Rainbow's Nightmare

by bookwormbrony

The moon rises

Chapter 4
The moon rises.

The Hospital had been quiet that day, like most other days. In a peaceful little town like Ponyville, there were very few times in which more than three or four ponies needed serious medical care.

Nurse Redheart walked down the hallway, pushing a cart of medical supplies in front of her. She was a white earth pony with a light gray mane and tail. She wore a nurse cap adorned with a red cross, which had a pink heart in each corner. She always found this rather fitting, as her cutie mark was the very same symbol. A coincidence that made her smile a little each time she thought of it.

She wished that she could be outside searching for Rainbow Dash, but she was needed at the hospital in order to keep it running and treat anypony who had hurt themselves while searching for the rainbow maned mare. Despite this consolation that she was needed here, Nurse Redheart still wished that she could be searching for Rainbow. She had become well acquainted with the daredevil pegasus. After all, Rainbow had visited the Ponyville Hospital numerous times, so many in fact, that Nurse Redheart had taken to making a list of how many times Rainbow Dash broke or injured certain body parts.

SLAM!

DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING!!!

Startled, Nurse Redheart dropped a vial of Penicillin that she had been putting away. Wrenched away from her dwellings on the past, all her thoughts were now focused on the present. As the vial shattered on the floor, she ran out the door to the storage room, and galloped into the waiting room as fast as her legs would carry her.

DINGDINGDINGDING!

Soarin hammered on the bell over and over, like some mad pony trying to crush it. Just as he was about to give up and try searching for a pony with medical experience, he turned to The Doctor.

"Hey, Doc," Soarin said, shoving his face up to the The Doctor's, "can you help her?!?"

"Damnit Soarin," The suit wearing pony replied, "I'm a Time Lord, not a doctor! It's just in my title, I always thought it sounded good."

It was at this moment that Nurse Redheart came galloping into the waiting room at full speed. Upon seeing Rainbow Dash in Soarin's hooves, she heaved a sigh of relief.

"Oh, thank Celestia," she said, "I'm so gla-"

"She's hurt, badly," yelled Soarin, "we need you to help her!"

"Okay," Replied Nurse Redheart, she looked closely at Rainbow Dash, who was breathing heavily and crying in her unconscious state. "Come with me!"

Nurse Redheart led the group of equines to one of the vacant emergency rooms.

"I know this seems extreme-" began Nurse Redheart, but she was interrupted by Rarity.

"Why, it's hardly extreme," the fashionista said, "I hardly know the first thing about medicine and I can tell that Rainbow is in dire need of emergency care!"

As they hooked Rainbow up to some of the room's medical equipment (to get data on her condition and to keep her stable), a small group of ponies gathered, the group consisted of the Canterlot Supreme Paladins, and Applejack's immediate family. The first of the Apples was Granny Smith, a very old, orangy-yellow mare, with her white mane tied up in a bun and an apple pie for her cutie mark. There was also Big Macintosh, a strong, red stallion, with a blonde mane and tail, both cut short, around his neck he wore a large workhorse collar, and sitting on his flank was a large, bright green apple. The third and final of the Apples was Applebloom, a young filly with a cream colored coat, her rose-red mane was adorned by a large, pink bow, her tail was the same color as her mane, and unlike her big siblings, she had no cutie mark.

Also amongst the group were two creatures that were not ponies. The first, was a 1000+ year old Draconequus, he had the head of a pony, two large, green eyes with pupils of varying sizes, his large eyebrows were also of different sizes, his head was adorned with a goat horn on the right side, and a deer antler on the left, he had a single fang in the right side of his mouth, a snake tongue, and a white goatee, to match the color of his eyebrows. His body was even more strange than his head, he had a buzz-cut, black mane, and a body that was light brown towards the front, and got darker in hue and went from fur to scales further down his form. He had the right wing of a bat, the left wing of a pegasus, the left claw of an eagle, the right paw of a lion, his right leg was that of a lizard, and his left leg was that of a goat. The end of his snake-like tail was adorned by a little white tuft of hair, and unlike everyone else in the room, this being, named Discord, stood upright on his hind legs.

"Well," he said in a voice almost as crazy as his body itself was, "I just want to say, that this is not my fault."

"Of course it wasn't, you are much more creative than this," said the second being, in a voice that was not heard, but was, felt, per lack of a better word. This entity was more equine in appearance than Discord, but he was still most definitely NOT a pony.

This new being was tall, as tall as Celestia herself, and his "coat" was pure white. He had no mane, and his tail was not comprised of hairs, but of solid black tentacles. He wore a pitch-black suit, with a white, button-down shirt underneath it, and around his neck, he wore a blood-red tie. His cutie mark was a red circle with an "X" going through it, and it looked like it had been carved into his body, instead of forming on him like everypony else. But this pony's most defining feature, was his face. What was so strange about his face? The fact that he had none! Where this pony, known widely as Slendermane, should have had eyes, a nose, a mouth, cheeks, eyebrows, eyelashes, and a chin, there was just a single, emotionless, blank, head.

Everypony in the room turned to the newcomers, the guards pulled out their spears and advanced on the two, but were stopped when Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy stepped in front of them.

"PUT YOUR WEAPONS AWAY, NOW!!!" Yelled Fluttershy, her eyes went crimson with anger, and they seemed to burst into flames, startling everyone in the room. When Fluttershy suddenly returned to her shy, timid nature "please?"

"Yeah!" Added Pinkie, "Nopony hurts my male-draconequus-friend and gets away with it!"

"It's ok Slendy, I'm not gonna let them hurt you." Said Fluttershy, as she turned around and nuzzled Der Großmann for comfort, and his pale white head seemed to turn an ever so faint crimson where his cheeks would be. "tHAnk you, Pinkie Pie and fluttershY, for protecting me and discord." He said.

"Why in the name of Celestia's beautiful flanks are you two protecting those two, things?!?" Yelled Private Thundercloud, who had been staring at Nurse Redheart very intently, another interesting thing was that his wings were slowly unfurling, and it wasn't from anger.

"ENOUGH!" Yelled Twilight, who had removed her saddlebag and unfurled her wings, revealing her royal status.

"P-Princess Twilight?" Stammered the leader of the squad of guards, she immediately bowed respectively, and the rest of the guards followed suit. "A thousand years of apologies, your highness, please forgive us, but I did not recognize you with your saddlebag covering your magnificent wings, please, I beg for your forgiveness, I-"

"There is no need to beg, your mistake only proves that the disguise worked, which is exactly what I was intending." Said the lavender Alicorn, "However, you are not to harm Discord or Slendermane, as they are my friends, and to harm them, would be to make an enemy of me."

"Of course, your highness."

"And there is no need for formalities, in fact, I wish to be treated like any other unicorn unless I say different. That means you refer to me by a much casual name, such as Twilight, Ms. Sparkle, kid, filly, those kinds of terms."

"Of course, your high-, I mean Twilight."

"And private Thundercloud!" Said Twilight.

"Yes?" Replied the rather perverted pegasus.

Twilight's coat turned as white as Celestia's, and her wings, mane, and tail burst into flames, "Nopony talks about Princess Celestia like that!"

After they treated Thundercloud's wounds, they turned their attention back to Rainbow. All except Pinkie, who glared demonic, flaming, blood-daggers at Thundercloud.

"Let this be a lesson to you," She said, "we are keeping this story clop-free, got it?"

Everypony gathered around Rainbow Dash, and looked at Nurse Redheart, waiting for any kind of good news.

"Well," Nurse Redheart began, "physically, she is fine, but I did some quick brain scans, and from what I gathered,"

"Yes?" All the ponies asked simultaneously.

"From what I gathered, her brain activity is off the charts, no normal pony, even the bearer of the element of loyalty, should be able to possess such high levels of brain activity. It's almost like she has two minds, that are both working well into overdrive." Explained the pony of medicine.

"Maybe we can get Princess Celestia to help." Suggested Rarity.

"No," Sard Twilight, "she said that she has a ton of royal business to attend to."

Princess Celestia sat in her room, drinking a nice cup of tea. After taking a sip, she put the cup onto her desk and started up her computer.

"Okay," She said, as she put on her headset, "let's do this."

The screen suddenly showed a magnificent landscape, with forests and mountains and canyons and caves and oceans and deserts. And across the top of the screen, a very famous word appeared, MINECRAFT.

"Well," thought applejack, "what 'bout Princess Luna?"

At the word "Luna", Rainbow Dash's eyes snapped open.

Rainbow wasn't sure what was happening, she just felt agony, searing pain, she couldn't see anything, but she could hear screams and shouts from outside as she stood up. She tried to tell them, whoever "them" is, to run, to get away as fast as possible, but she couldn't, when she opened her mouth, nothing came out but hissing. Rainbow didn't know what to do, she didn't know what to think, who was she hurting? Why couldn't she speak? What was her name? Who was she? No matter how hard she tried, she could not remember anything, Rainbow eventually passed out from the pain.

Nurse Redheart screamed, she screamed in pure terror. One moment, Rainbow had been lying on the operating table, and the next, she was floating in the air as all of the shadows in the room seemed to be drawn towards Rainbow's body. The shadows in the room seemed to form around her, and they became absorbed by her, going into her body. Her wings started growing, and her body seemed to get bigger, as she soon grew to the size of Celestia herself. A long horn tore its way out of Rainbows forehead, causing blood to trickle down her face, but it soon stopped, and the blood on her face seemed to be soaked up into her body, like a sponge soaking up water. Around her, shadows swirled like a hundred small tornadoes. The shadows soon formed around her head, hooves, and torso, and soon, Rainbow was clad in a suit of armor, midnight blue. As the transformation completed, her coat went from a striking sky blue, to a solid black color, her cutie mark changed color as well, as the multiple colors contained within the rainbow lightning bolt changed to multiple dark shades of purple. Her mane and tail underwent the same transformation, but after the change in color, her mane and tail started to float and wave softly, like Rainbow Dash was underwater, and soon, they changed from being hairs on her body, to pure, magical, energy, floating around her. The transformation complete, Rainbow bared a striking resemblance to a mare whom had almost taken equestria, Nightmare Moon. Rainbow landed on the operating table, and looked at everyone through a pair of terrifying green eyes, eyes that contained the pupils of no pony, but instead, the pupils were slitted, like those of a reptile, like those of a very, very, very pissed off reptile.

"Well well," spoke Nightmare Moon in a voice that was as cold as ice "It's so good to not be dead, I would ask you all if you agree with me, but I know how much you enjoy your lives, pointless as they may be." She stepped down from the table and circled around the seven ponies who had found her host body. She stopped next to Rarity, and continued her monologue.

"Aaaah, Rarity." Nightmare said to the white fashionista unicorn, "isn't it strange, that you have always considered me uncouth and dirty, and now I am a royalty? I suppose you should choose your words more carefully next time, hm?"

"What do you mean, YOU are not uncouth? I never said anything of the sort to you, I simply assisted in activating the Elements of Harmony to defeat you and save Equestria." Said Rarity, desperate to not be struck down by the being before her.

"You don't get it do you?" Said Nightmare Moon, "You have considered Rainbow Dash to be uncouth, have you not?"

"I suppose so, y-yes." stammered Rarity,

Nightmare moon stood up to her full height "Well," she reared up on her hind legs, "I am Rainbow Dash, and she is ME!" Nightmare moon yelled as she brought her front hooves down with a mighty CRACK of thunder, everyone quickly ran out of the room and locked the door, even though they knew that it would do nothing to stop the enemy of the sun.

When they got to the waiting room, they took a moment to catch their breath. "What're we gunna do?" Asked Applebloom, a look of concern growing on her face, close to tears.

"Ah reckon ah don't rightly know," replied Applejack as she tried to comfort her sister, "Rainbow's been a great friend, and Ah can't hurt her, Ah jus' can't."

"Well," said the leader of the paladins, "I'm going to try to hold her off and protect the princess, Troops, Battle formation: Golden Barricade!"

"But that one is just throwing me at them to buy some time for retaliation!" Complained Private Thundercloud, "I am not going to be the cannon fodder!"

FIVE MINUTES LATER...

Thundercloud crept through the empty hallways, fully knowing that he could round a corner and be dead in an instant, slain by the savage embodiment of Celestia's sister. As he passed a window, he looked out and saw the moon, a sight that sent shivers down his spine. (I've never been more terrifi-)

Thundercloud heard something, he stopped dead, standing still as stone, he knew that there was something right behind him. Slowly, carefully, praying that he was wrong as to who, or what, it was, Thundercloud turned around.

He never got a chance to scream.

Author's Note:

It's here

Comments

[applejack2357]

Finally hot around to reading this!

"It's ok Slendy, I'm not gonna let them hurt you." Said Fluttershy, as she turned around and nuzzled Der Großmann for comfort, and his pale white head seemed to turn an ever so faint crimson where his cheeks would be.

Dafuq? Slendermane?! What is going on here??!!

That was a good chapter. One thing, though...

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If you're still here, please hurry and write more. It is a great story.

[bookwormbrony]

Spoiler:
He's gonna get his a[yay]s kicked

[Queen Fangirl]

2249841 What? Oh no, rushing will simply not do. Take you're time, sir.

[applejack2357]

2796317 Yeabsolutely!

[bookwormbrony]

I'm experiencing a mild case of writer's block, but I've started up a new story called "Love is in Bloom"

[werewolf stories]

Please make more please.

[bookwormbrony]

Well, I'm back, some of you I know, some I'm meeting for the first time. But the important thing is, I'm gonna be writing stuff.

[Spongerobert]

More please, this is a good story.

[Roxor]

Pah! This was going quite well for the first few chapters, then you had to ruin it by going Kitchen Sink Canon on us.

"In the show" does not mean "good" and it certainly doesn't mean "good for your fanfic". Most stories which include elements introduced after the first season don't actually need them. They overwhelmingly seem to be there just so the author can shout "Look how up to date I am on watching the show!".

[Void Streak]

why stop now it was starting to get good