Stare

Later that day, around mid-afternoon, Fluttershy waited at Sugarcube corner with the rest of the gang. All of them, except for Pinkie Pie, of course. "My, my! What is keeping that girl?" the white coated Rarity grew impatient by the minute while she twirled her navy blue mane in her hoof, "I understand being fashionably late, but this is getting ridiculous."

'Well, you're fashionably late yourself... for your own funeral!' Fluttershy maintained her usual composure while she sat and went over her plans for murder over and over in her own mind.

AppleJack took off her cowboy hat and brushed her blonde mane to side and looked toward to door. "I reckon she'll be here any minute, that gal might be caught up in something."

Rarity nodded her head; "Indeed"

"I hope she's okay." Said Twilight Sparkle

Rainbow Dash sighed, "Yeah, Pinkie's probably gonna do something random again like usual and-" Suddenly, out of nowhere; a bubbly, electric pink equine with a lavender mane that hung in tight curls hopped upon the very table they had sat around. Then, the effervescent pony began to dance, jump, skip and sing:
Hello! Good day to all my friends!
Are you feeling all right? Are you feeling okay?
Are you ready for excitement and a fun-filled beautiful day?

I hope you're in the mood for what I've got in store.
Games and fun and many, many more and good old time galore.
So, let's get right down to it, 'cause we have no time to wait.
We're gonna have a swell time right out of the gate.

Oh yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It's our play date.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It's our special day.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It’s our play date.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, now let's go out and play
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, YEAH!!!!

Confetti and streamers fell from above, while firecrackers and bottle rockets frightened anypony and everypony within earshot. The girls were quite startled by Pinkie Pie's random outburst, although this was commonplace for the neon filly. "Dagon, sugar, ya sure know how to make an entrance." said AppleJack

"Why thank you AppleJack, I had been practicing all week. Because you girls are totally worth all the time and effort since you're all my bff and e and e and e and e-"

"Oooookay Pinkie Pie," Dashie butted in, "we got it"

For a brief moment Pinkie Pie noticed Fluttershy appeared a little distracted, "Hey Fluttershy, you're in your own little world over there hun." Pinkie smiled "I bet you know everybody there, say high for me, will ya?"

The other ponies laughed in good fun and Fluttershy just wore her sweetest smile, 'Laugh while you can because it'll all be over soon.' All the while Fluttershy had sat there; she formulated her plan to put these equines on ice. "So, Pinkie Pie, what you wanna do today?" Twilight asked

"Well," Pinkie Pie smiled "I thought that today is the perfect day for a game of Hide and Seek. It's gonna be the biggest, greatest Hide and Seek ever in the Everfree Forest!"

'Yes,' Fluttershy was ecstatic, though she covered it with a look of uncertainty, 'it's just too perfect.'

Fluttershy shrank in her chair, "umm... I don't know Pinkie Pie, it sounds kinda scary and dangerous."

"Oh, nonsense, we'll be safe. Besides, we'll all be together."

"Well... okay", Fluttershy would have to be careful not to draw too much attention,

As the ponies began to walk out the door Twilight noticed Fluttershy had her saddle bags with her which peaked her curiosity. "So, Fluttershy, what's with the bags?" she asked

Fluttershy instantly thought up a good lie. "Just some things to help in case anypony runs into trouble," indeed, they were there to help. To help her to help them run into trouble... guaranteed. "Better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them, right?"

Twilight giggled, "Oh Fluttershy, you care too much."

"It's what I do!" she blushed. However, that wasn't all she was going to do; infact, she had something for each of them. The ponies trekked through tall grass and rough underbrush through the Everfree Forest with Pinkie Pie leading the way and Fluttershy in the back. She spoke of the Perfect place to serve as home base for their game of Hide and Seek. "So how far is this place Pinkie?" Twilight inquired.

"Not very far, just a little way further, Infact; we're almost there." Pinkie Pie

Finally, they arrived to a large clearing not too far into the Everfree Forest, but far enough that Fluttershy could carry out her malicious plans. It was a large clearing where the afternoon sun shone down up a beautiful bed of brightly colored flowers. It stood out as a shining oasis amid a desert of shadow and impending doom, like a safe haven. At least, for the time being.

"Alright," Pinkie Pie turned to face her friends, "this will be our base; now, you can hide anywhere you like, because this is gonna be the biggest, best game of Hide and Seek ever." For Fluttershy, it was just getting better and better, 'She's making this way too easy.' the crazed yellow one, though posing scared on the outside, had a smile wider than a Chelsea Grin in the deepest darkest recesses of her mind. She felt her plans would go just swimmingly.

"So, who's gonna count while the rest go hide?" Twilight Asked

"I will! I will!" Pinkie shouted abruptly "I think, that I should do the honors since I put this all together."

Rainbow Dash shrugged, "I'm down with that!"

Applejack nodded in agreement, "Durn skippy!"

"I concur!" Rarity chimed

All eyes were on Fluttershy, the timid and wishy-washy yellow pegasus. "Fluttershy, are you in?" Of course, she was in... She was in from the start.

"Well, um... maybe, or... I guess so." she stammered.

"Great," Pinkie Pie squealed, "now I'll count from a hundred and everypony go hide."

The ponies all took off sporadically with virtually no idea where any good spots were. Pinkie's counting faded off as they barreled further into the darkness of the Everfree Forest. Fluttershy, however, caught sight of Rainbow Dash flying off to her hiding spot... wherever it may be. Fluttershy followed beside her from far off.

After some time of stalking her first prey, it was then that her multicolored mark settled down behind a big boulder with some brush growing around it. "Try finding me here Pinkie Pie" Rainbow dash giggled. But before she knew it, her vision went black and she felt something pressing the sides of her face. Suddenly, she felt her face being driven into the very boulder she chose to hide behind... it could very well have become her grave marker. Over and over, harder and harder... she felt her eyes begin to fill up with tears and snot as her ears start to ring. A hot, wet sensation started to crawl down her face.

Then, she felt herself being lifted up higher and higher and higher. And then the darkness had been ripped from her face followed by a familiar voice, "Guess who!" it sang. As she blinked her eyes to see through the blurriness, she had seen none other than Fluttershy, herself. She was smiling from ear to ear as she stuffed a soaking wet black sack into Dashie's mouth. The helpless pony tasted something like cold steel in her mouth and soon discovered it was blood, the same blood that dampened her face. She tried to summon her fight or flight instincts, but before she could even try to fight back she found herself looking to the eyes of the filly she thought to be her friend for so many years.

Fluttershy gritted her teeth and she gazed mercilessly into the eyes of her formerly competitive victim. She envisioned the set of wings that crowned her back snapping, crunching... splintering like glass. Rainbow Dash's agonizing screeches were muffled by the bloody bag crammed down her throat when she immediately felt her wings snap in three places and poke through the skin. She slammed her eyes shut as she felt sharp pains rip through her wings and up her back.

"Now do your sonic rainboom six feet into the ground!" Fluttershy dropped her from where she hovered and watched as the now disabled pegasus went tumbling down, down, down until she was out of sight from the foliage. She giggled to herself as she waved and whispered "Ta!"