Stranded, Ch.8-
Twilight charged with all her might, horn first, ready to impale the first pony to stand in her way. Rarity so happened to be ahead of the group, and made ready for the inevitable impact, placing her head down as she prepared to defend her friends, no matter what happened. Twilight grew closer to the group, letting out scream as she approached. Mere hooves away, she jumped at them with the full force of momentum on her side, and closed her eyes.
CRACK
Twilight's horn was met with that of Rarity's, who was knocked on her back from the shear force of the impact as the horns collided. Twilight stepped back, swiftfully recovering herself, and charged again with nothing blocking her way now. She was furious, and the anger drove her to run even faster than the last charge. The group stood there, stunned as a insane purple unicorn charged directly at them, showing no signs of slowing down. The only one that moved was Pinkie Pie, and only did so when she went to check on Rarity just after the initial impact.
The crazed unicorn's path was lined directly at Fluttershy, who seemed determined to let her fear best her, and didn't lift a muscle. Twilight slowly closed in. She drew closer and closer to the horror stricken pegasus. Her pace quickened as she closed her eyes. "NOOOOO!" screamed Pinkie Pie as she jumped towards the fear struck mare in hopes of saving her soft-voiced friend.
BAM
Twilight quickly opened her eyes to see who she had hit. She looked, and what she saw nearly ripped her heart out. She stood there, shocked, to see that who she had impaled was neither Fluttershy, nor Pinkie Pie, but the small orange body of the filly Scootaloo...
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Applejack was taken aback. "Wha- what do ya mean the one for Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie just sat there, pointing in the same direction, not even looking at the work mare. "ANSWER ME!" Applejack roared. Pinkie didn't budge. Applejack was lost in confusion and irritation. "You're not gonna tell me, are ya?" Pinkie still sat, still pointed. "Fine, be that way." Applejack remarked as she stomped off in the direction her silent friend was pointing.
She hadn't walked but ten steps before she heard a loud scream. "That sounds like... TWILIGHT!" Applejack turned her course and headed straight for the Ponyville library in hopes to find out what had caused that horrible scream. There, in front of the library, sat the purple body of Twilight Sparkle, crying with her hooves coveringher face. Applejack slowly approached her mourning friend. "Twilight you O.K.?" she asked, keeping her distance. She didn't want to take any chances.
"NO, STAY BACK!" Twilight lashed in a paranoid voice, hiding her face from her friend Applejack.
"Sugarcube, is everything alright?" persisted Applejack, still keeping at a safe distance.
"NO! The pressure. The pressure is too much!" Twilight screamed, still turned from her friend. "The stress, the stress, and the...the..." she paused. "The death..." Applejack felt a whole new feeling of guilt wash over her for some reason.
"Sugarcube, what's the matter?" Applejack asked, coming closer to the obviously distressed Twilight. The purple mare saw this, and reacted almost instantly by turning to revealing the crazed maniacal look of a pony that had lost every little connection to sanity she ever had...
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Scootaloo looked down to see the head of Twilight up against her chest, her horn just under her right ribs. She wanted to let out a scream, a yell, even a whimper to help cope with the pain she was feeling, but the impact had left her breathless. Twilight realized what she had just done, and pulled her head back slowly from the small, fragile little filly's body as it crashed on the ground with a loud thud. Motionless. Twilight suddenly teared as she stomped her hoof into the ground in frustration.
Moments passed before Scootaloo was finally able to gasp a breath of air before she pulled her front two hooves up, and softly held her wound tightly. She was bleeding, badly, and her ribs were doubtlessly broken if not shattered to say the least. There was noo telling what the impact had on her lungs. As she lay there, holding the damaged area, she let out a low grunt of pain. Twilight's anger slowly diminished as she started to come back to sanity.
She lifted a hoof to help the filly when, suddenly, BOOM! She was tackled to the ground by Rarity, who held her iron grip no matter how hard Twilight tried to struggle. She was slowly loosing consciousness as one of the hooves was carefully placed at her neck, bearing down as to make her pass out. Her vision was fading. The last thing she saw before blacking out was the sight of little Scootaloo's eyes growing wider as her breaths became quick and short...
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Applejack stepped back as her lunatic friend slowly walked towards her, step by step. Twilight Sparkle had just put up a force field around them as she slowly made her way to the orange work pony with a menacing grin across her face. The field slowly closed in closer and closer until it was virtualy right behind Applejack, pushing her towards the crazy unicorn who's beady eyes and devilish grin struck her with fear down to the bone.
The field stopped when the two ponies were within striking distance of each other. Applejack's blood ran cold. Minutes passed and nothing happened. Applejack grew uncomfortable and decided to try and take a step back towards her obviously insane.
FLASH
Twilight appeared right next to Applejack, and threw a punch at her. Applejack was fast though. She quickly saw the incoming blow and jerked her head back, only taking a hoof to the side of the nose. She rolled forward in an attempt to dodge anymore attacks the crazy unicorn might throw. Applejack could see no way out of this other than to fight.
There she stood, her world was fading to black around her, facing the crazed mind of one of her best friends. There in the darkness, with nothing around her but the pitch black closing in around her, she screamed...
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"Scootaloo!" Yelled Sweetie Bell as Twilight rammed into and impaled her dearest friend. Everypony watched in terror as poor Scootaloo was stricken down with one swift blow. Rarity quickly regained herself and tackled the psychotic purple unicorn to the ground, pushing her hoof to Twilight's neck. Pinkie and the others suddenly swarmed around helpless Scootaloo as her breath became fast and her gasps for air became short.
"SOMEPONY GET SOME LEAVES! We have to cover this wound up!" yelled the frantic Pinkie Pie. Sweetie Bell was the only one to respond, seeing as Fluttershy was crying over in the distance and Apple Bloom was still in utter shock. "Does anypony know CPR?" There fell a silence.
"ANYPONY!" she screamed.
"Applejack knows CPR." stated Apple Bloom.
"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! GET HER!" roared the red hot Pinkie. Apple Bloom quickly turned and dashed off into the jungle, alone.
"I... better go with her..." Sweetie Bell stated as she turned to follow her friend.
Pinkie shed a tear as she sat there, gazing into the eyes of little Scootaloo as she was still gasping for air, holding on to life by a thread. "Don't worry..." Pinkie softly cooed. "We may have lost Dash, but I won't be responsible for the death of a filly." Pinkie sat there with the choking Scootaloo and held her tight in her hooves, as if to grip her from the cold hands of death. She teared up more. "Why did I ever bring you guys..."