Psychosis Is Magic

by The Canterlot Caper

Rating: mature
Tags: Tragedy, Dark
Length: 7887

When someone reawakens a horrible childhood memory, Fluttershy vows vengance.

As a child, she had not been much of a talker. It appeared as if she had no talents. She didn't interact with the children of Cloudsdale, and was considered by most of them as simply strange. Ridicule ensues, and revenge is had. The memories are lost after a concussion, but memories don't simply vanish. Their effects linger on, and when memories are suppressed and then suddenly released, mental instability shall follow. The case does not change for Fluttershy, and this becomes apparent in Psychosis Is Magic.

BTW, First fanfic. (I decided to continue it because I had gotten as bored as I was when I wrote this and the story didn't seem to be complete by the time Chapter one was over. :)

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-01-22 18:27:36 UTC

Chapter 1

Psychosis Is Magic

[Grimdark is MAGICAL]

  NOTE:Contains somewhat graphic violence and swearing, read at your own    risk. Written by two exorbitantly bored individuals. Also we are not responsible for any psychological or other manner of harm; or roid-rage that people receive from reading this.

   Authors: Omniscient Harbinger of War

      Part One: “Childhood Blues”

“A dash of anger; a bit of pain; The result is you becoming insane.”

“As a child, I had not been much of a talker myself. As a matter of fact, I almost never made a peep. I never talked to anybody, never did anything wrong, and was seen as a perfect student by a teachers standards. Which brings me back to my childhood classes...”

         During Fluttershy’s childhood she was extremely shy and rather anti-social. It was a well known fact that she was talentless, flightless, an isolationist, and this was seen as strange and threatening by other pegasi in the school. They saw it threatening because she had always sat and stared out at the other children playing. Her fellow peers rumored that she was malevolent, while others simply had the impression that she was a mute. Both ideas were wrong, obviously. She was a kind pegasus as a child, and had no need (in her eyes) to interact with any other pegasi. This coupled with her seemingly talentless personality resulted in ridicule whenever a chance came up. After years and years of being picked on by other students, at the time she had reached the Pegasus equivalent of Middle school, she was at wits end.

  At one point during summer flight camp, Rainbow Dash, and two colts named Hoops and Dumb-Bell respectively, had a race over a dispute that had occurred earlier. To try and destroy her previous reputation as the silent creepy one that interacted with nopony, she partook in the race by holding the flag to start it. She was simply a flag holder, but it did show that she was willing to participate in group activities and could be accepted by the group. This only resulted in her falling off the cloud she was stationed on. This was life changing for her, as she discovered her talents finally, but for the other students, it was seen as an opportunity to ridicule her even more than before. She took quite a long time to make her way back up to the altitude that she had been at, not because she was bad at flying, but because she had discovered her talent and was simply having fun.

  However, upon getting back up to the altitude she had been on, she was confronted by a filly who Fluttershy had disliked immensely for years. Storm was her name, and she was one of the more aggressive pegasi that was in the camp. She had not come alone as normal however, and had a large group of young fillies behind her. All of them had the same baleful grin as the one in front of them and they seemed to be standing in shadows...

        “I remember that day clearly... After five minutes of constant beating from the group, I was reduced to a gory pulp drowning in my own blood. I was only a young filly, and I had felt as much pain as anypony who had lived their full lives... This was the day where I snapped.”

  Fluttershy had enough. She thought to herself, clearly becoming insane, “If everypony hates me, then they must go... The torment they cause.... a maelstrom of misery is introduced to me from the day I am born and it is ceaseless! Years upon years of this... shit... I’ve had enough. It all has to end!”. She acted upon this thought with swift efficiency. Later after some careful planning and trickery; within the dark corners of her basement, Storm was trapped and beaten as bad as she had beaten Fluttershy. Looking down into the puddle of blood that was forming, her eyes pierced into the mind of Storm and sensed her pain. “Do you see..?” she asked with a grin.

  “...What?” Storm replied in a weak, near-death voice. She was lying in a puddle of blood, every moment releasing a faint breath that caused a ripple in the crimson pool.

  “This is what I feel... I’ve... Always wanted to be friends with someone... But you...” Fluttershy explained. She stopped. Reeling back her hind legs, she kicked Storm in the head and out came purple and red liquids that splattered against the dark cloud walls. “You never stopped... but now you will. They aaalll will...” she said with a frown, quickly reaching down into the corpse and pulling out entrails, moving them into a plastic container she had on the side. She took the remains to a remote field away from the city of clouds and grinned as she dumped the remains into a stream on the ground below. Fluttershy appeared to have an unknown talent. She was a killer. A silent, swift, and efficient murderer who could cover her steps as quickly as she took them. She stopped while dumping the remains. She looked around for a moment, noticed the blood, and slumped to the ground.

  “What... did I do?” she questioned herself. She began to cry and took off into the nearby forest. She had found a location overlooking the large field to settle, and as the sun set, she began to stop crying. She simply stared off into the setting sun, expressionless and empty. “I must put this all behind me. Never speak of it again. Forget...” she said to herself. She began to beat her head against a rock, splattering blood upon the floor. “Forget! Forget!” she screamed as she beat herself unconscious. Darkness clouded her vision, and night settled in...

  She woke in a sweat, ignorant of what happened. She had appeared within a hospital, and was told to calm down by a dark figure, and that she had had some sort of fall. Her vision was obscured by bandages that had been put over her eyes and head to stop the bleeding that was due to a concussion caused by the “Fall”. “May I... remove these, please?” She heard a reply. “Yes, you may. But first, do you feel pain? Not simple pain, but severe headaches?” the dark figure asked. “No...” she replied as she removed the bandages. There she saw a young mare in doctors clothing. “Now then, my name is Dr. Vela. I am your doctor, and I have been making sure you were okay for quite some time now. You have been under for a while! Whats the count here..?” She said as she reached down and grabbed a clipboard off the bed and began to analyze it. “Ah yes. You have been out for a clean 3 days!” she said in a gleeful cheer. “But now you are okay, so I’ve done my job correctly!” she said with a smile. “Your schoolmate Rush, I believe his name to be, came over recently and left you schoolwork that you have missed. He seemed rather down about your dilemma.” she said with a slight sigh. “You should be better in a day or two. As for schoolwork, Rush has been dropping by every day and leaving school work here. I am sure he will be delighted that you are awake again.” she said with a smile. She then put the clipboard down beside Fluttershy, on a nightstand beside the hospital bed.

  “Why would anyone want to see me?” Fluttershy asked herself. She had forgotten about the incident due to the concussion and was confused as to what happened. She had never even heard the name Rush. She quickly shrugged off the new questions and realized the time was only four in the morning. She decided she would not go to sleep again until later that night, but that she would simply do some of the school work that had been left for her. She had always paid very nice attention in school and quickly had the work done within a good 3 hours. She was stuck in the bed bored until 5 o’ clock when she heard a knock at the door. In walked a pegasus with a thin, tall posture and dark brown hair. He walked to the nightstand and put the books down and then looked over at Fluttershy and jumped back when he noticed her green eyes staring back. They both stared at each other, unknowing of what to do. “Erm... Hi.” Fluttershy said in her usual shy voice. Rush simply stared back, obviously as shy as her. “Uhm... Hello.” he said with a slight smile. He then turned around and began to walk away and with a quick glance back, he said “Goodbye, I will see you tomorrow.” with a slight grin. He was then gone. Fluttershy only wondered who he was and how he knew her, and then decided to stop trying and get some sleep that isn’t induced through head trauma.

Part 2: “Revival of an Old habit”

“After a while; she regains her thought

But soon she will lose all for what she fought.”

  After many years had past, Fluttershy had become a young adult. She had made quite a few friends over the years and moved to a small house on the outskirts of Ponyville. Her life had pretty much become straightened out now, and due to the concussion as a child, she had forgotten all about what she had done. Her insane personality was now under a shroud of kindness. She remembers very little of the hospital, save for Rush, which she had become good friends with. He stuck around for a few years, and then he disappeared off the face of Equestria. She has given up on any hope to see him again. But, as stated many times by ponies of all kinds, life goes on. This was extremely obvious in Fluttershy, as she seemed to be constantly happy these days. This however, would come to pass, just as all things must end...

  It was the day of the gala. She had made it into the gala by becoming friends with a young mare known as Twilight Sparkle, who was the apprentice of Celestia herself. Her intentions at the gala were to view the spectacular sights and sounds of the garden that surrounded the location of the gala. This included making friends with the animal inhabitants. But whenever she would approach an animal, she would find nothing. Just the rage that was filling her when she did not receive what she wanted from the animals. A scene ensued where she bashed through the door, animals running in fear, screaming “YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE ME!” in a psychotic manner. Of course no one would ignore that! She received blank stares and raised eyebrows across the ballroom. But in the meantime, her other friends were also causing problems of their own. Just as what had happened with Fluttershy, their goals at the gala had completely failed or backfired on them. The combination of their mistakes and failures had caused chaos and disorder at gala and ruined the gala for everypony who was there. Once it was over, they had generally just ignored the entire event. That was until two weeks had passed, and Fluttershy was confronted by a group of ponies that had been at the gala...

        Fluttershy did not know or understand why these ponies would be here, but she did recognize a pegasus in a lilac dress and charcoal mane. The Mare had been at the gala, but they had not met and had only noticed one another during the commotion caused by Fluttershy and her friends. “You there!” stated the Mare with an ireful tone. Aghast, Fluttershy sheepishly inquired “Uhm... me?”. The Mare now had a vexed look on her face as she nodded her head and said “Yes you, we need to have a nice little discussion”. Fluttershy dreaded the thought of what it might be about as the Mare begin walking closer to her. Her thoughts were now filled with much trepidation and she tried to run away, but found herself frozen and unable to move while being surrounded by the group. The Mare then spoke out at her in scornful tone “You insufferable little bitch! Do you have any idea what you have done?”. Fluttershy baffled by what she was talking about and frightened by her manner was beginning to drift once more into the abyss of insanity.

“That gala is a once in a fucking lifetime deal that we managed to get into, but you and your fuckfest of a group of friends had to waltz in an fuck it up for everyone! What kind of fucking asshole ruins something like this for everyone?” she screamed as the grouped closed ever closer in on Fluttershy. “Wha- what? I- I didn’t- But-” Fluttershy began to stutter, trying to get out of the situation she had managed to get herself into. The group began to get even closer now, some beginning to reel back their hooves in preparation for an attack. “P-Please! No!” Fluttershy wailed in horror, interrupted as a hoof slammed down against the side of her head. “You ruined the Gala for us, so were going to ruin you!” screamed the charcoal pegasus. She then lifted her hoof and pushed down into Fluttershy’s side, causing a small streak of skin to lift off of the flesh and muscle, leaving a splatter of blood on the ground beside her. As this was happening, Fluttershy began to think about what was happening, and in the process of deciphering the event, she began scrambling through every thought and in the process unsealed a portion of her memory which had remained dormant for many years. This effectively caused her to return to her once relatively distant state of insanity. Being covered by the curtains of insanity, rage filled every fiber of her being, and in a moment, she jumped up and began to grab the ‘leader’ of the group by the throat. “You fucking cunt! What the fuck makes you believe you can simply walk over here and confront me? You just fucking signed your death warrant!” she screamed in a indignant rage as she threw her to the ground. This was very surprising to the group surrounding her, and caused all of them to back up in horror as Fluttershy began to beat the other pegasus into a bloody pulp. “I am going to let you leave, but watch the fuck out. I will ALWAYS be fucking watching you. You can’t fucking hide from what is going to happen to you! Now get the hell out of here before I fucking drop your smug fucking ass you cunt!” Fluttershy shouted in spiteful fury. The pegasus’ charcoal mane was now coated with a crimson liquid that streaked down in jagged lines. She began to run while Fluttershy shouted a variety of indecencies and vulgar threats to the group behind, and the mob began to disperse, leaving a broken and evil Fluttershy in the dust.

  Fluttershy began to walk off to her house, her hooves coated in blood. Upon opening her door she began to hear faint whispers in the shadows. “Who the fuck is there?!” she screamed. “Why... It’s only a friend. We mean no harm to you. We saw what happened out there. We would like to offer our... services... to you, dear.” stated a stallion’s voice. It sounded familiar and oddly soothing. Fluttershy’s hyperventilating began to cease and she began to become calm once more, and she sat down. Out of the shadows came an even more familiar face with dark brown hair and a thin and tall posture. She remembered him. “Rush?” she inquired as he began to walk slowly towards her. “Yes. Shocker, isn’t it? Not really. I mean, you had to have known that you would see me again, right? Well, as you can obviously tell, my life has been quite busy recently, and I apologize for any inconveniences I may have caused when I left. I was inducted into... this. What is “This” you ask? Well, I am talking about the E.E.O or the Equestrian Extermination Organization. Basically, we are the peacekeepers for Equestria. The guards you see Celestia employ are merely for show. The have very few skills, and are there simply scare off anyone who may cause any harm. We, however, are the true peacekeepers. We were founded over a thousand years ago, focused on assassination of high value targets that are given to us by people willing to pay a decent amount of money, food, or other product. However, when Luna began to have her fucking period and fucked up the cycle of day and night, we began to “Help” Celestia by eliminating insurgents that were taking orders from Luna. This was generally kept a secret, and very few who knew about us managed to survive the day they found out. Our deal with Celestia allows us to continue operations under her name, so long as we provide military aid for her.” Rush explained with a slight smile.

  “And? What do you want from me, Rush?” asked Fluttershy, gleeful to the fact she was reunited with her friend, but at the same time was disturbed for his reason of return. “Well, we understand your dilemma with that bitch that you just beat. Well, we know a lot about her. We know a lot about everyone! Your friends; We know everything about them, too! We can carry out an order against her under your commands, if you so choose. We can do just about anything, too.” Rush explained with exuberance and a blissful grin. “I want you... to bring her to me. Put her in my basement. Beat her a little bit. SCARE her; make her quiver in fear when she views me walking into the room. I want to be the one that gets the satisfaction of killing her. It’ll do my heart good to get some fresh blood on the mind. How much do your services cost?” Fluttershy inquired. “Well... Seeing as your request requires US to go out, capture her, somehow bring her here without being detected, and put out the physical labor to beat her into a pulp for you, I would bet on a number around 5000 Bits. HOWEVER; Seeing as you are a welcomed friend of me, I can get the price down to around 500! Which, seeing as you have plenty of bits right now, is a fine number, no?” explained Rush. Fluttershy sat, pondering the possibilities, and then agreed. “I suppose that is a fine price. But I will require some items to... personalize the experience.” she said while writing some of the things she needed on a piece of paper on her coffee table. After she finished writing she handed the list to Rush, he carefully examined it and then nodded in agreement with it. “I could do this. Your payment will be asked for soon by an associate. Likely someone you know. Simply hand them over a bag with the payment of 500 bits and we will carry out the order with efficiency.” Rush explained as he shoved the list into a satchel he had. He then turned around and began to walk into the shadows once more, turning around and smiling as the darkness covered his form.

  Fluttershy did not reveal herself for a short while, and then managed to swallow her anger and hatred and go outside once more. For two weeks she waited for someone to confirm that the order was acknowledged by the E.E.O., but no such pony came. She had all but given up hope that she would ever get a chance to kill the person who reignited her insanity, but was surprised when Rainbow Dash walked into her house one evening. “Some guy outside asked me to get something from you. I’m not sure why, but he asked me to tell you that your ‘Order was approved.’ But before you give me the thing he wants, why have you been acting so strange lately? Does it have something to do with him?” inquired Rainbow Dash. “Nothing is wrong, Rainbow. Don’t worry, I am just feeling a little under the weather lately. How is your pet doing?” asked Fluttershy, while pulling out the bag of bits from behind the cushions of her couch. “Well, he is doing fine. But seriously, what’s wrong? You are trying to hide something.” Explained Rainbow Dash, confused and disapproving of her attempt at covering up her feelings. Fluttershy did not answer, only giving a slight frown as she stared into Rainbow Dashes crimson eyes. “Well... He told me to give you this fold of paper in return for this bag.” she said as she pointed towards the bag Fluttershy was already extending out to her. Rainbow Dash handed the slip of paper to Fluttershy and walked out with the bag and handed it to the stallion outside.

Fluttershy opened the slip of paper and saw what was written down

and began to analyze the paper, deciphering the message.

ACT:CPTR, CARINA, B: 2:30 PM, FLUTTERSHY 236103B, RUSH 124324

She then began to ponder even more at what the message meant, and quickly understood the message. Action: Capture Carina at 2:30 PM For client 236103B (Fluttershy) by agent 124324 (Rush). She realized why they had put it down in this format. It was very simple, actually. It was simply to make sure Rainbow Dash would not understand the message and would not know what would happen. She stared at the note for hours, thinking of the name Carina. Night began to creep upon Ponyville, and she sat in the dark for hours, staring blankly at the floor. She began to nod off, and fell asleep.

Part 3: “A Blood Symphony to Remember”

And now she drifts further into the abyss,

She carries out evil work,

With a slight evil smirk,

She leaves the setting dark and amiss.

After time had passed, and the payment had been processed, Fluttershy awoke one morning to Rush standing in the corner. “Hello, Fluttershy! Good morning! Would you care to follow me?” He gleefully asked as he began to walk down stairs. “Did you do it? Is she here?” Fluttershy asked in excitement as the two walked down the stairs and began towards the basement. “Why yes! And I am sure you will be extremely pleased with the torment Carina is in right now! She is scared shitless, I assure you! You will have plenty of fun ending her life, I am sure.” Rush explained with exuberance. They entered the basement and found a table strewn with medical equipment, weapons, and various foods; as per Fluttershy’s list. A confused Carina was locked in chains at the other side of the basement. She noticed the two figures, but could not tell who they were. She then saw one of the figures step forward slowly, and inch by inch as the figure approached the already badly traumatized mare began to wail and scream. “LET ME GO, PLEASE!” she said with very obvious horror and dismay. Fluttershy then spoke to the terrified mare “ Guess who?”. Carina immediately recognized the voice as sheer terror shot out of her eyes and as Fluttershy stepped out from the eerily lit dark   sanguine shadows she could see the unrelenting hatred and sadism in Fluttershy pierce through her soul as the bloodthirsty mare approached her. “I’m here for that death warrant you fucking whore.” Fluttershy then had Rush bring forth the table with the various instruments of despair. “Hmm.... I wonder what I should inflict upon you first” stated Fluttershy as she sifted through the medical equipment on the table. Carina was still wailing indiscernibly. Fluttershy then turned to Carina and said in a fit of rage “Do you know how to shut up you stupid bitch?” she then kicked her in the face, causing blood and bits of flesh to fly off. Carina remained whimpering, but mostly silent after the massive concussion had been deliver by the kick. “That's better” said Fluttershy as she grinned eerily at the bloodied mare. She then began to pull out a small glimmering surgical knife and a forcep and began to examine the horrified mare. “Hmm... How about here?” pointing to Carina’s heart. The mare began to panic once more, but was swiftly kicked again. Fluttershy then made deep incisions into the  gloomily and depressed mare’s chest. Carina then let out a bloodcurdling shriek as Fluttershy drew the blade across her chest making a perfectly square incision that was dripping with blood. Fluttershy then pealed off the crimson flesh and muscle tissue from the incision leaving only bone, entrails, and a beating heart. “Now you’ll know the insufferable torment that you have caused me you fucking worthless piece of shit!” Before Carina realized it Fluttershy had disposed of the red and silver medical instruments and had before her a small leather bag. She then reached into the bag pulling out salt “Oh... This will make you hurt bitch!” She then threw the salt onto the open areas of flesh around Carina’s wound causing her to shriek even more than before from the agonizing pain caused by her wounds. Fluttershy then took to get a different instrument; a hammer. She once again approached the mare in anguish and said in a sadistic and abhorring tone “ I’m going to fucking rip your soul apart!” Fluttershy then began using the back-end of the hammer to slowly crack and rip off each one of Carina’s ribs. With each rib broken, a shriek was released that caused Rush to cringe as the blood splattered onto the floor beside the mare. With the perverted sound of each rib cracking, Fluttershy said cheerfully to her self with increasing hatred as each bloody bone snapped “I...  AM... GOING.... TO... SEND.... YOUR.... STUPID..... POSH.... ARROGANT.... SMUG..... BITCH... FACE... TO... A... PIT.... OF.... FUCKING..... FIRE!”. The last crack was almost as deafening as the cry that followed, and caused Rush to jump with glee at the violence. Fluttershy looked back at the table and grabbed a surgical saw from the table. Holding it up, light from a nearby candle caused it to shimmer and fear raced through Carina. Her heart began to pump with increased frequency when the saw slowly began to descend upon her wing. Upon contact, the cold, metallic feeling of the blade began to cut its way into her flesh, down to the bone. With each pull back, Carina let out a scream, and with each push, the bone inside of her wing twisted forward. After she had cut through the wing, she grabbed the detached appendage and lifted it to Carina’s face. “Do you see this? It’s part of you! It’s not attached to you though. We can fix that!” explained Fluttershy with a malevolent grin. She lifted it up and thrusted downward. Within a moment, the bone had lodged itself in between her lungs and beside her spinal cord, effectively securing a position within her torso.

        “Hm... I wonder what would happen if I did this...” Fluttershy said as she pulled out a small knife. “If I cut here...” she said as she made a large gash through Carina's lower thigh, over her cutie mark, and slightly behind her tail. “And then made a cut here...” Fluttershy stated while creating another cut into Carina’s thigh. At this point, Carina was crying in an overwhelming squeal, and with that, Rush walked over and put his hoof over her mouth, smacking down and causing blood to spurt out of her nose. “Now to remove this...” Fluttershy said with a smirk, beginning to cut away the skin. Carina was now writhing in pain, and suddenly let out an extreme shriek that could be heard through Rush’s hoof. A nerve was now sticking out of her skin, blood oozing out around it, and the skin in an awkward tangle. With a swift motion, Fluttershy began to pull on the nerve, pulling it out of Carina’s body. Carina began to scream as loudly as ever, and rush began to scream at her to shut up. Fluttershy only stood back, analyzing the flap of skin she had in her hand. She turned around and after about a minute, she revealed what she had done with the skin. It now formed an origami figure of a swan and Fluttershy released a squeal of joy and began to play with the new found toy. Carina’s eyes widened at the sight, and Rush simply looked down at her and laughed. Fluttershy put down her toy and began to smile. She reeled her hooves back to release a mighty kick, but was instead amused by Carina’s reaction.

  Fluttershy began to laugh as she noticed Carina loosing her sanity as she tried to escape from the shackles. Despite the wing being shoved near her spine, she retained full use of her legs and could still feel pain. Fluttershy walked over to the table. On it was a bag of candy from the Sugarcube corner bakery. “Ah. These candies are extremely hot. Spicy for anypony! The hottest candy in all of Equestria! Do you want to know where it is going?” she asked with a smile. Carina shook her head, trying to look away, but immediately looked back when she felt her pelvis opening up. Fluttershy was using a large knife to cut open a gash in her pelvis. Blood was gushing out at an alarming rate, and Carina began to lose consciousness. Fluttershy, disapproving of this action, pulled the wing out of her chest and smacked Carina’s head with it. This resulted in her quickly becoming aware of the situation, and with that, Fluttershy began to eat the spicy candy. After a short moment, she pulled the candy out of her mouth, and shoved it into Carina’s open wound. The candy, covered in wet cinnamon, caused her to wail, shriek, and convulse. She quickly vomited, which was seen by Fluttershy as a chance for more violence. She grabbed Carina’s head and forced her to look at the vomit. “Do you see what you did to my floor? That’s going to take forever to clean!” she screamed in anger as she smashed Carina’s head into the wall behind her. Fluttershy reeled Carina’s head back and forth into the wall while making gestures for Rush to clean the vomit up with a rag. After the vomit was absorbed by the rag, Fluttershy took it and jammed it into Carina’s mouth. She began to gag, but Fluttershy quickly caused her to shift attention to another cause of pain.

  “Get me the tubing!” shouted Fluttershy to Rush. Rush quickly and gleefully obliged and handed her a long clear tube. Fluttershy began to carefully thread it through her Intestinal track and began to smile when she was almost complete. She looked up at Carina, who was watching every movement Fluttershy took. “Aww... Whats the matter? Feeling down? Well, I’ve got some animals that could really use some company!” Fluttershy shouted with exhilaration, opening a cage to the side. Out came a small rabbit, which Fluttershy quickly held up to Carina’s face. Carina for a moment was shocked, but began to quiver in fear as she saw that the rabbit was foaming at the mouth. Fluttershy smacked the rabbit against the head and firmly placed it into Carina’s torso. Carina screamed and kicked in horror and anguish as the rabbit began to savagely consume her insides. It was eating her kidney, causing blood to squirt out into the air, which landed on the surgical equipment table. Fluttershy grabbed the tubing and pulled back hard, and with that, intestines and entrails began to follow along the tube which had been threaded into her body. Almost instantly, Carina was unconscious.

      Part 4: “Fracturing Reality”

      “Writhing in pain

No longer sane...

Fighting for life?

End your strife

Face the light,

accept your plight

Face defeat

Don’t try to retreat.

Fluttershy does not go easy.

You see this as teasing.

So close to death...

But so far away...”

  Carina woke up in her bed at home. She was in a sweat, tearing at what a dream she had. She was unsure if she was alive or not, and then began to look around. It was her room, the room she had woke up in only yesterday. She didn’t feel pain of any sort, and she did not recognize anything wrong. She came to the conclusion that she was fine. But as she walked downstairs, she saw the corpses of her parents brutally murdered on the floor. Their entrails were splattered on the wall, and their blood covering the room in a thin blanket. Carina jumped back in horror. “What happened?! Why?!” as she ran to the scene. As she neared the bodies, they jumped upwards. They began to whisper ceaseless vulgarities and swears and began to pull out weapons. Within a moment, she was being enclosed by bones and flesh that used to be her parents. Darkness...

  She stared around for a moment, quivering in fear. Ecstatic when a light appeared, her joy was quickly replaced by a dreadful fear when Fluttershy appeared. She began to go on whispering strange things into Carina’s ears, but still impossible to decipher. She then was jerked forward, and her eyes shut. She opened them and appeared once again in the dark confines of the cellar she had been in before. “Shit...” she said with a faint breath, unable to find the strength to move her mouth. Fluttershy approached her and pulled out a large shard of metal. She began to cut open Carina’s leg and pulled off her cutie mark, looked at them for a moment, and threw them onto the floor beside her. “So... you’re finally awake? Well then. Now we can get down to business. I assume you want to see your family again? For the last time before you die? Well, you’ve been asleep long enough that we have had the chance to get them for you!” Fluttershy said with a large grin. She moved to the side, revealing the corpses of three young Mares and one large Stallion hanging from the wall, impaled on large hooks. Carina quickly mustered up strength and began to stare at Fluttershy, anger filling every fiber in her body. She was trying to get close to Fluttershy to try and bite her as hard as possible to try and harm her with whatever strength she had left. Of course this failed and was seen as a threat, and thus was quickly and efficiently subdued. Fluttershy grinned. “So you’re trying to bite now, are you? Well, I guess that just means we have to remove your teeth.” she explained with a smirk. She pulled out a pair of pliers and began to slowly move them towards her mouth.

  Carina tried to keep her mouth shut, and was actually succeeding at first, but Fluttershy pulled out a large needle filled with a strange fluid. She jammed it into her jaw and quickly pushed down on the back, the liquid filled Carina’s veins. Her muscles began to relax, which forced her jaw to open. She began to sweat as Fluttershy began to clamp onto her front teeth. With a quick jerk backwards, the tooth was removed, with a long strand of nerves hanging out of the bottom. Fluttershy began to poke the nerves, joyfully laughing as Rush began to push the table towards the scene. Fluttershy put the tooth on the table and began to remove the rest of Carina’s teeth. The pain was unbearable, and Carina passed out. She awoke a while later and saw Fluttershy standing in front of her. Fluttershy had a strange new tool of torture. It was composed of a large metal tube with Carina’s teeth firmly placed on both ends and the sides. Fluttershy began to hold it into the light, proud of her handiwork. Rush was still standing there with a smile as he stared at the scene. Fluttershy reeled the tooth weapon back and then quickly shoved it into Carina’s chest. It punctured her left lung, and blood began to fill it. Carina began to pass out, finally about to reach death, and finally happy with what was happening. That was quickly crushed when she saw an E.E.O certified doctor begin operations on her lungs. The lungs quickly emptied of blood, and the problem had been fixed to the dismay of Carina. “Why... can’t you just.... let me... die?” she ask, pausing with each word to let out a small, painful breath.

“Why dear, that would not be fun, would it? No, of course not! This is no longer necessarily personal now. What I am doing now is simply for the fact that you caused me to remember my childhood incident!” Fluttershy explained with a frown. “As a child, I had not been much of a talker myself. As a matter of fact, I almost never made a peep. I never talked to anybody, never did anything wrong, and was seen as a perfect student by a teachers standards. Which brings me back to an incident as a child...I remember that day clearly... After five minutes of constant beating from a group of bullies, I was reduced to a bloody pulp drowning in my own blood. I was only a young filly, and I had felt as much pain as anypony who had lived their full lives... This was the day where I snapped.” she continued with increasing sadness. “But then I killed their leader! Just like how I am killing you! This time, however, I won’t forget, and so I must thank you; for bringing me back this shitty life!” Fluttershy screamed in anger. She pulled back on a large shackle that was connected to the wall. She had somehow mustered a huge amount of strength and began pulling each chain from the wall.

      “Now you are free. What will you do? Walk away? Nope!” she screamed as she reeled back and crushed both of Carina’s legs. “Do you think you can crawl? No again!” she said as she thrusted down a large blade onto her front hooves, effectively removing her ability to crawl. “Do you think that you will ever leave? I know, you don’t. And you are wrong! You get to leave! You get to go home. You will be back to normal as quickly as I ruined you!” she said with a cheer. Two men in dark coats walked in from the shadows. Rush was one, the other was the Doctor. They began to carry her away from the scene, and then knocked her unconscious.

      Carina awoke. She was fine, but she was confused as to where she was. She looked up, and realized she was in a large ditch. “Well hello, sleepy head! Hush now, quite now! No need to fret!” sang Fluttershy, happily prancing across the borders of the ditch. “Do you know where you are? You’re in the Everfree forest! The very distant part of the Everfree, too! Trapped in that ditch. Aren’t you glad you are back to normal? Well, don’t be! Because you aren’t! Look down! What do you see?” Fluttershy inquired with a grin. Carina looked down and saw that everything was normal. She saw nothing wrong with her body, but she was quite clearly insane now. “Are you fucking crazy, bitch?” Carina screamed. She felt a burst of pain and realized her teeth had been shoved back into her gums, and she still tasted metal and blood. “Why no deary! But you do notice you are in a ditch though, correct?” Fluttershy asked. “Well that’s fucking obvious, you damned insane cunt!” screamed Carina in a rage. “I know! It’s glorious! I love it! But enough of that! Let’s get down to the matter at hand, shall we? I’ve got a bunch of hungry pets here in Everfree, and they sure would enjoy a nice meal. So that’s why you are here! We’ve had a lot of fun, me killing your family, and condemning you to death. But now we must part ways! Your legs do not function. We have destroyed your spinal cord! You’re not going to be able to fly, either! You’re missing a wing. Here it is, if you want it. It could probably be used as a weapon against wolves or some shit like that.” explained Fluttershy with a grin as she threw the wing into the ditch. Night was falling, and howls could be heard in the distance. “Oops! That must be my friends now!” Fluttershy said with a smile as she began to walk away. “Goodbye, friend!” she screamed as she ran away and began to fly. Carina was now sitting in the dirt, wondering how she could get out of this mess. She noticed that she had some form of artificial hoof on her left arm. She began to crawl towards a small hill on the ditch that led upwards, likely there to allow the ponies who dug it to quickly get out. She began to climb, moving only a few inches a minute. After an hour, the moonlight was filling the scene. She had made her way up and was lifter her head up. She saw a horrifying sight. A pack of wolves were standing there, foaming at the mouth, their eyes piercing into her. She immediately fell backwards into the ditch, rolled back, hit her head on a rock, thus opening her skull. The wolves followed and began to feast upon her flesh.

   Part 5: Covering Trails.

  Fluttershy was long gone from the scene, and was already back in Ponyville. She began to take careful planning, with the help of Rush, to cover up the trails of her actions. The E.E.O. began to take careful steps to cover up the incident with whatever propaganda and lies they could think of. This quickly subdued rumors of a murder and simply posed it as a pegasus gone missing. Many had gone missing recently, most notably those that failed their flight tests from Cloudsdale. “We at the E.E.O. are going to make sure that what we do does not get out to the public. Which is exactly why I have to do this!” Rush screamed. He pulled out a small mechanical device out of his satchel and caused it to have contact with Fluttershy’s skin. A faint buzz was heard, and she collapsed onto the ground. Rush began to drag her to the back of her house, where a small carriage was waiting. He loaded he on the back and issued an order to a pony in the front. “Back to base!” he commanded with a grin.

        Fluttershy awoke in a sweat. She was chained down in a small room that had many small trinkets and cheery looking objects. The sunlight was peering through the curtains to her left, and Rush was standing in the corner. “Welcome to a psychiatric treatment facility! Brought to you by E.E.O.!” He said in a malevolent, honest tone. With a grin, he opened the door and in walked three ponies. A pegasus, a unicorn, and a simple Earth pony. They began to conduct small scale experiments on Fluttershy; Taking lights and checking pupil receptiveness, Checking reflexes, showing images to her, and even a quick Rorschach test. They nodded in agreement over things without speaking a word, and would occasionally let out a yelp when they had a negative or bad response from the tests. The unicorn had a clipboard and was checking things off, one by one, for some unknown reason. Likely to decipher Fluttershy’s mental problem. After about an hour, the tests seemed to have been concluded and the three left the room. Fluttershy sat there, dumbfounded as to what was occurring.

        After a few moment, Two ponies in dark black suits walked into the room. Rush had a grim look on his face as he walked out of the room, and one of the Dark ponies sat down beside fluttershy. “Well, we have deciphered your mental problems as per Rush’s wishes, and we have come to the conclusion that this should be rather easy to solve. But we do need to use some rather high-end newer techniques...” the stallion said with a grin. He pulled out a needle and jammed it firmly into Fluttershy’s side. “Agh! You- you...” she attempted to let out a vulgar rant, but was quickly sedated by the drug. The two stallions carried her out of the room, dropped her on a gurney outside of the room, and carried it towards the stairwell. She was put into a dark room and the door shut.

        Fluttershy awoke in her bed at home. “What happened?” she asked herself in a state of confusion. “And why do I feel so... sick?” she asked herself, pondering her situation. She remembered nothing of any violent or evil events that occurred in her life. All of that was gone now, due to the things that occurred to her within the dark room. All of it was replaced with imagery and stories of happier times. Rush was standing in the corner of the room, fiddling around with a small metallic object. Fluttershy jumped back when she saw him standing in the shadows. He was not wearing the black suit or satchel as before, but had only a smile. “How are you feeling?” he asked with bliss. “Uhm... fine... Hi, Rush. Why are you in my house? It’s kind of... strange to wake up and see somepony... standing here as soon as I wake up.” she asked with a nervous smile. “No reason, Fluttershy! Just wondering... What do you remember of the past few years?” Rush asked with an evil smirk. “I remember the gala being just glorious! I remember meeting all of my friends here in Ponyville, and I remember when you moved from Cloudsdale and reunited with me! I swear. My life has been really great these past few years.” she happily yelled as she jumped out of bed and walked downstairs. Rush followed and began to ask her many questions on the subject of what she had experienced over the past few weeks. She replied with only cheerful thoughts and events, signifying that the brainwashing was a success. He also did a few things to her memory for his own benefit, such as making her believe he never left Equestria. Rush began to use this to his advantage. The organization had permitted him to act upon his own plans. His plans showed the cynical, evil nature of his organization. Covering up her memories was not the only thing they did in that room that evening. A multitude of psychological modifications took place, and now... Now she was a weapon. A weapon with overwhelming capabilities, unknowing of her actions, and unaware of her use. But things tend to backfire for these ponies, and nothing would equate to what happens to this. Sequences of events unforeseeable by even Zecora would lead to all encompassing problems on a scale unseen in thousands of years. But for now..? Sanity...

WL SR