The Anti-6

by Silver Butcher

Applebloom: It begins

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"...You're the saddest excuse for a colt I've ever meet!" Applebloom screamed as she turned on the spot and stormed away from Tender taps, who was trying very hard to hide from the looming Shadow of a pissed of Big Mac. Applebloom ignored everypony she passed as she B-lined it to her empty home, Granny was visiting Braeburn in Applelossa and Applejack had taken Winona to get cleaned at Fluttershy. She slammed the front door behind her, stormed up to her room, stood in front of her bed, then fell into it crying. She had just broken up with yet another colt friend, and just like all her other ones he had only been trying to use her so he could be the guy who knew the sister of the element of Honesty, of course when she had found out she hadn`t done anything to drastic past breaking up with him, Except making sure Big Mac saw the entire thing, she figured he wouldn't be too happy to hear the news, and she had left him to do his usual duty of dragging the colt home and informing the parents. But it still left her feeling empty, no matter what she did, she was stuck in her sister's shadow, and there was no getting out of it. She had done nothing amazing, had she saved Equestria numerous times? No. Did she have the stamina to buck trees all day without fail? No. What she was was the little sister that needed protecting.

"Oh, but you can be so much more than that." Applebloom jumped so hard the boards supporting her bed snapped. Applebloom got up and looked around her empty room in a mixture of fear and confusion

"Wh-who's there!?" She asked with a quiver

"hush now, who I am isn't important, it who you are Applebloom, the sister of Applejack, who is important right now, a feeling I'm sure you've spent your life looking for. doing things like helping others find their cutie mark...How dull. To spend your life helping other`s achieve their dreams, but they always forget about you, after all, after they get the mark, what use are you to them?" Applebloom was speechless as The voice talked on, telling her things she didnt want to think about, things she had thought about and buried in the back of her mind, things that had made her envy her sister, want more, she wanted to be noticed, but would she be? in a hundred years Applejacks name would be well known as Element of Honesty, but what about her? would Applebloom be remembered? and if she was would it be as Applebloom, the Cutie Mark Crusader, or Applebloom, the sister of the element of Honesty? Applebloom was going to respond but found she was no longer in her room, while she had been having this mental break down she had gotten up, walked out of the house without realizing it and had proceeded to walk into the trees, by the time she realized she had moved she was standing in the center of the orchard, the wind was blowing, But there was no sound of it, all of the leaves were still, and yet for some reason they were all pointing at her, she felt wrong, but she couldn`t stop thinking negative, everything was wrong, why should she be the little sister, why couldn't she be in the light of success, why must she be the helper of the dream, not the one achiver of the dream?"

"You cant steal the light from your sister, But you can snuff it out, like vines snuffing out a tree, you cant be the brightest, but you can be the darkest. Applebloom looked at the trees around her, she touched on with a hand, and in an instant, vines burst into life from where her hand had touched the tree and swiftly started wrapping around it until it was covered completely, she kept her hands on the vines and pressed on them, she started sinking into them, in a few seconds she was gone, then the vines started shifting, crushing the tree underneath them and started forming into the shape of a pony, the pony was green, she had sharpened teeth, her ears were more pointed, her she was wearing a dress made of thorned vines, he mane was alive, moving on her command, Applebloom looked at her new body as she clenched her hands into fists, thorns bursting out of her arm and back, she looked at her arms silently for a moment.

"Perfect" she said with a laugh as she walked away from the ruined tree, "I will snuff out the light of Honesty," as she said this she raising her hand as she walked, Hundred of vines shot out of the ground, all of them shot towards a tree, as she walked she summoned more vines, behind her she could hear the sound of her vines crushing the tree's before unraveling and retreating back into the ground, all the while a sinister smile light up her face.
"Go now Applebloom and build your team, lead them to me, So I may usher them to their destinies as the beginning...the beginning of the end!" Applebloom continued her path of destroyed tree's until she reached the swimming hole, she looked at it as she walked past and stopped, the Swimming hole had seemed empty on first glance, but resting beneath the tire swing tree was Spike, he was reading a book of some kind.

"He'll do" Applebloom decided

"Lead him to the water, I'll take care of the rest" the voice said smoothly, Applebloom watched as she willed a vine to burst from the ground and mess with Spike's tail, after looking around and calling out what he thought was a prank he set his book down and began untangling his tail, his attention fully on his tail Applebloom had a vine pick up his book and placed it in the water.

"I'll take it from here." The voice said as the book went stiff and proceded to float on the water. "Now, let's make a new friend."

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