Guernica

My Little Pony: Guernica

Part Two

Chapter 6: Wake The Ones You Love

It's off in the distance, but the Red Mist could be seen closing in on Ponyville. It's thick, and red, almost more fog like then a mist. I'm frightened, but try to shake it off with my new found faith. I have a mission. "I can do this." I tell myself, I'm not even sure if it's a lie or not. I bust in through Pinkie Pie's residence. I figured everypony is here, Apocalypse and all, why wouldn't Pinkie Pie be throwing one last bash? And I'm right.

Every Pony in Ponyville is huddled inside this bakery, and it's pandemonium. Some of them are crying, distraught. The children are being distracted with games and coloring books. Others are busy getting their rocks off.

My arrival isn't welcome. DJ Pron3 scratching the turntables for effect. A couple of the drunken Equestrian guards attempt to capture me, but I knock them out. Rainbow Dash tries to tackle me, but I use her momentum to throw her right into the cake. Pinkie Pie exclaims "No! Not the last cake!"

"STOP IT!" I yell as loudly as I can. "THE RED MIST IS COMING! THIS IS POINTLESS!" I have their attention, and I pray my act of persuasion can override their character bibles "It hasn't made it to Canterlot yet! We can still teleport there with magic, we can still use Celestia's machine to break the friendship magic and escape! WE CAN ALL STILL LIVE!"

There's a beat. The 6 look at each other, then Twilight Sparkle comes forward, shes smiling that same deadpan smile. I know what is coming. "Oh Brightside? Can't you see? This is the message we need to send to everypony in Ponyville. The bond of friendship is so strong, it doesn't matter that were a marketing tool designed to sell toys, or that in a few minutes our creators are selfishly going wash our world clean with a pony-genocide to start a brand new vehicle to make more money… What matters is friendship, and I don't think I want to continue living if we can't have that! None of us do!"

I'm flabbergasted, shocked, even though I shouldn't be given what I know. It was as if the entire world that I thought was so rich and vibrant and filled with wonderful characters was revealed to be nothing more then a cardboard cut out. Then I realized, "You.. Can't fight it can you?" I state, looking passed the pony before me and into the souls of the group, "I know you have to be terrified like I am, impossibly so, but even with all that sheer force of will… it's not enough to break what your written to do, is it?"

"…I want to escape." Fluttershy squeaked, and all the eyes and dirty looks fell upon her.

"Everypony don't listen to her!" Rainbow Dash smiled, putting her arm around her "My girlfriend here doesn't know what shes saying!" She boasted

That's when Fluttershy punched Rainbow Dash square in the face, knocking her loopy. "I NEVER WANTED TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND!" She snapped.

"Fluttershy?" I tilted my head.

"Yes, Brightside. I don't want to us all to die. I wanted to break the seal first time we heard about Red Mist." She says in an angry yet still soft manner. "But I… I didn't have the courage then to speak out against them, just like I couldn't find the courage to express that…" She took a deep breath "Even though I am gay, Rainbow Dash, I'm sorry I'm just not attracted to you like that."

I smile, whoever wrote Fluttershy's character bible must of left an innate flaw… Either by lack of skill or laziness, and decided to cover up her apparent freewill by allowing her to be so easily manipulated by the her friends.

The feel good moment doesn't last. The mist arrives, hitting the windows and enveloping the outside of the building. It's slowly seeping in through the cracks in the windows and doors.

"This looks like the end everypony! Group hug?" Apple Jack suggests, everypony crowding into the center of the room, the mist beginning to close in, a wall of red cloud slowly circling in on everyone.

"Oh my my my! I merely can not take the pressure of my impending demise!" Cries Rarity. "I'm going! Goodbye my friends! I'm sure it'll be painless!" She declares, haphazardly throwing herself into the mist. For a moment, she's fine. Then she sputters, and starts hacking. Eventually, her lungs come out of her mouth. Her eyes bulge and she begins to bleed, and her skin starts to peel and come off in patches, right to the bone. She attempts to scream and panics the whole time. She runs back at the group, and grabs Apple Jack for help. Apple Jack attempts to beat her off but gets dragged into the mist as well.

"Oh no! Oh no! Please I don't wanna-" She scrambles to get back to the safe-zone in the middle of the room, but doesn't make it and starts thrashing about.

"Okay… Parties over… I really don't wanna die like that!" Pinkie says, seemingly coming around to our side, only for Twilight to grab her and throw her into the mist.

"Twilight! Why'd did you-" She tries to ask, then the coughing hits her too, and her lungs pop out as well. She tries to stagger back at the group, perhaps a feeble attempt at pulling twilight in, but she trips and bites her right lung clear off.

"We're the elements of Harmony, Pinkie!" Yells an increasingly unhinged Twilight. "We need to protect friendship at any costs!" Then turning her attention at me and Fluttershy "And neither of you are going to get away from this fate."

"Twilight what's happened to you?" Fluttershy asks. "Killing your own friends?"

"She's doing what her character bible tells her to do. She's reacting to the situation by going crazy." I attempt to explain "Fluttershy, I'm very sorry, but your friends died long before today." I grab Twilight her by the horn and snap it off. I kick her into the mist.

"Twilight!" Fluttershy calls out.

"I'm sorry, it was the only way. I can get us out of here with this!" I nod to the now disembodied unicorn horn.

"Fluttershy! Wait!" Rainbow Dash flies before her, pleading "Don't go with him, I'm sorry I'm a jerk, but… I really truly love you, and this is how we have to die…. Please? Together? Don't…" Rainbow Dash tears up "Make me die here alone?"

I note the tears in Fluttershy's eyes, these words are notably moving her. "Neither one of us has any choice, Rainbow. I'm sorry." Fluttershy grabs hold of my waist, and I activate the horn.

"No! NOOO! DON'T MAKE ME DIE HERE ALONE!" She yells, making one final attempt at leaping at us, we teleport away just as the mist hits her.
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