Elements of Insanity: Element of Sorrow

Drowned Frost's POV.
The Girls and I readied ourselves to merge Brutal Christian Sniper's soul into Twilight, however a voice from above stopped us from the deed, "WAIT!!!"

From the skies, a Pegasus mare crashed in front of us, next to Twilight's body, "Ow..."

It was a light grey pegasus mare with a cybernetic eye and headset infused into her skull. Her mane and tail were a pale blonde. Her Cutie Mark was of seven gears with a metallic flame within the biggest gear.

I narrowed my eyes at the Pony Monster. Ditzy? What are you doing here? You're one of us too?

"Who's the party crasher?" Pinkis asked, as the pegasus opened her golden right eye, "Can I eat--"

"NO!" The Girls and I shouted.

Pinkis pouted, "No fair! I'm starving!"

"Wait! Don't do it!" The Pegasus shouted in a mechanical-toned familiar voice, as she picked herself up.

"And why in the unholy name of Celestia are you telling us what we can and can't do?" Rarifruit glared angrily.

"Cause-- Cause..." The pegasus trailed off, then started muttering to herself in confusion. Then clarity hit her and she answered, "Oh, yeah. The guy! There's already a Pony Monster like you're thinking of creating."

My eyes widened, then I rubbed my chin in thought. The more I think about it, the more I remember that Twilight is a very special Unicorn. I've known her all my life. She's special enough the earn more than one freak. Maybe... Two?

"Seriously?" Fluttershout raised a brow in surprise.

The Pegasus nodded, "Yeah. I forgot what her name was, but she exists no less."

Fluttershout folded her arms angrily, "Well that was shot all to Hell! By another Pony Freak no less!"

The Pegasus glared at her, "That's Derpigun to you!"

"Hey, Girls?" I called.

"WHAT?!!" Fluttershout and Derpigun asked with their voices raised, causing me to flinch.

"Does it have to be one Monster per pony?" I asked them, "Shouldn't be a chance for two?" A smile grew on my face, "We can have Brutal Christian Sniper, then put another one in. Twilight will be a whole new Pony Monster."

"Ya'll PILLZY?!!" Applepills exclaimed, "I mean, crazy?!! Nopony has ever done that! She may not be able to handle two other personalities in one body!"

"We'd be crazy not to." Fluttershout spoke up, "It's worth a shot." Then she asked, "But, who's gonna be the second one?"

Derpigun giggled, "I've got a candidate."

She whispered the name into my ear. My eyes widened, "Are you sure he'll work?"

"You know him?" Rarifruit asked me.

I nodded, "Only stories and rumors. His name is Weaselcake. Does some crazy stuff to you. Not very many live to tell the tale."

"Yeesh. Heavy stuff." Applepills replied.

Suddenly, we heard groaning and moaning. The Girls and I turned to see Twilight was still moving. She-She's alive?! This whole time?!

"She's still breathing?" Rainbine noticed, "I thought my shot killed her!"

Rarifruit turned to the pale blue cyber-pony, "You... You shot Twilight?" Rainbine gave her a sheepish smile, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!"

"Hey, I didn't have control of my bloody weaponry the first time around!" Rainbine argued.

Pinkis spoke up and defended, "She's right. I witnessed Rainbine's transformation. I mean, Scombine's spirit was fully in control of her in that moment. Don't blame her!"

"Well, what do we do now?" Applepills asked.

"I know a place where we'll be all alone with her..." Fluttershout spoke up with a grin, "She'll be one of us yet..."

"And who will be the one to do it?" Rainbine asked.

I noticed Applepills and Rarifruit glance at me with a look on their faces. I looked at Pinkis, who shrugged.

"Me?" I asked.

Rarifruit nodded, "Of course, darling. You're the one Twilight trusts the most. And you have the living dead within your beckon call. You should do it."

I rubbed my chin in thought and looked at the lavender Unicorn.

A Few Hours Later...
Twilight Sparkle's POV.
I felt my strength return to me, as I was able to open my eyes. My head throbbed in a headache. What happened to me? The last think I remember was Pinkie attacking, then Rainbow Dash changed into something demonic and shot me.

"Rainbow Dash? What's happened to my friends?" I wondered, as my vision cleared. Ponyville?

"Twilight?" I heard a familiar voice called, "Thank goodness, you're okay."

I looked up and saw it was my Bat Pony best friend, "Ellie?" I thought she became this drowned queen of the dead.

Ellie gave me a smile, "It's okay, Twi. We're all here, now."

I looked behind her. Rainbow Dash? Pinkie Pie? Rarity? Applejack? Fluttershy? Was it all just a dream? "All of my friends? But I thought you had all changed."

"On the outside, maybe. But inside, we're still the same Ponies you remember." Ellie assured me.

I smiled, "I knew you guys would never leave me."

"Of course." Ellie smiled back, then asked of me, "I just have one little thing to ask of you, Twi."

"Yes, Ellie?" I asked.

Her smile turned dark, "Just take a good look at this face." The others mirrored her expression, "Because this will be the last time you'll see it!"

In a flash of light, Ponyville was replaced by an empty cave, and my friends were replaced by the monsters I remember from the visions, "NOOO!!!"

Ellie giggled and smiled at me, "By Luna's moon. I can't believe you fell for that."

"Only a little more, and I think we might have got her crying happy tears!" Pinkie laughed wickedly.

The Girls looked at her with raised brows. Pinkie noticed and asked, "What are you looking at me for?"

I glared at the freaks before me, "You... You monsters!! I can't believe you'd do that."

Rarity gave me a fake hurt look, "Oh, dearie. I'm hurt now. I thought we were still your friends!"

"Hard to think she's still holding on to her past, isn't it?" Applejack asked.

Ellie nodded, "That's what made it so easy."

"What's become of you guys?" I asked, "This isn't the Mane 8 I remember."

"Goodness, are you that naïve?" A light grey cyber-pony asked me, "You saw Rainbine become what she is now before your own eyes. How can you not know?"

"R-Rainbine?" I repeated in confusion.

"That's my name." Rainbow smiled, "Primed. Locked and loaded. And ready to go." The others looked at her, "What? Too cheesy?"

"But... But you shot me!" I recollected, "How am I still breathing?"

Rainbine shrugged, "Hell if I know. I guess I missed your vitals by that much."

"Also kinda helps that we had some painkillers on us." Applejack smiled. Then she looked at the bottle in her hand, "Painkiller...." She smiled in joy, "PILLS!!!" Then she sat down and tried to pry the cap open, "Precious..."

Ellie turned to me, "You see, Twilight, we too stumbled into the Forsaken Graveyard. One-by-one. And one-by-one, our curiosity got the better of us and we woke the spirits of Monsters and Freaks that others loved and respected." She explained, looking at her pale blue hooves, as a shadow figure danced in her hoof, "Of course, the spirits fused themselves into the closest living thing that could bring them back to the land of the living: Us."

"The possession took its toll, and it's evident." Fluttershy spoke up, putting her hoof over Ellie's shoulder, "Our minds are but fractured remnants of what they formally were. But when we witnessed what we were all able to do, we cast off our worries and embraced our new forms." She shrugged and smiled, "After all, who would deny their chance to be better than they ever were?"

"And now, here we stand before you." Rainbine finished, "No longer the Elements of Harmony. But the new and improved Elements of Insanity."

My eyes widened, as I soaked in this new information. So, my friends are now monsters creating chaos and destruction? I don't believe this! But, if they plan to kill me...

"I'm not scared of you!" I told them, standing up and getting into a stance, "You may have otherworldly powers now, but I won't hesitate to fight." My horn glowed, ready to cast a spell.

Pinkie gave me a fake scared look, "Oh, we're so scared!" Then looked at me, "Really, though? Who said anything about killing you?"

My horn stopped glowing and I dropped my stance, "What?"

Pinkie raised her hand, "I didn't. I swear to god."

"B-But I thought if you all had become monsters, you would have no use for me!" I pointed out.

The grey cyber-pony shook her head, "There's where you're wrong, kid. There's still use in that body of yours after all."

"What do you want from me?" I asked, "What could you freaks possibly need that requires me?"

"Oh, it's really quite simple, Twilight." Rarity answered, "We maybe new and improved, but our Elements still remain within us. Generosity."

"Laughter." Pinkie laughed.

"Honesty." Applejack added, "And I honestly love these pills!"

"Empathy." Ellie smiled.

"Kindness." Fluttershy added.

"And Loyalty. Which leaves is..." Rainbine looked at me.

I thought for a second, until clarity and dread shook my mind, "No... No!" I glared at the Pony Monsters, "I won't become one of you! I won't!!"

Two blue-skinned humans with white eyes emerged from the shadows and grabbed me by the arms and shoulders.

"And can you possibly do to resist?" Pinkie asked me, "We're short a leader for our little group, and we've already got two spirits lined up, picked just for you." She looked at Ellie and nodded.

Ellie closed her eyes and took a proud and strong stance. Her a shadow-like aura started to crawl up her hooves.

I lowered my head and tried to whispered to myself, "It's okay, Twilight. It's just a bad dream. Any second now, you'll wake up and everything will be back to normal. Just... Gotta… Wake up!"

"Awww. So cute..." Fluttershy cooed, then looked at Ellie, "Keep going, Frostie."

Ellie smiled and the aura grew stronger.

"Wake up, Twilight. Wake up!" I kept telling myself.

"From the NetherRealm, through flesh and blood. Let these spirits be reborn, within this chosen one." Ellie chanted.

The zombies grew larger in size.

"Stop it!!" I shouted, "You can't do this!! This isn't real."

"You can deny it all you want, child." Ellie told me in a deep voice, "But this nightmare's all reality." The zombie's lifted me into the air, "And now, you shall be Twilight Sparkle NO MORE!!!"

Ellie stomped the ground and a shadow-like vortex kept me in the air. Ellie stood on her hind legs as two colored auras started to emerge from the ground.

"Please! Somepony! Save me!" I pleaded, as I could feel the shadows merging into my body, "It's gotta be a nightmare! It has to be!" My neck snapped from the pressure, "Stop! No! No! Stop!" A wind picked up and threw the freaks across the cave, but Ellie stayed in place, "I don't want this! Stop it! Stop it!" Another snap coursed through my neck, "STOP IT!!!!"

Ellie elevated toward me, put her hooves over my cheeks and pressed her lips against mine. The shadows strengthened and the two auras fused into my body. I could hear their laughter in my head.

Suddenly I let out an explosion of power and threw Ellie away from me, "NOOOOooooo!!!!!!"

Drowned Frost's POV.
I was blown away from the explosion of power. The placed darkened and everything calmed down. I opened my eyes, as my soldiers lifted Twilight back to her hooves. Her head was hung, but we could see the changes in her already.

"IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!" Fluttershout shouted in joy. I looked at her, "I always wanted to do this." Then she cheered, "BY THE GODS! IT'S ALIVE!!"

Twilight lifted her head, a pair of Alicorn wings stretched out from her back. Her coat was now a darker shade of purple. Her mane and tail were indigo with blood red and dried blood red streaks. Her Cutie Mark was a crucifix overlapping a star and a jar of jarate.

Pinkis wiped a tear from her eye, "She's so beautiful. Bring a tear to my eye."

Twilight began moaning and opened her eyes, "My... My head... What... What happened?" My soldiers let her go and retreated into the darkness.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts, I give to you Brutalight Sparcake." I introduced everypony to the new and improved Twilight.

Brutalight's eyes widened, "What?" She looked herself over and saw her wings. She gasped and looked at me, "Eleanor May Carter, what have you done to me?!"

"It's Drowned Frost now." I answered, "We've turned you over, my Brutalight. Your old life is now more."

Brutalight shook her head, "No! I-I don't want this! This isn't how I'm supposed to be!!"

"Oh, come on now! Embrace your new self. Feel good about it!" Applepills encouraged.

I nodded and turned to Brutalight, "How do you feel, Brutalight?"

Brutalight shook her head again, "I won't! I feel so wrong now! I feel awful!"

"How do you feel?" I asked again.

Brutalight looked at me in the eyes and her neck snapped, "I feel wrong..."

"How do you feel?" I asked again with a smile.

Brutalight looked at her hands, "I feel... I feel..." A devilish smile grew on her face, as she chuckled, "I feel... So... Alive!"

I smiled back at her. My best friend has finally gained the power she deserves.

"She is reborn." Fluttershout giggled gleefully.

"And she's also got a migraine. So shut the hell up." Brutalight told her.

"Oooohhh! She's a real feisty one, ain't she?" Deprigun smiled, then asked, "Who said that?"

*Later, in the Battlefield...*
Brutalight teleported us out of the cave and into the Battlefield. She summoned a sword with her new magic and smiled, "Oh, yes. I feel like ten times the Pony I was before." She looked at me, turning her sword a sickly green, "And I have my best friend to thank."

I smiled back at her, "I'm glad. Wonderful feeling, isn't it?"

Brutalight nodded, "Like you wouldn't believe." She killed an Engineer from above, then turned to us, "So, what now?"

The Girls and I looked at each other. "We... Uh... We don't know. We never thought we'd make it to this point." Pinkis answered, "And we were kinda expecting you'd know what to do, since you know, you're our leader and all now. I dunno."

Brutalight looked uncertain, "Uh... Right..." She cleared her throat and recollected herself, "I mean, of course." She rubbed her chin in thought, "Well... Now that I think about it. What about those Cutie Mark Crusaders? Or Samantha?" We looked at Rarifruit, who looked sheepish, "Shouldn't we turn them over too?"

"Already ahead of you." A familiar voice spoke from nowhere, startling Raritfruit.

In a form of magic, Creepy Belle appeared with a smile.

"What? How did you find us?" Rarifruit exclaimed in surprise.

Brutalight looked at filly, "Well... That's one taken care of. But, what about the other two?"

Creepy Belle smiled, "Like I said, I'm way ahead of you. May I present the other two members of the new Cutie Mark Monsters, as I call them..."

She used her magic and Apple Bloom and Scootaloo appeared.

"Francie Bloom."

Francie Bloom looked like a paler version of her old self with a brown mane and tail. She still wore her signature bow, but it was black, instead of pink.

"I hate birds." Francie Bloom growled.

"And Karateloo."

Karateloo was in more vibrant colors of her old self.

"I am Karate Scout!" Karateloo corrected.

"Sorry." Creepy Belle apologised sheepishly.

"Well then... I'd say that's all business taken care off." Derpigun smiled, then she took off.

I smiled, "You can leave Sam to me. I already have a search party looking for her as we speak."

Brutalight looked at me with a smile, "Well done, Frost. I always know I can count on you.

"So, Brutalight? What happens now?" Rarifruit asked.

"Now..." Brutalight chuckled evilly, "Let's go cause some chaos."

The End?