My Final Destinationby CountDerpyChaptersVacation and PremonitionBreakdown and MourningA Party Can Change A Life: Not Always For The BetterHard ThoughtsVacation and PremonitionIt was easy to tell how uneasy she felt as she stepped into the train, the tension in the air was thick enough to cut with a knife. Fluttershy never truly liked riding the trains, or any vehicle of that sort. Especially since they replaced pony power with machines. The metal of the exterior made her seem so small in comparison, the ungodly sound the wheels made as they scraped along down the track was not pleasant for her sensitive ears. She was mostly just glad to be away from Angel for the week. "Uhh...Twilight? I-is this the.....only way to get to Los Pegasus. I would much rather fly there...m-myself, if that's ok." "Oh, Fluttershy." The lavender unicorn laughed as she trotted in behind her. "There is no safer way to travel in all of Equestria." "Twilight's right," Rarity blurted out as she settled down into her seat," not only is it the safest way in all of Equestria, but also the most luxurious!" "I-if you say so, but i still don't like it." She settled down in her seat next to an already fast asleep Octavia and a too far into her music Vinyl. She may not like the way they were getting there, but since it was her first time going to Los Pegasus and she was among friends, she might as well enjoy it. "You ok sugar cubes? You look paler than an albino pig in a hailstorm." Applejack whispered to her trying not to wake Octavia. Fluttershy had never been able to fully understand the way Applejack put things into perspective, but she didn't question it. "Yes I...umm.. I'm perfectly fine!" She laughed it off trying to hide her nervousness, smiling sweetly at her orange friend. "If you say so." Applejack settled back into her seat trying to coral the ever so wild trio of weird fillies that were the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle played around hanging from the baggage holders overhead as Scootaloo raced back and forth from one end of car 180 to the other. Car 180? Why did this seem so strange to Fluttershy. She pondered on this for a while. This trip isn't going to be that bad, or at least i hope so. She thought to herself as she leaned back nicking her shoulder on the edge of her seat. "Oww." She whispered as she slide forward wiping the blood off herself trying her hardest not to look at the dark red liquid. She cleaned it off and nestled back into her seat, carefully avoiding the jagged metal edge of her seat. Oh I hope Angel and all the other little creatures are okay. No need to worry Fluttershy, you left them in perfectly good care with Shining Armor. This, with the exception of Spike and the little fillies, was an all-girls holiday. Everyone who could come with them did, even Trixie. Every pony in the car simply despised the stuck-up unicorn and all of her boastful antics, but it was Shining Armor's decision. At least she had her music and her friends to keep her company. She slid her headphones on and pressed a button on her music player that she had gotten from Vinyl a few months earlier for her birthday. Even though she seemed the sweet and innocent pony to everyone else, she did love to rock out on occasions, and this was the perfect time for some death metal salvation. She clicked on the heaviest Deathklop song she could find and closed her eyes as the train lurched forward and started down the track. No sooner than she had let out a sigh of relief an eerie static came through her headphones and the songs changed to one allot slower, yet surprisingly darker. Where did this song come from, I've never even heard it before! "...And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. These dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had...." This song freaked her out, mostly just from hearing the sad and lonely drone of the piano. She immediately shut her music off and stared out the window, the words circulating like an angry bee in her head. The moving scenery of the darkened country side gave her a since of danger she just couldn't shake. She felt as if something terrible was about to happen to something or some pony. She trotted up and nudge Twilight from her slumber. "Uhh...Twilight.... I'm sorry to bother you." "It's ok Fluttershy," She shifted in her seat stretching to get her blood flowing," What's up?" "Uhh...well... I just wanted to ask if.....if I can...you know....get off?" She backed away expecting an angry answer from her barely awake friend. Twilight smiled. "Oh, Fluttershy. Just get some sleep and you'll wake when we get there ok?" "O-ok, i-if you say so... I just get this...feeling that something....well...bad is going to happ-" The train gave a sudden lurch forward throwing most of the ponies from their seats. "WHAT in the WORLD was THAT!?" Trixie snapped lifting herself from the floor of the train and shaking the dust out of her mane. "Who DARES wake the GREAT and POWERFUL TRIXIE in such a BARBARIC manner!" "I don't know, but i do know how hungry I am!" Pinkie gleefully stated head to the door leading to the dining cart. "I wonder what they are making up there? Oooh maybe it's cupcakes or something so scrumptious that no pony could ever re-" The train launched forward slamming Pinkie through the doors of the car just as it began to slide off the tracks. As she tried to stand her hoof caught on the side of the car and dragged her out dangling inches from the tracks below. "PINKIE!" Rarity screamed watching the bright pink mare struggle to try and free herself, a metal hook deep in her leg as the two cars came ever closer to touching as they barreled down the tracks. They could all hear screams of terror arising from the cars in front of their own. Rarity stuck her head out the window to get a good look at her friend dangling ever so close to her demise. She climbed out as far as she could reaching a hoof down to her friend, the hook starting to rip through the flesh of Pinkie's hoof. "Hold on Pinkie! Take my hoof!" She reached down as far as she could and brushed the coat of her panicked and forlorn friends hoof as the hooked ripped through the rest of her hoof and she disappeared under the car as it slid on. Rarity quickly rushed to the other side to make sure Pinkie was ok. Struggling to push the window open she watched in horror as an overturned car rushed at full speed towards the crippled pony as she painfully began to stand She gave one final push on the window which immediately flung open and she rushed herself out the window getting jammed around her flank. "PINKIE!" She screamed as the charging missile dragged the doomed pony beneath its jagged metal teeth. She barely had time to mutter a single solitary scream before silence. "Rarity! Get back in here!" Spike yelled as the car began to flip hoisting the half exposed unicorn into the air as it barreled down the edge of the track. Rarity immediately started to wiggle, trying to loosen the small round windows grip on her body as the car skid off the rails sending a railroad spike through the roof and right into the back of Applejack's head. Blood dripped from the spire as her body tumbled around in the maelstrom occurring within the train. Rarity had no idea what had happened to poor Applejack as the train raced towards another car. She screamed frantically for help as the ponies beneath her feet screamed louder than she. The only one not screaming was Fluttershy. She stood there in shock, unable to move as all hell broke loose around her. After a few moments a suitcase slammed into her head bringing it back to reality. The other ponies raced around, most scared for their safety, other trying to save Rarity from meeting a similar fate as Pinkie Pie. Fluttershy rushed over to the group of ponies trying to pull their friend from the window as the car slammed into the next one, flipping over like a pancake. A piece of the railing stuck out from the second car, cleaving Rarity's head and forcing her through the window. Everyone backed away as the fountain of blood began to pour out from her jugular. The only one that ran to her corpse was Spike. But no sooner as he reached the body did the back end explode outward,sending him flying into a pile of jagged rocks piercing his lungs and stopping is heart. Fluttershy couldn't take anymore, she raced to the seat farthest away from everything and strapped herself in, Vinyl, Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom following suit. Scootaloo raced forward dodging the metal debris flying around. She stopped moving and looked up hearing a faint whistle as the engine block fell through the siding. The cooling fan caught hold of her hoof and dragged her into it before bursting out one side sending a gear straight through Octavia and forcing Trixie's heart through her head. All three fell dead. Ground, halved and heartless. Rainbow Dash and Twilight started to race to the end and started to slow the train cars. Rainbow grabbed a rope and raced ahead to where the car barreled like a cannonball towards the entrance of a tunnel. She tied one end of the rope to a boulder on one side of the tunnels entrance and pulled it as tight as she could with the other as the train passed by flinging her into the middle of the track. Both her wings lay broken and bloodied. The rope caught the edge of a necklace Cadence was wearing and dragged her out, snapping her neck like a twig. Twilight started to charge a spell, the car going deeper and deeper into the cavernous tunnel. She let it out in one big burst forming a diamond made chain linked fence in front of them to slow the car. The now mangled mess of a luxury car slammed into the fence and stopped, barely forcing Twilight forward. She turned her head in a sigh of relief and trotted back to the others. "Are you all ok?" She said panting to the few remaining ponies strapped to their seats. They nodded in a simultaneous shake of their heads. She trotted over to the door that was in tact and began to open it. "I'm going to get help." She turned her head around as a large wheel slammed into her and forced her into and through the fence. The other ponies screamed in terror. Fluttershy had lost it and was hyperventilating as she tried to calm down for everyone's sake. "We're alive!" Vinyl screamed as she unhooked herself from her chair, but the festivities were over before they could begin as the eerie whine of a train whistle came from the other end of the tunnel. The ponies stared as the large engine charged at them, ramming right into Twilight's fence and exploded in a fireball that even a dragoon couldn't control. As the fire reached Fluttershy after consuming the forms of the other ponies she let out one long primal scream and then..... Breakdown and MourningHer world came rushing back. She bolted upright in her seat in a cold sweat, hear breath trying to keep time with her heart. "You ok sugar cubes? You look paler than an albino pig in a hailstorm." Applejack whispered to her trying not to wake Octavia. Fluttershy had never been able to fully understand the way Applejack put things into perspective, but she didn't ques- Wait a minute. This seems to familliar "Uhh...yes...I-I'm fine." She looked at her friend still shaken from her dream, or at least she thought it was a dream. "If you say so" Applejack turned back in her seat and started to yell at Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. Ok,something isn't right here. I just...no..that was only a dream. I need to calm down and just enjoy the ride She leaned back in her seat and a familiar pain shot through her as she nicked herself on the side of her chair. She immediately sat up and wiped the cut, the same blood pattern on her hoof as from her dream. No, it can't be. That means that dream.....was real? She grabbed her headphones and turned her mp3 on listening as the heavy metal song changed pace and gave way to that same creepy song she heard before. "...And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. These dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had...." She screamed as she threw her headphones across the car as she bolted towards the door. "Let me out! We have to get off this train!" She pulled on the emergency brake, keeping the train from going anywhere. "Fluttershy!" Twilight screamed as she, Rainbow Dash and Applejack all pinned their friend down as she struggled to get away."What are you talking about!?" "We have to get out of here. I-i saw the train crash and go off the rails. We all are going to die if we don't get out of here." She forced her way out from the death grip of her friends as she burst through the double glass doors of the car. She ran and hid behind a pole, holding onto it for dear life. "Fluttershy!" She looked up as her friends rushed over to her. "What the hay, we have to go." They tried to pull the yellow pegasus away from the poll but her grip was to strong. "No, we have to get everyone off the train or else they are going to die!" She looked to her friends, fearful tears streaming down her face as her looks were returned. Their faces mixed fear, concern and regretful disbelief. Twilight looked to the other ponies with a sigh as more got off to see what the commotion was about. She walked over to the white unicorn with the blue hair and talked for a second before rushing back. "Okay,how about this. How about you, me, Applejack, Pinkie and Rainbow dash go on foot. Vinyl here said that she can take the little ones back to town, and Rarity, Sweetie Belle and every pony else can take the train. We'll all meet up at the hotel." Every head nodded in agreement except for Fluttershy's. "No, Twilight. If they get on that train they are going to die!" "No pony is going to die!. Rarity we'll see you there okay?" Rarity nodded to her friend as she herded her sister into the train as the doors closed. Fluttershy raced to the windows and banged on the sides as the cars began to roll away. "Rarity get off now!" All her efforts were in vain, the train sped along never to look back. She knew what was going to happen and she fell to the ground crying for the loss of her friend before it happened. Twilight watched the train speed off down the tracks. "You see Fluttershy, nothing happened. Rarity and them are going to be fine." She sat beside her saddened friend stroking her mane, but to no avail. "Twi, just let her be. She just needs some alone time." Applejack sighed, her country accent just as thick as ever. "Yeah, she's right." Rainbow snapped " Great, now we have to walk to Los Pegasus just because Fluttershy here is afraid of the train. Come on lets get this over wi-" Her sentence was cut short as the sound of metal scraping against metal filled the air. Even from a mile away they could see the pile of twisted metal cars and the horrific pained screams of the ponies aboard. "No....it can't....no!!!!!" Fluttershy screamed as tears flowed down her muzzle in streams, her cry's drowned out by the deafening roar of the explosion as the second train collided with the pile of cars. All the ponies stared in silence at the flaming rubble. Not a word was said, just looks of fear directed towards Fluttershy as she cried. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 Days Later Mayor Mare stepped down from the podium as the rain began to fall. She looked at the crowd of mourners as they began to disperse, only a few remaining behind walking to the coffins of their friends. Why, why must these innocent ponies have died in such a horrible way she thought as she walked back towards town. Fluttershy sat motionless in front of Rarity and Sweetie Belle's coffins.Why she thought as she kicked the ground as hard as she could Why didn't I save them! I should have died on that train too. Why oh why!!. She sank to the ground, tears of anger and despair falling onto her friends still and lifeless face. "F-fluttershy?" Twilight walked up to her placing a hoof on her shoulder, a black umbrella being held above the both of them. "I...I'm sorry I didn't believe you...I just.." "No, don't be sorry Twilight. What's done is done, and we can't do anything about it. She walked on through the rain towards her cabin. No matter how hard her friends tried to comfort her and apologize, she felt nothing but sadness and guilt. She knew what was going to happen and she should have done more to stop it. She burst through the doors of her house, all her animals knew that she was sad and not a single peep was made. Even Angel's normally demanding attitude seem to lighten up, even if just for a moment or two. Knock!Knock! "Fluttershy? Please open the door." Princess Celestia stood outside the door waiting in the pouring rain, but even if it was her....she wasn't going to open up. She dragged herself to her room, the knocking at the door growing ever fainter. Slamming the door to her room behind her, she crawled into her bed and grabbed a photo off her nightstand .It was a picture of her and Rarity at the spa one day a few weeks back. I'm sorry Rarity. I'm sorry Sweetie Belle. I'm sorry I"m sorry I',m sorry! She closed her eyes and drifted off into the only place she seemed safe and happy anymore. Her Dreams..... A Party Can Change A Life: Not Always For The Better"F-Fluttershy?" Twilight whispered into her friends ear, which jolted her awake in a frenzied panic. "AAAAAHH! GET AWAY!!!" Fluttershy screamed, throwing a lamp at her friend in her panic. It flew right past her head before shattering against the wall. "Fluttershy! Calm Down!" She held her friend against the head board, holding each of her hooves down. "Huh? Wha-?" She looked up at her friend. "O-oh..Twilight it's you. I'm so sorry, I thought you were....someone else..." "It's ok, but were all worried about you. Please, will you come down with me to Sugar Cube Corner. It's not fun to be moping around on Pinkie Pie's birthday, you know." Shit, I forgot again! Fluttershy thought as the weight of the past few days kept her mind uneasy."I-i don't know, Twilight. I don't want Pinkie to get upset again, but I don't think i can...party right now." "Fluttershy, look at me." She stared into her friends eyes noticing the tears that the pegasus was holding back. "You cannot blame yourself for their deaths. It was an unfortunate accident, but you know them to well to know that Rarity and Sweetie Belle would wanted you to go on with your life and to stay happy." Twilight gave a small smile. "So please, please come out." "I...I j-just.....," she sighed,"...ok, I will." "Great. Come on, we don't want to be late!" Before Fluttershy even had time to react, they were teleported right into Sugar Cube Corner. The building was relatively clear of ponies, with the exception of the huge mob standing outside. The dining area was dark and lights flashed everywhere. They had been transported right into the middle of Pinkie's dance floor. Twilight instantly transported them outside of Sugar Cube Corner and landed them right at they're table "That's better." Twilight smiled as she gave Fluttershy a reassuring hug. "Y-yes, it's much...better." Fluttershy sighed. "Ok." Twilight walked over to the bar and grabbed a couple of bottles of Apple Jack Daniels. She trotted back over to the table and slid Fluttershy her bottle. "Thanks Twilight, I...ummm...needed something to drink." Fluttershy may not seem like a heavy drinker, but every pony knew that when she wanted to, she could hold her booze. Twilight nodded and slowly lifted her bottle towards the sky. "To Rarity and Sweetie Belle.....may they rest in peace!" Fluttershy lifted her bottle and clanked it against Twilight, immediately knocking back the entire thing in one continuous chug. She looked around for the rest of her friends, figuring that they were all inside trying to make the best of life. Two months had passed since that day and Fluttershy seemed to be the only one unable to get on with her life. No matter who much they tried, no pony could get through to her, not even Celestia herself. Fluttershy, they all decided, needed her isolation to clear her thoughts and ease her suffering. Twilight and Fluttershy sat outside around the table and talked for most of the party. The only time either of the roused from their seating was to grab another stiff drink or some food. The party continued through the night, and it was one of the biggest parties in all of Equestria. No longer was it just a birthday party for Pinkie Pie, but a celebration in remembrance for the dead. Fluttershy awoke several hours later in a daze. The room swirled around her, the blood rushing from her head as the first painful jolt of a hangover shot through her body. She stood slowly, trying to get her bearings, the room slowly returning to it's non-swirly, in-focus position, and the first thing she saw was pink mane three inches from her face. "HEY FLUTTERSHY!" Pinkie screamed as she bounced around the hung over Pegasus, not helping Fluttershy to return fully too reality. "Some party last night, huh!?" Fluttershy put a hoof to her head and looked around the room. It would be a lie to say the place wasn't completely trashed. There were piles of empty booze bottles, cupcake wrappers and other garbage. It looked like the only ponies left there where her, Pinkie and Twilight, who was stumbling around the room in a drunken stupor. "Yeah, some party..." "I know, wasn't it great! And I even got to use my new mirror ball!" Pinkie rushed over and flipped a switch, causing the large disco ball that hung above the makeshift dance floor illuminate and spin. Fluttershy starred up at it, another uneasy feeling rushing over her body. It was a similar feeling to the one she had on the train, but this time a few other images flashed across the mirror ball's surface then presenting themselves in a scene. She saw an explosion and a burst of bright blue light that was speckled with drops of a deep red. She snapped her gaze away from the ball, her breathing and heart rate increasing. Pinkie turned away and walked towards the other side of the room. "Now, I need to figure out why my Party Cannon wasn't working last night. I set it off, but it didn't burst." Fluttershy was in to much of a panic to listen to a word Pinkie had said, her attention focusing in on Twilight and her hooves following her minds orders. "Twilight!" Twilight looked at her, her eyes bloodshot and heavy, her hangover obviously worse than Fluttershy's. "What is it, Fluttershy?" "I...I just got that feeling again...like I did on the train....Something bad is going to happen again...b-but I don't know what." Twilight returned Fluttershy's outburst with a skeptical look. "Fluttershy, I know you where right about the train...but the chances of something like that happening twice is...well...astronomical. What did you see anyways?" " I was looking at Pinkie's mirror ball and I started seeing some things....I-I think it was an explosion of some kind and...a blue flash of light...that's all I saw." Twilight looked around the room. She didn't see anything in the room that could cause an explosion on it's own, besides Pinkie's broken party cannon which was currently full of Pinkie Pie. "Fluttershy....I think you are still a little drunk. There is nothing here that is working that could cause an explosion." Fluttershy stepped back from Twilight, her words sinking in with great impact. Nothing....working.... She thought about this for several more moments before her eyes widened and she turned to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie had fit most of her body into the barrel of her cannon. Fluttershy rushed over to her. "Pinkie, you need to get out of the cannon right now!" "Hold on, Fluttershy." She said, her voice highly muffled by the airtight seal of her body in the barrel. "I've almost got this finished." "Pinkie, please get out of the cannon now!" Fluttershy demanded, her hooves tapping on the edge of the barrel as hard as she could. Pinkie let out an audible sigh, though it was still highly muffled. "Alright, Fluttershy...I'll amuse you." Pinkie started to wiggle herself abit to get out, but found that her large waist and high shoulders would not allow her to budge. "Uhhh...I'm kinda stuck." Fluttershy went to the end of the cannon and started to pull on Pinkie's flank, the only success of the operation being that the cannon had shifted several inches onto the lighted area of the dance floor, nearly right under the mirror ball. "Pinkie, hold still...I-im going to see if Twilight can help get you out of there!" "No rush, Fluttershy. I've almost got this...reset....there we go!" A click rang out through the barrel as the button on the top of the cannon popped back into it's firing position. Above her head, the mirror ball spun on it's small wire ties to the ceiling, the thing wires beginning to fray from the incredible weight and force of the spinning ball began to take it's toll. Fluttershy rushed over to Twilight. "Twilight, help me get Pinkie out of her cannon! She's stuck!" Twilight sighed. "Can't anypony go a damn day in this town without me having to pull them out of something." The two walked back to the dance floor area and over to the pink earth pony who was struggling to move an inch from her position, the wheel of the cannon stuck in a space between two of the light tiles that flashed their bright blue and purple colors. Above them, the mirror ball began to get close to the ceiling, the wires curling in on themselves, but not yet to the point of breaking. Twilight glanced over to Fluttershy. Twilight trotted over and began to charge her horn, a faint purple light surrounding Pinkie's backside before it began pulling, but made no ground after several moments. Fluttershy, on the other hoof, was scanning every inch of the room. The feeling of immanent danger growing like a pit in her stomach. She barely had time to scream before the mirror ball's wires snapped and it fell towards Twilight. Twilight noticed it just in time to jump out of the way, her body slamming right into the cannon and causing it lift out of the space and flip over, the weight of the cannon falling on the button enough to cause it to go off. The brightness of the explosion was great as it sent Pinkie flying up towards the ceiling and catching her mane on the exposed wires hanging several inches down from the spackling. Twilight and Fluttershy could only watch in horror as a large blue arc of electricity surged through Pinkie's body as it fell to the ground, her head splitting open on a jagged edge of the broken mirror ball. Bellow her, the dance floor kept it's pace of flashing blue light as blood began to spread over the tile. The last thing Fluttershy saw was Twilight's horrified look before she blacked out from shock. Hard ThoughtsSix Days Later Clyde Pie comforted his wife and three remaining daughters as they walked away from the funeral pyre, a jar of ashes that were once the fun-loving, free spirited pony held tightly in his wife's hooves. The funeral had been much less extravagant than most ponies would have thought for someone like Pinkie. Knowing her, she probably wanted a big party thrown in her honor, not a small family and close friends only traditional funeral. Fluttershy was the only one who did not go up to the pyre to pay her respects to the mangled remains that was one of her best friends. She just stood back, leaning against a large oak tree on a hill overlooking the Pie family rock farm. It was odd watching the Pie's show so much emotion, she thought to herself. Even Maud had dropped her normally straight face and was bawling like a filly. Fluttershy knew she felt pain from this loss, bust she knew that was nowhere near as much pain as her sisters had felt for their fallen sibling. "Fluttershy, we really need to talk." A voice called out from behind her. She didn't even look at the source, knowing that all it would cause is more pain. "There's nothing to talk about, Twilight." She said as she started to tear up, sniffling as she closed her eyes. All she could see in the darkness was Pinkie and Rarity's smiling faces, both happy but obviously saddened in their own way. "Like hell there is!" Twilight snapped, her tone carrying both sadness and anger. It was harsh, and Fluttershy recoiled from the sound. Twilight sighed and looked at her. "Fluttershy, I think your having premonitions." "Premonitions? Like glimpses of the future?" "Exactly!" Twilight said. "You predicted that the train would crash and kill us all. We all got off but Rarity, Sweetie, and all those others still died." "How do you know it wasn't just coincidence." Fluttershy asked, trying to downplay her visions too keep from bringing up those painful memories. "Well I thought you were going crazy with the train thing. I even thought that you caused it to happen for a while because I couldn't think of any other reason why the instances would correlate." Twilight sighed. "But then...you also got a vision with Pinkie's death, and that threw all other theories out the window. Fluttershy, you are having premonitions and we need to figure out why." Fluttershy said nothing, the cold air and silence hanging between the two mares for what seemed like eternity. Fluttershy felt odd, she felt like something was watching her, lingering over her shoulder but said nothing. Eventually, the silence broke as she looked over at Twilight. "O-okay." Two hours Later "Fluttershy, I am going to need to know everything. I want every single detail of what you saw in your..vision.. on the train." Fluttershy looked at her and frowned. "I really don't think that is a good idea. It...it's so...scary." "I know it is scary, Fluttershy, but I need to know what happened in the vision." She said placing a hoof on Fluttershy's back. "Please, tell me how we died." Tears started to fall from her eyes once more as she remembered back to what she saw that day. "W-well we got on the train and it started to take off. The train lunged a bit and that's when the chaos started." "Please, go on." Twilight urged "When the train lurched a second time, Pinkie got dragged outside. I think her hoof got hooked on the side of the train. Rarity went to pull her out, but Pinkie got dragged under the train car." Fluttershy looked to Twilight, who grimaced at the thought. "T-then Applejack had a a piece of metal fly through her head. After that everything went into a full on panic. We tried to pull Rarity in, but something had...taken her head off.." "Oh dear Faust." Twilight cringed, the contents of her stomach beginning to churn in a painful way. "T-then Spike got..launched from the car into some jagged rocks and died. I thought the best thing would be to get back to my seat...and then Vinyl and I think Applebloom and ...Sweetie... followed and did the same." Fluttershy's tears started to fall in full force. "Then Scootaloo got ground in the fan of some engine that fell through into the car a-and a gear shot out from it and cut Octavia in half and blew Trixie's heart through her head and...." "Fluttershy, take you time...i..it's fine to..." Twilight couldn't even form straight words as she watched her friend break down in front of her, the growing pain pit of her stomach increasing as she realized that there were not that many ponies left from the car. "T-then you and Rainbow tried stopping the train... she got launched from the train so I don't know what happened to her...then Cadance's neck snapped when something caught her necklace...we were heading towards a tunnel really fast...b-but you stopped the car in the mountain tunnel with a fence...then..then a train wheel crashed into you and it...it pushed you through the fence you made like a... cheese grater." Fluttershy cried, feeling herself getting sick as she watched Twilight reached for her table side waste bin and the contents of her stomach filled it. "Dear Faust, that's horrifying." Twilight said between her bouts of retching. "Was there...anything else...that happened." "The last thing that happened was the second train came and blew up...I think Vinyl, Bloom and Sweetie were incinerated before I was..and then I woke up back in my seat on the train just before I...lost it." Twilight didn't know what to say to the whole events, knowing that could have easily been their fate. There was, however, a question itching at the back of her mind. "So...we were all supposed to die on that train." "I..I think so." "But your premonition saved us from death, yet Pinkie died." Twilight said as she though deeply, wiping away the tears that fell from her eyes at the memory of Pinkie's bloody remains. Then, a horrifying thought captured her. "You had the premonition about Pinkie dying!" Fluttershy looked at Twilight. "I didn't know it was going to be Pinkie. I just saw the blue lights and the..blood." "Then how did you know it was going to be Pinkie?" "I didn't. She was just, doing something at the time and when I looked at her I got the same feeling as..." "As you got on the train." Twilight said as her eyes got wide as the gears in her head finally lit up the red light bulb that had been so dim before. She quickly looked back at her notes then to the pegasus. "Fluttershy, what was the order that we died on the train!" Fluttershy looked down and sighed. "P-pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, Scootaloo, Octavia, Trixie, Candace," She paused," You, Vinyl, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle then Me. I don't know if Rainbow died or not." Twilight quickly grabbed a roll of parchment and a quill, scribbling out a letter and sending it off with her own magic, not bothering Spike. It seemed to Fluttershy that she was in some kind of crazed rush as she sent off a few more letters. She looked back at Fluttershy, urgency painted across her face. "T-twilight, what's wrong?" "We need to go see Applejack now!"
Vacation and PremonitionIt was easy to tell how uneasy she felt as she stepped into the train, the tension in the air was thick enough to cut with a knife. Fluttershy never truly liked riding the trains, or any vehicle of that sort. Especially since they replaced pony power with machines. The metal of the exterior made her seem so small in comparison, the ungodly sound the wheels made as they scraped along down the track was not pleasant for her sensitive ears. She was mostly just glad to be away from Angel for the week. "Uhh...Twilight? I-is this the.....only way to get to Los Pegasus. I would much rather fly there...m-myself, if that's ok." "Oh, Fluttershy." The lavender unicorn laughed as she trotted in behind her. "There is no safer way to travel in all of Equestria." "Twilight's right," Rarity blurted out as she settled down into her seat," not only is it the safest way in all of Equestria, but also the most luxurious!" "I-if you say so, but i still don't like it." She settled down in her seat next to an already fast asleep Octavia and a too far into her music Vinyl. She may not like the way they were getting there, but since it was her first time going to Los Pegasus and she was among friends, she might as well enjoy it. "You ok sugar cubes? You look paler than an albino pig in a hailstorm." Applejack whispered to her trying not to wake Octavia. Fluttershy had never been able to fully understand the way Applejack put things into perspective, but she didn't question it. "Yes I...umm.. I'm perfectly fine!" She laughed it off trying to hide her nervousness, smiling sweetly at her orange friend. "If you say so." Applejack settled back into her seat trying to coral the ever so wild trio of weird fillies that were the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle played around hanging from the baggage holders overhead as Scootaloo raced back and forth from one end of car 180 to the other. Car 180? Why did this seem so strange to Fluttershy. She pondered on this for a while. This trip isn't going to be that bad, or at least i hope so. She thought to herself as she leaned back nicking her shoulder on the edge of her seat. "Oww." She whispered as she slide forward wiping the blood off herself trying her hardest not to look at the dark red liquid. She cleaned it off and nestled back into her seat, carefully avoiding the jagged metal edge of her seat. Oh I hope Angel and all the other little creatures are okay. No need to worry Fluttershy, you left them in perfectly good care with Shining Armor. This, with the exception of Spike and the little fillies, was an all-girls holiday. Everyone who could come with them did, even Trixie. Every pony in the car simply despised the stuck-up unicorn and all of her boastful antics, but it was Shining Armor's decision. At least she had her music and her friends to keep her company. She slid her headphones on and pressed a button on her music player that she had gotten from Vinyl a few months earlier for her birthday. Even though she seemed the sweet and innocent pony to everyone else, she did love to rock out on occasions, and this was the perfect time for some death metal salvation. She clicked on the heaviest Deathklop song she could find and closed her eyes as the train lurched forward and started down the track. No sooner than she had let out a sigh of relief an eerie static came through her headphones and the songs changed to one allot slower, yet surprisingly darker. Where did this song come from, I've never even heard it before! "...And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. These dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had...." This song freaked her out, mostly just from hearing the sad and lonely drone of the piano. She immediately shut her music off and stared out the window, the words circulating like an angry bee in her head. The moving scenery of the darkened country side gave her a since of danger she just couldn't shake. She felt as if something terrible was about to happen to something or some pony. She trotted up and nudge Twilight from her slumber. "Uhh...Twilight.... I'm sorry to bother you." "It's ok Fluttershy," She shifted in her seat stretching to get her blood flowing," What's up?" "Uhh...well... I just wanted to ask if.....if I can...you know....get off?" She backed away expecting an angry answer from her barely awake friend. Twilight smiled. "Oh, Fluttershy. Just get some sleep and you'll wake when we get there ok?" "O-ok, i-if you say so... I just get this...feeling that something....well...bad is going to happ-" The train gave a sudden lurch forward throwing most of the ponies from their seats. "WHAT in the WORLD was THAT!?" Trixie snapped lifting herself from the floor of the train and shaking the dust out of her mane. "Who DARES wake the GREAT and POWERFUL TRIXIE in such a BARBARIC manner!" "I don't know, but i do know how hungry I am!" Pinkie gleefully stated head to the door leading to the dining cart. "I wonder what they are making up there? Oooh maybe it's cupcakes or something so scrumptious that no pony could ever re-" The train launched forward slamming Pinkie through the doors of the car just as it began to slide off the tracks. As she tried to stand her hoof caught on the side of the car and dragged her out dangling inches from the tracks below. "PINKIE!" Rarity screamed watching the bright pink mare struggle to try and free herself, a metal hook deep in her leg as the two cars came ever closer to touching as they barreled down the tracks. They could all hear screams of terror arising from the cars in front of their own. Rarity stuck her head out the window to get a good look at her friend dangling ever so close to her demise. She climbed out as far as she could reaching a hoof down to her friend, the hook starting to rip through the flesh of Pinkie's hoof. "Hold on Pinkie! Take my hoof!" She reached down as far as she could and brushed the coat of her panicked and forlorn friends hoof as the hooked ripped through the rest of her hoof and she disappeared under the car as it slid on. Rarity quickly rushed to the other side to make sure Pinkie was ok. Struggling to push the window open she watched in horror as an overturned car rushed at full speed towards the crippled pony as she painfully began to stand She gave one final push on the window which immediately flung open and she rushed herself out the window getting jammed around her flank. "PINKIE!" She screamed as the charging missile dragged the doomed pony beneath its jagged metal teeth. She barely had time to mutter a single solitary scream before silence. "Rarity! Get back in here!" Spike yelled as the car began to flip hoisting the half exposed unicorn into the air as it barreled down the edge of the track. Rarity immediately started to wiggle, trying to loosen the small round windows grip on her body as the car skid off the rails sending a railroad spike through the roof and right into the back of Applejack's head. Blood dripped from the spire as her body tumbled around in the maelstrom occurring within the train. Rarity had no idea what had happened to poor Applejack as the train raced towards another car. She screamed frantically for help as the ponies beneath her feet screamed louder than she. The only one not screaming was Fluttershy. She stood there in shock, unable to move as all hell broke loose around her. After a few moments a suitcase slammed into her head bringing it back to reality. The other ponies raced around, most scared for their safety, other trying to save Rarity from meeting a similar fate as Pinkie Pie. Fluttershy rushed over to the group of ponies trying to pull their friend from the window as the car slammed into the next one, flipping over like a pancake. A piece of the railing stuck out from the second car, cleaving Rarity's head and forcing her through the window. Everyone backed away as the fountain of blood began to pour out from her jugular. The only one that ran to her corpse was Spike. But no sooner as he reached the body did the back end explode outward,sending him flying into a pile of jagged rocks piercing his lungs and stopping is heart. Fluttershy couldn't take anymore, she raced to the seat farthest away from everything and strapped herself in, Vinyl, Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom following suit. Scootaloo raced forward dodging the metal debris flying around. She stopped moving and looked up hearing a faint whistle as the engine block fell through the siding. The cooling fan caught hold of her hoof and dragged her into it before bursting out one side sending a gear straight through Octavia and forcing Trixie's heart through her head. All three fell dead. Ground, halved and heartless. Rainbow Dash and Twilight started to race to the end and started to slow the train cars. Rainbow grabbed a rope and raced ahead to where the car barreled like a cannonball towards the entrance of a tunnel. She tied one end of the rope to a boulder on one side of the tunnels entrance and pulled it as tight as she could with the other as the train passed by flinging her into the middle of the track. Both her wings lay broken and bloodied. The rope caught the edge of a necklace Cadence was wearing and dragged her out, snapping her neck like a twig. Twilight started to charge a spell, the car going deeper and deeper into the cavernous tunnel. She let it out in one big burst forming a diamond made chain linked fence in front of them to slow the car. The now mangled mess of a luxury car slammed into the fence and stopped, barely forcing Twilight forward. She turned her head in a sigh of relief and trotted back to the others. "Are you all ok?" She said panting to the few remaining ponies strapped to their seats. They nodded in a simultaneous shake of their heads. She trotted over to the door that was in tact and began to open it. "I'm going to get help." She turned her head around as a large wheel slammed into her and forced her into and through the fence. The other ponies screamed in terror. Fluttershy had lost it and was hyperventilating as she tried to calm down for everyone's sake. "We're alive!" Vinyl screamed as she unhooked herself from her chair, but the festivities were over before they could begin as the eerie whine of a train whistle came from the other end of the tunnel. The ponies stared as the large engine charged at them, ramming right into Twilight's fence and exploded in a fireball that even a dragoon couldn't control. As the fire reached Fluttershy after consuming the forms of the other ponies she let out one long primal scream and then.....
Breakdown and MourningHer world came rushing back. She bolted upright in her seat in a cold sweat, hear breath trying to keep time with her heart. "You ok sugar cubes? You look paler than an albino pig in a hailstorm." Applejack whispered to her trying not to wake Octavia. Fluttershy had never been able to fully understand the way Applejack put things into perspective, but she didn't ques- Wait a minute. This seems to familliar "Uhh...yes...I-I'm fine." She looked at her friend still shaken from her dream, or at least she thought it was a dream. "If you say so" Applejack turned back in her seat and started to yell at Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. Ok,something isn't right here. I just...no..that was only a dream. I need to calm down and just enjoy the ride She leaned back in her seat and a familiar pain shot through her as she nicked herself on the side of her chair. She immediately sat up and wiped the cut, the same blood pattern on her hoof as from her dream. No, it can't be. That means that dream.....was real? She grabbed her headphones and turned her mp3 on listening as the heavy metal song changed pace and gave way to that same creepy song she heard before. "...And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. These dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had...." She screamed as she threw her headphones across the car as she bolted towards the door. "Let me out! We have to get off this train!" She pulled on the emergency brake, keeping the train from going anywhere. "Fluttershy!" Twilight screamed as she, Rainbow Dash and Applejack all pinned their friend down as she struggled to get away."What are you talking about!?" "We have to get out of here. I-i saw the train crash and go off the rails. We all are going to die if we don't get out of here." She forced her way out from the death grip of her friends as she burst through the double glass doors of the car. She ran and hid behind a pole, holding onto it for dear life. "Fluttershy!" She looked up as her friends rushed over to her. "What the hay, we have to go." They tried to pull the yellow pegasus away from the poll but her grip was to strong. "No, we have to get everyone off the train or else they are going to die!" She looked to her friends, fearful tears streaming down her face as her looks were returned. Their faces mixed fear, concern and regretful disbelief. Twilight looked to the other ponies with a sigh as more got off to see what the commotion was about. She walked over to the white unicorn with the blue hair and talked for a second before rushing back. "Okay,how about this. How about you, me, Applejack, Pinkie and Rainbow dash go on foot. Vinyl here said that she can take the little ones back to town, and Rarity, Sweetie Belle and every pony else can take the train. We'll all meet up at the hotel." Every head nodded in agreement except for Fluttershy's. "No, Twilight. If they get on that train they are going to die!" "No pony is going to die!. Rarity we'll see you there okay?" Rarity nodded to her friend as she herded her sister into the train as the doors closed. Fluttershy raced to the windows and banged on the sides as the cars began to roll away. "Rarity get off now!" All her efforts were in vain, the train sped along never to look back. She knew what was going to happen and she fell to the ground crying for the loss of her friend before it happened. Twilight watched the train speed off down the tracks. "You see Fluttershy, nothing happened. Rarity and them are going to be fine." She sat beside her saddened friend stroking her mane, but to no avail. "Twi, just let her be. She just needs some alone time." Applejack sighed, her country accent just as thick as ever. "Yeah, she's right." Rainbow snapped " Great, now we have to walk to Los Pegasus just because Fluttershy here is afraid of the train. Come on lets get this over wi-" Her sentence was cut short as the sound of metal scraping against metal filled the air. Even from a mile away they could see the pile of twisted metal cars and the horrific pained screams of the ponies aboard. "No....it can't....no!!!!!" Fluttershy screamed as tears flowed down her muzzle in streams, her cry's drowned out by the deafening roar of the explosion as the second train collided with the pile of cars. All the ponies stared in silence at the flaming rubble. Not a word was said, just looks of fear directed towards Fluttershy as she cried. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 Days Later Mayor Mare stepped down from the podium as the rain began to fall. She looked at the crowd of mourners as they began to disperse, only a few remaining behind walking to the coffins of their friends. Why, why must these innocent ponies have died in such a horrible way she thought as she walked back towards town. Fluttershy sat motionless in front of Rarity and Sweetie Belle's coffins.Why she thought as she kicked the ground as hard as she could Why didn't I save them! I should have died on that train too. Why oh why!!. She sank to the ground, tears of anger and despair falling onto her friends still and lifeless face. "F-fluttershy?" Twilight walked up to her placing a hoof on her shoulder, a black umbrella being held above the both of them. "I...I'm sorry I didn't believe you...I just.." "No, don't be sorry Twilight. What's done is done, and we can't do anything about it. She walked on through the rain towards her cabin. No matter how hard her friends tried to comfort her and apologize, she felt nothing but sadness and guilt. She knew what was going to happen and she should have done more to stop it. She burst through the doors of her house, all her animals knew that she was sad and not a single peep was made. Even Angel's normally demanding attitude seem to lighten up, even if just for a moment or two. Knock!Knock! "Fluttershy? Please open the door." Princess Celestia stood outside the door waiting in the pouring rain, but even if it was her....she wasn't going to open up. She dragged herself to her room, the knocking at the door growing ever fainter. Slamming the door to her room behind her, she crawled into her bed and grabbed a photo off her nightstand .It was a picture of her and Rarity at the spa one day a few weeks back. I'm sorry Rarity. I'm sorry Sweetie Belle. I'm sorry I"m sorry I',m sorry! She closed her eyes and drifted off into the only place she seemed safe and happy anymore. Her Dreams.....
A Party Can Change A Life: Not Always For The Better"F-Fluttershy?" Twilight whispered into her friends ear, which jolted her awake in a frenzied panic. "AAAAAHH! GET AWAY!!!" Fluttershy screamed, throwing a lamp at her friend in her panic. It flew right past her head before shattering against the wall. "Fluttershy! Calm Down!" She held her friend against the head board, holding each of her hooves down. "Huh? Wha-?" She looked up at her friend. "O-oh..Twilight it's you. I'm so sorry, I thought you were....someone else..." "It's ok, but were all worried about you. Please, will you come down with me to Sugar Cube Corner. It's not fun to be moping around on Pinkie Pie's birthday, you know." Shit, I forgot again! Fluttershy thought as the weight of the past few days kept her mind uneasy."I-i don't know, Twilight. I don't want Pinkie to get upset again, but I don't think i can...party right now." "Fluttershy, look at me." She stared into her friends eyes noticing the tears that the pegasus was holding back. "You cannot blame yourself for their deaths. It was an unfortunate accident, but you know them to well to know that Rarity and Sweetie Belle would wanted you to go on with your life and to stay happy." Twilight gave a small smile. "So please, please come out." "I...I j-just.....," she sighed,"...ok, I will." "Great. Come on, we don't want to be late!" Before Fluttershy even had time to react, they were teleported right into Sugar Cube Corner. The building was relatively clear of ponies, with the exception of the huge mob standing outside. The dining area was dark and lights flashed everywhere. They had been transported right into the middle of Pinkie's dance floor. Twilight instantly transported them outside of Sugar Cube Corner and landed them right at they're table "That's better." Twilight smiled as she gave Fluttershy a reassuring hug. "Y-yes, it's much...better." Fluttershy sighed. "Ok." Twilight walked over to the bar and grabbed a couple of bottles of Apple Jack Daniels. She trotted back over to the table and slid Fluttershy her bottle. "Thanks Twilight, I...ummm...needed something to drink." Fluttershy may not seem like a heavy drinker, but every pony knew that when she wanted to, she could hold her booze. Twilight nodded and slowly lifted her bottle towards the sky. "To Rarity and Sweetie Belle.....may they rest in peace!" Fluttershy lifted her bottle and clanked it against Twilight, immediately knocking back the entire thing in one continuous chug. She looked around for the rest of her friends, figuring that they were all inside trying to make the best of life. Two months had passed since that day and Fluttershy seemed to be the only one unable to get on with her life. No matter who much they tried, no pony could get through to her, not even Celestia herself. Fluttershy, they all decided, needed her isolation to clear her thoughts and ease her suffering. Twilight and Fluttershy sat outside around the table and talked for most of the party. The only time either of the roused from their seating was to grab another stiff drink or some food. The party continued through the night, and it was one of the biggest parties in all of Equestria. No longer was it just a birthday party for Pinkie Pie, but a celebration in remembrance for the dead. Fluttershy awoke several hours later in a daze. The room swirled around her, the blood rushing from her head as the first painful jolt of a hangover shot through her body. She stood slowly, trying to get her bearings, the room slowly returning to it's non-swirly, in-focus position, and the first thing she saw was pink mane three inches from her face. "HEY FLUTTERSHY!" Pinkie screamed as she bounced around the hung over Pegasus, not helping Fluttershy to return fully too reality. "Some party last night, huh!?" Fluttershy put a hoof to her head and looked around the room. It would be a lie to say the place wasn't completely trashed. There were piles of empty booze bottles, cupcake wrappers and other garbage. It looked like the only ponies left there where her, Pinkie and Twilight, who was stumbling around the room in a drunken stupor. "Yeah, some party..." "I know, wasn't it great! And I even got to use my new mirror ball!" Pinkie rushed over and flipped a switch, causing the large disco ball that hung above the makeshift dance floor illuminate and spin. Fluttershy starred up at it, another uneasy feeling rushing over her body. It was a similar feeling to the one she had on the train, but this time a few other images flashed across the mirror ball's surface then presenting themselves in a scene. She saw an explosion and a burst of bright blue light that was speckled with drops of a deep red. She snapped her gaze away from the ball, her breathing and heart rate increasing. Pinkie turned away and walked towards the other side of the room. "Now, I need to figure out why my Party Cannon wasn't working last night. I set it off, but it didn't burst." Fluttershy was in to much of a panic to listen to a word Pinkie had said, her attention focusing in on Twilight and her hooves following her minds orders. "Twilight!" Twilight looked at her, her eyes bloodshot and heavy, her hangover obviously worse than Fluttershy's. "What is it, Fluttershy?" "I...I just got that feeling again...like I did on the train....Something bad is going to happen again...b-but I don't know what." Twilight returned Fluttershy's outburst with a skeptical look. "Fluttershy, I know you where right about the train...but the chances of something like that happening twice is...well...astronomical. What did you see anyways?" " I was looking at Pinkie's mirror ball and I started seeing some things....I-I think it was an explosion of some kind and...a blue flash of light...that's all I saw." Twilight looked around the room. She didn't see anything in the room that could cause an explosion on it's own, besides Pinkie's broken party cannon which was currently full of Pinkie Pie. "Fluttershy....I think you are still a little drunk. There is nothing here that is working that could cause an explosion." Fluttershy stepped back from Twilight, her words sinking in with great impact. Nothing....working.... She thought about this for several more moments before her eyes widened and she turned to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie had fit most of her body into the barrel of her cannon. Fluttershy rushed over to her. "Pinkie, you need to get out of the cannon right now!" "Hold on, Fluttershy." She said, her voice highly muffled by the airtight seal of her body in the barrel. "I've almost got this finished." "Pinkie, please get out of the cannon now!" Fluttershy demanded, her hooves tapping on the edge of the barrel as hard as she could. Pinkie let out an audible sigh, though it was still highly muffled. "Alright, Fluttershy...I'll amuse you." Pinkie started to wiggle herself abit to get out, but found that her large waist and high shoulders would not allow her to budge. "Uhhh...I'm kinda stuck." Fluttershy went to the end of the cannon and started to pull on Pinkie's flank, the only success of the operation being that the cannon had shifted several inches onto the lighted area of the dance floor, nearly right under the mirror ball. "Pinkie, hold still...I-im going to see if Twilight can help get you out of there!" "No rush, Fluttershy. I've almost got this...reset....there we go!" A click rang out through the barrel as the button on the top of the cannon popped back into it's firing position. Above her head, the mirror ball spun on it's small wire ties to the ceiling, the thing wires beginning to fray from the incredible weight and force of the spinning ball began to take it's toll. Fluttershy rushed over to Twilight. "Twilight, help me get Pinkie out of her cannon! She's stuck!" Twilight sighed. "Can't anypony go a damn day in this town without me having to pull them out of something." The two walked back to the dance floor area and over to the pink earth pony who was struggling to move an inch from her position, the wheel of the cannon stuck in a space between two of the light tiles that flashed their bright blue and purple colors. Above them, the mirror ball began to get close to the ceiling, the wires curling in on themselves, but not yet to the point of breaking. Twilight glanced over to Fluttershy. Twilight trotted over and began to charge her horn, a faint purple light surrounding Pinkie's backside before it began pulling, but made no ground after several moments. Fluttershy, on the other hoof, was scanning every inch of the room. The feeling of immanent danger growing like a pit in her stomach. She barely had time to scream before the mirror ball's wires snapped and it fell towards Twilight. Twilight noticed it just in time to jump out of the way, her body slamming right into the cannon and causing it lift out of the space and flip over, the weight of the cannon falling on the button enough to cause it to go off. The brightness of the explosion was great as it sent Pinkie flying up towards the ceiling and catching her mane on the exposed wires hanging several inches down from the spackling. Twilight and Fluttershy could only watch in horror as a large blue arc of electricity surged through Pinkie's body as it fell to the ground, her head splitting open on a jagged edge of the broken mirror ball. Bellow her, the dance floor kept it's pace of flashing blue light as blood began to spread over the tile. The last thing Fluttershy saw was Twilight's horrified look before she blacked out from shock.
Hard ThoughtsSix Days Later Clyde Pie comforted his wife and three remaining daughters as they walked away from the funeral pyre, a jar of ashes that were once the fun-loving, free spirited pony held tightly in his wife's hooves. The funeral had been much less extravagant than most ponies would have thought for someone like Pinkie. Knowing her, she probably wanted a big party thrown in her honor, not a small family and close friends only traditional funeral. Fluttershy was the only one who did not go up to the pyre to pay her respects to the mangled remains that was one of her best friends. She just stood back, leaning against a large oak tree on a hill overlooking the Pie family rock farm. It was odd watching the Pie's show so much emotion, she thought to herself. Even Maud had dropped her normally straight face and was bawling like a filly. Fluttershy knew she felt pain from this loss, bust she knew that was nowhere near as much pain as her sisters had felt for their fallen sibling. "Fluttershy, we really need to talk." A voice called out from behind her. She didn't even look at the source, knowing that all it would cause is more pain. "There's nothing to talk about, Twilight." She said as she started to tear up, sniffling as she closed her eyes. All she could see in the darkness was Pinkie and Rarity's smiling faces, both happy but obviously saddened in their own way. "Like hell there is!" Twilight snapped, her tone carrying both sadness and anger. It was harsh, and Fluttershy recoiled from the sound. Twilight sighed and looked at her. "Fluttershy, I think your having premonitions." "Premonitions? Like glimpses of the future?" "Exactly!" Twilight said. "You predicted that the train would crash and kill us all. We all got off but Rarity, Sweetie, and all those others still died." "How do you know it wasn't just coincidence." Fluttershy asked, trying to downplay her visions too keep from bringing up those painful memories. "Well I thought you were going crazy with the train thing. I even thought that you caused it to happen for a while because I couldn't think of any other reason why the instances would correlate." Twilight sighed. "But then...you also got a vision with Pinkie's death, and that threw all other theories out the window. Fluttershy, you are having premonitions and we need to figure out why." Fluttershy said nothing, the cold air and silence hanging between the two mares for what seemed like eternity. Fluttershy felt odd, she felt like something was watching her, lingering over her shoulder but said nothing. Eventually, the silence broke as she looked over at Twilight. "O-okay." Two hours Later "Fluttershy, I am going to need to know everything. I want every single detail of what you saw in your..vision.. on the train." Fluttershy looked at her and frowned. "I really don't think that is a good idea. It...it's so...scary." "I know it is scary, Fluttershy, but I need to know what happened in the vision." She said placing a hoof on Fluttershy's back. "Please, tell me how we died." Tears started to fall from her eyes once more as she remembered back to what she saw that day. "W-well we got on the train and it started to take off. The train lunged a bit and that's when the chaos started." "Please, go on." Twilight urged "When the train lurched a second time, Pinkie got dragged outside. I think her hoof got hooked on the side of the train. Rarity went to pull her out, but Pinkie got dragged under the train car." Fluttershy looked to Twilight, who grimaced at the thought. "T-then Applejack had a a piece of metal fly through her head. After that everything went into a full on panic. We tried to pull Rarity in, but something had...taken her head off.." "Oh dear Faust." Twilight cringed, the contents of her stomach beginning to churn in a painful way. "T-then Spike got..launched from the car into some jagged rocks and died. I thought the best thing would be to get back to my seat...and then Vinyl and I think Applebloom and ...Sweetie... followed and did the same." Fluttershy's tears started to fall in full force. "Then Scootaloo got ground in the fan of some engine that fell through into the car a-and a gear shot out from it and cut Octavia in half and blew Trixie's heart through her head and...." "Fluttershy, take you time...i..it's fine to..." Twilight couldn't even form straight words as she watched her friend break down in front of her, the growing pain pit of her stomach increasing as she realized that there were not that many ponies left from the car. "T-then you and Rainbow tried stopping the train... she got launched from the train so I don't know what happened to her...then Cadance's neck snapped when something caught her necklace...we were heading towards a tunnel really fast...b-but you stopped the car in the mountain tunnel with a fence...then..then a train wheel crashed into you and it...it pushed you through the fence you made like a... cheese grater." Fluttershy cried, feeling herself getting sick as she watched Twilight reached for her table side waste bin and the contents of her stomach filled it. "Dear Faust, that's horrifying." Twilight said between her bouts of retching. "Was there...anything else...that happened." "The last thing that happened was the second train came and blew up...I think Vinyl, Bloom and Sweetie were incinerated before I was..and then I woke up back in my seat on the train just before I...lost it." Twilight didn't know what to say to the whole events, knowing that could have easily been their fate. There was, however, a question itching at the back of her mind. "So...we were all supposed to die on that train." "I..I think so." "But your premonition saved us from death, yet Pinkie died." Twilight said as she though deeply, wiping away the tears that fell from her eyes at the memory of Pinkie's bloody remains. Then, a horrifying thought captured her. "You had the premonition about Pinkie dying!" Fluttershy looked at Twilight. "I didn't know it was going to be Pinkie. I just saw the blue lights and the..blood." "Then how did you know it was going to be Pinkie?" "I didn't. She was just, doing something at the time and when I looked at her I got the same feeling as..." "As you got on the train." Twilight said as her eyes got wide as the gears in her head finally lit up the red light bulb that had been so dim before. She quickly looked back at her notes then to the pegasus. "Fluttershy, what was the order that we died on the train!" Fluttershy looked down and sighed. "P-pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, Spike, Scootaloo, Octavia, Trixie, Candace," She paused," You, Vinyl, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle then Me. I don't know if Rainbow died or not." Twilight quickly grabbed a roll of parchment and a quill, scribbling out a letter and sending it off with her own magic, not bothering Spike. It seemed to Fluttershy that she was in some kind of crazed rush as she sent off a few more letters. She looked back at Fluttershy, urgency painted across her face. "T-twilight, what's wrong?" "We need to go see Applejack now!"
