//------------------------------// // I'm Sorry // Story: Fluttershy's Dark Past // by DreamAttacker //------------------------------// RainbowDash and Rarity walked by the lone light of her horn, which was their only excuse for the countless amounts of times they got rocks stuck on their hooves. “This is not the way I was expecting my week to go” Rarity hissed through her teeth while dodging yet another rock that was in her way. Luckily for RainbowDash she had given up walking next to Rarity and was hovering above her as they got back a rocky part of the cave-way. RainbowDash had gotten used to these negative comments and just accepted the fact that Rarity was annoyed. “Look Rarity the faster you hurry up the faster we’ll get out of here” RainbowDash said resting her head on one hoof and watching Rarity awkwardly climb around rocks trying her best not to mess anything to do with her beauty up. Rarity looked up at RainbowDash before smirking and her horn suddenly went out. “Ow!!” RainbowDash said as she flew face first into a stalactite. Rarity chuckled in triumph and lit her horn up again. She looked up ready to see an angry RainbowDash but what she saw was nothing. “RainbowDash??” Rarity asked as she turned around thinking that RainbowDash was going to jump out at her. RainbowDash was nowhere to be seen and Rarity’s panic slowly started to grow. Most ponies know her for most of the time keeping a cool composure but now, in the dark with a murderer lurking in the shadows who wouldn’t panic? ‘I could die at any time’ Rarity started thinking as a variety of ways Fluttershy could kill her suddenly flashed through her mind. Her face cringed at the imagined pain and she made her horn glow as bright as it could. She snapped her head around and around so much she was almost dizzy and then screamed as something grabbed her hind legs and dragged him into a small hole in the wall. ~~~~ RainbowDash had run into a wall after Rarity had made the glow from her horn dissipate. “Ow!!” RainbowDash said falling to the ground. But instead of landing near Rarity she kept falling down and down. She would have used her wings to fly back up but one had been scraped against the wall and wouldn’t move unless RainbowDash wanted a searing pain to shoot through her spine. Endlessly she kept on falling to somewhere she wished was outside. Right now outside would be so much better than being where she was right now. To just open her wings and fly around free without any restrictions. RainbowDash closed her eyes and started to imagine herself doing her sonic rain-boom instead of falling downwards in a spiral to god-knows-where. When RainbowDash opened her eyes what she saw was falling head first down the narrow tube like save structure and what she saw below made her spin 180. She saw a light at the end and what looked like netting below her before she touched the proper ground. She had good intuition because if she hadn’t turned around she would have surely broken her neck. But maybe she should have broken her neck for what was in turn for her later. “What the hell” RainbowDash said as she landed in a net; it closed around the top so she was now in a rope netted bag. Around her torches were lit; Fluttershy was also standing at the other side of the room looking into a mirror like object. “F-Fluttershy…” RainbowDash asked; her oldest friend slowly turned around her face concealed all emotions. Though there was one that RainbowDash could spot: sadness. “He-hello RainbowDash” Fluttershy said softly, but behind her soft speech it sounded as though an echo was behind her voice, this one was filled with malice and hatred. Fluttershy grabbed her head and moved out of the way. RainbowDash gasped as her saw what looked like Fluttershy in the reflection but had Pinkie’s eyes and a crooked grin that was wider than Pinkie’s. If she looked closer she could see that this one had the wings on her back slowly starting to fall away. “So it has begun” the reflection mused. ~~~~ It was a few weeks after the incident with the resurrecting serum and Director hadn’t left his study for days. With him in his room was Fluttershy. “Wh-why am I here…??” she asked awkwardly looking over him. He was a well-built stallion, probably in the royal guard before he came here with a white horn to match his coat. A creased and messy doctors shirt draped over his frame and a stethoscope half hung out of a pocket on his shirt. As well as this he had a choppy black haircut that went in every direction. A thin pair of glasses hung on the end of his nose and a satchel containing clip boards and other notes roughly stuffed in the bag was clinging to his neck. The seams of the satchel were almost gone and its death was coming soon. “I called you here so I could study you personally, I also don’t trust my co-workers” he said, his left eye twitched. Fluttershy had heard from the other doctors that he had developed that ever since he started working on Fluttershy. She was snapped out of her trance about what she did to director to make him act like this when he suddenly stood up. “Follow me” he said before trotting into a room connected to his. Fluttershy followed awkwardly behind and jumped as it suddenly slammed shut behind her. This room was completely pitching dark and she found it hard to see the silhouettes of anything in the darkness. Suddenly lights turned on and as she looked around the place she saw a white table permanently stained red and a variety of equipment hanging on every wall except the wall the door was on. “Lie down for me” he said standing by a wall with what only had hand held saw like objects. Fluttershy was going to turn around run but a greyish glow came from his horn and what sounded like 10 locks closed off in front of her on the other side of the door. Fluttershy looked back; her pupils constricted as he forcefully lifted her up with his magic and put her on the table. Tight straps entwined around Fluttershy. Director walked up to Fluttershy and his horn glowed one more time as her wings were yanked out from under her. They were now spread out by her sides. Director smiled down at her, his smile was crooked and wide… it almost reminded her of Poison Rose’s. He walked away from her and looked at the wall of ‘instruments’ before nodding to him and pulling out the hand saw at the top. This was looked like it was rusty, but he tapped it with his hoof and the flakes fell away showing under it a bright and sharp interior the gleamed with happiness as it was finally used again. Coming back he smiled one more time before a serious face came back and he moved to one side of Fluttershy to her wings. And thus he started sawing through the roots of her wings until bloody bony stubs were left on both wings. All the time Fluttershy was screaming in pain. ~~~~ RainbowDash kept looking at the reflection until all of each wing fell away and blood freely flowed from the stubs that were left. Though the reflection didn’t seem to notice as her eyes almost seemed to pop out of her head and she through her head back, a cackle escaped her lips. “All of my memories. They’re coming back to me, and every time they return I’ll need someone to fix me up again. Then I will finally be complete again!!” she said as Fluttershy started walking up to RainbowDash in her small bag. Fluttershy bit the top of the bag and dragged RainbowDash down a dark hall. “I’m sorry” Fluttershy whispered as they both slowly disappeared into a dark hallway.