Death Unbound: Days Gone By

An eerie silence filled the red engulfed room. The dark eyes of Twilight sparkle slowly turned back to their original color, as they did the red started to fade so slowly and Twilight started to descend to the ground. As her hooves landed, she was greeted with a liquid touching them. Twilight still couldn't see, the room was still a vibrant red. It kept on fading, timed perfectly with Twilight’s eyes returning to their original shade. The redness faded entirely, it seemed to disappear suddenly as Twilight’s vision returned to normal.

All she saw was large chunks of red, aligning the floor, the walls, and the roof. She shook her head violently, trying to get her vision to focus. She stopped suddenly, not bothering to slow down as she realized what that red was. She looked up at the red clumps of what she now knows was meat. She inspected the pulps of gore and viscera, there was multiple holes through each of the massacred pulps of flesh.

“Oh Celestia…” She whimpered as she stared at what use to be ponies. Why wasn't she more upset? For whatever reason she couldn't understand why and she was afraid because so, but then another form of fear entered her mind, “APPLEBLOOM!” She screamed as she turned and ran to the tied down filly. She untied her as gently as she could, trying to avoid touching the various cuts on her body.

She picked Applebloom up in her arms and gently placed her on her back. As she walked out of the battle damaged base, stepping carefully to avoid the still fresh bodies, she couldn't help but feel something else was wrong. All the ponies inside the base were dead, she found and rescued Applebloom, but what else could it be?

“Blue Field..” She whispered under her breath, she hadn't seen him there! Suddenly, somepony else entered her mind, “RAINBOW!” She screamed as she jetted in the direction of their makeshift camp. She tried to believe it wasn't true, she didn't want to believe it, but she knew that ponies such as these wouldn't just accept the deaths of their members. What made matters worse was that she had left her there, all she wanted to do was keep everypony alive, but by doing so she had caused more danger.

As she approached the camp she could hear muffled yells and screams, and finally, one long, high pitched and squeaky yell. Her eyes went wide with horror,’Oh no, please don't let her be dead,’ she thought to herself as she finally made it to the camp.

She was met by a group of ten ponies, half of which were holding Rainbow Dash down and holding various weapons against her. The others were staring at Twilight, one of whom was Blue Field.

“So you've arrived! I'm surprised you had the guts to go after her, with your whole “no killing” mindset,” Blue Field taunted her, his face homed a smile, one only somepony insane could match.

Twilight stared at him, the hatred growing inside of her, she knew that there was blood to be spilt, “Funny, because it turns out that your friends at the base do too!” Twilight said with a scowl, all the while she growled that last word.

“Well aren't you a little tough now? I take it my words got through to you then!” He slowly walked towards Twilight and Applebloom, who was just barely conscious, “Now, while you might be royalty, I'm not too far behind. I'm one of the co leaders of the Pythons. You've fucked with the wrong ponies,” he said flatly, “Give the kid up. Give her up or your friend here dies!” He pointed to Rainbow Dash, one of the Python members slid his knife along Rainbow’s neck, but not hard enough to draw blood.

“Don't you dare hurt her!” Twilight yelled, secretly charging her horn up for a large blast.

“Nothing happens if you give up the kid! She has a lot more worth than you think. Now, I'm gonna ask one more time, give her up, or else we'll slit your friends throat!”

Applebloom stirred, “Just do it Twilight. I don't want Rainbow to get hurt,” Applebloom whimpered, she slowly tried to descend off of Twilight’s back but fell, hitting the ground with a yelp.

Twilight tried to reason with her, but to no avail Applebloom still was waddling over.

“Well, it looks like the kid has more sense than both of you do!” Blue Field said as he levitated Applebloom over to him, “Well, it's a shame we didn't get to talk more..” He started to turn away, “Kill them both!” He commanded

Twilight, who reacted without thinking, used the charge she had and shot a large beam at the ones holding Rainbow Dash down. In a panicked frenzy, most of them dropped their weapons as they scrambled to get away from the blast coming at them. All but one pony was quick enough to avoid the blast that disintegrated him.

Rainbow grabbed the closest weapon to her, a knife, and shoved it into the nearest ponies neck. All at once there was magical blasts and blood flying as the members split up and attacked the separated couple, all the while Blue Field walked away, with Applebloom in a magic bubble, who was now screaming to let her go back, to go help her caretakers.

Twilight flew up into the air and nose dived the ponies attacking her. A unicorn shot a beam at her, Twilight just barely dodged it, and swung her hoof at the unicorns horn. It made contact and with a sickening crack, the unicorn's horn flew off. A reactionary discharge issued from the hole where the mares horn use to be, this sent all the ponies around, including Twilight flying.

Rainbow Dash struggled with the onslaught of attacks that they threw at her, she tried to avoid magic blasts, hooves, and bucks, however she wasn't invincible as moments after she dodged a punch a blast hit her in the face. She screamed, and her knees buckled. One of the earth ponies took note of this and landed a good, and hard buck to Rainbow Dash’s face, knocking her out.

Twilight, who was still recovering from the discharge, took notice of Rainbow’s fall and also noticed that three of the Pegasus attacking Rainbow Dash were now flying her way. She sent a beam at one, killing them, and dodged another. She wasn't even allowed time to move afterwards, as a hoof collided with her jaw, and everything went black.