My Seven Little Sins

NOTE: This is a completely re-written and almost completely different version of Rainbow Dash Resurrection, the original Prologue to my grimdark series. Due to it being so bad it turned away all readers from the amazing story that follows, I have re-written it as the story you see here. The characters are portrayed as humanoids. You are free to portray them as you please though, and this should not deter you from the story. Enjoy.

Cupcakes Ex-Machina
A Prologue to My Seven Little Sins

Glass shattered and metal clanged, resounding through the room, as Pinkie Pie was on a rampage destroying everything she could get her hands on. She falls to her knees and cries into her hands, pulling them away and staring at the blood that was soaked on them. She screams loud enough to wake the dead, and she wished it had, if only to bring back one of the many lives she’d now taken. She tried to put up with it for so long, the horrible things she was doing without control, but now she’d gone too far. She looked over one more time to her friend Rainbow Dash, stitched up and filled with cotton like some sort of doll, sitting in a chair like some over sized teddy bear.

She crawls over with a sob, hugging the lifeless skin of her friend. A voice calls out to her from behind to say, “What’s wrong Pinkie Pie? Don’t you see how much of a good thing this is?” Pinkie’s eyes go wide, and her teeth grit, as she slowly looks back to see her smooth haired counterpart standing there with a growing smile that would make a Cheshire cat proud. “As long as she’s like this she can be with you forever. It’s even better than taxidermy because you can snuggle her. Now how about me make those cupcakes? I didn’t grind up her heart into love just so we could use it as a decoration.”

Pinkie grabs the hack saw she’d chopped off Rainbow’s wings with and swings at the girl, the blade going right through her like a specter. She screams in frustration, swinging at her again and again, falling to her knees as her tears are renewed. “Why, Pinkamina? Why did you take Rainbow Dash out of everyone you could’ve taken from me? Why did it have to be her?”

The girl kneels down and places her hands on her shoulders with ‘shhh’ and a giggle. “I don’t make the rules Pinkie. I just draw names from a hat. Everyone’s names are in there. I didn’t want to kill her, to be completely honest with you.”

Pinkie sniffles and stares into the girls eyes and says, “Then why did you do it? Why even have her name in there in the first place? You told me none of my closest friends were in there, so why? Why was her name in there?!”

The dark twisted version of herself shakes her head and says, “I needed a backup plan, because you’d grown so used to my horrendous acts. How else am I going to make you ‘MISERABLE’? Not to mention full of anger and hatred!”

Pinkie roars and swings at her again, hard enough to lose control of the hack saw and send it flying. She pounds her fist hard enough on the ground to bruise it and says, “You’re not going to get away with this! I’ll find a way to fix it!”

The dark Pinkie’s eyes become red, and her pupils slit, as her grin becomes a frown. “I already got away with it! She’s gone, and there’s nothing you can do! Just give up, or do you want me to kill another one of your friends? Maybe next I should turn Fluttershy into a rug!”

Pinkie goes pale and she falls back, starting to crawl away. “No… you can’t do that!”

The demon Pinkie’s teeth grow sharper as she says, “I can and I will when I control your body! You’re wrath feeds me, for I am wrath incarnate! If you mess with my grand scheme, then you don’t belong in my world!”

As the creature walks towards her, Pinkie screams covering her eyes. “Leave her alone!” Pinkie’s eyes go wide hearing a familiar voice, and she uncovers them to see blocking the way to her was Rainbow Dash. “I knew Pinkie Pie was innocent! Even when being tortured to death, I had faith in her! Even when I was about to die, I figured there had to be something that factored into this change in her complete character!”

Pinkie Pie looks back over to the chair to see the Rainbow Dash doll was still there. The dark Pinkie hisses and says, “Tortured soul! Be gone! This does not concern the souls of the tainted and dead!”

Rainbow Dash growls and says, “The only thing tainted here is you!” She sprints forward at her legendary speed, and her fist hits the other manifestation so hard in the chest, you could see the shape of it on the other side of her back. She flies backward and through the wall, Rainbow Dash arm pumping in victory as the evil entity vanished from sight. “Even as a ghost, I’m a badass!”

The evil beings voice echoed from beyond where they could see her, “You cannot defend her forever! Pinkie’s shell belongs to me, and I will have what’s mine! You can’t stop me from coming to the surface, only aid me!”

Rainbow Dash raises an eyebrow and says, “And just how is kicking your butt going to aid you?”

Intense laughter echoes through the room, still covered in horrific party decoration made from victims past. “You’ll aid me in your own way soon enough, smart ass! Have your Pinkie Pie, and enjoy your time together while it lasts!” Her laughter was loud, but it slowly faded away and the room became quiet.

Rainbow Dash carefully monitored the room, making sure she was gone. With a sigh of relief, she turned to talk to her friend. “Pinkie Pie, I know this is a lot for you to take in, but…” She looks down to see Pinkie’s hand was in her chest. “Pinkie, what are you doing?”

Pinkie laughs and sings, “She reaches in, and goes straight through to your heart!”

“Cut that out, this is serious!” Rainbow Dash flails at Pinkie’s arm, unable to touch her.

Pinkie backs away giggling and says, “I’m sorry Dashie! I couldn’t help myself! It’s so great to see you, as you were! I’ve got my happy back! If I could hug you to death I would... in a metaphorical sense.” She bounces up and down happily. “So why are you a spooky ghosty?”

Rainbow smiles and says, “Only you can remain so energetic in the face of death. That dark side of yours did a real number on me. I was so tortured, mentally, that I wasn’t able to pass on. I don’t think I’m supposed to either.”

Pinkie gasps and says, “Does this mean you’re going to haunt me forever, and only I can see you? We can solve mysteries, and you can give me advice and stuff, just like a TV show!” Pinkie Pie squees with excitement as Rainbow Dash just stares at her.

Rainbow Dash shakes her head, rubbing her temples, and says, “Not quite, Pinkie. I don’t think it’s my time to die quite yet. I don’t know what it is, just a feeling I get. Like something really bad is going to happen, and I need to be there for it.”

Pinkie shrugs and says, “Maybe your death gave you the ability to sense the future?”
Rainbow gasps and squishes the sides of her face together saying, “That would be so awesome! Sadly, this is coming off more like a hunch. Point is, I need to be alive!”

Pinkie smiles and says, “Well then how about I play some music so loud that it can raise the dead?”

Rainbow Dash groans and says, “Pinkie that was lame even by your standards.”

Pinkie sulks a little and says, “I know, I think that dark side of mine’s crappy jokes and puns rubbed off on me a little. How are we going to bring you back to life? Should we go to Zecora?”

“PFFT! Zecora is more like a herbalist. She makes potions, and I doubt any are for bringing the dead back to life. Besides, it’s late, and there’s no way we’d make it through the everfree forest with all this rain.”

Pinkie blinks and asks, “What rain?”

Rainbow smirks and says, “You’ll see outside. What we need is somepony with knowledge over things no one else has. Somepony, who could easily use magic to bring me back to life…”

Pinkie blinks and says, “You’re talking about Twilight… But Dashie, this is black magic we’re talking about here, and Twilight’s a good girl. I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with getting her involved.”

Rainbow blinks, thinking that over a little more carefully, and sighs and as goes to lean on the wall. “You have a point Pinkie. I don’t want to get Twilight involved either. What else can we do though?” She looks over to Pinkie with tears welling in the corners of her eyes. “I can’t think of any other way Pinkie. It’s not that I don’t want to be dead, though I’m not saying that I do. It’s just that I’m supposed to be alive. She’s one of our closest friends, so I’m sure she’d understand.”

Pinkie nods and says, “You’re right. What are we going to need?”

Rainbow Dash wipes her eyes and says, “We need my body, even if it is stuffed with cotton. And we’ll need all my organs.”

Pinkie grabs the bucket where she put them all and says, “I got them right here!”

Rainbow Dash bites her lower lip and says, “All… my organs…”

Pinkie goes wide eyed and gulps, slowly looking over to the table with the heads of other ponies. She walks over, seeing the cloak of cutie marks, and knocks it off the table. Beneath it laid a heart shaped container filled with red liquid. “Your heart… Hey look Dashie! New liquid heart! Now you can get your bottle of love for only three easy payments of thirty bits!”

Rainbow Dash holds a hand over her mouth to hide her laugh. “Pinkie, that’s gross. Don’t make jokes about my heart. It’s bad enough that dark you grinded it up into liquid.”

Pinkie laughs and tosses it in the bucket, wrapping her arm around the Rainbow Dash doll that was rather light when filled with nothing but cotton. She grunts and says, “This bucket is heavy!”

Rainbow Dash flutters her wings and hovers alongside her. “You have an entire me in there, of course it’s heavy! Now come on, let’s go!”

Pinkie shuffles forward a bit, reaching the base of a staircase and looking up it with a whimper. Once she made it to the top, she shoves against the doorway with all her might, opening it to reveal a closet where Mr. and Mrs. Cakes had stored things. This was appropriate, since she now found herself in their storage basement. She notices another staircase and groans. “Why am I being punished? I’m not the one who killed you!”

Rainbow Dash lies on air lazily next to her and says, “Come on Pinkie Pie, exercise is good for you!”

Pinkie Pie whines and says, “That’s easy for you to say! You got wings, and you’re a ghost! Can’t you affect inanimate objects or something, like other ghosts?”

Rainbow Dash shrugs and says, “I haven’t been a ghost long, I wouldn’t know. Here, let me try on this fluff ball that used to be me.” She places her hands on the doll, and pulls it away from Pinkie. “Woo, check me out! I’m haunting myself!” She laughs and flies up the stairs with it, using its hands to open the door at the top of the stairs. “Meet you outside Pinkie!”

As she flies off, Pinkie’s eye twitches and she says, “Oh, sure, take the husk! Well at least I can lug this thing with both hands now.” She grips the bucket, and pants as she carries it up the stairs trying to keep it up. She even grabbed it with her teeth, rushing to the top as fast as she could. She sets it down and shakes her hands, blowing on them to alleviate the sting. She continues to carry it to the front door, seeing it hanging open and the rain pouring like cats and dogs from the sky. “Wow, it is raining pretty hard. But I don’t have a hand for an umbrella. I hope her organs don’t mind getting wet. Do you guys?” She stares at the bucket of organs, tempted to make several organ puns. She decided that would be in bad taste and walks outside. She was ready to be drenched, but noticed the rain wasn’t hitting her as hard as it could be. She looked up to see the Rainbow Dash doll was blocking rain, and the ghost it belonged to was holding it up. “Such a gentle-colt,” Pinkie says fluttering her eyelashes.

Rainbow smirks and says, “Here Pinkie, let me shield you from the rain… with my body.” She said the last part in a suggestive tone, almost making Pinkie Burst right there.

Pinkie raises the back of her palm to her forehead and says, “Oh, Rainbow Dash! You know that’s not going to keep me from getting wet! It will only make things worse!” The two of them burst out laughing. “As much as I love a good joke, we’ve got to hurry before somepony sees us. Come on!” She rushes to Twilight’s house, finding the bucket a lot easier to carry without stairs, Rainbow on top of her with the doll.

Twilight had just come from her room, a book she’d been reading in hand. She finds its place in her bookshelves, and uses magic to put it back. “I think that’s enough reading for one night.” She looks outside to the rain with a shiver. “Something about tonight makes me uncomfortable. Probably the storm… I wish one of my friends was here to keep me company. Even Spike is spending the night at Rarity’s.” Her front door burst open, and she quickly turns to see who it was. “Pinkie Pie? Rainbow Dash? Wow! What timing! I was just…” She goes wide eyed seeing Pinkie was carrying a bucket of organs, and a see through Rainbow Dash was holding a stitched up husk of her former self.

Pinkie Pie smiles nervously and says, “I kind of need your help Twilight.” Twilight’s eye twitches and she takes a deep breath, proceeding to rear back and scream at the top of her lungs. Both girls look at each other and shrug as Twilights scream begins to hurt their ears a little. “I think she’s taking it a little better than I expected.”

Rainbow rolls her eyes and says, “Could you please slap her, it’s getting old.”

Twilight takes another deep breath and points to the bucket. “Please tell me those aren’t real organs!” She points to the doll. “Please tell me that’s not the real Rainbow Dash!” She points to Rainbow’s ghost and says, “Please tell me that’s a magic spell gone wrong!”

Rainbow looks shocked and says, “You can see me?”

Twilight scowls and says, “I’m a unicorn with magical abilities that could rival Celestia one day. Of course I can see ghosts!”

Pinkie sets down the bucket, splashing a few drops of blood on the floor, and says, “Then why can I see Rainbow Dash?”

Rainbow sets the doll against the wall and says, “Because you technically killed me and now I’m haunting you.”

Twilight slaps her palm to her face and says, “That’s so romantic, I’m happy for you two. You mind filling me in on what’s going on?!”

Pinkie Pie nods and says, “Oh, sure thing Twilight. I’ll just explain it all off screen to save some time and monotony for the readers.”

Twilight stares at her for a moment and says, “The who?”

“And that’s everything that’s happened up to this point!” Pinkie Pie crosses her arms with a confident nod as Twilight and Rainbow Dash stare at her with grim expression.

Twilight gags a little and says, “I could’ve done without the excruciating details Pinkie!”

Rainbow Dash clenches her eyes shut and says, “Yeah, I could’ve done without reliving most of that.”

Pinkie giggles nervously and says, “Sorry about that. Anyways, that’s why we’re here! We know it’s probably dark magic, but we need your help to bring Dashie back to life! You’ve just got to know a spell Twilight!” She clings to Twilight’s leg and looks up at her with puppy eyes.

Twilight stares at her, her will weakening, and she sighs in defeat. “I do know a way, and it is dark magic. I familiarize myself with dark magic so I know how to handle it, but if the princess ever found out… Look, you guys can’t tell anypony about this. I’m only doing this because Rainbow Dash is my friend too.” She walks upstairs and digs through her private bookshelf, walking back down with a dark and twisted looking book. She flips through it and says, “It’s lucky that you saved her body and her organs, we’ll need all of that. We’ll also need a magic circle to focus the energies, and a piece of the killer given willingly to guide her soul back to her body.”

Pinkie Pie gulps and says, “So I have to give up something that can guide her? Like what?”

Twilight pokes the page and says, “It has to be something like one of your five senses. See, hear, smell, even taste your way back to your body. That kind of thing, understand?”

Pinkie smiles weakly and nods. Rainbow Dash wanted to hug and comfort her, but knew her arms would just go right through her. “Pinkie, I know it’s a lot to ask, and you don’t have to do it. I know you will no matter what I say though, so please, choose carefully.”

Pinkie giggles and says, “I’ve already chosen! I need everything else, but I don’t need both my eyes to see everything! I’ll just give up my left eye, and it can guide you home Dashie.”

Rainbow smiles, wiping her eyes of ghostly tears, as Twilight showed them a diagram of the magic circle. After she and Pinkie got it drawn nice and big, she set up several candles for ambience and laid Rainbow’s body in the middle with the bucket of her organs on top of it. “Alright… I’m sorry if this ends up hurting you two, but it’s dark magic for a reason.”

As the circle begins to light up the floor and glows, Twilight’s eyes to the same as she raises her hands. The bucket floats into the air and scoops through Rainbow Dash’s body as if it were an illusion. When it was done, all the organs in the bucket were replaced with cotton from the body. Rainbow Dash’s wings fluttered from the bucket as well, and latched back onto their stumps with a loud gushy cracking noise. Pinkie Pie nervously asks, “Hey wait a minute, just how are we going to get my eye out of my he-EEEYAAAAH!” She screams in excruciating pain as an unknown force grips her eye and tugs on it, pulling it from her socket and tearing it at the stem.

She falls back on the ground, holding the socket as she sobbed and screamed in pain, the eye floating over to the ghost of Rainbow Dash. The specter gulps and says, “Whoa, creepy, it’s like it’s looking at my soul!” She paused for a moment and said, “Oh wait… That was stupid.” The stem stretches to an impossible length, and wraps around Rainbow Dash’s body, making her yelp in surprise. “The hell is this thing doing to me!?” The eye turns towards her body, and zips into it, dragging her along screaming. Her body’s eyes go wide and she gasps, sitting up in horror as she returns to the realm of the living completely intact. Well, aside from all the stitches.

Twilight crawls over as the light fades from the magic circle and her eyes. “Rainbow Dash, is that really you? Did it manage to work?”

Rainbow Dash smiles and nods saying, “It’s me alright Twilight. Damn it feels good to be alive again. My body feels a little weird, but I’m sure the tingling will pass.” She notices Pinkie still rolling around in pain, and they both rush over. “Oh my gosh, Pinkie, are you okay? We should get her to a hospital!”

Twilight scowls and says, “Wait a minute… why isn’t her socket bleeding if it hurts that much?”

Pinkie sobs and says, “It’s not my socket that hurts, it feels like something deeper! I don’t know what it is, but it burns!”

Rainbow Dash leans in close, peeking into the socket as if that might give her a better look, trying to figure out what was wrong with her friend. She blinks as a pink hand clasps around her throat, and she stares in horror as it was coming from Pinkie’s eye socket. She hacks and coughs and manages to spit out, “What is this?!”

Pinkie screams in terror and pain as her dark side pulls her nude form out of Pinkie’s head through the eye socket, a firm grip on Rainbow Dash. She brushes aside her hair to reveal she was missing the left eye too now, and she cackles with glee. “I warned you Rainbow Dash, in the end you only provided me with the means to get out! You have no idea about your connection to the other side! That’s why it had to be you, but you just had to go and ruin it, didn’t you? You all had to interfere with my plans and bring little Dashie back to life! Well, now I’ll just kill you all to save myself some effort!”

The pain Pinkie had been feeling was gone, and she quickly grabs her double and yanks her off Rainbow Dash, who fell backwards gasping for air into Twilight’s arms. Pinkie growls and says, “Who do you think you are?!”

The double elbows her in the gut, and throws her over her shoulder into the ground before her. “I am Wrath, of the seven deadly sins! It’s my mission to create a gateway for my allies! Now that I’m here, Pinkie Pie, you’ve exhausted your usefulness as a vassal.”

Pinkie rubs her head and struggles with balance to her feet, rushing for the kitchen. Wrath hisses and follows her, running into the kitchen to have a butcher knife thrown at her. “Eat this demon!”

Wrath catches it in her teeth with a giggle, and grabs the handle licking the side. “Ole.” Pinkie gulps and grabs a knife of her own, and rushes Wrath, pressing her blade into hers and shoving her back against the wall. She then goes through the kitchen doorway, and sprints for the stairs. Wrath cackles and gives chase saying, “Where do you think you’re going? Do you think you can run and hide from me? You’re only delaying the inevitable!”

Pinkie Pie rushes out onto the upstairs balcony, the rain pouring against her as she tried to find a way to get away. She squeaks and jumps to the side as Wrath slams her blade into the balcony railing. “Ha! Missed me, missed me, now you gotta kiss me!” Pinkie leaps into the dark copy, pressing her lips against the shocked creature’s own. By the time Wrath realized what she was doing it was too late, as they both went flying over the railing to the ground below. They hit the ground with a splash and a thud, Pinkie Rolling off of her completely fine but shaken up. She laughs and says, “So nice of you to cushion my fall.”

She gasps and stares in horror as Wrath stands up. Her head was twisted too far right and her arm bent in two places. Her arm cracks noisily back into place, and she grabs the sides of her face twisting her head back to face Pinkie. “That almost felt like a massage.”

Pinkie shivers in disgust, and strikes a stance with her blade, Wrath imitating with a smirk. They glared at each other as they rain rushed against them, the cloud creating a dark tone for their scene. They sprinted for each other, but the world seemed to flow in slow motion for Pinkie. She watched as the water splashed beneath their feet, and shattered against their blades. She jumped and twirled through the air, gaining some slight momentum as her blade slammed against Wrath’s. The clang was faintly heard over the roar of the rain as the blades sparked and splashed at the same time. Their blades danced, slamming against each other as they swung for each other. Wrath kicks Pinkie in the stomach, sending her flying backwards to the floor.

As she approached the downed Pinkie, her path was blocked by a familiar Pegasus who was still panting from her recent revival. She hacks up some cotton and says, “You want her, you have to go through me!” She leaps through the air, her right leg outstretched for Wrath’s chest, only to be caught by the ankle.

Wrath grins widely and says, “So nice of you to just offer yourself up like this Dashie! Better not let your little sacrifice go to waste!” She slams her knife into the side of Rainbow Dash’s knee, making it gush with blood as a loud crack of broken bone could be heard, inducing a horrified pain filled scream from the cyan pony.

Rainbow Dash glares and stomps her in the face with her free foot, making Wrath stumble back. “This pain is nothing compared to when you chopped off my wings bitch!” She grabs Wrath by the neck and the crotch, lifting her over head and slamming her head first into the ground, where Pinkie was waiting to stab her in the back.

Pinkie blinks as Wrath’s legs wrap around her neck, and she is thrown against Rainbow Dash. Wrath grips the ground and pushes off it, yanking the blade from her back as the wound sealed itself slowly. She twirls the two blades she now had and smirks at the girls. “Thanks, now it will just be easier to kill you two.”

Rainbow Dash bites her lower lip and says, “Twilight, we could use some help here!”

Twilight peeks from the front of her library, trying to keep to the cover from the branches of her tree. She was flipping through the book as she said, “I’m working on it! This wasn’t exactly covered in the ritual, it’s completely different! I need time!”

Pinkie Pie stands and picks up Rainbow Dash. “How good are you at dancing on a broken knee?”

Rainbow raises and eyebrow and says, “Well that was random! I got wings, remember? Don’t need my legs. I don’t see what that has to do with anything though.”

“Follow my lead!” Pinkie grabs her hands and strikes a tango pose. Wrath growls and begins to swing at them, only to find Pinkie twirling Rainbow Dash, and swinging her out of the way of her blades.

Wrath grits her razor sharp teeth and says, “Is this some kind of insult? Dancing around my attacks? Hold still and accept your death’s willingly!”

They continued to dance, until Wrath felt her blades yanked from her grip by magic. She turns around just into to watch as Twilight punches her fist into her eye socket. She howls in shock and pain as Twilight aims her palm at Pinkie. “Screw the book! I’m stopping you my own way! Now go back to the subconscious and stay there!”

Wrath and Pinkie glow, and their body’s writhed in pain as Pinkie rolled on the ground and Wrath tugged at her arm. “You fool, don’t seal me back in that goofy prison!” Wrath screamed and clawed at the arm tearing several gashes in it. “You son of a whore, I’ll get you for this! I’ll get all of you! You haven’t seen the last of meeeeee!” Her body rapidly disintegrates, flowing back into Pinkie’s eye socket before the glowing stopped and she was gone.

Pinkie pants and says, “Is it finally over, because I don’t know how much more damage to my happy I can take today!” She rubs her head, enjoying the feel of the rain as it quickly rinsed any sweat. “Twilight, you’re amazing. You managed to pull that off without any instructions?”

Twilight nods and falls on her side panting. “I have no idea what I was thinking, but it’s nice to know your okay.” Rainbow floats over, and Pinkie crawls, both helping Twilight to her feet. “That took so much out of me. I think I need a hospital.”

Pinkie laughs and says, “We all need a hospital right now Twilight!”

Rainbow sighs and nods in agreement. “Definitely… This will be a hell of a story for everyone. Minus gory details of course.” She shoots a glare to Pinkie who giggles nervously and begins to whistle innocently. “I can’t help but wonder what she meant by a lot of those things she said though. I’m kind of worried that won’t be the last we see of her.”

Twilight shakes her head and says, “I sealed her away in there, nothing’s bringing her back out. I don’t think we have to worry about Wrath anymore.”

“I’ve failed you master SIN. I alone was not enough, and I beg your forgiveness.” Wrath kneeled before a throne in a realm of shadows, a shrouded figure on the throne before her.

A hand reaches forward and strokes under her chin. “Fear not Wrath, for I am very entertained and pleased with your efforts. You’ve caused much pain and misery, and after all that’s what we are all about. We will have out time in the realm of the living, and next time we’ll all come to the surface. My seeds have been planted, and it’s only a matter of time now. It’s time for plan B, my lovely Wrath.”

Wrath blushes and presses into the hand, smiling as she said, “And just what is plan B master?”

SIN draws their hand back, holding their hands together as they said, “For now, we wait.”

Wrath frowns and lets the room grows quiet, shifting around a little before she asked, wait for what master?”

SIN simply replies, “For the right time to take action, my pet.”

Wrath glares and crosses her arms with a pout. “I hate this plan. It’s boring.”

End Prologue
Continued in Chapter 1: Army of SIN