A not so shy Fluttershy

"You know what you must do, right?" Dr. Birch asks Anti-shy.

She gives a slight nod then replies, "I must act like Fluttershy and kill when least expected."

Dr. Birch smiles at her answer, "good, good... your first target is an orange earth pony named Apple Jack; we don't want anypony knowing who's behind the killings," he explains, "so kill them individually if possible."

The train pulls up to the station as he finishes his explanation. "I guess you're not coming with?" Anti-shy asks curiously.

Dr. Birch shakes his head slowly then says, "I must stay, there's still much to do with so little time. I'll give you this so I can tell you who your next will be," he hands her a book, "write in it and I'll be able to see your progress. I have the other book of course." The whistle from train goes off, "you better go before your ride leaves," Dr. Birch tells Anti-shy as he walks away.

'Well, I guess It's time to get to work,' she thinks while getting on the back of the train.

She looks around for a seat, while the train takes off, to find them all full as she goes on to the next cart. Every single seat was filled from the back to the front, 'this big of a train and not a single empty seat,' Anti-shy thinks. She feels like a ton of eyes are being pelted into her back making her tense up, she hates being stared at. She turns around to see how many where staring only to see everypony minding their own business, everypony except for one. Sitting about five rows down was a pink pony who was staring right at Anti-shy with a huge smile on her face. 'that's one of the ponies the doctor described' "Pinkie," she finishes her thought with a whisper.

"I FOUND HER," Pinkie yells, making everypony stop what they were doing and stare at Anti-shy. After a painfully long silence everypony went back to what they were doing except for Pinkie and four other ponies who were sitting around her. 'looks like the whole groups here,' Anti-shy thought as she walked over to them, 'to bad I can't just end them all here and now, but orders are orders.' she stops next to Pinkie who scoots over to make room squishing Apple Jack against the window of the train in the process.

"Too... Tight... Pinkie..." Apple Jack manages to say as her face smudges up against the glass.

Pinkie scoots back over a bit, "oops, sorry AJ," she giggles.

Anti-shy sits down and closes her eyes, 'why can't I just kill the annoying pink one first?' she thinks.

"So where have you been Fluttershy?" Twilight asks.

Apple Jack reaches behind Pinkie and puts her hoof on Anti-shy's shoulder, "Pinkie Pie told us what happened a couple days ago at Sugar Cube Corner, said ya ran off all scared like."

"We went to see if you were home darling, but when we reached your cottage, you were nowhere to be found," Rarity adds.

Before Anti-shy could reply the train starts slowing down, "looks like were back, alright!," Rainbow Dash states excitedly as she looks out the window on her side.

Anti-shy gets up and walks to the exit with the rest of them right behind her. 'I need to isolate Apple Jack from the rest of them somehow,' she thinks as she gets off the train, 'but how can I do that without arousing suspicion all over town?' A hoof taps her on the shoulder, Anti-shy looks over.

Apple Jack is standing there with a concerned look, "hey sugar cube, are you alright cause ya seem kinda distant."

Anti-shy nods, "I'm fine, just a little tired," she lies. She looks over to see where the others were but they weren't there anymore.

Apple Jack notices this and says, "they're all probably headin to Sugar Cube Corner, we should catch up with them." Anti-shy smiles, 'this is perfect, just absolutely perfect,'

"Ya ready?" Apple Jack asks

"actually," Anti-shy pauses, "I need help on a personal matter."

Apple Jack smiles softly at her, "well why didn't ya just say that before when the others were around, do ya not trust them?"

"it's not that," Anti-shy replies, "it's just I feel more comfortable around you, like you'd understand it more than the others"

"Oh," Apple Jack thinks , "how about we talk about this at my house. Since Apple Bloom, Granny Smith, and Big Macintosh are away on delivery, that leaves me in charge of Sweet Apple Acres."

"How long will it they be away for?" Anti-shy asks with a hint of curiosity.

Apple Jack thinks about it for a moment then says, "I recon they'll all be back in 'bout a week or so, we won't be bothered by anypony."

"Yay," Anti-shy says, 'for me,' she finishes in thought as they walk to Apple Jack's farm. It wasn't long before they were on the front porch of Apple Jack's home, "I'm gonna go make us up some apple cider," Apple Jack says as she opens the front door, "ya just go sit down and make yourself at home." They both went inside; Anti-shy closes and locks the door. she calmly walks into the kitchen, sits down at the kitchen table, and quietly watches Apple Jack as she makes the cider. Apple Jack pours it into two mugs, "It's nice and cold," she says as she carries the mugs to the table and places one in front of Anti-shy. "so what did ya want to talk to me about?"

Anti-shy grabs her mug, "your funeral," she replies simply. She takes a sip of her cider and chuckles silently at the confusion on Apple Jack's face.

"What do you m..." Anti-shy slams the mug upside Apple Jack's head cutting her question off. The mug broke as soon as it made contact with Apple Jack's skull making her stumble out of her seat. Her eyes fill up with anger, "you're not Fluttershy,' she stated bluntly as she slowly slides towards the counter where all of the kitchen knives were.

Anti-shy laughs, "took you long enough to figure that out." Apple Jack gets up as quick as she can, pulls out the biggest knife, and throws it at Anti-shy's head. Anti-shy catches it with the blade only being an inch away from her forehead, "nice throw," she complements Apple Jack, "but you're going to have to try harder than that if you want to avenge your little friend." she opens her eyes and looks directly at Apple Jack, she places the knife on the table without breaking contact from her target.

"YOU KILLED FLUTTERSHY!?!," Apple Jack yells the question furiously, her body shakes with anger as she pulls out another large knife.

"Glad to see that you're finally figuring stuff out for yourself," Anti-shy says as she fiddles with her knife, "you should've heard her screams, they were like music to the ears of the damned." Apple Jack couldn't take it anymore, she lunges at Anti-shy putting all of her rage into it. Anti-shy grabs her knife and flips the table on its side shielding herself from Apple Jack's attack. Apple Jack sees this and jumps over the table, she swipes down at Anti-shy only to clash against her opponent's knife. Anti-shy smirks, "I see why you were my first target," she maneuvers herself off the ground and around Apple Jack who falls into the table. Anti-shy stabs her knife into Apple Jack's hind leg, "you're tough and quick; if I take you out first then the other four should be easier to deal with."

Apple Jack bucks Anti-shy off with her good leg, she then pulls out the knife and gets up, "I won't let you do that!"

Anti-shy stumbles into the living room laughing, "I guess we'll see then won't we." Apple Jack charges at Anti-shy but she moves aside, Apple Jack slams into the front door. She shakes her head rapidly to get rid of the dizziness then looks to see where Anti-shy was, but she wasn't in the room anymore.

Apple Jack turns around to open the door but the handle wouldn't turn, she unlocks it and opens the door only to see Anti-shy standing there. "how'd you get there!?" she asks with surprise in her voice as she backs away.

Anti-shy walks in and kicks the door shut, "While you were busy bashing your face into the door, I took the liberty of exiting through the back and circling around to the front." She swiftly moves to Apple Jack's ear and whispers, "don't even try to escape through the back because I broke the lock after locking it. Besides you won't be alive long enough to do much of anything." Apple Jack, who was still holding her knife, goes to stab Anti-shy's throat only to have her hoof caught. Anti-shy snaps Apple Jack's pastern bone backwards making her yelp in pain. Her knife falls to the ground, "everypony has their breaking point," Anti-shy explains as she walks behind Apple Jack, "we just have to find yours." She kicks Apple Jack in the back as hard as she could shattering Apple Jack's spine right in the middle making her crumble to the floor. Apple Jack uses her only good hoof to slowly inch her way to the knife which laid on the floor. "I see you still think you have a chance," Anti-shy says as she picks up the knife, she tilts her head slightly at Apple Jack as if in a deep thought, "what? Do you want this?" she asks. Anti-shy stabs the knife into Apple Jack's eye, "well here you go," she slowly twists the knife around inside her victim's eye socket, peeling away whatever was left of the eye. A pool of blood covers the floor as Apple Jack's screams fills the house. "I THINK WE FOUND YOUR BREAKING POINT," Anti-shy yelled over Apple Jack's screaming. Apple Jack's screams slowly turn into whining then into nothing as her voice fails to keep going, she weakly grabs onto Anti-shy's front leg. Anti-shy lowers herself to eye level with Apple Jack and pulls the knife out of her socket, "you're one hell of a fighter," she says placing the knife against Apple Jack's neck, "but it's time for you to go now." she slides the knife quickly across Apple Jack's throat slicing it open; her lifeless body hits the ground. Anti-shy closes the curtains, locks the door as she leaves, and heads to Fluttershy's cottage. Once inside she pulls the book that Dr. Birch gave her out of her satchel and writes ~Apple Jack has been eliminated~.

It didn't take long before there was a response ~that's wonderful news; your next target it Pinkie Pie... It also seems that somepony has taken the body of our yellow friend~. Anti-shy stares at these words for a while, 'who would bother taking a dead pony?' she asks herself in thought. She closes the book, heads upstairs, and climbs into Fluttershy's bed, 'it doesn't matter, we'll have more fun tomorrow,' she drifts of to sleep.