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// Lowering Karma... 
// Story: The Grid 
// by Valuable Ashes 
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Despite the unicorn with tears in his eyes, Apple Bloom was not convinced at his surrender. Apple Bloom nodded to Scootaloo and took the shot.

After the loud bang, the stallion outside felt something warm trickling down his forehead. He put a hoof up there and felt a circular hole on it. The stallion crumpled outside, dead from the shot.

Even though the threat was over, the trio could not help but feel as if they've done something wrong. A pony asking for mercy but instead rejected it. Sweetie Belle could hear light sobbing coming from their right where the wounded mare was. Before anypony could do anything, the mare's eyes shot up and grabbed the SMG in her magical grip.

She fired at the vulnerable trio killing a Crusader and fatally wounding one. Scootaloo aimed the pistol right on the crying mare's face and fired. As the mini-store was quiet once more, the lone Crusader surveyed the damage. She gasped at the sight.

Sweetie Belle was shot through the hip and all the way up to her face. Scootaloo died by multiple shots to the chest but was able to take down the mare before she expired. Apple Bloom looked at her two friends then the stallion outside.

She looked down on her trembling hooves. The blood on them could not be washed away by a mere shower. Shaken from the sudden deaths of her companions. She fell into a blank stare.

When the police arrived, the four civilians may have vouched for her and the heroics she have done but the yellow earth pony was too deep into her mind that she couldn't escape from it.

She now resides with her older sibling, Applejack and frequently takes a trip to a therapist.


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