, she had forgot about Sound and darted out the door and flew out into the streets and made her way through the sky and on her way home.

She flew through the sky as fast as she could, letting the tears clearing from her eyes as she flew, and had finally made it home to Dinky, and was completely relieved to see that she was okay this whole time “Dinky! Did anything happen while I was gone?” Derpy said through her sorrow as she ran up to Dinky embracing her in a hug.

“Nope! But I made you a muffin! I thought it would help!” Dinky said with an innocent smile.

“Help with what?” Derpy said confused, thinking that she somehow knew Sound was shot.

“Your tummy monster! It’s roaring! You better feed him!” Dinky said playfully as she poked a hoof at Derpy’s stomach “You were gone out so long, so I made you a treat!”

Derpy couldn't speak as the familiar pain of hunger kicked in, she was so busy being shocked at all the problems that had happened that she forgot that she was hungry. “Thanks Dinky.” she said as she picked the muffin up off of Dinky’s hoof and took a bite while embracing her into a tight hug “Thanks.”