//------------------------------// // she did WHAT??? // Story: a world of corruption. // by _-LeXx-_ //------------------------------// Starlight followed the cyan-skinned woman into her apartment. It was huge, trophies everywhere, clothes and sports gear- but most of all: guns, guns plastered on every wall, Starlight would be scared, if Twilight's lab wasn't stained crimson from the multitude of torture devices canvassing the place. For the first time Starlight was glad to have a sadist as her boss, because when Rainbow looked at her, expecting a reaction, she got none. Ah, that face, the catharsis! Wait! shit-what am I thinking... ugh... I've been spending too much time with twilight. As Starlight and Rainbow walked through the vast apartment, she noticed a school photo hanging on the wall, likely from high school, it portrayed a lot of people starlight didn't recognise, save for Rainbow, until- Wait. Twilight? A-and there's the woman in the alley, Fluttershy... Observing closer revealed all of the people Twilight included in her cmc intro course. "Yeah, we all went to school together, ha! Funny that we all ended up in the mafia...together.." Rainbow's light-heartedness faltered for a moment, as if remembering a past she'd rather leave behind. "Well, you wanted to know about my scar, right?" the enthusiasm behind her words somehow seemed false, but Starlight wasn't in the position to probe her more than she already was. "Ya wanna drink or something? You'll prolly need it." Starlight politely declined the offer, she wasn't about to get boozed up at an assassin's house. Rainbow grabbed a bottle and uncorked it deftly. "Your loss." she shrugged and took a long swig from the bottle, wiping her mouth with her sleeve as she breathed out slowly- seemingly readying herself for the bad memories this would dredge up. Both of them sat down, Rainbow talking to the 18 year old with the tone a war vet would use talking about their time on the force. "Here's how I broke Twilight Sparkle, and how she broke me in return." "Me and Twi went to school together, the local public school, Canterlot High. I was the jock, she was the nerd, it was as you would expect: I picked on her. A lot." Rainbow proceeded to pull out an old album, titled, in a teenager's unruly scrawl: 'me n the egghead' "This is a stupid album I kept of every time I tormented her- shit, I really was a fucking sadist back then, god." Starlight grimaced. At least she was self aware...? "So that's how we stayed, me and her: bully and victim...until one day I went too far." Starlight waited with bated breath-if constant torment was normal, what would count as 'too far'? "I killed her dog." Rainbow admitted. "W-what?" Spike was alive, right? She'd seen him... "Yeah, it was a dare...I fucking stabbed her dog to death. Well,that did it. She snapped." Rightfully so, you murdered her pet! Starlight wished she was brave enough to say this, but she wasn't about to die being righteous for Twilights dog, no matter how cute he was. "Soo... the next day, Twi reacts even less than usual to the bullying, just glaring like she was gonna burn me alive- newsflash: that's just what she did." Starlight observed the scar discreetly, finding it indeed was a burn mark, one that ripped through her flesh with savage malice. "I knew she was planning something, but I brushed it off cuz I had a big game coming up, like there were regional scouts for super prestigious schools I could get a sports scholarship to!" Right. Could. Starlight had been wondering why a jock like her was in the mafia. "Twi knew this was the break I'd been waiting for, that this would give me the opportunity to be someone in the world." she took another long sip from the almost depleted bottle. "So she ripped it away from me." Rainbow shifted her head slightly, so her multicoloured mess of hair trailed down like a waterfall." Midgame, she replaced the water in the cup a teammate was bringing me, with a diluted acid." Starlight let out a gasp. "T-that would have melted your throat...h-how are you alive? "Cuz the guy bringing it to me tripped- it just got all over my neck." "S-she really did that?" "Well, Twilight never admitted to it, but I know it was her- who else woulda used nerd shit to kill me?" The two sat in silence for a while, Starlight eventually getting up to leave. Rainbow let her go with the parting words: "Careful kid, don't trust her- you'll end up deader that the corpses in her freezer." Starlight turned to leave but paused, remembering the note Twilight had written for Rainbow. She fumbled in her pockets before finally fishing it out, passing it the the cyan-skinned woman, and leaving for the lab. As Rainbow watched Twilight's latest victim ride off into the distance, she opened the scrap of paper and read the words impeccably written on it's crumpled surface: Thanks for being a predictable buffoon Dash, you're always so reliable! :) Rainbow crumpled the paper in her hands before grabbing another bottle from her freezer. "Twilight fucking sparkle."