Chapters It was a very very rainy afternoon in the little town of Ponyville.
Twilight’s castle had also allowed ponies to spend time on the ground floor to seek warmth from the storm for those who had been caught outside.
Rarity was sitting in the living room of her boutique, watching the rain roll down her windows.
Her friends had all become so popular over the last couple of years with their unique ways of presenting themselves.
Her friends were driving ponies away from her boutique and causing her to have a massive downgrade in sales.
“Rarity? Are you thinking about your friends again?” SweetieBelle spoke up, snapping rarity out of her thoughts.
SweetieBelle pranced around the room as she did this, smiling wide, thinking her idea was the best idea she had ever come up with.
“Sweetie, I think you may be onto something. I can keep my friends' popularity alive, while bringing customers in again, to help get the business back onto its hooves! Plus, given my schedule, i may have just enough time to design a new line of outfits ready for the fashion show coming up in manehatton in a few months! Sweetie Belle thankyou, this is an amazing idea!”
With that, Rarity set to work, making her way to her bedroom to draw out some designs, one outfit to represent her friends, while still having that classic rarity flair to it that ponies seemed to enjoy.
Applejack’s dress was more of a corset with a long skirt. Allowing ponies to show off their front legs with the outfit, the whole outfit matching Applejack’s fur colour. The rim of the skirt had a fluffy boa stitched to it, with sparkly, red apple pins put into it. The outfit was topped off with some green apple earrings and short, leather boots that were a very very pastel green to match the earrings.
Twilight’s dress was a ball gown, with a veil that flowed behind the pony as they walked. The underside of the veil had a layer of resistant fabric to it, so nothing got caught on it or stained it.
Finally, fluttershy’s dress was a pastel yellow to represent her fur colour.
“Perfect!! The first dresses are up and ready to be seen! What do you think Sweetie?” Rarity asked excitedly, turning to her sister with a prideful smile on her face.
“Rarity, you know that ponies will love your designs no matter what. But, personally, I really like Applejack’s dress you’ve made. Because it looks like you put a mix of applejack AND sweet apple acres into it.” Sweetie pointed this out, and rarity gave a nod, her smile getting wider as she admired her work with her sister.
“But, it's like you took your friends, and made them into clothes!" Sweetie Belle joked.
As the days went on, a few ponies came in, but it seemed like no one wanted to buy anything, saying it was “the same old dresses, different colours”.
About 2 weeks passed, so many designs wasted, so many resources used on dresses that would never sell…
Knock Knock Knock.
“Uh, hey Rarity, are you feeling ok? You look a little tired.” Spike asked, concern in his voice as he looked at his crush.
“Yes I'm fine dear, just having a bit of a struggle lately at the boutique. Which is actually why I'm here.” Rarity explained, giving the dragon a dismissive wave and a kind smile.
Spike tilted his head before shrugging with a nod, inviting the unicorn inside as he ran ahead to grab twilight. After a couple of minutes, the purple alicorn flew down to her friend, smiling wide.
“Its wonderful to see you too Twilight, and this matter is somewhat urgent. I need you to come to my boutique, I'm working on a design that has star constellations in it, and I need you to come and see how accurate they are.”
Twilight’s eyes lit up, her wings flapping excitedly as she nodded.
Spike looked at Rarity after hearing her give a small sigh, seeing that she now had a rather annoyed, if not disgusted look on her face as she waited for the alicorn to return.
Walking into the shop, rarity closed the door, locking it behind her and twilight, much to the princesses confusion.
“It's in the basement darling, I wanted to keep it as a surprise from other ponies, since they all seem to be watching me work through my bedroom window with the assistance of pegasi or magic.” Rarity explained, trying her best to sound convincing. Twilight gave an understanding nod and followed rarity down into the darkness of the basement.
“Rarity? How am I meant to see the dress in this light? Is there a light switch anyw–!”
Sweetiebelle had bought it when she and the other crusaders were trying out playing baseball to find their talent. Sometimes that little filly could really come in handy.
Twilight awoke with a groan, she tried to sit up, but realized that she was unable to. A light suddenly flickered to life above the alicorn, causing her to squint heavily. Once her eyes adjusted, she looked down at herself, and realized that she was strapped down to a table of some kind.
“Ah you’re awake darling! Good to know…” Rarity responded, but her tone was cold, careless, and malicious. She walked over to twilight, standing over her.
“Rarity, what's going on? Why am I tied to this table? Where’s spike?” Twilight had so many questions and rarity cut her off with a groan.
“Twilight you talk way too much. Don't you ever learn to shut up? Or was it your voice that caused you to become so popular with everypony all of a sudden?”
“Look, I'll keep this short, so listen up and try to understand… See, I am sick of you all getting ganged up on. You have caused my business to go downhill. You have driven customers away, and I am beginning to run out of money to keep my business alive, as well as keep a roof over Sweetie Belle's head. Plus, that little filly gave me a little idea!! Why not make clothes, inspired by my friends?” ]
Twilight let out a confused whimper, before trying to ignite her horn to teleport away. But let out a blood curdling scream as pain shot through her head where her horn should be.
Twilight looked down at herself, noticing dried blood had run down her chest from the wound and had now clotted into her fur.
“Oh I was, I was so very happy that you were all beginning to get recognized for your talents, as well as becoming so well known for saving Equestria. I was extremely happy for all of you. In fact, i couldn't help but feel a sense of pride, that my closest friends were having their moments in the spotlight... Until it began to affect business. Now I need to be a bit more selfish in order to keep myself stable financially. I'm sure a smart pony like yourself can understand.”
Rarity explained. Her eyes filled with annoyance, as she slowly walked toward the purple alicorn, her magic putting the severed horn back on the table.
Rarity held up the needle from earlier, beginning to thread a thick white thread into Twilight's face, beginning to swiftly sew Twilight’s lips together.
The basement was filled with blood curdling screams, but the needle worked quickly to cross-stitch the purple alicorn’s lips together, silencing her.
“Muuuch better. See Twilight? Doesn't that feel so much better to give your voice a bit of a rest?” Rarity asked with a wicked smile.
Taking the cap off, she walked back over to Twilight and began drawing small lines over Twilight's body, she was making a design plan… out of her skin.
Twilight attempted to reason with the white unicorn, but her muffles fell upon deaf ears as Rarity continued to work.
“You know Twilight, you can use pretty much anything to make clothes, but I've never used an actual pony before, this will be an interesting experience for me. I'm so glad you decided to be so generous with helping me, especially with your busy schedule.”
“Did you know twilight, that fabric scissors need to be sharpened often? It's a good thing I sharpened these before you arrived, or we'd be here for a lot longer. Now hold still, i don't want to make a messy cut...”
Blood splattered over the joint, as well as some landing on rarity’s face. Twilight’s silenced screams rang through the basement, sounds of squelching and ripping of flesh could be heard, as the blades swiftly made their way to the wing bone. But that is where the scissors began to struggle.
After a while, Rarity gave up, putting the scissors down and taking the wing in her teeth. With a sharp pull, a snapping sound could be heard, followed by another scream. The wing was quickly broken off of twilight’s body.
“I won't lie.. I'm not too sure how easy it is to clean blood off of things, but I'm sure a nice cocktail of stain removers should do the trick, what do you think?” Rarity spoke up, as she watched the blood drip down from the wing, to the floor.
Rarity then went toward her kitchen, grabbing a bucket that was used in emergencies in case of any leaks.
Rarity once again ignored her silenced friend and placed the bucket at the end of the table, letting the blood flow into it. With a chuckle, she grabbed her scissors and mounted the table again, getting ready to saw through her remaining wing.
Placing the second wing on the table, she looked back at her friend, putting a hoof to her chin in thought.
“Aww no need to cry Twilight!” Rarity spoke up suddenly, causing Twilight's attention to snap back to Rarity, a look of hopelessness in her eyes.
Rarity’s face twisted into a psychotic grin, as she pulled out a pair of electric razors, turning them on.
This was twilight’s chance, with a deep breath, she began to try and part her lips. Opening her jaw as wide as she would go, and cutting her lips to ribbons in the process. Small grunts and whimpers escaped the purple pony, and more tears ran down her face, but she bared with the pain as she tried to take back her ability to speak.
But soon enough, the stitching fell to the ground.
Rarity turned around with a surprised look on her face. Seeing the stitching now on the ground, and Twilight's lips now shredded. She couldnt help but feel a it impressed.
“Rarity please!! Don't do this! I need to take care of Spike!! And the princesses will notice I'm missing, as well as our other friends!
“Twilight i must say im surprised, but i dont think i gave permission to speak did i?”
Rarity then gave a sigh, looking at the mess on Twilight's body, and how much blood covered up the plan she had drawn earlier. Now she couldn't even see where she was supposed to cut.. Looks like she’ll just have to make do with winging it.
This process took a while, and twilight didn't bother protesting. Instead, her eyes began to roll back, and her head fell limp on the table, as she slowly began to bleed out.
Once she was done, the entirety of twilight’s front was void of skin, and at this point, all life had faded from the princess.
Ponies were beginning to gather around the carousel boutique as they saw a brand new design in the window of the display.
The perfect design to represent Twilight Sparkle…
Rarity was walking around the lobby of her store, seeing the sea of customers coming in to admire her new dress design.
“I must say Rarity, your dresses are making an amazing comeback for business” Fancy Pants spoke up, deciding to visit Ponyville as a casual getaway from the busy life of Canterlot.
Rarity gave a proud smile as she handed a copy of the twilight dress to his wife, who had just made a purchase.
Both unicorns exchanged fancy small talk, mixed with giggles and tapping of hooves as they exchanged pleasantries.
Having customers back, admittedly, was rather nice, and she was finally making profit to keep her business, and her home life, afloat.
She then began to notice that a lot more ponies were beginning to get pets, small critters like bunnies, birds and small cats.
“Hey rarity.. Have you seen twilight? She hasn't been around the castle lately and i'm beginning to get worried.” Spike asked, his little ears drooping down, his eyes looking rather sore from being awake for so long.
“Oh, she didnt tell you? She was making her way to the crystal empire for a royal meeting. She said she would be back within a month or so.” Rarity responded, thinking quickly on her hooves for an excuse to explain where twilight went.
Spike seemed to accept this answer, but not without a small frown on his face, hanging his head a bit.
Spike simply gave another nod, walking away and making his way back to the castle.
Fluttershy was seen flying around her cottage, taking care of her animals by doing her rounds of feeding everybody. As rarity approached, Fluttershy was feeding her brown bear friend some salmon. Rarity walked up to the yellow pegasus, smiling softly
“Oh!! Hello Rarity!” Fluttershy called out with a smile, putting the basket down and flying over to greet her unicorn friend.
“I'm designing a new dress for my new fashion line. For the fashion show I'm having in Manehattan soon? I'm working on my 2nd dress, and I need help choosing which colour of fabric to use. You seem to know things about different colours, do you mind coming with me to see which ones will work best?” Rarity explained, which confused the pegasus.
“Why can't you just tell me about the fabrics, and have me choose that way?” Fluttershy asked, tilting her head.
“Oh uh…” Rarity paused before coming up with an answer. “The fabrics have different textures, and you need to touch them as well as look at them.” Rarity explained, finally coming up with an answer.
Even with the strange pause, this seemed to convince the pegasus, and she nodded again, following the unicorn back to the boutique.
Once they arrive, rarity explains that the fabrics she needs fluttershy to look at are upstairs in her bedroom.
Following the pegasus upstairs, she ignited her horn, picking up a thick roll of fabric with a wooden inner tube, this fabric was a deep red, almost blood red.
In rarity’s bedroom, fluttershy was looking around, confused about where the fabric choices were, spreading her wings as she made small circles of the room, thinking rarity had just not brought them out yet.
“Hey rarity there you are! Where are the fabric choices? I can't seem to see them anywhere.” Fluttershy asked, tilting her head.
“Oh, I have them right here.” Rarity explained, making the pegasus look around once more in confusion.
Fluttershy awoke in a dimly lit up storage room, her ears folding back as she attempted to look around. As she moved her head around, she noticed the sound of a chain echoing through the room.
Looking down at herself, she notices that she is chained to the floor by a thick metal collar.
Fluttershy’s eyes adjusted to the dim lighting of the room, and noticed that the dress was wrinkled, dried, and old. Before squinting at the dress, realising that the dress was made of skin. Twilight’s skin.
The yellow pegasus let out a deafening squeal, as she attempted to fly away, and look for an escape, only to be yanked back down by the collar. Seeing rarity in the middle of the chain, holding it in her teeth, before allowing it to drop to the floor.
“My dear sweet fluttershy. I cannot thank you enough for agreeing to help me.” Rarity spoke with a coy smirk on her face, walking in circles around the cowering pegasus. The unicorn locked eyes with Fluttershy as she stood on her tail, encouraging a soft yelp to come from the pegasus.
With a soft smirk, Rarity walked over to her table of tools, taking out an old sewing machine. It still worked, but it was easy to get things jammed inside.“I’ve already used wings for one of my outfits. So it's probably for the best that i don't repeat ideas too many times. So I have no use for your wings. But I can't risk you flying hard enough to escape. But let's face it, you can't escape. But just to eliminate that risk…” Rarity explained, as she picked up the machine, bringing it over to the shivering pegasus.
Fluttershy’s guard was fully up, as she stared at the machine in confusion. As the unicorn places the sewing machine beside Fluttershy, she speaks up again, in a cold tone.
Putting 2 and 2 together, Fluttershy let out a scream, before attempting to take flight.
“RARITY! PLEASE!!! I WON'T TELL ANYONE OF THIS!! JUST PLEASE DON'T HURT ME!!” Fluttershy pleaded with her friend, tears beginning to flow down her face, as the machine roared to life.
The pegasus’s screams rang throughout the room as the machine began to sew her wings together. Blood splattered over the machine, as the pegasus’ screams continued to ring through the room, as she slowly lost her ability to fly.
Rarity also took out an electric razor and shaved off Fluttershy’s mane and tail right off the bat while the shock was still there.
While Rarity was away, the yellow pegasus began to openly sob, trying with all her strength to pull away from the chain, hoping to break it. Even without the assistance of her wings.
“Please!! Just break!! Please!! I don't want to die here!” Fluttershy whimpered out, to no one in particular.
Once Rarity returned with what she was looking for, she noticed the state fluttershy was in, and how the chain was pulled tight against the ground, seeing she was trying to escape.
“Oh fluttershy, even in this state you try to escape? That's just cute.” Rarity spoke up with a chuckle as she made her way back to the table, leaving what she was looking for at the door for now.
The yellow pegasus looked up at Rarity as she tried to see what she was doing.
Before she suddenly gave a loud “ahah!!” and stood back up, taking out some nails and a hammer, pinning her friend to the floor again.
Fluttershy continued to struggle against her new binds, even as pain shot through her limbs.
The yellow pegasus looked at the nails in horror and began to feel dizzy, her eyes rolling back as she suddenly fainted from shock…
Coming back to reality about 2 hours later, Fluttershy noticed a soft stinging sensation on her torso. As her vision stopped swimming, she noticed there were small streams of smoke flying through the air above her. It didn't smell like the type of smoke from a fire.
Confused, the pegasus looked around for the source, before looking down at herself. There was a lot of skin missing from her stomach, and the raw muscle was covered in developing blisters. Rarity had begun to skin the pegasus alive, and she had castrated the wounds to prevent her from bleeding out before she woke up.
Fluttershy let out a loud, sharp gasp. Which caught the attention of the white unicorn.
Fluttershy let out a gut wrenching scream, causing her voice to become extremely horse by the end of it. She was shaking from head to hoof, sobbing uncontrollably, making the exposed muscle in her stomach spasm with her rapid breathing.
The unicorn then pulled out a fireman’s axe, and swung it down sharply. The pegasus’s eyes shut tightly and flinched, before she heard a loud clanging noise ringing in her ears.
Rarity watched as the shy pony made her way to the exit, before rearing up on her back legs, using the forward momentum as she came back down to throw the fireman’s axe at fluttershy.
The blade embedded itself in the back of fluttershy’s head, her body immediately going limp as a river of deep red flowed down the wooden stairs to the ground below. Rarity placed a bucket at the bottom of the stairs to catch the blood, as the unicorn walked toward the new corpse of her friend.
Ponies gathered by the shop window once more, as a new design had been released. A nice, pastel yellow shirt with pink butterflies on each side. A thin fabric skirt, that was a nice forest green, looking like a leaf skirt. The shoes were a pastel pink, with more pink vines making their way up the fore hooves of the mannequin. On the statue’s ear, was 3 small butterfly earrings.
Rarity was cleaning up her mess from her awdeal with Fluttershy, making her way up the stairs with the collected organs and blood from her “play time”. Due to how much her wings were flapping, her mane had developed a very unkempt look.
As she made her way to the kitchen to dispose of the waste, she heard her letterbox flick open, and the sound of paper hitting the ground.
Turning around, she saw a small bundle of letters sitting at the base of her door. Putting the bucket down, she walked over to the door and used her magic to pick up the letter stack, flicking through them. There were a few bills, an advertisement for a new cupcake recipe at Sugarcube Corner, and a letter that had her address written by hoof.
Curious, rarity put the other letters on the counter nearby and opened it carefully. Opening the folded paper inside, the writing was rather scruffy, but it was still readable.
“Dear Miss Rarity.
Rarity stared at the letter wide eyed. Before her pupils shrank to mear pinpricks, and a smile began to spread across her face.
She put the letter down and picked up the buckets again, taking them to the kitchen and throwing them into the sink. Turning on a switch as the plug hole began to grind up the organs and blood into a messy pulp and go down the plug hole.
A few days had passed, and she had been buying fabrics and needles and string left, right and centre, to restock her boutique, as she was beginning to run low. She had also bought a bunch of new, stretchy fabrics to get started on the Wonderbolts uniforms, so they were skin-tight on the pegasi, but also breathable.
She had bags stacked everywhere, on her back, in her teeth, she carried more with her magic. It had gotten to the point where she couldn't see where she was going, and bumped into somepony with a loud “oof!”
“Oh my goodness i am terribly sorry. Are you alright?!”
“Heheh, don't worry about it rarity. It looks like you’re rather busy here. What are you doing anyways? Big restock?” The pegasus asked with a friendly smile as she helped Rarity put the materials back into their respective bags.
“Yes, I'm restocking the boutique of fabrics, and I'm also gathering some new items for an outfit commission I had received from somepony.” Rarity explained quickly. She thanked Rainbow Dash for her help, before picking up the bags with her magic and trying to arrange them in a way so she could see, and so she didn't cause too much of an obstruction to anypony nearby.
“Actually, Rainbow Dash, while you’re here. Do you mind helping me carry some of these bags? They’re a real hassle and I don't think I'll be able to make it back to the boutique without bumping into anypony else.”
Rainbow Dash agreed with a smile, and took half of the bags, while Rarity carried the other half. They managed to get to the carousel boutique quicker than Rarity had thought.
Rarity then closed the door behind the 2 of them, silently locking the door. She then led the blue pegasus into her bedroom where even more bags of fabric laid in an unorganized pile.
“Wow Rarity you sure have been busy! You’ll be set for months with the amount of materials you have!”
“Yes, I wanted to plan ahead a bit. I had a large boost in sales! And I thought I'd add as much material as I could after I had paid my bills. I just have one last thing to add….~”
“and what would that b–?!?”
Rainbow’s sentence was cut off as she was hit on the front of her head with a large shopping bag filled with gemstones. Swung at enough force to knock her unconscious.
About 3 hours passed before Rainbow Dash woke up. She was strapped down to some kind of table by her hooves. Metal straps held rainbow’s hooves tightly to the table, creating small indents in her skin with how tight they were. A small stinging sensation ran across Rainbow's face in small waves, as Rainbow Dash's nose was broken from the impact of the gem filled bag.
The pegasus tried to flap her wings in a panic, attempting to escape. But only ended up screaming in agony as many waves of pain flew through her back. Looking down at herself, she saw that there were some bloody stumps, fresh blood pouring down the table she was strapped to, staining her fur and flowing into a bucket below her hooves.
The pegasus let out a terrified scream before looking around the darkened room frantically. Seeing the mannequins that lined the room. 6 of them lined up beside each other with no outfits on, and 5 others, 2 of which had outfits on already. A purple body warmer with socks, and a yellow, nature themed dress with pink, butterfly shoes. The mannequins had strange, faded red marks all over them, almost as if someone had spilled wine on them.
“Ah hello Rainbow, good to see you’re awake!” Rarity perked up, walking over to her bound, wingless friend.
“RARITY WHAT’S GOING ON?! WHY AM I TIED TO THIS TABLE!? WHERE ARE MY WINGS?!?!”
“That’s quite simple rainbow dash. You know Spitfire don't you? The leader of the Wonderbolts?” Rarity asked in her usual calm tone.
“Call out all you want dear. Noone’s going to hear you, a lovely friend of mine lended a hoof in soundproofing the basement!”
“I won't be needing these for the outfit i have to make, as they need to be more uniform than dazzling. Unfortunately. Such a waste of such amazing, neon colours. Oh well”
She did the same on the other side, causing the pegasus to scream in agony once more. Rainbow Dash’s face was now soaked in tears, once rarity pulled the needle free of the newly exposed muscle.
“R-rarity… Please… Don't kill me! I dont w-want to die!”
“I'm afraid I don't have much of a choice, Miss Dash… No other store had the colour of material I needed to represent you! And you’re the perfect reference!”
Her horn lit up again, and as she was turned away, Rainbow tried struggling against her binds, letting a few whimpers slip as she moved, her open back wounds rubbing against the splintery wood of the table she was on.
“Dont worry Rainbow Dash… Those binds aren't going to let you go anywhere, any time soon… I can promise you that.”
“Now hold still, this will get messy…”
Aiming the knife at Rainbow’s chest, the blade slid perfectly down Rainbow’s torso, making a very deep cut, but not deep enough to hit any vital organs.
Seeing this made Rainbow sick to her stomach, and she turned her head away from the unicorn, as Rarity began skinning her friend alive.
During this, Rainbow Dash continued to plead with her friend, begging for her life, as more tears flowed down her face, and more blood flowed down the table, collecting in the buckets below.
By the time Rarity’s operation had reached Rainbow’s chin, rarity was now covered in blood, her pupils still tiny pinpricks and her mane was even messier than it was before due to all the sharp movements of her head.
Rainbow however, had slipped away long before this. Bleeding out fully into the 2 buckets below. The pegasus’s head hung limp against her chest.
Moving the buckets, rarity then picked up the body and laid it on its front, continuing the skinning procedure. Using the potato peeler on the tougher parts of her friend’s corpse, such as the skull and around her hooves, as well as any joint areas like the elbows. until all that was left was a pile of muscles, bones and organs.
Rarity even shaved off Rainbow’s hair and tail.
About a week had passed since that day, and Rarity had spent every waking hour making these uniforms.
Opening the door, she was greeted by the leader of the wonderbolts: Spitfire!
“Ah! Spitfire, good to see you, I hope the trip here was ok!”
“Haha, it was alright rarity, good to see you! Though, are you feeling ok? You don't look so great.”
She always remembered seeing rarity as a very pretty unicorn, with a very well kept mane and plenty of makeup on.
“Oh this? I'm alright dear, I haven't had much time to take care of myself is all! I wanted these uniforms to be perfect! And you’re just in time, I just finished adding the finishing touches to them!”
Leading Spitfire upstairs, she did a somewhat grande reveal of 6 Wonderbolts uniforms.
Spitfire looked at them in awe and wonder, taking a look at the uniform she was going to wear, which was the red one.
A small blush played rarity’s face at the praise, and she gave a distinguished chuckle before taking the uniforms off of the mannequins to hand to Spitfire. In exchange, Spitfire gave Rarity a big bag filled with bits.
She knew making a line about her friends was a good idea.
Rarity gave a sigh, looking around her bedroom after Spitfire left. Rainbow Dash did sadly go to waste on those uniforms, and there was no material left to add to her line, and she would soon lose customers if she didnt act quickly.
Before she could think any further, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. Her pupils small, her mane a mess, and her well-groomed fur, now all shabby and mezzy. She had bags under her wide, sunken eyes. And she looked a bit skinnier than normal.
Farm animal…? Rarity might have just had a light bulb turn on in her head…
With a loud, deafening cackle, she decided to pack her saddle bag, and make her way to Sweet Apple Acres. But before she could leave, Sweetie Belle called out her name.
“Rarity? Have you seen my– woah. Are you alright? You’re a mess! You hardly ever let yourself get like this!”
“Oh, I'm perfectly fine sweetie Belle. I just haven't got much rest due to having such a big commission with such little time.” Rarity explained, there was a ring of truth to that lie. She hadn't been sleeping much. Her mind was too full of ideas of what to do with her outfits. But, she had plenty of time to finish that commission, and she even sent a letter to Spitfire almost 2 whole days before the uniforms were done.
“Well if you say so… Where ya going?” Sweetie asked in a rush, wanting to distract herself from the state her sister was in.
“I'm going to Sweet Apple Acres. I need to pay Applejack a visit. Though it is a private matter, do you want to come with me and see Applebloom?" Rarity asked with a smile.
Sweetie Belle gave an excited nod, accepting the bits and putting them into her bag, before going with Rarity across Ponyville to Sweet Apple Acres.
In the field, they saw Applejack, Big Mac and AppleBloom bucking away at some trees. Sweetie Belle started to get more and more excited as she saw her friend, and trotted ahead a bit.
“Hello Applejack!!!” Rarity called out, catching the attention of the 3 farm ponies.
”Im perfectly fine Applejack, ive just been very busy. And we're here because, Pinkie is hosting the annual fair in town, and we were wondering if AppleBloom would like to go with Sweetie Belle” Rarity responded with a kind smile.
”Oh!! Can ah go AJ?! Can ah?! Can ah?! Can ah?!” Applebloom asked, hopping in a circle around the farm pony.
“Aw shucks Applebloom.. Ya know its Harvest season…”
“Well that’s also why I'm here, Applejack. I was thinking, if Applebloom and her friends go with Big Mac, he can supervise the children and make sure they don't get lost, and I can help out a little bit. I'm sure the harvest will go a bit smoother if I help out with getting the apples off of the trees.”
Applejack pondered for a moment, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw Applebloom, SweetieBelle and BigMac, all giving puppy eyes to her, With a sigh, she gave a smile and nodded
The 3 ponies all smiled wide at each other, before running to Scootaloo’s house to invite her to tag along. Once they were out of earshot, Applejack gave a suspicious look to the unicorn, who had already set to work at getting the apples off of the tree. She cut multiple stems of the apples with the scissors from 1 tree, putting them neatly in the basket, before moving onto the next.
“Ya know, ah appreciate the help and all Rar, but ya hardly ever do this, why now?” The farm pony asked with a skeptical squint of her eyes.
“I'm not allowed to surprise my friends?” Rarity responded bluntly while dropping the next tree load of apples into the basket.
This seemed to get Applejack to back off, with a roll of her eyes, she went back to bucking, and rarity went back to cutting.
The sun was setting over the horizon as the unicorn and earth pony brought the last batch of apples into the barn, and Applejack closed the doors with a sigh.
”Ya know, ah truly appreciate your help Rarity, means a lot. Ah apologise for this mornin’ it just took me by surprise that ya wanted to help in something ya normally see as dirty and unsophisticated.”
”Yes I agree this isn't exactly my go-to activity to pass the time. But I wanted to give Sweetie Belle a good time, especially since I've been so focused on my next line of outfits. It seemed to be the best for both of us to get out of the house.”
“well, ah'm sure they’ll be amazin’ rar, they always are comin’ from ya. By the way, what’s ya next outfit gonna be? Ah’m curious.” Applejack asked as she locked the door from the inside, there was a door on the other side of the barn that connected to the kitchen of the main building, so she wasnt too worried about the 2 of them being locked in overnight.
”Well.. How about I show you…?”
As Applejack was about to ask what she meant by that, she turned and was greeted with Rarity’s crazed face, inches from hers. She was even more of a mess now because of the work they had done, and the bags under her eyes seemed more prominent now.
Applejack gave a gasp, her eyes widening at the crazed look in Rarity's eyes. She wanted to cry out for help, but Rarity tackled Applejack to the ground, standing over her, and taking a needle and thread out of her saddle bag. making quick work of sewing Applejack's mouth shut.
Applejack started tearing up as Rarity stood over the silenced farm pony with a bunch of tools that were dotted around the barn. She picked up a scythe, hedge trimmers and an axe.
Rarity blurted out with a cackle, before she continued explaining what she was doing.
Outfits? About our friends?
Applejack pushes rarity off of her, and attempted to buck at the door behind her, only to be greeted with a stabbing pain in her back legs. Letting out a muffled scream, she tried to lower her hooves, but she couldn't get them to the floor. Looking back at her hooves, she saw that she had bucked the blades of the hedge trimmer. Rarity had levitated them in the bucing path of Applejack's legs.
Applejack began to cry in fear, her back legs were now rendered useless, and she tried to drag herself away from the crazed unicorn. But Rarity seemed to be one step ahead of her.
”You see Applejack, all of our friends, aside from Pinkie, have been made into clothes! And now you’re next! You and the others are going to bring me so much money to provide for SweetieBelle! I can pay off my bills, I can have customers like me again!”
Before Applejack could try to protest through her stitches, she let out a muffled shriek of agony, as Rarity ran the blade of the scythe along her spine, leaving a large, freely bleeding gash from her shoulders to her hips.
A large blood puddle began to form on the hay floor below the farm pony, and she had already begun to grow weak from the blood loss. The unicorn stood over Applejack with a smirk, as she raised the Axe, ready to swing.
But Applejack managed to muster up the strength to turn onto her back, catching the axe blade between her front hooves, stopping it inches in front of her face.
Applejack then looked up at Rarity through teary eyes, witnessing her cut her mane and tail to a very short length without any second thought.
The sounds of squelching, grinding and splatter noises filled the barn, along with more pained screams, as Rarity began to cut Applejack’s left back leg off. Blood sprayed over the orange pony, and Rarity’s front. Staining the 2 of them with Applejack's life essence.
Once she was done, Rarity then repeated the action with Applejack’s other back leg.
Rarity then let out what seemed to be a battle cry, before stabbing Applejack in the back of the head with a barbed metal hook that hung from the ceiling.
A few hours had passed, and Rarity made her way out of the barn with her saddle bag more full than when she arrived.
She made her way into the boutique to wash up, put the newly acquired materials into her storage, and make her next outfit.
As the moon rises over the horizon, the CutieMark crusaders and Big Mac were just getting back to the barn, all 4 of them laughing away as they showed each other the prizes they had won, as well as the goodies they had bought to eat.
“sure was nice of Pinkie to let us into the fair with only a few bits huh?!” Applebloom beamed as she adjusted the mini cowboy hat she had won at a cart race. Sweetie Belle, scootaloo and Big Mac all agreed with a unionized “eeyup!”
After they said their goodbyes at Sweet Apple Acres gate, Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo were about to leave, when they heard a loud scream come from the barn. It sounded like AppleBloom and BigMac.
Hanging from the ceiling by a metal hook, was a mass of muscle, void of organs, skin and anything vital.
The remaining Apple Family members burst into tears, they knew it was Applejack.
”Did you bring the next batch?” The pony behind the bakery counter asked. In the darkness of the main lobby of the cafe.
“Of course I have… You really think i’d fail to supply you with the goods?”
”Hm… Not as much icing mix this time…” The pony said, looking inside the blood bucket
Well, I had to work quickly before the rest of the Apple Family returned…”
”Yes I kept them as distracted as I could.”
”Until next time…
