Walk through the Storm

Chapter 2

There on the ground, no more the 5 feet away, was Sunset Shimmer, wearing an ear to ear grin, a hole in the neck that as bleeding profusely, Eyes still wet with tears, teeth that once shined like diamonds now stained with blood, her hand was still gripping the pistol, a lone casing was slowly coming to a stop. Sunset was dead, Applebloom got her wish, so why doesn't she feel happy.

Applebloom thought, not five minutes ago, that she would be ecstatic upon hearing that Sunset was dead, but now that she is in front of her, lying dead, all she felt was dread and sorrow. Applebloom shook her head, shoving all those feelings away, 'It's Sunset Shimmer, why do yah care, yah know she was just waiting fort the right time to turn her back on Applejack and the rest of her friends, it's Sunset, it's what she does, goddamnit!'

As Applebloom's inner turmoil rolled on, Sweetie Belle appoarched Sunset, tears begin to fall with each step. "Sunset? Sunset, come on wake up, you can't be sleeping on the floor, it not very lady like, hehe."

Applebloom approached Sweetie, who was shaking the 'sleeping' Sunset, contemplating whether or not should they pull Sweetie away. Ultimately Scootaloo thought it was best to try and coral Sweetie away from Sunset.

"Come on, Sweetie, why not just let Sunset sleep were she wants, come on let's go and Sunset be." Scootaloo lead Sweetie Belle all the way to the exit of Sunset's home.

Just as Applebloom closed the door, she turned to her friends and said. "We can't tell anyone about what we saw."

"WHAT!!??" Came the reply, Applebloom had expected this and was already thinking of way to convince them.

"Not right away, this is all just happening to fast, so we should all get some rest and think of what to do next." Was all Applebloom managed to come up with.

"WHY?! WHY NOT JUST TELL THE POLICE WE FONUND SUNSET IN THERE WITH A FUCKING HOLE IN HER NECK?!?!?" Sweetie Belle screamed at her, shocking both Applebloom and Scootaloo, as Sweetie Belle despised swearing above all everything. "I don't know about you two, but I'm done! We just pushed Sunset to kill herself, a girl innocent of everything she was accused of, who was redeeming herself in the eyes of everyone at school, and we pushed her to kill herself because we wanted to hang out with our sisters more!!"

"What are you saying Sweetie?" Scootaloo asked, but Applebloom already had suspicions as to what Sweetie was planning on doing, and grimaced at what she was going to have to do to keep her quite.

"I'm telling Rarity that I'm Anon-a-miss, I won't drag you two into this, but I can't live with myself knowing I forced a friend of my sister to kill herself." Sweetie turned and walked away from her friends, a fire in her eyes, but was stopped by Applebloom grabbing her arm.

"Sweetie, Ah know you feel bad, but yah have to think of the consequences, like Button Mash, yah two are going out on a date tomorrow aren't yah." Applebloom knew it was a low blow, but she couldn't let Sweetie Belle go through with her plan.

"I don't deserve him if could be the cause of this." Sweetie sniffed at the thought breaking up with Button Mash, but it was necessary for her to redeem herself in her own eyes, she can worry about others later.

Applebloom grimaced, she had hoped that Button would be all that was needed to convince to hold off, but it seems she was going to have use it after all.

"And what of this," Sweetie looked at the phone, it showed Rarity entering a 'Adult Store' as Scootaloo, but from the way photograph was taken, it looked she was working there, and if the photo got out it would,"-ruin Rarity's reputation, as no one would put it past your sister to be a slu-" Applebloom was silenced as Sweetie Belle slapped her.

"So your going to blackmail me, huh, your going to blackmail me into doing what you want. Well then, it seems that Sunset's friendship wasn't the only one broken." Sweetie said, then turned and walked briskly away.

"This was for the best Sweetie, you'll see." Applebloom called after her, before turning to Scootaloo, who promptly slapped her across the face as well.

"You should be ashamed of yourself, Applebloom, because she's right, we've went to far. And this time no amount of apologizing will save us this time, the story has reached the end, and we aren't the heroes, no, we're the monsters that ransack and destroy everything we come across, even ourselves, and I'm quite frankly ashamed that it took Sunset to kill herself to show me that, but I'm more disappointed in you, because it seems you need a bit more convincing." Scootaloo said before taking off after Sweetie Belle.

"You'll see that I'm right, you'll come back, just wait and see." Applebloom tried to play it off, but the quiver in her voice gave her away.

Applebloom began the long trek home, for this was the first time in a long time, she was alone.

Sunset's eyes blinked open, instead of being someone religious plane, good or bad, she was still in her house. She sat up and reached for neck, feeling the now somewhat dried blood on it.

"Agh-ugh-*hack*." Sunset tried to speak, but only ended up coughing up more blood.

Sunset felt around her neck, trying to find out what was wrong, and was more that a little surprised when one of her finger suddenly into her neck.

"Agh!" Sunset screamed and yanked her finger out of her neck. Doing her best to ignore the newfound pain in her neck as she stumbled down the stairs towards her emergency first aid kit. After cleaning the wound, applying disinfectant , Sunset discovered the second hole, repeated the last two step, applied gauze, she wrapped her neck with bandages, thoroughly keeping the gauze in place. Sunset sat down, a look of confusion on her face, trying to remember what had happened, then it all came rushing back to her, the attack, her breakdown, and finally her attempt to take her life. Sunset cried, while unable to actually make any noise besides violent hacking, she still made as much noise as she could in her current state.

After about an half an hour later, Sunset had cried herself to sleep, not wanting to wake, hoping that some form of afterlife would take while she slept, for she couldn't handle this one anymore.