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This is a fanfic made as an epilogue to the fanfic, My Little Dashie, so read that first here https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....dit?hl=en_US#.
I was planning on finishing it and posting it all up as one submission, but seeing the length of it I decided that I would put up this while i work on the rest of the story, hope you enjoy. I was debating putting this under mature but decided against it, since it's not exactly cupcakes...if only just.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro/Lauren Faust/Whoever it belongs to
Almost forgot
“I love you daddy…” Rainbowdash spoke, seeking to maintain her voice despite the depths of sadness resting in her heart. “And I love you too, my little Dashie.” A voice that she had never heard spoke echoing back and forth inside her mind. Everything was blurred and faded, a long lost memory capable of only existing in the deepest dreams. The face she saw was remarkably unlike that of any of the other ponies she had met, but there was a kindness in it, one that assured her that things were meant to be this way. The features slightly distorted by the dream, yet the clearest image in her mind. The dream seemed to skip, Rainbowdash once again hearing her own voice, though this time there was no concealing the sadness in it as she stuttered out the words that stuck in her throat “Can’t…can’t he come with me? The attention of the dream had shifted to a large white pony, wings and horn showing them to be Celestia, despite the blurred quality of the dream.
“Rainbowdash!”
The dream broke away, Rainbowdash could feel herself grasping for the memories it held, but knew that like many of her dreams lately, it would all be just a blur in her mind.
“Rainbowdash!!!”
The unmistakable voice of Applejack shattered the last fragments of the dream, jolting Rainbowdash out of her rest and causing her to fall out of an apple tree which had a surprisingly homely feel about it when she layered a cloud or two over it.
“Rainbowdash, What’re ya doing sleepin’ ‘round here with all these storm clouds out, there wasn’t supposed to be a shower here till tomorrow, an’ all this extra rain is messin’ with my crops”
Rainbowdash gave her head a shake to wake herself up, before noticing the cold rain falling, soaking her mane through as she looked at her drenched friend.
“Uh…” her mind still a bit sluggish from having just woken up “I’ll get right on it Applejack” Rainbowdash made to fly towards the dark clouds that were quickly drenching the apple families farm but her wings failed to open properly, causing her to crash into the muddy ground once again.
Applejack’s voice took on a worried tone “You sure you’re alright there sugarcube, you seem a mite off today”
“I’m fine AJ, just a bit tired; I’ll get over it in no time” Rainbowdash took off into the air and made quick work of dispatching the black clouds, but there was none of her usual show and flair that she always displayed. “See, no problem for Equestria’s best flyer”
“I just don’t know why she’s acting all strange lately, you gave her back all her memories just fine didn’t you Twi?”
After managing an excuse about her needing to wait for the moisture from the rain to clear up, Applejack had left Rainbowdash to rest in her tree so that she could get some answers from Twilight. Whom she was fortunate enough to see going into Sugarcube Corner on the way to Twilights house.
“I think so, I don’t recall having any problems casting the spell and it worked just fine on all of you before. Maybe it could be something else wrong with her, could you describe more accurately her behavior, I’ve heard there’s a bit of an illness going around the place”
“I don’t know Twi, the poor girl just doesn’t seem to have her spirit anymore, she still brags as if she could fill a balloon with her ego, but it all sounds so hollow”
Twilight’s eyes began to widen slightly in concern, it could just be an illness weighing down on her like she had suggested, but it sounded like there was more to it than that. Rainbowdash’s behavior had largely gone unnoticed since her time in that other world; everpony had just dismissed it as her being exhausted from the whole ordeal, but a week had already passed, and the only time that anypony saw Rainbowdash was when she was sleeping, something she was doing a lot lately.
“Don’t worry Applejack, I’ll go and have a talk to her and see what’s wrong”
“I’ll go with you, there’s a tree in the orchard that she always sleeps on but it’s mighty easy to miss it if you’re not looking”
Applejack led the way through the massive apple orchard that her family kept, before they found Rainbowdash, sleeping just as Applejack had left her.
“Rainbow, Twilight needs to ‘ave a talk with you ‘bout all a this slackin’ lately”
Rainbowdash simply lay in the tree, dozing peacefully despite the precarious look of the branches. Applejack tried to communicate with Rainbowdash twice more but was met with the same result. A quick buck to the tree soon resulted in a wide awake Rainbowdash, albeit a rather annoyed one.
“Hey, what did you do that for?”
Rainbowdash addressed the question to Applejack, but it was Twilight who answered her.
“To get you to wake up Rainbowdash. You’ve been spending all of your days since…” Twilight paused, it occurred to her that she had never actually told Rainbowdash about the time she had spent in that alien world. Twilight had just assumed that she knew it, but what if she didn’t, what if Rainbowdash didn’t have any memories of that time.
“Since what?”
“Since you got back from that other world”
“What oth-“ Rainbowdash stopped midsentence as a searing pain thundered through her skull. Image’s rushed into her mind, flashing through her thoughts as if there was no time for any of them, yet each was important. A blurred face, so strange yet so familiar, a gray town where nopony seemed to live. The mind finally halted at a scene that seemed so familiar to her, but there was something strange about it.
She was back as a filly, she was performing the sonic rainboom for the first time and earning her cutie mark, yet this wasn’t Cloudsdale. She didn’t having ever seen this part of Equestria before. There were houses everywhere, but none of them seemed as if they were meant to be lived in. The world seemed so bland. Dark blue, almost gray, lines seemed to stretch on between the houses as far as she could see. Her attention was drawn away from the land before her as she began to descend, heading towards a playground with objects that could never be used by ponykind. As she touched the ground she was met with ecstatic joy by that same strange, blurred face. Those words echoed in her mind again “I love you…”
“I love you too…” Rainbowdash faded back into consciousness, still repeating those words as if they would keep the joy she had felt.
“You what?”
Applejack’s voice once again breaking her out of that sweet place between consciousness and the memories she had been dragged from. Rainbowdash tried to form words to explain herself but Applejack quickly cut her off.
“Nevermind, all that matters is that you’re alright sugarcube. You gave us quite the scare then.”
Rainbowdash began to try to form words with her mouth, but her tongue felt oddly painful as if she had bitten it, stopping her from forming the first syllables before Twilight cut in.
“Rainbowdash, we need to get you to the hospital, I’m not sure what’s wrong with you but until we can figure it out, it’s best that your somewhere safe in case you faint again.”
Rainbowdash was finally beginning to feel her mouth around the words again, but she could already feel herself beginning to slip back into unconsciousness, the last words she breathed out, her mind only having enough of a grip to repeat her dreams “I love you too daddy”
Rainbowdash spiraled into the darkness of her mind
As Rainbowdash once again fainted, Twilight Sparkle just heard her last words, barely a whisper, but that solved a part of the puzzle. Rainbowdash was still having memories of that alien life she had led. Twilight didn’t know if that was making her so tired, or if that was what had triggered the fainting, but there was certainly some role that it played in what was happening to her friend.
Applejack had already picked up Rainbowdash, unceremoniously throwing her onto her back, and trudging along to the hospital to get some help for the cyan Pegasus. As they paced along in silence, Twilight mulled over what she knew of Rainbowdash’s time in that world. If she recalled correctly, Rainbowdash had been adopted by some strange alien creature that had taken to calling her Dashie for some reason of another. In that world they were supposedly all characters in something called a cartoon show. Time travelled a lot slower in that world and the inhabitants of it used something called electricity instead of magic.
Twilight’s thoughts continued to travel through all the things she had learnt during her brief time there before she had found herself repeating the facts to herself. “Time travelled a lot slower in that strange world, wait” Twilight took that string of thought and latched onto it “Because time travelled a lot slower in that world it had meant that Rainbowdash had gone there as a filly. She had spent fifteen years in that world, but she had been younger then, without any memories of the life she had lived in Ponyville. What if those memories were conflicting with the real memories of her time in Ponyville?
Twilight snapped out of her worrying when she realized that they had already reached the hospital, the silence continued to stretch onwards as they carried Rainbowdash in and a nurse quickly took her off to one of the rooms. Deciding that there was nothing more they could do for their friend there, the two somber ponies left the hospital. Twilight was the first to break the sad silence.
“I think I may have figured out what’s causing these problems for her. What if her memories of that time in the alien world are fighting against her memories of this world, so to speak?
“Fighting…memories? Just talk in words everypony can understand Twi”
“Remember how when we were in that alien world we found out that she had spent the time there as a filly? Well when I used that memory spell on her, that brought back all of her memories of her time in Equestria, as well as her childhood. What if those two memories are beginning to clash in her mind? Essentially, she has been a filly twice and now both of those memories are beginning to cause problems for her”
“What do you suggest then Twi? We can’t just get rid of all of those memories or anything like that, it would be as if she had never lived that life at all”
“I know Applejack, I know, neither of us would do it given the choice. I’ll check with Zecora to see if she at least has something to ease the pain, but if that doesn’t work, then we may have to get rid of that life, or she may lose her own.
Twilight approached Zecora’s shack with a great worry hovering around her like a shroud, the faces that Zecora decorated her house with had once seemed creepy, but had lately been seeming almost welcoming. Now all they did was fill her with a sense of foreboding.
“Zecora, I’m sorry for the unexpected visit, but there’s something wrong with one of my friends, do you perhaps have a remedy for really bad headaches. This is going to sound weird but if you have anything to stop ponies from falling unconscious from headaches that would be a great help.”
Zecora opened the door for Twilight and gestured with a hoof inviting the unicorn inside, the shelves were lined with all kinds of remedies and brews that it seemed as if this could be the solution to their problems.
“Please do sit down Twilight my dear
You seem to be weighed down with fear”
“I’m sorry Zecora but I really don’t have time to relax, Rainbowdash has been having episodes where she faints after cradling her head in pain. Please tell me you have something, anything to help her”
“Very well then, a remedy
To soothe the pain for this pony”
Zecora went to one of the shelves and picked out an orange colored bottle, from a mass of variously colored and shaped mixtures.
“This remedy, though it tastes like hell
Should soon have your friend feeling well”
Twilight levitated the bottle out of her hands and with a quick thank you rushed off to save her hospitalized friend from her own memories
Back at the hospital, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy, were gathered around Rainbowdash’s hospital bed. Rarity and Fluttershy both wore looks of grave concern, and even Pinkie Pie had her aura of happiness dimmed by the state of the rainbow-haired Pegasus before her.
“I really hope that the poor dear does get better, there just seems to be something missing without her around”
Everypony felt the same as Rarity did, it was almost as if a part of their lives disappeared on that fateful day that Rainbowdash was magick’d away from them. Now that Rainbowdash was back, they all felt that things would go back to normal, but the gap still remained, and it had only become more obvious as the days had passed. Without Rainbowdash everything seemed to be so quiet, often they would catch themselves looking up to the sky, expecting to see her wheeling around in the air, but she never was anymore.
Fluttershy’s quiet voice seemed to only be more faded with worry for her friends
“Isn’t there anything that we can do to help her?”
“Applejack said that Twilight went to Zecora for something to fix this”
Pinkie Pie’s bubbly voice still retained the same tone, but there was none of the usual rises in pitch that happened when she talked, making her voice sound oddly empty.
“But she’s been gone so long, what if something happened to her? What if she’s gotten lost in the everfree forest?”
Fluttershy was saved by her spiraling worry by the door opening to admit none other than Twilight.
“Has she woken up while you’ve been here?”
The question was simple, but the urgency was clear behind it.
“No Twilight, she hasn’t woken up the entire time”
Twilight was shocked to see the pink pony looking so somber, normally Pinkie Pie could always find something to bring happiness to them, even in the darkest of times, but there was nothing that she could do to even smile now. Recognizing that it could be hours, even days before she next came back from the unconscious depths of her mind, Twilight decided it would have to be done now.
“I’m sorry Rainbowdash”
Twilight poured the contents of the bottle straight down Rainbowdash’s throat.
So many simply yet happy memories she could find, years of being alone with that one kind being yet she had truly been happy back then. She had not needed to strive to become a Wonderbolt, she did not feel the need to prove to everypony her capabilities, all she had needed was the knowledge that he loved her.
She remembered those times in the house with her father; times that seemed as if they should be boring, but she felt nothing but happinesss overwhelm her as she stole into the body of herself all those years ago.
Rainbowdash found herself in the kitchen of the house, the first time she had managed to actually make her father breakfast in bed without smoke alerting him of her experiments. Though the result was a black and ruined mess, she felt proud that she had actually made something with those mane-hating kitchen appliances. She pushed open the door to his bedroom saying happily “Daddy, I made you breakfast.” Her father immediately shot out of bed but, realizing the air wasn’t being filled with smoke, sat back down to see his daughter’s creation. Her father took a bite of the black thing and after a grimace told her “This isn’t half bad.” Curious to taste her own cooking, she bit down on what was supposed to have been toast.
A horrible taste filled her mouth and seemed to set fire to her back. This wasn’t how the memory had gone, the taste had been bad, but this was a pure agony upon all of her senses. She could fell her body once again, writhing under the pain of this torture; she slowly began to fade out of the dream and into reality.
She found herself lying awake inside a hospital bed, what had her father been thinking taking her to a hospital. Her father had always warned her to try and stay away from people because of what they might do to her, yet here her father had left her lying in a hospital bed for the world to see. Why would he do that? Dashie tried to stop herself before she thought the venomous thought “Maybe he doesn’t love me anymore.” She ignored it, her father loved her and would never have left her alone like this, so what other reason could there be?
Dashie got out of her hospital bed and walked over to the window, looking out she saw a dark and beautiful night, luscious plants were growing right outside the hospital and the rising moon reflected serenely on a lake in the distance. Everything was wrong. This was not anywhere near where her father lived, this place was strange, the colors seemed too bright, too vibrant, and every building looked wrong. As she was gazing at the horrible sight before her, a purple unicorn walked past the hospital outside her window, presumably on her way home from a tiring day. Dashie thought back to her last memories before she found herself here.
She had been having an enjoyable inside day with her father, when there had been someone at the door; she had gone to her room while her father opened it and waited for them to leave. It had come as a surprise to her when she then met with six ponies, who had come to take her somewhere. “Could that be what happened, am I now in that world?” Despite her having found the answer to her question, the memory continued. She remembered herself crying so much that day, her father could not come with her, she would have to leave that world, then the purple one had done something and she couldn’t remember anything since then.
Her father had loved her, she had always known that, It was not his fault that she was here. Those ponies were to blame, that had stolen her away from her father, her home, and everything she loved. They had taken her to this world; they had caused all of this. They would pay.
Twilight Sparkle was going through her books trying to figure out what had gone wrong, had she in her impatience failed to administer the draught correctly. It had been five hours since she had left Rainbowdash lying on the hospital bed, after giving her the potion they had waited around for what seemed like hours for her to wake up, but she never did. Unable to concentrate on her reading she looked out her window to see the sun lazily setting on the horizon. She had never felt so helpless.
There had always been something that she could do about her problems, whether it was through magic, organization, or the aid of her friends. There was nothing now. She had run out of ideas, there was nothing she could think of to aid her friend, she didn’t want to have to erase those memories, but it seemed like she would have to. She would have to do this alone, She didn’t want anypony to see her perform the foul deed she had to do.
She waited for the sun to finish its crawling journey across the last stretches of the sky before she left the house. She had managed to convince Spike into having an early rest so hopefully he wouldn’t get in the way. She knew that what she was doing wasn’t the right thing to do, she knew it wasn’t the best thing either, but it was all she could think of. As Twilight approached the hospital she spied some movement from the window of one the room Rainbowdash was in. She hoped against hope that Rainbowdash had gotten better but deep down in her heart she knew that was not the case, and dismissed it as it simply being the nurse checking up on her.
She went inside the waiting room and had to spend five minutes waiting before somepony came to assist her, an unicorn with a sparkling red cross on her flank. Twilight had only made one visit to Rainbowdash’s room and she didn’t want to waste more time than she already had by heading into the wrong rooms. After being guided to Rainbowdash’s room the nurse stuck her head in to tell Rainbowdash about her visitor, but quickly pulled her head back out. A look of shock on her face.
“She’s gone”
Unceremoniously pushing the unicorn aside, Twilght rushed into the room to see nothing save an empty bed and an open window, admitting the cold air of the night. Twilight began to panic. “This didn’t make any sense, why would Rainbowdash leave so suddenly? When did she get better? How did she get better? Did the potion work?” Too many questions without answers clustered about in her head.
She decided that it didn’t matter, if Rainbowdash got better than she would turn up eventually, and if she had finally stopped falling asleep constantly then they would soon be able to spot her soaring through the skies once again. Pushing her fears into the back of her mind, Twilight exited the hospital and began her walk home, grateful that her deed need not be done.
She had seen that unicorn before, she knew who they were, it was Twilight, the purple one that had done this to her. When Dashie recognized the unicorn she had shot out of the window, hoping to destroy the pony that had done this to her. However, the unicorn went straight from the path into the hospital she had just been in, cursing herself for her impatience she waited for the unicorn to come back along the path.
When she heard the sound of hooves behind her she quickly cowered in fear, she knew that she didn’t stand a chance against the unicorn unless she had the element of surprise. She had known that since she had been sent here. Fortunately, that damned unicorn never even thought to look out the window. Almost as soon as she heard the hoofsteps they began to fade away again. Yes, Dashie would have the advantage on the unicorn, and more importantly, she would have her revenge.
A nearby rustling in the bushes alerted Twilight, but she quickly calmed down again. The stress of the past day had really dug into her and it would do her no good to sleep in such a state. She would confront whatever the next day had for her readily, and whether Rainbowdash was found then or not, Twilight knew that she would come back eventually, she was the epitome of loyalty after all.
Twilight let out a contented sigh, finally able to relax from the hard day. Before she could take another breath she felt a force knock her to the ground and drive whatever air remained from her lungs. Gasping for air she turned to find herself facing the cyan Pegasus she had come to visit.
“What in Equestria was that about R-“
Her words were cut off as Rainbowdash drove her hoof into Twilight’s neck, knocking her to the ground and causing blood to well up in her mouth. Twilight lay, stunned by shock as Rainbowdash slammed her hooves into the unicorn’s ribs repeatedly, the vicious glee in her eyes horrifying Twilight. Twilight’s horn began to glow as she focused her magic on levitating her friend off of her, the second she released the Pegasus they began to speed towards her again. Restraining Rainbowdash with her magic, she coughed up the blood that had begun to congeal in her mouth and spoke with a restrained anger in every word.
“What is wrong with you Rainbowdash, I’m your friend remember, what’s happened to you?”
“You!? You are not my friend! You took from me everything I held dear! You stole my life!”
The Pegasus’s hateful accusations were so unlike her that they threw off the unicorn’s concentration and the magic holding Rainbowdash in place faded away.
“…and now I’m going to end yours”
Fluttershy had was just entering into her house after having made sure that all the nocturnal animals in her care were awake when she heard a thumping sound coming from upstairs. Worry crossed her face as she wondered if she had locked Angel upstairs by accident, but she could have sworn that she had let him outside tonight.
“Don’t worry Angel I’m coming”
Fluttershy trudged up the stairs, the worry she had felt earlier for Rainbowdash hadn’t faded, but rather it had given way before the other worries she had, such as caring for her animal friends. However, it was not Angel, nor any other animal she cared for that she found upstairs. It was Twilight, sprawled on her belly upon the ground.
“Twilight what are you doing here”
The only answer she received was a groan, as blood trickled out of the unicorn’s mouth onto the floor. Twilight tried to stand up, before giving up and falling down onto her side, revealing dark pools of blood matter into her coat.
“What happened to you Twilight?”
Twilight didn’t move.
“Please be okay Twilight”
Fluttershy began to scurry around her house, searching for bandages and medical supplies that she could use to at least stop the external bleeding. The only medical knowledge she had was based around the animals that she kept, but she supposed that would be enough to sustain Twilight, at least until she could find somepony to fix the unicorn up.
That coward! Dashie had managed to inflict some serious injuries on the unicorn, but she was not satisfied. They had escaped, and now she had no way of finding them or any of the other ponies that had destroyed her life. Dashie searched her memories of the time that they had come for her. Maybe she could ask around this strange town for them, all that she needed was a name…she strained her mind to remember the specifics of what they had said, there had been an orange one, but she couldn’t remember her name. There had also been an annoying pink one, but she had not spoken her name then either.
A voice came to her from a different memory, her own, when she had been younger; it told what she needed to know. She tasted the name as it rolled of her tongue, and felt exhilaration as she began to hunt her next victim.
“Pinkie Pie”
The cotton candy colored pony was at that very instance holed up in her room. She had never thought that it would happen to her but she had lost the will to party anymore. She just couldn’t feel joy anymore now that she knew her friend was in such danger. She walked heavily towards the mirror in her room and began to brush her mane, a task she seldom performed as her mane would normally bounce back to its usual fluffy state. Tonight was different. Her mane remained straight, and hung low down her back, the somber style fitting her mood perfectly.
“A party’s no fun if there are no friends to share it with”
What was that saying she had heard after she had left that rock farm? Life was one big party or something along those lines. She had always taken it that life was meant to be fun, but maybe it had actually meant that a life without friends was worthless. She had been having a lot of thoughts like this lately; it suddenly struck her how vulnerable her friends were. She had Pinkie sense to protect her from just about everything, falling objects, hydra’s, even doors, she could be ready for them all. Her friends had no such abilities, one day they could make one wrong move and be gone forever. Twilight and Rarity had magic, but she had seen when DisQord came that there were some things magic was useless. Fluttershy and Rainbowdash had wings, but there were just as many dangers in the air as there were on the ground. Applejack had nothing but herself against the world, the thought made Pinkie stop and admire the courage Applejack frequently displayed.
Then there was that one horrible word that could take anyone, disease. Not even her Pinkie sense could save her from that.
Pinkie let out a worried sigh.
She heard a knock on the door of Sugarcube corner but chose to stay in the small room she had there. She didn’t feel like meeting nopony until Rainbowdash got better, she didn’t think she had the will to bring that happiness that was her trademark to the world while she was so sad. The sound of Mrs. Cake’s voice broke her out of the downwards hole of depression she was sinking into.
“Pinkie, you have a visitor”
“Tell them to go away”
“It will make you feel better I guarantee it”
A stony silence greeted here
“Please Pinkie, for me; I can’t stand seeing you like this”
With a disgruntled sigh from the pink earth pony the door slid open, and she slipped out through the crack before it slammed behind her. As she turned to see who had disturbed her misery, her hair flared out back to its normal cloudlike stance and she pounced upon the surprised mare.
“Dashie!”
Put up with it Dashie, you want to have her alone for this, she needs to suffer slowly, and for that you need to be patient. The pony that had smiled while she ruined Dashie’s life stood on top of her, embracing her in a hug, the sickeningly sweet smell of her mane making the Pegasus want to throw up.
“Yes Pinkie, I’m better”
From asking around the town she had found out that she had been in the hospital for quite a while and that her those that her ruined her life were all worried about her. How odd that they only worried for her once they had destroyed her life beyond repair. This pink one was the worst of them all, at least the other ponies had tried to seem sad about having taken her father from her, but this one had smiled.
Once Dashie had finished with this one, she would never smile again.
“I’m so glad that your all better now dash, I was so worried about you but now that your better I’m not and we can go back to having fun. I know, we should celebrate this occasion with a party. I’ll invite all of our friends. I know it’s late but I’m sure they’ll all be so happy that your better that they’ll come for sure.
NO! she couldn’t let the pony leave here, if she did, they might find out what she did to the unicorn, then she wouldn’t have a chance to get her revenge.
“I’m not so sure about a party right now, my head’s still a bit woozy and all that.” An idea occurred to her to find her next target. “I’m still having trouble remembering some stuff, where was the orange ponies house again?”
“You mean Applejack? just head… “
As soon as Pinkie opened her mouth Dashie knew that she would be talking for a while, she let her mind drift from the pink ones chatter while making sure she noted the directions. This one was a goldmine of information. Without any prompting at all she gave away the locations of her other two targets, Fluttershy and Rarity though she wasn’t quite sure which one was which. She almost began to fall asleep as the chatter became the useless drivel she seemed to usually spout.
“…and that’s when I first found the umbrella hat”
Rainbowdash had no idea how she was going to get this annoying pink thing to shut up, let alone how she was going to get her someplace private. She decided to go with the story of a poor memory that she had professed.
“Pinkie, there’s a bit of a problem that I’ve got”
“What’s that Dashie?”
“I can’t quite remember where I live”
“That’s no problem Dashie, you can stay with me tonight”
What was wrong with this pony, could it be possible that anyone was that annoying and that stupid at the same time? Dashie thanked her lucky stars that she had found this one, this was going to be a night that she would never forget.
“So what do you want to do Dashie?”
“I’d rather get to sleep, I’m still really tired from the when I was in hospital”
“Aaaaaw, but sleep isn’t any fun, I was really hoping that we could do something to celebrate”
“I said I need to sleep”
And that was that. Dashie pretended to go to sleep while the pink pony grumbled a bit more about not her not being any fun. This pony was almost funny in an odd kind of way. She seemed to see even the simplest thing as a celebration but all you needed to do was refuse her continuously and she began to stalk about the place in a very amusing fashion.
After too short a time she ended her humorous grumbling and lay down on her bed. Waiting until she heard the ponies snoring slow to a more sleeplike tempo, she began to carefully move around the room. Looking for something to keep the stupid pink pony down while Dashie had her own kind of fun. Dashie almost stumbled over the answer to her as she walked towards the door. Two pairs of what looked like handcuffs, but a bit stranger to fit the hooves of the ponies. Why on earth did she have these with her? No matter what the answer, it was all to Dashie’s advantage.
Dashie manage to place the first pair of handcuffs around Pinkie’s forelegs without a response, but as she had finished tying her hooves together with the second pair Pinkie woke up.
“Hiya Dashie, what are you doing with the hoofcuffs I made for my prisoner outfit?”
“We’re having fun, and why do you have a prisoner outfit?”
“In case I ever want to look like a prisoner silly, so what kind of fun are we having?”
“Not the kind that you’re thinking of”
Pinkie Pie had always enjoyed having fun, and now that Dashie was back she was happier than ever, but even so there was something strange about all this. Rainbowdash had never looked at her like that before, there was something in her eyes, if Pinkie hadn’t known better she would have called it hate, but that was ridiculous, Rainbowdash wouldn’t hate her.
She heard Dashie shuffling around through her room and felt herself being pushed onto a makeshift sickbed she had once made for Gummy when he got sick and she had pretended to be his doctor. The sickbed was way too big as she had done it going by her proportions, forgetting the Gummy was an alligator, not a pony. As the bed tilted up so that she was no longer staring at the ceiling, she heard a yelp of pain from the Pegasus. Rainbowdash put the lights back on and the source of the pained cry became apparent.
Dashie was before her, trying to pry out a pearly white object from her hoof as she tried to keep it off the ground to avoid digging it deeper.
“What was this doing lying on the floor?”
Dashie sounded uncharacteristically angry, but then again, her friend didn’t usually have an alligator tooth in her hoof.
“That was Gummy’s first tooth, it’s also the only one he’s ever had, it just appeared and then went away, thanks for finding it Dashie”
“Gummy?”
Her friend pulled the tooth out of her hoof
“My pet alligator, don’t tell me you can’t remember Gummy, there was that birthday for him and everything.”
Her friend let out a strange laugh, almost maniacal.
“You’re crazy, you know that, heartless too. All you ever do is smile and laugh your stupid pink head off about nothing, you didn’t even give a damn when you stole my father from me, did you?”
Pinkie was very worried now, Rainbowdash wasn’t making sense, and the way she was holding Gummy’s tooth filled her with worry.
“What are you doing Dashie”
“I’ve already told you, I’m having fun, though I can’t say the same will be true for you. I’m also getting my revenge for what you did to me, and one last thing. I’m going to enjoy wiping that smile from your face, forever.
Dashie didn’t let her emotions get the best of her. She could feel all her anger urging her to kill that horrible pink pony this instant, but Pinkie didn’t deserve such a painless end. She would make her suffer all the pain of what she had been through and more, this would be a message to all of her friends, if they lived long enough to see it. An idea occurred to Dashie, a message, that was precisely what she would do.
Dashie drove the tooth into the pink one’s chest, not deep enough to pierce anything vital, she didn’t want this pony to know the pain she had felt. The skin was punctured by the tooth and Dashie found that she could easily tear the ponies skin to shred’s like this. The victim in question was shrieking in pain, and for a while Dashie thought that she would wake up the pony that had let her in, but her worries soon proved groundless and soon the screaming became a tempo that she worked too.
While she was halfway through writing her message, the pink things screams died down and she broke into tears of pain and suffering.
“Why are you doing this Rainbowdash? What did I do to you? Oh Celestia”
Dashie had continued her writing despite the words of the pony and when she had taken too deep of a breath for air, she had caused all of the scars to bleed profusely.
“Please stop it dash, please”
Dashie had finished writing her message into the pink one’s skin “You Stole My Life From Me, Now I Will Steal Your Lives From You” All that it was missing was the exclamation mark. She saw that she had written this message well as the point on the exclamation mark lay right where the heart would be on this pony. She could finish her message and finish her revenge on this pony at the same time. Dashie cut a line down above her target, making sure to take it as slowly and painfully as possible. Dashie drew her hoof back ready to plunge it right into the chest of the pink thing.
I was planning on finishing it and posting it all up as one submission, but seeing the length of it I decided that I would put up this while i work on the rest of the story, hope you enjoy. I was debating putting this under mature but decided against it, since it's not exactly cupcakes...if only just.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro/Lauren Faust/Whoever it belongs to
Almost forgot
“I love you daddy…” Rainbowdash spoke, seeking to maintain her voice despite the depths of sadness resting in her heart. “And I love you too, my little Dashie.” A voice that she had never heard spoke echoing back and forth inside her mind. Everything was blurred and faded, a long lost memory capable of only existing in the deepest dreams. The face she saw was remarkably unlike that of any of the other ponies she had met, but there was a kindness in it, one that assured her that things were meant to be this way. The features slightly distorted by the dream, yet the clearest image in her mind. The dream seemed to skip, Rainbowdash once again hearing her own voice, though this time there was no concealing the sadness in it as she stuttered out the words that stuck in her throat “Can’t…can’t he come with me? The attention of the dream had shifted to a large white pony, wings and horn showing them to be Celestia, despite the blurred quality of the dream.
“Rainbowdash!”
The dream broke away, Rainbowdash could feel herself grasping for the memories it held, but knew that like many of her dreams lately, it would all be just a blur in her mind.
“Rainbowdash!!!”
The unmistakable voice of Applejack shattered the last fragments of the dream, jolting Rainbowdash out of her rest and causing her to fall out of an apple tree which had a surprisingly homely feel about it when she layered a cloud or two over it.
“Rainbowdash, What’re ya doing sleepin’ ‘round here with all these storm clouds out, there wasn’t supposed to be a shower here till tomorrow, an’ all this extra rain is messin’ with my crops”
Rainbowdash gave her head a shake to wake herself up, before noticing the cold rain falling, soaking her mane through as she looked at her drenched friend.
“Uh…” her mind still a bit sluggish from having just woken up “I’ll get right on it Applejack” Rainbowdash made to fly towards the dark clouds that were quickly drenching the apple families farm but her wings failed to open properly, causing her to crash into the muddy ground once again.
Applejack’s voice took on a worried tone “You sure you’re alright there sugarcube, you seem a mite off today”
“I’m fine AJ, just a bit tired; I’ll get over it in no time” Rainbowdash took off into the air and made quick work of dispatching the black clouds, but there was none of her usual show and flair that she always displayed. “See, no problem for Equestria’s best flyer”
“I just don’t know why she’s acting all strange lately, you gave her back all her memories just fine didn’t you Twi?”
After managing an excuse about her needing to wait for the moisture from the rain to clear up, Applejack had left Rainbowdash to rest in her tree so that she could get some answers from Twilight. Whom she was fortunate enough to see going into Sugarcube Corner on the way to Twilights house.
“I think so, I don’t recall having any problems casting the spell and it worked just fine on all of you before. Maybe it could be something else wrong with her, could you describe more accurately her behavior, I’ve heard there’s a bit of an illness going around the place”
“I don’t know Twi, the poor girl just doesn’t seem to have her spirit anymore, she still brags as if she could fill a balloon with her ego, but it all sounds so hollow”
Twilight’s eyes began to widen slightly in concern, it could just be an illness weighing down on her like she had suggested, but it sounded like there was more to it than that. Rainbowdash’s behavior had largely gone unnoticed since her time in that other world; everpony had just dismissed it as her being exhausted from the whole ordeal, but a week had already passed, and the only time that anypony saw Rainbowdash was when she was sleeping, something she was doing a lot lately.
“Don’t worry Applejack, I’ll go and have a talk to her and see what’s wrong”
“I’ll go with you, there’s a tree in the orchard that she always sleeps on but it’s mighty easy to miss it if you’re not looking”
Applejack led the way through the massive apple orchard that her family kept, before they found Rainbowdash, sleeping just as Applejack had left her.
“Rainbow, Twilight needs to ‘ave a talk with you ‘bout all a this slackin’ lately”
Rainbowdash simply lay in the tree, dozing peacefully despite the precarious look of the branches. Applejack tried to communicate with Rainbowdash twice more but was met with the same result. A quick buck to the tree soon resulted in a wide awake Rainbowdash, albeit a rather annoyed one.
“Hey, what did you do that for?”
Rainbowdash addressed the question to Applejack, but it was Twilight who answered her.
“To get you to wake up Rainbowdash. You’ve been spending all of your days since…” Twilight paused, it occurred to her that she had never actually told Rainbowdash about the time she had spent in that alien world. Twilight had just assumed that she knew it, but what if she didn’t, what if Rainbowdash didn’t have any memories of that time.
“Since what?”
“Since you got back from that other world”
“What oth-“ Rainbowdash stopped midsentence as a searing pain thundered through her skull. Image’s rushed into her mind, flashing through her thoughts as if there was no time for any of them, yet each was important. A blurred face, so strange yet so familiar, a gray town where nopony seemed to live. The mind finally halted at a scene that seemed so familiar to her, but there was something strange about it.
She was back as a filly, she was performing the sonic rainboom for the first time and earning her cutie mark, yet this wasn’t Cloudsdale. She didn’t having ever seen this part of Equestria before. There were houses everywhere, but none of them seemed as if they were meant to be lived in. The world seemed so bland. Dark blue, almost gray, lines seemed to stretch on between the houses as far as she could see. Her attention was drawn away from the land before her as she began to descend, heading towards a playground with objects that could never be used by ponykind. As she touched the ground she was met with ecstatic joy by that same strange, blurred face. Those words echoed in her mind again “I love you…”
“I love you too…” Rainbowdash faded back into consciousness, still repeating those words as if they would keep the joy she had felt.
“You what?”
Applejack’s voice once again breaking her out of that sweet place between consciousness and the memories she had been dragged from. Rainbowdash tried to form words to explain herself but Applejack quickly cut her off.
“Nevermind, all that matters is that you’re alright sugarcube. You gave us quite the scare then.”
Rainbowdash began to try to form words with her mouth, but her tongue felt oddly painful as if she had bitten it, stopping her from forming the first syllables before Twilight cut in.
“Rainbowdash, we need to get you to the hospital, I’m not sure what’s wrong with you but until we can figure it out, it’s best that your somewhere safe in case you faint again.”
Rainbowdash was finally beginning to feel her mouth around the words again, but she could already feel herself beginning to slip back into unconsciousness, the last words she breathed out, her mind only having enough of a grip to repeat her dreams “I love you too daddy”
Rainbowdash spiraled into the darkness of her mind
As Rainbowdash once again fainted, Twilight Sparkle just heard her last words, barely a whisper, but that solved a part of the puzzle. Rainbowdash was still having memories of that alien life she had led. Twilight didn’t know if that was making her so tired, or if that was what had triggered the fainting, but there was certainly some role that it played in what was happening to her friend.
Applejack had already picked up Rainbowdash, unceremoniously throwing her onto her back, and trudging along to the hospital to get some help for the cyan Pegasus. As they paced along in silence, Twilight mulled over what she knew of Rainbowdash’s time in that world. If she recalled correctly, Rainbowdash had been adopted by some strange alien creature that had taken to calling her Dashie for some reason of another. In that world they were supposedly all characters in something called a cartoon show. Time travelled a lot slower in that world and the inhabitants of it used something called electricity instead of magic.
Twilight’s thoughts continued to travel through all the things she had learnt during her brief time there before she had found herself repeating the facts to herself. “Time travelled a lot slower in that strange world, wait” Twilight took that string of thought and latched onto it “Because time travelled a lot slower in that world it had meant that Rainbowdash had gone there as a filly. She had spent fifteen years in that world, but she had been younger then, without any memories of the life she had lived in Ponyville. What if those memories were conflicting with the real memories of her time in Ponyville?
Twilight snapped out of her worrying when she realized that they had already reached the hospital, the silence continued to stretch onwards as they carried Rainbowdash in and a nurse quickly took her off to one of the rooms. Deciding that there was nothing more they could do for their friend there, the two somber ponies left the hospital. Twilight was the first to break the sad silence.
“I think I may have figured out what’s causing these problems for her. What if her memories of that time in the alien world are fighting against her memories of this world, so to speak?
“Fighting…memories? Just talk in words everypony can understand Twi”
“Remember how when we were in that alien world we found out that she had spent the time there as a filly? Well when I used that memory spell on her, that brought back all of her memories of her time in Equestria, as well as her childhood. What if those two memories are beginning to clash in her mind? Essentially, she has been a filly twice and now both of those memories are beginning to cause problems for her”
“What do you suggest then Twi? We can’t just get rid of all of those memories or anything like that, it would be as if she had never lived that life at all”
“I know Applejack, I know, neither of us would do it given the choice. I’ll check with Zecora to see if she at least has something to ease the pain, but if that doesn’t work, then we may have to get rid of that life, or she may lose her own.
Twilight approached Zecora’s shack with a great worry hovering around her like a shroud, the faces that Zecora decorated her house with had once seemed creepy, but had lately been seeming almost welcoming. Now all they did was fill her with a sense of foreboding.
“Zecora, I’m sorry for the unexpected visit, but there’s something wrong with one of my friends, do you perhaps have a remedy for really bad headaches. This is going to sound weird but if you have anything to stop ponies from falling unconscious from headaches that would be a great help.”
Zecora opened the door for Twilight and gestured with a hoof inviting the unicorn inside, the shelves were lined with all kinds of remedies and brews that it seemed as if this could be the solution to their problems.
“Please do sit down Twilight my dear
You seem to be weighed down with fear”
“I’m sorry Zecora but I really don’t have time to relax, Rainbowdash has been having episodes where she faints after cradling her head in pain. Please tell me you have something, anything to help her”
“Very well then, a remedy
To soothe the pain for this pony”
Zecora went to one of the shelves and picked out an orange colored bottle, from a mass of variously colored and shaped mixtures.
“This remedy, though it tastes like hell
Should soon have your friend feeling well”
Twilight levitated the bottle out of her hands and with a quick thank you rushed off to save her hospitalized friend from her own memories
Back at the hospital, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy, were gathered around Rainbowdash’s hospital bed. Rarity and Fluttershy both wore looks of grave concern, and even Pinkie Pie had her aura of happiness dimmed by the state of the rainbow-haired Pegasus before her.
“I really hope that the poor dear does get better, there just seems to be something missing without her around”
Everypony felt the same as Rarity did, it was almost as if a part of their lives disappeared on that fateful day that Rainbowdash was magick’d away from them. Now that Rainbowdash was back, they all felt that things would go back to normal, but the gap still remained, and it had only become more obvious as the days had passed. Without Rainbowdash everything seemed to be so quiet, often they would catch themselves looking up to the sky, expecting to see her wheeling around in the air, but she never was anymore.
Fluttershy’s quiet voice seemed to only be more faded with worry for her friends
“Isn’t there anything that we can do to help her?”
“Applejack said that Twilight went to Zecora for something to fix this”
Pinkie Pie’s bubbly voice still retained the same tone, but there was none of the usual rises in pitch that happened when she talked, making her voice sound oddly empty.
“But she’s been gone so long, what if something happened to her? What if she’s gotten lost in the everfree forest?”
Fluttershy was saved by her spiraling worry by the door opening to admit none other than Twilight.
“Has she woken up while you’ve been here?”
The question was simple, but the urgency was clear behind it.
“No Twilight, she hasn’t woken up the entire time”
Twilight was shocked to see the pink pony looking so somber, normally Pinkie Pie could always find something to bring happiness to them, even in the darkest of times, but there was nothing that she could do to even smile now. Recognizing that it could be hours, even days before she next came back from the unconscious depths of her mind, Twilight decided it would have to be done now.
“I’m sorry Rainbowdash”
Twilight poured the contents of the bottle straight down Rainbowdash’s throat.
So many simply yet happy memories she could find, years of being alone with that one kind being yet she had truly been happy back then. She had not needed to strive to become a Wonderbolt, she did not feel the need to prove to everypony her capabilities, all she had needed was the knowledge that he loved her.
She remembered those times in the house with her father; times that seemed as if they should be boring, but she felt nothing but happinesss overwhelm her as she stole into the body of herself all those years ago.
Rainbowdash found herself in the kitchen of the house, the first time she had managed to actually make her father breakfast in bed without smoke alerting him of her experiments. Though the result was a black and ruined mess, she felt proud that she had actually made something with those mane-hating kitchen appliances. She pushed open the door to his bedroom saying happily “Daddy, I made you breakfast.” Her father immediately shot out of bed but, realizing the air wasn’t being filled with smoke, sat back down to see his daughter’s creation. Her father took a bite of the black thing and after a grimace told her “This isn’t half bad.” Curious to taste her own cooking, she bit down on what was supposed to have been toast.
A horrible taste filled her mouth and seemed to set fire to her back. This wasn’t how the memory had gone, the taste had been bad, but this was a pure agony upon all of her senses. She could fell her body once again, writhing under the pain of this torture; she slowly began to fade out of the dream and into reality.
She found herself lying awake inside a hospital bed, what had her father been thinking taking her to a hospital. Her father had always warned her to try and stay away from people because of what they might do to her, yet here her father had left her lying in a hospital bed for the world to see. Why would he do that? Dashie tried to stop herself before she thought the venomous thought “Maybe he doesn’t love me anymore.” She ignored it, her father loved her and would never have left her alone like this, so what other reason could there be?
Dashie got out of her hospital bed and walked over to the window, looking out she saw a dark and beautiful night, luscious plants were growing right outside the hospital and the rising moon reflected serenely on a lake in the distance. Everything was wrong. This was not anywhere near where her father lived, this place was strange, the colors seemed too bright, too vibrant, and every building looked wrong. As she was gazing at the horrible sight before her, a purple unicorn walked past the hospital outside her window, presumably on her way home from a tiring day. Dashie thought back to her last memories before she found herself here.
She had been having an enjoyable inside day with her father, when there had been someone at the door; she had gone to her room while her father opened it and waited for them to leave. It had come as a surprise to her when she then met with six ponies, who had come to take her somewhere. “Could that be what happened, am I now in that world?” Despite her having found the answer to her question, the memory continued. She remembered herself crying so much that day, her father could not come with her, she would have to leave that world, then the purple one had done something and she couldn’t remember anything since then.
Her father had loved her, she had always known that, It was not his fault that she was here. Those ponies were to blame, that had stolen her away from her father, her home, and everything she loved. They had taken her to this world; they had caused all of this. They would pay.
Twilight Sparkle was going through her books trying to figure out what had gone wrong, had she in her impatience failed to administer the draught correctly. It had been five hours since she had left Rainbowdash lying on the hospital bed, after giving her the potion they had waited around for what seemed like hours for her to wake up, but she never did. Unable to concentrate on her reading she looked out her window to see the sun lazily setting on the horizon. She had never felt so helpless.
There had always been something that she could do about her problems, whether it was through magic, organization, or the aid of her friends. There was nothing now. She had run out of ideas, there was nothing she could think of to aid her friend, she didn’t want to have to erase those memories, but it seemed like she would have to. She would have to do this alone, She didn’t want anypony to see her perform the foul deed she had to do.
She waited for the sun to finish its crawling journey across the last stretches of the sky before she left the house. She had managed to convince Spike into having an early rest so hopefully he wouldn’t get in the way. She knew that what she was doing wasn’t the right thing to do, she knew it wasn’t the best thing either, but it was all she could think of. As Twilight approached the hospital she spied some movement from the window of one the room Rainbowdash was in. She hoped against hope that Rainbowdash had gotten better but deep down in her heart she knew that was not the case, and dismissed it as it simply being the nurse checking up on her.
She went inside the waiting room and had to spend five minutes waiting before somepony came to assist her, an unicorn with a sparkling red cross on her flank. Twilight had only made one visit to Rainbowdash’s room and she didn’t want to waste more time than she already had by heading into the wrong rooms. After being guided to Rainbowdash’s room the nurse stuck her head in to tell Rainbowdash about her visitor, but quickly pulled her head back out. A look of shock on her face.
“She’s gone”
Unceremoniously pushing the unicorn aside, Twilght rushed into the room to see nothing save an empty bed and an open window, admitting the cold air of the night. Twilight began to panic. “This didn’t make any sense, why would Rainbowdash leave so suddenly? When did she get better? How did she get better? Did the potion work?” Too many questions without answers clustered about in her head.
She decided that it didn’t matter, if Rainbowdash got better than she would turn up eventually, and if she had finally stopped falling asleep constantly then they would soon be able to spot her soaring through the skies once again. Pushing her fears into the back of her mind, Twilight exited the hospital and began her walk home, grateful that her deed need not be done.
She had seen that unicorn before, she knew who they were, it was Twilight, the purple one that had done this to her. When Dashie recognized the unicorn she had shot out of the window, hoping to destroy the pony that had done this to her. However, the unicorn went straight from the path into the hospital she had just been in, cursing herself for her impatience she waited for the unicorn to come back along the path.
When she heard the sound of hooves behind her she quickly cowered in fear, she knew that she didn’t stand a chance against the unicorn unless she had the element of surprise. She had known that since she had been sent here. Fortunately, that damned unicorn never even thought to look out the window. Almost as soon as she heard the hoofsteps they began to fade away again. Yes, Dashie would have the advantage on the unicorn, and more importantly, she would have her revenge.
A nearby rustling in the bushes alerted Twilight, but she quickly calmed down again. The stress of the past day had really dug into her and it would do her no good to sleep in such a state. She would confront whatever the next day had for her readily, and whether Rainbowdash was found then or not, Twilight knew that she would come back eventually, she was the epitome of loyalty after all.
Twilight let out a contented sigh, finally able to relax from the hard day. Before she could take another breath she felt a force knock her to the ground and drive whatever air remained from her lungs. Gasping for air she turned to find herself facing the cyan Pegasus she had come to visit.
“What in Equestria was that about R-“
Her words were cut off as Rainbowdash drove her hoof into Twilight’s neck, knocking her to the ground and causing blood to well up in her mouth. Twilight lay, stunned by shock as Rainbowdash slammed her hooves into the unicorn’s ribs repeatedly, the vicious glee in her eyes horrifying Twilight. Twilight’s horn began to glow as she focused her magic on levitating her friend off of her, the second she released the Pegasus they began to speed towards her again. Restraining Rainbowdash with her magic, she coughed up the blood that had begun to congeal in her mouth and spoke with a restrained anger in every word.
“What is wrong with you Rainbowdash, I’m your friend remember, what’s happened to you?”
“You!? You are not my friend! You took from me everything I held dear! You stole my life!”
The Pegasus’s hateful accusations were so unlike her that they threw off the unicorn’s concentration and the magic holding Rainbowdash in place faded away.
“…and now I’m going to end yours”
Fluttershy had was just entering into her house after having made sure that all the nocturnal animals in her care were awake when she heard a thumping sound coming from upstairs. Worry crossed her face as she wondered if she had locked Angel upstairs by accident, but she could have sworn that she had let him outside tonight.
“Don’t worry Angel I’m coming”
Fluttershy trudged up the stairs, the worry she had felt earlier for Rainbowdash hadn’t faded, but rather it had given way before the other worries she had, such as caring for her animal friends. However, it was not Angel, nor any other animal she cared for that she found upstairs. It was Twilight, sprawled on her belly upon the ground.
“Twilight what are you doing here”
The only answer she received was a groan, as blood trickled out of the unicorn’s mouth onto the floor. Twilight tried to stand up, before giving up and falling down onto her side, revealing dark pools of blood matter into her coat.
“What happened to you Twilight?”
Twilight didn’t move.
“Please be okay Twilight”
Fluttershy began to scurry around her house, searching for bandages and medical supplies that she could use to at least stop the external bleeding. The only medical knowledge she had was based around the animals that she kept, but she supposed that would be enough to sustain Twilight, at least until she could find somepony to fix the unicorn up.
That coward! Dashie had managed to inflict some serious injuries on the unicorn, but she was not satisfied. They had escaped, and now she had no way of finding them or any of the other ponies that had destroyed her life. Dashie searched her memories of the time that they had come for her. Maybe she could ask around this strange town for them, all that she needed was a name…she strained her mind to remember the specifics of what they had said, there had been an orange one, but she couldn’t remember her name. There had also been an annoying pink one, but she had not spoken her name then either.
A voice came to her from a different memory, her own, when she had been younger; it told what she needed to know. She tasted the name as it rolled of her tongue, and felt exhilaration as she began to hunt her next victim.
“Pinkie Pie”
The cotton candy colored pony was at that very instance holed up in her room. She had never thought that it would happen to her but she had lost the will to party anymore. She just couldn’t feel joy anymore now that she knew her friend was in such danger. She walked heavily towards the mirror in her room and began to brush her mane, a task she seldom performed as her mane would normally bounce back to its usual fluffy state. Tonight was different. Her mane remained straight, and hung low down her back, the somber style fitting her mood perfectly.
“A party’s no fun if there are no friends to share it with”
What was that saying she had heard after she had left that rock farm? Life was one big party or something along those lines. She had always taken it that life was meant to be fun, but maybe it had actually meant that a life without friends was worthless. She had been having a lot of thoughts like this lately; it suddenly struck her how vulnerable her friends were. She had Pinkie sense to protect her from just about everything, falling objects, hydra’s, even doors, she could be ready for them all. Her friends had no such abilities, one day they could make one wrong move and be gone forever. Twilight and Rarity had magic, but she had seen when DisQord came that there were some things magic was useless. Fluttershy and Rainbowdash had wings, but there were just as many dangers in the air as there were on the ground. Applejack had nothing but herself against the world, the thought made Pinkie stop and admire the courage Applejack frequently displayed.
Then there was that one horrible word that could take anyone, disease. Not even her Pinkie sense could save her from that.
Pinkie let out a worried sigh.
She heard a knock on the door of Sugarcube corner but chose to stay in the small room she had there. She didn’t feel like meeting nopony until Rainbowdash got better, she didn’t think she had the will to bring that happiness that was her trademark to the world while she was so sad. The sound of Mrs. Cake’s voice broke her out of the downwards hole of depression she was sinking into.
“Pinkie, you have a visitor”
“Tell them to go away”
“It will make you feel better I guarantee it”
A stony silence greeted here
“Please Pinkie, for me; I can’t stand seeing you like this”
With a disgruntled sigh from the pink earth pony the door slid open, and she slipped out through the crack before it slammed behind her. As she turned to see who had disturbed her misery, her hair flared out back to its normal cloudlike stance and she pounced upon the surprised mare.
“Dashie!”
Put up with it Dashie, you want to have her alone for this, she needs to suffer slowly, and for that you need to be patient. The pony that had smiled while she ruined Dashie’s life stood on top of her, embracing her in a hug, the sickeningly sweet smell of her mane making the Pegasus want to throw up.
“Yes Pinkie, I’m better”
From asking around the town she had found out that she had been in the hospital for quite a while and that her those that her ruined her life were all worried about her. How odd that they only worried for her once they had destroyed her life beyond repair. This pink one was the worst of them all, at least the other ponies had tried to seem sad about having taken her father from her, but this one had smiled.
Once Dashie had finished with this one, she would never smile again.
“I’m so glad that your all better now dash, I was so worried about you but now that your better I’m not and we can go back to having fun. I know, we should celebrate this occasion with a party. I’ll invite all of our friends. I know it’s late but I’m sure they’ll all be so happy that your better that they’ll come for sure.
NO! she couldn’t let the pony leave here, if she did, they might find out what she did to the unicorn, then she wouldn’t have a chance to get her revenge.
“I’m not so sure about a party right now, my head’s still a bit woozy and all that.” An idea occurred to her to find her next target. “I’m still having trouble remembering some stuff, where was the orange ponies house again?”
“You mean Applejack? just head… “
As soon as Pinkie opened her mouth Dashie knew that she would be talking for a while, she let her mind drift from the pink ones chatter while making sure she noted the directions. This one was a goldmine of information. Without any prompting at all she gave away the locations of her other two targets, Fluttershy and Rarity though she wasn’t quite sure which one was which. She almost began to fall asleep as the chatter became the useless drivel she seemed to usually spout.
“…and that’s when I first found the umbrella hat”
Rainbowdash had no idea how she was going to get this annoying pink thing to shut up, let alone how she was going to get her someplace private. She decided to go with the story of a poor memory that she had professed.
“Pinkie, there’s a bit of a problem that I’ve got”
“What’s that Dashie?”
“I can’t quite remember where I live”
“That’s no problem Dashie, you can stay with me tonight”
What was wrong with this pony, could it be possible that anyone was that annoying and that stupid at the same time? Dashie thanked her lucky stars that she had found this one, this was going to be a night that she would never forget.
“So what do you want to do Dashie?”
“I’d rather get to sleep, I’m still really tired from the when I was in hospital”
“Aaaaaw, but sleep isn’t any fun, I was really hoping that we could do something to celebrate”
“I said I need to sleep”
And that was that. Dashie pretended to go to sleep while the pink pony grumbled a bit more about not her not being any fun. This pony was almost funny in an odd kind of way. She seemed to see even the simplest thing as a celebration but all you needed to do was refuse her continuously and she began to stalk about the place in a very amusing fashion.
After too short a time she ended her humorous grumbling and lay down on her bed. Waiting until she heard the ponies snoring slow to a more sleeplike tempo, she began to carefully move around the room. Looking for something to keep the stupid pink pony down while Dashie had her own kind of fun. Dashie almost stumbled over the answer to her as she walked towards the door. Two pairs of what looked like handcuffs, but a bit stranger to fit the hooves of the ponies. Why on earth did she have these with her? No matter what the answer, it was all to Dashie’s advantage.
Dashie manage to place the first pair of handcuffs around Pinkie’s forelegs without a response, but as she had finished tying her hooves together with the second pair Pinkie woke up.
“Hiya Dashie, what are you doing with the hoofcuffs I made for my prisoner outfit?”
“We’re having fun, and why do you have a prisoner outfit?”
“In case I ever want to look like a prisoner silly, so what kind of fun are we having?”
“Not the kind that you’re thinking of”
Pinkie Pie had always enjoyed having fun, and now that Dashie was back she was happier than ever, but even so there was something strange about all this. Rainbowdash had never looked at her like that before, there was something in her eyes, if Pinkie hadn’t known better she would have called it hate, but that was ridiculous, Rainbowdash wouldn’t hate her.
She heard Dashie shuffling around through her room and felt herself being pushed onto a makeshift sickbed she had once made for Gummy when he got sick and she had pretended to be his doctor. The sickbed was way too big as she had done it going by her proportions, forgetting the Gummy was an alligator, not a pony. As the bed tilted up so that she was no longer staring at the ceiling, she heard a yelp of pain from the Pegasus. Rainbowdash put the lights back on and the source of the pained cry became apparent.
Dashie was before her, trying to pry out a pearly white object from her hoof as she tried to keep it off the ground to avoid digging it deeper.
“What was this doing lying on the floor?”
Dashie sounded uncharacteristically angry, but then again, her friend didn’t usually have an alligator tooth in her hoof.
“That was Gummy’s first tooth, it’s also the only one he’s ever had, it just appeared and then went away, thanks for finding it Dashie”
“Gummy?”
Her friend pulled the tooth out of her hoof
“My pet alligator, don’t tell me you can’t remember Gummy, there was that birthday for him and everything.”
Her friend let out a strange laugh, almost maniacal.
“You’re crazy, you know that, heartless too. All you ever do is smile and laugh your stupid pink head off about nothing, you didn’t even give a damn when you stole my father from me, did you?”
Pinkie was very worried now, Rainbowdash wasn’t making sense, and the way she was holding Gummy’s tooth filled her with worry.
“What are you doing Dashie”
“I’ve already told you, I’m having fun, though I can’t say the same will be true for you. I’m also getting my revenge for what you did to me, and one last thing. I’m going to enjoy wiping that smile from your face, forever.
Dashie didn’t let her emotions get the best of her. She could feel all her anger urging her to kill that horrible pink pony this instant, but Pinkie didn’t deserve such a painless end. She would make her suffer all the pain of what she had been through and more, this would be a message to all of her friends, if they lived long enough to see it. An idea occurred to Dashie, a message, that was precisely what she would do.
Dashie drove the tooth into the pink one’s chest, not deep enough to pierce anything vital, she didn’t want this pony to know the pain she had felt. The skin was punctured by the tooth and Dashie found that she could easily tear the ponies skin to shred’s like this. The victim in question was shrieking in pain, and for a while Dashie thought that she would wake up the pony that had let her in, but her worries soon proved groundless and soon the screaming became a tempo that she worked too.
While she was halfway through writing her message, the pink things screams died down and she broke into tears of pain and suffering.
“Why are you doing this Rainbowdash? What did I do to you? Oh Celestia”
Dashie had continued her writing despite the words of the pony and when she had taken too deep of a breath for air, she had caused all of the scars to bleed profusely.
“Please stop it dash, please”
Dashie had finished writing her message into the pink one’s skin “You Stole My Life From Me, Now I Will Steal Your Lives From You” All that it was missing was the exclamation mark. She saw that she had written this message well as the point on the exclamation mark lay right where the heart would be on this pony. She could finish her message and finish her revenge on this pony at the same time. Dashie cut a line down above her target, making sure to take it as slowly and painfully as possible. Dashie drew her hoof back ready to plunge it right into the chest of the pink thing.
Category Story / Fantasy
Species Horse
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