Viventis Anathema - Story of a Cursed Mare

Grimwood froze upon hearing the name from the mouth of the Rainbow Clone she was interrogating. She didn't saw that coming. That name was least expected. And she doesn't believe it, even for a bit. She then rapidly lifted her metallic talon
violently stomped the creature abdomen, causing her to moan weakly in pain, as the pain of his mangled arm wasn't enough.

"You're lying idiot!" said irritated Grimwood "I met Celestia a few years ago! There's no way she could have been so insane to do this!"

"Just check the pocket of my cloak." The Rainbow Clone said.

Reluctantly, Grimwood leaned toward her prey and rummaged inside the pocket. She found a scroll and took a look at it. Her eyes widened upon seeing it's content. It was like an awful kind of surprise.

"To the workers of the Rainbow Shrine.

I'm sure that you can understand my reason to do so. Is kind of disturbing, but has to be done. Since we have to create some undead worker ponies who mustn't be bound by the curse of the cutie marks, i need every help necessary to accoplish that. I have to make a test in order to improve the future depopulation center that is going to be build in the Badlands. Which is why i requested the construction of this factory. What you had to do is to sacrifice the life of anypony in order to use their remains to create more collaborative ones. Your superiors will give you the
instructions. Additionally, I'm counting on your force of will. Cruel or not.

With the trust that you deserve.

Princess Celestia."

Grimwood wanted to throw up, mentally. She was even more baffled than before. The calligraphy is exactly that of the Sun Princess. But she wasn't expecting her to go this low.

"No fucking way," Grimwood murmured, backstepping and releasing the Rainbow Clone from her grasp.

The creature tried to exploit the violet mare's apparent distraction to draw out her other claws and leap toward her to attack her, only to be met by the chainsaw being moved in front of her. The Rainbow Clone ended up being split in two as the two sides bloodily fell on the floor.

The violet mare opened the gates and entered inside, leaving the hall completely infested by the pegasi Homunghouls' corpses and severed limbs, accompanied by the a great amount of blood staining both the devastated floor and the walls.

She ended up in a very large room full of machinery, just like the previous room. At the center there was a console, and tubes attached to a stasis pod containing a unconscious rainbow maned pegasi, with a unmistakable rainbow lighting cutey mark.

"So this is the real one," Grimwood commented. "Time to end this farce."

Grimwood approached the console but didn't even bother to see of that works. Instead she preferred the physical approach, consisting into break the pod with a fist. She moved away as the real Rainbow Dash was dragged out of the pod by the water.

The violet mare putted away her chainsaw and approached the unconscious mare, who suddenly woke up coughing and spitting out the water.

"W-what happened?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I don't know anything about what happened to you," Grimwood informed. "But those damn Rainbow Cultists took you there and made copies of you."

"Copies?" Rainbow's eyes widened realizing something. "I remember now! I was dragged here." She tried to move her wings but they refuse and she started to wobble. "What... I can't fly?"

"I think they had used a drug that prevents the pegasi from flying."

"What!?"

Suddenly, a blast of electricity struck Grimwood from behind and fell to floor, wriggling for the shock.

"Why you should leave us? You were also my goddess." A voice said.

"W...What... Scootaloo?" Rainbow said confused.

Rainbow turned to the gates and saw somepony entering the room. Her face became contorted in horror upon seeing a pony with two sides being stitched together. The right side of her body was in part a Rainbow Dash, and her left side was that of an adult Scootaloo. Her body was partially holed and her hooves were clawed. Her wing were made of metal, exuding electricity from them.

"Please, refer to me as Raintaloo," 'Scootaloo' declares.

"N-NO! You are not Scootaloo! You can't be her!" Rainbow Dash bellowed.

"I am now a far more evolved kind of a pony. Seriously, I had nothing against the weak pegasi, but their weakness would be an insult to your magnificence. You are our god. You can't be allowed to be tainted by the loyalty toward the weak. It's time to change the basis of our nature. We have to be better than this!"

"By grinding who doesn't fit your parameters? I completely refuse to be part of this."

"Don't worry, sister. I will convince you of my own truth."

"Tsk. Really funny." Grimwood said while slowly standing up two legged and wielding her chainsaw.

Raintaloo turned toward her, flew in the air and launched another voltaic blast. Unfortunately for her, Grimwood dribbled the blow and instantly cut her body in two parts horizontally. Raintaloo screamed as her lower part fell down, but was still flying and soared toward her. Grimwood let the creature get closer and delivered a heavy punch that causes her to dive down to the floor. As Grimwood was menacingly approaching her, Raintaloo hastily flapped her wings and managed to flew away from her, escaping into a path leading to a stone bridge.

"This isn't over!!" Raintaloo said as she disappeared from Grimwood's sight.

Grimwood didn't even bothered to chase her down. At that point, Sunlight and the filly from before entered the room.

"Oh, Goodness," Sunlight murmured.

Grimwood turned toward them. "Idiot, what are you doing here with the filly."

"...... Was that really Scootaloo?" Rainbow Dash demanded.

"No. It's just a Homunghoul whose part was made from her," Grimwood said. "She is dead and her corpse was used to make this thing."

"What?"

"I don't have time to explain."

Suddenly, a menacing voice coming from a scaffolding above them made it's presence known. "You won't get away with this."

"... Ambrosia." Sunlight said.