Pony Royale
A grimdark/crossover written by Filleg. Proof-reading and editing by Brollyhero93.
It was as usual, a warm and sunny day. Birds have been tweeting, the fillies had been playing, and everything was right with the world. But things were about to change, something that nopony could ever imagine was in the making. Derpy Hooves had received an important mail order from her princess. Ten scrolls with the royal seal, bounding them all, one of which was for Derpy herself. She quickly delivered the rest of the scrolls. They all received the scrolls from Princess Celestia within minutes; Twilight with her friends, Lyra, Bon Bon, Derpy Hooves, and of course Dr. Whooves. The scroll kept an invitation, which said that Celestia requested them, to attend to a very important meeting. Obedient as they all were, they all went. They were also very excited, because a meeting with the princess was always a great honor.
The meeting was private, and only for the ten of them, plus the princess of course. The meeting took place in the old castle of the divine sisters. It had been tidied up since Nightmare Moon had been defeated here, but it still looked rather spooky. They were quite surprised that Celestia had chosen this location for their meeting, but who are they to question their Goddess? Everypony had walked there as a group, they were after all, great friends. They all entered simultaneously.
As soon as they all stood in the middle of the room, the lights went out and the entrance was closed shut. A small light glowed. The light grew brighter, and soon, Princess Celestia was illuminated from the shadows.
All Twilight could say was: “Princess Celestia, what's the meaning of this? What are you doing?”
The princess just grinned, and the light from her horn got stronger and stronger until a flash appeared. This caused everypony to pass out. She then brought back the light and opened the door. Three Diamond Dogs entered the building and grabbed all the ponies, and threw them into bags.
The princess watched as the Diamond Dogs ran back out of the building, now with bags full of ponies. She looked pleased and still kept that sick grin. She then teleported out of the castle, to an unknown location.
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“Ow... My head” Rainbow Dash mumbled. Her sight cleared. She noticed that she was sitting by a school bench, and so were everypony else.
Princess Celestia had a peaceful, but yet disturbing smile as she looked up from her book. “Hello, my dear subjects. Glad to see you awake.”
“What the hay is goin' on here?!” Screamed Applejack, eagerly watching her surroundings, seeing several of those filthy Diamond Dogs, packing various firearms.
“Let me just cut to the chase.” Celestia began. “Equestria is in a big financial crisis. Apples and friendship just isn't as requested on the market as before.” She said with a laugh. “So, I have made a deal with the dragons of Equestria... They will pay good money to watch some... Special, entertainment.” She wore that same despicable grin as before.
This made Fluttershy cry like she's never done before, and made Rainbow scared for the first time in a long, long time, though she didn't show it.
Even though terrified, Rainbow said: “What in Celes... Um, Luna's name are you talking about?! Why are we here?”
“You're all here because you are the special entertainment.” Celestia answered calmly.
“You will never get away with this!” Said Dr. Whooves.
“Oh, you couldn't be more wrong my dear doctor.” She began. “This will only be aired for dragons, so nopony will ever find out about this. All that will happen is that ponies after ponies will be brought into this project, after you've done with each other.”
“What... What do you mean princess?” Twilight sobbed.
“You're all going to kill each other. The last one alive will get his or her freedom.” She replied to her most prized pupil.
This made Rainbow Dash furious! “What makes you think we would do such a thing?!”
“Oh, haven't you noticed? You really need to pay more attention to your body. Take a look and see if you can figure out why you will do as I say.”
Rarity looked at her hooves for the first time since this “meeting” started. “Aren’t these horse shoes?” She asked. “But they seem to have mechanical stuff in them. And a light”
“Very good Rarity!” The princess praised. “Now, these are the latest in 'manner control'. And you'll be the first ones to test them! Isn't it exciting? But of course, we must try them right away, so that we know for sure that they work. And to demonstrate to you all how they work, Gentledogs, please.”
One of the Diamond Dogs pulled up a laptop and plugged it into a projector. What was seen on the screen was poor Big Macintosh, trapped in a cage. You could see that he was very frightened and tense. You could also see that he had the same horse shoes that everypony else had.
Celestia nodded to the Diamond Dog and he typed something on the laptop.
Suddenly, the horse shoes on Big Mac started to blink, and the inter walls between the blinks became shorter by time.
“What the hay... Big Macintosh! What are you doing to him?” Screamed Applejack.
“He-He, just you wait Applejack.” The princess said with a sly grin.
The beeping soon got up in several beeps per second. Now it's really fast, like a drum roll. Big Mac screamed, you could see that, but there was no sound on the video stream, so nopony could hear him.
The horse shoes were practically glowing at this point, Big Mac’s eyes were full of intense fear, and then it happened. The thing that everypony feared.
They exploded. There was no trace left of the huge pony Big Mac. He was all gone. All that was left was blood.
“NOOOOOOOOOOO! You bastard!” Applejack screamed, with tears in her eyes, and vomit in her mouth.
Fluttershy lost consciousness and hit the floor. Panic broke out among the ponies.
“Ha-Ha, good! Now we know that it works, and that it will be super effective. Alright, are you all done with your whining?”
The room went quieter, after one of the dogs flashed his weapon.
“Good.” The princess continued. “Let me explain to you the rules. Here is a map of the island that we are currently located on. (It was shown on the screen) It is divided into equal squares or zones. Each zone is marked out by numbers and letters in a coordinate system. Every two hours, a speaker will tell you which zones are death zones. If you are occupied in one of the death zones for more than 10 seconds, the timer on your horse shoes will start and you will surely die when the ticker is up on them. Just like our good friend Big Mac recently demonstrated for us.”
Everypony took a good look at her, full of hatred and a thirst for vengeance, but they also listened carefully. They all started to see the seriousness of the situation.
“We have drawn your names to pick the order of who shall gallop out of here first to last. You will all be given a saddle bag, each of them includes: water, a compass and a map, the map is just like this one on the screen. You will also get a weapon each. The weapon can be mainly anything from guns to... Well, you'll find out. Ha-Ha.”
“Oh, and if you try to leave the island, we will detonate your horse shoes, we are constantly tracking your every move. And if four hours pass without a kill, everypony dies. And if there is no winner after two days has passed, everypony dies.”
Pinkie could feel her heart turn into stone. Why bother being happy? Everything she's ever known was false. There was no happiness. Our Goddess is a tyrant, a sick meanie mean pants! Her hair flattened out.
And poor Twilight... She's spent all her life believing in her precious, beautiful princess. And it was all... A lie. That... Celestia, her best friend and idol, could ever do such a thing was just unimaginable. She couldn’t muster a word.
“Alrighty! Let's get to it, shall we?” Celestia said in a happy tune.
A Diamond Dog brought in a shelf on wheels that was full of military saddle bags.
“No... NO! I will not let you do this!” Screamed AJ, still furious about her brother. She charged towards Celestia for the kill. She was out of her mind, she didn't think, she just acted.
It happened really fast. She was already just a few feet away from the princess. But the princess did something that Applejack didn't count on. She bent her head and impaled the poor earth pony in the heart, killing her instantly.
She swung her head to shake the dead pony off from her now bloody horn.
“What a pathetic display. I thought you'd last longer than that, Applejack.” The Goddess said.
“NOOOO! DAMNIT! NOOO! Rainbow Dash cried. She wanted to storm her too, just like her brave friend AJ did, but she realized that all that it would do, would be that she would share the same fate AJ did. She just put her head against the bench and cried.
“Alright, so no more outbursts? Good!” The princess was screaming at this point, but she soon got calmer.
“Let's get this show on the road. When I call your name, GO!”
“Number one... Derpy Hooves!”
Derpy rose and took a last look at her friends. Twilight noticed she had a strange look on her face, other than her wall-eyed expression of course. It wasn't a look that said something like: “It's ok, we'll get out of this mess!“, but more of a: “I'm not dying for you...“ kind of look.
“Derpy...” Twilight said in a soft and concerned voice.
Derpy ran past everypony and quickly grabbed a saddle bag, and hardly put it on before bursting out through the door.
“The second pony is... Fluttershy!”
Fluttershy was hardly awake from all the exhaustion. She met Celestia’s eyes, Celestia made a confirming nod. Fluttershy gulped and took a look around. She saw her very best friends and began to cry again. She had also soiled herself all over the school bench.
One of the dogs yelled at her to come up, and she eventually did. She grabbed a saddle bag and put it on. She made a silent squeak and walked out through the door.
“God that took long... Anyhow! Let's see... Bon Bon, you're up! Number three.”
Bon Bon hugged her best friend Lyra before leaving. She took a good look at the saddle bags before deciding which one to take. She picked a lucrative looking one and ran out through the door.
“Number four.. Oh, silly me, that's Applejack. Let's move along then.”
“Next is Pinkie Pie, number five.”
Pinkie gave Twilight a reassuring look: “We'll meet up soon.”
She trotted to the bags and just grabbed one and left the room.
“Now we have... Lyra! Number six. Go and meet up with your friend. He-He...You still think she cares for you under these circumstances? You sad little foal!”
Lyra held back the tears enough as to, not show them that she was about to cry. Then obeyed, took her bag and ran out looking for her best friend. She knew that she would never forsake her.
“Number seven... Rainbow Dash, you're up!”
Rainbow looked up from her bench, still sobbing. She stood up and ran, she couldn't face her friends. She forgot to bring her saddle bag, a Diamond Dog reminded her with a fist to the face. She then took one and went outside.
“Rarity. Please choose your saddle bag. You're number eight”
Rarity tried to hold her tears back, but was unable too. She hardly even dared to walk past Celestia, whose horn was still dripping with Applejack‘s blood. AJ’s body was still lying there, all torn up and bloody. But she managed and quickly grabbed one of the saddle bags, and exited.
A faint scream was heard, but nopony made a remark about it. Celestia seemed eager to get the rest of the ponies out.
“Now it's my very own prized student, Miss Twilight Sparkle. You're number nine” The princess exclaimed.
Twilight had the hardest time to walk up to the princess. Her relationship with her had been so good... How could she have never seen that she was capable of such a horrible thing as in making ponies kill each other for her own amusement?
“Why are you giving me that look Twilight? I already explained to you why I do this. It's what's best for everypony.” The princess said.
“You know that this is messed up, this is not what any sane pony would ever do. You don't have to do this.” Twilight answered.
“You're right, but this will amuse me more than anything else. I guess that's one thing that the dragons and I have in common. Ha-Ha.”
“I swear... I will kill you for this.”
“Ha-Ha, how cute. Now then, run out there and win if you want to survive.”
The princess was smiling.
Twilight took one of the three bags left and leaved.
“Alright, now we only have Dr. Whooves left to go. You're our final number ten”
Dr. Whooves took a bag and told the princess in a dark and nerve-wrecking voice: “I'll get you bitch.”
Princess Celestia did not reply. There was something about him that she just couldn't figure out, so she decided to keep her mouth shut.
After the brown time traveling pony left the room, Celestia asked the laptop: “There we go, you saw all that?” The laptop replied: “Yes. And here are our bets.” The princess replied: “Great! Now let's watch what they're up to. I thought I heard somepony scream before, we'll have to look at the replay.”
“He-He. We've already seen it. It was awesome. It upset Spike though” The laptop replied in a based tone.
“Oh you guys! No spoilers. Ha-Ha.” Come on dogs, let's hit the break room.
Celestia’s heart was full of anticipation, and her horn was soaked in blood.
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Number/Pony
1 Derpy Hooves [ALIVE]
2 Fluttershy [ALIVE]
3 Bon Bon [ALIVE]
4 Applejack [DEAD]
5 Pinkie Pie [ALIVE]
6 Lyra [ALIVE]
7 Rainbow Dash [ALIVE]
8 Rarity [ALIVE]
9 Twilight Sparkle [ALIVE]
10 Dr. Whooves [ALIVE]
Pony Royale
Pony Royale Chapter two
A grimdark/crossover written by Filleg. Proof-reading and editing by Brollyhero93.
[WARNING. This chapter is bloodier than the first one, but there's also some comedy that I just couldn't avoid putting in there, so it level‘s out. :) There might also be some plot holes (Ha!) because there's like 4 months of space between the chapters, and there's some things in chapter one that I cannot stay true to. Or something. I don't know. Most of this was written in October or something. Enjoy!
Twilight thought back. Back to when life seemed to make sense, back when her whole world still was solid. She could hardly manage to.
"How could she do such a thing? What sort of monster has the most powerful pony become?"
She thought this to herself, whilst walking through the corridor, that's adjacent to the outside. She heard Celestia calling up Dr. Whooves. She then opened the door and saw a terrifying sight.
“S-Stand back! You heard the Princess! Only one pony can live, and I... I DON'T WANT TO DIE!” Screamed the panicked Rainbow Dash.
She was aiming a crossbow against a panicked Rarity, who in turn held a spoon.
“A SPOON? What is your problem Celestia? Do you think this is funny? Rainbow Dash is going to kill me and I get a spoon to defend myself with?”
Rarity was frantically crying, holding the spoon in the best defensive position she could manage.
“Rainbow! What are you doing? Don't you believe that we can fix this? Like how we got that Dragon to move or how we got rid of the Parasprites, or how we stopped freaking Discord!” Twilight screamed.
Rainbow Dash was rapidly altering focus from Rarity to Twilight. She was crying too.
“Shut up Twilight! Why are you so stupid? Don't you see that there's no way out?”
Rarity took her chance and ran towards Rainbow Dash, with the spoon raised and ready.
Rainbow quickly reacted and pulled the trigger. The arrow traveled through Rarity's throat. Rarity let out a muffled but yet powerful scream, before hitting the ground.
“NOOOOO! What have you done?!” Twilight screamed
“Wha-what have I done... I... NO! I wanted this! I need to kill all of you, so that I can get my life back. I want to work on the weather patrol like I always do. I want to live in my cloud home in Ponyville! I wanna... LIVE!”
Rainbow aimed the crossbow at Twilight, ready to shoot her. Twilight just closed her eyes because she knew that there wasn't any time to react.
But then she heard a shot. She opened her eyes and saw that Rainbow had blood all over her face as she fell to the ground with a tump. She then noticed Dr. Whooves. He had saved her.
While Whooves reloaded his shotgun, Rainbow Dash stood up. She was alive! She grinned at the pair like a mad-mare and threw herself into the jungle.
“That was a close one” Whooves said.
Twilight was just about to thank him for saving her life, but suddenly, they heard Rarity trying to talk
“Twi...” Rarity spoke in a soft and barely audible voice.
“Don't try to talk Rarity... You'll be fine!” Twilight bit her lip after she said that. She noticed the gaping hole in her throat that the crossbow arrow left.
“I'm not gonna make it, am I?” Rarity cried. Somehow being able to speak with her throat all tore up.
Twilight and Whooves looked at each other with concern.
“No, you won’t.” The Doctor said as he pointed his shotgun to the suffering unicorns head and pulled the trigger.
Rarity then was relieved from her pain as her beautiful white coat got colored red in her own blood.
Twilight gasped, but she quickly realized that it was best for her friend, and she's glad that Whooves did it, because she would never be able to muster it. She embraced him in a hug, sobbing against his shoulder.
“We better leave now. Who knows if any more ponies are playing the game?” Whooves said.
“No, wait.” Twilight objected as she pulled away from the hug. “We gotta bury Rarity first!” Twilight protested.
Whooves reluctantly agreed and they then proceeded to bury the white unicorn.
[2 PONIES DEAD- - -8 REMANING]
“Alright. I am still quite in shock from all this. There's actually some of our friends who really are playing this sick game?” The purple mare asked the brown colt.
“Yes. I have been keeping an eye on Celestia for the last year. She was acting odd already, and this didn't really come as a shock. It is true that Equestria is in a financial crisis, but the normal Celestia would never do this to counter a recess. Something has corrupted her. Anyhow, what we should do now is to find out which our allies are, and which ponies are playing… I trust you Twilight, I have been keeping an eye on you as well, you are after all Celestia's protégé, but I know that you can be trusted in this. Don't ask me why I have kept an eye on you by the way..”
Twilight needed some time to process all this. She finally said:
“Uh, alright, sure. So what's the plan?”
“We'll stay stealthy and confront ponies that we see that we can trust. Remember that some of your closest friends are playing, so never assume they aren't going to kill you.”
The doctor tried to give a calming smile to Twilight, and she repaid it.
Fluttershy was hiding under a table in an old shed. Even though she had emptied her bladder recently in the classroom, she managed to do it once again now.
She was cuddled up against the wall, holding her weapon high, it was an Uzi. She was panting frantically, wishing for home more than anything else, when suddenly, the door opened.
“Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!” Fluttershy exclaimed as silently as she could, whilst tears fell down from her cheeks. Why couldn't ponies just stay out of her shed?
She saw two pairs of legs right in front of her. The pony stood perfectly still for almost a minute until the dark figure bent down and presented its face.
“Eeeep!"
… Derpy, is that you?”
Derpy moved closer to Fluttershy. She saw the terror and shock in the poor wall eyed mare's eyes. It was clear to Fluttershy that she was really frightened and lost.
“Don't worry Derpy! I'll help you. We'll survive this!” Fluttershy embraced her in a hug to comfort her.
The two ponies hugged for minutes, since Derpy just wouldn't let go. Fluttershy started to get a little scared by this. Unbeknownst to Fluttershy Derpy slowly moved for her saddle bag and opened it. She grabbed a shiny object out from her bag and slowly moved it behind Fluttershy's neck.
Derpy then released the hug and met Fluttershy's eyes. Derpy's lips slowly formed a smile.
Fluttershy looked really confused; she then felt a sharp object starting to drive through her neck.
She tried to scream, but the scythe had already separated her head from her neck.
A gush of blood streamed out from the yellow pegasus's neck as the body collapsed onto the ground.
Derpy got covered in it all of course, but she didn't mind. She took the Uzi that was lying under Fluttershy's body and planted it in her saddlebag. She stood up and licked her lips while exiting the shed.
[3 PONIES DEAD- - -7 REMANING]
Bon Bon had been hiding in some shrubs as soon as she had been “excused” from the classroom. She had checked what kind of weapon she had gotten. It was a water gun. She'd have to load it with the water in the water bottle she got with her though.
She had been lying perfectly still in the bushes, in case somepony who might have a hostile attitude would walk by. She was holding a firm grip of the water gun, hoping to make any possible attacker’s believe that it's a real gun, in case of an attack.
But then she heard Lyra's voice: “Bon Bon! Where are you?”, she was sobbing with tears falling from her cheeks. Bon Bon sprinted towards Lyra and embraced her in a soothing hug.
“Heh... What do you got there, Bon?” Lyra asked.
“Oh, it's just a... water pistol... Yeah. My awesome weapon of carnage is a water gun, and it's not even loaded! Ha-Ha!”
The friends were laughing and had almost forgotten the serious pickle they were in.
“So what do you got?” Bon Bon said smiling.
“Oh right. I haven't checked it yet.”
Lyra stirred around in the saddle bag, and eventually pulled out a megaphone.
“Ha-Ha! At least we can get all the rampaging ponies who want to kill us to notice us.” Lyra said while examining the device closer.
“Wait... That's it! Lyra, you're a genius!”
“Huh? I am?”
“Yes! We could... Get all the ponies to us, and nopony would kill anypony if all are at the same place. And then we could make a plan to escape from the game!”
“I'm not sure that's a good idea Bonny, we don't know these ponies that much; we don't know if they'll turn against us. I couldn't live with myself if something happened to you...”
“Awww, honey... But trust me on this. We got to keep on believing in the goodness of other ponies. I'm sure that it will work out just perfect!” Bon Bon gave Lyra a wink.
“Alright, let's do it! But we need a good open space for everypony to meet.”
“Let's go find it the...”
Bon Bon was interrupted by a loud voice that said:
“Good day my little ponies. So glad to see that some of you like to play. Here are the deaths up until now: Applejack. Well. You all know that, but we try to stay formal here. Second is Rarity. She had a rather unpleasant death as well. And the final pony is Fluttershy. Let's just say that she's “on a roll” Ha-Ha! Anyhow. This is the current death zone: B... 3! So please, stay out of there if you don't want to be blown into tiny pieces. That was all, Celestia out!”
Lyra's and Bon Bon's eyes met.
Bon Bon quickly pulled out the map, trying to figure out if they were safe.
“It's okay hun. We're not even close to the death zone. But let's go and find a good place to rally everypony up!
Rainbow was tired of running. She's been running more than she's used to. She had to run, because Celestia had apparently paralyzed her wing muscles, and she was grateful that she did only that, and not chop them clean off or anything. All that was on Rainbow's mind was killing. She needed to kill to get her life back. She could picture herself flying around in Ponyville, doing all sorts of amazing stunts! But none of her friends were in her vision. They had to die for it to come true.
She knew about Rarity before the announcement that was about 45 minutes ago, of course, but it was good for her to know that Fluttershy was gone too. Not that she could be much of an obstacle, but the fewer, the better.
Her head was full of thoughts, she wanted to try and keep it that way, because her face hurt like hell! The blood over her face had coagulated, and it had a strange blackish red finish to it, and Rainbow looked more like a zombie pony then a living one. She didn't care though, and the pain just fueled her lust of blood even more. She hated everything, she wanted to kill everypony.
However, Rainbow Dash had seen a grayish figure in the vast distance. It must have been Derpy!
“That feather brain will go down easy!” Rainbow whispered to herself, smiling, whilst doing so. She ran towards Derpy while being practically stealthy.
Rainbow came to a stop when she saw the door of a small house close.
“Derpy must be in there.” Rainbow thought. She readied her crossbow, aiming it at the door.
“...”
She had been on standby for several minutes. Was Derpy gonna stay inside?
“Well, it might as well be easier then.” She thought.
She slid down the hill and trotted carefully towards the structure. Carefully opening the door and stormed inside.
It was only one room and there was nopony there. Rainbow was confused. She could have sworn that Derpy was in here.
Before she could react, she could hear the door behind her closing and getting locked.
Rainbow threw herself at the door, trying to get it to open, without any results. She looked out through the small window in the door. She then saw Derpy!
The wall-eyed pony just sat there on the grass, minding her own business. She seemed to be waiting for something...
Rainbow Dash was outraged!
“Get me out of here you foal! I'll kill you!” She was hitting as hard as she could on the door, but still, no effect.
She looked back onto Derpy. She was as blood covered as Rainbow, but she didn't look hurt.
“She must have been the one who killed Fluttershy then.” Upon realizing this, Derpy just got about 20 % more hazardous in Rainbow Dash's eyes. She was wondering what she might be planning, since she's just standing there. But she didn't have to think for too long.
“Hello again my little ponies! Why do you hate me so much? It seems as if you are trying to avoid each other? How can we get any progress with that attitude? So straighten up! Let's get the killings rolling shall we? Alright. Here's the new death zone: D 4. Don't disappoint me anymore ponies... Celestia out!
Derpy coughed to get Rainbow's attention. She watched as the blond mare unrolled the map, and came closer to the window with it.
Rainbow panicked! She was in the freaking death zone!
She looked in Derpy's eyes, full of pleading. Derpy just smiled and said:
“Goodbye my muffin!” And she started to walk away.
Rainbow collapsed onto the floor, it was too much for her.
Suddenly, her horse shoes started to blink and beep. Rainbow got horrified and tried her best to get them off of her.
She bit around her hoof, trying to get the metal straps loose. Her pain was intense, but she would do anything to get out of them.
Soon enough, the beeping had doubled in speed, and Rainbow was still gnawing on her hoof frantically.
Her tears streamed out as she thought about when Big Macintosh died the same way that Rainbow was destined to.
As she gnawed, she managed to get one hoof free! However, it was severely damaged. She'd never be able to walk on that hoof ever again...
She kicked the disassembled horse shoe away as far as she could. In unimaginable pain, she started to work on another hoof, but if she'd gnaw on herself any more, she'd pass out from the pain.
Eventually, she gave up. She lay down, and then started to regret all that she had done. She wanted to un-kill Rarity somehow. She wanted to have done the loyal thing and fight with her friends.
She had a peaceful smile on her face, picturing that all of her friends had forgiven her, and everything was going to be okay.
Then finally the horse shoes exploded and all of the small windows in the building were covered in blood, guts and blue fur.
Number/Pony
1 Derpy Hooves [ALIVE]
2 Fluttershy [DEAD]
3 Bon Bon [ALIVE]
4 Applejack [DEAD]
5 Pinkie Pie [ALIVE]
6 Lyra [ALIVE]
7 Rainbow Dash [DEAD]
8 Rarity [DEAD]
9 Twilight Sparkle [ALIVE]
10 Dr. Whooves [ALIVE]
This was originally part of the first intended final chapter, but I'm splitting it here so I can post something new of this story for... about 6-7 months? So expect chapter three hopefully soon.
