Fluttershy looked around. There she was, in the big and twisty maze of Tartarus. And she had no idea what to do or where to go.

She then tried to remember the escape route that she and her friends had used when they were locked up themselves back in the day. It was faint, but the memory slowly returned.

"Yes! I know where to go now!", Fluttershy thought. And then, she started to run.

As Fluttershy ran, she got stopped in several rooms. Some of the new demons that didn't know her were always trying to harm her, but with the power to tame any animal, Fluttershy was able to calm them down and just get past them. And some of the demons that did know her, they bowed in front of her, not even bothering to attack her. Those befriended demons also helped her to get away from evil demons that were lost in translation, not listening to what Fluttershy said. And even though she never liked arguments, whether verbal or physical, she couldn't take care of either of them, because she had one goal in mind, and that was to escape.

Fluttershy ran through Tartarus for what felt like an eternity. And almost every room where she stopped, she had to befriend a demon or run away from one. She even ran into the big, three-headed dog Cerberus, who, despite the order of the Evil Trio, did not give up his duty. He was still preventing the demons from escaping, but when he recognized Fluttershy, he was more than willing to let her go.

Soon, Fluttershy spotted the exit, and her eyes were gleaming with hope in sight of freedom! But suddenly, one final big, fiery demon got in her way and startled Fluttershy, bringing herself to a stop. And when the fiery demon roared at the shy pegasus, she tried the one thing she always tried when a creature tried to harm her.

She looked at the demon with big, cute eyes. "You seem tense. Do you want to talk about it?", she asked.

The demon reacted, slightly confused at first. Then, it felt sorry for Fluttershy and started to talk to her. It sounded really sad, and while it was talking, it cried tears of hot lava.

It was at this moment in which Fluttershy also felt sorry for the demon. "Aww, you were just trying to protect your pack from Princess Celestia, and she locked you up for that?", she asked.

The demon cried even more. Fluttershy made sure to dodge the lava tears it spreads everywhere. Then, she comforted it by patting its back.

"That's it. Let it all out.", she said to the demon, "You're not a bad demon. You just made a bad decision. You and me, we're really alike, you know?"

The demon stopped crying. Fluttershy was happy and thankful that she was able to communicate with all kinds of creatures. This ability already saved her multiple times before, and now it did again.

But then, she remembered her actual objective. She wanted to get out and find her friends. "Oh! Sorry, our time is up. Buh-bye!", she said to the demon in a cheerful attitude before heading towards the exit. While doing that, she could hear the demon calling Goodbye after her.

Fluttershy went through the exit of the hell prison called Tartarus and was now a free pony again. She was outside, and she was still alive. Breathing in the fresh air of freedom that she hasn't breathed or smelled for weeks now, she started to feel happy again, one with nature, as it should be.

Author's Note

Yes! Fluttershy managed to escape!

This was a short one, but I promise you, the next chapter will be longer.

This one took a while since I haven't seen the episode "School Raze", so I had no idea what Tartarus was like, therefore having me make do with my imagination.