Nothing but Darkness and Cupcakes

Steady Beats slowly opens her eyes and sees herself on a concrete floor. She remembered falling asleep at Sugarcube Corner after Pinkie Pie gave her a cupcake, but the floors look different than the ones at the shop. She sat up and looked at her surroundings, seeing that the room looks different as well as being very dark; her eyes was use to dark lighting due to her always trying to hide from her abusive family in hard to reach places, so she knew if she saw any pony in the room or not and luckily she was alone.

After a few minutes, she stands onto her hooves and uses her magic to illuminate the area, seeing what room she was in. The room had different party decorations, but they looked different than normal decorations. She slowly walked closer to a table when her eyes go wide at the sight; 4 different objects looked like skulls, but they looked too real.

After a minute, Steady Beats decides to brighten up her magic to get a better look at the decorations, seeing that they were all actually of different pony parts; organs to look like balloons, party hats made of pony skin, streamers made of intestines, and even a banner that hung was made of skin and had the words “Life is a Party” in blood. She stood and basked in the horror, but weirdly didn’t react like how she thought she would; instead, she kept thinking how it all looked familiar somehow, like how she seemed to see it somewhere.

Suddenly, Steady Beats hears the sound of hooves coming towards the room; instead of being afraid, she decides to calmly sit on the chair beside the horrifying table. Once the lights come one, blinding the mare temporarily, she sees a figure at the door that she definitely now recognize; it was the bright colored mare in the stitched dress, but the mare was in the form of the pink party pony. Along with the stitched dress that showed different cutiemarks, she also saw different colored wings attached to the back as well as a necklace of unicorn horns.

This weirdly didn’t make the blue pony afraid, but somehow…….very excited.

“You’re finally awake SB? You’ve been asleep for 5 days and I never thought you’d wake up!” Pinkie said as she looked in surprise, almost shocked that the unicorn mare was sitting like nothing is wrong.

“5 days huh…….I can’t remember the last time when I actually got some sleep…….Guess whatever was in that cupcake helped me out,” Steady Beats said in her tired tone; she still feels so numb, but it was like a little of herself came back.

“I really wanted to have fun with you SB, but when I went to get you ready, somehow a force field appeared over your whole body like it knew somepony was near.” The party pony said with a pout, looking very disappointed and almost angry at the mare she was staring at; this didn’t even phase Steady Beats as she nodded slowly.

“When I start having nightmares or worries about my safety in my sleep because of my abusive past…..I subconsciously make a barrier that no one could penetrate it and I could attempt to rest easy……..But sadly, it never does help with my sleep, but it does help get my magic stronger.” Steady Beats said as she stood up, making the pink pony look angrier.

“Well it not only ruined my preparation, but you also had me wait 5 days for your stupid butt to wake up!” Pinkie said as she stomped her way inside and walked to a large box, digging around for something; Steady got curious and used her magic to lift the party pony to her, only to see that she’s now holding a butcher knife.

“You look just like a pony I saw in my nightmares that’s been keeping me up for months…….So either you have somehow jumped into my head and decided to do this to scare me……or I’ve seen you like this before and I just forgot.” Steady Beats said, her tone or expression not changing while Pinkie struggled to get free, not close enough for her to slash the blue mare.

“Put me down! You’re ruining everything! I need to make cupcakes!” The party pony screamed as she kept moving around but then freezes at the sight of Steady, whose expression was unchanging still but her eye started twitching.

“Why would you need a butcher knife to make cupcakes Pinkie? And why would I need to be knocked out to do so?” Steady Beats asked in a deep voice, making Pinkie shutter; Pinkie thought to herself how even in her years of doing this, she’s never met anypony who seems so cold and unmoving.

“W-well SB, I-I need a special ingredient and you have it! S-So I need to get it so I can make cupcakes!” Pinkie said in a shaky voice, now stopped all movement, and looked at the mare in her dead eyes.

“………you’re gonna make me into cupcakes Ms. Pinkie?” Steady Beats asked, realizing the reality of what the pink mare’s intentions were but she still wasn’t afraid in the slightest.

“M-maybe…..” Pinkie asked as she still stared, now sweating and really hoping to be let go.

“I see……..it’s just like in my nightmares too…….but…….why am I not afraid? And why am I not running away when I could tie you up?” The mare said to herself as she stared at Pinkie, deep in thought.

“W-well, m-maybe if you put me down, I-I can help you figure that out!” Pinkie said with a kind smile, dropping the knife; Steady looked at her unblinking while still thinking.

“Why should I let you down? You could be lying and try to attack me…..” The blue mare said with her head slightly tilted, still holding Pinkie up with her magic.

“I promise that I won’t attack you Steady Beats! I’ll even Pinkie Pie promise you” Pinkie said frantically as she did the motions for the promise, praying to Celestia that it’ll make her be put down.

Steady Beats took a minute to contemplate whether to let Pinkie Pie down or not when finally she nods and lets the pink pony down, her magic slowly letting up and making Pinkie smile wider.

*Wack*

A sudden jolt threw the pink pony to the wall, knocking the wind out of her and breaking two of the wings on her dress.

*Wack* *Crunch*

A second jolt sent her to the other side, hitting the wall and breaking her nose. Pinkie screamed in pain as she didn’t have enough time to protect her face as the jolt came unexpectedly. After a few seconds, she’s jolted back in front of the blue mare, whose expression was the same but her eyes were filled with malice.

“Did you really think I was going to fucking let you go free? You didn’t think I was going to fucking believe that bullshit and let you possibly take a chance at attacking me? Think again Pinkie Pie……..you’re lucky I didn’t try to fucking break your legs to the point of no return……” Steady Beats said in a low growl, making Pinkie whimper in fear while her nose poured blood.

“B-but I-I Pinkie Pie promised you SB! And I don’t break a promise!” Pinkie said as tears start pouring down her face, trying to stop her nose bleed but also in pain from her nose being broken.

“And I know that’s a load of horseshit…….I bet you said that to so many ponies before you kill them……” The mare said as she stared into Pinkies’ eyes; the pink pony hung her head in disappointment as she was caught in a lie.

Steady Beats stood and thought of what to do with Pinkie pie since letting her go would be suicide. She then saw an upright table with cuffs attached and decided to take advantage of it, pinning the pink pony to the table and locking her into place. Pinkie then starts struggling and trying to find a way to escape.

“You know……I respected you in some way Pinkie……I always wanted your happiness and energy since I haven’t had that in who knows how long……” Steady said in her unchanging voice as she slowly paced in front of Pinkie, who was still struggling.

“What are you going to do to me?” Pinkie shouted in fear, not even making the blue mare flinch.

“Good question…..maybe I could hurt you as you did to all your victims……maybe I could leave you here to be found and may be arrested for what you’ve done……” Steady Beats said as she kept pacing, thinking deeply about what to do.

“Let me go SB…..if you let me go…..I’ll go straight to the police and tell them what I’ve done.” Pinkie said through pain-filled sobs.

“……………….nice try Pinkie,” Steady said as she used magic to pick up the dropped knife, studying it carefully and looking at the blood that was caked onto it; Pinkie sobbed more as she genuinely thought she was going to die.

After a few minutes of staring at both the pink mare and the knife, Steady Beats walks closer to the table and runs a hoof along Pinkie’s left flank, stroking her yellow and blue balloon cutiemark; this made Pinkie whimpers and get very afraid of what might happen. A scream then erupts from the pink mare as the blue mare uses the knife to cut around the cutiemark, cutting deeper than what Pinkie would do to her victims. Once the mark was removed along with a large chunk of meat from her flank, she goes and does the other side without mercy.

After she was done, Steady set the knife and chunks of meat onto the table then looks at the crying party pony. She then looks at Pinkie’s bleeding flanks and stared at the blood that flows down her legs; there was a growing urge to do more with the pink pony, not only to see more blood, but to see more of her suffering.

“Does it hurt Pinkie? Do you now know how your victims feel?” Steady Beats asked with a little bit more life in her voice, which actually surprised herself as well as Pinkie, but it disappeared as soon as it came.

“It burns!!! Make it stop!!!” Pinkie screamed as she squirmed in pain, the cuts burning from the air hitting the wounds, only to be met with the blank stare of the blue mare.

“I bet it does…….” Steady Beats think deeply while staring at the blood. “Why do you make ponies into cupcakes Pinkie? Is it because of taste? Is it to rid of the body so there isn’t any searching?” Steady asked sadly.

“B-both……I d-did it to make the blood and m-meat into cupcakes cause it tasted good, but I-I didn’t realize till later it w-worked as ridding the body…..” Pinkie said in a shaky voice, still crying from the pain; the blue mare nods slowly and sighs deeply.

After a minute of taking in everything, Steady walks to the trunk and looks through the contents.

“You know…….I could use this opportunity to ruin your life and break you where you could never bake or even throw parties ever again……..Tell me why I shouldn’t……” The mare said lowly as she looked back at Pinkie, who now looks panicked and struggling badly to escape.

“Please don’t! I love parties and baking! I don’t want to lose that Steady Beats! I just want to make every pony happy!” The party pony shouted as she kept struggling.

“Then why do you kill the ponies you want to be happy?” Steady said as she stood by the trunk still, not accepting the answer given.

“I-it’s an addiction……..I’m addicted to the cupcakes I make made from ponies…….I just need it and I can’t stop……” Pinkie said as she stopped her struggling and hung her head in shame; Steady nods and sighs in frustration.

“You technically can Pinkie……even if you have to go to jail or face punishment, you could at least try to stop…..and I don’t want any of this addiction is a disease bullshit……that’s just udder garbage to lessen the truth that addiction is chosen…..I won’t say anything about addicted at birth cause I’ll never fully understand that……but you chose to keep this addiction and because of that, ponies are dead…..” Steady said with deep malice in her voice, now showing anger and frightening the pink party pony.

“I……I…..” Pinkie tried to muster a response but ends up looking to the ground since she knows that Steady was right and she did choose to do what she did.

Steady then moves from the trunk and sits down on the chair, deep in thought about something she was considering ever since learning of Pinkie’s identity. After a long while of thinking, while the party pony was whimpering from her legs going numb, Steady stood and walked in front of the upright table.

“I’ve decided on what I’ll do…….I’ll let you go on two conditions…..” The mare said as Pinkie’s eyes go wide.

“W-what conditions?” Pinkie asked, not wanting to ruin her chances.