Final Destination
Derailed
Load Full StoryNext ChapterApple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle along with a few others stood at the station waiting for their train to arrive to take them to Manehattan so they could visit the Museum of Art. Sweetie Belle was talking about famous artworks such as the Mona Lisa and Starry Night. Scootaloo was too busy listening to the music Dj- Pon3 installed on her new Uphone, along with the Rainbow Dash themed headphones. Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara were currently picking on Button Mash and his propeller beanie. Cheerilee was taking swigs out of a bottle, that everypony new held alcohol in it. After Cheerilee's husband passed away she became a sad drunk who was too drunk to teach the class. Snips and Snails were being... well Snips and Snails. With Snails always Agreeing with Snips after Snips said anything. I was standing around waiting for the train to arrive so we could get this day over with and I could go home and make Zap Apple Jam with Granny Smith and Applejack.
"Hey Apple Bloom, what do you want to see when we get there," Sweetie Belle asked me as I tried to ignore the question, only to be egged on until I told her something.
"The Scream," I told her to get her to be quiet for a second. I looked in the distance and noticed the train slowly making it's way towards us. I wasn't fond of trains after what happened three years ago with the train derailing and killing about 20 ponies. The train slowed to a halt as approached the station, the train number stating a giant 180 in white paint on the sides of the engine. We began walking towards the train when I felt a cold breeze come out of nowhere and cause me to shiver. Inside, the train car was too small so Cheerilee, Snips, and Snails went into the train car behind us. I sat next to Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo sat on her own. Diamond Tiara sat next to Silver Spoon. Button Mash was all alone next to the door to the car. Sweetie Belle looked at me, and I looked back.
"What," I asked, confused as to why she was looking at me.
"You're nervous aren't you," she asked me.
"Yeah, I just hate trains," I told her.
"Don't be, it's a quick 15-minute ride and then we'll back on solid ground and not on a train," she told me, which helped liven up my mood. I looked out the window to see the station start to move away from me, replaced with rolling hills and the Everfree forest.
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The train rolled along the tracks like it normally would, just at a slower rate due to the antiquity of the train. About a half mile ahead of the train a giant rock fell onto the track denting the track. The train slowly rolled along, hit the snag and jolted from the broken rail.
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Apple Bloom's nervousness went through the roof as the train jolted, rocking slightly. Scootaloo took off her headphones in surprise, due to the shake of the train car.
"Don't worry mares and gentlecolts, just a little bump in the road," the train conductor announced over the intercom. "To fill your time, hear's some music."
After that the conductor shut off the intercom, songs started playing. It was country music, but it wasn't anything Apple Bloom had heard before. It was like Country mixed with heavy metal, and she hated it. It suddenly changed to a familiar song. Dust in the Wind. She hummed along to the song as they made their way to Manehattan.
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The jolt caused a rusted nail to break, causing one of the wheels to slowly loosen up. The safety gate on the doors was slowly giving way to the wear and tear.
Meanwhile
Apple Bloom was about to fall asleep when she heard a loud clank from beneath the train car that sounded like metal hitting metal. Before she could try and find an answer she watched as on of the wheels from the train car flew through the floor at around 50 miles an hour and hit Diamond Tiara straight in the face. Her head exploded on impact, the aforementioned wheel getting stuck in ceiling of the train car. The screams of Silver Spoon caused Ms. Cheerilee to come into our train car to see why she was screaming. After Ms. Cheerilee got into the train car, the broken axel hit another broken piece of railroad track and slice through the floor and straight through Silver Spoon. Since the train no longer had back tires, the trained leaned downward, causing Cheerilee to stumble and fall out of the still open door and under the train car, and getting mangled under the 30-ton train car. Button Mash wandered over to the other side of the train car and tried opening the door to the boiler room. Sweetie Belle started to hyperventilate and stood up only to fall right through the weakened flooring. Scootaloo's headphone's wire got caught on the axel that was still moving around. The hooked cord, tightened around her throat, choking her until her body slipped out of the seat, causing a lot of weight on her throat, snapping her neck killing her instantly. Her body dragged on the railroad ties below her, her left hoof caught something and her body flew under the train, except for her head which was still dangling by the headphone cord. Button Mash finally opened the door only to have the boiler be crushed by a falling boulder, which caused the boiler to explode killing Button Mash immediately, the explosion disintegrated the train, sending debris and Apple Bloom flying. After about 10-seconds Apple Bloom landed on the train axel that had killed Silver Spoon and Scootaloo. Her last moments were of watching the burning wreckage of the back half of the train fall towards the rolling hills below.
She suddenly awoke standing on the train station, with Sweetie Belle nagging her to answer her question about what she wanted to see at the museum.
"The trains going to crash, it's going to derail," I said, receiving crazed looks from everypony. I watched the train pull up and Snips and Snails, get on the train. "No, It's going to crash!"
"Shut up, blank flank," Diamond Tiara said. I watched as the station security came and took all of us away from the station.
LATER
I was sitting in an office with a view of the train tracks and where the train would derail at. I had been speaking with a detective about my 'vision'. He left after he asked about suicidal tendencies. A little while later, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Cheerilee, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and Button Mash came into the small office. They were staring at me like I was crazy, and right now I believed I was. I watched as the train slowly made it's way up the track. It jolted where I believe it would have in the vision, my self-hatred turned to fear as I watched a boulder fall from the top of a mountain and fall on the boiler, causing a huge explosion, that disintegrated the front two trains, and as the third car was set alight as it derailed and rolled down a hill.
"How... How did you know," they all asked.
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