It's About Time

by MIKEANTHONY321

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Dark
Length: 3237

Rainbow Dash's friends are sick of her gloating and self-centered habits, so they decide to hire her 'assassin'. Twilight is resentful.

Rainbow Dash's personality is based off of self-centered habits. She brags a lot, and likes to show off a lot. Her friends have tolerated it for a while, but are getting pretty sick of it, so they hire Lightning Dust to end her life.

EDIT: This story has been cancelled. I am terribly sorry about this. I have been backed up with the responsibility of school and my other stories. At the current moment, I am working on A Life-Changing Blessing, and I have strong ideas for two more Twilight's Experiments stories that I want to get started on soon. To be honest, this story was not one of my best ideas. :/

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-02-11 20:36:09 UTC

The Murder

       “Guys, stop and think for a second!   This is a really bad idea!”   Twilight Sparkle exclaimed.

       “It sounds like a pretty good idea to me!   We’re not the only ones who are annoyed by it!”   Applejack argued.

       “I think we should too.   I don’t like it when she teases me for not being able to fly well.”   Fluttershy added.

       “And the way she shows off in front of everypony with no remorse just angers me!   She reminds me of Trixie!”   Rarity chimed in.

       “You have to think this through!   She’s our friend, and if we did that to her, the Elements of Harmony would be disbanded!”   Twilight raved.

       Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie were gathered in Twilight’s library in the middle of the night for discussion.   The four had entered to lodge some complaints.

       “It doesn’t seem that being her friend makes a difference to her.   She treats us like acquaintances that she can brag to, and nothing more.”   Rarity explained.

       “Well, being the Element of Loyalty doesn’t necessarily mean being the nicest pony in Equestria.”   Twilight mentioned.

       “She can start by being decent!”   Rarity blurted.

       “Just stop it!   You can’t do that to her!”   Twilight responded.

       “That Lightning Dust pony she met at the Wonderbolt Academy wants to do it too.   She didn’t like it when she humiliated her.   Also, when me and Rarity go to the spa, we hear negative gossip about her coming from other ponies.”   Fluttershy added.

       Twilight put a hoof to her face.

       “There has to be at least one of you who still likes her enough to think this is a bad idea.”

       All four of them shook their heads.

       “What about you, Pinkie?   You haven’t said anything yet.”   Applejack asked.

       Pinkie shrugged.

       “I don’t really know why.   I just want to kill Rainbow Dash like the rest of you do.”

       Rarity loudly shushed her.

       “Not so loud, dear.   We don’t know if anyone is listening.”

       “What has gotten into you guys?!   You can’t just mindlessly kill our friend because she’s arrogant and self-centered!”

       “Well I think we’d all be better off without her.   And when I say that, I’m speaking for about half of Ponyville.”   Applejack stated.

       “What?”

       Applejack held up a petition for Twilight to see.   The document was peppered with about a couple hundred signatures, all from ponies she knew around town.   Even Scootaloo had signed the petition.   At the bottom, in big bold lettering, was Lightning Dust’s name.

       “How could all these ponies want Rainbow Dash dead?”   Twilight asked in awe.

       “How should we know?   Why don’t you ask them?”   Applejack responded.

       “I still remember the time when Trixie said she was better than everyone, and Rainbow said that was her job.   Then she just HAD to perform that water-droplet-rainbow trick that we’ve seen a million times.”   Rarity sighed.

       “And that time when she showed off after cheating at the Iron Pony Competition.   She kept claiming that she was way better than me, but she would’ve lost without her wings!”   Applejack added.

       “Oh, and her username on Mario Kart 7 is ImBetterThanU!”   Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

       Fluttershy smiled.

       “I like that game.”

       “Don’t you remember all the times she called you an egghead?   And when she made fun of you for wanting to join the Running of the Leaves?”   Applejack asked.

       Twilight had to admit that that was kind of annoying at times.   But it wasn’t worth killing her over!

       She sighed.

       “I will not allow it.   As long as I stand on four hooves, you will not be killing Rainbow Dash.”

       The four exchanged glances.

…………………………………………

       “Hey, what are you doing?!   Let me go!”

       Twilight struggled at the ropes that had her tied to a chair in the middle of the room.   Rarity consulted one of Twilight’s books, and had managed to cast an anti-magic bubble around her so she couldn’t use magic.

       “This is absurd!   Stop this!   It won’t benefit anyone!”

       “Don’t worry.   We’ll let you go when we’re done.”   Fluttershy promised.

       “Fluttershy!   Please tell them to stop!   Rainbow Dash couldn’t have done anything bad to you!”

       “Rainbow Dash doesn’t like me because I can’t fly well.   She would make fun of me at times.   And she tried to force me into attending that scary dragon migration.”

       “We’ll catch you later Twilight.”   Applejack said.

       “No!   Please!   Don’t harm Rainbow Dash!”

       Twilight struggled at her bonds as the four friends walked out the door into the cool night.

………………………………………

       The streets of Ponyville were dark and quiet.   A cool, moist fog hung in the air, giving the landscape an eerie appearance.   The four ponies walked through the streets to a designated rendezvous point.

       “Did you bring the bits, Rarity?”   Fluttershy asked.

       “Yes.   I have them right here.”

       Rarity used her magic to pull out a large pouch of bits out of her saddlebag.

       The four turned off the street and into a hidden alley.   There, they met up with a turquoise pegasus sporting a golden mane.

       “Hey guys, good to see you again.”   Lightning Dust greeted.

       “Are you sure you want to do this?   I mean, we could…”

       “Not a problem.   I’m going to enjoy giving that rainbow punk what’s coming to her.   Now let’s see those funds.”

       Rarity used her magic to levitate the bag of bits over to Lightning Dust.

       “Aw yeah!   Pleasure doing business with you!”

       Without giving them a chance to respond, Lightning Dust flew off toward Rainbow Dash’s house.

…………………………………………

       Approaching Rainbow Dash’s bedroom window, Lightning took out a glass cutter that she had bought for the occasion.   Looking inside, she saw Rainbow Dash peacefully sleeping on her bed.

       Being very careful not to wake her, Lightning pressed the cutter to the window, and made a very large circular incision in the glass.   When she had finished, the circular remain fell inward, and hit the floor with a thud.

       Lightning Dust gasped, and quickly ducked below the window.   Rainbow Dash snorted a little, and turned over on her side.

       Once the coast was clear, Lightning Dust climbed into the hole she had made, and had entered Rainbow Dash’s bedroom.   Wonderbolts posters were hung all over the walls.

       Lightning slowly tiptoed around to the other side of Rainbow Dash’s bed.   She grabbed one of the spare pillows, and walked back around to Rainbow Dash’s side.

       “Goodbye Rainbow Dash.”   Lightning whispered to herself.

       Lightning pressed the pillow to Rainbow Dash’s face, and pushed down with all her might.

       It didn’t take long for Rainbow Dash to wake up and figure out what was going on.   She began to kick her hooves around, and make muffled noises into the pillow.   She frantically flapped her wings.

       “Mmm, mmm!   Mmm!   Mmm!”

       Lightning Dust had a quick shimmer of doubt, but quickly discarded it.

       “This is for humiliating me back at the Wonderbolt Academy!”   She exclaimed.

       After a minute or two, Rainbow Dash suddenly stopped moving.   Her wings and hooves fell limp.

       Lightning Dust slowly removed the pillow.   Rainbow Dash’s face was completely unchanging.

       She brushed her hoof over Rainbow’s eyes, and they closed.   Rainbow Dash was dead.

       Lightning sighed, knowing her dastardly deed was complete.   She just had one question that stuck in her mind.

       “Why did Rainbow Dash’s friends pay me to kill her?”

…………

       Meanwhile, off in the distance, Discord lied on a cloud in view of Rainbow’s house, laughing.

       “Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing!”

       He snapped his fingers, and vanished.

To be Continued...

Author Notes:

I’m expecting this to receive a lot of dislikes.   And that’s perfectly okay.

For the record, although Rainbow Dash is my favorite pony, her arrogance sometimes annoys me.

Awakening

       Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack and Lightning Dust walked in the front door of Twilight’s library just as it had begun to storm outside.   Twilight looked up at them, and then looked away again.

       Applejack walked over to the ropes that were holding Twilight to her chair, and began to untie them.   Rarity took down the magic bubble that encased Twilight’s magic ability.

       “It’s alright, sugarcube.   It’s all over now.”   Applejack whispered.

       “How do you expect me to believe everything’s alright?!   You just…killed Rainbow Dash for no apparent reason!   No good reason, that is!”   Twilight exclaimed in reply.

       “I assure you, it was for the best.   There’s no reason to worry.”   Rarity added.

       “For the best?   Rarity, you wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for Rainbow Dash!   It doesn’t make sense to have killed her because she’s self-centered sometimes.   She just made it evident that she set high goals for herself.   She…she was our friend!”

…

       As Twilight said that last sentence, a dim light quickly flashed over the four friends’ foreheads.   They suddenly collapsed to the floor.

       Twilight and Lightning Dust gasped.

       “Hey, what’s going on?”   Lightning asked.

       Surprised, Twilight bent down in front of Fluttershy, and tried to shake her awake.   Lightning Dust did the same thing to Pinkie Pie.

       Just when it seemed that none of them would wake up, Twilight slapped Fluttershy.   She woke up with a start, along with the other three.

…

       They sat up and rubbed their heads.

       “Ugh……   What the hay?”   Applejack groaned.

       “What are we doing at Twilight’s house?”   Fluttershy asked.

       Twilight and Lightning were genuinely confused.

       “What are you talking about?   You don’t remember walking in here not five minutes ago?”   She asked.

       Fluttershy shook her head.

       “The last thing I remember was feeding Angel before I went to bed.   And the next thing I know, I’m right here with all of you guys.”

       Pinkie Pie looked around.

       “Speaking of which, where’s Rainbow Dash?”

       Twilight face-hoofed.

       “What is wrong with you guys?   You just paid Lightning Dust to kill Rainbow Dash, remember?”

…

       The four of them gasped loudly.

       “Rainbow Dash is dead?!?!?!”   They all exclaimed simultaneously.

       Twilight sighed.

       “If this is all just some big prank to make me believe you’re innocent, it’s not working.   You’re not off the hook!”

       “I’m serious Twilight, the last thing I remember is going to bed right after finishing a big dress order.”   Rarity explained.

       “But…but…that’s impossible.   You were just here earlier telling me that you were going to kill Rainbow Dash.   How can you not remember that?”

       “I dunno.”   Applejack added.   “The last thing I remember doing was sending Applebloom to bed after she returned home late from being with her friends.   The next thing I know, I’m in your library talking about how this happened.

       “Maybe we were under some kind of spell!”   Pinkie suggested.

…

       There was a small amount of silence as the whole gang thought about the possibility of Pinkie’s suggestion.

…

       “You know Pinkie, for the first time, I think your suggestion actually makes sense.”

       “Yay!   I’m right!”   She exclaimed.

       “But we don’t know that yet.   Sure it makes sense, but we have to consider every possibility.   If you guys were really under a spell, we have to know who cast it, why they would do such a thing, why the entire town was also affected, and why Lightning Dust wasn’t affected.”   Twilight explained.

       Lightning Dust shuffled nervously.

       “Actually, I have a confession to make.   I wasn’t actually under any spell this whole time.   I actually wanted Rainbow Dash dead.”

       The five of them stared at Lightning Dust as if they were seeing her for the first time.   She shrugged awkwardly.

………………………………………….

       Meanwhile, on a nearby hill overlooking the town, Rainbow Dash stood in the pouring rain, angrily staring down at the library.

To be Continued…

Author Notes:

Short chapter, I know.   I just used this as a mechanism to totally turn this story on its axis!   Hopefully the twisted continuation of this former short story will get those likes to rise a little bit!

Uncontrolled Rage

       Later that night, after the four friends had left to get their much-needed sleep, Twilight stayed up to do some late-night studying.   She had promised them that she would look into brainwashing spells, and find out who could’ve tricked them into killing Rainbow Dash.

       While she was working, however, there was a knock on the door.

       “Who could possibly be at my door at this hour?”

       Twilight trudged over to the door, opened it to greet her visitor, and nearly jumped out of her skin.

       “Twilight, can we talk?”   Rainbow Dash asked sternly.

       “R…Rainbow Dash?!   How in Equestria are you alive?!   This is not scientifically possible!”   Twilight stammered.

       Rainbow Dash gave her a suspicious glare.

       “How do YOU know about my attempted murder?   Were you in on it?”

       Rainbow’s glare along with the gravity of the situation was making Twilight sweat bullets.   Rainbow Dash was either a zombie, or……alive.   Actually alive.

       “Uh, no.   Of course not!”

       Rainbow gave her an even tougher stare.

       “Earlier in the night, Lightning Dust broke into my house and tried to suffocate me.   I could tell it was her because of the sound of her voice and the fact that she said I humiliated her at the Wonderbolt Academy.   How could you know about this?”

       “Listen, I would never want to kill you, or any other pony in existence.   Our four friends came into my house, and told me that they were going to kill you because you annoyed them.   I tried to stop them, but they tied me up and put a magic bubble around me.   I think they were brainwashed or something!”

       Rainbow Dash snarled.   She turned around, and stormed out the door.

       “Rainbow Dash, wait!”

       It was too late.   By the time Twilight had followed her out the door, she had already flown away.

…………………………………………

       Fluttershy was just climbing up the stairs to finally get some rest for the night.   Everything had been taken care of.   She had fed Angel, gotten all the other pets situated for the night, and cleaned the house.   She was more than ready for sleep.

       Suddenly, her front door was kicked right off the hinges with a deafening crack.   Fluttershy squealed, and put her hooves over her head.

       “Fluttershy, where are you?”

…

       Fluttershy was surprised.   She recognized that voice anywhere.

       “Rainbow Dash, is that you?   I can’t believe you’re alive!”   She exclaimed.

       “Save me the crap, Fluttershy.   Why’d you do it?”   Rainbow snapped.

       Fluttershy flinched at Rainbow’s angry response.

       “Do what?   What’d I do?   Oh, please don’t be mad at me!”

       “It’s a little too late for that, Fluttershy.   Why did you pay Lightning Dust to kill me?   I thought you loved me!”

       Fluttershy blushed a little.

       “Rainbow Dash, it’s not like that.   I don’t remember doing any of that!”

       “Then how come Twilight told me that all of you were in on my attempted murder?”

       “She suggested that we were all brainwashed or something.   She’s looking into it right now.   The only one of us that actually wanted you dead was Lightning Dust.”

       “Lightning Dust?   Oh, when I get my hooves on her……”

       “Please stop being angry!   Just be glad you’re still alive, because I know I am.”

       “You know me, Fluttershy.   When someone like her threatens someone like me, it’s going to get ugly.”

       Fluttershy sighed.   It wasn’t going to be easy to convince her that violence isn’t the answer.

       “So you’re sure that you or any of the others besides Lightning Dust don’t remember trying to kill me?”   Rainbow asked.

       “Yes, I’m sure.”

       Rainbow sighed.

       “Okay then, I believe you.   Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go dislocate Lightning Dusts’ skull.”

       Before Fluttershy could stop her, Rainbow Dash swung around in one step, and walked out the door.

…………………………………………

       Lightning Dust warily looked out all of the windows to make sure no one was watching her.   After she did this, she closed all the blinds and turned off all the lights.   She locked both the front door and the back door.

       With Rainbow Dash dead now, the authorities would certainly be on her case.   She wasn’t sure how they would track her down over a pillow-suffocating incident, but she had to be as secure as possible.

       “Now I just have to lay low until this whole thing blows over…”   She sighed to herself.

       She trudged over to the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee.   She planned on getting little sleep over the next couple weeks just to be sure nothing happens to her.

       For a moment, she felt like she was being a little too paranoid about this whole thing.   She just shrugged it off, and tried to reassure herself.

       She glanced over to the pouch of bits that rest on the dining room table, and smiled.   It must’ve been a big hassle for that group of friends to work up fifteen-hundred bits just so she could kill Rainbow Dash.   In her opinion, Rainbow Dash was worth way less than that.

…

       There was a very loud knock at the door.   Lightning Dust froze.

       A few seconds later, there was another knock, although this one was more like a pound.   Lightning Dust opened one of the kitchen drawers, and pulled out a very large steak knife.   It was a very rare belonging that she only kept in case of dangerous moments like this one, considering that ponies don’t eat meat.

       Very slowly and carefully, Lightning Dust approached the front door.   She grabbed the knob, turned it ever so quietly, and opened the door.

…

       Lightning’s jaw went slack, and she dropped the steak knife.

       “Hey, Lightning Dust.   Did you miss me?”   Rainbow Dash exclaimed through gritted teeth.

       “R…R…Rainbow Dash?   H…how are you…”

       “Oh, shut up.   Please save me the trouble of having to answer your petty question.”

       “But this is impossible!   You should be dead!”

       “Well, apparently I’m still standing, so that can’t possibly be true.”

       “I watched you die with my own two eyes!”   Lightning Dust exclaimed.

       “You listen to me, you pathetic incompetent little freak.   You DIDN’T get the job done.   I realized what was going on, and decided to fake my death.   That whole thing where my body suddenly went limp?   I did that on purpose.   Looks like you forgot to check my pulse!”

       Lightning Dust was without words.   She stuttered, and nervously shuffled with her hooves.

       “And now it’s time for some vice versa.”   Rainbow stated threateningly.   She slowly advanced toward Lightning Dust, who was backing away at the same pace.   Rainbow picked up the steak knife, laughing hysterically.

To be Continued…

Author Notes:

This’ll be fun……>:)

Don't worry, no ponies will be harmed in the upcoming chapters......yet.