I do not own the story ‘Cupcakes’. The rightful owner of it is Sergeant Sprinkles.
“PINKIE, PLEASE NO!” Rainbow Dash shouted out as the knife cut off her right cutie mark, blood dripping from the wound. Pinkie Pie took the piece of flesh and put it on the tray. That grin, that horrible grin was plastered on her face as Rainbow’s shouts for help grew louder and louder. Pinkie continued to pick up a rather large butcher’s cleaver, and made her way over to Dash.
“I think I’m gonna wing it, don’t you think?” Pinkie said calmly. Rainbow only had a moment to hesitate before the blade slammed down inches from her right wing.
“Dash, you have to stay still, or I’ll keep missing!” And she slammed the blade down once more, penetrating her wing’s joint. The scream Rainbow Dash gave out was blood-curling, loud enough to chill bone. The blade came down more, tearing her wing away from her body more and more, until it finally came off. Pinkie continued to the other wing, but this time not being able to go through her flesh.
“Hmm…I guess I forgot to sharpen it.” She said, throwing it away behind her. She went back over to the table and picked up a hacksaw. The sight of it made Rainbow’s pupils dilate and her tears stream faster.
“Do you know why they call it a hacksaw, Dash? It doesn’t hack, that's what I was doing with the knife. It's a saw, I don't get it!” Without hesitation, the hacksaw came down, the machinery easily cutting through her bone. Blood sprayed on the walls as Rainbow Dash’s second wing was cut off and ripped from the joint.
“HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! OH GOD HELP ME!” Rainbow screamed helplessly. Pinkie began to giggle.
“Oh silly Dash, no-one can hear you down here! So why bother?” Pinkie’s face turned to the hot well of molten metal. Two screws and a tong lay beside it. Rainbow knew what was about to happen, and she struggled to break free. But she couldn’t. Every time she tried, it was no use. She was stuck. She sobbed harder and harder, her struggles getting faster and faster.
“DEAR GODESS, SOMEONE HELP ME!” She shrieked one more time. Pinkie brought the screws over to her, and began to hammer them in to her limbs…
OUTSIDE…
Applejack was wondering around looking for Rainbow Dash.
“Hey Twilight, have you seen Rainbow Dash, she said she’d be at Pinkie’s bakery doing something with her, but she’s not there! Do you know where she is?”
“No, sorry Applejack, but I haven’t seen her either. Didn’t she say she’d be at your farm soon?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah, she did, but I can’t find her! Oh well, I guess we ain’t farmin’ no apples today without that rain…”
Suddenly a noise made both Applejack and Twilight’s ears prick. It was faint, but loud enough to hear. “DEAR GODESS SOMEONE HELP ME!” Both of them instantly knew who it was, and said the same thing at the same time.
“RAINBOW DASH!”
Back in the basement…
The screws had been nailed in, as blood seeped through the tiny pours in which they left. Rainbow knew she was finished. There was no use struggling, she was done for. Her last moments would be spent in this bloody basement. She would die at Pinkie’s hand. The very thought gripped her body. She was hyperventilating now, the adrenaline from the needle keeping her awake. Pinkie returned over to her with two metal cables. She attached them to the screws nailed into her limbs.
“Pinkie?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Yes Dash?” She replied.
“I…I want to go home.” She said.
“Yeah, I can see you wanting to do that. You can’t back off now, you need to rise up and face the challenges ahead.” And Pinkie made her way over to a power box with a lever on it. The sight of it chilled Dash’s blood. She was going to electrocute her. She closed her eyes as tightly as she could and waited for the shock to come Pinkie was inches away from the lever, her hoof ready to push it. As her hoof reached for the lever, there was a sudden banging on the door.
“Rainbow Dash?!” shouted a familiar voice. “You in there?” Rainbow suddenly knew who it was. It was Applejack, banging on the door to try and get in. Pinkie was caught by surprise about this, and turned to Rainbow Dash.
“Oh well, I guess the cupcakes can wait. See ya Dash!” she said cheerfully, and sprinted through and exit door next to the switch. The door suddenly burst into shracknel as Applejack’s kick hit the door. Applejack and Twilight ran into the basement and turned the lights on. The sight of blood and corpse pieces everywhere shocked them both. The stench of rotting flesh shrivelled their nostrils. They saw Rainbow Dash still chained to the table, her beautiful cyan fur ruined with her own blood. Twilight ran over to her, worried sick.
“Rainbow Dash!” she screamed. Applejack also ran over, looking at her ruined body. “Who did this to you?” Applejack demanded. Rainbow was on the verge of fainting from the shock she had experienced, as Twilight could see. The adrenaline effect was wearing off, and she wouldn’t be awake much longer. She whispered one sentence.
“She…she did it…” And she fainted.
1 Hour Later…
The ambulances and police had arrived at the scene. Ponies had gathered everywhere, hearing of the shocking news. Fluttershy and Rarity had showed up, hearing of the news of Rainbow Dash’s attack. Twilight was crying uncontrollably, with Applejack trying to calm her down.
“Applejack?” whispered Twilight, “Who would do this? Why would anyone want to hurt her?” Applejack sighed.
“I don’t know. But whoever did it is gonna get a right poundin’!” Rarity and Fluttershy came over to the other two ponies feeling exactly the same way. The paramedics came out of the building with Rainbow Dash’s body on a stretcher. All the ponies were shocked by the sight of her mangled body, some even vomited. Her body was then taken to a hospital nearby where they tried to save her.
The bakery wasn’t approached again that day. No-one went near it, no-one even looked at it. And the same thing plagued everyone’s minds.
“Who did this?”
The Next Day…
Pinkie Pie woke up with a yawn, her eyes still grey from little rest. Her mind had completely forgotten about the horrible events that had occurred yesterday, so wasn’t very awkward. After breakfast, she walked outside to meet up with Twilight. As she got to her house, she looked inside the house to see her telling Spike the whole story.
“…And by the time I got there, her body was covered in blood, but she whispered something when Applejack asked her who did it…” She stopped for a second, looking worried.
“What?” Spike urged her, “What did she say?” Twilight’s lip trembled, her eyes beginning to water.
“She said...she said…’She did it.’” She broke down, her face streaming with tears. Spike put an arm on her shoulder and sat next to her.
“Do you have any idea who could have done this?” he asked. Twilight shook her head. Neither of them had noticed Pinkie standing outside listening. Suddenly the events of the previous day came flooding back into her head. She remembered something that she said to Rainbow Dash. ‘Oh well, I guess the Cupcakes can wait!’ She hadn’t finished the cupcakes. And for Pinkie, nothing went unfinished.
She had to finish them.
In the hospital…
“Is she going to be alright nurse?” said Fluttershy.
“It’s too early to tell. But at the moment, she’s stable. We’ll have to find out tomorrow.” Said the Nurse.
“Girls, be quiet!” ushered Rarity, “She’s waking up!” Rainbow’s vision was blurry at first, but soon she began to recognise the faces of her friends. As her vision grew clearer, she began to recognise the room she was in, the hospital room she was previously in when she broke her wing a few months earlier. Her vision was now fully clear.
“Rainbow Dash! You’re alright!” said Applejack happily as she hugged her. Rainbow Dash couldn’t believe it, she was alive. Her face began to smile for the first time in a while.
“I’m…I’m alive!” she said with joy, the other ponies relieved.
“We thought we’d lost you!” said Twilight.
“But thank Celestia that you’re alive!” Rarity said happily.
“But Rainbow?” asked Fluttershy, “Do you know what happened to you?” Rainbow’s memory was blurred, but she did remember some of what had happened.
“I…I remember being in the basement of the Bakery…” she started. “I…was strapped to a table. But that wasn’t the worst. I remember being tortured…” All the ponies gasped, including the nurse.
“Tortured? Oh, you poor thing!” the nurse exclaimed.
“Who tortured you?” asked Applejack. Rainbow was trying hard to think, everyone could see it. As Rainbow Dash thought harder, more of the memories came flooding back, the screws, the hacksaw, the cleaver, the scalpel, her flesh being cut off, her wings hacked off from her body, the hot screws being hammered into her arms...It was frightening to her. Soon she remembered everything, and went very pale.
“Rainbow Dash?” asked Twilight. “Are you okay?” Rainbow began to shiver, her pulse began to go up. The nurse began to look worried. Her heartbeat scanner measured her pulse, 89bpm, 98, 107, 114, it got higher and higher.
“Quick, get some doctors in here!” the nurse shouted. But suddenly, Rainbow shouted out one word.
“PINKIE!”
Her face was running with sweat, her pupils dilating. The doctors rushed in just in time with chlorophorm and a towel. They dabbed some on a towel and covered her mouth with it. Her breathing suddenly got slower and slower, her pace returning to normal. She fell asleep quickly, her pace now returning to 80bpm. But now the truth was clear. Everyone knew who had done this horrible deed to her.
Pinkie. She had done it.
Everyone couldn’t believe it. Pinkie? Someone as sweet and innocent as Pinkie had horribly mutilated Rainbow Dash?” It felt weird just thinking about it, how their friend had performed this terrible deed.
“Pinkie did it?” Rarity stuttered.
“I don’t believe it.” Twilight said.
“How could the little vermin hurt one of my friends?” stomped Applejack.
“Oh no…” said Fluttershy looking out the window. “It’s her!” she squeaked. All the ponies ran to the window. Pinkie was walking up to the hospital with a mad grin on her face. Her right eye was twitching like mad. Why was she here? Could she be apologising? Or could she be here to finish off her grizzly task?
“I’d like to see my friend, Rainbow Dash?” said Pinkie. The doctor rifled through his forms.
“Yes, third floor, room 23.” Pinkie thanked him and made her way to the elevator. She went up to the third floor and to Room 23. There was a knock on the door.
“Hello? Anybody there?” she asked. Everyone froze, their eyes fixed on the wooden door. They all knew who it was, and they were all mad with her.
“Pinkie?!” Applejack shouted. “Why in tarnation would you do that? WHY DID YOU TRY TO KILL RAINBOW DASH?!” Pinkie merely giggled at her words.
“Oh, silly Applejack. We were just having fun!” It was Twilight’s turn to yell.
“Having fun? YOU CUT OFF HER WINGS AND CUTIE MARK! YOU…YOU MONSTER!” Once again, Pinkie merely giggled.
“Twilight, I was baking, and I needed the Special Ingredient!” All their ears perked up.
“What special ingredient?” asked Rarity.
“The special ingredient was me!” said Rainbow Dash, now awake from the chlorophorm effects. All the ponies gasped in horror.
“Rainbow Dash was the special ingredient?!” Applejack yelled. “You cannibal! You dirty cannibal!” Pinkie giggled once again, it now getting on everyone’s nerves.
“Now Applejack, you know I need ingredients to bake. I’ve been doing this to ponies for ages now! Remember all those times when there were reports of ponies going missing? Well, that was me! I’ve been trying to find the right essence that lives in every pony, but nothing has seemed to work. But Rainbow Dash however, her essence has been the best I’ve found so far. But because of your little interruption, I need to finish the baking now!” Rainbow Dash froze solid. She would have to re-live the horrors she had recently had. She began to cry, softly at first, but was now beginning to cry harder. Fluttershy came at her side and embraced her, calming her down.
“Don’t worry Dash, we won’t let her get to you.” The door suddenly swung open, hitting the wall with a loud bang. Pinkie stood in the doorframe, that awful smile plastered on her face.
“Hi Dash!” she said. “Want to make some cupcakes?”
“NO!” Dash screamed, “GET AWAY FROM ME!” Pinkie laughed, revealing the scalpel she had used to cut her cutie mark off the previous day.
“Now Dash, I need to finish the recipe, you don’t want my customers to go hungry now, do you?” Applejack and Twlght stepped forward boldly.
“If you want her, you’re gonna have to get through me!” shouted Twilight.
“And me!” shouted Applejack. Pinkie smiled that psychopathic smile.
“Well, I guess some APPLE essence could be good for the cupcakes!” Pinkie lashed for Applejack with the scalpel in her hand. She slashed her cheek with a smooth cut, forcing Applejack to the ground. She put her hoof to her cheek. Blood. Now she was mad. Pinkie tasted the blood on her scalpel, making Fluttershy vomit uncontrollably.
“Mmm! Apples!” she said happily. “Go on Applejack, have a taste!” She once again lunged for Applejack, pinning her to the wall. She shoved the scalpel into her mouth, forcing her to lick the blood off it. Applejack spat at pinkie’s face, thus forcing the scalpel out, but cutting her lip. Pinkie gave her a harsh look.
“Hmph! If you didn’t want it, you could’ve said no!” Applejack turned round and kicked Pinkie square in the face, forcing her to tumble back.
“How dare you shove that thing into my mouth!” Applejack yelled with her bloody lip.
“Clear off Pinkie!” Twilight yelled. “I’m not friends with anyone who wants to kill someone for the sake of treats!” Pinkie’s smile faded away.
“Come on guys, all I need is Rainbow Dash’s essence, and then I’ll go away!” The others still didn’t know what this ‘essence’ was. Was it a soul? Or was it their blood? They dreaded to think.
“I still don’t get what this ‘essence’ you’re talking about is Pinkie.” Rainbow said, confused and dazed. Pinkie Pie’s smile re-appeared to the annoyance of the others.
“Oh, you silly filly! You already know what your essence is Dash!” Rainbow Dash was confused now, not knowing at all what it was. Suddenly it all made sense. She now knew perfectly what the essence was. It was…her heart.
“Oh no…” she said, a look of shock on her face. The others turned to her.
“Dash, do you know what this ‘essence’ is?” Twilight asked. Rainbow nodded shakily.
“Yes…I do. It’s…it’s…my…heart!” She said the last word with a whisper, but it was loud enough for all her friends to hear. They all looked at Pinkie, vengeance stuck to their faces.
“Her heart? That’s what you want?” Applejack demanded.
“Yes, that’s right!” Pinkie replied confidently. “Anyway, how long do you think I’ve been doing this? All those cupcakes you’ve eaten in the past, they all had a ponies heart in it! There’s Derpy, Trixie, Colgate, the list goes on!” Everyone gagged and made an ‘Ugh!’ noise. The news they’d just heard was horrible. It was horrible to them…but Pinkie didn’t seem to care?
“You murderous vermin!” Applejack yelled, dealing another kick to Pinkie’s face. Her nose started to bleed again, but she didn’t seem to mind. She just got up and stared the other ponies in the face.
“Guys, just let me finish the job, okay? It’ll be quick, I promise!”
“NO!” Rainbow yelled at her. “I WON’T LET YOU DO THIS! GET AWAY FROM ME!” Her pulse was getting higher again; Fluttershy was trying desperately to calm her down. Pinkie sighed and faced them all.
“Oh well, have it your way then. If I can’t do this the easy way, I’ll have to do it the hard way.” She took the scalpel in her hoof and took aim, and threw it. IT headed straight for Dash’s heart, with such precision. Fluttershy, wanting to defend her friend, did the first thing that came to her mind.
Dash tightened her eyes shut and waited for the final blow.
But it didn’t come.
All that was heard was some quiet whimpering on the floor. Everyone looked down to see what had happened. Fluttershy had leapt in front of the blade and took a wound to the gut. It wasn’t serious, but it was certainly bleeding. Pinkie began bouncing up and down with joy.
“Yay! Forget Dash’s essence, some of Shy’s essence is sure to finish my cupcakes! She took the scalpel out of Fluttershy’s gut and headed for the door.
“You won’t get away with this!” Applejack threatened.
“But I already have!” Pinkie replied. And she was gone. Everyone’s attention now turned to the injured yellow Pegasus, still on the floor. Twilight helped her up and attempted to patch the wound as best she could. It wasn’t easy though. Rainbow found the strength to put a hoof on her shoulder.
“Thank you Fluttershy…” Rainbow said softly. For the first time in a while, Fluttershy smiled.
“It’s better one of us is only hurt, not one of us is killed.” She replied. And for the first time in a while too, Dash also smiled.
Two Weeks Later...
The events from the past two weeks were barely remembered by other ponies. However, like she said, Pinkie had gotten away with what she did. However, after a serious beating from Applejack, she had promised not to do it again, and Applejack promised not to tell the police who did it, but if she did this again, she would tell them.
As for Rainbow Dash, after her friends did a sweep of the basement in which the torture had taken place, they managed to find her severed flesh and wings. Returning to the hospital with them, the Cutie Mark fleshes were easily treated and sewn back on. The wings however, having being severely damaged by the hacksaw, were beyond the hospital’s repair. However, after some serious searching by Spike, Twilight found a repairing spell (Surprise, surprise!) and fixed the broken pieces of the wing’s bones, thus meaning they could be reattached to her body.
After some operating and health check-ups, Rainbow Dash was released from the hospital. Although she was better and well-rested, she was still told to take it easy for a few days. She smiled as she flew gently up to the clouds. The freedom of being able to fly again gave a tingle down her body. She liked it, a lot.
However, her torture and horrible experiences would stay in her mind for good. But with time, and support from her friends, her dark moments would be pushed to the back of her mind, never to be thought of again.
The End
