//------------------------------// // Broken Chains // Story: Backwards: Insanity is not Sane // by chewyrainbow //------------------------------// Her eyes shot open, now Rainbow leaned back and cowered in fear for a few moments, her eyes still shrunk. But then viciously snarling she stepped forward, a white foam dripping from the sides of her mouth. Dash lingered forward, like stalking prey, towards the tall white alicorn. Picking up the blade she held it tightly in her mouth. Princess Celestia held a look of anger as she stepped forward with a hoof, her horn glowing. Rainbow Dash screeched loudly as she leaped forward the knife slicing through the air. Within inches from the princess, she was shot back with a ball of energy. The true Rainbow fought furiously inside the mind, squinting her eyes and yelling, unable to control what was happening around her. Princess Celestia's horn glittered with a pink aurora, now Rainbow Dash was held in an orb of magic. Inside the orb Dash growled, screeched, yelled, snarled, twisting and turning furiously to escape. The knife dropped to the floor, the metal sound echoed around the room. The silver beams of moonlight gleamed into the dark room. Celestia turned the mad pegasus mare towards her, her nose wrinkled in disgust. ---------------------------------------- Twilight ran into the room, a look of terror across her face. Twilight gasped and ran to her, only bouncing back off from the pink aurora. "But...But whats happening to her?" She asked, sounding like a small filly. "As for Rainbow Dash, the fear of watching her friends die mercilessly simple put her into pure insanity. She gave into what called at her to follow. As for Fluttershy, a dark magic, unknown to us, so evil that ponykind very rarely sees it. Sadly it embedded it's home into her. Taking her mind away from her actual thoughts..." The Princess turned her head from the foaming cyan mare in front of her, almost as if it burned to see it. Twilight merely shuddered, eyes tearing up. Though she already knew that this had happened, it hurt worse to hear the Princess say it herself. "W-what's going to happen to her?" she asked quietly. "This creature?" she said disgustedly, "She will be put on trial for murder." "Murder!?" she shot upright, "But Dash didn't kill anypony consciously!" "I'm afraid that is not true. When she killed Derpy Hooves, she was quite conscious." She answered coolly. "Huh? How do you know?" "Because, this is a simple state of insanity." "Simple! You call this simple!?!?!" "Insanity can go farther than just this, Twilight, I expected you to understand. She killed that mare over a week before her insanity overtook her." "How do you know? Maybe she was already suffering from it!" Twilight thought desperately. Dash could hear everything being spoken. Why couldn't she control what was happening? "My faithful student...Please understand that this is for the right of our land. We can't let this pass." "But princess! Please! You can't let this happen! If they put her on trial, she will obviously loose. The punishment for repetitive murder is either banishment to the moon, or death!" she whimpered. "I've lost all my friends...Can't you save her?" The alicorn sighed, and turned back towards the rainbow-maned pegasus, who glared back at her with blood-shot eyes and sharp teeth. "No, I'm afraid not." --------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash cried, the thought of what was happening made her heart break. 'I killed Fluttershy, Derpy, and now I let some crazy monster inside of me...What have I done?' She cried to herself. Dash sighed when she realized a dawn sun arising behind the mountains. She sighed, until a sound echoed around her head. Mwuhahahaha, the voice laughed, I see you regret your own decision? Rainbow whimpered, 'Well duh...I can't believe I listened to you...' Hm, well guess what? 'What do you want now?' I keep my promises, a day has passed. Here's your worthless body back. But don't worry. When you have been given the death sentence, I will return! It laughed. Rainbow was more angered now that she had fallen for all of this. She shook again, only the chains that had binded her had broken, she now felt conscious again, slowly fluttering her eyes open, to be greeted with a dim light. The walls were gray, she was no longer in Twilight's extra bedroom. A white pony with pink hair and a white hat embroidered with a red cross, stepped up to her, though not smiling. She realized that she was in the hospital.