Equestria's Corrupted Monarch

The room spun as Rainbow Dash opened her eyes. At first all she could see was darkness, but gradually light filled the room. She craned her head around slowly and drowsily. The room was made of cracked cobble and stone, with lanterns hanging from chains on the ceiling. It appeared to be the same size as one of the Royal bedrooms, but definitely no where near as well kept. Water dripped from cracks in the walls and she flicked her ear at the sound of a mouse scurrying about.

She stood up slowly, shaking her head and groaning. Where was every pony? And where was she? The last thing she remembered was...

The box. Twilight. Her friends. Her eyes grew wide in remembrance and she hopped off the ground, speeding around the room to look for an exit with her lithe wings.

She froze midair as a voice cut through the silence of the room.

"Oh Dash, you aren't going to find a way out. I made sure of that." Rainbow turned her head to see Twilight standing in the spot where she had woken up. But this couldn't have been Twilight. Her hair and horn were scorched black on the ends, her coat was a deep purple, and her eyes were a shocking red, full of amusement and malevolence.

Dash's eyebrows furrowed as she slowly came down and landed on the cold floor. "Twi, what happened to you? Why do you look like that?" She snarled, "what did you do to my friends?"

The evil looking alicorn's smile morphed, she looked like someone who was about to tell a bad pun.

"YOUR friends?? You seriously still believe any of them even liked you? My goodness Dash! I knew you're stupid, but I thought you had some sort of idea!"

Twilight burst out laughing, her dark visage making the outburst feel even more terrifying.

The cyan pegasus flinched backwards at this, but quickly recovered and stomped her hooves, "what the hay are you talking about? Of course they like me! I'm Rainbow Dash!" She struck a pose, "we've been friends for years!"

Twilight's laughter stopped and she looked down at the pony before her. "Rainbow, none of them have ever liked you. Not even Scootaloo." Twilight started pacing Rainbow slowly, Rainbow paced with her, determined not to show weakness to this thing that looked like her friend.

"You are infuriating to be around! They all say it. So many ponies feel so bad for lonely little Dash, that we all have pretended for so long to like you! But that pretending is over."

Rainbow spun around as a bright red light gleamed off one of the cobble walls. A hole opened up in the wall and a bunch of ponies walked into the room. She recognized each of her element friends, as well as the wonderbolts and her parents.
Rainbow Dash panicked and zipped towards them, "Wait! No guys get out, shes crazy! She's gonna hurt you!"

As the last pony, Scootaloo, walked in, the magic hole vanished and Rainbow slammed into the wall.

The loyal pegasus hopped in front the group and faced Twilight. She snorted and scraped her hoof on the floor like a bull set to charge.

Twilight merely looked at the assembled ponies behind her knowingly. Dash turned her head and saw them each giving Twilight the same look back. This caused the pegasus to stutter.

"Wh-whats going on here? Why're you looking at her like that? Didnt you hear me? She's foalnapped me and now she's got you guys too!"

Spitfire rolled her eyes and groaned in annoyance, cutting off Rainbow before she could say more, "Stars above Rainbow! You can't be serious! You still don't get it? We are all here because we are tired of you!" The captain of the Wonderbolts approached her fellow flyer, "You love to fly around acting all high and mighty. Acting like you own the skies, like you're better than us! Well you aren't. And it's time you finally know it." Rainbow opened her mouth to respond but was met with a hoof to the jaw, knocking her head backwards and throwing her off balance.

Soarin snorted in amusement from right behind Spitfire, who smiled confidently.

Rainbow put a hoof to her chin, beads of blood dripped from where her front teeth were loosened by the blow. "I... I dont understand..." she mewled quietly.

Twilight came up behind her and dipped her head to talk into Rainbow's ear. "We are all sick of you, and have decided that the rest of Equestria would be better off without your terrible influence, your selfish acts, and your Tartarus-awful attitude."
Soarin approached next and balled his hoof up to take a swing. Rainbow lifted her hooves to block her face, but Soarin swung at her stomach.

"No! No that's not true! All my friends love me! This can't be right!" Rainbow yowled before getting the sock to her stomach. She doubled over and fell on her side, clutching her battered insides.

Rainbows mother, Windy Whistles, approached her daughter, her face was cold and unwelcoming. Rainbow opened one eye and looked up pleadingly at her mother, silently begging for her to say it wasn't true. Windy sighed heavily. "Rainbow I wish I could say I'm sorry, but you've been the worst daughter I could have hoped for." She lifted her blue hoof and swung is full force against Rainbow's ribs, causing the assaulted pegasus to cough violently, her eyes bulging form her skull and blood flying from her mouth. "You're the biggest disappointment I've ever seen! A complete embarrassment to me and your father." The older mare leaned her mouth down to Rainbow's ear. "Your father cries himself to sleep every night, just thinking about how useless you grew up to be. To be honest, I'm glad he didn't do this sooner."

"Sto-stop! Pl-ea-ease!" Was all the battered pegasus could get out before her father joined in and stomped his two front hooves heavily onto her chest. She squealed pitifully as the sickening crack of ribs rang out around the room.

Rainbow flailed her hooves around wildly, trying to get a grip on the floor to pull herself away from the onslaught. But she screamed as her front hooves were stomped on by Applejack and Rarity, each looking down at her with mixed disgust and amusement.

Applejack laughed a little and looked at Rarity. "Ah can't believe we are finally getting rid of this hay brained freak! I've been waiting for this day for years!"

Rarity smiled back at her before lifting her body and shoving her weight back onto the damaged front hooves, another crack and another scream from the pegasus. "Oh yes, this is far overdue. This braindead feather-head should have been snuffed years ago."

Rainbow's bloodshot eyes were filled with tears. She pulled back her deformed hooves and shoved them over her ears, "it's not true! It's not true! You're lying! Why are you doing this? I love you all!" Blood specks and saliva flew from her maw as she screamed to the open air.

Fluttershy grabbed one of Rainbow's broken hooves and pulled it back to the ground. Pinkie grabbed the other and did the same, giggling in her typical Pinkie way. The cyan mare was now on her back with her wings splayed to the side. She couldn't believe she was being pinned down by the ponies she would have risked her life for, too weak to escape. And still somehow not wanting to hurt them despite what they had done to her.

So far Scootaloo had stayed near the back, watching with an unreadable expression. She pushed through the crowd and approached her mentor, and Rainbow felt a glimmer of hope. Her teary eyes looked hopefully at the filly she loved like a sister, and as she panted she managed to get a smile on her bloody face.

"Squirt! What's wrong with everyone? I know they... they can't hate me, right? Not all this time, after all we have been through..." The sentence was full of voice cracks and wheezing, breathing being incredibly painful for the damaged mare.

Scootaloo approached her side, and gave Rainbow a vengeful smile before rearing up and forcing all of her weight down on Dash's right wing. Rainbow squealed anew as her instrument of flight was damaged. The purple filly smooshed her hoof around the wing as spat at Rainbow Dash. "I used to look up to you, but you've become so annoying and full of yourself. The other crusaders are always reminding me of just how embarrassing it was when I basically worshipped you. I can't believe I ever thought you would be worth my praise." Scootaloo kept rearing up and slamming down, cracking and crumbling each bone within. She smothered her weight around the flat, sensitive surface, causing rips in tears in the flesh that bled and soaked her blue feathers.

Each new movement brought a new scream from Rainbow as she threw her head from side to side, trying to shake off her friends. She kicked her back legs wildly, but all that did was attract the attention of the other attendees.

Rainbow's dad slammed himself onto her back legs as she struggled, causing them to pop and crack. Bones disconnect from sinew and muscle as the assault went on and on. Applejack came up to her face and smashed her hoof into the poor mare's nose, eyes, and jaw over and over again. Crack after crack of broken bone ruining the pegasus's face and causing it to swell grotesquely.

Scootaloo let out a howl of triumph as Rainbow's wing tore from her back. A sickening tear disconnected the bones and flesh from her body and a river of blood followed it off.

Rainbow let out a weak, gravelly squeal as the mass of feathers and flesh ripped off and the nerves disconnected, never to feel her wing again.

Everyone in the room except for Rainbow let out a cheer, high hoofing and laughing with joy. Rainbow's wide red eyes focused on each of them as her weak body shook with pain and shock, her chest and stomach hot from internal bleeding. Her hooves were bent and bleeding, bone stuck out at the knee joints. Even if Rainbow were able to escape, she would never walk again.

But that wasn't the worst of it. Her shaky head turned to the side slowly to view her destroyed wing. The end that stuck to her back had bone sticking from it, and bone shards stuck through the skin all over. Pieces of skin and muscle splattered the floor around it, having been ripped from the wing as Scootaloo had danced on it.

The weak pegasus saw this and screamed again, as if all her energy had returned for one last wail of agony. She would never fly again either. She would be bed ridden, never to feel the wind in her face or the freedom of being high above the clouds. She wouldn't even have any visitors to spend the time with. Everyone hated her. Hated her so much that they were maiming her, destroying her, and laughing about it as they did so. She would be broken, bedridden and alone for the rest if her life.

Her tears returned anew as she squeezed her eyes shut and ground her few remaining teeth, "JUST KILL ME ALREADY! GET IT OVER WITH!" She wheezed in agony and anger as flecks of foam and blood sprayed from her nearly-toothless mouth. "GET ME OFF THIS PLANET! EVERYPONY HATES ME SO MUCH, JUST BUCKING KILL ME!"

Twilight smiled at the sight. One of the proudest mares she had ever know, reduced to a mushy pile of skin, blood, and broken bones. She was horribly discolored, much of her body ripe with purple bruises and broken blood vessels. She trembled in agony, her body refusing to pass out due to the adrenaline.

She was sobbing and screaming like a filly having a tantrum, every fiber of her being lit up in a fire of pain.
The purple alicorn's horn glowed bright red, and each of Rainbow's limbs glowed the same red. The once proud pegasus opened her mouth in one last silent scream before each of her appendages twisted slowly. More bones jut out, more blood squinted from the wounds, and the horrible sounds of tearing flesh filled Twilight's power-hungry ears. Finally, each limb tore from her body with a squelch and her poor body was flooded with her own blood.

Rainbow's beautiful maroon eyes started to glaze over, and each wheezing breath was agony as her body tried to fight the insane blood loss. She cast her weak eyes over each pony who had aided in her suffering, a sad betrayed look graced each of them before finally landing on Twilight as Rainbow Dash took her last breath and fell still.
•••
Twilight's ethereal hair flowed around her as she kept her satisfied eyes on the corpse of one of her best and most loyal friends. She knew exploiting a ponies weakness would be fun, but she had no idea just how powerful it would make her feel.

Dash's fear of being disliked was obvious to someone like Twilight. It was obvious in every trick she did, every word of self-gratification, the poor mare was incredibly self concious. She had always worried that ponies secretly disliked her, so the quick pegasus made up for that by making herself into someone that others would have to like.

But, in the blue mare's mind, she had failed. Rainbow Dash died believing that everyone she loved and cared for hated her. And Twilight figured that that had been far more painful that each and every broken bone.

Of course every word spoken to her tonight had been false. All thanks to a mind control spell that Twilight had cast on each of Dash's favorite ponies in the world.

The ponies she had gathered to beat the cyan pegasus to death stared at her with glazed over eyes and mouths wide open like zombies. With their task being complete, Twilight's mind control spell sent them back into a state of hypnosis, awaiting their next order.

Twilight spoke to those who weren't her next targets. The rest of the elements were going to stay here. "Return to your homes and forget tonight ever happened. End the mind control spell once you reach your bed."

They each responded with a creepy synchronized "Yes my Queen" before marching back out the magic door that reappeared on the wall.

The rest of the Element bearers sat waiting for their orders, unable to break the spell. Twilight wondered who should be next...
•••
Spitfire awoke in her bed with a headache. She rolled over in her bed to see Soarin under the sheets still snoring, an empty rum bottle pushed against his back.

Spitfire smirked. She couldn't remember what happened last night, but she was sure they had both had fun.