"Come on Dashie! We have to hurry!" Pinkie Pie shouted, hopping through the forest floor, the leaves crunching under her hooves.
"Uh, Pinkie? Can you explain why we're out here again?" Rainbow Dash asked, trying to avoid stepping on any thorns.
"I already told you silly!" Pinkie exclaimed, "We're going to the place with free ice cream!"
Rainbow Dash was confused by her response. A place with free ice cream? She had been told by her parents that nothing was free, that she had to pay for everything when she was older. But, she ignored her parent's advice and kept walking with Pinkie.
***
After a few minutes of walking, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash reached a clearing in the forest before spotting a teal and white van, that was beginning to rust. The words free ice cream were painted on the van's side.
"See I told you!" Pinkie Pie said.
Rainbow Dash was awestruck at this, for some reason, she didn't believe Pinkie, thinking she was hallucinating or just being silly. Rainbow Dash didn't care at this point, as long as she got her ice cream. Rainbow and Pinkie excitedly ran to the van, and open the van's door, only to reveal that there was no ice cream, just an empty space.
"That's weird," Pinkie said. "It said that there was ice cream in the-" Pinkie was cut off by a loud thud.
"Pinkie?" Rainbow Dash asked, looking back at Pinkie Pie only to reveal a large stallion holding a rock that had specks of blood on it.
Rainbow Dash could only look in horror as the stallion brought the rock down on her head, knocking her unconscious.
***
"Ugh, where the hay am I?" Rainbow Dash asked herself, sitting up.
Her head began to throb, so she tried to put a hoof to her head, only to realize that she had been tied up. Almost instantaneously Rainbow Dash began to panic.
"How the hay am I supposed to get these ropes off to get out of here?"
Rainbow Dash asked herself.
As Rainbow Dash looked around she spotted a shelf holding a bottle on top of the shelf.
"Ah, buck!" Rainbow Dash whispered to herself. "The bottles too high to get."
Rainbow knew that getting that bottle was her only chance of getting out of her restraints and escaping wherever she was.
Hopping, Rainbow Dash made it to the shelf and began throwing her body against the wooden shelf, which caused the bottle to wobble and fall down and shatter against the floor.
Thirty seconds after the impact, Rainbow heard footsteps from upstairs coming to the door. After hearing it open she saw the same stallion who she had seen in the van.
"HEY! STOP MAKING SO MUCH NOISE OR YOU'RE GOING TO REGRET IT!" The stallion screamed before closing the door.
Rainbow Dash gulped. She didn't want to know what was going to happen if he came down those steps to her.
Slowly and carefully, Rainbow grabbed a large shard of glass with a hoof and started sawing the rope that bound her.
After a few minutes of sawing, the ropes fell from Rainbow Dash's body enabling her movement to stretch her body and legs. Once doing so Rainbow surveyed her surroundings again before noticing a vent near the ceiling over her head.
"Okay, how the hay am I supposed to reach that?!" Rainbow Dash whisper yelled to herself.
Rainbow Dash could have easily flown up to that vent, but she had broken her wing during a stunt she had done a week ago, so she had to find a different way to reach the vent.
So Rainbow Dash darted across the room, looking for anything to boost her up to the vent.
After looking everywhere, Rainbow Dash finally noticed the wooden shelf, the same one that she had used to knock the bottle down had wheels on the bottom, therefore she could use the shelf as a ladder and go through the vent and escape her captivity.
Rolling the shelf under the vent, Rainbow Dash climbed up one by one, before reaching the top of the shelf. Even though she was on top of the shelf, she still couldn't reach the vent. So she had decided to jump up to climb into the vent. After one hop she barely grazed the door with her hoof, so she jumped a second time, and this time she was able to pull the door off the wall. But as she did this, one of the wheels on the cupboard broke off causing Rainbow and the cupboard to fall down with a loud crash. Rainbow grit her teeth in pain as she landed on her broken wing. All of her actions came to a rapid halt as she heard footsteps rapidly coming to the door. Bolting, Rainbow ran underneath a hidden part of the staircase. Suddenly the door opened and the stallion began walking quickly down the stairs.
"ALL RIGHT NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT! Huh? WHERE ARE YOU?!" The stallion yelled.
The stallion suddenly gasped as he saw the broken shelf and vent door on the ground.
"I HAVE TO FIND HER!" The stallion yelled, running back up the stairs.
After the stallion ran back up the stairs and into the house, Rainbow Dash got back up from under the staircase and looked around the room for the man.
"Well, it looks like he left the door open. That might be my ticket out of here!" Rainbow Dash said to herself, running up the stairs.
***
As Rainbow climbed the final step, she had found the old, rickety house that her captor held her in.
Talk about a piece of junk. Rainbow Dash thought, walking through the dusty hallway.
After noticing several doors in the hallway, Rainbow Dash noticed a room with no door on it, covered in cobwebs.
"Eww gross!" Rainbow Dash muttered to herself. She was never really fond of spiders or their webs.
After a minute of looking at the webs, she spotted a box planted on the wall. Knowing that it was a fuse box, she would have to get rid of the webs in order to get to the box.
Looking around, Rainbow Dash spotted two doors, both standing next to each other. Rainbow Dash randomly picked a door and creaked it open. After opening the door, it revealed that it was a living room. Looking around, she spotted only a couch and a TV in the room. On the couch laid a cat, who was laying on a duster. That was how she could get to the fuse box. Reaching her hoof out to the duster, Rainbow had barely grazed the duster before getting swiped at by the cat's claws, scratching her hoof. Rainbow Dash fell back, her hoof clenching her wound.
"Bucking nasty cat." Rainbow Dash muttered to herself, getting up.
She knew that she had to get that duster, but the cat would not let her get it. Then a thought came to her head. If a pony were to own a cat, they would need to feed it. So somewhere in the house, there would be a bag of cat food.
Maybe it's in the kitchen. Rainbow Dash thought to herself again.
As Rainbow Dash walked around the kitchen, opening and closing empty cabinets, however when she had come across a cabinet underneath the sink, she had spotted a bottle holding a strange liquid inside. Rainbow Dash picked up the bottle, staring at the label.
Arsenic? Rainbow Dash thought. What the hay is arsenic?
Rainbow Dash looked at the bottle again, this time noticing two words at the bottom of the title.
A.K.A. Rat poison.
That made a lot more sense to Rainbow Dash. Putting the rat poison on the table, Rainbow Dash continued to scourge through the kitchen before spotting an open cabinet on top of the counter. As she peered into the cabinet she saw the bag of cat food.
Time to get that duster. Rainbow Dash thought, pouring the rat poison in the cat's food bowl. After she had finished pouring the poison, she grabbed the large bag of cat food and lifted it up. Struggling not to spill it all over the floor, Rainbow Dash poured the cat food in the bowl. Almost immediately after pouring the food, the cat ran at the bowl and began to devour the meal. After a few minutes of eating the cat's stomach gurgled, its eyes widening. After a few seconds of it standing there, the cat keeled over before violently defecating on the floor.
After the cat had collapsed on the floor, Rainbow Dash darted back to the living room and saw that the duster was sitting by itself.
Awesome! Rainbow Dash thought, picking up the duster.
***
Rainbow Dash darted back into the hallway, this time holding a feather duster. Rainbow Dash confidently walked towards the cobwebs, holding the duster in her mouth.
Rainbow Dash began to wave the duster in front of the cobwebs, breaking it apart, creating a pathway for Rainbow. After entering the room, Rainbow Dash saw the fuse box, which held six slots, one for each room.
Rainbow Dash took the fuse out from the slot that powered the basement and put it in the slot that power the kitchen. She could remember seeing a door with an electronic keypad on it. After putting the fuse in, Rainbow Dash darted back to the kitchen, revealing that there was a door with a keypad on it that was glowing now. All Rainbow Dash needed to do was find out what the code was.
Rainbow Dash stood there for a while, trying to think of what the combination is. After a few more minutes of thinking, a thought came into her head. There was a portrait in the living room that had a four digit code. Rainbow Dash darted to the room and saw the portrait on the wall, which was a very creepy stallion.
Okay really creepy. Rainbow Dash thought, looking at the painting. Then she saw a gold plaque under the face, showing the year 1977.
That has to be it! Rainbow Dash thought, running towards the kitchen and then to the keypad and typed in the combination: 1977.
After typing in the combination, Rainbow Dash heard the door click and creak open. Hesitantly, Rainbow Dash opened the door, revealing that it was a freezer, and entered inside.
****
Rainbow Dash shivered as she walked through the freezer. Rainbow Dash looked around the freezer, which held four sacks, all having blood coating the bottom of the bag and the floor beneath it.
"Has he done this before?" Rainbow Dash asked herself, putting a hoof to her mouth.
Rainbow Dash looked at the bags before noticing a small pocket knife on the ground. Rainbow Dash picked up the knife and flipped it open. After flipping it open, Rainbow Dash went towards the first sack and began to cut it open, its fabric cutting easily. After a few seconds of cutting, the bag split open allowing two bodies the size of fillies to fall on the icy floor. The first body Rainbow spotted was a minty green unicorn on the ground, along with a tannish coat with a blue and pink mane. Rainbow looked at the two fillies and noticed that the two were Lyra and Bon Bon, two classmates at school. Rainbow also spotted that both of their necks had hoof prints on them as if they had been strangled.
Rainbow Dash shuddered at the two corpses and moved on to the next bag, bringing out the knife again. As Rainbow began to saw the next. As she was sawing the second bag, Rainbow began to think, what was it like for them to die? Was it painful for them? Or did they just give up?
Just as Rainbow was going to answer her question, the bag split open, revealing a colt and a filly, this time they both were earth ponies. The first pony that Rainbow had spotted was a colt a red coat and a brown mane and the other pony, who was a filly, had an orange coat with a tannish mane.
Rainbow Dash also remembered them from school. It was her friend Applejack from school and her older brother, Big Macintosh. This time however when Rainbow had looked at them, they both had long cuts on their throats, each severing the jugular vein.
Rainbow could only put a hoof to her mouth before moving onto the next bag. Rainbow walked to the bag and cut it open having another filly and colt fall out. The mare was a butter yellow pegasus with a pink mane. She instantly recognized that it was Fluttershy. Tears began to weld up in her eyes as she realized that there were signs of trauma towards her vagina and towards her neck, indicating that she had been raped and then strangled.
Poor Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash thought. She knew that he had taken advantage of Fluttershy and she couldn't resist even if she wanted to.
After Rainbow Dash had looked away from Fluttershy she had noticed the colt next to Fluttershy, who was a mint green pegasus with a tan mane had been lying on the ground. Rainbow Dash soon realized that the colt was Fluttershy's brother Zephyr. Even though she knew it was Zephyr, she couldn't tell that it was Zephyr because his head was twisted all the way around, his neck was snapped.
Rainbow sighed and moved onto the final bag, which was hanging on the final hook. As Rainbow walked up to the bag, and took the knife out and began to cut the bag. As soon as the blade made contact with the bag, the bag broke open and this time only a filly fell out. As soon as Rainbow saw the filly, her eyes began to water as she recognized who it was.
"P-Pinkie?" Rainbow asked, dropping the knife.
As Rainbow scanned the body, she recognized that Pinkie had multiple stab wounds to her abdomen. Her right eye was taken out, blood covering her lower eye socket. Her other eye however, was wide open, tears streamed from her eye.
"Pinkie I'm so sorry this happened to you!" Rainbow exclaimed to Pinkie's lifeless corpse. "I'll kill him for you! I'll make sure that I'll get justice for our friends! Rest in piece Pinkie." Rainbow Dash said, getting up from the floor
Rainbow was about to leave the freezer, until her hoof was grabbed by another hoof, causing Rainbow to shriek in fright. Rainbow turned around, revealing that Pinkie, who was lying on her stomach, her hoof holding onto Rainbow's back hoof
"P-Pinkie?! You're still alive?!" Rainbow exclaimed, looking down at Pinkie.
"R-R-Rainbow?" Pinkie asked. "Come here, I need to tell you something."
Rainbow immediately bent down to Pinkie Pie's level, tears streaming down her face.
"What is it? What do you want to tell me?" Rainbow asked.
"I want you to know Rainbow, that you have been an amazing friend and be sure to get out of this place. I love you Dashie." Pinkie Pie said, closing her one eye.
"Pinkie? Pinkie! Pinkie WAKE UP!" Rainbow exclaimed, shaking Pinkie Pie.
Even though she knew that Pinkie Pie had died, Rainbow Dash could not help but weep at the loss of her best friend.
But Rainbow knew that she had to be strong. It's what Pinkie would've wanted Rainbow to do. So Rainbow got up from Pinkie's corpse before spotting a key lying next to Pinkie's corpse. Rainbow Dash picked up the key on the ground and exited the freezer.
****
Rainbow entered back into the old house again, tears still streaming down her face. She looked around the house and looked down at the key. She knew it had to go somewhere. But where? She didn't see any locks in the hallway or the living room.
Maybe it's in the kitchen. Rainbow Dash thought, walking towards the kitchen.
****
Rainbow scrambled around the kitchen looking for a drawer or cupboard that had a lock on it.
After a few minutes of searching, Rainbow found a cupboard next to the freezer that had a keyhole in.
Putting the key in the keyhole, Rainbow opened the cabinet to reveal a second fuse to the fuse box.
Awesome! Rainbow thought. Time to get out of here!
Rainbow picked the fuse up and ran back to the fuse box inserting the fuse into the one that said, Hall.
Rainbow looked around and saw that there was an electric lift on a staircase. As she observed the staircase, she realized that there was a massive hole in the middle of the staircase, which revealed a dark room upstairs.
There is no way in Tartarus I'm going up there unless there is light upstairs. Rainbow thought, walking back to the fusebox room.
Rainbow looked back at the fuse box and noticed that there was a slot labeled Upstairs. Almost immediately Rainbow put the fuse into the slot, and head back to the staircase, which was illuminated with light.
Score! I'm out of here! Rainbow thought, sitting on the lift.
As soon as Rainbow pressed the button, the lift began to go up into the second level, stopping at the top of the staircase.
****
Rainbow got off the lift and looked around the upstairs room, noticing an exit sign across the room.
All right! Time to get out of this nightmare house! Rainbow thought, running over a large carpet.
As Rainbow ran over the carpet, she fell through the hole that was underneath the carpet.
As Rainbow fell through the hole, she landed on the first floor, right on the stallion, breaking her fall and knocking him out.
Rainbow Dash immediately got back into her hooves and ran for the lift, jumped on it, and pushed the button making it go back upstairs. As the lift got over the hole, the stallion woke up and tried to chase her, but instead of getting to her he fell through the hole, landing in the basement.
***
As the lift reached the upstairs again, Rainbow Dash immediately ran around the hole this time and made it to the door.
As Rainbow opened the door, she sighed in relief, seeing a field past the door.
Finally, she was free. She was going to get revenge for her friends. She was going to have justice. For Lyra and Bon Bon. For Applejack and Big Macintosh. For Fluttershy and Zephyr Breeze. And especially for her her best friend in all of Equestria. Although they may be dead in real life, they will never be dead in her heart.