Diablo III: Fall of Equestria

The guards led Starlight to the outskirts of the city. She couldn’t help but be awed by the crystal mining operation. Deep holes had been opened in the side of a mountain. Long lines of ponies wearing hardhats and carrying shovels and pickaxes trudged into the mines. At the same time, ponies covered in rock dust slowly exited. Large mine carts overflowing with rocks and crystals were pushed into a sorting area and dumped. Other ponies, mostly unicorns, sorted the crystals from the rocks. The crystals were passed on to another area where they were sorted by type and clarity. Only the highest quality crystals were kept for further use.

The guards pushed Starlight to the sorting area where an elderly mare was supervising the operation. Her mane was pulled back in a severe bun and her face had a permanent scowl as she surveyed the workers. She didn’t even turn to look at Starlight. “So. Your name is Pixie Dust,” she said as a statement.

It took a second for Starlight to remember her name, but it wasn’t fast enough for the mare. She carried a riding crop and smacked the ground at Starlight’s hooves. “Too slow!” she shouted.

“Yes, my name is Pixie Dust!” Starlight shouted in surprise and jumped back.

“Wrong!” the mare shouted and slapped the ground again. “You will address me as Ma’am! Is that clear?”

“Yes ma’am,” Starlight replied.

The mare turned toward Starlight with a look of distain on her face. Starlight noticed she wore an eyepatch over her left eye and an angry red scar stretched down her face. “So. You are wondering how this beautiful visage came to be?” she asked.

“Not particularly,” Starlight mumbled.

“Speak up!” the mare shouted, hitting the ground again. “I lost my eye in glorious service to the Empire. It was an honor to do so.” The mare glared at Starlight with her good eye. “You young ponies know nothing of hard work or sacrifice. Everything is given to you on a crystal platter. This makes you soft and weak.” She snorted and turned back to look over the production lines. “No wonder King Sombra was able to retake the throne so easily.”

Starlight forced her rising anger back down. It wouldn’t do her any good to cause a scene. “Since you are late, you will be docked a half day’s pay and you will stay to make up your hours,” the mare said. When Starlight didn’t move, the mare lashed out with her crop, catching Starlight across her forelegs between the knee and fetlocks. “Get to work before you lose all of your pay!”

Unsure of where to go, Starlight ran off and joined the sorting line. No sooner did she sit down when an entire mine cart was dumped in front of her. Her eyes went wide with shock. Apparently she delayed lone enough to warrant a whip crack above her head. Startled out of her daze, Starlight quickly got to work.

As she settled in, Starlight quickly grew bored with her mundane task. She idly thought about Rarity and her gem finding talent, when an idea struck her. She cast a spell over her entire pile, covering it in her light turquoise aura and highlighting the crystals. Starlight pulled them all out in one go. She made sure all of the crystals had been removed before dumping the useless rocks aside.

Before she could feel pleased with herself, another mine cart was dumped in front of her. Starlight frowned and did the same thing. The result was another mine cart. Starlight quickly looked around and saw none of the other unicorns were doing what she was doing. Before she could wonder why, the whip cracked above her head again. She ducked on reflex and heard snickering behind her. Growling with frustration, Starlight went back to work.

She quickly found out why the other unicorns were just picking through their piles. Constantly using so much magic quickly tired her out and made her head start to hurt. Not wanting to endure Magic Exhaustion, Starlight slowed her pace to match the others. The day dragged on, and Starlight found it mind-numbingly boring, which left her a lot of time to think. Unfortunately, her mind focused on what happened with the demon.

Up until now, she and Sunset had been constantly on the move, or planning what to do next, not leaving her much time to herself. It started to catch up with her. Her body grew cold and Starlight shivered. She tried to find anything else to focus on, but it was no use. All of her thoughts circled back to one thing: She was weak. She was worthless. Starlight Glimmer, the mare who pushed Princess Twilight Sparkle to the brink, had become a demon’s play toy. If she were stronger, it wouldn’t have happened. If she were smarter, she would have seen the signs. If she were more powerful, she could have defeated the demon on her own. If she were pure of heart, the demon would never have come after her.

The demon had used her. It put its nasty thing inside her. Starlight wasn’t stupid. She knew how foals were made and used to be interested in the process, from an academic point of view. Remembering the shape and strange stiffness of that thing as it slowly penetrated her most private of places made Starlight want to throw up. The way her body reacted made her feel ashamed and disgusted at the same time. Was there something wrong with her? Was she now damaged in some way? Starlight felt a tingling in her body somewhere below her stomach. Why was her body betraying her like this? What else had the demon done to her? Did this mean she was susceptible to possession again? Deep down, did she secretly desire to be used like that again?

Everything around Starlight faded into the background. Her eyes became unfocused as she slipped further and further down the rabbit hole of darkness. A gentle shaking snapped her back to reality. She looked up and saw a unicorn stallion standing over her, looking very concerned. “Your shift is over,” he said.

Starlight looked down and saw his hoof on her shoulder. A stallion was touching her.

A stallion.

Stallions penetrated mares to make foals.

The demon penetrated her to make a baby.

Stallions and demons penetrated mares.

Stallions were demons.

A demon was touching her.

Starlight’s mind shattered. “GET AWAY FROM ME!” she screamed and fell backwards. All around, ponies stopped what they were doing to stare. The poor stallion recoiled in horror. “I…I’m sorry,” he stammered.

Starlight scrambled to her feet in a wide-eyed frenzy. “Don’t touch me! Get away!” she shrieked. Other ponies moved to help, but this only agitated Starlight further. She looked around, feeling everything closing in around her. They know. They know I had sex with a demon. They’re coming to get me. I have to get away. I have to get away. Ihavetogetawayihavetogetawayihavetogetaway.

Starlight’s horn sparked to life and she teleported away in a flash of light.

Sunset was exhausted. Her legs hurt, her hooves hurt, her back hurt, her horn hurt. Somehow her mane hurt. She slowly waked up the stairs and pushed open the door of the inn. Fortunately, the desk clerk from the morning was nowhere to be found. Sunset didn’t want to deal with him right now. She made it up the stairs to her room. She pulled open the door and was greeted by a wall of steam. The thick moist air brought tears to her eyes and made her cough. Sunset’s horn lit up and a quick whirlwind spell cleared out the room. Now slightly more awake, Sunset cautiously closed and locked the door behind her, and walked inside.

The bag with their snowsuits was sitting on one of the chairs and Starlight’s cloak was thrown on the floor. Sunset picked it up and draped it over a chair. Steam covered the bathroom and slowly seeped out into the rest of the room. Sunset noticed a pile of blankets on Starlight’s bed, but paid it no mind. She poked her head in the bathroom and frowned when she found it empty. Where was Starlight? Clearly she had come back to the room at some point. Sunset then noticed tiny drops of red liquid on the bathroom floor. She bent down to take a closer look and a faint coppery smell filled her nostrils. Sunset quickly recoiled back. Her mind quickly sifted through the information. Starlight missing, steam in the bathroom, drops of blood on the floor. Sunset’s eyes grew wide.

She heard sniffling from the pile of blankets and she dove across the beds. Sunset pulled the blankets back to find Starlight. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying and her damp mane was plastered to her head. Her eyes were glazed over as she stared vacantly into the distance.

Swallowing back her growing dread, Sunset slowly peeled the blankets back and noticed a damp red spot on the bed. Starlight didn’t seem to notice as Sunset gently spread her hind legs and gasped. Starlight’s sensitive nethers had been scrubbed raw to the point of bleeding. Patches of hair were missing from her belly and rump.

Sunset’s heart broke. “Oh Starlight,” she whispered. Tears formed in her eyes and she reached out to her friend.

Starlight snapped out of her daze. “Don’t touch me!” she said and scrambled away from Sunset, and covered herself with the blankets again.

Sunset just sat there hesitantly reaching out. “What do you want me to do?” she asked softly.

“Nothing,” Starlight sniffed in reply.

“I can help you,” Sunset offered.

“How?” Starlight asked. “How can you help me? Nopony knows what it’s like.”

“How would you even know that?” Sunset asked.

“Because this is Equestria!” Starlight shouted. “Ponies don’t get impregnated by monsters. This is the place where Friendship is Magic! Ponies always get along and sing songs about friendship. This is the land of eternal happiness and rainbows!”

Sunset hung her head in shame. “You’re right. I don’t know what it’s like to go through the same trauma as you.” She inched closer to Starlight, who shied away. “But I do know what it feels like to have everyone abandon you, to feel like you are completely alone. But you’re not alone Starlight. I’m here for you, if you let me.”

Starlight balled herself up tighter and began to sob quietly. When Sunset gently peeled the blankets away from Starlight’s face, her hoof brushed her cheek. Sunset’s eyes blazed white with power as her Empathy Touch activated and she saw…

Darkness. Heavy, oppressive darkness weighed down on her like a wet blanket. She shivered from the chill. What was happening? The last thing she knew, she was in Twilight’s study talking to Sunset Shimmer. A sudden loud screeching noise made her wince. Her vision slowly faded in and she found herself in a cave, hovering above an altar. Then she heard it, the sickly sweet whisper that had been plaguing her since Twilight disappeared. It hissed in her ear and the sound sent shivers down her spine. She couldn’t understand what it was saying. Then she saw “it” and she understood.

She had never been intimate with a stallion, it just wasn’t something she was interested in at the moment. It looked just like she thought a stallion’s member would. She tried to struggle, but her legs were held firm in an invisible grasp. The voice continued to whisper and the thing came closer. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wanted to bite, claw, scratch, anything to get away. It was futile. It pressed against her nethers and she almost bit her tongue. She knew what was about to happen, and she would have made a deal with Grogar himself if it meant getting away from this.

It felt cold and slimy, and it stank like rotting flesh. It pressed harder, trying to gain entry. She clenched her muscles until her body shook. It didn’t matter. Something had to give. From a simply biological standpoint, her mare’s body did what it was supposed to do in this situation. Something finally gave and it pushed slowly into her.

She screamed. She screamed until her voice gave out. It didn’t feel good at all. It stretched her out as it slowly pushed farther and farther inside. The cold numbed her belly and groin. The pain, oh gods the pain. If this is how it was supposed to be, she never wanted to do this ever again. How much longer would this last? It felt like she was going to be impaled on this hard thing. It pushed up against her stomach and she wanted to vomit.

It finally stopped pushing, but then it seemed to melt and her womb suddenly expanded. Her vision went white and her mind was overcome by pain. Why was it so painful? Bleary eyed and delirious, she looked down at her bloated belly. Something was forming inside her and it pressed against her, trying to break free. Every movement sent a new wave of agony through her body.

Her entire existence was pain. All she knew was pain.

Starlight screamed and released a blast of magic, throwing Sunset across the room, through the wall and into the bathroom. Starlight continued to scream as she frantically untangled herself from the blankets. She fell off the bed and began crawling across the floor, crying and mumbling intelligibly. Sunset groaned and slowly sat up. Her vision was blurry and she rubbed her head. Sunset winced and her hoof came away bloody. She felt around and gingerly picked the splinters out of her scalp. There was a POOF and a brief flash of light. Sunset let out a pained sigh and lay back. Her face bunched up in anger and she slammed her hoof in the ground. She really needed to get better control of her Empathy Touch. Sunset realized she passed out when she woke to a gentle knocking on the door. Groaning, she got to her hooves and cast a spell to somewhat fix the hole in the wall.

Starlight ran. She had no idea where she was going, but she knew she had to get away. She choked back a sob. Sunset Shimmer. Starlight thought they were friends. Starlight thought she could trust her. Starlight was wrong. Sunset was no different than the demon. Well, she DID turn into a demon before, who’s to say she wasn’t still one? The only difference was the demon violated her physically, while Sunset violated her mentally. Sunset had seen her thoughts, her memories.

So now she knew. To be honest, Sunset was there when it happened, but now she knew what it felt like, all the trauma and anguish she had gone through. Sunset probably hated her now, and thought she was some kind of disgusting freak. Sunset pitied Starlight and Starlight hated it. She didn’t want pity, she wanted to be left alone, and she wanted revenge for what happened. Even that was denied her since Sunset burned it all away with her Starfire spell. Starlight had never seen the Starfire spell before, only briefly read about it in a book. She didn’t think Starfire had the ability to burn the evil and corruption out of a pony. The Starfire flames matched Sunset’s cutie mark, so maybe that had something to do with it?

Starlight continued to run and teleport away. She wanted to get as far away from Sunset and the Crystal Empire as possible. Sunset didn’t need her help. She was a former pupil of Celestia. She could take care of everything herself. Starlight was extra baggage. She only came because she had nothing better to do. What has she done? Nothing but sit around the castle and have a meltdown. She should have gone with Twilight, demanded to go along. Maybe then, a demon wouldn’t have possessed her and used her.

Starlight was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn’t realize she had teleported outside the boundaries of the Crystal Empire. The howling wind tore at her mane and the severe cold bit deeply into her bones. Starlight didn’t care. Numbness seeped into her feet and slowly spread up her legs. Her teeth were chattering so hard, she wondered if any had cracked or broken. Starlight was shivering to the point that walking became difficult. Slowly, the noise faded to a dull roar. Starlight became very sleepy and her body grew heavy. Her legs finally gave out and she collapsed in the snow. Starlight didn’t even find it cold anymore. In the fog of her mind, Starlight knew her feet were probably frostbitten and she was in the latter stages of hypothermia, but she couldn’t bring herself to care. This was her punishment, her karma for her actions.

Starlight closed her eyes and sighed. Was there such a thing as the afterlife? It wasn’t something she had studied, and the princesses never spoke of it. She guessed that when you were an immortal alicorn princess, death wasn’t something you worried about very often. Starlight didn’t care. The snow covered her body, making her body feel strangely warm. Her mind went blank and Starlight floated off into unconsciousness.